>> this was all obama. this was all biden. these people were corrupt and hopefully a lot of people are going to have to pay. jillian: it is monday, may 18th. president trump wrapping up calls to hold the obama administration accountable. even suggesting some officials involved in the michael flynn unmasking scandal should go to jail. rob: and with lindsey graham already slamming the brakes on a senate hearing, republicans are teasing more dirt coming from the durham report. we're live in washington. >> we might have to put up fencing to keep people off the beach. i don't want to do it. if i have to, i will. we're still the epicenter in new york city. until we're safe, no beaches open. rob: and mayor bill de blasio playing crowd control after droves of new yorkers flocking to bars, standing outside of bars and restaurants, going to parks in what could be a preview

of memorial day weekend. jillian: the empire state isn't alone. we're live as more and more americans take a stand against stay at home orders. perhaps this could help places like new york city. rob: the unusual way one bar owner is keeping drinkers at a distance. look at this. "fox & friends first" continues right now. ♪ rob: kind of like bumper cars. jillian: i've never seen that before. rob: good morning, you're watching "fox & friends first." i'm rob schmitt. jillian: i'm jillian mele. i hope you had a good weekend. let's begin with this. the greatest political crime in american history, president trump slamming the obama administration, saying people involved in the controversy surrounding the michael flynn case deserve alltime. rob: rich enson is live in washington as republican lawmakers sound off on the

fallout from this. >> reporter: president trump is certainly dialing up his criticism of former obama administration officials, especially those who requested that the intelligence community reveal the name of the american who was picked up in intelligence intercepts back in 2016. that was president trump's first national security advisor, michael flynn. >> this was all obama. this was all biden. these people were corrupt. if i were a democrat, instead of a republican, i think everybody would have been in jail a long time ago. it is a disgrace what's happened and hopefully a lot of people are going to have to pay. >> reporter: earlier this month the justice department dropped its case against flynn after he pleaded guilty to lying to the fbi about his conversations shortly after the 2016 election with the then russian ambassador to the united states. also on top of all of that, the

federal law requires the names of americans picked up in intelligence gathering stay concealed, unless officials request to unmask that information. and now congressional republicans want an investigation into who unmasked and leaked flynn's name. >> this goes back way past this from the clinton e-mail scandal, into the discussion of russia, and so what i want to see happen here is let's hold people accountable. somehow this information got out. we know who unmasked. let's start having the investigation. >> reporter: former obama administration officials say there was no wrong-doing and that republicans are politicizing a routine intelligence procedure this is all in the middle of the presidential campaign as democrats knock the coronavirus response and push their candidate to adopt their agendas. >> i think what joeys going to have to do, is to say to those working class people, say to

those young people, say to those minorities, listen, i understand your situation, your concerns about cr climate change, your concerns about racism within the crime calcriminal justice systed immigration system. >> reporter: the former vice president and pr presumptive democratic nominee has yet to choose a running mate. rob and jillian, back to you. jillian: rich, thank you. rob: today, the president will discuss the fight to reopen the economy with the nation's governor as states roll back more coronavirus restrictions. jillian: todd piro joins us live as americans say it's time to get back to work. good morning, todd. >> reporter: good morning to you, jillian. good morning to you, rob. the president's push to reopen the country on full display in the coming hours, first as he works with a restaurant industry decimated by the pandemic, then on to a call with the nation's governor as many states take

steps to reopen parts of their economies today. in addition to this map of states easing restrictions, another map is emerging of states now facing lawsuits over their pandemic orders. california alone facing at least a dozen suits including claims that the state has unjustly closed down gun shops and religious services, infringed on freedoms of speech and you a seem bring by restricting -- assembly by restricting protests and one case alleging being forced to stay home is a type of detention without due process. here is gavin newsom responding to the challenges while calling on federal lawmakers to provide relief funding to states. >> we have to be humbled by what we don't know and have to be interested in evidence, can't be ideological about the disease nor can we be naive. and i think humbleness of spirit on all sides of the political aisle, it's also needed at this

moment. >> reporter: meantime, on the other side of the country, scenes like this outside popular bars in new york city, people getting take-out cocktails and then staying to enjoy their drinks on packed sidewalks in violation of social distancing guidelines. with the weather heating up, new york city mayor bill de blasio with a warning about quarantine fatigue when it comes to the city's beaches. >> if people are smart about it, and listen to the rules, great. if not, we actually might have to put up fencing to keep people off the beach. i don't want to do it. if i have to, i will. we are so far from being out of the woods in new york city, we're still the epicenter. >> reporter: more than 272,000 people have recovered from the virus so far here in the u.s. rob and jillian, back to you. rob: todd, thank you. jillian: federal officials now requiring nursing homes to submit the number of coronavirus infections and deaths. health officials want to assess how the virus has affected elderly in nursing homes across the country. information collected weekly

will be published online by the end of may along with the names of nursing homes. in new york, where more than 4,800 people have died from covid-19 from march to may, governor andrew cuomo says no one should be prosecuted for those deaths. >> who can we prosecute for those deaths? nobody. nobody. mother nature, god. jillian: the governor has been criticized for his decision that has since been reversed of sending patients back to nursing homes after they tested positive for the virus. we'll keep you zip dated there. stranded at sea, up to 100,000 cruise ship workers are still stuck aboard vessels more than two months after coronavirus halted the industry. that's according to a miami herald report. many not even getting paid. they are reportedly waiting for permission to dock to return to their homelands. at least 578 staff members from various cruises have tested

positive for covid-19. rob: a criminal investigation underway into the cause of the warehouse explosion that sent firefighters running for their lives. watch this. >> engine 9, engine 9, go with your may day. >> there's been an explosion. i have two downed firefighters on the front side of the building. we need help. rob: los angeles fire and police departments joining force was the atf. the company which owns this building is called smoke tokes. they reportedly make concentrated cannabis oil, a process that requires a large amount of flammable butane and it's also a process that is illegal in urban areas like the city of los angeles. a business with that same name was linked to a 2016 fire you see here in that same area. it's unclear if the two blazes are connected. 11 firefighters were opt lived after this one -- hospitalized after this one. all are expected to recover. and a anyover honor -- flyover

honoring healthcare workers in canada turns deadly. this is a scene from the snow bird team, nose diving, crashing into a home. one member was killed, another seriously hurt. witnesses captured the moment that it crashed. >> he just crashed. >> oh, my god. rob: that is really sad. the captain, jennifer casey, died in the crash. the pilot managed to eject himself from the jet and actually landed on the roof of a house. jillian: wow. that's frightening. tropical storm arthur making its way along the east coast. rob: really close there. really close. heavy winds, high winds, i should say, heavy rain and rough seas expected to hit the carolinas today. jillian: janice dean joins us live with when the rain and wind will arrive. >> it's already started.

tropical storm arthur, 45-mile-an-hour sustained winds, moving closer to the outer banks. the center of the storm will remain offshore but we're still going to get indirect impacts. the rain and the wind as it continues to move north and eastward. you can see the satellite, imagery with that, heavy rain, 1 to 3 inches, we could have wind gusts up to 50 to 60 miles per hour and then it's going to start to make its curve. so 45-mile-an-hour sustained winds. we expect it could strengthen a little bit today and tuesday and then bermuda's going to have to watch an extra tropical low. just a reminder that hurricane season is upon us, even though it's early this season. officially it's june 1st. of course, early named storms have happened several years in a row, including last year. and there's the future radar, you can see behind it we're going to see more heavy rainfall, not associated with this system so for parts of the mid-atlantic and the southeast, you're going to see quite a bit

of rain over the next couple days as we've got arthur and then we have this frontal system. there are your forecast highs today, 92 in houston, 100 degrees in phoenix, 70 here in new york city with mostly sunny skies and of course we're going to watch arthur over the next couple days. i know it's early but just a reminder that hurricane season is on the way and the peak season is august, september, october, so we have a few months to go during hurricane season. rob, jillian, we'll track it for you. back to you. jillian: i know you will. than you, janice. rob: get out of here, arthur. we don't need you here for memorial day weekend. with this ring you'll be fed. jillian: a new jersey couple was supposed to be married this weekend. that was canceled over their fears of coronavirus and instead their family and friends drove by their home and stopped to donate money and food for their local food bank. >> it's a beautiful thing that they're doing. [sound of car horns]

>> woohoo! rob: in 24 hours, the pair raised almost $8,000. that's good. jillian: that's great. it is 11 minutes after the hour. president trump not alone in his demand to hold beijing accountable for the pandemic. the growing number of countries now calling for a probe into the origins of the virus. rob: mounting evidence suggests the obama administration weaponized u.s. intelligence agencies to hamstring the trump administration that was coming in. a former cia analyst says serious civil rights and legal issues have yet to be addressed. he joins us live with his perspective, coming up. to everyone navigating these uncertain times...

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wuhan. instead, it became a pandemic. the chinese did that to americans and they are responsible. rob: u.s. officials calling for china to take responsibility for the covid-19 pandemic ahead of today res world health aseem -- today's world health assembly. jillian: 120 nations are demanding an official investigation into the outbreak. rob: former chief of staff, fred flight, says this is a major development. he joins us with more. fred, it's great to see these companies coming together to gang up on this awful regime. what do you make of it? >> it is. it's stunning. it's worth noting that this call for an investigation doesn't accuse anyone, china, the world health organization of anything. it calls for an objective investigation. it calls for transparency. but the fact that other nations are challenging china is really unprecedented. it goes to the fact that the evidence has become so overwhelming of beijing's criminal negligence in this affair and the fact that nations are tired of china's bullying to

deflect blame from the way it handled the virus. jillian: let's take a look at what china has to say. china responds for the calls to take responsibility. this reads, quote, some are anxious to shift the blame instead of reflecting on their own failures in the virus' early days. should a country be labeled as the origin of the virus and made to pay for other's inept responses. that's a strong statement and strong responses to that, i'm sure. people say look, if we knew about it earlier we could have had time to properly be prepared for what the virus is going to do. what do you say. >> >> the world knows hundreds of thousands died that didn't have to die because of china's coverup and retaliation against scientists and doctors who tried to warn about this. the pressure put on the world health organization not to reveal the nature, the dangerous nature, the human to human transmisability of the virus. the world knows this right now

and is not buying china's lies. rob: china has this leverage over the rest of the world, this chris they manipulate their currency, make so much of our products, they have a market that so many businesses need to get into. they're going to leverage that against this investigation. can they win this thing? >> i think they could win it if they could divide the world. but with the world beginning to unite, asking for an investigation, with other nations realizing that china is acting like a rogue state, until china starts acting like a responsible member of the international community, i think it's going to lose trade opportunity. it's going to become more isolated. rob: okay. jillian: let's talk about what the president has dubbed obama das gatobama-gate right and. there's an op ed right now. this is what the president had to say, it reads the obama administration is turning out to be one of the most cor corrupt d

incompetent in u.s. history. remember he and sleepy joe are the reason i'm in the white house. this is john brennan, take a listen and we'll get your reaction on the back end. >> i feel very good that my tenure at the cia and my time at the white house during the obama administration was not -- i was not engaged in any type of wrong-doing. i welcome the opportunity to talk with the investigators. jillian: that of course president obama's cia director. what's your response to all of this. >> this is all about unmasking. american intelligence agents aren't supposed to collect against americans. that's why names are redacted. it's possible to ask for the name but only senior officials can do this for a good reason. this is not normal and routine. what it amounts to was -- senator rand pol paul is very gd at saying this. this is a way to spy without a warrant. here's how you can do it. you can ask the nsa, please send

us all intelligence labels that mention the russian ambassador. you can ask for the names and the obama ad administration woud leak that information to the news media. it's possible that a corrupt intelligence official was going through nsa cables to find likely trump officials and then saying to senior obama officials, look, here's the trump campaign official. let's unmask this name. rob: that's a great op ed on foxnews.com if you want to hear more about this. fred, thank you so much for your time. >> good to be here. rob: we'll be right back. tums versus mozzarella stick (bell rings) when heartburn hits fight back fast... ...with tums chewy bites... beat heartburn fast tums chewy bites

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jillian: look at that, driver kevin harvick racing to his 50th win as nascar returns with the real heros 400. the darlington race in south carolina honoring healthcare workers on the front lines of covid-19, names of doctors and nurses nation wide were featured on each car. rob: it's a great pe message. also, the pga on the golf course, rory mcilroy playing in florida. the game raising more than $5 million for covid-19 relief funds. nice little match there. sports fans across the country are thrilled to be witnessing the return of some kind of sports. nascar and golf. jillian: that's right. fox news core upon den core cork meredith is how people are adapting because of the pandemic. >>pandemic. >> reporter: sunday marked the return of live sporting events

after the coronavirus benched america's beloved past time. nascar started in darlington, south carolina. drivers and the teams and fans had to adjust, with everyone wearing face masks, drivers having temperatures checked and announcers calling the race from a booth in charlotte. no fans were allowed. empty stands won't impact the race. >> it will sound exactly the same from home. the grandstands look empty but you will hear it and feel it. >> reporter: pro golfers hit the links on sunday in the taylormade match. rory mcilroy and dustin john ton teed off in oklahoma, rickey fowler played in florida. president trump called in to discuss the future of sporting events. >> we want to get sports back. we miss sports. we need sports in terms of the

psyche of our country. we want to get it back to where it was. we want big, big stadiums, loaded with people. we don't want to have 15,000 people watching alabama, lsu, as an example. >> reporter: while this year's baseball season remains unclear, major league baseball plans to hold its draft in june virtually. in darlington, south carolina, mark meredith, fox news. jillian: former president obama kicking a long-standing custom to the curb by openly attacking a sitting president during a virtual commencement address. >> all those folks who thought they were in charge and knew what they were doing, turns out they don't have all the answers. rob: is this a good message to send to the class of 2020. we will debate that coming up.

rob: tensions high as nations gather for an unpresprecedented world health assembly online as -- it's online because of the pandemic, obviously. jillian: trey yingst is live in jerusalem with pressure mounting against china. trey, what's the latest. >> reporter: rob, jillian, good morning. the latest is that the world health organization is holding its annual oversight meeting today online, this 194 member state organization would normally be meeting in a place like geneva, though the coronavirus has pushed the world health assembly, today's event, to a virtual setting. updates on treatments and vaccines are expected to be discussed, accountability will likely be a major issue. the chinese government is facing international criticism for the early handling of the virus outbreaks. reports indicate china pressured the world health organization to delay issuing a global warning about coronavirus. the u.s. sent a letter to the w.h.o. calling on the organization to allow taiwan to

participate in today's world health assembly. that request has been denied as china doubles down on the position against taiwanese sovereignity. president trump sat down with fox news over the weekend, painting a grim picture for beijing when it comes to responsibility for the early outbreak of covid-19. >> we have a lot of information and it's not good but you know the worst of all, whether it came from the lab or came from the bats or came -- it all came from china. and they should have stopped it. >> reporter: some good news today in israel, for the first time since the outbreak began israel is reporting zero new cases of coronavirus. the israelis do update the public twice a day about positive results. so we will wait to see if that number increases later in the day. rob, jillian. rob: trey, thank you. jillian: the house democrats $3 trillion coronavirus relief bill isn't going anywhere. mitch mcconnell says the plan is dead on arrival.

california governor gavin newsom says the relief package is essential for states like his. >> we have an obligation, a moral, ethical obligation to american citizens across the country to help support cities, states and counties. jillian: president trump threatening to veto the bilker saying phase four will happen but in a better way for the american people. stay tuned for that. president trump's approval rating surpassing his predecessors. the president received 49% approval rating compared to barack obama's 47% and george w bushes 46% at the same point in their presidencies. the poll says president trump's current approval rating is tied for the best of his presidency. rob: along the state lines not even a factor he says, president trump dismissing joe biden in the 2020 race, saying that his real opponents are the mainstream media. so is he right about this? joining me to debate that, robert patilo and jason meister.

jason, why not be concerned with joe biden? >> well, i think that you can sees been hiding out in his basement. he can't string a coherent sentence together. he's really at the center of this scandal, this titanic scandal that happened as they were leaving, that administration was leaving and this transition of the president trump administration was coming in. they framed the incoming president as an agent of russia. you saw that joe biden was in the january 5th meeting in the oval office with susan rice and barack obama. they were talking about the steele dossier, the dossier that hillary clinton and the dnc paid for. so it's just -- he's really running against the media and he's running against the liberal, the mainstream media. he is not running against a candidate that can really string a coherent sentence together. rob: he's running against the swamp in dc as well. robert, talking about the media

here, let's check out a montage of what the media has to say about the president. >> this is about the kind of nation we will have after president trump leaves office, whether in january or 2025z we report on what the administration does and not on what the president says, as a general rule. >> we have to reopen. it's always been about how. the president has never talked to you about how. why? it's too hard. rob: so that's just a small sample, robert. the media has pretty much gone all-in against the president. is that fair? >> well, the media goes all in on every president. that's part of the stress of the job. go back to the writings of lincoln and back to george washington. the idea that the president is going to run against the media instead of talk about the 90,000 people dead from coronavirus, 36 million people who are unemployed currently, i think that falls on deaf ears. joe biden is leading in every

poll that's come out, running neck in neck in many swing states so president trump has to take it seriou seriously when is to the chance at re-election. rob: you say neck in neck in some states. let's pull up this information. look at these states in contention in 2020 and the president has favorability in these states over joe biden. and jason, one other question, he said the media goes all-in on every president. do you feel the media was all-in investigating president obama? >> i do not. i think it's unfair to even compare the way that the media treats president trump versus almost any modern day president. they framed him, okay. the mea media was complicit in l of it. there will be criminal and civil liability for some media people as well, not just the obama administration. they don't treat president trump fairly at all. rob: respond to the swing state number there. these numbers have been all over the place. the president doing better right

now with the 49% favorability. how is he doing this? >> look, he had -- this was an unprecedented attack on our country. invisible enemy. the president took the private sector, we have over 9 million tests that we've done, we've done an all-out approach to this very aggressively and we've done an amazing job and i think that this president, the american people see what the president has done. if you look at the model, any of the models, there were supposed to be 2 plus million people that would die. we've done unbelievable. any death is one death too many but the president, if you compare it to the models, he's done an unbelievable job. rob: at least at this point. let's listen to former president obama talking about the current president to a bunch of high school kids. >> 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. doing what's easy, that's how little kids think. unfortunately, a lot of so-called grownups, including

some with fancy titles and important jobs still think that way which is why things are so screwed up. rob: it's obviously a jab there, robert. what do you make of that? >> well, i think president obama was leveling with the next generation. he's always had a great connection with the young people. what he's doing is leveling with them, trying to explain what is going on in the country when you have a president who spends more time on twitter than working in the oval office, of course you open up yourself to accusations of being juvenile. he said during the campaign that he could be presidential, when it came down to that time, we're in a pandemic and you're still throwing out childhood nicknames on the internet. i don't think that's what most of the american people want right now. rob: to be fair, president trump goes after obama a lot as well. this is to kids graduating from high school. the forum was kind of strange. what do you sunshine. >>think?>> it's a weak attack.

there's no substance there. it's similar mri simply a vicin a president while the country is at war. this is a virus that originated in china and took 185 plus countries to their knees. we should be uniting this country, not viciously attacking the leader of this country. it's ric ridiculous. rob: thank you so much for coming on and discussing this with us. we appreciate it. and we'll be right back.

jillian: americas big three car makers reopening factories today following the coronavirus shutdown. rob: cheryl casone from fox business here with new safety measures in place. hay hey, cheryl. >> good morning. detroit's auto workers are headed back to work today. ford is recalling 71,000 hourly and salaried workers. general motors, fiat chrysler, they are also bringing back thousands of their employees. but production's going to look a lot different post coronavirus

shutdown for these guys. ford is going to be using sanitation, contact tracing, and quarantining if an employee does get sick. so far, they've been doing pretty well. those people are also going to be working from separate ends of the vehicle instead of inches apart like they used to do and there's going to be temperature checks. here's the general guidelines the big three will put in place. require face masks and temperature checks, clear separation of employees at the assembly lines and frequent cleaning of work areas. on thursday, president trump is going to be visiting ford's raw rawsonville manufacturing plant, they've been repurposed for now to make ventilators. he last visited the state that he won back in 2016 on january 30th. the president expected to thank workers for their service during this obviously trying time. one of the things the plant learned during the shutdown when they were making the ventilators, was how to actually effectively social distance and they haven't had any cases. so hopefully this is going to be

a good thing when these guys get back to work today. jillian: that's a good point. cheryl, thank you. rob: the american people growing restless, reopen protests gaining steam as the weather warms up and small businesses are forced to remain closed. jillian: pete hegseth is live at a new jersey gym where the owner plans to reopen today in defiance of the state's stay at home order. rob: before that, let's check in with brian kilmeade, see what's coming up on "fox & friends." >> only pete could get a free workout whenever gym is closed so he can do a shoot. rob, you've got to work that out. come on. meanwhile, let me tell you what we have coming up over the next three hours, if you're okay with it. the house's record breaking $3.3 trillion stimulus package is dead on arrival in the senate. what is next? we'll talk to kevin mccarthy about that. he's got some ideas what needs to be in that, if any. and the 2020 election coming back into the pot slight -- spotlight. karl rove is going to talk about

what's happening with the president's approval rating at 49%. dan bonvino sounds off, takes aim at the new york city health commissioner who barbed the nypd and gets to keep her job. the nypd wants this thing called having masks. as part of america starts to reopen, we'll talk to the miami-dade county mayor about the county's plans and get this, john rich, doesn't talk music, he talks about his nashville bar, how it's adapting to restrictions so you can drink whicwhiskey under john rich's r. and nascar making a comeback yesterday on fox with more races this week. we'll break it down. don't miss a minute of "fox & friends," there's a quiz at the end, bring a number two pencil, and please get dressed. you doing okay?

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jillian: the days are heating up and so is quarantine fatigue as more americans are fed up with staying home, some states are giving the green light for beaches to reopen. rob: but with several democratic states refusing to even put an expiration date on their stay at home orders, what is the solution here? jillian: pete hegseth joins us from new jersey where one small business owner says he's defying the governor's lock down. pete, good morning to you. a lot of business owners say i have plans and ideas on how i can safely reopen my business if you'll let me. >> reporter: yes. the biggest frustration you hear coast to coast really is what they feel like is a double standard. certain businesses are deemed essential and these business owners take a great deal of offense to one being essential and one considered nonessential. big box stores, you've got crowd

of people going into the same place. they could offer similar services and they're shut down. yesterday on the program on "fox & friends" we had owners from oregon, washington, california, you've got michigan, north carolina, now we're here in new jersey and states all across the country where people say time and time again, listen, we played by the rules, we flattened the curve, we're responsible citizens. but we're also free citizens and our livelihood is at stake right now. if i can't open my business -- i should have opened a month ago to stay viable. if i can't open going into the summer, i'm going to lose my business which means i lose my livelihood. i want to be responsible. i need to have an opportunity to open up. you're starting to feel that -- i called it the revolt of the hairdressers, of the salon owners and now you're seeing gym owners who are saying why are we considered nonessential? we can do it responsibly. rob: it is something else to see. like you said, picking winners and losers, telling people if you've got a liquor store, you're probably shopping for a

new boat, but if you own a gym you're about to lose everything. how do they do that with a straight face? i don't know. >> reporter: non how they do. i think it's one size fits all orders that maybe made sense initially but then later on you're starting to, okay -- here in new jersey, i can rent a boat now as of yesterday. why i couldn't a week ago, unclear. why boats and not the gym behind me and we're going to talk on "fox & friends" to the owner of this gym, ian smith, in belmar, new jersey. the governor knows about the fact he's opening today at 8:00. we've got a clip here of governor murphy, what he said when he was asked about this gym opening up and we spoke to the gym owner yesterday. >> a gym owner in south jersey has gone on tv, been vocal about opening up in defiance of the order. >> the gym order is out of compliance. i heard about that person. they're out of compliance. >> the aid packages they passed with disastrous.

no plans have been presented to open at all. so we've decided to take matters into our own hands. we feel we are free and responsible citizens and that as free and responsible citizens we can make choices. >> reporter: you know, guys, ian who we're going to speak to on "fox & friends" at 7:00, an hour before he opens his doors, they've taken amazing protocols, taking temperatures of everybody, only members can come in, everything is socially distanced inside, you have to fill out a health questionnaire. everything is sanitized. at 8:00 we're told the state police will be out here, what they do when the doors open, nobody knows. ian smith has come to represent a lot of people in the country who feel like it's time to open up. the governors just don't understand right now. jillian: looks like there's a lot of people out there already. we'll be following that for sure. pete, tomorrow's a big day. you've got a new book out. >> reporter: thank you very much, jillian. i appreciate it. my book, american crusade, our

fight to stay free comes out tomorrow. and you know, i wrote it before all this covid-19 stuff and it's more applicable today. if we want to be free in a free country, you've got to be willing to fight for it. i think it takes an american crusade, a willingness to step up, be bold for the basic inagreed yefntingredients of ou. if you're looking for a summer read, father's day, maybe, i humbly submit it's worth checking out. jillian: i'm waiting for my signed copy, pete. >> reporter: oh, my goodness. send me your address. it's in the mail today. rob: 29, 99 surcharge for that. got to let you know. thanks a lot, pete. good to see you. jillian: thanks, pete. we'll be right back.

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>> is theist opening up in a way that won't bring back a spike of new cases. >> thanks to the president's here we are in a chance to reopen. we are seeing in areas we are reopening we are not seeing the spike in cases. jillian: setting the record straight. the secretary of health and human services alex azar saying reopening states are not seeing a spike in covid-19 at this point. rob: agreeing with the call being made in a lot of states. carley shimkus sirius fm 115 here with all of this.

carley: good morning rob and jillian. we're not out of the woods yet. alex azar says there hasn't been a spike in case that have reopened and current hot spots all under strict stay-at-home orders. georgia governor brian kemp says face accusations of opening too early. the president rapid timeline. that state has remains relatively steady in terms of case count. folks on social media who are calling for a quicker reopen see this as a very positive sign. andrew on twitter says america must reopen or there will be irreparable damage we love our country too much to let that happen. this twitter user says the economy needs to reopen smart and fast and jennifer feels a little cooped up tweeting he is right i feel like garbage and i haven't been sick at all this whole time. doing nothing is not good for people. it's our caution that it does take time for data to come in on states that have loosened

restrictions. while all of this is positive still a little too early to do that victory lap. jillian: tell us what happened to a man who was supposed to be in a 14-day quarantine and not doing that and posting about it online. jillian: if you live in hawaii you are supposed to quarantine for 14 days if you don't, you could receive a fine or even jail time. tourist from new york city was recently arrested for recently posting pictures of himself on a beach while he was supposed to be in his hotel room or wherever he was staying for that two week period. hawaii's attorney general says residents actually reported him saying we appreciate the assistance of local people who spot flagrant violations of our emergency rules on various social media sites and report them to the appropriate authorities. well, a lot of reaction coming, in guys on this one. juliet says this is terrible. how is any of this breaking the law. jeez, people, have you forgotten what country we live in?

but this twitter user says it wasn't the problem he just went to the beach he took public transportation to get there if he hat coronavirus he was covid-19 positive he could have exposed essential workers. funny it says to stay at home but if you get a citation you will receive a day to appear in court so have you got to leave then. so, you know, bottom line, hawaii is not necessarying arranged and some people think this is taking things a little bit too far. rob: go on a hawaii vacation that's the fun part. bar in maryland. what on earth is, this carley? carley: i heard you talking to pete about ideas that business owners have to reopen safely. well, you are looking at one from a restaurant in ocean city, maryland called fishtails. they are rolling out intertube tables on wheels for people to stay safe as they drink. juan says after a few drinks the whole bar is going to turn into bumper tubes. after a lot of drinks those

tables might need to come with helmets. jillian: all fun and games until you have to use the restroom. rob: get a dui driving one of those things around. carley, thank you so much. we appreciate it. "fox & friends" starts right n now. brian: here we go right to a fox news alert. the trump administration continuing to slam the obama administration over the michael flynn probe. steve: the president has tweeted the most incompetent and corrupt administration in u.s. history, ainsley. jillian: that'ainsley. ainsley: republican lawmakers doubling down on their demands. after joe biden requested the unmasking of michael flynn. >> this goes back, you know, way past this from the clinton email scandal to the discussion of russia. and so what i want to see happen here is let's hold people accountable. somehow this information got out.