>> he saw the good work of the police athletic league, if you'd like to help them go to pal nyc.org. >> sandra: fox news alert on this wednesday morning, protests ramping up across the country overnight. a startling scene in atlanta with at least three men brandishing long guns gathering at the wendy's parking lot there were rate rayshard brooks was killed earlier this month. >> ed: a very pleasant good morning to you, i'm ed henry. police are no longer allowed in the area according to the men, all this on the same day as rayshard brooks' funeral. meanwhile express burning american flag near the white house while others called for the removal of the end emancipation memorial which shows abraham lincoln with the

liberated. >> sandra: and president trump slamming those demonstrations during a speech to supporters yesterday. that's accusing protesters of trying to destroy american's history. speak to its ideology that's driven by hate and seeks to purge all dissent. and you understand that, you people at the young age, there are a couple of oldsters out there, friends of mine. the radical left, they are vicious people. anyone who dissents from their orthodox must be punished, canceled or vanished. >> ed: a fox team news coverage to start o and start us off. jonathan serrie good morning. i'm >> good morning to you. some nearby residents have told local media they feel unsafe because of these armed

protesters, but the protesters insist they are peacefully exercising their second amendment right. take a listen. >> i have a 12-gauge shotgun for me on the rest of my peaceful people, to protect us and also me, because as you guys know there is no police presence here, there's no one else to protect us. it's my legal right to bear arms. and at no point will i allow my right to be disturbed. >> in a statement, police spokesman announced a pd is monitoring the situation and plan to coordinate with community leaders and the wendy's property owner to use address security issues and help preserve peace for this community as soon as possible. the wendy's burned it down during protests on june 13 which was the day after police shot rayshard brooks in the parking lot as he tried to escape a dui arrest as officer garrett wealth questions him and you can hear brooke's police body cam footage mention the name natalie white.

take a listen. >> you know, natalie white, she's my girlfriend, she left off and i said babe i'm going to get wendy's and go back to work. >> 29-year-old named natalie white turned yourselves into authorities yesterday and is expected to appear for a bond hearing. white is one of the suspects in that wendy's fire and photo's place her at the scene. however her attorney roof and tells fox news that in those photos, the building is already fully engulfed in flames. so in the attorney's words, it is "nonsensical to think she started the fire." >> sandra: thank you. meanwhile new fence and barricades have been put up around st. john's church in lafayette park in washington were protesters have been demonstrating for several weeks now. meanwhile, the president is doubling down on his

"law & order" message. chief white house correspondent john roberts is liable with the john roberts, good morning. >> those fences have gone up around lafayette park which was the scene on wednesday. now they have gone back up again. so lafayette square is sealed off from the public going in there as well. the president seizing on another opportunity to push his "law & order" agenda, turning point out in phoenix. they said the violent demonstrations that have seized america need to be stopped. listen here. >> you give power to people that demolish monuments and attack churches and seize city streets and set fire to buildings, then nothing is sacred and know what

is safe -- no one is safe. we stopped them last night, did you see that? >> with the president was referring to was a tip by demonstrators to pull down a statue of andrew jackson across the street from the white house. on his way out the door to arizona the president doubling down on the tweet he said earlier in the day saying people who are defacing america's monuments and trying to tear down statues should be severely punished with jail time. listen here. >> president trump: we are looking at long-term jail sentences for those vandals and those hoodlums and anarchists and agitators, and call them whatever you want. they are bad people and they don't love our country. and they are not taking down our monuments. i just want to make that clear.

they would never allow what is happening in seattle to take place in washington, d.c. the president tweeted, there will never be an autonomous zone in washington, d.c., as long as i'm your president. if they try they will be met with serious force. twitter said the tweet violated rules about abusive behavior but twitter has determined that it may be in the public's best interest to allow the tweet to remain accessible. you don't see the tweet on the feed so you have to click on it for the tweet to come up. likely we will hear more from the president about all of this this afternoon. the president of poland will be visiting the white house and the president has of press conference at 3:30 this afternoon and the rose garden. >> ed: a chaotic scene unfolding outside of the wisconsin state capitol in madison with protesters tearing down to statues and allegedly attacking the state senator.

>> leave my phone alone. >> this video of the incident posted on twitter by senator tim carpenter, the democratic lawmaker was that he was assaulted and possibly suffering from a concussion after taking up a chair of the protesters. however demonstrators insist he provoked them. sandra? >> sandra: for more on all of this, let's bring in charlie hurt, good morning. great of you to be here. a softy with your reaction to what you saw in washington, d.c., overnight. >> it's incredibly troubling end of this is beyond i think the regular partisan political lin lines. this kind of thing is upsetting to democrats and republicans alike. this issue of tearing down monuments and defacing public property and defacing historical treasures in this country, it

does not hold very well. people in elections, people always vote economic security. the one thing that always trumps that is physical security. while obviously images on tv don't necessarily translate into a threat with physical security, it can. at some point the president has to do something more than just talking about it, he asked to do something that shows that he is actually stopping this stuff, that people are getting arrested for tearing down statues and defacing historical treasures in this country. >> sandra: to that point, senator tom cotton talked about

accountability and legal actions for those consequences. >> they videotape themselves and they post on social media, the department of justice and the fbi should investigate them and arrest them and prosecute them to the fullest extent of the l law. there has to be consequences for this kind of mob violence or it will get worse for every passing day. >> sandra: i heard you say that democrats and republicans are showing outrage over this. before the show this morning i've put in a brain room request to find out if we can pull any sound interviews, any democrats and any local city, municipality and state level across the country. we found one, a democrat. minnesota state senator david thomas on a who decried the toppling of a statue of christopher columbus in a tweet. you certainly aren't hearing that from nancy pelosi and others, charlie.

>> that's because those democratic politicians are cowards and they are terrified of standing up to what they think is their base. there is a political power structure, and they do care about these things and they are horrified by what they c. and they didn't vote for them in 2016 for her if. we said, a group of troops. remember the movie money

. people should be arrested and put in jail and made to pay for the damage that they committed and made to pay for the security required to protect it going forward as far as i'm concerned. >> sandra: we are not hearing that from governor andrew cuomo.

>> i think it's a healthy expression of people saying, and, meanwhile twitter and those violent protesters than the autonomous zone in d.c. can be met with serious force. let the public interest notice, and here's the explanation. they call it abusive behavior. he says this is beyond satire. twitter is literally censoring the president of the united states for saying that violent anarchists will not be able to take over our nation's

capital and that is abusive, says the senator. final thoughts? >> this is absolute insanity. the president is the head of the executive branch that he's in charge of ensuring law and order in this country. it for 215 years we have progress in this, and an equal justice under the law is, every advancement in this country in terms of equality or whatever it is because we believe in equal justice under law. they sit there and completely denigrate the importance of enforcing laws equally and it justly and fairly. it just goes to show how far out of touch those people are.

until somebody takes the reins, and you go back to your original point, you want to debate about it, let's have the debate. that's the unlawful destruction. >> it's great to see you. >> ed: the fbi concluding the news found in nascar drivers bubble wallace's garage stall was not a hate crime after all. plus armed gunmen in the wendy's parking lot where rayshard brooks was killed raising new safety concerns amid the nationwide conversation about police reform. kelly loeffler is here, asked.

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best result we could hope for. it's disturbing to hear that it was thought that one of our own had committed this haze heinous act. it was fantastic to hear from the fbi definitively that there was not a hate crime. >> sandra: that was nascar's president steve phelps after the fbi announced that nascar driver barbara wallace was not the victim of a hate crime. a noose was found in his nascar garage which was determined to be there as early as october. wallace however is sticking to his belief that it was a real noose. >> when i did find out i was adamant on searching all the garages and making sure that this wasn't a garage pole.

it was not a garage pole, it was a noose. it wasn't a functioning noose but it was a noose. whoever had time to create doubt and tied up like that, they were skeptical about it. >> sandra: all of nascar's drivers supported wallace in a show of solidarity during last weekend's race at talladega. >> i have a 12-gauge shotgun for me and the rest of my people, to protect us and also mean. >> ed: all the calls to defund and dismantle the police and the senate gets ready to hold its first vote today on a police reform bill. joining us now as republican senator kelly leffler of georgia and she sits on the senate committee for labor or pensions and a mouthful.

it's not everyday you see people carrying long guns in cities in america, was happening on the streets of atlanta this morning? >> ada, this is totally unacceptable, we cannot allow mob rule. we are a nation of the rule of law and this is exactly what will happen if we defund of the police. that's exactly what the democrats want to d to do. and i stand strong with law enforcement and we need to bring the justice act to the floor. what has to make people wonder at a time when we keep hearing

about sick calls and th the atla police department, some police officers not wanting to come to work, because i don't think local officials want to have their backs. it hurts everyone in our country when we don't have "law & orde "law & order." this is a vision the democrats have for our country and it's a great example of why we need to move that bill to the floor. why we need to stand strong with strengthening law enforcement and rooting out bad apples. everyone wants that, we all agree. >> ed: on your last point we thought there was agreement potentially on police reform after these tragic deaths in atlanta and the other places. democrats are saying we need to pass the police reform bill and know yourself, tim scott and other republicans have put their plan out there. we heard democrats are basically going to filibuster or block your plan.

we will play it and give you a chance to react. >> for something to happen it has to face the reality, and that's law enforcement if not all. but you want to get away with the murder of george floyd. >> you end of the republicans are wanting to get away with murder. that's an insult to the effort, that they provide the tools necessary to improve policing to keep the community safe, there's no room for politics there. it's clear the democrats want to defund the police, they want to run on a platform that we are

refusing to reform. they are at the table and ready to negotiate, they owe that to the american people and we need to stand strong with law enforcement to help keep our community safe. >> ed: the last question here about the pandemic, the economic impact that has been graving or state all around the country, some of your colleagues are talking about a new round of stimulus which would include checks to your constituents. get more money in the hands of folks. are you on board with that? >> first thing is first. if you have put out nearly $3 trillion of funding through the carriers act and it cares 3.5. i'm certainly open to looking at areas that we might have missed but i'm also working with secretary mnuchin, how do we deploy that to the areas that need it most. many areas that have been hurt like hospitality, we need to get people back into jobs, it needs to be a job lead recovery.

the economic data and indicators that we are seeing a very strong and it's great to see, but we need to continue to see more and that we need to make those important decisions. >> ed: big decisions ahead, senator loeffler, we appreciate your time. >> sandra: former president obama joining joe biden trying to help his onetime vp in his bid for the white house. but it's what he said about president trump that is now raising some eyebrows, plus this. >> it's impossible to give any projection about the what the fatality rate or case rates are going to be. that will depend on so many factors. >> sandra: dr. anthony fauci there yesterday and a hearing, unable to provide lawmakers what a second pandemic wave would actually look like. that did not reflect well on markets. we will ask maria bartiromo about that next and she will break that down.

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trump administration health officials both dr. redfield and dr. fauci dr. fauci in agreement that this is not over. we see a spike in infections and their somewhat of a second wave in the fall. >> we are seeing pop-ups around the country and we are seeing spikes in places like florida in places like texas but very few people are expecting another economic shutdown. we are looking at the next six months as the reopening process continues. so yes, there is a summary on wall street about the spikes throughout the country but not as much concern as we are seeing concern over tariffs. i think more so the impact on the markets today are because the president is suggesting that he may put tariffs in place on europe. we are talking about spain, u.k., germany and france, $3.1 billion of imports from those countries coming in could

get tariffs. i think now that we are talking about a renewed sense of tariffs on the economies across the world to come up that's unnerving investors. and yes, the spikes are certainly something of a concern but we aren't going to be able to stop that. we got to reopen the economy and most people believe they have to get their livelihoods back. so we are going to top it out and see how it goes. you are seeing the spikes and it's not necessarily true that we will see the overall second wave in the fall. it sort of touch and go but i would say the big issue here are the tariffs on the european nations. >> sandra: fair enough. when you go back to that caring of health officials, or any of us listening from any optimism from those health officials over what is to come? dr. fauci talking about the potential return in the fall and winter and i will tell you the good news out of that. >> it is simple. not sure i would call it a ways

but we will see a significant coronavirus infection in the fall and winter of 2020 and 2021. >> we will see coronavirus infections in the fall and winter because the virus is not going to disappear. >> sandra: but dr. fauci, maria, it struck me when he went on to say when asked about a vaccine that, he set i told you in january of this year it would be 12 to 18 months before we had a vaccine. he said he's sticking to that and he cautiously optimistic we could have a vaccine for covid-19 by january 2021. coming out of this coronavirus pandemic, obviously a lot of financial concerns and a lot of hard hit american families. nearly half of all americans according to a ban up a great survey, 59% believe they will be

able to resolve their top money concerns at some point. what did you take away from the customer >> the bottom line in my view sandra, you have to have a plan. once you have a plan that gives you the confidence to keep going in the plan means don't spend all of the money that comes and whether it's a stimulus track or a paycheck. you feel like you have some wiggle room, you have a nest egg that's growing. i always go by my three bucket rule. one bucket's retirement, one bucket is that bucket that you need to pay your bills, and if you've got that bucket constantly going and moving and changing, and the other bucket is your savings for the things that you want to buy for yourself you've always got a nest egg and wiggle room, once

you have a plan, you have to have more confidence. i don't know what to do, i don't know where i'm going, i don't have any money in the bank. if you start spending money wrongfully and get the plan going and you will gain the confidence to live through this and thrive when you're out of it. >> sandra: great timely advice. losing his seat in the house after the latest results of yesterday's primary show him trailing his challenger, middle school principal jamaal bowman. that's a live in wilmington, with more on this.

>> it might take a while to declare a winner in that race. i would keep counting those absentee balance as of next week. as of right now jamaal bowman has a sizable lead, you know what donald trump is more afraid of than anyone else? a black man with power. they've already called an upset in north carolina's republican primary. they beat the republican who data.

a former president barack obama shared a spring with joe biden last night. "the new york times" and siena college poll finds biden leaving trump nationally by 14 points. >> hopefully joe doesn't take offense by this. joe has been around for a while and sometimes what happens is we take that for granted. and there's a tendency to always look for the new and shiny object. >> so biden is still making money even though it's been a week since outside of his house. >> very interesting times. >> sandra: seattle's mayor

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>> president trump: we prevented a coronavirus catastrophe on the southern border, shutting down human struck, cut smuggling. without these public health measures the southern border would be a global epicenter of the viral transmission. >> ed: i will give you a chance to talk about that but as

you see on the screen, over 132,000 border apprehension, and my question is, is that number sharply down because of the enforcement measures you are taking or is it also down because the covid-19 majors and less people trying to cross the border, your thoughts? >> that's a question. the ten months prior to covid, because of this presidential administration and the network of policies and tools that he gave cbp, we were already -- our ability to knock down the illegal immigration had already been tremendously successful so we had already reduced it by 70%. then covid came and we shifted it from an enforcement standpoint to a public health standpoint and that is what now has given us the ability of those that have encountered the border, we are actually able to

return back to mexico within a couple of hours and absolutely save countless lives. >> ed: and got it. at one time the administration was talking about completing construction of the border wall along the southern border by 2021. there has been some question about whether that's really on target. you've had some success as you can tout as a president did yesterday what are you still on target to complete this construction by 2021 >> absolutely. our goal all along, they decided and figured out through a very kind of robust systematic approach where the strategic area was that we needed the system. we came up with the initial 450 miles that we needed in the strategic location for right or

reason. we are on track by the end of 2022b that and by december 2020 we will have 450 miles of that in the ground. if he's actually gotten funding for us for much more than the 450 miles and we will get that done as well. >> ed: it's he is a 450 miles by the start of 2020. we will follow up and we appreciate you coming on today. mark morgan. >> sandra: thank you, eddie. despite some troubling new outbreaks of the current virus there is some good news about progress towards a vaccine. what we are now learning and what we could see by january. dr. janette nesheiwat will join us live next on. r mode. because the tempur-pedic breeze° delivers superior cooling from cover to core. helping you sleep cool, all night long. during the tempur-pedic summer of sleep, save $500 on all tempur-breeze mattresses... and experience your coolest sleep this summer, on our best breeze savings of the year.

>> i think that if we are going to have a vaccine we will have it by then. >> >> sandra: of the nation's

top infectious disease experts telling everyone in a hearing yesterday that he now believes the vaccine as a matter of when when to come up not if. joining us now as dr. janette nesheiwat. i remember that moment, because that's what we have all been waiting for. everyone is waiting to make sure your kids can go back to school in the fall. it's more about when we get a vaccine, it was if. and as a health care provider on the front line, it's exciting news. they gave two doses to pigs and it really produced a strong robust immunity for the first vaccine does that was given to them to prep and prime the body. then they gave a second dose of the same extreme mental vaccine which gave strong robust

immunity. on top of that, even more important, it's shown to prevent pneumonia in monkeys which is critical because many of my patients in the past few months have developed, it developed covid pneumonia which ended up putting them in the hospital, in the icu and on ventilators. and that kills thousands of people every year. it's called neutralizing antibodies, a protein that binds and attaches to the coronavirus, blocking it and preventing it from invading the body which not. >> sandra: you have throughout

this pandemic been treating covid-19 patients and i'm fascinated to have u you join us right there from your medical office. fox news has a piece on this oxford study that you are talking about. they previously protected six monkeys from pneumonia caused by the virus. and he's cautiously optimistic about a vaccine. as far as the time horizon i said it was 12-18 months out. still, dr. fauci went on to say he's seeing what could be called

a disturbing surge in cases in some areas of the country. >> in some respects with done very well. however in other areas of the country we are announcing a disturbing surge of infections that looks like it's a combination. one looks like it is a community spread. >> sandra: so talk to us about what we are seeing. florida, arizona, texas, some are seeing an uptick taking cases. >> we are, and that's because of some of the states in the country are reopened. for example, where arizona and texas and in some places florida, they have to be open to the community. but people are not and people are in close contact with one another. also we are doing more testing

and that is not the only reason we are seeing an uptick. the masking, the social distancing, washing her hands and disinfecting and cleaning. we have to remain diligent and continue with the mitigation efforts. otherwise even if you have mild or no symptoms, you can bring it home and you can pass it on to your neighbor. we have to continue with mitigation efforts as we await a vaccine which should be on get in about six months, which i'm very hopeful about. >> sandra: you heard the governor of texas urging people there in his state, if you can, stay home. great to see you this morning, thank you. >> ed: fox news alert, andst seattle, hundreds are defined in order to leave the occupied protest zone. that's coming up.

>> ed: of protesters inside of seattle's so-called chops on weighing their options after the mayor tells them they must ended their occupation after she once claimed it was a block party atmosphere. welcome to a new hour of "america's newsroom," i am ed henry. >> sandra: mayor durkan announcing the city's decision to dismantle the so-called capitol hill occupied protest zone after a recent rash of violence including a deadly shooting over the weekend. the number of protesters has decreased in recent days but hundreds of people still remain in the three block area. dan springer is live in seattle

with an update. >> good morning ed and sandra. it seems like the top is on its last legs, i want to show you around here. this field used to be loaded with tents all around the fencing area and a lot of those tents have moved out. they are still in the back there but for the most part the tents have really dwindled. we are on the main street of what was the top and this used to be lined with tents and tables. now it's virtually empty. they have packed up and left. this was the seattle police department, and there is some controversy of them don't like around how here.

>> it's very likely that the chop through to be this situation that we are addressing right now because the police abandoned the east precinct. if neither the mayor or the chief authorized leaving the east precinct building, who did. >> so nobody owned or that decision, the police chief has ended and the mayor hasn't. but as far as back here at the top, not much conversation going on here. some leaders have talked about going to occupy the space needle and other people have criticized that. we saw no evidence that this is moved over to there. if the seattle police wanted to take over their precinct again, they could. there's virtually just a few people here outside so there's not much of a protest here and certainly very little

occupation. sandra and ed, back to you. >> ed: not much conversation at the conversation cafe as you would say. >> sandra: fox news alert, the senate holding a test about to start the debate on the republicans police reform bill but democrats call it woefully inadequate and it's not effective to gain the 60 yeas which would move forward. >> this is about louisville, kentucky. this is about north charleston, it's about minneapolis. we want to figure out a path forward for those people and those citizens. if they won't even start it, that tells me this is already over. >> sandra: chad pergram is live on capitol hill with the

latest from there. good morning. >> good morning. this is probably the biggest vote in the united states senate since the impeachment trial president trump back in february and it appears that police reform is likely dead in congress before it starts. democrats are filibustering this bill, and that is the richest part of him at all. who do you trust. >> republicans have to reach 63 votes in the senate.

that you can't change a bill if you can't debate a bill. >> and i think it's just perplexing and frankly shameful. they don't have the same procedural problems being the majority in the house as the majority of republicans and the senate here, and despite all of this energy in the street, the big question if thou surpasses a bill and the senate can't even start the debate on the bill, does this topic of police reform go into political purgatory? much like guns after mass shootings and efforts to repeal and replace obamacare. >> sandra: chad pergram on

capitol hill. thank you. >> don't you feel some responsibility now that you're saying you should have been impeached on other things but you never piped up? >> what president trump did in the ukraine as far as i could see based on my observation was to use government power to further his own political interests. >> ed: that's former national security advisor john bolton sounding off in an exclusive interview with our own bret baier. he accuses bolton of what he calls reprehensible conduct. if bret baier of course is anchor of special report. sandra, as here as well. great to have you. it was a fantastic interview with so many great questions and may be my favorite was, was there 91 and the government that you got along with? >> that basically came from a

lot of the people he worked with, and they had negative things to say. in the past i kind of lay that out as he was talking about his inside thoughts on it. it wasn't an exclusive interview, obviously doing a book roll out but it was a long one. we went into the process of how he wrote the book and the substance of what is in the book. and then kind of the look forward to. i think the main take away was, he feels that decisions are kind of helter-skelter, that they were being decided and many people in washington will say that that sometimes happens with decisions and that elections factor in. he's talking about the principal and ideology, trump supporter's would obviously say america first, kind of not getting ripped off with other countries as a principle by which this

president operates. >> sandra: of course when you ask the white house, good morning to you. when you press the white house for why they wanted to stop the publishing of this book, of course kellyanne conway saying two words, national security. they claimed there was classified information in that book. he pressed bolton on that in your interview here is his response on classified information. >> i'm very confident that there is no classified information in the manuscript. i never intended to put classified information out there. i've spent the life professionally trying to advance the interest and that's continued in the process of the book. a >> sandra: what was your take away from that? >> while he did hedge that by saying he never intended to do it and it was the judge who ruled that the book could go forward yesterday, who had a really scathing paragraph about

national security and opening himself up to the civil liabilities on the road. there will be some court action on it, and he says that it has been combed over. i think the process by which he writes a 500 page book was interesting, saying he burned his notes along the way inside of the white house. >> ed: the federal judges note that there was some classified information. let's turn to monuments and statues that are coming down for the president. let's take a look at that. >> president trump: they are tearing down statues, and purging the centers. it's not the behavior of a peaceful political movement,

it's the behavior of totalitarians and tyrants and people that don't love our country. >> at the beginning of this, talking about whether the government went too far in lafayette park with peaceful protesters and all the rest. but now we hear from john roberts that there will be an executive order by the end of the week where the president is going to be cracking down. tough jail sentences for people, desecrate monuments but also protecting them. where do you think we are on all of this? >> i think the president is clearly tapping into some of the anger or at least questions about what's happening with the statues. obviously some people are offended by some of the statues and they need to come down. you heard even david pretorius saying that the names of bases should be renamed but there is a tipping point here where common

sense, and usually the country where to that point they say political correctness to goes too far. donald trump .16, pi think is trying to tap into that. some of it doesn't make sense and some of it does and can. but he is trying to tap into that as he heads into an election. >> sandra: the president talking to that group of young people and he went on to say that the cultural defenders of american values, that democrats are intolerant, we are seeing that happening and it's happening and democratic lead states. watch. >> president trump: if you give power to people that demolish monuments and attack churches, and see the city's streets and set fire to buildings, nothing is sacred and no one is safe.

the problem we have in the states is, they are weak. many of the governors, many of the mayors see what is going on. by the way just so you know what's going on, it's all democrat and liberal states. >> sandra: this is not going away. as you know there is a lot of pressure being put on democrats to go on and condemn the unlawful tearing up and destruction of these monuments. >> among others, tom cotton and the senator from arkansas there this morning saying there is a rule of law and maybe you need to have an argument about each one of the statues and maybe they should be in a public square in the city or the state. but you do it by petitioning, the people you elect, you debate and then you take action by ripping it down and letting the mob rule. it sends a different message and i think that's what the president is tapping into here.

it's not going to end it, it doesn't seem. this is a powerful moment where they are going to answer which side they are on on each side of this issue. >> president trump has not been happy with all the moves that chris wray has been making. but also what happened in 2016 and some of the problems at the fbi. >> i asked about all of that. this is director ray's first interview in many months and we definitely go down the road. that's definitely the fbi of the investigation and where things stand. i think his job is interesting and i ask about the president saying the jury is still out on

chris wray. he is guarded, and he speaks about all the issues that we ask about. >> sandra: we look forward to that, bret baier tonight on a "special report." meanwhile, seattle's mayor says it's time to shut down that cop free protests known but hundreds are refusing to leave so how are police planning to respond to that? the head of the city's police union will join us live, next. >> businesses need to open. many of them have barely survived the covid shut down and they and their employees are ready to get back to work. and they should be allowed to do

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>> ed: threat since friday there have been three shootings inside of the occupied area leaving one dead and several injured. seattle's mayor who up the support of the protesters initially now since time to send them home. my excellent, good morning. >> good morning, thanks for having me on. on. >> ed: it's great to have you. this has been a fascinating story, it may be the protesters,

they seem to be breaking up of top-selling. they go over to the space needle, and maybe try to gain some space elsewhere. what is new this morning? >> what's new is the fact that your network seems to be the only network covering this and i want to thank you for this. it's a serious situation. it has metastasized across the country, but chemical munitions from the police department. that will put the officers and grave risk, and and i have no idea how we will move forward. >> ed: and how will we get

police there? here's a tweet from mary jenny durkan, so that's a quick final thought on that. >> five weeks ago the mayor is allowing us to be a model of reform. now ironically enough, they are looking to defund us. training separates good cops from bad. so is that what they want now. now five weeks ago, the mirror, all of a sudden are removing our funding. it's actually outrageous. >> ed: we are running short on time but we appreciate your time this morning. >> sandra: we have some breaking news, and the u.s.

appeals court, we are now learning has ordered a federal judge to drop the criminal case against former national security advisor michael flynn. we are learning that this was a split decision, a three-judge panel of the u.s. court of appeals for the district of columbia circuit and they ruled in in favor of flynn and the trump administration in preventing u.s. district judge emmet sullivan from exercising his discretion on whether to grant the department's motion to clear flynn who has twice pleaded guilty. so a federal appeals court, added, as ordered judge sullivan to dismiss the case against the former national security advisor to the president michael flynn. >> ed: they are siding with the attorney general, and that's

the victory of course. i would note that late yesterday i got a tip that there was something going on in the docket of the case. that's more notes that the peter strzok had taken from the interview with general flynn come up with the case. remember what we have been learning recently is that way back in early 2017, the fbi knew that there was noncollusion. between general flynn and the russians and we will see what

happens next. and that the clear justice department for natura general f. >> sandra: we have a legal analysis about the unprecedented on this case. if you are just tuning in its u.s. appeals court and we are learning this is a split decision. and at the authority to examine the government surprised motion to dismiss the case which was part of the corrupt effort to aid one of trump's political allies. we are likely to get reaction as this news continues to get out there. >> ed: absolutely. remember the context, just about

an hour and a half from now the democrats led by jerry nadler at the hearing on capitol hill where they claim the attorney general william barr has been political and interfering in various investigations. it has been vindicated if you will buy this appeals court where they should have intervened because prosecution should be dropped as the attorney general suggested some weeks ago. as soon as we come back from a quick break.

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so you can... retire better. >> sandra: breaking news, a u.s. appeals court has ordered a federal judge to drop the criminal case against former national security advisor michael flynn. we are getting brand-new reaction, edit, from lawmakers. tom cotton just tweeting this. the entire case against general flynn was a farce an and a malicious partisan prosecution. dismissal was long overdue, and this was a great victory from general flynn. >> it couldn't be any more clear what the appeals court was saying. the district court is directed to grant the government's rule, 48 a motion to dismiss, as in dismiss the case. that was when the justice department had intervened with

attorney general william barr saying that has the justice department that was prosecuting this case, they wanted it dropped. judge sullivan who has been overseeing this case for obviously many, many months brought i in their own attorneyo review matters and had been dragging this out. the appeals court is now saying, enough is enough, this is over and it's time to dismiss the case. we are obviously awaiting the next move from judge sullivan, we are waiting to hear from judge flynn and what his legal team may say but as we know, we have a lot of lawmakers speaking out and saying that they believe this is finally vindication for general flynn and there is a lot of misconduct from the fbi and elsewhere that have brought us to this point and drag to the case on for far too long. >> sandra: we will get continued reaction to this breaking news. tom cotton putting out his reaction and other lawmakers responding, obviously republican

lawmakers calling this. as we get more news on this, we are digging through the actual wording of that document as well to your point. that's about the full indication of this. as we know, the doj made its recommendation and then judge emmet sullivan said he wanted to open it up to third parties. that was considered unprecedented by many legal analysts. if you are just tuning in it up appeals court has now upheld the justice department's decision to drop the criminal case and charges. >> ed: it we now have david's fund our correspondent live at the justice department. we both got indications that something was happening in this case and here it is. >> yes, here it is. this has been a tug-of-war between both sides and several weeks ago we heard that the

department of justice and attorney general bill barr wanted to drop the case which made it difficult to even go forward with the case. you have the doj, the prosecution on either side and then judge sullivan said i want to hear both sides here. i want to slow both sides down and i want to hear your argument. he has set a hearing for july 12 which is when he wanted to make his decision. but from what i understand talking to experts in the last couple of minutes, that july 12th hearing could still go forward. judge sullivan could take the circuit court of appeals hearing under advisement and then go ahead and rule. the other outcome, it's possible this could go to the u.s. supreme court. but what else could happen is judge sullivan could issue an order sometime today, sometime tomorrow or over the next few days and that's what the court

is recommending today. >> sandra: if you could stand by with us as we bring in this breaking news, we want to get judge a.j. napolitano on. what is your reaction to the news? >> i'm a little surprised at the ferocity of the opinion and at the ferocity of its attack on the dissent. but without getting in the weeds, david just gave an excellent and lucid explanation of what the court decided. it decided that it is the province of the executive branch and the department of justice, what cases they will prosecute and if in their opinion, there is an adequate evidence to prosecute the case. even when that opinion is 180 degrees from an opinion they previously expressed about the same evidence on the same case, it is for them to decide what

case to dismiss and however, those sources have told him, they are dealing with the most tiger-like personality and he probably won't take the city down. and he very well may order a hearing before he dismisses it. the certainty part is that general flynn wins. general flynn will not be prosecuted and may be part of this, the department of justice said when he filed these papers asking to dismiss the case that the original charges were not filed in good faith. the ordinary qualified immunity, and we heard that phrase with respect to police killing people and it applies here as well, the ordinary qualified immunity that fbi agents and prosecutors would have does not apply here.

general flynn can actually sue the doj for the 6.7 million plus dollars he spent on legal fees because the prosecution of him was not in good faith. >> ed: that's very interesting. i want to bring you back because he is saying theory, and there is not just three-judge panel, but it appears like, they are likely to be eliminated. talk about that but also david, what you and i learned that yesterday is it appears that the fbi turned over more notes just yesterday and in the last few days from peter strzok dating back to 2017. what's that all about.

>> first of all we were told about the peter stark notes and they were about two pages of handwritten notes. heavily redacted but these are notes that were taken sometime around. that's from the white house in january shortly after michael flynn came into and that was a lot of controversy. as far as those notes are concerned, we can't see them. it's a court order and i suspect probably those will not be made public because judge emmet sullivan still has to rule. as jacobson are just as said it's possible will not have that

july 12 hearing but judge sullivan may not take this sitting down or standing up. he has the chance to get the reaction from sidney powell, and also some reaction to doj. as of now it appears that jul july 12th hearing is still on. >> sandra: if you could stand by, judge andrew napolitano is standing by as well. you are responding to an interesting point, about the ruling that could may be appealed to the full circuit court and of course the question would be of how likely would that be? >> i talked to some people in the last couple of minutes and they think it's highly unlikely. we don't know how, and he they

could appeal this ruling. how it was written seems like it's lending itself to, this is the end of the road. the bottom line is that this ruling as it stands is a major win for general flynn. it's not overturning a conviction. this is a drop of charges and, just take a second and rewind to the big picture here. what general flynn has been through, and where we saw this trajectory. at the beginning, there was all this coverage that he was pleading guilty and that he was going to speak out about the trump administration and its ties to russia and that he was going to be the guy that opened the pen pandora's box. that never materialized

obviously and obviously that's kind of the detail about what the fbi did in the interview and, what they wrote about it. it really enabled the defense eventually over a long period of time to make the case that this is not fair. >> ed: it to point, if evidence comes to light calling into question the integrity or purpose of an underlying criminal investigation, the executive branch must have the authority to decide that further prosecution is not in the interest of justice. and i would expect that either the justice department put out something, but who knows. you may hear from the president who has weighed in a lot on th

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people were concerned when this first was shot over a couple weeks ago and now it seems more personal. you talk about regular commentators and it really feels like now there is this sort of selective -- it's a selective battle against the white house and president trump is not going unnoticed and people are getting concerned about this. particularly now as there is talk about removing some of the safeguards that social media has enjoyed and not having to have the responsibility of being publishers. >> sandra: in such a divisive environment i suppose there are several different ways that people look at the president's tweet and especially when he says he will be met with force. those who want unlawful behaviors to be accounted for with lawful reaction from our police, we see it that way.

kellyanne conway reacted on fox & friends. >> twitter seems to be very selective about who, what, why and how. that's peaceful and, the leader is responding, and twitter moves to censor him. democracy set of sins have a right to hear directly from the president and decide for themselves what to think about it. he ended it with hashtag stop the bias. people need to know that twitter is trying to -- they need to explain tweets like that to the american public. >> i think the tweet speaks to

itself. this looks like they are singling out the white house and it's a pretty obvious thing. the law should be enforced and some of the imagery that we've seen, and we saw in seattle with the summer of love as a bust and we don't want that to be the whole country. i believe jack has gone too far on this and is having to reel it in. it's creating a situation here for everybody. >> the dow is down 500 points. i'm concerned with spikes over the coronavirus and others. >> ed: we are also watching a major develop meant in the michael flynn case. the president has just weighed

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>> it's a straight up news, the fbi has stated it was a noose over and over again, nascar leadership has stated it was a noose. i can confirm that i actually got evidence of what was hanging in my garage over my car. >> ed: nascar driver bubba wallace after the fbi concluded he was not the target of a hate crime. all of this following the discovery of what appeared to be a noose in his garage stall in

alabama. investigators are now saying it was a garage door pole and had likely been there since last year. of howie kurtz is a host of media buzz and he joins us now. >> good morning. good morning. i often accuse the media of being too quick to pass out unproven allegations but in this case nascar is the culprit. antic i don't know what else the media was supposed to do. and that is kind of what they all started. the fbi comes to this conclusion. it was not a hate crime and he was not the victim of a hate crime and now he has gone

and it given several different interviews saying, that is not the case. nascar saw it and i saw it and this is what it was, a noose. >> i don't think this is grandstanding. he was not grandstanding, and this was what he thought was real based on what nascar authorities told him. i know he's upset and angry about his own character being questioned but he needs to edge and adjust what he's saying. it was aimed he thinks it was aimed at him. >> ed: there are many on social media that are making this leap that it was just like the jesse select case, and it's important to make that distinction they made it. if you would think it would be

nice for everyone to sort of come together like they did a couple of days ago. and getting behind bubba wallace and the same, let's investigate this. let's not rush to judgment but let's support our colleagues. >> absolutely. i have to throw the penalty play for nascar president steve phelps who has that very little about the details of how they handle it it and also, he did speak out against confederate flags but only after nascar banned the flags at its event so i don't think this was bubba wallace trying to get more publicity for himself. but in this tense racial atmosphere, this data exploded. and that is why i got so much

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>> ed: a fox news alert, a federal appeals court tossing a criminal case against general michael flynn, president trump's one-time national security advisor. the court moments ago dismissed the case against flynn ruling the justice department's decision to abandon the case was a final say. case closed. the doj drop the, today's ruli ruling, it effectively means of july 12 hearing is off. let's wait to see if we get any fresher action from judge sullivan in the case. we already heard from president trump briefly who tweeted a few moments ago, great. we will have an analysis from martha maccallum just moments ago. away. >> sandra: but first fox news alert. the chaos across the country with protesters, some armed, some taking to the of streets in major u.s. cities. welcome to "america's newsroom," and sandra smith. >> ed: good to see you again, i'm ed henry. men with long guns outside of

the wendy's where rayshard brooks was killed are making it clear police are not allowed there anymore. the american flag meanwhile going up in flames in washington, d.c., while demonstrators tore down statues in wisconsin and up reportedly attacked a state senator who was taking video. we have reports that state senator may have a concussion due >> tuesday was a day of fury and a state of violence at the wisconsin state capitol. protesters threw a molotov cocktail and dripped down statues and that democratic state senators that he was brutally beaten just taking pictures of the protest on his cell phone. the video appears, in the state

senator tells people to leave his home alone, and they attacked him. >> leave my phone alone. >> the state senator wrote in a tweet "this is a picture that got me assaulted and beaten up by a mob, punched and kicked in the head. might have a concussion, left by blurry, cheeks swollen, sore neck and ribs. this has to stop before some innocent person gets killed. i'm locked up in the capital and told safe. the governor put the national guard on the lid because of the violence on the state capital. protesters are demanding a black man that was arrested yesterday be released.

and, the police showed up and the man arrested and here's a portion of that. >> your racists, why are you racist? >> that man with the microphone was arrested, and protesters chanted for his release and violence erupted. protesters ripped down statues of wisconsin's model ford and chris haig. the attack on the state senator prompted the governor to respondent writing in part "the people committed these acts of violence will be held accountable and my thoughts are with senator carpenter who was among the individuals attacked last night and i wish him a quick recovery. madison police said they also had to use pepper spray to prevent those violent protesters

from getting inside the state capital. president trump is going after his protesters set to sign now an executive order protecting statues. and some are saying that instruction has to help stop. >> president trump: and they set fire to buildings, then nothing is sacred and no one is safe. >> sandra: chief white house correspondent john roberts' life at the white house. the and the president seemed to suggest that it would streamline and sort of make uniform

existing law. people who deface and destroy a national money should face ten years in prison. >> we are looking at long-term jail sentences for these vandals and these hoodlums and these anarchists. and agitators or call them whatever you want. some people don't like that language but that's what they are. they are not taking down our monuments and i just want to make that clear. >> another new development according to lucas tomlinson, the interior secretary david bernhardt has requested that hundreds of d.c. national guard troops, these would be unarmed troops, dispatched an end around the washington area, to protect federal monuments. in the meantime there is a new security precautions outside of the area of the white house, the fencing that was up for a couple of weeks and then was taken down his back again. there, you see st. john's church and that was the scene of a small fire that was sent a

couple of weeks ago in the basement. and you see a bunch of demonstrators there, putting ropes on the statue of andrew jackson and trying to pull that down. the debate over statues and monuments is "a healthy expression of people saying let's get some priorities here and remember the sin and mistake this nation made and let's not celebrated." that brought this reaction from arkansas senator tom cotton on fox. >> went public officials look the other way and allow mob

vigilantes to tear down statues or to try to destroy them. if cities and states want to have those debates and act in accordance with the rule of law, that's one thing brian. that allows the mob to prevail. >> the president has a press conference in the rose garden and we will be there to carry it for you live. for more on this now, let's go to martha maccallum. i know you've worshiped and you've sat in those pews, as i have in st. john's church, and you see. you see the graffiti on the destruction, uc police having to guard it, what's going on. it's an incredibly historic church and that's a place where

abraham lincoln back in the days when a president could just walk around town, and his pew was and he would sit and pray during the civil war over the fight of the freedom for held in south. it's a deeper understand her, and those debates need to be had to. and they should be had in a democratic form. there's already a for the framework to remove the statues. and she has the right to put that forward and it, we need to

see those laws in forest. >> the president we are told at the end of the week is going to have an executive order, maybe and strengthening some of the things that you mentioned, ordering local governments to defend the statues. >> president trump: they hate our history, they hate our values and they hate everything we prize as america's. and purging to centers. the left is not trying to promote justice or equality or lift up the downtrodden. they have one goal, the pursuit of their own political power. >> ed: at the president has staked out this law enforcement.

it's called vigilantism. >> it should be easy for people who are genuinely leaders to see what a hunger there is for leadership, and that's an open and end on its way to those conversations. the radical left believes the future is there's. we do hear from people like president obama and vice president joe biden who is now running for president. we need to hear from these leaders so that we get their support and we get their understanding of what's going on in the country and tap into it and get some guidance and leadership. it's unbelievable to me that there is not a chorus surrounding the backlash against the violence that we are seeing. there are real passions and real emotions that deserve to be

heard but that's not the way we do it in this country. they want to finally another externally develop met this morning. an appeals court jumps in and says yes, william barr the attorney general was right. your thoughts on what is next? >> i go back to that moment in the lecture where he was being interviewed and jim comey says we realize how disorganized things were in the white house. so let's send a couple guys over there and asked some questions. he went into that meeting with his eyes open, they told him he wasn't under investigation and they believed him. you know, it's really a very eye-opening moment for where we are in the country right now and i think that we will hear from mike flynn soon, and that's his side of the story.

and that appeals court this morning has been quite definitive. that is around the corner. >> we will see you tonight at seven. >> sandra: officers surrounded and attacked while responding to a call. >> we have a rocks and bottles and glass bottles being thrown, beware and use caution. >> sandra: achieves plea to residents as critics call for him to resign. and, we look at the effect the nationwide call for police reform and men and women in blue may have on recruitment and retain it of officers across the country. your safety, next.

>> ed: tension hitting the boiling point at a citizen review meeting in tampa last night. some speakers calling on the mayor to resign and the police chief be fired, after the police chief says two officers were injured early saturday after a crowd surrounded and ambushed them while responding to a call. aishah hasnie has more details. >> good morning to you. moments ago tampa law enforcement came together with a local chapter of the naacp and the aclu to announce

that they will be working together to implement some policy changes when it comes to training officers including new civil unrest training. but some police reform is not enough. weeks of tension that came to a peak saturday night when a crowd of hundreds of people surrounded a group of tampa police officers in a retail neighborhood. the officers were responding to a report of shots fired including police protesters who threw bottles and glass, and last night, thousands of people managing to defund or abolish the police altogether. some call to reform and strengthen the powers of the citizen review board. others call for the tampa mirror to step down and the police chief to be fired as a police chief tries to get a grip on the unrest. >> these are the difficult tim

times. their story or whatever, end. and all of the policy changes that they deem important are put into effect. >> there have been a lot of tensions with the police and they had to make a tough decision recently about disbanding this unit of under cover officers. there is been shooters and mentors in the city. what are you hearing in the on the ground about all that. >> you can feel the tension in the last 10 minutes i've been standing here, people have been walking by and getting into shouting matches where the police officers are standing behind me. you do feel the tension and it

is real, apparently it's a balancing act between letting people protest with the police are doing and still obviously trying to keep the city safe. >> sandra: hearing that report on those injured officers in tampa, and, i'm putting the police chief there in tampa that dealt with this ambush as he described it last night, and he described hundreds of them. they were no longer available for emergencies anywhere else. if you work at home and needed

to call police officers, they were on the scene there. nobody has hours. if we have this treatment of our police, how are we going to retain them, how are we going to recruit new ones? >> ed: using cities like seattle and atlanta as well talking about the slower response to the 911 call, dealing with police officers saying they don't believe local officials have their back. obviously the added challenge of the so-called top zone where they push the police out essentially, and the police gave up that station at least temporarily. and we heard her reporting, people walking up to nypd officers right near her live shot shouting at them. the tension is real right now.

>> sandra: absolutely. two former justice department officials testify that the attorney general william barr played politics with investigations including the roger stone case. but is there more to this? we will discuss that breaking news, a federal appeals court will drop the case against national security advisor michaelve flynn. we are live with that and an analysis from amanda mccarthy. activate your va benefit now. one call can save you $2000 every year. @(d2 we know you're always at univethere for them.x,

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>> sandra: foul play now suspected and that's disappearance of a fort worth soldier that disappeared more than two months ago. she was last seen in the parking lot of her regimental engineer squadron headquarters. army investigators have said from the beginning that they were not ruling anything out and now say because of information that has developed over the last few days, they think foul play was involved. there is a $50,000 reward for any information on her whereabouts. >> sandra: fox news alert, the fate of michael flynn no longer. and that's a russia investigation. that's the very latest on that

breaking news. this has been quite a back and forth over the past few months, regarding national security advisor michael flynn, and i spoke to attorney general bill barr is kerri kupec, it's a 38 page ruling this is all up to judge emmet sullivan at this point and they originally scheduled a july 16th hearing in the case, because the circuit court has essentially said this case needs to go away. at the prosecution and defense are on the same side and doj wants to drop the case. they hear from emmet sullivan and see what he has to say about it.

the great appeals court upholds justice department's request to drop criminal cases against general michael flynn. michael flynn has announced that he wanted to drop the case against michael flynn which was originally what prompted judge michael sullivan to say, wait a minute. i want to hold a hearing and hear more about this but right now that hearing holds in the balance of. this case needs to go. >> david, reaction continues to pour in. the president's press secretary kayleigh mcenany just sent something out moments ago saying today's decision, by an appeals court against general flynn, and no american should ever be unjustly targeted by their government.

flynn was an american flag. >> ed: thank you sandra. a former assistant fox news attorney, fox news contributor and of course a big day here. there's a hearing coming up where democrats will be targeting bill barr and we will get to that in a moment, that's a very interesting and that appears to me. he intervened in the michael flynn case and said it's time to drop it. her reaction? >> it's the right results, and i have to say i'm upfront surprised. i would think they would allow judge sullivan to hear you have his hearing on july 16th or have has proceeding and drop the case on his own without direction from or a strong hit from the court of appeals that that's what he should do. obviously it went further than that and a divided panel has

said rightly that there is no court role in the determination whether it should be brought or persisted. >> the justice department believes it's null and void because of the developments this morning. and it was a bizarre step in hiring the attorney. the do you think the july 12th hearing? and that would of course intrude

itself into the justice department decision-making about something that that constitutes the decision. it's perfectly fine to say what's being said so far and i think they ought to give judge sullivan a little bit of space. and that it does look like they are sort of dancing on his grave. >> ed: he said we were pleased with the decision which is not spiking the football.

the house democrats were attacking william barr again suggesting he's intervened. often the hypothesis doesn't pin out, and you narrow your indictment down to what you can prove and call it a day. instead of bob mueller gives us the fever dream. the stone is a key cog in the collision wheel, and, i really think we look at the objective here, and attorney general barr

in anticipation in the durham investigation is probably winding to a conclusion, or at least a critical decision in weeks if not at least a couple of months. but they are trying to do is derivatively destroy that information and then charges it would come up with by going after the attorney general. everything is being blown out of proportion. this is really much ado about nothing, and that sentencing guidelines and enhancement and the difference between whether stone should have been sentenced to what he got which was 40 months, or something closer to nine years which was what the prosecutors recommended and what the sentencing guidelines would have gone for. so ultimately the court came out exactly where attorney general barr was in a

case where the court knew a lot about the case, because judge jackson had presided over the trial. i think that you will hear a lot today about the internal deliberations on the justice department for a witness, mr. zelinski, who actually never had a conversation and they will be ranting and raving. >> ed: they will still be accusing the attorney general of all kinds of things. he had concerns about the coronavirus at his age and some underlying conditions and we will watch with all of that. we appreciate you rolling with the breaking news. sandra? >> sandra: there are coronavirus cases spiking in some areas of the country including the south and west.

those are the hardest hits of the country. plus i'm a preliminary vote expected moments from now on the senate floor. on the republicans police reform bill. what to expect, senator tom tellis. but first, majority leader mitch mcconnell. >> because they do support senator tim scott's reform bill we are all "trying to get away with murder?" the murder of george floyd? that's the speaker of the house?

>> sandra: fox news alert in arizona where at least five wildfires fires are burning. and, scorching tens of thousands

of acres there. >> ed: in the meantime, thousands of governors are ordering a mandatory 14 day quarantine from people traveling into the state from areas that are seen big spikes and cases. this is newly diagnosed coronavirus cases or in some places, states like arizona, texas and california all reporting their biggest jumping cases to date. dr. anthony fauci describing this urge is disturbing. >> the new york pot metropolitan area which has been hit extraordinarily hard has done very well in bringing the cases down and using the guidelines that we are very carefully put together and that's a stepwise fashion to carefully reopen their city and the estate. however in other areas of the country they are now seeing a disturbing surge of infections. >> ed: casey stegall is live it with more details. >> texas governor greg abbott is

now urging people to stay at home across the state if they are able to do so. although, no mandatory orders have been issued at this point, more than 5400 new cases have been confirmed across the state in just the last 24 hours and that is the largest daily increase since this whole pandemic began. testing positivity rates have doubled as have a number of hospitalizations. the country's largest children's hospital and they also enacted emergency rules when providing new health standards at child care centers. also he's restricting local leaders to impose restrictions on outdoor gatherings of more than 100 people bringing that number down from 500. over in arizona, hospitals are also filling up. data showing 84% of the latest

icu beds are full. and arizona now has the highest positivity rate in the country. young people account for a book of new cases they are. and the sunshine state recorded its highest daily death count of the last three weeks. also the city of tampa and orlando where a handful of cities and cases are spiking the fastest. but for contrast some of the cities that are showing the sharpest decline, indianapolis, indiana, detroit, hartford and connecticut. >> ed: we have some breaking news we want to get through to. and this is the update.

>> we have to make sure that our region stays safe in our state's face stay safe. and we will monitor this carefully, and reaching out to travel agents. if you come to new york, and you follow the protocol starting with the quarantine. >> thank you for being here, thank you very much. hopefully we are on the other side and we stay on the other side. governor, thank you very much. eddie, thank you. let me give you a couple more details on this.

and, any state that has an infection rate above that would require a 14 day quarantine. as of today the states that are above that level are alabama, arkansas, arizona, florida, north carolina, south carolina, washington, utah and texas. as of today. the states themselves can change as the infection rate changes. >> ed: we are listening to governor andrew cuomo they're from new york. we are now announcing a brand-new 14 day quarantine and, we will stay on top of this. >> sandra: as we await the noon hour on the east coast,

authored by south carolina, senator tom tellis, and you see a breakthrough happening and is the senate heading toward an impasse? >> he knows absolutely well with this vote is today. this is to put the bill on the floor, and that's a lying to the process if this vote goes the way it does. there is more in future, and mr. floyd is now at risk. chuck schumer is doing it but

they would rather let this issue stay alive through november because for some perverse reason it they think it helps them in november at the expense of community safety. i think it's disgraceful. >> let's listen together. >> that is at bill and they wouldn't allow george floyd's parents, and if there's no way to hold people accountable and banned the kind of practices that are leading to so many black lives dying, then what is the bill about? >> sandra: those are the concerns of cory booker. you mentioned mitch mcconnell, chuck schumer takes mcconnell and it says this.

and they ultimately do nothing. >> why isn't cory booker making those amendments? and they supported it. and even if we did it, it's got to go to the house. this is complete theater, this is about the election of 2011 and these people are willing to put our communities at risk and rise tensions. when they've had an opportunity to work together on a bipartisan basis to say that. cory booker must not understand the amendment process. let me tell you this, file an amendment to the things you want on the bill, that's how this process works. if they shut it down, blood will be on their hands. >> sandra: since this bill is not salvageable and we need bipartisan talks to get a

constructive starting point going. meanwhile senator i want to ask you about the spike in coronavirus cases happening in your state, other states seeing similar spikes. where does your concern lie, what are we doing about it and is there any concern we could see another shutdown? markets are down this morning because of the spikes. >> the governor is making an announcement. we got about 54,000 confirmed cases and we have 25% of our icu is an error major hospitals that are available capacity. we have more than two-thirds of ventilators available for use and i think structurally we are in good shape. we are testing at about 10% of people test positive. we are seeing an increasing number of them younger healthier population and that's a

manageable part of the population. what i hope to hear from the governor today is taking another step forward and getting people back to work. and there needs to be balance, but what i'm seeing in north carolina is still manageable and that's not just the senator talking. right now we see no rational basis for stopping back some of the stay-at-home orders. >> that's their handling of the coronavirus. >> ed: there are calls for racial equality, but are they hurting their own cause? that's coming up.

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>> ed: protesters taking to the major streets across america calling for racial equality, many vandalizing and tearing down monuments most for their connection to the confederacy. joy murdoch writing or on statues will only spheres and cylinders satisfy the mob. your thoughts on why this is all headed? >> well, it's amazing how we have gone just in three weeks from a very serious national discussion about police brutality and excessive force, and then an attack on confederate statues. that has gone on to attacks on statues like you... at grant, abraham lincoln sold writing the emancipation of which is apparently on target for tomorrow, and chongqing's one of the leading lights in black lives matter came up with the twitter messages a few days

ago and said the following, is that i think the statue of the white european likeliness should also come down. all murals and stained glass windows of the and his mother should also come down. i so know is next on the list for bringing down statues. i think the more people get away from the serious issue that they brought up and get into the destruction of cultural artifacts and tearing down our history, the more they discredit the because they represent, the more insane they look in the more people want a total cracked on this effort which has gone far away from the legitimate concern they raised. >> ed: various statues have come down, they even tried to pull down andrew jackson the other night outside of the white house, and they were not successful. why haven't democrats spoken out about this? >> i think that these folks want to see the pot started. they want to see black folks agitated. this happens every four years there is a presidential election

and even in the midterms which is the democratic party wants to see black folks scared of racism and terrified that the ku klux klan is about to erupt. therefore, the democrat will protect you from the clan. as it's reduced to a much smaller number i think they feel this may be a good proxy for that. i think democrats are happy to see this pot stirred which is an awful thing. >> ed: all right, thank you. we will be right back. ed. you can lower your payments by this time next month without having to verify your income, without getting your home appraised, and there's no money out of pocket. one call to start saving $2000 a year. every year. one call. then, sit back, relax and think about what you'll do with the savings.

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>> you just talk to the senator and we heard from three different governors from spikes in coronavirus cases and it appears that the markets are reacting. >> the big board this morning, pretty significant losses on wall street as there are some fears of the spikes across the country. >> a lot of breaking news, see you tomorrow. >> outnumbered starts right now. >> fox news alert, president from hailing a decision by federal appeals court ordering district court judge to drop th criminal case against former national security adviser michael flynn. as commanded by the justice department. the court saying in a do-1 ruling that the doj decision to abandon the case against flynn settles the matter, even though flynn pled guilty to lying to fbi agents investigating his ties to russia and other countries. the president tweeting, great, appeals court upholds justice department request to dro