>> we are so far from being out of the woods here in new york city, still the epicenter. >> ed: the opposite approach to what president trump is taking to discuss the federal response. joins us live from the north lawn, good morning >> putting some meat on the bones, the stock process saying the number of coronavirus cases is strongly trending downward throughout the united states with few exceptions. a very good news indeed. the latest statistics to show,

but the peak is still maddeningly slower. in video poker limited operations, florida and texas gyms and fitness centers and some other businesses can reopen. vermont retail stores, minnesota the same thing with a lot of restrictions on those. new hampshire restaurants may offer that is a big step forward for them as we get into the nice weather in south carolina, some businesses can reopen as well as public and commercial pools. the white house says that the federal government stands ready to offer expertise and support to do it. the hhs secretary saying it is not a one-size-fits-all strategy. the state and local community will have a different plan, but indicating we are nearing the point where the cure is becoming as bad as the disease. this in here.

>> reopen we must, because it is not health versus the economy. if it is her cardiac procedures not being received, cancer screenings, pediatric vaccinations declining, all of these will be critical to reopening of the economy. >> the president has a roundtable today, executives of the restaurant industry which as you know has been particularly hard hit. thousands of restaurants in this country and restaurant chains as well that will not survive the closure, so that's one of the reasons why the president was to get things going easing the burden on these companies of the massive unemployment we have seen which appears now to be temporary doesn't become permanent. the fed chairman recently said it's going to take until the end of 2021 for the economy to really bounce back.

>> ed: big news they are. john roberts, thank you. we will also have exclusive reaction from the white house later this morning. the hhs secretary will discuss reopening that country and progress, promising news this morning from a dharna. secretary azar joins us live in our third hour. >> going to jail for this and hopefully a lot of people are going to have to pay. no other president should have to go through, and i'll tell you, general flynn and others, this was all obama. these people were corrupt, the whole thing was corrupt. >> president trump on sunday morning futures they are sounding off on the michael flynn case accusing former president obama and vice president joe biden of wrongdoing as a newly unveiled memo list the names of thousands of obama administration officials who sought the unmasking of his former national security advisor.

joining us now, chief political correspondent for the "washington examiner" and a fox news contributor. thanks for kicking off a brand-new week with us here. so what did you think they are listening to the president and him sounding off on the michael flynn case? >> i was thinking we're going to hear a lot of this going forwa forward. two, we are beginning to learn more about the involvement in the obama white house and perhaps, president obama himself and some of the activities among the investigation of the incoming trump administration during that transition back in late 2016-2017. and the leaks that were devastating and lead to a three investigation that plagued the trump white house for most of the president's time in office. so that's important stuff. we are starting to get some information. is tantalizing but incomplete right now who we are going to hear more.

>> sandra: team obama's unmasking dodge, the editorial board of writing this. at the 2016 at 2017 spying on trump officials as one of the dirtiest tricks in the history of american politics. is not perfectly legitimate and the public needs to know the full story behind it. we spoke to kt mcfarland on this program last week, she says she wants to know who was involved and why they did it. in separates what we know versus what we don't know at this point, because i know how you've been writing a lot about the case itself and the facts involved, there are still a lot of questions. >> read casey mcfarlane's memoir, she was put through the ringer by the fbi about this. but the tantalizing new news is that a list of 39 obama

administration officials who requested unmasking information that led to michael flynn, who a lot of it was before that famous phone call at the end of december 2016 between flynn and the russian ambassador, so what were they doing before? these people were in government positions, they were authorized to ask for unmasking, but we don't know why they did it. an senator ron johnson, chairman of the homeland security committee who released this list is now looking at the reasons why they did it, and that will tell us a lot. of where they are legitimate reasons for this? unmasking does go on in government. where there were legitimate reasons or where they try to keep track of and spy on the incoming administration that was preparing to replace the obama administration? >> sandra: we hope to learn a whole lot more on that. in meanwhile, i want to turn you

to the weekend where we saw former president barack obama delivering a virtual commencement address in which he decided to criticize top leadership in our country. here's the former president. >> this pandemic has fully finally torn back the curtain on the idea 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. >> sandra: i wanted to get your reaction to that as we heard from the president delivering that address to graduates of historically black colleges and universities, and offering some advice to top leadership. what did you think? >> i think there's a campaign going on. president obama, former president obama, former president obama has stayed mostly quiet during the last few years about his successor in the white house. a lot of democrats want him to come out publicly fighting from the get-go and he did not. but there's a campaign going on, his former vice president

joe biden is running for the presidency, and a lot of democrats are absolutely desperate to replace donald trump in the white house. i think we are definitely going to see this, but years back, bill clinton was the biggest gun or the democratic party and he would show up at campaign events and conventions. barack obama is in that position right now. in the democratic convention whether it's real or virtual, he will be the most powerful voice speaking on behalf of joe biden, and you're going to see that happen more and more. >> sandra: there is no doubt, we are well past the middle of may now on our way to 2020 and that election. byron, it is great to see you this morning, thank you so much. >> thank you, sandra. >> ed: congressional democrats launching a brand-new investigation into president trump's firing of the state department inspector general, source is now telling fox news the secretary of state mike pompeo was the one urging the president of fire the

ig. speaker of the house nancy pelosi says the abrupt decision has concerned lawmakers in both parties. >> this is new to us and typical of the white house announcing something that is very unsavory that is the fourth inspector general. in that office created after watergate to make sure that thee was integrity in the department, the agencies of government. they are supposed to show cause. even republicans in congress are concerned. >> ed: rich edson is life in washington with the details. good morning. >> good morning, and it appeared state department officials refused to say why secretary pompeo suggested to tm president that he fire the secretary general at state. and there even seven senate republicans who were critical of the decision. sender met romney tweeted, "the firings of multiple inspectors general is unprecedented. doing so without good cause

jailed the independence essential to their purpose. is a threat to accountable democracy and a fissure in the constitutional balance of power. "though another republican senator says it's a within the president's right to fire the inspector general. >> there are inspector general's that bring the political and aga as well as those that do phenomenal jobs. in pleasure of the president, and he's got the authority to hire and terminate. >> congressional democrats say he was investigating possible misuse of a political appointee at stayed to run errands and personal tasks for secretary pompeo and his family. and then investigation, the top democrats on the house foreign affairs of the senate foreign relations committee's are demanding documents and emails. in a letter to the state department's deputy secretary, they right of the firing, transparently from

personal accountability would undermine the foundations of democratic institutions and an illegal act of retaliation. democrats are also demanding information about any other investigation is that they inspector general had into secretary pompeo, and they want all this documentation by friday 5:00 p.m. >> ed: rich edson, thank you. >> sandra: nearly a dozen firefighters injured when a massive explosion rocked downtown los angeles sending ash and debris everywhere. plus, tensions escalating between u.s. and china as a top white house official accuses beijing of trying to conceal its coronavirus outbreak from the world. we look at brand-new reaction from congressman andy biggs who will join us live next. >> the behavior of the chinese communist party over the last three months particularly in terms of unleashing this pandemic, shooting for 100%

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>> i have two down firefighters. >> rescue nine, i need you to go and assist the two down firefighters. >> sandra: those firefighters suffering burns ranging from minor to severe, all 11 are expected to survive. the building is described as a cannabis oil factory storing highly flammable chemicals. we will have a live report on that next. >> the virus response in wuhan province, behind the shield of the world health organization for two months, had the virus from the world and then send hundreds of thousands of chinese on the aircraft to milan yo, thy could've kept it in wuhan and instead it became a pandemic.

so that's why i say the chinese did that to americans and they are responsible. >> ed: peter navarro accusing china directly of purposely misleading other nations about the severity of its coronavirus outbreak has beijing is reportedly threatening sanctions now for republican lawmakers who are outspoken critics. let's go to one of those, congressman andy biggs, committee chair. peter navarro said directly that china used air travel to see the virus in the early stages, pretty heavy charge. what he going to do about it? >> a number of things that we can do and first of all, the lawsuit permission that is in legislation and we need to go back and take a look at preclinton era prohibited sales and transfers policy and list that we had. that's important.

we've basically built up china's economy giving them advanced rocket telemetry, given them a middle-class, and that's been done from everything from our tech transfer to ip theft on the part of china. there are things we can do going back that list is one. talking about tariffs, that's another issue that might be addressed. i think we can also provide incentives to bring the supply chain manufacturing back to the united states. all of those are important. >> ed: also the question of what to do with the world health organization. you heard peter navarro saying use the shield of the world health organization to get away with lying to the world and yet the chief of the world health organization a few moments from now claim that they were the one sounding the alarm early on. take a listen and i'll give you a chance to respond. >> we found it early, we notified countries, issued

guidance for health workers within ten days, and declared a global health emergency. our highest level in january. at the time, there were 100 cases and none outside of china. >> ed: are they trying to rewrite history here? >> i think they are. in the word and reports i've seen is that the world health organization had information as early as november, and they kept it and suppressed it, and that helped the pandemic spread within china, china not releasing that information even to their internal public, and there was no prescription on sending people out on airplanes. was in january with places like taiwan started shutting down travel between china and taiwan, so i think he's rewriting history there. >> ed: the president has threatened to cut off funding of the world health organization

because of all of this. our own tucker carlson got his hands on a document a few nights ago that suggested the administration was going to give the world health organization some money under pressure from the president's critics who say in the middle of a pandemic, you should not cut off this money. there are now reports emerging that he is going to cut off the funding, where is the house republican leadership on this? are they getting new money from american taxpayers are not? >> people that i associate in congress, my echo chamber if you will wear for not giving any more money to the world health organization. the leader we think has major problems. we think he worked with the chinese government to suppress dissemination of information. we think there is adequate evidence coming up to support that. we don't think we should be giving any money to the world health organization.

>> ed: then there's the question about how exactly you punish china. senator john kennedy has some ideas. >> some company stated own listed on our exchanges but they refused to let the sec look at their audits. we have a bill to kick them off. we've known about this forever, then you know what congress has done about it? nothing, zero. >> ed: that seems like the bottom-line question. a lot of critics are speaking out saying we have to hold china accountable and there is one of your republican colleague saying we have heard this refrain before and in the end of very little gets done. your final thought. >> he's right. we need to step up and do something, some meaningful things. there's a whole panoply of things we can do. we need to reinstate that list, and we also need to provide incentives to start bringing our company is. will wake up china.

there's a whole toolbox we've got, we must act this time. >> ed: heard a lot of people talking about a wake-up call, we appreciate you coming on this morning, thank you. >> sandra: a spike in scams connected to coronavirus, how con artists are now trying to profit from fear over the pandemic. we will have a live report on that coming up. plus, washington looking to revise the popular paycheck protection program after listening to concerns of small business owners as more states begin to lift those lockdown rules. maria bartiromo from the fox business network will be joining us for the opening bell in moments on wall street. >> the one area we were having the most trouble opening is that of a hotel or tourism where you are inviting and want to invite you on a normal circumstance, folks out of massachusetts or new york and new jersey, that is not practical for the northeast right now. into a smaller life?

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so we have seen stock index futures surging ahead of the open dow futures up 745 points right now on hope that a vaccine may be near. >> it's true. we have a rip-roaring rally that is about to take off this morning for a number of reasons. we were already seeing again before the mode during a news, up about 300 points in the early going and then when that news came out, things skyrocketed to up almost 800 points, and the news is good, closely watched early-stage human trial for coronavirus vaccine produced covid-19 antibodies in all 45 participants in this study. the bottom line is, this is very good news for an early-stage trial for that vaccine, the stock skyrocketed after the news came out, that stock is up almost 40% into premarket and lifting many votes for the broader averages today. don't forget a lot of states

opening up this week, and as a result, you are seeing more activity in anticipation of more economic activity also boosting markets this morning, 700 points right out of the gate. >> absolutely, here we are and we go to the words of the federal reserve president jay powell as you know, he did share some optimism about the economic rebound that we could see as we start to see businesses reopen, but he did say that we won't see a full recovery he estimates until we see an effective vaccine. so that news obviously moving markets, and there you have it, a 700-point gain, a 3% gain for the stock market as we begin a brand-new week. meanwhile, a lot of discussion in washington about ppp funds. now trying to look at some revisions that could be made and changing the restrictions that are made on how those funds are used.

here is "the wall street journal" this morning on that. following complaints from restaurants and others to say they can't hire back staff while they are closed during the pandemic and need more money to cover their overhead costs. the steps being considered will mean a shift in the program's focus from that was primarily aimed at keeping employees on the payroll to also helping to keep small businesses from failing. how important is that? >> it's very important, and you and i discussed this weeks ago. you remember when the first funds were going out the door, i raised my hand about this very issue and said do you companies today are very frustrated with the fact that in order to get the loan forgiven, you have to send 75% of the loan out the door to employees, make sure they get paid during the shutdown, and then you have to have eight weeks in order to actually have that loan. in that is too short a window and it is too rigid.

the bottom line is, why are you telling me that i have to get 75% of the money out to my employees and only use 25% of it for my bills like rent and operating expenses, and then you're telling me it has to be in an eight week period and over to get that loan forgiven. i can't get that money out within eight weeks when i'm in a shut down. i have no cash flow, i'm still going to go bankrupt and that's what i was hearing from so many restaurant and service companies. i voiced concern and really happy to see they're going to be loosening up these rules because without it, you are not going to see as many companies taking that money. they can't because they can't just give the money away to employees and think they're still going to survive. they won't. though still go bankrupt. that's why they are looking at the stringent rules. >> sandra: as you just said, so important because we have heard from so many of those restaurant and salon owners. i want to finish off a word from mohamed el-erian talking to chris wallace on fox news sunday

over the weekend. >> so far, we haven't had government stimulus. we have had government relief. this week also give is not just a horrible unemployment number, but the output collapse in a century and the worst retail sales collapse on record. so we are hurting. what's important now is not to lose sight that there is a second phase. >> sandra: he is weighing in on the debate over just how much more stimulus may be needed for the american people. what are you hearing? >> i think a more stimulus will be needed for sure. we are right in the middle of it right now. japan is now in recession, two quarters of negative growth. we are going to see a sharp contraction in the second quarter. we may very well see a contraction in the first quarter as well. all expectations are that we see a flat situation and growth in

the fourth quarter. having said that, so far, it is not enough out there. the states need help, some cities need help, and certainly small business needs help, so i would expect another stimulus package, not that they one they have passed on friday, there was way too much and that package that is not related at all to coronavirus, and it is $3 trillion after all, so at some point, we will see another stimulus package. i don't think it's going to be the one we were talking about that was voted on friday night. >> ed>> sandra: here we go stang up a brand-new week with a gain about 3%, 691 points to the upside. great to see you this morning, see you again soon. >> ed: meantime, a warning to consumers, scammers are busy trying to profit from coronavirus fears peddling phony test kits, treatments, and protective gear. jonathan hunt is all over this live in los angeles. what the federal government is doing this morning to try to crack down on those criminals. good morning. >> good morning to you.

phony test kits, bogus treatments are just a few of the thousands of feet coronavirus related products postal certain domain service agents have seized across the country. >> it runs the gamut's weather as masks, gowns, hand sanitizer, whether it is pharmaceuticals, testing kits, gears, anything that somebody might use to either help deal with the symptoms of the coronavirus or prevent themselves from getting it that's being exploited. >> operation stolen promise which is run by the homeland security investigation has already led to more than 530 seizures of faulty, fake, and prohibited goods. is impossible to say how much has already slipped into consumers hands but an associated press investigation of claims millions of masks, gowns, and other fake medical

products are being used in the nation's hospitals and therefore putting health workers lives at risk toward the federal paycheck protection program is another target for fraud, just one example of alleged fraud, to new england restaurant owners who have no employees but claim to have dozens. >> it is vital that this money goes to the small businesses and hardworking americans that need the money right now, and we can't afford to have it diverted to fraud, waste, and abuse. >> so far, they've seized more than $3.4 million in illicit proceeds. they say they will continue to target anyone who tries to take advantage of the coronavirus pandemic. >> jonathan hunt, thank you. >> sandra: an update on the deadly shooting at a naval air station pensacola, florida, back in december. law enforcement sources telling us the shooter who killed three people before he was shot by

deputies communicated with al qaeda before carrying out that attack. this discovery coming after authorities were able to break through the encryption on his phone. attorney general bill barr and fbi director christopher wray are set to hold a virtual news conference on this at 11:00 a.m. eastern time. >> ed: meantime, colorado's governor making a big push to get kids back in school this fall. even though there could be more outbreaks in his state. what will it take to protect school children and their teachers? the former education secretary is going to join us coming up. plus, bernie sanders giving joe biden a boost saying they will back the former vp. what he thinks vita needs to do to win in november. >> i think they understand that. i think they are going to reach out to our supporters and come up with an agenda that speaks to the needs of working families, young families of minority communities.

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>> the vast majority of the people who voted for me and supported me, at the end of the day, they will be voting for joe biden. i think what joe is going to have to do is he's beginning to move in that direction. it's those working-class people, minorities, listen, i understand your situation. >> ed: bernie sanders downplaying fears that his supporters will not back joe biden in november as the former vp looks to win support in republican states. the biden campaign adding staff in both arizona and georgia so let's bring in john sununu, former chief of staff. good morning, governor. >> ed: good to see you. what bernie sanders was trying to push back on there was at his top advisor put out a memo saying just the opposite. he warned that joe biden is falling far short in winning over burning backers, so the question is does biden have a bigger problem than he's letting

on? >> i think he does have the republicans respond properly. bernie was basically saying you're going to have a more liberal agenda, a socialist agenda to get my votes, but i think the republicans have not been doing a good job in dealing with the political situation of the moment, and i think there were two things they have to do. they have to find a better way to frame the issue of sexual harassment which has been used against republicans for over a decade, and now the democrats are finding themselves exploiting a double standard in the republicans really have to find a way to drive that home. i think it has to be driven home by the congressional candidates, and secondly, the republicans have to understand the politics of the coronavirus economic situation. they've been letting the democrats pound trump, and the fact is, there is a magnitude of a problem that we have come a 40% of it is in new york and new jersey and that is the result of the democratic mayor

of new york telling people to ride the subway through mid-may and the democratic governor of new york sending coronavirus laden elderly back into the nursing homes. as a result of that, the magnitude of the problem was increased, and therefore, the shock response at the country had to employ economically was much more painful than it needed to be. the republicans have to find a way to frame that, and the congressional candidates have to rub that in. >> ed: you are right the pandemic will be front and center, real clear politics, national average of what's happening, it shows biden 47, trump basically 43. he lost the popular vote to hillary clinton's of the national average is not as important as what's happening in battleground states. we'll clear politics average there. the president a tiny edged for north carolina by about a point, but cnn had a battleground poll

that suggested again, nationally joe biden's winning but cnn saying in the battleground states, things are trending for the president. the president with a lead in that pole over biden. what does it mean that the president seems to be doing better in the battlegrounds? >> that's where folks are much more rational than the two switches california and new york. the national poll is dominated by voting by the voting base in california and new york. we concede that as republicans to the democrats in a presidential race. you pull out california and new york, and you've got a huge margin for the president nationally and for battleground states. >> ed: in the last 30 seconds, the fed chair was on "60 minutes" last night and was basically saying yes, he is optimistic, but it might take us through the end of 2021 he said to dig out of this.

your advice to the president this morning as he tries to make the case he's going to build the economy? >> my advice is to keep nurturing the governors. the problem we have right now as there seems to be a tacit agreement amongst the democrats in congress and the democrat governors to slow down the economic reopening. and i think they've got to try to win them over either by flattery or support or whatever it is, and i think in a much more gentle way than he's done in the past, point out to the constituents and those blue states that it's there governors holding them back. >> ed: we certainly appreciate your time this morning, thank you for coming on. to back abbott laboratories pushing back on a study that claims its coronavirus rapid test is inaccurate. we'll be speaking to a top executive live next.

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>> ed: tropical storm arthur is scanning the north carolina coast, said to bring high winds and up to several inches of ran to the outer banks. much of it could see rough surf and dangerous rip currents, the sixth straight year that hurricane season has started early. >> sandra: abbott laboratories pushing back on reports that its rapid test for coronavirus is highly inaccurate saying one study is an outlier and that three others in hundreds of testing the sites show the test is pretty accurate. let's bring in vice president of applied research and technology for abbott labs diagnostics business, things were joining us this morning. so what can you tell us about the accuracy of this test considering this is the one that is used daily at the white house as well.

>> thank you for the opportunity to speak with you about this. first, let me put this into perspective. as a scientist, i can tell you that it is a remarkable diagnostic tool that is definitely helping to stop the spread of this pandemic. to put in perspective, nearly 1.5 million of these tests have been performed, and there are cases that have been reported to admit or to the fda that suggest the test may have had a false negative value. nyu studies truly an outlier. fundamentally different than what other public studies have seen, and it's also very different than the feedback we are getting from the real world. and by real world, i mean hundreds of hospitals, doctors offices, urgent care centers,

mobile units giving testing, and municipalities using this test. their feedback is it's operated as it should be operated. to put those in perspective. >> sandra: i just want to get some clarity for our viewers right now. so what is the accuracy of this test? the nyu research study found that it was missing positives up to half the time when compared to another test, so what would you say is the accuracy of your test? >> artest and many of the studies have looked at this test and is definitely made 80% to mid 90 percentile based on all of these other studies. i have to say, we have talked with these researchers at nyu, they have acknowledge that their study has limitations, that it

wasn't a well-controlled clinical study, and they didn't answer some important questions about when patients were sampled, and the analysis of their data reveals that it appears to be highly skewed from a typical distribution that would be observed. so that really raises concerns for that study. >> sandra: you are suggesting a way in which nyu studied the testing was the reason why accurate results were not produced. as i mentioned, this is the rapid test 15 minutes after swabs, this is the test for the white house so obviously accuracy is key as it is when it's being performed on any american when it comes to safety in this country and sending people back to work. would you with 100% confidence say that this is a test that should be recommended now that the fda says it is investigating

a? >> absolutely. and it is effective when it seems the way it's supposed to be used, and we've been working with the fda as we have even before launch with this, doing post-market studies to do further evaluation. this is a normal process as we think about diagnostics and the evolution as we've learned more about the virus and learned more about performance and how these are used. this is a very typical practice. and coming back to data, ironically the same week, also performing a study. in presenting the data indicating the test was 91 present subsidized and 100% specific so very different than what the data we've generated is what we've studied. >> sandra: so for the food and drug administration, it's now looking into all of this and we

continue to hope for the best as far as this testing is in this country because that's what's going to get us all back to work and school eventually. thank you for your time this morning. >> ed: fox news alert now, criminal investigation underway into a massive explosion in l.a. making a desperate escape and update on their condition is next. plus, quarantined fatigue sparking huge crowds in new york city and how police are cracking down on those who violate social distancing ahead of the holiday weekend. the va streamline refi is a benefit your spouse earned. it shortens the refi process so veteran families can save money by refinancing. there's no income verification, no appraisal, and no out of pocket costs and you can do it all right from home.

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>> ed: a brand-new battle brewing this morning over just how quickly some states and cities are reopening as warm weather and quarantined fatigue drew out huge crowds this weekend. welcome to a brand-new hour of "america's newsroom." >> sandra: good morning, everyone. a large groups of new yorkers seen across the city gathering outside of bars and restaurants, many of which are open for take-out. new york city, the epicenter of the pandemic here in the united states, mayor bill de blasio now warning his city is far from out of the woods vowing to crack down on crowds violating social distancing rules.

meanwhile, andrew cuomo pushing back on criticism of his decision early in the crisis to send recovering covid-19 patients to nursing homes saying no one should be prosecuted for the deaths that followed. >> how do we get justice for those families who had 139 deaths? what is justice? who can we prosecute? nobody was deprived of a bed or medical coverage in any way. and still, people died. still, people died. older people, vulnerable people are going to die from this vir virus. >> sandra: david lee miller is live in manhattan with more on that. >> good morning from the upper east side. the latest statewide daily death toll now stands at 139, and that is essentially where it stood about two months ago. of the latest 139 people to lose their lives, 33 of them died at a nursing home.

governor andrew cuomo under withering criticism change the law preventing hospitals from sending patients to nursing homes and thus the patient tested negative for the virus. set on sunday, people are going to die of this virus letting mother nature and god are to blame. two more regions of the state are close to meeting the requirements for the initial phase of a reopening. in those areas include buffalo in the capital albany. says testing is crucial for the full reopening of the economy and to show just how easy the process is, he took a coronavirus test during his daily briefing. he says eligibility has been expanded to include essential workers and there is no cost and he says it is pain-free. >> that is the whole test. i am not in pain, not in discomfort. in closing my eyes was a moment of relaxation trade there is no reason why you should not get the test.

>> meanwhile, the new york city area remains under lockdown, anxious to get a break offering take-out service. mayor de blasio has threatened to shut down any business that breaks the rules. and lastly, new york city residents are bracing for what could be a very uncomfortable memorial day weekend even though governor cuomo has said all beaches throughout the state can be open. he said it is ultimately going to be up to the various municipalities and mayor bill de blasio has said 14 miles of new york city beaches are going to be closed for the holiday next week. and yes, that includes much beloved coney island. >> sandra: more on that in just a moment. david lee miller, thank you. >> here we are, month three, no help watching the middle class struggle. and not just small businesses, but individuals all over the country in the states that are

staying lockdown beyond the curve, and we are sick of tired of having our rights trampled on. >> ed: the owner of a gym talking about the economic pain he's feeling in his decision to reopen despite an ongoing lockdown order. the police may be about to move in and that's where we find pete hegseth, good morning to you, what's happening? >> good morning, great to be with you. we are inside a gym in new jersey which opened its doors two hours ago in defiance of the governor's shutdown order. he see everyone walking in his practicing very strict protocols. i'm wearing a mask out of respect for the rules here inside the gym. and every hour, they wiped the entire gym down. everyone leaves, and a new group comes in. you are required to spray it before and after with disinfectant. only 20% of capacity allowed inside. they are doing temperature checks outside before you come

in. you can't take showers, no group exercise, so they are paying very close attention saying we can social distance, and as you heard from en, the owner here, he feels like just like any big box store like walmart, like a liquor store, like the other businesses in states like new jersey, a small business like this can pay attention to the details to respect the virus can also be responsible for free citizens. two other dynamics here this morning as you have supporters outside, large crowds coming out to support this gym standing in solidarity saying as ian has, every business is essential. we need to reopen in new jersey in a responsible way, so the crowds remain outside. you also have the authorities, the state police, governor murphy made it clear last week he thinks opening of this gym specifically for any like it is unlawful, so as a result, he says they are out of compliance.

i do know state police's stage nearby whether or not they come and arrest or shut down the owners of this business, still to be determined, but it is a tense situation. business as usual, but what the authorities do next is anyone's guess. >> ed: right in the middle of this ongoing battle between the lockdown orders and individuals, we appreciate that report, thank you. >> our heart goes out to someone that is struggling to make a living and the government comes in with restrictions. 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. >> sandra: that was arkansas' governor declaring his state open for business starting today with a few exceptions has the push to restart the economy and sparks a growing debate over lockdowns. over the weekend, we saw crowds

of people packing bars and beaches and meanwhile struggling small business owners are anxious to reopen before the pandemic shuts them down for good. an associate editor for "the wall street journal" on a fox news contributor. good morning to you. i want to go back to what we just saw there, that new jersey gym where the owner said he felt like his rights were being trampled going against orders opening the doors to his jim while enacting strict social distancing, mask wearing, cleaning the facility, and you saw those folks gathering outside the gym this morning very passionate about being able to reopen and get back to business. >> that is a sentiment you can probably say is felt across the country. most people want to get back to work. they are concerned about their small businesses surviving this. on the other hand, it's a pandemic, and it's a health crisis, and the concern is whether or not going back to

work now is more beneficial than stemming the spread of this virus. as you well know, we are learning a great deal about the virus, but there is an enormous amount that we still don't. for a long time, we saw kids were spared and now it looks like that's not the case, and have a very large national experiment is underway now. where businesses are opening sometimes in defiance of local regulations which are basically there to protect the public and as those businesses open and as some states open legally because the states have decided to do so, we won't know the effect

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>> sandra: the canadian air force jet crashing after attribute to first responders in the pandemic. >> it just crashed. >> sandra: performing a flyover in british columbia when one jet goes down and burst into flames, killing a crewmember. the pilot ejecting from the aircraft surviving with serious injuries. >> ed: a brand-new warning for

joe biden from the top political advisor senator bernie sanders. former campaign advisor jeff weaver pointing out a significant portion of sanders supporters are unsupportive and unenthusiastic about his bid for the white house. donna brazile is former interim chair of the dnc, good morning. >> good morning, welcome to my home. >> ed: we have seen it before but it looks like you've got it already for us this morning and excited to start a new week with you. how concerned should joe biden be about burning supporters sitting on the sidelines? >> first of all, as you well know, bernie sanders is backing joe biden, a strong supporter, he is said yesterday on national tv, and i heard him say it over and over again that he is going to work hard to make sure that his supporters turned out in november for joe biden, so i think what jeff weaver wrote is absolutely correct and that is

we cannot take young voters for granted, we cannot take progressive voters for granted and cannot take the latino community or the black community for granted but we have to make sure that we reach them with a good strong message, but the most important thing is that bernie sanders is on board and that is very, very helpful for joe biden. when maggie was bernie sanders yesterday insisting how hard he's going to work for joe biden and on the other side, we will talk about it. watch. >> what joe is going to have to do and he's beginning to move in that direction as to say to those working-class people, those young people, those minorities, i understand your situation. i think joe and his staff understand that. they are going to reach out to our supporters can come up with an agenda that speaks to the needs of working families, young families of minority communiti communities. >> ed: you are right that bernie sanders personally seems

more personally invested than he was in 2016 and saying we have to get joe biden elected. that's his message to democrats. on the other hand, why is his advisor if all of sanders-based turned out for joe biden november, he could defeat trump and take back the white house for democrats. here's the problem, significant portions don't currently plan to. so what's the problem is even sanders top advisor is saying they're not on board. >> as i said, you have to reach out and make sure that you bring them onboard. you have to understand that they want a president who will respond to their needs whether it's health care, whether it's making sure we have paid sick leave for those who are unable to go back to work and to take care of their families. they want a progressive agenda and i do believe he will be able to deliver on that. >> ed: political has a story this morning saying they've overtaken the democratic party

and now they're in despair. the story goes on to quote interviews and more than 15 left-wing leaders as they suggest and then there is this "wall street journal" article from the leader of the young turks, how biden can win over progressives. we need to take a stand against corporate money and politics, corruption, and prove that he means it. can joe biden give up corporate money and still beat the trump money machine? the president has a lot of money in the bank. >> the president has a lot of money in the bank but also has a lot of issues that he needs to resolve before he can bring his coalition. i do believe the progressive wing of the democratic party has a very active wing. we know that they support by and large sum of the policies that joe biden has advocated. i also believe we have to respect the fact that joe biden won the primary. he won by bringing progressives and moderates together so this is not a time to take someone out of the vote and we we need everybody to do it together. with regards to all of the specific policy proposals, that's why we are going to have

a platform committee, that's why we'll be able to debate these issues, and we will come up with a sound policy where everybody can come together as one so that we can defeat this president. this is going to be a referendum on the president's leadership not just over the last few months but over the last few years and i do believe joe biden has a very forward-looking agenda that will appeal the massive numbers of americans who want new leadership in the white house. >> ed: going to be rolling that boat that you talked about, we will see how many get in the boat and that might be determined, thanks for welcoming us into your home this morning. >> thank you, you are always welcome. >> sandra: promising new data emerging from the early stages of a coronavirus vaccine trial. will have the brand-new details on that next. plus, the governor of colorado expressing optimism that his state schools will be reopening in the fall. so how realistic is that timeline?

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>> ed: the biotech company madura not announcing encouraging results revealing

all 45 of the participants have produced antibodies to the virus. the dow now surging on that promising news. fox business is has more details now. good morning. >> that's right, the dow up almost 700 points on this. has showed some promise in these early trials and the stock is soaring as well. the data that we are looking at here was from a phase one trial, so it's definitely still early. however, it does mean the company can move to phase two with a goal of phase three initiation in july. everything keeps progressing on the right path, the company things early fall would be possible to get fda approval for emergency use. in its press release, the chief medical officer sent this, "the interim phase one data while early demonstrates a vaccination elicits of an immune response at the magnitude caused by natural infection starting with a dose as low as 25 ug.

this data substantiates our belief that it has the potential to prevent covid-19 disease." those are definitely words that we wanted to hear. the successful study tested three doses of this vaccine, low, medium, and hide. the low dose the doctor mentioned and the medium dose are the ones they are talking about, and the only adverse effect with some redness and soreness in one of the patient's arms where the shot was given. now keep in mind with the highest dose, three patients had a fever, but symptoms didn't go away after a day. the vaccine before the end of the year would be a game changer here. when you talk about reopening this country difficult to do it fully with just social distancing and proper protocols like wearing masks, the concern with giving it that way is that they would be a natural spike in cases as people go out but also there could be a resurgence of the virus when the temperature drops again after the summer.

we have talked about treatments and therapies. a great step in helping people recover if they become infected, but a vaccine, something that can prevent someone from getting this virus at all would obviously be ideal. something companies here have been working really hard to develop. so a lot of people cheering today. >> ed: thank you for watching that for us. >> across our state and across our nation, they will be able to return to school in the fall. just won't look like any other school year. the districts working with our state and across the country on schedules that have less interactions that can slow the spread when there is an inevitable outbreak. >> ed: that was jared polis, optimistic that schools will reopen for the next academic year, his comments amid growing debate about how and when schools will be able to get back up and running nationwide.

margaret spellings served as education secretary and his former president of the university of north carolina and she joins us now. thank you so much for coming back, we spoke with you a couple of weeks ago on a very similar level, but now starting to see things reopen. so you've put a lot of thought into this. can you envision a scenario where it would be a game changer if we had a vaccine but likely not by august or september, can you envision a scenario where we can send our school kids back into the classrooms? >> i can, but i think our schools are going to look very different. many more hours today, students will go to school in shifts, sometimes they will be online, sometimes physically present. our teachers will be used differently, maybe we will have one teacher doing a lecture online and then a follow-up in person with small groups of students, so i think we are going to see a lot of adaptability and a lot of flexibility, but we know there

is no american normalcy without our schools being back in session. >> that's very interesting. from this perspective that andrew cuomo of new york has shared that reinvent and reimagine the way kids go to school talking about the technology and how it's working, but that's assuming the parents are at home like many are today because of this pandemic. we hope people are getting back to work so when it comes to school-age kids and learning virtually and may be going to school less hours in the day, what do you do about those working parents? >> we are going to see a lot of cooperation from our employers. these are the same thing as employers are thinking about, that adults will be working in shifts, so it's going to take a lot of listening and learning and adapting from all sides of the equation. i also think we will see child care reinvented a little differently, but there will be places where students can go when they are not with their

families. we're just going to see some new models and they will be some real advantages to come out of this. getting much better at online learning, smarter about how we use our teachers. and i think it is certainly possible that students will have more one-on-one interactions online with adults, but we will do things differently, but we will go back to school. we cannot have our kids out of school for extended periods of time without significant learning loss, and that would cheat them from progress in their lives and in their schooling. >> sandra: i think so many parents hear that, and they think that social aspect of school, you can't replace that. and that interaction with kids whether elementary school aged kids on the playground talking to each other, organizing clubs, things like that him and you fear that the age of virtual education, more screen time, that some of that time is lost. i will let you respond to that in a moment but here they laid

out their checklist for schools to reopen in the fall. they ask will reopening be consistent with applicable state and local orders, second is a school ready to protect children and employees at higher risk for severe illness. in thirdly, are you able to screen students and employees upon arrival for symptoms and history of exposure? that stands out is really interesting to me. could you imagine a scenario where every time a student entered a school, they had to have their temperature check, they had to have a face mask on or if they showed the slightest cold like symptom, had to be sent home? >> i can imagine those things, but i think in the scheme of things, they will be relatively temporary. they may go on for one or two semesters but our students, our children are learning about how adults respond and adapt, how we use other tools to learn, and there are a lot of great lessons

in that. but i do think you are right, some of these relationships are going to be lost temporarily but we will figure it out and students will be able to work in smaller groups, yes, they will be socially distance and are at risk teachers may be connecting with students online. will be a lot of individualism, and that's what we're use to in modern american life anyway is responding to our unique needs, our underlying conditions, are learning needs, and that is going to extend into the future and will see more customization overall when we get through th this. >> sandra: we've been talking really long term. take it to the short term are so many parents are at home trying to homeschool their kids trying to get them through critical lesson plans that normally are the responsibility of the teacher, and we appreciate and love our teachers and understand what a huge job they have had, but as parents, it's been

difficult. whether it is science, math, history, and the makeup that might lie ahead? >> that's why it's so important that we get our students back with professional educators in some shape, form, or fashion as soon as possible. one of the silver linings of interacting a lot with their students as their learning how hard it is to teach, but also learning that they're not on a level of reading and they will be better consumers. they are going to want their children and their students catching up, getting on track, using a supplemental intervention like technology or coaching or tutoring or otherwise to get caught up, so the fact they have learned a lot more about where students are as opposed to just opening the report card and seeing whatever

has been pretty interesting as i've talked to folks around the country, educators and parents alike. >> sandra: as a parent of young school-age children, i think every parent have spoken with can point out some level of positivity that has come out of this whether it is your kids are just reading more because they were at home more or whatever it may be but everyone is concerned about what the future looks like and getting their kids back to school again. thank you for coming on with us and we hope to have you back on again soon, thank you so much. >> ed: the meantime, unhappy with the judges delay and dropping the case against the former national security advisor as the doj requested, what is the end game here? and has it follow the constitution or not? judge andrew napolitano weighs in next hour but up next is frustration grows over prolonged stay at home orders, so is the number of lawsuits going again some states. moneyman charles payne have an update. and we will about that with

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>> we are being challenged, hundreds of examples all across this country, every single day, governors are being challenged, local health officials being challenged. >> ed: gavin newsom right there describing a lawsuit filed against his state by residents and state officials challenging stay at home orders claiming that some measures have gone too far. let's bring in charles payne, host of making money with charles payne, good morning. great to have you on the program. what do you think about these governors complaining about the pushback they are getting as we see the dowel way up today on hopeful news about a possible vaccine and also on the idea that the economy is starting to get going? >> even before the vaccine, it is just not a u.s. issue.

around the world, we saw massive protests in the u.k. over the weekend and germany over the weekend hidden in iran we see protests and in iraq, in the ivory coast around the world, people want to go back to work and people just want to get out of the house, so the whole isolation thing is starting to wear thin on human beings and those who provide for their families and some of these governors i think have been heavy-handed on this. you saw where gavin newsom was pushed into a corner with respect to tesla. elon musk openly musing about moving to texas, and so everybody is saying if you can make an accommodation for musk, make an accommodation for the smaller businesses that are on thin ice right now, and you're going to have to see some of these other states taking these really rigid approaches coming to the same reality of the rest of the world is coming to is that at some point you have to open up your economy. >> look at this map, maryland, ohio, wisconsin, california,

pennsylvania and illinois, all states with lawsuits against various lockdowns. talk a little bit about this fight over individual liberty on one side, but obviously, you have to find a balance to make sure people are not rushing in making sure they are still social distancing because otherwise, we've heard the fed chair and others say if we start going backwards, it's not going to help anybody. >> it won't help anybody, but i think the thing is initially, we were told we are going to go and hunker down and wait for the flattening of the curve, so americans went along with it, americans said this sounds reasonable and we will do that and now you have places that are now saying we want to go 14 days without a death, not flattening of the curve, sort of unrealistic or unfair approaches as smaller businesses continue to go out of business. the good thing the administration is now talking

about tweaking as it may not be enough, probably won't be enough for too many businesses and individuals. so every single day, the clock is ticking and friday, the university of michigan came out with their sentiment number and when they asked about covid-19, the thing that you fear most, over 60% said getting sick, only 7% financial but we saw surge from 14 to 21% of people saying of the isolation. is even more than an economic discussion at this point. >> ed: you mentioned restructuring ppe to make sure it gets to the small businesses that need it. we have the speaker pushed through that $3 trillion stimulus that the president and republicans say is dead on arrival, what is next and all of that? >> i don't think it does anyone any good because the house would've been better served if the house would've stayed focused on the issue at hand

keeping businesses going, keeping the employees fed with a roof over their heads until we can come back at full speed. so i just think it was ridiculous they went through with that and it hurts the process more than it helps it. >> ed: we will watch you at 2:00 p.m. as well, charles payne, thanks for coming on. >> sandra: welcome back to charles, drivers revving their engines over the weekend in case you missed it for the very first nascar race since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic. the changes they are making on and off the track to keep people safe. >> today, that passion is back, the excitement as they are, and everybody is thrilled that we are going to get to see the first major sport to be able to happen. - i'm jeff anderson.

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>> sandra: it was a happy weekend for a lot of golf hands who had a live event to watch. an event that raised more than $5 million for covid-19 relief funds. no fans or media were allowed in for that match head at the seminal golf club in florida. president trump calling in during the broadcast to show support for athletes and fans. >> we need to get sports back, in terms of the psyche of our country, but we want to get it back to where it was. we want big stadiums loaded with people and right now, that is not what they are planning, but you never know what happens, things can happen very quickly. >> sandra: rory mcilroy and dustin johnson coming away with a victory over rickie fowler and matthew wolf, what a weekend.

>> harvey wins, nascar's return to action at darlington. >> ed: golf was not the only major sport to return this weekend, won the real heroes 400 at darlington raceway in south carolina sunday as well. nascar returning to the track after a ten week hiatus due to the pandemic, no fans in the stands. pit crews had to practice social distancing, so let's bring in fox nascar analyst, great to see you, good morning. in give us an idea of kind of the look and feel you've got them a race wearing the masks, no fans in the crowd, and yet they were still a lot of excitement. >> there really was. and i think when you think of a driver getting prepared for the weekend, all these guys have a lot of different things to go through with the masks on the social distancing, not with their use to but nascar did a

great job, it was a great event for him it was fun to watch, the competition was amazing, the odd thing is are the masks that you would see a lot of people wearing, not as many people at the racetrack and it was a huge thing, so in the post race interview, i think kevin was like i don't know what to do here, but all but all in all, it went off without a hitch and i just complement nascar for their safety procedures and for the most part, i think they did a great job. >> something we all have to get adjusted to what he gets his big victory, and he is sort of standing there alone with the mask on, can't really hug anybody. we are used to seeing the pit crew come out, the big celebration, it's a whole new reality. >> it is, and i know that it is hopefully just temporary and you want them in the grandstands and you want team to to be interactive like always but right now, i think i know nascar

did a phenomenal job with other safety procedures, fox did a great job broadcasting it. he felt like you were there like normal and these guys were competitive again after ten weeks off. >> ed: it's also important that the drivers were sending a signal to people, the idea it's okay to wear a mask and it's what you should be doing in a lot of places right now, and when you see some of these famed drivers wearing it, it is an important symbol as well. >> it really is, and i'm glad to see that. i know that they gave me some enthusiasm and thinking about doing the same thing with what you just set about wearing the mask and not that we don't do it but at the same time, it's different. with what you see on tv and what they did and what these guys were able to accomplish on a sunday afternoon in darlington, a tough racetrack, that was so cool, and to see these guys do that accomplishing so much and make this race go off without a hitch was really great to see

with everybody wearing the mask and tv doing a great job so was a lot of fun to watch and i can't wait for the next one here in a couple of days. >> that's the best part of all is that now the daytona 500 on fox. give us a preview of we don't usually see another event this quickly, but we have several coming up right on top of each other. >> that is kind of different. obviously as a driver, sometimes i wish i could do it over again, but these guys aren't getting that opportunity, they will do it in a few weeks, couple of days, so it'll be different but charlotte is coming up, a lot of different races of these guys are going to get busy for a while, and the teams in the drivers are going to have to work really hard at it, but i know they are up for the task but at the same time, hopefully we can get them all here and get the schedule going again and get fans back in the grandstands. >> ed: may be a little tailgating well.

they'll love that. we appreciate you coming on, thank you. >> sandra: fox news alert from the justice department were any moment now we are expecting to hear brand-new details on the deadly pensacola naval base shooting last december, updates from that as soon as we get them. plus, a biotech company now reporting promising results from the early stages of its coronavirus vaccine trial moving markets this morning. health and human services secretary will be here to respond next hour on the trump administration's plan to keep this momentum going. a lot of folks ask me why their dishwasher doesn't get everything clean. i tell them, it may be your detergent... that's why more dishwasher brands recommend cascade platinum... ...with the soaking, scrubbing and rinsing built right in.

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>> ed: soon, we will hear from attorney general william barr, holding a virtual news conference updating the investigation into those deadly shootings at the pensacola naval air station that have been back in september. three service members were killed, eight other americans wounded. source is now telling fox news the justice department will reveal the shooter who was killed by deputies was in contact with al qaeda before opening fire that morning. we will bring you updates as soon as we get them. another fox news alert now on the big push to reopen more parts of the country as we get new information on the nation's covid-19 death rate. welcome back to "america's newsroom," i met henry. >> sandra: good morning, everyone. as more and more states are reopening getting their economy

is going again, members of the trump team are now pointing fingers at the administration's own scientists and americans with pre-existing conditions for the high number of deaths from the virus. >> it is a population with significant unhealthy comorbidities that do make many individuals in their communities in particular african-americans, minority communities particularly at risk and that is an unfortunate legacy in our health care system that we certainly do need to address. >> early on in this crisis, the cdc had a bad test, and that did set us back, but going forward with these guidelines, the important thing to understand here from the american people is this, opening up this economy is not a question of lives versus jobs. >> ed: john roberts is live with more details, good morning. >> good morning to you, the president leaving no doubt as to how he thinks they should go

starting off with a tweet that says simply, "reopen our country." the president adding a little bit more process saying that the number of coronavirus cases is strongly trending downward throughout the united states with few exceptions, very good news indeed. so what do the trends show? here is some data that fox news has compiled, the seven day rolling average finds a number of new infections have slowly been trending downward going down despite the addition of more testing that would likely increase the count of new cases, so that's good news. and the number of deaths that will be coming down from their peak but the decline is still naggingly slower than it was initially projected to be and the united states has the highest number of deaths among any nation in the world. the case fatality rate among confirmed infections is still troublingly high. nearly 6% as you pointed out that you're beating that to a high percentage of people with pre-existing conditions, so-called comorbidities. also pointing out the things

appear to be going well and states that have become the reopening process. listen here. >> we are seeing in areas that are opening, we are not seeing the spike in cases, we still seize spikes in some areas that are closed, very localized situations, so this is going to be really important for us to watch the circumstances on the ground. >> increasingly pointing fingers as you mentioned at the top, pointing fingers at the centers for disease control, also accusing the china of seeding of the virus on a global scale by allowing international travel from wuhan. listen to what he said. >> the chinese behind the shield of the world health organization for two months hit the virus from the world and then sent hundreds of thousands of chinese on aircraft from milan new york and around the world to cede that. and they could've kept it in wuhan and instead, it became a pandemic. so that's why i say the chinese

did that to americans, and they are responsible. >> navarro was very careful to say he didn't think china did it intentionally. is clear that president trump is becoming increasingly frustrated with china saying last week that he has no interest in talking to president xi of china at the moment. the president will likely have some remarks for the public at 2:00 when he meets with leaders of the restaurant industry and then he and the first lady will take the situation room to speak with some of the nation's governors. we will not hear anything that comes from that. >> ed: thank you for running all of that down. going to be hearing much more in a short time, the health and human services secretary joins us just minutes from now, brand-new information about important progress, we will get to that breaking news shortly. >> sandra: we look forward to that, meanwhile as states take bigger steps towards reopening their economies this week, governors are working to balance it all against the risk of setting off new spikes in

coronavirus cases. steve harrigan is live in atlanta with the latest on all of that. good morning. >> that's right, so far it has been a tough balance, reopening parts of its economy three weeks ago and since seeing this bike a new virus cases. the highest single day total on saturday more than 1800. texas officials say that is largely due to new testing and also some outbreaks among meat processing plant workers. georgia has similarly reopened its economy aggressively. there has been no spike in georgia. in the meantime, the cdc is coming under more criticism from white house officials especially about its failure to come up with an early reliable test. >> early on in this crisis of the cdc which really had the most trusted brand around the world in this space really let the country down with the testing because not only did they keep the testing within the

bureaucracy, they had a bad te test. >> beginning to get back on track with nascar sunday in darlington south carolina. no fans in the grandstands, drivers and pit crews wearing protective gear, but they did hold a race. they are going to hold four more to try to get nascar back on schedule. sandra, back to you. >> sandra: steve, thank you. >> ed: meantime, speaking to maria bartiromo blasting the democrats about the russian probe. >> it was the greatest political crime in the history of our country. i were a democrat instead of a republican, i think everybody would have been in jail a long time ago, and i'm talking with 50 year sentences. is a disgrace what's happened. this is the greatest political scam, hoax in the history of

country. people should be going to jail for this stuff and hopefully a lot of people are going to have to pay. >> ed: our next guest adds on to that, saying democrats are exposing themselves. let's bring in miranda, good morning to you. you say the democrats are exposed, the democrats say this is just a conspiracy theory. your thoughts? >> of course, they are saying that. you are seeing basically that the trump administration came into power, there was that transition, should be a peaceful transition and instead they were sabotaged and you had just in the unmasking of general flynn is the tip of the iceberg but that was done by more than 3,000 administration officials including the u.n. ambassador in that ten week transition after election day.

what is worse is the criminal leaking of that classified information. >> ed: pardon me one second but as promised, attorney general william barr restarting his news conference about that deadly attack in pensacola. >> intended to destroy both of the phones, even going so far as to disengage from the gun fight enough to fire a bullet into one of the phones. within one day of the shootings, the fbi sought and obtained court orders supported by probable cause authorizing the bureau to search the contents of both phones as part of its investigation. the problem was that the phones were locked and the fbi did not have the passwords, so they needed help to get in, and we asked apple for assistance, and the president asked apple for assistance. unfortunately, apple would not help us unlock the phones.

apple had deliberately designed them so that only the user in this case, the terrorists could gain access to their contents. today, i am pleased to announce that thanks to the relentless efforts and ingenuity of fbi technicians, the fbi finally succeeded in unlocking the phones. the phones contained information previously unknown to us that definitively establishes the significant ties to al qaeda and the arabian peninsula. not only before the attack but before he even arrived in the united states. we now have a clearer understanding of the associations and activities in the years, months, and days leading up to his attack. indeed, the information from the phones has already proven valuable in protecting the american people.

a counterterrorism operation targeting an operative, one of the overseas associates was recently conducted in yemen. in we will not hesitate to act against those who harm america americans. i would now like to turn the podium over to director wray, who will provide further information on the fbi's investigation. >> thank you. first, let me say i deeply appreciate the attorney general's leadership and support for the fbi both in the relentless fight against terrorism hand in our drive to obtain the vital evidence we need to protect american people. we are here today because of a tragic reminder of just how grave, how imminent the

terrorism threat still is, and al qaeda in the arabian peninsula associates murder of three people and wounding of eight others right here in america. as the attorney general described through a combination of skill and determination, the men and women of the fbi have succeeded in accessing the terrorists to phones, both of which he tried to destroy. our investigation into december's terror attack in pensacola continues, but there is an important moment and an important case. it's important because of what accessing the evidence in just a short time, we finally access that evidence. we and our partners have already put it to good use. among other steps we've taken just a moment ago, we heard the

attorney general described the reason counterterrorism operation targeting one of the operatives that he is associated with while here in the united states. is also important because it underlines just how serious our fight against terrorism is, and how vital it is for the fbi to maintain its unflagging vigilance against the threat. the evidence we've been able to develop from the killers devices shows that the pensacola attack was actually the brutal culmination of years of planning and preparation by a long time associate. the new evidence shows that it had radicalized not after training here at the united states, but at least as far back as 2015. and that he had been connecting and associating with a number of dangerous operatives ever since.

shows that he described a desire to learn about flying years ago around the same time he talked about attending the saudi air force academy in order to carry out what he called a special operation. and he then pressed his plans forward joining the air force and bring his plot here to america. thanks to a lot of hard work by our people, we now know that he continue to associate even while living in texas and in florida. and then in the months before the attack while he was here among us, he talked with them about his plans and tactics taking advantage of the information he acquired here to assess how many people he could try to kill. he was meticulous in his planning. he made pocket cam videos as he cased his classroom building.

he wrote a final bill purporting to explain himself and saved it in his phone. the exact same will that they released two months later when they initially claimed responsibility. he wasn't just coordinating with them about planning tactics, he was helping the organization make the most it could out of his murders. and he continued to confer with his associates right up until the end, the very night before he started shooting. now, we are still exploiting the evidence we've now obtained from the phones and continuing to run our investigation. now with the benefit of a lot more insight into the murderers mind and intentions, his relations, and his tactics, we have more to learn but we know enough now to see him for what he was, i determined terrorist who spent years preparing to

attack us. >> ed: you been listening to christopher wray, the fbi chief as well as the attorney general, outside of the terror group in the arabian peninsula. breaking the news they are, the shooter in pensacola, florida, who killed three u.s. sailors late last year had direct ties to al qaeda number one, and while apple did not initially help the president who had asked apple directly as well as the justice department to unlock that terrorist iphone through relentless work we are told by the attorney general, the fbi has now unlock that phone and has gotten critical information to show these terror ties. i want to bring back from "the new york post," it was fascinating because we were talking on the way in about the uglier side of the fbi and the questions about their handling of the michael flynn matter, which is obviously a source of great tension right now between that man and his boss of the

attorney general. this would be an example of the frontline men and women of the fbi doing their job, going after terrorists, the good side of law enforcement that we need to highlight. >> yes, that shows exactly why we need the fbi and intelligence agencies and how vital they are to protecting americans. but also how reprehensible it was that under the obama administration that the same intelligence agents actually weaponized that intelligence to sabotage the incoming trump administration. the fbi and all those agencies are back to doing business which as we see today to protect american lives. >> ed: in contrast that you will be out there, provides interesting subtext of the comment from christopher wray at the top where he thing to the attorney general profusely and said i want to thank william barr not just for what he did in this case but his

overall support of the fbi. that support has been tested because of the alleged wrongdoing in the obama administration. >> i thought that was a very interesting introduction from christopher wray because as we know, the president just recently tweeted that the jury is still out on christopher wray. there are a lot of people calling on him to get rid of the fbi director even though he was brought in, but william barr the attorney general has pledged to support from christopher wray. so that will mean a lot. >> a sharp question about whether christopher wray is cleaning all this up as you suggest, and i suspect the prosecutor john durham may have something to say about all of that in the coming days. thank you for rolling with the breaking news. >> sandra: very interesting development there. we will continue to monitor

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>> sandra: fox news alert on progress on the covid 19 vaccine in front of as it reports very positive results for an early human trial which did show that people given its potential vaccine generated antibodies to the virus. joining us now is alex azar, health and human services secretary. he read through the details that madeira has released, its stock is skyrocketing 17% today. markets are up in anticipation of this as well. how confident are you that this could be the game changer that could lead us to have vaccine by end of year? >> president trump's leading operation warp speed which is going to put bets on several vaccines. this one was actually invented here at nih and within eight weeks, we have brought that the

clinical trials, really has to work as you said, some very promising data showing the vaccine provokes what are called neutralizing antibodies that attack the virus created so just really important advance and we are going to be putting other big bets on other vaccines so we are not going into battle with just one shot. >> ed: talk about next steps there and a multipronged approach here because while you've got operation warp speed on the vaccines, you also have states reopening pieces of their economy, our own pete hegseth has been at a gym to give you one quick admit example and initially they were standing outside and were going to shut this gym down and now reporting that they went inside, saw people were social distancing, and despite the governor's lockdown orders, they're going to let this gym move forward. talk about what you are seeing in terms of balancing reopening the economy and making sure people are safe. >> i'm glad you asked about that because so often, we are describing this as a conflict between health versus the economy. i see this as health versus

health. they were a very serious health consequences from being locked down for extended periods. we've seen reductions in cardiovascular procedures, we have seen increases in suicide risk, we have seen reductions in cancer screenings and pediatric vaccinations. these are real and significant health consequences, we have to balance that against the health benefit of stay at home, and we believe things to the president's historic response that we can get back to work and back to school with appropriate mitigating steps to resume our lives and resume the great and important work of our economy. >> sandra: what evidence have you seen so far that the reopening of some areas of our country is going well as you have previously said? is it too early to tell or is there conclusive evidence that things are looking up? >> it's the right question. i would say it's still too early to tell in terms of data, so we have states like texas and georgia which are reopening,

florida which did not do severe of a lockdown where the data trends seem to be good with the exception of certain concentrated outbreaks like meat packing facilities, but it is still too early to tell. i think it's one of the brilliant parts of the president strategy here of respecting federalism. you have the diversity of approaches and states, and that will really be a laboratory for us to see what works and what doesn't work. will be very important, but we will be cautious and appropriate that we have to work to get this country back to work. >> ed: there were other parts or maybe the federal government has to step in for example where we see this syndrome in children particularly in new york but other parts of the country, there was one ninth graders saying that it felt like someone injected straight up fire into their body, and doctors a at ths hour at trying to figure out if it's related to covid, what's happening. what does the federal government know about this syndrome and what are you doing to make sure kids are safe? >> it is fortunately a very rare

syndrome, comparable to what we call kawasaki syndrome. it's an inflammatory response essentially your body is getting provoked by this foreign body, the virus that's in it and our immune system creates this inflammatory response, and this is a rare outbreak, but we are working across the world with our colleagues and other health ministries to gather data on this to study to see what do we know, what are the best treatments for this, and how do we help these kids who get it? to matt considering that and dr. fauci's words about how we have to be so careful with how this virus behaves in particular how it behaves in children still, we don't know a lot, how hopeful are you that kids will be able to go back to school in the fall? >> we will have to see how the disease progresses over the summer, but i'm quite hopeful. i think we need to get back to school. there were ways that we can bring back our economy and bring back our lives and smart

sensible ways. take schools for the examples that you raised. and maybe minimize auditoriums and big gatherings at schools, and maybe we arrange our seating in classrooms appropriately. but there are steps that we can take that are short of locking ourselves in our homes that allow us to function and get back closer to normal as we progress even as under the president's direction with operation warp speed, we bring therapies to market, we bring back themes to market and we have the world's best testing system now in place. >> ed: you spoke virtually to the world health assembly, the world health organization at the center of that and said today, one member tried to conceal this outbreak. i think everyone pretty much knows you are pointing the finger at china. please expand upon that and let us know, the president has cut off funding the world health organization in part because they helped china cover all of this up at the beginning. as the president going to cut

off funding or not? >> i am not going to get ahead of the president making an announcement but at the president's request that i delivered a stern warning and message to the world health organization today, which is they are in need of significant structural reform. they've got to be held accountable. there needs to be an independent investigation of them, but their conduct towards china here and trying his conduct has got to be on the table. china concealed information about human to human transmission, they did not reveal the asymptomatic transmission of this disease, and for a month and a half while i personally fought to get cdc in world health organization people into china to learn this kind of evidence, they resisted for an entire month and a half, precious time was lost when the community could have been learning and concealed viable isolates and other evidence that we needed to be able to treat people and prevent the spread of this disease, and they shut their own city down while having people continue to fly around

the world seating the rest of the world with the virus. in >> sandra: finally, when it comes to finger-pointing, obviously, we are looking at china and what happened there but here at home, the president's own economic advisor has gone on the record pointing fingers at the cdc for early on when he referred to as bad testing. he said it set us back. how do you respond to that this morning? >> the comments regarding the cdc are inaccurate and inappropriate. the cdc had one error which was in scaling up the manufacturing of the tests that they had developed. there was a contamination that didn't affect the accuracy of the test, just lead to inconclusive results, they fixed that within weeks and got it out. that was never going to be the backbone of testing, that is through public health testing. what we need is the private sector to develop the test, get them in the market, get those

high input tests where he is delivering over 10 million test, 12.9 million will be done in just the next several weeks, that is the private sector bringing us to bear, that is not the cdc that is leveraging this whole government approach that the president has marshaled he here. >> ed: secretary of health and human services, we appreciate you coming on today. >> sandra: thank you. >> ed: in the meantime, the federal defense team claiming the judges out of line, our judge on the constitutional questions involved. >> unmasking is just a form of spying. 39 members of the obama administration spied on the general. and what is congress going to do about it? so far, nothing.

>> sandra: new york governor andrew cuomo holding his daily press conference ahead of the memorial day weekend. let's dip in and listen. >> i was thinking about our trip to cuba in your great accomplishment and it was productive. and it is always a pleasure to be with my friends, my partners, the great mayor of the city of buffalo, byron brown and the great county executive, thank you for everything you've been doing to get us through this. i am pleased to report that i took a covid test yesterday, and i am negative from that test, so

that is good news. it's very easy, and show people how easy it was yesterday, and when you find out you are negative, it's actually a nice sense of relief. i didn't have any symptoms or anything, but you can have the covid virus, so you think it is peace of mind, there is no reason why people shouldn't be getting testing. we actually have the now more testing capacity than we are using in many of our sites. and we have expanded the number of people who are eligible for testing. anyone who has any symptom for a covid virus, any symptom includes basically the symptoms he would have if you had the

flu, same symptoms if you have any symptoms, get a test. it protects you, protects your family, your text your colleagues come as get a test. you were exposed to a person who will you find out is positive, get a test. takes 30 seconds, we have 700 locations across the state. so there is no reason why you shouldn't, you go right to the web, shows you right where the location is, you can sign up and go. let's give you some facts on today. number of hospitalizations are down, so that's good news, not down a lot, but down. i will take it. net changes down, net change in intimations is down, the number of new cases per day is down by 1. not great, but i will take it, going in the right direction, so that is good news.

the number that breaks my heart every day, the number of deaths is still painfully high, 106, but it is down. and in this world where we are looking for good news on a daily basis, that is good news. although in our thoughts and prayers, 106 families today and if you look at where we are, we have done a phenomenal job in reducing the spike, reducing what could have been cataclysmic. you see that incline on that curve. no one could tell you when we were in the midst of that incline where it would stop or if it would stop. in there was no global expert who said if you do this, if you cope close this, then we can tell you with certainty it will the spread of the virus, nobody said that.

in all they could say was do your best, try to close everything down, and then hope for the best. and new yorkers responded among the highest number of cases in the country, new yorkers responded with great unity and great discipline, and that's why that curve turned. we hit the apex, and we are on the way down. you also see how slow the way down is. that's why all the experts always say be careful of the spike because it is a long time coming down from the spike. you want to avoid the spike because you can't reverse it in a matter of days. takes a long time to get those numbers back down. and this is with everything we did and with all the loss and pain we suffered, this is how long it took to get those numbers down. we now have a top priority mail which we have from day one which is our nursing homes.

we were introduced to this virus in seattle, washington, where it attacked the nursing home. the most vulnerable in the congregate facility. that's how we were introduced to this virus and i'm afraid that's where we are going to leave this virus. so protecting our nursing homes and seniors has been the top priority. last week, we put in place a requirement to test all staff at a nursing home twice per week. why? number one, it keeps the staff safe. number two, if you see an increase in the positive among the staff people, it is an alert that you probably have a real problem in that nursing home. because chances are, the staff are getting it from the nursing home or giving it to people in the nursing home, so if you watch what happens with the staff, it's a canary in the coal

mine for what's happening in the nursing home. and third, it clearly keeps the residents of the nursing home safe. now, to help nursing homes do this, we have worked with all the private labs, identified a number of tests that we can send just for the purpose of testing people in nursing homes, about 35,000 per day, we are sending 320,000 test kits to the nursing homes today to help them do this. with everything we are doing, i know the nursing homes operators are not happy about this, it is very hard to administer, the staff all have to be tested twice a week. we have set up lab capacity and it is still operational issue. i understand that.

i hear that quite often from the nursing homes. with the staff be tested twice a week, i understand that. i understand we have the most aggressive standard in the nation. but i also know that it is necessary, and from day one, we said this was going to be hard. we drew bad cards and then his hand. did have the highest number of cases, not because we did anything wrong but because the virus fooled everyone, and we were closing down in china than had already left china and gone to europe and by the time we closed the rep, 3 million europeans had come from europe and landed in new york airports. and that was happening and we

didn't know china was already gone by the time they closed china. had left europe by the time we closed the rep. that's why they come here. they land, and jfk, they landed new work, people take connecting flights, they're coming here. so we said we were going to do what we have to do to protect the lives of new yorkers. who is in the nursing home. this is your mother, this is your father, your sister, your brother, this is our family, that's who we are. and they are senior family members. nothing but gratitude and respect. and the one thing that we need to be able to say at the end of

this is we did everything we could. we did everything we could. 106 people died. how do you live with that? how do you sleep with that? we did everything we could. we still can't save every life. trying to save every life. and that is why am comfortable with what we are doing on nursing homes. i know it's hard, and i thank them. to be opening overall, we are reopening regions that have hit the data points, hit the metrics, western new york has one metric that they have to hit which is the number of tracers. they need 521 tracers, they have identified 525, great piece of work that they did over the weekend. i want to thank the mayor and the county executive, all the regional officials who found people to serve as tracers.

they are going to be trained tomorrow, and that means all the metrics will be hit, and western new york will open tomorrow, so that's exciting. and it's been a long, painful period. but we start to reopen tomorrow. new york state department is also granting a waiver to restart elective, we want to make sure hospitals are in a position to provide care for people who need it. so this is a good step. also have been encouraging major sports teams to plan reopening this without fans, but the games could be televised, new york state will help those major sports franchises to do just that. hockey, basketball, baseball, football, whoever can reopen,

ready, willing, and able partner. personal disclosure, i want to watch the buffalo bills, but i am still objective, acting as governor, no personal agenda here. yes, i do want to watch the bills, but that is not subverting my role as governor, i think this is in the best interest of all the people and in the best interest of the state of new york even though i do have a personal agenda because i want to watch the bills, but they are separate agendas. at least, someone would say i have a conflict of interest, and want to disclose judges and staff will be returning to courthouses in the state counties that are open this week. what will reopening mean? that's a big topic of discussion now. what is reopening mean? this is not a subject that is a political subject for where

political opinions really matter. i don't care. this is not a political exercise that we are going through. i don't even care about your personal opinion. i don't think you should care about my personal opinion because it's not about a personal opinion. it's not about an ideological opinion. it's not about a geographic opinion. it's not even an opinion that's relevant. this is about facts and science and data. these decisions are being made as a matter of math grade it is numbers, it is math. that's all it is at the end of the day. you start to increase economic activity, you have more people coming out of their homes, more people contacting other people, and then you measure the impact of that increase with numbers.

not with opinions, not with politics, not with partisanship, with numbers. and then you just measure the impact. you make sure that you don't go above 70% of your hospital beds so that if a large number of people get infected, you have the hospital beds to take care of them. you make sure you don't go over 70% of your icu bed capacity, when these people are infected, they do need icu beds, we learned that the hard way. we have testing up and running of 30 test per 1,000 residents, where did that come from? that is the white house coronavirus task force, dr. birx. you have 30 tracers ready for every 100,000 residents. that comes from the experts, and then you watch the infection rate, and you make sure that you don't get near 1.1 on the

infection rate. is math. and there is liberation in that. in the time of such division and politics and elections and all of this garbage, this is an exercise in science and math. and it is data that we can all share and we can all participate in. i encourage people to go look at the data and look at what's happening in your region because that is how we are going to get through this. we are going to bring in advisors to the state advisors who are international experts, global experts who have dealt with these kinds of diseases, not just the state of new york issue or an american issue, it's a global issue. and i want to make sure we have people reviewing the reviewers

and as many of people's experts that we can get are the best path forward. in is a nationwide expert in this field, and he has agreed to review our data, what we're doing, what's happening, and to advise us as to how our progress looks on the numbers. i want to thank him very much. we also have the doctor at the imperial college who has agreed to serve as an advisor to the state of new york. he is the senior lecturer in geostatistics at the imperial college in london. >> sandra: you been listening to newark governor andrew cuomo delivering his daily press conference from buffalo, new york, this morning giving an update on the progress against covid-19 saying the number of hospitalizations has gone down, new cases have gone down, deaths

have gone down overnight calling all of that good news in new york state, talking about protecting the nursing homes in new york being a top priority, explaining his division to test workers at nursing homes twice a week on the reopening, he says that he is encouraging major sports teams to plan a reopening without fans. he went into further detail and went on to say this is not about politics, this is about math. we are going to continue monitoring that for news and bringing that to you as we get it. >> ed: fox senior judicial analyst of course and the host of liberty file on fox news, good morning. you've been listening along with all of us and our viewers as the governor briefs this nursing room home issue that sandra mentioned his red-hot in this state but in a lot of states around the country right now, got some early applause for how

he was handling and as is has played out, this has become a bigger and bigger issue. >> it's become a bigger and bigger issue because rather than decisions to admit six people to nursing homes being made by nursing home owners and physicians and families of the patients, it was made by politicians, so even though governor cuomo is probably the best of the governors that explaining and sounding warm and fuzzy and rational, nevertheless, he made some catastrophic decisions by ordering nursing homes to take sick people which of course infected others who were there who hadn't been sick, many of whom have died. that is a black mark on the otherwise stellar use of his bully pulpit that he is going to have to answer for whether he seek higher office or reelection or just as the pandemic passes and normalcy returns. in >> ed: this is one of many governors dealing with this

battle that's been brewing and is no front and center about reopening states, reopening local communities in new york for example, you have the governor trying to forge a path forward in getting things reopened sensibly, you have a merry new york city talking about cracking down on people who were out and about new york city yesterday, how is all of this playing out as we see protests billed in various states around the country? >> and full confession, my heart is with the resistors on the protesters because the behavior has been far too heavy handed, not authorized by state law and in violation of the bill of rights. nevertheless, the relationship, the legal relationship between the mayor of new york and the government of new york is a unique one. the governor of new york can suspend any city official including a mayor who was

failing to comply with new york state law as the new york state governor interprets it. stated differently, if andrew cuomo says yankee stadium and broadway are open, bill de blasio cannot interfere with that, and if he does so, he can end up being former mayor bill de blasio. >> ed: that would be something that would raise a lot of eyebrows and get a lot of reaction. let's turn to something else that is a big issue and just breaking from the attorney general of the united states. first, we've got breaking news saying the pensacola shooting, three american sailors who were killed in cold blood late last year had ties to al qaeda, the fbi now gotten in those phones and gone to the bottom of that. but then when the attorney general opened it to questions, we are learning from our justice department producer he was pressed about where john durham is going with possible

prosecutions in terms of the russian probe specifically saying the doors open and all kinds of things, but the attorney general does not expect criminal investigations of former president obama or former vice president joe biden. your thoughts on that? >> i think underlying that question was an issue which came about last week when the acting director of national intelligence ric grenell release the names of those who did the unmasking of general plan. someone either on that list or not on that list passed classified materials to "the washington post," which exposed the fbi interrogation of general flynn, his statement to the russian ambassador, et cetera. it was an active espionage. and so another way for the attorney general to have said what he said today was whoever committed the act of espionage

wasn't former president obama, and it wasn't former vice president biden, but we are going to find out who it was. >> ed: the attorney general serves at the pleasure of a president who has been tweeting obama gate number one and has said that he wants to see former president obama as a witness in this investigation at least on capitol hill to which republicans like lindsey graham said no. >> not going to happen. i think those tweets by the president are politically and motivated, but not legally animated in spite of what the attorney general said today. >> ed: beyond the former president and the former vice president, there is obviously the likely democratic nominee for president. they were still the remnants of exactly who will lead to the names as you suggested, after general flynn was unmasked in those intel reports, who actually leave the name to "the washington post" which as you suggested would be a criminal offense, and then how the broader russia probe was conducted. the conduct of james comey,

john brennan, and others. while the attorney general is saying he doesn't expect them to be part of that investigation, what should we expect from john durham? >> the motion made by the justice department to dismiss the indictment of general flynn is extraordinary because it does something that the department of justice never does, which is to admit wrongdoing. and is not just an academic admission. says there was no good faith basis to prosecute general flynn. so if there was no good faith basis to prosecute him, that means the prosecutors violated his civil rights and as a criminal violation, meaning they and jim comey and whoever was involved in this could be indicted for violating civil rights, and the doj could be on the hook for general flynn's legal bills. only 6.7 million for general flynn, so that admission alone

has extraordinary potential legal consequences. add to that that u.s. attorney durham may very well have unearthed other criminal wrongdoing, which is the political use of intelligence data for lying under oath. >> ed: big issues ahead, also to quote ray donovan from the reagan administration who was cleared. >> where do i go to get my reputation back? >> ed: you've got a wonderful memory, thank you. >> it comes with age. >> sandra: it does indeed. hello, judge. powerful storms across northeast texas spinning up a waterspout and several reported tornadoes. we will have details on that coming up.

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>> sandra: incredible new video from northeast texas showing a waterspout spiraling over a lake. unbelievable, the images here, a severe storms swept across the state over the weekend. multiple tornadoes in texas and louisiana paid what a sight, ed. >> ed: wow become a truly incredible. we've been talking about "america cheers together," great to see nascar back on fox's week. on wednesday, they will race again. here's the best part, i found

out that i finally played a golf course that bill hemmer has never been on. he'd never been a seminal periods be eight oh! that's hard to do! [laughs] >> ed: it's hard to beat hemmer at something. >> sandra: oh, hemmer. shout out to hemmer. great to be with you, ed. "outnumbered" starts right now. >> melissa: fox news alert, high-stakes legal showdown over coronavirus state home orders with a growing number of lawsuits over lockdowns nationwide, as 14 states lift or ease some restrictions today. california alone now facing at least a dozen lawsuits, including claims the state crossed the line and shutting down gun shops and religious services. and, is infringing on free speech. governor gavin newsom says it's a legal fight stretching far beyond his own state. >> all across the country, every single day,