well no matter what happens. [closing bell rings] lid michael kors sew, clear bridge investments portfolio. thanks for joining us. loss for s&p. gain for the nasdaq. you can concur equity markets still fragile. time for "after the bell." melissa: snapping a three-day winning streak on wall street as the dow end the down in a choppy session. i'm melissa francis. connell: i'm connell mcshane. good to be with you on "after the bell." it was choppy. the dow and s&p in the red, actually for the first time this week. the nasdaq ends up in positive territory and is now 1% away from its record close. so that story continues. we have fox business team coverage of our top stories today. blake burman is at the white house, jackie deangelis in our new york newsroom. we'll start on the north lawn where blake is looking at explosive new allegations surfacing late this afternoon from john bolton how president trump dealt with china. what is the latest. reporter: explosive is one way

you can describe it, connell. john bolton, the former national security advisor for president trump, his book is set to be due out on tuesday and an excerpt has been published, "wall street journal," other outlets i believe as it relates to president trump's meetings with president xi face-to-face when it came to hammering out the trade deal between the two countries and it raises some serious questions about those one-on-one interactions. in a passage just posted to "the wall street journal," bolton writes, in his book, the following, he says, quote, trump then stunningly turned conversation to the coming u.s. presidential election alluding to china's economic capability and pleading with xi to insure he'd win, he, the president, stressed importance of farmers and increased purchases of chinese soybeans and wheat in the electoral outcome. i would print trump's exact words, bolton writes but the government prepublication review

process decided otherwise. on the last sentence, department of justice sued within last 24 hours to try to stop bolton's book which is scheduled to be released on tuesday from being published. that clearly is not happening because passages are coming out now. they are citing in part that bolton's book didn't go you there the standard review process. they also say as the white house has been saying for days now the book includes classified information which is part of the objection from the white house. the white house made the case they aren't necessarily worried about what is in the book. they take issue to the classified information portion of it. we've been looking at president as twitter feed. no direct response from the president to john bolton. the white house has not had a direct response either. when asked about it earlier today, white house press secretary asked about the book here is white house press secretary kayleigh mcenany. >> what i would note this book is full of classified information which is inexcusable. former national security advisor john bolton should know all too

well that it is unacceptable to have highly-classified information from the government of the united states in a book that will be published. it is unacceptable. reporter: speaking of world leaders, the president, white house announced today, president trump will be resuming meetings with world leaders over here at the white house one week from today, starting next week as he will host the polish president. this move is in a new direction here for president and the whiteouts. sort of resuming to pre-covid-19 activities. the president will be holding his first massive campaign rally this week and that follows with a leader. these bolton allegations, someone in the room, taking notes, just every time john bolton was taking notes here at the white house, not a democratic operative a republican for many years, is something that will follow this white house connell, melissa,

for many days, if not longer than that. connell: much more on this to come. thank you, blake burman at the white house. melissa? melissa: several states seeing a record spike in new coronavirus cases. let's go to phil keating in miami with the details. phil? reporter: hey, melissa. six states set records for brand new coronavirus cases on tuesday including florida, arizona, and texas. florida had about 2800 cases. again today, another 2600 cases. ocean drive behind me is reopened one week ago today. like rest of florida, that meant more people out and about, drinking dining, and more after growing economy and more infections. despite rising numbers, florida's republican governor ron desantis is adamant will not roll back any of reopening. >> no, we're not shutting down. we're going forward. we'll continue to protect the

most vulnerable. urge, continue to advice particularly our elderly population to maintain social distancing, avoid crowds. reporter: florida is seeing a surge of 14,000 positive cases in just the past 10 days. increased testing is a factor but the reopening of the economy also a factor. in tampa scores of people on boats participated in a trump-tilla boat parade. daily black lives matter crowds jamming streets and universal volcano bay water park, absolutely no social distancing and minimal mask wearing. across the country, 19 states reporting a surge in cases, northeast, the original epicenter is seeing declining casings and in the south and the west they are going up dramatically. despite the governor's position the mayors of miami beach and miami say if south florida's numbers keep surging at this pace, they will absolutely consider rolling everything back.

>> implementing a stay at home order is something that while effective around we saw how effective it was mathematically, it is a measure of last resort. but we definitely do want to sound the alarms. >> we still have to maintain caution. reporter: meanwhile researchers in england are claiming they may have found the first breakthrough in treating and curing coronavirus or covid-19. they say a test showed a steroid actually significantly improved a person's chances of surviving covid-19. melissa. melissa: phil, thank you for that. connell? connell: let's talk more about this now, how florida is handling that spike in cases. we bring in jeanette nunez, florida's lieutenant governor. great to have you back on the show. we just heard from governor desantis in phil's reporting. he says he is not shutting down even with the increase in cases

we've seen here recently. what would have to happen for the state to consider rolling back some of the economic reopening measures that are in place. >> well, thanks again, connell, for the opportunity and i think you heard governor desantis loud and clear. he is not considering rolling back. we have seen increases in cases but as you mentioned a lot of that is attributed to record number of testing. the last two saturdays, 50,000, 57,000 test results. clearly the more you look, the more you will find but in addition we've also recognized there is a outbreak in some of the agricultural areas. in one county of 100 farmworkers, 90 tested positive. so there is a lot of different things we're doing from a strategy standpoint to make sure we keep floridians safe but the most important thing is to protect our most vulnerable which is the elderly. that is something evident by the decline in fatalities in nursing homes and median age has dropped considerably from the beginning of the outbreak was in the

60s, down to the mid 30s. that is something positive. those people are not suffering the symptoms. they're not hospitals or in the icus or on ventilators. connell: there is more to this when you acknowledge increase in testing. we talked to a couple experts on the show they say it is more than that the numbers seem to back them up, positivity rate, number of people testing positive, that is going up. it was 10.3% either yesterday or today. it is hovering around 7%. experts say 5% is the safe zone. just to drive home the point, i was looking at data from palm beach county on that, before the reopening that rate of positivity was 4.9%. now it is jumped all the way to 8.9%. so that is pretty high. more than just testing, isn't it? >> indeed, it is more than just testing which is why i mentioned the agricultural problem we've been facing and we've been dealing with. palm beach has a large

agricultural area in the bell glade area. that is something we're monitoring closely the rate of positivity, but also important metrics we keep an eye on. not only fatalities but also from a standpoint of icu capacity and ventilator capacity. the purpose of flattening the curve was to make sure our hospital system wasn't overwhelmed and also important to note palm beach is one of three counties in the state of florida that is not in phase two. they are still in the limited phase one. connell: okay. so, and that is another interesting point because francis suarez you heard a moment ago, was on the show yesterday, the mayor of miami, and he is looking at pausing in the move between the phases. not going from phase two to phase three. are you relying more on local leaders on, mayors to make those typeses of decisions reluctant and is the administration to reluctant to make it a statewide

basis? >> from the beginning governor desantis was willing to work with local mayorses specially in the tri-county area, dade, broward and palm beach where we saw 60% of the cases of covid-19. we worked with the mayors. we made sure to give special consideration for counties that saw the outbreak. whereas, city of miami, within miami-dade county, i talked to the mayor of the county, not necessarily city mayor but county mayor, he is confident they're not going to roll back. they will continue to focus on enforcement. they will continue to focus on really make sure people are complying. dade county has a face mask ordinance. he wants from his perspective to make sure they're doing everything they can to take on personal responsibility in the battle against covid-19. connell: florida is one of the states we're watching closely. texas is another. there are a few more. lieutenant governor nunes, thank you for coming on again.

we appreciate your perspective. we'll condition to into cover it. melissa. melissa: google on the hot seat. the tech giant faces questions after taking action over two websites over comments made in their comments section. jackie deangelis is in the newsroom with details. reporter: good afternoon, melissa. that's right, google playing defense essentially after a nbc news report that indicated the company was targeting "the federalist" and zerohedge for articles that google said pushed unsubstantiated claims about the black lives matter movement. google they felt violated the search engine's policies that for bid the monetizaton of sites that provider interrogatory content. google now insisting "the federalist" was never demonetized. it was the site's comments section that was even in question, not the articles themselves. senator ted cruz wrote a letter to sundar pichai, saying quote, recent actions of google to demonetize the conservative

media publish, "the federalist" raises cerus concerns that google abusing my noily power to censor political speech which it disagrees. senator cruz was on fox news adding this. >> google today has become like the empire in "star wars" and what they're doing with this step is testing the death star. they cannot abuse their monopoly power to silence free speech. they need to stop this right now. reporter: all right the irony here that it is coming just as there have also been reports that google ceo, sundar pichai is set to testify in front of congress about antitrust questions. google has issues to deal with here. besides censoring speech and demonetizing their ad revenue could literally bankrupt them and put them out of business there are serious ramifications to be considered. if google is censoring media the question is it an abuse of power. google reportedly banned over

200 publishers from generating profits through google ads in 2017 alone. this has happened in the past, guys. melissa: wow. jackie, thank you for that. connell? connell: all right. back to the reopening now, a story now as local leaders fighting to get their economies back on track with major cities that are struggling to bounce back. especially the case in new york as the city prepares for a possible phase two of reopening on monday but social distancing violations raising new concerns. we'll cover that from all angles. and bracing for a second wave in china, beijing facing another outbreak and what the spike we're seeing there could mean for nations across the globe. a retail rebound across the u.s. but is it enough to save struggling malls from the financial hurdles ahead? stick around. much more to come. we'll be right back

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♪. connell: "fox business alert." the fulton county district attorney announcing that the former atlanta police officer who shot and killed rayshard brooks will be charged with felony murder. this along with 10 other charges, adding that the other officer who was present at the scene spaces three charges included in those is aggravated assault. this news coming in from atlanta

moments ago. melissa? melissa: to ask or not to ask. new york city contact tracers are not asking patients dying notioned covid-19 if they attended the city's protest as part of the preliminary questions. does that make sense? here is new york city councilmen steven levine. this is delicate area. i can understand both sides of the equation here. on one hand they mayp not want to identify with someone calling them tracing where they have been, if they were one of the protesters. there is no point having contact tracers if we're not asking seng things if you have been with a big crowd. >> right. melissa: what do you think is the best way to tackle this? a lot of cities in the country are facing this question? >> it is certainly a subject that would have to come up at

some point in the conversation. i think these contract tracer conversations are very indepth. i think the initial conversation is like 45 minutes. from there, trying to identify in particular close contacts so people, family members about, people that you might be near during work or something like that but tens of thousands of new yorkers have participated in the protests in the last few weeks, i'm one of them and i know that there are a lot, people were very in close contact. one of the problems i think is that because the people are talking with, or marching with others that they don't know, strangers, and in particular face masks on, probably don't know who you're standing next to. so this is one reason why i've been really adamant about new york city and new york state adopting some additional contact

tracing tools that are out there. apple and google in the last couple of months, first time they ever really worked together, they developed an api so that the bluetooths in iphones and androids can actually ping one another if you are within, six feet or so of one another for ten minutes or more, your phones will record that you have done that and, if somebody were to test positive they could enter it into an app that could then notify any of the people that have been within that kind of close contact. new york state, along with 46 other states have declined to take google and apple up on developing an app for this because the health authorities, the health departments of each state actually have to develop the apps. only state has are doing it are north dakota, south carolina and

alabama. and it's frustrating because, i think they made this decision without anticipating something like a protest where tens of thousands of people going out day after day. melissa: i hear what you're saying but i can feel your constituents getting ready to ask you, that i'm going out and i am protesting because i feel like i'm potentially a target of too much scrutiny by law enforcement or authority figures. then as a result i'm going to volunteer for more targeting and enforcement by people in government. it just seems like these two things, the very reason why people are protesting flies in the face why they would want to be identified which flies in the face of everyone that says we shouldn't be out walking around, you see the problem right? >> every time i send out a tweet arguing this point, those are tweets i get back. no way, i will not get involved with anything that involves any type of tracing. this technology that cap pell and apple and google developed.

doesn't involve gps or tracking but involves your phone tracking who you have been in the close contact with. frankly most of the apps that we all have on our phones, whether it is uber or the weather channel or grubhub, they have more information about us than these would actually have because they have our whereabouts, they know our locations, they have our credit card information, often times they will have our social security information. so the fact of the matter is -- melissa: you're preaching to the choir. >> yeah. melissa: i understand. i know. i get it. i understand that the government and my phone and especially google more than anyone else who is far scarier than any government, they know where i am, what i'm doing anytime. they also can listen on the phone listen to you all the time. they always promise they will not do these things just like with this app, later you find

out someone did. you know, it is one of these problems i don't know the answer to. quickly i will give you the last word, sir. >> i think it requires the political leadership because this is, really, when i think a lot of state governments made the decision, okay we'll totally go with manuel contact tracers and not any technology-based, we didn't anticipate there were going to be massive protest this is summer. when other country, the uk, italy they developed this digital contact tracing. i think we're going to realize this is a tool we probably need. there is a study came out of oxford said manuel contact tracing will actually be not able to contain this. we have a little bit of time. melissa: i never thought that would work. >> we really need to engage with the technology there. we all know it's there. anyway, it's a concern and people are -- melissa: councilman, thank you. >> thank you so much, melissa. thanks for having me. melissa: wish we had more time. i know you will come back to talk to us again. thank you. connell. >> appreciate it.

connell: all right, melissa, we'll move to the push for police reform now. senior senate republicans today unveil a new proposal aimed at changing law enforcement procedures and policies and fox's chad pergram is on capitol hill with the details. chad? reporter: good afternoon, connell. republican senator tim scott of south carolina, he released his bill today. there is also a bill that is being marked up, written in the house judiciary committee today but immediately senate democrats criticized senator scott's bill. here is senate minority leader chuck assumer. >> we have a tale of two chambers, a glaring contrast between a strong comprehensive democratic bill in the house and a much narrower and much less reflective republican bill in the senate. reporter: unclear in the democrats could stop the senate from debate on the gop reform bill. that is the motion to proceed. democrat was have to join republicans to clear a filibuster says tim scott. >> if we don't have the votes on

a motion to proceed, that means that politics is more important than restoring confidence in communities of color, in institutions of authority. reporter: white house chief of staff mark meadows dropped by the capitol today. he said cushing immunity for police in the bill, that the democratic bill is a nonstarter. >> the red line for us we do no harm as it relates to the rule of law and ability to support law enforcement and make our communities safer that is the only red line that i know of. reporter: here is the schedule. we expect a procedural vote to try to start debate in the senate maybe as early as monday. house democrats plan to put their bill on the house floor next thursday june 25th. the interesting thing here, connell. that these two bills, the house bill, the senate bill, they're about 80% alike actually. connell: all right.

chad, thank you. good to see you, chad pergram on capitol hill. melissa? melissa: signaling some major changes. seattle cutting a deal with protesters occupying several blocks of the city. we're live from the capital hill organized protest zone next. i guess that is the name now. one new york restaurant is planning to be a blueprint for other businesses navigating the step to reopen ♪ yeah ♪ ♪ y-yeah ♪ ♪ yeah ♪ hey, hey

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melissa: okay. seattle's occupy protest shrinking to just three blocks now surrounding the city's abandoned east precinct as authorities install new concrete barriers. jonathan hunt, who else, is live in seattle with the details. jonathan? reporter: hey, melissa, this came after a negotiated deal between city officials and the protesters. what they have done is, as you mentioned, put these concrete blocks around a protest zone half the size of what it was 36 hours ago. these concrete blocks covered in plywood, that was deliberate decision by the city officials to enable the protesters to write whatever slogans and words and pictures they wanted to put on those. both the police chief and fire chief have said the point of this is to establish a semiofficial protest zone in the hopes that gives the protesters their first amendment rights while also keeping everybody safe.

listen here. >> i will just tell it like i see it. there is a lot of young people in there and some of them look like me and this is a movement in remembrance of george floyd and last thing i want to have on my heart as a public safety official is something bad happen in that place for all of those young men and women who are trying to express their first amendment rights. reporter: south of us in portland, oregon, there was also a large protest yesterday. hundreds of people marching across one of downtown portland's major bridges, shutting down traffic for about two hours. back here in seattle, melissa, several hundred protesters remain on scene here. off to my left there is a field which as you can see is lined with tents. that is where people are sleeping. they say they will stay here every minute of every day until they achieve everyone of their

aims. melissa? melissa: it looks more and more like occupy wall street every day. jonathan hunt, thank you. connell? connell: now to supporting workers amid the pandemic as target announced plans to permanently increase its minimum wage up to $15 an hour, six months ahead of the retailer's original rate hike plan. the raises will take place july 5th for hourly workers at target stores, distribution centers and headquarters offices. additionally target giving out a 200-dollar bonus to certain front line workers who pitched in during the crisis. melissa. melissa: racing to contain a second wave, china raising its emergency warning to the second highest level as new infections spike in beijing. we'll look what this could mean for the u.s. next. plus malls are bracing for the worst as they uncover a brand new hurdle in their fight to stay afloat.

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♪. melissa: a fresh outbreak hitting beijing. chinese authorities are extending the lockdown in the capital city of new confirmed cases spike. let's go to fox news's benjamin hall live in london with details. benjamin. reporter: they shut down much of beijing where the outbreak happened. 60% of the flights are canceled to the city. they impose ad travel ban across the capital. anyone wanting to leave the city first has to do a test and that has to come back negative. 300,000 people have been tested last few days alone. that is remarkable pace. prior to the outbreak there had been no new cases in beijing for two months. china continues to claim that fewer than 5000 people died from the disease countrywide. these new cases are linked to a food market. this time in beijing. that has since shut down on saturday. they tracked down nearly 30,000 people who visited the market and locked down whole housing areas around it as well. schools have been closed, classes moved online and despite

the low numbers of cases some people fear a total lockdown if the numbers get worse with china desperate to avoid this spreading further. china was deeply hurt, they say by the accusations they tried to cover up coronavirus earlier in the year. they are trying to show they can handle this quickly way only authoritarian regime frankly can. melissa? melissa: all right. benjamin hall. thank you for that. connell. connell: all right. melissa, let's get to congress now as we're waiting on the next round of aid and what the plans might be there. vice president mike pence earlier today confirming that discussions are in place for the next phase of stimulus or relief. here is how he put it. >> i think our expectation now, charles, is that infrastructure will be part of a separate piece of legislation there is roughly a 400 billion-dollar infrastructure bill, that with the president and our team have had conversations with about capitol hill and the president's made it clear that as we're in discussions with the congress

about another phase of recovery, it is going to be focused on the american people. connell: all right. we're joined by republican congressman patrick mchenry from the state of north carolina, ranking member on house financial services among those questioning federal reserve chairman jerome powell in a lengthy hering today. we'll try to get that in a moment, congressman. the relief bill might be coming. the vice president saying as you heard that is separate from any talk of infrastructure. what are your thoughts how this is all being put together or the talk about how it is being put together? >> look the house rushed, nancy pelosi and house democrats rush ad partisan approach with their bill they passed a couple weeks ago, $3 trillion of new spending. they're pouring money into failed social programs without any innovation or meeting the needs where the american people are right now, much less the states. and so my view is, that we have to measure twice and cut once.

this is the last big bill that will come before the presidential election. so let's get it right. let's make sure we understand the needs of education, of communities and businesses so they can actually get back to work in a safe and effective manner. so what i would like to see is pro-growth tax policy and regulatory policy that lifted the economy and first two years of trump's presidency and can lift the economy once again. and that's, those are the fundamentals that i think need to be a part of this bill. connell: i will ask you about one specific issue, it speaks to the issues between republicans and democrats in approach, particularly coming to economic incentives. that is the debate going on over enhanced unemployment benefits that may or may not be extended, the extra $600 that people on unemployment are get elk. what is your view what should happen there? >> we need to have measures that fit with the locality. i represent a lower cost area to

live and so, a wage and in my district may be wonderfully middle class and in new york city very, very different. so i think we need to have benefits that fit localities and states and states needs. so i would commend to you the ideas put out by glenn hubbard and tim geithner today where you have a measure of support and you support a percentage of a person's income and add a cap. right now in my district you can make $48,000 a year, which is above the median income in my district and do that on unemployment. so i think there is a limitations on our economy placed by -- quite frankly too generous for the expectation that people go back to work. connell: okay. so an extension sounds like would be supported just not across the board at $600. finally we'll ask you one question about the fed chairman. i watched some questions you

asked today. it was lengthy hearing, second day on capitol hill for jay powell. one of the things, that i believe you brought up is that the chairman is committed to at least you think he is, to taking all the tools. they put so much, they have thrown everything at the problem as they see it at the federal reserve and putting tools back in the tool box when the problem is passed. do you think they can get the timing right on that? >> i hope they are. i think that is what i will be pushing for. look, federal reserve came in as basically the fireman, right? insurance policy or a fire department showing up to put the flames out. and they have done that they have done that effectively in a broad-based way. it is lending. it is not government spending. and they have kept to those confines. and i think it's a very important that when we get through this economic crisis, this health crisis, that has now become a economic crisis we put these tools back away and only hold them for the most egregious of circumstances in order to save the economy and save the

american people from enormous hardship, not for everyday uses. not for idealogical games that a bunch of members of congress really are interested in playing. let's make sure the fed sticks to its knitting, does it right and pulls back so the american people can live free and be happy and be successful and economically independent. connell: as always, congressman, thank you, congressman patrick mchenry from north carolina with us. melissa. melissa: all right. bracing for a limited experience. multiple airlines including american, delta and southwest, are suspending some of their in-flight alcohol services in response to the pandemic. that is crazy. the mood is part of a widespread revision of the industry food and drink guidelines to minimize interaction between crew and passengers. i see a lot of negative externalities there. stick around. we'll be right back there seems to be a massive disconnect between...

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the hour, the allegations from former security advisor john bolton had president trump asked chinese president xi xinping for re-election. the lighthizer says the incident described by bolton never happened. melissa: boom in business. one new york family experienced high demand and finding out what doesn't work in this new normal. we have the owner of chateau on the lake in bolton landing, new york. your whole family has a bunch of restaurants. i know you guys are in the business, you're trying to adjust to this new normal. what were some of the challenges of reopening? they're about to say go, we hope here in new york but it is not as simple as that. did you have a hard time getting supplies? >> biggest challenge was our vendors. our vendors are furloughed. when you get the finger of go,

you're scrambling to get product and supplies. that was a big challenge. then your employees might not be available. they could be visiting family, taking advantage of their down time. may not be available within a couple hour notice or 24 hour notice. so short staff, short on your supplies, and you got to go about it very flexible, be ready to edit and operate small because i got news for you, they came. customers are eager to spend money and we were able to fill every seat in all of our restaurants, with the guidelines. melissa: okay. yeah. with the guidelines. because that is the big question. they are saying people will not being comfortable going back out. i know i would trample about 100 people to get to a restaurant and have someone make food and put it down in front of me on a dish i will not be washing later. i heard a lot of people i would say i would love for someone else to mix a drink for me. so i'm not surprised by what you're saying, what is capacity like though? i mean are you able to bring in

enough people? are you allowed to have enough people to make money? >> so, making the money is another conversation. we're taking it one step at a time. right now we're getting cobwebs out. let's get open. start the machinery. let's get employees wheels greased in here. making money will come but the bottom line is, that will come when we can fill our restaurants at capacity. without capacity, restaurants are built to operate at 125% capacity, not 50. so, good news is demand is there. which i know we were afraid customers were never going out again and that's gone. so get rid of the fear that the customers are gone. they're not. they're eager. they're ready. now, get ready, to manage it and last little bit longer, because your restaurant will be filled at capacity levels as they open up. melissa: so all the things you talk about though take excess cash. you are talking about restock

all these items. will pay more for them before. you're not using your regular vendors. everything is in demand. it is hard to guesstimate you can't necessarily get all your people back. you have to be ready to spring and go at moment as notice. you don't have a lot of moment at time when you have people and like. how do you do that? that requires excess money is the thing nobody has. >> look it, the restaurant industry, we're hard workers. we're not in this business because we're not hard workers. you won't say i get into the restaurant business because it is easy. it is most difficult business on the planet. we all can agree on that. don't get me wrong, there are other hard industries but restaurant industry is as hard as it gets. you have to get tenacious. if we don't open weenever figure it out. if we get open people are following guidelines. their behavior does not need to be policed by owners after restaurant. which is a big deal.

get open. the money will come. we're selling out at capacity. we're in small populated area. it is not even our season yet. so you got to figure out, work with vendors. vendors are working with us, timing to pay them, get 45, 60-day terms the industry sy a tight industry. the vendors will work with you. they have want you to survive and open or they're out of business. it is not easy, melissa. definitely not easy, being closed not operating paying bills does not get any harder than that. melissa: bud i did, i love you so much. i can't even tell you. you're an inspiration. i love your spirit. come back, tell us how it is going. you're fantastic. connell. i love it. i'm rooting for him, right? aren't we all rooting for him? connell: this is right. what i expect you to say to me at the end of every show by the way, but it hasn't worked out that way. retail sales in the month of may which we did see, the malls are

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closings, that's the reason. 2018, less than 6,000. 2019 we were at 9, 500. that was an all-time record. this year the prediction is for 25,000 stores to be closed. among the ones that are going to lose the most, pier one. almost 1,000 stores closing this year alone. the parent of bell's department store, gourdman's -- gordman's, 738. cigna jewelers, that's kay, sails and jared jewelers, 300 stores. victoria's secret, the gap. as we said, jcpenney, 200 stores. and i lee you with a stock board, the people that own these malls? ouch. the folks at simon down 5% today. tangor, the outlet malls, down 5% as well. cbl missed a loan payment, they're down. it's not pretty out here, melissa. if you shop online, may be okay. at the malls, not so much.

melissa: can't remember the last time i've been to a mall. jeff flock, thank you for that. well, that does it for us. thank you so much for joining us. we'll see you back here tomorrow. "lou dobbs tonight "starts now. ♪ ♪ lou: good evening, everybody. we begin with breaking news involving the case against president trump's former national security adviser, general michael flynn. the department of justice and general flynn's attorney, sidney powell, today both filed scathing responses to the brief written by judge emmet sullivan's shadow prosecutor, john gleeson. the former clinton-appointed judge wrote in a brief last week that the department of justice's request to dismiss general flynn's case was both, quote, pretextual and, quote, a gross abuse of prosecutorial power. in today's response, the department o