pete: welcome to the sunday morning edition of fox news. a massive explosion in los angeles. anita vogel joins us live in l.a. anita? reporter: amazing all the firefighters are in stable condition. it was business as usual as crews went to knock down a fire already burning. just listen to the terrifying audio capturing the moment the firefighters are sent running for their lives. >> engine nine, engine nine, go with your mayday. >> explosion. i have two down firefighters on the frontal fa side of the building. we need help.

reporter: several of the buildings became engulfed in flames in what is known as the city's toy district. firefight on the scene they have a bad feeling going inside. >> it was aon arrival, moderate smoke. they initiated aggressive attack. they went interior. things didn't seem right. reporter: governor gavin newsom praising first responders in a tweet, writing, quote, grateful for the brave firefighters and first-responders on the scene battling the flames. over 200 firefighters, officers, and emts rushed to the a scene. the explosion happened at a hash oil manufacturer used in. they use butane, odorless gas that easily ignites. they don't know what caused the explosion. crews investigating what caused

the initial flames. back to you guys. pete: anita. thank you very much. the courage that all of them are okay. jedediah: yeah, i have always said being a firefighter, one of the most challenging, difficult jobs. i remember a friend taking the test to become a firefighter this is something else. every single day i'm gritful for those guys. they run into the fire actually, literally every day of our lives. so grateful for them. griff: they are injured. these are 11 injured firefighters. it is remarkable and speaks to their dedication and commitment because amidst the worst pandemic in modern history, these guys know if a fire breaking out, they will respond to put their lives in danger. we hope those 11 recover quickly, safely, get the resources they need. pete: god bless them for sure. we have a lot of news and updates. it is commencement time. doesn't feel like it.

schools are out of session. people are graduating without having that traditional ceremony. well former president barack obama gave a virtual commencement address yesterday and he just could not avoid making political swipes. here is a portion of what former president obama said, talking about the covid-19 response. >> more than anything this pandemic fully, finally torn back the curtain on the idea so many of the folks in charge know what they're doing. a lot of them aren't even pretending to be in charge. you will have to grow up faster than some generations this pandemic has shaken up the status quo and laid bare a lot of our country's deep-seeded problems. it also pulled the curtain back on another hard truth. all those adults that used to think were in charge and knew what they were doing, turns out they don't have all the answers. a lot of them aren't even asking the right questions.

pete: didn't call out trump by name but it is pretty clear what he is talking about. jedediah: it is very easy to do this when you're no longer the person in charge, you're not the one being faced with this crisis. this is something that no one could have for seen, something we've never dealt with, at least i've never seen in my lifetime. there are going to be some mistakes made and lessons learned. every day, doctors saying hold on, we thought this but we're learning something new every day. i didn't appreciate this. i don't think this was the time to make this political. i do think that barack obama's very good at this. he is very good at speaking that did highlight a big distinction between him and joe biden who is running right now and is terrible, precisely what president obama is good at this. was a time for unifying message. he knows better than anybody, he was the last guy in that office. he knows that sometimes things happen, you have to think on your feet. if you could go back you might

do this or that differently. i don't think this was the moment for that but i'm not totally surprised. griff: i think this was a missed open student. he had an opportunity to do what is does best, inspire, this is your defining moment. you taught us how to get through this. you taught us how to tiktok. he turned it into an episodes when ex-presidents attacks. which breaks protocol in former gentleman's president, is not speak ill of the current president. we obviously got reaction. peter navarro, member of the president's administration pushing back a little bit to obama's two speeches actually. here is some of what navarro had to say. >> eight years of obama and biden was a kumbayah of incompetence. this was the guy on his watch that we saw over 50,000 factories disappear to china,

didn't mention that in his speech, right? and to the american workers it was always, let them eat a arugula. you would have to wave a magic wand to get back manufacturing. donald j. trump got half a million manufacturing jobs back. so i'm a little surprised at the former president coming out like that but again, as biden's press secretary is going to do that. pete: as biden's press secretary. go ahead. griff: i want to tag that. that is a very important point. remember under the obama administration, according to bureau of labor statistics in 2009 when he came in there was 12.56 million manufacturing jobs. when he left there was 12.2. in the course of obama's tenure as president it was a net loss of 300,000 jobs. when he left office his press secretary josh ernest said they created 800,000. look at today.

today it is manufacturing jobs. those are the people that wanting to get back to work. they are the ones suffering. they are the ones with unemployment. very interesting point to make. pete: the other point i heard from obama, the people in charge. you know who is in charge in this country? we the people. the president is elected to represent the people. it is not experts in charge that tell us what to do. that is barack obama condescending yet again to people, taking a swipe that doesn't need to be taken. speaking of the people, thankfully many people are getting back to work here in new jersey and states across the country. here is some of the restrictions so kindly being lifted on the minions across the country. here is just in new jersey. so today i guess i can rent a watercraft which apparently yesterday would have been unsafe to do, thank you, thank you, governor murphy. where do i send my shekels. here are rest of states where conditions are opening up tomorrow. you see the map.

50% capacity. all of it with certain distancing guidelines. those are a few of the states. we're seeing more of this. guys i had a chance to talk to lot of workers, business owners, they reiterated what we talk about, every job is essential to the people that have it. this new normal we don't need to accept. we want to get to the point where we were thriving again. guess what, if you open up 25% capacity, that's bankruptcy, for retail stores, for restaurants. you can't run on margins of 25%. so this is good but in my opinion, the more we can open as quickly as possible, letting people choose, we'll see what happens. jedediah: yeah. it lists i think important, you know, i live in new york city. we report out of new york city. so we're very plugged into what is epicenter for the virus. people around the country i make an effort to talk to don't live in an epicenter. that haven't seen a lot of cases, haven't had a lot of restrictions placed on them, seemed explicable to them. we have to treat this on

case-by-case basis. when you look at these states, look at cities, you look at numbers. if that is location not heavily impacted, those people are eager, hungry to open businesses to near full effect, that has to be treated differently than a location like a manhattan for example, which was hit very hard by the virus. people need to understand that i think it would behoove a lot of people in the media that operate places like washington, d.c., new york, talk to people around the country, feel unique pain hit by virus, turning on tv why some policies are applied to us when we're not in congested area. we have not faced virus people in new york city and others have. that is an important note. griff: it is. jed, you know we have a montage here of some of those people are wanting the country to open, various places in the country. listen to this. >> small businesses are being devastated and these are people that will be impacted for their

entire life. >> we're upon our season. we need to start, we need to go, we need to open up. >> i just don't think that putting millions in poverty and ruining their businesses and life is the right thing to do. >> what we want is to open our schools. i have a five-year-old granddaughter who needs to have her schools opened. >> we all deserve freedom. we need to go back to work. i've been laid off. i want to go back to work. i need to start making money. griff: pete, talking to business owners. i talked to a surf shop owner in ocean city, maryland, he opened this weekend. thing goodness he did it. he makes for his business, essentially a year's funding in three months of the summer. just in time for him. we'll see what the experience is in maryland as they start to reopen. pete: people will open up. they're done. they're done. they say i don't have a business if i can't open my doors. you told me what experts told me to do, flatten the curve.

we're not waiting for vaccine which you say is the new standard. we're not waiting for that. here in new york city bars, new jersey beaches, this weekend are opening up. that is yesterday in, i believe in manhattan. there are take-out services, people are starting to feel it. there is itching sense, staying indoors, not working. i can be responsible. and i believe we have a "new york post" cover as well. here is waiting for beach licenses there in new jersey. i mean, this is going to happen. this is part of the reason why governors opened up. they knew people were going out either way. they don't want to look like fools. this is the people leading the way. jedediah: yeah. one of the unique experiences in places like manhattan you do go insane. you're stuck in small apartment. you don't have outdoor space. all common areas, roof deck, any area you can get sunlight have been shut down. people are starting to go crazy,

stir crazy. their mental health is suffering. i said this a long time, second weather gets warmer, people will flood outside. they can't help it. they need the vitamin-d. their sanity is suffering. the hope is that people will be responsible. do i think everyone will be responsible? no. do i think you will prevent that? no. you will not be able to keep people inside forever. it is not possible. it is not feasible. so at some point you will have to open up to let the chips fall where they may. as terrible that sounds. i'm empathetic to this. i lived through this. it is terrible. the virus is awful. at some point life has to resume. that is part of reality. you can't keep people entrapped forever. you can't do it. pete: that is a great point. you say at some point. a lot of people say now. why one customer, not two customers. why walmart but not me? those questions are done. people are saying, i think you're going to start to see

this movement of people defying orders. so we shall see. we have a lot of business owners coming on the program today. jedediah: we sure do. for now we'll turn to some headlines for you to start off your morning. extreme weather. several powerful tornadoes touching down in southern states. this massive twister in in texas leveling buildings and uprooting trees in the town of malacoff. a nursing home there crushed by a huge tree. no injuries are reported luckily. the powerful storms forming a giant waterspout with the state's border in arkansas. a federal judge blocks lockdown restrictions allowing churches to hold indoor services in north carolina. governor roy cooper said services could only be held outdoors with only 10 people. several pastors filed a lawsuit, their right to worship freely. the judge siding with pastors, granting a temporary restraining order. tribute pouring in around

the country for comedy icon fred willard. >> why did you put on one of those sherlock holmes hats. are they allowed to do that, dress up a dog in a funny way. >> that is not quite the purpose. >> you really get the crowd going. you know what i mean? jedediah: willard best known for his roles in mocumentaries, best in show, waiting for guffman and "this is spinal tap." he died of natural causes in los angeles. he was 86. he will be greatly missed. griff: will be greatly missed. such a great movie, "best in show," spot spinal tap shot. pete: three years since bob mueller was appointed special counsel. what a anniversary. the "judicial watch" president breaks down key moments in the case. coming up next.

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♪. griff: welcome back. three years since robert mueller was appointed to investigate russian government and donald trump campaign. they spent $40 million and ultimately found zero evidence of collusion. what have we learned since then? joining us president of "judicial watch," tom fitton. 32 million, 37 indictments, zero collusion, wow. >> yeah. we need to investigate the investigators. if i were attorney general barr i would be ought didding to put it charitiably everything mueller was doing. we now know, for instance, the flynn the investigation, all concerns what happened to flynn, remember flynn didn't commit a crime. he didn't lie to the fbi, it's pretty clear but that crime was

created by who? the mueller team. on top of that mueller himself was appointed in my view improperly as a result of criminal activity, namely the illegal leaking of memos, fbi files, that comey was keeping on president trump. he leaked it according to his own testimony, to get a special counsel, turned out to be his friend mueller. mueller's appointment himself. talking about wearing a wire on president, rosenstein, mccabe were. talking about invocking the 25th amendment. they talked about appointing a special counsel. out of the three coup efforts? what do they come up with? getting a special counsel appointed. tell you what. go ahead. griff: we know,now, tom, senator lindsey graham, chairman of the judiciary committee is going to hold hearings. he is looking whether or not the mueller appointment should have happened in the first place. before he get there is he wants to look what happened after the

special counsel's investigation. that is certainly surrounding flynn. how important now is what happened after mueller's investigation ended? >> well, flynn pled guilty, thanks to coercion and dishonesty and in my view obstruction of justice by the mueller team. you can't separate the flynn case out from mueller and the president and lindsey graham, he should presume every prosecution done by mueller to be compromised. this is why he talked about pardons about manafort i suspect. this is why he is talked about about pardons for people like stone. everything mueller touched he should presume should be questioned and met with skepticism. remember, he was pursuing a fake crime. there was no collusion, they knew there was no collusion, yet they continued this. it was part of the coup, initiated by obama and pursued by obama. pursued by mueller. griff: right. >> that is the weaponnization.

mueller was the weapon. griff: tom fitton, thanks very much. important to note too, we have a durham investigation out there. that has criminal prosecution powers. tom, thanks very much. >> you're welcome. griff: some lockdown restrictions are easing in new jersey but gyms are not included. up next we'll talk to one gym owner vowing to open his doors tomorrow. he is expected to be met with a heavy hand from the governor. >> the gym owners out of compliance. they're out of compliance. that is not going to be tolerated. cancer won't wait. it won't wait for a convenient time or for hospitals to get back to normal again. that's why, at cancer treatment centers of america, we aren't waiting. we're right here, still focused on the only thing we do, providing world-class cancer care, all under one roof. because cancer isn't just what we do, it's all we do.

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♪. jedediah: we are back with some quick headlines. italy is planning to welcome back tourists next month. the country is expected to lift its travel ban on june 3rd. businesses are already in the

process of reopening restaurants, hair salons set to reopen tomorrow. look at this, a 26-foot long shark spotted near a beach in southern spain. authorities say the second time this month a basking shark has been reported in the area. officials are warning nearby boaters not to get too close. over to you,. pete: pete don't worry, jed, no one is allowed on the beach. lockdown restrictions are being lifted a few, but gym owners are not he is vowing to open his doors tomorrow. ian smith is owner after gym in belmar, new jersey, he joins us now. ian, thank you so much for being here. this is my favorite segment of the day because you're speaking for some people. talk to me about why you're deciding to open your gym tomorrow in new jersey. >> my business partner and i came to the conclusion that we were going to open after we complied with government orders to shutdown.

we were told, given two weeks, flatten the curve. there will be plenty of assistance. we complied just as any citizen should for their country in a time of need. two weeks turned into a month. a month now turned into two. here we are entering month three. the aid packages that they passed were disasterous. and no plans have been presented to open at all. so we decided to take matters into our own hands. we feel we are free an responsible citizens. that as free and responsible citizens we can make choices. we can go above and beyond current safety measures in place at big bock stores that have been open and stayed open. we put together a 15-point safety plan. we have again above and beyond. we're prepared to open on monday. pete: all equipment is distanced. you're taking temperatures at the door. liquor stores in new jersey, people are not doing that in liquor stores. you're doing everything you can.

what is the reaction from authorities in new jersey? >> well, governor murphy i know was not happy. as far as other authorities, i mean we've contacted local police. we put out a very public statement. and we've, we've been told basically you know, we're on our own, to go ahead but be prepared for the consequences. i can tell you that we do have a lot of support in and around the country. we have gotten nothing but an, just tons of calls and we're ready to go. we don't have a choice in this matter. pete: no you don't. the governor says you're out of compliance, whatever compliance that is arbitrary rules being set out who is essential, who is not essential. i got to believe you will have a lot of people lined up outside of your door. you have a members, you have members there only members that you know are allowed to come in at 20%, full sanitized. what is going to happen tomorrow

morning when you open your doors? >> we're going to operate under the strictest measures and we're going to prove to governor murphy and any of these other governors who keep us locked down that we can be responsible and we can find middle ground between respecting lethality of the virus and danger that it does present but at the same time not just throw everything else by the wayside and lose small businesses around the country. i think there is a happy medium to be met. we intend to showcase that for the country. pete: of course there is a happy medium, if only common sense was ruling the day. do you anticipate being closed, fined, arrested, what could happen tomorrow morning? >> we anticipate to be met with a heavy hand and unfortunately when you stand up for what you believe in sometimes that is not comfortable and sometimes it is

a little scary but, we have to do it. this is much more than opening our

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think about, how you should help the american people? my two cents, they shouldn't delay, they shouldn't be captive of special interest. >> but the house bill contains absolutely necessary measures for our statewide recovery and our national recovery. i speak directly to the inclusion of one trillion dollars for state and local government assistance. jedediah: well, there you have it. a lot of blue state governors voicing that support for that $3 trillion bill, you heard that right, $3 trillion. we'll bring in ohio gop congressman brad wenstrup. member of the house intelligence committee. congressman, welcome to the show. >> thank you, good to be with you this morning. jedediah: it is great to have you here, particularly at this time. what do you make of this, the blue state governors are rallying around the bill, we've been covering it today, yesterday, stuffed with all of these left-wing policy agendas. it is being labeled coronavirus relief. obviously completely misleading.

is it smart for the governors to get behind this bill? >> i wouldn't think so. the states have gotten a lot of money. that is how they want to go about allocating the money. we should let the first few phases already put through go into place. and there are in many cases, obviously just trying to could have for their poor planning if you have states had rainy day fund, that can get us through situations like this, they're in a good pot. usually those are read states. think about all of this. this bill was done just with democrats as most people know by now. 14 democrats voted against it for some very, very good reasons because it didn't meet the core anything of what we're trying to accomplish at this time. our goal was to try to get employees and employers through this time and not lose all their jobs, not lose all their businesses and at the same time what we should be focusing on right now is a phase one, not a phase four but a phase one of reopening and rebuilding america

and let's start talking about what we can do and not what we can't do. we have a lot of good treatments. our hospital the, many of them, i have one county hospital that is shut down obviously, had empty beds. they have no admissions. time for to us move on. we have got the opportunity. we can do it smartly. you have had many people come on and talk about how we flattened the curve. we did what we were supposed to do. a lot of governors are into power play. a few want to tell people they can and can't do something. you better give a good scientific reason. americans just don't except hearing because i "because i sa" because what we're seeing from a lot of governors. so let's get back out there. let's be smart. american people know live is a risk. we can keep the risk to a minimum by being smart but right now we're hurting our physical health, by not doing procedures. mental health by isolation and depression comes from not working. certainly we're hurting our economic health. we have to look at this country

this, whole situation holistically. if you get rid of this virus by we'll never be able to do even with the vaccine and we allow everything else to falter, we are not doing the best for the american people. pete: yeah, congressman, we had a gym owner new jersey, can't go to the gym. i want to step back, because you have the bailout bill nancy pelosi wants to pass. you have governors drunk on their own power. what can the republican party, your party do to be freedom party, give bailout their people want, their own jobs, own livelihoods, ability to make their own choices, what more can you do to put pressure on democrats who are happy to keep it shut down? >> one of the things that we can do, and we will do is show that we're willing to go to work. we had this vote the other day for proxy voting, so you're telling me now, because democrats new rule in the house,

that you can vote present by proxy. you can vote present and actually be absent this is not leadership. you know, i served in the military, pete. i know you know this. you're not leading when you don't show up. we can't be asking people in grocery stores and firefighters and police and our health care workers, you all show up for work but we're not going to. listen, we can manage this. the risk seems to be getting less and less fortunately. we still have to take some precaution but we always have to take precautions for our health. let's go ahead and do it. the american people need to see we will go to work and to our work the way we're supposed to do it. proxy voting is not the way to do that. and also, we need to be in our committees. we need to be cranking things out. we have to pass the defense national authorization act. tell me that is not important criteria for our country. we need to be there to discuss

it properly. griff: you're on the house intelligence committee. i want to ask you now, what you are doing, what your committee is doing? we have got top obama officials now revealed to have unmasked flynn's name. flynn's name ended up in the "washington post." that is a crime. this list of 39 names that requested his name are possible suspects in an actual felony of leaking that to the media. what will your committee do to get to the bottom of that? >> well, we're in the minority in the committee at this point but we also continue to work. i just feel, i see the republican members, we're all engaging with our staffs and with the intelligence community to do our work but what you're seeing right now with the unmasking is from our work by the way. these are things that we discovered. i found it interesting, all the criminal system of devin nunes who has been a great leader as you can tell. i would have people at home questioning him. i would say, you tell me one thing where devin nunes has been wrong?

he hasn't. we're doing the work. now some of it is coming to fruition, someone is willing, national intelligence level who is willing to dig into these things that took place. we've learned a lot. you know all these unmaskings, we've known about this for some time. i'm glad the american people are starting to know. flynn is only one by the way. he is not the only one who has been unmasked by the previous administration. griff: very quickly though, do you believe what you have uncovered will be a central piece of the durham investigation which we're waiting for? >> yes i do. i think it will be part of it, but there is even much, much more than that. there is a lot of bad actors. if we don't clean house, the american people will never be able to trust the fbi or any other agency, rightfully so. christopherway had the opportunity to do that. we haven't seen that hopefully we're going to see it happen. griff: thank you, congressman. pete: thank you, sir. >> my pleasure. griff: all right. turning now to your headlines an nfl player facing assault and

weapon charges after gunshots ring he out inside of an apartment. redskins wide receiver cody late timmer was arrested in colorado. there is with argument before some one opened fire. late timber was released own 25,000-dollar bond. redskins are aware of the situation but won't comment any further. just hours a record is expected to launch from cape canaveral. they will hope to send the atlas v rocket after delaying the launch twice over bad weather. they will take a air force space plane into orbit. spacex moved its falcon 9 launch from this morning to this coming tuesday. how about this, nascar taking to the track. real heroes 400 kicking off at darlington raceway in north carolina. the drivers suits up for the first time in months since the

pandemic started. michael wall trump joined us yesterday on the big return. >> drivers are itching to put on a show for our fans. not weird seeing them up in the grandstands but it will be a great show. griff: watch the race on fox, today, 3:30 p.m., drivers start your engine. it will be something great. i can tell you, one person for sure that will be glued to the television watching it and that is the honorary nascar driver him seven, rick reichmuth. pete: no doubt. rick: honorary. i cannot wait to see this. have something to watch that's live. sports it is going to be amazing today. got to talk about the weather. there is a lot going on including our first tropical storm of the season. hurricane season starts june 1st. we're expecting active year that is not the news everybody wants to hear with everything going on. telling you this, take the extra time to be additionally prepared this year. look at maps.

show you what is going on. this storm formed last night off east coast of florida. tropical storm arthur, 40 mile-per-hour storm. not real concerns about the track. it will really get close to the outer banks. probably sustained 50 mile-an-hour storm by the time it happens. outer banks will be a rough day especially say monday into tuesday. this is the ocean temperature. waters well above average. you need water temperature 80 degrees to get tropical formation. you go over the gulf stream that is 80 degrees. we do have tropical storm warnings in effect across the outer banks. just be prepared across parts of north carolina, any beach erosion situation. another storm we're watching over the central part of the country will bring a lot of rain today, into tomorrow. areas from chicago up towards milwaukee, green bay, over towards the western side of

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♪. >> it is time for every pastor, every rabbi, every muslim leader, every religious leader to exercise their first amendment rights. come on, let the lions inside of you begin to roar, take your people back into the houses of worship. pete: congregations across the country face gatterring restrictions one kentucky pastor is encouraging call to action, encouraging faith leaders to open churches nationwide this morning in support of religious freedom. here with more on the mission is his church pastor, brian gibson.

thanks for joining us. you do know, you're in kentucky, a lot of states are under restrictions for sunday services. you're saying everybody at once in support of religious freedom, let's go to church. talk to us about that call? >> yes, sir. thank you for having me today, pete. pete: thank you. >> we saw whenever the coronavirus nation first hit the nation, we were all willing to play ball. we thought this could be the black plague. possible 5% death loss. all the pastors took their congregation online as well did i. we worshiped that way eight weeks now, we noticed as the stats didn't come to pass, thank god we didn't have the kind of death loss we thought we would and i'm thankful for that. restrictions eased up on everyone around us but we couldn't do business as normal as the church. i even organized a drive-through easter egg handout with kids. the masks were on my people,

gloves were on my people. eggs were packed and sterilized for five days. the health department shut us down. we're looking across the road at fast-food places handing out french fries. liquor stores are serving patrons but the church is the bad guy. so it is time for us to stand up for our first amendment rights. we have religious freedom in this nation. we'll not lay that down on our watch. pete: calling for civil disobedience in some places where it is not allowed, if we move once into these essential businesses, these houses of worship, government can't stop that? >> yes, sir. we have a right to peaceably assemble. that is why our website is peaceably gather.com and any religious leader that wants to be a part of this movement, i want them to jump on peaceablygather.com. we want to be smart, be safe, be caring. we have all sorts of precautions put together.

extra sterilization. we're taking care of everything. we have want to know our religious freedom will not die with us. i believe every day a church is closed, a bit of liberty dies. so we need people to stand up and roar. there is a time to be quiet, a time to be the lamb but today is the day to be the lion, i'm watching them across the nation, we have i don't know, 130 signed up online. we confirmed 100. i know next week hundreds of more are coming online. there is a movement right now in california. i want to tell those guys, this week, the people in our movement are going to be praying, fasting for them. thousands of churches in california, we're getting calls from illinois. we've got churches with us from illinois. i've got my friends, kings cathedral and chapels around the nation, they're coming with us. i really believe momentum is starting right now. pete: all god's people said, amen. pastor, thank you so much for leading the fight on this, good luck. keep us posted please.

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♪. jedediah: back in action. the big three automakers are set to reopen u.s. plants tomorrow. ford, gm and fiat chrysler implementing new safety protocols to prevent the spread of covid-19 within their factories. what will this actually look like? here to discuss is kurt "the cyber guy." welcome as always. what will the new safety measures look like inside of the factories. thank you so much. >> it is going to look like, you're very welcome, and it is

good to see you and walking into a factory tomorrow, may 18th, the big day for all three big automakers here in the u.s. where plants will reopen and they will not look like they did before. your experience walking back into work will be very different. technology playing a huge role inside of that for starters. every employee now has received a playbook how all these automakers plan to do this. ford, gm, fiat chrysler, all implementing similar plans. walk into work, temperature taken. infrared detectors will have ability to take your temperature upon arrival. some have temperature sensors ahead of time so workers can take their own temperature two hours prior to coming to work. you show up at the door and you have any sign of symptoms, you're going to be turned away. separation at the assembly lines is also a key focus here. they're using some technology

including at wristbands at ford, some workers know they had need to be within sick feet from each other, to keep people at safe stances and adding face shields and wristbands will notify each other if you get too close to one another. we learned more that the writ bands will feedback data to the company about how close people were to each other. did person a stand next to person b, c, and d and later get diagnosed with covid? they now know how to trace that person. the data inside of the automakers really, really important jedediah. in fact ford calling this wave zero, meaning this is the first time that they are letting the assembly workers on, they will watch very closely to make sure they're following every safety protocol possible. jedediah: kurt, for giving us the update. obviously other industries will watch this industry closely to see what happens. to make sure it doesn't lead to

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way because they're not letting you. we have a great list of governors. we'll ask what they're doing in their states and elected leaders. governor sununu in new hampshire has kind of opened up but not really. asa hutchinson, republican from arkansas, where are they in the process. tim ryan sounded off about the bill democrats passed, the 3 trillion-dollar bill. maria bartiromo where are we in the business sense in our economy right now as people are being crushed, being crushed by the realities of our situation right now, guys. griff: pete you're talking about people going boating and fishing by the way, we should point out there is a tropical storm on the east coast f you're itching to get out, check your weather t could be dangerous for other reasons as we get started here. jedediah: yeah. that's correct. and in the meantime we've been talking about people being eager to get back to work, people having a hard time with the restrictions placed by the

government. legal challenges to the stay-at-home orders are gaining stream. wisconsin supreme court struck down the governor's orders. dozens of lawsuits similar to that, lawsuits against these challenges. business owners trying to figure out how to get open. business owners say we have to open up, if we don't do so now, we'll lose businesses. we're not able to feed the families, we've built lives to build businesses, we can't let it go. one tweet caught my eye, all of our eyes, actually, "wheel of fortune" host pat sajak, he said the following. when a disk jockey or a talk show host or journalist being paid to work from his or her home tells people who can't work, pay bills, pay their rent, mortgage, stay home, be careful because we're all in this together it is okay to question the premise. that is something people have been saying a lot. some of us have the luxury being able to work from home. others do not have that luxury.

you can't lecture people who are around the country saying listen, i too want to work. i too need to be able to pay my mortgage. i need to be able to put a roof over my head. i need to be able to put food in my children's mouth. you have to be very careful about telling those people day after day, week after week, listen, just sit tight. we don't really know when you will be able to reopen. we don't really have a plan. just trust us. that maybe last as couple weeks. i think everyone was willing to comply with that but once you get to this point, people start to get nervous, reasonably so. pete: of course that tweet fits us. we wear makeup, look into a camera, talk for a living, get paid whether we're in the studio or at home or not working that doesn't affect us. our job have a sense of people who roll their sleeves up for a living, get their hands dirty, built a business, poured sweat equity into it, got 10, 15, 25 employees who rely on them, a lot are unemployment. they may not be willing to come

back to work. they rely on foot traffic. people are scared going out. we know who this effects the public official who has done the worst job, the one they laud cuomo, decided to send covid-19 patients to the nursing homes. those decisions got people killed. you know who it affects, if you want to make a personal choice you can. this comes down to freedom. we had a gym owner on the program earlier. ian smith, really smart guy, atilis gym, new jersey doesn't allow gyms to be open. thankfully we can take out a boat for rental. what a wonderful crumb governor murphy will give to us. he can't get his livelihood opened up. he will open up anyway tomorrow. >> this is much more than opening our gym. we truly believe we're standing up for our constitutional rights. we'll going to prove to governor murphy and these other governors who keep us locked down that we can be responsible and we can find middle ground between

respecting lethality of the virus and danger that it does present but at the same time, not just throw everything else by the wayside and lose small businesses around the country. i think there is a happy medium to be met. we intend to showcase that for the country. pete: he literally overhauled the entire gym. taking temperatures of everybody. moving equipment six feet apart. everything is resanitized after it is used. he is operating at 20% capacity which he can't make money on. the governor is saying, liquor stores are good but not you. griff: there will be a fight here in pete, washington, pretty much already underway between mcconnell and schumer because, look, the thing that pelosi put forward was a political statement, but schumer and the republicans are willing to do another relief package. in that will be some sort of legal shield for business owners like the gym guy, all across the country. as jed was mentioning at the

top, the rising number of legal complaints with regards to the businesses opening up, there is 59 to date. it its growing by the minute f you own a business like that gym owner does, and you're trying to reopen and trying to do things, but you have the burden of these local government restrictions, blah do you do when an employ he sues you? that has to be sorted out. these businesses cannot take a second punch in the face. jedediah: yeah. also it is an important point, if you don't feel comfortable being in a gym right now, you don't have to go to a gym. no one is judging you for that. everyone's experience is different. you can opt out. that is not for me. if you want to say inside for next six months that is also a choice many people will be able to make for themselves. the problem is people are unable to put themselves in someone else's shoes for just a second, what if there were my livelihood, my only means to make money? what if i would be saying then,

if that is way to feed my family? take a second, look at it from the other perspective you too have a choice no matter what the circumstance. pete: that is the best point of the morning. respect people enough to let them make a choice. the one size fits all is you know your family, you know your risk tolerance, you know your threshold. you know what businesses you trust. you know where you think they will do it responsibly. you will be a patron at those, not ones you don't think are doing right way. the 59 cases here is the problem with the legal route. most will not succeed because governors are given a lot of latitude based on health crisis. this will have to rab political movement, people say we'll move all together and open up and kind of dare the governors to stop them. we'll see where it goes. it is expensive. most people cannot afford a long legal battle to keep their business open, especially small businesses. griff: speaking of legal battles, this is something that

caught our eye, the trump critic who represented the ukraine whistleblower, remember him? he wants to prosecute the unmasker. this is attorney mark usaid. here is a tweet i put out. i disagree with marc thiessen about flynn. conflate significance of unmasking requests, i whoever legally leaked classified details of kislyak calls should lose their security clearance or be prosecuted. this is a piece in the "washington post" that zaid is pointing to. someone committed a crime in the michael flynn case. it wasn't him. that is very interesting, this is the attorney that went after president trump with the whistle-blower in the ukraine thing, now saying those unmasked names of 39 which is potential suspect list of who leaked flynn's name because the crime was committed, he stands in principle behind it.

very interesting development. pete: yeah. it is because this guy doesn't agree with marc thiessen's column, is going after mike flynn but is at least willing to be intellectually honest enough whoever leaked it should be punished for that. there is a lot to be asked about this ukraine whistleblower too, the information that got out that way. that is beside the point. senator rand paul talked about this on water's world last night. here is what he said. >> this unmasking process it is about bad actors. we had bad actors, joe biden and inner circle of obama, i think snooping for political dirt, trying to damage their political opponent but it's worse than that unmasking is so rampant, it is done about it thousands, by all administrations but it is a backdoor way around the constitution. pete: it sure us. unmask and then leak? go ahead, jed. jedediah: it is terrifying.

i commend rand paul, we all know he is someone who cares deeply about people's civil liberties, people's constitutional rights. the idea you can spy on some one, what was the justification? we were saying this requires national security justification on flynn. so what was it? there needs to be transparency on the issue. you can't have government circumventing things, backdooring from the constitution, seems like it was done because it looked like a whole set-up. i mean if you have a head attached to the rest of your body, you would be saying something here doesn't look right. we have to, maybe you don't care about flynn, maybe you don't like him, maybe you don't like the trump administration, this could then happen to an administration that you do like or, could happen to someone you know. it could happen to an american citizen engaged in conversations where they have a vehicle whereby they can get in there and access that information via

spying. this should be a concerning story to everyone whether you're involved in government or not. griff: it is concerning to senator lindsey graham who will have hearings digging right into this before the judiciary committee. right now, turning to your headlines, starting with a fox news alert. 11 firefighters rushed to the hospital after a massive building explosion in los angeles. >> engine 9, engine 9, go with your mayday. >> an explosion. i have two downed firefighters on the frontal facade of the building. we need help. griff: firefighters were sent running for their lives as flames engulfed a building. it happened at a cannabis oil warehouse. all firefighters are in stable condition. they are investigating what caused explosion. tops warning in effect off north carolina's coast. tropical storm arthur, moving away from florida, bringing rain and wind to north carolina outer

banks tomorrow. nascar returning to the track today. the real heroes 400 kicks off at the darlington raceway in south carolina. drivers suits up for the first time in months since the pandemic started. nascar set new rules ahead of the race. all teams required to wear facemasks. fans are not allowed in the stands. victory celebrations are banned. don't miss the race today on fox, 3:30 p.m. eastern. it will be a breath of fresh air to hear nascar engines raising around a track. i don't think even a most anti-nascar fan would pass up opportunity to watch a live sporting event today. those are the headlines, guys. pete: i will start the car in my ga run to smell the fumes. feels a little bit. maybe not. that is, don't follow my advice. griff: don't know what i want to say about that. pete: feel like you're at the track. bad joke. voters preparing for a

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♪. jedediah: president trump claiming joe biden, is quote, not even a factor in his bid for re-election, claiming his real opposition party is the news media. mark penn served as chief campaign strategist for hillary clinton's 2008 presidential campaign. he joins us now to react. mark, welcome to the show. before we start i want to read the tweet from president trump, get your reaction. i'm not running against "sleepy" joe biden, he is not even a factor, he never was, remember 1% joe. running against radical left, do nothing democrats, their

partner, the lame stream fake news media. they are vicious and crazy but we will win. what do you make of the tweet? >> you know the president is right in the sense that he is really actually running against himself right now. it is, i always say right now this race is trump v trump. for the last 11 months trump's ratings have been improving a little bit by bit as the economy improved. even as we hit the virus, the last month was a rough month for him. i know he is doing a lot of tweet this is morning but it is a rough month. he set back because he stopped briefings. people are looking for more, rather than less leadership on the virus but it is about trump v trump. how good of a job he will do? then there is a race against biden and the democrats but right now he has to win against himself. jedediah: the problem with that though, you can say trump versus trump, but joe biden does exist. when he opens his mouth, he is

out there talking he doesn't necessarily inspire confidence. often times you really, can you even piece together what he is putting out there. he makes a lot of gasts. gaffs. maybe people make the comparison, i'm not 100% for trump but if joe biden would he do better? >> two points. it is a referendum on trump right now. i think that will change when there is vice-presidential nominee from biden. look, people underestimated biden in the nomination process. i think most people counted biden out, and he did a miraculous comeback. so i wouldn't count him out but, but it is right now it is not a joined race. they're both, they can snipe at each other. politics is coming back even as we come out of the virus when really a time people wanted to put politics aside. people want to know how is trump doing? what is the plan to get out of

the virus? is it working? is he in command? those are the important questions right now. jedediah: so you brought up the point of vp. now i think biden needs a lot of help. you don't have to say that but i think it is true. when you talk about a vp option, who should he be looking at? does it have to be a woman? should it be someone that checks the diversity block? who should it be? >> well, i think he said his vice president would be a woman and, i believe he has to carry through on that promise. that is essential. i thought looking at amy klobuchar i thought did an excellent job, comes from the midwest. is not so far, not really from the left-wing of the democratic party. i mean i think, having a centrist choice is important precisely because of trump's tweets, that trump wants to run against the left. i can understand why he wants to run against the left. i think republicans did well in the special elections a few days

ago when it was party against party, and i think the vp choice will be an important one determining whether or not he can do that. jedediah: yeah. mark, we appreciate you being here. i think you need someone that can articulate policy points well, quickly, succinctly. he should think about that. he didn't do well where president obama did well. that is pretty clear. we'll follow this. have you back for sure. thank you very much. >> thank you. jedediah: dozens of protesters in new york are making their message clear to governor cuomo. they are demanding that businesses reopen. the rally's organizer joins us next with a call to restore civil liberties. [shouting] just because someone grows older

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♪. griff: back now with some quick headlines. female sportscasting pioneer phyllis george has died. she was crowned miss america in 1971 before becoming the first female coanchor of nfl today. she was married to former kentucky governor john brown, serving as the state's first lady. she died in a lexington hospital after suffering from a blood disorder. she was 70 years old. preakness stakes is pushed to october 3rd. the race was set to take place one month after the kentucky derby. pete? pete: thank you, griff. new yorkers protesting outside of the governor's mansion in albany, making the message clear to governor cuomo. >> we want to make our message clear, governor cuomo. you will never take away our civil liberties and our constitutional rights. [cheering] pete: that rally organizer joins us.

cara, thank you so much for being here. you made the trip from long island up to albany to do this. why are you protesting? >> i'm protesting because myself liberties are really important to me. they're important to the country. i feel like governor cuomo overstepped his power when he did the whole executive order to ban freedom of assembly, to shut down the country. so there is a lot of people who feel this way besides me. i felt like i had to go up there to be their voice. pete: what do you say to people, new york was one of the hardest hit areas? albany is a long way from new york city. governor cuomo is in middle of it. they're making excuse for this. what do you sigh to that. >> i don't think that is excuse. new york was hit hard according to the numbers, but i don't think that is excuse for us to give up civil liberties and governor tell us to stay in our hopes and give up an constitutional rights. there is no pandemic clause in the constitution. pete: no clause against the essential rights.

you're right about that. governor cuomo, you remember in april, he had a message to protesters. let me remind you what he said. >> want to go to work? take job as essential worker. do it tomorrow. take the job as an essential worker. >> but the people aren't hiring because of the -- >> there are people hiring. you can get a job as an essential worker, so now you can go to work be a essential worker. you will not kill anyone. pete: you will kill people. >> i just thought that was really obnoxious message from governor cuomo. that is one of the reasons, when i saw that press conference that is more of the reason why we need to be up there speaking against somebody like him who is so clearly out of touch with america and what is going on in the state of new york. so many people are suffering. pete: 100% out of touch. what do you hear from friends, business owners, other people protesting what are they facing in their livelihoods and businesses? >> so many business owners i spoke to are frustrated. they don't want them to begin with. they want to make their own

money. they were doing just fine. they were frustrated with this. they feel like they should open the business now, if not weeks ago. a lot of friends of mine are very frustrated have a deep rooted fear our civil liberties are being taken away. this is setting a terrible precedent for the future because now sort of the state government knows that little, soft spot in america's heart, a virus. so, if there is another virus in the fall, which there very well can be this could happen all over again. this could happen all over again next year. how long is this going to go on? how much more can they keep doing this for us? it is not right. pete: of course. do you feel like businesses will start reopening anyway because they say i just can't last? >> a lot of businesses are going to reopen. they are saying they will. i don't know what the ramifications will be for the businesses. i hope governor cuomo leaves them alone. in new york city, it is terrible. de blasio has done a number on new york city. it's terrible. i do hope, i encourage all

business owners to reopen anyway because that is your right. griff: pete: if you don't want to go to those businesses it is your right to stay at home which is the ultimate corollary in this entire thing. we're at least for now barely a free country. cara, thank you for your time and leadership. >> thank you so much. pete: we reached out to governor cuomo's a statement, he holds a press conference every day for hours but did not have the time to get back to us. some in media rushing to cover for joe biden as the former vp runs for president from his basement. now they're going after his accuser, tara reade in a smear campaign overflowing with hypocrisy. we'll bring that to you next. >> tech: don't wait for a chip like this to crack your whole windshield.

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many in the media rushing to -- go ahead. jedediah: go ahead, pete. go right ahead. pete: many rushing to cover for joe biden as the former vp runs for president from his basement. now they're going after biden accuser tara reade questioning her character. headlines say, manipulative, deceitful user. tara reade left a trail of aggrieved acquaintances. new reporting increases doubts on tara reade's allegation against joe biden. some going against the concept of believe all women. here to react, media reporter for "the hill," joe concha. i'm not very good at reading those on the teleprompter, but the headlines are clear. what do you take from it? >> greetings from my basement as well. i've been stuck here 60 days in new jersey. great to see you guys. this story went from let's not cover anything in terms of allegations against joe bidens. in dozens of interviews he did from march all the way through april we're not even going to

ask him about it, it has gone from that, let's unmask every statement and action tara reade ever taken in her life and character assassinate her, victim shame her. what does this do as a result? well anytime that a democrat is accused of sexual harrassment, leading one anyway in the party, then therefore we should believe the candidate is, seems to be message. if a republican or conservative like brett kavanaugh is accused he is guilty until proven innocent. half the country believes, half the country doesn't believe based on who the accused is and "me too" movement, the true victims that are out there, the kind of victims uncovered by ronan farrow in his reporting against harvey weinstein, those are ones that suffer as a result of this journalistic malfeasance, i don't use that word very often when it comes the way this story has been covered from day one starting back on march 25th, guys. jedediah: joe, i want to bring up the obvious parallel here which is the parallel of christine blasey ford which many

in the media not only rushed to say believe her instantly, people who did question some of the things she was saying or lack of corroborating evidence, were immediately said, oh, you can't stand women, you don't support women, you're anti-women, you don't care about these allegations. so what do you see in terms of media coverage of the two right now? what is your take in terms of how tara reade is being displayed and how blasey ford was displayed by most of the media. >> first i see, jedediah, you look good. you had covid. you recovered great. i'm glad to see you're doing so well and respected your quarantine. look, yeah, as far as the comparisons, right, i always go back to julie swetnick and christine blasey ford but particularly swetnick because she had accused brett kavanaugh of being party to gang rapes. when she was at university of maryland, went back to high school parties repeatedly when gang rapes were going on. she got on national tv, nbc, gave her a national stage, while admitting we can't verify

anything that julie swetnick is saying. julie swetnick was represented by michael avenatti. he was on cable news hundreds of times, short period of time, 2/3 of. presidential candidate and became a president of sell block in rikers. he got on tv to accuse kavanaugh despite his credibility issues. the comparison to make, contrast. this hurts journalism, not so much hurt already but particularly in this case you can teach an entire messer on comparison between the coverage of these two situations, to show it is not just bias at this point, it is activism and that's scary. griff: talking about semesters, we had a graduating class this weekend and president obama, former president obama gave not one, but two commencement speeches to the graduating class of 2020. this is not the first time he has spoken out in recent days, attacking president trump. what do you make of this? >> great pivot, griff.

took semester out of my word, used it to go to the next segment. that is impressive stuff. imagine if you're a high school senior, you get screwed out of graduation parties, prom, i lead with parties, not a good sign, last part of senior year, best parts of our life taken away from you, you have the former president, wow, this is great stuff, actually speaking at your commencement virtually, but still, he take this is opportunity, instead of giving an uplifting message to actually attack the person that replaced him, and to use it as a political weapon, during a pandemic mind you. to exploit this, you would think during this teenage moment, that would normally be condemned by media. instead journalists, at least those playing journalist on tv, nbc, justice, security analyst, matthew miller said quote, every time i hear obama speak i'm surprised how much i needed to hear from him. that is the stuff that tingles are made of.

i'm still floored because president obama for the most part has been quiet during president trump's administration. to take this moment of all moments to attack him over his handling of a pandemic during a commencement speech, that is a new low for him i have to say. i'm quite frankly surprised. i thought he had a little more class than that. pete: everyone is think he is articulate. he is fine on the teleprompter but the umss and unfortunate that he took that time and statement, president of a sell block was a good one. >> thank you, guys. pete: turn to the headlines and jed will read them. jedediah: start with a fox news alert. at least one person is dead. a standoff is underway right now after a shooting in a motel. the gunman barricading himself inside after super 8 in rockford, illinois, hour 1/2 west of chicago. the gunman firing from officers at the motel.

at least two other people are hurt but no officers are injured. the motel has been evacuated. it is not clear what started the standoff. two nfl quarterbacks turning themselves into police for al alleged armed rob taberry. new york giants baker and seattle quinn ton dunbar are accused of stealing watches at a party in florida. they are facing several charges. farmer bro is not getting out of prison anytime soon. a judge rejected mart sin shkreli's request for freedom. he is healthy with no preexisting medical conditions. he is serving a seven-year sentence for fraud. he hike ad life saving aids drug by hundreds of dollars. this cowboy's move might not earn him a olympic medal but he is definitely getting some cheers. >> this is the famous dismount.

>> yes. yes. jedediah: guy bell nailing a jump to end his gymnastic routine, lighting up social media. showing off balances skills after seeing his daughter's practice after feeding horses. guy will join us next hour to tell us about the viral performance. those are the headlines. griff: nailed it, nailed it that guy. jedediah: i can't wait to talk to him. the video is hilarious, much-needed at this time. so can't wait. we should head over to rick reichmuth to say, rick, do you have any secret gym has tick skills -- gymnastic skills? rick: not a one, not a one. very cool. we have a big storm out there, tropical storm, first one of the season, the hurricane season. take a look at the maps. want to show you what is happening for us here right now. hurricane season starts

june 1st. that has happened number of years, last five to six years we had storms in the month of may. the bulk of the activity normally comes once you get towards august. everybody be ready. we are expecting a really active season this year. this is where the storm is now. out to sea. it will pull off towards the north, northeast. as it does, late tomorrow afternoon will get close to the outer banks. so if you're in that area, be prepared, coastal erosion. winds up 50 miles an hour. we'll see some rain. the rain won't be that bad. we'll watch significant moisture from an event across coastal areas that said, the storm is back across the interior section of the country, bringing a lot of rain from texas up towards parts of mississippi valley. look at the second batch much this moisture up towards parts of minnesota, that will continue to slowly pull off towards the east. because it is so slow we'll watch significant rain this is how much rain we see by tuesday. if you look towards the outer

banks of north carolina there, not that much from the tropical storm. that said, that storm in the central part of the country, kind of stays very invigorated as it moves in parts of the southern appalachians. get ready for really significant flooding potential rain across areas from northeastern georgia, south carolina. across parts of the west getting good moisture as well. we'll continue to track tropical storm arthur and bring all the latest right here. griff: rick, thanks very much. still too come, florida peace shutdown order left an entire family unemployed. now that restrictions are loosening up are back in business. this owner of a family sweet shop tells us why she is grateful to get back to work.

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headlines. ufc fighter lost by technical knockout. he took the loss in stride, called his opponent a class act. vowed to be back. kim kardashian is into the task making business. they are $8 each and five colors. they sold out within hours on the website. reality tv star says more will be available next week. over to you, griff. griff: only $8? i have to get one of those. florida expanding its phase one much reopening tomorrow, giving the community out and about for a guest who opened her dessert shot after eight weeks. owner of snow shack in palm harbor, pastor of faith church, kelly snow. good morning to you, kelly. >> good morning. very good to be here. griff: long eight weeks for you. >> yes it has. griff: what has the experience been to you, where are you in terms of your business? >> okay, well, it's been trying

to have all of your family home all of sudden because, four out of the five kid are working for us. at snow shack. we had to close. we didn't have a choice in the matter. we tried other options. we tried curbside but our landlords of our building said no, we couldn't do curbside. that shut that down. we didn't have a choice. we're very excited to get back out there and open up. we felt like we didn't have a choice but really to open. 25% for restaurants i feel really bad for our community right now, are able to be open but you can only have 25% capacity. that is going to be really hard for them. but we're a small dessert shop. hopefully we get a lot of to-go orders and we can maintain and open. griff: doughnuts and ice cream we certainly need in these trying times. kelli, it appears to be,

business owners like yourself across the country speaking out with the same message, there appears to be a misunderstanding by the situation by lawmakers and bureaucrats. what do you want to say to the folks that are doing government restrictions? what do they need to take away? how can this be a learning moment for them? >> they really need to take, especially, i'm not knocking the big businesses and the large restaurants chains but small business family, onlied businesses need to get attention. our county has reached out and offered a grant to help us but we haven't seen that yet. we're, we're having a lot of struggles getting the financial assistance that they have been putting out there. so if we could have anybody, you know, get behind us and get some of those finances released, to help us get open and running and, you know, facilitating our area and servicing our community. griff: before we run out of time, kelli, you are a pastor as

we mentioned. >> yes. griff: majority of religious americans feel the coronavirus pandemic a message of change from god telling humanity to change lives. what is your message? >> my message is, god does not cause bad. he does not, but he will take the bad and turn it around for something good. i have seen people turn to god through this which is awesome. i love that. i love people getting closer to god and to the relationship with him but don't blame god for what's going on here but do take it and make something positive from it. griff: all right. pastor kelli snow of the snow shack. good luck getting more -- >> can i say something, can i say something really quick? i want to say thank you to "fox & friends" for always reporting the truth. i want to say thank you for president trump for standing up and being a strong representative for our country, and if he is watching, if he can give us some signs that say

pastors for trump we would be so excited. griff: all right. pastor snow, thank you very much. we will see. he does indeed watch the program. >> thank you. griff: still ahead, if you can't get away for a vacation right now why not bring the vacation to you? this morning chip wade is here how to turn any back porch or patio for a private getaway just in time for summer. he joins us live right after the break. ♪ clearly, velveeta melts creamier.

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pete: welcome to the third hour of "fox & friends" on this sunday morning. awesome to be joined by jedediah and griff, our swamp monster -- [laughter] how you guys doing this morning? fluff give i'm great -- jedediah: doing well. give give a lot happening down here, as well -- jedediah: we're all in separate places and yet here we are. pete: we do the best we can to pass the ball as nicely as we can -- not your fault, jed. one of the things we manage right now in this moment. hopefully we'll all be back on set, on the couch leading the way here on fox news channel. there were graduations, a lot of

people not able to have ceremonies as they wanted, seniors in college and high school. barack obama, former president, gave a commencement address that was broadcast online for graduates to watch. and part of it, in part of it he took some not-so-veiled shots at the current administration. remember, commencement address yesterday. >> more than anything this pandemic has fully finally torn back the curtain on the requested that so many of the folks in charge know what they're doing. a lot of them aren't even pretending to be in charge. you're going to have to grow up faster than some generations. this pandemic has shaken up the status quo and laid bare a lot of our country's deep-seeded problems. it's also pulled the curtain back on another hard truth. all those adults that you used to think were in charge and knew what they were doing? turns out they don't have all the answers. a lot of them aren't even asking the right questions. pete: is he talking about those

democrat governors that are crushing their states with these draconian measures, one size fits all, or is he taking a swipe at president trump? jedediah: you know, the more i listen to it, the weirder it gets, truly. pete: yeah. jedediah: this is a commencement speech. when you first listen to it, you almost forget. oh, president obama giving some sort of political speech trying to say that the trump administration is divisive and what not. but when you think about it, it's a commencement speech, it's supposed to be motivational, positive, about the graduates. this was not the time for what he's doing. this was not the time to say, oh, this leadership isn't doing a great job or, you know, adults don't always know what they're doing. it just seems so depressing, to be perfectly honest, and so completely inappropriate for what a commencement speech is supposed to be. the more you listen to it, the weirder it gets. griff: well, sure. it's certainly a missed opportunity, jed, because here

is the guy known as no drama obama, he always tries to remain above the fray -- pete: oh, yeah. griff: we haven't heard much from him and, look, president trump has taken lots of shots at president obama. we hear obamagate all this past week. so this was the opportunity for barack obama to step into the void, get that soaring rhetoric that we remember and inspire these young graduates like my niece melanie who graduated from villanova this weekend and say, listen, you guys were the strongest, you got us through this pandemic, you taught us how to go online and communicate, how to zoom, be a leader. give me the high bar. but instead president obama said thanks for the mic, let me take a crack at trump. pete: yeah. griff: it's the unbelievable, to fault a lack of leadership in a time of pandemic when the very people we will depend on in the future on are being assailed

with political gotcha. pete: and time and time again he talks like a leftist. you know who's in charge? the people who elected supposedly public service, yet these democrat governors and barack obama, no, we're in charge, we're the experts, and donald trump's got it all wrong. it's amazing. and by the way, barack obama's not all that articulate. when he a off the tele-- reads off the teleprompter, he's not that articulate. a guy who did spot to it last night was pete navarro, policy director. he talked about the speech and had a good take. watch. >> eight years of obama and biden, incompetence. this was the guy on his watch that we saw over 50,000 factories disappear to china. didn't mention that in his speech, right? and to the american workers, it was always, you know, let them eat agriewg la you would have to wave a magic wand to get back manufacturing.

donald j. trump got half a million manufacturing jobs back. so a little surprised at the former president coming out like that but, again, as biden's press secretary, he's going to do that. jedediah: so we're covering that a lot. one of the the other important stories that i really want to get to, i know you do too as well, and americans want to hear about the reopening of this country. people are getting back to work. they're on the water in new jersey today. the state of new jersey is reopening fishing, boating rentals. a dozen more states are is starting to open tomorrow, nascar is opening sports, live sports for the first time in a long time. and you see that also 13 states are lifting restrictions tomorrow. is so this is going to be a process that you're going to see that will start gradually, i think. i think it will start with a lot of the statements that have not been hit heavily by the virus or have plans they think they can

safely implement to open businesses. and there are rallying cries from people saying, look, i've worked my whole life, i put everything i have into this business. it's now been sitting there for days, weeks at a time, could potentially be months. i can't feed my family, so they're desperately saying, please, i will implement ways to do this safely, but please let me reopen. one person we heard from inial ban first a protest organizer, listen to what she had to say. >> new york was hit hard according to the numbers, but i still don't think that's an excuse to give up civil liberties, for the governor to tell us that we have to stay home and to take away our constitutional rights. there is nothing in the constitution about a pandemic, there's no pandemic clause in the constitution. if there's another virus in the fall, which there very well can be, this could happen all over again next year. how long is this going to go on? how much more can they keep doing this to us?

i just hope and encourage all business owners to open anyway was that's -- because that's your right. gary give business owners have had enough, and we hear a lot of that. i have said from before what will define us is how well we rise, but no one can rise if you can't open a business. we can't find out if people use common sense. but another part of this is the religious one, and that has certainly hurt our morale, that people can't get to their congregations. we had pastor brian gibson on earlier. here's what he had to say. >> restrictions eased up on everyone around us, but we couldn't do business as normal as the church. and we're looking across the road at the fast food places handing out french fries, the liquor stores are serving their patrons, but the church is the bad guy. so it's time for us to stand up for our first amendment rights. we have religious freedom in this nation, and we're not going to lay that down on our watch. pete: amen. and a lot of churches are saying

it's about time as an essential right given to us bid god. guys, we put that map up, the 13 states opening, got a lot of feedback from viewers saying you've got my state on there, but we're not really reopening. and it's a great point. restaurants can now do outdoor dining, but the rest of the state is actually locked down until the 31st, and it may be extended. take new jersey, for example. governor murphy says, oh, you can represent a boat now. thank you very much, i'm so thankful for the crumbs you've given me. it's actually offensive. when you start raising some of these tiny restrictions and telling people, oh, here you go. you can have 25% capacity. if i open up my restaurant at 25% capacity, i'm bankrupt at -- in a month. you have to let people fully responsibly reopen, and then if people, jed, you made this point and it's so true, if they want to choose not to go to these

establishments, they can in a free country. apply common sense and personal responsibility. but a lot of these little itty bitty openings are actually more offensive and anger people even more because you're still picking winners and losers, you're still telling people where they and cannot go. so, no, i won't take much joy in renting my boat this weekend, thank you, governor murphy. it's a lot more than that. that's why you're seeing beaches open here and across the country because leaders couldn't keep them closed. they can go to the beach, throw a football, hang out with their family and everything's going to be fine. i don't know when these officials are going to get this message. jedediah: yeah. and one thing i hear from people all the time is, well, not everyone's going to be responsible. and if you look at some of the photos, you're right. not everyone's going to keep a distance that makes you comfortable, but that's not going to change. pete: that's right. jedediah: there will be people who handle this responsibly and people who don't. but the idea that you can keep people inside in quarantine or shut an entire country down

based on that premise is absurd because that's just life. you have people who are responsible and people who aren't. it's not possible strategically to do what people are being told to do at this point, at this late date. pete: and we hold up governor cuomo as the example broadcasting his news conferences, and he's the guy sticking covid patients into nursing homes when we know the vast majority of depths from this are 70 or 80-year-old people. and yet healthy people are told to stay inside in upstate new york and they can't open their pizzeria up there. when government gets in charge, all common sense goes out the window. you cannot allow are people to make simple choices. griff: here in d.c. just as the week ended on friday, our mayor extended the stay at home to june 8th. so many of the businesses -- and, remember, this area it's no scent that in washington -- secret that in washington we're somewhat insulated because so many folks have federal jobs and

those are protected. yet friends of mine that own a restaurant in georgetown where i live, very worried because memorial day weekend is a time when so many people are looking to say, okay, i'll sit 10 feet away from the next table, but let me just get out. here in washington, in d.c. in the district not going to be able to do that. jedediah: a great point. we are going to turn to some headlines for you now. we are beginning with fox news alert. eleven firefighters rushed to the hospital after a massive building explosion in los angeles. >> explosion! i have two down firefighters on the front side of the building, we need help! jedediah: firefighters sent running for their lives as flames engulf several buildings. it happened at a cannabis oil warehouse. all firefighters are in stable condition. crews are investigating what caused the explosion. and several powerful tornadoes touching could be in southern -- down in southern states, this massive twister in

texas uprooting trees and leveling buildings. a nursing home there crushed by a huge tree. no injuries are reported, luckily. the powerful storm forming a giant water spout near the state's border with arkansas. and drinks are flowing in new jersey. the governor signing a new law allowing cocktail deliveries during the pandemic. licensed bars and restaurants will deliver the drinks in sealed containers. the law will expire after lockdown orders are lifted. those are your headlines. pete: oh, thank you, governor murphy. again, thank you! more crumbs, please -- [laughter] whatever you can give me, i'll take it. unbelievable. until i can go to my neighborhood bar sit and order a beer and talk to the guy next to me, we're living in a bizarre world that has no connection to reality because someone could choose not to go to that bar if they didn't want to. all right, sorry. as more states ease

restrictions, new hampshire's governor chris sununu joins us with an update next.

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things of that nature. tomorrow we go to outdoor seating in restaurants, and we have a task force that's continually looking at new opportunities to open up the economy. in every step that we take, we have new guidance documents reviewed by myself and the folks at the department of public health. we're going to take steps, they're not just jumping forward and opening everything up because if you take smart, sensible steps forward, that can help insure you don't have to go backwards. it's something we can countly manage in a forward motion. griff: governor, new hampshire is a state where lots of tourists go, you're sort of tied to tourism. a lot of of small businesses. what are you hearing from your small business owners there? >> so small businesses have been hurt, there's no doubt about it. as a former owner of hotels and restaurants myself, i get it. especially in the tourism industry, because the one area where we're having the most trouble opening is that of a hotel or tourism where you want

to invite, under normal circumstances, folks out of massachusetts, new york and new jersey, and we know that's just not practical for the northeast right now. it's not a path we can go down. the ppp program worked very well, put a couple billion dollars in here, frankly, for a lot of businesses. but there's a lot of folks that didn't get first in line that might have fallen through the cracks, and we put forward a $400 million program specifically for small businesses for the basic things, paying rent, keeping the lights on, paying property taxes to get through the bump in this economy. griff: governor, there's a sense that the ppp may actually run out here eventually and that lawmakers here in washington where i am need to get another relief bill, but we just saw speaker pelosi with a bit of a political statement of a bill because she did it without any input from republicans. among that are what's being called a liberal wish list of items, a ballout for blue states -- bailout for blue states. what is your reaction? >> so i think everyone agrees

from the president on down that some sort of relief bill for states, cities and towns makes sense. we don't want to start bailing out the previous bad habits of other states or cities. everyone understands that, or bailing out pensions. a $3 trillion bill across the political spectrum gives everybody a lot of pause for concern, but the hope is that they will negotiate something out and it will be focused on true stimulus and programs that really have been affected and will be continually affected by the covid crisis. you don't want to start throwing in all these projects and ask the taxpayers to pay for that. that clearly is political. my hope is they will negotiate something and get something quick. we're really at the apex of need for businesses and in hospitals and health care systems, the need is now. they've really got to get back to work and figure this one out. griff: do the small business owners in new hampshire believe that nancy pelosi and the democrats in charge are going to do what's right for them?

>> i don't think that any of the business owners of the people of the state of new hampshire are looking to nancy pelosi to save them, by any means. i think they are looking for washington to put politics aside and just get it done. that's exactly what we need. we've been very successful managing through an unprecedented crisis. i had one of the strongest economies in the country, and two months later i'm at 15% unemployment in a live free or die state. and, by the way, tom brady plays for the buccaneers, so i've had enough -- griff: all right, governor, we have to leaf it there. thank you very much and good luck reopening. all right. a michigan salon owner gets a cease and desist order for reopening her business, but she says she didn't have much of a choice. she joins us next. >> every single person in life is essential.

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♪ ♪ jedediah: we are back with some quick headlines. disney spring set to open in old on wednesday -- in orlando on wednesday. they will be required to wear masks and have their temperature checked. it's the first phase of disney's roping as the theme parks remain closed. and the mlb games are expected to start back up without fans, potentially causing the league to lose $640,000 each game. the season could start around july 4th. over to you, pete.

pete: wow. that's like opening your restaurant at 25% hoping to make money. all right, michigan still under strict lockdown prompting more and more protests and putting small business owners in an impossible spot. one salon owner defied the order to reopen on friday and has already received a cease and desist order. but in an emotional video, she said she did not have a choice. >> how do you deem one's life essential over another? please tell me that. i will lose my house, i will lose my business, i will lose my freaking livelied hood if i do not -- livelihood if i do not go back to work. pete: sarah huff joins us now. thank you so much. you're not seeking the spotlight. you just want to make a livelihood. talk to us about that decision to reopen. >> yeah. so like the video said, i will lose everything i have, but more

than that, i have employees, and they will also not have a job to go back to. they also have bills to pay. they have a family to also support and feed. they also is have their own mortgages, and i have mine. and i -- there's so much more than that. my brother-in-law who has cancer, he can't get the treatments that he needs, and i have a friend who is an amputee, and he has a bone infection that could lead to death. this is so much more than just opening my business. this is something that needs, in my opinion, it needs to happen. pete: absolutely. you're talking about there are so-called elective surgeries just like people deciding that your industry is not essential or essential. when we look at your salon, are you taking measures to be responsible with the reopening? >> yes, of course.

before we opened i had the salon sterilized, and as people walk in, i'm only allowing 2-3 people in at a time. me, the client and then if there's someone in the waiting area which everyone waited in their cars or my staff who was cleaning everything, id had people leaving, and then she would go downstairs when she wasn't needed. so there was a ton of space. but also i'm wearing my gloves the whole day, my mask, and i also have that for my clients as well when they come in. so everything is getting wiped down. pete: so you're being hyper-responsible, people are making the choice to come see you. in fact, you've been overwhelmed with the request for appointments because people are responding to your courage and standing up. they're under a -- you're under a real threat here. you've got a cease and desist order. are you planning to open on monday, and what do you anticipate will happen? >> right now i don't want really

know what i'm -- i don't really know what i'm going to do. i am, the authorities do have stuff over he many, so i am basically waiting and praying about it. i'm talking with my lawyer are, but i am planning every stem that i take -- step that i take. pete: no, it is your livelihood it is your life, it is the future of your business and all the families affected as you so wonderfully point out. what would they do, fine you, arrest you? what's the possible consequence here in. >> you know, i think really anything at this point is possible. my license could be taken away, i could go to jail. i believe it's up to a year possibly in jail. it's not who i am. i don't go against the grain. i am not the type the of person, i do not like to get in trouble -- [laughter] so this is not who i am, and it's very, it's definitely a scary situation. pete: sometimes you're causing

good trouble, and in this case focus like shelley luther, like yourself, sarah rah, people hold you up as inspiring figures. hair salon owners have a lot more grit than people give them credit for. thank you for your courage, for speak out. good luck, we're thinking about you and praying for you. it's a tough moment, but we appreciate you sharing your story with us on "fox & friends." thank you. >> thank you so much. and i just wanted to say we do have a gofundme to support, help with attorney fees and to pay wages for my staff is and to keep business afloat and all of the other things. pete: we've got viewers that are very loyal here, and i'm sure you will get a lot of support for that because you're fighting for a great cause. thank you so much. god bless you. >> thank you. pete: nascar dicking into high -- kicking into high gear. fox nascar reporter vince welch joins us with what to expect

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pete: each of them crossing the finish line marking their last lap, you might say, of high school. griff: that's great. a real race today as nascar returns on fox, the first race in two months as drivers go head to held in darlington, south carolina. what can we expect? joining us now is fox nascar reporter vince welch. vince, i can't tell you how excited i am, and i want you to talk about how it's going to be different. nascar fans are talking about today for the first time we had no backup, no practice, no qualifying, and so nascar fans are saying this is going to to be a whole -- watch this moment on turn one. >> you got that right. the race is being run at not if toughest track, obviously, one of the toughest tracks at darlington. the heat's going to be up, there are a lot of challenges. they haven't raced in 71 days by

the time they take the green flag. so challenges, for sure, but i think everyone is in a celebration mood because it's, it's live spots s and it's back. certainly for those nass car fans, this is a huge -- nascar fans, this is a huge day. over the course of the past two or three months, we've all been challenged in a lot of different ways, and this is an opportunity, think, for all of us to celebrate a little bit overcoming that challenge. certainly nascar and fox have, like all live sports events and leagues and series, have been challenged to the utmost. they've been knocked down, but today they get back up and they represent, and i think they show not just the nascar community, but the world in general that no matter what the challenge is, you get knocked down, you can still get back up, and you can be the one that is the example. and i think that's what nascar and fox will be are today. they'll be the example for those other sports. a lot of other sports looking, keeping their eye on what happens in darlington, south

carolina, and on fox this afternoon. pete: vince, very well said -- go ahead, jed with. jedediah: go ahead, pete. [laughter] pete: i'll ask it. what do you think, in this horse race, who are you looking at today? >> well, i think darlington is a track that typically rewards the veterans, you know? it's the guys that have been around a while because this is a very difficult track. and this is a difficult situation. so i'd be surprised if one of the young guys who maybe hasn't won a race would happen to sneak in and get his first win at darlington. i think it's a track that with the difficult circumstances of the day not having raced in so long, as i mentioned, it's going to be hotter than what these guys have dealt with so far this season even with the 71-day break that i i think this is a track that rewards the guys with a little bit more experience. i'd look for a kevin harvick or joey lo logan know, martin truex, those kind of guys.

jimmy -- [inaudible] the beginning of his season his seven championships, announcing he was going to retire at the end of the season, hasn't really gotten the celebration that we were expecting to give him so far this season. so maybe today is his day, and what a great story that would be. jedediah: yeah. you know, vince, i think you made a great point when you said a whole bunch of people are excited. even people who aren't typically nascar fans i know are getting ready to sit at their tv z. just a quick message you have for the nascar fans who are really excited to see nascar lead the way and provide some normalcy to everyone's life where they can sit home, put a smile on their face and see some good sports. >> yeah. and i think, you know, as i mentioned before, it's an opportunity to show that we can overcome. whether you're a nascar fan or a casual fan, and i think some people will tune in just because of the curiosity. it is live sports on tv that we haven't had in more than two months. it is a major sporting event that has no fans in the stands,

and a lot of people are curious to see what that looks like. so i think that there are a lot of reasons to tune in. and a lot of those people will tune in for the curiosity factor. i think the key for this situation is that we're back. nascar is back, fox and nascar have gone through unimaginable hurdles, cleared unimaginable hurdles to be in this position, to be able to put on this event and put it on safely so that the competitors aren't at risk and the television viewing audience, the fans or that are out there the can enjoy it. and even though there's fans that can't be in the stands like i know they want to to be, theyl be able to sit at home, they'll be able to gather with a small group of friends and be able to watch the sport that they love. and i think that everyone is ready. and i know that all of us at fox are ready. griff: yes, they are. vince welch, thank you very much. we're all in this together. well, we're all nascar fans today, and it's coming up -- even if you're not a fan, tune in because you're not going to

want to miss if it. 3:30 p.m. eastern on fox news. vince welch, have a great afternoon. we'll be watching. thanks for joining us. pete: a few additional headlines starting with this fox news alert. a deadly shooting and standoff at a motel is now over, the gunman bare k5euding himself inside a super 8 in rockford, illinois. no officers, thank god, were hurt. police believe the shooting started after a domestic dispute. and new yorkers are fleeing the city during covid-19 data from the u.s. postal service showing a lot of them going to new jersey, upstate new york and connecticut, florida and lang -- los angeles. the u.s. postal service said it received more than 81,000 mail forwarding requests from the city last month alone. that number doubled from last year. and a federal judge blocked lockdown reductions allowing churches to hold indoor services in north carolina.

governor roy cooper said services could only be held outdoors with no more than ten people. several pastors file a a lawsuit arguing their right to worship freely. the judge siding with the pastors, thankfully, and granting a temporary restraining order. pastors having to go to the law to fight for their ability to assemble inside their own church. in just under an hour, a rocket is expected to launch from cape canaveral hoping to send the atlas 5 orbit after delaying twice over bad weather. it will take this u.s. air force space plane into orbit. meanwhile, saysx moves its falcon 9 rocket launch from this morning to tuesday -- spacex. those are your headlines. griff: all right. i wonder if it'll have the is space logo, the space force -- pete: i love it. yeah. griff: all right, rick, how about the weather for the launch? rick: yeah, looking better,

guys. the problem it was having was all of the moisture from what is now tropical storm arthur, take a look at the maps, it's our first tropical storm of the year. it is also about two weeks before the official start of the tropical storm season, the hurricane season. this is where it is right now just off the coast of florida far enough, i think you're looking fine today. this storm pulls off towards the north and northeast. these are our spaghetti models we look at. ant -- we do have tropical storm warnings anywhere you see that yellow out across parts of north carolina. i think mostly watching for those winds, maybe 50 miles an hour, watch some beach erosion, and this right there, we'll likely see a little swath, maybe 4 inches or so of rain if this. not a massive storm, nobody should be worried too much, but i do think it's an important time to realize we're at the beginning of hurricane season and a season that all indications are will be very

much above average. so we need to be watching for that. this is the radar loop of what you can see from that storm right now. a couple of other pieces of energy across the central part of the country, one right now bringing significant rain across parts of arkansas. it's a slow moving storm. because of that we'll see the rainfall totals pile up especially across the northern side of this where you see that very heavy rain across are parts of areas of minnesota, parts of wisconsin, throughout western michigan and some of those spots are going to see maybe 3-4 inches of rain, could cause localized flooding. really summer-like across parts of florida, 94 today again for a high in orlando, so the heat still continues. tomorrow we start to see temps build up across parts of the high plain, getting into the mid 80s as far north as montana. we get back to a cooler pattern for a few days across the mid-atlantic and the northeast. can't sustain warm temps, but

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[laughter] these political duke-outs. really, i do think this is a key issue, because bernie sanders' supporters very excitedded, you know, they have a lot of enthusiasm. i don't think that necessarily translates to biden. i think a lot of them are are going to stay home. what say you? >> i beg to differ with that. a recent "usa today" poll, if you talk to supporters and compare 2016 to where we are today, in 2016, 12% of them went on to vote for the president of the united states, donald trump, but in this particular poll, only 4% say they will because they can't bear the notion of four more years of donald trump. remember, a lot of times the reason why they voted for donald trump in '16 had to do with a couple of things. one, i they wanted somebody to take on the establishment, push for popular views, and what finding out is even though that's what was in the box, the cake didn't taste like that when it came to the president. jedediah: yeah.

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>> working inside of their own country is one thing. their efforts to create control and influence around the world are quite another. we have a responsibility to fix that. your point about china is efforts to use their wealth, state-owned enterprises and their authoritarian regime in africa, in the arctic, sea lanes all around the world present real risks to the united states of america and to free nations. griff: that was secretary of state mike pompeo sounding off of in a rare interview yesterday as the tensions with china grow, all started when this pandemic began. china being absolutely silent about it and doing things that this administration now looking at, they may have actually cause virus to spread more widely because no one knew what was coming to their doorstep. jedediah: yeah. i mean, china needs to be held accountable for that, and i think pompeo makes a good point when he talks about a unification of the united states and the free world, the people

who have similar ideals that are very much in contrast to the ideals of communist china need to come together and recognize there are challenges when deeming with china, and they need to be -- dealing with china, and they need to be addressed. i know, pete, your new book coming out tuesday addresses some aspects of these ideals that we need to be holding dear and talking about a lot more. pete: absolutely. even mickey mouse would understand that the communist chinese government is evil and a threat to the united states. what mike pompeo is talking about is right, you want to be communist over there, don't ruin our movies with chinese propaganda, don't go to our universities and create confucius institutes to sell your communism. i wrote this book guys, "american crew said," before -- crusade before covid-19. everything that's happened since i turned in that manuscript has

only crystallized how fragile freedom is in this country and how dangerous the communist chinese are and how as free citizens we better be ready to fight, to crusade if we want to stay free. it's the only way. here's a quick excerpt, you'll indulge me. the reality of our consequential moment prompts a central question: are trump's election are, presidency and possible re-election the beginning of an american renewal and rebirth, or does trump's election represent the last gasp of a nation and a generation clinging to an idea of america that the left has completely destroyed? this is an open question. and all about what 2020 is about. and then in another portion it's no longer a debate between patriotic parties, about more or less spending, the finer points of foreign policy. the central question of 2016 was and even more in 2020 is do you love america or not. and i go on to say do you

believe in citizenship or not, borders or not, do you support the police or not, do you believe in capitalism or are you ready to cave in to socialism. we really have at a crossroads. i poured my heart into it, and we're in that kind of moment where we're like how do we stay free, what do we do. i'd like to think i wrote a humble battle plan for that. give give you did. and i've been read aring it, but i think one of the things that you also raised about those freedoms is the declaration of independence and how important that is. pete: 100%. thank you, griff. jedediah: "american crusade" is available tuesday, and all this month you get a signed copy along with a free year of fox nation. pete: thank you both. give give salons and retail

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jedediah: we are straight to a fox news alert new steps toward reopening the country, new jersey allowing fishing and boat ing rentals to resume today. griff: it comes as 12 states lift restrictions on businesses tomorrow. pete: and nascar engines are restarting today. the darlington 400 gets underway at 3:30 p.m. eastern time on fox and we are well underway into our final hour here at fox & friends on sunday. joined by jedediah bil axe, and degree jenkins my favorite swamp creature as always. griff: [laughter] you know. jedediah: griff do you know what i've been talking to people and you are everyone's favorite swamp creature i don't know how you made that happen but it's across-the-board. griff: thank you someone has to

keep them in line but i'll do it as long as i can. pete: you do it well, sir. let's bring in gop arkansas governor hutchinson and on the program all morning long we've been hearing from voices of small business owners some in blue states some in red states looking at the restrictions that states are imposing and some are taking steps forward others are taking steps back in your particular state tomorrow all retail businesses except bars can reopen which is a good sign but what's your message to business owners who still face restrictions 25% capacity in a restaurant still means you're going bankrupt if you do that for another month. how can you reassure your citizens that they can get out and be open and responsible free people as soon as possible? >> well it's a good question. it's great to be with you today and we are excited about continuing to lift the restrictions here in arkansas. as you know arkansas never did

do a shelter in place so most of our businesses stayed open whether it was construction or most of the retail but we did close down some of those person- to-person contact businesses like barber shops and tatoo parlors and limitations on restaurants so we made progress in our cases. we met the guidelines of the white house and so we went into phase i, which for restaurants to your point means that they can go to one-third of occupancy but here is the greater challenge and most have taken advantage of that. some want to wait until we can go to phase ii and they can have two-thirds occupancy because there is a cost structure for them but we've got to most importantly build the demand by the public and the confidence. one restaurant owner said well, i haven't filled it up to one- third yet that's because the public needs to feel safe when they come back they need to feel confident that we're still going in the right direction and we're still taking this

coronavirus seriously. we're not letting us get ahead of the or behind the disease and it's spread so we want to build that confidence. we're doing that. the businesses are coming back and we hope to get to phase ii quickly where we can even further open up our restaurants, where we can make sure that even our movie theaters which opens up monday, will be able to operate in a safe fashion. jedediah: governor, the legal challenges to these stay-at-home orders have been gaining steam throughout the country as a lot of these businesses stand up for their constitutional rights so i don't think that's going to die down any time soon but i want to ask you about a tweet that we had seen from wheel a fortune host pay sajack that mirrors what a lot of people are feeling around the country. it says when a talk show host or a journalist who is being paid to work from his or her home tells people who can't work, pay bills or pay their rent or mortgage to stay home and be careful because we're all in

this together it's okay to question the premise. i think that's a great point, is it not? >> well it is a good point and think back about the length of this coronavirus and the different public messages that we heard nationally. the first message was you've got to shut everything down. we were one of five to eight states i think it was that did not have a shelter-in-place order and i took enormous national pressure because i didn't see any public health benefit from doing that. i did see a public health benefit from having social distancing and taking the virus seriously, and so the public, as long as you give them information and are honest with them, they buy and large will make good decisions. the vulnerable will stay in place, if you're nervous about going to a restaurant you're going to stay home, and we had retail shops that never were closed but some closed

themselves because of lack of business . that's the marketplace working if they have the information that's needed. that's what we've worked hard both to balance the need to keep our economy moving but the same time this virus does kill people , and we shouldn't just blow that off and say that's not a serious public health concern as well. that balance helps the public to make the right decision. pete: to your point, governor and you do deserve a lot of credit for not shutting it down the way so many other people did , but to that point we also know more about the virus, who it targets, 70-80-year-old people who have pre-conditions or are disposed to that so we can sort of understand it and instill that confidence but you mentioned certain person to person industries that have been forced to shut down or at least reduce their capacity and a lot of them are hair salons. we had a michigan salon owner, not your state but this has become the revolt of the salon owners who knew there was so much there but there is and

she's defying a lockdown order here is what she said on our show earlier. >> i will lose everything i have but more than that, my employees will also not have a job to go back back to. they also have bills to pay. they have a family to also support and feed and they also have their mortgages and i have mine and it's so much more than that. my brother-in-law who has cancer , he can't get the treatments that he needs this is so much more than just opening my business. this is something that needs in my opinion really does it just needs to happen. pete: governor she doesn't want the shotlight. i'm sure there are women in arkansas who had the very same pressures. my question is why not now let them open up at full capacity and let people choose? your message could be if you're healthy and want to go out to open for business, and if you feel vulnerable stay home. why not open everything now?

>> well, in that instance first of all i identified totally with what she's saying. that heart goes out to someone that's struggling to make a living and government comes in with restrictions, but in arkansas, you know, our salon it's not limited on capacity, it is simply that you do have to make sure we have the information for contact tracing, you have to make sure you do some social distancing. there are some requirements in there. are those necessary? i think so. hopefully they can, once we have more confidence you can reduce that burden. gyms are a challenge because we do have social distancing requirement there so we're really opening up but we need to do more. i think it is fair to continue to have some of these restrictions in place until the public has more confidence and we know exactly that we can manage this virus consistent with opening up our businesses

totally. so one of the decisions we have to make are team sports, and that's something i want to do. i've got kids involved in that, grandkids but there's parents that write me and say that i've got a 14-year-old and 10- year-old, please don't open up team sports, because they're not going to social distance and while they aren't going to be ill they will come back and they might give it to somebody else their grandparents so those are family decisions but they are pressure points both ways. we just have to follow that public health guidance and make good decisions. griff: governor maybe you should teach them to be nascar drivers because they are opening up at 3:00 today. just leave you with one quick short question and that is are you concerned about a spike coming as we approach memorial day weekend? >> we're concerned about a spike every day and we watch it every day, and we've had a spike in our prison environment that we're very concerned about. we have not had a spike in our communities as a result of opening up more, but we're

watching every day. memorial day is a good test but a lot of that is outdoors and by the way congratulations on nascar. this is exciting for everybody. people just want to get back to a sense of normalcy, that'll help us to get there. griff: you got that right that's for sure. pete: governor thank you so much for coming on the program we appreciate it. >> great to be with you. griff: the lawyer calling to prosecute leakers. pete: he wants the unmask erin general flynn's case to be held accountable. jedediah: garrett tenney joins us more with the call for justice. reporter: good morning, you all, mark zade made no secret he's not a fan of president trump but this weekend it appears he has at least one area of common ground. like the commander-in-chief the national security chief leaves that whoever leaked details of michael flynn's phone call with the former russian ambassador should be prosecuted. they told the website law and

crime that the intelligence of flynn's phone call is a classified document and to release that information to unauthorized third parties particularly the media is a felony whoever leaked the information violated their non-disclosure agreement and broke the law unless they were authorized to do so regarding which there's no evidence to support that posture. zade famously represented the whistleblower who raised red flags about president trump's call with ukraine's leader in the appearance of a quid pro quo involving military aid and investigating the bidens who ultimately led to the president 's impeachment. last night zade explained his client didn't break the law and went through the proper channels tweeting i advocate for lawful whistleblowers who don't legally leak classified info, whoever leaked details should be disciplined, lose security clearance and/or prosecuted and also goes on to make it clear he does not agree with the

assessment though that flynn did nothing wrong. back to you all. pete: thank you, garrett appreciate it. jedediah: thanks, garrett. we're going to turn to some headlines now in this 9:00 a.m. hour beginning with a fox news alert 11 firefighters rushed to the hospital after a massive building explosion in los angeles. >> i have two down firefighters on the front side of the building we need help. jedediah: firefighters sent running for their lives as flames engulf several buildings and the explosion happened at a cannabis oil warehouse. all firefighters are in stable condition crews are investigat ing what caused the explosion. >> the rising nfl star arrested on drunk driving charges overnight. bill's defensive tackle ed oliver pulled over in houston after someone saw him driving dangerously in a construction zone. police found an open beer can between his legs and a pistol in

his truck. oliver was buffalo's first round pick in the 2019 draft and the bills say they are aware of the situation. >> and nascar returning to the track today. the real hero 400 kicks off at the darlington raceway in south carolina. drivers suiting up for the first time in months since the pandemic started. nascar is setting several new rules ahead of the race. all teams are required to wear a face mask, fans won't be allowed in the stands, and victory lane celebrations are banned. don't miss the race today on fox those are your headlines. griff: gentlemen start your engines. pete: [laughter] griff your excitement comes through the television i love it you're like a child at christmas griff: i can't wait i got to tell you. the quarantine is bad for nfl players. this is like the fourth person i guess we've seen. pete: yeah. all right, still ahead, can texas, could it possibly turn blue? the biden campaign from its basement seems to think it's possible. calling it a battleground state that they can win.

the long time texan and the state's current agriculture commissioner,sid miller, reacts next. hold my pouch. trust us. us kids are ready to take things into our own hands. don't think so? hold my pouch.

griff: welcome back turning texas blue a new report shows the biden campaign is targeting traditional red states like texas, georgia, and arizona, claiming their battleground states, they believe they can win. does biden really stand a chance in the lonestar state? well talking to us right now is the texas agriculture commissioner sid miller mr. commissioner good morning to you thanks for joining us. >> howdy griff, good sunday morning to you. griff: listen let's talk about this. we saw this yesterday the biden campaign now saying they're going to take texas, really? >> oh, my gosh, you know, everybody believes that, stand

on your head. they said that last time in 201t looks like it's going to be tight in texas, hillary might win texas. you know, on your program and said look, trump is going to win big in texas. all those polls are wrong. they've got it wrong that more people come out and vote in texas than have ever before, and i promise you, it turns out that's exactly what happened and the same thing is happening this time. that's when the trump team reached out and said, you know, sid miller is trump's man in texas so it's just not going to happen, griff. griff: but we're seeing on the screen you see just trump 46.3 biden 43.8 that's pretty narrow for a poll you think be larger. >> yes, those polls are absolutely wrong. they said the same thing last time. trump is going to win, he could possibly win by twice the number s he did last time. he won by 9% he could easily win by 18% or 20% in texas. i'm telling you i'm on the ground and next to the people and out and about, those polls run by new yorkers

are all wrong. they don't really have the heartbeat of texas, you know it's something that's just not going to happen, i promise. mark it down. interview me after the election. griff: we will indeed and take you up on that. you know, sid you may have a new neighbor, joe rogan has a wildly popular and successful podcast and lives in california and i want you to listen to what he said. >> okay. >> i might move to texas. if california continues to be this restrictive, i don't know if this is a good place to live. i might jet. i'm not kidding. i'm not kidding, this is silly. i don't need to be here. griff: and rogan is not the only one the founder of tesla elon musk tweeted this. saying frankly this is the final straw. tesla will now move its headquarters and future programs to texas, nevada immediately. what do you say, mr. miller? >> you know, come on to texas. we have a thousand new texans every day here in texas so we

certainly welcome joe rogan and he's voting for trump, he can't vote for biden and elon musk that be the last car manufacturer in california when he leaves and matter of fact he's already in texas he has another company called spacex and it is just outside of waco, he has a lot, you know and joe, i tell you what the money you'll save on taxes more than pay for more commuting on your airfare. there's no income tax in texas, and our regulations are predict able, litigation is predictable, a lot less red tape and oversight especially compar ed to california. my campaign chairman, whose ted nugent says it like this and it's a good quote. "texas is the last best place" so come on, we welcome you but i tell you what, mike garcia just

flipped a long seat out there, so it looks like california could go red for a period of time. i think the people of california are fed up with the leadership. griff: texas ag commissioner sid miller thank you very much for joining us sir we'll see what happens. >> god bless have a good sunday griff: you too small businesses standing up to strict lockdown orders juan salon owner fined $14,000 for defying her democratic governor and reopening, she and two other business owners joins us coming up.

>> 3-2-1, there's ignition. and liftoff of the united launch alliance atlas 5 rocket for the united states space. jedediah: wow just moments ago the atlas 5 rocket successfully taking off from cape canaveral. it's taking an air force space plane into orbit and it was supposed to launch yesterday but was delayed twice over bad death er meanwhile spacex moves its falcon 9 watch from this morning over to tuesday. pete: taking a space plane up that's what i'm talking about. as states slowly reopen, slowly, some west coast business owners are rebelling against their democrat governors. they say the ongoing lockdown orders are ruining their businesses, and could destroy their american dream. no end in sight in some of these stay-at-home owner joining us right now is business owner arie hoffman, owner of glamour salon in salem oregon,

and jeff peterson. we got the west coast edition it's early there thanks for joining us on fox & friends really appreciate it. you're out in seattle talk to us about how your business is being affected by being locked down? >> the biggest problem is the conflicting orders coming out of the government so when this whole thing first started i shut down my company and i complied with the orders. what happened was the inspection from my attraction was due and we had to have those inspections in order to continue our insurance running. i called the department of labor industries and begged for an extension. our attractions are mostly bounce houses if they don't inflate they fail inspection and any client wouldn't rent them anyway if they don't inflate so it makes very little sense to have this inspection so i said can we delay this a few weeks? i went to the top of labor industries and they said no, no, no, so i had to bring my entire staff in, contrary to the order and do this and you're standing shoulder to shoulder with these

guys. pete: to inspect the bounce houses that you can't even sell or rent out because of the lockdown order and help me with this. are you telling me you couldn't shani sanitize them, give them to a family and then bring them back? >> of course we can that's what we're doing right now. we've been sanitizing them for years and how we operate and one of the things you have to do in order to operate correctly and safely and we've always done that so now we're wearing masks, we're wearing gloves, because i rationalize that if i could open up something the governor could have his way and have this inspection done, then i could operate my business. pete: absolutely. lindsay i want to go to you. you're a salon owner i believe it's in oregon. yes that's correct and listen it's almost the revolt of the salon owners here. we're following your lead across the country seriously, people stepping up saying my livelihood can't be crushed by this. tell us your story. >> well yes, indeed. my livelihood is being a hair stylist in my salon with a few other independent contractors and we were forced to shut down

about march 24 and at that point , i had already been off for a month on maternity leave with a newborn baby, and so i had budgeted and saved for that month of maternity leave and then the government shut us down for another undisclosed amount of time so my husband and i sat down and said okay, i think we can do this for a month and hopefully that's all we'll have to do, and the date just kept getting pushed out and pushed out and the date was never disclosed to us so we're now at six weeks plus, where we actually own six businesses and all of them were called out by name to shutdown as non- essential, so we're going on six weeks of absolutely no income for our family and that is our livelihood, and i have not received one unemployment paycheck. pete: there's nothing more offensive than being told somehow you and your livelihood is non-essential. you've been fined $14,000. what's your status right now are you going to open anyway? >> yes. i was fined by osha illegally

because osha attempted to establish my independent contracts as employees which they are not, so they don't have jurisdiction to fine me $14,000, but i think they did it anyway, hoping to intimidate me which is basically what's going on with the government right now, intimidation daily, but i plan to fight that in court. i have a fantastic attorney, george goodman, who will be fighting the citation in court and hopefully will get tossed out. pete: we hope so. keep us posted on that case. jeff in california, you own a restaurant, you got to have customers for the restaurant to function. where are you at right now? >> right now, we waited two months the governor said we need to make sure the virus is leveled down, hospitals are ready and we closed down and now we're hearing out here it could be august. actually, our local officials or mayors say we might have to

wait until there's no deaths for 14 days and you aren't going to have no deaths of influenza or the flu for 14 days in a city of 10 million people. my restaurant is in malibu and it's almost completely separate from los angeles county but my employees can't come back to work, my vendors, they can't sell things. there's a worldwide liberal effect for shutting down an economy. if you want to call it suffering to people, you're doing tax we're ready. the hospitals are ready. we have to i'd rather take on this virus with a good economy than sit here and be financially devastated every month. pete: they told us to flatten the curve you did your part. now are you going to reopen, and can your business survive? >> well, you know, i'd say so i'm going to be able to figure it out. i can't reopen because we can do takeout, which is like 1-2% of our business we're a destination place. i've had president reagan sit

there before trump was president he's been there, and it's the type of place people don't come up and do takeout. it's a romantic dining experience, but i don't want to lose my liquor license. i don't want to be threatened because if you take my liquor license away from me, i can't stay in business, so the problem i have is i don't think it's like there's a hidden agenda or something because i don't understand why a home depot or other stores can open up but we've been practicing safety and cleanliness in our business forever. and there's a lot of businesses out there that aren't as fortunate as i am that can never reopen. pete: and just listening to you guys for five minutes there's a deep reservoir of common sense and goodness and responsibility and hard work that goes into forming and forging, frankly the three businesses you have and in each case, the government is trying to find a way to hurt you from doing the very business that provides for your

livelihood. i wish you all the best and thank you for sharing your story and i know that you're speaking for millions of other people who are unfortunately in the same situation. keep us updated please if you would and we reached out to all of your governors and all three states for a statement and only washington responded saying governor insley's actions saved lives and averted a greater economic crisis that the would have come as the result of an un mitigated head crisis and we have heard many stories direct from people struggling and they are never easy to hear most still appreciate the need for these measures. i don't know if that most is apt in this case but at least he responded. at least we can ask for that. thank you all for joining us this morning we appreciate it. god bless you. >> thank you. pete: still ahead the record breaking $3 trillion covid-19 stimulus bill from the democrats caused a rift on capitol hill. congressman tim ryan voted for the legislation. he joins us, next. when you own 1,000 acres, your work day stretches all the

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>> just a few years ago the stock markets at 25,000 and our friends on the other side said what do we do now? let's do a tax cut. where 83% of it goes to the top 1% of the wets yes people. fast forward a few months, global pandemic 36 million

people unemployed, 4 million people didn't pay their rent in the republican party said we don't have any money to help you are you kidding me? this isn't a wish list. if it's a wish list it's for the working class people. jedediah: we'll bring in democratic ohio congressman tim ryan. congressman welcome to the show. >> thank you. jedediah: you voted we'll talk a little bit about this house bill that you voted for , this $13 trillion bill which to be perfectly honest with you, to me reads like it had a lot of liberal policy agendas sort of thrown into what was labeled coronavirus relief so why don't you tell us why you voted for the bill? >> this bill was about four or five people. this is about cop, firefighters, nurses, teachers, and small business people. that's what is the vast majority of this money in this bill is going to help.

state and local governments need help. we're not here and i don't support bailing out any state pensions but there's so many states haven't done anything wrong, local communities haven't done anything wrong and if we don't help them you're going to see the first responders, the cops and firefighters take a hit. you're going to see deep cuts in k-12 education which you're already starting to see here in ohio and that's why i already voted for it and these small business people there's a provision that extends the time they can have to use the ppp money it extends it from eight weeks to 24 weeks. we don't want them getting this money to help their small business and turn around forcing them to blow it in the first few weeks before they can even open up the business so this is a pro -business bill and a pro- worker bill. jedediah: congressman, i don't want to, i'm sorry i don't want to interrupt you but why not just let it be about relief? why does there need to be checks

for undocumented immigrants, funding for arts and humanities, mail-in voting funding because when people look at this what they see is politics as usual. they say well democrats seized an opportunity here to get a coronavirus relief bill. yes, but then plug in a whole bunch of stuff and seize on a crisis to get that stuff done. do you not see how that would read to some people? >> well look i've been in congress 18 years. i don't have one bill that i voted for that i agreed with everything in it and there is things in here i don't agree with but the reality of it is we are in a emergency situation. the senate should take this up and take out the provisions that they don't like, and then we can come to some agreement. it's called the legislative process, and while i didn't agree with everything i certainly agreed with the vast majority of the issues that were in here. there was a provision in here in the middle part of what we got to do is get the economy back up and running. there was a provision in here that'll prevent teamsters, long

truck drivers, long route truck drivers, they're going to have their pension cut in half through the central state pension fund. we fixed that in here. why? because one, they've earned their pension and they worked really hard but two, we want them to have money in their pocket so we can have an economic recovery so these are all whose not for mail-in ballots? everyone is talking about a second wave. do we really want to be into august, september, october, and not have set up a national mail- in ballot? the states are going to run the elections but they don't have the money to do this and the money we put in the states will use to do mail-in ballots. it's for some particular agenda i'm here to solve problems for people hurting all across the country. griff: okay you say you're here to solve problems but let's set aside the list that you know checks for illegal immigrants and you know it was dead on arrival. mcconnell and the republicans said they are against it but i asked you this question in your

state farmers are the hardest hit with corn prices down 19% soybeans some 13%. you took to the floor a bill that was constructed in secrecy and it did not involve the republicans and of your four members your congressional delegation from ohio, it's split right down the middle, two yeses , two knows. how is any of this leadership for those suffering farmers in ohio? >> look if you want to stick up for the farmers talk to president trump next time he's on your show, and tell him to fix this the global trade disaster that he started with china. pete: that he started congressman? that he started? barack obama was president for eight years along with your vice president candidate and they created that. donald trump came into office to fix the trade imbalance which is is precisely what he's done but i heard you defend the bill i get it. you want bail outs for states that can't manage themselves. >> no, no, no, wait a minute.

pete: you were the defender of blue collar workers your entire career. hold on. i'm asking a question here that's my characterization. you can take issue with it if you want but the other -- >> well let me talk then. pete: that's part of it you want to spend money you fancy yourself as someone who defends the blue collar workers all i'm hearing for people who work for a living is i don't want a bailout. i want the economy open. i want my governor to lift these restrictions. i want to be able to have the common sense and personal responsibility to go out and do my job. why do democrats not respect the american people enough to open it up and let them choose, because you can choose to go up or not go up. all this talk of bills and trillion dollars it's fine but people just want their hard- earned paychecks why are democrats ignoring that? >> i mean, you guys act like guys like me wanted this to happen. pete: i'm not saying that. >> i've lost friends to coronavirus. my friends are small business people and they're getting absolutely crushed. my friends are working class people and they're getting

crushed and they need help and that's what this bill does so i'm not here to get in some partisan fight. i'm not here to talk about obama or trump. i'm here to help people and the reality of it it is if mitch mcconnell doesn't like certain components of this bill, take them out and send them back. he negotiated a bill a few weeks ago and didn't sit down with nancy pelosi. he did the bill and then he came in and talked to nancy pelosi. look this is our bill. take it up, mitch. take out what you don't like. look the republicans -- pete: but hold on. jedediah: with all due respect. hold on you're telling mitch mcconnell to remove stuff that he doesn't like. really who should be held accountable for this are the house democrats who shouldn't have put that in the bill in the first place. if you are looking to do something well-intentioned and i'm going to assume you are for the business community, for people who have suffered at the hands of this virus, then democrats and republicans but democrats we're speaking about here should be coming forward saying all of this extraneous thoughts this is not the time

for that. let's not make this a divisive issue and try to use this bill to say oh, republicans don't care about virus victims because that's what's being done. this is being used as a political tool when in fact it should have been a means to help people. >> you guys are ignoring the basic function of the legislative process. i don't agree with everything in this bill but i do give a damn about the cops, the firefighters, teachers, nurses and the small business people in my community who are being crushed. jedediah: we all do. >> i'm telling you guys republican parties they're los ing the audience on this. pete: oh, we're out of time. griff: all right, congressman. >> they are hurting. pete: i don't think he is. >> they need to take this bill out and take out what they don't like and help cops, firefighter, teachers, nurses and small business people. pete: you got cops and firefighters? griff: we're just out of time we're out of time congressman.

>> they are going to get laid off if we don't help the local communities. jedediah: thanks for coming we'll be right back on the other side of fox & friends. triple action. it kills weeds, prevents crabgrass and feeds so grass can thrive, guaranteed. our backyard is back. this is a scotts yard. but when allergies and congestion strike, take allegra-d... a non-drowsy antihistamine plus a powerful decongestant. so you can always say "yes" to putting your true colors on display. say "yes" to allegra-d.

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pete: president trump making his message clear in a new interview with maria bartiromo. as we learn several obama officials requested the unmasking of general flynn. president trump: they went after general flynn. this was all obama. this was all biden. these people were corrupt. the whole thing was corrupt and we caught them. this is the greatest political scam, hoax in the history of our country. griff: here with more "sunday morning futures" host maria bartiromo, maria fantastic interview and it's fascinating to hear our president talk about it but we now have a durham

investigation yet to come and it is possible that some of those names may be suspects on the list of unmaskers. maria: that's right, and it's great to be with you, griff and jed and pete great to see you all this morning and you're absolutely right, griff. at this point, more is coming out and it increasingly looks like it went all the way up to the top to the obama white house in terms of the kabal of people and the effort to take down then -candidate and then- president donald trump. i want to put your attention to this group of dates in january which are so telling. january 4 was the day this is january 4, 2017, remember, president trump was elected, he had not been inaugurated yet so we're on january 4, 2017 when the fbi decides that they're going to close the case on michael flynn only to get a call later on that day same day january 4 by peter strzok to say oh, don't close it yet keep it going. january 5, there is an important

meeting in the white house oval office that's president obama, vice president biden, james clap per, you've got john brennan , susan powers, susan rice, all of them in the oval office january 5, 2017. at that point, they knew that they had no evidence of any collusion between the trump campaign and russia. they still, it was january of 2017 before the president was inaugurated still had no evidence of any collusion so what do they do? they pull up the logan act and well let's try it let's see he's the incoming nsa, let's see who he's been talking to and then the unmasking takes place january 6 is when james comey briefed the president on the selacious parts of the dossier which of course was completely selacious and un verified and that's what they used to wire tap an american citizen carter page. we'll get into all of this today with the president, i spoke with the president last week, as well , we've got breaking news this morning on the china story, the president reacts to that as well, got senator kennedy

coming up, congressman doug collins and mayor deblasio, guys my special guest this morning to react to the president's comments on what new york means. now all the states and the cities want money from the federal government but how have they been governing before all of this and then end the show with former nascar winner, jeff gordon is going to join us as the opening up of nascar today, guys back to you. pete: great show always maria. griff: so excited about that thanks. jedediah: thank you, maria. griff: still ahead we give him a perfect 10. a texas cowboy puts on this impromptu gymnastics routine roping in thousands of internet views the cowboy-turned -gymnast joins us next. our homes.

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pete: a texas cowboy is roping in thousands of internet views for this gymnastics routine. griff: so what made him trade in the quarter horse for the pumme l horse? jedediah: we're going to ask him texas cowboy turned gymnast guy bell joins us now, guy welcome to the show. i have to tell you this is my favorite video that i've seen in a long time. i commend your balance which is outstanding, but i have to know, how did this come about? >> i've got a lot of friends from high school that keep in touch with me and they are always like guy, try this , try that, and long story short, my dad and my daughter we were at will rogers range riders in amar illo, and once we finished cleaning up the water tanks and taking care of the horses, my little girl wanted to go cruising around on the polaris, which led us to the arena and when we got to the

arena my little girl was balancing on some tables that we have set up around the concession area and all of a sudden the light went off and i turned around to my dad and said film this , dad, this is one shot, jumps up there, did my thing and my little girl was over there doing her thing, and my dad's laughter was fueling me and then when it was all said and done we all three looked at the cell phone and got a big laugh, and then my dad goes you should put on some spurs and do it again and i had an idea of a couple more routines i wanted to do and i wanted to put on cleaner pants and my little girl looked and said no, i think it'll look fake, so we went with her decision and we posted it and here i am on tv with you. griff: so guy, i've got to ask you though, i don't think mary lou retton did one of those in a cowboy hat. why isn't the hat falling off that's an additional skill.

>> cowboys their hats stay on. it's basically takes a tornadic wind to blow my hat off. pete: guy bell you are a pro with the hand motions down and everything. >> [laughter] i was kind of just basically doing it to fuel my dad's laughter. pete: playing it up i love it. well guy bell you made a lot of people laugh which is a good thing right now. appreciate it. griff: well done. jedediah: loved it so much we appreciate it thanks, guy. >> the coolest part about it was all the feedback i get from everybody and everybody needs to check out the shop in decatur and they've got a really cool shirt designed just to be the shirt of the summer. pete: very cool. we got to leave it there but thank you so much. >> thank you. jedediah: thanks appreciate it. pete: more fox & friends after this. where ore-ida golden crinks are your crispy currency to pay for bites of this...

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jedediah: thanks a lot for joining us we love spending our sunday with you. griff: clear your schedule

nascar 3:30 today go denny hamlin. pete: i knew you'd say that griff absolutely. american crusade comes out on tuesday. hope you'll check it out. have a wonderful sunday everybody go to church. even if your governor says you can't. maria: good sunday morning everyone. thanks so much for joinings i'm maria bartiromo. joining me straight ahead on "sunday morning futures" just one week after bombshell revelations in the general flynn case, obama officials involved in unmasking the three-star general during the 2017 presidential transition , james comey, john brennan and democratic nominee joe biden all named and i had an exclusive sit down with president trump on wednesday moments after that news broke his reaction straight ahead as well as why he says he is no longer interested in negotiating with communist china. plus house democrats passing the largest bill in the history of congr