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pastor. that's it for us tonight. follow me on twitter @loudobbs and have a great 4th of july celebration. thanks for being with us. good night from sussex. ♪ ♪. david: hi, ebb, i'm david asman in for elizabeth macdonald and this is the evening edit. there are new clashes with police outside seattle's so-called "chop" zone as dozens more are arrested early this morning. police began clearing it out yesterday after violent weeks saw multiple shootings, alleged rape and two people killed amid a 500% spike in crime. workers are left to clean up huge piles of trash, tents, a barrage of graffiti while
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residents and business owners cope with extensive property damage. in many cases that the probability that their life's work is permanently destroyed. let's go to fox news's jeff paul with the very latest. hi, jeff. reporter: david, seattle's capitol hill area is occupied no more but there is going to be a lot of work to get things back to normal weeks after protests and demonstrations wearing helmets and body armor, seattle police swept through the area clearing out anything or anyone that might have remained remaine "chop" zone. at times they were using bikes to create makeshift walls as they pushed dozens of protesters who wouldn't leave. police arrested three dozen people with charges bearing from failure to disperse, obstruction to assault and unlawful weapons possession. fences were torn down and city crews used both hands and machinery to remove piles of leftover trash and other items.
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it will be a start to a long road to restoring the area. business owners are left to repair any damage and scrub off any graffiti that remain. >> this doesn't feel like a victory. in my humble opinion, it is too late. it is four weeks too late. they should have taken a stand at very beginning. it never should have gotten to this point? are businesses becoming target because we pushed the envelope and forced the city to move? reporter: seattle mayor jenny durkan faced criticism by some she allowed this to happen to go on too long. she supported the arrests today, she doesn't support prosecuting many of those who were booked on misdemeanors. david? david: incredible. jeff, thank you very much. as we've been reporting seattle is one of many u.s. cities devastated by violent crime amidst a push to defund the police.
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president trump praising law enforcement today and weighing in on seattle. >> i'm glad to see in seattle, they took care of the problem. we were ready to go in. they knew that too. they went in to do what they had to do. the american dream is the sacred birthright of every american child. that is it what we, we have the american dream. nobody will shatter the american dream. not the anarchists. not the agitators. not the fools. not the looters. david: get reaction from nationalreview.online contributing editor deroy murdock. great to see you, deroy. thanks for coming in is law and order winning out over anarchy right now? >> maybe a little bit over the last couple days but certainly not very much over the last month. you have total anarchy going on. this is sense, these are kids, just expressing themselves, leave them alone. i'm all for peaceful protests. i saw people protesting about the george floyd killing on
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bicycles going up my street, not bothering anybody. that was a beautiful moment. when you take over property, putting up barricades, declaring any part of american city to be its own country, that is all together different. we saw of course in the "chop" area, rapes, assaults two murders. this is anything but summer of love we were promised. as jeff paul mentioned. we have a lot of arrest, the decision to prosecute people. peaceful protests are great. if you're doing graffiti, pulling down statues, breaking windows, you need to go to prison for a long time. only then will this nonsense stop. david: it is not just defund the police. there are these crazy rules. we have the new bail law in new york which allows violent criminals to get out without posting any sort of bail. walking the street committing crimes again. you have people on the street committed dozens of crimes. one case over 100 various crimes, the guy was punching little old ladies in the face. important voices, deroy.
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maybe i ask law and order are winning out over anarchy. important voices pushing back, not just president, but people like the cardinal of new york. very often religious leaders are reluctant to get into these issues but not this time. he says our valiant police officers have one of the most perillous stressful duties around. what i have seen in my nearly dozen years in new york they do it with care, compassion, and confidence. there is pushback against the defund the police movement, deroy. >> i think there is pushback. i think you're going to see more pushback when you see the kind of crime figures we've seen here in new york this year compared to last year. year-to-date, murders up 24%. shootings up 36, shooting victims up 26%. over last weekend, shooting victims up 342%, sorry, shooting
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incidents up 342%. shooting victims up 414. this is a tremendous brutal crime spree. i was here during the days of david dipping kins. we had 2200 murders. especially place like virginia, virginia democrats are trying to reduce the penalty assaulting a police officer from felony to misdemeanor. what on earth is that about? make it easier, less penalties to attack police. this is evil, pure evil. the radical left has to stop. we need to restore order and peace and quiet to the streets of america. david: mentioned the radical left. the you will steer i don't remember motives of the -- ulterior motives radical left not just in the "chop" zone, statues being pulled down, not just confederate statues but talking about pulling down every semblance much american history. the good of american history as well. union heroes from the civil war. people who have been a part of
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building a better union, are also being -- this is, the revolutionary instincts to destroy american culture completely are being exposed by these people on the streets. >> oh we're seeing exactly what we're talking about. you studied communism in latin america, places like venezuela and nicaragua. there is almost malice or khmer rouge to erase everything up until now. attacking statues of abraham lincoln to emancipated slaves. they attacked statues of the black soldiers that went to work for the union against the confederacy. they attacked two weeks ago. this is pure marxist, leninist, behavior this is not kids expressing themselves. david: they copied reign terror, robes pierre, mao revolutionary
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guards. if you don't tow the line 100%, they try to destroy you. a dean of a massachusetts nursing school was just fired, she wrote in a tweet, i despair our future as a nation if we do not stand up against violence against anyone. black lives matter, but also everyone's life matters. no one should have to live in fear that they will be targeted for how they look or what they believe. now for that statement, she was called out by the associates of her including the president of the college. she was fired for saying that everyone, everyone's life matters. first of all, i think that is against the law because it is a public institution, the university of massachusetts. they're allowed to discriminate on the basis of one's free expression of the first amendment. so they, she probably has a lawsuit against the university but, this is, this is what is
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happening. you have this reign of terror going on throughout the nation. >> absolutely remarkable a head of a nursing school, repeat a nursing school, losing her job because she says every life matters. don't you believe every life matters for nurses or pick and choose among racial background. it would be say, nice if you didn't say that, that would be too far but for her to lose her job over that. absolutely astonishing. this is a radical revolutionary moment. this has gone well beyond peaceful protests about george floyd. this needs to be stuffed out or the revolution will continue into a long hot summer. david: very quickly, last question, how did fringe groups and this fringe behavior become mainstream? not only mainstream but one that corporations are jumping over each other to contribute hundreds of millions of dollars towards? >> i think that, i heard friend of mine named dan saying rarest
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commodity in america is courage. very few people don't have courage to stand up to the folks. if you're racist, people go dive under the desk in the fetal position. people need to say i'm not a racist. people needs to be treated faredly. equality under the law. that is nothing racist on that. you can express yourself peacefully. the second you pick up a rock you should be handcuffed and thrown in veil. if you're convicted you should spend time in prison. more americans should say this, put an end to this bloody, destructive nonsense. david: remember our heritage is one of courage. whether the courage of the revolutionariries standing up to king george or the courage of people to stand up to the slave owners. that is our heritage. we celebrate it this weekend. we should do so proudly waving the flag all the way. destroy, great to see you, happy independence day. >> thank you. david: coming up next, president trump hailing another spectacular jobs report going into the holiday weekend.
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congressman brian babin of texas joining us next on the record-setting numbers. >> today's announcement proves that our economy is roaring back. it is coming back extremely strong. ♪ ♪ yeah ♪ ♪ y-yeah ♪ ♪ yeah ♪ hey, hey
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today's announcement proves our economy is roaring back. it is coming back extremely strong. we have areas where we're putting out flames of fires. that is working out well. david: president trump touting the drop of unemployment in the month of june from 11.1% to 13.3% in may. the extraordinary number, nearly five million jobs that were added just last month. joining me representative brian babin from the great state of texas which is in the news. in the past hour we'll talk about that in a moment. congressman, great to see you. thank you for joining me. what these numbers show, i think to everybody, is that the economy, the american people themselves, are dying to get back to work. not just because they need the money but because we need to work. it is in our blood to work hard. that is what makes america part of what makes america what it is. will the government let americans do the work they want to do with the virus still kind of hovering over our heads?
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>> absolutely. this country is not going back into a full lockdown. the american people are simply just not going to stand for that. we know that americans like to work. we must go back to work. these are great numbers. people are going back to work. this beat all expectations. couple this with the 2.7 million jobs, the 4.8 million month before last and this month. americans are going back to work. that is what we need to do. you know, i've always called ourselves, you know, we're a nation of faith. our bible tells us, work is good for you. that is exactly what americans want to do. i keep hearing that from my constituents right and left. i think, david, it is, a stark choice that americans are going to be facing this november. are we going to have law and order and prosperity, or are we going to have chaos and
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socialism. david: right. >> that is the choice we have in november. david: part of that chaos, certainly is in the streets as we see it reflected in places like seattle and new york. it is natural chaos that has been created because of this pandemic. it has affected, even your state, this new uptick in the numbers. we just got news in the past hour that the texas governor, governor abbott, has demanded that people, that he issued a mandatory order to wear face masks for those communities that have more than 20 positive covid cases. when ever you're in public you have to wear a face mask. is he going a step further and demand some kind of, some kind of close down order? >> well we're certainly hoping not. i know that most texans really would, would prefer that not to happen but it is going to depend on the circumstances. and you know, i was a dentist for 37 years and i wore a face
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mask every day, all day, when i worked. it doesn't bother me but many so people have a real problem with it and i understand that. but the social distancing, washing of hands, wearing face masks, this is just part of, part of the way that we fight this covid-19. and i think that people need to take this very, very seriously. there are people out there that think that this whole thing is, is a hoax. it's not. i know people that have it. i known people who passed away from it. david: yep. >> this is something that we need to take very, very seriously. but again, your previous guest said it all, with the chaos that has been going on, it is ridiculous we're even talking about law and order and democrat politicians blaming president trump and blaming republicans for all of this chaos. all of this chaos, probably 99% of is going on in democrat controlled cities, counties, states. lou: seems to be. >> they could reform these
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police departments at anytime they wanted to, for the last decades. and they have just chosen not to. it's a time now as a, you know, as a means of taking trump down, making republicans, democrats simply do not want to go back to work, david. david: congressman, let me ask you one more question. we're running out of time, but on the covid issue, if in fact the economy is bouncing back on its own, god forbid there is another second wave of the virus, if we continue to open up and economy continues to perform as it has the past couple months, do we need another multitrillion dollar covid bill with all of its bells and whistles, including more money in unemployment insurance? >> well, i am going to have to look at that very, very carefully and scrutinized. because, we're having a hard time spending money we've already passed. we had some great parts of the cares act, the ppp, the sba
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loans for small businesses, standing in these small businesses back up. it has been a very, very successful part of the cares act. the democrats want to spend more and more money. when i think just throwing money at it is not a good thing. we're on the track to have a number of vaccines. we were on a call with, with president trump's team the other day, a couple days ago. we've got vaccines that they're expecting to be coming out in november, for human trials. and i think, i'm optimistic. i think we'll beat this thing. americans are tough. we've seen these types of things before. we're going to go back to work. we're going to be prosperous. i think we're going to return this president to the, back to the white house and we're going back to work. david: congressman. i love your upbeat attitude. seeps very fitting on this july 4th week. we thank you for being here. congressman brian babin. appreciate it. coming up congressional
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♪. david: cia director gina haspel led a group of intel officials to brief congressional leaders on that report that russia was offering bounties total ban forces to kill u.s. forces in afghanistan. the trump administration asserts that the initial media reports that the president was briefed on the report and took no action are false. we have former cia moscow chief dan hoffman. dan, first off, do you believe the president when he says he wasn't briefed about this? >> i mean the president said he wasn't briefed. i think he is probably distinguishing between an oral briefing and a written briefing. it doesn't appear he received a oral briefing. let's make it clear we did take action on that intelligence. there is duty to warn based on
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tactical intelligence, that they were reportedly paying the taliban money to a get u.s. soldiers in afghanistan. that threat reporting was shared widely to soldiers out in the field and coalition forces. we have over 1000 british soldiers and italians and others. we did that. second issue simultaneously what do we do about it? that is where you bring the president in, have him consider options if this does indeed turn out to be true, what policy options might he choose to counterrussia? >> david: i will talk about russia, the wouldn't should be made, even without a bounty, the russians have been empowering taliban to kill u.s. service people for years, right? >> right, absolutely. listen, the russians have been providing the taliban material support mostly small arms training money.
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if you give taliban a rifle and small amount of money. you don't have to tell them to target u.s. soldiers. they will do that anyway. that is a major challenge for us, i can tell you from my experience serving two years there as station chief, russia have been providing material support to the taliban that made our job so much more difficult. david: would you, if you were inside of the inner circle in the white house as a cia advisor, would you have made sure that the president somehow had been briefed on this? >> i would have fora couple of reasons. first, once we shared this, this reporting, with our coalition partners i wouldn't want the president to be blindsided when he has a phone call with prime minister boris johnson of the uk and the prime minister might say to our president, listen thank you so much for that threat reporting. i wouldn't want that to happen. the other thing i probably would have gone to the president, said, sir, intelligence analysis is like putting a jigsaw puzzle
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together where some pieces are missing, you have pieces from another puzzle. this is what we got right now. we're working it up. i want you to be along for the ride and you can determine whether you achieve threshold to take countermeasures against russia if you feel like you need to get there. i based on my own experience, i would have a conversation conveh the president, a brief one to give him a head as up. david: dan you know what is going on here the way "the new york times" reported it, the way democrats using it. they're revising this idea somehow the president is a dupe of president putin of russia and russians in general. nancy pelosi said it again over the weekend, she wonders what the russians have on president trump. you look at record dealing with russia. the russians that he killed in syria, hundreds of them. what he has done expelling various russian agents around the world, pushing back on the russian pipeline with the
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germans. doesn't sound like he is in putin's pocket, does it? >> well i just, i will tell you as a retired cia officer it pains me when cia intelligence is used as fodder and run through the partisan meat grinder as is happening right now. i wish we could just stick to the facts and, but you know, that is not going to happen. it is campaign season. so that's what you get. i think it is over now to the president and his team to respond, respond with the facts and do it, you know, with in a way that, makes it clear, that these are our national interests. this is what we've done. and, holds everyone accountable, democrat and republicans from getting facts right. it is not just some democrats. republicans as well. representative liz cheney has been outspoken about her concern. it is fair for the administration to get the facts out an explain things and if they do that, they should be fine. david: fair enough, dan hoffman,
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♪. david: major update in the jeffrey epstein case. one of the most infamous financiers confidants, ghislaine maxwell, has now been arrested. the long time associate of epstein has been hit with six criminal charges including enticement of a minor to engage in illegal sex acts. she could face up to 35 years in prison if convicted on all counts. for more, let's go to bryan
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llenas. reporter: ghislaine max wail was arrested in new hampshire. this is five hours north of new york city. reuters was reported she was arrested without incident at 156-acre estate. she bought that house with a million dollars in an all-cash payment last december. she did it through the guise of an llc. in order to conceal her identity. she is now facing six federal charges including four charges of conspiring, enticing, transporting minor girls for the illegal acts, for illegal sexual acts. she is also facing two perjury charges for lying in a 2016 deposition about her involvement in sex trafficking with jeffrey epstein. the u.s. attorney spoke earlier today about the charges. here is what she had to say. >> maxwell lied because the
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truth as alleged was almost unspeakable. maxwell enticed minor girls, got them to trust her, then delivered them into the trap that she and epstein had set for them. she pretended to be a woman they could trust. reporter: prosecutors say that she helped transport these minor girls as young as 14 years old from epstein's estates in new york city, palm beach, and in new mexico as well as her own home in london, england. on top thatch we're receiving statement from epstein survivors, accusers and victims. one from jennifer rose said ghislaine maxwell facilitated her rape in 2002. our survivers are able to take a breath of relief saying some justice for survivors exist.
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i feared epstein and his ring. maxwell was the center of the sex trafficking ring. now that the ring is taken down i know i can't be hurt anymore. she faces up to 35 years in prison if convicted on all chars. prosecutors are asked she stay in confinement, detained until her trial, they note she is worth tens of millions of dollars, and traveled internationally 15 times over the last three years. they see her as an extreme flight risk. david? david: she knows how to get around under the radar. thank you very much, bryan llenas. a victory for the trump administration as the supreme court takes up the case whether congress should get access to redacted testimony from the mueller investigation. the decision makes it liesly the testimony will not see the light of day before the november election. former trump impeachment defense team member and former whitewater independent counsel
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robert ray joining us now. great to see you. we remember instances in our lifetime when the supreme court got involved in a decision that affected an election. i remember the bush election in 2000 for example. it is not something that the supreme court likes to do. is that why they put this off until after november? >> i'm not sure they necessarily did that on purpose but that's, you know, that is obviously the effect, the point being these things take time to make their way through the federal court system which is to say, through a district court. then the d.c. circuit court of appeals. now on to the supreme university could. the reason the supreme court took the case because it presents a challenging difficult issue involving separation of powers. the bottom line there is rule applies to release of grand jury material. it can only be released in connection with a judicial proceeding. during the watergate area it was
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deemed to be close enough that the two branches of government affected agree. in that case the house judiciary committee and the executive branch agreed the materials should be released in connection with the nixon impeachment. david: right. >> here the administration has opposed it and the congress is attempting to obtain the material and it was done only through a vote of the house judiciary committee. it is not even clear first that it was an action of the house of representatives. and second over the objection of the white house. david: let's get out of the weeds for a second, talk about what is really going on here. it is redacted material, the stuff that the grand jury, that is what they want access to, the democrats. the redacted material that the grand jury listened to included a lot of salacious stuff that probably wasn't true. that happens with grand juries all the time. the democrats wanted to see that tear, potentially use it in the campaign coming up in november but it's material again, the
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basis of redacted material and grand jury information it can't be proven. it is is is is a salacious. a lot of it is hearsay. like the trump dossier, a lot of it is probably isn't true but they wanted to get it and use it, correct. correct. that is why there is a rule that prohibits its release until there is court proceeding. it is obvious to anyone i don't really seriously think the house of representatives is going down the road of another impeachment proceeding. so there is really no live proceeding and there is no reason for the material to be released -- david: robert, sorry to interrupt but i do want one question what happened today with the charges against the demonstrator, if you want to use that term who is trying to pull down the andrew jackson statue, that was arrested. his name is jason charter. he was apparently leading efforts of demonstrators to pull
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down the statue. federal charges. nothing to think likely of, are going to be applied to him. is the government going to try to find out through him by squeezing him, find out whether or not he was financed and who his financiers and financiers of the whole movement really are? >> right. i mean, look, no one is trying to impinge on anybody's first amendment rights to protest but this is destruction of federal property. those are live and real federal charges. and i think it is also, it warrants and bears attention to find out if his activities were orchestrated and controlled and financed by the organization. if that is true, then other people should be held to account on the same basis. the only way to get at that that is to prosecute, threaten imprisonment of this individual so he will give up other people who may have, we don't know, who may have directed his activities. >> that is what rico is all
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about. robert ray, good to see you my friend. have a good holiday. >> same here. to you have a good 4th of july. david: mainstream media is at it again. cnn is pressuring more companies to boy got facebook and instagram. who is really behind this boycotting movement? we have answers you want to hear coming ta-da! did you know liberty mutual customizes your car insurance so you only pay for what you need? given my unique lifestyle, that'd be perfect! let me grab a pen and some paper. know what? i'm gonna switch now. just need my desk... my chair... and my phone. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪
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particular, to win the 2016 election. now anti-trump activists are intent not to let that happen again. and since by their definition, any message posted by the trump campaign could be considered hate speech, they're hoping to deny the trump campaign a platform that played a vital role in its 2016 election victory. with me now is republican strategist ford o'connell. ford, great to see you. is that really what this is all about? >> it absolutely is. look, you know, cnn has been pushing this pressure campaign, really what it is about is having bullying facebook into censoring political speech and when you look at it with four months to go in this election, it is clearly targeted at one donald john trump and clearly democrats see facebook on a advantage of trump the way his campaign did so well with it in 2016. david: the hypocrisy though is such so thick you could cut it
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with a butter knife. the notion that anything that trump puts up is hate speech while they allow black lives matter to put up pieces, hits or whatever you call them on tweet and facebook and instagram suggesting that police stations be burnt to the ground. that is not hate speech but anything trump says is. >> well that is exactly right. and that is what is so unfortunate here, david. it is all about censoring speech that the mob doesn't like. it doesn't matter what the mob says. it only matter what the mob's opponents say. in case their top target is one donald john trump. that is the whole dichotomy here. it is protecting speech the mob likes and if the mob doesn't like your speech, then you're gone. david: how did the mob get control of u.s. corporations? >> because honestly they make them targets. what happens is, these corporations give in to this sort of mob rule because they don't want to become targets. they want to focus on their
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profits and they think if they do the right virtue signaling, guess what the mob will leave them alone but you cannot pacify chaos and crazy. that is the mistake many corporations are doing. they shouldn't take part in this movement. shouldn't take apart in a lot of the movements. essentially they're showing they could be abused. david: by the way, we got breaking news. fedex sent the redskins, the washington football team, a note, we communicated from the team in washington our request they change the team name. it is fedex stadium or fedex field in which the redskins play. is that a part of what we were talking about here? the corporations just feel like they're being bamboozled or blackmailed into doing something? >> that is exactly right. this is a broader part of the cancel culture. anything that the folks in power who control the social virtue messaging don't like, you know, that has to go. that is exactly what has been going on here.
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it has been going on for decades with the washington redskins. frankly i hope daniel snyder sticks up for himself with a backbone over this. pacifying them over the redskins will not stop them. they will go after something else. they have seen with the statues, david, it is about erasing history and erasing america. david: ford o'connell. thank you very much. coming up good advice from president trump as we head into the july 4th holiday. plus i'm going to be talking to deneen borelli about the threat to the safety of americans amid the defund the police movement and the president's push for keeping us all united. >> as we prepare to celebrate the 4th of july let us renew our devotion to this nation, to its citizens and the eternal values that define our past and shape our future
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♪. >> and i want to also thank all of law enforcement. the job you've done is incredible. we signed a bill. you play with our monuments or our statues, you go to jail for 10 years. amazing how it all stopped so fast, stopped so fast. david: welcome back. i'm david asman in for elizabeth
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macdonald. as we head into america's holiday, july 4th, president trump thanking the men and women in law enforcement and the military earlier today as he prepares to visit mount rushmore tomorrow. he reiterated his commitment to protecting american monuments and statues. let's talk about the importance of protecting our national heritage with fox news contributor deneen borelli. thanks for coming in. >> good to see you, david. david: we're not talking about confederate statues here. it is quite here what has gone on in america over the past couple weeks, americans are wising up that the intention, the ulterior motive of the anarchists who are trying to pull down the statues goes far beyond anything about the confederacy. it goes to the heart of what america is, pulling down you little sees grant statues and statues of abraham lincoln. they're after something a lot more fundamental, are they not? >> well, what it is, david, the
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simple answer is, they hit america. they hate our freedoms. they hate our values. these people have been destructive for weeks on end, not only recently. this has been going on for years. but if anything it has gotten progressively worse and the innocent bystanders, i feel anyone who is a small business owner, anyone who happens to be attacked because they are within that environment to trying to protest peacefully, i feel bad for the innocent bystanders. all of the destruction, the rioting, the looting, is just off the charts. and, i blame the radical democrat politicians who have allowed this destruction and damage and just outrageous nonsense to continue and to go on, to fester. they have not called these people out. they are emboldening them. you have cities changing the laws, they're pulling back police officers, they're cutting budgets and these fools are now
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emboldened. david: they're emboldened an they're funded by a lot of the corporations that have kind of turned over like an old dog, on the back and put up the pause, saying that take anything you want from us. bottom line here is, everybody has imperfections. everybody is a product of the environment that they come from. as, the founders of the constitution says, our role is to create a more perfect union. it is not, it is never going to be perfect. we'll never have perfection. we'll be straddled with the history that we were brought up with. but we strive to perfect ourself. we strive to get better. that is something that these people say, no, no, only perfection will do. we see how those utopian dreams played out in the past and it hasn't been pretty. by by the way the people who know it are the immigrants that struggled to come here. the vice president was at a naturalization ceremony.
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were about 12 people, 16 immigrants from 12 different countries who showed up at this. as you know, i married an immigrant. she brought a seven-year-old son here. one of my proudest moments in my life when that 17-year-old son turned 19, he joined the marine corporation before he was a citizen are you really sure you want to do it before you're a citizen. he said, i want to earn my citizenship. where has the pride, the country doesn't owe you something you owe your country something, where has that gone? >> i want to thank your son for his service but it es so imperative for americans, for individuals, who love our freedoms, and love our country, david, to teach the future generation of the importance of our freedom, our liberties. we're coming up on 4th of july soon, this weekend. it is important to let them know that we are blessed to be
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american citizens and to appreciate what our country has to offer. david: i'm going to come out there. you can disagree if you would like but i think it is impossible for a group of crazed anarchists to extinguish our beacon of freedom. the beacon of freedom that is put out by the american experiment is so bright it attracts people from all over the world who continue to come here and you can't have a relatively small group of crazed anarchists put that out. what do you think? >> well, there is more of us than there are of them, david. so it is important for us to push back on what they are doing and trying to change history and they don't appreciate our country. they hate our country. so it is up to us to keep our country free and safe. for people to step up. david: absolutely. deneen borelli, wonderful to see you, have a fantastic holiday weekend. appreciate it. i'm david asman in for elizabeth
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macdonald. you're watching "the evening edit" on fox business. have a great evening. have a wonderful 4th of july. thanks for watching. [. ♪ >> the king of escape artists. >> houdini could get out of anything. he could go on the streets and hang upside down, escape from straitjackets. >> the last russian czar. >> houdini did perform before royalty in moscow. >> how do you know that? >> he records it. >> a private performance. an imperial gift. >> how convinced are you that this brooch originally was from nicholas ii. >> so, is this the crown jewel of magic? >> i told them that it was worth a million dollars. >> or did she inherit a myth? >> ♪ come and wander through make-believe land with me ♪ [ door creaks ] [ wind howls ] [ thunder rumbles ]

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