♪ go home, now. >> no peace. [explosion] >> oh my god. that was a flash bang right in my face. ainsley: dozens of our cities are under curfew nationwide as violent crashes and mass protest continue to rage over the death of george floyd. clashes outside of the white house as flames erupt in the streets, brian. brian: the historic st. john's church in washington, d.c. set on fire from the basement. it was built from 1815. by the way that's every president since james madison ad attended at least one service

there 62,000 national guard troops were destroye were deplog on stand by in washington, d.c. steve: stores in new york city smashing glass and leaving nothing behind. aishah with us. as the sun comes up. you see the damage behind you. soon the owners will come and they will be heart-broken. >> that is absolutely right. in fact, guys. there is no shame in these looters. and, you are right. the sun is up. you would think that they would go home. there are still looters out here. in fact, in the last 15 minutes, i saw some folks get out of a car and walk up to this store, this moose knuckle store and literally jiggle the doorknobs to try to open the door as if they were going to walk in and see what was left. they eventually left. over here, look at this store

over here. watches of switzerland. sells rolex watches. the good piece of news today i just talked to the owners. they have said they had already removed all of their merchandise, all of their jewelry so not a single piece of item was stolen. but lots of glass broken all over the place. they are here. they are cleaning up. and they are heart-broken as you said. let's take a look at some video now earlier that we just shot in the last hour. police have made arrests earlier today. in fact, three people just arrested right in front of a confiscated bags of stolen merchandise from their their car had arizona plates on it. so out of state. and my colleague, brian earlier tonight saw multiple out of state plates, new jersey, pennsylvania, connecticut, so clearly these are outsiders come in to loot. i want to show you some video from the worst of the looting overnight. hundreds of people swarming into soho this shopping district. witnesses say as early as 11:00

p.m. they showed up and it went on for hours until about 4:00 a.m. our crews saw vehicles stolen to the brim. people hopping from one store to the next. garbage bags full of stolen goods. even using city bikes here to get away with their goods. and started breaking off into smaller groups. this is really a game of cat and mouse. more of them, less of the police. police would move from one corner to another. the looters would then move, too. and break into the stores. they brought hammers. we saw some box cutters. they were prepared. and they were even breaking threw the plywood. that some stores had tried to put up earlier yesterday. the night stearated with thousands of protesters swarming barclay center last night. those protesters shut down the manhattan bridge. then they marched from brooklyn over to manhattan. it's really hard to believe, guys. that those peaceful protesters are the same people that came here to soho to loot.

it's really hard to put those two groups together. we really do think that a lot of these folks that came here today were from out of state, lots of out-of-state license plates. they are still moving around the area. we have seen them drive past in cars. they make eye contact with me and my crew. they look at us and check us out they say you are not intimidating and get out and see what we can grab. brian: aishah, quick question, i understand there were stores that hired private security to protect their place. i have think it was even the nike store. don't you think that today, looking arranged, it's up to each individual store to actually provide their own security because even though we have 41,000 nypd, it clearly is not enough? >> it's not enough, brian. and the reason is because there is so much going on all over the burrows. the nypd is stretched thin. and the looters know that. they come here almost with a plan. they have a plan of action. you are right there.

were some stores with security. we were told, again, by our crew that was here earlier in the evening and they said those stores were safe because they had hired security. but i have seen in the last 24 hours. i have seen several stores putting up plywood sort of preparing for this and that wasn't enough. the plywood was torn off. people brought tools. they brought the box cutters. the hammers. they were ready they were ready to go shopping. steve: yeah. you know, and aishah as we look at your live shot there in soho over in chicago yesterday. mayor light foot said that the violence seemed to be preplanned because she said, you know, somebody will break in to a store and a u-haul will magically appear right in front of the door just as they break, in just to cart off all of the stuff. you know, we don't know who, if anybody, is organizing this. but there does seem to be some orchestration or some planning.

>> even if -- you are right. even, steve, if it's just a group of friends. we have seen groupings of four, five, six people. both male, female. i have saw a group of three girls walking down the street in front of clear view of the police. they were rolling a suitcase, a carry-on and carrying shopping bags. so, yeah. they have a plan. they come in a group of people. they have make sure they have someone in a get away car that's ready to pick them up and they get out of here. and it's not going to be surprising if this continues because i mean, these business owners they know. i mean, they are trying to prevent this as much as possible but it's been happening pretty much every night. it won't be surprising if it happens again tonight. ainsley: we keep hearing people say none of this is about george floyd. ruining a meaningful protest. and the mayor of atlanta said this is not in the spirit of mld jr. aishah, stay safe down there. all right. it's 6:06 on the east coast.

let's head out to the west coast of california where the riots brought chaos up and down the coast line. looters smashing into santa monica stores in broad daylight. leaving streets littered with broken glass. police arrested hundreds of people, brian. brian: similar scene playing out in long beach. in san diego, a bank completely engulfed in flames. burned to the ground. >> also, in that city, a police officer was forced to drive through a crowd of protesters to get to safety. and in oakland, california, rioters driving cars, willy-nilly on the streets that are empty. meanwhile, mayors throughout the state have begun placing curfews with some starting as early as 4:00 p.m. which is extraordinary, brian. that, i mean, the curfew in washington, d.c. just ran out at 6:00 a.m. but to think that it's going to start at 4:00 p.m. the night

before just goes to show you that they are trying desperately to gain a handle on this. brian: steve, i was there in 1992 living in los angeles during the riots. and they shut it down at 6:00, if i remember correctly. and you would drive down one of the most busy freeways normally. the 10 freeway you can possibly be on in the country, and it will be totally empty. people paid attention that wanted to be -- be on the side of law and order. they do pay attention out there. especially with unrest. the other big challenge as most people know out in california is there is no big new york city manhattan where the density is there. there is santa monica, maria delray and los angeles. the lapd because the nature of this l.a. is spread out is diverse and out. it's going to be easier for the anarchists and the rioters to diversify and avoid law

enforcement. that's one of the big challenges of being out on the west coast and trying to fight this unrest, ainsley. ainsley: yeah, i know. it baffles me when you look at these images. so many people have worked so hard to build their businesses. we went through covid and they weren't. brian: we aren't through it yet. ainsley: i know. i know. more than 300 people arrested in minneapolis in that area. ground zero for the nationwide anger. look at this video. a truck driver recklessly barrels into a crowd as people run for their lives. matt finn is live in minneapolis as the city is under a mandatory curfew. matt? >> we are at the scene right now where george floyd died one week ago. and ever since, unfortunately, there has been seven days of unrest here. days of violent riots. and yet another chaotic night last night. police arrested at least 150 people alone that blatantly violated the curfew. minneapolis police also tweet

add short while ago they are finding water bottles filled with gasoline hidden in bushes. and asking people to call 911 if they find anything like this. also police say they responded to a reports of a habitat for humanity house being looted overnight. the governor here in law enforcement has become much more revealing about how stunningly violent minneapolis riots have been. law enforcement says they have switched their tactics they are now going on the offense and discovered cars without license plates driving around with rocks and weapons. >> took ar-15s off of people. we took guns off of people. we noted that once again, their tactics had also changed. we noted that we were seeing cars drive through our neighborhoods and to our communities without any license plates on them. and with their lights out and their windows blacked out. >> also a shocking scene hard to

watch. a driver barrels his tanker truck through a crowd of peaceful protesters on i-35 yesterday. somehow no deaths. no major injuries reported. the driver was arrested. it's not certain what his exact intent was and we are giving you a live look again at the scene where george floyd died one week ago. there is a peaceful protest happening right now. a sit-in demonstration. and here in minneapolis, over the past couple of days. the mayor and the governor said several times it appears outside groups might have been instigating this even pointing to white nationalists. the governor has had to walk back his statements because arrest records show that the majority of people that were arrested were, in fact, from minnesota. and the governor says he just didn't want to believe that people from his own state were causing these violent riots. back to you guys. brian: all right, matt finn, anthony thank you very much. looking at minneapolis and what has happened we see the utter

destruction and see the hope in that some tactic tactic did woro control the city. are the goal of the anarchists the rioters. make things better between races. to make america a more cohesive unit fair country or destroy every single city so america economically can never get off its back that the pandemic has put us on as we begin to recover? they are destroying cities and blocks in a way in which it's hard to imagine in the short-term we can possibly recover at all. in fact, earlier, charles stots and casey white, owners of the town hall diner talked about the damage done to their business, their livelihoods and thinks it's emblematic of what's going on across the country as we get up today. listen. >> we have been shut down now for months because of covid. now, how much longer are we out of work and, you know, the insurance doesn't cover the blood, the sweat, the tears.

it doesn't cover the place where -- i mean, we were a neighborhood joint. it doesn't cover that spot that the neighbors can keep going to. >> destruction of a community it's brick and mortars. it's businesses. that will be the disconnect that will have [inaudible] days. brian: you saw the map, 41 states have similar stories like that with business people inside of them. these restauran restaurateurs hn to their place to open it up especially in new york city, in connecticut, in new jersey. in the not too distant future. now it's wrecked. it's brought to its knees. i ask you, is your goal to make things better? is your goal to honorable -- to honorable the loss of life? or is your goal to just destroy the country? who are these people coming in?

because, usually if you have a message, you want to say that message. not put a mask on and destroy a business, ainsley. ainsley: you know, the town talk diner and pub. look what it looks like now. the folks that own it. those two individuals, brian, that you just introduced, they bought this restaurant. it's an historic restaurant. they said they were supposed to open today for curbside business. so they were all excited about that. communities were ready to get back together. maybe go out safely and do this, you know, follow the rules after covid and now we're dealing with this, that couple even said that they were out there protesting one of the days peacefully. and they were trying to memorialize and remember the life of george floyd so that it doesn't happen again. and then they said they turn on the news. one of their employees called and said you might want to turn on the news and watch your business. the business was going up in flames will and being looted, steve.

steve: it's just heart-breaking. i believe there are two groups of people. i think there are the people who show up and do the protesting. and then there is another group and, you know, i don't know if it's organized. or not. but they are obviously using george floyd as an excuse for criminality. and you know, case in point, the new york city police department before the riots start, they said that organizers were trying to raise money for bail for anybody who is arrested. and recruited medics and essentially medical teams in case any of them were injured by the police. and then they would have bike scouts go out and figure out okay, where aren't the police? where is an abandoned police vehicle that we could catch on fire? so obviously there is some organization. the big question is who is behind it. we saw over the weekend some images of people who apparently, it appears, money is trading

hands. and i have sources in midtown in the police department who are wondering is there big money backing this? and, if so, who is it? because right now, brian, we just don't know. brian: we don't know. you wonder if the president is going to be an address on this. it can't be about democrats or republicans. >> it has to be about restoring order in the country and moving forward. expressing outrage at the george floyd was treated. meanwhile, attorney general bill barr warning groups like antifa they will be treatied like domestic terrorist. brett tolman on why this is the right move next. ♪ ♪

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>> the voices of peaceful protests are being hijacked by groups of outside radicals and agitators we must have law and order in our streets and in our communities. and it is the responsibility of the local and state leadership. steve: there you have attorney general fox news alert. law and order looting and destroying small businesses. barr warning violent extremist groups will be treated as domestic terrorists. here to discuss former federal prosecutor brett tolman joins us from the salt lake city area. bret, over the weekends, the president of the united states

said that they were going to designate antifa as a terrorist group i have been reading in the major papers he can't do that can he? >> well, you know, i don't think what is he talking about is a foreign terrorist organization or an fto. what he is describing is what the department of justice has done before. they have designated ecoterrorists and terrorism. there is a intention to investigate whether there is connections across the country with these rioters. steve: sure. the thing about antifa it's not a national group per se. there is no centralized leadership. it's hard to get a handle on it. >> yeah. it is. you know, there are two possibilities here and why you need the department of justice and the fbi investigating this because they are very good at

making connections where r. where there is communication among an organization it. doesn't have to have a headquarters and a door front, a store front it. has to be an organization. they could bring ricco charges and cce. continuing criminal enterprise charge. and why the fbi, i think, is really important, steve, is because they can coordinate among themselves and local investigators to peace together what is happening across the country because there is too many people now that are arguing these are outsiders that are coming in. and that's what we need to get to the bottom of. steve: that's right. you know, we just heard from matt finn. he said that the governor had to walk back, you know it, seems like a lot of these people are from out of town although mayor de blasio over the weekend said that largely it was out of towners there are some locals joining. but to his point, famously now,

unfortunately, those officers vehicle that was torched by a molotov cocktail in new york city, the two sisters involved in that were from 120 miles away. and because the d.a. still has not brought charges in new york, the feds struck them with federal charges about destroying a police vehicle. >> yeah. i mean, we are seeing it also here in salt lake. it's hit close to home. my future son-in-law is a member of the swath team here in salt lake, was called in. i talked to him. he described it as something he has never seen before. the things they were doing. near live two dozen. just in salt lake, police officers had to receive medical help as it was a situation they could not control so it needs to be a coordz nateed response. everybody is nervous. everyone feels frustrated but right now is the department of

justice to coordinate among the violent crime task force in this country troy make sure folks lining, you know, the sisters in new york and otherwise that are coming in from out of state are held responsible. the folks howr son-in-law trace was treated on the street by the protesters. >> you know, he -- he said he has never felt anything like it. he felt real fear. they yelled horrible things to him. told him that police officers need to be killed. die pigs. they threw bricks. people very close to him were hit. he was thankfully not injured. you know, my daughter stayed up seven hours watching every broadcast worried that and looking for him. you know, at the level of fear. these are good men and women that serve in our country.

and there are some that make bad decisions. but there are really good people out there that are trying to protect us from ourselves now. steve: that's right. brett tollman joining us on this monday morning, june 1st. brett tolman, thank you very much. >> thank you. steve: meanwhile communities being devastated by the riots and violence. jack brewer says we cannot fight for justifiable if we are fighting against those who agree with us. we are going to talk to him coming up next. to hope, to press on, to do whatever it takes to beat the odds. we are the men and women of america's hospitals and health systems. and we're here to care for you

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now when you buy or lease a new lincoln, we'll make up to 3 payments on your behalf. brian: have you got a sixth night of chaos in break outbreak overdeath of george floyd into riots. we will never get justifiable by fighting with those who agree with us. here is the ceo of jack brewer group jack brewer as well as a minnesota viking. jack, what do you mean fighting with people that agree with us? >> we can't do it, brian. i know a lot of people are hurting right now and can't understand and comprehend this. but i can when i was 13 years old growing in texas a fraction of the skin heads moved into my town. they harassed me and threatened my life and threatened my family's life. the kkk even came to my town for

a rally. and my dad, to protect me, went to a kkk rally. i remember being there and i remember one of my best friends ended up shooting one of these skin heads in the neck. i remember feeling hate in my heart for all white people, man. it was a broken feeling. but, after a couple days, man, there were so many whites that rallied around me and my family. they ended up pushing our entire city to change the laws, to outlaw that mess. and it was just so refreshing to me to have so much support by people. and so i understand how you can try to hate all folks and hate some people. not when folks agree with you. let's let the nation to come together to love each other again. we have to. we have got to stop this violence. it doesn't make sense. it's not godly. we have a lot of people on the streets right now just lost their fear of god. it's dangerous. and it's really revealing to what our society has become through our music, through the

movies that we watch. all the violence that we consume around ourselves. i mean, we have these kids out here now. >> they are burning down buildings and looting and taking selfies in front of that and posing in the and the culture now is continuing to encourage this mess. we have major influencers that could have a voice right now to stop, this but they are funding people to keep it going. we have to understand we have to fight against there issue. this issue should be bringing this country together. brian: the question even more fundamental do you want to make the country better or destroy the country? you are looking at 30, 40 cities that are going to take years to come back if the riot ends today. that's not going to make the country better. this doesn't seem to be the rage in the moment where you turn around and get hit in the back of the head and turn around in a

rage. this is six days of calculated tactics to take down some of the most iconic restaurants and historic sites in our nation. those are not people that seem to me want to make america a better country. >> brian, there is a lot of people out there that are hurting. they don't understand. they don't comprehend the way that i do. there have been focuses hurting so long. kids that have wounds deep inside of them because a police officer may have roughed them up or stopped them when they shouldn't have been stopping them or family members who may have horror stories there are a lot of families that are raising, hearing from their parents and hearing from their communities how bad police officers are around how bad the things in our country are we have got to understand these are wounds. in order for us to heal wounds. we have to first off take a step back and look at it from other folks perspective. pray for them and heal. ask them to heal. we got to come out. folks like yourself.

coming out saying i stand against racism. i stand against this bigotry and hate. and everyone coming together locking arms. if the right people have the right message and folks stand up together, we can get through this as a country. that's what we need right now. we have a lot of broken people. brian: do you think those broken people are doing this damage or do you think a lot of this is opportunist who see a chance to create chaos and steal and loot? >> you know what? at first i thought it was people coming in from the outside. but this latest report out of minnesota really has me concerned. because i have been to minnesota, man. minnesota is a place where it's traditionally known as minnesota nice. everyone in this state when you go interest, i remember moving there, leaving texas where there was a little bit of racial tension as i mentioned. i moved there to minnesota and i felt like i could go freely with no racism. and then now to watch what it's come to, it's really disheartening and to hear that

the majority of the people arrested in minnesota are minnesotans. so, yeah, i think there are a lot of people that are hurting, clearly. it does surprise me as well that you have this many people from minnesota in particular just because i know that area. i am a restaurant owner. i own a part of bar and restaurant. three of my restaurants have been vandalized. i understand the hurt and the pain. but, folks in minnesota all agreed arranged this thing, man. everybody around this nation agreed that when you saw that despicable police officer, it upset everyone. but we got to come together now because this nation agrees on this issue? >> brian: we do. jack, thanks so much. we are calling you throughout the week. thanks so much. appreciate your time, jack. >> thank you. god bless you all. god bless you. brian: meanwhile straight ahead. rioters looting new york city overnight. stores smashed. leaving nothing behind. the commissioner of the new york city police department dermot

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steve: oh, man. back with a fox news alert. demonstrations in new york city spiral into chaos and looting overnight, ainsley. ainsley: i know. some of these are really high end stores hit by the vandals, brands like that nell and rolex having their store front smashed. the nypd restoring some order. camera crews three people and recovering some of the stolen items from their car, brian. brian: hundreds been arrested in new york city. including mayor de blasio daughter. she was charged with unlawful assembly and has since been released. ainsley: let's bring in the nypd commissioner dermot shae.

is he actually live from the police headquarters in lower manhattan. good morning to you, commissioner. >> good morning. thank you for having me. ainsley: you are welcome. thanks for being on with us. we are praying for your officers as we watch some of these images, our country hopefully is coming together and praying and remembering the individuals that are out there on the front lines like your officers. bring us up to speed what's happening with the looting in the lower part of manhattan. we have had four days n. a row of significant protests. each day has been a little bit different. some very violent, directed at our officers. last night was a very spaceful day overall. some squirmishes. most of the day peaceful throughout the burrows. but when it changed it changed rapidly. we anticipated but you saw the large groups of people had no

incolin nation peaceful protest once it got dark. we rming area of soho and canal between west broadway. we had a significant number of stores broken into. we are still out there actually as we speak making arrests. there have been hundreds of arrests. brian: commissioner, it seems to me that you did not have enough officers. did you not -- they had -- they seemed to have outmaneuvered you. they hit you with more people than you are prepared to push back against. do you feel as though you were caught -- caught unable to respond to the challenge that was in front of you? >> no doubt a challenging time. i would say this is one of the most challenging times of 30 years of policing. i have tell you we had thousands of officers deployed last night. made radical shifts to our chart literally from all ends ever the

department? terms of protests and balancing orderly protest and respecting people's rights to peaceably assemble. that was going on all day throughout new york city, large crowds in brooklyn. significant crowds in brooklyn and manhattan. it turned dark and ugly and turned that way fast. i think that people need to understand when they see the police officers out there. on the line as they are right now as we are talking, trying to keep peace. think are doing the best they can. extremely, extremely difficult situation. and this goes across the country and they need your support. i would argue that it's not the amount of police officers that we have. we need support. we need help from the criminal justice system. and you talked about divisiveness, i think, and coming together. we need everyone to come together at this extremely, extremely difficult time. passionate time. i don't think we are there yet.

but i think that is exactly and only way we can get out of this. whether it's police officials. community leaders, elected officials. coming together, finding a way out of this because it is a dark time right now. steve: it is, indeed, commissioner. i want to ask you about something that john miller told the "new york times" and that is that regards the organization behind a lot of this violence and the looting. apparently before the protest started in new york, some of the organizers of anarchist groupings started raising money for bail, recruited medical teams to deploy for violent interactions with police and planned how to target high end stores. commissioner, if you would, talk a little bit about as we look at live pictures from lower manhattan right now. talk if you would, commissioner, about the organization and these anarchist groups.

>> john spoke on that yesterday. that's accurate. we have seen evidence of that. and i think you are seeing when you see organized people showing up to protest, we had individuals again last night showing up with molotov cocktails. we had an incident where a police car was shot at last night in queens. when you see incidents like this, turn in a very happened fashion. you touched on it. there is evidence of an organization behind some of this activity. there is also what you see last night in terms of the looting. people taking an opportunity at the worst time. aat the time that we all need to come together. it's a little bit of both. the answer to your question is there absolutely been influencers. people need to recognize. ainsley: go ahead. >> i would just finish with people need to recognize that. and step back, take a look at really what's going on here.

this is an extremely charged situation. we all saw that video. if you weren't disgusted by that video, i don't know what to say. it was a terrible act. there was swift action. the officer is being held accountable. and i know that's not the whole story. there was a history of prior incidents. this is not just about one incident. we have to get out of this together. and if you look at some of the things that have been said, it's really disturbing. the day after we have officers sitting in a car with molotov cocktails thrown at them, the first thing to judge officers and how they are responding. let's take a look at the big picture here and get out of this together. ainsley: yeah, so commissioner when does it stop? how does it stop? what's the solution here? >> it's going to stop from the ground. it's going to stop from the ground up. we have already seen some evidence of this here in new york. where people from the community

and the police officers working together. i saw evidence of people from the communities coming out and getting into fights with protesters just last night. not to do this in our community. so, it's going to take that type of action to stands up. this will be -- law enforcement as always at the front, leading the way in many respects. but when -- if it's a law enforcement only action, that's when i know that it's going to take more than that. brian: all right, commissioner, mayor de blasio has asked you to use reportedly according to the -- show. i believe the nypd knows thousand handle protest and respect whoever is protesting. i want to see a light touch because people are undeniably angry for a reason. really a light touch and they wrecked just about every major block in new york city? is that hampering and hamstringing your men and women's ability to police this city? >> well, we know how to be very fluid.

and when you talk about a light touch, we actually go into protests that way. if you look at yesterday in new york city, we had thousands and thousands of people protesting all day and not really an incident. whether it was brooklyn, whether it was queens, whether it was here in manhattan, you know, people were standing, they were voicing concern. at times they were kneeling and walking together with the officers. not always. sometimes there was some agitation. but it was exactly how it should be. we believe in a light touch. we are also very capable to respond to multiple situations. and every situation is fluid. so we'll deal with whatever is in front of us and deal with it accordingly. steve: all right. commissioner shae we thank you for joining us on a very, very busy day in the new york city area. thank you, sir. ainsley: thank you. >> thank you for having me. steve: all right. meanwhile, about a dozen minutes before the top of the hour on

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eyewitness ains as brawmp moves to designate antifa over domestic violence. next guest says he won't let niece rioters destroy beloved city of atlanta. i hear that moving into the buck head area and glued to the television all weekend i know you have as well watching all of this unfold. so do we have state representative vernon jones with us. >> i'm here. ainsley: i think they are trying to get him. there you go tell us about the situation down. >> there obviously a situation in atlanta. legitimate protesters wanted to come out and exercise their first amendment right and make it known how they feel about what happened in minneapolis

however. that was hijacked by looters and thugs and hoodlums who did not in any way honor the gentleman's life and those other lives that were lost in unfortunate situations. but i will tell you tha it's a leadership issue. it starts at the local level. when you dial 911, it goes to local fire and police not to washington, d.c. so you have to be organized at a local level. have support from surrounding jurisdictions, law enforcement agencies, and then that gives you the backbone so you can handle this as a former county executive and manage manage and managing a large police department i knew exactly from day one you cannot under estimate what these professional thugs and others are dual with antifa going city to city. when we saw what happened in minneapolis we should are been prepared. i really appreciate the job that governor kemp has done. he put in the national guard, the state troopers. is he working well with our mayor. and the first night they were not organized. by that second evening, by last

night as well, they were much more prepared and addressing the issues. ainsley: the governor organized 3,000 national guard troops to be deployed to the city. that is a good thing. hopefully keep some of the violence down. the president said he i is going to designate antifa as a terrorist organization. you you have been a lifelong democrat and say you are going to vote for president trump. >> what's your message to those who are rioting. >> atlanta do not want you here. you are not a part of his family. that's not how we communicate and get along here and that we will run you out of town and they need to be designated as a terrorist group. a domestic terrorist group. i appreciate the leadership shown by the president to provide the support to state and local levels, again the feds are going to have to target this group. with technology now with doing face recognition and other things, we can track these

hoodlums down and we can bring an end to this they are professional and they have been well funded and organized. this is not just one or two people. this is an organization. they have a pattern. they are going literally in city to city. and local leadership is needed. i will tell you this: you cannot make a political decision when it comes to public safety and public health because if you are going to say 100 people can't gather in a church but thousands can gather on the street and not be arrested. steve: indeed. >> those hoodlums cannot be arrested. that tells you can't be soft with. they you have to go after them. steve: vernon jones, we thank you very much for joining us live. we'll be right back.

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known as the church of the presidents because every president since james madison has attended at least one service there thankfully, the police were able to escort the fire department in and they put the fire out quickly. 62,000 national guard troops deployed are on stand by. look at the screen right there at that map across 27 states and the district of columbia, ainsley. ainsley: that's right. steve, storms looting stores in new york city and smashing glass and leaving nothing inside the stores behind. we have live team coverage in morning. mark meredith is live in washington near capitol hill. first we will begin with aishah hasnie down in new york city where looters have left major damage behind. aishah, this is the city you and i live in and we love. i can't believe the images. >> good morning to you. you know what in the looting is still going on. it's daylight now. we have actually seen several people get out of cars. kind of scope the area and see what's left to pick up whatever

is still out here. take a look behind me. this is the that nell store whatever is left of it really. this is one of the many, many stores in this district this shopping district called solo in downtown new york city. that really just had the windows smashed through. people jumping in and just a little while ago about 30 minutes ago we saw some people drive up here and see what was left. reach in and grab a shoe and grab a lipstick and just try to take whatever they could. i want to show you some video of what we were seeing when things were just at their worst. hundreds of people swarming into this area as early as 11:00 p.m. it. went on and on until about 4:00 a.m. our crews saw vehicles filled to the brim about w. stolen luxury items. we talked to some folks in the area that live here. they are upset. they are wondering why there weren't more arrests. why the nypd they felt like didn't do enough. we actually spoke to the police commissioner not too long ago. let's go ahead and listen to

what he had to say about what just happened. >> when it got dark, things changed and they changed rapidly. we anticipated it. they use -- you saw large groupings of people had no inclination protest. >> some big box stores, big brand names like that nell. some of them are small businesses i want to bring in someone who lives here in new york city. his wife owns a small business here in soh homplet that was looted just a few hours ago. we are not going to reveal his identity. i just want to ask you, sir, tell me what happened to your wife's store. >> i got a text about 1:00 in the morning from my wife saying that her store had been broken into. i was actually in process of driving over the bridge just to come to see what was going on. and we pulled up. the front door the gate was

down. but it was only down because of a neighbor had put it back down and put his bike lock on the gate to keep it down. and the other neighbor showed us footage of the break. in. >> they took a lot of stuff. tell me, you have been walking around in dismay. can i see it on your face. this is not the soho that you know. is your heart just breaking right now? >> um, yeah, this is a bit more surreal than anything, i guess, the experience of like walking around and watch young youth just take and break in stuff and run out with tons of merchandise. it was very surreal being here for the last three hours. >> tell me what you are feeling. i know we heard some people talk about the nypd. did they do enough? you know, did they go far enough? what are you thinking? >> there were some arrests that we seen. but i don't feel it was nearly enough, especially when i drove up specifically three different times to at least 20 to 30

officers and ask them please go around the corner to prince street. can you apprehend these individuals. they are doing it right now. that's why i just drove up to you to tell you this. and they did nothing. >> thanks for talking to us. i hope your wife's store recovers. we will pray for you. we have seen police out here, guys, still walking around. we have seen some arrests made. the looting continues. seeing people grab whatever they can. back to you guys. brian: aishah, thank you. that is sickening to hear that 30 cops are sitting around and not doing anything. the other thing you want to wonder where in the hell was the national guard? we have a dry run on four previous days. the national guard sits at penn station every single day. unbelievable. why weren't they implemented? mark meredith. ainsley: they have it on tape. maybe they can use that tape to prosecute downtown road. >> they are all wearing masks and running 10 100 miles per ho.

these guys where are their parents 18 to 30 years old. i don't see one middle aged person in there mark meredith is on capitol hill with a look at the destruction. mark, what are you seeing? >> brian, good morning. later on officials will get a chance to surveil all the damage in washington, d.c. after protests protests turned into riot. this was prosecutor chaos. lafayette park. area adjacent to the white house where secret service were trying to keep people back. that did not stop protesters from throwing things like rocks, bottles, fireworks, you pretty much name it. they were being thrown at the secret service. at least 60 of their uniformed and special agents were hurt over the weekend. we think that number is a whole lot higher. across the nation's capital there was a curfew imposed last night and the national guard was activated; however, did that did not stop vandals from hitting stores all across the district. there was also a fire set as you mentioned at the top of the show

inside st. john's church. very close to the white house. however, we are still waiting to see exactly how bad the damage is going to be. now let's talk about the law enforcement side of all of this. we got a statement from the attorney general bill barr on sunday about how the administration views all. this he says, quote: the violence instigated and carried out by antifa and other similar groups in connection with with the rioting is domestic terrorism and will be treated accordingly. now, later on this morning, president trump is set to meet face to face with the attorney general in the oval office. the president is also scheduled to hold a teleconference with governors and law enforcement over how to keep the country safe. that's going to be happening later on this morning. as of now, there is no national address on the president's public schedule. did he not make any on camera comments yesterday. he tweeted quite a bit. steve, ainsley and brian we will see if the president halls any public comments later on today. none on the schedule as of now. back to you guys. steve: all right. mark meredith on the streets of washington. thank you very much. dan bongino, fox news

contributor, former new york city police department officer and also a former secret service agent dan, good morning to you. >> good morning. steve: i can't imagine being a secret service guy or gal over this past weekend. the news is apparently i believe it was friday night there was such a -- such violence or threat of violence outside the gates of the white house. they took the president to the bunker which never happens and 60 secret service officers injured. molotov cocktails. bottles, rocks, all sorts of stuff. this is a tough time to be somebody who is in the law enforcement business. >> yeah, it is, steve. it's not easy to be on the air this morning. it isn't. really did you go back and forth between rage and fear and anxiety. my kids are scared i had

8-year-old daughter saying they are not coming to florida, are they. she knows i was a secret service agent. i watched saint johns the church. do you know how many times i stood post in that majestic church in across the street from the white house as a agent. it was a sunday morning ritual for many years. that beautiful church. you are burning the church? i spoke up this morning feeling like a bad movie a nightmare. none of us can wake up-to-from it, i think what are you doing? i spent years on president obama's detail. and, steve, you could not have disagreed with the man more than i did. i proudly went to work every day and defended the president of the united states. he was my president even though i disagreed with him. i never once thought because i disagreed with him that i would show up at the white house and start a riot. i have been in communication with friends of mine.

the tactics being used at the white house are very sophisticated. they are lifting and shifting and moving around trying to hit strategic points of the white house. and friends of mine have informed me that known antifa leadership is there organizing this this is not just criminality by people looking for something to do. there are people there to cause troubling. this is sophisticated insurrection kind of attack. this is not a joke. identified members of what is now a terror group trying to take down the seat of our government. don't you understand what's going on right now? this is not about george floyd anymore. gosh, i wish it was. we had a sincere moment of national unity where everyone agreed, even our police officers that this abhorrent. who is talking about that now? you know what the answer? nobody. we are talking about insurrection. this is not a joke. this has to stop now. they better get a damn lid on,

this stat, or this is not going to end well. ainsley: dan, you talk about the church. st. john's episcopal church and i was reading this morning that thankfully the sanctuary was not damaged. they burned out the nursery that had just been enkno renovated. that's where children go to learn about christ. now witness been devastated. >> bill barr and the president need to legally decapitate antifa today. we need high profile arrest right now. i think it's 18 us. 12101 for rioting today. we need this we feed full mobile mobilization of our national guard in every state. it's not the time to say we don't have riots here. i don't care if you are in wyoming or downtown miami. we have to shut it down now. get a lid on this right now. we have to do other things as well. i think it wouldn't be a bad idea for local mayors and

municipalities to consider bringing in some retired law enforcement, able and willing to come back and help in a support role. get those cops out there as a show of force tonight. i warned people tuesday, i said the minute you let this get out of control it turns from crowd control to riot control. and those are two completely different formation of policing. we are in a triage situation now and we should have never been here if they would have shut it down on minnesota on night one. tactics got a plan too many cities, 41 states. they have actually a way to hurt this country beyond the pandemic. the pandemic put us on pause for three months. this is going to take years to rebuild these cities having said that. the president will regret his presidency whether it's five for years or five more months if he does not get together with the best tactical minds and best

legal minds and speech writers and give an address tonight. if there isn't a reason to ever address the country that has been so diversely affected by one thing. this is the reason. it's not 9/11 philadelphia -- excuse me, pennsylvania and new york were hematocrit but the country was affected. every state has been affected. we can't quite figure out who the enemy is we know we want to be together they want to tear us apart. the president has to be. in that speech can't be anything about a democrat and nothing about a republican. it's got to be about an american. how do you feel about that? >> i think the president understands what's going on right now. i agree with you. if there was ever a time in the u.s.s. history for oval office address to bring the country together, it's unquestionably right now. you can't watch these videos, brian, you can't of a woman in rochester being beaten senseless why her husband is screaming for mercy trying to swing a golf

club to protect -- these people having their teeth knocked out and being attacked. black and white business owners alike in liberal cities having their entire livelihoods burned down. this has to stop tonight. we have to draw a line. there has to be imaginable line tonight. antifa and criminals have declared war on civility and the constitutional republic. this is not a joke. this is insurrection. this is a coo. this icoup.this is not a protes. steve: it is three groups. as we will look and see things devolve through the course of the day. there are really three different groups of people we are talking about. there are the protesters. >> yes, yes. steve: protesting police brutality. that's how it started in minneapolis. then have you got the second group of the organizers.

antifa, you say. and they're the ones who want to sow disorder and break things and try to burn down police cars. and then you have got the third group and these are the opportunists who are seeing the craziness and the chaos on the streets and they are going in and they are looting and, you know, they are taking stuff out of target, tha chanel. whatever store they just broke a window at. suddenly, everything is free. >> steve, your analysis there is important. this is how we put a lid on this and cap this tonight. you have three groups. have you legitimate protesters very upset about what happened. exercising constitutional rights. those protesters have to start to turn on the other two groups. we have already seen it in d.c. with the video of peaceful protesters turning an antifa hooligan over to the cops. secondly straight criminals taking advantage of the situation. we have to use video today and start locking up as many of these looters as we can start

showing up at their houses. once the word starts getting out this isn't a free-for-all this will stop. third as i said you have to locally decapitate antifa today. high profile arrests. you have to start perp walking right now. if you want to be famous. we will make you famous behind a jail cell. believe me the message will get out. some of these kids are really video game players in their basement with s'mores took advantage with a group to because they have nothing to live for. when they watch their friends going to federal prison. all the sudden this will change quick. that's how you take advantage of those three groups and stop this tonight. those protesters have to not allow. this you are there for peaceful reasons to exercise your god-given right. don't allow these people to hijack your movement. it's disgraceful. ainsley: all right. dan. brian: twitter took their site down. ainsley: law enforcement officers confronted with life threatening situations on the streets of new york. the head of the state troopers

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and we are heart broken on what is happening on the great cities. what did your governor say? >> basically is that this is not an ugly incident. what started as a protest has turned into riots. you have people, criminal opportunists taking advantage and creating havoc. it's one thing as police officers we'll protect your constitutional right to protest and we'll continue to do so. and fight adamantly that you have the right to do so. but, you do not take hammers and molotov cocktails if you are a peaceful protester to these events. steve: right. exactly. tom, you know, police officers are as outraged as everybody else. when you look at that video about what happened to george floyd. i mean, that's terrible with the guy having knee on his neck for

seven or eight minutes. you are outraged as well. at the same time, as we were talking earlier, there are people who are protesting the police brutality and then there are people who are tear advantage of the situation. >> well, absolutely. a weak ago, mr. floyd's death. that was despicable. that is something that every good police officer in this entire country we cringed when when we saw that video. that comes down to training, background checks. the police departments have to do a better job weeding out people before they actually are hired as police officers. and as the head of the union of the ninth largest police department in the united states, i am simply appalled by what happened there. but, again, to affect change. people have the right to protest. we will ensure that they have that. but, once it devolves into burning cars and spraying sprayg

graffiti on saint patrick's cathedral, looting stores, you know, in new york we have been on pause for months and those businesses really really needed help. and to have somebody come and smash their windows of these store owners and loot their businesses? it's unbelievable. steve: it is unbelievable and heart breaking as well. you know, tom, the fact is, it appears that police officers, troopers, are targets because if these trouble makers see an empty police vehicle, they just catch it on fire if they can. and you guys have been for the last three months. have you put your lives on the line fighting the covid crisis throughout the united states and particularly in new york state where you are. and right now all you wanted is you want to hear from the leadership. you have not heard from the governor. you have not heard from the legislature. you have not heard from your leaders that they have got your

back in this thing. >> absolutely. actually i'm hearing the opposite that they want to cut our constitutional rights, our civil rights, you know, change some of the laws that we have to police and handcuff us even further. my people get up every day and proudly put on that gray uniform and ask whatever asked. to say i was the 9/11 responder. we call that call and responded. prison break. we respond where that has to go. these riots happen. hundreds of troorption deployed overnight. you ask us to go somewhere. we will do whatever you need us to do without questioning. without calling in sick. we are not going to go on strike. but we would like an acknowledgment that we are on the front lines, we are the targets. and we are trying to ensure that people's lives and properties are protected and we would appreciate some appreciation. steve: yeah. tom, before you go. the governor is going to see this video with you. what's the one thing you want to

tell him on this monday morning? >> i want him to know that his troopers are out there. if he asks us to do something tonight, we will be there. we're going to -- we are serving the people of new york state like we have for over 100 years and without question we just appreciate that the people out there, elected leaders appreciate what we do for the people of new york. steve: all right. thomas, we thank you for joining us live. good luck to you. >> thank you. steve: all right. meanwhile, rioters ruling the streets sites like this one playing out across the country. our next panel of mothers weighs in on how we can k. and should unite as a nation. effortless is the lincoln way.

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weekend? >> i have been glued to the tv and my heart is broken. and the one thing that just won't leave my heart is hearing george floyd calling out to his mother as he was pinned to the ground and his arms are behind his back. and he wasn't just calling out for his mother. he was calling out to all mothers. and i really have been impacted. i hear the call to action. and i want to be part of the solution. >> so, karas, i told you told our producers you spent friday in tears over george floyd's death. are these looters ruining a meaningful protest, meaningful conversations? >> well, you know, here's the thing. we have two choices pat. which is that nonsense which helps no one and will lead to a revolution of the worst kind a lose, lose for everybody. or we can adopt the principles that i not only teach my children but where i lecture at

schools and universities which is to care about one another. responsible listening, environment awareness. we are better than what we see on tv. we can do this. it takes people taking action listening and moving forward. ainsley: cathy, i know your faith is extremely important to you and you teach your children, i know your kids, they are precious and so well-mannered. is there a breakdown of family? do we need more god in our communities? why are we seeing i mean if i saw my child -- first of all my heart goes out to george's family, obviously. it was awful and if that were my child you just don't move on. you can't get over that and i know they want to see justice but i also look at these kids or these young people that are looting these stores, if that were my child she would be in big trouble. what do you think? >> oh, yes, absolutely, ainsley. i talk about it in my book. we have a cull you are temperature of poverty problem. we have a mind poor nation

problem is what we are contending with right now. being played out on the streets all across america. we have lost the understanding of what it means to be an american. we have and indicated our values. our traditions those things that bind us together as a nation. we have picked up a tremendous amount of chaos. what we are seeing across america is shear criminality. it is the worst of who we are. it's parasitic behavior. people who are leveraging chaos right now. what we are seeing all across our nation has long past moved beyond trying to honor the life and the memory of george floyd. i have not heard anyone on either side of the political spectrum or races trying to defend the indefensible act that we saw just a few short days ago instead what i saw was a nation

trying to stand up, come together as one and stand up and call for justice. today, however, what we are seeing is shear domestic terrorism. and the silence we are hearing from some of our leaders and the capitulation that we are hearing from others should not be tolerated. what we need in addition to prayer and getting back to traditional american values is also a strong show of force against this terrorism. that is actually are a vising our nature right now. ainsley: barbara, what's your opinion of our culture. >> it's unfortunate we have to focus on riots and looting because it's really detracting what we need to do to created change and resolutions. i think seeing that video of george floyd, ahmaud arbery, all of them have been those thiewm must in a way collective unity. we cannot momentum because we

are focused on chaos. it's so distracting. as a culture so frustrating on so many levels. we have an opportunity to created rile change in our government. there is something systemically wrong in our legal system that is taking two months to arrest a man -- arrest men that shot down a black man for going for a jog there is something wrong. we have an opportunity right now. really, the rioting, the looting has to end. and i don't stand in judgment. because, let me tell you something. i'm not going to pick up a sharpy and right a haiku if you pin my son or my child down on the ground. i understand their pain. i recognize it. i feel it. i want to pick up a sledge hammer as well. but it is detracting from the opportunity to create a resolution and an opportunity for change. ainsley: karrith, how do we move

forward as a country. what happens next? >> everybody who says they're believers and that we are created in the image of god, not only needs to truly believe that but start acting like it. we need to listen to one another. you know, people are in a great deal of pain. and not everybody is going to understand that pain because they may not be coming from that place. but that doesn't mean that we don't have the conversations. that doesn't mean we don't get uncomfortable. this is not comfortable, okay? and if we keep going down this pat, it will continue to fester and get worse. so it is our responsibility to each other to humanity, to talk, to listen, to actively promote kindness. and humanity and love. ainsley: ladies, thank you so much. great job this morning. >> thank you. >> thank you. ainsley: you are welcome. 7:36 on the east coast. rioters setting fires near the white house and clashing with the secret service. former house speaker newt gingrich is going to weigh n the

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♪ [shouting] [chants black lives matter] brian: riots erupt not guilty nation's capital overnight. protesters breaking curfew and clashing. 60 secret service agents have been injured. ainsley: this wa steve: this was the scene in lafayette park. lighting fires and throwing bottles steps from the flight house. ainsley: flames breaking out in the st. john's church built in 1815. and every president since james madison has attended at least one service there the capital's most beloved tourist attractions hit by vandals. lincoln memorial now covered with spray paint. brian: makes no sense.

hit the afl, cio building and teacher's union building. what the hell is going on. let's bring in newt gingrich. fox news contributedder, former speaker of the house and author of the upcoming book "trump and the american future." >> how are you? brian: 41 states and countless cities, i cannot see a scenario where the president does not speak in a national address tonight. can you? >> well, i think he should. i think on the positive side, he should indicate that we support the right of peaceful protest and he should indicate he is prepared to declare an emergency for the destruction. we should treat the destruction by these mobs as though it was a hurricane or an earthquake and fema should step in. and we should help rebuild whether it's minneapolis or atlanta or washington or los angeles. people should not have to bear the brunt of government failing to protect them. i also think the president should outline what this is a war against america.

these are not riots in a traditional sense. you have a nationwide group, antifa is part of it. but there are other elements involved. and the federal government should be engaged totally in terms of the fbi and other assets to find out who is paying for it. who is organizing it. how is it happening? and, frankly, t lock people up r a very long time. we should also go back and look at all the video we have because a lot of these people got caught on camera setting a police car on fire. defacing the lincoln memorial. setting fire to a church that dates back to 1816, you know, sizzles have to protect themselves. and i think we're in a crisis in our country where we have got to decide is american sizzles worth protecting in which case we have to do whatever it takes to put down the people who would destroy our country. steve: you know, newt, the

president over the weekend what he did was he said democrats were not tough enough on violent protesters, and vowed to designate antifa a terrorist organization. and then we heard bill barr come out. but, at the same time, you have seen a number of mainstream media pundits who have said the president can't do that the department of justice can't do that. but they have got to do something. >> look there are laws and andy mccarthy has written too powerful columns about this as a former justice department lawyer who actually prosecuted terrorists. and he said, of course we can there is a law going all the way back to 1807 that the federal government has an obligation to protect you. when that man was beaten to death in dallas, the united states government failed in its duty to protect him. and i think when you look around the country, when you see a police station burned down, when you look at the kind of things they are doing to the lincoln memorial and i frankly don't

understand i don't understand why the mall wasn't protected whether you brings in the military or the d.c. national guard. this non-70s the mayor posturing and then losing total control of her city is something that we shouldn't have to put up with americans have to make a real decision here. i'm totally for the right of peaceful demonstration in a framework. when you establish a curfew and somebody breaks that curfew, they are no longer peacefully demonstrating. when somebody sets a police car on fire they are no longer peacefully demonstrating. we had good friends tell us in minneapolis their gas station was burned out. their post office was burned out. this is a war against american sizzles by some really vicious people. ainsley: newt, i believe the guy in dallas, i don't think he died. i think he was beaten really bad. i want to talk about your op-ed. you wrote this op-ed and it's titled anger is justified over

george floyd's killing. rioting is not and should have been prevented i have heard people say this is ruin ago meaningful protest and none of this is for george floyd. what do you think? >> what happens is there is a group of people and done this over and over again. a group of people, antifa is one of the most famous of the groups who want to destroy american sizzles. and every excuse they get they go out and they start fires. they do damage, they try to cause violence. you know, when you see people who go down the street as they did in atlanta and as they did in new york. and they break in every window and they loot material, you are looking at the criminals and thieves who are using, a political moment to posture. what they are doing is they are stealing and destroying. i think we need to recognize that that's why i wrote the article the other day i was

appalled at the 2:00 a.m. press conference in minnesota which happened to be:00 next morning here in rome once we happened to see it. and basically, they were staying that they hadn't mobilized enough forces and so forth. and my reaction at the time was there are 13,000 members of minnesota national guard. if you have to, you mobilize all of them. i would have said the same thing for washington yesterday. there is no reason to allow any person who wants to commit violence to be anywhere within a mile of the whitehouse or a mile the mall. just close them down and say no. we're not going to allow these kind of people to have -- to go out here and cause damage. brian: it's amazing, newt. i watched that too. happened to be up. that mayor went out there totally unprepared. he also goes out of his way to says yeah, it could be some left wing groups but it's a lot of white supremacist groupings who have mixed. in i don't see any indication that there are white supremacist

groups mixing in. this is antifa organization. it seems that the first time we really saw it in a major way was occupy wall street. it's the same mind set. real quick, your comment? >> well, yes, and there are also people who trashed seattle years ago. they made a hackett of this. one of the things i hope that the president's designation as a terrorist group will do is let's open up the funding. who is paying for these people? i was appalled that 13 of joe biden's staff were donating money to bail people out in minneapolis. frankly, i was also appalled that they were being bailed out. they should stay in jail until this is over. steve: newt gingrich, we thank you very much. read his op-ed at foxnews.com. thank you, mr. speaker. all right. meanwhile, straight ahead, as riots spread across the united states, what would martin luther king jr. do? alveda king says her uncle believed love, not hate, was the only way to peace.

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brian: as violent riots continue to tear through cities across the country, we are remind dollars as martin luther king jr. and his powerful message of peace. steve: his niece, calling on rioters to heed his words today

to end violence and racism in a new fox news op-ed. anxiously? ainsley: joining us now is fox news contributor dr. alveda king. dr. king, great to see you. >> good morning, "fox & friends," how are you? ainsley: good morning. i heard the mayor of atlanta say that this is not -- talking about the looting, this is not in the spirit of martin luther king jr. i know that he was a man of peaceful protesting, loving everyone, a man of god what would be his message today for our country. >> in atlanta, i believe that martin luther king the prophet would speak to us as he did during his lifetime you can hear his speeches and sermons. i'm paraphrasing here. prophet king said we may have come to america on different ships but we are all in the same boat now. acts 17:26 we are of one blood. of one blood god made all

people. we are all human beings. and prophet king said we must learn to live together as brothers and sisters or perish together as fools. we north living well when domestic terrorists are stealing, and destroying in our community. we are not living well when a man's breath is stolen. i'm talking about george floyd's breath, his voice very life were taken. all of us are angry and hurt prophet king would be upset as well. he would acknowledge that when people do not have a voice. they will riot that is not the answer to violently riot in protest. we have to pray, we have to love and we have to come together. brian: we used to have somebody to go to point of view martin luther king; your dad.

malcolm x. al sharpton. here what they have to say. where is the leaders here? where are the leaders in the family of mr. floyd wants to speak out but they have been swamped. >> people are terrorized with all of the breaking in and all of the destroying. the mayor of atlanta said that this is chaos. she spoke mother's heart to her own sons stay home. the leaders, i have been out on the streets in atlanta. my grand daughter has been in atlanta. we were out on the streets yesterday praying with the people. but the leaders need to come out to be seen, go out among the people. i'm doing that myself some. as well as reminding us of our history. some of us caucasians flee tyranny in europe. african-americans queens and royal people ripped out of their own country, sold by their brothers and sisters, african

brothers and sisters sold into slavery. here we come to the native americans and took everything from them. we have to acknowledge each other. repent. say that we are one race. we north separate races. come together, remember that history of you who we all got here. steve: sure. >> and now come together as brothers and sisters. steve: indeed. if you would like to read her op-ed, go to foxnews.com. dr. alveda king, niece of martin luther king, ma'am, thank you very much. >> thank you. ainsley: thank you. steve: all right. final hour of "fox & friends" straight ahead. as you can see, burgess owens and kayleigh mcenany. i might be crazy but i'm not stupid. having an annuity tells me that i'm protected. ...

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>> [speaking over a loudspeaker >> [chanting] steve: violent clashes and mask ed protests rage nationwide over the death of george floyd one week ago. at least 60 secret service agents injured in weekend riots outside of the white house, as flames erupt on the streets of new york, washington, and elsewhere, ainsley. ainsley: the historic st. john's episcopal church in washington d.c. was set on fire overnight and it was built in 1816 and

every president since james madison has attended at least one service there. 62000 national guard troops deployed or are on standby across 27 states and d.c., brian. brian: looters storming stores in new york city, for example, smashing glass, leaving nothing behind. aeisha is living it and covering it and now the sun is coming up, has the looting inventory you'll ly stopped? reporter: good morning, steve, brian, ainsley, so the looting has for the most part stopped and there are still, if you can believe it at this hour, still folks walking around with trash bags that are full, and now we're starting to see some of the business owners that are showing up to assess the damage, to try to clean up the damage this is the chanel store. you can see the broken glass. it was completely gutted there's still lipstick on the ground and

they will have to get creative because if you if you can pan over to the store you can see they actually had plywood covering their storefront and looters were still able to tear through and rip it off. now, i want to show you video from earlier this morning, we saw some police officers arresting three people and they confiscated bags of stolen merchandise from that car which by the way had arizona license plates. now, my colleague brian was here earlier in the evening. he saw multiple out of state plates overnight, new jersey, pennsylvania, connecticut, and we just saw a massachusetts plate roll by here. so clearly, a lot of outsiders coming in and i want to show you some video from the worse of the looting overnight. hundreds of people swarming into soho, this is the shopping area in downtown new york city. witnesses say they showed up as early as 11 p.m. and they didn't leave until about 4:00 a.m. our crews saw vehicles filled to

the brim with stolen luxury items people just hopping from one store to the next, and it was really a cat and mouse game with police, there just weren't enough police officers here they would move to one section of soh o and the looters would hit another section so here is a sound bite now from commissioner dermit shay earlier this morning describing what happened last night. listen. >> when it got dark, things changed and they changed rapidly we anticipated it. you saw large groups of people, had no inclination towards protest. reporter: so the commissioner also out of that police did make hundreds of arrests, all across new york city last night, but we've talked to some small business owners, we talked to a man just in the last hour who says his wife's small business was hit pretty hard and he's upset. he felt like there weren't enough police officers here and they weren't doing enough and they weren't arresting people

when people were looting right in front of them, and they've continued to loot right in front of us looking us right in the eye and continuing to pick things up right off the ground. guys? steve: yeah, i've got a question for you. you know, through the years, when antifa has gone to various communities and done what antifa does they were masks, but this time, you know the whole country particularly the concentrated areas of new york, you're supposed to wear a mask. just out of curiosity i know a lot of those stores all have video surveillance so it'll be obviously a process of trying to figure out who broke into their stores but how many of the people who are doing the looting are wearing masks? >> so this is a very interesting point that you're making because we did see a lot of folks wearing masks and i don't really know that they were wearing those masks because of covid. i think it was an easy way to

hide who they were, but there are also just some folks being brazen walking past the nypd officers calling them curse words calling me curse words. one of the looters actually threw a hanger at us. they were talking to our security saying don't film us because we'll beat you up, so they're not worried. they're not worried about what we're doing. they're not worried about what police are doing they are out here to do what they want to do. ainsley: you know, it's devastating to see these images of our city a city that we love and to hear some of these stories, habitat for humanity one of the houses was looted. a church in d.c., the famous episcopal church was set on fire and they gutted the flames gutted the children's department or the children's area where they learn about god. there's just such a breakdown going on right now, and how are you feeling about this because this is the city that you love, this is the city

you live in. you worked very hard to get there and you're also having to report on it. reporter: i'm heartbroken. i mean, i think everyone is just watching this. i think the biggest shock for me is not just seeing what soho looks like right now. it's just i'm so shocked that people are still doing it in broad daylight, walking around right in front of us looking at me, they know i'm filming, they know our crew is watching and they are still picking up things there were a couple of women who rolled by here, got out of their car, while we're filming, and reached into the chanel store and took out shoes and lip tick and it's hard to wrap your mind around what's happened now and now we've got residents coming out and people who were pretty much kept awake all night listen ing to the looters and they were afraid and one woman told me, you know, i was listen ing to everything and now she's here watching everything. everything being cleaned up and

she's upset. it's just heartbreaking. brian: thanks so much we'll check in with you again throughout the show and the morning great job. meanwhile, we're trying to figure out how one of the most the finest police forces in the country could be caught, so undermanned in a time in which we're five days into a national riot in which nypd was targeted over the weekend but nothing like what happened on sunday, and you got to wonder our next generation from 18-30 those are the people that are breaking into these windows and they're not all white, black, or hispanic or asian. they're everybody. our police commissioner now in new york city is dermit shea. he joins us earlier to say obviously it's tough to keep the peace. >> this is one of the most challenging times that i've seen i can tell you that we have thousands of officers deployed last night. we had a significant number of

stores broken into. we are still out there actually as we speak making arrests. there have been hundreds of arrests. people need to understand when they see the police officers out there, on the line, as they are right now as we're talking, trying to keep peace, they are doing the best they can in an extremely extremely difficult situation. brian: and our mayor seems vast ly unprepared for anything like this from the pandemic on down. it's a tough thing to see , considering he's underperformed for the last seven years meanwhile he can't even control his own family. his daughter 25 years old was brought into custody last night at 10:30 after the cops say she infiltrated an unlawful assembly on saturday on 12th street and broadway. meantime if you want to know who makes up the violence, how about crawford mathias, a 32-year-old corporate lawyer, an attorney, another one they were charged with attack when they threw the

bomb, a molotov cocktail into an empty police car so you have professionals, an unemployed teenagers perhaps and others coming in from outside to reek havoc. this isn't to make the country better but destroy a city and help destroy a country because now we got to rebuild from a pandemic and got to rebuild from violence taking our city down to its knees. not just this city. over 30 cities. steve: well you know and it started in earnest, brian when people were protesting the police brutality that led to the death of george floyd, but then, it morphed into suddenly you've got these other people who if it is antifa they're intent on breaking windows and targeting police vehicles and then you've got the looters so seemingly three different groups of people, but yesterday, it was very clear from the president they're going to target antifa, the president would like to

designate it a terrorist organization, domestic. the attorney general said with the rioting that is occurring in many of our cities around the country the voices of peaceful and legitimate protests have been hijacked by the violent radical element, the continued violence and destruction of property epidemic dangers the lives and livelihood s of others, and interferes with the rights of peaceful protesters as well as other citizens. the violence instigated and carried out by antifa and other similar groups in connection with the rioting is domestic terrorism and will be treated accordingly. we had dan bongino on with us just about an hour ago and he had this observation about the threat of antifa. >> my kids are scared. i have an eight-year-old daughter last night who was saying, you know, daddy they're not coming to florida are they? no antifa leadership is there organizing this. this is not some run of the mill

criminals by people who have nothing to do on a saturday night. yes there are people there just to cause trouble. this is a sophisticated type of tact. this is not a joke. these are known identified members of now what's a terror group trying to take down the seat of our government. ainsley: well the attorney general bill barr did say they will be using its network or the doj will be using its network of 56 regional fbi joint terrorism task force to identify rim international organizers and instigators so hopefully get to the bottom of this and find out if they are organized who is behind it. brian: major riots in washington, seattle, of course new york city we've been going over, minneapolis was somewhat under control, not everywhere, protesters smashing windows and ransacking businesses as looting breaks out across philadelphia

overnight. steve keeley in philly joins us live as the national guard is now on the ground. steve how bad was it, is it? reporter: well, it's still bad. we've got fires burning in buildings that were looted overnight so we have a two alarm fire right on broad street where we are right now, and we just had more than 100 army soldiers just dropped off here, reinforcements. this is at philadelphia city hall look at the tower a world famous building and it's something i still can't believe i'm seeing even though i've been standing here for five hours and military vehicles surrounding city hall. this was the start of all the trouble in philadelphia saturday afternoon and you can see the statue of former mayor frank rizzo, whose a democratic mayor but a conservative famous for being the one to endorse richard nixon for re-election in 1972 and the soldiers standing at the foot of the rizzo statue where its now been cleaned up,

stay with me here, this was vandalized repeatedly over the past few years and the cities democratic mayor says he wants to move it but he hasn't moved it and then over the weekend this was the focus and this is how it looked yesterday morning when i was here. is this okay, can you see this? so it was vandalized and people cleaned it up that support rizzo that had ropes around it and we'll walk over beyond these soldiers and you can see the base they were trying to knock it over. they started chisselling away at the base until the police came and bushed everybody away but the problem was then the mob came across the street where greg is going to follow me now and this is philadelphia's city hall first floor on this side and the mob tried to breach city hall an breaking all of the front windows and they broke the glass windows to the subway entrance and set fire to the starbucks which is the small building you see in the back now all boarded up, and now we see soldiers on every corner of philadelphia city hall right across from the famous love park which we're showing you right now, and there's a lot of love

to see the military here from a lot we met today but when you see city hall boarded up because the mob was trying to break in there you can understand why the president yesterday afternoon right around 4:00 said law and order now bring the national guard to philadelphia and i guess when you're the president, your wish is the command and that's what happened here and so a lot this morning happy to see order returned at least to this part of the city, but not in other parts where we're still seeing looting and damage and chaos. guys? steve: and steve, speaking of looting i know that a number of the target stores had been loot ed in the philadelphia neighborhoods but i was reading this morning that apparently, last night, local residents at a south side philly target store actually protected the target from the looters to keep them from destroying their store, and i understand they're still at the target, the neighbors are trying to protect their store. >> yeah, you'll see , anthony g

iordano the leader of that group was texting me saying we're going to the target at front and schneider and i said send me pictures and here is the group in front of the target last night they said we shop here, we live here, eat here, buy our clothes here and we opt allow that to happen in south philadelphia so you see the people all around the target and this is a picture of anthony whose a staunch conservative leader of his neighborhood community and he does not put up with the stuff that he sees around here and he gets his organization going and they were the ones that were leading against the heroin injection site. they were successful with that fight, and they've successfully saved this target at least from being looted and vandalized for the moment. guys? ainsley: thank you so much for that report. it is 8:15 here on the east coast. twitter suspending antifa social media account after the president announces the hate group is being designated a terror organization. tom cotton a member of the

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organization? >> brian first i commend the president for recognizing that antifa ought to be treated like a terror organization. there are a lot of tools that the president and department of justice has in their toolkit from the explosives act to the riot act, that can be used to stop this anarchy. let's be clear in the broader context here. the video of george floyd's death is deeply disturbing. i welcome the quick action by local authorities and the department of justice to investigate, to get the facts, and to do justice for george floyd in accordance with law and we always respect the rights of peaceful protesters. the anarchy, rioting and looting we have zero tolerance for and it needs to end tonight. brian: the new york times is a comprehensive look at what happened to george and it's even if you are angry now you'll be even more enraged when you're done with it, it's worse than you could even imagine and these officers should be prosecuted to thehilt of the law. i'm with you i don't know

anybody that feels differently to be honest however in 33 cities we have a curfew. in 41 states we have unrest. in 27 states we brought the national guard and none of it outside minneapolis seemed effective. if you're the president in the oval office today, what can you do to bring order back in the country? >> you're right, brian. the riots and the anarchy we've seen across the country have nothing to do with the death of george floyd, and in washington d.c., they set fire to a historic church attended by every president since james madison. they defaced the department of veterans affairs and the world war ii memorial which honor our veterans. they defaced the lincoln memorial a temple in which we remember him. what the president can do is say that justice will be done in accordance with law for george floyd and we will always respect the right of peaceful protest as many of these cities saw in the daytime, but the rioting, the anarchy and the looting ends tonight. if local law enforcement is

overwhelmed, if local politicians will not do their most basic job to protect our citizens, let's see how these anarchists respond when the 101st airbornee is on the other side of the street. brian: and you're a guy from the infantry and you know what an organized opposition is and this seems to be an organized opposition and lastly real quick the president of the united states is weighing his options to address the nation. should he? and what should he say? >> i believe the president's remarks in florida at the space launch were very appropriate. he said how horrified he was by the video that we all saw of george floyd's death and that we respected the rights of protesters but there's no place in this country we should have zero tolerance for anarchy and rioting and looting and if necessary the president should use the insurrection act to deploy active duty military forces to these cities to support our local law enforcement ensure this violence ends tonight. not one more night.

brian: you know, our army was ready to be deployed in minneapolis from fort drum in new york in four hours, and they have to be ready, perhaps to use the insurrection to be able to deploy in new york city because the city can't withstand another night like that so senator i look forward to talking to you again. there's people to talk to with the diversity and experience than you, appreciate it. >> thank you, brian. brian: straight ahead cars set on fire shots damaged and looted in salt lake city, utah former super bowl champ and utah gop congressman congressional candidate burgess owens says business owners in the city says business owners deserve a big apology. we'll talk to him after the break. ♪ but bristol myers squibb is working to change things. by researching new kinds of medicines that could help you live longer.

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steve: overnight, more than 150 protesters arrested in minneapolis which has been the epicenter for the nationwide anger. look at this video a truck driver wrecklessly barreled into a crowd of people as they scatter and run for their lives right there. matt finn is live in minneapolis with the latest developments. matt? reporter: steve, over the past couple of days, our crew watched businesses burn to the ground and right here is one of those businesses that unfortunately suffered damage. it was looted, set on fire, and then the water damage and i want to show you also to the right.

there are armed national guard soldiers right now on top of the fifth police precinct here in minneapolis. this fifth police precinct building was heavily targeted over the past couple of days by rioters. you can actually see ground level there are fences up and barriers. law enforcement successfully kept violent rioters and looters out of this building, and it was another chaotic night here in minneapolis last night. police say they arrested at least 150 people that blatantly violated the curfew and police are finding water bottles filled with gasoline hidden in bushes and are asking people to call 911 if they find anything like this and the governor and law enforcement has also become much more revealing about just how shockingly violent these riots have been discovering cars without license plates driving around with guns and rocks, law enforcement said they got innovative and switched their tactic to rapidly stop crime; however the question is if all of this beefed up law

enforcement came too late the governor was asked why the national guard and law enforcement wasn't enhanced after the cities third police precinct was burned to the ground last week and here is the governor's response. and police say they have arrested more than 300 people since last friday. steve: all right, matt thank you very much. ainsley to you. ainsley: thank you, steve. more than 20 salt lake city police officers injured after a violent riot over the weekend. >> shoulder to shoulder with us , they were pelted with bottle s, rocks, bricks, water valve covers were thrown at them , they were spat upon, they

suffered through the heat and many retreated for heat exhaustion. ainsley: our next guest who live s there is calling out state leaders for their response. former super bowl champ and utah gop congressional candidate burgess owens joins us now. >> good to see you again. ainsley: good talking to you too tell me what's happening in your area. >> well, ainsley, if i can broaden a little bit more because it's not just salt lake city. what happened here is not typical. that's not our culture. when i talk about the heart and soul of our nation that's what we're fighting against right now the heart and soul of our nation is our middle class and it defines our culture and where we serve people and we love each other we've come together. what we're up against is marxism we have an enemy out there and we're seeing true evil of that and we'll understand that we're find it's in most of these blue states where you have governors who have shut down businesses for the last three months and don't want to open them up and then you have these mayors who actually allow these people to

come in and destroy business across-the-board. these business small businesses will come back strong and we have marxist that act up against that so that's who our enemy is and i'm looking to these people as terrorists because that's who they are and they need to pay the price for doing so. ainsley: we've seen these protests which were justified take a different turn and it's just outrageous to see this looting and to see these riots. when you first saw that video of george floyd and now, you look at the video of all the rioting, the looting, what are your thoughts? >> well first of all, we are altogether as a country realize that was a heinous deed done to george. nothing like that should ever be done to any american here. we realize it's not about george any more it's about our country and about those who hate our nation and i want to be straight upfront with you. for those in the democratic party look at your leadership. you have evil being done by your leadership. people want to see hurt and harm

to american people, our economy, pain, that's what they do in every single state they live in and every single city over seas. we need to make sure that the same party that once is a terrorist arm this kkk now has a terrorist arm in antifa and the only difference is their color whether they are white or black it's different but it's the same process so realize what your party is doing right now. they are trying to divide us. we cannot stand for this and not stand to lose our american way and our business owners have to be given the opportunity to come back strong and do what they do best. ainsley: we need to come together as a country. thank you so much, burgess good to see you it's 8:33 on the east coast. will the president address the nation about the rioting in washington and across the country that's one of the questions we have for the white house press secretary kayleigh mcenany she's going to join us live, next.

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brian: more than 60 secret service agents were injured during violence protests in washington d.c., mark meredith is live in washington on capitol hill with a look at the destruction. mark? reporter: brian good morning to you. despite pleas for calm there was chaos all over washington d.c. last night the ground zero appeared to be lafayette park outside the white house, as you mentioned demonstrators were caught on camera throwing bricks , rocks, bottles at the secret service trying to keep the protesters away from the white house and we saw at least 60 secret service officers injured over the weekend, 11 people taken to the hospital and frankly, we believe those number s are going to be a lot higher. we should be getting an update from the secret service a little bit later on today. we can we want to show you new video just into fox news showing the aftermath of the destruction

outside of st. john's church this is a church right outside of lafayette park. we have seen fire crews still out there this morning mopping up the damage. the good news the church itself remains intact and it is still standing but there was a fire inside, we'll be giving a better idea of what the damage has been attorney general bill barr says the fbi and joint terrorism task force is working to identify the instigators and organizers of all of this. he'll be meeting with president trump this morning around 10:30. he issued a statement over the weekend the attorney general says "the violence instigated and carried out by answer and other similar groups in connection with the rioting is domestic terrorism and will be treated accordingly." we have also seen on the national mall, graffiti spray painted pretty much everywhere. i saw graffiti damage on the world war ii memorial yesterday also spotted on the lincoln memorial. d.c. mayor said this morning she believes the city is prepared, however it's unclear if we're going to see any more looting or rioting later on today. also want to mention, guys how bad things were over the weekend

early friday night saturday morning fox news confirm the that president trump was briefly taken to the presidential bunker out of an abundance of caution. steve, ainsley and brian back to you guys. steve: mark meredith thank you very much let's bring in white house press secretary kayleigh mcenany who joins us from the white house complex good morning to you, kayleigh. >> good morning. steve: i see on the president's public schedule, he does have a video conference with america's governors today to try to figure out what's going on. people from all across the country are looking in, this is the time we look to our leader. we want this to stop. how does the president fix this? >> yeah, this president has been very clear that we need law and order in this country. he's taken extraordinary action talking about activating the national guard as we saw happen in minnesota criminaliz ing interstate travel that is geared towards inciting violence, making sure that those individuals are prosecuted labeling antifa as a domestic

terrorist entity that will be prosecuted as such this president has taken bold action this is the law and order president going back to his convention speech he's always been about law and order in this country and he's taking every single possible action to ensure that our streets are safe because what this does, this de means the peaceful protesters who have a legitimate grievance when we see angry mob mentality take over in this horrific images of businesses burning and fires in the streets of this country. ainsley: kayleigh i know many are asking the president to police give an oval office address on these riots because our country is just experiencing so much chaos right now. have there been conversations with him about that? do you think he'll say yes to that? >> the president has addressed this repeatedly so i look to going back to the first day he saw this video. he has addressed the absolutely horrific video of george floyd andrew teenly addressed in his remarks less than 48 hours ago the issue of law and order in our streets and issued several statements but here is the thing

ainsley. a national oval office address is not going to stop ainsley. what's going to stop answer is action and this president has committed to action to that and that's his focus is acting and keeping our streets safe. brian: so kayleigh, just a quick statement, obviously, we watch the antifa and we've seen some of their acts and we've seen this before when there was a time when we which weren't wearing a mask they just were and now we all are. mark bray, who wrote a book on antifa in 2017 says "the idea that antifa is mastermining what's happening over the last few days if you know anything about this subject is ludacris." is this an amorphis organization instead of just an ideology and are we giving them too much credit? >> i don't think so. look when you look at the twitter feed of antifa you see that they are directing some of this , when you look at the

horrific graffiti that i see in the streets it's about over turning capitalism and really crude messages. they are certainly behind this , a.g. barr mentioned to that effect and still has ambassador o'brien and criminalizing making sure that they are labeled as domestic terrorists is so important because as i noted at the top there are legitimate peaceful protesters out there and i've seen them. i saw a video here in d.c. where a violent rioter was cobbeling the street in an effort to throw bricks at police officers and it was peaceful protesters that stopped this individual so we've got to distinguish this violent antifa from the protesters who do have a legitimate grievance. steve: sure. where are they getting all of those bricks? i'm just kind of wondering about that. of course yesterday, the president of the united states did say that he wanted to designate antifa as a domestic terror terrorist organization but kayleigh the president also

said democrats are not tough enough on the violent protesters , and the troublemaker s and whatnot. why did he designate the democrats are not tough enough? >> yeah, i think when you look at some of the befuddling actions like right here in the mayor of d.c. didn't issue a curfew until 11 p.m. well guess what at 10 p.m., you had st. john's church burning. several other cities had curfew at 4:00 p.m., 5 p.m., 6:00 p.m. and some of the actions are really not tough enough as the president noted particularly with the mayor here in d.c., and when you look at these horrific actions i just want to note how completely wrong-headed the fact is that you had the veterans affairs department defaced and the word veteran completely spray painted off the building, the lincoln memorial defaced a beautiful symbol of a president who over came some of the deepest racial divides in our country and to have those institutions defaced really undermines the message we're targeting antifa and it's very important and the president will also put

an own us on democrat mayors to be as tough as he has been. ainsley: all right so bill barr said the doj is using its network of 56 regional fbi joint terrorism task force toid these criminal organizers and instigators. how are they going to be able to do that? >> yeah, so this task force will be looking into each and every incident that comes our way, looking at it through a domestic terrorism lens using title 18 section 2,331 that's a big portion of the domestic terrorism statute and it basically will give us broad investigate investigating power to investigate these activities and to ensure that the individuals who are looting and the individuals who are antifa and who are behind the violent actions we're seeing and the burning down of some of america's buildings as we saw here st. johns the beautiful historical monument burning these will be prosecuted under the fullest extent of the law. brian: kayleigh, it's hard to imagine, but it seems like

george's death and the pandemic have been overwhelmed by these riots. in wake of the riots have the president talked to maybe some of these governors like governor of new york with sadly 56 deaths were dramatically down from its peak to release "the rock" down and allow some people to defend their businesses or get back in the business so we're economically not back along with what goes on with these protests that's destroying these cities? >> yeah the president wants to reopen this country he's been clear about that. i spoke to him about half a dozen times yesterday and talked to him he's been on the phone with governors and making sure that our country is reopening that we do so in a way that protects our streets keeps our streets safe and it's in excus able what we've been seeing play out across the country. steve: right and kayleigh that church that they burned yesterday, down to the basement, is just one block from where you're standing right now. all the violence, a lot of it is

just outside the gate. how freaked out are some of the people who work at the white house about what's going on just over the fence? >> look we feel very protected. secret service is remarkable and they've been doing remarkable work so we feel safe here behind the white house gates but look, we want america to be safe. we want to coming together as one country. we're better than this. america is stronger than this america is about unity. i saw beautiful videos of police officers and protesters hugging that is what defines us as a country not the burning of st. johns and the looting and the rioting we've seen, so we're coming together as a country and that's our singular focus at the white house as we get back to work. ainsley: kayleigh thanks so much for joining us this morning. >> thank you. ainsley: you're welcome. imagine watching helplessly at looters ransacked your business that's what happened to a couple of entrepreneurs in atlanta we'll talk to them about the heartbreaking ordeal but first let's check in with ed henry. ed: good morning, ainsley president trump has two big meetings during our show, first in the oval office shortly, with the view president and the

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steve: this is a fox news alert. countless business owners now left picking up the pieces following days of riots and violent protests. our next guest spent four years building the successful clothing store in atlanta, georgia only to have it looted and vandalized on friday. joining us right now the owner of adam concept store,zola diaz along with the stores manager chris shelby good morning to both of you. >> good morning. steve: so i'm doing okay, but you know, we've seen these images of businesses burned out, take us back to friday night. i know you live just one minute away from the store. somebody calls, you got there,

what did you see? >> i mean, zola called me that night at 1:00 in the morning and i was standing from my balcony and i hear glass breaking, i see people running, and then i look down at our store and i just see a sledgehammer and like a bar that holds the ropes to block people off i seen one of those go through our window and all i could do was sit back and say that's a wrap on that and as bad as i wanted to go down there and zola was saying i know you want to go down there but just sit back for our safety and we have to just take care tomorrow morning, but we already knew the damages being done. steve: yeah, absolutely. and zola i understand when you went back at one point, you were arrested for vandalism. tell us about that. >> yeah, so this happened

yesterday, we were doing a video at the ground and then it was like you have a bunch of people in the popular restaurants in the area so we were trying to lock the door because now you can really lock the door, you have to like force, to get the door locked so basically , 15 police officers come up to me and be like oh, are you the owner? and i said yes i'm the owner what's going on? somebody called us because they said somebody called them and said we were trying to be in the middle of this . then they come up to us and it's like someone gave us a call and said someone is at the store and we're like this is our store and literally they were like okay and turned around and left.

i mean at the end of the day, we understand but it's like what was this all about? is it because we're black-owned and from the looks of it because what's going on someone is like there must be some african americans sitting down there breaking into the store but it's like, we own this store. we've been here now for four years and for someone to sit there and call the police on us and for them to walk up on us 15 deep, 15 police officers deep with everything they got going on in the city right now, people the last thing you all need to be worrying about is if a few guys are sitting here making sure their store is being taken care of and boarded up but it was just not right at all. >> exactly. steve: sure, and chris, real quick, you know, people say hey, don't worry. the insurance will cover it. you don't know that, right? >> you know the thing is when it goes into this business, people don't know that insurance doesn't cover everything and to be honest right now we don't even know if insurance is going to cover anything right now.

>> and also, we close out of the mall because of the covid-19 so the insurance doesn't cover the covid-19, and also, the damage is done. we lost everything. and then now we just don't know if we're going to reopen. >> yeah. steve: i completely get it you were supposed to reopen after covid today and now that's not happening. zola and chris we thank you very much and good luck to you. >> thank you so much. steve: we'll be right back.

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>> you can join us tomorrow, going in our earlier as we do today. thank you so much. >> sandra: fox news alert now, a nation and turmoil. a bias in chaos and goal thing the streets and violent protest bark may have been major cities across america. that morning, everyone. i'm sandra smith. >> ed: i'm ed henry. minnesota so the epicenter of the unrest after a black man, george floyd, died when an officer kneeled on his neck for several minutes. in one instance, a tanker truck last night driving toward protesters hand in washington, d.c., anger and frustration fueling a night of utter destruction. several fires set right near the white house. >> sandra: meanwhile, over two dozen states and d.c. have