dagen mcdowell, jump in here.agen: people making more on unemployment than they would if they return to work, the treasury department on this paycheck protection program has cleared up a few things in the last few days. an employer will not get hit on the amount of the loan forgiven if they laid off employer who declined his job. employees risk losing their unemployment benefits if they decline an offer of returning to work. the employer could report them to the unemployment office of the state, that individual could lose their benefits and i think, you know what, people want to get back to work. they know it's their duty and that's what we heard from employer who is are bringing back furlough individuals. maria: which is what you're addressing, kevin. kevin: yeah, it is. return work incentive, we think is pretty critical to rebuild workforce. quickly, what we know is that -- keeping business as live amid workers attached to them, our rebound will be quicker and stronger. maria: all right, we will leave it there.

crew also filing for bankruptcy this week, dagen mcdowell, jump in here. i really, what struck me what we had ross perot, jr., online retail, online buy asking representing 18% of the overall economy. all that has to go to 20% or 22% and he's going to need additional 1 million square footage to put in things like an amazon redistribution center in a mall. so all of the brick and mortar are getting overrun by online and the need for space for redistribution centers, dagen, that's the bifurcation going on. dagen: and i expect amazon to pay a lot less in rent than some of the traditional brick and mortar retailers. how much worse is this going to get, burt, because restaurants shut down you will see what i call the amazon effect in restaurants where you're going to have big chains that survive but the little restaurants that we love so much will go away, however, because these big department stores chains are going bankrupt and reduce footprint if not go away there's a real opportunity for online and emerging designer to boom, sell directly to the customer. >

dagen mcdowell, please jump in. dagen: many people with either direct or indirect knowledge of what was going on -- you talked about this, think that this entire investigation of the trump campaign started initially after -- after now president trump announced that he was running for the presidency. it was even before he won the nomination and information from overseas started coming in through well, the cia acting as a clearing house and that was fed into the fbi. one thing, byron, the other parts of the media who sold the russia collusion fable to the american people and now their attitude is to dismiss anything that basically blows up the story that they were peddling and called partisan politics and blame certain corners of the media. will we ever get some honest, hard-core reporting from corners of the media world on this even after the durham report comes out? byron: well look, they are very invested in what they reported, they won prizes for it and praise for it. i don't think they want to see it undermine by

stuart: my best to daddy mcdowell. good morning, maria. good morning, everyone.rt the week, isn't it? a very solid stock market rally. this weekend, the recovery really picked up steam and it really helps your money. look at that, the dow up about what, 780 points at the opening bell. the s&p up 84. the nasdaq composite up close to 200 points. this, this is what gave the market a clear boost. moderna. they report very

dagen mcdowell, you lived in san francisco.ow different is what you're seeing today in these pictures from when you lived there? dagen: it's worse, maria. the problem with the homeless encampments was a problem 20 years ago when i lived in san francisco. it's been a problem there and some other major cities for literally decades. this is what happens when government officials, local officials don't do anything about it and they act like it's okay. many of these individuals, it's not an issue of affordable housing which seems to be a crutch that many people use. it's because they are dual diagnosis individuals. they have both mental illness and drug or alcohol addiction problems. and this issue, nationwide, goes really back to the early '60s, and the beginning of the deinstitutionalization of the mentally ill in this country. they weren't in institutions. they were left out and put in outpatient treatment. but this, done for the right reasons, but it's headed in the wrong direction where people who are at risk to themselves or o

dagen mcdowell?le from surfing in the water in california and breaking up gatherings of people outdoors in new york city, while cars are being broken into on the street. maria: wow. good point. dagen, lee, jon, great to see you. have a great day. that does it for us. "varney & company" begins right now. stu, take it away. stuart: good morning, maria, and dagen, and good morning everyone. i know it's monday morning. it's supposed to be glum but in fact, i am in a great mood. i know the market's going to open lower and i will get to that in a moment but right now, we're looking at some positives. for a start, a gallup poll taken in late april shows increasing support for the president and his virus policy. his approval rating is up six points in a couple of weeks to 49%. i'm not sure what you are seeing but 49% approvalor

joining the conversation, dagen mcdowell, lee carter and mitch roschelle. to see everybody this morning. >> great to see you. maria: and some of the top stories we are watching this morning, today, vice president mike pence is returning to the white house but will have limited exposure to the west wing. the vice president voluntarily keeping his distance after his press secretary tested positive for covid-19. his office is denying reports that he is self isolating, though. both president trump and vice president pence are tested daily and they are both negative. meanwhile, three members of the white house coronavirus task force have placed themselves in self quarantine after coming in contact with someone who did test positive for the virus. dr. anthony fauci, dr. robert redfield, from the cdc, and fda commissioner dr. stephen hahn all three will testify before the senate coronavirus hearing tomorrow but they will do so by video conference. apple will begin reopening some stores this week, the first in idaho followed by alabama, alaska and so south carolina

x -- dagen mcdowell, help me out here. your take on this name.rimes tweeted trying to explain, the x unknown variable, ae is for a.i., her spelling of that, a-12 is in reference to the former lockheed a-12 reconnaissance aircraft. he will be called bob or butt head or bevis when he is in school by people who will troll him. maria: unbelievable. got to leave it to elon musk. that is too much. thank you, everybody, for the buzz. next hour, a lot more coming up on "mornings with maria." stay with us. . maria: welcome back. good wednesday morning. thanks so much for joining us. i'm maria bartiromo. wednesday, may 6 top stories right now 8:00 a.m. on the button on the east coast, getting america back to work, president trump says it is important for the country, and that he closing the economy is one of the toughest decisions he has had to make as white house looks to phase out the coronavirus task force focus on o recovery now getting another look at impact virus having on jobs in bheshgs adp jobs number comes out 15 minutes' time crumpled to show lo

coming up. >> good morning dagen mcdowell for maria bartiromo out 8 stories 8:00 a.m.n reopening america dr. fauci warning if areas reopen prematurely u.s. could see a spike in cases could turn into outbreak. >> a 3 trillion-dollar relief package providing funding for state and local government another round of money going directly to americans and tax cut for the rich, a vote expected later this week, there is already pushback over concerns about the growing national debt and deficit, elon musk scoring a win in battle with alameda county california, getting the green light to reopen tesla's factory after defying orders to stay closed. >> turning to markets futures pointing to higher open 189-point gain on dow futures next hour fed chair jay powell speaking out on the economy, and about whether negative interest rates are possible in the u.s. >> that have the markets gave up early gains yesterday over a possible spike in coronavirus cases that drove some selling on wall street. to recovers in michael flynn case a federal judge delaying a decision on the justice departm

maria: dagen mcdowell, your reaction.rom home when i was living in san francisco briefly as a writer and it was the most miserable experience of my life because you don't have that social interaction that leads to creative thinking. i suspect long term once there's a vaccine for this virus that there is a larger percentage of people who are still going into the office, even in technology, even in silicon valley, than they assume will work from home or be in the office in the next year or so. i just think there's something truly magical that happens when you get a group of people together and, come on, like i miss -- we're on the air together every day but i miss you being here. it's not -- it's just not the same. maria: i miss you. dagen: it's just not -- maria: it's not the same. dagen: you're feeding off of someone's intangible vibe. i think there's great value in that. maria: we do that a lot with each other, that's for sure. what about the six foot rules? now we're hearing six feet is not enough in terms of not being

maria: dagen mcdowell. dagen: hank, but we've never had an entire economy shut down overnight, not because of anything that the workers and business owners did and you've got more than 30 million people filing for unemployment benefits in just six weeks but the nasdaq is flat for the year, how does that make sense because seems like all of the liquidity and stimulus from the federal reserve is juicing up asset prices but doing jack, nothing, for the american worker. >> hank: two observations, the stock market is in the middle of an epic battle on the one hand of the greatest contraction of quarterly economic activity ever but on the other end, the greatest policy response in terms of monetary and fiscal stimulus to the tune of 20% of gdp and that explains the bear market and the new mini bull market and secondly with regard to technology we are learning that it is actually the most offensive sector in today's environment and that explains why these stocks have held up because revenues, earnings are holding

guest, she is business in the front and business in the back, fox business network anchor dagen mcdowells so courageous i hope it's contagious, retired fox news contribute to joey joe's. >> she is from detroit, host of sincerely on cat fox nation, kat timpf. the northstar is his nightlife, my massive sidekick in host of enough said, he has a smile on fox nation it is tyrus. all right joey, young celebrities say the world should not change after they really got their piece of the action. don't you love that. joey: you know when you have dan come in and tell you how the world should work, kim jong-un and were not available for comment on how much american capitalism sock. these are people that would have an expected mother then tells you who lives or dies and they won't tell you about paper plastic or when you should leave your home or staying in and what it is, they know everyone economically is in a bad place right now, it's a perfect time to slide and climate change because that's exactly what that would do, the policy they want to promote. greg: that is so true, dagen there continues t

maria: i don't know, dagen mcdowell, jump in here.hard to know because you have the symptoms maybe away from covid-19. i mean, you know, gastro issues, what do you think, dagen? dagen: as always exact same wavelength because as this list of symptoms grows, people are sitting around across the country thinking that they've got covid, oh, i've got this and i've got this and when it comes down to it, dr. mike, by the way, i don't know why the medical community is so late in communicating some of the symptoms like the lost of small and taste because one of the lieutenants at the ems station told me that within first week of shutdown is something that they were seeing. they are slow to come out with the symptoms for the nation, number 1. and number 2, there's so many of them now you basically convinced the vast majority of the population that they had it or have it now. mike: you can be completely asymptomatic and not have any symptoms at all and have the virus. it's tricky for news the healthcare community and we have given incorrect guid

i'm dagen mcdowell, in for maria bartiromo. it's friday, may 22nd. your top stories 6:00 a.m. eastern. china moving to tighten the grip over hong kong, introducing legislation to crack down on protests, sending shock waves around the world. president trump promising a strong response if it's enacted. getting america back to work, lockdowns easing up across america and new york city eyeing an early june reopening. president trump says he will not shut down the economy again. treasury secretary steven mnuchin is saying there is a strong likelihood that more stimulus will be needed. futures are pointing to a lower open as tensions between the u.s. and china rise. a 139 point loss on the dow futures. for the week so far, the dow, nasdaq, s&p 500 are up about 3% heading into memorial day weekend. the 2020 race, the latest fox news poll shows that former vice president joe biden is ahead of president trump. and when it comes to who voters trust on the economy, the president does have an edge. facebook allowing many employees to work from home permanently. but where they do it might

dagen mcdowell jump in here. dagen: this is the divide between wall street and the inflation of asset prices that benefit the rich and investment banks and wall street by the federal reserve and the suffering across the country with literally almost 1 out of 4 americans who won't work, can't get either a job or enough hours. i've been pointing out that divide for weeks, but, jon, that maybe street lending facility that's widely criticized by the wall street journal editorial page, is it doing anything, sit doing jack for people who need that money? has the fed said anything about it? jon: that's still on the process of rolling it out and one of the more complicated programs that they have to do. like the ppp program, this is one of the hardest things to get to because the fed has to work through banks and dagen, you talked a lot about the problems that banks particularly large banks have had getting money to small businesses because for a lot of the large banks small businesses aren't their customers, a lot of th

dagen mcdowell, what strikes you.d this actually keeps me up at night is that every business, those viable businesses out there, they begin to adjust for slow times. and slow growth begets slow growth and that a conservative stance, a company that is reducing head count or not hiring or cutting wages, not giving people raises, they're that trying to -- they're positioning for tough times ahead but that actually creates those very tough times. that's what turns this into a short-lived downturn, a very deep downturn, or into something that could be much more lasting. and these are the conversations that are going on in businesses big and small of oh, we've been running very tight, very low cost. should we continue to do that because we don't know when a vaccine is coming. that's why when you listen to the president and interview the president, that's why it is so important that he does try to remain optimistic. he's not -- you know, he's not exaggerating but he needs to remind people that we are going to come back, when

dagen mcdowell, your reaction.k it for breakfast, lunch and dinner. i'll hope he's like from raising arizona instead of from con air with the worst accept ever. anyway, i love nick cage. maria: i finally watched that show on your recommendation. yeah -- i know, he's good. how about this, the nfl feeling optimistic about the upcoming season. the league released the schedule thursday night during a three hour telecast on the nfl network. opening day is september 10th. mark, your reaction. >> give us sports, please. i've already binge watched everything including the tiger king. i've got nothing left. so we need sports back. looks like games are going to be played in home stadiums but with social distancing in place. i'm a cleveland browns fan. according to the browns you're looking at even if you're with your family, there's going to be three empty seats between you. regardless, when there's nothing else to do, every sunday is going to be super bowl sunday for these teams from a commercial revenue standpoint. so now

i am dana perino with jesse watters, juan williams, greg gutfeld and dagen mcdowell. it's 5:00 in new york city and this is "the five." the president making an announcement moments ago at a white house event saying that he has been taking hydroxychloroquine for about a week and a half now. >> the front line workers, many, many are taking it. i happen to be taking it. i happen to be taking it. hydroxychloroquine. >> reporter: to the white house doctor recommend you take it? speak with a white house doctor did recommend grady said would you like it? i'd like to take it. i would like the people of this nation to feel good. i don't want them being sick and there's a very good chance this has an impact so i'm taking it. the zinc and the hydroxy. all i can tell you is sophia i seem to be okay. >> dana: the president adding that he's had no symptoms for coronavirus and is taking the drug for precautionary measures. news breaking recently. greg, let me go to you because you cover this. you've talked about this drug for many weeks. we all read about it. hopes and controversies

it's down dagen mcdowell. dagen: i was looking how high is up year to date and that's why my head is down like that. a stock -- it's up 12% year to date. that's the year to date reform, so the fact that we are in the worst economic imenvironment that we have seen -- environment that we have seen since great depression, bankruptcy, nieman marcus, j. crew and is it any way to know at this point what the retail landscape knows looks like even 6 months from now. maria: garrett. garrett: it's very difficult and we know there's going to be a lot of distress, that's why you have seen bankruptcies and jp penny most recently and really any other retail related to shopping malls is going to be facing a lot of distress and that's why we like companies like wal-mart, cosco, we think those companies will be winners long-term. we view them as pandemic winners and they will pick up market share and particularly higher market discretionary categories where they make a lot of their margin. maria: well, we will get more informa

maria: interesting that this is now front and center, dagen mcdowell, your take?en: well, twitter did warn president trump's team on may 20th about putting misleading statements out. the issue was that he tweeted that michigan had sent absentee ballots ahead of the primaries, absentee ballots to people, michigan had sent applications for absentee ballots and president trump then deleted the tweet. however, if twitter is going to fact-check the president, maybe you ought to get fact-check right because twitter is relying on news organizations with questionable of getting well, history right particularly with the russia collusion that was told to the american people, digress. but that statement appears to conflate automatic all mail voting with regard to nebraska, nebraska did send mail applications to every voter in response to the pandemic but the state didn't automatically send ballots. this is in the the wall street journal today and in the fact-check, fact-checkers say there's no evidence that mail-in ballots are leaked to voter fraud. here is a quote for you,

also with me, dagen mcdowell, kristin anderson and steve forbes.for being here. >> thanks, maria. good to be with you. maria: i want to get into this china issue. you've got the china thrift fund, you and senator marco rubio have been calling on senator de santis to stop investing state employee pensions in china. you've been outspoken on the issue. i too have been outward on this issue, given the fact that it's pretty obvious that the chinese companies have raised trillions of dollars from our capital markets and yet they don't follow the rules that every other company does when it comes to auditing their earnings and balance sheet. >> yeah, that's the amazing thing, maria. our capital is actually building this frankenstein that seeks -- and the chinese communist party that seeks to dominate in their words, dominate a new global world order with china calling the shots and america subservient. i'm glad you raised that issue with the president. i called him about it a few weeks ago and have introduced legislation that basically would stop our feder

greg: we are out of time, thinking to dagen mcdowell, joey jones, tyrus, kat timpf, i love i'm jon scott. see you tomorrow. [♪] jesse: welcome to "watters world." i'm jesse watters. >> two weeks ago we are probably first administration in modern history who hasn't had a major scandal in the white house. jesse: what a joke. the obama people got caught this week and it looks like it went straight to the top. remember the obama officials who told the country trump was a traitor. >> the great case officer, vladimir putin. he knows how top handle an asset and that's what he's doing with the president. >> do you think president trump is anne a russian asset? >> i think it's possible. >> he has take and series of step that if vladimir putin dictated them he couldn't have mirrored any more effectively. jesse: these people were lying on national television. they knew they were lying but they didn't think they would get caught. when house republicans put them under oath every single one of them said they had seen know evidence of collusion. ric grenell, acting director of national intelligence rel

greg: we are out of time, thinking to dagen mcdowell, joey jones, tyrus, kat timpf, i love jon: america continues after weeks of the nation was in coronavirus, is it happening too soon or not soon enough. good evening, i'm jon scott, 2- hour edition of the fox report. ♪ jon: global coronavirus cases now 4 million with more than 278,000 deaths. in the u.s. more than 1.3 million confirmed infections and nearly 80,000 people died but that has helped experts concern about possible spread in infections as states are trying to reopen their economies. the question is it too soon or not soon enough? we have fox team coverage here and overseas with amy kellogg in florence italy and david spunt at the white house, we begin with christina coleman in los angeles. christina: and we've averaged 239 deaths with the past 3 days. the u.s. will hit 100,000 deaths in about 11 days but, again, tests samples corrected from the nasal cavity with swabs. the test can provide results within minutes. medical experts say it's easier to manufacture and analyze compared to current tests. good thing considered the w

i'm dagen mcdowell, in for maria bartiromo. it's friday, may 22nd. your top stories 6:00 a.m.g kong, introducing legislation to crack down on protests, sending shock waves around the world. president trump promising a strong response if it's enacted. getting america back to work, lockdowns easing up across america and new york city eyeing an early june reopening. president trump says he will not shut down the economy again. treasury secretary steven mnuchin is saying there is a strong likelihood that more stimulus will be

we hope you will j dagen: good morning, i'm dagen mcdowell in for maria bartiromo who is out on assignmentng areas reopen prematurely the u.s. could see spikes in coronavirus cases that could turn into outbreaks meantime democrats unveiling 1 trillion relief package and round of money going directly to americans. that's more than double the stimulus we've already had. a vote expected in the house. there's pushback over concerns of growing debt. there are signs that china is

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." ♪ >> greg: hi, i am greg gutfeld with dana perino, juan williams, jesse watters and dagen mcdowell"the five." at last nights town hall, donald trump was asked about the media. i bet he likes that question. i'm not sure, but i think he liked that question. >> i think guy like that question. i'm not sure but i think i like that question. i appreciate it. i appreciate the prayers very much. i am greeted with a hostile press the likes of which no president has ever seen. the closest would be that gentleman right up there, they always said lincoln, nobody got treated worse than lincoln. i believe i am treated worse. i feel that if i was kind to them, i would be walked off the stage. they come at you with the most horrible, horrendous, biased questions. you see it. 94 95% of the presses hostile. >> greg: i know, i know. lincoln's run didn't end well but trump was referring to assaults by the media, not by disgruntled actors, although they are easily confused. the danger with asking trump about the prizes that it creates a never ending media spiral, the media attacks trump. trump fights b

here today, fox business anchor dagen mcdowell. attorney and fox news contributor emily compagno. fox news contributor jessica tarlov. and joining us, fox news contributor guy benson, host of "the guy benson show" on fox news radio. he is "outnumbered" in the center box. great to see everybody today. the six hey, harris. >> harris: dagen, i will start with you on where we are with the protests overnight, this heating up. the calls for justice. >> dagen: i'm not going to call into question anybody's expression of rage, because that is what people feel. it is unfortunate what we've seen. it's not the first time it damages communities. i think when we talk about justice people want to see all four officers charged criminally in some way. with the fbi looking at this as a federal crime, certainly emily can speak to this, but the justice department and prosecutors would have to reach a pretty tough standard of proof or a burden of proof to establish that an officer not only was committed murder or was accessory to a murder, but that they would have to establish an officer acted with ex

we begin with dagen mcdowell, let's start with the numbers and then we will start with the people behind numbers. just how big is this? i'm sure you've been reporting business news for a long time and never seen anything like it? >> i've never seen anything like this, never seen lives and families upended like this, absolutely devastated. to put in perspective, that 20 and a half million jobs were lost in one month, that wipes out a decade, ten years of job gains. in the number of people not working is actually significantly higher than that. the labor department said that many of those should have been counted as a temporary layoff but were instead employed but absent from work. so that would actually take the unemployment rate up to close to 20% and i look at this number called the u6 number, people who were unemployed but also underemployed who want more hours and can't get them, and that number came in at 22.8%. so of the people in the labor force nearly 1 out of 4 americans are not on the job at this point. but i want to point out if there is anything good in this, much of the numbe

dagen mcdowell, kat timpf, tyrus. saturday, may 9, 10:00 p.m. watch it or i'll never forgive you.ana: all right, this fedex driver in indiana, he went the extra mile. he went to deliver packages at liz's house. he gets there in that little girl comes and it's her birthday and she was expecting a present. that's not what it was. it was something for her dad. so joe went all the way to dairy queen, bought cupcakes for her, brought them back for the little girl. he said he thought of birthdays that his sons had and wanted to make sure she had a great day. great things happening across america and we can feel real great about that. >> juan: emily, that was the president yesterday. welcome to the saturday edition of "fox & friends" of the president trump reassuring americans we will get through covid-19 together nor states easing restrictions today as protests are planned in several cities this weekend over lockdown orders. katie: welcome to "fox & friends," you guys. happy saturday. great to be griff and

you said there was a possibility of mcdowell, and i am not aware of any. >> thank you. can you tell us what the state has bought with the federal cares act money, or are you waiting to spend some of the $1.25 billion? me walk you: let through that a little bit. we got a letter, or a letter is coming out from the senate dems. we are trying the best we can to and solicitations from everybody. we welcome talking to anyone , on both sides, it does not matter a bit in the world from the standpoint of additional information. just follow the math. we are going to take all the that wet we have, or obtain, plus all the rules we have to go by, then we will make good decisions. we will make really good decisions on that. , i think to do this the recommendation of the letter the $1.25million of billion that has been sent to us, sent to small businesses. we want to support our small businesses in every fashion, so we will listen. but let's think about this. 500 went to small businesses and 500 went to counties and cities, we will have a bankrupt state, that is all there is to it. to

dagen mcdowell, kat timpf, tyrus. saturday, may 9, 10:00 p.m. watch it or i'll never forgive you. right, this fedex driver in indiana, he went the extra mile. he went to deliver packages at liz's house. he gets there in that little girl comes and it's her birthday and she was expecting a present. that's not what it was. it was something for her dad. so joe went all the way to dairy queen, bought cupcakes for her, brought them back for the little girl. he said he thought of birthdays that his sons had and wanted to make sure she had a great day. great things happening across america and we can feel real great about that. >> juan: emily, we're going to have to ask your forbearance. that's it for us. we will see you back here mond monday. >> bret: good evening, i am bret baier. breaking, two major stories, new indications of the political battle lines of the next coronavirus rescue plan. and more devastating unemployment news because of the outbreak. the april jobless rate was 14.7%, the highest since the great depression. 20.5 million people lost their jobs last month. nearly 33.5 m

last word, dagen mcdowell >> dagen: trying to highlight the good works of private businesses and corporations. good luck getting the democrats to belch out one good word about gilead or abbott labs, pfizer working on a vaccine, roche with the antibody test on honeywell today. who told these democrats that standing atop the misery and suffering and hardship of tens of millions of americans would make them look bigger? and more powerful? that is the most vile political ploy in a liberal lagoon of sewage. >> jesse: yeah, i had think the democrats have a policy and politics wrong on this. we'll see. coming up, red states took a lot of heat for opening back up but now blue states are getting a total free pass for doing the exact same thing. today, we're adapting to staying home and finding new ways to take of ourselves. but you can still screen for colon cancer. because when caught in early stages, it's more treatable. so, don't wait. cologuard is colon cancer screening done at home. you can request it from home too. ask your prescriber if cologuard is right for you... or learn more about online p

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here today, fox business anchor dagen mcdowell. fox news contributor, jessica tarlov. joining us today, for her press secretary to president george w. bush and fox news contributor, ari fleischer. he is "outnumbered," as we say. great to see you, everybody. we are awaiting along side for our beloved melissa francis, who will join us just moments away. let's get this conversation started about, ari, all of the complications and the difficulties with the timing of going to michigan, as they are literally underwater in parts o. >> ari: yeah, i hope the president will be able to return to midland, where the flooding is eerie and the president has a pattern of going to places where there have been national disasters, so it wouldn't surprise me if he does. as for the politics of it, so be it. the president's job today is to actually go show a success story. how america, just like we did in world war ii, geared up to be the arsenal of democracy. we are now the manufacturer of the ppe for coronavirus. it really is a tribute to america's private sector, how we have been able to

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it's going to be a lot more trying to fake it's going to be in the need over the next year jones mcdowell thank you very much indeed stephanie supposes for the weather but if it don't you want us about to be coming to us from the moon there. now lebanon's government and the country's banking system and mired in nation's worst financial crisis in history both blame each other for the economic downturn which sparked mass protests in october and neither can agree on the best way forward saying what a report from beirut. protesters have said higher to banks in months of anger over informal capital controls that prevent depositors from accessing their savings their devalued by the day but banks say they are not to blame they lent money to the state which hasn't been repaid bankers say they are fighting for survival as a government plan to rescue the economy is focused on restructuring the banking sector instead of restructuring the debt they want to. bankrupt every bank and then they deposit the. come on disappearing a little and for that your deposit the banking sector are practical reasonabl

i am dana perino with jesse watters, juan williams, greg gutfeld and dagen mcdowell. it's 5:00 in new york city and this is "the five." the president making an announcement moments ago at a white house event saying that he has been taking hydroxychloroquine for about a week and a half now. >> the front line workers, many, many are taking it. i happen to be taking it. i happen to be taking it. hydroxychloroquine. >> reporter: to the

space junk into an official spacecraft cemetery 4000 kilometers east of new zealand well jonathan mcdowell who is an astronomer at the harvard smithsonian center for astrophysics he says it appears the chinese had no plan in place to bring the rocket back to earth under control. they have been getting better about a good space that is a mess. and they used to launch from central china and the lower stages of their rockets would fall on villages in china so this launch was actually done from a new spaceport in hind an island that watches over the ocean so that safer i'm forced to leave the rocket stage once in orbit either they didn't have a plan to bring it down or 'd whatever plan they had didn't work and i may have really been forthcoming about this not just the problem of things falling down on us it's it's things hitting each other in orbit and they're all going in all different directions at 18000 miles an hour. so we're really at the point now where we need some stronger international controls on how this happens and you know it started off with space is big there's only a few satell

rocket was launched from one chinese space launch center in heinen province jonathan mcdowell is an astronomer add the harvard smithsonian center for astrophysics he says stronger international controls are needed to prevent similar situations they have been getting better and that the good space citizens. and they used to launch from central china and the lower stages of their rockets would seoul and villages in china so this launch was actually going to be a new story sports in high and an island the villages over the ocean so that's safer unfortunately they're the rocket stage once in orbit either they didn't have a plan to bring it down or 'd whatever plan they had didn't work so we're really at the point now where we need some stronger international controls on how this happens and that is it for this news hour this stay with us i'm going to be back in just a few minutes with more of the day's news i hope you'll join me then by. from fossil fuels to modern day renewable as societies develop the energy demands increase requiring innovative solutions to meet such to moms as a global power d

stuart: my best to daddy mcdowell. good morning, maria. good morning, everyone. this is a great way to start the week, isn't it? a very solid stock market rally. this weekend, the recovery really picked up steam and it really helps your money. look at that, the dow up about what, 780 points at the opening bell. the s&p up 84. the nasdaq composite up close to 200 points. this, this is what gave the market a clear boost. moderna. they report very exciting results for its vaccine, phase one trial in humans. we've got a lot more on this coming up in just a moment. but this is a very positive development. when this was announced the stock rally that had already been in place gained a lot more ground. one more positive indicator for you. that's the price of oil. we are back to $32 a barrel. we are driving again, we are emerging from a lockdown, demand for gas and oil up and up goes the price. key indicator. >>> now, look at this weekend. all across the country, people were out and about, enjoying the weather and enjoying their freedom, too. there has been some relaxati

dagen mcdowell joining us now from the fox business network.great to have you here this morning. you will look at the massive amount of layoffs, the massive amount of americans that are currently unemployed in this country and the new numbers that come out show the worst may not be behind us. >> still got nearly 3 million people filing for unemployment benefits. if you look at the unemployment claims and people collecting on employment right now, it is at 22.8 million people. and that is also a new record. part of the problem is there has been a backlog and people actually being able to get their unemployment benefits because the state unemployment systems have struggled so mightily. these are people's lives, and they are hankering to get back to work. one of the reason the markets has been weak yesterday and even this morning, the federal reserve chief jay powell pointed out that the highlight is uncertain. the real downside risk is, the longer a lot of these areas of the country should stay shut down, you have businesses that take on a defens

dagen mcdowell? >> i question the wisdom of police officers basically stopping people from surfing in the water in california and breaking up gatherings of people outdoors in new york city, while cars are being broken into on the street. maria: wow. good point. dagen, lee, jon, great to see you. have a great day. that does it for us. "varney & company" begins right now. stu, take it away. stuart: good morning, maria, and dagen, and good morning everyone. i know it's monday morning. it's supposed to be glum but in fact, i am in a great mood. i know the market's going to open lower and i will get to that in a moment but right now, we're looking at some positives. for a start, a gallup poll taken in late april shows increasing support for the president and his virus policy. his approval rating is up six points in a couple of weeks to 49%. i'm not sure what you are seeing but 49% approval for the president. his support among independents gone straight up despite the intense opposition of the media and th

temple taggart mcdowell alleges trump, quote, kissed me directly on the lips when she met him at themiss usa pageant in 1997. cathy heller claims trump approached her table at m mar-a-la mar-a-lago, introduced himself, and forcibly kissed her at a mother's day brunch with her family in the 1990s. karena virginia alleges trump groped her as she waited for her car at the u.s. open in 1998. tasha dixon and bridget sullivan, the two miss usa contestants claim trump walked into their dressing rooms where female participants were changing and achange i ing. melinda mcgillavay said he touched her buttock. natasha stoynoff said he kissed her at mar-a-lago. jennifer and guliet said he kissed them without consent. samantha holvey, miss usa con see contestant who said trump inspected the pageant contestants individually. ninni laaksonen said trump groped her backstage at david letterman in 2006. jessica drake accused trump of grabbing and kissing her without her permission. summer zervos claims trump assaulted her during a 2007 meeting. cassandra searles said trump treated herself and other fem