england patriots. fox and friends first continues right now. rob: you are watching fox and friends first on friday morning. jillian: we begin with a fox news alert, covid-19 is more contagious than originally thought. the white house taskforces it did not realize how fast the virus could spread until it hit the state. rob: todd pyro has more on the breaking task force research. reporter: doctor deborah burke telling fox news initial data out of china didn t allow us to fully prepare for what we are facing now. we didn t know how it was spreading, the surface contact, we didn t know how, the bottom line is we didn t know how contagious it was and i think
days, as having come to an agreement, a phase one agreement on ending the trade deal. but what is interesting to me, and i think might be interesting later today, to the markets, is china didn t call it a deal. the vice premiere didn t refer to it as a deal and china didn t refer to it as a deal and they said they were happy about progress having been made and still needed to work on that. and interestingly, as well, i was in the oval office on friday, when the president was announcing this development, you also didn t hear secretary mnuchin calling it a deal. he said that we re working, more work needs to be done. the president said it would take three, four, five weeks for an agreement to be put on paper. there are a lot of question marks as to whether or not they got very far in sort of coming to a deal and i think that is, i many that is something that markets will be watching today and the coming weeks as to whether or not it actually turns into something. i think a lot of peopl
record is not in step with the united states? i it has not come up in terms of people asking me about it. nor has our record of human rights abuses come up either. you know, people in china didn t ask me about, you know, people owning ar-15s and knowing each other down in a mall. the world is a complex place and there is more grid black and white. recall. jedediah: that s really disgusting to watch him make any sort of comparison between our human rights record and that of china. i have to think so many people around the country, i don t care where you stand on the political spectrum heard that and say did he really say that out loud? outrageous. pete: when donald trump says nancy pelosi hates the united states of america. is he talking like people like steve kerr blame our country first. nba giving carte blanche to players to trash the united states but you can t say a thing about china running
so insistent on foreign policy and american rights, you look at them and say how can you sit in front of cameras and say i don t know much about china when you are a former mvp, and intelligent human being and having training camp with the nba with concentration camps for 1 million people in northern china. humanitarian violations are happening in china that are more severe than america. anyone with a pulse and the brain, this is hypocritical. shannon: we will talk about it. people in china didn t ask me about people owning a are 15s and mowing each other down in a mall. i say he is out of his skull, i say that in love. for somebody to make that comparison, i would say i hope
[overlapping talking]. tucker: her news story is contradicted by her previous accounts. has she squared the two? no, she is doubling down. well, i told this story a few times. and even worse the media is running to the fence. the washington post and others are running stories, listen, pregnant women were fired in the 70s for being pregnant. no doubt that happened, but that doesn t happen to elizabeth warren. just like there were actual american indians but elizabeth warren is not wont of them. that s the problem. we are not alleging this didn t happen, it just doesn t map to elizabeth warren. tucker: she should declare that coverage as a contribution to her campaign. also of the democrats. it s ridiculous. story number 1. [laughing].