getting through hard times with god and with your faith. we had a live siding on instagram last night, made a bunch of appearances and so did my new dog. you can watch that on my instagram and click the link and find a signed copy through monday afternoon. see you monday. >> sandra: have a great weekend. fox news alert now, and an exclusive, president trump sitting down with their own harris faulkner addressing the recent protests around the country. issuing a stern warning to the activists now occupying several blocks of the major american city. good friday morning, everyone. i'm sandra smith. >> ed: good to see you, sandr sandra. president trump addressing the ongoing discussion over racial inequality in his first sitdown interview since the protests in writing began. at the president also calling out the situation in seattle amid brand-new reports of armed guard and the capitol hill

autonomous zone. as for the seattle mayor who claims it's just a block party, the president called her handling of the situation pathetic. >> simple, we are not going to let seattle be occupied by anarchists. >> have you talked to the mayor? >> no, but i got to see a performance that i've never seen. you think he was a weak person in minneapolis. the woman -- i don't know. has she ever done this before? it's pathetic. we are not going to let this happen in seattle. we have to go in, we are going to go in. let the governor do it. he's got great national guard troops. he couldn't do it. one way or the other, it's going to get done. >> sandra: we have fox team coverage for you, john roberts standing by at the white house but we begin with dan springer in seattle voorhis this morning. >> seattle mayor jenny durkin has been silent on this issue

for about three days but yesterday, i finally had a news conference and amazingly spent most of her time attacking president trump and playing to her base than talking about what she plans to do about a protest that has taken over several blocks of her city. she's been mocked by trump and others for the decision to abandon the police departments east precinct and allow protesters to take over a seven block area being called the capitol hill autonomous zone. police were nowhere to be seen with a couple of exceptions yesterday. saw there was no damage inside, but then later, two officers were shouted down and run off. one of the barricaded entrances. so protesters are still very much in control and now we are seeing that is not sitting well with the chief pressing the morale in her department is at rock bottom. saying the decision to cut and run was not hers. >> you should know leaving the precinct was not my decision.

and we fought for days to protect it. i ask you to stand on that line day in and day out. to be pelted with projectiles, to be screamed at, threatened, and in some cases hurt. to have a change of course nearly two weeks in seems like an insult to you in our community. ultimately, the city had other plans for the building, and we relented to severe public pressure. >> the police chief says they will return to the precinct eventually but did not say when. did admit that response times in this part of the city have tripled. in most businesses are still closed, some boarded up and while many say they support the occupation, there are many who see a complete breakdown in government. >> i have lived on capitol hill for 30 years. the amount of trash, the lack of backs for the small businesses here breaks my heart.

>> this is a mixed neighborhood, about 500 residents who live in an apartment complex which is in this autonomous zone, and then about 15 or 20 businesses, and i as i said, most are boarded up. only seen a couple that have opened up with this activity going on around them. sandra? >> sandra: dan springer on this streets of seattle for us. >> ed: and his exclusive interview with her own harris faulkner, president trump talked about the recent protests around america and explained what he thinks is behind the demonstrations. >> you had protesting also because they just didn't know. i've watched. i watched very closely. why are you here? they really weren't able to say. a lot of them really were there because they're following the crowd, a lot of them were there because what we witnessed was a terrible thing. what we saw was a terrible thing. and we've seen over the years. i think it's a shame.

i think it's a disgrace, and it's got to stop. at the same time, you also know that we have incredible people in law enforcement and we have to cherish them and take care of them. >> ed: are chief white house correspondent john roberts live on the north lawn with more details. good morning. >> the president talking about a need for only police reform but improving economic opportunity in communities across america. we don't know the details just yet. those becoming in the form of an executive order sometime next week to add an event at the gateway church in dallas, the president outlining four big areas that he wants to address peerless from those down for you. economic development in minority communities, confronting health care disparities, renewing calls for school choice and encouraging police departments to meet standards for the use of force. on that last point, president trump believes a stronger police presence is the way to keep the peace and keep communities safe, though he says he doesn't want to work with police agencies across the country to temper the use of

force. listen here. >> that means for us with compassion, but if you're going to have to really do a job, if somebody is really bad, you're going to have to do with real strength, real power. and people said i don't know if we like that expression. and i said we have to dominate the streets. >> president trump also weighing in on the chairman of joint chiefs of staff saying it was a mistake for him to accompany the president in that walk across lafayette square to st. john's church, that his presence there gave the impression of politicizing the military appeared here's what the president said about it in his conclusive interview with harris faulkner. >> i think it was a beautiful picture. most christians think it was a beautiful picture. that's how they feel, that's fine. i have good relationships with the military. i rebuilt our military. >> nothing in the president's public schedule today. he is in bedminster for his birthday weekend.

the president likes to say that he's got meetings during the day. i expect at least one of those meetings will be between the face of a golf club and the little white ball. >> ed: a pretty good swing, will have to get out there together, early happy birthday to the president. >> sandra: save it for the weekend. for more on all this, let's bring in guy benson. good morning to you and thank you for being here. we are taking in what is happening on the streets of seattle, looking at your piece in townhall.com, here are the demands of seattle's autonomous zone and archivists. up on the screen here, here are some of the demands of those protesters. is not only are they not allowing the police into that six block zone, but they are calling for the complete writ of the completes department, taking over the precinct there, retrial for all people of color in prison for a violent crime, desegregation, free college, socialized health care, and they are doing and a way that is jeopardizing the safety of people in the streets there.

you just heard from the president, so what do you think about how far the president says he is willing to go to calm the unrest in that city? >> first of all, you look at those demands and think is that all? just free college and free health care and the complete abolition of the police department and the courts in seattle, the end altogether? this is looney tunes. is just be honest. i understand the president's instinct. i think a lot of people in america look at what's happening in seattle and say hang on, that is lawlessness. that is an anarchist group taking over the six block area of a major american city and that cannot stand. and i wonder is the right approach to threaten to bring in federal authorities or to pressure and the governor to use the national guard, or is the right approach to let this thing sort of play out? because it is not play out well. and make the case as i think

right of center people can going over the last month to minneapolis, new york city, now seattle, there are major leaders in the democratic party, leaders and governors who seem unwilling or unable to do the basic job of governance when it comes to protecting the rule of law and the people who live in those cities. i think perhaps there are some object lessons that could be learned from what is happening there. i think the counterpoint of that is what about the woman for example be heard in the sound bite from dan springer who lives in the neighborhood for small business owners who feel threatened or intimidated? we heard the police chief saying violent crimes that are happening in that neck of the woods, there are no longer police response times, tripled because of this. so i think it's actually quite disgraceful that many in the press are painting this as a festival, sort of a street fair and isn't that that wonderful except they were barricades and

people with guns that effective checkpoints, rumors disputed about extortion of businesses, allegations of assault from roving warlords and their posse. this could get extremely ugly if it is allowed to play out, and we will see if the local and state government will actually regain control and autonomy over this oppose suppose it autonomous zone. >> sandra: you have to ask yourself what the likelihood of that is happening when you heard the mayor and the interview calling this autonomous zone patriotic. and senator john kennedy from the state of louisiana went on hannity last night responding to the mayor and the governor jay inslee. >> to the governor and the mayor of seattle, who i think are holding their cops back, i would say gently if you hate cops just because they are cops, then the next time you get in trouble, call a crackhead.

it's a tale that we need cops to keep us safe. seattle is proof of that. >> sandra: you have to look at these pictures of that six block zone, they won't let anybody in a police are not allowed in, and you look twice at it. this is a major american city that you heard the police chief just say that the police will return. what struck me was last night on twitter and in your piece this morning, you said "imagine being a small business owner desperate to get past the covert lockdown devastation only to have police abandon ship, the front of your store is boarded up and you fear what is happening next in your city. final thoughts. >> that's got to be heartbreaking where you finally start to come through this lockdown because of a pandemic, and you've been anxiously awaiting the moment where you can reopen your doors and start

to breathe light back into your business, and now you have basically antifa and friends playing make-believe in the streets of your city with giant barricades and armed people and graffiti everywhere, and you are unable to reopen. some businesses have been able to reopen but no one agreed to this. the local residents and businesses did not agree to allow these people to just take over, and i would suggest if the mayor thinks this is just a wonderful patriotic fame, if they were people in national press, there was a ridiculous "new york times" story about this, almost a travel brochure for nt five. they think this is such a wonderful place, i would encourage them to move to the autonomous zone. of course, they want the mayor to resign, but moved there, hang out they are not for two hours, but for two weeks, see how much you like it. >> sandra: it's really something, so the big question going forward is going to be what happens at the local and

state level and if it doesn't happen they are, what the president is going to do and how willing he is to step in. great to see you this morning, thank you. we are going to have a lot more on all of this when harris faulkner joins us here on "america's newsroom" next hour to discuss her exclusive interview with the president and his proposals for countering racial injustice. plus, you can catch the entire harris interview at 1:00 p.m. eastern time on "outnumbered" over time. so stay tuned for that. >> ed: looking forward to that. meanwhile, popular kids cartoon show is the latest target for the cancel culture now may be coming to "paw patrol." howie kurtz ways and next. plus, the dow sinking more than 1800 points yesterday. investors appeared to be rattled by a spike in coronavirus cases in some case but they are climbing this morning. where are we on the recovery? liz claman from fox business on deck. >> there is a limit to how much

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know too much, chase is the lead character, a german shepherd police dog that cast the police and a good light so people call it propaganda. and there were people online talking about the program, euthanize the police dog, defund the pop role. >> i see you've done your research into the characters. i say this with looney tunes but then bugs bunny might get canceled and then elmer fudd with the shotgun clearly excessive violence. of course we all need to be more sensitive during the period of national agonizing over racism and police brutality. paramount decides that cops, the television show with has outlived its time after 32 seasons, so be it. but for critics to be taking aim at a squad of cartoon canines, it is clearly spinning out of control. >> ed: there is one thing to be sensitive but another thing is you say spinning out of control. here's the headline on your piece, if everyone from journalist entertainers to

cartoon characters can be jettisoned simply because one group or another is offended, and a sense of fairness will indeed be gone with the wind. a nice turn of phrase there. where is this all headed? >> i use that because hbo has decided they can't possibly show this movie without packaging it with a racial discussion. in 1939 movie about the civil war era plantation. it's absurd. it's a product of its time. and where it's going is, i'm afraid, that old books, old plays, old songs could end up being trashed because somebody today is offended. should radio stations be barred from playing "that's why the lady is a." the serious discussion we are trying to have in the wake of the tragic killing of george floyd. >> ed: our colleague was on fox news at night earlier this week talking about this. i want to play this clip and get your reaction. >> it may be what somebody you don't like is saying, and you

were okay with the cancel culture, but tomorrow, it might be something that you say or something that you believe that is being canceled out. so be careful about the cancel culture because a good turn around real quickly. >> ed: something the president talked a lot about in the 2016 campaign. >> that's exactly right. in some healthy aspects to this, weaponize debate over confederate symbols, nascar banning confederate flags has he reported, wanting to rename bases for confederate generals who were traders. who are fighting to preserve slavery. the cancel culture is also producing a confession culture. the vogue editor apologizing to her staff are not hiring enough black employees and running stories and images that are hurtful or intolerant, may be some having their grapple with a painful past. but on this point, people who cheer because they want something canceled because their sensibilities are offended, this

is insidious. i can go both ways, and it can go out of control. a sensitivity, sure, but it does seem to be re-reaching the point of absurdity. >> ed: it seems like so much time is spent on symbolic fights rather than actually affecting real change. your final thought. >> i would much rather not be debating whether a statute should come down, whether this disney theme park ride should be renamed or group should be renamed. let's get into the serious business of reforming the police, not defunding the police, but how you translate the anger on the streets we are seeing into actual reform. it's not as a hard thing to do. this other stuff is easy. and it's getting a little bit ludicrous. >> ed: look forward to seeing you on sunday morning. >> sandra: thank you. at some of our biggest states seeing new spikes in coronavirus cases as more and more businesses to reopen all across the country. so where do we stand on a

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their conversations with community leaders, through the work that commissioner harrington and attorney general ellison data in partnering with this group and community leaders, by listening to the voices of thousands of minnesotans, coordinated and powerful set of reforms are ready to go. >> ed: tim walz unveiling the sweeping new police reform plan following the death of george floyd. today, the minneapolis city council is meeting to discuss their next steps. our correspondent matt finn is on the ground in minneapolis. good morning. >> good morning. we are in downtown minneapolis and i want to briefly show you that this standoff between police and protesters is still very much alive here. you can look at the fourth police precinct with a massive emergency retaining wall and barbed wire on top to protect the precinct from being overtaken. he might recall the third police precinct here was surrendered to rioters who torched it. also here in minneapolis, city council set to begin a meeting at any minute.

councilmember set to take another set of steps towards dismantling the police department, and also starting to cut off as much money previously available to police as possible and ordinances being introduced that will allow all special events and block party organizers the option to now hire private security instead of off-duty police officers and this morning, city council set to introduce and begin its larger conversation about police overhaul and reform. at the capitol in st. paul, the governor called the state legislature back for a special session today. governor walz has endorsed a sweeping package of police reforms that would drastically change policing. and also several minneapolis police officer is released an open letter saying they wholeheartedly condemn derek chauvin in writing in part "derek chauvin failed as a human and strip george floyd of his dignity and life." legislators in session today, a big theme of police reform and we will keep you updated

throughout the day. >> ed: matt finn, thank you. sandra? >> sandra: thank you very much. fox news alert now to wall street for the opening bell is ringing seconds from now bouncing back after a sharp sell-off in yesterday's training session. so here we go. it's a live look at the big board, the dow yesterday severing its biggest lost in three months, plunging more than 1800 points after new fears of a second wave of the coronavirus. we bring in liz claman, anchor of the claimant count down on fox business. you were there for the closing bell yesterday. it was unbelievable to watch a market selling off that quickly and in such a big way and here we are. it will make you seasick, i don't know. it's a roller coaster ride. here you are with a 700-point again as we begin this friday morning. what do you make of it? >> number one, we are scratching back just under 50% of what we lost yesterday for that that which was 1,800 plus points, but

i would simply try and turn this picture up completely on its side and that is that the amount of ground that we gained for the dow, the nasdaq, and the s&p over the past 12 weeks is definitely something that far outweighs what we lost yesterday. i think yesterday was simply the market at altitudes sickness. what do you do when you climb? you know there was a plummet coming and you know they were a few more loops coming as well. the last thing you want to do is take off your seat belts thinking we are confident, there are no plummets. so i would just focus on the fact that we have definitely come a long way in the market got spooked yesterday on sort of an alchemy, a mixture of both the federal reserve saying the day before what they have said for weeks, and that is we will be there to keep interest rates low so that lending is cheap and we stimulate the economy but it

was paired with a whole bunch of states saying we have suddenly started to see an uptick in coronavirus cases once again whether that is florida or arizona or texas or nevada, which of course is due in part because we have seen increased testing, but either way, i would say this market is inextricably linked with the headlines. no one should get too comfortable. we'll have a few more days like this. >> ed>> sandra: it really struce when larry kudlow was on fox news channel a short time ago and reacting to yesterday's big sell-off of course and fears over a second wave of the coronavirus. here this morning trying to calm fears. listen. >> they are saying there is no second spike. let me repeat that. there is no second spike, and secretary mnuchin said yesterday in testimony, and i totally agree, we are not going to shut down the economy. what you do have certain spots

are seeing a little bit of a jump up, seven small metropolitan areas are seeing it. the cdc and the health people are all over it. >> sandra: so he said it twice trying to calm those fears. "there is no second spike, he said after talking to the white house health officials. >> as he larry kudlow md? i love larry, but larry has not certainly learned from his previous mistake which was everything is fine and now we are suddenly looking at 100 plus thousand deaths here in the u.s. larry's job is to calm people, but i would really tread carefully here when you are talking specifically about areas that should be left to the epidemiologists and certainly to the pulmonologist's and the emergency room people. but we are starting to see in houston saying we need to lock down certain parts of the economy again because we are seeing such a spike.

treasury secretary minasian has been opposed to locking down again and one might look at this and say you know what? we can't remain locked at this point. this economy is getting shattered. we just had american airlines about an hour and a half ago saying its revenue for the second quarter will have dropped 90%. we need to reopen, we can't remain hidden, we just need to do it extraordinarily carefully and then you start to see days like this for the dow is up 678 points. >> sandra: and you have so many people obviously who point of the fact that while the stock market has been going up and yesterday hitting the highest -- i should say two days ago hitting the highest levels since the pandemic began, there were still a lot of americans in a lot of pain from the shut down. so here is kevin hassett talking about steve minasian's willingness for perhaps another round of stimulus checks for the american people. listen. >> i have seen him speak

positively about another round of checks and payroll checks, whether you can get that is in -- there are a lot of ways, possible way to help americans. >> sandra: so while there is still a lot of pain out there in consideration for more checks to go out, what are you hearing? >> yes and yes. he would have thought one week ago today right here, you and i watched as we saw the may jobs report really surprise. we saw a gain of more than a couple million jobs, and that certainly was a complete surprise because we thought we would see millions of jobs lost in the month of may, but at that point, people said no more stimulus, the first-round work. well, we still had 20 million people unemployed, and that is going to take quite some time to work its way through the system.

will those people all be hired back? it is a huge question mark and how quickly will that happen? businesses are quick to add on employees and higher and ramp up when times are good and then very slow to add back in when times are bad. so therefore, as we watch other companies continue to lay off, we've got to make sure that we help people because this was not their fault. this was a government imposed lockdown. depending on the state. nothing any of these restaurant owners or airlines or retailers did to do this. but the fact is that we've got to to watch and see and give them a little bit more sure footing as we move forward. >> sandra: so many people still need help out there and god forbid there is a second wave of the coronavirus, what that would do economically. that went further in the interview to sound very optimistic saying the glasses more than half full. so we will see where this rally

goes today. we will watch you in the final hour of trading on the fox business network today. thank you so much, have a great weekend. and be sure to stick around. we will be discussing the markets and the recovery with white house economic advisor you just heard from there, kevin hassett. he will joining us live, a guest in the 11:00 a.m. eastern hour today so stay tuned for that. my neck in the meantime, an attorney for some of jeffrey epstein's accusers is now criticizing prince andrew for refusing to help the investigation. what is the next step for prosecutors who won an interview with this key member of the british royal family? plus, the mayor of seattle says protesters in the so-called autonomous zone are patriotic and sending in federal resources to deal with them would be unconstitutional. the head of the washington state g.o.p. wants to join us a little later. we will talk about the president trump meanwhile is threatening to step in. >> if there were more toughness,

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here. >> ed: attorney general william barr said the justice department is trying to talk to prince andrew. is that going to be successful? how nervous should prince andrew b? >> seems like he is not that nervous. he is not traveling to the united states anytime soon, but bill bar made it clear they wouldn't extradite him. the attorney for the victim is correct. he is hiding across the pond. he doesn't want to face questions. we do know he was very close to jeffrey epstein and stayed at his mansion on multiple occasions and we also know he has been accused of partaking in jeffrey epstein's trafficking of girls. he should answer these questions because the public deserves to know what happened and what kind of roll pins andrew played. my neck when he did an interview, seems like he almost made it worse. he was sweating, couldn't answer the questions and seems like you made it worse.

>> denials have been laughable. he said that he couldn't have -- the accuser had accused him of sweating profusely and his denial was that he didn't sweat at the time because he had a medical condition. but there was a picture of him with the accuser. the jeffrey epstein's story at its heart is about how a con man infiltrated the highest powers of politics, academia, media, finance. prince andrew is a part of that story, finding out from prince andrew what happened would give us deep insight into how this gang of elites really wreaked havoc and created a crime wave and lasted for many decades. >> ed: key part of this mystery, his colleague, a legal brief from her attorney. unclear who the witnesses are targets of any investigation. and as low as potential witnesses are alleged victims, the subject matter of these documents is extremely personal,

controversial. is she hiding as well? is she going to cooperate with investigators? >> she is literally hiding. nobody has seen her in almost a year. she is hiding and like prince andrew, she has been accused of partaking in these crimes of being an accessory for these crimes. what is shocking is that the justice department doesn't seem so keen to go after her. these are part of civil lawsuits and there are big suits going after her, but where the criminal investigation? we need some transparency from the justice department. after jeffrey epstein died, there were calls from the department of justice and there were inclinations to go after him but since then, it has been totally silent. people like prince andrew need to answer questions. we need to get in some of those, convenient death doing a pretty good job but these people need to face justice and need to tell the truth about what happened.

>> ed: final thought in the last minute we have come a convenient death, obviously a huge mystery, suspicion about how jeffrey epstein committed suicide. what did your investigation find? >> we do know the physical evidence is more conclusive with a strangulation then a suicide. we do know there was very mysterious circumstances in the jail cell about cameras not working, talk to a lot of guards who helped paint the picture, talk to his lawyers who said that he was very optimistic in the final days of his life that he had a legal strategy that he thought would work. but one of the things that i find interesting is the closer you get, the more people believe that he was murdered. so the people who know jeffrey epstein well believe he was murdered and the further away you get, the more people are willing to believe the official story of suicide. you don't see that with a ton of conspiracy theories. you don't see astronauts say that the moon landing wasn't real and things like that. this is a rare circumstance

where the closer you get, the more people are willing to believe the conspiracy theories, and i think that's really fascinating. >> ed: we point out the attorney general william bar looking at that evidence, they are still convinced that he did commit suicide. we will check out the book and appreciate you coming on. >> thank you very much. >> sandra: the first experimental coronavirus vaccine is here in the u.s. now on track to begin the third phase of clinical trials. we will have the details on that just ahead. >> i think i can say there's never been any group or any person that has had rallies -- used to give me the biggest stadium. we have never had a vacant seat. >> sandra: the president will be resuming campaign rallies next week, but democrats who cheer for a large crowd at black lives matter protests are criticizing that move saying it could spread to covid-19. so is that a double standard? all right, let's do it.

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to maxima during a saying it is on track to end of the third and final stage of its coronavirus vaccine clinical trials next month. let's bring in dr. marc siegel, of medicine at nyu health and fox news contributor. thank you for being here. sounds very hopeful. what can you tell us about the development of a vaccine when we may be able to get one? >> this is very rapid but not in a way that's jeopardizing the science. they will give 30,000 volunteers in the united states, already overseeing the vaccine. 30,000 hopefully in hot spots you can really see a decrease in the amount of people that get

infected which is a key. we are testing effectiveness now. testing how well it produces antibodies and how well those antibodies protect you. the vaccine is based on a brand-new technology of genetic technology which causes your cells to make the kind of proteins that the virus has, and then you will get an immune response to that. so far, it looks like it's a robust immune response. at the same time, china has a vaccine that is being tested in brazil, 9,000 volunteers in brazil being tested simultaneously with what's going on. that is using an older technology, not as cutting edge, not as brand-new but could be as effective as well. >> sandra: some more details on that in an adp right up, said thursday that the vaccine is developing with the national institutes of health will be tested and 30,000 people in the u.s.

some will get the real shot and some dummy shot. as scientists carefully compare which group winds up with the most infections. so we look forward to what comes through all of that. meanwhile, meanwhile, what is grabbing headlines as these new spikes happen in florida and arizona. he was the arizona governor that they are confident that while they are seeing a spike in cases, they will be able to take this on. watch. >> from the standpoint of covid-19 and arizona, we are concerned every day that we have the proper capacity and resources. that is what we have been working on for three plus months in the state. that's what we are partnering with the hospitals on, and it is my belief that come what may, we have capacity. >> sandra: so what can you tell us now with more than 2 million cases how much of this is more access to testing and more testing being done versus

new spikes and new hot spots developing in the country? >> that's an excellent point and a good place to take a deeper dive here. seeing way more testing going on. that explains florida, that explains north carolina, but texas we are seeing more hospitalizations and more percentage of test coming back positive. that's the key. not just more testing, what percent is positive? and arizona has some problems because first of all, there's a lot of diabetics in the indian reservation population. they are starting to get sick. also seeing not enough attention paid to nursing homes in arizona and infection control in nursing homes and as you know that's a very high risk population. in arizona, seeing way more testing the percentage of tests coming back positive. so far, arizona has the search capacity and hospitals to handle all this but i'll tell you what i'm really concerned about. reopening for sure.

bars, gyms, restaurants are now opening and is there a social distancing there we need >> sandra: if we do get those cases, if we do get them identified, are we contact tracing them properly? there is not enough contact tracing and arizona so you can separate out people who have it. we need to cocoon the people who are at higher risk in nursing homes and reservations. we have to be kept separate. is called cocooning. to make such a careful balance all across the country right now. dr. siegel, thank you. >> ed: fox news alert, as seattle officials clashed with the president and protesters create that zone, what is happening on the ground? the mayor claims as the summer of love. is that true? chris wallace coming up. look, this isn't my first rodeo...

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trust aag for the best reverse mortgage solutions. so you can... retire better. >> ed: president trump in a war of words with seattle's mayor after they take over a section of the city, saying it now belongs to them. the president threatened this morning to take action if the mayor will not. welcome to a brand-new hour of "america's newsroom." i'm ed henry. >> sandra: good friday morning to you. the protesters camping out in a six block section of the city calling it the capitol hill autonomous zone. the president saying the mayor needs to take action now. >> if there were more toughness, you wouldn't have the kind of devastation that you had in minneapolis and in seattle. i will tell you if they don't straighten that situation out, we are going to straighten it

out. >> ed: "fox news sunday" anger joins us. you of course are the author of the new book countdown 1945, the extraordinary story of the atomic bomb and the 116 days that change the world. an extraordinary time then and we are living in extraordinary times now. in seattle, the police it seems we are told to abandon your east precinct. "the wall street journal" says it is up occupy wall street seizing several blocks of the city but the mayor says it's just going to be like the summer of love. your thoughts? >> my guess is how i think this is going to be one way or another in a week that either they are just going to get tired of it, and i don't know the degree to which the folks in seattle are going to blockade them so that they run out of provisions or i think you are going to see an increase push to

force them out. i would be surprised -- i heard what you said about the president. and when you see what mark milley said, the chairman of the joint chiefs and the secretary of defense, i can't imagine that the military -- he can do whatever he wants. i can't imagine that the military wants to get involved in a domestic dispute and use of force but whether it is the national guard or the police, i would think that at a certain point as we have seen in these cases, you try to wait them out and then when you can, you use force to push them out and those don't end well as we've seen in waco and other cases around the country. >> ed: into your point, when he was talking about police reform and racial inequality and how to try and fix it was touting the use of the national guard in minneapolis and he can certainly do that because order was restored but to your point, there's been a lot of controversy about the use

of force, lafayette square and other places, but the bottom line, what do you do if you can't control the city? at some point, somebody needs to act. >> the one big difference from minneapolis is the governor there was the one who called the national guard in which is what normally happens, there is a question as to whether governor inslee in washington state is willing to call the national guard, but for the president go over his head whether it's the national guard and then to order a movement, a forcible eviction, it isn't a whole city, it is six square blocks but obviously can't be allowed to continue for very long, you would hope that folks would come to their senses and get out or just get tired and get out. a short of that, often times it ends up with the use of force and that is an end well.

>> ed: here is what governor inslee said his and we will not allow violence coming through the white house, the u.s. military serves to protect americans, not the fragility of an insecure president. so he is taking a shot there, but i seem to remember two or three nights ago when they started, the governor himself was saying i don't really know that much about this as if he was in the dark. >> he does now, and it will become a national issue and you can be served that all of us in the media are going to go there, the autonomous zone of capitol hill in washington state. this can't stand for much longer. how would think within a week, something is going to happen to end this. you can't have people just taking over even if it is six square blocks, you can have people taking over major american cities and declaring them government free zone is an

independent. i've got to say, i've seen everything, and then i see something i haven't seen them. >> ed: that's why i.t. did that by saying you've got this book out talking about 1945 in extraordinary times in american history and in last minute or so we have is you get ready for "fox news sunday" and you can tee up we are going to have, what you think about this moment now that the president is trying to navigate a? >> one of the things that really struck me as at the manhattan project for two plus years, 125,000 people across the country in tennessee and hannaford washington, 125,000 people, and it never leaked, nobody said anything. today, if we had 125,000 people working on baking apple pie, somebody would tweet tomorrow or

instagram tomorrow that this was outrageous and immoral and they were going to blow the whistle on it. so the point in making is there was unity back then. there was a sense of common purpose, since we are all in this together, and we don't have that today, and it is too bad and i think that we suffer from that, the lack of common purpose and unity in the country today. one of the biggest differences in writing 1945 between then and now. >> ed: so particularly important points you just made and as you head into this weekend for "fox news sunday," the president talking about police reform, the democrat start of the week off with their bill, hear a lot of talk not just from the house republican leader kevin mccarthy but tim scott is really running point for senate republicans as well. >> we will have the congresswoman, chairwoman of the congressional black caucus, the leader from the house democrats in terms of their policing and reforms they want to do.

asking the white house for a top official, they haven't come back to us he had on that. another story we've got another guest we've got is one of the top epidemiologist in the country from the university of minnesota because i hate to say it, but there was a spike in the coronavirus particularly across the south and some of the states that were the last to shut down in early is to open. arizona, texas, florida, 40% increases, some of it may be because of more testing but some of it seems to be the spread of the disease, so we will be talking about that on sunday. >> ed: good luck with the book, thank you. >> sandra: growing concerns about cases arising in some areas of the united states. the associated press now saying infections have risen in 21 states just over the last week alone. this is locked down restrictions in the summer travel season

begins by arizona governor doug ducey says hospitals in his state are prepared to handle this urge new patients. >> we are seeing an increase in cases. he pointed out very clearly, we do have hospital capacity beyond that, and that is what is most important in the cdc gating criteria. >> sandra: jonathan serrie is lined with details. good morning. >> these states are responding in different ways. here in georgia, governor brian kemp has listed stay-at-home orders for people 65 years and older. there are some exceptions that still apply to those with underlying health conditions were living in nursing homes. next tuesday, georgia will lift restrictions in numbers and doubled the number of patrons allowed in bars. has placed a seven day hold on all further county applications for reopening and says she is concerned about a noticeable

increase in infections in both urban and rural parts of the state over the past week. has the rate of new infections continues to decline an early outbreak states in the northeast, many states in the south and west are reporting surges and cases. >> and other parts of the united states, they've been less worried about it. i think the more of a return to our previous normal we are seeing increases there. >> president trump will formally accept his nomination in jacksonville, florida, estate of the original venue in charlotte, north carolina. >> we have operated in a very responsible way in jacksonville, so people back to work now, businesses are open, we are ready to host this. we are ready to have president trump accept the nomination in jacksonville, florida. >> this relocation happens because north carolina's governor could not guarantee the

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>> ed: the trump campaign is requiring them to sign the agreement saying not to sue. the very persons early march, no word on whether attendees will be encouraged a social distance or wear masks. >> i am curious from you, what do you think the protesters, not the looters and the rioters, we are intelligence to know the difference in our country, what do you think they want? >> protesters for different reasons and then protesting also because they just didn't know. i watch very closely.

they really weren't able to say, but they were there, a lot of them really were there because they are following the crowd, a lot of them were there because what we witnessed was a terrible thing. >> sandra: president trump sitting down for an exclusive interview with our own harris faulkner that happen yesterday discussing the nationwide protests over the death of george floyd and the growing calls to defend the police. here to talk about it now is harris faulkner, anchor about numbered over time. so great to have you here and it was a great interview, you really were able to go in depth with a lot of this conversation, a lot of the discussion happening across the country. what was your big take away from sitting down with the president? >> thanks for having me. we sat down very late in the day. 6:00 p.m. eastern time and what we were kind of going to talk about, the list of questions that i had in my mind

immediately changed. a joint chief of staff saying that he apologized for taking the photograph with the president as they walked across lafayette square, that iconic photograph that we've seen that got so much controversy with reports that they had cleared protesters, a lot of differences about how they did that but the fact was cleared protesters to walk across. and then you also had the secretary of defense saying basically the same thing, regrettable about getting into the politics of that moment. so that was happening. finding out that oklahoma first big rally to kick off in of campaigning is going to be on june 10th -- juneteenth a week from today and you and i know what the meaning of that day is in the black community. and it also has a double meeting in tulsa, oklahoma, where he has chosen to do it because of the history there and what they used

to call back wall street, one of the largest race riots we've ever seen in this country, heart piercing at the time. so they were just a lot of things popping off in the news and we worked all of that in. is a wide-ranging interview no doubt. >> sandra: we really look forward to that. we'll be able to see the full interview on your program at 1:00 p.m. eastern time. as we will stay tuned for that. meanwhile, i want to play a little bit more of that. here's a clip of the president striking that balance when talking about what happened with george floyd, but our police force and the rest of the country. here's the president. >> then people start saying are all police like that? they don't know. doesn't make any difference. the fact is they start saying police are like that. police aren't like that. i have seen so many incredible things that they do, but you don't see that. >> sandra: what about that balance he was striking with a

discussion we are having as a country about what happened there in minneapolis and what is happening as far as rhetoric and the attention we are paying to our police force across the country right now? >> we got into how much we are asking our police officers to do in general, handle domestic violence. prepandemic, pregeorge floyd's death caught on camera, all of that mixing in and then you mixing the broken feelings that people have about relationships between the citizens and police. some people think that you need to dismantle police departments, the whole d fund conversation is something the president and i got into very deeply, but mainly what the president was trying to communicate is you can't paint everybody with one group of people. the push now has you and i both know from covering these stories in the last three weeks, it is

going to be very important for these police departments to identify those people among them who are not doing what they need to do and are violent among them, and it shouldn't be that hard to pick out. look at the man who is accused of kneeling on george floyd's neck for 8 minutes and 46 seconds. he's got a track record. and i'm not saying that the criminals don't have track records. i am saying when you look back, they were 17 or 18 incidents. so police departments know who among them they need to keep their eye on. so the president and i talked about that and that's an important conversation. we also got into choke holds. his answers about that were really interesting. he said if it's one person, may be. it was a deep conversation on that end, but whatever we do, you and i covered the news every day, we have to get off the square where we are right now, where people are vilifying each other.

is dangerous for everybody. >> sandra: absolutely. sounds like a fascinating interview. we will be able to see it in its entirety at 1:00 p.m. eastern time. great to talk to you. we used to spend a lot of time together for years, but i see you every day. so that's great. thank you very much. we look forward, watching hi her exclusive interview happening today on out numbered overtime at 1:00 p.m. eastern time right here on the fox news channel. >> ed: meantime, fox news alert, top democrats now slamming the president's move to hold those campaign rallies. the head, while covid-19 cases are spiking after thousands of activists going to pack protests, is that a double standard? we will get into it. plus, tensions rising over the situation in seattle where protesters are taking control of the six block of the city. the president now threatening to

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>> gathering and expressing the first amendment rights, demanding we do better as a society and providing true equity for communities of color is not terrorism. is patriotism. >> ed: that was the seattle mayor defending the activists including the shuttered east police precinct. let protesters call the capitol hill autonomous zone. in president trump now blasting the mayor calling her handling of the situation pathetic and threatening to take back the city if local leaders fail to do so. he is chair of the republican party in washington state. good morning. >> good morning, ed.

>> ed: the mayor says it's patriotism. what say you? >> is also called it a block party. i went down to the zone last night, witnessed the police trying to walk back to their precinct, the precinct that has been abandoned for the last four days, and about 100 protesters charge the police, picked up physical barriers, forcefully pushing back and posted the video on our twitter showing the police then piling into vans and moving on. response times in this area of the city for violent crimes has tripled because these protesters have closed the police precinct so it takes the average police car now 18 minutes to get to a call instead of 5 minutes. it's an untenable situation and to call it more patriotism just ignoring the reality of what's happening. >> ed: that sounds scary

indeed. have you seen actual violence? when the president calls them "domestic terrorists," do you think you can back that up factually? >> they have been about three videos this week from inside the zone of the individual now claiming we are the police in this community, and they physically assault the person that was spray painting graffiti on the wall. they came up to him and just started beating on him. so they already had their first instance of police brutality in his new zone, another video of them assaulting a reporter, they thought she was with fox news and she was actually with the local fox affiliate, but physically touching her, chasing her out of the zone, a video out there are people with bats confronting an individual and there is the violence and physical altercation and confrontation with the police. this is not a block party. is in occupation. >> ed: you lay out some

details there as well and obviously reporters have been attacked in various situations and it's all been scary and should not happen but the mayor is trying to paint a completely different picture. here she is. >> how long do you think seattle and those few blocks looks like this? >> i don't know. we could have a summer of love. we don't have to sacrifice public safety for first amendment rights. both can exist and we will make sure both exist in seattle. >> ed: is this really just the summer of love? >> no. i would point to the fact that again, they have closed down a police precinct. you now endangering the community, slowing down response times. the chief of police filmed an emotional video yesterday the officers saying it was not her decision to abandon the precinct so apparently the mayor made that call has retreated the police, occupiers now not

letting the police back in. we are all for public protests, all for the exercise of the first amendment, but when you are inhibiting law enforcement from enforcing the law for this community, the people that live there in the business is that is unacceptable. >> ed: the president noted what happen when the police station was abandoned and was torched, set on fire. there's a seattle councilwoman talking about this police precinct. she wants it personally given over to the community. our movement needs to urgently ensure it is not handed back to police but is turned over permanently into community control. my office is bringing legislation to convert it into a community center for restorative justice. your final thought?

>> the chief of police responded to that yesterday as well saying this is not how we engage in democracy in america. you don't get to occupy something, demand it, and in the city government give in and give it to you. is one thing if you go through the democratic process and have a dialogue and actually vote on things to make decisions for communities, but that is a police precinct. they needed to respond to calls in that community so they are going to give in to terrorists and hostage takers, what is going to happen next? are they going to go to another precinct and take it over there and demand the community center there? at some point, you have to enforce the law and we have seen this in seattle for the last several years, just a complete breakdown of law and order under governor inslee, city leadership in seattle. >> ed: we appreciate your time today, thank you. sandra? >> sandra: president trump planning to relaunch his signature campaign, rallies heading to tulsa, oklahoma, for his first rally a week from today. now democrats who were cheering on black lives matter protests

say the president's rallies could help spread the coronavirus. juan williams is fox news political analyst and cohost of the five and josh holmes' former chief of staff to senator mitch mcconnell. thank you to both of you for being here. i will start with you first. do you see a double standard here? at first he heard so many democrats say you have the right to protest and you should be doing so but then on the rally, that is too close and will spread the virus. >> i don't quite see it that way, but i think you're right to say that i don't see too many of the leaders cautioning people against coming out because of the virus. i think the response to the george floyd killing was organic and people took to the streets to protest against the inhumanity's against the brutality of it. i was out at one of those rallies in washington, d.c., and everyone, i didn't see anyone without a mask and there was an attempt at social distancing until things got very crowded and i think what you are seeing

here is the contrast with what is going to be for the president of planned rally and the fact that the president even in terms of convention planning is that he doesn't want empty seats for the social distancing, and he has refrained from wearing a mask and lots of social situations. i think that is the contrast. >> sandra: and he would say he continues to be tested while he doesn't wear that mask, his words. what do you think about all of this? we were to showing images of a rally there gathering in the streets in los angeles and there's not a lot of social distancing going on so do democrats have a point when they say it doesn't look safe for the president to be holding these values yet? >> public health rules aren't selectively applied based on the politics of the gathering. either works or doesn't and one may be right that originally, these protests were organic, but ultimately, they were not and

muriel bowser renamed a street. they had a big organized rally where there were tens of thousands of people. that rally does not contribute -- of that protest is not contribute to the spread, then neither will republican rallies. the other thing is we will know by the time the president has his first rally in tulsa whether or not there has been a significant uptick and if there hasn't come i think this argument is over. >> sandra: i will redo from bernie sanders because he seems to change his tune on which mass gatherings he was willing to endorse and say was okay as far as health. congratulations to those on the street peacefully protesting, together we will defeat trump. together, we will fight for government based on justice and compassion, not greed and lies but then later on when it came to the president's, he tweeted this no social distancing.

his rejection of medical advice is dangerous to not only those they are but those they came in contact with. trump is a threat to the health and well-being of the country and must be defeated. i didn't know any mention of staying safe and protecting others health and the original tweet about protesting and i think that's why it's getting all the attention. >> again, it's a matter of an informed risk. a people who went out to protests i think operated on the basis of knowing that the coronavirus is out there. i don't think anybody is ignorant of that and that's why you saw the proliferation of masks and attempts at social distancing. the president in terms of the convention, i don't know how these rallies will be organized, his folks coming to the rallies, he wants them seated together. i don't know if they are going to change that and insist on the social distancing. i hope so for their safety, but that is the real issue, planned

versus unplanned and when you say subsequent rallies were planned, yes, people came out with informed knowledge of the risk involved and i guess they will do that at the trump rally. >> sandra: okay, so we will wait to hear more details from the trump campaign as to specifically how they plan to hold those rallies. in the meantime, cancel culture, fox headline this morning, cancel culture goes crazy, the latest target is "paw patrol." they showed tweeted out an appeal for black voices to be heard and then commenters started noting things defund "paw patrol," all dogs go to heaven except the class traders in the "paw patrol." this of course is after gone with the wind goes away on hbo, canceled after 32 seasons. is this going too far? >> it's going way too far. always starts in a pretty productive way. nascar for example saying they

don't appreciate and won't tolerate the confederate flag being flown at their races. i think that's a good thing. now we start talking about gone with the wind. are we still such a fragile society that we all become mouth breathing racist by viewing a classic like gone with the wind? and pop patrol, i can even imagine having to energy. you can get yourself worked up about pop patrol, let me suggest that your problems are not that great. i wish i had time for the kind of problems to get worked up by a show like pop patrol. we've got to move past this and have real conversations about underlying racial tensions in ways to fix it in this country and pinning it on things like "paw patrol" is insane. >> sandra: mano? >> i agree for the most part. i don't want to get caught in the weeds here on small things. for example, in the case of something like gone with the wind, i understand they are bringing it back up but going to provide more context and that is not a bad thing.

you don't want to sort of put in place racial stereotypes, the most derogatory types of blacks as inferior or lacking in education or not social equals and that somehow becomes embedded in our minds and the way we react to each other. but this is not dw griffith or an endorsement of slavery and the clan, it is a classic film much like i think about huckleberry finn or tom sawyer. i think of those even as they use the n-word as american classics and necessary for us all to understand the american experience. two men very interesting to get your takes on that and before that you guys go, have to make sure i get this in here about the trump campaign, there is a disclaimer that they are asking attendees to sign saying that they know about the risks they are putting themselves in about coronavirus, but no mention of social distancing or safety precautions or face coverings so that's why i said let's see what details come out as far as what they endorsed on that. thank you to both of you for

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>> it was devastating in many ways including the lives that were lost. i can never be regained. economically, we are going to be great. next year, will have a fantastic year. you can never replace the lives. >> ed: the markets on an

upswing this morning as president trump continues to predict a speedy economic recovery after yesterday's massive sell-off. here to talk about it, host of making money, charles payne. good morning. everybody seemed to be talking and speculating without may be knowing the facts and saying this is all because they are our fears of a spike in coronavirus cases. you say it is bold. i don't mean bull market, both something else it sounds like. >> a 1000% it is bold. is bold for a number of reasons. is so interesting. when the market is up until recently whenever the market, we had a message, six months to a year from now. since president trump has been in office, every time the market is up, whenever it is down, it is something nefarious. let me just say high think what sparked yesterday's pullback

started the day before. when the federal reserve said what they were going to do to the economy, our markets were up. but as chairman's powell spoke, he did not add any clarity to extra stuff. extra accommodation. so we sold off over 300 points from 2:00 to 4:00 and picked it up again yesterday. the conditions for this, how about the best 60 days in the history of the stock market? how about the market rallying 46% and 60 days? sometimes after a move like that, there is profit taking. as far as the covid-19's bike, and i'm of the most ludicrous thing i've ever heard from everybody and financial media took it and ran. he don't have to be a market analyst. have a spike of 20,000 set as the dow down 1800 points, how come on june 6, 22,000 didn't send the market down were 28,000 didn't send the market down? what about june 4th?

june 1st, 22,000 didn't send the market down. you know the irony of all those things? the market was up. guess what this bike is today? 23,000. the dow is up 500 points. where is the logic? i am telling you, it is nefarious and deliberate and it is because of politics and nothing else. >> ed: i told everybody you are fired up and i was not lyi lying. now, "the wall street journal." >> it's frustrating for me. i will talk about this more on my show because it is frustrating for me. i want people in the stock market to make money, not to be spooked out of it every time there is something we don't understand or false reporting. you can have an opinion but when everyone reports something is a fact, that seems so ludicrous on the surface. of course they were more cases. there's a gazillion times more testing. >> ed: and is not just your opinion, there are facts behind it. democrats cite a spike in cases

in florida, arizona, and taxes as evidence of a virus resurgence but more testing especially in vulnerable communities is naturally turning up more cases. cases in texas have increased by a third in the last week, but so have tests or to hear final thought. >> right. and it's not just that testing is higher. we could nuance this a little bit more. you have an outbreak in a nursing home, we shouldn't be considering that is something that the market should be down for meat packing plant like they've had in arizona, there are nuances to this is going at it with a broad brush because you don't want and what the market to be up in the first place is disingenuous and dangerous and unfair to our viewers. >> ed: indeed it is and you can see it up 520 points right now. talking about at 2:00 p.m. eastern. >> anna spike in cases. >> ed: charles is fired up. we will see you at 2:00. >> sandra: thank you.

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>> sandra: returning a second time to search the house of missing mother jennifer dillow's. investigators using a cadaver dog as they comb the property including the septic tank. they say no new evidence or clues turned up as a result, but they did add they are actively pursuing the case. here to talk about all of this is of course the accused father or husband have jennifer who is now gone after committing

suicide, but what are we learning about this case now and is it still a very open investigation? >> great question, it is. is critically important that those that are responsible for jennifer's disappearance are brought to justice of the investigators are undeterred by the suicide note in which he professes the innocence of his girlfriend and his friend. he says on that note they had nothing to do with his disappearance, had nothing to do with my ex-wife's disappearance, end of story thinking that somehow that would put everything laid to rest, not so. there is no statute of limitations for murder. investigators certainly have an entire plethora of evidence against the two suspects, one of which is his girlfriend, talking about receptacles where there were body close, jennifer's blood in the garage, jennifer's blood in the cars, even a suicide note -- or even a note, and alibi written transcript in

which it is said what the alibi was for the morning of jennifer's disappearance lo and behold, the girlfriends explanation to the authorities was almost verbatim with that note. that note was found in the garbage receptacle in his office. so there is lots of evidence that is still being looked through, comb through and much more evidence that the investigators are undeterred to try to win cover anymore that they can against the two remaining suspects. >> sandra: there are multiple homes involved, multiple of relationships and the mother taking custody of the children, but when you look at this latest news, and it seemed almost promising when we saw the headline pop up yesterday that the cadaver dogs had found something at this vacant mansion in connecticut that plan to demolish before he killed himself, but that turned up nothing?

>> it's really unfortunate, but they are going to continue and apparently has been there prior, so they have been so much in terms of had multiple cars in his business they are going to scour through, multiple homes in which they lived in, there has been a housekeeper that has come forward and said year prior to jennifer's disappearance, jennifer had really expressed her concern for her own safety. as you know, they were in a very hotly contested divorce, child custody issues were afoot, there was a lot of concern that jennifer had expressed -- including this housekeeper that believed she was in peril. >> sandra: so that was hartford, connecticut, the home are so much of the activity took place was where the children and jennifer lived, it is a story that is still wide open and the

investigation continues. there is that new home. mercedes, you have been on that for us and we continue to follow it, thank you. >> thank you, sandra. take care. >> ed: now the president getting into a heated back and forth over the police free autonomous zone. as as as the president threatens to take care of it as wow if he has to. kevin hassett is coming up talking about the road to economic recovery and whether a new stimulus package is coming. in the laundry room ahh... new gain with essential oils detergent

>> ed: demonstrators continue to occupy the area surrounding avenue police precinct known as the autonomous zone. an exclusive interview with harris faulkner in two hours. welcome to a brand-new hour of "america's newsroom." good to see you. >> sandra: good to see you too. i'm sandra smith. seattle mayor both denying making the call to abandon the police precinct in seattle on monday. protesters now have barricades and checkpoints in that area, they released a list of demands that include free college, rent control, and police reform. president trump will leave the city to take control of that situation while they claim the demonstrators are just being patriotic. >> look at what happened in seattle, they took over as city, a big city.

a big chunk, can't happen. >> gathering and expressing first amendment rights, demanding we do better as a society and providing true equity for communities of color is not terrorism. is patriotism. >> ed: dan springer is live again in seattle with more details. good morning. >> after the first news conference on this occupation taken over part of the city, mayor jenny durkin was asked how this is all going to end and she chuckled and said this might be the summer of love in seattle. clearly, she is not taking this as seriously as many of the residence. she compared this autonomous zone to a gay pride festival and said her main concern about getting police officers back into the area she doesn't want to create a flash point for violence. her police chief seems to have a different opinion. got inside the east precinct briefly yesterday and noticed protesters had breached the building and done some damage but nothing major. she said it was not her decision

and almost apologized officers for what this is doing to morale. as far as the public, she said response time to major crimes has more than tripled since the east precinct was vacated. >> leaving the precinct is not my decision. we fought for days to protect it. i asked you to stand on that line day in and day out to be pelted with projectiles, to be screamed at, threatened, and in some cases hurt. then to have a change of course nearly two weeks in, it seems like an insult to you in our community. >> we noticed more protester security at the barricades this morning as the occupiers continue to say that they are here until their demands are met. among those demands, abolish the police and the court system. in some residents are stunned at what is happening in their city. >> i have lived on capitol hill for 30 years.

the amount of graffiti, the amount of trash, the lack of backing for the small businesses here breaks my heart. >> they were about 500 people who live in apartments in that autonomous zone and another 15 or 20 businesses and we noticed yesterday that all but a couple of those businesses remain boarded up. >> ed: dan springer, thank you. >> sandra: we will continue following that. meanwhile, president trump sounding off on seattle and an exclusive interview with harris faulkner, she joined us last hour for the president saying he will not let the city be occupied by anarchists and will step in if he has to. >> what's going on, i will tell you. they don't straighten that situation out, we will straighten it out. no, we are not going to let this happen in seattle. >> sandra: we will hear more from that interview a short time from now. meanwhile, john roberts is joining us live from the north line. good friday morning to you.

>> it has been a war of words between the president and officials they were in washington state over the last couple of days with the president stepping up a notch ripping mayor jenny durkin and governor jay inslee of washington state for allowing this group to take over the capitol hill neighborhood. the president saying seattle has to do something about it or he will step in and he will do something about it. listen here. >> what i mean is very simple. we are not going to let seattle be occupied by anarchists. you think he was a weak person in minneapolis? the woman, i don't know, has she ever done this before? it's pathetic. >> the president is getting a lot of blowback from the mayor and from the governor telling him to keep his nose out of their business. is unclear exactly what the president could do to move in on the situation. is a local issue, after all and the mayor insists it would be illegal for the president to

send in the military. but that is not stopping him from telling them to get tough or else. listen here. >> if we have to go in, we will go in. the governor is either going to do it, let the governor do it. he's got great national guard troops, he can do it but one way or the other, it is going to get done. these people are not going to occupy a major portion of a great city. >> they would likely be no political upside for the president to take action to get those protesters out of that capitol hill area. we remember back in 2016 he lost washington state hillary clinton by 16 points and lost king county where seattle is by 48 points, so it's not likely taking action would turn around those numbers for the president may be able to get some political mileage out of the idea of painting democratic executives across the country as ineffective, not sure if that's a strategy that would work but certainly when the president seems to be employing. sandra?

>> sandra: quite a back-and-forth going on. we will see what happens next. thank you. >> ed: if you watch network news on seattle, you might not even know about it. when the protesters first to control, no mention on the evening news from the victory network said no talk of an autonomous zone on any other cable news outlet, it is leading some to call this a big double standard. real clear politics cofounder saying that they took over a section of seattle, declared their independence, the media would lose their marbles. the governor would be preening in front of the cameras declaring a statewide emergency instead of pretending he knew nothing about it. tom bevan joins us now, good morning. as you suggest, the democratic governor who had a run for president previously, jay inslee a few nights ago said i don't really know anything about it. i'll have to check into it. this is going on in a major city in his state. why are some of the media just not reporting on it?

>> look. part of the bias in the media is what gets covered and what doesn't get covered and i'm not sure that the story is very favorable to the protesters necessarily, and you are right. the idea that a city governor two days into a situation like this could say that he has no idea and it's preposterous and we all know as i mentioned in that tweet that if this were a right wing protest going on, every major news organization would be covering it. wandering around the area, and just simply haven't seen any of that for the first couple of days. the president tweeted about it and blew it up. this is a situation where the media just chose to look the other way and it's a big story when you consider one of the major cities in america being occupied by protesters. >> ed: your point about if

makkah supporters are doing this to get a lot more coverage, obviously a conservative and it contributed here posting a video of some of the protesters in seattle, an activist, for deportations, saw senator ted cruz posting video yesterday of a miller situation going on in portland on the protesters they were kind of constructing a wall. ted cruz said with a building a wall now? seems like the irony might be lost on them. >> they were all sorts of hypocrisy and double standards that are going on with this current situation, the building of walls, having someone inside the zone policing folks and actually assaulting people who are vandalizing things. and again, not a situation that they media has covered or is covering in the same way that they would be covering -- we look back to the protest that took place in the state capital

that were the anti-lockdown protests and how those were treated by the media versus the protests for black lives matters, and i think that media has fallen down on the job in terms of treating all these different situations equally. >> ed: real quick, here's a clip. >> we have four blocks in seattle that is more like a block party, it is not an armed takeover. there is no threat right now to the public. but with the president threatened is illegal and unconstitutional and the fact that he thinks he can just tweet that and not have ramifications is just wrong. >> ed: a look in the president actually do about it? the use of force has obviously become quite controversial and do you call in the military and bring in the national guard, clearly the governor doesn't seem interested and didn't know much about it let alone bringing in the national guard. does the president actually do about this?

>> he really can't do anything because as you mentioned, it has to come from the local officials to the governor but what he can do is continue to highlight this is an example of him being police officers and you have a mayor saying this is no big deal, it's like a block party, the summer of love. but as a contrast that the president works for him politically and will continue to drive that forward via social media and speeches and other things. because i am not sure there are a lot of folks who think that the taking over of blocks in the major city in the united states of america is just no big deal and something that can go on for as long as they wanted to go on. it is lawlessness is what it is. that's the contrast that the president has right now. >> ed: thank you. >> sandra: okay, onto this news about john bolton's new book, it is the book donald trump does not want you to read. those words from a news release

promoting a new book by former national security advisor john bolton. notes the tell-all will come out on june 23rd. says bono wrote about his personal participation in key events and covers a wide range of topics including "chaos in the white house. according to the release, what bolton saw astonished him. the president for whom getting elected was the only thing that mattered even if it meant endangering or weakening of the nation. again, john bolton's book the room where it happened is coming out june 23rd and we just saw the press release coming out a moment ago on that. >> ed: we will watch it in the meantime. found it take back the autonomous zone. but what authority does he have? will break it down and wall street rallying big after yesterday's sell-off, going to weigh in on that and whether we might have another stimulus ne next.

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>> ed: the markets rallying this morning, take a look at the big board there, the dow up about 260 points actually down from the session highs, but it is in the green today which a

big difference from yesterday. >> sandra: that green shaded area sort of tells a story today, we started out much higher income off of those highs but still in positive territory. all of this while president trump is reacting to federal reserve chair jerome powell's bleak economic outlook. tweeting this "the federal reserve is wrong, doing much better than they do. we will have a very good third quarter, a great fourth quarter, and one of our best ever years in 2021. we will also soon have a vaccine and therapeutic cure. that is my opinion. watch as the president. white house economic advisor kevin hassett, good morning and thank you for joining us. so everybody is trying to make sense of all of this economic data that jobs report shocker that we saw last week, nearly 2,000-point sell-off yesterday that mothers a lot to take in. are you as optimistic as the president and his forecast they are?

>> that presidential tweet you just showed i can attest to because i was there for the last month telling the president we are going to have a really bad jobs report and he kept telling me know, it'll be way better than you think, i can feel it. the only person in the white house that got the number right ahead of time was him. it's really true and i think he's been optimistic and he's been optimistic because he understands that one of the great policies of all time has occurred that the responded with a massive stimulus to massive negative shock to the economy and started from the strongest economy ever so we've been able to basically turn the economy back on and get going way faster than anybody other than the president. >> ed: the chairman has of the last few moments crossing the ap wire center report to congress detailing a little bit more from what he had and that news conference couple of days ago saying the deterioration of the labor market conditions has been sudden, severe, and widespread. he talks about the small

business is being decimated but goes on to tell congress that he will use "the full tools to combat the global pandemic. your reaction to all of that? >> i think the fed has done a fantastic job responding to this global pandemic and of the economy surprises on the upside, the fact is every economist that we would lose nine or 10 million jobs in may and in fact, we came to an a half million. the mass of policy that president trump coordinated, i think that the fed has underestimated, certainly underestimated the may job support and i hope they continue to mess on the low side for a while because the surprise is astonishing. the one thing i can say about it and one thing as an economist gives me pause as i look forward as there is a radical difference right now and the data between red states and blue states. you think of a blue state like vermont that elected a socialist senator, the economy is basically close even though they

have the fewest cases per capita of any state in the country and than other states are wide open. there was going to be an increasing divergence between the economies of blue states where the economy will be staying very high in the economies will stay closed in the red states mostly open, almost in real time as above where it was last year already and we have other states that are 30 or 40% down because they are still close. >> sandra: all over the interesting points, we are reaching out to the average investor and it seems to be one common question when you look at the stock market gains, doesn't apply to all americans. that's not a reflection of the broader u.s. economy. the small businesses that have been hit. are the stock market gains to recent highs that we have seen the result of fed stimulus and massive policy response from the

president or does it reflect raw underlying fundamentals of the market? >> we see now it is the fundamentals and three weeks ago if you had asked me, the jobs report, not going to be any greater than the economist think and it turned out to be right as it often is. i think right now, factoring in a very rapid recovery. as an economist on the best available science, i can say there is no available science that we will be surprised a lot between now and the fall but hopefully the surprises will continue to be on the upside and on average they made a 10 million person ever but it may jobs report. that is like the population of michigan. so right now, the models are not working very well and what we need is somebody who has the instinct of running lots of businesses and so want to help guide us through it and that's with the president is doing. >> ed: there was this bloomberg report yesterday,

about were quite frustrated with the idea that there was going to be a resurgence, we have charles payne on a few moments ago when pretty fired up on the idea that he things because of more testing we are seeing more cases that we've seen the number of covert deaths coming down in america. what are you hearing from the health officials there about a potential spike? >> i spoke directly with dr. burks this morning about this and there are some embers flavoring up at a few places if you look at the data for arizona or south carolina right now, some cause for concern but for the most part, the national trends continue to have head down and it's also another thing you were seeing in the much better at treating it to the fatality rate is heading down as well. so for sure, the battle is not over, but the trends that have been so positive i'm not really deviated sharply although there are some hot spots around the country. >> sandra: still what you have

been talking about is americans feeling the pain of that shut down and are having a hard time bouncing back. what do you hearing when you talk to steve minutia and others in the president about the willingness and the need for another round of stimulus? >> we've been working on that every day and meeting with the president every week about it, and the president's instruction has been really quite well-informed. they are evolving rapidly, the economic models as they watch the data come in and they get closer to the end of july, making a judgment of whether it is faster than we thought, slower than we thought and then design a policy that is targeted for the state of the economy that we see. for right now, any economist who tells you that they know what july is going to look like between now and july with the highest degree of precision is something false. the fact is we just had a massive surprise on the upside, another massive surprise on the upside in june, then we will have a much different demand for

stimulus if it goes the other way. the president has instructed us with what the economy is doing and we are preparing a plan for upside surprises and downside risk surprises that will pursue aggressively in july. >> ed: we appreciate you coming on. >> sandra: thank you, kevin. >> ed: meantime, threatening to use the national guard, but can he go that far? the legal authority of the state and local leaders in this case, we will break it all down and how police are calling for change after the death of some of their own during riots in recent weeks. what can be done to protect the men and women in blue? >> history has shown that underfunding the police can have disastrous consequences and hurt those most in need of our services. look, this isn't my first rodeo...

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>> we are not going to let this happen in seattle. we have to go in, we are going to go in. let the governor do it. he's got great national guard troops. he can do it. one way or the other, it's going to get done in. these people are not going to occupy a major portion of a great city. >> sandra: that is president trump they were in a new interview calling out the situation in seattle saying of local leaders don't take back the katana messed stone, he will. an op-ed published on fox news is asking does trump have the

power to intervene and should he? the author of the article, the former deputy assistant attorney general for the doj and a professor of law at the university of california at berkeley joins us now. always good to have you on the program, welcome back. i does the president have the power to intervene? >> watching some of the clips this morning, i hate to say a bit it looks like politicians in seattle, washington, state have got the constitution wrong. they think the president can't send in troops, both the constitution and federal law authorized the president to use troops if there is an insurrection or forcing federal law in any part of the union. here in seattle, you have a situation where six blocks of the city are cut off from police authorities, cut off from political authorities and they seem to be imposing a kind of popular revolutionary government of some kind.

that is exactly what the insurrection act and article one of the constitution which allows for the calling forth of the military to enforce the law and to prevent insurrection is designed for. >> sandra: you mention what you have heard on the ground from those local officials appeared the mayor of seattle basically calling these protests patriotic. here is the in that interview seeing what you're referencing. >> our country was born at a protest. the right to gather, the right to protest, the right to challenge government and our most fundamental constitutional right, it is the reason it is the first amendment and as a mayor of this city, i will do everything to protect that right and balance the public safety. i think not only can we do both, i think we have to do both. >> sandra: so after first asking the question can the president intervene, should he?

>> that is the hard question is even of the president has the legal authority under the constitution, the harder question is what does good judgment, what does wisdom, what does prudence council? here most of the time, we allow state and local officials to handle these kind of disturbances. they have the primary responsibility but if the disturbances gets beyond the ability of local authorities to handle, then that's the right time for federal intervention. the last time it really happened was the civil rights movement of the desegregation period of the south is when state and local officials refused to do their duty. they have the resources, they just don't want to follow federal law and don't want to maintain stability. in those situations, we have seen an unlimited point. the president is wise to try to jawbone the local authorities to do their job but ultimately to have a reserve the ultimate move to go to federal troops if they refuse to do their duty.

>> sandra: i want to end with this because it is very similar to what you are saying but it's a piece from that seattle unrest piece that you wrote. on the administration having to consider the policy and the unfortunate event that city authorities disregard their fundamental responsibility to protect health and safety, the administration may have to consider the policies so far i've refraining from the use of troops in our city. so finish on that. >> certainly, they have the right to protest peacefully in accordance with the law but the other thing to remember is that people who are trapped in that part of the city who are protected by the police, who art protected by the government also have constitutional rights to life, liberty, and property and the government has responsibility to protect those rights. the city of seattle in the state of washington just refused to do that job, but i think that's when the federal government has the right to intervene.

>> sandra: is a very good piece on foxnews.com titled "seattle unrest, does the president have the power to intervene? "great to have you here this morning. thank you so much. >> ed: meantime, i made calls to defund the police, officers and units are struggling to defend their work and responding to the protests in different ways. live at the national law enforcement offices memorial in washington, d.c., with more details. good morning. >> good morning. the head of chicago's powerful police union says now is not the time to defund the police. >> the politicians are making it that much worse. the press conference today was all about bashing the police and pouring gasoline on a fire that was starting to smolder and die out and just couldn't let it happen because she is trying to push an agenda and needs the police to be the villains to make that happen. >> at least 600 law enforcement

officers have been injured in the wake of george floyd's death and some have been murdered including former st. louis police captain david doran and dhs officer. says she wants justice for all. >> there has been so much talk regarding george floyd and his family, which is fine. however, i think at the same time that my brother should be recognized as well for literally going into work every day and putting his life on the line for us. >> the head of houston's police department says his cops are welcome. >> communities of color, poor communities need good policing more than affluent communities and quite frankly what they want is not less policing, they want good policing and they are demanding that we weed out bad cops. so it is not an either or proposition. >> in new york, the head of the world's largest police union said some of its cops are outraged.

>> everybody is trying to shame us. the legislators, the press, everybody is trying to shame us into being embarrassed about our profession. but you know what? this isn't staying like someone in minneapolis. still got a shine on it and so did they, so desires. >> here in the nation's capital, d.c.'s mayor says she supports the local law enforcement. >> ed: lucas tomlinson, thank you. >> sandra: thank you. kim jong un making a new threat this morning two years after the north korean dictator's historic summit with the president and former top obama officials can now be subpoenaed in the republican led investigation into the origins of the russia probe. we will have brand-new reaction from former assistant u.s. attorney andrew mccarthy on that next. >> i can't believe the fbi is that poorly run that the most

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>> sandra: twitter permanently removing thousands of accounts linked to china, russia, and turkey for peddling disinformation. the social media site deleting more than 170,000 accounts tied to a state length operation in beijing spreading deceptive information on covid-19. hong kong and more. thousands of accounts connected to russia and turkey will also be dumped for violating the platform's policies. >> the court was lied to repeatedly, and the people had a bias against trump, they acted on that bias, and it should never happen again and all i can say if you care about the rule of law, you should want me to get to the bottom of this.

>> ed: moving forward on the former obama officials as part of the g.o.p. led investigation into how all of this started. among them, former fbi chief james comey, john brennan, and former director of national intelligence james clapper. let's bring in andy mccarthy, former assistant u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york, good morning. your thoughts on whether these subpoenas will lead to any accountability? >> no, they want. the time to do this was three or four years ago when the fbi and the justice department were stonewalling the house committees that were trying to investigate this, and they were pleading for any help they could've gotten. the senate could have really stepped up to the plate and did something good at that point, but now we have a pending serious criminal investigation which is looking into exactly the same thing, so what you're going to get is one of two things. the witnesses they want to talk

to our witnesses but the prosecutor thinks are important to building whatever case he is trying to build, the justice department will object to them coming to the senate and if the witnesses that graham wants to call our people that he is thinking about prosecuting, they are going to tell the senate that they have a fifth amendment privilege and won't testify. >> ed: so the focus will be on that man, want to get the democrats perspective in here, dianne feinstein from the did sherry handle. appears they now plan to spend the next several months bolstering th the presidents attack, democrat joe biden, congress should not conduct politically motivated investigations designed to attack or help any presidential candidate. might be a very political point on her part. on the other hand, kind of rich for democrats who spent at least two or three years talking about russia did not be complaining about this, no? >> that's exactly right.

and if the shoe were on the other foot, the democrats would not have waited one or three or four years they would've been all over this like white on rice from the beginning. they would have been very aggressive, insisted on calling witnesses and insisted on disclosure. the republicans decided they didn't want to be criticized for potentially interfering with the investigation, so they sat on their hands for four years and now with 50 days left in the senate session when the senate has got a lot of other business and a lot going on in the country, they have put themselves in a position to get deeply criticized for trying to move on this now. >> ed: real quick, i want to note that this morning, there are oral arguments going on in the appeals court in washington in terms of the michael flynn charges whether they will be dismissed. our producer gave us an initial read a few moments ago saying it appears this court, a three-person panel is skeptical of the justice department's effort to try and dismiss the

charges against flynn. what is your read on that in 30 seconds in terms of where we will get a resolution? >> i listen to the argument and i thought the judges at least two of them were sympathetic to the justice department's position, but they are hesitant on an extraordinary remedy to correct this judge before he gets the chance to rule. so my sense is they will let him have this hearing in july but they will expect them to do the right thing which is what the rule at this point requires. >> so that judge sullivan keep going for a while but they expect the resolution later this summer. >> i think so. >> ed: andy mccarthy, appreciate your time. >> sandra: okay. thank you. has protesters call for defunding the police, what makes the most sense when it comes to changing how police officers operate an overall reform? we will ask michigan congresswoman debbie dingell about that who will join us live after the break.

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>> sandra: calls to defund the police grip america but despite it getting so much attention, a new poll reveals that a majority of americans, 64% opposed defunding the police while 34% back the movement. let's bring in michigan congressman debbie dingell, cochair of the house democratic policy communications committee. thank you so much for being here. so where do you stand on the issue? when it falls on democrats when they are asked a question, a majority support defunding the police, 55%, do you fall into that category? >> i think it is a terrible

phrase, both jim clyburn and karen bass my jim clyburn being a part of the senior democratic leadership in the house majority whip, the chairman of the black caucus has said that it is not with this movement is. our law enforcement is important in this country and i am very close to a number of them and they have been critical during cobit, but we also have to understand what it's like to be black in america, and all of us across this country watched a video of george floyd being choked to death and dying because of a choke hold. so what we are trying to do is to change the law so that if there is a bad officer like the one in minneapolis who had 18 other charges brought against him that there was a national record of that, that we ban choke hold, that we make sure people have body cameras so we know what is happening. but we have to be very careful to not denounce all law enforcement. they are critical players in our

community, bad apples, and there are a lot of good law enforcement, and what we want is every american to be treated equally and for a black person to be treated equally to a white person. >> sandra: fair to say that the calls to defund the police mean different things to different people, and that did show up in the poll when it came to reforming the police or moving funds away from the police and other areas. you started to see the answers very differently. so we will see where all this goes next. i have to ask you about your state in the coronavirus reopening because we are reporting that there are hot spots emerging in certain parts of the country and now michigan salons, barbershops ready to reopen but there is some confusion about how this is going right now. what do you see happening in michigan and is it safe to be reopening at the pace we are? >> i am going to say i am

someone that i was following them even more than doctors and being very careful. i've had a number of community gatherings and quite frankly, been to 14 community gatherings now in ten days and i wear my mask, i keep my social distance, i have a jugs of hand sanitizer and washing my hands, and we all have to be very cautious. the experts this week, dr. fauci said we are still at the beginning, the former head of the cdc said here at the end of the beginning of creative are talking about it, saying we could see 100,000 more deaths this summer. they are talking about the anticipated spikes that could return. if we don't listen to what the science and the doctors tell us, we are going to be right back where we were and i'm very concerned about it. i know we can't stay home forever but each of us has a role to play and people not wearing masks is going to

contribute to the reemergence of cove aid and one thing i know is it's not gone. i had a friend die of it in the last week. is here and very serious. >> sandra: i know talking to you over the past couple of months this has hit you very personally with some of your friends losing their lives to covid-19. you are also concerned about the loss of health coverage for those who lost their jobs during the pandemic. you just tweeted this out "covid-19 shows that you cannot connect health care to employment. millions became unemployed and lost access to their health care and this is why we need medicare for all and guarantee they all need access to health care no matter the situation. what is your message, congresswoman? >> i want to say this to everybody that thinks that socialized medicine -- we are the only industrialized nation in the world that does not guarantee every one of its cities access to health care. you want -- the fact of the

matter is, our businesses are competing in a global marketplace, and we are the only country where they are picking that up, the cost of doing their business unlike the way that other countries are in contribute shipping the taxes. it's a competitive issue, let alone the moral issue for me. >> sandra: we have heard that from you before, this is likely going to be a huge debate as we get closer to election day 2020, so many fall on both sides of that debate. appreciate your time this morning, thank you for being here. >> thank you, good to se see yo. >> ed: coming up in just a couple of hours, keep it right here for harris faulkner's exclusive interview. 1:00 p.m. eastern, "outnumbered" over time. and into the unknown... for all of us.

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>> ed: small cities across america struggling right now after bein being excluded from f packages. allentown, pennsylvania, just one hard hit. kristina partsinevelos is here with details. good morning. >> that's exactly it, ed. i'm standing downtown in allentown. this is a car from to mike rowe from so many small businesses left out out of that to truly deli relief package, and now they are worried about falling into financial ruin. listen in. >> people have gotten money, spent stimulus money for small businesses. i think it's time the federal

government looks at municipalities of our size. >> allentown is the third largest city in pennsylvania but it only has a population of 120,000 people, so it doesn't qualify for that relief. any towns across america are worried that their budgets are going to be in the red and they are not going to get enough money to help things reopen after this lockdown, which is why so many have come to allentown, so many believe the money is going to larger municipalities where it could be going to small-town america. they are begging for help. back to you. >> ed: white house officials say they might be working on new plan. we'll see if they focus on cities. >> fingers crossed. >> ed: pretty interesting, across the wire a short time ago, governor cuomo's in newark is the lowest rate of corona various transmissions of any of the 50 states. you think about how much progress has been made. >> sandra: that is grabbing what headlines are now. he said that it has daily. we are just so eager to embrace

any good news coming out o out f this, that is something we can take into the weekend. ed, great to be with you all week. >> ed: great to be with you. have a great weekend. >> sandra: you come too. we'll see you monday morning. thanks for joining us. "outnumbered" starts now. >> melissa: fox news alert, president trump vowing not to let "anarchists" occupy downtown seattle after protesters took over a six block area, setting up an autonomous zone around a now-shattered police briefing building. seattle's police chief telling officers and a video that she is "angry" about how the situation unfolded, and that it was not her call to abandon the precinct. >> we fought for days to protect it. i ask you to stand on that line, day in and day out, and you felt it was to be screened them i screamed out, yelled at, in some cases hurt.