tasers. todd: we are live on the ground with more protests as rayshard brooks' wife is demanding prison time for the officers involved. jillian: a burisma bust after a ukraine leader launched a probe into the controversial gas company. authorities intercept millions in cash meant to convince of icials to turn a -- officials to turn a blind eye. and today, major league baseball's union shuts down negotiations daring the league to set a start date. rob: starting to get late. "fox & friends first" continues right now. ♪ rob: good morning, you are watching "fox & friends first" on this monday morning. i'm rob schmitt. jillian: i'm jillian mele. thank you for starting your day with us. we begin with this fox news alert. protesters taking to the streets following the death of a black man shot by police in atlanta.

it comes as the medical examiner rules rayshard brooks' death a homicide. rob: jonathan serrie is live in atlanta with the family's plea for justice. good morning, jonathan. >> reporter: rob and jillian, good morning to you. i'm across from the university avenue wendy's which was torched over the weekend. the parking lot has become a temporary shrine to rayshard brooks, the 27-year-old who lost his life in a police shooting in that parking lot. the medical examiner has ruled this case a homicide, an autopsy revealed the 27-year-old had two gunshot wounds to the back that caused organ failure due to blood loss and police released new body cam video of the incident. let's watch. >> i think you've had too much to drink to be driving. put your hands behind your back for me. put your hands behind your back. >> you're going to get tased! you're going to get tased!

>> 63. >> [gunfire] >> reporter: during the scuffle, police say brooks grabbed an officer's taser and pointed at him during the foot chase and that's when the officer shot him. the officer who fired the shots garrett rolf was fired immediately and the fellow officer placed on administrative duty. brooks' wife says that's not enough. >> i want them to go to jail, i want them to deal with the same thing as if it was my husband who killed someone else. if it was my husband who shot them, he would be in jail. he would be doing a life sentence. they need to be put away. >> reporter: the shooting touched off protests all weekend. saturday night, protesters temporarily blocked a 14 lane stretch of interstate 75 and 85.

in a town hall forum with other mayors, keisha lance bottoms expressed her own frustration with what she believes is police bias. >> we have implicit bias training in this city. we require people to go to the national center for civil and human rights. we have housing for our police officers in many of our communities in which they are serving in. but yet and still, it's not enough. >> reporter: over the weekend, arsonists set fire to the wendy's where brooks was shot. there were so many people in the streets, firefighters were unable to to reach the building in time to save it. atlanta crimestoppers is offering a 1 $1,000 reward -- $10,000 reward for an indictment and arrest for those responsible. they expect to make a decision by the middle of the week on

whether to press charges against the officer who fired the fatal shots. they are in the process of gathering evidence. back to you guys. jillian: thank you. todd: calls to defund the is -- rob: calls to defund the police is growing louder. not all democrats are on-board. jillian: discussions of police reform are taking center stage. garrett. >> reporter: good morning to you. it is not just a majority of democrats who are against defunding the police. this weekend, the family of george floyd made it clear they are not on board with this idea either. that is significant. it is in the wake of george floyd's death that activist groups such as black lives matter are calling for a national defunding of police. in an interview with fox news, floyd's family said eliminating police departments is not going to solve the larger problems of systemic racism that exist in the criminal justice system. >> what i would like is for all

police around america to get their jobs and do them the right way, the correct way. you can do your job and still maintain respect for others. all i want is respect. because i want justice for my brother right now. >> reporter: eliminating police departments would largely be up to state and local governments and despite the growing calls to take that kind of action, most democrats on capitol hill are also against it. on sunday, house majority whip jim clyburn stressed reforming and restructuring law enforcement has a significantly better chance of solving this problems than eliminating police all together. >> nobody is going to defund the police. we can restructure the police forces. the fact of the matter is, that police have a role to play. what we've got to do is make sure that that role is one that meets the times.

>> reporter: senator tim scott is leading the gop efforts on criminal justice reform and he, along with george floyd's family, said while the death of rayshard brooks in atlanta is extremely sad, it is an entirely different case than that of george floyd but it does highlight the need for reforms to officer training. >> the question is, is there a path forward that we take a look at the necessity of eliminating bad behavior within our law enforcement community, is there a path forward. i think we'll find that. i'm not sure that it's qualified immunity. it seems like it won't be decertification. i hope we don't let partisanship get in the way. >> reporter: there is a lot of consensus on capitol hill that congress does need to address police reform and criminal justice reform. the question as usual is how far and drastic of an action congress should take and what kind of compromises the two parties would be willing to make in order to get something done. rob and jillian, that debate

will get underway in large part this week when republicans unveil their own police reform proposal. todd: garrett, thank you so much. jillian: we have a fox news alert now. paul wheelen, a former u.s. marine accused of being a spy is sentenced to 16 years in prison. it could involve time in a labor camp. a mass could you court coming down -- moscow court coming down with the decision overnight. he claims he was set up when found carrying a flash drive allegedly with classified russian information. he said he thought the drive contained holiday photos. he pleaded not guilty. rob: a father charged with second degree murder after two young kids are found dead in his truck. dustin lee dennis telling oklahoma police he fell asleep for five hours after running an air rand on saturday. he told police he couldn't find his kids after he woke up and then he realized they were still inside of his hot truck.

the two were found under a floorboard in the truck. the temperature in tulsa on that day was in the low 90s. jillian: a $6 million bribe to stop an investigation into burisma is bustedded in ukraine. officials showing off bags of american currency in the country's largest bribe seizure ever. burisma is the gas company where 00 deer bide0000 deer -- huntera member. rob: demand appears to be surging for the tulsa arena that's hosting an event, it holds less than 20,000 people. the campaign manager tweeted, quote, just passed 800,000 tickets. saturday is going to be amazing. a lot of tickets. oregon on the road to recovery after it was hit by a rare

tornado up in the northwest. the storm hitting speeds as high as 75 miles per hour. jillian: then take a look, cars were destroyed by a tree branch thrown by a at whic twister. rob: in atlanta, severe thunderstorms dumping hail as well. jillian: janice dean joins us live with what we can expect in the coming days. hello, janice. >> good morning. happy monday to you both. we had severe weather across the northwest, very unsettled day, weekend, and then today is no different. we're going to see the potential for showers, thunderstorms in the area and then you mentioned the southeast and the mid-atlantic. we have this kind of blocking pattern and that is allowing for quite a bit of rain and the potential for thunderstorms today for parts of the southeast, in towards the mid-atlantic and with that the potential of flash flooding.

that's going to be a concern not only today but into tomorrow as again we have this stalled front and this blocking pattern that allows all of this moisture to stream in towards the southeast and the mid-atlantic region. you can see the forecast rainfall, several inches of rain in and around myrtle beach and wilmington, beautiful beach area. as we go through the next couple days, not going to be too beachy. your forecast today, beautiful 76 in new york city with mostly sunny skies, warm temperatures across the central u.s., you can see a little bit of gulf moisture working its way into south texas. we're still watching that area of low pressure and the cold front across portions of the southeast and then the northwest unfortunately again today is going to remain unsettled. i don't think we're going to see severe weather outbreak there but certainly the chance for thunderstorms and heavy rain along the coast. rob and jillian, nice to see you, back to you. rob: good to see you, janice. thank you so much. >> you've got it.

jillian: nascar welcoming back fans for the first time since the pandemic. only 1,000 people, mainly military members and their family were allowed at the speedway. they were screened at the entrance. rob: mother nature was not nearly as welcoming. storms delayed the dixie vodka 400 four separate times. most of the fans were gone when denny hamlin took the checkered flag. >> denny hamlin, 40th career win, at homestead miami speedway. rob: there you have it. hamlin's third win of the season. 11 minutes after the hour now. the mainstream media downplaying the takeover of a six block stretch of downtown seattle. >> the autonomous zone has turned into an almost street fair like atmosphere with free food, art displays and outdoor movie nights. >> it sort of looks like a street festival. jillian: our next guest says major news networks are failing to do their jobs by what she says is them appearing to cheer

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>> it's like a pedestrian street festival of sorts. the restaurants are open. there's couchs in the middle of the road, there's gardening taking place. >> reporter: the autonomous zone has turned into a street fair like atmosphere with free food, art displays and outdoor movie nights. >> it looks like a street festival. look behind me. you can see all those people in the street. rob: the media dramatically downplaying the occupation of seattle's capitol hill neighborhood as a street fair as occupiers hold their ground in this cop-free zone now for more than a week. jillian: what's the real story? here with our analysis of the chaz coverage is beverly holberg. good to see you this morning. >> good morning. jillian: you heard a couple

different clips of how this is being covered then you take a look at this, 25 seattle police officers were injured over a 10-day period and then seattle's police chief, this is late last week, talking about their efforts being hampered within this area. listen to this. >> our call for service has more than tripled. this is police responses to emergency calls, rapes, robberies and all sorts of violent incidents have been occurring in the area that we're not able to get to. jillian: you hear that from the police chief, they can't get to different responses that they feel as though they need to. beverly, how should this be covered? >> if we were watching some of the coverage, we would think this is something we should do for the summer. the mayor called it the summer of love. this is a block party, we should all go, right, if this is so great. the reality on the ground is, this started from a 10-day standoff between protesters and police. it led into the occupation of

the six blocks. think of the businesses and the residents who live in this area. i doubt they think of this as some party and nothing more than that. and as the seattle police chief said, there are rapes and robberies going on of and it's causing police to have a longer delay in getting to these victims if they can get to them at all. in order to cover this fairly, are there aspects of this that are probably peaceful? sure. people willingly go. this is occupation not of vacant land, this is occupation of people's homes. rob: a lot of them are anarchists, a lot of them are armed, a lot of them committing extortion to businesses within the capitol hill autonomous zone. it almost appears to me, i want your take on this, that the media has a bigger problem with the president throwing a rally in oklahoma later this week than they do with this story. what do you think? >> absolutely. they're going to attack the president however they can. the president has spoken up, hads tweeted about this situation.

he's had a lot of pushback not just from the media but also from the governor and also the mayor of seattle, the governor of of washington. any time they can criticize the president, they're going to take an opportunity to do so. it makes you ask this question, is so much of what's going on, whether it's the protests and the riots, now you have this situation of chaz developing, is it -- are people using it to score political points against the president instead of reporting accurately the full story, the full scope of what's going on, because i think the full story is often what's getting lost if the news. jillian: yeah. i mean, that was kind of leading to my next question. you talk about the full story getting lost. what do you think it's going to take for things like this to be able to be covered on all sides? because things aren't right now. >> well, i do think that people in america look at this and i don't think they trust that this is fully peaceful. you can see some of the footage and the graffiti that is on the walls. people know that this is not a peaceful zone. i think one data point you can

point to to show that people aren't trusting all of the news that's being presented is that gun sales are up by 80% in this country. new gun ownership is up as well. i think people are fearful about the lack of law and order. these six blocks represent something that could happen across the country and people are rightly fear physicaful if d of icials aren't going to do -- officials aren't going to do anything to keep their homes and businesses safe. rob: thank you very much. we appreciate it. jillian: it is 19 minutes after the hour. trump heights gets a financial boost. rob: we're live in israel with the new funding just approved for a controversial settlement. stay tuned.

jillian: welcome back. overnight student protesters in oregon topple a thomas jefferson statue outside their school. the statue stood in front of portland's jefferson high school. protesters defaced the base, spray painting the words slave owner and george floyd on of it. rob: people armed with guns are guarding a christopher columbus statue in philadelphia. fights break out as protesters and counter protesters are clashing. >> [chanting] rob: at least two people have been arrested. jillian: benjamin netanyahu vowing to move forward on a golan heights settlement named after president trump. rob: trey yingst is live in jerusalem. >> reporter: good morning. the trump heights settlement was

announced last year by the israeli government and over the weekend israel approved $2.3 million in funding to get started on the project. this area in the golan heights is not considered part of israel by the international community, though president trump did sign an executive order last march formally referring to the land contested with syria as part of israel. as of 2019, there were 26,000 jewish settlers living in the golan. according to the minister, trump heights will be able to house up to 300 families. currently the area has a dozen residents. the settlement approvals come 15 days before benjamin net y netau is scheduled to annex parts of the west bank. jordan warned of possible conflict as a result. tensions continue, though the past few months have offered a rare period of quiet. there are major concerns about the possibility of violence when it comes to annexing these key parts of the west bank.

they're connected to largely political decisions and when you look at the politics on the american side, the trump administration's deal of the century has not received a warm welcome in the region including from palestinians who have full-out rejected the plan. rob, jillian. jillian: trey, thank you. rob: trey, thanks. 25 minutes after the hour. the cdc warning another lockdown may be necessary if covid-19 cases spike. jillian: dr. nicole saphier says the concern is real and she joins us live.

rob: welcome back. a check of the top headlines this morning. protests erupting nationwide over the death of a black man shot by police in atlanta. rayshard brooks shot and killed at a fast food restaurant friday after struggling to get an away from an arrest and grabbing an officer's taser, evidently firing it at him. an autopsy report shows that

rayshard brooks suffered two gunshot wounds to the back. jillian: president trump blasting the radical left for taking over of part of seattle creating a cop-free zone. the president tweeting in part, they know how badly the weakness plays politically. the mayor and governor should be ashamed of themselves. easily fixed. the city's police chief is trying to resolve it peacefully. rob: a judge gave the yankees until today to release a letter regarding a sign stealing investigation. sports gamblers say they have been defrauded after two world series winners were found to have cheated. jillian: the governor of new york is warning to put new york city back on lockdown after no signs of social distancing over the weekend. rob: there was a lot of evidence of this. this comes as more states are easing coronavirus restrictions. todd piro joins us live with the latest states reopening. hey, todd.

>> reporter: hey, guys. today a dozen states easing more coronavirus restrictions. gyms, hair salons and restaurants increasing capacity in some states but i hate saying this but, but we've got to, concerns growing over a possible virus resurgence as several states see an uptick in cases. texas marking its fourth straight day of record covid-19 hospitalizations. and in new york city the ongoing battle pitting governor versus mayor. governor andrew cuomo threatening to reverse part of the reopening after people are seen violating social distancing guidelines. >> if we increase the spread of the virus in manhattan because of bars and restaurants, well, then everybody in manhattan is going to suffer. and that's not fair either. local government, do your job. if we have to close, then people are going to hold you accountable. todd: people without face masks crowding city streets this weekend. the governor responding to this

video, tweeting don't make me come down there. spokesperson for new york city, mayor bill de blasio firing back, saying these businesses are allowed to open of per the governor's guidelines and we don't believe in i' imprisoning people or taking away their livelihood is the answer. more than 25,000 complaints have been received about covid-19 violations, mostly in the city and i the ham hamptons back to . rob: the cdc warns that the u.s. should expect more lockdowns if coronavirus outbreaks continue. >> if cases begin to go up again and particularly if they go up dramatically, it's important to recognize that more extensive mitigation efforts such as what were implemented back in march may be needed again. jillian: the message comes as states across the nation are

reporting a new spike in cases. so it leaves many wondering, is this the second wave? is it part of the first? is this what we're dealing with until there's a vaccine. dr. nicole saphier joins us live. good to see you. what do you say, are we going to be up and down until we figure out a vaccine for this. >> good morning, jillian and rob. here's the thing. we have to realize, this is not the second wave people have been talking about. this is still part of the first wave and as far as new york, new jersey, the northeast is concerned, yes, we have markedly decreased that curve but as a country as a whole, we've only flatenned the curve. we're still at about 20,000 new cases a day. that's been holding pretty steady since the end of march. it's now we're seeing drastic rises in other places of the country. we have to look at things as a whole. new york and new jersey, it was very cold in march. we were having snow. we were inside together, plus a lot of international travel coming in and out of jfk and newark, why we saw the spike in

cases. it was also flu season which is why the hospital systems were overrun. now in the rest of the united states, it's getting really hot of. in arizona, it's really hot right now. everyone is inside. where we are going outside. of course they're going to see a rise in their cases as well. now, what's going on right now, really makes us question if the recommendations for the universal lockdowns early on in march were what should have been done. i was saying from the beginning that we need to look at things by a state by state basis because we have civil unrest occurring throughout the country because we've been having these stay at home orders and the social distance orders for months. whereas many places in the country, maybe they didn't need them a couple months ago. whereas they should be doing them a little bit more now. is it possible that the cdc or the world health organization is going to recommend that we have new stay at home orders in the future? maybe. do i think people are going to adhere to them? probably not. because we have had misinformation all along and i

think people have -- are not necessarily trusting some of these officials. the truth is, there is circulating virus, we know it's highly contagious and it severely affects our elderly and those who are immunocompromised and we know ways to decrease the transmission, which means limiting the amount of people who are indoors, staying home if you're sick and if you're outside trying to maintain a few feet between you and other people. if you adhere to those things you'll keep down the trans miss abilitmissability of the virus. rob: i think a lot of people have noticed it's not as dangerous to them as maybe they thought it was especially younger, healthier people. if you try to go back into another lockdown, and i've talked to so many people about this, there is no appetite for that whatsoever. can they effectively lock down this country again if they think they need to? >> i would say that based on how

our country is run that no, we will not go do such a severe tholockdown once again. this is a novel coronavirus. we didn't know anything about it when it started. we expected the fatality rate would be less than what was initially reported and thankfully it was. the truth is, this is still a very deadly virus, especially with the elderly and those in the age bracket from 20 to 40 are the ones that are transmitting the virus. if the younger generation could just be a little bit more responsible about bringing home potential virus to their loved ones, especially multigenerational families, we would be protecting a lot more people. jillian: doctor, before we let you go, i've been fascinated reading the updates on the hair salon out of missouri where the hair stylist who had potentially exposed 140 clients, none of them according to what we're hearing have gotten coronavirus. and they were all wearing masks is what everything reported so far has said.

so what do you think about the mask conversation? because that is still a debate amongst people. >> well, that's right, jillian. if you're wearing a mask and the people you're with are wearing a mask, you're significantly decreasing the risk of transmission. they had other variables in place to lessen the spread. they didn't have people congregating together. you have open windows. if you have the cross ventilation, that's going to reduce your risk. when it comes to that, they didn't test everybody that was exposed to it so we don't know for certain that they aren't any awesome ma particular carriers. it's -- asymptomatic carriers. it's a great sign to see you don't have a cluster of infections. as we open up our businesses, there are intelligent and safe way toss be opening up our businesses, wearing masks, social distancing, and having cross ventilation in the room, those are absolute ways to keep people safe. rob: doctor, thank you so much. good to see you. jillian: thank you. >> thanks, guys. rob: 36 minutes after the hour.

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it continues. the mlb expected to take the next step in setting up the 2020 season. rob: cheryl casone is here with the latest negotiations. >> it's all about money. this is so disappointing for a lot of fans. their quote, tell us when and where, those were the words from the player's organization while rejecting the offer for a shortened season. players rejecting the league's latest offer that would see a 72 game season, 80% prorated pay for players and a cot of $1.5 billion for the league. saturday night, the association accused the league and owners of not being financially transparent. in a statement the league said we are disappointeddeappointed b has decided not to negotiate in got faith over resumption of playing. the next move is on the league, especially the commissioner, rob manfred. the players gave him until close of business today about just

tell us when to show up. we talked about july 14th as a possible start. but it's -- who knows at this point how long this is going to go. jillian: i said last week, i'll believe it when i see it. i stick with that. >>.we've seen self check out and we've seen regular check out. one store is checking just self check out. >> a walmart is testing cashier-less checkout. they would get rid of th the conveyor belt lanes. employees would be needed if needed to help you. the company wants to see if this will speed up purchases while providing a safer experience for shoppers. groceries will be checked out like normal. if this is successful, they could roll it out to stores across the country. no word on timing. we're seeing a lot of that especially in the northeast with those self checkout counters. i'm not great at it. i'm getting better. rob: you load up 200 things in

the cart and oh, man. >> i have a love, hate relationship with the chef checkout. rob: it's -- self checkout. rob: the right to record police getting the green light in new york. it allows people to record police activity and maintain custody of it. it is set to take effect in 30 days. it's one of 10 bills that aims to hold police officers more accountable. so far cuomo signed five of the 110. jillian: first responders and fishermen caught on camera pulling a man from a burning car. watch this. >> pull him out, pull him out. pull him out. jillian: the unconscious driver crashed and went airborne, this happened in new jersey. officers say the car caught fire after another vehicle hit it. two fishermen nearby were able to cut the driver's seat belt. the driver is being treated for

serious injuries. rob: that's something else. democrats looking at president trump's economic track record with a heavy dose of skepticism. >> with some policy, some program that he put in place that contributed to that. jillian: will they give him any credit for helping drive down unemployment in the black community? our political panel is on deck to debate that. sweetheart, do my forearms look bigger?

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>> it pains me every time i hear him talk about the unemployment rate. i would give him credit if there was some policy, some program that he put in place that contributed to that. the unemployment rate for african-americans prior to covid was dropping because of the economy. rob: the chair of the

congressional black caucus pushing back on president trump's claim that he has done more for the black community than any other president besides abraham lincoln. during this administration we have seen a record low african-american unemployment rate and a number of policies put in place. joining me to debate is lauren clashy and jason nichols. jason, start with you. up until covid hit things were looking up and up. what do you make of the criticisms of the president? >> first of all, that's not exactly true. it was starting to actually pick up again but when you look at what happened with this president, you have to include everything. if you're going to take credit. we have the lowest home ownership level for african-americans in 50 years. we have a racial wage gap that didn't move. we have labor force participation of african-american men that was actually rising -- excuse me, lowering. so, you know, he actually hasn't made all these gains and

actually when we're talking about the unemployment rate dropping, it dropped most under president obama. so i don't really see what exactly there is to take credit for. i think karen bass is correct, that there really wasn't any targeted policy at african-americans that led to this. rob: obama got the start with the recession which makes it easy to drop rates by a lot. let's go to lauren. your response to that? >> i don't disagree entirely. i think president trump has a good story to tell with the economy before covid because his administration was viewing unemployment as the tide that rises all boats and everybody was going to benefit from this. i think we're seeing with covid the african-american and black community has been disproportionately hurt by the covid response which says to me that that means that the jobs that were coming in were not in the right areas, industries, et cetera, and so you can see that this is a problem. and i think that you heard over the past couple weeks that our

black neighbors, our black friends have been saying that there is a problem here and we need to do more. so i think president trump really has to be careful taking credit for anything because especially when it comes to unemployment because he needs to be listening at this time and be articulating and have a message that targets the black community that says i hear you and this is what we need to do more. that being said, he did to the criminal justice reform and i think he can go to the community and say that this is something that i wanted to do for you but there needs to be more done. rob: we can show the number of things the president does take credit for in helping the black community. i want to talk about the first step act. karen bass said on sunday, all the president did was sign this, that it was worked on by everybody else and he just signed it into law and she says he doesn't deserve to to take credit for that. you look at his opponent in the upcoming election, joe biden was instrumental in our high black incarceration rates with the crime bill back in 1994. you put those two together, it's

an interesting choice that voters have to make. >> yes, i will admit that joe biden did not have a perfect record when it comes to many things including criminal justice. i think that the '94 vie hadn't crime control -- violent crime control and law enforcement act is many times mis misunderstood. it had so much in it, including the violence against women act, the assault weapons ban and the cops program which was about community policing that was never fully funded. so i think that it's a mixed bag and actually there's a myth that it created mass incarceration which actually isn't true. what really created it was the 1986 anti-drug abuse act which established mandatory minimum sentencing. so i think that joe biden has a lot of issues. he actually did lower the crack cocaine threshold ratio which actually helped incarceration. when we look at the first step

act, it was a first step. that's what people need to recognize. and there were other of things done by this administration that were complete failures including reinstituting the death penalty for drug crimes and other things. it's like the administration was talking about both sides of its mouth. i think taking so much credit opens the president up to criticism as well. rob: fair enough. let's talk about defunding the police. we heard so much about this. a couple polls we want to put up here, from abc. 64% of americans do not support defunding the police. i think a lot of people are shocked that's not higher. and then you look at the idea of, okay, we're just going to move some of the money from a police department over to these programs, these social programs to help people so maybe they don't have as many interactions with police. that also doesn't get a heck of a lot of support. lauren, what do you make of those numbers? >> one, i think it's terrible messaging. what a horrible slogan to defund

the police. that's what people are getting hung up on. it doesn't matter what the protesters or activists are calling for in regards to reallocating the money. what they're getting stuck on is people find the police as a valuable service. and i think that there's an argument to be made that we need to be restoring trust with the police departments, transparency, accountability, all of these things that we heard from protesters and activists and from the black community, there's a real problem there. and yet i think it's an and, we need to be funding the police and these other community programs to help the black community and others, not have to -- you know, feel comfortable calling the police and have solutions in the community. rob: we want to give the last word to jason. go ahead. >> no, i kind of agree with lauren here. i truly believe that -- i think we do need to defund the police, but that's to the police's benefit, actually. i think they're made to do things that overburden them.

they're made to do the jobs of other people. i think in la if you defund the police by $150 million, they still take up 50% of the budget. so i think defunding the police may not be the best slogan but when you actually break it down and people understand it, they'll like it more. rob: got to leave it there, guys. thank you so much for your time. we appreciate it. and we'll be right back. . . as you get older,

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jillian: good morning and welcome back. cleveland browns quarterback says he is going to kneel for the national anthem and the president is weighing in. rob: carley shimkus here with twitter's response to this. >> good morning, guys. baker mayfield will take a knee during the national anthem in the upcoming season. the quarterback explained his stance in an instagram post saying i have the utmost respect for military, cops and people that serve our country. it's about equality and people being treated the same because we are all human. it's been ignored for too long. it's my fault as well for not becoming more educated and silent. if he was a fan that's okay with him. meantime president trump weighing in on the subject as well saying he is going to avoid watching football or soccer as the colleague softened their stance on protesting during the national anthem. and all of this, of course, sparking mixed reaction on social media. casey said what happened

on-to-focusing on football. this twitter user saying supporting rare win for baker and browns respect. tony chiming in truthfully why does it matter either way? this subject certainly matters to a lot of the people on both sides of this debate. rob: sports getting very political. of the one thing everybody wants to hear is that you look like a horse. carley: at love serious stuff is happening across the country. let's lighten it up a little bit. a horse sanctuary in the u.k. is asking people to send them photos of their diy quarantine cuts. look at that one. they won't get maxed with a horse lookalike. they say the response has been fantastic. and they are also asking for donations to get them through this tough time. i was trying to think of a horse pun, guys. i couldn't come up with one. i failed you on that want from. i apologize. i'm thinking because it was hair maybe she is born with it maybe

it's neighbeline. jillian: we got to go. "fox & friends" starts right now. we'll think of horse puns. steve: good morning. we start with a fox news alert. a new wave of protests erupting nationwide following the death of a black man shot by police in atlanta. >> i think you have had too much to drink to be driving. put your hands behind your back for me. you are going to get tadz. you are going to get tased. >> come on, man. >> [gunshots. ainsley: rashard brooks was shot twice in the back in a wendy's