>> lee greenwood signature bourbon whiskey.s. it is memorial day weekend. this is opinion, to me it marks the end of covid's grip on our lives. let's take you to the jersey shore where we find lydia who. the masks are off, new jersey lifted the indoor mask mandate today. they are feeling pretty good down there? >> reporter: they are feeling great down here on the jersey shore in every park on the boardwalk. i don't see a mask insight from where i am standing. the ocean is roaring, making for a great memorial day weekend, dropping the indoor mask mandate for in vaccinated individuals, the owner of layingusa lounge. you have a restaurant on the boardwalk. you made it through the pandemic after a big moment to celebrate. how are you feeling on memorial day? >> feeling sunny. it is awesome up here and we are glad things are shifting. the staff is ready to rock. >> reporter: you like a return to normal? >> the last year and a half, to see where we came from and where we are now and we are excited for a busy summer and lots of guests

jillian: god bless the usa by lee greenwood.now about you, but every time i hear this song it gives me the chills. todd: every time. lee greenwood will be on "fox & friends" later this morning and i believe he's promoting a

jillian: god bless the usa by lee greenwood.'t know about you, but every time i hear this song it gives me the chills. todd: every time. lee greenwood will be on "fox & friends" later this morning and i believe he's promoting a bourbon for which the proceeds go to helping our men and women in uniform. jillian: good job reading those notes. good morning, you're watching "fox & friends first." i'm jillian mele. todd: i'm todd piro. we honor our fallen heroes who gave their lives for our fleam and happening in -- freedom and happening in washington, president biden and vice president harris will mark memorial day by attending the wreath laying ceremony at arlington national cemetery. jillian: david spunt joins us from washington as the president puts world leaders on notice during a speech honoring his late son. >> reporter: president biden is in wilmington, delaware where he spent the weekend honoring his late son, army major beau biden. he will head to arlington national cemetery. this is a tradition going back decades. arlington

with my lee greenwood signature whiskey, vodka and bourbon. ere was beautiful soldier valley bourbon lee greenwood signed dog tag adorned bottle of whiskey which i might have sampled and went down very smoothly. it's great, lee. six charity proceeds benefit from this -- six different veterans charities. >> yes. go on the website soldier valley.com. see what those six concern charities are i told them from the very beginning, first, i have respect for dave and jeff who started the company. one is marine and one is an army veteran. that was their initiative from the beginning. they weren't just going to take the money. they wanted to make sure that they helped other veterans that got out of the service and they needed a little help. that's what we are all about. lawrence: i think you are going to perform for us today, lee, god bless the u.s.a. >> i will. i'm home for memorial day. >> the last six areas i have sang at charlotte the nascar race because of the pandemic in 2020 of course, that was pushed aside and the same thing for this year. so i'm

that's lee greenwood with his beautiful wife kim and they are just an amazing couple.o much for these veterans. here is one of the veterans, look. he was burned. he served our country. here is another man who lost his legs helping a hero. this organization gave him an $100,000. brian mast, from the great state of florida, gave them $100,000 of his own money and they use that money. one organization tunnel 2 towers is building that man a house in south carolina. and then this organization, lee greenwood's helping a hero, used brian mast's money to give him a pool and pool house for his kids because he is in a wheelchair and if his wife is not at home and the kids want to swim they outfitted this pool so he would be able to use it and his kids would be able to use in a safe environment. lawrence: the congressman underunderstands. he serves us in the capitol. is he a veteran and someone that cares deeply about our country. good to see him giving back. after he already gave gave enough to this country. ainsley: richard childress nascar dale earnhardt's best friend he and h

. >> you have to break out lee greenwood at the end of the statements. a global issue with the pandemic and the united states is now sending vaccines to other countries that need them, which can help. but we're not beyond this yet. >> i didn't say we were. >> i know. i think it's important to keep in mind that i think we have yet to even scratch the surface of the conversation around the mental health damage that has happened just in our country alone, young people, school age, college age, all of us in light of this pandemic. that will be sort of the next challenge here as america looks to get back to whatever new normal there is. >> you bring that up. willie, mika brings up the mental health problem, the mental health challenges that we face. this is something obviously that we've been talking about for a long time here. i hate to sound like a broken record, but that's why state and local officials need to listen to dr. fauci. they need to listen to the cdc. they need to listen to people like dr. scott gottlieb who is saying lift the mask mandates. get

greenwood. host of "into america" podcast trymaine lee is in tulsa where observances are taking place right now.ok back, and a day to look ahead as well. what are folks telling you today? >> reporter: yasmin, thank you for having me. you know, history is messy and complicated under the best of circumstances. then you add in the kind of violence that we saw here in tulsa 100 years ago this weekend and it becomes even more so. the next generation has been carrying this burden with them for a very long time and quite frankly, it aches, yasmin. i spoke to a number of them. let's take a listen. >> houses destroyed. businesses destroyed. you know, yeah, we're resilient, we rebuild. i can just imagine how they felt. i imagine where we would be had it not happened, had it not -- our families been destroyed. >> repair me. repair me as a person, repair me as a citizen, whatever that takes, whatever it looks like. we're talking about going on four generations of tragedy. >> reporter: the what ifs here, yasmin, are still plaguing folks who didn't get the opportunity to inherit any of the wealth of their anc

the riot destroyed the city's greenwood area known as black wall street, which was one of the richest black communities at the time. my friend and colleague trymaine lee with more. how is the community doing 100 years later, and remind us of what happened and what an important piece of american history this is, even if so many people don't know it or didn't learn it in school. >> good morning, thank you very much for having me, stephanie. as you mentioned, 100 years ago this weekend in 1921 the greenwood community, one of the most wealthy black communities in this country, what attacked by a white mob. an estimated 300 or so killed, 10,000 left homeless. the white mob literally proclaimed over this community and dropped bombs on churches and homes and schools. others were gunned down in the streets. largely because this community was too prosperous for their own good. if you ask this community how they're doing now, in some ways they're grappling with the violence of 1921 and violence of jim crow, violence of segregation, urban renewal, gentrification and so on. but this community has resolve. i met up with them over the past few weeks and it's striki

later, the greenwood community will hold a candlelight vigil, and president biden will head to tulsa tomorrow to meet with three living survivors of the attack. joining me new, tremaine leeedible, last night. what is one of the things that surprised you the most with some of the folks that you've been speaking to? >> reporter: thank you for having me again. one of the things that surprised me most about tulsa and reckoning with the past, just how complicit all the forces have been about blurring the story. all the evidence that disappeared from the police department, from the library. folks didn't talk about this. it was part of a coordinated effort. and the black community, the descendents of the survivors, who didn't want to talk about it because of the nature of the trauma. and many in the community didn't hear about it or intentionally buried it. that level of complicity was surprising. i met a guy in a diner in oklahoma, he said he never heard about it. he said, i grew up in tulsa, there was a state law where you had to learn about state history, and he never heard about it. that's surprising. >> not to that level, but what is happening now in this country, when it

greenwood, one of the most affluent black communities at the time, often referred to as black wall street. hundreds of buildings were burned to the ground. some 300 black tulsans were killed. tremaine lee they prepare to commemorate this anniversary. this event is getting renewed attention in recent years. what's the feeling been like leading up to this anniversary? >> thanks so much for having me. i've been talking to folks who are descendants of survivors and people in this community feel a great sense of gratefulness for being able to cobble together community, but there's a sense of wait and trauma. 1921 undermined the well-being of this community. in an instant all that wealth was destroyed and families were unable to pass it down to the next. while they're trying to move forward and commemorate the past, in so many ways they're connected to the past. i talked to many people. let's take a listen. >> you didn't read it in a book. you didn't see it in a movie. you witnessed it yourself in reality. history can make your heart bleed. >> repair me. repair me as a person, repair me as a citizen. we're talking about going on four generations of tragedy. >> tragedy. four generations of tr

greenwood. what was taken from them. and their fight to be made whole. >> joining me now from tulsa, trymaine lee, who did that amazing reportinghed it into public consciousness in the last few years. how do you understand that that happened? >> thanks so much for having me, chris. as you mentioned, this is a story that had been buried for a hundred years. the powers that be in this community were complicit. you had newspaper articles disappearing from the library. you had troves of photographs with the evidence literally disappear from the police station. the black lives matter movement especially, and the killings of black people by the state, i think people were focussing in. then you had terrence crutcher shot and killed here by a white police officer. then you had hbo's "watchmen" which dramatized the terrible days in 1921 when so many people were killed. this is wild, it almost seems like it's fantasy, but they literally bombed this community from the sky and shot people from the sky, right? burned houses, shot women, children, and men. on the one hand it's hard to wrap your mind around the sheer level of violence. what's

greenwood neighborhood. it was then known as black wall street. they killed hundreds, displaced thousands and decimated what was one of the most prosperous black communities in the entire country. let's go to tremain leecellent and i know that you spoke with members of that community about this tragic event of a hundred years ago. what are you hearing predominantly from them? what is your takeaway? >> reporter: alex, thank you so much for having me. when you spend any amount of time here talking to those from this community, you begin the realize that the space between the past and the present is very small and that the ripples of what happened back in 1921 on those two terrible days, may 31st and june 1st, are still being felt today and the people in this community are carrying that inheritance and that burden, not the least of which, you think about the violent economic dispossession that these people experienced. but again, i've been talking to folks on the ground here. >> you didn't read it in a book. you didn't see it in a movie. you witnessed it yourself in reality. history can make your heart bleed. >> repair me. repair me as a person, a citizen, whatever that takes, whatever it looks like. we'

this story is about the people of greenwood, what was taken from them and their fight to be made whole. >> joining me now from tulsa is trymaine leeent, it forward and read about it but it was so obscure for so long and then something rented into public consciousness in a way in the last few years. how do you understand how that happened? >> thank you so much for having me, chris. as you mentioned this is a story that has been buried for 100 years. the powers that be in this community were complicit, the white powers were complicit, you had newspaper articles disappearing from the libraries, you had photographs disappear from the police station. i think in the wake of the black lives matter movement especially after the killings of black people by the state, i think people started focusing in. and then you had another person shot and killed by police officer, got the watch men who traumatized that day, those terrible days 1921 when so many people were killed. let's not forget and this is wild, it almost seems like it is fantasy, but they bombed this community from the sky and shot people from the sky, right? burned houses, shot wo