.88. [closing bell rings] we're seeing major fear in this market. what will happen tomorrow? we get a sense with futures tonight, 6:00 p.m. eastern. i will be on twitter live. i let you know how futures trading begins. today, market rout. time for "after the bell." connell: fears of a second wave really slamming into wall street today. stocks plunging throughout the day. as we see a rising number of covid-19 cases in some states. hospitalizations starting to go up in some areas. so we're watching those numbers. we're watching dallas, texas at this hour. president trump just landed a lot of feed. he is about to make announcement ahead after discussion with local leaders. we'll be there as soon as the president's remarks fin. thanks for joining us. i'm connell mcshane. melissa: i'm melissa francis this is "after the bell." the dow closing down 6%. the major averages seeing the biggest selloff since mid-march

are still 34% up from the lows we saw three months ago. remember nasdaq closed at record high above 10,000. that milestone just yesterday. fox business team coverage, blake burman with the latest from the president. we'll kick it off with lauren simonetti on today's selloff. lauren? lauren: melissa it spared almost no one today. investors are still reacting to the federal reserve's cautionary tone about the recovery yesterday, along with the cautionary tone from the pandemic itself as more states report more coronavirus cases. that is raising fears of that second wave of infections as the economy struggles to recover. another 1 1/2 million americans filed for unemployment benefits last week. number have fueled, received aid for two weeks stands at 21 million. stocks that have outperformed as the country reopens are the ones getting hurt the most today, like travel shares. look at some travel names. many of them have doubled sentence their lows in

mid-march. so they still have more selling possible, if you want to look at it that way. look at that, united down 16%. also look here at homebuilders. shares deeply, deeply in the red as fears build that a second wave could hit the real estate recovery that we've seen. take a look on the medical side of things. a rare green arrow more mow derna. it plans to start a late-stage trial for its covid-19 vaccine next month t was only up 13 cents, moderna. it could do that small gain. regeneron begun trials of cocktail of anti-viral drugs for people that don't respond well to vaccines. the overhanging worry of the slow recovery. that took the price of oil down 8% to $36 a barrel. the pullback in prices might

cause shale producers to pull back on their plans to restart production. so in the end of an ugly session, it was the worst day for the dow since the middle of march. it closed down over 18 points. about 50 points off the low of the session. nasdaq well below 10,000, falling for the first time in five days. back to you, melissa. melissa: thanks, lauren. let's bring in scott martin from kingsview asset management. he is also a fox news contributor. he joins us on the phone of the what did you think of the selloff today? >> melissa, it was a long time coming. we got to remember days like this do happen, especially in markets like we've had this year and let's get some perspective as you guys talked about at the beginning of the show. the s&p and nasdaq, are roughly melissa, back where they were at end of may, depending on the index. there was likely some a in this market. with the fact we do have covid

resurgence, the market had a reason to sell and spark that probably lit the fire too the fact came out yesterday an reaffirmed some of those economic challenges that lie ahead. for our money, what we're doing at conditionings view asset, a lot of times this year i still think gold is one of the best bets on the block to make. with the fed backstopping basically everything that the banks have ever lent in the history of the world, that the fact that the treasury is printing trillions of dollars to fix whatever problems are out there, including ones that haven't occurred yet, gold to me is something you should have in your portfolio. it was up surprise or no surprise. >> i want to tell people what they're looking at on the screen, scott, if i can jump in for one second. here is the president who is wheels down air force one at dallas love field. he will have a roundtable coming up in a short time which he called transition to greatness, restoring, rebuilding, and renewing this is happening in

dallas later on this evening. he has remarks at joint fund-raising din are closed to the press. this is him arriving in dallas right now. and scott, let me ask you, you know, some are saying that this we saw today, more about the idea, there was a record yesterday. it is riding the wave of where traders think other traders are going, in the sense that you see a record, you sell your winnings, you know they're going to release more news about the coronavirus cases. we don't know that it is really necessarily a slower recovery. could be more testing is one of the reasons that we're seeing an increase. in other words, you know, it is trying to capture the beta. trying to make money in a market that goes up and down. what do you think about that? >> great call, melissa. as you know from your experience, you mentioned beta, alpha, outperformance you get on some of these stocks eventually turns into beta because everybody does it. it kind of crowds out the trades and crowds them in even as you

said. yes i think some crowded trades are coming off. not to say they won't go back. to your point about covid. more testing, more preparation at hospitals. we have a lot of clients doctors, physicians, melissa, hospitals are worried as they have been. they're more prepared as well. even if there is second coronavirus shock, god help us if there is. but if there is, maybe we'll be aable to be more prepared for it, both economically and socially. melissa: scott martin. thank you for that, connell. connell: let's get, melissa to the virus numbers as country slowly gets back to work. we've seen a number of states reporting spikes in new coronavirus cases. remember the u.s. now also surpassed two million total cases. to fox's jeff paul live in los angeles with details, jeff? reporter: yeah, connell, despite those infection numbers going up many states that are planning to

reopen are moving forward with those plans to reopen. here in california they're going to start operating gyms and campground this while hospitalization numbers are beginning to spike once again. this is the story we're seeing play out across the country in at least 20 states. so those numbers going up. arizona, carolinas, utah, and arkansas find themselves with higher numbers and texas, one of the first places to begin reopening, setting new records for corona related hospitalizations on three state days this week. 2100 patients were admitted yesterday alone. but once hot spot of new york doesn't find itself on this increased cases list. governor andrew cuomo explaining his state is the exception. >> you reopen, number continues to go down. how can that be? because our reopen something different than their reopening. our reopening is based on the numbers.

our reopening is phased. and because new yorkers have been smart, and they have been diligent. reporter: johns hopkins university also predicting 100,000 more deaths linked to the virus by september. beyond the u.s., the virus continues to cause problems around the world. the u.n. economic group says the world right now is going through the deepest recession since the 1930s great depression, saying the global economy could shrink by 6% this year. just announced movie chain amc saying it could have nearly all of its 1000 plus theaters reopened by july, just in time for christopher nolan's premier. connell: jeff paul live in l.a. as u.s. one is landing in dallas. dr. mark mcclellan from duke university center of margolis

center. where he is director. we're checking in right now, wondering how the reopening is going? clearly some investors are concerned. what metric should they be watching most closely to see if another shutdown that might be something that health experts recommend at some point? >> connell, it is important to watch the trends as you have been talking about. there are increasing numbers of cases and increasing numbers of hospitalizations in many states that avoided those big surges at the beginning of this pandemic recall they are year. so new york, new jersey, those states are coming down quickly but in areas where the case rate started out low, they're going up and question to watch are those trends continuing? that lags behind the actual spread of the virus and the other question to ask is, are there further steps that these states can take to slow down that spread so that we don't get up to crisis levels of care. still a lot of excess hospital

capacity in many places but it will be tough for the economy to continue to reopen if these trends continue for long. connell: okay. couple things. you see the president has made his way down the steps of air force one. this is dallas, texas. we're expecting some sort of announcement before his roundtable discussion that should begin shortly. if that happens in our hour we'll bring it to you, the announcement, that is. i don't believe -- kind of a big policy announcement but we'll see what comes out of the president. you're talking about it will be tough to reopen. that reopening process, mark, has started as you know. what concerns you in terms of, what you're seeing? is it some big population center states like arizona and florida? some of the states we're seeing a spike their overall cases are still quite low? >> that's right. their overall cases are low. so that's good news and rate of increase in cases is nothing like, connell, what we saw this spring in places like new york.

so that shows that the steps people are taking around distancing, around wearing masks, around being careful about how long they're in close proximity to lots of other people, those steps are working. they're just not working quite well enough to hold case level steady. so what i would like to see is some more progress on paying attention to these steps that really do seem to work and also more progress on making tests available for people who have symptoms, helping them isolate and then, tracing the cases around them. that is the best alternative to a broader shutdown which i hope we can avoid. connell: okay. let me ask you that as a two-part question as our final question. what odds do you put on some sort of a broader shutdown being recommended again? do you think it is quite unlikely? then on the testing i do want to ask you about that. some are optimistic about economic recovery. we'll tell you reason we're seeing a spike because we're testing more.

what about that? >> i don't think it is just we're testing more. in many of these states it does look like there is community spread. it is continuing to grow but that doesn't mean it is going to continue if we watch the steps that we're taking to prevent spread. so that are things that people and businesses can do around distancing, around masks. it is also more availability of testing, that people who have symptoms, very importantly, for people who do have symptoms if they isolate themselves, avoid spreading to others, if we're able to track down their contacts, their close contacts and prevent spread from there, that is the best alternative to a broader shutdown. i don't think we're going to see anytime soon a national shutdown or anything like that but we could see different regions of the country that start to face real threats to their health care systems having to take steps back. that could happen on regional basis but, connell, these steps we can take now to' void those kinds of steps back from

happening. connell: all right. we'll watch that regionally and i'm sure investors will as well. dr. america mcclellan from duke as the president is now rolling into dallas. melissa. melissa: all right. president trump as you can see on your screen, he is getting set to hold a roundtable discussion in dallas, texas on restoring the u.s. he is expected to address policing and justice disparities across the u.s. we'll bring you any headlines from the president this hour. plus growing movement in silicon valley. microsoft announcing today that the company will not sell facial-recognition technology to police departments, at least in the u.s. microsoft following similar moves by amazon and ibm and joining the fight for change, apple's ceo tim cook announcing today a new racial equity and justice initiative with a 100 million-dollar commitment from the company. cook says the initiative will begin in the u.s. and then it

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♪. connell: so moments from now president trump expected to hold that roundtable event we mentioned in dallas. we saw him getting off the plane. they're all set up for him.

the way they're billing it, it is supposed to be about the rebuilding and revitalization of our country. in back in washington, senate democrats are urging more coronavirus updates delivered from the coronavirus task force on potential of a second wave of the coronavirus. blake burman with more on this. reporter: chuck schumer said senate democrats want to be briefed by dr. anthony fauci and dr. debra about, and coronavirus task force and they want to be briefed by next week. they talk about the case cast increasing and unemployment claims releases this morning. >> the president always interested in himself, not in the good of the country was too quick to sideline the coronavirus task force. to eager to pretend everything was back to normal and better

than ever. the country needs dr. fauci on billboard but the president wants to put him on milk carton. reporter: according to johns hopkins university, 33 states have a testing positivity rate under 5%. these 17 states, plus washington, d.c. are above that. the world health organization uses that figure as benchmark, it gives enough assurances to make informed decisions about reopening. one of the president's top economists today says that is a number that the white house is looking at. >> we said look, for positivity rates tests below 5%. positivity rates are trending down in most places around the country, sadly not the arizona and south carolina which jump out of the data. positivity rates below 5%, there is ample testing for surveillance which makes it a lot easier to have very, very safe places to work. reporter: you've been talking about president as we're looking

at live pictures there. dallas, texas, we anticipate him shortly as he walked off air force one. one of the things that we'll look for, connell and melissa, whether the president puts forth any concrete ideas as it relates to police reform. we have heard from democrats in washington. senate republicans have their ideas as well but the president has not put any specifics yet forward at least as of this point. so the white house has said that it is coming shortly. back to you. connell: and because of that we will go there live for the beginning of his remarks to see what he says. blake, thanks. melissa? melissa: all right. here now to react is charlie hurt, "the washington times" opinion editor and fox news contributor. charlie, what do you think the president needs to achieve today? >> well, i think that you knee, need cautious and welcome cheerleading for the president about the right direction the economy is going. obviously it's a rough day today, and it's a rough path

ahead. when you look at unemployment numbers we're looking at right now, each, every bit of that represents people who are out of work and that is a terrifying thing and a very, very troubling thing but it does look like things are going in the right direction and, you know, the economy is going to determine whether president trump gets another term or not and if people feel like we're going in the right direction, they will give him another shot. if they don't feel like it is going in the right direction, they will give somebody else a chance to try to do something. melissa: you still think it is all about the economy even though we have some really big competing interests right now? i mean there is still concern over the coronavirus, i guess depending who you talk to but we look at that's what the market in part is being blamed on that today as places try to reopen and you try to handicap how much

they will be able to reopen. how good of a job he is doing on that? there is also obviously massive social unrest and you look at the situation in seattle where it seems like the local government there is cooperating with those who want to essentially overthrow the government itself in that area. so, there are some, i mean law and order is huge and health is huge. you still think the economy out weighs those? >> i do believe that at the end of the day the economy is what is going to determine this. obviously, usually elections wind up being about one central thing and certainly security, law and order are going to be vitally important right now but if president, obviously, think about what president trump has been handed. it is only june and the guy has been through impeachment. he has, i'm looking at it from strictly political standpoint in an election year. he is looking at a pandemic, an

economic collapse and now riots. i don't know of a single politician in our history that has endured that, that number of calamities, of plagues, to hit them in an election year and again it is only june but i do believe that the economy, the reason the economy is so important because it underscores, it undergirds people's overall optimism. if they are optimistic about their future it also means that they're optimistic about their security at home and, obviously you know you have democrats are talking about closing police departments and defunding the police which is truly nuts, but i still think that all of that plays into a much larger overall feeling voters have, am i going to be able, am i going to be able to ride this out or not? if they feel like they're going in right direction, that they will, they will if i give him ar

chance. if they don't, they will give joe biden a chance. melissa: i want to explain to people what they're seeing on the screen here because we had been showing you the inside where they're about to have the roundtable but the protesters are at the church, hill recreation center in north dallas, across the street from the church where that roundtable is taking place. our reporter on the ground there casey stegall are there. they are mostly members of the black lives matter movement. many are holding signs say defund the police. no justice, no peace. our reporter on the ground also saying there are a handful of people there in support of president trump and various other on lookers, but they're reporting there that there are a couple hundred people that are standing ready to protest the president when he arrives. charlie hurt. thank you so much for your perspective. i want to tell our audience we'll also bring you the president's comments from dallas as soon as they begin as well. connell? connell: yeah, these protests,

melissa, may be something the president deals with as he gets out and aabout more. the rallies are supposed to start with one in tulsa, oklahoma next week. we'll bring you to dallas. we have other news to cover. delivery apps on the hot seat. we talked a lot about this from restaurants. one owner restaurant owner denver reeling from the pandemic, accusing grubhub diverting sales from his business in a new lawsuit. we'll be right back. as you get older, staying sharp

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♪. melissa: new normal in the skies. airline stocks plummeting today as the industry works to recover from the coronavirus. companies are now adopting new measures to keep passengers safe as they fly. ashley webster joins us now with those details. ashley? ashley: hey, melissa, the pandemic no doubt has decimated the airline industry. this year alone the airlines

could lose a combined $84 billion every day they're burning through $230 million. they need a cure quickly so what can they do to bring back passengers and restore confidence? well, jetblue, southwest and delta already committed to leaving the dreaded middle seat empty for now but they are looking at other solutions. a company called universal motion developed a simple barrier between the two end seats. that offers a decisional tray space at the base as well. that is one option looked at right now. plan bay of france offering something similar, only this time it will have see-through plexiglass dividers. if you want to see your fellow passengers that is. that is a big if. it provides plexiglass protection from passengers seated behind you. there you go. it is next design from a company in the uk that may interest the airlines the most. this one, provides a plastic

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connell: more now on president trump's event in dallas. the president expected to meet with law enforcement officials, small business owners and faith leaders. as we told you earlier, protesters are gathered outside the venue where the president's motorcade has just arrived. fox news correspondent alicia acuna in dallas with the very latest for us. alicia? reporter: hi, connell. yes, the president is accompanied by the attorney general as well as hud secretary ben carson and the u.s. surgeon general jerome adams. john roberts is telling us that white house officials are saying that the president, will quote, paint a picture overview how to bring about equality and opportunity. this is a very significant moment for the president. he is planning to kind of paint an outline of what he is hoping to come. we will stand by for that. white house officials have described this roundtable as solutions to historic economic and health justice disparities in american communities. as you mentioned, faith leaders,

law enforcement, small business leaders among the attendees with number of administration officials. this event is being held at gateway church, one of the nation's largest megachurchs. the president will announce plans for holistic revitalization and recovery all this as the white house continues to tout the president's work on criminal justice reform and with minorities. how much will be absorbed by the public remains to be seen. of note, this meeting comes 48 hours ago, 250 miles from here, the world watched as george floyd, eulogized. a blowback from that death prompted this conversation. connell, today's roundtable, we're told the president will have an interview with harris faulkner, fox news's harris faulkner aired later on today on fox news channel. in addition the president will attend a fund-raiser here in

dallas. from there he heads to minister, new jersey. he has a fund-raiser there. he will also deliver the west point graduation address at west point. connell? connell: melissa. melissa: here to noun the emergence of president trump campaigning is joe concha, "the hill" media reporter. we can expect the notion that the president will try to get back out on the road where we can connect with supporters and continue to build that network that he has, getting people and, you know their phone number, their address, their support but on the outside the opposing forces will do everything they can to show up in force and make that the story, protests that are going on outside and to the extent that may turn violent, whatever that image turns into. presumably a lot in the

mainstream media will focus on what is going on the outside as well. how does he balance that and deal with it? >> melissa, it is an optics game. as you mentioned he is most confident, he has the most energy, feeds off the crowds most when he is on the stump but in the middle of a pandemic will this be seen as a bad look in terms of having rallies and people in close quarters? i think the way you answer that question, depends on how you vote, right? if you saw the protests over the last two weeks you saw millions of people not obeying any of the cdc guidelines set forth by dr. fauci, dr. birx in terms of no social distancing so in an arena why shouldn't the president campaign and have rallies move ahead with a optimistic message. that is what he is betting on, melissa, optimism, that things will get better from a very bad place in march and april. we saw that with the jobs report just last week. so again, joe biden is at his best when he doesn't speak as much in uncontrolled situations.

he is not a big rallies guy anyway. the president knows this is what he needs in terms of getting back on the map, getting his poll numbers back up again, but again, you need energy. i know the president will probably outwork his opponent as he did in 2016. you need an optimistic message by the way, melissa. joe biden, i don't know what his slogan or bumper sticker is, besides trump is bad, vote for me i'm a nice guy. economy is on the way back up. we're on the way back. give me another four years. give me another chance in terms of making this country great again. that is the optimistic message. melissa: but do you think he has to stick to going to places where the local government isn't going to get rick rolled by the people who come out and seem to be protesters but then there is the bait and switch and it turns out these anarchists and professional protesters who come out to create havoc? you look at the situation what is going on with seattle. how the mayor, not only have they lost control of a portion

of the city, you know, as security professionals say, they're part of that. you know they have said do you need water, do you need bathrooms? they're supporting having lost part of the city, the local mayor is. can he not go to places where you know the local government and governor has ceded control? is that one reason why he would like to move a convention from the place like north carolina where the governor is not friendly to him to a place like florida where he can count on law and order support? >> well, first of all, melissa, great use of rick roll, don't think i didn't notice that. outstanding job. melissa: thank you. >> elections come down to seven states, florida, north carolina as you mentioned, ohio, michigan, wisconsin, pence sane, throw in arizona or new hampshire one of those states. he will primarily be in those areas. as far as campaigning in washington state. of course that won't happen. that will always stay blue or california for that matter. say the anarchists they can

travel. they can go to any rally the president is having. that would play into the president's hands if you see anarchy outside of protests in terms of professional agitators causing trouble. the president wants to be the law an order president. he can make this argument. you see what is going on out there. on your tv screens. that is going to be your reality if you allow a democrat to go into office. they were the forces behind defunding the police taking over in terms after biden agenda. even if the biden campaign doesn't say it there are plenty in the democrat party who have, you can use the broad brush to paint the party weak on law enforcement, weak on law and order. it could be a positive in the end believe it or not. melissa: i guess but they will focus on images of police maybe, you know, beating back those protesters, or you know, trying to defend and say it's trump asphalt for coming as opposed to looking at the situation in seattle. you can let that video play all day long. he has nothing to do with that. that is the local government

just letting that go on and condoning it which is the, strongest argument ever that if you want, if you elect democrats this is what you're going to get. thank you for coming on. see you again soon. >> thank you, melissa. connell: the president is about to speak live in dallas. we'll be right back with his remarks. don't go away. here comes the president. we were about to cut to commercial as he comes out in dallas. this event will turn into a roundtable discussion as you see behind the president, have a title transition to greatness. as alicia acuna reported we're not expecting any kind of major new policy announcement on policing or anything else from the president. possibly some new initiatives may be hinted at in terms of what he wants to do on that front. let's listen live to the president in dallas. >> great job. thank you very much for being

here. it's an honor and very important time in our country. a lot of things are happening and i think when it all ends up it will end up very good for everybody. it as an honor to be at gateway church with the attorney general, our great attorney general, william barr. [applause] and my friend, ben carson who has done a fantastic job at hud, secretary. [cheers and applause] and a young star, jerome adams, general, where is jerome? jerome? [applause] along with a lot of my friend out in the audience. in fact a lot of the great political leaders from texas i see. some great, great friends. i want to thank you all being here. faith leaders. members of law enforcement. so important, we want law and order. we have to have a lot of good things but we have to have law

and order. [applause] got to have some strength. you have to have strength. you have to do what you have to do, you look at seattle. we came in. seeing it over the screen. bill and i were talking about. look what happened in seattle. they took over a city a big city, seattle. a big chunk of it, a big chunk. can't happen. that couldn't happen here i don't think in the state of texas, would it? [applause] [cheering] ing. to thank pastors robert morris and steve dulan they're great people. great people with a great reputation, i have to say that. [applause] gateway church the team is incredible hosting this. i would like to ask pastor morris and bishop jackson to lead us in prayer. thank you. >> thank you. lord, we need you. we need you at this time in our

country and i thank thank you fr president. i thank you lord for our leaders. i thank you, thank you, thank you. i know in the bible that when something was emphasized it was repeated. holy, holy, holy. thank you, thank you, thank you. lord, that we are about to bring tremendous progress to a problem that's been here for a long time and i thank you for this administration and lord, we pray your blessings, your guidance today on this meeting in jesus' name. >> father, we thank you so much for what you're doing today. you have revealed so many things that are untoward, even evil but we ask according to isaiah 50:4, that you would give us the tongue of the learned. that we should know how to speak to the heart of this nation. give us a word in season to him

that's weary and waken us morning by morning, god, that we would hear and speak. we have a great, courageous president who is a problem solver and let him speak as your mouthpiece and act as your instrument and we thank you for this time, amen. >> amen. [applause] >> thank you very much. want to thank you bishop, thank you very much, pastor. that's great. we're going to be discussing some pretty important things today i think. it is all important but the timing of this is very appropriate. this was set up actually a long time ago but the timing is very appropriate. we are here to listen to community and faith leaders. going to be hearing from a lot of the good ones. some of the great ones but a lot of the good ones and to present our vision of advancing the

cause of justice and freedom. from day one i've been fighting for the forgotten men and women of america. i think we've been doing a great job of it. we've been doing a lot in many other ways but, gets lost a little bit sometimes, bishop, you know that gets lost. we've done so much, a lot of things we've done we're proud of gets lost. we got criminal justice reform passed. they have been trying to do it for many years and they -- [inaudible] [applause] we secured permanent and record-setting funding for hbcus, that is historically black colleges and universities. we saw funds -- [applause] we created tens of thousands of jobs with opportunity zones. tim scott and we had great senator from south carolina that many of you know, he came with an idea. i thought it was a great idea.

i got it done. a lot of people said it wouldn't happen but nobody thought it would be as successful. tens of thousands of jobs in communities where that money wouldn't go. we achieved the lowest black unemployment in our history prior to the plague come back from china. that will happen soon. that will happen very soon. [applause] in recent days there is vigorous discussion how to insure fairness, equality and justice for all of our people. unfortunately there are some trying to stoke division and to push an extreme agenda which we won't go for, that will produce only more poverty, more crime, more suffering. this includes radical efforts to defund, dismantle and disband the police. they want to get rid of the police forces. they actually want to get rid of it. that is what they do and that is the way they would go. you know that because at the top position there is not going to be much leadership. there is not much leadership left. instead we have to go the

opposite way. we must invest more energy and resources in police training and recruiting and community engagement. we have to respect our police. we have to take care of our police. they're protecting us. if they're allowed to do their job they will go a great job. you always a bad apple no matter where you go. you have bad apples. there are not too many of them. i have can tell you there are not too many of them in the police department. we know a lot of members of the police. i was listening today, a friend of mine was on, some of best people he ever met were police people, law enforcement people and taking care of people in many cases they never even met before and at great danger, great risk. they got shot for no reason whatsoever. although they're wearing blue. they get knifed. you saw that the other night. a horrible thing. but there is no opportunity without safety. in chicago, 48 people were shot and 18 in one day, sunday, may

31st. 48 people shot, 18 people killed. you don't hear about it too much. every child should bible to go up in a safe community free from violence and fear. they have taken a lot of the police protection away in chicago. they have great, great police in chicago. i know chicago very well. they could do the job very easily. americans are good and virtuous people. we have to work together to confront bigotry and prejudice wherever they appear but we'll make no progress and heal no wound by falsely labeling tens of millions of december americans as racist or bigots. we have to get everybody together. we have to be on the same, same path i think, pastor. if we don't do that, we have problems. we'll do that. we'll do it, i think we're going to do it very easily. it will go quickly and it will go very easily. we have so many different

elements of strength in this country. we have such potential in this country. we have the greatest potential, we have the greatest country in the world but we get off subject. we start thinking about things that don't matter or don't matter much. and important things we don't even discuss but we're here to discuss some very important things today. politicians make false charges and they're trying to distract from their own failed records. they have some very bad records. and these are usually the ones that cause the problems or can't solve the problems. these are the same politicians who shipped our jobs away. took tremendous advantage of all americans but african-american middle class, so much of that wealth and that money and those jobs went to china and other countries and they get trapped, they get trapped, trapped in a government morass. they get trapped in bad government schools. so i'm going to be announcing four steps to build safety and

opportunity and dignity. first we're aggressively pursuing economic development in minority communities. we're doing it very powerfully. we have done it with opportunity zones but we're going above that. at the heart of this effort is increasing access to capital for small businesses and that's with minority owners. in black communities and we're going to get it done and it should have been done a long time ago. it has been very difficult, very, very difficult for some people, been unfairly difficult. second, we're confronting the health care disparities including addressing chronic conditions and investing substantial sums in minorities serving medical institutions. we have medical institutions in some areas of our country that are a disgrace. i was going to say not up to standard. they're much worse than not up to standard. they're a disgrace. take care of it. third we're working to finalize an executive order that will encourage police departments

nationwide to meet the most current professional standards for the use of force including tactics for de-escalation. also we'll encourage pilot programs that allow social workers to join certain law enforcement officers so that they work together. we'll take care of our police. we'll take, we're not defunding police. if anything we're going the other route. we'll make our police are well-trained, perfectly trained. to have the best equipment. [applause] some of the things that we have heard because i know a lot of the people in the audience and they're professionals, what they do. they're successful people. and we're hearing things that are not even thinkable. i didn't even hear, i never even heard of this before last week, it was like, it started about a week ago where i heard they want to close up all police forces. that's what they're attack on

very liberal governor in the state of washington its. we want the police force closed. it is not like they want to, sort of bring a little money into something else. they want to actually closed. i am thinking what happens late at night when you make the call to 911 and there is nobody there? what do you do? whether you're white black, or anybody else, what do you do? [applause] you're dialing and somebody breaking into a house, it happens to be a violent person. there are violent people around, pastor. even you will admit that, right? we want to think the best but you have some very violent people and when they're breaking into your house at 12 in the evening, you're sitting there, you don't want a police force, they're actually talking about not having a police force. that is not happening with us. we'll have stronger police forces. that is what you need. in minneapolis they went through three nights of hell. i was insist extent having

national guard go in do their work. it was like a miracle. everything stopped. i never forget the scene. to me it was, after you watch policemen running out of a police precinct. it wasn't their fault. they wanted to do what they had to do. they weren't allowed to do anything. it wasn't really their fault. they were running down the street. they weren't allowed to do what they're trained to do. and they took over the precinct. they burned it, essentially burned it down, pretty good at construction. i want to tell you, that was almost what we call a complete if you're lucky. and it was a very sad thing. i don't think i've ever seen anything like that. but we are very proud of the fact that i called, i said, i'm sorry, we have to have them go in. they went in, and it was like a knife cutting butter, right through. i'll never forget. you saw the scene, on that road wherever it may be in the city, minneapolis, they were lined up.

they just walked straight. and, yes, there was some tear gas and probably some other things. and the by the end of that evening, and it was a short evening, everything was fine, and you didn't hear too much about that location having problems anymore. they went to other locations. and the same thing would happen. as an example, seattle would be so easy to solve. would be so easy to solve. we have a governor here of a great state, it's called texas. he would solve it very well. [applause] as would, as would other of your political leaders including you, lieutenant governor. they would solve it very easily are. a lot of it's common sense. i don't even think it's courage. it's probably more courageous the other way. it's very unsafe. so i just want to tell you that we're working on a lot of

different elements having to do with law, order, safety, comfort, control. but we want safety. we want compassion. we want everything. what happened two weekes ago was a disgrace when you see that. what happened on numerous occasions over the last two weeks. people were killed. a number of people were killed, and it was very, very terrible and very, very unfair. number of them were police officers. and it was a very unfair situation. we don't want to see that. and with strength you wouldn't even have that. they wouldn't be in a position to do the kind of damage that they've done. they've destroyed people, they've destroyed businesses, they've destroyed african-american-owned small businesses that, hopefully, they're going to come back. we're providing funding for a lot of small businesses and hopefully we'll be able to get everybody in line and get funding to be able to open up their stores and their small businesses again. but we're working to finalize an

executive order that will encourage police departments nationwide e to meet the most current professional standards of force. and that means force but force with compassion. but if you're going to have to really do a job, if somebody's really bad -- connell: president trump speaking in dallas at this hour. as we said before he began, didn't take up any specific legislative priorities in terms of what he might support on police reform, but maybe some hints. at the beginning of his remarking, he talked about investing more in training, more in what he described as community engagement. we'll watch for more on that in the coming days, and we will see you tomorrow with another edition of "after the bell." the worst day for the stock market since the middle of march, the dow falling more than 1800 points. today, like the other two major arms, the nasdaq was down by

more than 5%. so we'll see what tomorrow brings, but once again thanks for joining us today as the president continues his remarks in dallas. it's time for "lou dobbs tonight" which starts right now here on fox business v. a great night. ♪ ♪ lou: good evening, everybody. a major selloff in the stock market today. we'll have details here on the worst day for the market since march. that selloff driven in large measure by rising fears of a second e wave possibly of the chinese virus infection in this country. we'll be talking with dr. marc siegel and former new york times author alex berenson here later. and chinese government officials today making it clear that so-called decoupling by the united states will be fought by the chinese. dr. michael pillsbury joins us here on this show tonight. radical democrats