>> it is thursday may 21st. hours from now donald trump will take the fight against covid-19 and michigan in the midst of an ongoing feud with its democrat governor is florida after public and governor blasts the media for pushing partisanship over success stories. >> wait two weeks, florida is going to be next, we are eight weeks away from that and it hasn't happened. >> we are live with that and the push for blue state business owners to say it is time to get back to work. the ukraine scandal is back and right now it is not looking good for joe biden. >> the investigation just

launched overseas as the senate takes a major step in its probe of hunter biden's job. >> the constitution of the united states against all enemies, foreign and domestic. >> reporter: two military graduation ceremonies like they had never been done before. >> the amazing salutes of the class of 2020. "fox and friends first" starts right now. you are watching "fox and friends first" on thursday morning. shannon: thanks for starting the day with us. we begin with this, the battle to reopen the us economy heating up as donald trump prepares to visit michigan today. rob: americans revolting against engine guidelines they say are preventing them from earning a living. shannon: todd pyro has the pandemic push back.

>> reporter: the stated purpose of the president's purpose in michigan is to to a ford plant that is manufacturing ventilators. he may visit flood ravaged parts of the state provided he does not interfere with emergency efforts but sure to come up is the president's threats withhold federal funding to the state over its plan to send applications to voters who vote by mail. he tweeted in part this was done illegally and without authorization by a rogue secretary of state. more states, mississippi, ohio and west virginia ease more restrictions today, governors in new york, new jersey and connecticut dealing with increasing anger over the lockdown orders. new jersey state police saying the owners of the famous a to list jim for the third time for violating an executive order and

public nuisance as andrew cuomo reacts to the president calling out the tri-state for its high number of infections. >> the recent new york and new jersey got hit with nothing about new york and new jersey. by the time we closed the door on sign of the virus and left china and was already in europe. we have 3 million europeans landed at jfk in new york airports in new york and new jersey, that is where the virus came from. >> reporter: perhaps the soundbite of the day came from florida governor ron desantis who lit up the media for his coverage of the handling of the virus. >> a lot of people in your profession who whacks politically for weeks and weeks about how florida was going to be just like new york not only to have a lower death rate but lower death generally, we have lower death rate, we succeeded and i think people just don't want to recognize it because the challenges their narrative, it challenges their assumption so they got to find a bogeyman.

>> one final note on the president's tour that forward plant, requires people to wear masks, no word on whether they bent that rule, he has not worn a mask in public. >> hundreds of doctors sending a letter to donald trump outlining the growing health risks of not reopening the country, the letter obtained by fox news reading in part the millions of casualties of continued shutdown will be hiding in plain sight, they will be called alcoholism, homelessness, suicide, heart attack, stroke or kidney failure. the doctor's letter comes in the growing protests over when and how coronavirus restrictions should be lifted. the president has not responded to that letter. >> reporter: for a second day the white house defending donald trump's use of hydroxy chloroquine in an effort to prevent juul, kaylee mcinerney

says the media is fear mongering when it is prescribed by doctors. >> hydroxy chloroquine is a drug that has been in use for 65 years for lupus, arthritis, malaria, it has a good profile, the fda has proof approved it probably will use, the president believes in right to try legislation. >> the president said he would stop taking the antimalarial drug when he finishes the preventative regimen in a day or two. robert wilkie says the da will continue to offer the medication to juul patients despite criticism, he joins us live in the next hour. rob: the senate approving a subpoena related to joe biden's son hunter's work in ukraine. >> reporter: griff jenkins live with reaction from the vice president's campaign and lawmakers. >> the homeland security committee led by chairman ron johnson voted on party lines offering the subpoena, the work

that hunter biden did for ukrainian national gas company burisma. democrats, the political stunt designed to help donald trump's reelection. >> there are literally matters of life and death waiting for our committee's attention, but instead this committee is doing the president's personal bidding. members of this committee, i urge you to vote against this political sideshow. >> reporter: this is part of wide-ranging investigations tied to the obama administration, this was for blue star strategies with ties to wuhan -- burisma holdings, on the board until 2019, johnson was surprised democrats don't want to know more. >> democrats are objecting, maybe they are protesting too much, raising my suspicion level what is to be found out in these

documents. >> reporter: a spokesman for biden's campaign accused johnson of running a political errand, wasting time and attempting to resurrect a previously debunked smear against joe biden. this as ukrainian president zelinski called the press conference for an investigation of leaks audiotapes depicting vice president biden telling zelinski's predecessor he would receive usaid once a top prosecutor was fired suggesting a quid pro quo. the recordings were released by member of ukraine's parliament and appeared to be edited, vice president's campaign responded to the washington post say they heavily edited this. fox news is not confirmed the authenticity of these recordings. as for that subpoena, blue star strategies and a letter to the homeland security committee saying don't cooperate. >> thank you.

>> now to a fox news alert, three people are hurt, one critically after a gunman opened fire at an arizona shopping center. >> helicopters in the air. >> glendale police swarming the complex in just minutes. the gunman is in custody, police say they are aware of social media videos showing them opening fire inside. no word on a motive. >> reporter: georgia lawmakers calling on the department of justice to assist in the murder investigation of amaud arbery. all 14 members of congress writing a letter to william barr saying across our state our constituents are increasingly alarmed about additional details about the case's handling for these reasons. we believe a full investigation with robust federal support is warranted. travis and gregory mcmichael are charged with murdering amaud arbery when he was reported be on a jog. they thought he was a burglar.

shannon: the home of a missing mother is being held by law enforcement was according to the daily mail investigators were seen searching and carrying out evidence bags in colorado. her husband reportedly not allowed to enter. surveillance last seen on mother's day after going for a bike ride in denver, her bicycle found abandoned nearby, there are 200 tips so far. >> the owner of the dam flooding homes in michigan, cited repeatedly for safety violations. records show the dam fails to meet licensing regulations ahead of this week's disaster, 10,000 people, look at the video, have been displaced by dramatic flooding. >> first it was covid-19 and then you get the floods and

where are the locusts? >> he put it perfectly. what a mess this is made amends this pandemic. the flooding is not expected to subside for several days. >> graduation day had a different look at the military academies. >> always where you will support and defend the constitution of the united states against all enemies foreign and domestic. rob: the coast guard academy took part in a virtual ceremony as they to the podium on campus, graduates online. the largest graduating class in history. shannon: what = that was. graduates opinion academy cheered as the blue angels performed a surprise flyover in annapolis, maryland. rob: looks like a movie. sailors are kept 6 feet apart

during the ceremony to maintain social distancing but that is pretty awesome. 10 minutes after the hour. house democrats denied supreme court blocking access to more documents from the mueller probe. this within a democrat impeachment push, will this bad news for them end it once and for all? >> james come shows how desperate democrats are, he joins us live next.

>> the supreme court unanimously blocking house democrats efforts to get bob miller's grand jury information released. shannon: the high court temporarily denying the documents from becoming public. >> james come super er joins us, thanks for coming on. what avenue do the democrats have now if they want to keep

pushing impeachment? >> i don't think they have any avenue. the most shocking thing to me when reading about nancy pelosi's reasoning for requesting that information was the fact she said they need it for impeachment, the democrats just can't let it go instead of calling congress back to take the business of the people and debate the important issues americans have right now nancy pelosi and her democrat colleagues are still focused on impeachment. shannon: this is what she said the house's long-standing right to obtain grand jury information pursuant to the house's impeachment power has now been upheld by the lower courts twice. these rulings are supported by decades of precedent and should be permitted to proceed. we wanted to read that statement. i'm curious how you feel this means as we are inching closer to 2020, we are couple months i

of this election. what does this mean timings otherwise? >> we are going through a pandemic, and economy that has been ravaged because of the forced shutdowns americans are trying to get the economy going again, get their lives back to normal nancy pelosi and the democrats are still focused on impeachment, democrats proved one thing during the regional impeachment inquiry and that is there was no collusion with russia, no wrongdoing with donald trump and ukraine. if anything with ukraine the wrongdoing was with hunter biden, the vice president's son and i'm glad the u.s. senate is starting to look into that because somebody needs to be held accountable. >> we will get to that in one second and talk more about hunter and burisma in just a second but for people that feel like impeachment is never going to end, mitch mcconnell, let's go ahead and listen. >> house democrats now claiming the impeachment that ended in

february is not really over, perpetual investigation, perpetual impeachment, house democrats would rather spend a fourth consecutive year trying to cram their politics into the legal system than actually given the country. >> this probe didn't help the democrats politically. a lot of people would help donald trump. why would they go back to this? it seems very politically damning. >> democrats do not have a plan for america. they don't have an agenda. their sole focus is to try to win the presidency back and they feel the only way to do that is impeachment. i don't know that mobilizes the liberal wing of the democrat party but i can tell you in the last two special elections the republicans won and won by double-digit margins even a suburban district in california so i believe the american people are sick and tired of democrats which went against the president, they want congress to

get back to work, they want nancy pelosi to emerge from her multimillion dollar mansions get back to work, we have problems in america congress needs to debate. jillian: vote along party lines issuing subpoena for blue star strategies, a firm with ties to the ukrainian gas company burisma holdings. let's take a listen to what chuck schumer and ron johnson said about this. >> to bow down to donald trump's wild conspiracy theories is overtaken just about every senate republican. >> democrats are objecting. maybe they are protesting too much. it raises my suspicion level. shannon: what is your opinion on this? >> of democrats are confident hunter biden and joe biden are innocent they should let the investigation proceed. i have a lot of questions.

people need to be held accountable. we covered a coup attempt in congress and that is what the democrats tried to do. they tried to impeach a duly elected president of the united states. they had no evidence, no basis, they have proven that and as republicans are trying to hold people accountable for this and get to the bottom of the genesis of the russian collusion investigation the one missing piece of the puzzle is what role did hunter biden have in relationships with ukraine and was joe biden trying to cover that up. this needs to be answered and i am glad the senate is proceeding with it. shannon: a lot of people are curious how hunter biden got all that money from the ukrainian gas company, none of that made any sense, thanks for your time. appreciate it. >> thanks for having me. jillian: it is 19 after they are, winning a fight to honor our heroes, a company getting a

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jillian: going the extra mile to honor american heroes. a group winning their fight to keep a memorial day tradition going after the coronavirus written to prevent them from putting american flags on veterans graves, the law enforcement motorcycle club was able to help fulfill the special mission. former police officer and veteran joins me with the story. thank you for your service.

so tell me what it has been like the last few weeks in the last few months to make sure you could carry on this tradition. >> the birx county veterans affairs because of the covid-19 happening everything has been in lockdown. the flagstone company that usually provide the flags to us to distribute to 50,000 veterans in birx county we had to do a little fight with them. our governor, a nonessential company because of everybody standing up for their rights, he realizes it is a big tradition and he released a waiver to the company in order for us to do that. at the time birx county veterans

affairs, volunteers, we have a group of veteran volunteers from world war ii, the vietnam war, desert storm, iraq war, volunteer with veterans affairs to do certain tasks. at which time the director kenny lebron called and asked if we could give the proper transport with the flags picking them up from the destination and over to veterans affairs. >> the picture you are looking at now, you gave it a motorcade, i'm curious what this means to you to be able to do this each year but especially this year when you have to fight to be able to do this. >> it takes a lot of red tape to get through but the county

commissioners and veterans affairs did an outstanding job in making this happen. when we got the call to do the escrow, the blue knights law enforcement, active-duty retired law enforcement and veterans and correction officers, the largest motorcycle club in the world, we have 22,000 members, 650 chapters worldwide. >> i'm curious emotionally what it means to you to be able to do this? >> from serving in iraq for two towards in 2017, 2008, being in for 28 years it is an honor, memorial day is just a day our soldiers sacrificed their lives to fight for our country. i was there.

i made it back and i was with an infantry company. it means very very much and deeply in my heart to honor them on this special day. >> means a lot to all of us and certainly your service, thank you for that. thank you for sharing that story with us, we appreciate it. >> fox news alert, new york's governor blaming donald trump for new york's nursing home crisis. >> the state followed donald trump's cdc guidance. the cdc guidance said a nursing home cannot discriminate against covid-19 patient. >> we are live with the shocking report about flaws in nursing home readiness from long before this pandemic ever began. also the doj sends a warning to gavin newsom, his stay-at-home orders may infringe on religious freedom.

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>> back with a fox news alert, calls ramping up for a federal investigation into the nursing home crisis that has occurred during this pandemic. >> blue states are putting a shocking number of deaths. new york's governor is blaming the president. >> calls are growing for a federal investigation into the massive number of deaths in nursing homes in a number of states like new york, new jersey, pennsylvania and michigan. the most intense heat is focused on andrew cuomo who shrugged off calls for the department of justice to open an investigation into the more than 5000 of them elderly patients in new york nursing homes. cuomo claimed when it came to nursing homes taking in covid-19

patients. he was following guidelines from the trump administration and the cdc. >> anyone who wants to ask why did they do that it is because the state followed donald trump's cdc guidance so they should ask donald trump. >> cries for an investigation continue to grow, the scrutiny revolves around march 20 fifth order requiring nursing homes to take on new patients infected with covid-19 and why the care facilities were prohibited from requiring hospitalized residents to be tested for the illness prior to admission readmission. governor cuomo blamed the white house a shocking new government accountability office report reveals infectious deficiencies in nursing homes were widespread prior to the outbreak. the report shows the 202013-201782% of nursing homes

infected had one or more deficiencies when it came to infection and prevention control. half were cited multiple years a row. in the meantime the governors of new jersey, pennsylvania and michigan under fire for the high number of deaths in nursing homes in their states was all these governors are asked to make changes the way elderly care facilities admit kim jong un for patients. in new york patients can no longer be admitted unless they test negative for the virus. rob: thank you so much. jillian: planned parenthood defend its use of ppp loans after republicans demand the abortion provider return the money meant for small businesses. a total of $80 million went to 37 planned parenthood affiliates for federal-aid they claim they qualified for. a planned parenthood official said, quote, this is a political

attack, nothing to do with planned parenthood healthcare organizations, eligibility for covid-19 relief efforts and everything to do with the trump administration using a public health crisis to advance a political agenda. tesla dropping his lawsuit against the california county over its planned shutdown. elon musk sued alameda county earlier this month over it stay-at-home orders. musk arguing they contradicted state policy. he threatened to move the headquarters to texas or nevada. the county leader approving tesla's safety plan allowing employees to return to work next week. rob: governor gavin is in telling believers in his stated could be weeks before they go back to church. >> we are within a few weeks of meaningful modifications as it relates to houses of worship, working in the faith-based community, congregants coming back into the pews, we are a few weeks away. rob: this as the department of

justice warns the governor against infringing on religious freedom and focusing on things like giving money to illegal immigrants and tent cities for the homeless. former chairman of the republican party, they will try to recall governor newsom. he joins me with more on that. what does it take to recall the governor. is it possible? >> it is possible that a growing thing. gavin newsom has been rolling through, last year we had a fire season ravaged fires, shutdowns in power which could start up again this year because they are preparing to turn the power off again. with regard to how newsom, in mid-march he said 56% of californians could get covid-19. that would be 20 million people. how many have actually had it? in the thousands, not the

millions. he has been careening with his comment in the church issue is important because for many weeks now, may 3, '01, over 3000 churches are going to be open in defiance of whatever newsom is saying he's going to do so he may say meaningful changes are coming but that is because the last time i was on with you i secretary little secret, they can't enforce the rules, that is about to happen as well. >> the doj has a letter to the governor taking issue with this and what is happening with the religious and software, there's no pandemic exception to the constitution and bill of rights. laws that do not treat religious activities equally with comparable nonreligious activities are subject to heightened scrutiny under the free exercise clause of the first amendment. what is it california is allowing people to do that would be comparable to going into a

church and being near people in that environment? >> out here, social media is filled with the line that costco, home depot and the like where they see many many people in close quarters. why can't churches social distance themselves, that is possible and that is where the rub is. he consistently said it is okay to have these lines and sell things like children's clothes but smaller stores can't. that is why the county, 442,000 people voted in defiance of him to go ahead and open without asking their permission first. some counties have, some aren't now and that is because gavin newsom is losing control of the control he wants over these people. shannon: you take issue with the action the governor has been

making, 3500 inmates have been released early from jail because of the outbreak, $75 million in relief funding for illegal immigrants and proposing to close two prisons to free up $400 million annually. what does that say to you about his priorities? >> absolutely. a couple days ago he talked about threatening to lay off first responders. within 24 hours he was signing up to give money to those here illegally. what is your priority? he has a rich tradition of threatening voters with taking away something unless they agree to higher taxes or some other form that he desires. here's a case where he is giving money away to people who are here illegally but say i am going to cut first responders. it is shameful actually and that is why this recall is coming.

>> if you live in california you are in phase 2, phase 3 apparently would open up the churches so maybe you are only a couple weeks away. we will see. always good to have you on, we will be right back.

>> good morning and welcome back, the world health organization reporting 106,000 new coronavirus cases worldwide.

>> this as massive datalink suggests there are even more cases in china than previously thought. >> break it all down for us. >> a datalink from the chinese military university indicates the country could have had more than 600,000 total cases of covid-19. fox news has been not been able to confirm this information first covered in foreign policy magazine. according to the report, 230 chinese cities were affected by the outbreak though the data does contain some inconsistencies. the new information outlined in this report is extremely specific providing gps coordinates of where confirmed cases took place across china, donald trump tweeted about the chinese overnight saying china is on a massive disinformation campaign because they are desperate to have sleepy joe biden when the presidential race

of they can continue to revive the united states rose did for decades until i came along, the president is correct that beijing is spreading misinformation about the outbreak but there is no evidence it is being done so to influence the presidential elections, the continued pressure on china for accountability comes as the world health organization reported 106,000 new global cases of covid-19 yesterday alone. the biggest 1-day increase since the start of the pandemic. countries around the world are starting to reopen for business, these numbers indicate this pandemic is not anywhere close to being finished, the total number of infected around the world's top 5 million people. jillian: thanks. >> not waiting anymore. one massachusetts gym owner defining state order and reopening early. >> we will begin opening our doors tomorrow starting at 7 am. with a big, small, studio, whatever you are start opening

your doors, we are all in this together. >> dave london, owner of crime fit and nutrition reopened his shop to members. he joins us with an update. thanks for joining us. what led to this decision? i understand you got a fine of $300 yesterday. how long are you going to be able to go if you keep incurring these daily fines? >> as long as i have 2. i have support from all my members. we started to go fund the page yesterday and raise 10,$000 in the first day. >> that is a lot of money. is there a high demand for people coming to the gym. some people think this is a place the disease can spread kind of quick. >> you would think that but yesterday and the day before all my regulars came back. >> let's look at the reopening

with restrictions in your state starting on may 2, '05, you can have lab and office spaces open, her salons, carwashes, retail, beaches and parks. what information have you been given on jim's? i know this has been a frustration for a lot of gym owners across the country. >> according to cdc guidelines they announced it in phase 3, museums which is something else. >> what do you think happened. you are exactly right, the cdc, surprised some people to see that as part of a phase i and it is getting shoved back by governors that have more authority over the state. what do you make of that? >> same thing with the golf course. this went right up in the same thing happened, completely overlooking the citizens rate actually is, not just that.

>> what are you doing to make sure your clients who do come and are staying safe while they are there? >> the same thing i was doing in the past prior to the shutdown, limiting members to come in so we separate on two floors, 25 people and limit them to one hour and trying to social distance as much as they can. >> and just cleaning everything up. what is your message to your governor? >> small businesses need to start getting back on their feet. this is gone on way too long. people are losing their businesses. rob: thank you for your time. keep us posted on how this goes. >> so much for they go low we go high. >> like a child that comes in with mud on their pants. he comes in with doggie do on his shoes.

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>> take me out to the drive in. yankee stadium could be transformed into an outdoor movie and concert venue with baseball on hold. the entertainment group wants to hold the event in a parking lot in the weekend. organizers hope to start this in july. the final details still being worked out with city officials rejected heaven. >> baseball could return in july if there's an agreement. we will see. the rain putting a damper on nascar at second race in four

days, the toyota 500 cut short with 20 months to go because of the weather. danny picks up the win and put on a smiling facemask. it wasn't all smiles. kyle busch's spinning out, chase elliott pushed for the lead. elliott flipping him off when he circled back around and apologized afterward. >> the:-)so we don't look so scary with our face covered. very warm and inviting. >> is warm and inviting as a mask can be. >> the war of words and capital escalating nancy pelosi doubling down on her rough rhetoric against donald trump. listen to this. >> you are asking me about the appropriateness of the actions of this president of the united states is like a child who comes in with mud on their pants, he comes in with doggie do on his shoes and everybody who works with him has that on their shoes.

>> carley shimkus with fox news headlines serious xm 115 here with the reaction. >> that mask may be warm and inviting but the story certainly isn't. the house speaker firing on all cylinders yesterday accusing the president of failing to tell the truth and suggesting here and anyone associated with him is soiled with, quote, doggie do. this after she expressed concern over the president taking hydroxy chloroquine because of his age and weight, referring to him as morbidly obese to which the president fired back calling her a sick woman. conservatives on social media slamming her ramped up rhetoric. when twitter user says so unprofessional. this is what passes for political discourse, the republic deserves better. pat tweets from a woman who is

speaker of the house of the united states, 30 line to the presidency and this twitter user chiming and saying ripping up the speech on camera in the midst of a toddler like tantrum, calling someone morbidly obese when it had no relevance to the conversation. nancy pelosi, ever the professional, always mature. racks among pelosi up supporters much different, considering the president is known to take some cheap shots of his own. >> the president's daughter gets out of law school, pretty good tweet. >> tiffany trump graduated from georgetown law school recently, the president congratulated her on twitter with this trump like tweet, congratulations to my daughter tiffany on graduated from georgetown law, great student, great school, just what i need, a lawyer in the family. unclear if he's being sarcastic or serious but a funny tweet nonetheless. another trump going places.

incredible family of what is, apologize and finally a president with a sense of humor, some positive tweets there. >> people at home might not know that rob loves to go to movies in the actual movie theater so i feel like you might be in the minority of this next study. >> i love going to the theater too but as the country opens up, looks like a lot of people are very hesitant to do just that. check out the numbers, 70% of respondents said they would be more likely to watch a movie at home then go to the theater to see it. i hope one of the owners of one of these big movie changes watching this because that is a pretty daunting statistic. we will see in the coming months how quickly theaters open up. >> getting bigger and better, scary time for them.

>>, given the next hour of "fox and friends first" a judge will decide today whether the defiant barbara who inspired the operation haircut protest can keep his doors open. michigan's governor is the one who is out of order, he joined us live. >> donald trump defends his use of chloroquine, the if he is standing by its decision to give veterans the right to try, robert wilkie joins us live responding to the critics. stay tuned for that. take allegra-d... a non-drowsy antihistamine plus a powerful decongestant. so you can always say "yes" to putting your true colors on display. say "yes" to allegra-d.

>> thursday may 21st. in hours the president will take the fight against covid-19 to michigan in the midst of an ongoing feud with a democrat governor is florida's republican governor blasts the media for pushing partisanship over success stories. >> we two weeks, florida is going to be next just like it legal way two weeks, we are eight weeks from that and it hasn't happened so - >> live with that in the new push from blue state business owners who say it is time to get back to work plus the ukraine scandal is back and doesn't look good for joe biden. >> investigation is launched overseas as the senate takes a major step in their probe of hunter biden's job and all that money. >> universal studios just pulled ahead in the race to reopen america's most popular theme parks. >> "fox and fr