"judicial watch"'s tom fitton. michael pillsbury, pastor robert jeffress and our mystery election forecaster with us tomorrow. thanks for being with us. good night from sussex. ♪. david: hi, everybody, i'm. david: asman in for elizabeth macdonald and this is the evening edit. seattle's so-called autonomous zone that the city's mayor said last week could bring in, quote, the summer of love, is being dismantled now after it became crystal clear that it was bringing the city into a summer of deadly anarchy. police finally going in and breaking up the so-called "chop zone" after the mayor issued an executive orderlier this morning. the police reclaiming their pre-sent, arresting dozens of protesters as they vacated the

zone that has seen two deadly shootings in three short weeks. fox news's dan springer is on the ground in seattle with the very latest. hi, dan. reporter: yeah, hey, david. amazing. i've been watching this thing grow and grow over the weeks. it is stunning to see how quickly it is completely torn apart. now it's a massive public works project. look at the east precinct behind me. that used to be covered every inch in gray teeth if i. it is boarded up. or graffiti power washed off or painted over. monday morning a's fatal shooting after teenager by "chop" security was the last straw. local and federal police moved in with armored vehicles and began clearing out the area. most people left on their own. some were handcuffed and removed. seattle's mayor, said negotiations not force would end the occupation. but the police chief said the

violence got to be too much. >> what has happened here on these streets over the last two weeks, few weeks, that is lawless and it is brutal. bottom line it is simply unacceptable. reporter: city crews are dismantling the barricades and wading through trash, tents, old protest signs. several dozen police are in the east precinct which was abandoned 23 days ago. we're told damage thankfully is minimal. police arrested 39 people so far on charges of refusing to leave, assault and weapons possession. overall the operation has gone smoothly. we've seen no violence out here. for the most part the protesters given up this area. however we see down the road about four blocks away from where i am, some of the protesters gathering at a police line. really, david, the question how long will the police keep this as a peaceful area without it

being flashpoint again for protests in the city of seattle. remains to be seen. david? david: it does. the only thing i'm going to miss about the "chop zone" is your fine reporting from there, dan. we thank you for all of the reporting you've been doing. it has been non-stop for several weeks. you deserve some rest. thank you very much, dan, appreciate it. reporter: thanks, david. david: seattle's deadly experiment with anarchy cost the lives of two young black men and critically wounded others including a 14-year-old but seattle's not alone. in new york, chicago, l.a., and other cities flirting with the idea of defunding police we've seen shocking increases in violent crime. so far liberal city councils and mayors looking to defund the police haven't connected the jump in crime with failure to support the police. in fact last night's vote by new york city council to cut a billion dollars out of the 6 billion-dollar police budget wasn't enough for congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez.

she sent out a message that reads in part, quote, defunding police means defunding police. it does not mean budget tricks or funny math. this is not a victory. the fight to defund policing continues. so, how many more lives will be lost before the connection between depolicing and increase in crime is finally made? let's ask republican senator from louisiana bill cassidy. senator, good to see you. thank you for being here. you know black lives do matter, senator and they are being lost in greater numbers in areas where police are being eliminated or being pulled back. isn't there a connection? when will people wake up to that connection? >> david the the "chop zone" should be the connection. two boys killed in a free police zone. this is ironic headline, i don't think they thought it was ironic

in "the new york times," i think it was, streets have become safer, despite this police budgets grown. they didn't think maybe the streets are safer because we've given the police more support. i speak to my folks in new orleans. they say police reform costs money. police in new orleans, they have got aways to go but they have come a long way. it costs money for body cams, taser cams, cost money for information systems allow police be, if you will be police. if folks hate police don't understand that i don't understand what can prove it. we need to support police as they reform and preserve public safety. david: you used the word support. i would throw in respect. it is not just defunding the police that is the problem here, it is also the lax of respect. president trump spoke to that point with our own blake burman with fox business. i want to play a sound bite of the president, get your reaction, roll tape. >> i'm a big fan of new york's

finest. we call them new york's finest policemen and what he has done to that group of incredible men and women is very sad, it's very sad. i don't mean just the billion dollars, that's a big thing but even if you go long before this, when they turned around, they turned their backs his relationship with the police of new york and these are incredible people. he, it has been very sad to watch, frankly. david: senator, it is not just new york, in virginia at one time a very strong police state, the state democrats are trying to defell onize assault against police, downgrading it from a felony to a misdemeanor. what do all these messages send to police forces around the country? >> you used the right word david, but i will put it in the negative. it means you do not respect those, you ever notice police officers because they look like a big chest. because they have a bulletproof vest. they have a bulletproof chess

because somebody might shoot them. if they take that risk, we better protect them and support them. the fact there is people that would shoot them means defunding the police is a bad idea for everybody that cares about public safety. it's a good idea for robbers an rapists and murderers. david: last night you talk about respect for police. just the opposite was going on down at city hall where a member of black lives matter, at least he was wearing a black lives matter shirt. he had a microphone, he was speaking to the crowd. he was telling them to do things, i'm not even going to mention what he was, it was so despicable what he was telling the crowd there to do to police. the mayor nevertheless, the mayor of new york wants to paint on fifth avenue, and he mentioned specifically right in front of trump tower, he wants to paint black lives matter on the street after their representatives have said, you should do exactly the opposite

of respecting police. actually cause them physical harm. what do you think about that? >> you know i didn't see that but all this kind of disrespecting the police has consequences. there are people out there who are not balanced. there are three widows in baton rouge, louisiana, because somebody in kansas city drove all the way down and shot those three police officers, the pure reason being, they were police officers. one of whom happened to be an african-american. put a very poignant, statement, montrell jackson, put a poignant message on facebook page. if i wear a uniform, one part of the community likes me and if i take it off another doesn't. we have to resolve that tension, if you're disrespecting the police there might be another montrell and another montrell's widow. be careful what you say. we need to support and respect the police. david: you also know what we

need particularly in this week as we lead up to our independence day, the celebration of our independence and revolution, we need unification and not division. i want to end on a positive note. you and i were talking before the show how we need, you're a medical doctor, helps you recover, get better if you have a positive attitude. this country has been sick not just with covid but with problems of our understanding who we are and how proud we should be of who we are. how do we reinstall that on this independence day week? >> we do that by going back to thomas jefferson's declaration of independence which both abraham lincoln and martin luther king used as the exemplary of what we should be. we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, endowed with certain unalienable rights. if we exalt that, by golly we should exalt it, we will work towards justice for all. we will do it for unity and our country will be stronger.

david: senator, doctor, that is great medicine. we appreciate it. bill cassidy, appreciate it. have a wonderful independence day with you and your family. we appreciate you coming in. >> thank you, david. david: president trump coming out swinging against "the new york times" report that russia offered bounties to taliban fighters to kill american soldiers, he says, the story or details of it are a hoax. we'll get reaction from guy reschenthaler house subcommittee on international terrorism when we return in just a moment. stay with us

♪. >> from what i hear and i hear pretty good, the intelligence people didn't even, many of them didn't believe it happened at all. i think it's a hoax. i think it's a hoax by the newspapers and the democrats. david: president trump calling "the new york times" report that russia offered bounties to taliban fighters to kill american soldiers a hoax. this coming as secretary of state mike pompeo said russians engaged in afghanistan is quote, nothing new. joining me to discuss all of that pennsylvania representative guy reschenthaler, he serves on a house subcommittee on international terrorism. we're pleased to have him again. >> thanks for having me on, david. david: let's be specific what the president is referring to that is a hoax.

it is not necessarily the russian involvement in afghanistan with the the taliban. he was briefed and, that the story that he refused to do anything about it and that is what he refers to as the hoax. do you agree. >> i think he is referring to that. from what we're told it was written on his briefing, it was being briefed and the briefer never articulated that talking point. the president actually did not receive that information. i think that is what the president is talking about. david: but in fact, forgive me for interrupting, but a cia officer who is not named for obvious reasons confirmed that the president was not briefed because there wasn't enough validating information for that particular briefing, correct? >> yes. what i was going to say, that information before it gets to the president has got to be vetted, corroborated and only the evidence that is earlier in the material, has evidence before it and those facts get to

the president. and again you can't fault him for the fact that the cia briefer did not actually brief him on this. but you know what, david, you know who did have actual actionable intelligence on russia and other actors? that is biden and obama, because under the obama administration, they actually had intel because it happened that russia was going to annex part of ukraine, crimea and obama and biden did nothing. president trump though sent the ukrainians javelin missiles, lethal aid. that is the difference. biden and obama also knew there were threats on benghazi. they sat back and did nothing. they knew isis was running roughshod over iraq and syria. they did nothing. compare that with president trump who has taken strong actions. and when we had the chance to take out soleimani, who killed 600 americans, president trump took out soleimani and took out

al-baghdadi with isis. president trump is incredible on these issues. if biden wants to pick the fight, have an argument who is tougher on national security, national defense, we'll take that any day because president trump will win that argument mid day. david: president trump also took out several hundred russian mercenaries who were working in syria. president trump also has been quite critical of the russian pipeline to germany. all sorts of things that the russians considered valuable to them, have been interfered with by president trump himself. so this is all an attempt to resurrect that failed attempt to, much pointing to collusion between vladmir putin and president trump first to win the election and then throughout the first term of his presidency. that is a failed premise and one simply not supported by the evidence.

>> david, we read this book before you talk about russian collusion. that is absolutely, just absolutely a work of fiction. i've read this book before. it is a low level bureaucrat, doesn't work through the chain of command, takes evidence that is not validated, turns it out and gives it to "the new york times" and "washington post" to make the president look bad. it is incredibly too politically convenient this is coming out now to me this smacks what we've seen before, an attempt to damage this administration with something that is just utterly false. again the president's actions speak for themselves. i'm old enough to president obama telling mitt romney, in 19890's, wanted his policy back. when romney was warning obama on russia. i trust president more on russia and than biden on russia and nefarious actions throughout the world. david: you served time in iraq as a jag officer.

you care about what happens in that region. care about what happens to our troops in that region. i want to talk about something of great import to americans right now with the covid prom still hanging over all of our heads. that is a number stimulus package. the president spoke about that as well today with blake burman. let me play the sound bite, get your response. roll tape. >> another round of direct payments for individuals, do you support that at this time? >> i do support it but it has to be done properly. i actually support larger numbers than the democrats but it has to be done properly. david: you no the main problem that a lot of people have with these payouts, particularly the federal addition to unemployment checks which is 600 bucks that can bring up the unemployment check to a lot more than you were actually making. in fact it is true for a lot of the poem that are getting, particularly states like new york, they're getting over $1000 a week in unemployment checks, isn't that a disincentive to go back to work?

>> yes, david. extra 6 hupp hundred dollars a week on top of unemployment compensation, though well intentioned causing a lag to getting the economy roaring again. i don't want to begrudge anybody money, paying $600 extra, doing two things, forcing people to make the economic choice to stay home, not to go back to work, causing increased wages which hurts them even more when paying inflated wage to individuals. i don't want to begrudge anybody money. now is the time we're smart about this. we have to bring the economy back online. we do that by reducing taxation. by reducing regulation. by reducing burdens on small business. that is how we get a v-shaped recovery. david: quickly, we're running out of time, the senate passed an extension of the paycheck protection deadline. there is still quite a bit money left that has been passed. will the house approve that extension? >> i believe that passed today

unanimously. david: it did? >> yes. i believe that passed today unanimously. we have to give people and businesses the time to take advantage of the successful ppp and loan and grant programs of course. david: that will bring people back to work, get the economy and gdp moving again. congressman reschenthaler, have a wonderful july 4th celebration. appreciate you being here. >> thank you, david. take care. david: coming up, china cracking down making arrests in hong kong after passing a law that could spell disaster for the independence movement there kt mcfarland joining us to take a closer look. we'll be right back. >> the united states is deeply concerned about the law's sweeping provisions and the safety of everyone living in the territory including americans

♪. david: to china now where authorities have made their first arrests in hong kong. this after the communist party and beijing passed a sweeping national security law that could have anyone advocating for freedom in hong kong punished with up to a life sentence in prison. bring in former trump deputy national security advisor kt mcfarland. great to see you, kt. it breaks the hearts of people who live there in hong kong

because it was such a vital free market community. it was a beacon much the free market for the rest world for decades and decades. is that gone forever? >> yeah. i think it is. you know china's plan was to take over hong kong, they promised initially, well, china will control hong kong but it will really be two governments, one china, two governments but they have totally reneged on that. for all intents and purposes china assumed control of hong kong. and they're eyeing taiwan next. so the entire, you know the whole idea of hong kong which it is a finance capital, it was china, originally china's window to the financial world, that's gone. china may have decided it isn't so important anymore. david: kt, aren't they really cutting off the nose to spite their face? that is to say they need hong kong, they need its freedom because it acted as a financial

clearinghouse for the far east that investors around the world could trust. they can't trust it anymore. so in the attempt to take all the gold from hong kong, they're killing the goose that lays those golden eggs. >> lays the golden egg. there are two things about that. one the chinese decided to take advantage of the pandemic, right? you don't want to demonstrate in the streets. hong kong have millions that come out and demonstrated. they will not come out and demonstrate because of the pandemic. they will not come out to demonstrate because china will declare any demonstrator is a terrorist with life in prison. but you're right, the end result of this, money, intellectual capital will flee hong kong to go to other parts of asia or other parts of world. boris johnson, prime minister of britain, said three million hong kong residents can come to great britain, to get a

five-year visa would be the become citizens much great britain. those are entrepreneurial creative, free market capital capitalists in the world. that would be a huge boon for britain and a brain drain for china. david: china may be shooting themselves in the foot with this mood. you mentioned something else of great interest with me, the way they are using the pandemic, the chinese communist government. >> right. david: there is no depth which they will not sink in order to claim world dominance. do they really think they can use the pandemic, not just with hong kong but with the rest of the world in order to pursue their goal to be the preeminent superpower? >> yeah, absolutely. you know the china's original plan was by mid-century they would be the world's dominant superpower. so they're building a maritime trade route through the south china sea. they're building a land based trade rout links europe,

middle east asia china with one belt one road strategy. internet connection building with their 5g network. by mid-century, the united states will be pushed out of asia rand pushed out of the pacific. they would control hong kong and taiwan. their economy would be so powerful, so large, no country would dare criticize them and try to work against the chinese interests. the pandemic they think have given them an opportunity to accelerate this. the chinese are already back at work. the chinese economy was struggling before, it is still struggling but doing a whole lot better than anybody else in the world. they're watching europe, the united states and other parts of the world are struggling how to deal with the pandemic and struggling with the economic consequences of it, the united states with certain social unrest the chinese are thinking this is their moment. they are much more aggressive in hong kong. they're much more aggressive in the south china sea.

much more aggressive in europe, the new relationship with russia. the chinese think this is their time. they're going around the world, david. they're telling everybody, look, the united states is finished. they couldn't cope with any of this. and china is the country that is going to dominate the 21 century. david: why it makes it even more vital we figure out a way to kill the virus and open the economy at the same time. we've got to do both. >> agreed. david: otherwise people like china will take advantage of us. kt, great to see you again. thanks very much. >> great to see you, dave. david: coming up president trump going after joe biden's tax plan. what effect would the presumptive democrat nominee have on the economy? >> they're going to raise taxes. they're going to raise regulations and they are going to put everyone out of business. it would be a disaster i like liberty mutual.

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the market would crash, would absolutely crash. >> how much of a crash? >> market would go down by tremendous amounts. he he'd raise taxes, he'd raise regulations. david: president trump also taking to twitter to tout record growth in the second quarter. to warn people that expect the economy to plunge if biden is elected elected in november. what effect will biden's economic plan have on the nation? with me special assistant to president trump, kelly sadler. have you and the audience looking at these states by tremendous numbers. the one things they have in common are high tax rates. that is the wonderful thing about this country as we celebrate our anniversary of our founding, it is a bunch of little experiments. we have 50 experiments going on what works and what doesn't work and the high-taxed states seem to be proving that high taxes don't work. >> they absolutely do and

joe biden would be a disaster, the president is right for our economic recovery post-covid-19. he already said he would repeal the trump tax cuts. we know the obama-biden years basically was devastating towards manufacturing jobs and that joe biden voted for nafta. he voted for permanent trade relayses with china. then what happened 20 years later, this country lost 4 million manufacturing jobs. they said the jobs are not coming back and wave the magical wand. joe biden has a disasterous economic record. this president cut taxes, is for deregulation. he unleashed the energy sector, a sector that joe biden said he would bail on fossil fuels which led to 600,000 job losses in pennsylvania alone. these policies would have a disasterous effect on our economy. david: kelly, you bring up a great point because while, if a state raises taxes, somebody or a business can move to a different state. >> yes.

david: if it is done on a federal level you can't move to a different state. you're stuck with it. so you move out of the country. we saw that happen during the obama-biden years, we saw tremendous exodus out of the country, to places like ireland, for example, has a very low corporate tax rate. if we raise the corporate taxes back up to a level that is much higher than international average, we're going to have another exodus of not just individuals but whole companies who are going to be taking their jobs overseas again, are we not? absolutely. >> part of the trump tax cuts, tried to repatriate companies back to american shores. we're seeing many bills in congress, the president supports tax incentives for companies to bring the supply chains back to america. this is now a national security issue with covid-19. let's get our supply chains out of china and encourage businesses to bring back this manufacturing to the united states which joe biden doesn't seem to kay care about.

>> mentioned covid-19. as you well know you're in in mt of sparks again in states that are closing down again, not entirely but they are closing down. you have states like new york where you don't have the spike going on. you have scared politicians like mayor de blasio announcing that he is not going to be opening as he said he would be. i'm wondering that the fact that the last jobs numbers were incredible. tomorrow we get more jobs numbers. i'm wondering if the reclosings are going to prevent the v recovery that larry kudlow and others are hoping for? >> the president said he would not at a national level advocate for closing states back down again. and we're going -- david: but he is not, forgive me, kelly, he is not responsible for the. >> i know he is not responsible. david: that will be the job of the governors. and a lot of those governors are reclosing. >> if you look at new york

state, for example, 5% of new york city's population fled during the covid-19 crisis. that is according to "forbes" analysis. are those residents going back to new york city? new york is already facing a 13 billion-dollar statewide deficit. we have don't need andrew cuomo, no offense, he didn't need people fleeing from his state, need people to stay in the state which he will probably raise because of covid-19 because of bad economic decisions. we as a nation know how to deal with covid. we need to wear masks. we need to socially distance. we need to wash our hands. small businesses can implement these to keep the workers safe. we'll have to live with this disease until there is a vaccination. until the result, alternative is devastating economically and would have devastating effects across america. david: kelly, we have to go, forgive me for interrupting. i just have about 15 seconds. will the election be a

referendum in part on whether the country should reopen or close down again? >> i think the election will come down to the economy, who is best-suited to lead the economy and that is president trump. david: kelly, great to see you again. kelly sadler, thank you for coming in. appreciate it. have a good independence day weekend. we want to alert everybody to a special programing note. thursday, july 9th, 1:00 p.m. eastern time please join neil cavuto for a virtual town hall. america together. special guest will be barbara corcoran as the housing landscape is undergoing changes, some good, some not so good. email us at invested in you @foxbusiness.com. some of those questions will be answered on air.

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♪. david: as america prepares for its most patriotic holiday recognizing our founding and independence many key figures of our independence remain under attack. the department of homeland security announcing a new task force to protect american monuments, memorials and statues. will we feel comfortable celebrating these examples of our independence, including our flag this weekend? let's bring in former house oversight committee chairman jason chaffetz. jason, great to see you. thank you very much. first of all, independence day

used to be something universally celebrate. we took it for granted, it would be a happy day, people waving the flag, now cities like new york, indianapolis, seattle, where people don't seem to want to do that. it seems different this year. i imagine it doesn't much in utah but it does in the cities. that's a shame, isn't it? >> it's a shame and i think it is pervasive everywhere, in part because of the coronavirus, but in part because of rioting and other things that have been happening. but i got to tell you, 4th of july should be one of those things that is almost out of bounds for that. you know, he remember when barack obama used to say, we're not the red states, we're not the blue states, we're the united states. that resonated. i am about as conservative as it gets but when he said that he meant it.

it resonated with somebody. it was a good moment. somehow, some way, i got to tell you, i think it is wrong to go after the flag. you can point to colin kaepernick and some other things that happened along the way but it just seems to me that when we're talking about the beauty of the united states of america, despite all the flaws and problems we've had in the past, it is still the greatest nation on the place of the planet. we should be able to wave the red, white, blue. david: people, white, black, yellow, come here to escape what they don't have in their home countries. but you know, you mentioned president obama's statement. i think, it reminded me of alveda king's statement, we're not a white race, or a black race, we're the human race. we should focus on that. you look at these protests, they began as something and turned very different. they began as an anti-racism protest. then they became an

anti-american protest because it wasn't just confederate statues that people went after. it was statues of you ulysses grant, and great americans that had nothing to do with the confederacy, something we're not very proud of as a nation. and corporations have kind of fallen into the trap of going with those protests even as they morphed into an anti-americanism, something far beyond being anti-racist? >> i got to tell you, i believe that protesting is about as american pass it gets but there is a wrong way to do it when it becomes rioting and looting and taking it upon yourself to deface a public statue or start to tear down these statues. if you want to make a change in your community, then do it the right way. it is just, it's the wrong way. it is the anti-american way to just do it unilaterally and, you

know, throw paint on it, on something or try to tear it down. i feel for the law enforcement officers that have to protect those. the community as a whole should be able to protect those but it is this fringe element that just goes out there and, doesn't want to be heard. they want to intimidate. and i think that is a step too far. >> that fringe element by the way did tip their hand when they started going after union leaders and other people that were clearly heroic in the way they led their lives and i think that the president's move to protect those statues, mount rushmore is where he is going to be speaking. i don't think that is accidental. i think americans are going to appreciate that. congressman, we have to leave it at that. great to see you. have a wonderful independence day celebration. >> thank you. david: thank you. coming up police in seattle finally retaking the east precinct from protesters after

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♪. david: welcome back, everybody, i'm david asman in for elizabeth macdonald. as we reported at the top of the broadcast seattle police have reclaimed the east precinct station dispursing the protest known as "chop." capitol hill organized protest. that is what it stands for, taken over since early june. not before several shootings, including a 16-year-old victim gunned down in his car driving through the area. he had a friend with him, 14, who was critically injured as well. the father of a 19-year-old was killed on june 20th in the "chop" zone had the following to say about the protesters. listen. >> you have to shut this down. this is not, i don't know what this is now. this done turned into something else now. david: take it to former california republican gubernatorial candidate john cox. he joins us now. john, good to see you.

thank you for being here. >> great to be with you. david: many young black men are getting killed not only in the "chop" zone but sitting around the country as police are pulling back or being applauded or forced to do so by politicians that are pandering to the idea of defunding the police. don't those politicians have, have something to answer for to the relatives of those black people who were being killed as a result of this? >> absolutely, david, and it's postively tragic, it's horrendous. it's happening in seattle. it is happening in chicago, my hometown where i have three wonderful daughters who live. every weekend in the chicago, just the last couple weekends there have been small children killed in gang crossfires and, a lot of it are people taking advantage of these movements to defund the police. they think that they're just not going to have any chance of getting arrested or sent to

jail. you know, in seattle, especially as well as in california, people there in those communities are already wrestling, david with an extremely high cost of living and now they have to worry about the criminal element taking over as well. the politicians, you're absolutely right, they should bear the brunt of the criticism that should be resulting from this crime wave but also the cost of living and the incredibly tough living conditions that they have to live through, it is absolutely tragic. david: it is not just the polled tish shuns who are pappedderring to these organizations. by the way, black lives matter, look it up on instagram, wherever they put forth their principles, black lives matter stands for defund the police. they're very up front about that. if you're for black lives matter, you're for defunding the police, that is from their words, not mine.

yet you have corporations, a whole slew of them who are trying to defund facebook because they say, they're giving too much to the right, anybody who knows facebook knows it is more of a liberal organization than a conservative one, when in fact facebook an instagram are all over black lives matter. they're giving black lives matter more press and space than they are conservatives. >> we should do something about racism. i grew up on the south side of chicago, david. i abhor racism. my mother taught in an all black school on the south side but these corporations that are rushing to fund black lives matter are not investigating this organization. this organization has specific credos on the website, they're a marxist socialist organization. they want complete government control. they want redistribution of wealth. they want the destruction really of faith and family. these are not the principles

that we've grown to love. and for facebook, they're in a tough position now. they have gotten so big. they're a monopoly status, really. we should have more competition for facebook, frankly. they have gotten so big they have become a media giant of their own. i worry these companies leading this ad boycott are going to try to get facebook to start censoring the news. there is a very fine line between what they call misinformation and things that are just clearly beyond the pale. i mean clearly facebooking live a murder like what happened in new zealand is just horrendous, should never happen but there come as time when you have to really watch the censorship because we need open political dialogue. we need several points of view expressed. i worry that these companies are forcing facebook into committing censorship on what they might term misinformation but --

david: not just censorship what they're pushing. chipotle is the most recent organization or corporation to say that they are going to stop at least temporarily putting their ads on facebook and instagram which is owned by facebook, until they have less divisive content. it is not that they have, it is not the divisiveness of the content that is a problem. the fact that they have some pro-trump stuff on there and they have a lot of black lives matter stuff on there. so this is really an effort to totally exclude donald trump from facebook. quickly. >> who decides what is divisive, david? i mean i believe in school choice. i believe in better education for black and brown children in the inner-cities where they're not getting it. the unions would argue that's wrong. i think we need to really watch what is really divisive. david: john cox, great to see you, john. we appreciate you coming in. thank you very much. have a good july 4th weekend.

i'm david asman in for elizabeth macdonald. you're watching "the evening edit" on fox business. so glad you could join us today night. have a great evening. we'll see you next time tonightt now. ♪ ♪ lou: good evening, everybody. the radical left 's occupation of part of seattle has come to an end. this morning seattle police cleared out the capitol hill organized protest. they like to call that c.h.o.p., after more than three weeks of anarchy. seattle's left mayor, jenny durkan, initially downplayed any danger posed by those so-called peaceful protesters, calling their occupation of a part of a major american city another summer of love. >> we've got four blocks in seattle that you just saw pictures of that is more like a block party atmosphere. it's not ap an