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protest for police reform sparking the destruction of a number of monuments. the president discussing the issue while hosting the president of poland saying vandalism will not be tolerated. >> i think that we are going to have a very strong executive order, but we have very strong, we have the monuments act already which means ten years i jail. i think we're going to consolidate areas things we com out with a strong executive order the fbi is investigating hundreds of people throughout the country for what they've done to monuments, statues, and even buildings. we have very strong laws alread on the book spread. >> louisiana senator john kennedy joins us in just a moment spread first on robert's reporting from the north lawn o the white house. >> good morning tio. we are see a much greater polic presence around statues and monuments near the white house prayed the white house pointing out by the end of business tomorrow to have a new executiv order protected the monuments and statues.

providing for a stiff penalties for anyone who defaces or damages them. i asked the president what woul be in the executive order and the specifics are still being worked out, but it will be a memorial preservation act which provides for as much is ten years in prison for perpetrator the president yesterday saying many of the nt monument movemen as misguided. listen here. >> i think many of the people knocking down the statues don't have any idea what the statue a our what they means. they looking up george, washington,, they're looking at abraham lincoln. thomas jefferson. it's not going to happen. not as long as i'm here. >> the president weighing in yesterday on what happen with police reform in the senate. they tim scott justice act failed to get the 60 votes necessary to move forward. democrat saying the bill doesn' go far enough. the president saying democrats want to go too far. >> the democrats don't want to

do it because they want to weaken our police. they want to take away immunity. there are some that want to defund and abolish our police i you can believe that. we are not letting that happen. >> senator scott who gave an impassioned speech supporting the legislation said he tried t offer democrats what they wanted , but they simply weren't interested. >> i sat down with many of them. i said what do you need? i said that five amendments prayed i sat down with more senators prayed and they said wait, wait, it's not just five, there is 20. i said have about 20 amendments. and they walked out. >> senator scott said a few minutes ago that the democrats are not willing to do anything until after the election callin it pure race politics at its worst. we will likely hear from the president a lot today, he said it over at 11:00 a.m. to the korean war memorial to lay a wreath on the 70th anniversary

of the beginning of that war in then he's got the town hall where sean hannity in wisconsin later on today. this will be a big topic of discussion all day today at the white house and probably across the country. >> we will watch the town hall tonight, but we will go there a 11:00 a.m. eastern when the president and the first lady la that reads. >> for more on all of this, senator, good morning prayed thinking for being here this morning. before we get started i want to play a clip of an interview tha happened on the fox news channe last night. it was a leader of the black lives matter movement making a very strong point about what will ultimately happen if that movement doesn't get what they're asking for. listen. >> if this country doesn't give us what we want, then we will burn down this system.

what is this country rewarding? what behavior as it listening to ? obviously not marching, but whe people get aggressive and they escalate their protest. >> martha pressed him to explai what he meant by burn down the system. he could be figuratively or, that is getting a lot of attention this morning, senator how do you respond to it? >> i listen to the interview last night, decisions must take public art. decisions about public card should be made by consensus, no the mob. unfortunately, the statue police , we've all seen it on tv are trying to turn our cities and scenes from mad max. the mayor's, speaker pelosi are allowing it and they think all

these folks need our hugs and hot cocoa. i think they need to go to jail. and be made to clean up their mess or pay for it. anarchy is not harmless fun. >> okay. i want to make sure that i say that he went further in that interview to say that the movement itself is about saving lives, and he does say that sometimes violence as necessary. he points back to moments in history were obviously violence was necessary. he makes the case that way the lack lives matter movement at sometimes it is necessary to invoke violence. what you say to that because he went on to explain that in the wake of the george floyd death, and the protest that then followed, that this isn't about ambushing police, this is about saving lives. that was his points, saving black lives.

>> here is what i heard. not in his words, but in mine. i listen to the whole interview last night, here is what i hear him say. heard him say i hate america. america was evil in its origins it was wicked, and it's more evil today. i heard him say that most americans our racist, anti-semitic, misogynistic, ignorant, and we need to burn the system down. now this is america. he's entitled to have that opinion. but he is not entitled to act o those convictions and be violent . it has been tolerated by our mayors, and by leaders on capitol hill. i heard speaker pelosi say yesterday that tim scott and hi justice act, and the rest of us

are trying to get away with the murder of george floyd. >> senator, that is your interpretation of the interview and to be clear, he is the leader of the greater new york black lives matter movement prayed we have the full interview on foxnews.com. you can watch it yourself and see how you interpret those words in the entirety of the interview. you are seeing a similar movement calling for the bowlin down and taking down of monuments and statues happening in your state, a place we both know very well. louisiana state university in baton rouge, there is a change .org position that is circling on-campus there. i will redo a portion of it. the lsu administration for firs take action to replace the name of all 12 racists among the

slavers, confederates, mass murderers, segregationists and governor who disenfranchise 99 percent of black voters in louisiana. respond to that, senator, as yo know, you take this to a local level and what's happening righ there in your state. >> if you believe in federalism sandra, as i do, you believe that decisions about public art ought to be made by the communities. for cities. not by the moms. mobs. but you have to have a full and fair discussion. people have to fear feel free t express their opinion. if you can't say what you reall think, it's not fair if somebod expresses an opinion to say you're a racist, i win. but if those are the rules, i'm

going to abide by and accept whatever the various communitie decide. i will warn you about this though, self-righteousness in retrospect as easy and cheap. arthur slashing jury said that. if you remove every statue of every person who did not meet modern day morals about race, about anti-semitism, about misogyny, about gender equality and you do it right, you're not going to have many statues left. we have had too major televisio stations for a long period of time in the 20th century in america run the amos and andy show. they didn't do it for one seaso or too, they sponsored it 40 years. we just found out a late-night

television host appeared in blackface. he was trying to be funny. now, if we are going to have this discussion, we can't have double standards. we have to be able to talk abou the entire experience. what we are going to find, sandra, and this is a good thing , that americans today view race and anti-semitism and gender equality much differentl in 2020 then we did in 1820 or 1920. it's called learning from history. and i think we need to be careful before we erase that. >> i think the word discussion as you see there, that is the middleton library. the name coming down there on the lsu campus. i hear you use the word discussion. i think everyone as a agreement that a discussion, a debate is needed and its needed to continue albeit in a lawful manner. in what so many of us wish for

finally on the debate on capito hill, it is surely heating up o what can get done on police reform. i want to end with this sound from the tampa police chief and what is happening there and why it is a tough time to be a cop right now. >> it's very tough, these are trying times. i think after this case come up morale has already been down. in doing my best to keep them upright i think the pendulum is going to swing back to some semblance of normalcy, but morale as tough. these are tough times to be a police officer. good luck in trying to find anyone wanting to be the chief of police right now. >> that is a tough thing to hear . as far as keeping the streets o america safe, we want to feel safe going out with our family. the wall street journal yesterday wrote about what is happening to police morale in this country, how difficult it is to recruit in this time, thi difficult time for our country.

final thoughts. >> you know, we have people on capitol hill i am sad to say that think that cops are guilty until proven innocent. i'm going to say what i said th other day, if you hate cops jus because they're cops, the next time you get in trouble, call a crackhead. i think we've got more honest cops they then we have honest politicians. i think it's all just sad. when jihadist blows up a school schoolchildren were told don't judge all actions by the action of a few. why doesn't the same rule applied to cops in this country? if it wasn't for double standards around here, we wouldn't have any standards. >> senator, i have five seconds left. it's a big left to take talk about police reform in that tim

great as something going to get done, can you come to some sort of a partisan agreement? >> i hope so, but my democratic friends and speaker pelosi refused to even let as bring up the bill for debate and then, chuck schumer blames us for not passing the bill. i'm sorry, that's being called ugly by a frog. they won't let us even get on the bill, but tim scott and all the rest of us are responsible for not passing it, and by the way, tim is trying to cover up george floyd's death. this stuff up. it is like a sequel to pulp fiction, and it's embarrassing. you know what, this is why congress pulls right up there i the estimation of the american people with it is these kinds o political games, it's all about

the next election. not the next generation. >> senator john kennedy, we always appreciate your time. thank you, senator. >> 's children of ira's numbers surging in the u.s. again. 38,670 to new confirmed cases just yesterday. an all-time high for daily case in america. this urge is concentrated in southern and western states, florida, texas, oklahoma, south carolina all reporting their highest single day totals yesterday with another handful of states reporting record high single day case numbers this week. the presidents health secretary will join us live in our next hour and we will get his reaction to all of the numbers. >> we look forward to that straight ahead, what was joe biden's personal role in the michael flynn investigation? usually reveal documents raisin new questions this morning abou that case. senator marco rubio will be her

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>> a fox news alert seattle's mayor announcing the dismantlin of the top zone earlier this week. some protesters refusing to leave great as we learn new information, many shop owners i that zone plan to sue the city for abandoning their neighborhoods. one of those shooting victims i considering suing the police fo not responding to him and not quickly quickly enough. he is deputy owner of the wall street journal. good morning. me get this straight. shop kicks the cops outcome up one of the top folks gets shot, now he wants to see the place because somehow it's his fault for not helping them. >> you can't make it up. you know, he is not really goin to be able to see the police come at this police work for th city of seattle so the lawsuit would be directed at the city o seattle just as will be those lawsuits by business owners for

the failure to protect them. i suspect the city of seattle has got some problems here. people in cities sue them all the time for broken curbs and the like, in seattle, it was literally a conscious failure t protect those businesses, and i think the taxpayers of seattle are going to end up indeed settling some lawsuits with business owners who were not protected. >> you make an interesting . there. if i want to read from what these small businesses who have been caught in the middle of this, the mayor failing to do anything. they the lawsuit says this is about the constitutional and other legal rights of plaintiff that have been overrun by the city of seattle's unprecedented decision to abandon and close off an entire city neighborhood leaving it unchecked by police, unserved by fire and services and inaccessible to the public at large.

they didn't have the police, an beyond that, in this lawsuit, i it ever gets to court, i wonder if the mayor's comments about it's going to be a block party, it's going to be a summer of love, that could be important information for the judge to consider. >> there is a short parade to describe everything you were talking about there, ed, it is called the rule of law. the rule of law means something. it means laws exist, they are o the books, they are enforced in people can appeal to them when they have grievances. seattle in other cities do have grievances against the mayors and the police departments running those cities for a failure to protect them, to carry out their obligations. i think there are going to be lawsuits of that sort. what we saw on the streets wasn't an act of lawlessness, i really an ideology of lawlessness, and they may asser that, but i think a lot of thos

cities to carry out the responsibilities to protect private property. >> failure to carry out the responsibilities, obviously you're not just referring to seattle. you see very few democratic mayors and governors, the wisconsin governor calling in the national guard last night. you're right, we shouldn't really be surprised by this. how did that happen so fast. they activist steady descent into irrational electrical claims was impossible. wilke woke news has a weapon. >> welcome with people i think are stunned about how fast this is happened in the past four weeks, the pulling down of monuments. george, washington,, thomas jefferson, ulysses s grant, the

can't imagine where this came from. when they enforced and instituted enforce and instituted speech codes, which forbade certain amount of words to be. university presidents were complacent in that and then the tenure to professors who were balanced against groupthink. the university stood aside as did their liberal colleagues unless i that happen to. that was the seeds of answered culture. the anti- history that we are seeing right now. people in positions in leadership and our institutions stood by and let that happen to. now the progressives that are saying you work for us, get out of the way, joe biden, get out of the way nancy pelosi, we are taking over. people like nancy pelosi are basically saying no problem.

>> bob johnson, a very wise man first black billionaire, he to fox news digital the people tearing down statues trying to make a statement are basically borderline anarchist. there are some people speaking out and standing up. >> new numbers in the economy outcome in jobless numbers revealing nearly 1.5 million americans filed for unemploymen last week. what that means for our economi recovery. stuart bernie will be here to break it all down with us and will join us live next. democratic leaders digging in o police reform after the gop performers all fall short in th senate. what will it take to find commo ground? senator marco rubio will join u live just ahead too. >> the country has given us the opportunity to lead.

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could you be living a bigger life? ask an asthma specialist about fasenra. >> brand-new jobless numbers ou on the u.s. economy. they did fall to less than one and a half million last week. the 12 straight drop, and it's sign that things are slowing as the market begins to recover from coronavirus lockdown. right now you are looking at th

number, 1.5 million and we are waiting on the dow. the dow just open, down 100 points, 90 to points on the las of the dow. as we begin a brand-new trading day, let's bring in stuart bernie, he's joining us from foxbusiness network. one of my favorite moments on the show, when i join your show you join ours, it's great to have you here this morning. what is your thought on the jobless numbers that just came out this morning. is this economy recovering, that's what the people want to know. >> yes, the economy is recovering. the pace of that recovery is in question, but the jobless claim numbers that we got this mornin show a continuing downtrend in number of people who are registering for the first time as unemployed freight it's not huge sharp downtrend, but a downtrend is what it is. yes, the economy is coming back. we would like to see it come back faster. may be the comeback been restrained a little but what

remains of a second wave of the virus and the new restrictions in some states. yes we would like to see it com back faster, but to answer your question precisely, we are coming back. that is a fact. >> the president's chief economic advisor making news this morning. he just gave an interview on th foxbusiness network he was talking about the spikes in the coronavirus. obviously a lot of concern abou that, that has led to recent selloff in the stock market great he is now saying that he expects a strong recovery, and snapback in the third and fourt quarters, but he did not believ that even though we're seen a spike in cases, that there woul be another nationwide shutdown. surely marcus would like to hea that.

we are going to get a recovery, we don't know how strong it is, but it's shaping up to be prett strong. we reported earlier this week that $2 trillion have gone straight into people's bank accounts. that was deposits at major banks , to trillion dollars. that's an awful lot of money. that is spendable money. so when businesses open up, and people are allowed out of their house and go back to do their business, there is money in their bank account to spend. i think that is a big part of the v-shaped recovery as he calls at. also if you're referring to the stock market, sandra, you know the power of big tech. we have been seeing that recently. the five major technology companies, they are all-american , they dominate this technology platform that is use globally. they dominate the post- virus economy around the world, and they have just been going straight up.

the top five american giant technology corporations are worth over $6 trillion. we have never seen anything lik that before. those tech stocks, they are the backbone, the crown jewels of america's economy, and they hav been doing very well indeed, sandra. >> at one point i used to sit with you on your show every single day on the foxbusiness network. i loved that time, but you always watch the technology companies because they are such growth engine for our economy. it so important to see how they're faring, especially when we're looking at how well we ar recovering in this country. to your point, i hear a lot of wall street analysts, they're not talking about v-shaped recovery like the white house is . i've hear the mikey's wish talk about how the recovery might look more like that, so there i that. final thoughts on the stock market itself. we're down 100 points this morning. a big selloff yesterday, but th dow is still firmly above 25,000

. in the darkest days of the pandemic, we were hovering around $18,000 on the dow. it is still making quite a comeback. >> on the day that president trump was elected to be president back in november of 2016, the dow industrials were at 18,000. as of right now, despite the virus and the plunge in the economy in the first quarter an early second quarter, despite all that we're at 25,000. that's an enormous increase in three and a half years. that is in large part because o this very strong economy. let me throw one quick point at you. the election. president trump is 14 points behind joe biden in the latest new york times poll, that is a very big gap. investors don't like it to. investors are very worried abou the possibility of a joe biden when. he would reverse the tax cuts, he would really text businesses

very heavily, affect the bottom line which would affect the stock. some of the selloff, what you'r seeing, it is the result of these polls showing mister trum behind joe biden in the election . >> we have more coming up on al of that. we will let you get back to you show. thank you for joining us this morning. >> thank you very much indeed. >> the investigation suggest jo biden raised the idea of investigating flynn. was this a political hit to try to take them down? florida senator marco rubio is here to react, that is next. the national guard on standby a this hour as protesters threate to take down more monuments in our nations capital. how the president is planning t take some action. gate were going to have a very powerful statement. we've arrested numerous people for what took place outside of washington. i am robert strickler.

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>> the stereotyping of republicans is just as toxic an poisoned to the outcome of the most vulnerable communities in this nation. this bill is gone, people will forget about it. you know what's going to happen? something bad. >> senator tim scott ripping into democrats for blocking the police reform bill. marco rubio is joining us, active chair of the senate intelligence committee. senator, great to have you. >> good morning and thank you. >> and want to play another bit because nancy pelosi said that you end of the republicans are getting away with the murder of george floyd. she was asked whether she would apologize yesterday, here is he answer. >> will you apologize? >> absolutely positively not. the fact is people say i think

he frankly in the press have given him far too much credit for a bill that does nothing. >> senator schumer said yesterday he is fine with what, she said. our you fine with it? >> i think it's the kind of comment that if somebody on our side of the aisle made, there would be nonstop wall-to-wall coverage. the to points is, mister floyd was tragically murdered by a police department by in a city of that's been under the contro of the democratic party for a long time. a lot of times you see the democrat mayors and democrat leaders on the councils and commissions letter from the cities for decades. that's what tim scott pointed out yesterday. they could've banned choke hold a long time ago. the second thing i find ironic as they are criticizing tim scott's bill for doing what their bill doesn't do either. inputs bans on federal agencies but does nothing to try to influence in real ways what local governments would do. this is simple. this as politics. they don't want a bill passed. what they want to do is stop th

house bill and basically create the three or four month arguing that the republicans or republicans are standing in the way because it's a key part of their electoral strategy. they're not an issue like this going to allow movement on the bill because they want the issu for the campaign. that's what's happening here. it's clear to everybody. >> at the beginning of the debate, democrats kept talking about how they were going to be in choke holds without being level with the american people that they don't control the local police department as you just said. this is just about federal police, federal agents, it's a fundamental flaw to the process perhaps, but tim scott stood up put together his bill, and now they are blocking it. gate there will be blood on the democrats hands, the democrats did not believe we would produc a quality product. this is pure pure race politics at its worst. >> how do you react to that?

>> you go back in history peopl talking about the southern strategy about richard nixon during the aftermath to win ove white voters in the south. this is the reverse of that. people caught in the middle, th people being hurt are those who are in fact having the impact o racial inequality end of discrimination. they shouldn't be a part of the issue. they want it to be part of the issue because they see benefit to it, but they should not. there is nothing un-american than racial discrimination and racial inequality and we should address it. the only way to address it is for everyone in america do say we want to deal with it. it affects all of us, indirectl or directly all of us are hurt were percentage of american people feel that there lives don't matter as much in their issues are dealt with because o the color of their skin. at least for the next few month and certainly many months befor and how the democratic party ha made a decision this is

something they want commit not something they would like to solve. >> a big issue as what i want t get too with general michael flynn prayed he appeared to get a big victory yesterday when th appeals court said yes, the justice department is right, th charges should finally be dropped against him. we're learning new documents ar pouring out one suggesting in 2016 james comey told then president obama that it looked legit, the phone calls that flynn had with the ambassador from russia, and then look at this, flynn's lawyers get this as well, a new notes from peter struck, the fbi agent at the center of it saying it appears that vice president joe biden personally raised the idea of the that became an admitted pretext to investigate general flynn. let me play a bite from joe biden in a moment but first you reaction to the fact that james comey said the calls were legit and vice president biden was th one that said maybe he violated the logan act. let's get this investigation going. >> i think that's exactly where

senator graham and the judiciar committee will look at. it's obviously wrong to do that. really it sort of attacks the foundation of how we transition power in this country peacefully . that is of white people don't understand. it's not just about politics, when we have a election, we nee transition of power. that is being undermined. it's not about changing the letters on the keyboard where they took out all the w's, this is far more serious than that, this is what i hope the judiciary committee will get to the bottom of because this is a fbi and that is the right place for them to examine it. the second point i think is important as it undermines the credibility. it does tremendous damage to th credibility of really important agencies for our country, particularly the fbi who we rel on every single day to go after not just criminals, but to protect our country from espionage and terrorism.

these people, starting with comey on down have done extraordinary damage to the reputation and credibility of a agency which i think is unfair to the thousands of men and women who don't play politics i those agencies and every single day show up to do their job. >> i want to get the one final question which is joe biden whe asked about his involvement or not with michael flynn in the investigation seemed to say he wasn't involved. here he is with george stephanopoulos. >> when did they know it? what did you know about those moves to investigate michael flynn, and was there anything improper done? >> i know nothing about those moves to investigate michael flynn. >> is a you didn't know anythin about it, but you were reporte to be in a january 5th 2017 meeting where you and the president were briefed on the fbi's plan to question michael flynn. >> thought you asked me whether or not i had anything to do wit him being prosecuted. i'm sorry. i was aware that there was they had asked for an investigation, but that's all i know about it.

>> senator, i have 30 seconds. first he didn't know anything out of it commit now he was aware, there are document sayin he might have been the one to say let's investigate michael flynn. your final thoughts? >> i think ultimately if it all proves to be true, there's only two things to conclude from a comic a heat is suffering from severe memory loss, or be, he i not being honest we will find out soon enough when the judiciary committee does his investigation right in front of the american people. either he's got memory loss or he's not telling the truth. neither one of those is good. >> on the memory loss question, it's a sensitive subject that's been raised, the trump campaign has suggested there is a declin for joe biden. our you referring to that? or what are you saying with memory loss? >> i'm not referring to anything , i'm saying if he this in fact happened, and there is evidence of it and he says he can't remember, he's either lying or he can't remember because he's got memory loss. what that means beyond that, i

think the physical and mental fitness of every candidate as o display in every campaign, that is a legitimate thing people want to know and judge. i will allow voters to make tha decision is the race goes on an as the candidates go out there. i think there are bigger looms. i'm not a doctor, i'm not going to go around making claims a wa that people did last week sayin that trump had parkinson's or some ridiculous thing. >> absolutely. to senator marco rubio, we appreciate your time today. thanks. >> thank you. >> coronavirus case as surging in the south and west. some states even reporting thei highest single day totals yet. why experts are warning this ne surge could erase months of progress paddling the virus.

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>> coronavirus numbers surging in some parts of the u.s. come up with 38,670 to new confirmed cases yesterday alone and all-time high for daily cases i this country. now experts are warning that th surge could erase months of progress. the physician and professor of public health at johns hopkins university. doctor, good for you to be here this morning. talk us through this pandemic. here we are, so many areas of the country reopening, there is a lot of optimism out there tha were able to do so. yet now we're starting to see some spikes and in some cases like texas, the highest numbers yet. >> these spikes don't happen overnight. as a matter of fact, they've been baking for about four or five weeks. the thing with exponential spread is that things are fine until suddenly they're not you can't really play waccamaw in

real time, the policies take effect have an impact about three or four weeks later. if you look at new york, they had a stay-at-home porter on march 22nd, it was the second week of april they started to see the impact of that. they are playing catch up right now, they won't go to a complet shutdown, but maybe this is time to consider universal masking rules in public areas and indoors. >> , you have heard from the administration health officials that advise the president sayin that they don't believe that this is a second wave of the virus, at least not yet. larry kudlow saying this mornin he doesn't think we will need t nationwide shutdown, at least not yet. what do we do at this point? seeing these spikes from how ca we control it? final thoughts? >> it turns out that places the didn't get hard initially were especially vulnerable. if you look at texas, florida, arizona, these are places that didn't get hit hard. right now they're on the brink of surge capacity.

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>> president transformer national security adviser michael flynn breaking his silence calling his victory in court good day for america. welcome to brand-new hour of "america's newsroom". >> good thursday morning to you. i am sandra smith paired to judges on the federal a federal appeals court ordering the dc court to drop the case against michael flynn. the panel recovering requiring the plug be pulled on any further proceedings, so if the full appeals court does not elect to review the case, it is all over. here is what flynn said about the ruling. >> what the decision today is really, it is a good thing for general flynn, it's a good thin for me, it's a good thing for m family, but it's a great boost of confidence for the american

people in our justice system because this is what this reall comes down to is whether or not our justice system is going to have the confidence of the american people. >> let's bring in the former national national security adviser advisor under president trump. welcome this morning. here he was, general flynn breaking his silence what do yo make of all of this? >> i think he is absolutely right. good for him to say it. this was a lot about a lot more than general flynn. when the fbi and people came after me, it was about more tha me, it was about targeting double donald trump. why, he promised to drain the swamp. who was he targeting? the swamp. from the get-go and as word documents come out, it was broad , the group that wanted to get rid of him to prevent him from governing, they knew exactly what they were doing prayed they did it from the start and they kept doing it.

this is about a lot more than general flynn, this is taking the will of the american people who elected a man to be president, and undoing their decision. >> and other major development beyond what we heard from the appeals court was that they are word new documents, new notes from the fbi agent at the cente of this turned over in these ar his notes up a meeting that appeared to be between the president, vice president, and james comey, the director were vice president biden says the logan act, the president is an obama, these are unusual times for the vice president, i've been on the intel committee, i never did that pray the president come up make sure you look over things and have the right people on it. is there anything i should not be telling the transition team about this and then the director , the calls appear legit and here is james comey, back during the transition suggestin that those phone calls were legitimate. why did they investigate genera flynn four years?

>> look, there is a smoking gun here, and what it is as the logan act. nobody knows what the logan act is. when the fbi and other people came to investigate, they laughed, they said the logan act ? we never knew what that was. we had to go look it up right the logan act was something who people it was talking about in the nixon administration and th reagan administration. nobody has talked about it for 40 years. when is the first time we see evidence of it? joe biden who was around during those periods of time, he spoke about it in the oval office prayed he said logan act that w started seeing it in the media, and then it became the molar investigation initial justification for going after general flynn. it was a setup from the beginning and i think biden was in it up to his eyeballs. >> on that note i think it's important to get the sound back in here of that interview that he did with george stephanopoulos where he was directly asked that question to which he changed his answer whe

pressed again. >> what did you know about thos moves to investigate michael flynn, and was there anything improper done? >> i know nothing about those moves to investigate michael flynn paired. >> you say you didn't know anything about it, but you wer reported to be in a general fifth 2017 meeting where you an the president were briefed on the fbi's plan to question michael flynn. >> thought you asked me whether or not i had anything to do wit him being prosecuted. i'm sorry. i was aware that there was that they was an investigation, but that's all i know about it. >> senator marco rubio was just responding to that, i know you followed up with a tweet after that interview, and now you've got these newly unsealed documents that point too joe biden personally requesting the investigation of michael flynn. >> this meeting that they're talking about, generally fifth in the over office, at the next morning, i was in new york at

trump towers, president trump, vice president elect then, michael flynn, several others and those same people that we'r in the oval office absent obama and biden, they all came to new york and they briefed president trump on what we now know was the sealed dossier, which was a totally fake thing. so they were planning what to d when they met trump. they were planning at the day before. this was a carefully orchestrated plan. again, they knew from the beginning, they knew even on january 5th, there was no collusion with russia. their was nothing to any of thi stuff. their was nothing to the logan act. but they drag the country, and the people who work for president trump and president trump himself, they drained us for three years through this divisive dysfunctional nation, so shame on them from what they did because they set us up for the perfect pandemic, lockdown, and now social unrest storms

that are ripping the country apart today. >> it all started from their investigation. there is something else where the president may be set in you concerned about this. the book by john bolton, the former national security advisor , people should read it because you relate what happene election day of 2016 here at fo in the green room where you asked john bolton if he voted for the president. he said yes for trump prayed he's an idiot bolton said, but anybody is better than hillary clinton. you said what john bolton has done as shred confidence in the president, there will no longer be such a thing is the off the record conversation between a president and his advisers. what are the stakes to you? >> the stakes are every president should have the ability to bounce around ideas. donald trump is particularly th kind of guy that does that, he throws ideas out prayed his ova office briefings are briefings, they are free-for-all conversations. what john bolton has done as he

took copious notes at these meetings and then he ran back t the national security council office, shut the door, and started writing a manuscript. what he said about those meetings, he said well, president trump was going to do this with the chinese. bolton wasn't even in those meetings, yet the people who were in the meetings, they have come out and said five of them said he made this all up, he's lying. what it now means for any president as to understand that he can't have a private conversation. you have to worry about who's going to run out and get a multimillion dollar book contract and he's going to say whatever he feels like saying knowing there's nobody that's going to be able to hold him to account. i think it shreds the ability o the president to have confidential conversations and also to have classified information held insecure as a classified bit of information very john bolton never worried to get his stuff signed off. he said i will make that decision, so again, the

arrogance, the inability of the administration, the trump administration to do its job. a lot of people have. >> you have seen him make the rounds with the interviews, wit the book. he has been pressed on multiple things inside of that book, but also about the timing of all of this. and certainly why if some of th things he said we're happening, why he didn't call them out the parried so just on the timing o all this, your thoughts. >> i've always thought that whe you're lucky enough to have bee asked to be in a position like this, you owe the president confidentiality. john bolton had every right too in the oval office a mister president, i don't think that's a good idea parried, but once the president makes the decision , you're supposed to keep your mouth shut if you fee so strongly that that is a bad decision, endangering the security of the nation which is

john bolton now says, then make your point by putting yourself on the line, or at a minimum, i you felt that strongly about it where was he during impeachment? he was busy writing his book parried why, he didn't reveal any of this? why? because he wasn't going to make any money on it. john bolton, the card-carrying member of the swamp. >> he told fox news he set a new standard for washington arrogance, we appreciate you coming on. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> that meantime fox news alert from the city of seattle facing pushback over the thomas cop free chop zone pair dozens of businesses in the area are suin over handling of the occupation protesting its the actions have led to increased violence in th area. claudia cowan is live nearby that sewn with the latest details. claudia, good morning.

>> that's right, we are here on day 17 of the protest, many of those who have taken a big financial hit our fighting back. it as a class-action lawsuit claiming the city essentially abandoned this neighborhood inside the top and in fact worked with protesters to bring in things like porta potty's an set up these concrete barricade that effectively blocked access of delivery trucks, service vehicles, and customers. some businesses were damaged an vandalized, many have been clos this entire time. among those suing, a tattoo parlor, liquor store, and an auto repair shop that was the site of controversy when a protester tried to burn it down prayed the owner was there, caught the guy and called the police repeatedly, but they never came when a mob showed up the owner had to let the suspec go. the say that this city is enabling vandalism and distraction around the area and that it is time for the city endorsed occupation to seize. our clients need their neighborhoods and lives back. lawsuits is the goal isn't to

undermine the movement, but to maintain the constitutional rights of the people who live and work here. they say they don't have access to police, firefighters, and other things they are paying taxes for. the number of protesters here inside the chop is smaller than it was once the mayor on monday night came out and asked everybody to leave peacefully. however, a group remains defian and remains entrenched around the east precinct building here behind me that is boarded up. they refused to leave. still no word on when police will return to the east precinc building here. we are told that negotiations are underway right now to make that happen by early next week prayed to still no response fro any of seattle's city leaders t this class action lawsuit filed by some furious tenants. >> the national guard on standb as protesters threaten to tear down a statue of abraham lincol

tonight in washington, dc. president from planning to take action on monument vandals. lucas is live at the pentagon. >> good morning, 400 members of the dc national guard have been called up and are now on standb at dc armory. they have been deployed to protect monuments, president trump's interior secretary aske for the reinforcement very. >> i requested that the room th secretary of defense, and the national guard be available to us to begin to protect the monument spread we will protect these monuments and we will do it with dispatch and severity.

>> all was calm last night in the plaza next to the white house bread because dc is not seat, the defense secretary can call up the national guard, bu unlike those 5,000 guardsmen mobilized earlier this month come at the new soldiers were not be armed. on tuesday night protest turned violent near the white house. the american flag was burned. dc police say they arrested nin people after they ignited fireworks, three project tolls including molotov cocktails at dc police officers near the 200 -year-old st. john's church bre writers tried to tear down the statue of andrew jackson in lafayette square next to the white house. they were not successful. while jackson statue remains, another might be coming down soon. eleanor holmes weldon has her way, she wants to remove the emancipation memorial showing abraham lincoln with a freed slave. norton says even though freed slaves played for the statue in 1876, she said it was done without their input a protester plan tonight where that statue is located. congress will be voting on statehood tomorrow, the first vote on the subject since 1993. sandra. >> lucas thomason at the pentagon. >> shifting gears to another bi story, the fight against covid 19 parried lawmakers trying to hammer out a bill that provides

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>> the supreme court backing th trump administration in a case on detaining illegal immigrants. judges ruling in a 7-to decisio that the trump administration can follow through on expedited deportation procedures prayed w are still waiting to see how they will honor on one more hig profile case. that is the latest from the supreme court. >> covid 19 is spreading rapidl in dallas county. the data is clear, are case numbers and our hospitalization numbers, that we have been tracking daily, are headed in the wrong direction. >> that is the mayor of dallas talking about a shop increase o

coronavirus cases there. that is one example of the bigger picture. the number of cases surging to more than 38,000 in america yesterday. that is a record daily high. it surpasses the previous recor that was set to months ago. health and human secretary welcome back. >> great to be with you. >> what is your plan? >> we are working aggressively with states and local leaders i this situation, but it's important for the american people to know that this is a localized situation. the counties that are in hot spots are 3 percent of american counties. that's not to minimize the situation, it's important to ge to the bottom of why we are seeing the surgeon cases now parried some of it clearly has to do with increased testing. we tested over 30 million people , three and half million in the last week, and the average age of people testing positive is going down dramatically. that means were capturing younger asymptomatic individual which is a sign of a robust

testing system that president trump has delivered parried we need to get to the bottom of wh we see such breading so weep deployed teams to the county level to work with local leader and community leaders to figure out why we are seeing this kind of spreading. >> mister secretary, thank you for being here this morning, people want to know first and foremost if they're going to be safe obviously. but if they haven't returned to work, they certainly want too. if they're back at work, they want to stay there. and they want to know if their kids are going back to school i the fall. do you see another shutdown happening? >> i don't, although you will see local community mitigation steps depending on circumstances . as i said, the hotspots are in about 110 counties right now ar the ones we are focused on parried we can get back to work back-to-school, back to worship and more importantly back to health care if we act responsibly is individuals. if we keep in mind what are our individual vulnerabilities.

most of the fatalities in sever cases are in in individuals 80 years or older, or 65 years of age and older with diabetes, obesity, renal failure, or lung disease, these are the people that have to be really protected , the rest of us, obviously should take sensible precautions, none of us want to get this disease, but we have t protect those individuals. we can get back to work, we can practice social justice dean. we can wear facemask if we can' practice social distancing parried. >> we appreciate you being here you're trying to get out there and be transparent with the nation, but you haven't had a coronavirus task force briefing in a long time, several weeks a you know, from the white house. at the beginning of this crisis it was important for the president president, vice president, in yourself to deal directly with the american people. i've heard you now say it's a localized problem, do sandra's questions, i get that that

happens on the local level, but are you kind of farming this ou to local and state governments? >> not at all, but it's also a locally led federally supported process of responding parried you heard the president, the vice president, myself, we've got the doctors, the four doctors just spent seven hours testifying before congress this week, so we are out there, we are keeping the information flowing to the american people and are supporting our county and state leaders to deal with this with transparent information. in giving them the support they need for to print. >> a piece in the new york time this mean secretary aids are, i will read it to you. we need a churchill to lead our. instead we have a president tha floods and enemy virus infiltrate our homes parried th trump is trying to deceive us. what do you say to that, that the president's leadership through all of this and now talks of a potential second wave

, that we could be doing better how do you respond? to get these kind of partisan attacks are at completely responsible as we're in a pandemic paired or working together, the president, vice president, i we are working wit governors and state leaders regardless of party to work for the benefit of the american people. things to the president's leadership presidents leadership , we have historic testing systems, we have containment at the local level, we have hospital system capacit and supplies for them. we're bringing therapeutics to market, we are developing at record speed, that is all thank to the president's tremendous leadership, not just a whole government approach, but the whole of the american autonomy approach together on this parried he deserves credit for that as well as the complete transparency that he and his ministration have provided trou this crisis. >> on the vaccine question, you seem to be showing some optimis parried the doctor and other said it's not a matter of if,

it's a matter of when i guess a the way they were putting it they are very confident that in early 2021, we will have a vaccine. how optimistic are you? >> i'm optimistic given the presidents leadership here. we are devoting tremendous resources to ensure that we reduce any unnecessary delay in developing fa safe and effectiv vaccine. also, where manufacturing hundreds of millions of doses o vaccine at risk so that they will be ready if a vaccine is approved by the fda pretends of millions by the small hundreds of millions by early next year. >> secretary, a czar, that fina thoughts on just the second wave , listening to you talk about the vaccine coming in january, obviously flu season could come in, we all want to get our kids back to school safely. do you see that second wave happening? what does that look like x. >> i don't think it's useful to talk about first wave, second wave, we just need to deal with

it on the ground. right now 3 percent of cases ar dealing with rising cases and w want to deal with them. we as the six tools i talked about, surveillance, testing, containment, health system resilience, and therapeutic. we have therapeutics were working with, we have convalescent plasma, we have steroids, and we will keep bringing other products to market so we can keep reducing our fatality rate parried any death as too many. but we now have fatalities in the united states for over 16 days below 1,000 and a rate of fatality per million puts us at the top tier of developed countries around the world in terms of the performance they are in protecting vulnerable people. >> secretary a czar, thank you. >> thank you. >> joe biden is ahead into key battleground states, what does president trump need to do to turn things around? plus, michael flynn saga may be

just about over. the questions for joe biden may be just beginning pray did he play a role in starting the investigation into the former national security adviser? we will have that next fred. >> it under mans the credibility , it does tremendous damage to the credibility of really important agencies for our country parried particularl at the fbi.

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>> brand-new sanctions against iran, they are targeting eight iranian steel and metal companies, they put them on notice and posted that on the treasury department website trump administration targeting iran, they're going after their nuclear ambitions, but also trying to go after their economy , which has been imperiled in peril for a long time. that was just at mount mount by the trump treasury department. >> brand-new polling showing th state of play, into key battleground states. increasing his lead to eight points now over president trump. let's bring in our panel of fox news contributors. they are back together again. >> good morning.

>> , why don't you start off with what we are seeing happening. should that worry the trim campaign? >> you should always as a candidate so of course they should take these numbers into consideration. elections are a binary choice. it will be a binary choice between president trump and joe biden. what i'd like to see. particularly on law enforcement with the reality that every single america should feel safe in their homes and their neighborhoods. right now so many cities that's not the case. please treat them safely even i you look at a gallup poll for last year, 59 percent of respondents to low income areas what it has increased. police presence. that's what's really sad about all of this, those neighborhood were actually going to become even more dangerous as a result

of this attack on police and a decreased police presence. i would like president trump to actually take a stronger stand for law enforcement and republicans as well right now. >> jessica, you got the democrats i a talk about police reform parried they come up wit a serious effort parried you might like like every detail. the democrats blocked the debat commit meanwhile, from even happening, let alone voting. you've got monuments and statue coming down parried how do you think that plays out in the middle of the country? >> it seems they have found the surveys that have been taken ou that is playing out in democrat favor. that majority of americans are on the side of the protesters, they have negative reaction to the way that president trump ha handled the racial injustice crisis in this country pray the speech before he went out to lafayette park with them where they tear gassed protesters there so he could have a photo

in front of a church holding a bible upside down went terribly for him parried the american public sees through it the president needs to run on a law and order platform parried the problem is, when you look at these pools, and i would say th new york times pulls, it's not just wisconsin and ohio, looks what's going on in north carolina, florida, michigan parried we had to target these three states that cost hillary clinton the election. it seems as though the entire country is now and play for democrats. the president needs to find a piece of message that is going to work right now, but the most interesting finding out of that poll is that 55 percent of registered voters will not consider voting for president trump while 55 percent say ther is a chance they will boat vote for biden. he has a lot of work to do. >> jessica, you are moving away from the question which is abou police reform and getting something done in this moment

for the country as you are party , both parties have been calling for it. tim scott tweeted this a few moments ago. one day ago, summit democrats walked away from police reform. #justiceact. they walk away and don't get anything done at all. >> we will see if they don't ge anything done at all, we are moving forward in the house. what democrats who were authors at the senate bill or making clear is that tim scott's bill as a nonstarter because it doesn't deal with the serious issues. it doesn't talk about banning chokehold or qualified immunity and they really feel like it's not enough of a gesture toward real reform. they would never minded there been some kind of discussion on the floor about this and joe mansion has said that he would vote for tim scott's bill. i don't think there are more democrats it that will take tha

position. there is agreement, the, but the fact that tim scott wouldn' take up the key issues that he knows our intercultural the democratic platform shows that he wasn't willing to play ball from his side. >> let's bring alisa in. >> tim scott didn't get a chanc to do any of that because the democrats block the debate. >> jessica, it is my time. jessica, it is my time to talk. as a response to the question i don't think that there needs to be a federal reform on police reform, i think if anything it should happen at the local level . at thing jason riley of the wal street journal articulated this case and everyone should look a this article where he makes the case that is systemic racism does not exist between police and the country. at thing there is a false narrative brewing everyone as s afraid to talk about it. upwards of 95 percent of black

homicides in this country don't involve law enforcement. you have americans and american companies endorsing the black lives matter movement whose cofounder said that they traine marxist who in 2015, he was actually warning democrats not to embrace saying that the organization as too radical. which is so against what american stand for parade i don't understand why everyone i either too afraid or too dumb t realize what is blatantly obviously which is you can unequivocally believe that blac lives matter in this country while unequivocally denouncing marxist organization who is employing violent tactics out i the street. i don't understand why so many people are making that case or it's not being discussed. >> final thoughts, quickly? to get my final thought is that we have seen a 30-point jump in

support of black lives matter because they are advocating for a platform that is based on the importance of treating black people in this country equally. we spent too many years talking about how it was all lives matter versus black lives matte where people didn't understand what they were talking about. all lives matter cannot occur until black lives matter equally . >> does that not concern you? >> it doesn't concern me that there are roots in marxism. >> there are whites or presence that vote for donald trump, com on, lisa. >> i think anyone who is rooted in radical belief >> it was a spirited debate. >> we will promise that we will have you both back. >> great to be back with you guys. >> appreciate it.

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>> if this country doesn't give us what we want, then we will burn down this system and replace it. i could be speaking figurativel or literally, let's observe the history of the 1960s were black people were rioting, we

had the highest growth in wealt in property ownership, think about the last few weeks. since we started protesting, there have been eight cops fire across the country. i don't condone nor do i condem rioting, but i'm just telling you what i observed. >> that was the leader of the black lives matter movement her in new york speaking out on fox news channel last night with ou own martha mcallen weighing in on the recent protest across th country. what he observed on the ground and his view on the ultimate goal of that movement. let's bring in our next guest. charles, i want to get your reaction to that because you heard him just say that if the movement doesn't get what they want, if the country doesn't give them what they are asking for, then we will burn it down. referencing this system, we wil replace it he said to. what is your take away from that

? >> it sounded like he was tryin to suggest that things got better for black people after the riots in the 60s great i can tell you, they certainly di not appear at particularly if you lived in black neighborhoods . i lived in harlem in 1970s, and there were entire blocks that were just abandoned buildings, just burned out buildings, or rubble, that adds to the negative psyche that you will never escape those areas. opportunities left, businesses left, so that sort of idea that it worked for us economically, you can play with the numbers i you want to seem we have the greatest growth, but the fact o the matter as a if you are looking for instance black alon poverty levels commit 1968 ther were about 35 percent, they did drifted 30 percent in 1974, but they were pretty high until recently. now they're down to 20 percent. obviously an unacceptable level

but a major improvement from where we were so, if you want t change the system, that's fine, but the idea of burning it down in order to generate growth as sort of misguided and there is no historical facts that that ever worked. >> it is a fascinating conversation that everyone as having across the country as we do see these calls, some calm, some not, some peaceful, some not charles, i go back to an interview that the democratic african-american mayor of chicago said recently with the new york times. she talked about the black live matter movement commit not that she was for or against it, but she said it's important that people realize what you are calling for here in the deep an the police movement and what that would do to the african-american community junior officers in chicago police department and how that would take away from their ability to strive in a middle-class environment think about what you're calling for

here. as part of the bigger conversation were having now on the debate, charles. >> there is no doubt that it is. i think again, i think it's important to talk about the ide of black lives mattering. not just as human beings, but the quality of that life. do you go to work in a place where you never had a chance to grow and to get a raise and to get different job opportunities. you can talk about princeton's homeownership. homeownership is at the level right now that it's been since 2012. in the system, we are seeing a political revolution this sort of aoc led revolution. we see more of it on tuesday, s

there will be changes potentially in our system here you don't have to burn it down, the system was designed so that the overwhelming voice of the people can be heard and can be exercised. so if you want to change things do it the right way, find. if you start talking about defunding police the most vulnerable people out there, th very people you purport to want to help, that is one thing, but while i was on it it is people violence. where going to have a real honest conversation all around. charles, always good to talk to your. thank you for being here, we will see again.

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>> now biden is going around like he is a tough boy. he doesn't know where he is ver joe, where are you, joe? tell me where you are, joe. he's going around, i stood up for china. >> right there mocking joe bide for mostly staying off the trai saying he was part of the administration that was far too easy on china. the senior fellow at the hudson institute, good morning, rebecca . get they did an interview with the fbi chief, he was talking about china's communist government prayed the biggest threat to the united states, more than to thousand active investigations because of their

espionage trade joe biden is on a relationship with china paired . >> i would say the legacy of th trump administration is going t be that there has been a tectonic shift because of president trump and his administration in the united states relation toward the chinese communist party. finally, after years, decades o bipartisan frankly consensus that the chinese communist part would just be rising peacefully as the united states and china had better trade relations and that eventually hopefully it would politically liberalize. that was the idea for decades while the chinese communist party took advantage of that generosity and had been really carrying out this assault against the united states and the american people for decades. finally president trump, if you look at his record, he's got bi robust story to tell. >> on your point about how the, and biden ministrations that it's a peaceful rise for china berry don't worry about it.

here is barack obama in september of 2015. >> it is overwhelming our interest that the eu grow. and that china grows because when they don't grow, we don't grow as fast. >> okay, so that was another bite there where biden was talking about it as well. the body autumn line as the biden campus pushing vaccine when you look at john bolton's book, bolton says the president has a cozy relationship with china. your final thoughts. >> if you look at let's happening, president obama advisor once said that in the american policy towards china. that he is a primary stakeholde in this. more than 80 percent of all economic espionage cases and finally have a department of defense that is now working to deter china and chinese aggression.

if you look like it everything the trump administration has done, there is a strong story t tell and i would hope president trump would start telling that story beyond just the part abou terrorist and trade. >> he's always had some. appreciate your insights this morning prayed thank you. >> the legal saga of michael flynn may be coming to end. the former security adviser speaks advisor speaks out on hi case.

>> fox news alert. president trump and the first lady about to head to the korea veterans war memorial in washington, dc. the president now is taking action. welcome back to "america's newsroom". >> another busy morning prayed good morning to you. i'm sandra smith live to the white house where at any moment the first couple will leave for a ceremony commemorating 70 years since the start of the korean war. their visit to that memorial comes as u.s. marshals reportedly stand at the ready t protect monuments nationwide while the president makes it clear that the destruction will stop on his watch. >> i think many of the people knocking down the statues don't even have any idea what the statue is, what it means, who i is. when they knocked down grand, they are looking at george, washington,, they are looking a

abraham lincoln. thomas jefferson. not going to happen. not as long as i am here. >> national security correspondent standing by. doug, good morning. >> good morning to you, ed all is here in lafayette park. uc dc police officer standing guard behind me. i want to show you quick picture , pose i did for a special report in the month of may, by the bust of george, washington,. that bust has since been toppled . ironic considering the fact tha it happened at a college named george washington university in a city named, washington, dc or alternatively the district of columbus. president trump is en route to the ovaries at the korean monument. one of the memorials that he is determined to spare from

unthinking mobs. >> i think that we are going to have a strong executive order, but we already have very strong already which means ten years i jail. as far as democrats are concerned, i think they could care less whether or not it happens. i think the american people get it. >> today is the day that protesters have vowed to tear down the statue of abraham lincoln in linkin park near the u.s. capitol building. some have called that because you can see the supplicant slav underneath abraham lincoln they are bright others have said tha is not the case if you look closely at the freed slave, he' in a position to rise up as if he's getting up from a bended knee position to the freedom from bondage of slavery. , a dc delegate, also wants to have it removed, but in a more gentle fashion. she's working with the national park service to see if they can

be taken out without congressional authorization. he said that controvert the statue has been controversial from the start, it's time to be placed in a museum. >> we are watching as well. thank you. >> hundreds of national guard troops mobilizing to protect monuments in the nation's capital as protesters target statues and other memorials fro coast-to-coast. national security correspondent jennifer griffin is live at the pentagon with the latest from there. >> the pentagon would prefer no to send out the national guard, but 400 members of the dc national guard have been called up and are now at the dc armory on standby to protect monuments if needed. u.s. federal marshals as you mention have been called in as well, even though this is not admission they are trained for, the interior secretary asked fo the reinforcements. >> i requested that from the

secretary of defense, that the national guard to be available to us to begin to protect the monuments. >> we will protect the monument and we will do it with dispatch and severity. >> always calm last night at th recently renamed black lives matter plaza in front of the white house because dc is not estate, the defense secretary can call up the national guard, but unlike those 5,000 mobilize earlier this month, these soldiers we are told will not b armed. on wednesday night, protester and violent near the white house , the american flag was burned, dc police say they arrested nine people after they ignited fireworks, through project goals including projectiles including molotov cocktails and smoker needs near the 200 -year-old st. john's church. earlier this week, rioters try to tear down the statue of

andrew jackson in lafayette square next to the white house. they were not successful. to days before that, protesters tore down monument to the lone confederate statue in dc. police did not intervene. another statue might be coming down soon as doug mentioned if dc's nonvoting delegate to congress has her way, she wants to remove the emancipation memorial on capitol hill showin abraham lincoln with a freed slave at his feet. norton says even the freed slaves paid for the statue in 1876, she says it was done without their input, even frederick douglass opposed the way the slave was depicted at that time. a protesters plan tonight where that statue is located. congress will be voting on dc statehood this friday for the first time since 1993. >> thank you for that report live from the pentagon this morning. >> let's bring in georgia congressman he serves on the judiciary committee also a candidate for the u.s. senate. congressman, good morning. >> good morning. >> the president upset about

this. he's got this executive order he's getting ready to put together. you don't hear a lot of democratic mayors speaking out about the destruction of some o these statues come up memorials but frankly, i have been hearin a lot of criticism on the right where there is a feeling not enough of your colleagues are speaking out as well. what are your thoughts? >> where does it stop? this is something we continue o comey it is just rampant destruction using an event, the catalyst of the event as something we should work onto change here on capitol hill instead were discussing the distraction of monuments and th ones that would take people processed about what happened i our country to begin to destroy. this is not something to be lifted up, this is not an when you have george washington's bust taking down on a universit name for him when you have the discussion of abraham lincoln world war ii memorial being defaced, we have to get back to focusing on how we can bring ou communities together instead of these issues like this.

this needs to stop because wher does it stop? a country grows from its past and looks forward to a better tomorrow. that's where we are as a country . >> there is an obviously painfu episode in charleston, virginia a few years ago ended that time the president said look, this i eventually going to come after george, washington,. there going to come after thoma jefferson. a lot of people dismissed it an instead, you just mentioned, george washington coming down a george washington university. some of this is coming true. >> it is. i think that's also been so muc of the folks on capitol hill, the democrats on capitol hill i that the president was truthful back then when he said where is he going to end. it's also the other things that have been dividing our country for the last 18 months when you have a speaker of the house who can't lead her party except to attack the president. this contributes to the problem were seeing right now when

people cannot sit alongside eac other, come together and find a solution varied why won't the speaker of the house allow us t come together and work on a police reform bill that not onl upholds the dignity and honor o our police and gets out the bad ones acting badly, but also the uplifts our community and works with the resources we need for mental health and drug addictio and things like that. instead we are politically posturing because they don't want to give the president any kind of resemblance of a victor this close to an election with joe biden. >> let's turn to the case of general michael flynn. he went on the rush limbaugh show come out let's hear him an give you a chance to react. >> for me, it's a good thing fo my family, but it's really a great boost of confidence for the american people and our justice system. i do not expect it to be over a. this is a phase that has ended and we will go into another phase. >> we are also learning that jo biden, way back during the presidential transition, brough up the logan act in the oval office and may have started thi

whole investigation. what happens next? what needs to happen? >> the judge needs to quit playing political actor and he needs to go ahead and dismiss the charges and let him go back to the justice department back then, even up to the obama whit house took away from him. what we see right now is what needs to go forward and we need to continue this investigation. why was it being discussed with joe biden there who seems to have a bad memory of this with president obama, amazed at how much president obama knew about the unmasking. this goes back to things we've been fighting about for years now trying to make sure that th department of justice does not politicize against a candidate and a president, but what we se as everything it shows what we have known, that the department of justice under comey and the others and under president obam were actually attacking the candidate and then a duly elected president of the united states. joe biden needs to answer for what he did in this as well because this is going to be

something the american people are looking to trust him and we have to reach of store the jet trust in our justice system. >> the democrats are going over attorney general bill barr. they are trying to impeach the attorney general. they came forward with these whistleblowers, basically charging the bill bar has been had undue influence and whatnot. >> you don't ask about the committee's oversight during impeachment. is that correct? refresh your memory? >> i may have also asked for oversight at one point with the blessing of peer at. >> he wanted to come work for the majority during the impeachment of donald trump, is that not correct? i understand how that answer would be troubling. >> as i understand it, a career person who supposed to be nonpolitical at the justice

department, you uncover that back during impeachment, he wanted to work for the democrat and impeach president from, and now he's put forward as may be nonpartisan whistleblower? >> only can he be and nine partisan whistleblower. we saw, basically the same thin for 18 undoubtedly gets up and he has somewhere in his room an he goes and gets ready for the day, he has the word impeachmen taped to a mirror somewhere because that's the only thing h seems to know. impeachment and hearings that d nothing, but try to get at president trump in so far he ha failed miserably. during it all, it donald trump has continued to relieve the country great it is sad when th judiciary committee is led by his seems to have trouble in honoring proper procedure, but then continuing to bring the attacks forward to try to get a the president. it was another sad chapter, wit chairman adler that seems nothing but obsessed with getting at the president

instilled instead of doing the real work of our government and helping the american people. >> it sounds like there is construction behind you, we wil let you go. thank you for your insights. >> take care. >> president trump heading to the battleground state of wisconsin and bit later today were joe biden is holding a double-digit lead in a brand-ne poll. it's a similar story in five other pivotal states. should the trump campaign be worried? we will ask dana and she joins us live next. the governors of new york, new jersey, and connecticut warning people coming from coronavirus hotspots to stay away from thei landmarks and be in quarantine for to weeks. >> it's only for the simple reason that we worked hard to get the viral transmission rate down and we don't want to see i go up because a lot of people come into this region and they could literally bring the infection with them. the newday va streamline refi is the reason why.

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>> as the u.s. hits and all-tim high and new coronavirus cases, nearly 39,000 new cases were reported yesterday alone. some states are setting records of their own, new york, new jersey, and telling travelers who are experiencing these spikes to quarantine for to weeks. laura, good morning.

>> good morning, ed perry perry just in time for summer travel, these dramatic new increases in cases have led to dramatic new measures to help keep people safe as we've seen, the new restrictions going into place here in the northeast to starting at midnight. we are talking about 22 new states. in the last week, these 20 to states have seen a spike in new cases, 20 percent or higher. that's including california, arizona, florida, south carolina , and texas. yesterday health officials reported over 4300 new hospitalizations of covid patients. that as a record high for the 13 th straight day. the texas medical center, the largest medical complex in the state now reporting it's close to exceeding its normal i see you capacity. as the numbers continue to surg in southern and western states like arizona, healthcare worker there say they are becoming quickly overwhelmed the needmor test and are no longer able to

meet the testing demands in som areas. the nationwide spike prompting governors to announce that mandatory 14 day quarantine fro anyone visiting the eight hardest hit states. new york governor andrew cuomo says if you fly into his state, they will have your name, they will know where you are suppose to be staying, and there will b random checks. >> if you go to a hospital from out-of-state and you test positive and you've been within the 14 days, you violated the law coming or going to have a problem. >> anyone who violates this quarantine here in new york could face up to a $10,000 fine. little bit of good news for new york, for the first time since march 18, hospitalizations have gone below 1,000 and health officials here want to keep it that way. >> thank you. >> new battleground polls show joe biden leading president

trump in six new king key swing states. it shows the democratic challenger holding a double-digit lead in wisconsin, michigan, and pennsylvania. he is nine points ahead in nort carolina. let's bring in anchor of the daily briefing. dana, good morning parade we ar told that the motorcade as rolling from the white house onto the korean war memorial where we should see the first couple short time from now. we will watch for that. the key battleground states, jo biden pulling ahead, what do yo think about this? >> remember, the polls our snapshots in time, so the questions are done over a few days, and there is no doubt tha the trump campaign would be touting them if the numbers wer reversed. i don't think this causes republicans to be scared right now. i think they have some work to do, but democrats shouldn't get too overconfident. right now the to issues top of mind for voters are the

coronavirus response and racial strife. that doesn't necessarily mean that come november, those will be the too top issues, one of the things president trump should look too in this poll as if you want some comfort, when it comes to handling the economy , he still beats joe biden, and when it comes to dealing with china. by the time you get to november those to issues could be top of mind. >> i think that's an important point. to show where joe biden is leading in battleground states carried by president trump in 2016, just to give an overall snapshot of what this polling i revealing in there you have it. michigan, wisconsin, pennsylvania, florida, arizona, north carolina. that is where the concern would lie, but then you throw that to your point too your point of ho the president as pulling on his handling of the economy, and that is still a very strong point for president trump, and

improve 50 percent of those disapprove to those disapprove 45 percent. >> the other thing is, to keep in mind, it is very common when a president has a first term in the running for reelection, for the challenger to over perform in polls at this point in the summer. as you get closer to november, lot of people retreat to their partisan corners because the alternative doesn't feel as good . i will say this though, republicans are concerned about the senate races. if you look at that chart that you just showed, where biden is doing better, that senate candidates are doing better tha the republican candidates too. arizona is tight, north carolin tough, also big races that you are looking to in a couple of the other states like for example in michigan. a great republican candidate running against an incumbent that's not even that popular. the challenger as john james.

not able to really get a foothold in a state like michigan. president trump would love to win michigan again and he is focused on it. >> we are told the president should be arriving in short tim from now for the wreath laying ceremony. i want to ask you about the conventions because they are coming up and they might look a little different when it comes to the democrats. right in accepting the nomination at that the walkie convention. they're already saying that's going to look a little different . republicans plan to move full name ahead with their conventio in jacksonville. >> i think that everyone has accepted this is going to be a different year, we have a virus that we just showed, it is not abating although it's going through its course, and we have vaccination on the way. in the meantime we don't get to have sports like we normally have and the conventions will b different. i think that's okay. i'm excited to see what kind of creativity people can come up with. and if people aren't going there

, they can stay safer and they're not spreading the virus anymore. you've got the president, i'm assuming? >> s, i will see you at to p.m. now let's look alive at that president and the first lady arriving at the korean war memorial 70 years later. they will be participating in a wreath laying ceremony remembering those who served. >> it is important to commemorate the start of the wa as the president and first lady are doing here, but as you suggested earlier, there might be another point where the president wants to highlight this important memorial on the national mall in washington at time when he has brought in the national guard to help protect memorials, monuments just like this because of the violence that we have been seeing of people tearing down statues, tearing down memorials, the attempt of course to take down

president andrew jackson in lafayette park right by the white house. this is an important moment for the president and the first lady . >> the first lady and the president arriving there in washington to your point, ed, about this moment in time where we are seeing such a huge national debate discussion over more memorials, statues, monuments all over the country. the national guard deployed in some areas to protect the statues and hear the president is arriving 70 years later to remember those who served in th korean war. as he walks by, so many of thos monuments and statues there in washington. >> absolutely. it's a beautiful memorial. i've been their several times. it's a more recent memorial to the national mall just over the last several years and was a beautiful addition. you can see the president and first lady they're paying their respects to all of the lives lost in the korean war as they

now walk closer. it is very interesting to see them they are, having a moment to reflect, both looking down and pausing. >> the president and the first lady paying their respects ther at the korean war memorial in washington, dc. let's bring in retired four-sta general jack joining us right now. can if you can talk us through this moment as we see the

president and the first lady paying their respects. >> first of all, it's a very unique memorial come at the korean war memorial. as you saw the president walked walk by, there are 19 representations of soldiers there, 14 of them are army, three marine, one air force, an one navy. what they represent as an advanced party going to a base or a formation of other soldiers . there is 19, why 19? because there were made out of stainless steel 7 feet tall and they're reflected onto the wall and therefore there is 38 of them. in the architects mind, that is the 38 parallels where the war began and the war lasted for 38 months. ♪ ♪

>> general, you can pick up you thoughts, we wanted to pay our respect for it over 33,000 americans killed in the war zon as you mentioned in the korean war another 3,000 americans dying from various illnesses, noncombat causes. important memorable moment for the president and first lady to pay their respects. >> absolutely. he's the commander-in-chief, an honoring what has taken place and the sacrifice our soldiers made in previous wars as something this country has always done. i think it is a credit to the nation and a credit to the american people into credit to our leaders. even the fact that these beautiful monuments exist as a reflection of the will of the

american people through its representatives and leaders tha we don't want to forget. i think that is something this country has a right to be very proud of. you know, this war was very different, 16 countries participated in the actual fighting for a 20 to countries provided some degree of support. it was the first time we ever used helicopters, the first tim jet fighters were involved and it was the first time we ever had a segregated armed forces president truman integrated i'v been the first time we ever had a desegregated armed forces. president truman integrated the military in 1948 and it was during this war that it was accelerated and we began to break apart from segregated black units and white units and began to have an integration. of course that change the military forever. it is very poignant at this tim as we are discussing racial issues and social justice in this country, the united states

military began to lead in that effort in my judgment and has had a remarkable record of achievement in terms of racial integration in this country. >> general, we see this south korean defense zinsser along with the issue to a joint statement for this day, they commit to strengthening and adapting the alliance to meet present and future challenges and urge north korea to implement past disarmament pledges very talk little bit about those relationships today. >> it has always been a thought that there would be reunification. they japanese ran korea from 1905 until the war that we fought against japan, and then after that, half of korea was divided up, controlled by russi with joe stalin, and that was the northern part in the southern part was controlled by the united states. that became north and south

korea. obviously, the first leader of north korea, invaded the south with the permission of stalin, and we have been trying to get back to unified korea ever sinc the pharmacist was signed in 1953, there's never been a peac treaty, but with the recent efforts that the north korean overtures made a couple of year ago, there was a thought that possibly we were going to have some significant movement towards unification beginning with the denuclearization. what we truly have despite thos over tourers, we have right now stalemated negotiations. there hasn't been any real progress, other than the meetings that took place and th promise that there would be som progress, and that is all we have to write as a result of that the united states has imposed new sanctions on north korea and as of right now, ther

is tension between north and south which is what i think you've been referring to. the present as part of his ministration when he came in, h wanted to take tangible steps t reunification with the north an we haven't made much progress a all. >> we appreciate your insights as always, especially as we continue to watch the president and first lady at the korean wa veterans memorial they are in washington, dc. thank you so much for your insights. leading the effort for racial equality in the country since that moment of integration in 1948, we will continue to watch this. meanwhile we will talk about other stories as well. the occupy movement setting up camp in lower manhattan. what they are demanding from city officials. plus protesters also setting their sites now on the national anthem. why they are trying to get a ne song. look, this isn't my first rodeo...

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$1 billion. alex's life in new york city greatly keep the protesters camped here overnight and they say they will not leave until the mayor cuts $1 billion from the nypd $6 billion budget. they're also asking for some of that money to be allocated to different things like housing, children in social services. the gathering follows weeks of rallies for george floyd. as part of the occupy city hall movement, people gathered here last night, 100 of them slipped in front of city hall. organizers ate their staying pu until lawmakers meet their demand spirit. >> our they prepared to reduce their spending by at least $1 billion and reinvest that money into housing, healthcare, education, and social services. that's where we are. >> a budget vote is scheduled for the end of the month, and the violence in this city is rising. we're seeing the mayor saying the funding that will happen, but he didn't ask plane how muc

bread he noted the need for police protection after a spike in violence this month. >> this is a really troubling uptick in shootings in particular. obviously troubling numbers in terms of murder and other crucial crime categories. in looking at that shooting number because that is the one that has been particularly vastly increasing. we have got to get ahead of that . >> the nypd says shootings skyrocketed this month with 141 incidents per that is a number that hasn't been seen in decades . in the meantime, mainly peacefu protest, they are saying that they will stay here until they believe, but not until the budget is changed, every day until then they will have scheduled activities like yoga, reading, and real conversations about what they can do. >> live from new york city this morning. thank you. >> the start with confederate statues than it was on to other

historical figures now protesters are coming for the national anthem. one semi professional soccer teams as they will no longer play the anthem and instead pla this land as your land. the oversight chairman, congressman, good morning. >> how are you? >> i'm fantastic except i wonde why you think the national anthem may now fall prey to the cancel culture. >> what started as a legitimate conversation about inequities i our justice system has now morphed into it let's just change the entire country and change the entire culture. i don't know how much your viewers are familiar with that guthrie song, but some people think he was a communist sympathizer and everyone thinks he wrote that song because he didn't like god bless america. i promise you that song is goin to offend someone too, and pretty soon we're just going to be humming the theme to the young and the restless or find something that doesn't offend anyone.

that song i promise you will offend someone because it was written because he didn't like god bless america. >> you make an important point which is no matter what you pic you're going to have somebody that's not happy. here is an important point so w can get the facts on the table. why it might be time to replace the star-spangled banner with a new national anthem. if the star-spangled banner goes , historian and scholar daniel walker says there should be formal vetting process to make sure that next anthem does not have a terrible past, perhaps to your point, i want t put on the table that the beef of the issue that is out there is part of the lyrics were for the slaves not being able to escape, there have been critics saying that the star-spangled banner doesn't show enough diversity. you say? >> i think that is what the fourth or fifth first, and i would be shocked if anybody in you're listening audience was aware that that was one of the

stanzas in the song. be that as of may, i believe an purchase a borate democracy and if people want to change things more power to them. the star-spangled banner hasn't changed in the 55 years that i've been on earth, and up unti about 24 hours ago, i never heard anyone offended by it. if we're going to where were going to look at everything. think about this, ever federal federal building there is a picture of donald trump. half the country doesn't like that. five years ago there was a picture of barack obama and hal the country didn't like that. our we going to take down pictures we don't like? where does this stop. >> that is a question the president has asked before. we are not getting a clear answer because it keeps on goin great i think i found something you will be offended by. the latest documents in the michael flynn case. even on this from the start. we been wondering, how does thi start. it goes back to a meeting, you

have had a couple of rounds wit him before, he's talking about this oval office meeting back during the transition and basically former vice president joe biden according to this notes says logan act, the president these are unusual times, the vice president, i've been on the intel committee for five years and i have never com up make sure you lick the president says and have the right people on it. is there anything i should not tell the transition team? and then the ds and director we think being comey, but calls up your widget. then someone says happy new year . not such a happy new year for general flynn because you've go director comey saying it appear those calls that started this whole thing wert legit and that we have joe biden in that meeting saying maybe we should do something with the logan act. what is going on here? >> it let's be clear, i'm not necessarily going to take peter struck words, he said other things i don't believe. these notes i want people to read him, but because he wrote

it down doesn't mean it's true. having said that, let's assume that it is very jim comey not only said the calls were legit, when we asked them whether or not the agent thought that flyn was lying, he said no. so imagine flynn goes to trial come, the star defense witness as the head of the fbi. in a trial for lying to the fbi the star defense witness said m agents didn't think he was lying , by the way, the calls were legit. as for joe biden, i would be shocked if he knew what the logan act was, i would be shocked if he knew how many times it's been used in our country's history which i think is about zero. the broader point, other than your network, no one will cover the fact that a sitting vice president discussed criminal prosecution. no one will discuss it other than foxboro. >> meanwhile the investigation of michael flynn went on and on and on. maybe it's about to come to an end.

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>> major cities seen a spike in crime since the start of the coronavirus pandemic happening in places like new york city, las vegas, milwaukee, indianapolis, and others. as police across the country continue to face harsh criticism . since this pandemic began commencing a spike in the states . >> there has been a spike in crime all across-the-board, and you know a lot of that has to d with the pandemic as well, but also with the current climate w have going on in this country.

that, you know talks of trying to defund police, and the answe to dealing with racial injustic by police accountability in thi country. that takes us all getting together and talking about it and coming up with real solutions. as a peruvian american his father's immigrated here when h was a young adult, i know too well that racial injustices are in this country. again, it takes us all getting together, talking about it, coming up with real solutions and that's what the fraternal order of police does on a daily basis because we care about the communities that we serve. >> what are you seeing as far a morale with your police in that state? >> morale is definitely low. using the statistics, we have a 63 percent decline in officer applications from last year. it's going to get worse.

what this current message as a police accountability. it is these children's that are causing morale, if we can think about the good that law enforcement as in this country is still good. and talk about what real reform looks like, i can promise you that all of us would realize we have far more in common than we do dividing us. >> we appreciate your time this morning. coming on and talking about it. admin school district in the seattle public schools are now eliminating all law enforcement from their school to keep students feel safe. we will have you on to talk

about that we are out of time. >> thank you very much. >> we will be right back.

>> a missive dust storm is taking aim at america. we are live in l.a. with the details. >> it looks like something out of a movie, but it's real. a huge cloud of dust and sand and winds blew it over the atlantic. a second image shows that cloud moving 1,000 miles west over the caribbean. residents in puerto rico and cuba are seeing a dark, hazy sky that carries bacteria and those

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>> never a dull moment. always great to be with you sandra. >> sandra: you too, ed. that was thursday. tomorrow is friday. >> ed: yes. >> sandra: out numbered starts now. >> melissa: hundreds of national guard troops are on standby in the nation's capitol to protect historic monuments. after protestors tried to tear down an andrew jackson statue and they are told to guard monuments nationwide. yesterday protestors toppled two statues and attacked a state senate.