breaking news overnight. israel launches another barrage of air strikes on the gaza strip. it comes on the heels of the deadliest day of the recent conflict so far. the question is will world leaders be able to negotiate a cease-fire. remarks from liz cheney after she was ousted from republican leadership for speaking out against donald trump. the question is what does cheney think about the lawmaker who replaced her as conference chair. and pushback against the cdc guidance relaxing the mask mandate for those vaccinated. the question is did health officials move too fast? it s way too early for this. blache blac he . good morning, i m kasie hunt on this monday, may 17th, welcome to way too early a show starting with breaking news, israel says it destroyed nine miles of militant tunnels and the homes of hamas commander, and gaza residents are awakened as what is described as the heaviest attacks since fighting broke out a week ago. rockets reigned down on the sout
todd: kentucky senator rand paul. jillian: fox news obtaining a photo of the disturbing message. jackie ibanez joins us with the latest. a package containing that letter and suspicion of white powder was delivered to his kentucky home monday. fox news obtaining this picture that shows paul wearing a neck brace and cast around. hard to see but if you look closely there s an image of a gun pointed directly at paul s head. at the biden of the letter a threat reads i will finish what your neighbor started. implying death to the kentucky republican after he was attacked by his neighbor in 2017. in a statement paul says i take the threat seriously. i have been targeted multiple times now, this after richard marx tweeted if i ever meet rand paul s neighbor i m going to hug him and by him as many drinks as he can consume. he described his comments et al. wisecrack. senator paul blaming big tech saying it is reprehensible twitter allow celebrities to advocate for violence against me
sue big tech. will michigan governor gretchen whitmer revoked the rule. i don t know that there is a lot more for me to add other than they have pretty good pizza. this used to be one of the crown jewels of austin. as you can see i m tent city. it has never been like this before. i m a democrat but i have learned my lesson. i m freaked out. something needs to be done. brian: here we go. welcome to the morning. and we start with a fox news alert. kentucky senator rand paul receives a death threat, ainsley. ainsley: it is unbelievable. fox news exclusively obtaining this photo of the chilling message that was sent to his house where his family lived along with a suspicious white powder. steve: how did this all start and what s the back story? griff jenkins live in d.c. with how the senator is responding senate and what started it. that s right, steve, ainsley and brian good morning. chilling and far from the first death threat senator rand paul has gotten. if you
with us this sunday, may 2nd. thanks for waking up with us. christi, always a pleasure to be with you as well. i m so glad you re here for us. so take a look at this. and i don t know if you can hear the applause. but we have visual confirmation of the crew 1 resilience capsule. there s excellent news. we are splash down. it s funny how he said i don t know if you could hear the applause, that s pretty much all we could hear, the four astronauts just made a safe return to earth. this was a record breaking mission in space, folks, the spacex crew splashed down safely in the gulf of mexico. you see there, here s the capsule, it was pulled out of the water, and it made its way to the recovery vessel, and then here in just a moment, as we get to the video, you re going to see the commander of crew one, there he is, stepping on to earth for the first time since getting to the international space station back in november. that is the longest time ever in space for a u.s. cr
reached a deal by lowing payments to $300 a week and extending checks to the end of september. asked if he was exploiting the crisis of the pandemic. this country faces the worst crises we have experienced in this country. this is what the american people want. even stretching into sunday, the congressional budget office says the third of the cash in this bill, $700 billion will not be spent this year, instead next year. welcome to fox and friends this morning. the senate was still voting, they have been voting, knows what they are voting on at this point, republicans proposing a number of amendments, a lot of details, manchin got the unemployment number to 300 instead of 400, the $15 minimum wage defeated but this is what it looks like to not let a crisis go to waste, a $2 trillion bill, the 6 bill, to this money will never reach the pockets of americans during covid-19 and i did little research on the background, the obamacare bill wasn t even $1 trillion over 10 years an