show. thank you both for watching and do come back again next sunday when the next revolution will be televised. televised. >> our commitment is to end our city's toxic relationship with the minneapolis police department. to end policing as we know it. and to recreate systems of public safety that actually keep us safe. rob: it is monday, june 8th and happening right now at 4:00 a.m. a fox news alert. an unprecedented move, the minneapolis city council vowing to not just defund but dismantle the city's police department. and while derek chauvin heads to court today, thousands are expected at the public visitation for george floyd in houston. we are live with the very latest. jillian: plus, r tropica tropim triecristobal makes land diss fl

in louisiana. we're live on the ground in new orleans as janice dean tracks the system's next move. rob: and a late night response from president trump to colin powell, why he's shrugging off the former secretary of state's endorsement of joe biden. "fox & friends first" on a monday morning starts right now. ♪ jillian: good morning. you are watching "fox & friends first" on this monday morning. i'm jillian mele. >> i'm todd piro. let's get to the fox news alert. the minneapolis city council promising to dismanned the city's police department. the city's mayor is rejecting that new push overnight. jillian: matt finn is live in minneapolis as the first officer charged in floyd's murder

prepares to face a judge today. >> reporter: since the death of george floyd in minneapolis, several council members banded together, saying they're going to dismantle the police department and yesterday the major announcement that they now have what they call a veto-proof majority and are going to move forward with ending the police department in this city. at a public forum yesterday, the minneapolis city council president and other members announced they will begin the process of ending the minneapolis police department and creating what they call a transformative new model for safety. minneapolis council members now say nine out of 13 total city council members agree with the decision, making it veto-proof. >> our commitment is to end our city's toxic relationship with the minneapolis police department, to end policing as we know it, and to recreate systems of public safety that actually keep us safe. >> reporter: in a statement, the

minneapolis city council members say they recognize they don't have the answers about what a police-free future looks like but they previously said they want to defund police and invest in juvenile crime prevention programs and rely more on city resources. minneapolis mayor jacob frey was booed at a massive rally over the weekend for standing his ground on not defunding police and issued a statement, saying i will work relentlessly with the chief and alongside community toward deep structural reform and addressing systemic racism in police culture. we're ready to dig in and enact more community led public safety strategies in our city but i do not support abolishing the police department. joe biden is expected to travel to houston to meet with the family of george floyd ahead of the memorial services this week. behind me, the officer charged with the murder of george floyd is set to make his first appearance in court this

afternoon. jillian, todd. jillian: thank you very much. protests in new york city remaining mostly peaceful as the city-wide curfew ends. marches taking place across the city all day long. bill de blasio promising to cut funding for the nypd and reinvest in youth services. >> i want people to understand we are committed to shifting resources to ensure that the focus is on our young people. jillian. and i also will affirm while doing that we will only did it in a way that -- do it in a way that we are certain continues to ensure the city will be safe. jillian: no word on how much money will be shifted. the budget is about $6 billion. >> overnight, a driver plowing his car into protesters in seattle, threatening people with a gun. watch this. >> [crowd noises]

>> a driver shooting a protester who tried to stop him from slamming into more people. the suspect was able to leave the car and disappeared into the crowd. officials say the subject ' suspect -- suspect was soon caught, and was shot in the arm and is in stable condition. jillian: the man accused of killing a retired police officer outside of a pawn shop is in just di. custody. he was charged with murder overnight. he was stealing tvs from the shop as david dorn arrived. the 77-year-old spent nearly 40 years with the st. louis police department. >> today, president trump set to hold a round table with law enforcement officials following a weekend of protests in our nation's capital. jillian: doug luzader is live in washington as democrats plan to reveal the sweeping police

reform bill. doug, what are the details. >> reporter: we'll hear a lot of discussion about police and policing on both ends of pens veipennsylvania avenue. in congress, democrats are going to introduce new legislation that would change the way police officers can be prosecuted, they can be charged, and how they go about doing their business. they're calling this the justice and policing act. we'll go through some of the bullet points here. in broad strokes, it would make it easier to prosecute police officers by changing the standard of misconduct from willfulness to recklessness. there would be a national police misconduct registry, no-knock warrants would be banned in drug cases, there would be an independent investigation process to look into allegations of misconduct and choke holds would be banned. >> it's time for police culture in many departments to change and we believe that the

legislation will make a major step forward in that direction. >> reporter: and as we emerge from a weekend of large protests here in washington and around the country, the movement to defund and in some cases dismantle police departments is gaining momentum. president trump and other republicans really latched onto this. the president wrote on twitter, not only will sleepy joe biden defund the police, but he will defund our military. he has no choice. the dems are controlled by the radical left. >> defunding the police is the single dumbest idea i've ever heard. who is going to process crime scenes, arrest bad people? who is going to enforce any law, child sex abuse, homicide? who is going to of do it if it's not the police? >> reporter: as democrats unveil this legislation on capitol hill, they will also observe several minutes of silence for victims they say of police misconduct and on wednesday the brother of george floyd whose

death touched off all of these protests around the country is set to testify before the house judiciary committee. todd and jillian. jillian: doug luzader live for us. thank you. senator tom cotton blasting the new york times after its editorial page director quit. james bennett faced public and internal backlash after it was revealed he didn't read cotton's op ed before publishing. when reporting the resignation, the times claims the piece, quote, called for military force against protesters. cotton firing back on twitter, saying this is false and offensive. i called for using military force as a backup only if police are overwhelmed to stop riots, not be used against protesters. if the new york times has any decency left they should retract the smear. the senator will join "fox & friends" this morning in the 8:00 hour. >> today, new york city enters phase one of reopening as the

state reaches the lowest number of covid cases since march. retail will be limited to curbside, or drop off. construction, manufacturing, agriculture, fishing and hunting can resume. 95% of full subway services will resume as well. seven other states also lifting restrictions today, including delaware where hair salons, barber shops and tattoo parlors can reopen at 30% capacity. michigan is going to allow both inside and outside seating with some capacity limits. jillian: overnight, cristobal pushing its way across louisiana, packing strong winds and rain. >> the tropical storm flooding parts of the gulf coast and marking several reported tornadoes across alabama and florida. alex hogan joins us live from new orleans, with flooding threatening that area.

alex, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. it is a humid and windy morning in new orleans. the storm stretched about 180 miles, right now it's move offing at 10 miles per hour, carrying winds up to 40 miles per hour. there still are storm surge warnings in effect until later this morning. we know yesterday cristobal made landfall around 5:00 p.m., bringing winds up to 45 miles an hour, up to 12 inches of rain with some areas seeing storm surges up to 5 feet. cristobal flooding roads and causing power outages. experts warned of possible tornado warnings. one touched down in orlando, florida. the u.s. air force reserve hurricane hunters flew into the storm as chris toe l ball cristn tropical rains. this morning the national hurricane center says cristobal continues to weaken. still, yesterday the heavy rain and wind inspired some people to

come outside and take a look. people who live here say they have weathered their fair share of storms. >> we saw that the winds were not predict toded to be anymoren 50 to 60. that's not really a hurricane. >> it's just another month in new orleans. we just -- june starts, all the way to october, this is what we do. >> this is part of the culture. >> reporter: and as the storm continues to weaken, there still are some storm surge warnings in effect and flooding of course, so keep an eye on that. but this will continue to move north through arkansas and through missouri tomorrow. jillian, todd. jillian: alex, thank you for the update. >> all right. we continue with a fox news alert. president trump set to meet with law enforcement at the white house today as attacks on police grow nationwide. one deputy ambushed and killed in california, hundreds of nypd

officers injured in protests there. jillian: former nypd darren porcher says today's meeting is the morale boost that's needed. he joins us next. [♪]

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jillian: straight to a fox news alert, in hours president trump will meet with law enforcement as attacks on police grow amid ongoing unrest. todd: so as violence by police is met with violence against police, what solutions can help bring peace? joining us now, former lieutenant darrin porcher. thank you for being here, thank you for being a calming voice during a time of unrest. what does the president's meeting with law enforcement today signify to the rank and file? >> well, it really gives police a shot in the arm because when you look at it on both sides, you've had protesters and elected officials that have been diametrically ow opposed to pole in the wake of george floyd's death. the cops are running on fumes,

so-to-speak. no matter what officers do, whether they stand back they're accountable as being ineffective or when they're being proactive they're being held to accountability in terms of being one that's producing over-policing as a result. so they're somewhat caught in the middle. fortunately, our leaders have not -- unfortunately, our leaders have not stood behind police, so our topple ected official -- top elected official,in, that being the president is giving them the backing. that is helpful in terms of how the officers are dealing with this from a psychological perspective. jillian: some leaders are not necessarily backing police, a lot of leaders are calling to defund the police right now. i know money is not going to appear out of the hat. you can't give money o everywhee you want. why does it have to be either/or. why in order to give more money to black communities, education, different programs, why do you have to take it from police?

what does it have to be either slash or. >> i believe we'll have to experience a financial haircut on a national level, not just this incident but in the wake of the covid-19 pandemic. budgets will be drastically reduced. police is one of theen a entitis moving forward on the table. we understand there will be revisions in terms of budgets. we need to focus on this is our key line of defense in coming out of the depression. when we have a depression, oftentimes people will resort to different means to acquire an income and a lot of that may be illegal. i'm not using the fear mongering tactics so-to-speak but from a position of calm, we need the police to restore a sense of order and restoring a sense of order we need logistics and we need personnel. and therefore, as a result, it's necessary to continue the funding for police departments on a national level because we want to revert back to where we

were prior to january of this year. todd: darrin, there's an anti-cop narrative that is pervading society over the course of the last two weeks. here's the attorney general speaking about it yesterday. >> the message is sometimes communicated by the media. all i heard was comments about how peaceful the protesters were. i didn't hear about the fact that there were 150 law enforcement officers injured and many taken to the hospital of with concussions. jillian: so darrin -- todd: so darrin, what is it going to take to flip the anti-police narrative that we're seeing throughout the country right now? >> it's going to take a series of us looking back at the successes of police as opposed to the negatives attributed to what happened in the george floyd issue. police are generally doing what's necessary and as you mentioned in your piece, the gross majority of these protests are lawfully abiding protests. there's a few that commit to

lawless violence such as looting and things to that effect. jillian: i want to just push back a little bit. i have spent a lot of time in the last week trying to be as educated an informed as i can. i talked to a lot of people in various black communities, some who were friends, some who were coworkers, all from different backgrounds, different states, different communities. it didn't start with george floyd, right. i mean, a lot of people are upset with what's been going on they feel as though in their lives. i don't know how you meant something that a lot of people say has been broken -- mend something that has been broken in their opinion for so long. >> the george floyd incident -- this is something that happened prior to george floyd. george floyd is the straw that broke the camel's back. the narrative that i see introduced is a mor moratorium n racial inequities in the united states. i think that's primarily being focused on when we have these demonstrations and unfortunately

the police have been the nail that everyone strikes with the sledgehammer. this is something that's going to take a component of three stakeholders, that's going to be police executives, elected officials and community leaders. and that back channel negotiation is going to establish a tabletop of benchmarks that will be introduced that police will be a part of that. reforms will also be a part of that. so it's a matter of having -- triangulating those entities with a unified message that will be accepted by america. jillian: we certainly hope we can find that unified message, that's for sure. dr. porcher, thank you very much for joining us. we appreciate it. >> thanks for having me. todd: it's 20 minutes after the hour. secretary of state mike pompeo slamming china for obscene propaganda after a top chinese spokesperson tweets i can't breathe in response to the state department. jillian: is this a ploy.

gore dan chang calls its a malicious disinformation campaign. he joins us live.

jillian: good morning. welcome back. secretary of state mike pompeo slams china accusing beijing of trying to exploit george floyd's death for political gain. the comments come as china tries to return to the world's good graces following their handling of coronavirus. and our next guest warns it's part of their broader malicious disinformation campaign. joining us now, asia analyst gordon chang. good to see you as always. thanks for being here. >> thank you, jillian. jillian: explain it, the malicious disinformation campaign. what do you mean by that? >> we've seen it since the beginning of february, the beginning of the coronavirus,

when the foreign ministry of china said the coronavirus started in the u.s. and was brought to china by the u.s. army. that was march 12th, a foreign ministry spokesman. then we saw in connection with the george floyd protest all sorts of malicious propaganda, much of it false. so their propaganda has been on everything. it doesn't matter what the subject is, jillian. china's going to go after us hard and it's relentless and cynical and malicious. jillian: let's take a look at what mike pompeo had to say on saturday, this reads, quote, the chinese communist party's propaganda efforts seeking to consistent latconflate the actie denial of basic human rights and freedom should be seen as the fraud they are. the chinese foreign ministry responded with a tweet saying i can't breathe. what do you make of them having anything to say, this is in response to what morgan ortagus

tweeted. >> morgan ortagus talked about china's efforts in hong kong to end autonomy and the efforts have gone on a month before ortagus' tweet. what china tried to do was change the topic by saying no, this is about george floyd. in connection with that, they went after speaker pelosi, distorting what she said. it was a complete fabrication. the thing we've got to worry about, jillian, is that china's fabrications have become more obvious, they have become in a way more per veig pervasive. this is just continuing day after day after day. the chinese, they telegraph their punches and may 13th of last year they declared a quote, unquote, people's war on us. those guys were serious. jillian: should they even be getting involved in something like this, though? >> well, of course they shouldn't be. this is our internal affairs. but what we have seen evidence

of here and there, glimpses of china fueling the protests in the united states. and there's a lot that we need to take a look at in terms of what china has been doing. perhaps in contact with some of the groups that have been involved in the protests. jillian: gordon chang, thank you very much for joining us. appreciate it. have a good day, okay. >> thank you, jillian. jillian: todd. todd: such great insight from gordon as always. a fox news alert, the nypd releasing a shocking video of a stabbing ambush on an officer. how can law enforcement stop potential terrorists from exploiting the situation. we have a guest that explains how the media plays a big role, that's coming up next. these folks don't have time to go to the post office

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jillian: protests remain peaceful in new york city, marching in the streets without a curfew overnight. todd: lauren greene joins us live from the city as the mayor faces new calls to resign over

his promise to cut funds from the nypd budget. lauren, good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you. well, you know, the streets of new york are calm, probably the calmest they've been in almost two weeks. as the city enters phase one of reopening after the coronavirus shutdown, the protests too enter a new phase, aimed at defunding the police department. marchers in scrubs joined the protest on sunday and for the most part they were peaceful as they wound their way through the new york city streets, through the big apple's most iconic areas like manhattan's union square but they tornado a new focus -- turned to a new focus, the call to defund police departments. some organiz organizers say it't about stripping the mone departt of all money but a way to stop brutality. they say they will divert part of the budget to new efforts. >> we will be moving funding from the nypd to youth

initiatives and social ser is s. i want people to understand that we are committed to of shifting resources to ensure that the focus is on our young people. >> reporter: meanwhile, mayor de blasio lifted the curfew a day early, congratulating the city on its good behavior. there are calls for him to resign over his handling of the heated clashes between police and protester as the demonstrations against the death of george floyd reached a violent climax a week ago. nearly 300 police officers were injured during the last two weeks of protests. some good news, one officer run over by a car in the bronx was released from the hospital yesterday. and more protests are scheduled for today as the funeral for george floyd, the man whose death ignited a global movement, is scheduled for tomorrow in houston. back to you. jillian: thank you, lauren. todd: a driver who ran through a crowd of protesters is now in custody. the shocking moments caught on

video. [crowd noises] todd: people screaming for the driver to stop after rolling onto a new york city sidewalk and speeding away. one person was injured. that driver now charged with reckless endangerment. jillian: the former minneapolis police officer caught on camera kneeling on george floyd's neck returning to court today. derek chauvin is charged with second and third degree murder and second degree manslaughter. chauvin is one of four officers arrested from the memorial day weekend death. the fallout over floyd's death hit a new level in minneapolis with the city council promising to disband the city's police department. >> our commitment is to end our of city's toxic relationship with the minneapolis police department. to end policing as we know it. and to recreate systems of public safety that actually keep

us safe. jillian: mayor jacob frey pushed back on the plan, saying he does not support abolishing the police department. he was booed out of a protest saturday after he refused to make a similar pledge. todd: charges against a brooklyn man in an attack on officers that left two shot and one stabbed, all this as a joint terrorism task force probes the suspect's background for terror links. jillian: with tensions already high among protest crowds in the city, how does law enforcement prevent terrorists from exploiting their message for chaos? here to weigh in is former fbi director, chris wrecker. thank you for being here. can you hear us, chris? >> good morning. how are you. jillian: good. we got you. okay. >> yes, i can hear you. jillian: police they have her hands full right now with the roprotests and rioting that

happened last week, and we have seen that calm down over the last few days. how do they add keeping us safe, themselves included, from terrorists on top of that? >> yeah. we've seen this before, in 2016 when the demonizing of police led to a terrible situation in dallas where five police officers were killed and nine shot in the middle of a black lives matter protest. when you demonize the police, you invite attacks on the police. so now we're going to defund the police. they're already under stress. they already have challenges, the most challenging police law enforcement situation is that a protest where you have so many different elements there, many trying to stop overreaction, now we're going to target the police as well. so people have no idea how difficult their task is and they've got to get it right 100% of the time or it leads to more

demonizing of the police. they're in a tough spot. todd: let's pop up on the screen the charges against that suspect from that wednesday incident, attempted murder of a police officer, robbery, assault of a police officer and criminal possession of a weapon as well as reckless endangerment. this could have been a lot worse, chris and we know that. this could have been a horrible tragedy on the streets of new york city. what is law enforcement doing behind the scenes to combat what bad actors could do and run with from a terrorism perspective? i.e., turning this into a terror situation as opposed to just a mere domestic embrolio going on on the streets right now? >> yeah, -- it's placating this dynamic, the paradigm on the streets of the united states,

they appeal to the people that are angry and consider themselves disen franchised and they're bitter and give them someone to blame, the police, society in general, this country and then there's a call to action. and that mainly is recruiting, that's their staple these days, these one-off type of attacks that we've seen over the years. police officers not only have to police and patrol, prevent violence, mainly just awareness. and they have to protect themselves with equipment, protect themselves with tactics, protect themselves with watching each other's backs. so this is a difficult environment for police, almost impossible. jillian: yeah. not the best connection but you have important information, chris, thank you very much for joining us. we appreciate it. >> thank you. jillian: thank you.

todd: tropical storm cristobal moving across louisiana. president trump set to make an emergency declaration in that state. [sounds of wind and rain] todd: rain and winds reaching from louisiana to florida. jillian: the storm sparked a tornado off the alabama coast. meteorologist janice dean joins us live with the latest track of the storm. good morning, janice. >> we just got the new track. sometimes they give us the new track a little earlier than anticipated and we now have a depression. so the storm is weakening. that is the good news. however, we're still going to be dealing with the same effects, heavy rainfall ahead and along the center of the storm. we could see severe storms as well and the flooding potential as the storm continues to move northward along the mississippi river valley, the ohio valley,

in towards the midwest and as it transitions into an extra tropical storm it's actually going to strengthen a little bit, especially as it gets across the midwest and interacts with a cold front. so heavy rain along the path of the storm, several inches in some areas, so flash flooding will be a concern all along the mississippi river valley, parts of the ohio and tennessee valley as well. so tropical depression cristobal has just been -- they've just designated a depression within the last few minutes. this is the 5:00 a.m. advisory and as you can see, we still have flash flood watches and warnings in effect and that's going to be ongoing. we're going to be tracking the storm well into tuesday and wednesday along those areas, mississippi, ohio, tennessee river valley and the midwest. we've got very hot temperatures towards the midwest, 95 today in minneapolis, 91 in chicago and of course all eyes are going to be on the storm. it wasn't a big storm or a very

strong storm but it was a good one to kind of give us a lesson of what we need to do because hurricane season has just begun and we are expecting a very, very busy season. back to you, todd and jillian. >> jillian: thank you, janice. >> you got it. todd: so early. jillian: early? no, we're in hurricane season. todd: i know, it's early for hurricane season. jillian: senator lindsey graham says he's hitting a roadblock in the investigation of the russia probe investigation. he said he can't speak to fbi workers who interviewed a source in the steele dossier. >> i made a request to interview the case agent and intel analyst and they're denying me the ability to do that. i'm going to keep working the system. the question is did the case agent and intel agent refuse to tell the system about exculpatory information? does the fault lie with two or three people? or was it a system out of control? jillian: the unverified dossier was used in the fbi's fisa

application to spy on carter page. todd: a little good news on of your monday morning. the class of 2020 will now you be able to graduate in person in new york. governor andrew cuomo announcing open air ceremonies can be held starting on the 26th. better late than never. up to 150 people will be allowed at a time. the governor saying schools can begin planning now but cautions things could change, depending on the spread of the virus. jillian: it's like something out of a movie but this is real life. over a decade ago, an art dealer and air force veteran hid a treasure chest filled with gold and jewels worth more than $1 million somewhere r in the rocky mountains. well guess what? it's been found. todd: that is wild. the person who found it wants to remain anonymous. forest fin says he sent the world on the hunt to get more people outside. 350,000 people searched for

forest fin's treasure. the not good part of this, sadly, at least four people died trying. jillian: wow. todd: a lot of layers to that story. jillian: wow, that's crazy. it is 42 minutes after the hour right now. a moderate republican siding with the democrats in 2020. >> i'm very close to of joe biden in a social matter and on a political matter. i worked with him for 35, 40 years and he is now the candidate and i will be voting for him. todd: so does the endorsement really matter? our political panel debates, next. audible is my road-trip companion. it's kind of my quiet, alone time. audible is a routine for me. it's like a fun night school for adults. i could easily be seduced into locking myself into a place where i do nothing but listen to books. i never was interested in historical fiction before, but i'm obsessed with it now.

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jillian: hillary clinton ripping president trump's handling of the pandemic and protests in a new interview, telling the los angeles times, quote, he has been such a failure across the board and everything has to be all about him. clinton also blasting people planning to vote for trump saying, quote, it's a mystery

why anybody with a beating heart and working mind still supports him. former president barack obama tells graduating students they have the power to make change as past generations have done, despite the coronavirus outbreak and nationwide protests. >> these changes happened -- none of these changes happened overnight or w but they did happen. usually because young people marched and organized and voted. jillian: obama giving another virtual commencement address sunday encouraging young people to vote. he says they have the power to create a new normal. todd. todd: jillian, thanks. former secretary of state, general colin powell is endorsing joe biden following reports of other establishment republicans who aren't supporting president trump's re-election. >> we have to follow the constitution and the president's drifted away from it. ellies. ellie -- he lies about things. i cannot in any way support president trump this year.

i'm very close to joe biden in a social matter and on a political matter. he is now the candidate and i will be voting for him. todd: do these endorsements really matter come november? here to debate trump 2020 senior advisor, paris denard and democrat strategist, laura fink. thank you for being here. i want to read president trump's tweet responding to the endorsement, he tweets, quote, colin powell was a pathetic interview today on fake news cnn. in his time he was weak and gave away everything to everybody, so bad for the usa, also got the weapons of mass destruction totally wrong and you know what that mistake cost us. sad. only negative questions asked. laura, he is not the only republican, so how much will these prominent republicans supporting joe biden hurt trump come november? >> i think the collective hurt trumps desperately. we saw the generals that president trump so admired, four

former chairmen of the joint chiefs of staff including general james mad mattis condemd the president using the military against the american people. i think the round condemnation of the president dividing the american people at a moment when we most need unity is really landmark including that wall of neutrality has been broken. you know when those generals decide to break their silence, something serious is going on. that's not just reflected there but in the only living republican former president, george w bush, has expressed that negativity towards trump and said he will not be supporting him. the wall of republican unity is crumbling. you also see that in his approval rating at an all-time low at 41%. not how you get elected with those numbers. todd: paris, a lot to unpack there. what are your thoughts?

>> look, at the end of the day, the only endorsements that truly matter are the endorsements of the american people. when you look at the endorsement of president trump with the republican party he has over 96%. when you look at special elections, president trump his endorsement of candidates resulted in a 64-0 record with special elections. i tell you, this is a special election coming up. general powell's endorsement does not matter. we respect him as an individual. let's be honest about his track record. he has a track record of not supporting republicans. so i just ask general powell to look at the record of joe biden and ask him were you standing by him socially and politically when he was locking up black americans for his support of the 1994 crime bill? do you support him in the racist things that he has said as the 44 year politician talking about black people and talking about indian americans? do you support him when he tried to segregate, called for the segregation of iraq.

on a policy matter, general powell cannot say that president trump has not been there for the community which colin powell represents, the black community, in the sense of the economic achievements, historically black colleges and universities, criminal justice reform. there are a whole host of things that the president has done to impact the black community and i'd ask general powell how has joe biden stepped up. we know that i guess general powell is more concerned about being black since joe biden said you ain't black if you're not supporting him. you have to look at this policy and facts. you can't vote just because you socially like someone. if you do like someone politically, look at joe biden's record. todd: . all right, laura, weigh in. >> let's talk about the tens of thousands of people marching in the streets for racial justice and trump's complete lack of response on that front and so i don't know, those policies really sound inaccurate to me. i'll just finish, sir. i think trump's lack of response

is reflected in the surge in democratic registrations right now and contributions to democratic causes. so when you have multiple neutral parties condemning you, that's a problem. todd: we've got to leave it here, guys. we've got to interrupt. this debate can go on for days and months and it will as we continue. paris and laura, thanks so much for being here. and we'll be right back. i got this mountain bike for only $11. dealdash.com, the fair and honest bidding site. an ipad worth $505, was sold for less than $24; a playstation 4 for less than $16; and a schultz 4k television for less than $2. i won these bluetooth headphones for $20. i got these three suitcases for less than $40. and shipping is always free. go to dealdash.com right now and see how much you can save. you doing okay?

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and injustice. black lives matter protesters flocked to the store yesterday to support it. the shop later insisted the policy change doesn't mean they don't respect those in the military. jillian: president trump slamming nfl commissioner roger goodell overnight for apologizing over the league's handling of national anthem protests. >> we the national football league admit we were wrong for not listening to nfl players earlier and encourage all to speak out and peacefully protest. jillian: the president tweeting, saying could it be remotely possible that in roger goodell's rather interesting statement of peace and reconciliation he was intimating it would be okay for the players to kneel or not stand for the national anthem thereby disrespecting our country and our flag, end quote. todd: coming up in the next hour of "fox & friends first," a gun toting congressional candidate taking aim at a social media giant. >> i have a message for antifa

terrorists. stay the hell out of northwest georgia. todd: all right. facebook pulled that campaign ad for a republican candidate carrying a firearm. marjorie taylor green says big tech's censorship must end. she joins us live. jillian: the conversation of defunding the police gaining steam in major cities across the funding. a sergeant says targeting funding will hurt minority communities the most. he joins us live with that message.

>> our commitment is to end our city's toxic relationship with the minneapolis police department, to end policing as we know it, and to recreate systems of public safety that actually keep us safe. jillian: it is monday, june 8th. happening right now at 5:00 a.m., a fox news alert, the minneapolis city council vows to not just defund but dismantle the city's police department. todd: while derek chauvin heads the to court on his upgraded murder charge today, thousands expected at the public visitation for george floyd in houston. we are live with the latest there. also, tropical storm cristobal makes landfall in louisiana, roads are washed out as the storm dumps more than a foot of rain across many parts of the southeast. jillian: we're live on the ground in new orleans as janice dean tracks the system's next move. after months on lockdown, new york city finally enters phase