nicholas. it went great, way to fly nicholas! >> all right, kennedy we owe you a drink. ♪ pete: we begin this saturday morning with a fox news alert. the minneapolis city council unanimously votes to abolish its police department in the wake of george floyd's death. >> council members deciding to dismantle the force and replace it with a community led public safety system. jedediah: similar calls growing nationwide as leaders in new york city push their defunding plan that would cut nypd's budget by $1 billion. that's $1 billion, guys. welcome toe "fox & friends" this 6:00 a.m. hour. we are here, obviously with pete hegseth. griff jenkins. can't see you yet but i will in a second. we will be breaking down what's going on in seattle and

minneapolis and obviously the 2020 election as well. pete: jedediah, don't worry the future of community safety working group that minneapolis citcity council will deliver recommendations. a month from now recommendations delivered. a year deliberation with the community to determine the solutions they have that are somehow better than the minneapolis police department. so are all over it. they passed it unanimously. don't worry the mayor, jacob frey, no word from him yet on what he will do on this. griff: listen, what's happening in minneapolis is clearly trying to get the voters to make their own decisions in november about what sort of entity is replacing the police force and it looks like it's going to be social services based. but as minneapolis has led this national overarching call for police reform, it will be interesting to see if they lose their way meanwhile you saw the

deputy assistant to the president ron smith talking about the president's executive order coming to try and build towards safety, security, dignity. here's a little bit of what he had to say. >> instead of defunding the police, the president is focusing on partnering with the police to create better policing community relationships. we will make sure police have the highest standards on use of force. we are also going to work with these police departments to give them the partnerships they need through partnerships with social services that would deal with mental health, addiction. and things like homelessness. those are ways to deescalate a situation. we think we have the right partnerships on both sides and the president is going to use his executive order -- this executive order to bring both sides together. pete: jed, think about new york city how quickly we forget the amount of terrorist threats that have been leveled against the city as well. the amount of plots thwarted by the nypd and other services here

yet we recklessly, quickly in a moment say we are going to cut the budget. where does that come from and where does it start? jedediah: yeah, that's right. people forget -- many people forget others don't. police does a lot of jobs we don't even know about. you mentioned the issue of terrorism. so much of that is avoided. some people are protected every single day by work that the police are doing behind the scenes that you are never even made aware of. it's really interesting to me in a lot of these localities this call for defunding the police is followed by no plan whatsoever. i don't know what a community led public safety system is and neither do they. they don't know. pete: the working group is on it. jedediah: they will figure it out. what's amazing to me if you have activists saying that. that's one thing. if you have mayors and governors that aren't terribly alarmed with removing police with no plan in place whatsoever to actually protect those people in those communities to that need

to make a call similar to a 911 call, if there is a rape, if there is a threat of a thief coming to their home. people have nowhere to go. people that seem to be in leadership positions have no interest i n what that plan will actually look like before advocating for police to be dismantled in some respect. griff: that's a great point, jed. maybe the goal is to make police obsolete. there is no better illustration than what is happening in seattle with that autonomous zone chaz. pete: its own country. griff: we made fun of it because it's ridiculousen its face. look at the struggling police chief there with absolutely zero support from the mayor out there. the police chief carmen best saying the police can't even respond to crimes that they have to do. listen. >> our calls for service have more than tripled.

emergency calls, rape, robbery, and all sorts of violence has been occurring in the area and we're not able to get. to say it is not a right for us not to be able to declare we owe that service to everybody. this is our building. we served here and we are still paying by the way the rent on this building. so, i'm going to take a look around to see what's happened. the takeover of the police facility is just wrong. it's simply wrong. griff: unbelievable. she is struggling and getting no support, jed. jedediah: yeah. and what you are going to see is you are going to see people leaving places like seattle. you have already seen people, you know, leave new york city. i can't even tell you what's happening to rent prices in new york city. they are dropping exponentially because everyone wants to leave. because you are going to have rational people and i don't care what your political party affiliation is. if you are a rational, sane person you are going to look at what's happening in some of these cities and say i'm not

raising my kid there i don't feel safe. i don't feel like leadership does not have my back and doesn't have my family back. it's absolute chaos they are okay with. one place you look to for leadership when you don't have local leadership is you look to leadership to the president united states. trump weighed in on this especially with what's happening with ceilings. he said these people are not going to occupy seattle. check out outnumbered overtime. >> it's pathetic. no, no. we are not going to let this happen in seattle. if we have to go in, we will go in. if the governor has to do it, let the governor do it. he has great national guard troops. he can do it. one way or the other it's going to get done. these people are not going to occupy a major portion of a great city. they are not going to do it. and they can sol that problem very easily. pete: they could but they won't. jed, you are right in saying it shouldn't matter what your political background is but it does. if you are looking at systemic racism in say minneapolis or seattle, look no further than, i don't know, the mayor of

minneapolis has been a democrat since before i was born, 1978. the attorney general in the state of minnesota since 1971 has been a democrat. the governor for 10 years in seattle. the mayor has been a democrat since 1990. there hasn't been a republican mayor of seattle since 1911. the governor has been a democrat since 1985. so, in these particular states and places, if you believe the police forces there are racist. look at the black female police chief of the seattle police department is simply saying i don't care what the color of your skin is, if you are in the autonomous zone, capitol hill autonomous zone you deserve the same protection. right now there is none of it there because they declared their own anarchist utopia. if you were watching last night, which i was, tucker's program, at the end of the a block, i thought he was going to a commercial break but instead he went to -- they had a sponsor for the program last night. and it was a tourism add for this great new country called chaz. tucker did it as his show only

can take a listen. >> what is life like inside chaz? no police, no laws no, industrial base. and, yet, it's a paradise on earth. go deep inside the borders of the new nation. >> welcome to the nation of chaz. ♪ ♪ the capitol hill autonomous zone located within beautiful counts seattle. the anarchist utopia you never knew you needed it. welcoming committee greeting you upon arrival. luxury accommodation. not wild about cops? good news, because there are none. so come on down to the place where everyone is welcome and diversity is appreciated. as long as you are not a capitalist, a meat eater, a police officer, or someone that stands for the anthem. pete: griff, before your hair cut, you would have fit in very well there. griff: absolutely. i hear they are running out of vegan pizza and la croix.

i'm not sure i would make the trip. the kids were excited when i told them to pack the car. this is serious. it's spreading now i'm a ten seen, born and raids. nashville is dealing with its own autonomous zone there in the capitol hill area, governor bill lee is saying that this isn't going to be tolerated. here's what the governor says. he says we will continue to protect ten seen's right to peaceful assembly assuring citizens that lawlessness, autonomous zones, and violent will not be tolerated. this is tough to watch. jed, i just don't know how many of these are going to pop up, but we are going to have to address it eventually. jedediah: it's absurd if you think about it. the idea of an autonomous zone of itself. the fact that anyone would be able to do that and get away with it and local leadership would just sit back and do nothing. it's actually really astounding. of course it's going to spread because people who are looking to cause this time of unrest in

places are going to look to places like seattle and say look what happens happening. local leadership isn't doing anything. look what you can get away with. my question is, also, when people say this won't be tolerated, what does that mean? what does that actually mean is going to be done? we have been hearing that for a little bit of time now this won't be tolerated. this won't be tolerated. i don't care whether it comes from local officials or plol police or whether it comes from president trump. i want to know what that looks like. how long will this be allowed to go on before someone steps in and says you can't have autonomous zones just being established around the country where police are thrown out of their precincts and people who live in those zones who may need access to someone to help them if a violent crime is committed against themselves, their family, their neighbor have nowhere to go. pete: they have been practicing for this for quite some time. sanctuary cities, sanctuary states where laws don't apply equally to people. this is the logical extension of where the left is today. all you have to do is say no,

the police and the elected officials are in charge here. they don't have the hutzpah to muster in any of these places there will be an election in five or so months where a lot of this will be litigated. joe biden is still in his basement where he is, seems to be most effective. and he was on the i believe it was the daily show on wednesday and talked about the election. here's part of you who he described whether or not it would be a fair election. >> my single greatest concern, this president is going to try to steal this elections. this is the guy who said that all mail-in ballots are fraudulent, voting by mail. while he sits behind a desk in the oval office and writes his mail-in ballot to vote in the primary. pete: griff, he is going to steal it. griff: it's interesting when president trump makes unfounded claims and he has certainly done so in the past the media immediately jumps on it. you saw this come out which is

unfounded claim and, of course, the media not jumping on it. a little bit of hypocrisy on it either way. president trump is responding to that claim that he would steal the election, speaking to harris faulkner. here is what he had to say. >> look, joe is not there. everybody knows it. and it's sad when you look at it and you see it. you see it for yourself. he has created his own sanctuary city in the basement of wherever he is and he doesn't come out. and certainly if i don't win, i don't win. pete: this comes, jed, as the president has announced he will be -- resume rallies and you are going to have that contrast. you will have rallies with thousands of people gathered together where there is a lot of energy for the president versus joe biden with a mask dangling off his ear in the basement on the internet. we will see what voters want. jedediah: i think it's going to be largely issue-based as it always is. of course have you things like

the coronavirus and what's that's done to businesses thrown in which does change things a little bit in terms of how far people will look at potentially the leadership. i don't know what the role will be of that. but i think a lot of what is going on around the country particularly when you look at autonomous zones and things like that. there is going to be a focus on law and order. there is going to be a focus on the economy which i like. two very different visions how to address these things and their perception of what is going on in the country. let's see how it plays out. pete: i like contrast. i just wish one side loved our country which joe biden and the leftist are captured by a very different view of our country and we are seeing it right now with things being torn down. still ahead, detectives returning to search a home in the case of a missing connecticut mom. jennifer dulos, a former fbi criminal profiler joins us next with the night that is still puzzling police.

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jedediah: connecticut state police searching the home they believe to be connected to the disappearance of mother of five jennifer dulos. investigators are still searching for answers in the case after dulos' disappearance over one year ago. here to discuss these latest developments criminal profile and former fbi profiler mary ellen otule. welcome to the show as always. we have a couple of cases we would love to look with you today that being the connecticut state police search. can you tell us in that search if anything was discovered? >> at this point, they haven't discovered anything. they are looking at several homes. they are also looking or thinking about looking into a septic tank area. but at this point even though they have run in cadaver dogs and subsequent dog scent dogs tt found anything. they will continue these

searches which are very difficult searches. jedediah: what do you think the next step would be if they don't, as you are saying, if they don't find anything in the home, where would they look to next or what would the next couple of steps be in terms of figuring this out? >> i think it's very interesting that they zeroed in on their properties properties that they owned or he owned or they lived in over the years. excuse me, so they will likely be continuing to looking look at those properties. that's probably substantiated by leads that are coming in at the same time that suggest those are good areas to search. if they owned a lot of buildings and property, they really have a lot to really look at. those are not easy searches. they take a lot of time. they take a lot of resources. so they are very focused that's probably where they are going to

look for the time people unless they get a different type of lead. jedediah: second case we are looking at captivated the country. cult mom. now have you relatives of this cult mom saying that the remains found at the idaho home are her children which have been missing since september. the judge has ordered chad daybell her husband to be held on $1 million bail. what do you make of these new statements by the relatives? >> well, obviously the relatives were concerned that the -- they believed that remain that were found on the property could very well be the children's. that those remains have not been officially identified yet but they ultimately probably will be. even though there was a fire in the fire mitt in the backyard. generally you can't destroy all the evidence, all d.n.a. so they will likely hopefully find something. and at that point, that really

does change the entire complex of the case. because you typically don't have a stranger that would come back to somebody's property that's related to the victims and dispose of the bodies [inaudible] dispose of those bodies on the family's property when you have that kind of dynamic it does suggest that the owner of that property is the one who is responsible. jedediah: yeah, obviously the concealment of the remains is a whole discussion of and in itself. that's all the time we have for today. thank you for breaking the cases down for us and we will continue to follow them closely. >> thank you. jedediah: coming up, to testify or not to testify. that's the question a court is now weighing as judicial watch demands to hear from hillary clinton directly about her private email server. the president of that watchdog group tom fitton is going to join us next.

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pete: we're back with quick headlines a manhunt for escaped inmate accused of killing a mississippi sheriff's deputy. blackwell taken into custody when he grabbed the deputy's gun shooting and killing him before running off. is he considered armed and dangerous. 77-year-old deputy james blair, that man right there, served in law enforcement his entire life. he was still working to help raise his grandson. god bless that man, his family and his grandson. today, president trump will deliver the commencement address at west point military academy. graduating ca cadets will returo the campus after leaving in march because of covid-19.

social distancing will be enforced at the ceremony. families will watch the graduation on livestream. it will be one heck of a ceremony at the academy. it will also be here on the fox news channel airing at 10:25. those are your headlines. griff? griff: all right. pete, that will be something to watch. appeals court is debating whether hillary clinton can testify about her emails. clinton is trying to avoid giving in person deposition to the conservative group judicial watch over using private server during her time as secretary of state. here to react is president of judicial watch tom fitton. thanks for joining us this saturday morning. explain for our viewers what's going on. you are tied up about deposing clinton and her chief of staff. >> yeah. a lower court wants mrs. clinton to testify. if judicial watch asks for the testimony. lower court was ticked that they tried to distract him from letting the case proceed by

withholding information about the emails. he wants to know where the emails are he wants to know why hillary clinton was using the system was she trying to avoid the -- filed a motion in this case saying i'm too important to testify as a former government official and what difference would it make? we will see how the court handles that. but, you know, in the observed course, she would have to testify. but you never know because it's hillary clinton. griff: tom, what would you hope to gain from a deposition? >> we want information about why she used her system, where her emails might be, and what is the reason she used the system in terms of the freedom of information act. did she follow the rules? because, remember, as head of the agency, head of the state department, she was the state department. so we are trying to figure out whether the state department should be dinged by the court

and the court wants to know offer the misconduct of hillary clinton. griff: clinton's attorney dismissed the request for deposition. saying the real purpose of the deposition is harassment. creation of video footage that can be used for partisan political attack ads. it's social media fundraising. before i run out of time, tom, we had a lot of news in the flynn case yesterday. you actually see connections between this case with clinton and the flynn case. >> the lawyer for judge sullivan is one of the lawyers for cheryl mills who is providing her free legal advice. judge wilkins was a judge on our case last week. and is he a judge on the case in the flynn case. so the question is, will the court defer to judge lanberth while restricting judge sullivan and who benefits? are they going to give hillary clinton an out while keeping general flynn in this precarious

situation of having to fight for to keep himself free? it's going to be interesting to see how they handle the cases because some similar issues. griff: it will indeed. looks like we might get some resolution in the flynn case towards the end of july. tom fitton, thanks for joining us. have a great saturday. >> you are welcome. thank you. griff: coming up from protesters declaring a cop-free zone in seattle to demonstrators jumping on top of police cruisers. officers are under increased scrutiny. law enforcement panel anti-cop sentiment sweeping the nation yet.

>> i am very angry about the situation we have. while i support free speech, this is not that. >> this is more like a block party atmosphere. it's not an armed takeover. it's not a military hundred attachment i don't know we could have a summer of love. pete: jenny from the block. seattle's leaders at odds over the city's newly designated autonomous zone. the 6 block area taken over by protesters demand the city abolish its police department amongst other insane demands. joining me now to react is former nypd lieutenant dr. darrin porcher, seattle mike solon and dr. oscar odom. mike, i have got to start with

you. there in seattle have you jenny saying summer of love. police chief there saying this cannot stand. what's your take right there in the middle of it? >> yeah, pete, thanks for having me. i agree with the chief this cannot stand because this is a direct result of city officials lacking the political will power to enforce the rule of law i'm fearful this will metastasize across the country because we are already seeing portland oregon and rumors in nashville, tennessee. where does this stop? the closest i have seen our country becoming a lawless state. it's unacceptable. pete: what's logic of saying it's the summer of love. don't worry it's all just a street festival. is she captured by the protesters? why is the mayor saying that when her city is lawless? >> city officials have made value tearily surrender the

precinct. the end game is they are bad actors. they are looking to blow up the system. the sources tell me the federal government are very interested in this. the real core issue is that reasonable people in seattle are frightened and the end game is defunding the police. and when you talk about defunding the police, you can have good quality policing. the two aren't incompatible. training separates the good cops from bad and the training budget is the first thing to go. pete: leadership and training. dr. porcher defunding the police is coming to new york city as well. talking about stripping a billion dollars from the budget there what is the nypd facing right now? >> well, the nypd has experienced tremendous gains in connection with technological innovation. and when you defund the police, what you do is you now recede on that. we need to now introduce a series of bench marks for the betterment of policing. this should be a process that always revolutionized. so when we have a person like de

blasio at the forefront, his leadership has plummeted at record levels. you even have liberals that are business owners that have been victimized by looters as a result of the nypd being forced to recede and the mayor surreptitiously going around the police commissioner and creating a stoppage, so to speak or moratorium on policing in essence with the riotous behavior. as a result, when we see and hear terms such as defunding the police, what it does is it impacts on citizens. and i think that citizens, more on than not, should sue the mayor directly when they are the victim of a crime as opposed to letting the mayor continue to act in a way that's purely impacting on citizens in agency inive way as it relates to public safety. pete: dr. odom, i want to take you down to miami. this is something happening across the country. we have got video of protesters climbing on top of miami police

cruisers. getting tackled to the ground surrounded. have you defacing of statues down there. what are police to do when effective live they have been told to stand down but they are still trying to enforce the rule of law. you can't jump on a police car. you can't spray paint a statue. you want to get rid of it, elect somebody who will take it down. how do police navigate in this environment? >> this is a tough environment. first, let me say let me take my hats off to the men and women in blue in nypd and law enforcement all over the country for doing such a great job during these tough times. first of all, that's why we have laws. the united states constitution. about the bill of rights. and in there we have something called fre freedom of speech. yes we do have it. however, freedom of speech has something called a time, place and manner restriction. it's not absolute. which means by the law we can put a time, place and manner in which can you conduct certain activity and if you are inciting riots or inciting or saying run there is a fire.

you are not allowed to do it. so, therefore we need to bring back some sort of law and order. we'll understand everybody's right to free speech. and we give them that time. but by vandalizing and looting law enforcement and looting businesses you are messing up people's personal lives. you are messing up their personal business. you are messing up the committee and during the pandemic you are making it worse by being out there all the time because now you begin to infect everybody. i don't know what's going on where they allow this to continue to happen. this is not law and order. and it must be established. police officers are putting their lives on the line. we are people father's mothers, brothers, sisters, cousins, aunts, uncles. we are a part a part of the fam. why would you treat us like this. when an incident takes place we don't run from it we run to it. you call us because there is a robbery we don't run away we run to it. therefore, like i always say in a few good men put on a uniform and take a pulse, either way i understand and i know what we do

with the brave men and women of law enforcement do. pete: dr. odom apparently there is pandemic going on. you remind us of that. mike, you are the president of the seattle police officer's guild. if chaz ever does officers would be asked to go in there to restore order. look at those images what is happening in miami. how do they do that when they have a mayor who doesn't support them? >> well, police officers can't go into that area even as we speak. if there is a 911 communications call, the people are asked to come outside that area. but, this doesn't just stop at the east precinct that the city of seattle voluntarily gave up. this can continue to different precincts throughout the police department. and particularly the west precinct the flagship of the department which houses the 911 communication center. just imagine a major urban area without the ability to have 911 for police response.

this is tragic. it's very serious. and i'm fearful that this is going to spread across the country. this has to be address you had. immediately. pete: how do you ask police officers do their jobs in then environment as well. we have seen swat members in other municipalities walk off the job saying i'm not equipped. i'm not supported. dr. odom, dr. porcher, mike sole solon, there was another topic the city council voting to defund the police we didn't get. to say so much to get. to say hopefully we will have you back soon. godspeed, thank you for all do you for the men and women in blue we appreciate it? >> thank you. pete: jed, over to you for headlines. jedediah: thanks, pete. headlines for you now in the 6:00 a.m. hour. cdc warns the coronavirus pandemic is not over. the agency says some states may have to go back on lockdown if cases continue to rise. houston is weighing another lockdown right now. this as oregon pauses reopening after seeing its largest one-day

increase in covid-19 cases. governor kate brown says more people have tested positive in the state. she freezed reopening plans for one week. restaurants were supposed to reopen yesterday in portland: president postpones his rally in oklahoma. it is now june 20th. held june 19th juneteenth marking the end of slavery. many of my african-american friends and supporters have reached out to suggest that we consider changing the date out of respect for this holiday and out of observance of this important occasion and all that it represents. president trump's campaign manager says about 300,000 people have already signed up to attend that rally. and evacuations are underway in arizona as a massive fire spreads throughout the state. the big corn fire has grown to nearly 9,000 acres threatening over 800 homes. the fire has been burning since last week and it is only 10%

contained. brush fires are also burning across california. temperatures this week have almost hit triple digits in some areas. and those are your headlines. going to head over to rick now for the latest on weather. rick, what have you got? rick: hi, jed, yeah, the temperatures have been incredible across parts of the southwest breaking all kinds of records. something you don't like to see this early in the season but it's what we have got. here are your temperatures waking up this morning. overall we have a great day across a lot of the east. in fact, we have seen a cold front move through when it did it really dropped the temperatures and really dropped humid down for almost all of us. here is the cold front can you see stretched off of the east coast and really strong storms overnight spreading through the northern part of florida. these are beginning to weaken a little bit as they continue to drive off towards the south. we have a pretty nice day in store. behind that front it's beautiful. we do have this rain across part of the pacific northwest and across northern california. even a little bit of mountain

snow that we are seeing. to the south of that really incredible fire danger. you were just talking about those fires. this is where we have all the fire danger. parts of utah through the four corners and in across parts of texas and western areas of oklahoma and kansas. all right. send it back to you. griff: all right, rick. thank you very much. well, still ahead, joe biden's latest blunder comparing the death of george floyd to the assassination of martin luther king jr. dr. king's northeast alveda king says biden is completely missing the mark. she explains next. some companies still have hr stuck between employees and their data.

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♪ jedediah: former vice president joe biden making headlines for recent remarks comparing the death of george floyd and dr. martin luther king jr.'s assassination. >> it's, you know, brutally murdered for the whole world to see it.

even dr. king's assassination did not have the worldwide impact that george floyd's death did. griff: joining us to react the niece of dr. martin luther king jr. and fox news contributor dr. alveda king. good morning, alveda darks how are you? >> good morning, my friends. hi. griff: so you say that vice president's missing the mark, how? >> president trump says that we all bleed the same. we are one nation under god. uncle joe, as they call him many do, is in his basement missing the mark. and he is out of touch with reality by comparing martin luther king jr. and george floyd he is doing what he is good at but is he not so good anymore stirring the race card up. using the race card having people now martin luther king, george floyd, what in the world? martin luther king was great.

both men were raised in godly families. both men wanted peace. martin luther king jr., a righteous preacher, george floyd whose family now, his brother terrence, we want peace. his sister ruby, let's bring love back. so i look at the message that is right at the heart of it, which uncle joe doesn't even want you to see, by stirring up the race card. america needs sanity. america needs peace. america needs love. so he's missing the mark and stir, the race pot again. uncle joe, i don't know where you are in your basement, but that's -- you are missing it. pete: paging uncle joe, you are right, doctor. your uncle led a movement. he was a referenced who changed this nation as a leader who did something no one else had ever done. no one is taking away from the terrible thing that happened to george floyd. but, to make that comparison of

the two, well, let's let uncle joe try to explain one more time. take a listen. >> dr. king's assassination did not have the worldwide impact that george floyd's death did. what george floyd -- what happened to george floyd, now have you got, how many people around the country, millions of cell phones. it's changed the way everybody is looking at this. look at the millions of people marching around the world, the world. pete: so the world didn't change because of what dr. martin luther king did? it's all cell phones? what do you make of it, doctor. >> there we have uncle joe confusion fighting over skin color we one human race, one blood. we can see you, uncle joe. we are listening. but you have the wrong message, uncle joe.

griff: all right, alveda darks thank you very much. jedediah: yeah, thank you so much for being here. pete: dr. king, thank you. >> thank you. griff: first they took aim at shows like paw patrol and cops. now cancel culture is calling for another wildly popular tv show to be taken off the air. rachel campos-duffy is going to sound off next.

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activists are now calling for more television shows to get the ax. >> so could good cops on tv be a thing of the past? here to discuss fox news contributor and host of moms on fox nation rachel campos-duffy. great to see you as always. >> good morning. jedediah: this trend of removing -- good morning to you. this trend of automatically having this impulse to remove what people don't like is deeply concerning. why not either modify tore learn from it if it's a tv show or film from the past and teach your kids how the world has changed. why the rush to remove? >> well, actually, i think some people are doing what you are saying. because this is what i have been reading. they are saying we are going to reinvent the idea of a cop. we are going to say that, look, it's a flawed, failed institution that lets people down. that's what the hollywood writers are now getting from. this shows like the cartoon like paw patrol. i don't think paw patrol will be canceled. it's too successful.

but you can be sure that when the next person comes with an idea for a kid's television show, and they want to make it a police officer show or the police are heroes who help people and help the community, that show is not going to get the green light. so this is about tearing down this narrative of cops as heroes. cops as moral. cops as people who help. and i think it's very dangerous. it's not just dangerous because, look, if you get sexually assaulted, if you have a problem, a domestic violence problem. if you are a victim of a crime, those losers in chaz are not going to show up to help you out. it's going to be the cops. we valor valorize. do we want the new world liberals and those hospital to tear down police officers want us to live in? i don't want to live in that

world. i don't know about you. pete: yeah, rachel, they want to tear down the police because they want to tear down our system and tear down our country and starts in the culture and the movies and media. here is what said will olivia benson being canceled. if you believe that the system is broken and great changes need to be made on all levels to fix it, you can't pick and choose that needs to be changed. no matter how much you love olivia benson have you to be willing to grapple with the fact that she play as major role in perpetuating the idea that cops are inherently trustworthy and heroic. again, it goes back to tearing down the view that cops are good. >> right. they have to bully this. because most people's experience with cops is i have positive. when we are in trouble, we know who we have to turn to. they are trying to build this mistrust. yes there are bad apples in every industry. there are bad teachers and doctors there are bad in

everything. that's the minority. and so what they are trying to do is through culture, because this is how the left works, through culture, through television shows, through little children's cartoons, tear down what we inherently know is true, which is that cops are good. that we need them for our safety, for our protection. and for our society to run right. and in order to break down, this they are going to use culture and they are going after this. and i think that as parents we have to be very aware. because we can no longer, moving forward, trust that this image of the cops that is presented to our children or on our television shows is going to be. we are going to have to teach our own kids to trust cops to love cops and to aspire to be them. griff: all right. rachel, thank you very much. have you now inspired me to go on a mayor ton of law and order and throw in chps or hill street blues. pete: you are right politics is downstream from culture.

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"mommy's work!" mommy's work. with this pandemic, safety is even more important to make sure we go home safe every single day. >> i saw her break down. i saw her leave. i saw her have absolutely no control and i saw her make a lot of bad decisions. they are not protesters when they take over a large portion of the city. that's a city that had a pretty good reputation. policewise soft. it was soft because of the mayor. pete: it's saturday, june 13th. this is "fox & friends." we start with a fox news alert. president trump slamming seattle's mayor for losing control of her city in an interview with harris faulkner after another dave chaos there. griff: occupiers taking over seattle streets since monday declaring a cop-free zone near a police precinct. >

jedediah: it's called the capitol hill autonomous zone also known as chaz. the mayor has declared it at patriotic. good morning. 7:00 hour. covering the latest what is happening in seattle and minneapolis and why these local elections are so important. we often talk about presidential elections. guess what you vote for your mayor and governor and makes a big difference when crisis strikes as such as what we are seeing. pete: protesters are so patriotic in chaz, they love this country so much that they left the country and tried to create their own autonomous zone. guys, this feels like the logical extension of the safe spaces we see on campus. the sanctuary cities we have seen across the country. this is that next step of total -- it's anarchy authoritarianism. it's rejecting the police. it's saying reject the united states of america. we want to tear down the statues of our past. griff, it's not just apparently some city council members there

in seattle think it's not just republicans that are to blame, it's democrats, too. griff: that's right. listen, you are down playing, pete, the progressive paradise utopia that has been established. pete: i'm sorry, griff. sorry. griff: that congresswoman an avowed socialist herself is now done taking aim at the conservative viewpoint. she is going after the democrats. establishment democrats trying to move her agenda further. listen to what she had to say yesterday. >> we have to hold the establishment in various cities accountable. this violence against the peaceful protest movement on capitol hill was carried out by mayor jenny temperature can and that's why it's no surprise that tens of thousands of people in seattle are calling for her resignation. i can tell you the only thing that went awry day after day after day since the first protest on may 30th was the police under orders by the democratic party establishment and mayor temperature can it was

the police making things going awry. griff: she is actually also moved to make chaz permanently by trying to introduce legislation locally, jed. jedediah: yeah, i mean, you have to think about how terrifying this must be. just from an emotional level. if vu a family, you have children, imagine being in an autonomous zone, whatever that label means, which essentially means recklessness, there is no police, there is no one to call if there is an emergency. how would you feel? and you see this you don't necessarily have autonomous zone yet popping up anywhere we have seen some talk about in nashville and some talk elsewhere. but you have in several cities around the country this rejection of police. we are seeing in particular with minneapolis the city council just unanimously voting to abolish its police department and replace it with a community led public safety system. what does that even mean? you are seeing it in new york. you are seeing it pop up all over the place.

where are people going to be -- i think you are going to see a great transition of people who have families that lead these cities. who say look what's happening. leadership either seems to not care or afraid because they're operating on some sort of political platform that they're afraid to support law enforcement or afraid to support law and order. whatever the case may be. people are beginning to feel profoundly unsafe in these communities and they're going to leave. pete: how could you not? we heard from a guest earlier involved with the seattle police department who said if you call 911 in the autonomous zone zone you have to walk outside the zone to get support from the police, which means there is no rapid response at all. this socialist that we played, avowed socialist. she is effective li saying that the chief there carman best who said she never would have given up that precinct if that was her decision she is a blake female she is effectively say she go is part of the problem too as she tries to police her community.

calling out democrats, the mayor of seattle has been a democrat since 1990. the governor hab a democrat since 1985. if the system is systemically racist they only have democrats to point to as they try to establish their own country in our country. it is spreading across the country. hasn't come to new york yet. the defund the police movement is the new york police benevolent association put out a statement because they are talking about cutting the budget of the nypd by a billion dollars. here is what that individual said. said new york state has been failing our communities for decades. police officers spend our days addressing issues caused by these failures. now, we won't even be able to do it. we will be permanently frozen, stripped of all resources and unable to do our job. we don't want to see our community suffer. but this is what governor cuomo and our elected leaders have chosen. don't forget, guys, new york city is the number one terror target in the world. the reasonable this police department has been plussed up

so much in part is to address the many threats, international and domestic the city faces. now when it comes to basic, when you see a vehicle like that. we saw what happened in miami where the police tried to stop it from happening. yet, they are made to be the bad guys. griff, it makes you think, you know, if the left is declaring the police bad guys and wanting to defund them how do get this train back on the tracks? griff: great point, pete. where does it stop? what's to stop protesters from taking one police plaza griff. pete: they already have. griff: this is perhaps going to be the signature issue in the presidential campaign as president trump and vice president biden start to try and define what we mean when we when you hear defund or to dismantle a police force and it is going to be interesting to see who specifically biden picks. one of the names on a short list, the a.p. is reporting, is a former cop.

here is the short list there are six names on this. elizabeth warren, kamala harris, susan rice, representative val demings a police chief for academic indicated and atlanta mayor kisha lance bottoms who we saw early on taking the side of law enforcement and governor grisham, now biden's campaign has dismissed this list the a.p. put out saying it was early speculation. it's a very interesting mix of voices who will probably have differing opinions where val demings or elizabeth warren, jed, on going forward. jedediah: yeah. from that list i mean kamala harris obviously has been, you know, a standout for many. i have seen looking at social media a lot of folks on the left, particularly in light of what is going on around the country have pointed to her as someone that would be good to have on that ticket. obviously talking a lot about the need, at this point, given the topics that are in the news of having diversity on the ticket. of having someone who can speak to these issues. particularly well. which i do believe kamala harris

in many respects has done. the question though becomes, you know, many folks on the left have said you know what? biden has got this one. you know, the economy has been through trouble as a result of covid-19. now you have these issues of race that they feel in many respects, donald trump has inflamed. many would disagree with that regardless that is their stand on the issue. someone who is a proud member of that far left of the left michael moore has come out and said listen, democrats, you don't quite have this in the bag. take a listen to what he had to say. >> if anybody is sitting at home right now thinking oh, man, we have got this one in the bag. whoa, did you hear him today? he said he has done more for black people than abraham lincoln. whoa. we are going to win. no, no. i'm telling you, i'm warning you and i'm begging you, please, do not sell this man short. he has pulled off so many things so many times.

pete: and he has delivered on his promises unlike what previous politicians have done. when you think about joe biden, guys. he's in his basement. is he not all there we know that he's got a list of potential vice presidential candidates, which makes that list very important because of his shortcomings. he made what i think is one of the dumbest mistakes you could make which is cutting your pool of potential people in half by 50% to begin with listen i think a woman should be president some day like anyone else. if we are in a times of crisis you should be looking at all people possible. he is playing the identity politics game like everyone on the left does. i'm not all that interested in who he picks because it's a box-checking exercise ultimately from and he is going to look at what problem do i have in this moment that i think i can address with a human being as opposed to policies that take on the fact that his own party, people in his own party, who are prominent are saying let's get

rid of the police and have autonomous zones and allow rioting and looting. that's the discussion we will have. that's why you hear the put of the united states talk about law and order time and time again. average voters in the inner city and suburbs and rural areas still believe that when you call 911 you should have a trained police officer there ready to respond immediately. that is what equal justice looks like in our country. and let's have that debate. but that's what it comes down. to say. griff: that's a great point. jedediah: can i just say one thing, one quick point? most democrats i spike to don't think that joe biden has this in the bag because they are worried about joe biden. joe biden is his own worse enemy. every time he opens his mouth everyone waits for. that is not my perception. i think democrats are quite worried about joe biden's ability to win this election. pete: ooh, yeah. griff griff 1966 miranda rights were established by the supreme court because there was need for reform. today we need clear reform with standard use of force getting

rid of them august together isn't going to be one that the american people will vote for in november. michael moore is right that biden had better not sit back in the basement and wait for it to happen. pete: the minneapolis city council don't worry we're getting rid of the cops future of community safety working group deliver recommendations on july 24th. hold on the working group is coming. all right? and they will give you good recommendations. griff: a lot more on that coming up for the next two and a half plus hours but now turning to your headlines. police two alleged car thieves in chicago after an officer is run over and dragged by a suspect's car. >> 72nd and shots fired 23? >> shots fired, yes. >> shots fired. griff: officer was run down as he tried approaching the stolen vehicle. his injuries are not life-threatening and he is in good condition. both suspects were arrested. accused of throwing molotov cock

tiles at nypd could spend the rest of their lives in prison. federal prosecutors indicting them on several charges including use of explosives and arson. police say two lawyers tossed a molotov cocktail at police vehicle in brooklyn and separate attack one woman is caught on camera throwing the makeshift explosive at nypd car with four officers inside. and today president trump will deliver the commencement address at west point military academy. he will be the 12th sitting president to deliver the commencement speech graduating cadets will return to the new york campus after isolating in their dorm rooms for two weeks in preparation. social distancing will be enforced at the ceremony. and families will have to watch the graduation on livestream. but you can watch the ceremony right here live on the fox news channel today starting at 10:25 eastern time. and those are your headlines. it's going to be something to watch. i read the motto of this year's 2020 graduating class was with

vision we lead. it will be interesting to see. pete: i have seen those dorm rooms at west point your quarantine is austere. they are happy to be out and graduating at this point. all right. coming up. first they were booted from their hotel. now some national guard soldiers deployed to our nation's capital say they were given pizza with shards of glass in it. the commanding general of the washington, d.c. guard joining us next. midas can help get you there. through july 4th celebrate your freedom with our $17.76 oil change... that includes a tire rotation. when you're ready, your car should be too. midas.

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scrutiny as well as local officials. the mayor getting evicted from their hotels and now two guardsmen say they found glass baked into their pizza. here to discuss is the commanding general of the d.c. national guard, major general william walker. general, thank you so much for joining this morning. and for your service. if you would, first, talk to us about the situation the national guard was deployed into there in our nation's capital over the last week plus. >> sure. good morning, mr. hegseth and thank you for this opportunity. with me this morning is my command sergeant major michael f. brooks. is he my senior enlisted leader. before we start i would like to express my con doll lengths on behalf of the men and women of the districts of columbia national guard to the floyd family. we mourn with you. so, our mission was to ensure that life and property was protected to support our partners, the metropolitan and police department, the united states park police, the united states secret service and to

enable you a secure environment for american citizens to use their first amendment rights to express their concerns. pete: absolutely, sir. i was on the ground there for three nights. what was clear in facilitating that peaceful protest is that there were rioters and looters who wanted something otherwise. when it came to working with the mayor, who did the d.c. national guard ultimately work for? is it the mayor of d.c.? or the secretary of the army? where does that chain of command fall? >> so we support the mayor and the metropolitan police department. but we work for the president of the united states. i am a presidential appointee. i was appointed to this position by president trump and my deputy commanding general is also appointed by president. i work directly for the secretary of the army and he reports to the secretary of defense and ultimately to the commander-in-chief. so i work for the president. >> the d.c. guard is different.

you are protecting our nation's capital as opposed to a particular state with a governor. i have to ask you though about the -- about the guardsmen being kicked out of the hotel. the mayor did that. why did that happen? >> most unfortunate event. it was an administrative situation. what i wants you to know that within two, maybe three hours, we had all the soldiers accommodated in another hotel. so, and let me thank the men and women of the utah national guard, as well as all the guardsmen from the 12 states that came to support us. what we affectionately call guard nation. we are grateful for utah. they were here within hours. we are grateful. pete: d.c. guard used to hosting other states do you things like the inauguration. guard men's from other states come in for that we teased it so i have to ask you as well, general, the glass in the pizza, the two guards member found. what do you make of that? >> most unfortunate, again.

but greatfully, thankfully, those soldiers did not consume any of the pizza. they discarded it and consumed another meal. pete: that is good to hear for sure. i also have to ask you about the center of all of this lafayette park. i was there a lot of d.c. guard members there the left wing media in my opinion has made a lot of controversy out of preserving historical monuments and places where there should be peaceful protests. what was the guard's role in lafayette park? >> we were in direct support of united states park police and the united states secret service. since we are talking about this, let me assure you that the district of columbia national guard, we do not have rubber bullets. no soldier or airmen at lafayette square was armed. we were there in a to protect life and property there was considerable damage done to national monuments. pete: absolutely. speak to me briefly because i was on the line with a riot

shield for a couple of nights. the d.c. guard is one of the most diverse guards newscast country. talk to us about where you draw your members from in the community. >> so, not only from the district of columbia, but we have members that come in to serve as far as away as new york, california, kansas, it's unique organization. we are 60% minority. 52% african-american. and i like to think that we're probably the most diverse national guard in the -- of the 54 national guards. there are 54 national guards in the united states. 53 are -- work for governors. we work for the president. so we're the only federal national guard in the nation. and we're probably, i like to think the most diverse. there are three african-american generals. two hispanic generals. and they're all appointed by the president. pete: major general walker thank you for joining us this morning

for the men you lead for the men have you lead and protect our capital general, thank you so much for your time this morning on "fox & friends" we appreciate it? >> can i say thank you for the men and women of the national guard. pete: bingo. taking us to break right there. thank you, general. still ahead, you have always been essential to us. that message coming from the entire neighborhood that came together to thank their long time delivery man. meet the u.p.s. driver next. [. [applause] businesses are starting to bounce back.

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in two successful launches. the spacex falcon 9 taking off from cape canaveral in florida just hours before a nasa satellite was launched from new zealand. this as nasa sends the first woman to head spaceflight program. cathy leaders will lied the missiolead themission to send ak to the moon in 2024. good for her. griff? jedediah: thanks, griff. u.p.s. driver day deliver packages when the entire neighborhood ended up delivering him a big surprise. [applause] >> thank you so much. >> thank you. >> you are an essential worker. have you always been essential to us. you know our names. we know your families. we adore you and we just want to say thank you. so. >> amazed. so amazed. [applause]

jedediah: that video going viral with more than 1 million like once instagram. gregory watkins has been a u.p.s. driver for that community for 13 years and he joins me now. gregory, welcome to the show. that is such an amazing thing to see. i have to ask what did it feel like for you when your community came together for you like that? >> i got to tell you, thanks for having me this morning. it was a total surprise. i'm just very thankful that they were able to get together and do something like that for me. it was just totally amazing. totally amazing. jedediah: it's pretty amazing what you do. you have been on the front lines of working through this pandemic. delivering packages. some of those packages needed food, medical supplies to that community. what's it been like for you to work through the pandemic? >> well, i felt that as long as i could follow the general rules, i wasn't too worried

about it, you know, just keeping my 6-foot distance. you know, washing my hands. i also wore gloves, i wore a mask. just following those rules i felt that i should be okay out there. and, like you said, there are people out there who need their medical supplies and needed their -- and i was more than happy to make that happen. jedediah: it's so inspiring looking at the video to see how much the community loves you and how much they appreciate what you are doing and just that bond between an essential worker who has been so key this whole time and that community. what message do you have for people who maybe they are not an essential worker or they are about to reenter the workforce? it's still trying times right now. what message do you have for them in terms of being brave, getting out there and doing the job they need to do? >> i would just say that, you know, we still have to continue to know that we are still in

that era and we still need to protect yourself. you still need to wear your mask. you still need to observe the rules. you still need to keep your distance and still need to wash your hands and also keep your hands out of your face like i said before. but, you know, if we are comfortable with that everything is doing that. we can be safe out there. jedediah: i want to thank you so much for being here and just for that amazing video. it's lifted a lot of experience at a really difficult time. thank you for being on those front lines and getting those packages to people. the whole country appreciates you more than you know. >> i would like to say thank you to my family for being patient with me for the hours i have been working linda, christine and karen for putting that whole thing together for me and kristin putting the video up. it's been an amazing ride and i'm very thankful for that community and the love that they have shown me. jedediah: thank you so much. that's a pretty awesome community. looks like a fun community to be

part of. thank you so much, gregory, for being here today. >> thank you. jedediah: coming up, lockerdowns may be easing up, but joe biden is staying in his basement. and it turns out not all democrats wants to see him out on the campaign trail. the biden surrogate who just said that biden should stay put. he's next. to pay for bites of this... ...with this. when kids won't eat dinner, potato pay them to. ore-ida. win at mealtime.

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presumptive democratic nominee claims the president will steal the election. garrett tenney joins us live with more on the president's push back. garrett, good morning to you. >> griff, good morning to you this idea that the president would try to steal the election or refuse to leave office if lost the election something democrats have been talking about for years it. came up this week after joe biden stoked that in an interview. president trump addressed that in an interview with our own harris faulkner. >> look, joe is not all there. everybody knows it. and it's sad when you look at it and you see it. you see it for yourself. he has created his own sanctuary city in the basement of wherever he is. and he doesn't come out. >> losing the election president trump says would be a very sad and bad thing for the country. while the country i country pres

getting ready to put on rallies. terry mcauliff told supporters the former vice president shunt be in any hurry to leave his home. >> people say all the time oh we have got to get the vice president out of the basement. he is fine in the basement. [laughter] two people see him today is-[inaudible] let trump keep doing what trump is doing. it's hard for the vice president to break through. >> this comes as biden has reportedly narrowed his list of potential running mates to six serious contenders according to the associated press. and that list includes senators elizabeth warren, kamala harris, susan rice, as well as flangt mayor keisha lance bottom tons val demings and michelle grish hanel. it's still early and other names could be still added to the list. griff? griff: all right. garrett. five months to go and a lot could change. hey, jedediah jed, over to you.

jedediah: thanks, griff. turn to headlines for you now. new york governor andrew cuomo signing several police reform bills into law. ban police choke holds, make officer disciplinary records public and allow the state a.g. to act as a special prosecutor in police killings. the laws will make unable to do their job. comes as de blasio rejects a city council proposal to slash nypd's budget by $1 billion. de blasio says he is open to negotiate but former nypd lieutenant dr. darrin porcher warned us earlier any cuts are unacceptable. >> when we hear terms such as defunding police, what it does it impacts on citizens. and i think that citizens more often than not should sue the mayor directly when think are the victim of a crime. >> the nypd's current budget is nearly $6 billion. and pennsylvania governor tom wolf calling on the state supreme court to uphold his

lockdown orders during the pandemic. republicans and a handful of democrats voted to overturn the order. nonessential businesses were forced to close and large gathers banned. the governor is gradually reopening parts of the state as new coronavirus cases decline but the state legislature says it has the power to lift the restrictions and a police officer is challenged to a pushup competition on a california sidewalk the san bernardino officer accepting the resident's challenge in full uniform, but lost. both the resident and officer were visibly tired after the competition. and those are your headlines, looks pretty intense. i don't know, rick, maybe i should challenge you to a pushup competition on. what do you think, rick reichmuth. rick: i'm in. we have had lots of them in the past. pete usually wins. jedediah: listen, now i'm scared. you seem all together too confident. i don't know. maybe i retract. rick: it's the one thing i can

do. all right, guys. let's talk some weather out there. we have been watching all these fires across parts of the southwest. areas of arizona having most of the fires that we are dealing with all the four corner states we have fires going on. when you take a look at the maps, you can see we have a lot of areas here under critical fire outlook today throughout parts of utah, nevada, arizona and then back across the panhandles of texas, oklahoma, and new mexico. be very, very careful if you are outside across areas of the west. if you are out across parts of the east i don't normally show this map. dew point map, you know what the dew point is how it feels when you go outside. the next number of days across the east are going to be feeley really good. would you are going to be watching watched the cold front move through and much drier air is going to settle. in summer humidity goes down a little bit feel quite nice for everybody. we do have a cold front moved on through bringing showers across

parts of florida but overall that begins to weaken throughout the day today and we are looking at a pretty nice day. all right, guys. back to you. pete: very good. rick, thank you very much. father's day is right around the corner. next guest reflecting on fond memories of fishing with his dad which sparked a passion for the great outdoors. griff: this father's day he is having families across the nation make their own memories outdoors and he is making sure you have got the gear you need. jedediah: joining us now with all the details is broption and cabela's founder joey morris with his son you john paul morris. welcome to you show. it looks like have you amazing products there johnny, tell us a little bit about them what have you for us today. >> well, first, good morning to you guys. it's an honor to have you hear with us in our grand daddy store in springfield, missouri. as we come into father's day we are joined in spirit at least by my father. my hero in life my dad john a.

john paul's granddad. i just -- he was my hero in so many ways like pete he served our country. my dad was in world war ii and the battle of the bulge and came back from that and really a big inspiration to me in life. we have all been going through some rough times. and i think if there is a bright spot through all this pandemic and the terrible rough times, it's people are kind of reassessing true priorities in life and for us it's -- we have been through a rough time in our company because of this, with stores closed and a rough go. but now we are getting opened back up. and we are seeing something truly remarkable and that's more kids, more families going out and making a priority to spend time in nature and going fishing than we have ever seen ever in the history of our country. so that's a wonderful thing, families getting connected together in nature. and that's what we are here to do. we have the greatest team of

outfitters they have earned the reputation as the world's foremost outfitters store manager some of the early morning team thank you amazing job. all ready to help you have a great time. i think john my son is going to tell you about a few great begans we have here. >> welcome to the ozarks. with father's day just over a week away we have a lot of great gifts for dad. and whether dad is a hunter, a fisherman or whether he loves getting outdoors or camping or barbecuing in the backyard we have great gifts for you. coming check out one of our bass pro locations. out outfitters are some of the most frengtly people out there to help you get the right gift for dad. i have two kind of big toys here for dad that you might be interested in looking at. this is our tracker xl classic. this is boat that's been developed in the ozarks over the last 40 years. my dad had this idea that we need to start doing factory direct pricing on these great boats. this one is just over $10,000. we also have this great tracker

off-road 800 sx side by side. and a partnership they helped us produce. and both of these have great financing options. but if you are not interested in spending that much, we also have unbelievable gift card offer going on right now over the next week all the way up until father's day we are offering 10% off on all gift cards. come on down. check out the store. i promise you above anything else, getting outside with dad and making new memories will make his day. pete: absolutely. john paul and johnny great stuff there i know you have signature rods and reels. grills and gift cards. johnny, i would be remiss if i didn't ask you about covid-19 and the impact on your business. how is bass pro shops, cabela's the business environment. >> it was devastating like many businesses we are in the resort business as well big cedar lodge and many parks are totally

closed. we have been opening up. and try to be very responsible with all the best procedures for our folks and for our customers. and thank the lord we had very few incidents among our outfitters. things are rebounding. like i mentioned, we have been very blessed that the demand for outdoor gear is like through the roof. and that's the happiness of this. pete: loved the message at the outset of the segment as well. good luck. i hope people are getting outdoors coming into bass pro shops. they can go to bass pro.com or cabela's.com for all those deals big and small. johnny morris one of a kind and john paul thank you for joining us this morning we appreciate it. >> thank you, you guys. >> grateful to you guys. pete: got it. jedediah: amid growing calls to defund or dismantle police departments. one watchdog groh group is

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company just down the street from me four blocks the national law enforcement memorial. it's more than 21,000 names on that for the men and women who made the great ache size an sacs one watch company is speaking out. what do you say? >> i just say it's one of the best commercial i have seen in my lifetime. not because of fancy graphics. because they are brave enough. they are brave enough to stand up and speak the truth and support law enforcement. i already bought a b 1 jet this morning and bought a watch. i do need a watch? no but i want to show my support to them and i hope more americans do that. griff: yeah. i will tell you, it's something else. i talked about that memorial there. we're going to see a march planned today in d.c. to show support for law enforcement. tell me a little bit about it. i believe you are going to be one of the speakers. >> yeah. i'm going to go up and march with this group. i'm also going to speak. i was asked to do that and i'm

going to do it because i want to speak for the men and women of this nation that support police but are afraid to say so. so i'm going to go up there and participate and give a speech. i have already heard this morning there is a lot of people that want to participate in this march in support of our police. but they are afraid. they are afraid of what they have seen the last two weeks in washington, d.c. they are afraid that some violence may occur. it's a sad day in america, griff, when an american taxpayer cannot support our men and women in law enforcement without fear of violence. it's not the america i think we want and not the america i grew up in. and it's a sad day when people that want to go show their support for law enforcement are afraid to do it out of fear they may be attacked and may be called racist. there is no reason we can't denounce racism as terrible thing. denounce racism but at the same time defend the men and women who defend this nation in our communities and protect us every single day across this country. griff: all right. now you can go to we back

blue.com to learn more about the effort today. tom, thank you very much. be safe out there and report back. let us know what it is like. hopefully a lot of people turn out to show support for law and order. thanks, tom. >> thanks for having me, griff. griff: coming up, an incredible story of a young girl stepping up to help her community rebuild. meet the 9-year-old who has raised more than $80,000 for minneapolis. that's next. the only fda-approved, once-daily 3 in 1 copd treatment. ♪ with trelegy and the power of 1, 2, 3, i'm breathing better. trelegy works 3 ways to open airways, keep them open, and reduce inflammation for 24 hours of better breathing. trelegy won't replace a rescue inhaler for sudden breathing problems. trelegy is not for asthma.

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♪ pete: our next bunch is punching above her weight and helping her minneapolis community rebuild one bracelet at a time. a-year-old girl starting a celebratelet drive to help those impacted by recent riots. so far she has raised around

$80,000. $80,000. cammeron johnson came up with the idea to sell bracelets she joins us along with her father former nfl player ron johnson. good morning to you both. cammeron, so burial to have you on the show this morning. what a neat idea. what motivated you to say i'm going to raise money with these bracelets to help people in need? >> well, we were on the driveway making bracelets and my friend said that we should do a bracelet sale and my mom said that we should raise the money for the people in minneapolis and the families in need. pete: wow. money is going to churches, food drives and small businesses. ron, i don't know what you are doing with your parenting but help me out because that's a heck of a perspective for a 9-year-old girl. what goes through your head when you see her responding the way she is? >> well, first, i mean, her mom does a great job. i mean, she goes to a christian

school. but then she also is on sports teams and so she gets numerous, you know, background conversations. different things that go on. so when it comes back to it, you know, we believe that if she understands how to be empathetic and if she understands that everybody has an opinion, everybody is going to have something to say, everybody, you should care about everybody's feelings, i think that's where it startle. and she does. she cares about everybody's feelings. she is always worried about everybody. she is completely our pandemic c child. started small and now grown to this. pete: we ar proud of you. you started with $3 bracelets and now $80,000. did you ever think that big would be possible?

>> no. pete: do you hope to deliver the money straight to the businesses the churches, food drives? how do you plan to do that? >> yeah. so we have already delivered like a $5,000 check when we first started because we thought we were done after like a day or two. so we kind of -- when we first hit 10 grand the first day we took half and gave it to sanctuary church in minneapolis, vikings tight end kyle rudolph had a food drive down right across the street from the target that had been caught on fire and so we went down and there dropped off, you know, around $2,000 in supplies. we took another $1,000 of supplies to another church. and so then that is kind we thought we were done and, boom, it's taken off. so now we have kind of taken. pete: god had other plans as he often does. kammrn thank you so much for what you are doing. inspiring kids all over the country. wonderful stuff. where can they donate real quick?

>> right now actually we were going into a bank right now to get our account set up but right now it's venmo. so you can venmo ron john jr. 3. that's ronjohn 3 on venmo. pete: we have to leave it there i'm sorry going to a commercial break. hit them up on venmo. see you on the other side. as you head back out on the road, lincoln will be doing what we do best. making your life a bit more effortless. with virtual, real-time tours of our vehicles, and remote purchasing. for a little help, on and off the road.

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budget by $1 billion. that was 1 billion you guys hard. welcome, everyone to the 8:00 a.m. with griff jenkins, pete hegseth breaking down the latest. i don't know, pete, would you want to live in place where leadership was doing nothing when police were being ousted? pete: you can't live in that. that's why i didn't mispronounce it the minneapolis city clowncil jed i caught that. pete: disconnected from the citizens black white, gay, straight, manual, woman. who simply want to live in a place where they have individual freedom and equal justice. if they call the police someone is there to help them when no one else is able to do. so if they can't have second amendment right they can't defend themself. it makes no sense. logic sought the window. i did a little digging guys into the resolution the minneapolis city council passed unanimously 5-0. doesn't mean it's going to pass because the mayor -- or be implemented the mayor has a lot of power there here is the second paragraph of what the resolution said.

police use of force is among the leading causes of death for young men of color and black people, including black women, girls, queer, trans, and nonbinary folks, disabled people, american indians, immigrants and latinos are killed by police at disproportionately higher rates than their white peers except facts are a stubborn thing they said leading cause of death. that's the most ridiculous statement i have heard when you consider what the causes of death or for people in this country may i point out in 2019 as the well. 10 black victims unarmed killed by police in 2019. 20 white victims killed unarmed by police in 2019. 89 police officers killed in the line of duty. if you want to make a proposal, you better do so in a serious way that makes some sense and it has some grasping with reality. that's not what the city council is doing at all. people choosing to live in minneapolis are in for a big wake-up call when their working group comes out with recommendations for safety.

griff: it's an interesting development in minneapolis city council but what i'm interested in is what is happening in the seattle city council where one of the members there wants to make chaz the capitol hill autonomous zone a permanent existence of a progressive paradise i know, pete, you want to quickly pack up the children and go visit. but, listen. pete: it's not all that often you get to visit a new country inside your own country i back upack upthe kids and check it o. griff: what i want to tell you before you embark they have list of supplies they already need there in the autonomous zone. you can see this was tweeted out by someone reported to be inside there. they need cigarettes, ice, the good kind, get itgate gatorade, i seen another tweet yesterday calling for vegan pizza and la croix. very interesting situation. it's a sad one because it's so

deadly serious while you have the police chief there carmen best pleading to get in to make the necessary calls. we had mike sloan the president of the seattle police officer's guild. here is a little bit of what he had to say. >> this is a direct result of city officials lacking the political will power to enforce the rule of law. this doesn't just stop at the east precinct that the city of seattle voluntarily gave up this can continue to different precincts throughout the police department. and particular lit west precinct which is the flagship of the department which houses the 911 communications center. and just imagine a major urban area without the ability toe toe 911. it's very tragic and very serious and i'm fearful this is going to spread across the country. jedediah: yeah. so it's insanity is what it is.

it's crazy what is happening in a world that now we have autonomous zone popping up and you have political leadership in those places doing nothing about it just like hey, you want to take over the precinct? all right. this is absolutely insanity. i will see this popping up in other places that lessons people who behave this way and have this kind much agenda is learning look, let's observe what happens over in seattle. see, they did nothing about it. let's do that here. it's going to get increasingly scary. people aren't going to wanted to live in those places. the reason carmen best is sounding the alarm on this and saying we have to be able to go in there is because she knows that crime rates will rise. that if police can't get in there when somebody -- when there is a rape, when there is a murder, when there is theft going on, what's going to happen to those people? no sane person would want to reside in a place where you can't pick up the phone and call 911 and have the police have your back. it's absolute madness what's going on. there has been a lot of talk about what this all means in

terms of defunding the police. i talked last week on the show that this means they want to take some money, actually, away from the police department and redistribute it to other areas. but, we actually have a clarification coming in from a "new york times" op-ed. this is what it says we mean literally abolish the police. so here i have been giving them some credit and say oh they are not actually looking to abolish the police. the "new york times" coming and saying no, you know what? actually we do mean this. take a look at the quote from meriam an anti criminalization activists. here is what it says. why on earth would we think the same reforms would work now? we need to change our demands. the surest way of reducing police violence is to reduce the power of the police by cutting budgets and number of officers. don't get me wrong we are not abandoning our communities to violence. we don't want to just close police departments. we want to make them obsolete. so let's just let that sink in for a minute. i'm not going to say anything because it's so outrageous. let it sink in. pete: i want peace to break out

and our sinful nature to go away. if only adam and eve had figured it out we would be fine. don't worry they have the future committee safety working group working on recommendations to replace the police in minneapolis. jed, you mentioned how it's insane and it is. but if you are a kid who grew up in a government school that told you america was bad. then you went to a university where you had spaces and trigger warnings so nothing could affects you. then you moved backs into your parent's basement and then you went to chaz and said look mom i have an autonomous zone look how posh i am build the list and send back to mom i need tents, body lotions, zip ties, guns, those are some of the things on the list for the autonomous zone. they live in an alternate universe where cops are the bad guy. they have been taught that they want to continue to teach that. and, therefore, they think police are irrelevant. just wait for the first time they need to make that call. and that police chief you talked about the black female police chief of seattle she has said they are not answering 911

calls. people have to come outside of the perimeter for help. we asked detective push for innovation earlier on the program and when this is what had to say. >> this is not lawyered. it must be established people are putting their lives on the lines we are people mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, uncles, ounce. why would you treat us like this. an incident takes place we don't run from it. reone to it. you call us, there is a robbery we come there running. we don't run away. we run to it. therefore, like i always say in a do you go good men put on a uniform and take a pulse. either way, i understand and i know what we do with the brave men and women of law enforcement do. griff: fascinating. you know, this article struck me because she is calling for community care individuals to replace police officers. well, that will be a dangerous day. pete: what does that mean.

griff: replace them to have to respond to the sound of gunfire dr. odom was just referring to. pete: community care? but they have to be living in a world where all the bad to your point, jed, all the bad terrible things, rape assault you, sexual assault. domestic abuse don't happen. you have to have someone with a gun prepared to go into that situation and diffuse it. and that's not to say you can't understand that there have been bad cops at certain points. jedediah: that's right. pete: my goodness. all right. well, more on this throughout the next couple of hours on "fox & friends." also, today, president trump will deliver the commencement address ought west point military academy. but this year's graduation will look a little different from those in the past. john scout joins us live from west point with more on today's ceremony. john, good morning. >> good morning, guys. it is an absolutely gorgeous day here at west point. i'm standing on what cadets consider hallowed grouped. this is the plain, only to be

walked on by cadets and instructors. this is where they do all of their drilling. this is where president trump will, for the first time, address the graduating class of the united states military academy. the way it works is the president, the vice president, the defense second, the chairman of the joint chiefs, they all take turns speaking to the various service academies. barack obama last spoke here in 2014. he was the last president to address the graduating class at what i consider and i'm sure pete agrees with me the nation's oldest and finest military academy. but it will be a little bit different this year. we got our press credentials issued to us. we also got these yellow bands you can see on my wrist. we were screened by medical teams and they wanted to make sure that none of us is showing a temperature and be a possible carrier of the coronavirus.

for that reason if you are able to see. so chairs mind me on the plane norm live the graduation would be held in nike stadium the football stadium on post. today they are having it onth plain and each chair will be 6 feet apart. a social live standpointed. second noe handshake. second lieutenants as they graduate that's wha would get to shake the president's hands. they went do that today they this get their diplomas and salute the pat seconds commissioned in the u.s. army. there will be the traditional hat toss when the cadets are allowed to remove the cover that they have been wearing for the last four years, toss it in the air and then there will be a flyover by army helicopters. back to you guys. pete: john, thank you so much for joining us. of course i agree with you it

our country's finest military academy there at west point. we love a little bias especially from me on this show. thank you, john. we will be covering the navy, you know, hire and there. >> they might disagree. pete: they might disagree but we love them. jon scott, checking in with you all morning and of course the president speaking on this network at 10:25 this morning. jedediah: looking forward to his remarks. turning to your headlines. in mississippi police are searching for escaped inmate accused of killing a sheriff's deputy. joaquin blackwell has been taken into custody when he grabbed the deputy's gun shooting and killing him before running off. he is considered armed and dangerous. 77-year-old deputy james blair served in his entire life. he wafs still working to help raise you are his grandson. >> frimp rally in tulsa, oklahoma. it is now june 20th. supposed to be known as the mark

the end of slavery of many of my frederick friends and supporters suggested we change it the dhat in observe vabs of this rn arms tall helps. 300,000 people have already signed up to attend the rally. the president's postponement as nfl commissioner roger goodell juneteenth will be observed as a holiday. all league office also be close you had. it's a day to reflect on our past but morph importantly consider how each one of us can consider continue to show up and band together to work toward a better future. those are your headlines. pete: all right, thank you, jed. coming up the rnc is hitting the rude. president trump will at the present accept the g.o.p. nomination and deliver his big speech in florida. lenny curry is next with how his

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griff: well, it's official the g.o.p. convention is heading to the sunshine state this summer. the rnc unanimously deciding to scale down convention plans in charlotte, north carolina and host a celebratory aspect in jacksonville, florida including the president's acceptance speech. here with what this means for his great city jacksonville mayor good morning. mr. mayor. >> good morning. griff: what do you make of being chosen as the place where this will happen? >> well, we are grateful it's going to be here. we were able to demonstrate the ability to put together and put on an event in a safe, responsible way as we emerge from covid-19. we were responsible during the pandemic.

we came out of it with -- we flattened the curve pretty quickly overtime. our hospitalizations are low. we demonstrated a month ago that we can put on events. we are not going to operate out of fear. we are going to operate out of data science and get people back to work in a responsible way. that's what this convention is. griff: i have to ask you, mayor, you are seeing a rise, a spike in cases in florida. what is your reaction particularly should this continue to be the case? >> well, we are testing. we have got a number of testing sights up. sites up. on the front end when the pandemic added we will add. when all this started all the experts go flatten the curve, protect the hospital health systems. without a vaccine the virus is with us. we have done that in jacksonville. we have done that in florida. our hospitalizations are low. we watched that daily. we are going to have to learn to live with this virus in a responsible way. take care of those that are most likely to get it and end up with

symptoms in the hospital. but we have got to get people back to work. we have within doing that now for weeks. working with our governor. and we're going to put on a big event and have a major economic impact for our businesses. griff: mr. mayor, i don't want to put you on the spot. i have a very interesting question having covered a lot of conventions. this one will be like any other. do you anticipate seeing people with masks, wearing masks? >> well, look, this is 8 to 10 weeks out. so whatever the protocols are then, we will have them in place to make sure people are safe. we're going to have temperature checks. but, go back just a month and a half, two months ago. there were experts saying there would be no sports this summer or the fall. there were experts saying theme parks wouldn't be reopened. that stuff is happening now. so, if our trensdz continue, we are -- we have been headed the right direction as we rephase

our reopenings. we expect to have a full arena and celebrate the renomination of president trump. griff: you say a lot is happening. listen, you have the g.o.p. convention and i even saw captain sandy from below deck, 106-year-old firehouse building is jacksonville the place to be in america right now? >> it is the place to be. yes, i met with her yesterday. we have major economic boom development happening that started before the pandemic. and people are ready to get moving. she bought an old firehouse. she is going to do cool stuff there, including a restaurant. also she has a great idea. the way that our river sets, the depth of it, we are one of the few cities where you can bring a super yacht in and actually get it out of the water if you need to for purposes. we're on the move. come to expwraxzville. griff: all right. be safe. thank you mayor lenny curry. appreciate your time, sir. >> thank you. griff: all right. still ahead. a nurse turned investigative journalist releasing footage at

the hospital. what she discovered will shock you. that's next. businesses are starting to bounce back.

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racist. jed, over to you. jedediah: thanks, pete. well, a nurse working inside the nation's coronavirus epicenter is shining light on the hospital's response to the pandemic. >> came in with a stroke. >> i know that's what it was was a stroke. >> and no covid and now he has got covid and he is on a vent. >> all because we gave it to him here. jedediah: wow, here to share more what she saw aaron marie, welcome to the show. this is much needed information. i want to start with you -- i want to thank you for being here and start with the grouping. >> thank you. jedediah: grouping of non-covid patients with covid patients those confirmed positive with those awaiting test results. how common was that. >> that was extremely common. it was an everyday experience. and there was really no reason for that. there were resources that were

not being utilized. fringes, the comfort ship, the javits center and they had the samaritan's purse. we had options that weren't utilized was rapid testing utilized or were niece people grouped in a loom for extended period of time. >> rapid test test test test were not utilized. they were using the ones sent out which would be a 5 to 10 day turn around. in the meantime these patients were put on the floors and they were intermingled with code positive and covid rule out patients. jedediah: i want to address the covid positive. what about the hydroxychloroquine and zinc. in new york city, in new york, in particular that was something that was not utilized in many cases. so what did you find in terms of the approach by doctors to that course of treatment in new york and maybe new york versus another state for example?

>> >> in new york the doctors were not able to prescribe the hydroxychloroquine. the main treatment in new york city in elm hearst hospital was essentially to put these patients on a vent. and they really reached to try any alternative treatment even though they were successful in other states. prime florida. my hospital was successfully treating patients with the hydroxychloroquine and the zinc with a completely different number of deaths. jedediah: so what's interesting to me about this is having lived through this in new york city, all we heard about was more ventilators. more ventilators. the need for ventilators as if ventilators was somehow going to be a cure for many people. what you actually found was that the ventilator oftentimes contributed to the deaths of many of these people. that's being alleged by a lot of

doctors now. so why ventilators as a go to? >> >> i think early on and this is my opinion, governor cuomo requested all these events, 30,000 events back in march. how he would know that we would need 30,000 events beats me. awful i know is i feel that they felt the need to use them in order to be correct. and not look bad. and that was at the patient's expense. jedediah: some of what you revealed here is really telling, particularly that grouping. that initial grouping of people awaiting results. and those who already had a positive result. to anybody with common sense, there is no easier way to spread the infection than to do it. thank you so much for being here and shedding light on some of these things. people have been very curious what's going on on the inside. thank you for showing us. >> thank you so much for having me. jedediah: still ahead, restaurant owners are grappling with the new normal as they

begin opening. how are they navigating the changing dynamic of their operations. a panel of business owners join us after the break to share.

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harry mehas owner the okay land diner also in new jersey. they will both be able to resume outdoor dining on monday. scott, owner of crazy owner's diner in upstate new york diane dine in service with limited capacity. this is all new jersey and new york. some of the places that have had the longest and i would argue most dr. draconian lockdowns marilymayor you are on the shor. defy allow 25% dine in. you are planning just outside dining. can you revive your business? >> well, asbury rescinded the governor sueded the city so they backed down goh we arback. we are going to open outside two of the locations that have been closed for three months. you know, i'm caught in the middle of this i believe in the

science and things i'm being telling you about i also see a mixed message as to what is opening. our governor and president ate in a restaurant last night. so, you know, historically we are a business model that takes sanitation and cleanliness very seriously in protecting our staff and our guests. so now we are at the bottom of list of reopening to any capacity until monday. i get it outside is much healthier. what if it rains you don't have covering. what if you don't have outside. how are we going to survive with these numbers at the jersey shore when we only have 12 weeks left to make a living before before the fall comes. pete: who opts to be told they are at the bottom of any list. harry, your diner, you spent i believe thousand dollars on outside furniture renting it just to get open.

can you do that with the limited capacity and stay afloat? >> >> i have no idea at this point because i don't know what the future holds. i had to do something. i had to open up. i mean, at this point right now, i just need to be around people. i need people interaction. you know, it's killing my -- all of my waitresses, my servers, my cooks they are really down right now because it's like we have to adjust everything for this. we don't even have human contact anymore. they give the credit carts over the phone. we dropped food in the trunk. and there it goes. it just -- this is not a normal way to go. pete: no, not even close. scott, you are in upstate new york with your diner, i believe outdoor is open and 50% capacity indoor. so maybe that sounds a little bit better. but you are talking about your inventory. how do you decide -- how do you

make those business decisions right now. >> first of all, good morning. pete: good morning, thanks for being here. >> you cannot make a living. can you not make it outdoor seating. you cannot make it at 25% capacity or even 50% capacity. okay. the trick here, have you got to buy all this inventory we were talking about earlier. and you don't know what to do. like we got our notification the day before we were allowed to open. so you are talking anywhere from 7,000 to $9,000 in inventory and food products that you have to get in to open up and then they are talking about well, we may have to shut you down again. you can't live in that uncertainty. you cannot make a living in that uncertainty. so the trick here is to let us open up and the young lady said it just a little while ago. our industry we deal with sanitation with hazard analysis critical control point. from the time comes in our door to come to your table to keep you safe with microorganizes,

the elderly the young people we have done this for years. the things we hear this is all new. it's not new in our industry. we keep you safe. the only difference is they are requiring 6-foot separation. social distancing, certain protocols. you know, we put plexiglass, acrylic, everything in between the booths. five foot lanes so that can you feel comfortable sitting down and eating that you won't attach this coronavirus and that is a whole other issue. i don't believe everything that the government is saying. i don't believe everything that our governor has said and done to us to keep us down. there is right answers and wrong. i think we have been getting the wrong. especially up here where we are in upstate, new york. i was checking the current statistics. it depends on which one you look at. we still only have three deaths. three is too many. don't get me wrong here. this is not like the city. this is not like the city. we are drowning up here in upstate, new york, trying to make a living. pete: you are not being allowed to use common sense. apply your best business

practices. respect your customers. allow them to make choices. marilyn, also, reading about your story, you also mentioned that it's tough to get employees to come back a little bit, too. why is that? >> well, i mean, all of the financing option the ppp the stimulus money that's going to people and the fund something very unuser friendly for our industry. i mean, it took weeks to get the ppp fixed. people are staying home because they are making more on stimulus money. and the unknown of whether they are going to make tips or not because we don't know what the business is going to be like. especially if we have forced to only be outside. we need to fix things. in our industry, if the soup is salty you toss it and fix one immediately or else your customers don't come back. we'll can't wait for long winded solutions. what i said to my land lord a couple weeks ago do you want me here? if you want me here, we need to work together to fix. this that's what i'm saying to

our politicians. dew points restaurants, which are the backbone of the communities which are the places you go first when you want to chat, celebrate, converse, like our politicians in the state did last night. help us. sit down at the table with us and fix this. pete: marilyn, don't worry the rules don't apply to the politicians. they do whatever they want. they set rules for everybody else. harry, i have got to ask you because scott mentioned it about opening back up. do you believe right now that your business should be fully open, that you could do so responsibly as you watch target and walmart and costco packed with people every single day? >> if you do it responsibly. i think it can be done. we still don't know what the future holds. i mean, when we all go back to normal, the prices of the food is going to be astronomical. everybody took a hit. even the vendors took a really big hit. so, it's going to be tough.

it's going to be tough. i do think we are going to open up? yeah, but it's still going to be tough. a lot of people uncertain, you know, when they come in. we still have a lot of people that are scared. but if you do it with the right protocol. we don't know what's going to happen when we open up. we haven't been open in three months. i feel like i'm opening a new restaurant. so maybe we don't know. are we going to get all the sanitizers. disinfect everything. do what we are supposed to do. still in the unknown. this is uncharted territory over here. pete: it sure is scott, give the last word to you. it is about courage and fear ultimately, people that don't want to go out don't have to go out, but you need customers in order to keep your business afloat. scott, talk to your business but restaurants generally, how many people will stay open and how many will be closed permanently after. this oh, god, you are are going to look at devastation across the industry, across the

country. you know, especially here in new york, there are places that are never going to open up again. and the thing is we are talking about supply and demand and whether it's going to come back or not opening a new business. that is what it is like. that's what it has been like for me is opening a brand new restaurant. the thing is though we are in america. i have the choice here. i have supply and demand. i have a supervisors that i can provide to you and you have the choice on whether you want to come in to mile restaurant. pete: that's right. >> that's really what it boils down to. there is a old saying half measure nothing. good measures don't give us half. and these restrictions that they put on us are really limiting us for the opportunity to excel and get our lives and businesses back. it really is and it's a shame. and i believe that we can open up at full capacity. we have the right to treat you, the customer, to come in that you feel like you are going to be safe. different protocols and stuff and you get the choice on whether you want to come back.

that's what it really has to come back to is the people. it has to come back to us. not the government restrictions and what they are trying to impose on us. pete: scott any time when you have to look around around say is this america? you know something has he gone awry. that's why we do segments like this one. we need to here voices of those affected by what our leaders are doing to us. especially in. so worst places. marilyn, harry, scott, good luck with your restaurants. keep us posted. i hope you will come back to "fox & friends." >> thank you, peter. pete: god bless you guys. as protesters create a lawless zone in part of seattle. city leaders leaders seem to be at odds over the true nature of this no cop co-op. jack brewer is the spokesman for the national association of police athletic leagues. he sounds off on that next. right now is a time for action. that's why usaa is giving payment relief options to eligible members so they can pay for things like groceries before they worry about their insurance

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and believing they can do the same thing. now we have a perpetuation of a culture that is continuing to not have god in it. man, no fear of god. think about being a kid growing up right now today and seeing this going on and this is exactly what you think you can go out and do in the streets. whatever you disagree with laws or you disagree with something, it's just thought right. i think we need to get back to having respect for authority. because this translates right into what you see in our schools. we have so much disrespect of our teachers. kids now disrespecting their parents saying anything back to them. it really is it is creating a culture in america that we don't want to see. pete: jack, you are so right. you strip out god and putting faith in man or woman or you or me or ho will always fail. will always make mistakes and always fall short. we put in institutions like the police department to help us

maintain law and order. well, you have seen, this jack, in minneapolis the city council there has voted to you replace the police with a community led model. help me out with this. i'm being serious, jack. they are forming a future of community safety working group that will be delivering recommendations a month from now. what would the recommendation be if not the police? >> you just heard the seattle mayor come on and say everyone is just going to love and that's just not the case. you know, minneapolis has an issue, the city of minneapolis has the highest unemployment rate for blacks in the nation. before covid. you know, this is not a place where people are all doing great when you have oppressed people you have to protect and serve them. this is a city done so much wrong. how are we going to depend on them to set these rules and regulations for policing people?

it's terrible. jedediah: you know, jack, there has been interesting reaction to all of this by the entertainment community. the reaction has been in many parts to sensor. first icensor paw patrol andcold order should be canceled. what are you saying about this impulse to cancel right now? >> listen, my daughter loves chase from paw patrol. chase on the case around the house all the time. she is 2 years old. she just loves it. it kills me. there she is. it kills me, man. i think back when i was 6 years old, 7 years old, growing up in texas. the first black man that i ever see -- ever saw get up every day and put on a suit was officer vernon wright. he used to pick me up and put me in his car. he always smelled really good. and he made me dream different. he made me want to go out and do something where i could reach a job that i could put a suit on

every day. and the kids these days are going to lose that. that's really sad, man. it breaks my heart. griff: jack, well-said. and hopefully that dream and that model will not disappear entirely as the nation starts weighing this law and order debate. thanks, jack. pete: we are in a fight for it. jack, thank you so much. >> god bless you. thank you. take care. griff: thank you and god bless. still looking for the perfect father's day gift. kurt the cyberguy is here with the top ten gifingts including a grill controlled by a phone? hey, kurt. the first and only full prescription strength non-steroidal anti-inflammatory gel available over-the-counter. new voltaren is powerful arthritis pain relief in a gel. voltaren. the joy of movement.

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pete: good morning it's saturday , june 13, we begin this final hour of fox & friends with a fox news alert. the minneapolis city council should be renamed the city clown show. voted to abolish its police department, following the death of george floyd. griff: the council says police will be replaced with a community-led public safety system that comes as protesters demand defunding the force. jedediah: similar calls growing nationwide as leaders in new york city push their plan to cut the nypd's budget by $1 billion. welcome everyone we're here in our 9:00 a.m. hour covering the latest in minneapolis, in seattle, and around the country i don't know, pete would you want to live in a place where the police were not welcome in an autonomous zone? pete: i don't think anybody

would. anyone with any common sense but if you grew up and if you went to a government school that told you america was bad and then you went to a college where you had safe spaces and trigger warnings so you never confronted by ideas you don't necessarily like and then you went into the real-world and got mugged by reality, maybe you could run to the capitol hill autonomous zone where they've effectively declared their own country inside a six-city block area of seattle. its been hard to miss this story , unless you're watching msnbc or cnn which is ignore it pretending it's a festival and not a lawless zone, where the cops are not allowed where if you call 911 no one is coming to help you, and they are begging the outside world for things like sunglasses and body location and cigarettes because well socialism doesn't work too well beyond two or three days so what's going on there though? you've got a democrat mayor whose going on tv saying well maybe this will be just the summer of love and it's really just protests and then the seattle police chief, herself a black female saying

listen, police cannot respond to crimes that are happening right now in this area. there are businesses and people that live there. take a listen. >> these are in response to emergency call, rape, robbery, and all sorts of violent acts have been occurring in the area and we're not able to get to it, so it is not a right for us not to be able to declare it. we owe that to everybody. this is our building. we served here and we are by the way that it is on this building, so i want to take a look around and see what's happened but the takeover of the police authority, this is wrong. it's simply wrong. pete: of course it is griff you know, you know you were there in washington for the riots that happened last week. if they could have they would have created a real capitol hill autonomous zone in washington d.c., it's the same set of demands across the country. griff: frightening you're seeing it in tennessee but you talk about that list of demands that

chazians, i suppose that's what we call them are going to get a lesson in basically creating their own rule of law, standing up what be i guess some sort of police force that they will call it community care workers or whatever they will. the point is and we actually saw this when i covered many years ago occupy wall street, but ultimately, it just sort of failed, because of the very necessities out of the basis of civilization in society, which is a police force, that's what chief best is pointing out. president trump, by the way, has been asked about this , by our own and he says this is not going to continue. here is what he said. president trump: oh, it's pathetic. no, no, we're not going to let this happen in seattle. if we have to go in we'll go in. the governor is either going to do it, let the governor deal with it he's got great national guard troops he can do it but one way or the other it's going to get done. these people are not going to

occupy a major portion of a great city. they aren't going to do it and they can solve that problem very easily. pete: if only they could solve their problem very easily, jed these rioters always want to blame president trump but if you look at the mayor of minneapolis whose been a democrat since before i was born in 1978 the republican mayor of seattle in 1911 same thing in new york city run by democrats who should they be blaming if their police departments are so disfunctional? jedediah: yeah, that's a great point and also, i think when you listen to president trump he sounds like he wants to do something about this. i don't know at what point though. i don't know what it would look like. the tensions in the country are very high right now, so the idea that this will just dissipate seems highly unlikely to me. i don't know what's going to happen. i don't know how this is going to transition to where an autonomous zone suddenly gets put back into police authority where they have control of their precinct again and everyone goes along on their happy and marry

way. i just don't see it, but it's a huge challenge here that local leadership has done nothing because what you don't want is an example to be set where people around the country who are looking to stir the pot who are looking to cause trouble, who may be anarchists in some cases are going to look and say well look what happened in seattle. look what they got away with and how long this is going on. i mean, to have a police precinct actually be abandoned to where you have a police force that's unable to get to people in that region, that maybe the victims of violent crimes is terrifying. it's terrifying to everyone. it's just to anyone who has a head on their shoulders that's still functioning. pete: jed you're totally right, at the same time the wall street journal argued let them have their socialist anarchy paradise and let's check back in a month. almost like how you might discipline a teenager who you find smoking cigarettes. you can take them away or say no, no, you'll smoke every

cigarette in that pack in front of me and you'll see how much you enjoy them, 13-year-old trying to smoke their cigarettes let them try their socialist paradise which all left wing communist experiments do but the law and order part for the people caught in the middle is what you can't tolerate. griff: it's going to ultimately be, let's not kid anybody, the police and law enforcement who are going to have to come to the rescue should things get out of control there and you know, you talk about the tensions, jed you're exactly right. i'll tell you one thing that's left out of this conversation though is where the outrage is for the black police officer, david underwood in oakland that was killed in this riot defend ing a federal building, his sister, whose speaking out on capitol hill this week, trying to bring that up, because at the end of the day, it is police. men and women in blue in law enforcement that answer our most needed calls and theirs an ad

we want to highlight this morning from a luxury watch company that's just adding to the conversation defending police. watch a little bit of this. >> we know how much of your sacrifice goes unnoticed and we know that the worst of you get the spotlight instead of the best. so many of you have given your lives to protect ours, to keep us safe. we will not stand by and let your work go unnoticed. we will speak truth. griff: just to add to that, you know, we've got a march that's going to happen supporting law enforcement. at some point later today, we had tom homan on whose going to be one of the speakers and i want to play a sound bite from him but just quickly about four blocks from me are 21,000 names on a law enforcement officer's memorial wall. they gave their lives, the men and women in the defense of the

communities that they served and written on on the inscription is the words from the widow that said here are folks who died, but it's not about how they died, rather how they lived their lives and they lived their lives doing what we need most, which is to protect us. here is homan a little earlier this morning. >> it's one of the best commercials i've seen in my lifetime not because of fancy graphics. because they're brave enough to stand up and speak the truth and support law enforcement. and it's a sad day when people that want to go show their support for law enforcement are afraid to do so out of fear they may be attacked and called racist. no there's no reason we can't denounce racism as a terrible thing. denounce racism but at the same time, defend the men and women who defend this nation in our communities and protect us every single day across this country. pete: at moments like this , we need police more than ever, and we need more of them more than ever, and we need to have their

back more than ever. i love this ad. jen if you're watching i'd like a watch for father's day i think i just made up my mind. go ahead, jed. jedediah: and it is incredibly brave for them to put that fourth because there will be inevitable backlash and they are going against the tide, right? because that's just not something that many people in the entertainment industry in a lot of corporations are put out there because they're afraid of backlash, so good on them for standing up for the men and women in blue who are out there every single day, putting their lives on the line for us and on that topic of brave men and women, today president trump is going to deliver the commencement address at west point military academy but this years graduation is going to look a little different from those in past. john scott joins us live from west point with more on the ceremony what's the latest? reporter: well, jedediah this is going to be a ceremony unlike any other at west point. the cadets here left post on march 6 for spring break and thought they'd be coming back to

finish up their classes and the firsties as the seniors are known thought they be graduating but then coronavirus arrived and they ended up doing distance learning from wherever they had gone to. there are cadets who attend here from all 50 states many from several foreign countries. they all had to do remote learning as so many other college and high school and even elementary school students are doing in this country. this will also be the first time a president has addressed the graduating class here, since barack obama was here in 2014. president trump will be speaking shortly after the ceremonies begin at 10:00 a.m. eastern time a little less than an hour from now. traditionally, the speaker happeneds the diplomas to the graduating class, and that's not going to happen this year. the graduates will receive their diplomas and get to salute the president we understand but there won't be any handshake from the president himself.

again because of coronavirus concerns. a handful of cadets reportedly have tested positive before coronavirus but they've all been through medical screenings and participanting in a two-week quarantine and they take their temperatures twice a day, report back to the medical staff here twice a day as to their medical conditions, and so everyone expects that this will be as safe an event as possible. the other thing that's different normally, the firsties, the seniors walk in here as cadets, and then they are commissioned second lieutenants as they graduate. that's already happened. they were supposed to graduate three weeks ago and so they were commissioned second lieutenants in the u.s. army on that day. today will be the formal graduation, and a celebration for all of them. back to you guys. griff: jon, thanks very much catching that at 10:25 on the fox news channel. pete: thanks, jon. griff: turn together your

headlines a manhunt underway, outside a bar in san antonio. police say the shooting started after a bar security guard wouldn't let a man inside because he was too drunk. the man allegedly told the guard , don't you know who i am? i am a ufc fighter from california and after that police say he grabbed a rifle from his car and opened fire. all people are in stable condition. >> and three riders accused of throwing molatov cocktails at cruisers could spend the rest of their lives in prison. they are indicted including use of excessives and arson. they tossed them into a police vehicle in brooklyn and in a separate attack one woman is caught on camera throwing a make shift explosive at an nypd car with four officers inside. >> right now across the pond black lives matter protesters are flooding london streets, city police requiring all protests to end by late afternoon, over fears of clashes

breaking out. black lives matter canceled the protest but demonstrators showed up anyway with thousands expected to attend and some are calling for a winston churchill statue to be taken down. >> meanwhile student athletes calling on university of texas to address racial injustice. the longhorns are demanding the school campus buildings remove certain statues, change the schools fight song, and have have a course on racism and they want to help recruit new players if their demands aren't met and those are your headlines. jed? pete: griff that's texas? griff: that's texas. jedediah: it's going to be everywhere. it is going to be everywhere mark my word especially on campuses. pete: and winston churchill? jedediah: yeah, yeah. pete: all right i'll be quiet. jedediah: [laughter] let it sink in, pete. all right, coming up a federal

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pete: welcome back. well a panel of federal appeals court judges appearing hesitant to force an immediate end to michael flynn's case. the former national security advisor looking to force federal judge emmit sullivan to dismiss the criminal case against him after the justice department moved to drop the prosecution. former florida attorney general pam bondi served on president trump's legal team and she joins us now pam thanks so much for being here this morning. help me out with this case. the doj wants to drop it, the judge himself is hiring lawyers, this appeal looks like it won't happen. where is general flynn in all of this? >> well, and general flynn in this right now is the victim, pete. that's what's happening. so, to try to give a quick summary, because it's hard for even lawyers to understand

this because it's so unprecedented. so general flynn gets charged, of course by the justice department then what did we learn? general flynn got charged with perjury. what did we learn from james comey's original statements, he sent fbi agents into the west wing to try to set up mike flynn the incoming national security advisor, a three-star honored general. he sent him into west wing to try to get him to lie. you know what that's called? entrapment and so they tried, didn't work. they went back and don't forget all of the people involved in this , peter strzok, page, comey , who i can't wait to hear testify before the senate in front of lindsey graham by the way. so, all these bad people, bad, are trying to setup general flynn. finally, they kept persisting persisting persisting and what do they do? they threaten general flynn's son. general flynn comes in, enters a guilty plea. happens all the time in his best

interest. then all the bad things they have done was uncovered by bill barr and a good justice department. so now, we have mike flynn's lawyers and we have the justice department on the same page saying there is no case. we need to dismiss this and now remember, pete, look what's happened to general flynn in the meantime. he had to sell his house, he almost went bankrupt if he didn't already, over two years of torment, torment by being set up, because he supported the president of the united states and i've always said he was collateral damage, just like so many, for supporting our great president. so, we've got justice department , we've got the government, and we've got the defense attorney. so we've got the executive branch of the government saying hey, drop this case. pete: yeah. >> then in comes the judicial branch saying i'm not going to drop it. so we've got a liberal activist judge, judge sullivan, saying he refuses to dismiss this case. so he brings in a retired judge

gleason and this is important because this judge gleason already written a scathing op-ed saying how much he dislines the president, dislikes the justice department, so this is no neutral arbitor. so now it goes before the three judges but what's going to happen is it kicks back back to judge sullivan to hopefully do the right thing because he hadn't yet ruled on the motion to dismiss. that's where we are, should not be happening in our society right now. horrible. pete: that was as good of a summary as i've heard, pam bondi thank you very much. you broke it down though it is confusing and especially when the justice department agrees with the defense and how does that make sense and i agree with you it'll be interesting to . was in front of the committee, the love birds in front of the senate judiciary committee with lindsey graham. >> we'll hear a lot of them take defense, pete. pete: choi so that your prediction? >> oh, yeah. pete: pam bondi thank you so much for joining us. appreciate it. >> thank you. pete: still ahead as protesters create a lawless zone in part of

seattle, a self-proclaimed socialist and local councilwoman is blaming establishment democrats for the unrest, lawrence jones sounds off on that, next.

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jedediah: a seattle city council member who was calling to make the cop-free zone permanent is now blaming the chaos of chaz on the democrat establishment. >> we have to hold the establishment in various cities accountable. the city only thing that went awry day after day after day since the first protest on may 30 was the police. under orders by the democratic party establishment and mayor du rkan, it was the police making things going awry. jedediah: here to react fox news analyst lawrence jones.

welcome to the show as always. so that's an interesting take to blame the democrat establishment who is to blame here for this? there's a lot of blame, a lot of finger pointing going around when you see something like an autonomous zone that's been setup and obviously it's alarming to many people. what's the cause of it, whose to blame? >> it's interesting, because not only for the past year did i report on seattle but i reported on a lot of cities, like seattle with the makeup, and i warned people. i said you know, there is this new wave of young people and progressives, i mean, everybody was worried about bernie sanders but the people on the local level that are activists, i told people they should be concerned because they're not talking about minor changes. they want generational change and they have a lot of boots on the ground that share this ideology. and this was just from my reporting. they don't like the democrats. i mean, everyone keeps thinking that the bernie bros and the

people that were occupy wall street people are just going to get in line and vote for biden. that's not what i hear when i talk to them so they're not only , this is not an anti-right message that these people are preaching. they want to get rid of the government like we know it today, and i've been warning people that we had to have a response to this , or they would start to take over and as you can see in seattle, they are definitely taking over. jedediah: yeah and that's certainly not how its been paint ed by many in media. many have painted the black lives matter movement as allies with the democratic party and vice versa which is not always the case. i want to ask you about this confidential memo coming out of the dc cc in 2015 which essentially warned these democratic house candidates about aspousing a lot of these views by the black lives matter movement and let's check out a bit of this radical movement to

end anti-plaque racism don't offer support for concrete policy positions and they weren't saying don't interact with members at the black lives matter movement that was fine. they were saying be careful when it came to the policy positions what do you think of that? >> yeah, it's interesting, because as i've always told people, there is the black lives matter organization that has if you go to the website and you look at the changes that they want, and then you have the actual people that are on the ground that are genuine in their heart and just won't change and want this conversation that we're having about policing, two different people, and i think, you know, if i'm being honest, that the democratic party, they are afraid of the progressive base that they have, they are afraid of the leadership within the organization as well, because they don't have a political party affiliation. they want the changes that they want and they want them full

stop. it's a little too late to put them in their place, because they have too much power right now. i think a majority of americans just based on what i've experienced, they want to have the conversation about policing, but when you start talking about wealth distribution, you'd start to turn people off. jedediah: yeah, and you know, lawrence what's been incredibly frustrating for me watching this is that this could have been an incredibly unifying moment where so many people would have been on the same page about the need for police reform , but now its gone over into a place where you have people, you know, disparaging police officers, police being removed from areas, you have disban the police, you know, de fund the police, you have these very extreme measures that have very very loud voices now which makes it really hard to have community and police grow together again if this is what's taking precedence. i don't even know how somebody would want to become a police officer right now, with the

sentiment toward police being what it is in so many areas. >> look, i've been telling people this for the last three weeks. when a cop sees me, i want to be known as an individual and treated with respect and i think cops should be extended that same courtesy. the i don't think that we should do that to cops as well but what is happening is i'm afraid that we're allowing the conversation to be hijacked, because if you look at all of the changes that's happening in washington and the conversation, its become a national conversation. the changes and reforms that need to take place has to happen on the local level. that's government one on one and it also brings the community together to have these conversations. jedediah: well lawrence i want to thank you for your voice on all of this. i've been watching you on a lot of the shows and i really appreciate it because it is nuanced and this is an issue that needs that nuance so i

really appreciate it and i've always for coming on here as well. thanks so much. thanks my friend have a good one jedediah: you too and now a fox news alert. here is a live look at west point, new york, where the president is expected to arrive any moment now, ahead of his commencement speech, lt. colonel alan west is here to react and he will be here after the break.

pete: we're back with a fox news alert and a live look at west

point, new york. president trump expected to arrive on marine one at any moment. griff: in an hour the president will deliver the commencement address at west point military academy. fox news channel is live stream ing this ceremony. jedediah: president trump's speech is scheduled to start at 10:25 eastern time. obviously, a very important day, a very important message coming from the president. we want to bring in lt. colonel alan west right now, former florida congressman to weigh in on what's going on. >> good morning. pete: lt. colonel how you doing great to have you here and we're glad that you're on the mend. we're watching live pictures and waiting and we mean that sincerely. so great to see you and have you on this show. react to this day, this moment what it means for cadets about to become, they already are, but normally they become second lieutenants in this ceremony the importance of west point as

an institution. >> well pete it's good to be with you and you and i both share that incredible honor on 31 july 1982 i was commissioned as an officer in the united states army at the university of tennessee,stokley at let ic center and i'd say to these young men and women that it is so important that they understand they are taking an oath to the constitution of the united states of america that they will support and that they are taking this obligation freely without any purpose of mental reservation but the most important thing is that they will support and defend that constitution, that oath against all enemies foreign and do its m ic and that's our rule of law and when you look at what is happening now in the united states of america, we have a key decision to make in this country will we stand for the rule of law or will we allow for the mob to rule over the united states of america? griff: so let me ask you, colonel west. the motto of this 2020 class is "with vision we lead" so we're

told what is the challenge like? is it different for other classes, graduating into the state of the world today? >> well, i would say that without a doubt there is. they know that they are going to go out and they still have enemies to face that are abroad being the islamic terrorist enemies or even conventional enemies like a russia or china, but now we see here in the united states of america with a designated domestic terrorist like antifa we have those challenges that are here as well so they have to be prepared for that mission as well as disaster relief and support to the continental united states of america, so, you know, it was pretty easy for me back in 1982 when i was commissioned. we had the big bad soviet union and we knew we had to be focused and stand against them and their tyranny and when they collapsed of course we saw an incredible plethora of dangers and threats to the united states of america,

so these young lieutenants, young officers are coming into a very tumultuous time in the history of the united states of america. jedediah: you say tumultuous time i think that's a perfect way to describe it. i want to ask you about what the impact of what's being called for by many which is the tearing down of some of these statues, renaming some of these military bases, some feel that a lot of the names, a lot of the statues are insensitive that reflect a part of our history that people don't feel, that people feel we've gone past , so what is the right message here? is it right to rename and to tear down, or is there an alternative here? >> the right thing is for everyone to understand those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it. history is not there for you to like or dislike jedediah. it is there for you to learn from and i think about as a young army officer, i had the opportunities to serve at fort bragg which is named after

braxton bragg, a confederate again all also fort hood, texas where i commanded a battalion after john bell hood. i thought about the honor of being able to serve on those military installations and one of the things that has me absolutely insensed right now is the fact that you had these individuals that went up and de faced the monument, the memorial to the 54th massachusetts regimen there in boston. that was the first black organized unit to wear the uniform of the united states of america and fought in the civil war, and their history was depicted in the movie "glory " and i would challenge people this weekend to go back and look at that movie and understand, these were former slaves. these were freed men who stood up and fought for this country and now here we are not even 200 years from that moment when they stood up to that challenge? we destroyed their monument? no. history is about learning from it. i don't want to see us become like the taliban or isis. those are the people that

destroy history. pete: colonel west, i can't help as i listen to you and watch our screen right now, you see that beautiful flag waving on the parade grounds of west point , and we hear about tearing down statutes of confederate generals and renaming bases and some saying well you got to tear down jefferson and washington too. ultimately for leftists, for people who feel like this country is defined by its sins they want to take that flag down. why is america the bad guy in the minds of the left right now? >> well pete, i think america has become the bad guy to these individuals because they can't live up to the duty, honor, and country commitment that the west point stands for , and the oath that you and i took, and so many others have taken in the 245- year history of the united states of america. america is a great nation. america is a nation that took a young man like myself from the inner city of atlanta, georgia and allowed him to become a lot colonel and become

a member of the united states house of representatives. we learn from that history. we learn from who we are. it's about the equality of opportunity, not the equality of outcomes, and i just think that right now, we have a group of individuals that just flat out hate this country. hate what it stands for because they don't want to live up to those incredible high standards. griff: colonel, they clearly hate the police, sorry, jed let me just pick up with your history analogy though, in the disdain, i don't think i've ever seen such a negative perception of law enforcement in this country at any point in my 49 years. i want to ask you, do you draw any parallels the way our country treated troops returning from vietnam in the 70s to the way people are treating police today? pete: great question. >> well it's interesting you say that, griff because my older brother was a marine in vietnam and wounded and i remember when he came home and how he was

treated, but guess what? my older brother wanted to do one thing. see wanted to become an atlanta police officer because he wanted to continue his services sacrifice and commitment, not just to the nation but to his community, and so yes, i do see a repeat of this and i think it is despicable. it's heinous what we see how we're treating those people that are out there making sure that we can be safe and secure every single day. you're going to have bad cops and bad soldiers and have bad people in any career pursuit but to try to demonize an entire group of individuals like our law enforcement officers, that is absolutely wrong. jedediah: you know colonel we keep talking about the need for unity and i'm one whose been saying that myself and the need for the president today to deliver a message that talks about unity and an effort to unify the country but in an honest question, is it possible to bring about unity

when you have so many people in the country that feel really differently about what's happening right now, who have a different vision for the kind of america that they would like to see take hold? is unity really possible? >> well, one of the things, jedediah, you can not compromise , appease, negotiate, to the mob. we are an ideological civil war in the united states of america right now. the most important thing about america is the individual, their rights their freedoms their liberties and their sovereignty but there is some people that believe in collective sub jugati on, and i think that's what you see the challenge is right now. this country was unified when they looked at the video of george floyd and what happened to him. that was a den egraze of his human dignity but what happened is that these radical leftist groups such as antifa and black lives matter have am could in and tried to leverage this incident for their own ideological agenda and political advancement and that's not what we want to see happen.

this is just the same as when a kid throws a tantrum in the grocery store. you ignore it, or you look down and you discipline the kid but you can not try to compromise with the kid when they're throwing the tantrum in the grocery store aisle. we're trying to compromise with people that are throwing tantrum s. it's not going to work well. pete: lt. colonel alan west thank you so much for your time this morning and your insight. we really appreciate it. >> my pleasure. griff: thank you. pete: as we continue to await the president's arrival at west point ahead of his commencement address, we will talk to a military historian about the importance of the president 's speech.

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into his car 10 minutes before the flag drops and without a single practice lap he hits the gas and hopes for the best. the last time he raced earnhardt placed fifth in darlington last year. >> and major league baseball is signaling a possible deal with players on a shortened season. the league now offering 80% of prorated salaries for a 72-game season. mlb commissioner is guaranteeing baseball will be back back this year saying a season will start with or without an agreement. we'll see. griff over to you. griff: all right, thanks, pete. well here is a live look at west point, new york. president trump set to arrive in just moments where he will deliver the commencement address to the graduates of the u.s. military academy. because of the coronavirus the graduation will look different than years past. jedediah: here to discuss the significance of the president's visit military historian and author of the book , welcome to the show,

and it's a very important day. if you can, contextualize this a little bit for us the historical significance of trump's delivery of this commencement address. >> well, it's fairly typical for all u.s. presidents to give the commencement address, at least once during their term in office, and of course to some presidents if they had a two- term, they would give it twice, so ronald regan for example, spoke in 1981 and 1987. president obama more recently in 2009 and 2014, and they use those addresses as an opportunity to really set out the defense and security concerns of the united states, and the sort of issues that those young servicemen, those young men and women might be likely to face in the years to come. it was an opportunity to really talk about the problems that america was facing and was going to face, and the really quite remarkable things have happened in some of these addresses. i mentioned the reagan address

in 1981. he actually spoke in that address of course really he's been talking about russia and the threat during the cold war and he used the term, evil force , which was in my mind, to the more famous reference of the evil empire that he was saying a couple years later so already you get a sense of him underlining and stressing how he is going to recalibrate his foreign policy and the use of military during his term in office and it's that sort of importance and significance that often underpins these speeches. i suppose a difference for president trump is that he's giving it towards the end of his first term but nevertheless despite the troubles over coronavirus it would have been very unusual if he wasn't taking the opportunity during his first term in office to speak at least once to these cadets. pete: saul, as you speak we're looking at live pictures on the parade field at west point and also awaiting the arrival of marine one. you mentioned threats and big threats and an opportunity with

this platform for a president to speak not just to the cadets but to the nation about our defense and defense policy there is the shot of awaiting marine one. what do you expect to hear from the president today? more about the communist chinese threats around the globe? what would you anticipate his focus to be on today's platform? >> i think he's going to name all of the obvious threats in terms of sort of external physical threats, immediate physical threats to american servicemen and of course american security, and that would come of course in the form of islamic terrorists, but probably he's going to spread them out a little bit wider than that to talk about other forms of terrorism probably cyber terrorism, and i be very surprised if he doesn't check a few other potential enemies and included in that list, i would expect there to be some reference to china, whether it's directly in relation to coronavirus or whether it's to do with a broader more, a broader strategic threat, i couldn't say for sure but i suspect those sort of groups will be included in the talked

to. griff: saul, let me ask you really about the mission that will be placed on the shoulders of these young second lieutenant s which is what they will become after getting their diplomas because really, when they began their training some three and a half, four years ago , there wasn't a pandemic. the more fabric of the nation wasn't being torn by two opposite political sort of divisions but yet here we are, a different sort of pressure perhaps than graduating classes in the past? >> yeah, i think that is fair to say. i will say to begin with one of the remarkable things about the west point academy's process of training is it's incredibly thorough. you talk about three and a half to four years in comparison to the uk our very famous academy here has a one-year system in place, so you can see that these young men and women have gone through an incredibly long

torture us and thorough program and in the course of that program, it's not just a question of learning about the military, it's not just a question of learning about humanities. they are very strong on on the moral code here as well. it's well known there is an honor code at west point, and so you get young men and women coming out, determined to serve their country, and are being pitched as you quite rightly say , in 2020 into a very confusing storm because there is now the security threat from within the u.s. and it's not external terrorism. it is a threat of disorder from their own, you know, their own and that makes it, i think a much trickier situation than for many previous graduates. pete: saul david military historian thank you very much for your inside we appreciate it as we continue to monitor the grounds on your screen left, we've got the parade grounds where the ceremony will be held for those cadets at west point on the right, we are awaiting the arrival of the commander-in-chief in marine

one, there at west point. of course we will bring that to you. continue to monitor it and here to provide some further insight is a west point graduate, retired army major and gop congressman mark green. congressman thank you so much for joining us. you've been a cadet. it wasn't on the parade field, i'm sure it was in the stadium the way the more traditionally do it but talk to us, 1986 i believe is your class. talk to us about this day and the meaning to cadets? >> well just imagine four years of drill and military science, leadership training, your academic classes and west point is one of the unique places where at least when i was there, the curriculum included engineering whether you were an engineering major, i was an economics major and i still had to take engineering classes so it's a very arduous curriculum and all that work, the culmination of it and then you're stepping off into service in the united

states army. griff: yeah, congressman if you can just sort of see our shot here now, we see marine one landing. that's the plane, you're certainly very familiar with that area and it comes from an interesting historical day because two of the secretaries of the president's administration defense sec esper and secretary of state mike pompeo both graduates of west point. >> my classmates. griff: oh, wow. what do you think is the mission that the president lays forth today? >> he's going to talk about the challenges these men and women will face as they serve in the army and there are security threats, there are sovereignty threat, china, russia, security threats, north korea, iran, there are safety threats islamic terrorism so in all of those areas i think he'll address what they will have to do and that's go leave men and women in the prevention of war and then it happens in the victory in war.

jedediah: congressman, speak a little bit to what be going through the minds of these brave young men and women as they're listening to the president's address maybe what could help them in a time that is quite divisive and tumultuous in this country, and elsewhere right now, and which they are going to have to be the leaders out there on the front lines. >> i think what they have to do and what the president needs to tell these guys and gals is look , this is about your mission , and this is about your men. we used to say it that way but we meant it as both men and women. this is about your mission and your soldiers, and whatever mission is in front of you that's what you focus on. the army is huge and there's so many resources in our government that are addressing the i'd young protesters logic divide, and if that's really a more political issue anyway. the soldiers should focus on their mission and their people and really kind of honestly stay

out of this battle that's going on. that's a political thing and we have separation of the civilian leadership of the nation and the military for a reason and that's made our country more free, i believe so they focus on mission and on their people. pete: we continue to watch one of which is marine one, the bird s land on the plane there at west point. the president has either arrived or will arrive just in seconds here. congressman if you would there's a reason why our commander-in-chief goes to a service academy every single year and gives a commencement address. talk to us about what makes west point, what makes the naval academy, what makes these places so special to our nation. >> well first of all, we take the very best of our nation into the academies and it is about a life of service. i mean, you look at my class. class of 86. the motto "courage never quits." you've got myself in congress, you've got pompeo at state,

you've got esper at defense, you've got 19 general officers, the vice chief of staff of the army, ceo's of mercedes benz , ceo's of 7-eleven, these young people, 2020, 35 years from now will be doing the very same thing. the mission of west point is to train leaders who will serve the nation for their lifetime. that's what this place is about, and that's why it's so special. that's why presidents come and speak. so many other people i had casper wineberger the secret ary of defense for ronald regan speak at my graduation. i will never forget what he said he used gideon, and the mission of the infantry which is the motto which is "follow me" which is essentially what gideon from the bible said to the people who followed him into battle. these moments are defining and today is one of the most defining moments in these young people's lives and it sets the stage for their future service to the country.

griff: and congressman, those cadets have just listened to as you see here on our screen , the rotor blades spin ning as the president in marine one land. you mentioned the class motto this year it is "with vision, we lead." what might that vision be? >> well, their vision is going to be for freedom. you know the values that are important to america, a military to build their force in a way that meets the challenges of the future, and we're talking about when i came in, the doctrine was air, land, battle, doctrine and we talked about maybe we were beginning to talk about state. now it's state, now it's cyber as folks on your show have mentioned this morning, and it's progressing into this domain of the mind. and actually, a battle for what people think and so, you know, psychological warfare, it takes on a new meaning in the era of

social media and all of the cyber stuff that we have at our hands, so their challenges are great, and that's what they've got to be thinking about pete: congressman thank you very much for your insight this morning class of 86, certainly accomplished its mission. we thank you for your service and for giving voice to the meaning at west point today. thank you, congressman and we're watching right now, the commander-in-chief, the president of the united states get off of marine one, receive a salute from the marine s, and presumably, greeted there at west point and he will be preparing for his speech which is at 10:25 today. griff, last thoughts? griff: well my thought pete is that this is likely the most important speech of the president's term of his life to be quite honest. we just heard congressman green talking about the importance of the vision and the multitude of threats that lie ahead. it will be fascinating to watch and i'll be tuned at 10:25 later

today. pete: jed, griff, its been great hosting continued coverage of the west point graduation and the president's speech here on the fox news channel. do not go anywhere on this saturday. neil: thank you, pete very very much we are monitoring this as well i'm neil cavuto on cavuto live and you're looking at west point, new york of course the big speech, the president is going to make now this first to west point cadets as president of the united states. he is the 12th u.s. president to do so, the sixth in a row to do so. the president has been busy making speeches every year, to military academies. last year it was the air force academy, before that the naval academy in 2018 and the coast guard academy back in 2017. this comes at an odd time with the ongoing virus that as you probably heard is going to make things a little bit different for this particular presidential address to the s