interesting. carley: i agree kind of cool. rob: carley, appreciate it. the president heading to michigan today going to tour that plant, ford motor company, i believe. jillian: absolutely. we will have it for you. "fox & friends" starts right now. have a good day, everyone. ♪ brian: all right. here we go. the battle to reopen the u.s. economy is heating up as president trump prepares to visit michigan today. he is expected to tour a ford plant, which has been manufacturing ventilators brilliantly as is g.m. and may also visit flood ravaged parts of the state. steve: that's right. is he headed to ypsilanti michigan. back to work for more americans. let's take a look. in the state of mississippi casinos are now permitted to reopen. now, let's go to ohio where outside dining is now allowed along with camping. plus, a major transition in the state of west virginia. officials easing restrictions on retail, indoor dining and even tanning salons if you feel like

you got to get tanned indoors rather than outdoors, ainsley. ainsley: well, steve, all of this as hundreds of doctors have joined the call -- these are doctors, keep in mind, to end the strin jengt stay-at-home orders. more than 600 sending a letter to president trump calling this lockdown a, quote, massive casualty incident. saying that americans are putting themselves at risk by missing routine appointments. isn't that interesting because we hear all these expert doctors say don't open too quickly. but then you have this other group that is saying look, if you look at the statistics it shows states that are reopening, many of them don't have as many cases now. they are doing better. and potentially you have got suicides that are up. have you got people are drinking during of the day now. they are worried about alcoholism killing people and worried about domestic violence as well, brian. brian: yeah. and, for example, there was a food line last week 3500 people lined up for food. they are out of money.

ainsley: yeah in new york. brian: out of job. new york city shut down for two months. among the people fed up with it the editors of "the new york post." take a look at this headline and tell me if this doesn't reflect how you feel if you are in new york or around the country here it is. written by the op-ed is written by dave marcus and that's what everything is built on and essentially says it is time. it needs to end now. it is time to open up this city. he goes on to say and here's the quote. the big apple is i doing you. its streets are empty. the bars and jazz clubs and restaurants and coffee houses sit barren. the sweat equity of countless small business owners evaporating. instead of getting people back to work providing for their families. a mayor talks about fancy land new deal for a post coronavirus era. he goes on to talk about punitive consequences if you are caught swimming or walking on a beach. and let's add something else to that they said we have to shut

down for the last two months ago all of new york city because the hospital is going to be overrun. they bit the javits center. we didn't need it. they sent a ship we didn't use it. they told us to bend the curve. it is bent. ainsley: look at the ventilators. brian: yeah. the ventilators that's a great point, ainsley. we had to have them. it's an emergency. way overestimated. we have so many. we are sending them around the world. it is time to open up this gos town which was one of the most bustling cities, if not the in the world. there is a mass casualty situation. the restaurants who are hamstrung by high minimum wage, skyrocketing rents have now had no business for two months and are told when they reopen they got 25% capacity. and you actually want a sole vented city? no, what you have a 6-foot 6-inch mayor with his hand out saying i need a trillion dollars. we don't have it. steve: well, you know what, brian, the american people were asked to make sacrifices.

and we did. and we flattened the curve. and now the american people are asking to reopen and reopen smartly. as david marcus from the federalist continued in that op-ed in the "new york post," he said and this is the important thing. physical elected leaders won't save new york, the people must do it themselves. barbers, nail salons, sporting goods, movies, open. and social distance. we know how to do that and dare the state to shut them down. that is essentially what we saw earlier in the week when we were detailing live right here on "fox & friends" the opening of that fitness center down in new jersey because even though the state was still locked down. said going to do it. meanwhile, over on another network, a reporter tweeted out last night a couple of graphs from j.p. morgan that he had been receiving. and what they found is that the infection rates declined not

increased in states where the lockdowns have ended. think about that. infection rates wept down not up in states where the lockdowns have ended. and it goes on and tweets these lockdowns were justified initially but millions of lives are being destroyed with little consideration that lockdowns might not only cause economic devastation but potentially more deaths than covid-19 itself. so, what we're hearing is, you know, they could have started -- obviously, the government started with the best intentions to try to flatten the curve and keep as many people alive. now we know it what works is social distancing and people, ainsley, who are at risk should be isolated. and then go forward businesses should try to open. smartly. and let's see where we go from here because right now the lockdowns are not working and as they say on the front page of the "new york post," end the lockdown now. ainsley: yeah. you know when you see a headline like that in new york city it's

pretty bad. people are desperate. because it's a democratic city. and many people do support that party. and so when you see them saying we are hurting, open up, you realize it's not a political thing. people just want to stay alive. they want to feed their families. you are right, brian, that church, i think it was in queens. a catholic church giving out free food there were 3500 people in that line for free food even before it opened. there are lines here at food banks out here on long island. shelter rock church involved in this. and the lines are wrapped around through the neighborhood. and the volunteers i have some friends that have started that and they said they can't get enough food. they run out of food by the time the last car comes through. so and they are giving what they have but not nearly as much they were giving the first people. we have done our part. give us a chance america is screaming. we are going to do it. we can do it safely and do it smartly. we can social distance. we can wear our mask.

we don't want it to hurt more than it's helping at this point, brian. brian: so many of these casualties are nursing homes and it's tragic because of bad policies but you don't drop a nuclear bomb on a country on itself and then just leave it down there and let the carnage continue and don't tell us when it's over. texas, south carolina, florida, and georgia gave us clues, take the success clues. meanwhile, a senate committee is now approving a subpoena related to hunter biden's work in the ukraine. the probe of former vice president's son drawing heavy criticism from democrats. ,. steve: meanwhile griff jenkins is live in washington as responded to the subpoena. griff: they have. the senate homeland security committee voting straight down party lines authorized the subpoena for blue star strategies that's a firm with ties to ba his that holdings a

ukrainian natural gas company where hunter biden was meaivel the board until 2019. democrats on that committee calling this a political stunt. >> 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 side show. griff: the chairman of that committee ron johnson was surprised democrats don't want to know more. >> the democrats are objecting. i think maybe they are protesting too much. it actually raises my suspicion level. what is to be found out in these documents? griff: a spokesman for biden's campaign accused johnson of running a political errand wasting time and attempting to resurrect a craven previously debunked smear against vice president biden. calling for an investigation of

leaked audio taping between then vice president biden and zalinsky's predecessor president poor chen co-afte poor ching cos fired. responded to the "the washington post" who reported on this saying they heavily edited this and it's still a nothing-burger that landed with a thuvmentd biden has previously acknowledged a role in ousting that prosecutor. and fox news has not confirmed the authenticity of these recordings. as for that subpoena. blue star strategies sent a letter late yesterday to the committee saying they intend to fully cooperate. brian, ainsley, steve? ainsley: all right. good deal. thank you so much, griff. let's bring in gregg jarrett fox news legal analyst. hey, gregg. >> hey, anxiously, good to see you. ainsley: good to see you too. joe biden said to a local wisconsin station he said this is just the grate diversion. what's he doing to help the state of wisconsin? what's he doing to deal with the

fact that small businesses are shuttering? what's he doing with the businesses this is classic trump play is is divert, divert, divert. if you ask these guys they are saying we want to review if there is a potential conflict of interest here. what do you say? >> sounds like joe biden is trying to divert. look, this is a legitimate investigation into whether there was influence peddling by burisma, blue star strategy hunter biden by leveraging the influence of joe biden we have already heard him on videotape how he threatened to hold billions of dollars of u.s. aid to ukraine unless a pick ukrainian prosecutor was indicted who signed an indictment investigated investigating hunter biden and burisma a classic case of suspected influence peddling. it merits investigation.

brian: gregg, as we look at what by kennel is doing, when we talk about distraction, he is a legitimate candidate for president of the united states. he is going to get the nomination. we should know what kind of president he will be, why should we know what he was or was not involved in. it makes perfect sense. if you are on the oversight committee shouldn't you care about oversight. this is an open question still. i find it ironic a party had us distracted 6 month on ukraine and two and a half years on mueller report is suddenly focused on the issues of the day. >> i agree with you, brian. want to ask blue star strategies is did you guys on behalf of hunter biden and burisma go to the u.s. government to try to influence it to shut down an investigation into hunter biden's company which was paying him millions of dollars in exchange for essentially

nothing, next per tease in national guard. no expertise in ukraine. at the same time that joe biden was pressuring ukraine to increase their national guard production to the great benefit of burisma and hunter biden, joe biden's own son. these are legitimate questions. and it sounds to me like joe biden is the one who is guilty of deflection and diversion. steve: of course that case being tried right now in the court of public opinion. let's talk about a case that's actually in a real court, the michael flynn case still lingers in judge emmet sullivan's courtroom. you got an op-ed on foxnews.com where you say that he has got to stop ad-libbing, making up stuff, bringing in former prosecutors who do not like the president, do not like his administration and follow the law or get out of the picture, right? >> that's correct, steve.

you know, this judge, emmet sullivan has done two things that are contrary to established law. first of all, he is allowing third party pundits to come in and offer their opinion as to whether the motion to dismiss should be granted by the judge. and second of all, this judge is signaling that he is not going to approve the motion to dismiss. the law is well established. it's none of the judge's business to do so, to deny it would be a violation of the separation of the powers. you know, this is a judge, his role is a neutral arbiter. he wants to take off his robe, step off the bench and stand behind the prosecutor's table. that's the role of the executive branch, the department of justice. and the law says this: when prosecutors decide to drop a case, it is not subject to

judicial review. the judge's role in signing the approval is a ministerial act. if he doesn't like the decision to drop a case, to damn bad. it's none of his business. he cannot counter mandate it, the law says. so this writ of mandamus to a higher court icuit of appeals four years ago said judges cannot change a decision by prosecutors about the case. ainsley: yeah. i heard the a.g. of ohio yesterday on "fox & friends" say you don't have a judge on the bench, walk over to the prosecutor's table and sit next to him. thank you so much, greg. i appreciate you being here. we all do. >> okay. ainsley: let's hand it over to jillian who was anchoring when i saw you interview dave yost yesterday. jillian: good morning. let's start with a fox news alert. three people hurt and one critically after a gunman opened fire at popular arizona shopping center.

>> police running, helicopters in the air. hiding in the back. jillian: glendale police storming the complex in just minutes. the gunman is in custody. police officers say they're aware of social media videos appearing to show the gunman opening fire inside. no word yet on a motive. also breaking overnight, a potential coronavirus vaccine could be available by october. the trump administration's operation warp speed accelerating the development for astrazeneca's vaccine. the pharmaceutical giant hopes to have 300 million doses ready for delivery this fall. president trump has said he expects a vaccine will be available by the end of the year. we will keep you updated. two flooding emergencies overnight. heavy rains causing waters to rise in roanoke virginia. rescuing people trapped in cars. this as we learned as a dam failed in michigan had repeated safety regulations. it did not mete licensing requirements for years ahead of

this week's disaster. severe flooding is placing more than 10,000 people. >> covid-19 and then we get the flood and next it's where are the locusts. jillian: flooding isn't expected to subside for several days. tempers flaring on the track on darlington. elliott flipping off bush after he circled back around. bush later apologized. the toyota 500 nascar second race in four days cut short because of rain. denny hamlin putting on a smiling face mask in pit row. there you see it. a look at your headlines. send it back to you. steve: i got to get one of those. brian: thanks, jillian. appreciate it. appreciate it. 16 minutes after the hour. scathing rebuke of the media from florida's governor ron desantis. and there is more of this next.

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♪ >> a lot of people in your profession who wax poetically for weeks and weeks about how florida was going to be just like new york. not only do we have a lower death rate we have way lower death rate. we have. we succeeded and i think people don't want to recognize it because it challenges their narrative. it challenges their assumption so they have got to try to find a boogie man. steve: florida governor ron desantis yesterday calling out the media over coverage of covid-19. here with reaction media reporter for the hill joe con

challenge. joe, good morning to you. >> good morning, steve, how are you? >> i'm doing okay. i'm doing better than ron desantis. is he a little hot under the collar and you can understand why. he was looking at the press corps who was around he and vice president pence yesterday look, you guys were all saying when i started to reopen florida wait two weeks. florida is going to be as bad as new york. wait two weeks. it's going to be as bad as italy. well, you know what? it's about two months and florida has figured out how to manage this pretty effectively. >> steve, florida along with georgia, along with texas, along with colorado should be seen as road maps on how to strike this delicate balance between health concerns and reopening the economy with 36 million people filing for unemployment just over the last six weeks. you remember, the atlantic just had a headline not too long ago about georgia saying that that state was conducting experiments in human sacrifice for opening early and, look, where they are

now. and the national outlets swarmed to jacksonville, you may recall, steve, when that mayor opened up that city's beaches, saying that oh my god look at all these people out here. this is obviously going to be a spike in cases. spike in deaths. do you know how many deaths jacksonville duval county has had since cases started being recorded in march? 36. that's all. that's a major city that has a pro-football team. has 36 deaths total in covid. overall, steve, florida's death toll is just about 2,000. that's 2,000 too many. i completely get that my wife is er doctor. she sees covid patients on a daily basis. i am very sensitive to this. i get it. florida 2,000. new york alone nearly 23,000. and, remember, florida, four major cities, miami, tampa, orlando. jacksonville, one tenth the deaths. how does ron desantis not get more positive coverage and education to the viewers as far as this is how we can get this

done. i have no idea except to say there is an r next to his name. steve: yeah. you know, a lot of the mainstream media based in new york and, you know, governor cuomo gets glowing coverage every day for how he is handling it. but you look at -- look at the number of nursing home mistakes that new york state has made. and then you look at florida, where early on they looked at the data and they said you know what? we have got to isolate the elderly. it has not been a big a problem there as it has been in new york. so, hats off to the professionals who are doing it right down there. dr. birx said that florida absolutely had the best data when it comes to the very states around the country. before we go, i know you wanted to call out not governor cuomo but governor cuomo's brother about hypocrisy and the president regarding wearing a mask. >> well, yeah. i wrote this on twitter yesterday. got some response. the bottom line is that chris

cuomo, cnn anchor broke his own quarantine while he admitted he was still suffering from a fever. he left one home in the hamptons to go visit another home while he was still infectious. and then he is on tv talking about how the president has to wear a mask. this is something that is complete hypocrisy and then he has his brother andrew cuomo as you said completely botched the whole nursing home response by sending covid positive patients back in there. that is a death sentence to everybody in those nursing homes. chris cuomo has andrew cuomo on his show on a nightly basis and doesn't ask him about the nursing home situation. you want to talk about state run tv that's it in a nutshell and something andrew cuomo you know what? we prize rhetoric far too much over results and andrew cuomo is exhibit a. i have to do a jane fonda tape cued up in the vvr i have to stay in shape.

steve: joe is my neighbor. is he about four blocks from where i'm sitting. thank you very much for joining us live. >> thanks for giving that away again, appreciate it. [laughter] >> steve: all right. it is 6:25 here in the east. small business owners are reopening across thought state of texas. how are they doing so far? tomi lahren just talked with some of them and she is going to join us next.

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zacarias zarqawi also slams usama bin laden calling him a useful idiot of the cia and saudi arabia. escaping a life sentence after narrowly escaping the death penalty at 2006 trial. ainsley? ainsley: thank you, brian. small business owners are opening across texas but many are struggling to get back on their feet. listen. >> we don't know when this is going to end because we had a thriving business that was never a problem for us to have an empty day. and this week we had empty days and it's scary. it really is scary. ainsley: tomi lahren sat down with small business owners this week down in texas to talk about how they have managed and what's to come. here with what she learned fox nation host tomi lahren. good morning, tomi. >> good morning. good to see you. ainsley: good morning good to see you. we interview all these restaurant owners and i salon owners every day now. sad stories. they are getting back to

business in texas, right? >> that's the thing. speaking with them they're very grateful to be in texas. texas really is a road map for the rest of the country. i'm hoping that other states, especially my former state of california will take note. they are doing it right. but it's still a struggle each and every day for these business owners. they are being bombarded by the media. they are being bombarded with they fear are class action lawsuits. it's going to be a rough road ahead. they are excited to face a challenge head on at least they can tackle the challenges now, especially in texas. ainsley: in some of that video i saw one of my favorite. you said you left california. you are living in texas now? >> no. i actually fled to nashville, tennessee. so, yes i fled california and i fled at the right time. and that's when i talk to these business owners, especially in texas and then one who has a national chain dick ca can dickd

they feel for their peers in california because their opportunity to make a will will living for themselves and their family has been completely taken away from them. they can't imagine how hard that must be for fellow restaurant gym salon owners. ainsley: i know we have a soundbite from salon owners about a class action lawsuit. listen to. this i was actually on the -- a call with president trump and vice president pence last friday. that was the number one topic that everybody was discussing was protecting business owners that are opening up against class action lawsuits because it's hard to prove where somebody got can a ronna. ainsley: what else did he say about that? >> well, i think that's a major fear because, again, we are already seeing commercials with lawyers saying oh, were you affected by covid-19 and join in a class action lawsuit so these business owners who are already struggling finally they can open up maybe at 25%, 50% capacity. now they have to worry about

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steve: that's cool. ainsley: wow. that is your shot of the morning. naval graduates fly over by the blue angels down in annapolis, steve. steve: that was perfect timing. the navy's squadron made three runs. a sky high salute to the strength and resilience demonstrated by the class of 2020. brian: i guess they flew with silencers graduates stayed 6 feet apart to maintain social distancing in the ceremony in annapolis, maryland. makes you wonder if they can do it why can't duke or hofstra or anyone else that graduates it beats me. bring in judge napolitano who graduated from a series of colleges and got his degrees and i'm sure top of his class and also hosts liberty file on fox nation. judge, this is -- everything happening throughout the country is everything that you are worried about. taking away our rights in times

of crisis and that is happening. >> yes. brian: especially when it comes to churches. and yesterday governor knew some got a rebuke and here is the letter from the doj to knew some. simply put there is no pandemic exception to the constitution and its bill of rights laws that do not treat religious activities equally comparable with nonreligious activities are heightened scrutiny under the free exercise clause of the first amendment. you say hallelujah, right? >> i do say hallelujah. i'm happy the federal government is stepping. in good morning, brian, ainsley and steve. steve: good morning. ainsley: good morning. >> governor newsom is permitting gatherings on a beach, for example if you stay 6 feet apart. in a high tech manufacturing facility in you stay 6 feet apart but not that church or synagogue or a mosque if you stay 6 feet apart. that's the federal government's argument that the state needs to be neutral with respect to

religion. it can't treat religious groups differently than it's treating nonreligious groups. that's one way to look at it. the other way to look at it is the constitution expressly guarantees your right to the free exercise of religion. so any interference by the state with the free exercise of religion violates the constitution. it's duty of the federal government to bring the states into line. steve: speaking of the government. you have a great op-ed at foxnews.com, judge, talking about what if the government halls it wrong and did you go through what if they did this and it was wrong? what if they did that and it was wrong? and at this point, because we have been following government guidance we hope they are right. but you say what if they are wrong. >> what if they have the medicine wrong? what if the masks that we're all wearing don't symptom covid-19? what if by staying home week

after week and now into our second month we are weakening our immunity rather than strengthening it. the purpose of the article is to prod the government and prod people into realizing enough is enough. what if we would be happier if we took care of ourselves rather than the government taking care of us? what if, to a barber or a sales clerk, a barbershop or a retail store is essential? what if the government has no business deciding what's essential and what isn't essential? what if we made those decisions ourselves? ainsley: what did you make of the "new york post" cover? i don't know if you saw it this morning but i will read it. the big apple is dying. its streets are empty. tens of thousands have been plunged into poverty. our leaders have no plans no, answers. leaders have already learned how to social distancing. businesses can adjust. elderly and infirm can be

isolated. and in bold letters it needs to end now. >> i cannot agree more with that it's time for all of us to come back to our normal society with concerns for the spread of the contagion. we can live social distancing and operate our businesses and go to restaurants and go to work and ride mass transit and liven up those streets again. but we have a mayor in new york that loves asserting power and controlling people even to the point of sending police to disrupt religious organizations in the middle of the ceremony this is not right and it's got to end. enough is enough. brian: judge. you are 100 percent right. and this mayor tells i'm going to shut down the beaches. put up fences which by the way don't work. walls and fences don't work we all know that and symptom you from going to the beach. if you want to go to the beach. go to long island's beaches as if the problem is the new york city sand. it is nuts what's going on here and why people are just

complying with it they are calling for people just to massively open up their businesses throughout the city. they can't stop everyone would you be against that. >> i would be 100% in favor of it and i think you are going to see it this weekend. everybody fears the people from new york city are going to go to long island or new jersey where the beaches will be open. i think they are going to go to the new york city beaches and i think you are going to see businesses start to open and i think you are going to see the police cheer them on when they do this. brian: absolutely. enough. thank you, judge. steve: you think some businesses are going to essentially dare the state to arrest them. to shut them down. >> the gym owner down the shore that we talked about two days ago, that very courageous guy ian smith is open and his customers are using that gym and the police are shrewing them as they walk in. brian: love it. ainsley: i thought about that. de blasio hasn't been supportive

of law enforcement. and many of them do not like him but, yet, he is asking them to go in and knox on the doors of these businesses or shut down houses of worship. they are in a tough spot. i love your op-ed. steve: i was going to add thank you judge, very much. we have got a fox news update and that is regarding the gym. atilis gym in bellmawr, new jersey, apparently has been officially shut down as of this thursday morning. they were open a couple of days and now we're going to have to get ahold of ian smith and get an update and we hope to have that within the next hour or. so all right. ainsley? ainsley: all right. let's hand it over to jillian. she has mor more headlines for . jillian: one of the reporters from philadelphia is tweeting about that. he is live on the scene outlines of the atilis gym this morning. we will definitely get more information for you on that. you may not need to wipe down

your groceries. the cdc quietly releasing new guidelines on the coronavirus. the agency updating its website writing in part, quote: the virus does not spread easily from touching surfaces or objects. the agency changing course from what they first said in early march. despite the new guidance. the cdc says it's important to take precautions to stop the spread. president trump says he will stop taking hydroxychloroquine when he finishes the preventative regiment in a day or two. this as the veterans secretary says the v.a. will continue to offer the medication to covid-19 patients despite criticism. robert wilkie joined rob and myself on "fox & friends first" earlier this morning defending the president's use of the antimalaria drug. >> hydroxychloroquine is the 128th most used drug in this country and we have seen it work in many settings across america. jillian: the media has been slamming the president for taking the drug claiming studies

prove ineffectiveness and potentially deadly side effects. saving america's national bird from becoming road kill. police come to the rescue when drivers spot an injured bald eagle wandering down a california highway. using gloves and a heavy blanket. a wildlife officer safely moved the 9-pound bird out of traffic and into a cage. the eagle was taken to a wildlife rescue facility where it is being treated. that's a look at your headlines. i will second it back to you. brian: all right. thanks, jillian. follow that have a reporter there or use your reporter friend to find out what's going on. think how much safer new jersey is thinking they don't have that gym open. what a relief. let's go to janice dean now who has the weather. hey, janice. janice: good morning. i just want to focus on two areas of concern today across the mid-atlantic where we have an area of low pressure that's not moving upwards of a foot of rain in some isolated spots. it doesn't take a tropical storm named storm to cause a lot of damage. and flooding and that's exactly

what we are seeing here across the mid-atlantic for another day or so into tomorrow, into friday. then we have the risk for severe weather across the plain states. and that means large hail, damaging winds, and isolated tornadoes will be possible. and, of course, we are also watching michigan still under flood alerts because of two dams breaking yesterday in central michigan. so a lot to cover in the weather. we will continue to do so. back to you steve, ainsley, and brian. steve: all right. j.d., thank you very much. all right. coming up, memorial day tributes getting a new look amid the coronavirus restrictions. we are going to talk to the usaa about how they are planning to move forward with the poppy wall of honor this year. and how you can honor those who have made the ultimate sacrifice. that's straight ahead on this "fox & friends." gut health confide nce every day. nce benefiber is a 100% natural prebiotic fiber.

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♪ brian: this memorial day usaa is honoring our incredible heroes with a tribute. 645,000 poppies in remembrance of the americans who lost their lives searching our country since world war i. this year the annual poppy wall of honor will be a virtual experience. here to tell us more is retired u.s. navy vice admiral and

senior vice president at usaa john bird retired in 2000 12. general, thank you so much for joining us. appreciate it. >> well, thank you, brian. great to be with you. good morning. brian: so it's time to call an audible. what have you guys done to make this possible in this age of the pandemic? >> thanks, brian. like so many people, we have gone virtual. and so we have set up a website where folks can visit poppy in memory.com and dedicate a poppy virtually. also learn more before the history of the poppy. and most importantly understand about the 645,000 americans who have given their lives since world war i for us and our freedoms. brian: when we do that there is an opportunity to donate as well, correct? >> i don't believe on that website, i know there is many others. on this website it's more about opportunities to, as we say, something that honor through action. dedicate a poppy, teach

children, share memories. and through snapchat you can dedicate that poppy. brian: admiral, talk about the -- the challenge of getting people -- the challenge usually is getting people who are doing their barbecues and launching summer to think about why we have a 3 day weekend. this year it's a different challenge. talk about the different challenge. >> brian, you are so right. i mean, memorial day is about remembering the fallen, the men and women in uniform who gave their lives in conflict so that we might enjoy the freedom. so many americans, over 50%, don't understand the real reason for memorial day. at best they confuse it with veterans day and in many cases as you say they see it as the first day of summer. mattress sales. barbecues. it's about taking time to remember these fallen heros that have done so much for us that we can never forget. brian: so, without the parades, without the mass gatherings, what should we keep in mind as a

family? >> well, i think we can gather virtually and still remember them. take a moment to think about the significance of sacrificing life so we might enjoy freedom. honor through action end case some sort of activity to remember those. in years past we have had the poppy wall on the mall where thousands have visited. we can't do it this year so we're doing it virtually. brian: yeah. to keep that in mind whether it's someone in the military right now or someone in the past, vice admiral one more time we go to poppy in memory.com to pay tribute and use the #honor through action. by the way, thanks for your service and what you continue to do for the country. >> thank you, brian. it's been an honor and a privilege to serve. steve: all right, vice admiral.

thank you so much. have a special memorial day this year it's like no other. meanwhilemeanwhile as we move ar the next next two hours amongst our guest talking about the challenge country launched this pandemic to the world. senator tom cotton has been steadfast in taking on china. he will talk about that and guess who is going back in front of an audience but he has got to leave new york to do it. michael loftus. the outstanding comedian will be joining us live talking about being funny. right now is a time for action. that's why usaa is giving payment relief options to eligible members so they can pay for things like groceries before they worry about their insurance or credit card bills. discover all the ways we're helping members today.

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steve: straight to a fox news alert. it is 7:00 in the east on this thursday, may 21st, 2020. it is back-to-work for more americans as three states ease pandemic restrictions today. first up in mississippi, casinos are finally permitted to reopen, ainsley? ainsley: and in ohio, outside dining is now allowed along with camping, plus a major transition in west virginia. officials easing restrictions on retail, indoor dining and even tanning salons, brian. brian: okay. soon tattoos. meanwhile president trump heads to michigan today as the battle over absentee voting keeps up. gillian turner is in washington with the pandemic push back. hey, gillian. >> hey, brian. good morning to awful you. so president trump is headed to

michigan today. this comes as thousands of americans there in mid michigan are under very strict evacuation orders following the collapse of two dams that resulted from severely heavy flooding. take a listen. >> they have a big problem with dams breaking you saw that a big, big problem. >> but the trip is not without carl rove. yesterday the president blasted plans to expand mail-in voting in the state and threatened to withhold funding. tweeting michigan sends absentee ballot application to 7.7 million people ahead of primaries and the general election. this was done illegally and without authorization by a rogue secretary of state. i will ask to hold up funding to michigan if they want to go down this voter fraud pat. now, michigan secretary of state pushed back hard last night. take a listen. >> what we also know is dangerous for our democracy is

misinformation. chaos and confusion about citizen's right how they can exercise their right to vote. that's what we are trying to cut through today as we responded to clarify the president's misinformation about how elections work in michigan. >> now a word on the flooding. i have been in close contact with the department of home land security. i had the chance to talk to the acting secretary chad wolf last week. him and the entire agency are flagging for americans. this new emerging reality that they will have to battle the coronavirus pandemic and all its ill effects on americans combined with hurricane season and these natural weather crises that tend to happen around this time of year. it's an unprecedented challenge and they are really starting to say now it's going to be a whole of government approach to tackle these two problems at once. something important to keep in mind, brian, ainsley, steve. steve: all right, gillian turner not far from the white house there had been some suggestion the president of the united states might actually visit or take a look at some of the flood

areas. don't know if that is actually going to happen. he could you, perhaps, just fly over it. meanwhile, let's talk a little bit about ron desantis. yesterday, if you were watching the fox news channel, you saw how angry he got when he was touring yesterday with mike pence down in florida. he's angry because of the mainstream media's attack on how florida was one of the first states to start to slowly reopen. and there were predictions that it was going to be bad. let's go back about a month. >> those numbers are going to go radically up in the coming days and weeks because you have this governor, ron desantis this trump mini me. >> why did it take so long for the governor because the science has been clear on this now for a while. >> the governor's botched response to this outbreak. >> is he going to be forced to own whatever the consequences are in the sunshine state?

steve: okay so fast forward and you look at the consequences of what they did in the sunshine state, and florida has a fraction of the deaths and infections that new york state does. so, yesterday, in orlando, he was angry. there was a camera. and we caught it. watch this. >> a lot of people in your profession who waxed poetically for weeks and weeks about how florida was going to be just like new york. wait two weeks. florida is going to be next. just likes italy, wait two weeks. well, hell, we are 8 weeks await from that and it hasn't happened. not only do we have a lower death rate. way lower deaths generally we have lower rates than the estelle la quarter and d.c. way lower death that the midwest, michigan, indiana, ohio. even in our region, louisiana, mississippi, alabama, georgia. florida has the lower death rate and i was the number one landing spot from tens of thousands of people leaving the number one hot zone in the world to come to

my state. so we succeeded and i think that people just don't want to recognize it because it challenges their narrative. it challenges their assumption so they got to try to find a boogie man. ainsley: you know, i mean, good for him. because, enough is enough. you know, he is just trying to get people back to work. everyone -- democrats and republicans, all over this country have said we want to get back to work. look at elon musk. we don't know. was he republican before? i don't know. but he was saying i want to get back to work. i want to rebuild the cars. i want to go back to work and employ my thousands of people that work in my plant and arrest me if you have a problem with it. so, i think he is saying -- he is just frustrated and so are a lot of americans. they have heavy loads, these governors, because they are trying to make decisions and trying to do it safely. and his message is why can do it as long as we adhere to the rules. joe concha was interviewed by steve earlier on the show. and he said if we can focus on

some of these states that are doing it successfully, that could be our road map. listen to this. >> florida, along with georgia, along with texas. along with colorado should be seen as road maps on how to strike this delicate balance between health concerns and reopening the economy when the national outlets swarmed to jacksonville, you may recall, steve. when that mayor opened up that city's beaches, saying that oh my god look at all these people out here, going to be a spike deaths. do you know how many deaths jacksonville duval county has had since case us started being recorded in march? 36. that's all. ainsley: in these states doing the one size fits all you have counties where they don't even have any case. is he talking about 3 or 4 cases there are some counties that don't have any and they're completely shut down, brian. brian: almost all the casualties, ainsley, in pennsylvania, for example, are because they screwed up the

nursing home care and two thirds of all the casualties there are nursing homes. you shut down the entire state, does that make sense? what about in arkansas? arkansas never really shut down. they handled the hot spots. now they are up and they are close to running at full steam. what about georgia? even criticized by the president of the united states. we don't have to do so much so soon, their numbers are down, i think, 17% since may 1st. i mean, these are success stories. it doesn't mean it's easy. texas had a short spike but it was in one meat packing area. for the most part they are ready to stand up and you heard the governor they have the lowest unemployment in the country state by state and still picking up people along the way there are certain states like illinois that are just ow just oppressinr people and people are rising up. coming nil know basically said we are not enforcing a lot of these rules that are put out because they are so frustrated. so, this is what we're dealing with everybody knows the virus. they understand the challenges. at least give them a chance at

some type of economic success and survival. meanwhile there is other stuff throughout and one of which is joe biden. you know he is in his basement putting out confusing podcasts. trying to respond to the president. not many people are paying attention. however, he was paying attention when it became clear that they were going to serve a subpoena in the senate to his son hunter about his dicey relationship with burisma and the ukraine and possibly the one in china. here is senator ron johnson. >> because american people need to know the truth. we certainly have uncovered corruption within the obama administration. we will get the documents and we will see what is in the documents. i'm not the one who made a big deal of this. i would have quietly issued a subpoena and got the documents and moved on. same thing here. the democrats are objecting. i think maybe they are protesting too much. it actually raises my suspicion level. what is to be found out in these

documents? brian: the democrats have come out and said chris coons in took is this the time in the middle of a pandemic to look. we are working on the pandemic number one. you can say. that is this the party that also spent all of its time going after the mueller grand jury testimony all the way up to the supreme court to hopefully reinvigorate an impeachment investigation? if this is a distraction. isn't that? steve. steve: well, what's interesting, brian, is the fact that this they have also suggested they are going to serve subpoenas on blue star strategies, which is a democratic p.r. firm that burisma had when hunter was on the board. blue star yesterday said hey, why did you have to issue the subpoena threat because we have already given you documents. we're cooperating. well, ron johnson said yesterday, we want more. we want more documents. we want to have a bigger picture of what's going on. meanwhile, regarding the reaction from the biden camp,

they put out this yesterday. this is a great diversification. what he is doing to help -- what's he doing to help the state of wisconsin? what's he doing, they are referring to donald trump. to say deal with the fact that small businesses are shuttering. what's he doing to deal with the crisis? i mean, this is all. this is a classic trump play which is divert, divert, divert. gregg jarrett was on with us a little while ago. and he said this about why more investigation is necessary. >> this is a legitimate investigation into whether there was influence peddling by burisma blue star strategy. hunter biden, by leveraging the influence of joe biden. we have already heard him on videotape bragging about how he threatened to withhold a billion dollars of u.s. aid to ukraine unless a particular ukrainian prosecutor was fired who has

signed an affidavit saying he was investigating hunter biden and burisma. so, it's a classic case of suspected influence peddling. it merits investigation. ainsley: you know what's interesting is the coo and ceo of blue star that they're also subpoenaing or giving them depositions. they want to hear from them. they want them to talk. and you mentioned that they said why? why are you talking to us? we cooperated. but, according to this article, the fact is that blue star has delayed our efforts for more than five months and even refused to let our staff speak to their attorney until last week. despite the fact that he was speaking with the ranking member's staff. that was a spokesperson that told fox news that. their only real efforts came after we noticed this mark-up and we know even those have been woefully incomplete. so people want answers. it seems like they are not -- they are not responding to these requests until -- that's why these subpoenas have to be made. because they are not giving up their information.

so the purpose is just to review potential conflicts of interest. and biden's role on the burisma board. and whether individuals improperly used the relationship with the vice president biden to influence the u.s. government. hopefully they will get to the bottom of it. all right. let's hand it over to jillian. she is back in the studio and she has headlines for us. jillian: that's right. good morning. we begin with this fox news alert. the board of health shutting down a new jersey gym after defying the state's covid-19 restrictions by reopening. the department putting notice of embargo stickers on the windows on atilis gym in bellmawr. pete hegseth joined the co-founders as they opened up their doors earlier this week. we will bring you a live report from atilis gym coming up in this hour. new overnight, a potential coronavirus vaccine could be available by october. the trump administration's operation warp speed accelerating the development for astrazeneca's vaccine. the pharmaceutical giant hopes to have 300 million doses ready

for delivery this fall. president trump has said he expects the vaccine will be available by the end of the year. let's talk about extreme weather. two flooding emergencies growing overnight. heavy rain causing waters to rise in roanoke, virginia. crews rescuing several people trapped in cars. this as we learned that a dam that failed in michigan had repeated safety violations. records show it did not meet licensing requirements for years ahead of this week's disaster. severe flooding displassing more than 10,000 people. >> first it was covid-19. them we get the flood and next where are the locusts. locusts. jillian: flooding isn't expected to subside for several days. the president trump tweeting congratulation tolls my daughter tiffany on graduating from georgetown law. great student, great school.

just what i need is a lawyer in the family. proud of you, tiff. the quickly going viral as others send congrats to the first daughter. tiffany graduated in a virtual ceremony due to the coronavirus pandemic. send it back to you. brian: all right. good job, tiffany. enough to we know where she has been. she has been studying. thanks, jillian. still ahead president trump ripping china overnight accusing them of a massive disinformation campaign to get joe biden elected. tom cotton has been calling out china for months. he is here to react next. as always, we're doing everything we can to help keep cosentyx accessible and affordable. if you have any questions at all, call us, email us, visit us online. we're here to help support you when you need us.

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brian: in a tweet he writes china is on a massive disinformation campaign because they have -- they are desperate though have sleepy joe win the presidential race so they can continue to rip off the united states as they have done for decades, until i came along. here to weigh in is g.o.p. senator and the first one to call for a ban of flights from china to america is senator tom cotton. senator, i know you echo the president's sentiment what about his strategy of going more and more aggressively after china? >> yeah, brian. i don't think it would be any surprise if beijing wanted joe biden to win the elections. joe biden has a terrible 30 year record on china whether it's voting to give them normal trade relations or elevating them to the wto and saying last year they weren't our competitors. the president recognizes we have a complicated economic relationship with china. we shouldn't be in a position where we are today where they have some leverage over americans. for instance, because they

produce so many of our drugs and medical equipment. but in a gradual step-by-step fashion we need to begin to change that relationship and turn the tables on china. brian: yes. but the question is if the big picture is now the time for the world economy to see a split between the two biggest economies? >> there is already a lot of momentum there, brian, when you look at countries like japan and australia trying to bring back more manufacturing or standing up to chinese disinformation. we ought to support our allies. we ought to do everything we can to limit sourcing products inside of china so we never have this kind of pose position again where china has us over a barrel. we want to continue to try to find ways to work with the civilized democratic world as opposed to communist china. not just on security and political and diplomatic matters but economic trade as well.

brian: senator, also, i think you know that this whole thing started in wuhan. and you know that many people call this the wuhan virus or the chinese virus. kamala harris has had enough. she has a resolution that's going to work its way through the senate to ban the phrase wuhan virus and she calls it anti-asian. your feeling on this? >> well, i object to that resolution, brian. first off when it's just a city it's not even a people. i guess she is going to have to call out lyme disease for being anti-connecticut or maybe legionnaires disease for being anti-veterans zika since zika is a force in africa. this political correctness run amuck covers a more serious point. the democrats want to waive their arms and say this is racist or xenophobic that's because they don't have an answer for china's rise in the threat that china poses to us. joe biden has been weak on china

for 30 years they want to have politically correct distractions to distract china's record. brian: something going on in the senate that has me encouraged it. looks like you have bipartisan support to start taking chinese companies off our stock market where they have made $66 billion since 1997. they don't provide audits of their companies. we are supposed to take them on their word if they don't start knocking them off. bipartisan support. could this be something we actually implement? asylum, brian. crazy we let chinese go public on stock exchanges and not live up to our disclosure and leg gla tore requirements. we require small companies in arkansas to most basic. chinese company don't have to disclose. last month coffee massive fraud led to millions of dollars of losses on american investors. we can't let that stand.

i believe this legislation is going to pass. and it's well-time that it passes, too. brian: and that's how you get their attention. hit their pocketbook. real quick. we have this great ally called australia. they have the courage to stand up to their neighbor china and demand transparency on this investigation. and china has threatened them. now they said they are going to escalate it by stopping iron ore sales to that country is it time for america to step in and start protecting those who have the courage to stand up to china? >> yes, brian. we need to stand together in the civilized world among democratic people's against that kinds of chinese aggression that goes to show you china's true colors. you stand up to china, demand an investigation the origins of this virus and china cuts off trade with you. well, guess what, china needs the united states much more than we need them. and when you put together the economies of the united states, japan, and australia and europe,

china needs all of us much, much more than we need them. brian: and senator, i'm all for america first and i get it. but we have to protect our allies that are doing what we're asking them to do. they need to know we will help them with trade. we will help them with the military support. we can't just leave them twisting in the wind because china lives to intimidate. your final thought real quick. >> yeah, that's absolutely right. whether it's australia and trade terms or tijuana and continuing to sell them arms, the world needs to know that america will support those countries that join us in standing up to china. brian: gotcha. senator tom cotton, thanks so much. have a great memorial day weekend. meanwhile, straight ahead, restrictions are being lifted nationwide as we change gears. michael loftus is heading back to the stage in texas. is america ready to laugh? >> this is the moment when america comes together. >> there are so many uplifting

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steve: we are back with this fox news alert. calls are rasping up for a federal investigation into the nursing home crisis during the pandemic. this as blue states are reporting a shocking number of deaths. todd piro is live as new york's governor is blaming president trump. todd? todd: steve, great to see you. the numbers are absolutely staggering. more than 5300 dead in new jersey. more than 2800 reported dead in pennsylvania. at 687 deaths in michigan although the number is believed to be way higher. in new york governor cuomo shoving off calls for the doj to investigate the more than 5,000 nursing home deaths in his state. specifically dismissing his march 25th order requiring nursing homes take on sick

patients infected with coronavirus and prohibiting a requirement that hospitalized residents be tested prior to admission or readmission. >> anyone who wants to ask why did the state do that with covid patients in nursing home, it's because the state followed president trump's cdc guidance. so they should ask president trump. >> but while governor cuomo blames the white house, a shocking new government accountability office reports reveals major deficiencies in nursing homes nationwide prior to the outbreak. the report says that between 20. speaker: and 2017, 82% of the nursing homes inspected had one or more deficiencies when it came to infection prevention and control. about half were cited multiple years in a row. going forward, states are now making changes in new york, for example, patients cannot be sent back to nursing homes unless

they test negative. back to you. steve: they have got to figure it out. all right, todd piro, thank you very much. 7:30 here in the east. ainsley, let's talk about texas. ainsley: okay. great. thanks, steve. yes, as texas continues to relax their restrictions. our next guest is set to bring big laughs to the lone star state with live audience comedy shows. comedian michael loftus joins us ahead of his first show tonight. hey, are you excited? >> i am. i can't believe it. it's been a couple months. i'm ready to go in. i got pelosi jokes ready to go. it's going to be a great time. we got to get this country started again. ainsley: all right. well, i'm sure have you got so many people signed up i'm sure you are already sold out. this is not going to be your only show, right? >> oh no. shows tonight, friday saturday and then sunday. they called me up and asked if i would do them and i was like absolutely. right now it's like america has

flipped. our thinking is wrong. you have got people, you know, going to jail for wanting to work and then they are emptying out the jails. it just doesn't make any sense. we have got to get going. americans are like -- they are like kids standing around the pool and seeing if it's safe to swim. we just got to just jump in and get going. i'm super happy to be a part of it. ainsley: what are they going to do to make sure everyone is safe. >> they are taking temperatures at the door. the seating is going to be spread out. kind of like, you know, on the airplane. they are not at full capacity. they are not going to be crammed in. everyone is going to be spread out there. is going to be plenty of social distancing. if you want to wear a mask, that's fine. i won't be wearing a mask. i thought about having some laughing gas piped in. but i guess that's against the law. [laughter] ainsley: people do want to laugh right now, right? everyone is under so much stress. we are ready to get the country back. even joe rogan comedian said he might move to texas.

did you hear him say that? what's your reaction? >> i think joe rogan probably will move to texas. i think elon musks will eventually leave california. listen, we can see the states that are doing well and the states that aren't. and so let's get back to work. let's go. let's laugh. and to the people who are going oh, you should stay home. those are the most selfish people in my mind. they are the ones if it's so dangerous how dare they risk the lives of delivery people. oh, amazon man, bring me something else that amuses me because i'm bored. if it's that dangerous how dare they act like a roman emperor having people just deliver them stuff willy-nilly. ainsley: we don't want to see a recurrence of this and be back where we were a month ago in a few month. the message is just do it safely. do it smartly. we can move on with our lives but we don't need to plunge forward ahead 360. we got to take it slowly, right? >> take it slowly. we did our job. we flattened the curve and now

it's time to get back. do it safe, do it smart. and i'm just done with the we're all in this together commercials. i can't take those anymore. anybody who is still saying that we are all in this together. you are still cashing a check every week. the rest of us have mouths to feed. ainsley: i know. but it's usually a tribute to the healthcare workers and first responders. >> we love our healthcare workers. mask up, everybody. ainsley: wish you all the best tonight. you can also catch michael loftus on freedom to laugh tour special on fox nation. sign up for fox nation today and get your first month for 99 cents. okay, it's a fox news alert. a new jersey gym shut down overnight after reopening for three straight days and we are there live coming up next. plus, one nail salon owner is suing the governor to let her reopen and she is going to join us live next.

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♪ ainsley: a fox news alert. the new jersey board of health shutting down atilis gym after defying the state's covid-19 restrictions. brian: oh, wow. our own pete hegseth was there at the gym when it reopened earlier this week. remember? steve: meanwhile steve keenly from our fox affiliate in philadelphia joins us outside the gym in bellmawr, new jersey with the breaking developments. steve, it started a couple hours ago. you ms-13ed that there were things that were taped to the door and it was all bad news for the gym owners. >> yeah. and one of the owners and i were in the parking lot by ourselves and he was showing me not sticker the camden health department notice of embargo which neither he or i or his lawyer know what is that means. then we noticed these four page notices from the woman have you seen daily seated to the right of governor murphy who he says and introduces every day who

needs no introduction. and this is it, the state of new jersey now order closing atilis gym. it says whereas among the legal louislegalese.spreading of covio forth and increased customer's respiratory activity you get the idea and signed dated yesterday commissioner new jersey department of health. now, what happened was frank told me yesterday when he got his third citation with an added charge of disorderly person's offenses six gym goers. the police yesterday did something different they waited for them to get in their vehicles and leave and id them through their license plate and know who they were and writing citations after they left. six people. then they had a mysterious as frank called it sewage backup and he thinks maybe not so mysterious maybe something going to work neff farrously here. they hired a sewage clean up crew. they are inside cleaning up right now. right now he says they can't open. he and ian are on phone with the lawyers and in there with the

sewage department. ian will be with you guys in an hour. brian, steve and ainsley? ainsley: thank you, steve. both of the owners are going to be with us in less than twin-turbo minutes at the top of the hour. more questions than answers over their governor's road map for reopening. listen. >> as we enter each stage and we can look at this, we will allow businesses and activities to reopen according to their risk level. from stage i into stage 2, this is a matter of weeks. brian: really? some new jersey shore businesses owners are now suing the governor over what they call unconstitutional closure of their businesses. time matters. they could go down for good. steve: meanwhile, kelly aanelo homeowner of spa in new jersey and is one of the business owners involved in this class action lawsuit. she joins us now live. good morning to you, kelly.

>> good morning. thank you for having me. steve: you bet. i understand your aunt has contracted covid so you know how serious this is. at the same time, you don't want government money. you want to make your own money. so why did you join this class action lawsuit that was started by a friend? >> so basically when this all started, i was more than happy to close the doors of my business. i actually closed a day before we were ordered to do so. i want i want to support the community and do what's best for the health of, you know, my family as well. so, we closed. and now i'm starting to see him pick and choose businesses open. you can go to lowe's. can you get your dog groomed. now go to a boardwalk to a public bathroom. you can go to a garden center. but you can't get your hair cut. you can't go to a beauty salon.

we are licensed to work on people. our salons are under a license where we have to sanitation and disinfection. we get surprise visits by the division of consumer affairs. our salons are extremely clean. and now with all these new guidelines that we have created the salon industry because we haven't gotten any from our own state board, now i feel like it's even more safe to come here. it's safer than a boardwalk bathroom, i can tell you that i feel like it's arbitrary. ainsley: kelly, tell us your story. don't have you kids in college. you are not making an income. how many people do you employ at this salon? >> i employ 36 women. a lot of them didn't get their unemployments right away. i have four children.

i have two that are in college. one is about to be in college. and i have a senior that's going to be -- coming up another senior going to college. we will have three essentially in college. so, you know, it's tough. it's tough with that right there. and then closed for two months and no income coming in, you know, you save for a rainy day. you save for a rainy month. you don't save for a rainy two months. and now who knows going on three. we are not getting any sort -- i feel like the salon industry has been ignored. completely ignored and under estimated. brian: you are 100 percent right. when you see them opening up in georgia, in texas, in florida, in south carolina. >> correct. brian: what do you say to your governor if they can do it you can't do it? what do you say to your governor? >> well, right now what i'm saying to the governor is he goes on every day and he says how the numbers are flattening.

the curves are flattening which did i my part. i stayed home. all the salons have stayed home. thought governor has created kitchen beauticians and garage barbers. so, and they are using social media as a platform. people are desperate for services. they are getting them done anyway. it's safer in the salons, period. brian: absolutely. 100 percent right. >> it's not fair. it's not fair. we are paying the rent and it's a whole other issue that's happening. when we get to be open, now these, you know, salon stylists and barbers are making money on top of the unemployment that they are getting. are they going to come back to work? i mean, i know my girls personally are. my girls are like family to me but a lot of salon owners are really concerned about that. i spoke to your producer yesterday. steve: yeah. you have so clearly laid out the

situation that you are in and thousands of people across the country. our best of luck to you. keep us posted on what happens. by the way, we did reach out to new jersey governor murphy's office for a statement and he has not gotten back to us. all right. kelly, good luck to you. >> thank you so much. ainsley: you are welcome. steve: thank you. all right. ainsley: so sad. steve: 13 minutes now before the top of the hour and jillian joins us from world headquarters with news from michigan. jillian: a neurosurgeon there loses his licenses for allegedly misdiagnosing 250 children with epilepsy. accused of ms. diagnosing kids for 10 years and giving them medicine that was unnecessary and sometimes even harmful. he has not been a doctor since 2007. he will never be allowed to practice medicine again. a church epicenter legal battle to reopen burns down. now an arson investigation is underway. the parking lot of the first

pentecostal church in holly springs, mississippi spray painted with, quote: i bet you stay home now you hypocrites. last month the pastor filed a lawsuit against the city over its stay-at-home order. now to the top trending stories on foxnews.com. first up, the rnc demanding an investigation into nevada's primary. it's accusing local politicians of a, quote, shady deal that would alter voting procedures ahead of the state's mail-in only primary on june 9th. next fox news sean hannity warning new yorkers to grab their wallets. state leaders will rob them if lock down orders aren't lifted soon. finally a tribute. a new orleans jeweler designed a charm with american flag face mask to raise money for homeless veterans ahead of memorial day. to read more about these stories and many others can you download the fox news app. i will send it back to you. ainsley: i have already done that thank you so much, jillian. still ahead she beat child hood

cancer and now our next guest is making it her mission to help other children in need. that survivor and the texas congressman helping out michael mccaul next. press on, to do whatever it takes to beat the odds. we are the men and women of america's hospitals and health systems. and we're here to care for you in every way every day.

♪ steve: a young cancer survivor making it her mission to raise

awareness of childhood cancer and help other kids not be afraid. and now she is teaming up with a congressman to share messages of hope amid the pandemic. here with more 13-year-old cancer survivor sadie kellar founder of the sadie kellar foundation and texas congressman michael mccaul' they both join us now from texas. by the way a brand new book coming out very shortly called "better angels." good morning to both of you. >> good morning. steve: sadie, let's start with you. tell us your story. >> i can't hear. steve: it's okay. tell us what happened to you at age 7 when you were diagnosed with leukemia. you know what? i think we are having a problem

with that portion of the audio. congressman mccaul, tell us how -- what was it four years ago you teamed up with sadie? how did you meet? >> yeah. about five years ago i founded the childhood cancer caucus to give the children a voice. they didn't have a voice in the congress. they didn't have lobbyists. and so the advocates brought her to me to my office and as you can see from her, we immediately had a bond. she is kind of my little angel. and what we found, steve, was that these children could be the most effective lobbyists on the hill. so a lot of people will tell me, yeah, you can't get this bill passed or that bill passed. when we teamed up 30 to 50 of these kids on the hill knocking on doors, it made my job a lot easier in passing bills. and we passed four major pieces of legislation. one actually put me and sadie in the white house with the

president and what i thought was great when he signed the bill, he didn't give me the pen as the author of the bill. he gave the pen to sadie. and i thought that was so appropriate. steve: yeah, exactly. we saw him hand her the pen right there. sadie, i think you can hear us now. did you want to team up with the congressman so that more people essentially saw the face of a childhood cancer patient in yourself? >> yeah, well, i congressman mccaul because, well, you know, he knows what it's like to lose a friend to childhood cancer as well. and you know, i'm a child of cancer survivor and we just worked so like well together for about four years now. and i know that together we have worked a lot with childhood cancer helping to pass laws and different bills. and just like we have worked -- we work very well together and

what we are doing right now is, you know, spreading awareness about childhood cancer. steve: absolutely. i know, sadie, part of your mission has been at the sadie keller foundation.org has been to try to put a smile on the faces of children with cancer so that it's not so scary. but right now you are trying to do that at the same time as everybody seems to be freaked out about the coronavirus. so how do you do it? >> yeah, well i know that right now is a very scary time for all of us. and i have been through a scary time, too. it was very hard to go through. i was 7 when i was diagnosed with leukemia. my type of cancer was two and a half years long. i know what other kids are going through, too. that's wha why i up-to-the-minud to start my foundation the sadie keller foundation. i know what these kids are going through and very hard for all of us and very hard for us all right now.

steve: all right. congressman, before you go. tell us real brief live about "better angels" your book. >> we want to document our experience. and, you know, the beginning of the book. the rest is the voice of saidy. experiencing cancer through the eyes of a child and her experiences and makes friends like angels and some survive and some don't. some pass on. the greatest example from sadie is the fact that she took such, you know, a hard experience and turned it into such a positive experience and i really think that's what life is all about and to go through covid-19 today the same thing. turning it into the best experience you can, you know. to live is to suffer. and you fight meaning in suffering. and sadie as a 12-year-old has taught me a great deal about life. steve: there you go. well, it's great that you guys have teamed up.

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>> this is a fox news alert. the battle to reopen the u.s. economy is heating up as

president trump prepares to visit michigan today. he's expected to tour a ford plant which has been manufacturing ventilators, and he may also visit flood-ravaged parts of the state. brian: meanwhile, back to work for more people in mississippi. casinos are permitted to reopen. ohio, you are now allowed duning and even camping -- dining and even camping. plus, a major transition in west

shutdown needs to end now, and i'm going to the read you just a little quote from it. it says the big apple is dying its streets are empty. the sweat equity of countless business owners is have been evaporated. and it goes on to say that if elected leaders won't save new york, the people must do it themselves. people who run barbershops, nail saw salons, sporting goods, movies need to open smartly, socially distancing and dare the

state to shut them down. and that is essentially, ainsley and brian, what we saw down in belmar, new jersey, earlier this week. ainsley: yeah, you're right. gosh, every city's affected. it breaks my heart. it just hit me, that's my city. that's where i live. and i'm scared that a lot of my friends aren't coming back. people are tired of the high taxes, they're out on long ooh island are, they're in connecticut, they're moving down to florida. and parents are zooming, we're doing four or five zooms a day with our kids, and parents are worried because they're not teachers, you know? they weren't trained for this. so apartment buildings are going empty, leases are coming up and people are putting their stuff in storage and staying somewhere else. i mean, the city -- it's going to take a long time for that city to bounce back, and it's a city that we love. we have so many people that come to our, the sidewalks, stand outside of our windows while

we're live on ther airwaving, people -- ware waving, it's just going to change the face of new york city. that's' why so many people want to go back to work. there are a lot of people that own little restaurants, there's one on the corner that's my favorite, and i don't know if they're going to come back. i don't know if they can afford to. the brian? brian: yeah. there's a reopen petition signed by over 6,500 small business owners now circulating. they go on in this new york post story that says you told us you were worried about the hospitals getting flooded, overrun with people, and then we stayed home. and then we converted javits center, didn't need it. there was a ship, the comfort. it was there nurse us, it wasn't used. -- it was there for us, it wasn't use. your callout was an overstatement, maybe honestly, but every single, every single item on the punch list was hit, and now we stay the shut down, told don't go to the beach, you better not. if you're in the water, you're coming out. if you open up and get a drink and sit on a park bench, you're

going to get a citation. these people want a shot at keeping their business open. every day that goes by it becomes more and more grim. on the best day, to have a business in manhattan with skyrocketing rents and minimum wage structures that make it almost impossible for people to make a profit, on a good day. now imagine being shut down for two months where all you have is bills and no business. this has got to end. it is laziness for politicians to sit on the side and let everybody rot on the vine. they've got to get in there and get busy, set up the protocols to make your place friendly to customers, and let's get going. ainsley: that's right. steve: well, and this new york post column u.s. who writes for the federalist said, essentially, go ahead, defy the orders, reopen and dare the state to close you down. and that is what has happened in new jersey, and at five minutes after the top of the hour, we've

got a fox news alert for you. overnight the new jersey board of health shutting down the atillas gym that you saw reopen a couple of days ago after the gym defied the state's covid-19 restrictions by reopening on monday. ainsley: here with an update, we have ian smith and frank, they're live outside of the gym in belmar, new jersey. hi, guys. you know, you gave us hope, and now it's taken away. how you doing? ian, how you feeling? >> we're doing fine. we -- this is just a bump in the road for us. you know, we opened on monday, we stayed open tuesday, and we stayed open on wednesday. and murphy does not have a legal precedent to shut us down, so he's resorted to calling in the health department. of however, all these messages on the wall were put on without them ever stepping inside and taking a look at the facility. so we've been shut down by the health department without them

even coming inside. so that tells us that we're doing the right thing because it's a scare tactic. we have our lawyers on it. they've been on it since six a.m. this morning, and our plan is to reopen tomorrow. brian: hey, ian, you're the only one who can hear us, so if you want to repeat to frank, go ahead. so you're shut down. if you wanted to right now, did they padlock your place? if you wanted to right now, could you get yourself back in and open up? >> we could open up. the place is not padlocked. however, we will not defy a health code order. >> yeah. according to actually all of our beliefs, we've been allowing our members in because of the wording of governor murphy's executive order saying the gyms had to remain closed to the public. we've confirmed as long as we let members in, we're not doing anything gwen the law and -- against the law and criminal. the paperwork on the window, we don't know if it is deemed legal

or not because they pit on in the -- put it on mt. middling of the might -- in the middle of the night. the whoever's in control of the board of health has worded it properly, and they have stated we are not allowed to have members of the public or members of our gym. so at this moment we stand by everything we've done we believe is not criminal, so if we find out that this is legal as far as them putting those restrictions on us, that is fine. right now we will not be letting anybody in the gym other than to do work, to clean up and get and prepare for work tomorrow. we'll see what happens from there. steve: right. so, each, you know, there are other gyms that have reopened across the country. you have looked at the best practices, best safe depractices that they are all -- safety practices that they're all employing. you're disinfecting, social

distancing, everything that is state of the art. but because you are in new jersey and not, for instance, in texas, you -- there's still that stay at home order regarding your gym, although you do say that you're going to reopen tomorrow. you know, we saw a couple days ago where the police officer said, you know, everybody in the crowd is violating the social distancing thing and then said have ad food day and then left -- a good day, then left, came back a couple hours later and gave you a ticket. and then you got a ticket the next day. you must have had in the back of your mind the feeling that the state was going to pull something like this? >> yeah, we absolutely expected this to go on. you know, we knew from the onset that legally we had the right to be open and that there was no precedent to shut us down and that our rights under the constitution are protected. so we kind of expected this to be a last resort when we proved

that there's no legal precedent to shut us down. it's something that we definitely expected, yes. brian: hey, ian and frank, if you want to repeat this, it was reported earlier there was a sewage backup in your place, and there was no sign that there'd been any problem like that before. do you think there was something going on there, that that was going to be the health concern, the sewage backup? >> well, golf murphy -- governor murphy addressed in his press conference yesterday that he was going to be enforcing, you know, some restrictions on us with the health department, and we are looking into what happened yesterday. less than an hour after his press conference our toilets were backed up. frank can explain what happened. we had some plumbers come in last night -- >> the entire sewage system actually backed up in it and just the bath with room part of the -- bathroom part of the gym s. and it appears that actually

somehow there were a whole bunch of paper towels stuffed from inside the gym and outside with the cleanout. just so everybody knows, we do not even have paper towels in our bathrooms. >> so we are looking into how that happened. >> we're investigating how that could mysteriously happen after, you know, being threatened with the board of health. but no matter what, we're prepared to open up tomorrow morning, and in honor of memorial day not just opening up tomorrow morning, but starting tomorrow in honor of memorial day and going through labor day, we were going to offer our services for free to all active military and every veteran out there. ainsley: oh, wow. that's really nice of you. ian and frank, please keep us posted. we'd love to follow this story. everyone across the country is watching you, because you gave us a glimmer of hope. so we wish you all the best. y'all have a gofundme page,

right? what is the it really quickly. >> the gofundme page is a legal defense set up for our members and the volunteers who have been helping us because they have been getting citations as well. that can be found on our social media. ainsley: okay, good deal. thanks, guys. it's 8:12. a senate committee approving a subpoena -- [inaudible] the former vice president joe biden's son drawing heavy criticism from democrats. steve: griff jenkins -- ainsley: oh, sorry, that's your read. steve: that's okay. griff jenkins has more. >> reporter: yeah, this isn't the first subpoena in the biden-burisma probe, they voted on party lines authorizing the subpoena for blue star strategies, a firm with ties to burisma if holdings, the ukrainian natural gas company where hunter biden was a member of the board until 2019.

democrats on the committee called it a political stunt. >> 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 side show. >> reporter: the chairman of the committee, ron johnson, was surprised democrats don't want to know more about this. >> democrats are objecting, i think maybe they're protesting too much. it actually raises my suspicion level what is to be found out in these documents. >> reporter: the former veep responded telling a wisconsin station, quote: this is a classic trump play which is divert, divert, divert. blue star strategies also responding saying a letter to the committee indicating their intention to cooperate saying they already have done so, although johnson says the sweep that's necessary -- subpoena's necessary for additional

material. back in the news at a press conference calling february for an investigation of leaked audiotapes between then-vice president biden and the ukrainian president suggesting the conversation might amount to, quote, high treason. biden's campaign responded to the washington post saying they heavily edited this, and it's still a nothing burger that landed with a thud. biden has acknowledged a role in the ousting of that prosecutor. fox news has not confirmed the authenticity of those recordings. brian? brian: thanks, griff, appreciate it. let's go over to jl january because there's other news breaking. jillian: we begin with a fox news alert. a gunman in the arizona mall shooting, you can see him holding a rifle and touring into the parking lot, the westgate shopping center in glendale. at least three people were wounded, one of them is in critical condition.

>> he's running, helicopters in the air, we're hiding in the box. jillian: glendale took the gunman into custody, no word yet on a motive. let's talk about the weather. two flooding emergencies growing overnight, roanoke, virginia, crews rescuing several people trapped in cars. a tam that failed in michigan has repeated safety violations -- dam. records show it did not meet license aring requirements for years ahead of this week's disaster. severe flooding displacing more than 10,000 people. it isn't expected to subside for several days. overnight a potential coronavirus vaccine could be available by october. the trump administration's operation warp speed accelerating the development for astrazeneca's vaccine. the farm south call giant hopes to have 300 million doses ready for delivery this fall. president trump has said he expects a vaccine will be available by the end of the year, so we will certainly keep

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ainsley: back with this fox news alert, breaking right this moment, naval station corpus christi down in texas is on lockdown following reports of an active shooter. the station posting on facebook telling anyone in the northgate area to get to safety and remain indoors. we will, or of course, follow this story and bring you more as those details unfold. steve? steve: meanwhile, switching

gears, more americans are looking to rent rvs for socially distant vacations this summer. breep brian jeff flock from our sister network, fox business, joins us live from indiana as he hits the road. you're in action. what size rv is that? >> reporter: this is what they call a mini winny. it's a win bag go, but it's a smaller version. maybe you can see the back there. brian: nice. >> reporter: it's still one that you drive. it's kind of cool. as we roll down -- we're actually entering the indiana dunes national park right now. this is what we think a lot of people are going to do this summer, and their rental market is just going through the roof. we a talked to a dealer in kansas -- [audio difficulty] ainsley: oh, rats, we lost him.

that was so fascinating. [inaudible conversations] brian: what are we going to do now? you know, people, you know, now that we are coming into the memorial day weekend, everybody's talking about thats' the beginning of the summer, and that's why people are out and about. jeff, i think you can hear us again. so you're -- ainsley: oh, he froze again. steve: this is the problem with being inside the rv rather than outside. so anyway, a lot of people are going to see the country in an rv this summer. ainsley: in the beginning of this, you had the health care workers that were asking if you have an rv, can we borrow it from you, we're going to put it outside of your house, the health care workers can live in that, but then the story has changed, now people are renting those because they want to stay with hair family but still get out of the house. all right, planned parenthood is defending its use of federal stimulus loans after

republicans demand they return the $80 million that they receid that was meant for small businesses. brian: yep. officials saying, quote: this is a clear pretty are call attack. it has nothing to do with planned parenthood, eligibility for covid-19 relief and everything to do with the trump administration using a public health crisis for their political agenda. steve: here with reaction, host of get tammy bruce on fox phase, i'm puzzled because the ceo of planned parenthood said they were not to going to take any more federal money because of if they would not stop making abortion referrals which they continue to do, and they said we don't want any money unless, apparently, it's this cash. and $80 million is now in their pockets. >> yeah. i mean, this shows you the level of hypocrisy. we deal with hypocrisy so much when it comes to that side of the aisle politically which is,

of course, offensive to everyone regardless of party. but what's interesting here is it is an obvious breach of the rules that the specific rule regarding ppp funds, regarding how small your business had to be. planned parenthood itself, the main office, has over 600 employees. and when you take these affiliates together, it's 16,000 employees. so when we talk about the political game, this money was meant for small businesses. they decided to take it. they've got, by the way, $2 the billion in assets. this is nothing -- remember how mad we got at shake shack for taking, what was it, $7 million? this is $80 million which could have gone and which is now out of the hands unless we get it back, it's now in the hands of a $2 billion entity that could have gone to small businesses. so there are calls for it to be returned, obviously, and then there's the question of how did this happen when it is in such a flagrant breach of the rules? and many different steps are going to have to be looked at,

but this money's going to have to come back. ainsley: yeah, i don't think it's political. they didn't say that about shake shack. a long list will have -- a long list of people, they're still getting a lot of money. they have a lot of money in the bank, and small businesses don't, period. let's talk about "the new york post." if you look at the cover, it says one man's plea, he wrote an op op-ed, his name is david marcus, and he said the big apple's dying. businesses can adjust, the elderly and and infirm can be isolated. it needs to end now. this is a cry for help. your thoughts. >> well, he's a writer with the federalist. it is an excellent op-ed, i've read it to i my radio all of a sudden yens yesterday, and it makes -- audience yesterday. he's right. it doesn't mean flagrantly, with no idea of safety, and i made a point on twitter yesterday as

well. we're flying completely full airplanes. you can get on an airplane with 240 other people, sit within 8 inches of someone for hours, and that seems to be okay. and yet we can't go into, let's say, a broadway theater that if they make it half full and you can separate the seats with, you know, social distancing rules, but we're not allowed to do that. we're not allowed to is sit in a restaurant. we're not allowed to sit in some kind of a smaller jazz club where people are taking, you know, precautions. but you can get on that jammed airplane and fly for hours sitting right next to whoever it is, that stranger that's on that plane with you. we're seeing such a level of not even hypocrisy, but a lack of common sense, contradictions when it comes to what it is we're being told. we see the supermarkets have been handling it well. the nature of those essential businesses doing well. and the fact is, you know, we don't know when a vaccine's going to come, but now it's

about the government making decisions that do not make sense when it comes to being outside still. the beaches in new york city remain closed. none of it makes any sense, and i think at this point since the government leads with our consent, they're beginning to realize that the consent is being removed, and they've got to be able to listen to us because there are points when we should be able to listen to government and trust them. brian: absolutely. or we could stop paying them until their city open up, and maybe they'll feel an urgency. right now they just don't. tammyinging thanks so much. we'll watch your series on fox nation. appreciate you getting up with us this morning. >> thank you. brian: 33 minutes til the top of the hour. still ahead, as americans reel amidst the shutdown, hundreds of doctors are demanding states reopen. dr. marc siegel on why he thinks this is necessary next. every financial plan needs a cfp® professional --

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♪ ♪ ainsley: from long lines at food banks to record are unemployment, americans facing mounting stresses amid the shutdown, and now more than 600 doctors came together pleading with the president to help americans to get back to everyday life. their letter that they sent to him reads: we are alarmed at what appears to be the lack of consideration for the future health of our patients. the downstream health effects are being massively underestimated and underreported. in medical terms, the shutdown was a mass casualty incident. here to react is fox news medical contributor, dr. marc siegel. hey, doctor. >> morning, ainsley, how are you? ainsley: i'm good. do you agree with them? what do you think about that? >> well, first of all, i agree with them totally, but i think that the focus should be on the

governors rather than the president, because i think the president actually trying to reopen this country, and he's very aware of this issue. what is this issue? people going to emergency rooms are afraid to go there, there's a decrease of people going with heart attacks, with strokes, with infections, with appendixes bursting. we're having a tremendous problem with cancer screening. ainsley, cancer screening is down 90%, and there's 2.5 million doses of childhood vaccines we're not getting. probably the worst problem of all, ainsley, is alcoholism, drug abuse, suicide. all of this is occurring at a rapid rate now because of the unemployment, because of the lockdown. ainsley: yeah. >> we're estimating 75,000 deaths from, deaths of despair, meaning suicide or drug -- ainsley: dr. siegel -- >> that's probably going to end up being more than the virus. it's thursday, 8:30 the jobless numbers come out, look at the bottom of the screen, that was

from last week. 2.4 million jobless claims filed, that's incredible. that's in addition to, what is it, 30 some odd that are without jobs now. so this is 2.4 million. what's your reaction? >> i think that's amplifying the problem that i just said about the health care system. i think when people are out of work, they're not looking after their health. i think they're under tremendous stress. they're going to drink, they're going to turn to drugs, they're going to become full of despair, and they're going to put their lives at risk, and they're not going to get the basic health care that they need. i think that we have to reopen the economy right away in order not just to save jobs, but to save health. that's something that needs to be considered all ea across the country. we're in a state of national emergency, we have to listen to the president and start to reopen things in order to get people back help in term of not just financially, but in terms of their health. ainsley: real quickly, i know in your hospital are there empty beds now? how's it looking there? >> actually, we're closing our covid wards. two of them are closed.

ainsley: nice. >> our hospital is ahead of the curve. we're trying to reopen things. we're starting elective surgeries, we're building multi-specialty units, i'm coming back into the office. we're using protective equipment, we're being careful. this needs to happen all across the country. it's an inspirational point, and we have to get our health care to people, and we've got to get them back to work now. if we don't get people back to work, they are going to get suck. ainsley: yep. we've done our jobs, now save our jobs, that's the message. we'll do it safely. thanks, dr. siegel, good the see you. senator rick scott's going to join us live next. you're welcome. you'll feel the power of gut health confidence every day. benefiber is a 100% natural prebiotic fiber. good morning mrs. johnson. benefiber. trust your gut.

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exactly what economists predicted. we're overall 39 million americans have filed for unemployment since the start of the pandemic, many because no state is equipped for this type of demand, can't get the unemployment benefits they are earned and they have been promised. well, let's bring in florida gop senator, member of the senate budget committee, former above of florida rick scott. -- former governor. your reaction, are you getting numb to this? >> oh, no. you feel so sorry -- i grew up in a family that my mom and my adoptedded dad often were unemployed. it's a horrible life for these families, so we've got to continue to do everything we can to help them. the biggest thing we can do is get this economy open. people want to get back to a normal life, they want to get back to their jobs. let them do it. stop preventing people from doing it. we know the coronavirus is a problem, but we will work -- every family i talk to says we'll figure out how to stay safe, let us have our jobs back.

brian: so one thing that you guys put out, you want a rescue package -- or the democrats do. some people cory gardner, senator susan collins, republicans also want another rescue package. should we have it is another debate. one thing you brought up was let's get spending straight. new york wants $61 billion. you say they've gotten money already, and they've gotten -- they've been basically brought up-to-date in the money that they've gotten. let's take a look comparing new york and florida. and this was really off the "wall street journal" report. let's compare those budgets. first off, when it comes to the taxes, you guys are at zero state taxes, they're at a much larger margin. yeah. they're at, they're at, up to about 8.2%, actually a bit higher. then you have illinois and california, much higher. when you look at the state debt, they're in debt every year about

$6 billion. you actually had a surplus when you left office. you have more people in it. it's the spending, and it's basically the medicaid spending that puts new york over the top. you made tough decisions. florida made tough decisions. you had added more -- you added more people, and yet new york has upped there responsibility in their budget size. >> well, first off, i got elected governor when cuomo got elected governor. people got fed up with new york because the taxes were so high, regulations were so high. cuomo just wasted money year after year. he would never watch, he'd never make tough choices that you have to make in business, families is have to make. we have to live within our means. not andrew cuomo, he just borrowed money every year. he'd get mad at me because i'd recruit companies to come to my state. the weather's better, and you can keep some of your money that new york won't let you keep it. now he says all those people who

moved to florida, we still want them to pay off new york's budget problems. i'm going to fight this. it is wrong for floridians. floridians have to pay for california, illinois or new york excesses, that's wrong. brian: they say they're a donor state. they give more to the government than they get back. >> you know, andrew -- i mean, brian, i've been up here for about 17 months, i've never seen one check from the state of new york. never one. he basically takes money constantly. now, you know, the citizens, do you know what they to? while they're living there, they pay social security and medicare, and then they say, oh, gosh, our money will go farther in florida, so they come down to florida, and they receive those benefits. that somehow has to do something with his budget. has nothing to do with his budget. his budget is almost double florida's budget per person. and by the way, in the last nine years, he's increase ared his budget by $570,000 per new

person, and what did florida do? $10,000. he can't live within his means, and he wants all the rest of us to pay for it. brian: and they're losing their high earners mostly to florida. real quick, we see today "the new york post" calling for this shutdown to end, for people to go back. this is the epicenter where over 20,000 people have lost their lives. do you believe it's time to go back in new york? >> yes. absolutely. we all know what have to do. we all understand social distancing. you know, quit telling us how to lead our lives. let's get back to a job, or let's get back to a normal life the way we wanted to do it. quit telling us how to lead our lives. that's what andrew cuomo and these governors are trying to do. we're smarter than that. americans know what to do. brian: senator, the guy who took your job, governor ron desantis, made it clear he wants to open up quick, he wanted to shut down quick hi and open up rapidly, that's what he

does. and the media says it's going to be italy all over again, the senior population's going to get destroyed, and none of that happened, thankfully. the cases are extremely low, and governor desantis let the media have it yesterday, listen. >> a lot of people in your profession who waxed poetically for weeks and weeks about how florida was going to be just like new york. wait two weeks, florida's going to be next. well, hell, we're eight weeks away from it -- well, we have way lower death rates generally, we have lower death rates than d.c., everyone up there. i was the number one landing spot for tens of thousands of people leaving the hot zone in the world coming to my state. so we succeeded, and i think people just don't want to recognize it because it challenges their narrative, it challenges their assumptions, so they've got to try to find a bogeyman. brian: do you understand the anger, senator? >> you know, it's a shame.

the media wants to attack republicans and support democrats. that's what they wanted to do. but you know what? floridians, we're smart, we've been through disasters, we listened, we social instanced, and that's why our numbers are way lower. brian: senator rick scott, thanks so much. spelling it out before we give it out. appreciate it, rick. >> all right. see ya, brian. brian: you got it. meanwhile, you have seen her anchor on fox news and fox business, but this morning melissa francis is cooking with steve. find out whew next. . it's that simple. with their va streamline refi, there's no income verification or home appraisal. and this refi costs you absolutely nothing out of pocket. it's the quickest and easiest refi newday has ever offered. one call can save you $2000.

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>> coming up on america's newsroom, we've got the president visiting a michigan ford plant, a new ventilator production facility. we'll see the president a bit later on today. meanwhile, on the coronavirus, brand new developments on a vaccine and also new cdc guidelines on touching services. what you -- surfaces. we've got our doctors in the house on that. and the new york post headline this morning, end new york city's lockdown now. the writer of that piece will be joining us live. we've got brand new developments on the senate probe coming up, ken starr will be joining us top of the hour. join ed and me as we begin a brand new "america's newsroom"

top of the hour. steve: thank you very much. meanwhile, you've seen her delivering the news as an anchor on fox news and fox business, but this morning melissa francis is putting her apron and chef hat on and joining us from her kitchen. she's joining us for a family-filled america cooks together with her kids. thompson, grayson and gemma. melissa, introduce your kids to us. >> good morning, steve. well, the audience should know this is the first time i've ever done a cooking segment where you actually have to cook. that's what quarantine means. [laughter] this is my son thompson, he's 13. this is grayson, he's 10, and this is gemma, she's 4. if you have time to kill because you're locked in quarantine, why not give it a shot? so, steve, you want to get ground meat. we're using chicken right now

because, as you know, these prices are through the roof. chicken's healthier, whatever, you can use whatever you like. you ground it up. i have the industrial-sized taco seasoning because we go through a lot of this stuff. this one was new a week ago. you're going to sprinkle the taco seasoning on. it's not precise, it's to taste. we like a lot, obviously. steve: right. >> and then you want to go ahead and brown the meat, break it up so it looks like, you know, the ground meat that would be inside of the crunch wrap supreme from taco bell. steve: terrific. >> find a flour shell, the biggest you can possibly final. i wish i could have found a large or one than this, but when you go to grocery store, you have to make due with what's there. so i have my large flour tortilla. you go ahead, guys, don't kill each other. you go ahead and put your meat in the middle. not too much. oops, i'm making a giant mess,

o.k.? put the meat in the middle. i washed my hands, is so no one has to be worried. next step, they use case sew, but -- queso, but i don't like drippy cheese. use a little shredded cheese. right here is where you want to add hot sauce. i would add tobasco, that's what i would do for his. i'm not going to do that right now because i'm going to eat this one later. now, this is the key part, your crunch layer. i use a toss dad da -- tostada shell. steve: melissa -- >> this is your hot intweed yets -- steve: you know what i do in my house? we actually just use a single chip, a taco chip, and it gets you the same crunch.

>> oh, nice. you're right, that would be so much easier. then you wouldn't have to go buy something else. okay, now you put on your sour cream. okay? guacamole, whatever you want. you're freestyling here. again, this is about your preferences, what you want to have on your particular wrap because i make an individual one for each person. go with the fresh lettuce. i like the iceberg because it's cruncher and the whole point is to crunch as much as possible. chopped toe a pay -- tomatoes, okay. so this is the tough part. this is where you have to wrap it all up, okay? steve: right. >> it's a little big right there. okay. so you want to wrap it up, fold it up. it doesn't have to be pretty. i find a triangle shape is the easiest. steve: i go with pin wheel. >> pin wheel.

oh, well, you're a show-off, that's what that's about -- steve: i wrote a cookbook! >> oh, well, all right. for us amateurs, put it in, now we would be grilling it like this for about five minutes. you want it to turn golden brown. flip it over. okay, now, we're going to show you the finished product. this is the one that i made this morning, as you know, in show business it's called the one you're going to show to the camera. i made this. wait, wait, wait before you eat. look, it's perfect. i just want to prove i can actually do this. isn't that unbelievable? each person would have their own crunch rap supreme. this is my official taster. let's see it, grayson. [laughter] it was so delicious, he went right down. look at that, doesn't that look amazing? this recipe is all over the internet, one of the fun things people are making locked up in

quarantine. steve: that's right. >> i love it. you can customize it, put in the ingredients that you like. you know, if you like salsa, lettuce, whatever it is -- steve: you're right. >> i don't think it's that healthy, but, you know, we're not worried about that right now. so there you go. what do you think, steve, did i pass? steve: you did pass, and it's delicious. we're going to have the recipe on fox&friends.com. it's soft on the outside, crunchy on this inside. melissa and kids, thank you very much for joining us today. [laughter] steve: delicious. he healthcare , working to care for all of us. at novartis, we promise to do our part. as always, we're doing everything we can to help keep cosentyx accessible and affordable. if you have any questions at all, call us, email us, visit us online. we're here to help support you when you need us. take care, and be well. to learn more, call one eight four four cosentyx or visit cosentyx.com

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>> okay, set your dvr is tomorrow morning, 6:00 a.m. we will see you then, have a great day and thanks for watching. ♪ >> sandra: fox news alert, president trump heading to michigan today to visit a ventilator production facility amid new progress on the vaccine front. but the administration saying first drugs this could be as early as october. a good morning, on sandra smith. >> ed: good morning to you, i am ed henry. a potential coronavirus vaccine that was developed by sanford and oxford university and the call to purchase a major milestone for operation warp speed. >> sandra: meanwhile the president heading to michigan a bit later today amid an escalating feud with governor gretchen whitmer. the president now