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work. even though we want the country to open up, diving headfirst into the work from home lifestyle. rob: the eye-opening a spike is nothing to sleep on. "fox and friends first" starts right now. rob: you are watching "fox and friends first". >> thanks for starting the day with us. former president obama to testify or the controversy surrounding the michelson probe. rob: former obama administration officials on the unmasking list sound off. >> reporter: keeps getting interesting. top obama officials under scrutiny after being revealed, pushing back, former cia director john brennan who twice requested flynn's aim saying it

is nothing more than politics at its worst. >> the country is in serious trouble when you have blamed political corruption at the highest level, something i never thought i would see in my lifetime. >> the record on the road with. raising questions. >> recall the us ambassadors asking names be unmasked? >> i don't know. made the it is ringing a vague a bell. >> reporter: flynn's former deputy k t mcfarland shows trying to change their story. >> they were walking out, going on the media and people like the cia director brennan is a russian asset. and three years being at each

other's roads. >> hearings on capitol hill, tweeting, and to the biggest political crime and scandal in the history of the usa. former president obama knew anything. that drew the statement from the senate judiciary committee, both presidents are welcome to come before the committee and share concerns about each other, it will make for great television but i have grave doubts whether it would be wise for the country, a quick scan of the judiciary's calendar, nothing on the books. rob: jim jordan joining the senate colleagues demanding questions about burisma

holdings, wanting the state department to have the ukrainian energy from document. hunter biden once said on the company board of directors, made a lot of loony -- money doing so. former ambassador marie yovanovitch met with a burisma representative which contradict her testimony during impeachment hearings. jillian: several senators pressed by the fbi in a probe over stock trades. the doj investigating whether they use insider-trading when the market tanked. and she had her husband accused of unloading millions of dollars in stocks. senate documents show he sold millions of shares earlier this year. senator richard burr stepping down as chair of the senate intelligence midi after the fbi reportedly seized his phone in the probe.

rob: new york extending its day at home order for most of the coronavirus across the state. jillian: thousands of people going back to work as 11 states these restrictions today. rob: the latest action in the empire state. >> reporter: we talk about reopening, new york governor andrew cuomo extending his stay-at-home order until june 13th with only those regions that reach certain public health and safety numbers eligible to reopen. all this as cdc guidelines are released, one page document help schools, workplaces, camps, childcare programs, mass transit systems as they tried to reopen. alex a czar, whether guidelines are too simple. >> it doesn't help to provide a school with a 40 page singlespaced technical document

like that. they put a roadmap. >> reporter: more states getting part of their economy up and running and it can't come soon enough following the latest unemployment numbers. close to 3 million more americans filing for jobless claims bringing the total over 2 months of the pandemic, 36 million prompting this morning from the white house. >> the reality is if we don't open the economy back up we won't have an economy. if we keep our economy shutdown we will not only lose trillions of dollars, economic activity, china virus shock to the economy killed as well, suicide, drug abuse, depression. >> that sentiment echoed by the president. telling employees what he thinks there governor should do.

>> we have to get the governor of pennsylvania to open up a little bit. areas of pennsylvania are barely affected. >> reporter: visited protest in the keystone state over lockdown measures by the governor. those in pennsylvania looking for something fun to do. beaches and boardwalks to open up for memorial day with social distancing measures in place. more than 246,000 people recovered from the coronavirus so far in the us. jillian: armed protesters and death threats, resistance against michigan stay-at-home order intensifying forcing the state capital to shut down. lawmakers not expected to return until tuesday, hundreds protesting outside the state house, some carrying guns. democrats now proposing a gun ban. governor gretchen witmer under

fire for not allowing businesses to reopen? to stay lockdown runs through the end of the month. rob: an attorney for one of the men charged in amaud arbery's, what against rushing to judgment, travis mcmichael's attorney says there are more facts than the public knows about. >> government accuses you of a crime, how easy it is to accuse. the government has that presumption of innocence. rob: travis and his father gregory are accused of shooting and killing amaud arbery in february. the mcmichaels say they thought he was a thief. amaud arbery's family says he was of the on a jog. investigators find the person who left this note, the letter apologizes for not stopping his killing. investigators say the person was expressing condolences it is not related to the case in any way. jillian: the nation is mourning the loss of a hero. army staff sergeant and medal of honor recipient ronald sure has

died after a long battle with lung cancer. sure was inspired to a list after the 9/11 terror attacks in 2008, he used his body as a shield to save his wounded comrades on a mountain while under attack from hundreds of enemy fighters in afghanistan. donald trump presented sure with medal of honor in october of 2018. he talked about his heroic actions on "fox and friends" after the ceremony. >> everybody on that team, it is a family. nothing they wouldn't have done for me, nothing i wouldn't have done for them. it didn't make sense not to do everything i did that day. jillian: staff sergeant sure leaves behind his wife and two sons. he was 41. rob: for the first time in 72 years the us is unveiling a new military flag, the space for swag will be presented to donald trump by military leaders during the white house ceremony. it is expected to look like the branch's official feel.

the newest military branch dedicating its second mission want a rocket used for national security to covid-19 essential workers. jillian: it is 10 minutes after the air, donald trump putting china on notice over at handling of coronavirus. >> we could cut off the whole relationship and if you did, what would happen? you would save $500 billion. rob: what would really happen if we cut off china? georgia congressman carter wants a bipartisan committee to investigate china and says none of this should be partisan. it should all be nonpartisan, joins us next.

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they think was dry, they rip us off like we have never been seen before. you save $500 billion. the intertwined - >> and bipartisan committee. buddy carter joins us now, the best way to hold them accountable. we rely on china for that. it is cost-effective. that is pharmaceuticals. we knew their too dependent on them. 90% of the antibiotics come from china. we cannot be dependent on them for that. that's the way you hit them. you hit them where it hurts.

when you hit the supply chain you get their attention. we need to repatriate pharmaceutical manufacturing jobs to america. that is how we do that. rob: look at the deficit in trade, and you see the difference there. the president talked about this all the time, as far as manufacturing i don't think anybody -- how much the price of products go up. another solution to move from china to india, keep it cheap. isolate china. >> that would be one of the options on the table but i would rather see those jobs come back to america. we can be competitive and still pay good wages. if we look at our history, the

best innovators are right here in the united states. i always said that. with other competitors, even india, that is the option, to move it to other countries outside china. jillian: look at these numbers breakdown, china was america's important 2018, drop number 3 in february which was the lowest since 2004 and you can see the imports from china count for 21.2 with top categories being electoral machinery, toys and sports equipment. as rob mentioned, things might cost more here. how do you stop that from being a burden on the consumer. what is the planet how long will it take? >> it will take effort.

it is going to take effort on consumers to educate themselves and understand how important this is. we appeal to the patriotism, you need to be buying american products, making sure you are supporting those jobs that are here in america. i am still confident we can be competitive. it is not a given that just because it is made in china, just because it is made in india doesn't mean it has to be cheap. rob: can you enforce or incentivize in some way businesses to pull out of china? how can you say let's do this now and make you guys pull out and give a good reason to do it. >> that is a good question. i like incentivizing with i like force. we do need to incentivize, we need to encourage companies to come back here if it has to be through stimulus, do that. let's make it worth their while but the point is to appeal to

patriotism and appeal to these, make sure they understand and remember we need you in america. jillian: people are understanding what that means and it is a big deal. $3 trillion coronavirus stimulus bill heading for a vote in the house. a lot of people said this would be dead on arrival, tell me your thoughts. >> absolutely, the speaker knows that this doesn't have any chance to become law. all she is doing throwing blood against the wall to see what sticks, this is a wish list of what the democrats would want and it goes far beyond anything that can reasonably be considered in the senate and mitch mcconnell has said that and other senators said that. even the democratic senators understand this is never going to pass. what we have to do is study what we have done so far.

we spent $3 trillion. let's see what impact it has had. rob: thank you for your time, appreciate it. 18 after the air, new york city health commissioner getting backlash about giving masks to the nypd. jillian: new york state is leland: says the doctor has got to go, he joins us with that message next. you doing okay?

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>> joe biden sending a message to voters about sexual assault allegations made by a former staffer. >> they shouldn't vote for me. the fact is look at tara reade's story. it changes considerably. i don't want to question her

motive or anything other than to say the truth matters. this is being vetted. it has been vetted. jillian: -- 19 claims biden sexually assaulted her, biden has denied the accusation. biden is trailing donald trump in 15 battleground states ahead of the november elections. a new cnn poll shows 52% of voters in those states for the president, 42% for biden. karl rove says there are more encouraging numbers. >> if i were -- pay less attention to this poll of people in battleground states, i look at the entire thousand plus simple. who do you think is better at handling the economy, trump 54, biden 42. the 54, i would find out who those people are because there is the winning margin in the election for the president. jillian: in a sample biden leads trump among nationwide voters by 5 points. a lot of time to go. rob: new york city health

commissioner under fire after blowing often urgent nypd request for masks saying she didn't give two rat's you know whats about cops. >> now public servant should ever in any way say anything disrespectful about the men and women of the nypd. they protect us, we need to protect them. it would be inappropriate for anyone taking a leadership role. rob: officials across the big apple calling for doctor barbeau's termination. the comments were unforgivable. new york assemblyman mike petry joins us with more. thank you for joining us. let's. the numbers. nypd servicemembers, 42 deaths, 5500 cases, the health commissioner of the city couldn't care less. what do you think?

>> doctor barbeau has got to go. this ugly rhetoric is greater issue across the country, the blatant disregard and disrespect, the have to endure for the radical left. this is why i am running for congress, to make sure comments like these are terminated. rob: let's look at the statement from the health department trying to defend this. battling to keep patients alive, no harm was wished on anyone. let's go to the nypd union. resign or fire her, thousands die on her watch, she mishandled the whole epidemic, fire her and there is some truth to that. we know doctor barbeau even into early march was downplaying the threat of this virus and in february told people there was nothing to worry about. what should happen to her? >> i 100% agree.

it is disgraceful, this language toward new york's finest. that is speaking to my friends in the nypd. it is insulting that you would have this type of disdain to law enforcement to keep the community safe. cannot provide the ppe needed to save their lives. rob: these are the people trying to keep order in the city that is hardest hit, most countries in the world trying to keep order. here's the nypd commissioner on this. >> nothing is more important to make them your health, then getting the equipment you need to keep the city safe. we begged, borrowed and stalled, to bar the women you need. >> police officers are the most essential workers out there.

>> it is a misunderstanding, when the double audio administration allows 1000 criminals released from jail back into the streets of new york and now providing, to protect our police officers and keep communities safe. that is a sham and unforgivable. rob: new york is leland: michael petry, we appreciate it. jillian: it is 27 after the air, the white house firing back at a whistleblower after claims they don't have a plan for vaccines. >> everything he is complaining about was achieved. when operation warp speed, he's not showing up for work to be part of that. jillian: live a big vaccine announcement. rob: gavin newsom proposing billions in budget cuts

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rob: donald trump slamming ousted vaccine expert after he testified from coronavirus response. jillian: it comes as the white house creates an initiative to develop a vaccine as quickly as possible. here is more on operation warp speed. >> reporter: the white house could announce operation warp speed today, the public-private partnership, the former head of glaxosmithkline's vaccine division and army general gustav kerna, the trumpet ministration is working to develop a vaccine to fight covid-19, any vaccine is months away from being ready.

testimony from was a blower doctor rick bright setting off a firestorm on capitol hill. viral vaccine expert say time is running out and we could be into the darkest winter in modern history. >> president and the republicans are going to be in the same place. we will let you know when we think the time is right to move again. i think there's a high likelihood we will do another bill. >> reporter: the challenge is a clear one open to negotiation. sadly leader mcconnell says to just pause. jillian: here is what secretary alex aczar said about that. >> every thing he is complaining about was achieved. everything he talked about was done. >> reporter: donald trump says bright seemed like a disgruntled employee, he said disciples were testimony he did in fact have a plan in place to combat a pandemic. according to the white house we

can expect to find out how prepared the trump administered was for the pandemic apparently today. rob: thank you. jillian: the va is sending strike teams to control outbreaks at nursing homes, va workers work with staffers at five facilities, the teams will stay until the end of june, 5000 people have died at long-term care facilities in new jersey, the state is deployed 300 national guard soldiers to nursing homes. the fda warning about the accuracy of the rapid covid-19 test overnight, looking at whether abbott labs tests can give false negatives. one study says it mail the catch cases half the time. the test is used daily at the white house on donald trump and members of his staff. abbott is disputing the study and is working with the fda. rob: the commissioner of major league baseball police players will return to the field this year.

>> i have great confidence we will reach an agreement with the players association, that it is safe to come back to work and work out the economic issues that need to be result. rob: others agreed to a shortened season beginning in july but the players union is asking the league for financial documents because the proposal calls for changes in players pay. tonight's controversial socially distant concert is call off at the last minute. ♪ rob: travis mccready was supposed to perform an arkansas theater. the stage -- the state bordering the venue to postpone because it would violate social distancing rules. organizers hope to reschedule for monday when the state eases there covid-19 restrictions. california's tanking economy taking a toll on citizens who want to get back to work but

gavin newsom seems focused on pushing the democrats agenda instead. >> nothing breaks my heart more than making budget cuts. there is a human being behind every single number. the president of the united states with a stroke of a pen could provide support for nancy pelosi's new heroes act and these cuts would be eliminated. jillian: for what republicans call a blue state bailout the status meddling cash in stimulus for illegal immigrants also releasing prison inmates. jillian: tomi lahren joins us with reaction. good to see you this morning. >> good to be here from nashville tennessee. i no longer have to deal with those things so directly but what a mess. jillian: let's look at proposed

budget cuts by gavin newsom, 10% pay cut for state employs, $7 billion for education spending-12 and $1.7 billion for higher education. what do those numbers mean to you? >> this is all a façade. you heard from the governor, this is to put a strain on the worker so it is a plea to donald trump, makes donald trump look bad so gavin can get his blue state bailout. i have been saying for weeks, i knew exactly what was going to happen at the beginning of the coronavirus response, states like california and especially california will cover their tracks, years if not decades of mismanagement and pass off as coronavirus in the pandemic when really it has been a state that has been failing, a house of cards for years and he will try to cover his tracks with blue state bailouts. i hope the president holds firm on his promise not to bailout states like california. out to rob: how dealer states if anything even if they made mistakes in the past? that is politically very damning for the president.

>> it could be if you don't know anything about california but let's look at california, the governor's plan. he is going after state worker pay cuts at 10%, that is the thing he wants to cut from the budget to save this money. what about cutting healthcare for illegal immigrants? letter member that, we are spending, the state of california spending $100 million a year to fund healthcare for illegal immigrants not to mention coronavirus relief package became at $125 million and probably be increased $75 million of which is california taxpayer dollars going to fund relief for illegal immigrants. once again at least the governor is consistent by prioritizing illegal immigrants over americans who are hurting, especially hard right now, house of cards in california needs to be called out for what it is doing. >> let's look at the numbers you in some $125 million and really for illegal immigrants, $50 million from donors, $753 million to a chinese car company, 3 million supervisory early release and 14.3 million

to reimburse counties prohibiting transfers. you know a lot of people still there. i wonder what people are -- it has to be disheartening. >> absolutely. then you have a 3 month extension as well. california starting to wake up and we saw that with a special election tuesday where a republican was able to defeat a democrat. i'm not saying the state is safe. not saying it is save the able. but i'm saying i believe some californians are waking up seeing the waste, this management, ongoing infringement by gavin newsom and others. i think they may be starting to wake up, even the dedicated liberals, the state is being mismanaged and i hope they rise up and i hope they make their voice known in november. rob: they haven't been to arizona, nevada and texas for a

long time and you fled as well. you can catch tommy laren on no interruption on fox nation, check her out, thanks so much. 38 after the hour. bars in the badger state back in business after wisconsin supreme court struck down the governor's stay-at-home order. a separate owner has been two month getting ready says his staff is up to the task and joins us live. >> people with jobs, to put food on the table create a happy living. rob: did you see this? this has gone viral. the founder of barstow report defending his heated rhetoric coronavirus lockdown from his explanation and social media response when we come back.

>> italy's new stimulus package will give have million illegal immigrants essential jobs, the same type of jobs donald trump was slam for trying to keep in the hands of americans. rob: amy kellogg is live in forthcoming early as coronavirus can leave unprecedented death in that country. >> reporter: this is the biggest budget in italy's history. the question on everyone's list is where is that money going to come from? the result is likely that italy's debt to gdp ratio will

climb as high as 160% and many say that is not tenable. the worst hit european country was italy and a $60 billion budget approved to get through this crisis is i watering. no one will be allowed in the country to get fired until mid-august was the government will pay their salaries instead. the budget will help people to buy bicycles to get the load off of beleaguered public transportation in the list is longer but riddled with red tape. this pond shop has seen an increase in customers 30% in the last two month. part of the crisis plan involves giving temporary work permits to have 1 million undocumented migrants, working with the elderly. this was more a measure of desperation to help farmers get crops harvested as they often rely on labor from east europe.

the move is to keep undocumented workers out of the handle lafayette. pope francis praised the dignity of these workers and not to be exploited and finally to be properly compensated. speaking of the pope italy will begin church services next monday in the vatican announced it is doing temperature checks at all key basilicas and churches particularly st. peter's. rob: thank you so much. jillian: crowds descend on wisconsin bars in a matter of hours after the state's supreme court blocked their stay-at-home order, those customers blocking to the dismay of governor tony evers. >> despite that good work by wisconsinites across the state who banded together, stay-at-home and stay safe, republican legislatures have convinced four of our supreme court justices to throw our state into chaos, people flooded the bars across the state. because of the court's decision

many more people could get sick. rob: our next guest runs one of those bars that opened up to drove the wisconsinites and says he is prepared to keep customers and staff safe. the owner of jake's upper club joins us now. thank you for coming on. tell us how you keep a bar socially distant and safe at a time like this? >> we have a lot of space in here. a lot of our customers are regulars, friends, looking forward to coming out and understand what is at stake and we've gone out of our way, had two month to prepare for this. we have sanitation stations, social distancing areas, the bar has been broken down in different areas and we are ready to open whether it is now or in 10 days, doesn't make a difference, we have been planning for this for two month and are ready to go. jillian: let's look at wisconsin's reopening guidance

for restaurants, they recommend facemask for employees, sanitizing high contact areas for maintaining social distancing, two barstools empty between customers not at the same party and you mentioned a few things you are doing that include daily employee health questionnaires, sanitizing stations, i am curious, once you get the green light i understand people were there at your door ready to go, do people in your town wants to do what it takes with these guidelines, are they saying i will do what you ask of me as long as you give me the option to keep these businesses that i love a float? >> absolutely. people want to get back to the new normal. are regulars and customers are looking to get out and out safely. we offer that. we have gone out of our way to follow all guidelines, everything put out by national

restaurant association, the state of wisconsin, cdc, we have scanners, testing for all of our employees, going through all the health checks, the hardest part is trying to keep regulars at the bar socially distance to properly and it took a bit to get used to but we are doing it. rob: thank you for your time, appreciate it. >> we've heard rumors of a biden michelle obama ticket but how about biden right? the new player from a key obama administrative official lobbying for a return to the white house. rob: online shopping the only way to go, the only item retailers are having trouble keeping in stock. the biggest week in television is here.

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>> what is going on? when did this become flatten the curve to we have to find the cure for everyone is going to die? people with jobs work to put food on the table to create a living, are going to go out of business. >> taking to social media in a rant against the current lockdowns. his frustration going viral. jillian: carley shimkus with serious xm 115 here with online support. we are retweeted this, if you're easily offended, block out words to your brain but a lot of people say he has a point. >> is video has been viewed 6 million times, 200,000 likes,

positive tweet from elon musk. it led to a booking on tucker carlson tonight where he had this to say. >> give me the choice. let me go outside at risk potentially getting sick, i would rather die from corona been have to start over. the police i feel bad for people who aren't giving me the choice. >> he runs barstool sports believes it is time to let people choose whether or not they want to go back to work and make their own risk a sentiment, a sentiment a lot of people agree with like joey who says this is the exact sentiment most americans have. we did what we were supposed to do to plan the curve, now you tell us to stay locked up for longer, we won't stand for that, jason wonders you think they could tell us this from the

start because the potential for chaos and part-time he and saying spot on, they just keep moving the goal posts. obviously other folks would say a mass reopening right now would put a lot of people lives in danger and that is the nature of this argument, there are no easy answers. >> one of the things he said as if you are in a 6 hour flight, 5 and half hours in you can't suddenly be told is another 10 hours him you can't change the game at that point. rob: it is worth watching. talking about joe biden who he will pick for vp, the former national security adviser susan rice wants in on it. >> i am humbled and honored to be among the accomplished men and women reportedly being considered. >> would you say yes? >> i certainly would say yes. >> susan races been in the news a lot regarding the michael flynn situation. it appears she is being considered for vice resident and

really wants the job, smattering of opinion, this twitter user says she is my choice. elizabeth warren would have stronger power elsewhere. randy said not sure what to think but seems better than the other options. another twitter user says definitely will be vp and biden won't be the president. we are hearing a lot of things on the vp front, kamala harris, elizabeth on, susan rice. i think joe biden already decided and is waiting for the right time to make the big reveal. >> one thing we know for sure is it is going to be a woman. we know that. pajama sales are spiking, no one is buying work pants. >> a headline that will surprise literally no one. check out these numbers, 140% increase in pajama sales, 13% decrease in pants sales. people are calling this moment where because you are business

on the top and casual on the bottom which is hilarious. of the twitter user says she saw this headline as she was literally wearing pajamas, william says i declares a pants friday, no sweat or pajamas on friday. that is a party is going to alone. mark rights i put on pants yesterday just remember the feeling. it turns out it wasn't all that exciting. give me an elastic waistband and some taco bell. >> one or 2 weeks ago you had on jeans, this is the first time i put on jeans in months. carley: so restricting, hate it, bad choice. rob: thank you so much. jillian: coming up in the next hour the debate when to reopen schools raging in the white house and across the nation. rob: doctor jeanette says it is not practical to stay closed until the vaccine is available. she joins us with a live plan of action. unmasking how americans really

feel about wearing face masks. jillian: stark differences between men and women when it comes to covering up, more when we come back.

>> corruption at the highest levels of the government, something i never thought i would see in my lifetime. rob: it is friday may 15th. you might not have heard about the unmasking bombshell on other networks but you will likely see obama officials on a rapid media tour.