never go to 2020. just get that-year-old together. [laughter] all right, everybody. we will ♪ >> how dare you. how dare you. how dare you. how dare you. how dare you. >> we begin with a fox news alert. today the nation's capital preparing for its largest protest yet over the death of george floyd. griff: overnight demonstrations remaining mostly peaceful in new yorlouisville, new orleans. pete: several cities under the curfew this as calls grow loud tore dismantle and defund police departments across the united states. wow, that is where we are we welcome to you this 6:00 a.m.

hour of this saturday edition of "fox & friends" i'm joined, of course by jedediah beal i can't and griff jenkins. our swat monster who i saw in solidarity in a sense for a couple of days earlier this week. griff, how are you doing this morning? griff: i'm doing good. it's been a crazy week i will say seeing you in the guard serving our nation. me out there in the streets reporting. it's good that things are calm this morning while we wait for this really really big turnout today which we expect to be very peaceful but very large. jedediah: yeah. it's been interesting to watch. a lot of people were exercising their right to protest peacefully. some wearing masks. some not. remember we are in the midst of a coronavirus. pete: oh, we are? jedediah: trying to manage that. pete: is that thing still going on? okay. jedediah: i know, when the news cycle switches it's amazing. some people seem to have completely forgot been that interesting how that has played out. the responses from. so mayors and some of the

governors we will be talking about that as well throughout the four hours. pete: you can protest that way but you can't have a funeral for your family or go to church. a lot of people pointing out the double standard and hypocrisy at this movement. major changes coming to the minneapolis police force amid calls to dismantle the department. matt finn is live in minneapolis after another day of protests in the city. matt, give us the lay of the land there. >> well, right now we are standing where basically all of this began. the site where george floyd died. can you see it's barricaded in nearly all directions right now as community supporters and neighbors have really established this as sacred ground. and here in minneapolis, the city is now just doing assessment and recovery from all the destruction left behind from these riots. the mayor estimates at least $55 million in damage. and the atf has released new videos of arson suspects and asking people to submit any eyewitness video they might have. as you guys mentioned the

minneapolis city council also held an emergency meeting yesterday in which they passed new immediate changes predicting police from using choke holds and neck restraints and strengthening requirements for officers to intervene in a situation like george floyd. the proposal has to be okayed by a judge. several minneapolis city council members have banded together saying they will work to dismantle the minneapolis police department and create a more community oriented system. the president of the minneapolis city council tweeted, quote: yes we are going to dismantle the minneapolis police department and replace it with a transformative new model of public safety. however, minneapolis mayor jacob frey says he would knot sign off on such a plan. in a statement writing, quote: the mayor does not support abolishing the police department. is he committed towards working with the community toward deep structural reform that address systemic racism in our laws and in policing. the commissioner of the state safety department says he will no longer be enforcing a curfew

here in the twin cities and looking ahead there is a long day of protests and demonstrations planned across the twin cities but for days now there has been law and order here. there has been peace. the majority of the demonstrations have remained calm. guys? pete: matt finn in minneapolis. thank you for the reporting. we appreciate it. glad things have calmed down there a little bit. not coincidental that the national guard also arrived in minneapolis. i talked to a light of residents who are friends of mine saying that was the moment that it shifted, thank god. guys, this is not just minneapolis. this effort to defund the police. here's a map of some of the other places where this push is gaining ground. l.a., san fran, phoenix, nashville, new york, boston. we mentioned minneapolis. and philadelphia. and, listen, it's one thing to have a conversation, a critique on policing, jed, it's another idea to say we're going to defund or abolish the police department. who will you call when you are in need of help in that moment?

of course think are it not interested in the second amendment. the defending yourself is also out. is this the logical end state of leftist thinking here? jedediah: right there. is different stuff going on here, right? some are calling to dismantle the department all together. let's dismantle it and let's rebuild it in a whole different way. others are calling to defund it. what they mean by that in most cases is knot necessarily to take money away but to prevent future increases from going to that department and instead have that money be shifted over to other sectors that they feel it would be better suited and, for example, education, for example, healthcare. but, the challenge remains what you are saying is correct, pete. no one is arguing that there aren't instances where there could be potential reform here to the police department in terms of strategy. in terms of things like choke holds. in terms of making public records of police officers who have had issues, who have had complaints against them. all of these things could

potentially improv the police department. obviously you need a working police force. when crisis strikes somewhere people need to pick the up the phone and say hey, can you help me? and that has been the police department. griff: let me weigh in for a quick second. confronting racism and racial injustifiable in a police department and bringing about necessary and urgent police reforms is an important thing to do right now in our country and that is what so much of this energy should be driven towards. just simply getting rid of the number of police officers doesn't make sense. you mentioned that call. i will just briefly share where you in 2003 on cinco de mayo i and a neighbor of my georgetown were mugged at gunpoint. fortunately we were fine in 2003. my neighbor had a flip phone. we didn't have iphones then. he immediately called the police. we caught the guy and he was prosecuted. now, who i will call if we have less police out threw? and i'm drawing of course on my

experience. it is relative. pete: community oriented system of public safety. that's how will call. griff: i make the point to illustrate at the end of the day do we wanted our communities to be safer or not? and that's a question from los angeles alleluia the way to new york. they are going to have to really take into consideration while we bring about what will be necessary reforms like we saw in minneapolis yesterday where the city council decided to do away with the chokehold policy. we will see where it goes. the rhetoric suggests it's going to go much further. jedediah: many of the people that are saying defund the police or let's just get -- we don't need police. let's get rid of them and decrease what the numbers are same people also not advocating for your assessment rights. let me just ask them if you can't call the police and you can't have some sort of weapon in your home to protected yourself and your family, what are you supposed to do? what is the recourse?

i would love to ask them. i understand that healthcare and education in these areas may need more funding and we need to address police reforms. i'm not denying that. to have this attitude who is going to protect your home if something happens. i don't follow the logic. pete: reflex ngt idea we need more funding for education. funded a lot of these schools for not better outcomes. not talking about creative solutions like school choice. the most impossible job in america today is to be a law enforcement officer and the vast majority of them do invery deliberately well. how are you supposed to take somebody down. ask them nicely? there are only a limited number of lethal tools you have at your disposal when you are facing a threat. things like that when you talk to law enforcement officials they are shrugging their shoulders saying where do we come here from here. griff: allowing security to allow for people to exercise their first amendment rights.

here in washington, d.c. bracing for what could be the largest demonstration yet. mayor bowser calling for the pull the troops out of the city. we created this strong secure environment finally after initial lawlessness, rioting and looting and yet our mayor wants to pull them out for what appears to be more political reasons than security reasons. pete: yeah, griff. jedediah: yeah, and that's. pete: go ahead, jed. jedediah: that security being there that empowers peaceful protesters to exercise their voices. as i was saying last week so many people felt uncomfortable to come out and peacefully protest because they were being faced with rioters and being faced with opportunists and looting and causing destruction. now when you do have that presence one thing i have noticed a lot more protesters have come out. and that is their right. that presence to keep the rioters and looters away enables

those people protesters to come out and say listen dyad vo indicate for police reform and i'm here to make my voice heard. pete: the mayor of washington, d.c. is making a political statement. most of those visuals there are guys from my unit. i was in washington, d.c. for three days guarding monuments and preventing riots. ultimately the hotel they were evicted from is the hotel i stayed in three days while i was there it was dedicated to the military and the mayor saying get out. it's caused a huge problem for the troops that have been there to ultimately. the reason we have peaceful protest because the national guard showed up for a couple of days saying we are not going to tolerate this anymore. without that you don't have this peaceful moment yet someone like the mayor there takes it for granted and troops are left in the lurk. it's crazy. griff: extra security around the white house whereby the way there was some celebration, cautious, but celebration over the economic jobs report and the hope that we will rebound the

economy rises from the dead. 2 pulp 5 million jobs added. unemployment down to 13.3%. it had been up around 14. the real take away. everyone was bracing for a 20% unemployment number that we were going to get. that would have not have happened since the great depression. we are doing better. have you these industries like the hospitality and retail bouncing back. now, we're far from out of the woods. and the damage that this pandemic created on our economy we don't fully yet know. one thing we can point to is that congress acted the reopening of governors on their economies has had an impact and we seem to be on a positive trend at least for now.

jedediah: another thing we can point to is, remember, it is election season so every single topic is going to create some tension. take a listen to president trump and joe biden sparring other the state of the comply. >> people are starting to return to work. we have a pandemic. we have made tremendous progress. >> the depth of this job crisis is not attributable to an act of god. but to a failure of a president. >> remember previous administration that you need a magic wand for manufacturing. and we picked up 225,000 manufacturing jobs. that's a very unexpected. >> he is out there spiking the ball, completely oblivious to the tens of millions of people who are facing the greatest struggle of their lives. >> it's now time as goods these

numbers are the best is yet to compete pete pretty rich for former vice president. 2e7bs of millions of people struggle. cheerleader for opening. clearly this economy is capable if we unleash it. seen in states like wisconsin where i was actually last night at a restaurant that was wide open. in florida and elsewhere. you could reopen without a huge spike in cases, guys. griff: yeah. we shall see. all right. we have a big show today. coming up new york mayor bill de blasio this week massive protests and spike in covid-19 cases. why is that more and more testing sites is popping up near demonstrations? we will discuss that coming up. now, simparica trio simplifies protection.

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>> do you believe the protests are the cause of the hospital admissions doubling overnight. >> i will certainly be talking it my healthcare team but i would be surprised if that's what's causing it. jedediah: new york city mayor bill de blasio dismissing any link between massive protests and a surge in covid cases. another democrat on the city's health committee offers a different take. chairman mark levin tweeting if there is a spike in coronavirus cases in the next two weeks. don't blame the protesters, blame racism. here to react new york state g.o.p. assembly member and u.s. congressional candidate nicole. welcome to the show as always. so, you know, you see this surge in people that are in large crowds out in new york city. some to their credit being responsible, wearing masks. many not. so how could you not adistrict a spike in cases to the fact that you see all these huge crowds out all the time? >> you know what in the people of new york city have lost faith

in mayor de blasio. they do not trust a word that he says. you have people in the city council who are using this to fit their own agenda. they are calling to defund our police. you know, politicians like mr. lavigne are encouraging protesters, mayor de blasio is encouraging protesters to gather in large groups to not social distance. yet, our businesses are shut down. you have our public golf courses and public tennis course that remain closed. people cannot worship at their holy places on the weekends and can't have a proper funeral for a loved one. the double standard here is really starting to piss a lot of new yorkers off and people have had enough. 8:00 p.m. curfew in place not even being enforced. he saying there is leeway. if protesters wanting to stay out that's fine. but citizens remain in their homes. jedediah: nicole, look at the stat on that with respect to

covid. you have 75% spike in covid hospitalizations in new york city from thursday to friday. 75% is not a small number. and you are making a great point about these businesses because we talked for weeks about how these businesses needed to remain shut. it was unsafe. it was too difficult to be socially distancing in these spaces. at love these business owners complied. they said okay we are going to do our part. now they are turning around and seeing the same leadership that shut them down and enemy cases really took food off the table for their families. now saying to these protesters, you know what? gather. don't worry about it. it's fine. get out there and make your voices heard and not making any of those side notes about but make sure you have a mask. remember, we are in the midst of a covid crisis. how is that double standard going to sit with these business owners moving forward? >> not very well. not very well at all. as a matter of fact, my opponent for congress. max, the current congressman

joined the protesters yesterday as they were marching down the streets, shutting down highland boulevard which is a major artery in our community. and they were carrying signs that said defund the police. blue lives murder. and it's very offensive. and so when people see their own member of congress partaking in this type of messaging, they get very upset and joining these protests by the way that have thousands of people that aren't social distancing. the bottom line is monday we are supposed to begin reopening. yet, people don't feel safe in this city because the mayor doesn't have any control of the situation. jedediah: yeah. also, nicole, incredibly difficult for police who are out there in many cases defending so many communities and defending the rights of these peaceful protesters to see all of these horrific signs about them and all of this, not getting back up from people like bill de blasio in many cases. i appreciate you being here as always today. thanks for your input. >> thank you. jedediah: thanks so much.

still ahead, anti cop sentiment is growing across the country as minneapolis considers disbanding its police force. what would that bring about in terms of change? is that what the protesters are looking for? our police panel is going to weigh in coming up next. like prs are on their way. every day, all across america, we deliver for you. and we always will. whether it's bribes ...or an overdue makeover. get all your pet essentials right when you need them, with curbside pickup at petsmart. just order online, drive up, check-in, and pick up.

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griff: back with headlines for you a second memorial will be held today for floy george floyn north carolina. ray ford the town he was born. first one held in minneapolis where leaders, celebrities and loved ones celebrated floyd's life. a final memorial will be held monday in houston before his funeral on tuesday. and to extreme weather we go. gulf coast bracing for tropical storm cristobal as it head for the u.s. after battering mexico.

declaring a state of emergency. cristobal moving through mexico. expected to make landfall tomorrow evening bring heavy wind and rain from texas to florida bat tan down the hatches. pete: turning to a fox news alert. minneapolis city council members aiming to disband the police department there. the council president tweeting, quote: we are going to dismantle the minneapolis police department and replace it with a transformative new model of public safety. here to react is our police panel fraternal order of police national vice president joe gomaldi. bill stanton and suffolk county, new york. errol. joel, i will start with you. this idea as a reaction to what happened in minneapolis that we're going to disband or defund the cops. your reaction?

>> you know, frankly, this is a dangerous idea and it's an insane idea. i mean, i think it makes for a popular #on twitter and all these virtue signaling politicians and hollywood elites say sure, let's defund the police. what does that really look like and especially for a community like minneapolis. they just watched a police station burn. businesses destroyed and now you want to have a radical idea of taking away all the cops? who exactly is going to police that neighborhood? who is going to take care of the law-abiding citizen, the hard-working citizens who are just trying to make a living. and the fact of the matter is they have been defunding police departments across this country for quite some time. every major city is short police officers. we have crime up in every major city with unemployment now pushing 40 million that's only going to make crime skyrocket and just right here in our hometown here in houston. we are already seeing the problems. murders are up 48%. aggravated assaults are up 22%. violent crime up double digits.

the ideas people are putting forward is to defund the police. i will tell you the people i talk to our communities, the business owners they don't want less police. they want more. pete: joe just mentioned aggravated assault. let's say domesti domestic abus. don't send in police. send in a social worker instead. >> i have been to domestic abuse situations in the south bronx. heated passes. sometimes people have weapons. you walk in on that, then you may be picking up more than bed. sometimes these things end tragically. you nut a psycho therapist, a counselor someone like that. first of all, how do you respond? the door is barricaded. the assault is in progress. who breaks up that fight? i mean, where does this end? yes, cops need to be more sensitive. yes, cops need to be better trained. but putting replacing police officer that's trained both in

psychology and in physicality being able to stop it, no, that's not a good idea at all. pete: errol how do we have a conversation about policing in this country when it goes straight to disband the police. there is a conversation to be had. but when you are talking about getting rid of it, it's pretty hard to have one. >> good morning, pete. thank you for having me on and thank you for your service to our country. defunding the police is not the answer. in my 30 years in law enforcement, we clearly see that training and supervision are two reasons why law enforcement agencies fail. so i'm pushing for better training, really removing outdated training at some of our agencies current little have and looking at better supervision models which are more important. we have to make sure that the leaders of our law enforcement agencies from the top down are sending a clear message to the staff on how they want their policies carried out and conducted and, more importantly,

we know that 99.9% of the men and women that put on the uniform every single day are going to protect and serve the communities that they work. in and so, you know, to paint a broad brush picture that officers are doing bad things, you know, we have seen some horrible, horrible incidents. more importantly, these men and women are really trying to do their job to the best of their ability in all communities that are served. pete: a men, sheriff, it's the most difficult job in america today. you talk about training and supervision. training and leadership. having been in military units that is completely what makes the difference are r. your men and women trained and are your leaders setting the proper tone. joe, real quick, we don't have a lot of time. i want to get everybody in on this. there is a flier circulating around minneapolis urging people not to call the police during an emergency as a form of protest. all of you, 10 seconds. joe, your reaction? >> well, that's extremely dangerous. people have perpetuated a false

narrative and anti-police rhetoric but everybody needs to remember police officers are here to help. we are here to protect our communities. we love our communities. and we are always going to be there for you when you need us. pete: yeah, bill. >> cops aren't perfect but they are sworn to protect and serve. when you need help, call a cop. they reflect you. they are there to help you. pete: amen. sheriff, last word. >> just real quick. we have to build trust and cooperation in our communities, transparency will be the key. i think we are all going to get through this together. pete: i sure hope so. joe, bill and errol, thank you for your service to our country and communities. i will give that one right back at you. thank you for your service and your thoughts. we appreciate. >> it thank you. pete: still ahead, president trump calling it the greatest come back in the american history as the may jobs report exceeds expectations. what's behind the gains? brian brenberg breaks down the numbers coming up next.

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>> i think it was probably the greatest miscalculation of business shows. history of business shows talking about wall street. and that's okay. but one of the reasons we're in this position is because we had such a strong foundation. so we were able to close our country, save millions of lives, open, and now the trajectory is great. griff: will it be the greatest

come back in economic history, at least? let's find out bring in brian brenberg fox news contributor and chair of th of the kings coe in new york. >> good morning. griff: this is good news. we all feel cautious not to read too much news into it. how optimistic should would he be. >> i think we should read something into it. this is really an astounding number. if you think what happened here. this is data on job gains. 2.5 million job gains in may. and this data came before a lot of states had actually really reopened in earnest. so, if anything, it actually understates how much businesses have been up to in may. and, remember what was happening in may. may was the month where we had mayors and governors scolding businesses who were reopening. even in the midst of that, you had so many employers getting back at it and hiring workers. i think you're going to see even more momentum coming out of

this. sure we have a long way to go. but this is truly extraordinary and really defying expert predictions. pete: did you expect it, brian, did you expect this much this quickly or, you know, a lot of people surprised by this number. where were your expectations? >> you know. you could see it on air, pete. i gave my expectations yesterday morning. i said the numbers would be better than expert predictions. but i didn't think they were going to be this good. i'm really flabbergasted by how much the american people rose up in this moment and showed courage. look, they just had to get after it. even though the head winds were against them. and that's a credit to them. and we needed that you know, they were protesting at state capitals and getting a lot of flack for that but what they were really doing behind the scenes is they were doing the things they were asking for. they were asking for a chance to reinvest in their communities and they did it. some of the numbers here we saw 1.2 million jobs created in leisure and hospitality. that wasn't supposed to happen. almost half a million in

construction. people just said we have to get back to work. there is no other choice. america needs it and they did it. jedediah: yes, so, brian, you see some of those big numbers popping on the screen right now, 424,000 jobs in health and education services. you see -- these are big numbers. 225,000. 1.2 million. i want to ask. given what's happened and how some of these booming numbers have been a surprise to many, what is your prediction over the next couple of months as more of these states begin different phases of reopenings? what do you think -- how do you think this is going to go? >> yeah. my prediction is much more optimistic now. i mean, one of the big question marks is how would people respond? how would businesses respond? how would customers respond and employees respond in the wake of the pandemic? and we are getting an answer. and the answer is buy by and large people are saying we have to get back at it. which means i think the recovery here could be much, much stronger than anybody was predicting. we talk about the shape.

is it going to be a swoosh or a v. i think it's going to be something like a v. i think it's going to bounce. and that's really important for wages. that's really important for families who are struggle glick right now. why should be cheering for that we should not be down playing it. griff: let me bring in washington. because i actually believe that congress came together in a rare moment and helped us out, right? we got ppp. now there is a fight here in washington over whether or not we should do an extension of it and how that would impact our recovery. obviously the democrats want to continue it in these states. particularly a lot of democrat led states want money because they won't cut the spending. yet this headline and article in the "wall street journal" waiting for the biden bailout and it goes into whether or not if nancy pelosi, speaker pelosi cannot get another bailout for these states then they will have to wait for biden to get re -- or to get elected to then

deliver what do you make of it, big spending states saying send us money we are running out of money. the rest of the country is saying you had these spending problems before coronavirus. don't ask us to bail you out of something that coronavirus didn't cause. if you want help, you have got to reform your overspending. and the fact is these states, instead of reforming spending, are actually increasing spending right now. i don't think people are going to go for it. they expect responsibility. people were asked themselves to be responsible during this moment, states should have to do the same thing as well. pete: brian, don't worry though. they are cutting their police department. that's where they will save all their money. >> right, that's going to make it up, right. pete: insanity of the moment. thank you so much. you are making linwood minnesota great again and we appreciate having you on the program. thank you. >> good to see you guys. griff: thanks, brian. turning now to headlines. police releasing new surveillance video of seven men wanted in the murder of retired police captain.

police say they are persons of interest. the video shows them looting and destroying a pawnshop where captain david done was shot and killed. done was defending the store during riots in the city. he served the st. louis police department for 38 years. and a feud between arkansas senator tom cotton and the snisms escalating again. cotton calling out the paper after it published an editor's note on his op-ed about using the insurrection act to stop riots. the several factual questions and calls the tone needlessly harsh. cotton responded on twitter saying in part this editor's note is another humiliation to the "new york times." i stand by every word i wrote. see where that goes. and a defiant barber makes the final cut in his legal battle with michigan. the state supreme court ruling karl marchy can stay open. the 77-year-old reopened last month defying governor gretchen whitmer's stay-at-home order. the judge is reverse ago lower court ruling telling him to shut

down. saying they need to follow the rule of law, not hysteria. karl will join us in our 9:00 hour to react to the big win. you don't want to miss it. those are your headlines. [applause] pete: carl, we sleet you, awesome to see the courts back him up. over to rick reichmuth who we always salute as well. is he standing this morning. rick, great to see. rick: imagine. as the son of a barber i know those barbers are tough people. i know that for sure. big storm out there in fact third tropical storm of the year it. is cristobal and it should not be a major impact for us but i want to show you what's going on. this is a storm that's out here across the central part of the golf. nogulf. not a lot of good organization to it by any means. continue to pull off towards the north. as it does it. will likely strengthen just a little bit. it didn't move much. brought incredible amounts of rain across new mexico. incredible flooding.

destructive flooding. nau it's beginning to move much quicker. all of the stirring conditions pulling it off towards the north. as it does, it is going to make landfall likely sometime tomorrow afternoon. landfall not a huge issue, the center of the storm will move over land somewhere across the louisiana coast line it appears. where we are going to see some problems is certainly some winds. maybe 50ur and we are also going to be talking about some pretty significant rain and a little bit of storm surge right around new orleans. maybe 2 feet to 3 feet. not a huge blockbuster storm for us the one to get us for tropical storm season were upon us and certainly looks like it's going to be active. back to you. pete: how did you fit the weather center in your house? rick: this is great question that maybe i will take pictures and send to you. that's a very generous term. small apartment. pete: even more impressive, rick. rick: how does it look? pete: looks fantastic. looks like you are in the

weather center. rick: there you go. jedediah: coming up. did joe biden just have his basket of deplorables moment? >> probably anywhere from 10% to 15% of the people out there who are not just very good people. jedediah: remarks being compared to hillary clinton's campaign killing comments. next guest says another example of the democratic elite taking voters for granted. coming up. ♪

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griff: just five months away from the presidential election. joe biden coming under question for the integrity of some americans. >> words the president says matter. so when a president stands up and divides people all the time, you are going to get the worst of us to come out. probably anywhere 10% to 15% of the people out there not just very good people. the vast majority of people are decent. we have to appeal to that and we

have to unite people bring tomorrow together. griff: here to react is turning point u.s.a. spokesperson always a soldier iraq war veteran rob schmitt. good morning to you, rob. >> good morning. how are you doing? pete: i'm good. vice president biden clinches the nomination and now putting out a statement this morning that together we can do anything we want as a nation. but, yet, these comments suggest that we're not all together. what do you make of his comments? how big of a deal is this? >> well, i mean i think it's a pretty big deal. sleep, sleepy joe is obviously doing interviews again and obviously getting talkin out ofe basement and talking to people. we will see gaffes like this happen over and over again. joe biden has always been a gaffe machine and election cycle is not going to change this. fundamentally a little disappoint guilty and shocking that you have a candidate for a major political party basically writing off millions of

potential voters as not very good part-time. i don't know what voters is he talking about. i don't know if he is talking about 15% of black voters are not black enough to vote for him. he said you are not black if you don't vote for joe biden. there is just a lot of gaffes going on it. doesn't inspire a lot of confidence. i think his remarks are indicative of this kind of elitism going on on the left in the democratic party right now. where they feel like there is a certain amount of the population that they have to lord over. look at the difference between how they treated those business owners protesting for the right to open their businesses again compared to how they treated the protesters that were protesting against police brutality and what was going on over the past couple of weeks. it's very obvious that they think that a certain part of the population basically is not -- is not good enough to vote for them and so they need to lord over this population. i think it's kind of disturbing and it's not inspiring.

griff: talking about 40 million americans roughly. you mentioned people wondering if they are in that 10% to 15%. now, let's focus on young african-american voters because this really stood out. right? it's a politico op-ed, the headline how young black voters could break biden and why democrats are worried police brutality young african-americans to take to the streets. it's far from clear they will go to the polls. what say you? >> you mentioned my book. i have upcoming book always a soldier. i have a kanye effect why black americans are leaving democrats behind. one thing i write about is younger black millennials just are not as excited about the democratic party. they are not as excited about the left as they used be. and certainly not in the numbers that the left needs them to vote for in order to clinch the presidency. joe biden is not inspiring or

exciting to large amount of young millennial african-americans. even self-identified liberals. griff: we shall see. >> we have to realize, oh, yeah, okay. griff: we shall see. we have to leave it there rob, thanks for coming on this morning. we will find out. very interesting. still ahead, amid the unrest and anti-cop rhetoric across the country. a young boy making it his mission to personally pray for all of his police officers. meet that incredible kid after the break. botanical blend, while an optimal melatonin level means no next-day grogginess. zzzquil pure zzzs. naturally superior sleep.

>> family, amen. >> amen. thank you so much. >> you are welcome. jedediah: that is 7-year-old

trey elliott praying with the tulsa police chief amid the process. praying for every officer in the department. in annual effort to show his support for those on the front lines. trey and his mother britney elliott join us right now. welcome both of you to the show. such a moving thing to see in such a difficult and challenging time for so many. britney, first off, i want to ask you what has it been like to see your son, such a youngs boy, be so passionate about praying for police officers right now? >> it's been quite eye opening to say the least to see him be bold in his faith and step out and not be afraid to go up to the officers and pray for them. it's been amazing to get to watch that with him. jedediah: is this something that he wanted to don to do on his o? >> we were explaining the protest. we have had several days of protesting. we were explaining protesting and rioting and the difference between the two. and just explaining, you know, how peaceful protesting turned

into rioting. and so he thought i our officers could use some prayers. jedediah: trey, i want to ask you what has it been like for you to pray for the officers? >> what's it been like for you? >> i don't know. >> how did it make you feel? >> happy. jedediah: happy? and you have a pretty big goal. you wanting to pray for all of the officers in that department; is that right? >> um-huh. jedediah: yes? >> is he tired still. jedediah: we all are don't worry. he gets a pass this early. britney, i have to say this is such a divisive time right now in the country in many ways and also a time that many have come together. but when you see images of a young child who is listening to what's going on and feeling passionate about prayer, a, and also about protecting a lot of

those police officers that are out there protecting all of us, it really sends such a powerful message. what has the response been that you have gotten from people when they saw this photo and video? >> it's mostly been good responses there is a few negatives mixed in but mostly people are just thankful it's helped them to kind of think about things and we have a lot of people tell us they have been talking to their kids about it but it has been a great response within our community. jedediah: and do you just finely have a message for people at this time as a mom of someone who has his priorities in order at the age of 7. do you have a message, talk your kids. don't try to hide it to them. explain it on their level. you will definitely appreciate learning from your kids through this. jedediah: well. thank you both so much for being here and i., trey, thank you so much for all you do. we appreciate you so much. >> thank you.

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[chanting] black lives matter. defund the police. no justice [bleep] no peace. >> defund the police. pete: defund the police. we start with a fox news alert. today the nation's capital preparing for largest protest yet over the death of george floyd. griff: overnight demonstrations remaining mostly peaceful in new york city. louisville, los angeles, and new orleans. jedediah: several major cities under curfew amid the protest. this as calls grow loud tore dismantle and defund police

departments across the united states. welcome, everyone to our 7:00 a.m. hour. i'm here with pete hegseth and griff jenkins. covering the latest in the protests popping up around the country. also the latest responses by some local officials and by many people in these cities around the country saying, you know what? let's dismantle the police department. let's defund the police, which means let's take some of those increases that were supposed to go financially to the police department andy vert them to others areas like education, like healthcare. lots of division going on around the country and lots of push back from police saying hey, we are here to protect you help us protect you and fighting back against those policies that are being talked about about defunding. pete: real will you a shame where you could have a constructive conversation and lunatic ideas like defunding the political science. protests to riots across the country. seems we are moving back to more peaceful protests but only after it was the police and the

national guard who stepped in to protect businesses and our nation's capital being defaced and it took that moment to get to where we are, griff. griff: yeah. major changes are coming to the minneapolis police force amid calls to dismantle that department. we have got matt finn live in minneapolis after another day of protest in the city. good morning, matt. >> good morning. yeah. you know. the sentiment of dismantling the police and getting rid of the police is something that is being repeated very strongly here. i personally took pictures. i was out for a run and i saw posters saying don't call police if you are in certain situations. what to do instead of calling the police and get rid of the police. we are seeing that all over this area. and this morning there are more planned demonstrations. there are more protests planned here across the twin cities for days they have been peaceful. there is day chock full of demonstrations across the twin

cities. right now standing where this all began. which is the site where george floyd died and the neighbors and supporters now have blocked it off in every direction. it's really become sacred ground. and here in minneapolis as you guys mentioned city council members held an emergency meeting yesterday in which they passed new immediate changes prohibiting police from using choke holds and neck restraints and strengthening requirements for officers to intervene in situation like george floyd's. the proposal has to be okayed by a judge. and at least three minneapolis city council members have now bounded together insisting they will work to dismantle the minneapolis police department. and create a more community oriented system. the president of minneapolis city council tweeted, quote: yes, we are are going to disman tell the minneapolis police department and replace it with a transformative new model of public safety. however, minneapolis mayor jacob frey says it's not necessarily happening in a statement writing quote: the mayor does not

support abolishing the police department is he committed to working with the community deep structural reforms that address systemic racism and our law and in policing. >> this is moment in time where we can totally change the way our police department operates we can quite literally lead the way in our action enacting more police reform than any other city in the entire country and we cannot fail. >> here in minneapolis the city is trying to recover and assess the extensive destruction left behind from the violent riots. that mayor estimates at least $55 million in damage. and the atf has released new videos of arson suspects and is also asking people to submit any eyewitness video they might have. in the past couple of days have been peaceful here after wank lay week long curfew. the chair, the commissioner of the public safety department says they are no longer enforcing a curfew this weekend.

back to you guys. pete: thank you, matt. who do you submit your video to. is it the police to find out who lit your business on fire? it's amazing -- matt, go ahead. >> the atf is actually asking their twitter account is asking for it. pete: matt finn, thank you so much live in minneapolis this morning. think about it. fliers going around saying here is what you can do instead of calling the police in these moments. guys, it sounds like a small thing but something like a chokehold is -- as goes the head so goes the body if you know anything about grappling and all of that and mixed martial arts. the ability to take someone down. what you have to in violent situations include holds like that doesn't mean you take it to the extent we have seen and you can reform that guys, i say again what i said at the open, when you have a moment like this and you burn ideas lie defunding the police, you miss an opportunity to have a real conversation, jed. jedediah: yeah. the thing is there are instances of excessive force.

we just saw that in the instance of the horrific death of george floyd. there are -- you have seen the popping up on social media. everyone has cell phone cameras now so you see a lot. i saw an instance in buffalo. another lapsd that those officers have and should have been disciplined. and so i'm not denying that those things exist. but the problem is when you paint the entire police department and you make it as if that those incidents are representative of all police work that is a problem. majority of police officers are out there risking their lives every day to protect us. if you defund them or make them feel like they are the enemy or make it impossible they're tomorrow do their job then you watch and see what happens in terms of crime in those communities. what you need is a police force and community that trust each other and work together. and police reform is part of that but part of it is also acknowledging the good work that the vast majority of police officers do and not demonizing them every step of the way. pete: that's right, jed. the trust has been broken in

this community. need to be restored bad cops rooted out and thrown out. look at this map. the effort to defund the police is coast to coast. los angeles, san fran, phoenix, boston, minneapolis, philadelphia. the problem is particularly the most vulnerable are poor communities. they have no choice where to live. less cops, let alone no cops will make their lives incredibly more difficult. we had a police panel in the last hour. here is their take on the defunding efforts. >> it's a dangerous idea and insane idea. who exactly is going to police that neighborhood? who is going to take care of the law-abiding citizens, hard-working citizens just trying to make a living. >> putting, police officer that's trained both in psychology and face calling being able to stop it that's not a good idea at all. >> we know 99.9% of the men and women who put on the uniform

every single day are going to protect and serve the community that they work. in these men and women are really trying to do their jobs to the best of their ability in all communities that are served. pete: that last officerrer rolle do you alaserved.peter roll tou. -- one that wants to defund the cops or get rid of them all together is los angeles. while lapd officers are outraged about cuffs to the department. here is what they said when confronting a city council member. >> there you bow down to black lives matter. these police officers that are out here protecting this city, they are protecting it from being on fire, if it wasn't for them, this city would be burnt down right now. it's not right. you are cutting 250 -- while citizens were going on furloughs

didn't have the money. now finding money to give $250 million to black lives matter now you are cutting from their families? where they put everything on the line? we are going to fight. pete: well said. jedediah: the question if you take those money from those increases from the police department, and you put them in education healthcare. we need to ask what does that look like? because as we know, governments aren't necessarily always efficient at spending money so we would need to see that breakdown of what that means to them. what does that mean put it towards education? does that mean the money sits in the educational system and does absolutely nothing to better the education of people. questions need to be answered. right now we need to head over to aishah has any update what's going on in new york city. protesters defying new york city curfew overnight while remaining mostly peaceful. aishah is live in new york with a stunning decision by manhattan's district attorney. aishah? >> that's right. good morning to you, jed.

so we could hear protests all night last night i live in the area and i could hear a large protest moving right behind me eighth avenue. if you couldn't see it you could definitely hear it. protesters chanting lots of different things. things did start to quiet down at about 8:00 p.m. when that curfew went into effect and remained calm for the most part. thousands of protesters really peace fiscal cliff moving through brooklyn and manhattan once again last night. this time remembering brianna taylor a louisville woman killed by police and chanting peaceful protests drop the curfew. organizers also reminding these protesters that if they get arrested, it would be for the entire weekend. now, nypd only made about 40 arrests last night. but the manhattan d.a. is now declining to prosecute protesters on these low level offenses. and also now mayor bill de blasio is facing a lawsuit over the city's curfew as an outcry

grows over police tactics and the arrest of even essential workers were seen. the new york immigration coalition wrote this in part. the week long citywide curfew unconstitutionally restricts individual's rights to free speech, assembly and free movement. this overbroad lockdown has resulted in the unconstitutional arrest of numerous individuals for engaging in peaceful protests or merely going about their lives as free, law abiding people. and also several city council members are now calling on the mayor to get rid of this curfew. but for now it remains in place at least until sunday night into monday morning. pete, jed, griff? jedediah: aishah, thank you so much. appreciate that good to see them turn peaceful. that quote from the new york immigration. was that a quote about covid-19? did they chime in on covid-19 and the lockdowns and the assembly that wasn't allowed for people or just apply in this context?

because that's what you hear from the left time and time again. you got these thousand doctors signed a letter out there that's been talked about on our channel for a little bit for social justice social distancing doesn't apply that erodes trust people have in institutions. griff: there is new voice in cable news now that you can ask that question to. she is speaking out on another network. you may remember her president trump calls her the lover. that's lisa page. remember, let me take you back to that text between page and peter strzok, the fbi agent investigating president trump on august 8th, 2016. page, trump is not ever going to be become president, right? right? strzok, no, no i won't. we will stop it. she popped up on tv yesterday. here's what she had to say. >> i think what's more important to recognize here is how fragile the rule of law is. how much it depends on norms and the exercise of restraint. and what you see here is the

exact opposite of that you see the attorney general who doesn't feel bound by the norms that his predecessors have. who is willing to mischaracter i semischaracterize the conclusios of the mueller report and overturn four career prosecutors in a sentencing negotiation. willing to withdraw a plea in the case of someone like michael flynn pled twice based on a cooperation agreement. pete: always the norms. the norms she was protecting, right? the president chimed in rightfully so about her being hired there and her appearance saying you must be kidding. this is a total disgrace as if msnbc could disgrace itself further, it's working hard to do that. jedediah: foxnews.com. let us know though what you feel about the hire. are you surprised at all? let us know how you feel this morning when you hear about that. pete: indeed. the d.c. mayor evicting the national guard from hotels just

hours from today's massive protest. some in the middle of their shift while protecting the city. so is this a political move aimed at president trump or a budget issue like she claims? congressman adam constituencying early serves in the national guard. he sounds off on that next.

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the unrest. and now, tyrus vance dropping these charges. what do you make of it. >> hi, griff. it's good to be with you. let me say that i agree with manhattan district attorney cyrus vance that in not prosecuting or going forward with the prosecution of these various demonstrators griff you, our country was born on demonstrations. these are young people who is exercising their first amendment rights. just think about it in the last two weeks. america has seen a black man killed on national tv at the hands of a police officer. they did the right thing. i'm glad they are not indicted by giving a criminal record that could follow them, perhaps the rest of their lives.

griff: ted, you and i have covered some of these situations and it is the threat of the agitators getting into those larger protests and causing problems. here's the problem. if no one is getting prosecuted from really egregious rioting offenses to breaking curfew, lower lying offenses. what's to stop these from growing and becoming far more dangerous in the future? >> it could become far more dangerous in the future but you have to parse out legitimate have demonstration with rebel raisers those who loot, rob, steal and kill. i think d.a. vance is saying he is definitely going to prosecute people who rob, steal, and kill if they kill but looting there in new york. is he going forward with those kinds of prosecutions and so you have to do that parsing out, griff. griff: but law enforcement the

rule of law under debate right now. this certainly suggests a pat to break the low lying decriminalization, ted. >> well, i want you to look at what is happening in new york as it pertains to the curfew. new york put a curfew in place and they did not enforce the curfew for several nights. all of a sudden now they want to prosecute these kids? griff, understand these are young people. a majority of them. these records could follow these young people the rest of their lives all because they wanted to exercise their first amendment right. griff: that's good point. ted williams, thank you very much. stay safe. >> my pleasure. griff: coming up, 17 years of hard work destroyed in one night. we will talk to a minneapolis business owner whose restaurant went up in flames during the riots and how this has impacted

his family and his community after the break.

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griff: back with quick headlines a second memorial will be head held in north carolina. a public viewing before a private public service in the town he was born. first memorial was held thursday in minneapolis where leaders, celebrities and loved ones celebrated floyd's life. a final memorial will be held on monday in houston before his funeral on tuesday and the entire emergency response team has resigned after two officers were suspended for shoving an elderly protester. the incident caught on disturbing video in buffalo. >> no all 57 officers from the team are staying with the department. the police union says they followed orders from the city's

deputy police commissioner to clear the area. the 75-year-old victim is in serious but stable condition. pete? >> thank you, griff. rioters in minneapolis destroying 17 years of hard work when they set a local ecuadorian restaurant on fire. the owner left helpless as he saw -- on video his business being destroyed on facebook. but now he is vowing to rebuild here with his story is the owner of owner of the restaurant louise tome. thank you so much for being on the program this morning. this business in minneapolis, riots going on you weren't able to be there but you were watching live. what else going through your mind when you see 17 years of hard work being burned to the ground? >> good morning to everyone. pete: good morning. >> thank you so much to think about me. when i was watching on facebook.

it's done no way -- any way to go and do something because, yeah. i feel so badly because i work long time a lot of hours to make my business and yeah, one night over and done, yeah. pete: how do you feel about the fact that something like what occurred in minneapolis with policing and legitimate protests to be had turned into looting and arson. you live in that community. how do you feel about the fact that it turned into that? >> yeah. it's so sad, you know a few people they gore inside to make this mess up. yeah. i am so sad for -- a few years

to the way it was. pete: one of your business was burned to the ground. your market was vandalized but not destroyed. do you plan to reopen and how soon? >> the market still okay. we take a lot of stuff from the market because we are building. i think all the stuff or maybe monday or tuesday we reopen. pete by you are reopening much of minnesota is still closed because of covid-19. you watch these protests, thousands of people not social distancing, walking through the streets. do you feel like now is the time to open your business up completely to recover?

>> actually, we are carrying out minneapolis health department give you the rules maybe or three or four customers inside. we are following that. the rules, yeah. pete: following the rules, playing by the rules. just want a fair shot like everybody else. you deserve, sir, to live in a city where people cannot indiscriminately burn down your business as some excuse for something else that happened in our country. luis, there is a go fund me page for his business find it at foxnews.com if you want to donate directly to the recovery efforts to his business. sir, god bless you, good luck and thanks for joining us we appreciate it? >> thank you so much for every people they have made a thank you all the money i recover for reopen the restaurants, yeah. thank you and thank you so much for all the people.

pete: grateful heart and grateful person. an american entrepreneur. luis thank you for your time. pete: battle over the national guard is brewing in our capital. washington, d.c.'s mayor calling on president trump to remove all troops after she called to evicts them in the middle of the day. congressman adam constituency egger just got back with his deployment with the guard. he is here to react next.

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pete: we are back with a fox news alert. washington, d.c. bracing for what could be the largest demonstration yet as the mayor calls on president trump to pull troops from the district doug joins us live with the battle over the national guard. doug, good morning. >> good morning. and utah national guard troops are waking up in a in hotel here in d.c. this morning after being caught in the middle of a political dispute. d.c. mayor mueller bow zero has made no secrecy of her desire to get all national guard troops out of the city and she is playing hard ball to make it happen. his guardsmen given 10 hours notice to clear out of a d.c. marriott because of the city of d.c. was refusing to pay. mayor bowser is standing by her decision i don't think soldiers should be in the nation's capital patrolling or policing streets. we have made that request to the

white house. d.c. residents can't pay the bill. either the department or home state have to take care of the arrangements budget out of control and constantly coming back to us for handouts is fighting for the national guard who saved her from great embarrassment over the last number of nights. if she doesn't treat these men and women well we will bring in a different group of men and women. the utah national guard says they are here to help. they put this out in a statement saying they are committed to helping helping their fellow citizens. back to you guys. pete: thank you, doug. jedediah: thanks so much, doug. we are now going to bring in representative adam densinger house committee on. internationanational guard and iraq war veteran. thank you for your recent service at this difficult time.

sohio is claiming a budgetary the cause? >> sad and agitating. will most of the guard activation to this point has been done by democratic governors in democratic states. secondly, the president, in washington, d.c., is the governor for the use of the national guard for those purposes. so that's the issue. and so for her to just say i'm not going to pay for these people to say here and then at one point claim even the third amendment is insanity. the guard plays edges extremely important role. left wing senator tried to call out th national guard from my. grounded all of the information awareness assessment the aarons so they can see what's going on because is he responding to this

pressure. this is insane and frankly we need to take a good look at our guard and understand what they really do because we need them. pete: you fly one of the planes that provides sort of the eye of the sky so that decision makers on the ground can know where the crowds are and how big they are. d.c. wanted another additional plan in washington for today where they could have up to a million people. at least that's what they are hoping for. yet, they are grounded because of a tweet or someone said i don't like this. >> think about this. do the police have right to see what's happening around them? can we protect infrastructure? do the guard troops have a right to be protected? , the answer is yes. can you go out in your backyard and fly a drone and see what's going on as a private citizen. because senator chris murphy put out a tweet saying the national guard is flying rc 26 and he said gathering intelligence on protesters, which is not at all what happens. i know chris. i offered to brief him on what's going on. we are just protecting guard troops and infrastructure. but, because of that, as acall was made to the air guard.

the air guard. >> jenna: rice said i'm going to guard these aircraft because i don't want to have to deal with the pressure of it. so we have you know, ground guard troops that are -- don't have an eye in the sky. griff: the political pressure, which you are talking about there, mayor bowser telling murphy, the governor of new jersey, to pull the troops out. here's the thing. i live in d.c. i'm one of those taxpayers that she says we shouldn't pay for the guard. you know what? i also go for runs, often, throughout the capital and i run down by world war ii to see the explicatives and desis he creation it got guards are providing security you are talking about but also protecting those monuments. pete was doing it down at the vietnam. how important is that to maintain to keep going when we could have a million people in our city today? >> it's essential. think about this. i think it was at least seven pharmacies that were stripped bear a few days ago in washington, d.c. think about what that is going

to do to drugs on the secret. people who need legitimate medicine don't have it. you have the world war ii memorial. you put guards around the memorial it may offend folks on the far left about what it looks like. hopefully it has been intimidating. but it didn't get touched. i wish they had guard troops around world war ii. the one thing to keep in mind muriel bowser has no control. entirely president trump and the secretary of the earnlt. anybody who tries to conflate the two is incorrect. the vast majority of guard this time that has been activated has been by democratic governors so stop politicizing the guard people. jedediah: congressman, i want to ask you about another big story in the news these past few days that's this "new york times" op-ed by tom cotton. if you remember the headline by tom cotton send in the troops. the "new york times" had released an editor's note. we have that four. after publication this essay met strong criticism from many readers and many times

colleagues prompting editors to review the piece and the editing process in that review we conclude that fell short of our standards and should not have been published. the "new york times" has published many controversial pieces by many people on the left a terrorist or two thrown in there and there has been nothing done about it. what was different about this piece by tom cotton? >> because, you know, he is a republican. i mean, i think they published an essay by the taliban at one point. pete: yep. >> they didn't have the same kind of stuff. look at their coverage by the way of the chinese communist party or lack thereof and compare it to the coverage of president trump. right, who is maintaining control but he is not beating down protesters and at least, you know, there is a full public accounting of what is going on in the u.s. not in china. how do they treat the two? very different. look, the left has -- the far left has become monolithic thought. if you vary from that at all it's like a marxist enforcement

of what they believe. really quite sad honestly. pete: it's who they're. congressman adam kinsinger thank you for your service. griff: accused of throwing molotov cocktail back behind bars. siding with prosecutors to keep them locked up after lower court released them while pending bail. political science say they threw a molotov cocktail at cop car during riots in new york city last week. the massive fire destroys an amazon warehouse in california. aerial video showing the 600,000 square foot facility engolfed in flames -- engulfed in flames. 100 workers evacuated the building. fortunately no one was hurt. unclear what sparked the fire. an investigation is underway

actress kate blan chet cut in the head with a chainsaw. happened at her family's home in england during coronavirus lockdown but didn't go into detail. blanchett says she is fine. besides a little nic to the head. drew breeze responding to protests overnight. tweeting s.e. a fasten brees adding quote there are other things can you protest not our great american flag. no kneeling brees then writing to trump on instagram this is not an issue about the american flag it. has never been. we can no longer use the flag to turn people away or distract them from the real issues that face our black communities. interesting development there those your headlines. toss it over to rick where pete is enamored with the weather center in rick's home.

pete: i got a behind the scenes picture of rick from his weather center. it dominates his entire living room. pete: what do you think, pete? pete: your living room is gone but quite impressive. you do have the whole studio in there. rick: i do. i was hoping nobody would ever know this wasn't the actual weather center. pete: you are standing up. there is no window. something changed. we can put the dots together. totally. a tropical storm we are watching tropical storm cristobal. third storm of the year. hurricane season starts june 1st and already on our third storm. we knew this was going to be a very active year and by the fact we are on third storm do in fact expect to see active year. use this as a dry run to get everyone prepared for what's going on. this is the satellite image right here. you can see the center of the storm not really much of the action going on right around the center of it. where all of the action is just off to the east. that tells you though that the

moisture from this is going to be falling very far away from the center of the storm because of that watching a lot of areas get a lot of rain. wind won't be the major issue. there will be a little bit of a storm surge that we'll be watching and watching pretty significant rainfall. track of the storm brings this making some sort of a landfall. don't really worry that much about the landfall. somewhere across parts of louisiana tomorrow afternoon. all right, guys, back to you. pete: thank you, rick. jedediah: police aren't the only ones under attack right now. some firefighters are experiencing backlash with station trucks vandalized during the violence. one chief has a message to the protesters, we are not your enemy. and he joins us live next. hi.

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reuters vandalize fire trucks. law enforcement and protest organizers. chief gary ludwig is president of the international association of fire chiefs. he joins me now. gary, good morning to you. thanks for taking time. we're looking back at, you know, what we have seen when this started last weekend in atlanta. the fire trucks attacked and vandalized on a day where here in washington where i am think are calling for temperatures in the 90's, humidity. your men and women will be out is there perhaps saving lives. what's your take? >> good morning it's great to be back on with you all again bought line we're not the enemy. it's distressing to see our fire trucks and fire stations and monuments are looted. we support everyone's right to peaceful assembly. we are not the enemy.

we are there to help. we are the ones a month ago running into your home and helping covid patients and same ones ran towards the tower and same ones you call for 911 for help. our only mission is to save lives and property it. is really distressing to see our firefighters attacked with rocks, stones, bricks, fireworks and other items. the firefighters' safety is the most paramount importance to us. griff: how concerned are you the attitudes of younger folks towards law enforcement and cops some of it justified but what we saw in minneapolis with george floyd. but how concerned are you that a negative perception of firefighters will emerge out of this? >> well, obviously, again, with our firefighter safety being the most paramount thing, the top priority, it's a concern. and the message that we are trying to deliver is we are north the enemy. we are here to help. and i will repeat our only mission is to save lives and your property. and so please allow us to do our

job. allow us to serve you before others. allow you to serve us before ourselves. that's our mission is to help. only mission is to make a difference for others who are in stress. griff: gary, we are just about out of time but quickly how has that impacted the morale of your men and women? >> well, certainly it's disturbing to them. at the same time, firefighters are very resilient people. the men and women who serve the fire service are there to serve others and so they are still determined, despite the obstacles that we always encounter every day the monumental events we have had to deal with over the years we still get up. we still go on the call when the bell rings. griff: gary ludwig international association of fire chiefs, thank you for your time and safety of men and women particularly in washington where we will need them today. thank you, sir. >> thank you so much. griff: all right. a study claiming hydroxychloroquine is not effective at treating covid-19 now retracted. the media was all over it when it got published. so why did they ignore the

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jedediah: the use of hydroxychloroquine to treat covid-19 has been highly debated especially after being touted by president trump. after a couple of studies that doubted its effectiveness were retracted, network evening newscast gave the story zero coverage. however, the networks did give the study's attention back before the retraction. why the silence now? let's bring in fox news medical contributor and author of "make america healthy again" an amazing book i love and read and endorse dr. nicole saphier

welcome tote show as always. great to have you here. >> good morning. jedediah: good morning. explain a little bit about this retraction and then why you think it's not getting any coverage. >> well, jed, unfortunately politics has made its way into science when it's coming to covid-19 specifically hydroxychloroquine because president trump not only encouraged it or not encouraged it but said he is taking it himself and supported the use of it. this is a large trial. a large study that was published in lancet in the new england journal of medicine. both reputable medical journals supposed to be occasional trial with over 95,000 patients. after the study was published, a letter written and signed by over 200 scientists questioning their data collection methods has now actually caused these journals to retract the actual articles themselves. that's a really big deal in the medical world this firm that collected the data the force are

now saying they can't validate the data collection methods. this is the failure of the study's authors, the journal's editors as well as a peer review process. that being said, we want to make sure that we say, you know, it doesn't mean that their conclusions are wrong or in the future it's not going to still prove that hydroxychloroquine may not be effective. but the problem with this article was this big study caused to stop enrolling for clinical trials because this one article showed maybe there was increased risk of death with hydroxychloroquine, they halted all efforts. so that's a big issue right now. when you still have small studies throughout the world that are showing some possible benefit to hydroxychloroquine. now, the question as to why other certain media outlets are not picking up this story, i mean, unfortunately, partisan politics are probably at play. but the truth is, this is really big news. we still have some studies out there showing there may be some benefit. we have some studies showing there may not be benefit of

hydroxychloroquine. but the bottom line is right now we still do not know and we need those large randomized clinical trials which is why i'm very glad to hear that the world health organization has now restarted enrolling those those large clinical trials. this one study has now been retracted because of faulty data collection. jedediah: yeah. you know, doctor, of all things to not politicize when you are dealing with a major disease that so many people have died from. this is not a time for politics. unfortunately live i do think that the president talking about hydroxychloroquine and the way he did impacted the way news media wants to or doesn't want to cover this and that's very unfortunate. thank you so much for being here today as always. >> absolutely. jedediah: we appreciate it. still ahead, calls growing nationwide to defund the police amid nationwide protests including in senator marsha blackburn's home state. she is going to sound off coming up next. whether it's bribes to roll over.

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>> how dare you. how dare you. [bleep] pete: we begin this 8:00 hour of "fox & friends" on a saturday morning with this fox news alert. today the nation's capital preparing for its largest protest yet over the death of george floyd. griff: overnight demonstrations remaining mostly peaceful across the country including new york city, louisville, los angeles, and new orleans. jedediah: several major cities under curfew amid the protests. this as crawls grow loud tore dismantle and defund police departments across the united states. welcome, everyone, to our 8:00 a.m. hour with pete hegseth and griff jenkins. welcome. pete: good morning, jed, it is also morning to remember today is june 6th. it i 6th anniversary of d-day invasion largest amphibious assault. defunding the police. where would we be in this country without the men willing

to scale the cliffs on that day to save the world. may we never forget things like that to keep us free. griff: we need a little dwight eisenhower the supreme allied commanders who said to those brave then that charged them the hope of liberty, loving people all across the globe are with you. that optimism. we shall see. whether it comes soon. meanwhile. pete: griff, we didn't rehearse that you didn't know i was going to mention that yet you had that quote on your lips. that's the kind of guy that is griff jenkins. griff: i spent a lot of time in bedford, virginia. home of the d-day memorial closed to the public today because of the pandemic. a telling sort of commentary on that. we will get more on that we have got to go to d.c. where i am. because they are bracing for what could be the largest demonstration we have seen yet as the mayor calls on president trump to pull troops from the district. doug luzader joins us live over the battle of the national guard. hey, doug. >> good morning, everyone. d.c. may be preparing for one of

its largest protests ever. the d.c.'s mayor has a message for the states that have sent their national guard troops to the city to assist. get out. the mayor mueller bowser has abruptly refused to pay the hotel bills for at least the utah national guard almost 200 this h. to scramble for the place to stay. the city says no one was evicted the mayor says she is not going to foot the bill. we don't think soldiers should be in the nation's capital patrolling the streets. we have made that formal request to the white house. d.c. residents can't pay their bills. so either the department of the armory or home state will have to take care of the arrangements. >> president trump shot back on twitter. the incompetent mayor of washington, d.c., mayor bowser whose budget is totally out of control and is constantly coming back to us for handouts is now fighting with the national guard. who saved her from great embarrassment over the last number of nights. if she doesn't treat these men

and women well then we will bring in a different group of men and women. this appears to be part of an escalating feud between the president and mayor bowser. those guard troops by the way did eventually find another hotel to stay in last night. we hope they are well rested for today. pete, griff, and jed back to you. griff: all right. thanks, doug. jedediah: thanks so much, doug. that's disgraceful when you really think about it. national guard on the ground protecting people. they have got to scramble now to figure out another hotel because the d.c. mayor just doesn't want them there? it's outrageous. we spoke to adam kinzinger who blasted the politicization of the national guard. take a listen to what he had to say last hour. >> for her to just say i'm not going to pay for these people to stay here and claim at one point the third amendment is insanity. the guard plays an extremely important role. muriel bowser has no guard control when it comes to d.c. because of the assumption act that is entirely president trump and the secretary of the army.

so anybody that tries to conflate the two is incorrect. by the way, again, the vast majority of guard this time that's been activated have been by democratic governors. so stop politicizing the guard people. pete: of course the congressman is totally right. doug luzader i hope the national guard members are. they are not. we were up to 3:00 or 4:00 a.m. protecting america's city that mayor bowser was completely incapable of protecting. instead of saying get out. the mayor should be saying thank you. thank you for saving my city. thank you for defending the memorials that otherwise would have been completely desecrated and defaced by out-of-control and lawless looters. thank you for protecting the businesses here who were starting to be ransacked. thank you for protecting a white house that was completely under siege. until the national guard showed up and lock shields with the metro ph.d. who would request us, me quite literally and the

guys i was serving with on monday and tuesday night hey go to this intersection. go to that intersection. we don't have enough police over here. blow being that road. without that you don't have the facilitation of peaceful protest and you have a capital on fire yet she has the you a das city to national guard. said our guys are being evicted in the middle of theirs shifts while being on the streets defending the capital. it is utterly shameful, guys. griff: yeah, it is, pete. jedediah: yeah, exactly right. griff: i want to mention when you talk about the people serving you have been around for a little while young men and women will caught up in the politics of this it's got to be really really disturbing. pete: hotel set up because the national guard in d.c. was reacting to covid-19.

these were people on permanent orders to deal with covid-19. assisting the city in mortuary affairs. it shifted into civil disturbance. they kept the hotel there because it makes sense and now because of politics, jed, see you. blatant disrespect for the national guard and people of her city who are there and who are saying in many cases help us out that want their right to peacefully protest to be served. you got business owners terrified that their businesses are going to be destroyed. so shame on her. pete: she didn't spend one moment walking the line talking to a soldier. black men, white women, holding shields screened at. not a single moment. you have a similarly disgraceful situation happening over in new york because thanks to bill de blasio and his lack of leadership. been a lot of protests going on. protesters defying new york city's curfew overnight.

some of those people protesters, granted while remaining mostly peaceful. aishah hasnie is live in new york with a stunning decision by manhattan's district attorney in all of this. aishah sharks what's the latest? >> good morning, jed. that's right. there is no doubt that it's been very peaceful here in new york city. the past couple of nights. but how that peace is being kept, the tactics being used by police. the curfew, that is under scrutiny right now. i want to show you what we saw here in new york city last night. thousands of protesters peacefully management once again. remember this time brianna taylor that louisville woman killed by police and chanting this: peaceful protests drop the curfew. now, organizers were also reminding folks out there that if they got arrested. now nypd has previously made hundreds of arrests each night. though only 40 arrests about had 40 arrests last night.

the manhattan d.a. as you mentioned now declining to even prosecute any of these protesters on these low level offenses. now the mayor is also facing a lawsuit o'er the city's curfew. the new york immigration coalition writes in part the week long citywide curfew unconstitutionally restricts individual' rights to free speech, assembly and free movement. a curfew though, guys, remains in effect at least until monday morning and the question is what happens after that. bask to you. jedediah: thanks, aishah sexual harassment i want to say i'm not a fan of curfews. i get it but that curfew existed because people, rioters and looterlooters were tearing up ty that's why the curfew was implemented in the first place. let's note for get that the fear is what happens if you remove it over night. you are able to walk the street peacefully as you should be right now because a lot of those

looters and rioters were removed because of that curfew was implemented. griff: it's part of the heavy time we are. in the pandemic, the lawlessness, the riots. there is something this morning to wake up and be happy about. may jobs report absolutely defying expectations it. is a 2.5 million jobs added drop in the unemployment rate. we thought it was going to be 20%. came down from 14 to 13.3. we saw industries like leisure and hospitality industry add 1.2 million jobs. retail adding some 350,000. it's really quite amazing not everyone happy about it. his opponent in november sparring with him. watch. >> the people now are starting to return to work. we have a pandemic.

>> the depth of this is not attributable to an act of god but to a failure of a president. >> remember previous administration that you need a magic wand for manufacturing. we picked up 225,000 manufacturing jobs. that's very unexpected. >> he is out there spiking the ball, completely oblivious to the tens of millions of people who are facing the greatest struggle of their lives. >> it's now time for us to work together as we rebuild great promise of america. >> not just to build back the economy. but to build it back better. >> as good as these numbers are the best numbers are yet to come. pete: facing the greatest struggle day by day and string sentences together. these numbers are amazing. can't be down played. reflection of the fact that america is open for business. especially in light of what's

happened with these riots, first protest then riots. hopefully back to protests where there is zero social distancing. huge crowds out and you are telling me i can't open hair salon or gym or tattoo parlor because it's not responsible people reject that i'm of the opinion open up everything. if you don't want to go out don't go out all the experts were telling us not seeing spikes in wisconsin which has been open since the court ruled there not seeing spikes in georgia where he opened earlier than people told him or in florida because people can be responsible. we have learned about this virus. and we see it as a result. america is going to come crashing back in a good way because americans are ready to work. they want to work. jedediah: is he also talking about the greatest challenge biden. yeah, we know, we get it, because the whole country has been shut down. that's why. that's what's been going on. obviously all these businesses had to shut down. of course you were going to see

that reflected in the numbers. but he also notes that if the economy comes roaring back, he loses his talking point. and then what does he say about the economy? nothing. he has nothing to say. so he is going to hang on to that as long as he can. griff: the i think the real challenge will be as the "wall street journal" writes is whether or not the animal spirits of investment and risk-taking will be unleashed. despite the fear of a possible second spike. we will find out. but, meanwhile we got to turn to our headlines. starting with this fox news alert. minneapolis and s. ordering major changes to the city's police force. the city to ban officers from using choke holds during arrests. any officer who sees a cop using unauthorized force is required to intervene and stop them. the council voted to dismantle the police department but did not get enough support. matt finn will join us live from minneapolis later this hour. as the city assesses damage from overnight protests.

two men wanted for running over two nypd with their car arrested in south carolina. police found one of them in a walmart parking lot another in a nearby hotel. police say they hit the sergeant after loot ago pawnshop protest in new york city. the sergeant was taken to the hospital with serious injuries. the suspects are waiting to be extradited to new york. in a statement today marks the 76th anniversary of d-day. no ceremonies are planned for the first time ever because of the pandemic. some mourners making their own tributes laying wreaths on normandy beach. 1944 american troops storm the beach helping turn the tide of world war ii. then general dwight d. eisenhower rallied the troops before the invasion. >> you are about to embark upon the great crusade towards which we have striive these many months. the eyes of the world are upon you. the hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you.

griff griff more than 2500 american soldiers were killed, an important thing to remember today. pete? pete: the great crusade. an american crusade. whether a those men did unbelievable. it makes you wonder could we muster such courage today is the question we have to ask ourselves. still ahead, here is something you don't hear every day. a looter overcome with guilt returns stolen items to california businesses. that business owner joins us live coming up.

>> ♪ >> we don't think that soldiers should be in the nation's capital patrolling or policing streets. we have made that formal request to the white house. d.c. residents can't pay their bills. so either the department of armory or home states will have

to take care of the arrangements. pete: d.c. mayor bowser wants national guard officers off the streets and out of her city. this as the district faces for biggest protest yet this weekend. here to react is the sheriff of neighboring frederick county maryland chuck jenkins. unclear whether there is a relation to griff jenkins is f. there is congratulation. >> i'm not sure either. pete: who knows. react to the mayor what she has been doing over the last couple of days basically demonizing the national guard while her city has faced a ton of problems. >> right. i think it doesn't show good leadership on her part to push back against. this the president, i believe, is doing the absolute right thing. he has the obligation to bring troops in, to protect government assets. government properties. and, in fact, he is supporting the mayor who is elected to govern in that city. when you have these things, pete, rarely can a local law enforcement agency in any jurisdiction manage civil unrest

at that of that size. i think the has made a great decision right decision and wrong for the mayor to push back. pete: civil disturbance in support of the local police integrated. in fact, the guys i was serving with worked for the metro pd. police were grateful for that support becomes a manpower issue. >> absolutely. pete: go ahead. >> absolutely, yeah. i was going to say that every agency is grateful to have that additional assistance you know locally. no local, state county jurisdiction is able to handle. when you look at the population of 700,000 of washington, you are looking at the potentially a million protesters, have you got to protect businesses, lives and property. you can't have the capital of the most powerful country in the world taken down in anarchy. griff: which is what was happening. the big difference is washington, d.c. is america's city. these are not just washington's moments. they are ours. they are the people's.

it's the responsibility of that city to protect them. do you think they will be up to the task today. appears protesters are turning more peaceful. what's your take? >> listen, i believe law enforcement will have planned with the national guard and military assets and i believe hopefully number one let's hope it stays peaceful. i do believe and i have confidence that the national guard working with local law enforcement in d.c. can get the job done and protect life and property. yes. pete: absolutely. sheriff chuck jenkins thank you very much for your service to our community and country and for your time this morning. we appreciate it? >> thank you. pete: thank you. still ahead, remember when former president obama said this about manufacturing jobs? >> he is going to bring all these jobs back. what magic wand do you have? pete: guess what? the jobs are back. a former member of obama's finance committee here to react. next. to eligible members so they can pay for things like groceries

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griff griff president trump making good on his promise to bring back manufacturing jobs. a commitment once written off as a joke by his predecessor. >> some of those jobs of the past are just not going to come back. when somebody says like the person you just mentioned who i am not going to advertise for, that he is going to bring all these jobs back. what magic wand do you have? >> previous administration that you need a magic wand for manufacturing. manufacturing rose to 225,000. griff: here to discuss it is founder and chairman and ceo of the peebles corporation and a former member of president obama's national finance committee don peebles. don, good morning to you. >> good morning. griff: what do you say now about

what we are seeing today? >> i think the magic wand, ultimately, was president trump's willingness to renegotiate the trade agreement. so president obama felt constricted by those agreements and donald trump did not. donald trump is a business person understands that that agreement sometimes gets renegotiated and he was prepared to stand up to china. stand up to the parties of the north measure free trade agreement and renegotiate those agreements to be more favorable to american manufacturers and american workers. griff: don, had you josh earnest, president obama's spokesman at the podium saying that they have created 800,000 jobs. turns out when you look at the actual facts. he lost 300,000 really when you try and-to-compare and contrast the two administration's approach to job creation, now with what we are seeing with 2.5 million jobs added in the

month of may aamongst the worst pandemic in modern history now with what's happening in the streets around the country, what does it say? what should we read from it? >> well, i mean, look, first of all, i think the obama administration was focusing on more intellectual property, high tech jobs as those being the jobs of the future. the challenge the, of course, not everybody is prepared to go into the high tech space. president trump was looking at manufacturing and made an aggressive effort to do that and it paid dividends for him. the job growth we are seeing right now is the economy just opening up. almost kind of like europe, normally closes at the last month of the summer. normally close in august. and then they resume and kick start their manufacturing in september. our pandemic closed down and we will see more growth. the key is what happens to cities like new york and other highly densities that rely upon restaurants and other brick and

mortar retail activities. what will happen there we will see more job growth as this economy reopens. people want to get to work. americans are desperately looking to get to work. griff: it's worth pointing out that these may jobs numbers came when most state economies were totally shut down in the month of may now you are seeing the "wall street journal" writes in a op-ed really the challenge, don, unleash the animal spirits of risk taking whether it is large corporations in manufacturing we are talking about or the restaurants in the small retail shops in new york city. what advice do you give them? >> well, first of all, let's remember now one of the most important things that happened is that the president and his administration got the stimulus bill through quickly. so, this was not an economically driven recession this was a closed economy based on a pandemic. now what we are looking at one, these governments like new york need to get started with their

regulations and make them crystal clear and be mindful that businesses are going to need to actually have customers in their facility in order to function. griff: don, you mentioned the stimulus. look today at nancy pelosi -- speaker pelosi, minority leader chuck schumer, they are saying we need this -- another 3 trillion-dollar stimulus but that will perhaps dampen the response and cause people to not go back to work. will it not? >> yeah, well, look, i any we got the stimulus that the country needed at the moment. and we're seeing the results of that. people -- there was demand for goods and services, which has created this demand for people going back to work. now as we get people going back to work. we cannot have a situation where people can be on unemployment and actually make more money than if they go to work. that's not a good thing. that's not the american spirit. i think that we need to see how the economy rebounds let it

continue to rebound and go from there a lot of this from the speaker is about bailing out some of these cities and states poorly run before the pandemic and their inefficiency and ineffectiveness in managing their budgets became more amplified as a result of pandemic. we should not be bailing out governments that run their governments poorly. griff: we just a few seconds left. what impact would that have on small businesses? >> i mean, i think that look, small businesses are entrepreneurial spirit. we need less regulation and a more business-friendly environment. less tax impact for small businesses and an environment where businesses can actually have a free enterprise system. i think if we have people going back to work all of that is good for business. i didn't have griff that's what we need. don peeblesz, thank you for taking time to join us on this saturday, sir. >> thank you for having me, have a good day. griff: you too. members of minneapolis' city

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♪ jedediah: we are back with a fox news alert. major changes are coming to the minneapolis police force amid calls to dismantle the department. matt finn is live in minneapolis after another day of protests in the city.

matt? >> jedediah there is another day of protests today throughout the twin cities area. and right now we are standing in front of the neighborhood where george floyd was killed. you could see it'sen being barricaded right now. supporters and activists are really trying to keep it safe and secure. and hear in minneapolis the city council sell yesterday held an emergency meeting where it passed new changes prohibiting police from using choke holds and neck restraints and strengthening requirements for officers to interscreen in situation like george floyd's. that proposal has to be okayed by a judge. and at least three minneapolis city council members have banded together insisting they will work to dismantle the minneapolis police department and create a more community oriented system. minneapolis council member jeremy ellison the son of the state's attorney general say police are bankrupting the city and gutting taxpayers of money with massive budgets. we are going to dismantle the minneapolis police department.

when we're done we are not simply going to glue it back together we are going to dramatically rethink how we approach public safety and emergency response. it's really past do you. minneapolis mayor jacob frey said he would not sign off on dismantling the police department. the mayor does not support abolishing the police department. is he committed to working with community toward deep structural reforms that are address systemic racism in our laws and in policing. >> we have to be on the precipice of change and that there are reforms that are just generations past do you due. so we need to seize this moment and channel our channel elective pain into action and that twins right now. >> here in minneapolis the city is trying to recover and assess all of the extensionive destruction left behind from violent riots. the mayor estimates at least $55 million in damage. and the atf has released new video of arson suspects and is asking anyone who has eyewitness

video to submit that video to the atf. and after a couple of good peaceful nights here, the commissioner of the state safety department now says that they will not be enforcing a curfew here. there was a week long curfew in effect. back to you guys. griff: all right. matt, thank you very much. let's bring in now the great senator from my hometown of tennessee marsha blackburn. and we are celebrating two birthdays this morning. one is that of pete hegseth. the other is yours. happy birthday, senator. >> that's exactly right. thank you, and, pete, happy birthday. pete: i didn't know we shared one. >> what a great day to have a birthday. pete: d-day birthday is the way to go. griff: yes, indeed. >> and honor those men and women from world war ii. griff: absolutely. we want to talk to you about what is happening in nashville. public hearing about the budget. people voicing disdain for a property tax increase and all of

the sudden it goes rogue until 4:30 in the morning because they decided they wanted to defund the police. what is going on? >> you are hearing this outcry to defund the police all across the country. and, griff, i will tell you, we need to be putting more money into police and first responders. they are first responders. they are local. they are on the ground. when you dial 911, and need help, this is who comes to your aid. so, what we need to do, we talked about this last week with y'all. we need to ask the right questions. what more do you need to be prepared for this type civil unrest? what do you need in the form of training and equipment? how many more officers do you need to properly respond? and, likewise, pete, as we talked, we need to ask questions. who is funding all of these rioters? who is giving them the training. they have all been trained. and where are they getting this

training and who is paying for this? who is footing the bill? but defunding the police is the wrong move. they need more resources and training. not less. pete: amen. well said, senator. one of those cities on the list of those that are considering defunding the police is nashville. i mention that because the rnc now is -- you see there is the map of the cities. so nashville is one of them. you can respond to that part of it senator as well. we also know that the president is determined to move the rnc from north carolina where they won't give any visibility as to whether the convention can actually be held. one of the cities under consideration is nashville. what do you think about moving the convention? should it be nashville and then, what if they are in the process of defunding the police. it all sort of comes together in a weird way. >> we know that nashville is under consideration. and we would strongly encourage the rnc to come to nashville.

tennesseeens love president donald trump. they so appreciate what he has done for law and order. what he has done for the economy i was back to work yesterday and they would say thank you for the ppp loans. thawnct for working with the governor, for helping get people back to work. so nashville would look to host it. i think there are, on the defunding issue be pete, there is a small number of people that want to defund the police. you can look at polling whether it's nashville or nationwide, people want to see a strong law and order presence. they also will tell you, look, we want to protect peaceful protests. but we're very much opposed to this rioting and looting and one of the things i did yesterday was to go back and look at some of the reporting from the 1960s with the weather underground and the weather man

and how they were using anarchy and rioting to go in and recruit people to be rioters to join this movement to advance communism, so i encourage parents and grandparents who may have young people who are saying i want to be involved in peaceful protests and i want to work to social justice to help them figure out whether that line is where it's peaceful and then where these people are that are turning it into rioting and destruction. jedediah: senator, just a quick important point, also, can you reform the police department and have reforms implemented which many people feel can and should be done without defunding to the police. can you have these two things exist simultaneously. accomplish the reforms and yet pay tribute to the many police officers who follow proper protocol to exist and help those communities and put their lives on the line every single dave with the hopes of bettering

those communities. those two things are capable of coexisting. >> yes. they can coexist. i talked yesterday with someone who grew up in this community in minneapolis and talked about the concerns that were there. and here's the thing jed over the officers that were killed and outrage in the communities taking place. and fear that exists for individuals that are living in these communities god protect them all. god bless these first responders who are on the ground there. and may we see peace and may we also see justice for george floyd. pete: god bless them indeed. senator marsha blackburn, thank you so much for your time this morning. happy birthday. >> thank you. pete: turning now to your headlines starting with a fox news alert. al qaeda's commander in northern

africa is dead. french forces kill him during a military operation. authorities say he led multiple attacks in the region over the last decade. several of his allies, his buddies were also killed in the operation. and overnight facebook ceo mark zuckerberg defend his decision ask not to remove president trump's posts on nationwide protest. writing an open letter he knew employees were quote angry, disappointed and hurt by the decision. he went on to say in part our platform can play a positive role in helping heal the division in our society. staffers slammed zuckerberg for not censoring the president's post on using military action against protesters. and a light-hearted moment after a day of tension in georgia. national guard members and protesters dancing the mock reina together macarena. the protesters left the area

peacefully before it took effect last night. and those are your headlines. look at that. griff: i'm trying to see if i can remember the macarena. do you know who knows it is rick. rick has got it for sure. rick: i can't believe anybody remembers -- i can't believe anybody remembers the macarena like 25 or 30 years ago i did. i can't believe they still have it. let's talk about tropical storm cristobal. making landfall sometime tomorrow afternoon likely on the louisiana shore. take a look at the storm there not super organized at all. not a major storm for us at all. probably officially gets hurricane center gets it to 60 mile-per-hour storm. what we are going to be seeing is a little of storm surge 2 to 3 feet. lake pontchartrain across

plaquemines parish there. send it back to you. griff: still ahead, joe biden essentially clinching enough delegates for the democratic nomination overnight. dolls very a realistic chance of winning in november? we will ask a democratic strategist next. as a struggling actor, i need all the breaks that i can get. at liberty butchumal- cut. liberty biberty- cut. we'll dub it. liberty mutual customizes your car insurance so you only pay for what you need. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪

jedediah: it is official joe biden securing enough delegates to clinch the democratic nomination. i'm going to spend every day between now and november 3rd fighting to earn the votes of americans all across this great country so that together we can win the battle for the soul of this nation and make sure that as we rebuild our economy everyone comes along. here to discuss democratic strategist robert p pateo. >> does he have a chance of beating president trump.

>> joe biden is holding a lead. many of the swing state polls you are seeing joe biden also securing the large lead over president trump. i think this is going to come down to how president trump handles the civil unrest and coronavirus epidemic and how the american people see that the fundamental question is going to be do we have competent leadership in this country and that's what's going to be what determines this election. jedediah: one of the key issues will be the economy. we see the starting of a bounce back in the economy right now as businesses start to reopen. and i'm just trying to figure out in the climate that we are in, what will joe biden's strength be? because his strength is not necessarily going to be the economy. his strength is certain liver not going to be his record on criminal justice reform. so what can he speak to miss own record to say pick me? i'm the better choice? >> going to be the discussion on strong and moral leadership. returning to the constitutional values that this country was founded on. i think when the american people see protesters exercising their first amendment rights being hit

with pepper spray balls and flash bang grenades for a photo op. that that's not the america we believe. in that's not the america we were taught in school. that's what we see in communist china in tiananmen square. that's not what we believe in as a country. what we are talking with joe biden can bring steady hand, that leadership, that ability to elempathize with people. grounding with protesters instead of saying he wants to bring back law and order. nixon years. things you would hear from lee at water and george wallace. we want moral and competent leadership in this country and that's what joe biden is going to hang his hat on. jedediah: i don't know a lot of people law and order and may disagree with you whether or not that was a photo op. by the president. i want to ask you about this comment by joe biden. because many are saying that he had his basket of deplorables moment. you remember that moment from hillary clinton in the last election. the former v.p. is claiming 10 to 15% of americans are just not very good people. take a listen. we will get your reaction.

>> iand the words the presidents matter. when a president stands up and divides people all the time, you are going to get the worse of it to come out. probably anywhere from 10 to 15% of the people out there who are just not very good people. vast majority of people are decent. we have to appeal to that and we have to unite people. bring them together. jedediah: quick reaction, robert? >> look, southern poverty law center identified over 1,000 active hate groups in the united states of america. the anti-deadefamation league articulated. look at for tran and many of these other white supremacist websites what you see those numbers are born out to be true. joe biden is saying 90% of us who are not part of this groups. 90% not part of these far left anarchist groups need to work together to root these people out. that's absolutely correct. jedediah: robert, unfortunately we are running out of time. i think 10% to 15% of the number

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♪ pete: la mesa california one city rocked by violence and looting as the nation grapples with unrest. response when one of the looters came back to return the items that he stole. the owner of that store play it again sports dan buxton joins us now. dan, thanks for being here. we had a play again sports in my hometown in minnesota. i love it. but, your store was destroyed.

before it was destroyed and burned down, there was looting that happened. devastating for you. yet, there was a small glimmer of hope in all of it. tell us about it. >> well, first of all, we didn't completely burn down. pete: good. >> i'm happy to see that but, yeah, when i first got to the store that night, there was smoke coming out of the windows and there was all the glass was broken and there was smoke coming out. and yeah, so at that point it wasn't looking good. but, to the subject of the looter who brought the stuff back, he basically came in the store a couple days later. and said he was feeling bad and he wanted to speak with the owner. so i told him i was the owner. and that i he wanted it speak we outside. when we got outside he opened up the trunk and gave me back a

couple of [inaudible] and told me felt bad for what he did and that this wasn't him. he knew better. and i basically told him, you know, you got caught up and you made a mistake and you were making bad choices. but, you know, you are making a good choice now. and that, we all need to make better choices. pete: and you forgave him? >?i don't know if you can hear , dan. ultimately in that process you told him you forgave him for what he did. >> yes. i'm sorry. yeah. i told him i forgive him. you know, i hope that more of the looters see that and bring stuff back. we have really good videos. a lot of people have seen them really close pictures of people's faces. things like that. and i would love to have people bring some of the items back instead of ending up in jail or things like that.

pete: play it again sports in mesa, california. hope your business is back soon and clearly run by good and decent individual. >> thank you, sir. pete: coming up next herman cain and dean cain, the kaine brothers coming up. ...

>> "black lives matter" >> [ chanting] pete: defund the police. we start with a fox news alert on this 9:00 hour, on a saturday morning today the nations capitol preparing for its largest protest yet over the death of george floyd. griff: overnight demonstrations remaining mostly peaceful across the country including new york city, louisville, los angeles, and new orleans. is jedediah: several major

cities are under curfew, this as calls grow louder to dismantle and defund police departments across the united states. welcome, everyone to our 9:00 a.m. hour thanks for joining us i'm here with pete hegseth and griff jenkins. pete: yes, good morning, griff, to my only favorite person in the swamp of washington d.c., september some time there this week, we'll probably talk about that but we mentioned it last hour it's worth mentioning every hour, june 6, 1944, men stormed beaches in france, and helped save the world, we will never forget d-day and what those mundell gave in that sand in that soil. griff: yeah, and may we have that spirit today with all of the things facing us from the pandemic we've been in now for some 100 days and of course, these protests and in many cases turned into riots and looting and lawlessness on the streets as a lot of people concerned right now, pete. pete: pandemic? did you see all of the protester

s, hundreds of thousands of people grouped together, i don't know tough for people to watch and take leaders seriously, who talk about all of the responsibility and then encourage the protests turning into riots but i digress washington d.c. bracing for what could be the largest demonstration yet as the mayor calls on president trump to pull troops from the district of columbia. doug had joins us live with the battle over the national guard. doug, good morning. reporter: good morning, everyone utah national guard troops are waking up in a new hotel this morning about 200 of them after being caught in the middle of really just political dispute d.c.'s mayor,muriel bowser made no secret of her desire to get all non-d.c. national guard troops out of the city and she is now playing some hard ball to make it happen. you saw senator mike lee said his state guardsmen were given about 10 hours notice they would need to clear out of a d.c. marriott because the city of d.c. was refusing to pay.

mayor bowser stands by her decision. >> we don't think that soldiers should be in the nations capitol , patrolling or policing streets. we've made that formal request to the white house. d.c. residents can't pay their bills so the home states will have to take care of their arrangements. reporter: president trump quickly responded on twitter saying the incompetent mayor of washington d.c., mayor bowser whose budget is totally out of control and is constantly coming back to us for handouts is now fighting with the national guard who saved her from great embarrassment over the last number of nights if she doesn't treat these men and women well then we'll bring in a different group of men and women the utah national guard put out a statement saying they are here to help and they are committed to serving their fellow americans. pete, griff, and jed back to you guys. griff: doug thanks very much it will be interesting to see what the situation turns into today with so many people coming you have black lives matter organiz

ing and also protesters coming from the law school here at the university of d.c. and so there is a very serious point to today's protests but as we know, you've seen up close and personal pete it only takes a few agitators to turn it into something very very different. pete: griff you've seen it too we were on the opposite sides of the line of the protester, the modest response of the national guard i was there for three days so many guys giving so much more doing so much for such a longer period of time but it is a thin line between civility and the kind of law and order that every american deserves in this country, and to listen to the mayor effectively say "get out." the only thing she should be saying is thank you for saving the businesses that weren't loot ed all the monuments that would have been defaced to think they started with the lincoln memorial. i was on a knee at the vietnam war memorial defending the vietnam war memorial on monday and i remember, i said a small prayer and remember

feeling like i had a tiny sense of what vietnam veterans must have felt like, defending their memorial has nothing to do with george floyd the idea of defacing a monument, and not to mention the laying of siege to the white house which happened, and the absolute horrific things those troops right there on that screen are likely the very ones that i served with, probably there at that time on wednesday, and the vial things said to them by rioters-then protesters, the honorable service they gave was incredible so that mayor is ingrateful, incapable of understanding how fundamentally important the guard is, because she hates president trump so much, that drowneds everything else out. it's a really unfortunate moment the national guard saved our capitol city at that moment and she should be thanking them not kicking them out. jedediah: and if you value the peaceful protesters and you value their right to speak up you also have to value the very people that were on the ground risking their own lives and

their own safety to protect the rights of those protests to be able to speak out and to not have them drowned out or sent running or sent home because of rioters and looters. so it's disgraceful to disrespect them and now have the very national guard members scrambling around to try to find another hotel, feeling unwanted feeling disrespected after putting their own safety on the line for so many days at a time when so many cities have been in distress, really poor example of leadership on the part of the mayor to vocal ize that and put that message out there. griff: amidst this political battle though i will say, jed and pete, that is i was inspired by a moment when a former d.c. national guard african american man was supporting the guard being yelled at by the protests he says he wants police reform but he also respected the guard we had, sheriff shown ins jenkins no relation but he was praising the president's decision to sending the guard in earlier. >> every agency is grateful to

have that assistance and no other local state or county jurisdiction is able to handle and when you look at the place of 700,000 in washington you're looking at potentially 1 million protesters you've got to protect business, lives and property. you can't have the capitol of the most powerful country of the world taken down in anarchy. rarely can a local law enforcement agency and any jurisdiction manage civil unrest at that size, so i think the president has made a great decision, the right decision and i think it's wrong for the mayor to pushback. pete: it was simply a numbers game, jed there were not enough metro pd to defend with the park service, the white house, and the citizens of the country of the city who deserve the same protection. jedediah: yeah, and you can acknowledge the need for police reform in my opinion there were some reforms that are necessary and can be looked at at the same time not calling for dismantling the entire police force because of the actions of a few people that yes, they're horrific and

yes in violation of police regulations and yes people need to be suspended and lose their jobs and in some cases we saw with george floyd charged heavily but that should not paint an entire force and that should not make them feel like they are the enemy, because that's just not helping anyone when most of those people stand in the community to help serve the community and to help protect that community. but we're going to turn now to matt finn because major changes are coming to the minneapolis police force amid calls to dismantle that police department after another day of protests in the city, matt what do you got? reporter: jedediah the minneapolis police department will now ban chokeholds and neck restraints and require officers to intervene in situations like george floyd. the minneapolis city council held an emergency meeting yesterday in which it passed these new proposals that now have to be okay'd by a judge and at least three minneapolis city council members banded together

insisting they will dismantle the minneapolis police department. minneapolis councilmember jeremiah ellison t weeted police are bankrupting the city and gutting taxpayers of money with massive budgets and settlements and he tweeted, "we are going to dismantle the minneapolis police department and when we're done, we're not simply going to glue it back together. we're going to dramatically rethink how we approach public safety and emergency response. it's really past due. however, minneapolis mayor jake on frey says he will not sign off on abolishing the police department and instead, is committed towards deep, structural reforms addressing systemic racism. >> we have to be on change and reforms that are just generations past due, so we need to seize this moment and channel our collective pain and action and that begins right now. reporter: this saturday morning, minneapolis is trying to recover

and assess the extensive destruction left behind from the violent riots. the mayor estimates at least $55 million in damage and the a tf released new videos of arson suspects and it's asking people to submit any eye witness video they might have, and there's been several peaceful nights here in the twin cities and the state safety department says it will no longer be enforcing a curfew here in minneapolis. back to you guys. pete: matt finn great reporting at week long. we appreciate it one of the city council members want to try an experiment of a new form of policing. jacob frey is an experiment of what happens when you turn a major metropolitan city over to a graduate student from the philosophy department. the guy has no idea what he's doing fundamentally unserious, that matt finn e-mailed me some of the fliers saying don't call the cops so the activists are saying before we defund them they are telling citizens don't

call the cops because it only empowers them. tell that to anybody whose home is being broken into or there's a domestic dispute, domestic violence, assault, it's unbelievable they are taking a moment like this where we could, and jed, we could have a constructive conversation about policing in this country, and instead, they go to the lunatic fringes and it's the logical extent of less is thinking by the way but the lunatic fringes of defund and abolish the police , which would only make the situation worse and we miss the entire opportunity, because it makes no sense. jedediah: yeah, and who are the people for those to call, really? who are they advocating that they call if not the police? it just seems like there is such police at large and you can look at these individual cases. there were situations that were popping up on social media where you could say yes, this is a case of excessive force. there was one in buffalo. there was one i saw with respect to the lapd. these will pop-up and those police officers need to

face consequences but to tarnish the whole force on all of these people out working fire tireless ly, that's a disgrace and when we talk about the de funding many people have spoken out in favor of the de funding and many said this is not the right move. one of those people whose saying it's not the right move is senator marsha blackburn. we had her on the show earlier and she talked about how law enforcement actually needs more funding not less. take a listen. >> we need to be putting more money into police and first responders. they are first responders. they are local. they are on the ground. when you dial 911 and need help, this is who comes to your aid. people want to see a strong law and order presence, but de funding the police is the wrong move. they need more resources and more training, not less. pete: oh, by the way these same

democrat mayors and governors have already taken away your second amendment rights so you can't defend yourself and you can't call the cops. griff: it may be time for the people of minneapolis to consult teddy roosevelt who said order without liberty and liberty without order are mutual ly destructive we'll see what happens. pete: griff jenkins where do you find these anything els. griff: you love the quotes? turning now though to our headlines, a second memorial for george floyd will be held today in north carolina. there will be a public viewing before a private family service in rayford, the town where he was born. the first memorial was held thursday in minneapolis where leaders, celebrities and loved ones celebrated floyd's life. a final memorial will be held monday in houston, before his funeral is on tuesday. >> in an upstate new york an entire police emergency response team has resigned after two officers were suspended for shoving an elderly protester the incident caught on disturb ing video in buffalo, new york all 57 officers from the

team are staying with the department. the police union says they followed orders from the city's deputy police commissioner to clear the area. the 75-year-old victim is in serious but stable condition. >> and dollywood announces reopening plans with a special message from dolly parton herself. >> things have changed for all of us. that's okay, because now, we're ready to see you happy and here with us again to share the beauty of our mountains, to just be together. safer and stronger than ever before. >> dollywood will reopen june 15 to season passholders and the public is welcome two days later on june 17. daily capacity will be limited and visitors will be required to wear masks. those are your headlines. pete: i say we take the show on the road guys fox & friends weekend live from dollywood. it's open. griff: it's a great place. jedediah: [laughter] sounds good. welcoming up, a defiant barber

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pete: welcome back. we've been following his story from the very beginning. now a defiant barber making the final cut in his legal battle with michigan. the state supreme court ruling that he can stay open after defying his governor's stay-at-home order amid covid-19 , that michigan barber carl mankey joins us now. carl? thank you so much for joining us and congratulations. you stood your ground when lesser man would have given in, and you said i have a right to be open. talk to us about this victory. >> well, you know, i think for the most part, its come to this conclusion that our governor was trying to make an example out of me but i don't think she realized that she was

what she was up against. i was not about to stand down under those conditions and you know, she's taking a pretty stubborn approach to ending this quarantine and i think it's probably, maybe advanced her politically and her party but not at the destruction of the michigan economy and that's what its cost us here, and i don't think any single person should have this much power to begin with. you know, especially over business and now from what i understand, she's using a contact tracing, she's hired a contact tracing company to trace everyone that's been in this barber shop. it's really kind of a approach, kind of a police state approach, you know? so i don't take much stock in what the experts say anyway. i remember one of my old mentors used to say, he says well, an expert, he says an ex is a has been and a spurt is a drip

under pressure so i realize some of these guys may have some credentials but for the most part they have been wrong, so i think a lot of these are just more than a symbol of compliance pete: karl manke. we'll bring your attorney whose also on the line, david calman. chime in here hat does this mean legally for everyone in the state of michigan? >> well pete let me start by saying it's an honor to represent america's barber here and we're very pleased with the supreme court decision, and justice viviano said clearly in the order it's important for courts to follow the rule of law, not histeria, and so it's great that michigan folks here, their constitutional rights have been upheld, and we've raised a lot of constitutional issues here. equal protection, you know, favored businesses verse you un favored businesses, the guarantee clause we're an entitled to a representative form of government but we've also raised first amendment issues here. karl is really engaging in symbolic speech.

conduct can be speech. think of the flag burning case it's kind of ironic here pete because we have a situation where karl isn't burning the flag he's trying to preserve the flag, but it's still speech and he's still protecting. pete: we don't have much time left but i want to give you the last word. what do you say to other business owners who haven't done what you've done. what should they be doing now? >> quit hiding behind their chairs. step out. you know, stand up. open up, and for heaven sakes i'll tell you it's like the field of dreams. people will show up. they are in full force, ready to break the doors down of business and get back to normal. pete: if you build it, they will come. and that has happened, karl manke you're a hero to me and to many thank you for your courage and clarity for standing up for the constitution god bless you, sir congratulations on your win. go cut some hair now, i know you will i love it. >> [laughter] you look like you need a hair cut pete. pete: i'd like to make a trip count me in count me in thank you, gentlemen. still ahead, many celebrities

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jedediah: hollywood's hipocracy on display yet again. celebrities like rizzo, john legend and jane fonda signing an open demand letter to defund the but daunte number of police stars hire former officers for private security? actor dean cain joins us with his take. welcome to the show as always. >> thank you, jed happy to be here. jedediah: so, you know, hollywood celebrities typically hire either former officers, or private security firms, so they're covered and they have

their security, and now they're calling for defunding the police for everyone else? >> yeah, well, hollywood by name is hipocracy. that's just standard protocol for hollywood. of course they want to be safe of course they're hiring former officers as their security because that's it they want to be safe. these rules apply to me, not to you. they can afford it and most of the people out there can't. you want to defund the police you're asking for anarchy, you're asking for vigilantism and you're asking for a lot and of course they can say that safe behind their security. what they should be doing and what they should be calling for in my opinion instead of de funding the police and taking money away from police departments they should be spending more money to train and properly train the officers and get them, you know, more on task for what these people think they should be doing. without the rule of law, we have total and complete anarchy and it's just madness.

jedediah: you know, dean, i did not realize that you were a police officer. that is something that i found out about you today, and i have to ask, given what's going on in the country, you have, you know, some police officers have behav ed with excessive force obviously that has been condemned, those police officers are either being suspended or in some cases charged and rightfully so, but you also have the ville it any indication of the large majority of police officers who are out there just to do good work, to help their community, putting their lives on the line, every single day for us, what has it been like for you, as someone whose passioned about law enforcement is a police officer, to live and breathe these stories right now? >> well, it's just heartbreaking for me, because people forget that the police officers are men and women, just like they are. they've chosen to serve and protect, and yes, the murder of george floyd was terrible. absolutely awful, inexcusable and those officers are being tried for murder, as they should be. that was terrible. it's not how we're taught to

police and certainly not how i police in idaho where i serve. our police chief, rodrick shy follows the nine principles of policing and it's very community-based, and it's just a heartbreak to see this happen because these are wonderful people. heroic people who are serving and protecting all of us, and like i said, the heros don't wear capes but badges and those kind of uniforms they are first responders and police officers. who are they going to call when something goes wrong? they call 911. whose going to respond? nobody. it's a terrible idea. jedediah: yeah, you know, dean you mentioned idaho and idaho is important right now because there's an example of unity with peaceful protests that are going on right there, now, that could be a model for many others. talk a little bit about that. >> well what they did in idaho was student athletes from idaho state university with the public health and police department and chief shy we work closely with

idaho state university and the student athletes organized a unity march and together with the police department and elected officials marched together to say that we've got to do better and we've got to do a better job and that's what we need right now. we need that kind of unity not the division being sewed by both sides. it was unbelievable to see all of those people marching together, having a moment of unity and again, it's exactly what we need. the opposite of the division we keep seeing every single day on television and it made my heart swell and made me very proud to be associated with that police force for sure. jedediah: yeah, it's definitely inspiring, as you see protests popping up around the country, this is definitely a model for many to get passionate about and feel good about. i've got to ask you on a separate topic because i couldn't let you go without asking about this , but msnbc has hired ex-fbi lawyer lisa page, that was a surprise, but

what do you think of that hire? >> well it's just so blatantly partisan. it's almost like it's a bad joke you know? the joke be that msnbc is so bias they'd hire lisa page as a legal analyst, but it's a reality. it's insane. it's another former administration official, someone who clearly without any doubt, hates president trump and has an agenda against him, just read her text messages because i've done it certainly in a play with christy swanson, we did lisa page and peter strzok, you know, why don't they hire peter strzok too. let's get the whole family in there? it's a joke. it's ridiculous and they're just blatantly obvious about it and i just don't, it's like the anti- trump network. it's madness. jedediah: yeah, it's insane actually, because she actually had it in writing. it doesn't get more blatant. it wasn't suggested. it was actually in writing for

everyone to see and exposed at large and people knew about it. it's crazy. really crazy well dean, yeah? >> i was going to say one of her quotes. donald trump is a loathesome human being. what else do you want to? that's, you know? jedediah: pretty direct. pretty direct. well dean thank you so much for being here and thank you for all your work you do as a police officer as well in addition to providing us quality entertainment i didn't know you were police officer but that's pretty cool so thanks for everything. jedediah: thank, jed happy birthday to pete by the way. jedediah: i'll pass it along. still ahead, president trump praising the may jobs report after it exceeds expectations. president trump: the greatest comeback in american history but it's not going to stop here. it's going to keep going. jedediah: so what does this mean for consumer confidence? herman cain is going to weigh in on that, next.

president trump: i think it was probably the greatest miss calculation in the history of business shows and business shows talking about wall street, and that's okay. but one of the reasons we're in this position is because we had such a strong foundation, so we were able to close our country, save millions of lives, open and now the trajectory is great.

jedediah: president trump touting the state of the economy after surprising gains in the may jobs report. griff: so what will this mean for consumer confidence as the country reopens? pete: let's ask the former ceo of godfather's business and former presidential candidate herman cain. good morning, thanks for being here. talk to us about these numbers people were expecting potentially 20% unemployment here we are down with jobs being added, your reaction. >> first let me underscore my brother from another mother, dean cain. i agree with everything he said, and secondly, let me wish you happy birthday, now. pete: well thank you. >> what this means for consumer confidence is it's going to go up, for this main reason, consumers trust businesses more than they trust politicians, and when businesses started to reopen, you see the results reflected in those numbers. the other thing is our lifestyle includes getting out, going to

events, going to restaurants and going shopping, and so i think that those numbers reflect consumer confidence is going to take off and it also reflects that people want to get back to their lifestyle. yes, they've taken precautions with respect to the pandemic, and they have done a great job, most of them have taken it seriously but i believe these numbers are going to continue to go up. jedediah: herman, i'm worried about the combination of the pandemic and then the looting on a lot of these small businesses and the fear is that a lot of these businesses won't be able to reopen because they've just suffered too many financial damages. what do you thinks going to happen to the majority of businesses particularly in places that were hard hit like new york city for example. what happens to these businesses >> my guess is probably a fourth of them will never reopen because they were already operating on the edge. i was encouraged by many of the

guests that you all have had on today and yesterday and the day before. businesses that were totally destroyed like the firemen who opened up, was trying to open up a sports bar in atlanta, they said they're going to rebuild. now, what's the implication? the implication is they will have a setback, but they'll somehow reopen because they share that entrepreneurial spirit and they want to open up their businesses. now to one other point you made jedediah, about the looters. i believe that you have the peaceful protesters, and you have the anarchists and then you have opportunists who do the looting because they're desperate, they have to so i believe that we have to make sure that we continue to separate peaceful protesters, which is nothing wrong with that , from the anarchists. anarchists destroy property, and they burn stuff down and they don't care about the community

and that's different from the peaceful protesters. griff: so herman how do you separate them then because we now have calls growing louder and louder from coast to coast from los angeles to new york in a lot of places in between calls to dismantle or defund police departments. how are you going to accomplish that if they do that? >> well let's start with the first question first and then i'll come back to this de funding stupid idea. pete calls it lunatic idea. i've got another word for it. first, in atlanta, they enforced the curfew. the peaceful protesters went home and that left all of the anarchists out on the street for the law enforcement to deal with, and they did. when new york won't enforce the curfew, they will bring the problem upon themselves, enforce the curfew. that's how you separate the peaceful protesters from those that are there just to destroy and cause trouble.

that's what they're trying to do now, relative to this , defund or cut the funding of the police force. pete earlier today called it a lunatic idea. well, for years i have been describing things that these are stupid, with one exclamation point or stupid with two exclamation points, that stupid with two exclamation points, who are they going to call they get in trouble and then for minneapolis to say we want to defund and remake and put in a new model, what's the model? they don't have one. they've already had an emergency meeting to say okay, we're going to condone knees on the neck. what needs to be done is they need to go back and review the training procedures already in place, the guidelines that are already in place, and let policemen be policemen and policewoman. not the city council try to micromanage how law enforcement works. i'm going to make a prediction which i don't normally do and

that is those cities that do not back up their law enforcement are going to be the ones that are going to be the hurt the most and the slowest to come back economically. pete: amen. i think you are correct herman cain you are smart with two exclamation points this morning. >> [laughter] pete: we appreciate you buddy thank you for coming on the show >> thank you. [laughter] pete: now we'll toss it over to rick richmuth whose smart with one exclamation point. jedediah: [laughter] rick: [laughter] fair enough guys, hey did you know it was a full moon last night take a look at some of these pictures coming in from around the world of the full moon. it's called the strawberry moon. the full moon in the month of june is called the strawberry moon and it is the algonquin indians name of what we know because strawberries are bloom ing or growing right now so june that's the view out of indonesia, beautiful shot there.

i think we're getting the colors that look like a strawberry but beautiful pictures that picture out of london. all right those are the beautiful pictures of the full moon and now we're watching a tropical storm, tropical storm cristobal, we're watching across the areas of the central gulf of mexico, take a look at it right there, you can see pulling off towards the north as it does, it's going to continue to get closer probably making some sort of a landfall tomorrow afternoon, that landfall won't make too much of a difference, but we are going to be seeing it probably somewhere right around the homa area, coming onshore you'll already see these clouds moving and eventually, it pulls up a little farther towards the north across areas of arkansas in towards missouri and we'll be seeing really significant rain monday into tuesday, all across parts of the mississippi river valley so we'll watch that. storm surge we'll be watching two to four feet of it around pl

aquamines parish, coastal areas of mississippi as well and the bigger story is going to be really significant rainfall, some spots 3-6 inches of rain from this maybe an isolated 10 inches or so, want to tell you though all of this a in yeah across the gulf, northern florida and throughout coastal parts of the panhandle and towards alabama, mississippi and la we have a lot of grout going on right there so this rainfall is going to come to quickly and bring good news for at least some of the agricultural areas probably bust the drought that's going on there as well and we won't have any huge problems from it, and guys we have a really active season we're expecting already on our third storm and we're only six days into hurricane season this year and i say this is a good storm for us to use, for everybody to be prep ping for this year, because we expect it to be active and especially with covid going on people need to be prepared. guys? pete: rick thank you very much, appreciate it. joe biden may have clenched enough delegates for the democrat nomination overnighted, but he hasn't won a key voting block. the police, one union president joins us with a message for the

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mr. biden has shown support for police in the past. i know with my counterparts down in delaware state police, when he was senator, he was very supportive. i was at the vice president's house in 2006 with a contingent of troopers from the national troopers coalition and we were warmly received, but anyone who comes out with a statement that just shoot them in the leg, when a unarmed knife-wielding person is coming at you, listen, i can't see anybody getting behind anybody with that mind set. you're seeing it more and more with politicians, and it's advantageous to stand by for police when the times were good and when they're not so good let's go against them and we continue across the country and unfortunately, mr. biden too griff: so we reach out to biden 's campaign for a statement , have not heard back. but what advice do you give the former vice president who now has the nomination to maybe

at this important inflection moment in the country on going forward, can he right this ship and what should he do? >> well again he has to retract that statement in his police reform package i wonder if he has funding to retrain the 800,000 sworn police officer s and the united states to react to armed suspects coming at him i don't know if he can right it. it's going to have to be a complete 180-degree turn and the jury is still out the remainsing months before november and we have somebody in the white house that has shown support for the police continually, so i would say that mr. biden has a long way to go, he had a good track record years ago but again, i echo bill johnson's comments he's gone so far left that he's practically falling off. griff: well law enforcements certainly back to the blue once and this certainly suggests maybe he's changing hi mind,

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jedediah: so pete thinks we're about to talk about a reporter but instead let's take a look at this. >> happy birthday, pete, i got you a cake but because of the virtual time i going to try and blow it out myself. i couldn't believe it when they said you were 40. i thought he's 27, 28 tops and then i looked closer and i saw that under the distraction of that fabulous hair piece the middle age are really

starting to play havoc on your face. >> hey, pete. >> a childhood hero. this man. >> i just asked if you were nervous to play. >> of course if i dropped a pass from brett favre? >> i enjoyed visiting with you at super bowl, but more importantly, i want to wish you a happy 40th birthday. hope you have a good one. don't work too hard. >> pete, chris malone here. happy 40th birthday. got to share with you, as a princeton grad, one of the toughest games i ever played in was against the princeton tigers, got that princeton offense, flare screens and all of the different intricacies of that princeton offense but you wouldn't know about this , no shot clock, that was torture. happy birthday, pete, be well. >> have a happy 40th, and god bless. >> you're the best, pete. have a great birthday and here

is to the next 40. pete: oh, my goodness! griff: [laughter] pete: folks know that know me know that i'm absolutely in love with mark. brett favre it was the greatest season of my life watching you play for the minnesota vikings and chris mullen guys, i've never met him but my all-time favorite player and i had a crew cut like him for 10 years as a kid. griff: we have a surprise for you here. jedediah: pete, look at your surprise. pete: oh, my goodness did you guys do this for me? griff: yeah, jefferson jefferson and i ubered it into you we thought you needed poultry and dairy don't miss the ice cream chocolate and vanilla cake from stone cold, we thought we would get your childhood happy birthday and stuff you and send you on about your way happy birthday. pete: you know and love me, guys

i'm embarrassed. rick: i've never been sadder to not be in the studio right now. pete: rick i'm not saving any for you at all. nothing zero. griff: pete, you know what wisdom, sorry, jed what wisdom has he learned in these four decades of life? pete: that i have no wisdom, okay? that is what i've learned. listen, i'm just grateful to god for him, for my lord and saviour , jesus christ, for my family, for my parents and my wife and my kids, and for this amazing country that has given me so many opportunities i pray for it every day. thank you, guys for this. it's amazing. jedediah: happy birthday pete. pete: you got me. jedediah: have an amazing day. pete: i'm enjoying my chick-fil-a sauce in a huge container now, i drink it. jedediah: moments away.

jedediah: i want to thank you all for joining us today and once again pete in honor of your birthday i drank 32 ounces of ce

lery juice so that you don't have to. pete: so i don't have to. love it. griff: happy birthday pete, a little advice, pepsid ac will come in handy for that chick-fil-a and ice cream. pete: have a great saturday everybody. >> you are looking live at lafayette park in our nations capitol where crowds are forming , thousands are expected to gather in what could be the largest protest yet in the wake of george floyd's death , protests remaining largely peaceful as they enter their second weekend, we will have much more on this throughout the next two hours. >> but first, businesses reopening and now signs the economy is indeed recovering welcome everyone. i'm charles payne in for neil cavuto and you are watching cavuto live. we begin with the recovery that few saw coming at least not this soon, we'll also speak to the white house economic