civil rights expert robert woodson, congressman matt gaetz among our guests. follow me on twitter @lou dobbs. good night from sussex. david: i'm david asman in for elizabeth macdonald. "the evening edit" starts right now. david: tonight violence gripping america's cities from portland to new york as debate rages over defunding police. we'll ask detroit police chief james craig about his neating with attorney general bill barr, he is impressed with detroit's success in stopping crime he still thinks the city needs help from the feds. gregg: plus the "the federalist"

senior editor chris bedford, postmaster calling halt for changes democrats were calling for until after the election. will that put the matter to rest. or will the democrats start another series of conspiracy hearings before the election? sally yates throwing james comey under the with us. admitting what she knows now she would not have signed off on the fisa warrants that sparked the whole bungled trump trump-russia probe. she is set to deliver a keynote speech at tonight's democratic national committee. what is going on? kelly armstrong from the house judiciary committee. president trump addressing critical immigration and border security issues near the border in arizona. we'll play some of that sound. acting border security chief ken cuccinelli to talk about all of that.

trump 2020 advisor david bossie, how critics say far left ideas championed by bernie sanders and others, ideas considered far, far left are becoming part of what joe biden calls his mainstream platform. gregg: plus new york governor andrew cuomo dodging blame for crises crippling his state. david webb has other ideas. host of the david webb show. let's go straight to fox news's alicia acuna with the very latest from yuma. alicia? reporter: david, actually when the president landed he made news on china. he told the u.s. border patrol in a meeting before appearing before this crowd today he has canceled talks, u.s. trade talks

with china. he said he doesn't want to talk to them right now. he is postponing them. he is postponing. he is canceling for what? what they have done to the world. they will not continue at this point. he also said that he will make his acceptance speech at the republican national convention next thursday live on the south lawn of the white house grounds. so we have those two things coming out of here today. right now, i am standing in an airport hangar at the yuma airport where he is addressing a packed crowd. this is 900 people in this 111-degree temperature. 111-degree weather here. these folks have been waiting for hours to hear the president. we have seen paramedics helping out a couple people. i don't care what neil cavuto says. this is not a dry heat. not for when you're standing this long. president's second visit in less than two months.

arizona, once reliably red state is solid battleground state for him. he is making multiple visits here. he is trying to reacquire the popularity he had here before when he won in 2016, he beat hillary clinton in arizona by three points. he beat her however, that was narrowing of margin in comparison to past gop candidates. that caught attention of not only democrats but also republicans. they are putting on a full-court press, coming back, really striking a difference between the biden campaign which has made appearance online but obviously not in person. nothing like this. david, i will tell you, i feel like i'm back in 2016, back on the campaign trail like it was at one point, really president trump this week really upping the ante in terms of presidential campaigning during the pandemic. david? david: quite a contrast with joe biden and his, his slow and very infrequent visits outside of the bunker that he has been

in. alicia, thank you very. appreciate it. stay with us right here on fox business as the acting deputy secretary of homeland security ken cuccinelli will be joining us later on "the evening edit." meanwhile out of control violence continues to grip cities across the united states. on the streets of portland, oregon, a man beaten by a black lives matter mob knocked unconscious? we'll not show you the entire tape. it is too brutal. after being forced to crash his truck. portland police are searching for suspects in the attack. in seattle, police released bodycam footage showing officers being targeted with explosives during riots, resulted in six injured officers and 1arrests. seattle police chief, carmen best resigning shortly after protesters targeted her home and after she was offered little support from the mayor or the city council. and in new york city, escalating crime and more bloodshed. 53 shooting incidents since thursday. one at the grand central subway

station at 10:30 in the morning, leaving 67 victims, 10 of them dead. amid a nationwide push to defund the police. let's welcome detroit police chief james craig. chief, great to see you. thank you so much for being here. really appreciate the work that you've been doing in detroit. we should mention, you have had an increase in violence like many of the cities in the united states but not the kind of rioting that we've seen or sort of looting we've seen in places like portland and seattle and new york and chicago. why not detroit? >> well, let me just, david, just want to thank you for getting me on your show again. >> appreciate it. >> i love telling detroit's story. we didn't wait for something tragic to happen in our city to start building bridges in our community. we have great working relationships with our community. they have resisted from day one outside agitators coming in and trying to incite violence.

these folks that are protesting daily by and large are not detroiters. many of them not even metro detroit. so detroiters are angry. they're fed up, but the fact that we have a strong relationship of members about our community has gone a long way, really quelling violence. you look at, you know, i'm not being critical of other cities, but when i look at chicago, for example, and i see what appears to be chicago residents rioting and looting, why is that? because these agitators have come in and they're inciting violence. >> i have to go beyond that because you have do have councils places like milwaukee, like seattle, supposedly representative of the people who are voting to defund the police. at the very moment we need them the most and yet you have a poll out, there is a "gallup poll,"

pretty legitimate poll, 81% of all african-americans in america want same amount of police in their neighborhood or greater number of police in their neighborhood. i'm wondering how much the representatives are representing what the people want? >> they don't. they absolutely don't, david. i know. i will take it a step higher. we have not done the "gallup poll," i can tell you in detroit it is higher than 80%. might be as high as 90. i tuck to detroiters each and every day. they don't want to defund the police. they support the department. it has been that way the seven years i've been chief here. so these people that come from outside, who claim to speak for detroiters are totally off base, just totally off base. >> you're working well with the city leaders. the elected officials. that is not always the case as i

mentioned. police chief best, one the city councilwoman wrote the following tweet after she resigned. police chief's actions like most police chiefs, supported by most politicians guided at all times loyalty to the status quo and willingness to do the role of police under capitalism, defend deep inequality through on going repression of the poor, marginalized communities of color. this is city councilwoman, talking about seattle's first black police chief in its history. it is extraordinary what she says. is that, are you, you're not receiving any of that from the elected officials in detroit, are you? >> absolutely not. there are a couple of city

council who supported this whole defund the police notion. obviously they're not in touch with the constituency because their constituency, i can tell you definitely, they don't want defund the police, not close to it. and so it is tragic what happened to chief best. i know her. she was in a very difficult position. i am fortunate. our mayor supports law enforcement. he supports reducing violence in our city. and so that is certainly makes my jobe a lot easier. there is no way we're going to allow for no cop zones to establish themselves in this city. they tried. every bit of 45 minutes. i had the covers with general barr today. i said you're not welcome here. so, take your goodies and go away. they did that. different kind of place. david: we should mention by the

way operation legend has begun. helping police that need it investigating, hunting criminals in the cities. what is the latest in detroit? >> i can tell you it is going well. this is continuation of already existing relationship that we worked so well with our federal partners for many years now. and so people have tried to create this false narrative that this was something that it was not. what it was not, it was never designed to manage our protesters. in fact, we're one of the bright stars in the country. we didn't have looting and burning of buildings. we didn't have that here in detroit. david: right. >> because of our community. what we do have, what we do need, given everything that is going on today and detroit's not in isolation, violent crime going up in a lot of major cities across the country. my old home where i was chief,

cincinnati. this weekend in a period two of hours, 18 people shot. that has never happened. david: yeah. >> so the point is we welcome the additional support. i had a chance to spend the day with general barr. we went up in a helicopter. viewed an actual operation in progress. it was a troubled location in our city. and we went in there and we did what the community wants us to do. david: chief, we have to leave it at that because we're running short on time. we were talking before we came on air how it is not rocket science of the you worked with mr. bratton, the police chief under rudy giuliani here in new york. they turned things around remarkably well. we know how to do it. just the will to do it. clearly you do have that will. we thank you for that. chief james craig. well-done, sir. thank you very much. coming up, breaking news on the battle over mail-in ballots. the postmaster general

announcing a halt to changes that democrats were calling for until after the election. will that put the matter to rest? or will democrats start another series of conspiracy hearings right before the election? "the federalist" senior editor christopher bedford weighing in on that coming next.

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screaming about until after the election. will this mollify democrats, or, will they continue with hearings and conspiracy theories until way after the election? senate home land committee security chairman senator ron john will presumably give the postmaster general to speak on friday before he face as house committee on monday. what the heck is going on here and how will it affect the election if at all? let's bring in "the federalist" senior editor christopher bedford. good to see you. how far are democrats going to push on this? >> i'm surprised they pushed this far but they will continue to push this. this is the second thing the post officer general has done to try to assuage these concerns. the first thing he did cancel moving and collection of mailboxes, the kind of routine activity that is extremely normal for the post office to be doing which has now got some kind of conspiratorial tone to it. all right. we won't do that until after the

election. a lot of plans which were already in play before he came on board, before any of this mail-in ballot stuff was announced, he will say that all right, we won't touch anything. the reality of the matter is, the union, the union want as lot more money for the post office. they have been very resistance to changes in the post office which is a fiscal disaster which will something better or streamlined anything. they realize if they attach this to the election they get the attention of everyone. democrats signed on to it as well. david: yeah. >> it is wild to see the level of misinformation and fear-mongering. there will be problems with the post as, the only time i used a mail-in ballot in 2012 or 2010, it never arrived. there will be issues. it is not because of some nefarious thing. david: that is the point. democrats wanted to see if their worst fears come true, they want to say what he did with the post

office. now he has taken that very smartly, taken that off the table. they won't have that cudgel if he wins re-election will they? >> no. they will still come after him, you haven't given us enough money. the post office union will. post office mail carriers union, democrats will, they want ad bailout. they have been pushing for a bailout for years. in the end the post office is fiscally solvent through this year. that will be fine. no amount of money will make it with the entire country voting by mail will go smoothly. david: no. >> it will be disaster and votes will be lost. david: we've seen it in action. ironically carolyn maloney is the woman who is going to be chairing the hearing on monday that will being taking the postmaster to task. it is her disk that had this debacle of where, i don't know how many, was it 20,000 or 30,000 ballots that were deemed corrupted by various experts? she should know that there is a problem with mail-in voting,

that the problem is not with whether there is a cut at the post office? >> it is never going to be counted as fraud, either. exactly, because people say, well some weren't counted. you won't know if your vote didn't count. you won't know if your vote did count. you find huge caches in liberal or conservative districts, we found more votes. it is never called fraud with mail-in ballots. that is what people are concerned about. david: christopher bedford from the federalist. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> sally yates threw former fbi director james comey under the bus saying that he went rogue. she admitted knowing what she knows now, would not have signed off on the fisa warrants that sparked the whole bungle trump russia prone. she is hours giving a big speech at tonight's national democratic committee. we have kelly armstrong from the

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>> did comey go rogue? >> you could use that term, yes. david: well that was former, former deputy attorney general sally yates testifying earlier this month before a senate committee investigating the origins of the russia investigation saying that then fbi director jim comey and his team went rogue in an interview with then incoming national security advisor michael flynn in january of 2017. it was down without her authorization. yates was fired by the president just 10 days into his administration. tonight 2018s is set to deliver a virtual to the dnc. theme of tonight is leadership matters which is iron kick. we have kelly armstrong from the house judiciary committee. good to see you, congressman. why indeed, hard to get into the head of somebody else but i will ask you.

why do you think the democrats would hear from somebody, somebody who was a witness to the fact that the investigation the democrats sort of based a lot of the first term of president trump on was a hoax? it was clearly a hoax. in fact a hoax that was admitted to last week by former fbi official who admitted that he falsified evidence for the fisa warrant? >> i'm assuming it is probably because kevin clinesmith was unavailable. irony of having sally yates testify on leadership matters when just recently she testified in front of the judiciary committee that she had no control over her fbi agents, didn't know anything was going on, was adamant that the logan act had nothing to do with this but conveniently couldn't remember if vice president biden brought up the logan act. keep in mind the logan act is a piece of law so serious it has never been prosecuted successfully in 100 year history on the books.

if you want to obscure all personal responsibility, take no accountability for anything, and if that is what we're viewing as leadership, congratulations to the dnc tonight because they have the perfect speaker. david: consider what president obama himself about the way things were done in the fbi in the context of this leadership matters segment of the dnc's convention tonight. we're going to play a tape of president obama, he was on "fox news sunday" back in 2016 before the election then. listen to this. >> i guarranty that there is no political influence in any investigation conducted by the justice department or the fbi, not just in this case but in any case. full stop, period. >> she will be treated no differently. >> guaranteed, full stop. nobody gets treated differently when it comes to the justice department because nobody is above the law. david: congressman, we now know that was not true. i'm not going to say he was lying because we don't know what

was in president obama's head at that point but what he just said was not true. because, we again, we have that guilty plea from mr. clinesmith that we got that indicated there was political interference in the justice department. >> yeah. absolutely. it was not a minor switch in an email that was doctored. one said carter page was working for the cia. the other one said it wasn't. that was not a minor change. having sally yates testify, i read everything available on the general flynn case, if anybody believes that is still a righteous prosecution by the fbi they should have the bar license taken away or go back with a refresher course on criminal justice. david: it is not over. the investigation what led to the russian hoax. whether what mr. clinesmith did was repeated by others either at the fbi, the department of justice or possibly even the cia. >> yeah. i'm actually cautiously optimistic.

i've been the guy on our side saying you know, i'm supportive of attorney general barr, supportive of the durham investigation. but for six months i've been the guy saying i will hold out judgment because they have not charged the fall guy yet, right? the guy they know who admitted lying under oath. now they at least charged the fall guy. i hope they climb up this because it is really, really important. regardless of criminal action up to look how many different times they violated procedure, why they did it. resistance texts, this was coordinated. i spent enough time around federal law enforcement in my life, this was not a group of people acting independently. the american people deserve to know what happened. david: are there more criminal investigations ongoing that mr. durham will be telling us about? >> i mean i hope so. my concern, you still have to, i have said this before, anybody with a bar license should have it taken away. they should, these people should have to hide in their i bas in

shame, not not get cushy consulting contracts with other networks. we have to get to the pint where they violated a criminal statute. if you leak classified information that is a crime. if you lied under oath, that's a crime. regardless what criminal prosecutions come out of this, we need to know how bad it was, how corrupt they were, how coordinated they were in essentially trying to overthrow a duly-elected president. that is what happened. david: it will be interesting to hear sally yates, what she can possibly tell us we haven't already heard. congressman, thank you very much. >> i will probably watch the recap. i'm not sure i can stand it. david: i understand. coverage of the democratic national convention starts 9:00 p.m. eastern here on fox business. i will help out my buddy neil cavuto on that. president trump addresses critical immigration and border security issues near arizona.

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♪. president trump: it has been a really incredible success. within two weeks we'll be in 300, general i think 300 miles. it's a great feeling to have closed up the border. now people come in, if they come in through merit, if they come in legally but they don't come in like they used to. david: president trump speaking near the border in yuma, arizona on immigration and boarder security. the president accepting the endorsement of the national border patrol council. the official union representing the u.s. border patrol. joining me is ken cuccinelli. acting deputy secretary of homeland security.

ken, good to see you. thank you for being here. >> good to be with you. david: the president can point to something solid and physical like the wall that has been created there, which, no wall is completely impenetrable but this one is a lot stronger than border security we had before. i'm just wondering if a biden administration could turn that situation around very quickly? >> well, i don't see anybody unbuilding wall. so, and you know, as the president noted, we're about to cross 300 miles. we crossed 200 in june. i think we'll cross 400 in october. we'll certainly get to the 450 by the end of the year. and, we're rolling along and if you just look at yuma where the president was today, you know, where we percent built this wall system, the illegal traffic dropped by over 75%. david: wow. >> so you're right, it doesn't stop everything but that is an incredible drop.

it is an incredible aid to those border patrol agents. a, accomplishing their mission, and b, keeping them safe while they do it. david: right. >> so we keep them safe while they keep us safe. david: you know, it is not rocket science. we know that walls work. they worked in israel. they worked in san diego. wherever we tried it. that is why the border patrol agents kept something asking gore it. they know what works. it slows down the immigration. we haven't seen the caravans by the way for quite a while. >> no, we have not. for over a year. david: beyond the physical barriers, you have more psychological barriers. for example, cracking down on asylum claims that were unjustified. trying our best to make cities that have sanctuary, sanctuary city laws pay the price for that. that could be a turned around by the biden administration, no? >> absolutely. some of these things take longer

than others. the battle of sanctuary cities unbelievable. we have to fight with them to help them keep their own communities safe but we do. and we keep doing removals in those cities. in fact, from my perspective they have become priorities in my mind because we lack the local cooperation but it's, it is still that work goes on. it makes america safer. i will tell you what. i.c.e. removed, i want to say 10 ms-13 folks today. they were running a sex trafficking ring. david: wow. >> illegal aliens all of them. there is a real, there is a real dark side to this that the border patrol and i.c.e. do a great job of helping protect us from. not -- david: we saw that extraordinary -- >> we do the best we can. david: we saw the extraordinary image i believe in bend, oregon, where a group of protesters, some might even say rioters were trying to prevent i.c.e. agents from doing their job in getting

two people, i believe there were two, considered to be criminal, violent criminals and the crowd prevented them from doing that. the i.c.e. agents had to go away. can you tell us more specifically what these people were wanted for? >> well, assault, coercion, domestic violence, i believe, fourth degree assault is what they call it in oregon. so, and the i.c.e. agents didn't go away. we extracted those folks, including the detainees. that process continues on. david: forgive me. i didn't realize that was the outcome of this? >> that was the outcome. oh, no. we don't give in to these, we don't give into people who behave this way. we sent in reinforcements. that is the president's approach. let. david: let me ask you about bill barr, operation legend continues pays.

we had the police commissioner of detroit very supportive of this, but now chicago, even though they have been quite opposed to a lot of what this administration has done, they are cooperating in operation legend. is it continuing pays across the country? >> it is. it is expanding. look this, is professional level, law enforcement cooperation, that this president has insisted we push for word. you see the attorney general leading that effort. there are department of homeland security officers, particularly homeland security investigators who really target these gangs like ms-13, participating as well. the goal for the president. i've been there when he said it. he said look, i don't care who votes for who. i don't care, these cities are, are cities where i'm president. i'm going to do everything i can to keep these people safe in their own neighborhoods and that is his goal ultimately. it is hard to turn around cities that have been governed by liberal policies for 50 years

that contribute to this level of violence but the president is doing everything within his legal authority to help cooperate with the police who will cooperate and, improve the safety in the neighborhoods in these cities. we're doing what we can. there is a lot more work to come. david: i have to ask you a very quick final question. the gao's report that suggests that your appointment and chad wolf's appointment are somehow invalid. what is the very latest on that? >> well, they made so many errors that you can't actually think they are errors. they had to be intentional, it was so rife with them. both of us hold our positions under appointments that came via the homeland security act, which the gao does not have jurisdiction to open pine on. and yet they did. they got it all wrong. the bottom line is kirstjen nielsen, when she was the secretary of homeland security

under the homeland security had the authority to reset the succession. and she did. she made kevin mclain nan, border patrol, next acting secretary. she even swore him in herself. if anybody had any doubt who she expected to be the next secretary of homeland security, swearing him in herself you would think pretty much answers the question. it completelies guts the gao, won't call it a opinion. it was a partisan hit piece. david: ken cuccinelli. great to see you again. >> good to be with you, david. >> trump 2020 advisor david bossie, saying far left ideas from the likes of bernie sanders and others that were once considered radical are a part of joe biden's platform. that is next. president trump: socialism is the mainstream of the biden campaign and it is not the mainstream of america. remember i said we will never have a socialist country. we will never have a socialist

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♪. president trump: bernie sanders declared in his speech many of the ideas just a few years ago were considered radical are now mainstream. that is bernie sanders, okay? because joe, look, let's, he doesn't know where he is. but if he did, he has been brought so far left that our country will not be the country that we know it. david: that of course was president trump just moments ago in arizona, ripping into the democratic platform for making what was radical the new normal for democrats. trump 2020 senior advisor david bossie joining me now. david, so far, i must say that they have been trying as best as they can to not be specific about what their platform is going to be. because they made so many promises clearly to the bernie

sanders and aocs, that they would, you know, take into consideration these left-wing platforms. they don't want to say it out loud because that way people, the moderate democrats won't vote for them. are we going to see any specifics by the end of the week? >> well, david, i agree with you, they have no platform other than hating president trump more than they love the country and that is really all they're going to espouse this week at their convention. their anger and hatred for president trump and what he has accomplished for the american people. they want "medicare for all," which means medical care for none. they want the green new deal, which means a destroyed economy. bernie sanders is dragging this party and has dragged this party not to be the democrat party anymore. to be the socialist party here in the united states. president trump has promised every american that will we not be a socialist country. that is why this election is about big issues.

if you want higher taxes, if you want open borders, if you want anarchy in the streets, you will vote for joe biden. if you want lower taxes, if you want, if you want border security, an if you want law and order, those are the, this is a stark difference this is reagan's bold colors, not pale pastels. this is very consequential and important election. it is about big issues. and they don't want to talk about them. david: well the tax issue, he has come out, biden has come out and said he would raise taxes, he has been pretty forthright about that. even though he has given things like climate change issues to aoc, who is the co-chair of the task force on climate change, with vast knowledge that she has at the age of 30 on this issue, nevertheless, they haven't given a specific policy point about how they would address it. will they come in with specific policy points by the end of the week or not? >> i don't see that happening.

they don't really have a convention where they're going to put forth their platform and discuss it. they will have just like last night, a snooze-fest. president trump said it was going to be a boring convention, that for the democrats and last night, bore that out. we have, we have some big issues to contend with. i don't see how hiding joe biden in the basement and not answering questions, there has been no traditional campaigning, david. that is very important. the american people expect and deserve transparency. they expect and deserve the vetting of these candidates by the media and when joe biden isn't campaigning anywhere, isn't leaving his house, but skypeing in, he is not being questioned. the daily ins and outs. the debates will be very important. the debate commission unfortunately lives in the past, planning all debates late,

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♪. david: new york governor andrew cuomo blaming the surge of crime in new york city in part on the police. in remarks made yesterday he cited the dramatic increase in shoot national new york city but said departments across the state need reform. cuomo said if districts did not come up with plans for reimagined police departments, by the april deadline, the state would not be providing future funding to them. this as new york city mayor bill de blasio is reversing his policy on sheltering the homeless in hotels. he is sending them back to homeless shelters after complaints flooded the mayor's office. joining us now to discuss, host of "the david webb show," fox news contributor,

david webb. david, i live three blocks, full tis closure from one of those hotels used to house child molesters. it was a block away from a school a public school, a public elementary school. the ideas that are circulating and turned into policy in new york, not just the city, all of new york are just extraordinary these days? >> sadly they are extraordinary. they are dangerous, david. you and i have friends who live near these buildings that were being converted basically into junkie joints for people who were homeless, criminals, drug addicts, sexual predators and bill de blasio, by the way, i don't think he made a u-turn. he made a turn because those people in the upper west side of new york and in many so of the areas in new york who write the checks to the democrat party and supported bill de blasio's run started realizing what they were

supporting with their finances, their support, their vote, came into their neighborhoods. suddenly it was uncomfortable for them. bill de blasio has been frank about this before. he wanted to move them into various neighborhoods. i'm not saying the homeless don't need to be taken care of, you're not saying that, but there is a better way to do that, provide them with services, care, drug addiction counseling. >> right. >> by the way, because you move drug addicts in a neighborhood, doesn't mean drug dealers won't follow with deliveries. >> the fact, it corresponds in a perverse way with this new law that allows criminals, violent criminals, in many cases to get out of jail for free, without putting bail up at all. a lot of those people are then considered homeless. those are some of the people put in there. governor cuomo has basically pushed back many times against mayor de blasio and some of his really far, far left views but now it looks like he is joining

forces with de blasio and calling out the police, saying they're somehow to blame for rising crime rates which clearly started because of the new bail law and pulling back of police, not, not because there are too >> well, first of all, de blasio and cuomo are frenemies. they're enemies. they don't like each other very much. they fight much more over mta control, and when they're united during the democratic national convention this week, they will be united on issues that push the democratic and, frankly, the leftist agenda which is where they both stand. cuomo's coming out with a book. why? he needs to rewrite history. we've seen people like hillary clinton and others do that. they rewrite the history, they put out their story because cuomo's always had higher aspirations, maybe even wanted to be president of the united states someday. and as for de blasio with, de

blasio's destructive policies, deliberately destructive, have denigrated the police department. i know many of those men and women, as you do, that are fighting to save the city but literally are having their hands tied behind their backs rather than handcuffing criminals and putting them away. david: 33,000 new yorkers have died from covid. that number is just awe stoppishing. -- astonishing. that anybody has anything other than excuses rather than bragging rights for 33,000 deaths. and, of course, the whole nursing home scene which is so devastating, and he won't even accept a singing question if one is offered by the press, the fawning pressers that he has with fawning journalists. david, we've got to leave it at that. although it should be said just when you think new york won't rise again, it does, and we are hoping for that same sort of miraculous recovery of this city, because i plan on continuing to live here.

good to see you, my friend. thank you very much. i am david asman, you are watching "the evening edit" on fox business. have a great evening, we thank you so much for watching. ♪ ♪ lou: good evening, everybody. our high-energy president today continuing the trump whirlwind tour of the country. president trump today celebrating as well the hundredth anniversary of women's right toni vote in this country and at the same time he pardoned susan b. anthony for her 1873 crime of c voting all heel -- illegally. no president has ever done so, obviously, for the suffragette previous tofr him, and the presidenthe shaking his head at those presidential failures to pardon her, wondering why it took so long.