Responders and those on the front line, police, fire, ems, doctors, nurses, thank you. Thank you for my dad and the firefighters. Rob thats cute stuff there. A message of love and appreciation for frontline workers from america. Fox friends first starts right now. Good morning, youre watching Fox Friends First on this monday morning. Im carley shimkus. Rob im rob schmidt. We begin with a fox news alert. Today, some states will begin taking the first steps to reopen. While some say its too soon, protesters say its about time. Rob todd piro is live to break down when states will be ready to enter into phase one. Todd. Carley and rob, good morning to you. These phases, one, two and three are guidelines for states with governors having discretion to determine when they want to open these at their own pace. Now, under phase one, employers should encourage telework, return their workforce in stages, minimize nonessential travel, and consider special accommodations for vulnerable personnel. I
Have been protesting in iran for the past couple of days protesting both the shootdown in the iranian coverup of that shootdown stooges of the United States. Just for good measure he added that European Countries were contemptible u. S. Servants. Clearly, khamenei was trying to regain control over the narrative after these troubling events in iran and in the region for the past couple of weeks. If anybody was expecting a conciliatory note, they did not come through. Sandra and bill . Bill we will see what happens. From, leading our coverage today. The speaker we have asked for four fact witnesses. They are not democrats, they are the president s men. The top advisors will be appointed. The houses hour is over. The senates time is at hand. Sandra after weeks of delays, the impeachment trial of the president officially underway in the senate. The battle over witnesses is only heating up. Complete coverage of it all for you this morning, and just moments we wer we will hear fror federal p
5 00 in the morning here on the u. S. East coast. We appreciate you joining us. Our top story, u. S. President trump offering a new reason why he authorized the killing of irans top general. Friday, he attended a Fund Raising Event at this maralago resort and gave minutebyminute details of the u. S. Operation that killed irans top military commander. They said, sir, and this is from, you know, cameras that are miles in the sky. Theyre together, sir. And they said they had 2 minutes, 11 seconds, no emotion. They have 2 minutes and 11 seconds to live, sir. Theyre in the car. Theyre in an Armored Vehicle going. Sir, they have approximately one minute to live, sir, 30 seconds, 10, 9, 8 all of a sudden, boom. Theyre gone, sir, cut him off. I said where was this guy . Thats the last i remember. Listen to what President Trump said about soleimani shortly before that and what led him to order the drone strike. That shook up the world because he was supposed to be invincible. He was saying bad
she looks forward to celebrating the lsu tigers at the white house but to lsu s reiss that wasn t enough, of course, she had to imply there was a racial component. i m not going to lie to you, i don t accept their apology. i said what i said and like, you can t go back on certain things that you say. they can have that spotlight. we ll go to the obamas. we ll go see michelle. we ll see barack. laura: in the end no one here comes out looking good. joining me fox news contributor and founder of outkick, clay travis. clay, this is just another example, is it not, of the left eating its own, because of this racial animosity and kind of entitlement that s been created by the left. well, it could have been worse. i want to be clear, dr. jill biden could have called the lsu team breakfast tacos, so she
but they re in it or round of 16 sweet 16. so they re in it. they are the favorite. you know what it is. it s their offense, but san diego state has a tremendous defenses we ve seen has won every game in the tournament by double digits, so i would think they may be able to do that again. i go back with you contour, a allen and of heidfeld. i mean, if you remember those guys when it was i was in the big east. before you were born. you look the men s game. the finals are gonna be great. can we talk about the women s finals because this tournament for the women was. i thought it was the best i ve ever seen. and it was just riveting before during and now after it is, and this is the 50th anniversary of title, nine happy birthday title nine. here s katelyn polantz. this is what america has created an angel reese and the l s u team. i think this is absolutely the greatest. i agree with you, john, the greatest moment for women s sport women s basketball. and i think katelyn polantz will be th