live free or die, america, the world on the brink. a special father's day addition and it is a box set. get it for dad, coming out soon. we will never be the media mob, my heart is troubled, laura, go ahead, hit me. >> laura: your heart is troubled -- why is your heart trouble? the good and evil exists in the world. >> sean: i hate to see our country -- you know, that new video of george floyd where the other officer -- stop this, stop this, for 5 minutes. that's a fellow american. this can't happen. >> laura: it's evil. there is evil every night and every day in america. some of it is race-based, some of it is not race-based. >> sean: a lot of it we don't talk about, do we? 34 wounded in chicago over the weekend, to go dead. >> laura: we don't talk a lot a lot of the bloodshed from across the economic spectrum of drug abuse, depression. there are a lot of people -- and i know you've done this on your radio show, sean. a lot of people are -- but

there's so much good that's in not only our country, but in our country's history, because we've learned from our mistakes in history, and that's the wonderful thing about america, we learn and we move on, and that's good. that's good stuff. got to do with the right way, it's got to be done democratically, not by mob rule, which is what we've seen. >> sean: you see the worst in people at times and then the best, we saw that with covid for example, saw that on 9/11. there could be good -- a lot of good that comes out of this but it doesn't make a lot of the bad. >> laura: great show to make him awesome to see you. i'm laura ingraham, this is "the ingraham angle" from washington tonight. new riots broke out over the weekend following the shooting of a black man by a white police officer. we go live on the ground to atlanta all the details and then bernie kerik weighs in. a newspaper editor's job is in jeopardy after he barred some reporters from covering blm protests.

here exclusively to hit back at the left's narrative that he did it because he is a racist. also, liberals go too far in their assault on american culture. just wait until you hear what happened to philadelphia's tomb of the unknown soldier. raymond arroyo is here for seen and unseen, but first, super-spreader's of hypocrisy. lets the focus of tonight's angle. have you noticed that whenever the medical experts say "the science says" and ends up justifying the left's most insane demands? i can remember when the science told us that trump was overreacting by blocking travel from china and i can remember when the science told us not to wear masks. i can also remember when the science said that reopening states early would mean skyrocketing deaths in the hospitals will be overloaded. well of course, the science

invoked by the so-called experts was wrong every step of the way. but that hasn't stopped the media from blaring alarmist warnings. well now, "the science" has deemed okay, essentially actually, to pack together outdoors in large crowds to protest in the name of liberal political causes. in fact, it may be the most effective covid treatment ever. >> it was outdoors where the virus is much more likely to be dissipated into the air. on the other hand, people who were exposed to teargas and smoke who are coughing which was more prevalent, which is dumb -- it does aerosolize the virus. we also had people who were arrested held in vehicles such as buses for hours before they were protest and jails overnight, all would increase transmission. but as of this morning, we don't yet have any convincing evidence this has been a big problem. >> laura: okay. that's what we meant by herd immunity?

well, meanwhile, that same science considers it unacceptably dangerous to attend large indoor gatherings. i'm sure it's just a coincidence that these super-spreader events happen to exactly match the campaign rally that trump had planned over the weekend. >> if i was giving the advice to the administration on this, i would say they should withhold large political rallies right now. >> it's a bad idea for states are already seeing its increases in cases to then have these large -- it's a perfect storm set up. >> being in a stadium with potentially 1 million people as the campaign is saying, has bought tickets, is a set up for a super-spreader event. >> laura: and i'm sure it's just sheer luck that the hyperventilation over a second wave of covid cases conveniently tracks precisely where trump is set to travel. >> thousands will gather saturday night in tulsa to listen to the most famous nonmask-where are the country.

president donald trump. but covid is here in tulsa, it is transmitting very efficiently. confirmed cases in the county just climbed 30% in a week, blamed by the health department on large indoor gatherings. >> laura: remember, its hospitalizations and icu beds that really count. but that's al all right, just me the goalposts. if democrats wish that the president would just put off campaigning indefinitely, obviously. or ideally until after the election of joe biden, who, all things considered may just prefer to stay in his basement until inauguration day. meanwhile, anthony fauci a man obviously suffering from media withdrawal, he resurfaced over the weekend and what can only be described as a one-man effort to depress us all. now that we are slowly starting to get our lives back ever so slowly, he told a british newspaper, i would hope that we could get back to some degree of normality within a year or so.

but i don't think it's this winter or fall. the medical deep state strikes again. the bottom line for all of us is that the president and his campaign should simply not react to any of this alarmist drivel from here on out. none of these people, sadly including dr. fauci, can be really taken all that seriously anymore given what we've seen, because science, just like journalism and entertainment, has become obscenely politiciz politicized. why did none of these people wailing about the health hazards of trump's future rallies voice any real sustained concern about the shoulder to shoulder protesters screaming at the top of their lungs, some not wearing masks, some taking them on and off, carrying blm antifa or anti-trump signs, no worries, why aren't they decrying the risk a picnic that took place in central park over the weekend?

my friend's son couldn't get married in new orleans, my high school but he couldn't her dying her brother but they felt free to conduct a rave outside of d.c. mayor of muriel bowser's home yesterday. [singing] >> laura: at least there was some social distancing going on there. considering how much mayhem mayor bowser has lamented in d.c., is poetic justice. i will support the protesters on that one. in new york, governor cuomo reported just yesterday 40 covid deaths, that's a 96% decrease from the peak. that's good news. but despite all that amazing progress, governor cuomo is still threatening businesses and localities because they're all having too much fun and making a little money. watch. >> i am warning today in a nice way, consequences of your

actions. we have 25,000 complaints statewide. i'm not going to turn a blind eye to them. >> laura: not long after he issued that threat, hundreds of thousands of protesters filled the streets of brooklyn. a black trans lives matter rally. are they going to face consequences? for not social distancing or not wearing masks or not wearing them properly or not wearing them long enough? you get the point. not for mayor bill de blasio they won't. he's ordered the city foster this vast army of covid contact tracers not to ask people if they've been protesting. well, that's not totally true, de blasio did punish brooklyn's orthodox jewish community for the heinous crime of going to the park. for their sins, de blasio sent city workers to weld shut engaged in the jewish community of borough park in brooklyn

today. the only thing that should be shut down at this point are the democrats' political fund-raising operation given what's going on here. they need to be punished at the ballot box for how badly they botched this from day one. and at the same time, president trump must convey a calm and confident message. i don't know, something keep calm and wash her hands, don't sneeze on people. now it's back to work for the rest of us. got to get our country back. he must also not allow states to unfairly punish their own resident for less with these long freeze outs of business. at some point, these shutdowns are tantamount to a state taking of property without due compensation. you see the constitutional argument i'm making. and that's a virus our american system will tolerate no longer. and that's the angle. joining me now is jack brewer, former nfl player and ceo of the

brewer group that also with me as dinesh d'souza, conservative commentator and author of "united states of socialism," just out. the hypocrisy, the double standard, it's now to the point where it would be laughable if it weren't for the livelihoods, businesses and just overall mental health of people and being able to finally get out of their houses. >> yeah. i think that people have been onto the media now for a while. the reason that the coronavirus sort of propaganda narrative was sustained as it had the backing of the medical establishment. but it was still a kind of fragile consensus because it was all dependent upon maintaining a certain moral consistency. but the moment that the very same medical professionals and the very same politicians who had warned us to "stay home, don't do this, don't do that," change their tune when the protesters and the rioters in the large started occurring on

the left, basically the whole thing collapsed. intellectually it became a joke. in fact, it's not even -- i almost feel tedious pointing to it is a double standard. we are releasing that behind the double standard is the media's single standard. single standard is basically whatever trump does is wrong and whatever the opposition does is right. if that's -- if you apply that standard, everything they do makes complete -- you can predict with complete certainty. >> laura: here are two tweets that nbc news sent out yesterday. the first time a for black trans lives draws packed crowds to brooklyn museum plaza. in an hour later, they tweeted about trump's rally and said "health experts are questioning his decision amid coronavirus." jack. i think all pretense -- any pretense of being objective or looking at this as a purely health related matter, that's just out the window, which is why i don't know a lot of people who are taking the experts

seriously on the covid now. >> yeah, it's disturbing. our nation's iniquities are causing a lot of confusion right now. there are releasing the motives of people. it is just -- it's really sickening because it goes it goes to the core of our nation. just to see people that are so bold and just open and willing to be hypocrites on national television. i mean, what happened to our fear of god or what happened to us actually caring for people and making, you know a nonbiased and giving a nonbiased opinion on these types of issues? you're talking about life or death. we can't go out there and play games and political games with peoples lives. it's just not right. >> laura: and gentlemen, the left succeeded in getting the president of course to move the tulsa rally off a day from june 19th, juneteenth, to the next day, june 20th, but now they're coming for his rnc

speech. i don't even know when that is at this moment, but not just because of the coronavirus, but because it coincides with ax handle saturday. watch. >> are these subtle dog whistles or do they just need a black important dates calendar sent to them? >> it would be hard to believe but no one on this campaign understood what was happening. >> another bloodied day in this country's history. >> what's going on here, coincidences? come on, people. >> laura: come on, people. very dramatic. nobody is disputing the fact that it was a terrible day in our country's history, but so many days have negative connotations, negative events happened on them. obama's dnc acceptance speech in 2008 was on august 28th. that same day in 1955 was the brutal murder of 14-year-old emmett till and the acceptance speech only july -- i guess it

was on july 27th, 2016. that was 1919, the start of the chicago race riots, were 38 people were killed and 537 injured in a thousand black families became homeless. dinesh, what kind of grandmother playing here on this day in history, you can't do anything else of something bad happened on that day? >> so laura, you've done good labor to expose the sort of double standard here, but again, the game that they're playing as a sort of game of lasso in which they're trying to corral trump. trying to intimidate him with the sort of thing. they're trying to control the agenda and control the narrative. and they've been successful in doing this, with really every previous republican president. even with reagan, he was moderately successful in going above the heads of the media. i think trump is the only one in a sense to take the media had on. reagan was above the prey, trump is in the fray and what trump is really exposing ultimately, i think he needs to expose, is that he is not captive to their

intimidation tactics. he doesn't even need to rebut them, because we all know that if obama did the same thing on the same day it would be completely silent. so why take this nonsense even seriously at all? >> laura: i think he hit the nail on ahead here. you pointed out last week in dallas that this is a spiritual battle that is being fought in america and you said it so eloquently, for everyone who missed it, could you just lay that out again please? >> yeah. i mean, we are watching spiritual warfare before our eyes. we've lost our fear of god. when you see kids going in burn churches, take selfies in front of them, you know we have deeper issues. the cancel culture is not popular in our culture. what does it mean to cancel someone? it means to destroy them and we all know the enemy and the devil seeks to kill, steal, and destroy. and so they've taken this on as their mantra. they're acting as if this is

something for the populist crowd to follow in everyone's getting behind it. it is really -- when they say to counsel someone. and you, canceling people is evilness and i think that's the core of our issues across the board. really need to fix that, laura, we need to get back on her knees, but it's going to take the faith leaders and the questions and folks like us who believe in god to come together and love these folks. we need to start praying for them, not just beat them up and bash them, let's start playing for them -- praying for them because a lot of their souls are lost. >> how about we [inaudible] afterward? spirit i think he means -- let me just clarify. i think he means beats them -- not physically, would have to say this now, because b them at the ballot box. >> i was being playful. >> laura: we can't have double meanings. double entendre, that's not

allowed anymore. of course it's a lot, i'm just teasing, but you see where this is going. a conversation. >> they will try to cancel you. >> laura: they've already done that to him. they've been doing that since college. thanks to both of you. states across the country are seeing their daily covid death statistics, to new lows. i mentioned new york and englewood new jersey is also seeing its daily death count drop, just 36 yesterday. likewise, pennsylvania only recorded 11 new deaths on sunday and michigan, just three. in fact, nationally, the u.s. only reported 296 deaths on sunday. every loss is tragic, we all know that, but when we look at the numbers, which is what the experts told us to do. it's the lowest number since late march, so that's good news on covid. does it mean there couldn't be flareups? but that generally is really good news, so why are the media still fearmongering about covid? joining malcolm a doctor stephen smith, founder of the smith center for infectious diseases and urban health. also with me is -- cardiologist.

the medicine cabinet. dr. smith, the more progress we seem to make in the death count and hospitalization from, the more insistent the media seem to get. what's going on here? >> it's tough for me to explain. good evening. i don't understand the approach towards this disease. i never have. it's a terrible pandemic. we've ever seen in human history. but clearly, the numbers in new jersey have been declining steadily since early may. we have seen very, very few sick patients, we've seen fewer patients total with covid in new jersey. i think barnabas at the beginning of today had three patients with covid, intubated. two of them are mine. each has been on a ventilator for over 5-6 weeks. in other words, we had nobody intimated in our group since early may.

so it's clearly on the decline. and whether we are seeing -- we are not sure. clinicians were a little scared of that word, but we're definitely seeing less disease. >> laura: hold on, got to get to dr. oskoui on the hydroxychloroquine, because the fda comes out today, big announcement, ending its emergency use of hydroxychloroquine. that's the headline from politico. but then hhs secretary alex azar went on to clarify what the fda meant, dr. oskoui, watch. >> they may be used in outpatient, they may be used at home. all subject to a doctor's prescription. the fda's removal of the emergency authorization takes away what had been a significant misunderstanding by many that made people think that somehow it could only be used in a hospital setting. >> laura: dr. oskoui, why did the fda even inject itself in a debate over a drug at approved decades ago? >> i think the obvious answer

increasingly as the fda is corrupt to the core. as is so much of washington. there was no reason for the fda to inject itself in this position in any way. i can understand that certain hospitals may want to restrict it internally. a lot of these hospitals have researchers who get a lot of grant money from pharma and this endangers those grants. and i get that. but to restrict my use as a clinician, too restricted to patients i think is tragic. it's something the fda should never have gotten into. i mentioned my article on the hill, hydroxy hysteria, it's been around for decades. and it's something really the fda should have stayed away fr from. >> laura: dr. smith, do you fear that because of all the negative publicity that hydroxychloroquine -- where is dr. smith? he went out of the box. you always leave the box. where are you? there you are. -- did he just dropped? okay -- are you still there,

steve? i love this, it's like my radio show, i can just talk and talk and talk. you dropped your headphones! i'm going to tease you, dr. smith. i am going to tease you until the cows come home. i'm going to teasing. i don't even think is listening. are you there, dr. smith? >> i am. >> laura: i didn't give up on you! i knew you could figure it out! you're really smart! i will tease you will endlessly later about this, but will people actually die because of the fda's emergency withdrawal? >> absolutely. in the way they handle this, and i understand people that know stephen hahn well, i hear he's a good person. i don't understand how he could botch this any worse. it appears that the retraction today was based on something they should have done a long time ago, the basic literature behind that lowest dose that they were using. that the fda recommended i guess

in march it was. late march or early april. the 24 milligrams dosage is a very, very small dose, as everyone knows. the 6,000 milligrams over ten days is still not a large dose. this seems to be based on that. i emailed stephen hahn and his colleagues on april 16th, pointing out asking really who vetted this article that they based of the dose? one of the worst articles i've ever read. it was published back in march. there's so many ways but this article was bad. >> laura: what has to happen? we are out of time on the second because you couldn't find your headphones for too long. but i have to say, we have got to fix this. because this is ridiculous. it is absolutely ridiculous. oskoui was right. >> the headphones? >> laura: at the headphones, the hydroxy issue. come on, this is absurd.

because we wasted time on the headphones and i wasted time teasing him about it, we will bring it back to finish this. thanks so much. coming up, after weeks of rioting and chaos, we have to ask, what does this mean for the future of policing? bernie kerik is next.

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>> laura: more rioting in atlanta over the weekend, this time over the death of rayshard brooks. he's a black man who was shot and killed during an altercation with police. fox's steve harrigan is on the ground now in atlanta with the latest on this story, steve. >> laura, this all began friday night at about 10:30 p.m. at a wendy's in atlanta. rayshard brooks was asleep in his car in a drive-through lane, blocking other cars. police were called, they roused him. police officers and brooks spoke, with each other for more than 20 minutes. they gave him a sobriety test, which he failed. it was only when they were about to put the handcuffs on him that he began to struggle. the three began fighting. two officers and brooks. brooks got a hold of a taser of one of the police officers and began to run away. he turned at one point to fire the taser at the police office officers, then turned to continue to run. it was during those moments when an officer drew his service weapon, fired three shots, hitting brooks in the back twice. he was taken to hospital and

pronounced dead. the mayor quickly condemned the use of lethal force by the police as a mistake. they released a video quickly too and violence followed the release of that video. at that wendy's, windows were smashed. the building itself was set on fire and perhaps most disturbing, firefighters were not allowed to reach the scene for more than an hour. they were blocked by protesters. they couldn't get to it to put out the fire. since then though it has been largely calm. we saw big numbers out in the streets today but no arrests made in here most of the protesters have already gone home for the evening. laura, back to you. >> laura: steve, thanks so much tonight. stacy abrams this week and trying to justify the violence sweeping atlanta. >> there's a legitimacy to this anger, there's a legitimacy to this outrage. a man was murdered because he was asleep in a drive-through. >> laura: here to respond, bernie kerik, former nypd commissioner. bernie, obviously another tragic

situation. no one wants to see anyone killed like this, but frame by frame, you've watched this a number of times. what is your assessment about what happened and whether the police reacted too quickly or not given how this went down? >> brooks would be alive today if he didn't resist, and he didn't disarm the police officer. you could see in the video where he actually grabs the taser from the officer's hand and jerked it out of his hand. runs, at some point during running while the cops chasing him, he turns to fire at the cop. the cop fires three shots, he's hit twice, he goes down. if he didn't resist, if he didn't fight the cops, if he didn't attack them, didn't run, didn't attempt to shoot them with a taser, he'd still be alive today. >> laura: one cnn legal analyst was already pronouncing on the case against the police. watch.

>> before that sobriety test they patted him down. they knew he had no weapons on him. he was not a threat to them lethally at all and they shot anyway. >> laura: he wasn't a threat to them in any way. bernie, when you struggle with police officers, anything can happen. maybe they didn't know -- i mean it looks like a pretty bad struggle to me. i'm not an expert, you are. >> laura, that's just -- her statement is just lunacy. first of all, he was a threat. he actually overpowered them during this struggle. if you want to talk reality, he overpowered them. he basically took the taser. he pulled the taser out of the cop's hand. it's clear in the video. he then ran in during the course of being chased, he turned to fire on the officer. and people will say that the taser is not a lethal weapon, that the cop shouldn't have used deadly force.

however, anytime -- anytime you use a tool that could destabilize or incapacitate a cop who has a life firearm, that officer is going to use deadly force, he has no choice but to defend himself and in that case, that's what this guy did. >> laura: it also shows you how quickly -- it's a separate point, but how quickly someone can be overpowered. two people could be overpowered by one individual, that happened like that, right? >> not only the overpowering. there's something something else people should look at and you get a better understanding of what cops have to deal with. they talked to this guy for 20 minutes. they were professional. they were courteous. he was compliant. they laughed a little bit. they had a nice conversation. it wasn't until they actually went to put handcuffs on the guy that he began to resist, and that resistance turned dangerous

when he overpowered them and took the taser. >> laura: one thing i think especially young people are taking away from these images and the shortened versions of these videos, bernie, is that resisting is the only path for suspects and there's one legal analyst today who actually stated that. i think it's important for our audience to listen to what she said. it's angela rye i think. >> asleep in a car parking lot. he ran and he realized that his life was at risk. that is why he took that taser. he was trying to fight back because every time we don't fight back, we die. >> laura: every time we don't fight back, we die. i'm imagining -- >> listen -- right, that's the black lives matter rhetoric.

that's their rhetoric. here's the reality. you know what, i think we have a lot less of these if we had leaders, mayors and governors, that told their communities you can't assault our cops, you can't fight them, you can't attack, you can't resist arrest. you can't take their weapons or hit them with cars, because when you do, they're going to use force and you're going to get hurt and unfortunately, if it's the wrong time in the wrong place and you do the wrong thing and you use deadly force with the threat of deadly force, you're going to get killed. you need to be told. >> laura: bernie, really quickly, 600 i guess the plainclothes officers disbanded in new york today. i know you have a thought on that. >> laura, in 1988 from '882 '91 i was a plainclothes officer. i was in anti-crime and i can

tell you, we were basically responsible for taking the majority of the guns off the streets in new york city, as is all the anti-crime units all over the city. that's their job. guns, robberies and progress, looking for guns and responding to hot jobs, the worst of the worst. they now took every one of those guys off the streets and put them in some uniform unit and i think it's going to be extremely dangerous over the next year or so. >> laura: anti-crime unit disbanded in new york. unbelievable. it's going to hurt the most vulnerable in our society. thank you for your analysis tonight as always, great to see you. and up ahead, the left is coming for your history and they're not even understanding what the word "abolitionist" means i guess in some circumstances. raymond arroyo is here and moments in the latest attacks on our american and culture next in "seen and unseen."

♪ >> laura: it's time for our seen and unseen segment where we expose the big cultural stories of the day. statues across the country are being vandalized or pulled down by protesters. and for the story behind the headlines, we go to our seen and unseen segment. i've already said that. fox news contributor raymond arroyo has some troubling details for us. raymond, what's the latest? >> activist groups have now moved from concert federate mom omonuments. in philadelphia, the tomb of the unknown soldier of the american revolution was desecrated. these are men who died for the right of these people to protest. but not like this. and a statue of john greenleaf whittier in a city named after him in california was spray-painted with the words "f slave owners." somebody should have done a wikipedia search. he was an abolitionist who worked for the american anti-society. these social justice battles are

like really dumb. and now in boston the mayor supports changing or removing this emancipation monument. featuring abraham lincoln and a newly freed black man. the man who petitioned the protest or launched this protest petition puts it this way. >> the statue has been bothering me since i was a child and i never really understood how messed up it wasn't until recently. unless we are going to find some artist that can, i don't know, erects that black men so he can stand up on his two feet. >> in 1876, frederick douglass spoke at the dedication of that statue in d.c., the original. and though he apparently did offer an aside about the black men not being upright, he said of the statue, after coming generations may read something of the exalted character and great works of abraham lincoln. the first martyr president of the united states. there is for interpretation here. i would support putting a statue of frederick douglass up near --

printers words, let his comments on the statute he dedicated be heard. that's history. let it live, let it stand is my message. >> laura: i mean, everyone knows my view on this. i just think we are going to have stick figures and flowers. just like -- we will just have floor landscapes -- we're not going to have anything because there will be a time -- there will be a time when every statue becomes a point of contention. that's just the way things work. lincoln is not though the only presidential statue being targeted now. is he? >> no. in portland a statue of thomas jefferson was ripped from its base in front of jefferson high school. the word "slave owner" and "george floyd" was spray-painted. there's a group here in new orleans led by a guy from new york that's demanding that the city council tear down the iconic andrew jackson statue in the french quarter by the end of the month.

yes. in the meantime, the city council here in new orleans is entertaining proposals to rename streets honoring confederates. one of those streets was beauregard. we mentioned him last week. he came back from the civil war and led efforts to secure the black vote and open the first public schools for black children. or, history is complex. our children deserve the full story. sins and all. all but two of the first dozen u.s. residents were slave owners. are we to flatten all public binary of them or rather should not confront that history honestly as a united people, call out the sins and also mention the glories of these guys? >> laura: also, it's hard to judge people on our standards more enlightened today and then say, 200 years ago you did -- yeah, we did a lot of really bad things, including owning. again, i say this is a connecticut yankee. i don't really have any great affinity for a lot of this, but otherwise -- they're going to take the rotunda down at the

university of virginia where i went to law school. they will take the thomas jefferson. because it's all created as part of the ode to western civilization. he designed it. so all of it has to go. every last bit of it. actually the whole university of virginia should go because he designed the whole thing. >> in the case of andrew jackson, really quickly, they say, look, he created a trail of tears, attacked the indians -- here's the reality, he went to war with the dash in 1813 because they massacred 250 americans. cut women open, let their embryos out, he saw a lot of bitter battle, this is how he held the country together. but those were the times, take it all as it is, as it happened. >> laura: thousands have signed a petition in tennessee to have confederate monuments knocked down and replaced with what they call a true tennessee hero. ♪

>> laura, you're right. >> laura: i'm a dolly parton fan, i like her. >> they want to erect stature as a parton now. the architectural challenge of that aside, this kind of kitschy silliness shows how historically illiterate these iconoclasts are. they're also petitioning to have new orleans' confederate statues replaced with britney spears. there citing her donation to louisiana flood victims. gary cohn again, brad pitt donated to the country to victims two. they also lives -- are we going to put them up as well? this is so ridiculous. i have to say. history is not for us to rewrite every year or two are every ten years. so we got to take it, sins at all, i say more statues, not less, but historical figures, not entertainers. >> laura: something so that raymond said i shouldn't mention i'm going to mention anyway. baker library is one of the iconic buildings at dartmouth college. there it is, you see it in the

distance. the little weather vane on top. while, the weather vane itself features -- do we have the actual weather vane that i sent you guys? that's all we have. this is not going to make any sense to anyone, but there's a little weather vane on top that sticks -- like 9 feet long, weighs 600 pounds and it includes two american indians i think walking up the hill to the college. because it was initially founded as a school to christianize indians. so that's why -- but the indians -- no, can't have the dash i don't know what they're going to put up there. the weather vane is coming down. maybe it will do that later, raymond buried >> i knew the background of dartmouth. i didn't know about that weather vane. why not leave it, show kids, show future generations, talk them through the good, the bad, the ugly? >> laura: it's all -- it's all going to be level someday, raymond buried this is going to be called the leveling. we will not have seen or unseen,

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>> laura: local newspapers are already struggling economically and one of them is being smeared by the left as, you got it, racist. "the new york times" reporting with the "pittsburgh post-gazette" staff -- two prominent -- the news leaders unfairly kept them from covering the protest against racism and police violence. executive editor keith burris fired back at those allegations in an op-ed buried he wrote, "we certainly did not allow two people and keep them from covering local protests because they were black. this is an outrageous life, a defamation fact," but the facts don't matter to the new woke left. the union, representing post-gazette reporters and staff is calling for burris to resign. joins us now. keith, what happened here, how did a vicious rumor like this turn into a national news story? >> well, i think it's the power

of the big lie and the mob, the twitter mob. it's -- this is a fabrication. we make judgments all the time, as most editors do, most newspapers, about who should cover things and who should not cover things. we talk to people on the staff constantly about bias and we talked, in fact, that week to a great number of people about who it's appropriate to cover, various stories, and who wasn't. and it had nothing -- they were not exclusively black people or african-american people. they were all sorts of people. so this is really a labor dispute that's been racialized and attached to something that's happened in the country. a tragic and in some ways i

guess hopeful moment in the country has been turned in a very demagogic way. >> laura: i'm going to ask a very blunt question, do you believe you are being targeted as one of the few, objective editors left in local newspape newspapers? or, you know, there aren't many. i haven't met a lot of folks -- there also pretty liberal. do you feel like you're being made an example of? >> i don't know. i think that i'm objectionable to lots of people for lots of reasons, but we are talking about a newspaper that's endorsed president obama twice, has an almost 100 year distinguished history on civil rights and for those of us who have tried to live our lives in

a certain way and practice this craft in a certain way, to be called racist is extremely painful and just unnecessary. discuss things on the merits, you know, but this is the moment we're living in now and really all we are trying to do is do solid, straight-ahead journalism, right down the middle, fair and balanced journalism. we are trying to protect something that we think has value, a free press and a balanced and credible press. >> laura: it does have value. i mean, president trump calls it fake news, but when it's done right, it's invaluable. donna middle, it's hard to do that, but just so people understand, one of your reporters, alexis johnson, claims she was taken off the protest to beat because a tweet she sent. it is what she said in an interview. >> racism is in the fabric of

our country, so whether we should -- we are -- our sentiments or how we feel, we still have to explain that trauma in real time and then show up to work and be able to report the news fairly and accurately. i felt like my voice was being silenced. i asked how that tweet showed any opinion or bias and i never really got a clear answer. >> laura: keith, what's your response? we can put the tweet up as well buried >> fairness is exactly what we're looking for and you know, i can't talk about personnel things, but there is no such beat and no one was removed from a story or a beat. we make decisions all the time about who is the appropriate person to cover something and not cover something and when we think someone has -- through social media or in some other way -- disqualified himself or herself by registering an

opinion, we tell them that. in the world that i grew up in, you can't report on someone that you've -- or on a story that you've already opined on. >> laura: the tweet, we have to go, but the tweet said horrifying scenes and aftermath from selfish looters who don't care about this city with four or five or six exclamation points. sorry, these pictures are from a kenny chesney concert tailgate. so that was a tweet. we wish you the best, we've got to roll. we will keep following that, thanks so much. a little clarification about that weather vane. itching for a treat.

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>> laura: it's like a bob dylan song, the weather vane. you don't needed to know which way the wind is blowing. that's the weather vane coming down. dartmouth was founded to educate

indians originally. the lone pine on the other side. in this new culture, they have to take it down. that's 600 pounds on top of baker library. that's all the time we have tonight. shannon bream, the "fox news @ night" team take it from here. shannon. >> shannon: happy monday, laura. thank you very much. we begin with a fox news alert. we are monitoring atlanta tonight as a district attorney considers a potential murder charge against a police officer who shot and killed a suspect who allegedly pointed a taser at him after this struggle you see here. the atlanta police department is releasing the officer's disciplinary histories well as the 911 call. rayshard brooks passed out in his car, blocking the drive through. >> i have a car. i think he's intoxicated. he is in the middle of my drive through. i tried to wake him