it ain't easy. carley: you will be someone's prince charming some day. rob: let's not say things that we know is untrue. it's a rough few months. jillian: all right. we got to go. have a good day, everyone. ♪ >> stop it quickly. at some point not in the not too distant future i will do it. we are going to go in there they are taking over our american cities. in all cases it's democrats. they are democrat-run in all cases. and joe biden would have that be the whole country. good morning it is friday june 26th, 2020. we start with a fox news alert. president trump threatening to take action himself if city leaders in certain localities do not stop protesters from vaneldizing defacing monuments and attacking police officers nationwide in our nation's capitol hundreds of national

guard troops are gearing up for more protests tonight, brian. brian: activists renewing plans to tear down emancipation memorial at lincoln park. that's going to happen tonight. i guess they postponed it. it was pretty well reinforced, i guess. i don't know what kind of conflicted they plan on having. you have somebody pushing this forward to go through the process moving it, which should never be done. but they actually have -- i don't know what's going to happen tonight at if you also factor in the monuments like mount rushmore people are pushing back on and pushing back on the star-spangled banner and see the fact that george washington and thomas jefferson and ulysses s. grant have been damaged this week case in portland george washington statue actually has been ripped down. here is some of the trump protesters. here is the president of the united states talking about some

of the protesters and what he has seen so far and the action he is taking. >> we have arrested, i think almost but it could be over the number, hundreds of people. we have arrested a lot of people for what they have done. they have created bedlam. they have destroyed very important things. you are also talking about statues of george washington, abraham lincoln. they would like to get jesus, you know that, right? they said we want to get jesus. sean: you had sean king the radical. >> nothing but trouble makers and agitators and anarchists. the thing they want is to destabilize our country. we won't let them. get tougher and tougher. some point retribution because there has to be. these people are vandals. they are agitators but they are really terrorists in a sense. brian: what's been happening i think most people find so disturbing and in opening up the phones on the radio you would think there is no pandemic, there is no economic collapse.

there is no election. this is the hottest topic by far that i have seen talking to everyday people that i have seen in this country. people so upset to the core of the founding fathers being taken down. look. the confederate statues are a conversation. nancy pelosi brought that up yesterday. but i'm stunned about the lack of republican lawmakers outside of mike lee, marco rubio, and tom cotton that have really stood up and said this is a problem stunned that almost no nancy pelosi brought it up yesterday only when asked that there is no joe biden taking a stand on this. this is an issue that people care about. steve: what it is, brian, there have been calls to take god off the money out of public square. now there is a call to get rid of the national anthem what is jarring to so many americans right now just the fact there is

so much lawlessness. these protests started after george floyd was killed and started peacefully but then they morphed into the looting and it seemed to average americans why isn't anybody stopping the looting and the vandalism and the destruction of private and public property? that's one of the things the president has been clear on there is the emancipation statue right there. the president says i'm a law and order guy. you can go ahead and do anything you want regarding your peaceful protest and right to assemble and freedom of speech but you cannot break stuff. one of the things the president said yesterday to sean is i can understand certain things being taken down. is he talking about statues. buff they ought to go through a process legally. and then we take it down in some cases, put them in museums or wherever they may go in other words the president is saying

can you go ahead and have a protest let's talk things out. let's not break laws otherwise you are going to get in big trouble as he made it very clear with the monuments act, ainsley, if you are caught destroying a certain monument, you could wind up in jail for 10 years. is that worth it? if you want to get rid of something, talk it out, figure out the process and then if enough people in your area say yeah, it's a good idea, you might wind up taking it down. ainsley: the guy who was on the andrew jackson at that time do you is going to be in big trouble. the president and nancy pelosi seem to adegree kind of on this issue basically saying let's don't do it in a dangerous way, in a dangerous fashion. and i had heard that a guy was hit by one of the statues. i looked it up this morning. there was a guy in portsmouth, virginia, and he is a nice looking african-american man with a beautiful wife. they have two kids. he was there peacefully protesting at the bottom of the statue, his back was turned to the statue and it toppled over and fell on his head. he had two flat lines, emergency

brain surgery. was in a coma. so everyone say a prayer for him. you might not agree with what they're doing, but we are all americans. we need to come together and like you said, steve, the president and nancy pelosi are saying let's have discussions about that. steve: just don't break the law and don't break stuff. ainsley: the president said i can understand the controversy but i also can understand the beauty in the one statue abe lincoln the emancipation statue the slave is getting up. and the slave is coming out of that to join -- for peace and for unity. he says i understand the beauty and the art of that but maybe we take them down and put them in a museum. let's just have the discussion. moving on, also breaking right now, the u.s. sets a new single day record for coronavirus cases. texas now pausing its reopening plan as the state sees a surge in cases and hospitalizations. brian: ashley astronomer joins you now at the cdc she says the deadly virus may have infected more americans than previously

reported, right, ashley? >> that's right, brian. more than 39,000 cases were reported in the u.s. on thursday. highest single day count in the entire pandemic. the grim milestone surpassing the previous record by 3,000 cases. the resurgence can be traced back to memorial day. that's when states lock down and reopening businesses. president trump says we are seeing a spike because of increased testing. >> we have more cases because we do the greatest testing. if we didn't do testing, we would have no cases. other countries they don't test millions. so up to almost 30 million tests. and when you do tests you have cases. what they don't say there are fewer deaths than there have been, way, way down. and/or mortality rate is among the best countries in the world. >> so far more than 2.4 million americans have tested positive for the coronavirus. but the cdc warns the outbreak may have infected way more americans than previously thought. cdc record robert redfield says

this virus causes so much asymptomatic infection we probably recognized about 10% of the outbreak. cases and hospitalizations surging so much in the south that texas has paused its reopening plan. then in new york governor andrew cuomo says inspectors will perform what's called random checks on out-of-state travelers to make sure they are following new self-quarantine orders. this as the white house coronavirus task force is set to hold a briefing today. that's the first one in nearly two months. steve: that's right. thank you very much, ashley. so, yesterday as she kind of touched on the texas hospitalizations hit the 14th record in a row down in florida governor desan tell us has no plans to move into the third and final phase because the numbers are going the wrong direction. the cdc added three new symptoms, congestion, runny nose, nauseousness, or diarrhea. those are brand new added to the list. there is so much we don't know.

when you look at the big number, it is jaw dropping. 125,000 americans have died so far. 125,000. joe biden, however, when he was out of the basement yesterday in lancaster, pennsylvania got that number really wrong. remember the correct number 125,000. >> people don't have anywhere to go. they don't know what they're going to do. a lot of people you have unnecessarily now we have over 120 million dead from covid. steve: okay. so he was way off. here is president trump last night talking to sean before the town hall about that gaffe. >> that's a serious error. when he says he is running for the u.s. senate. that's a serious error. when he says i'm going to beat joe biden when got very little coverage. that's not like an error g

that's a serious error. you told me that just happened. sean: yes, it did. >> that's not a permissible type of error. there is something going on. and we can't take that you know, it's wonderful to say gee, i feel sorry or it's too bad because i do. except we're talking about the presidency of the united states. and it's just not acceptable. ainsley: so trump's re-election campaign took that clip and they tweeted it out along with some of his past gafs. and they said joe biden is very confused. he's not playing with a full deck, folks. #barely there biden. the republican national committee steve guess wrote what is going on with joe biden. i do want to say that joe biden did realize his error and corrected himself immediately. brian: we will see. this is like training camp. until he actually gets out and about and gets in the game you don't know how effective he is going to be. so far in training camp he has not been strong. his best offense has been staying quiet. meanwhile, texas is pausing

their reopening. we have the number one hot spot is probably phoenix, they say. the most concerning city in texas happens to be houston right now. most of the people are young. the good news is deaths are down because we are getting better at treating it and most of the people that are getting it are young and dare i say vibrant and it's -- their odds are much better of them surviving. the other thing is pretty clear remedies veer seems to be pretty effective. now let's pivot and talk about the election so to speak. everyone knows so much focus is on black lives matter and racial justice. that is what the story was death of george floyd. bet founder robert johnson came out instead of black lives matter immediately or african-americans in america immediately siding with the democratic party as of late last few decades with the democratic

party maybe they should do something different. listen. >> if black matters want to go all the way, they will never get there in the democratic party bowers the democrat party is going to be concerned that if we go all the way where you want to be black americans, we will lose. so they will sacrifice. all you have to do is recall what vice president biden said. even if you think about voting for donald trump, you are not black. to have that mindset, you must have the attitude that we black americans, we own you. african-americans should have their own interest. and that's why i propose that an independent party formed by black lives matter should echo the founding principles of the original congressional black caucus members in 1971 who stated that the reason that they

were coming together as a party, even though they were all elected at democrats, as a group, they said black americans should have no permanent friend, no permanent enemy, just permanent interest. so, if you look at the permanent interest of black americans, i would say in many ways it diverges from the interest of the democratic party. brian: fascinating. i don't know if you can put him in the category as conservative or liberal. i think just put him in category as successful and wanting to help others although i have never met him. robert johnson makes a lot of sense. i have heard that for the longest time for these communities, whether hispanic, whether it's women, or whether it's black, make people earn your vote. and right now it's just so automatic they are being taken -- african-americans in particular seem to be danny taking advantage of or taking for granted. republicans have done a terrible

job including mr. black lives matter mitt romney trying to get the african-american vote. made it very easy for republicans to change things. they got to make a. connell: settered effort and not just on the election season because they seem to have a solid message to sell. steve: robert johnson's message should terrify every democratic leader. they have always counted on the african-american vote. it's been automatic. as he pointed out also in that particular interview with fox news digital he just reminded people of what joe biden has said on the breakfast club here in new york about a month ago. he said if you have a problem figuring out if you are for me or trump you ain't black. that's what joe biden said and then robert johnson is suggesting you know what? why isn't there another party? ainsley, it will be interesting to see if that gains any traction because certainly people are talking about politics right now and howe it all fits into everything. ainsley: well, people will probably listen.

he is respected leader in the black community he started bet. he is a smart man such a voice. but he is basically saying just because we are black don't expect us to vote for you if you are a democrat. and president trump has talked about how he lowered the unemployment numbers for the african-american community before this pandemic. he says he is going to bring back the economy the way he did before. and he also talks about school choice. your zip code should not determine where did you go to school. hand it over to jillian. jillian: a michigan police officer escapes unharmed after at least 24 gunshots are fired at his unmarked police car. the shooting happened early thursday morning. fox news just confirming details overnight. grand rapids police say several people opened fire and amazingly none of those bullets hit the officer. it's not clear if the gunman knew who they were shooting at. political science have not made any arrests.

also breaking overnight the trump administration urging the supreme court to overturn the affordable care act. the doj arguing that because congress eliminated the individual mandate the entire law should be struck down. house speaker nancy pelosi ripping the move as a, quote, act of unfathomable cruelty. joe biden also slamming the efforts. >> it's cruel, it's senelzless thensd crusade against health coverage i look forward tonging it for him. >> will hear arguments on the aca this fall. nascar releasing a picture of a rope shaped like a noose found in driver bubba wallace's garage. it second every garage in the 29 tracks it uses for races. the one at talladega was the only rope tied that way. >> what we saw was a symbol of hate and was only present in one area of the garage, that over the 43 car of bubba wallace.

as you can see from the photo the noose was real, as was our concern for bubba. carley: the company says it will install cameras and require sensitivity training. the fbi saying wallace was not the victim of a hate crime. this is adorable. a photo shoot gets unforgettable photo bomb. kristin tha mackenzie and her ks air force base in florida when a car pulls up and out comes their dad. simon mackenzie. squeezing his wife and three young kids with a special moment on camera. look at that mackenzie and kristin pulling off the perfect surprise for father's date. he was stationed in qatar and hasn't seen his family since january. ainsley: his kids are so beautiful. it hit in february precorona. brian: hold on to slide show that's pretty effective. steve: thanks, jillian.

brian brian new notes from peter strzok suggest president obama and biden weighed in on the flynn case in 2017 while james comey down played it. the revelations are jaw dropping, he's on deck.

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brian: notes suggesting former president obama and joe biden weighed in on the michael flynn case with the russian ambassador back in 2017 in the oval office. this as the handwritten note showed former fbi director jim comey, get this, down playing flynn's calls saying they quote appear legit with kislyak of

russia. could flynn sue over malicious prosecution and what else do we get from that conversation in those notes? here to discuss it former federal prosecutor, former u.s. attorney for utah brett tollman does michael flynn first have a legal case? >> well, he certainly does. i mean, that's why there is an action called a gibbons action. that is to go after a federal investigator that violates someone's constitutional rights. it's specific for that occasion and i hope is he looking at it strongly. >> what do you take from these notes that strzok produced first off on the comey comment, the conversations appear legit. >> you can tell, that's the biggest reason why now we know that so much was withheld from general flynn in the case these weren't turned over when the investigation went forward or the prosecution. so now they discover it and they see that the highest levels of the fbi, they indicate that the calls were legitimate.

that should concern everyone that they still, somehow, found a way to manipulate a case and bring it when they deemed his underlying action as being legitimate. brian: if comey thinks they are legitimate why would the investigation continue you? point to headquarters at the fbi. >> yeah. mccabe saves this case from being dismissed. why does he do it? because there is an absolute effort call it a collusion a conspiracy, whatever you want to say that now we goes as high as the vice president and the president to not only withhold information about the investigation to the incoming president but to go after incoming president through their incoming national security advisor on an investigation that did not have a foundation to it. that was why they withheld this. that's why they continue to prosecute him because they were doing what they could to try to prevent donald trump from

getting into the oval office. brian: bret, we also know the first person to bring up the logan act appears to be vice president joe biden. he can't duck this issue. number two is president obama. he wonders if he should keep intelligence from the incoming administration. and what are the two things we know he told president trump, president-elect trump when he was touring around the white house was north korea is going to be your number one problem and number two, essentially look out for michael flynn. he's trouble. why do you think he said that? >> think about that the vice president has now been caught in a lie, indicates he didn't know it, but he may have been the one to plant the seed in the logan act. then you have the president of the united states in a vital conversation with the incoming president who seems to be tipping his hand at the fact that something is going on with general flynn. does he want president trump to be concerned about him? is he trying to protect the fact that they have already launched an investigation? they are not going to tell him

about? it's concerning at that level. but it's concerning to me as a prosecutor that we would then see them utilize and manipulate fisa warrants, the steele dossier and everything that they did in their power to try to take down a sitting president. brian: former secretary john kerry saying don't he will impeached he won't be last four years. if he does he will be gone. unbelievable the undermining that took place. brett tolman thank you so much. >> thank you. brian: quits over the hand ling of police reform quits in the bronx, too as criminal justice system is imploding. darrin porcher says the mayor is failing the police while painting the street. among my patients i often see them have teeth

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steve: 6:30 in washington and a fox news alert. house passed curbing excessive force. that bill not expected to go much further. griff jenkins joins us live in washington, d.c. griff there is a road block across the hall in the senate and down the street at 1600. griff: that's right, steve. good morning. this was due from the start with the presidential veto guaranteed and senate majority mcconnell signaling he won't take it up. it wept down party lines 286 to 141 with three republicans crossing over. >> we have the make sure the death and so many others are not in vain. when we pass this bill, the senate will have a choice to honor george floyd wants life or to do nothing. >> three main reforms are banning chokeholds and no knock

warrants. eliminating qualified immunity that protects police officers from lawsuits. increases reporting and record keeping no of use of force: scott accuses democrats of playing partisan politics. >> the challenge came down to a simple thing, me. the republican party is not the party they want leading this debate. they believe that they have a chance of winning back the white house and therefore they will spending their time doing nothing until they win. >> steve, hot house democrats blocked a g.o.p. resolution put forth by florida rep glen steube opposing riots. steube tweeting this afterward saying the lesson proven that they value a partisan talking point over working together and speaking of defunding, here in d.c. where police are on high

alert, the d.c.'s council committee on judiciary voted than newly last night to cut the police budget by more than 15 million. the funds go to social programs and i have elm bar god copy of bill. i will tell you steve i was being tested late last night from a detective on the force he is upset because of the wings in this i have bill is that the police commission would establish include members of the black lives matter d.c. group which advocates openly to abolish the police that's a situation here, let's see what they do. across the studio we go to ainsley. ainsley: thank you, steve, police officers all across the country feel the heat from all the unrest including here in new york city one commander in the bronks quitting the force others department wants lack of guidance on reform efforts this as thely's police commissioner warns the criminal justice system is quote implodes in

response to a recent rise in time crime. here to react is dr. darrin porcher. good to see you. >> thanks for having me. i appreciate it. ainsley: you are welcome. what's your reaction. do you feel when you hear stories like this being a former nypd officer. >> it's horrific because i feel that the de blasio administration is putting citizens at risk when i say citizens i mean us as new yorkers. we need to have a more proactive component in law enforcement. one of the things that happened recently is we eradicated the anticrime those are the plain clothes units that operate in the precincts. we need to receive the crime we're experiencing epidemic in crime. however, the mayor is looking from the perspective of being a protester and not one that's looking to move for the the sentiment of public safety. ainsley: pretty scary when you live here and love the city so much. we don't want to go back to that onto the next topic mayor bill de blasio. president trump tweeted this out

was told that mayor de blasio wants to paint the fabled and beautiful fifth avenue right in front of trump tower and tiffany with a big yellow black lives matter sign. pigs in a blanket fry prl em like bacon referring to killing police is their chant: disgrace the values we cherish in new york city. any time he wants to set foot in the place that he claims his hometown he should be reminded black lives matter. your thoughts? >> well, i think for starters, if the mayor was so concerned about producing a black lives matter mueller, he should start in front of his own apartment or his own home, wherever he lives in brooklyn. we need to focus on the communities. what the communities need. when i specify what we need to focus on in connection with these communities. have you community boards never committee within the city of new york. that community board should vote on if they want the erection of

a black lives matter muller or not. i don't believe that that is something at this forefront of that community. therefore, as a result the mayor is using his personal engagement or i should say the negative relationship that he has between the president and holding those people in that community hostage as a result. we are losing money at precipitous rate in connection with the covid-19 pandemic. we don't have the funds to erect things such as a black lives matter mueller on fifth avenue. therefore, we need to look through the lens of you who can we take us to a better place? it's what the people want in that community and i don't believe that that is what the police -- excuse me, that's what that community is looking for as a result. ainsley: darrin, so good to see you. thanks for weighing in on these topics. >> thanks for having me. ainsley: you are welcome. president trump vandalizes our

country's. >> monuments. >> tougher and tougher. retribution because there has to be. ainsley: colonel michael waltz is on deck.

♪ ♪ brian: it took 8 years to build and 14 years later it was burned to the ground. it's been gutted to its studs. and now over 230 years old, it stands as one of the most powerful enduring homes in the world today. i'm talking about the white house. 1600 pennsylvania avenue. ♪ and, ladies and gentlemen, not only are we going to look back at its past, we're going to talk to its current resident, the president of the united states. that's a quick look at what's

going to be 10:00 and repeated at 1:00. do-to-go to the white house was fantastic. what made america great this en' sewed will debut at 10:00. i have been lucky enough to get to the white house a few times and so have you guys. i have never seen. so things that they were able to show us including the burn marks. steve: downstairs? brian: that still exist in right by the bowling alley from when it as burned to the ground in 1814. and the president of the united states talked about what it means to him historically to be in the oval office. ainsley: brian, as a quid we probably all went to washington and stood in front of white house and took a picture when you were able to do it. now, to actually walk those halls. brian: unbelievable. ainsley: isn't it? i still get chills. i have done it a few times. to know that so many presidents walked these halls before us. so many first ladies. and just to be a fly on the wall during those times congratulations.

brian: ever president put their mark makes it incredible. almost a museum and a museum. you have these dates 1814, 1902, 1952 and those are key moments in white house history. you had the west wing in 1902 burned to the ground, rebuilt in 1817, 1952 when truman walked n 1948 the place literally was falling apart took four years to rebuild. ainsley: madison pulled down one of the portraits of george washington his wife dolly. brian: don't give away the whole special. that's in it? i didn't know. sunday at 10:00. steve: fourth grade history that's all. 10:00 eastern right here on 10:00 eastern on sunday: president trump promising retribution for vandals who target our historical landmarks and break things. >> i stopped it the other night. every night we're going to get tougher and tougher. at some point there is going to

be retribution because there has to be. these people are vandals. they are agitators but they're really they are tears in a sense. steve: this as hundreds of national guard troops are in the d.c. area to protect the monuments as protesters renew plans to tear down the emancipation statue tonight. weighs supposed to be last night and now perhaps ainsley tonight in lincoln park. ainsley: florida's g.o.p. congressman and national guard colonel michael waltz joins us now. michael, what's your reaction to all of this monument talk? >> you know, in this case for the lincoln monument, the emancipation monument cancel culture has now just become ignorant culture. this is not a confederate statue. this was a celebration after the civil war of the emancipation proclamation. actually this statue in lincoln park was the national lincoln monument before the current lincoln monument was built. and it was what is so amazing about it is the money for it was

raised by freed black slaves by emancipated black citizens. the first $5 was dedicated by a woman from virginia, charlotte scott. it's the first $5 that she earned as a black woman. there was a massive parade led by the dean of howard university law school. frederick douglass gave the keynote speech. this was an incredible national event. and i don't see how in any way it's any way possible that this left wing group then gets to cancel out the wishes of the slaves that were freed back then and the slave that's depicted actually break the bonds. breaking the changes in the statue of slavery. and emerging as a free man and as a free american. the mob culture cannot just decide what it wants to destroy.

if we want to put a process in place? if we want to make these decisions as local communities, that's fine. but the president is absolutely right. there needs to be consequences for what they are doing. and, guys, if i can just say very quickly the d.c. guard is being deployed again on behalf of all of my brothers and sisters in the national guard, you know, they're still doing overseas deployments. they are being pulled from their families and from their jobs for covid for the social unrest and now continually for this because the mob decides it doesn't like something. it's ridiculous and sad. brian: michael, on top of that, they have to stand there they have no arms. they have no pepper spray. they stand there in camouflage. i feel bad for them because their hands are literally tied as they are asked to do something that is is-to-say the least sun scripted. handling a mob. i don't know how much that's a part of your training.

and they're supporting a police department that's now being defunded by the d.c. mayor. but, actually, handling crowds is part of our training. that was part of the debate that we were talking about earlier when there was ridiculous notion that the military was moving in and this aggressive fashion. it's part of it. but tesked, they have serious missions overseas. they are getting ready for hurricane season. you know, not dealing -- not dealing with people who just get to decide they randomly don't like something. and in this case something that was erected by slaves that were epans pated that gave of their own money, of their first earnings, they don't get to cancel that out. and take five members and do a little research before you start going after statues. steve: indeed. brian: they are going tonight. steve: michael, we thank you for your service and we thank you for joining us on this friday. ainsley: thank you.

brian: michael waltz almost single-handedly responsible for bringing the rnc to jacksonville. contact tracing apps being used to help track people with covid-19. kurt the cyberguy says there is a major flaw. he will explain. i've lost count of how many asthma attacks i've had. i've been on and off oral steroids to manage my asthma. does that sound normal to you? it's time for a nunormal with nucala. my nunormal: fewer asthma attacks. my nunormal: less oral steroids.

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jillian: good morning. back with quick headlines right now. a man is charged with shooting and killing a 7-year-old girl just hours after getting out of jail. police in north carolina say she shaquille francis fired a gun hitting norris in the head. he was released three hours earlier on unrelated charges. the little girl died at the hospital. francis is now charged with murder. texas lieutenant governor dan patrick calling out new york's governor for the massive amount of covid-19 deaths at nursing homes in the state. >> governor cuomo is probably the biggest fraud who holds that position in the country. he had about 6,000 people die in nursing homes. we have had less than 1,000. that's on top of other people who died in, no. he killed people in new york. i will say it clearly. jillian: his fiery response cuomo accused republicans of being in denial about covid-19. steve? steve: thanks, jillian. as more states start getting

back to work. officials now looking into smart phone technologies like contact tracing apps to help notify and isolate people who might have been exposed to other people with a virus. now, reports warning these apps are filled with bugs. don't really work out. and not ready for major rollouts. here to explain, kurt the cyberguy. kurt, you have the biggest companies in the cyber world. have you got apple, google behind. this and, yet, it does not work right. >> you know, those rivals came together, steve. good morning to you. we haven't really seen what the apple google relationship is going to do in terms of that technology. they have built the bedrock. >> foundation for that we are just waiting for app. tots come out on that platform. what we do know is that for example, in the european union right now of the people who have downloaded a covid tracking app., they are deleting them left and right. people are not using them. this entire technology could be

incredibly useful if 60% or greater of the population be it the state or the country is using this. it's going to make a big, big difference. the problem is if you build it, it does not mean in this case that they are going to come. because, when they download it, there are privacy concerns. the glitches you talked about. and the fact is right now there is no incentive. there is a why should i have this on my phone. what's the incentive? sure, it's the right thing to do. but there is really absent any other incentive that sort of gets everybody normally engaged in technology. steve: right. i was reading a couple days ago apparently something going around on the internet where people said did your phone just stop? that's because they were installing the contact tracing app. on it. turns out it was a t-mobile outage nationwide and that's what's happened. nonetheless, people are a little paranoid that the government is spying on them. if the government really wanted to know about where people are

regarding this, the truth of the matter is, our national security apparatus is tracking every cell phone. they know who has been near everybody else. >> all right. and your wireless carrier knows where you are regardless. what we do know about the apple google relationship children services surprised when they came out and did this. what we know is that it has the greatest level of privacy in terms of controlling your data. it's not going to reveal to everybody elsinore do they even noe who is testing positive or who came in contact with someone else. they built the technology so that the technology keeps your identity clean and no one else gets it but yet you are notified if you are around somebody who has been exposed and make suggestions such as to stay at home for the next couple of weeks. steve: let me just ask you 20 second answer, you are concerned about privacy. online privacy as we all are. would you install one? >> yes only because i'm a geek

and i'm curious how it would work. would i be compelled to use it is really the question i think you are asking and, again, be a sent an incentive. does it mean that corporate america needs to come up and show if i show up with an app. and show i'm looking clean,does that mean i get the expressed line to get into the grocery store without standing in line? i don't know. is it a tax rebate because i'm complying? something needs to happen? someone needs to get more clever with them. steve: let's see if that happens. kurt, thank you for joining us from l.a. straight ahead on this friday. pete, senator lawrenc lindsey gd lawrence judge and look judge jeanine is in the house. gives us the dual action effect that really takes care of both our teeth sensitivity as well as our gum issues. there's no question it's something that i would recommend. because the tempur-breeze° transfers heat

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emancipation memorial in lincoln park. supposed to be last night. and ainsley the park service put up a big metal fence around it last night so nothing happened. but they have vowed they could be back tonight. the big question now is whether or not they will try to tear it down or if they will try to have it taken down peacefully. ainsley: yes. time for us to have these conversations but we are all going to be okay. happy friday to everyone. i'm ainsley and brian and steve and we are so glad you are waking up with us. good morning to you. also breaking house lawmakers passing sweeping police reform legislation aimed at curbing excessive force. but that bill not expected to go much further. mark meredith joins us live from the white house with what happens next. mark? >> ainsley, good morning to you. house lawmakers passed their own version of police and criminal justice reform on thursday; however, as you mentioned, it's unclear whether or not this legislation will really make it further up in the upper chamber. the bill does a number of things and essentially bans chokeholds and no knock warrants in drug

cases. also eliminates qualified immunity that protects officers from lawsuits and increases reporting and record keeping of police use of force. >> we have the opportunity and the obligation to ensure that his death and the deaths of so many others are not in vain. when we pass this bill, the senate will have a choice to honor george floyd's life or to do nothing. >> three house republicans supported this legislation but the vote otherwise was down party lines. one texas congressman prior to the vote encouraged congress to work harder on one single bipartisan bill. >> to sit around the table and figure it out. instead of litigating this in the press, taking shots across the capitol dome. senator scott is a good man offering a good bill. >> senator tim scott, the author of the republican senate plan says is he frustrated that democrats put politics ahead of our country, real police reform

is needed they didn't even want to give it a shot. americans must know that we hear them and that we must do the right thing. and while the white house has signaled that it's open to the bill being created by senator scott and others in the senate, the house legislation is expected to be a nonstarter for president trump. steve, ainsley and brian, back to you guys. brian: one of the things in the house bill -- mark, thanks so much. is immunity. they would erase it from cops. you will not have any police officers if they could get sued because some citizen doesn't like the way they act. let's bring in pete hegseth now from fox and friends weekend. getting set to host 8 hours over the weekend. pete, good to see you. >> good to see you. welcome back to the studio, too. it's always great to see you. brian: you will be here over the weekend. american crusade still out excellent book. when you talk about american red, white and blue and see the destruction of our mums, our past and our history. so people don't think people are getting away with it, ag barr sat down actually on the senator cruz podcast and said.

this. >> we have had scores of indictments already for such things as arson, destruction of federal property, things like that. right now about 500 investigations underway. so it's picking up pace. and we are committed to holding accountable the people who engaged in this. we still have to try to stop it before it happens. and that's where the burden is right now on state and local and many places. they are not stepping up to the plate. they are not doing their job. brian: they are not. they are sitting bank. the summer of love in seattle stands out. what's your take? are you heartened by the fact that there is some justice being -- there is some investigations out there? >> of course. i want to be heartened by that i believe a.g. barr -- i mean we know he believes in justice. these people should be held accountable. 500, of course, seems like a small number considering the amount of attacks and riots and arson incidents we have seen across the country. but that's where the real moment

is the moment when the offense is being committed and the person there when the offense is being committed is that local police officer who feels entirely abandoned by their political leadership. if they act, if they act too harshly, too quickly, they are the ones who will be punished. not the ones setting a wendy's on fire or destroying a hardware store or taking over a police precinct in minneapolis it is the standing down of the police department that create these situations we understand why they are doing sick-outs and walk outs and people are retiring early. they are in an impossible situation. president trump recognizes that you can't have law and order unless those people are empowered. so it's good that a.g. barr is doing. this i liken it to my kids who are asleep upstairs right now, probably not asleep and awake. if they do something wrong, and it's clearly wrong, and instead of punishing them at that moment and throwing the book at them and saying setting an example and saying here you go, you are

in jail pending a court hearing because you set something on fire, i'm going to wait two months and then we will get the federal investigation going and then you are going to be, it's just not as useful as the point of impact. and so we're behind the curve already. but it's good to see that they're doing it. steve: you know, pete, that's why so many people were frustrated when they saw the looting and violence and they saw the trouble and it didn't seem like anybody was stopping them. and, you know, were they being prosecuted at a local level? not here in new york. so many people were released. it took the feds to actually do something. meanwhile, let's talk a little bit about this. it was just a matter of time there san op-ed in yahoo news that says there is the headline why it might be time to finally replace the star-spangled banner with the new national anthem. one of the quotes in it is in an increasingly anti-racist era when problematic iconic -- i can't say that word. iconic.

ainsley: iconography. steve: that is a hard word to say ranging from aunt gentleman my that to uncle ben to even the dukes of hazard general lee car and country band lady antebellum's name being reassessed revised or or retired america's national anthem star-spangled banner seems to be striking a wrong note. a note this morning that apparently the dixie chicks are going to drop dixie from their name as well. does this surprise you that people are now talking about maybe it's time to change the national anthem because of the -- its historical references? >> of course not. what they want to get rid of is the united states of america. and i don't say that lightly. in fact, you know what they want to replace it with a couple of these professors replace it with john lennon's imagine. the globalist, socialist anthem that imagined the future with no country, with no religion. so, what they want is to reject

america completely. the national anthem is a logical extension of their thinking. if they're already talking about the washington monument and jackson statues and jefferson statues and lincoln statues, union soldier statues of course they want to go at the flag and the anthem. kneeling -- the kneeling episode we had a couple years ago was a preview of you who they feel. they claimed, right? they claimed it wasn't about the anthem or the flag at all. maybe it wasn't. initially for a few people who kneeled. maybe it was about police brutality. but ultimately the end state of the logic of the left that comes together on this is america is a racist place. our founding is 1619, not 1776. they inject it into our curriculum. it's very, very intentional. the worst ideas in the world are laundered in the ivy league, in the ivory towers and then pushed into curriculum for graduate students and then into our colleges and high schools and junior highs and all of it is

america is defined by her sins. therefore, we must tear her down. so francis scott key is standing outside of fort mchenry war of 1812. he says he sees our star-spangled banner is still there. that is unacceptable to them because the brits were slave owners and founders still slave owners civil war hadn't happened yet. all of that is the way they see america. you can't negotiate with this view. you have to mobilize enough people on november 3rd to believe america is still good. then you have to go back into the schools intentionally. wrote a whole book about it. made the case while not perfect is the best country on earth because we follow principles that empower individuals. steve: you wrote a book about iconography? brian: i can't say it either. not in the book. ainsley: make a statement make sure words like that. everyone in the press is going to be reciting it. let me ask you a question about

last night watching town hall president. i hadn't thought about this in-depth. you and i moved from new york city from rural areas. and everyone told us i'm sure they told you this, too. that that rudy giuliani really transformed the city. changed it, cleaned it up. changed the red light district over here and now tourists walk through times square all the time and feel safe. growing up that was not the case. i remember my parents talking about new york was so dangerous. you look at our crime is going up here. you look at the crime in chicago. you had 104 shootings last weekend alone. 12 were kids. 14 died. so you hear about these numbers. and the president last night said this is happening where you have democratic leadership. where they are allowing all this mayhem. all these chop zones. liting on streets and not doing anything about it. what are your thoughts about that? he said if biden wins, he is going to have all those progressives making him do that and allow these cities to do that. i start thinking about our country.

the president said our country is worth -- chicago looks worse than afghanistan. it's like living in hell. then he mentioned detroit, oakland and baltimore. pete: he is not wrong. listen, one of the biggest lies -- the left uses big lies. one of the biggest lies they are telling us is that american society is infected with systemic racism. we are all secretly racist. everyone harbors racist feelings. if you look at democrat controlled cities many of them have black mayors, black police chiefs black governors, black attorney generals who have wonderfully been elected by the people who fix those very places. if those places are systemically racist then are their leaders perpetuating that? are they not able to fix it? why is that every one of these hot spots is run by democrats who are effectively capitulating to steve. capitulating to black lives matter. anarchists and arsonists who are burning down buildings and they are not doing anything about it. when you are complicit with it and can't confront it, of course

it gets worse. so, the problem is there is only so much the president can do at the federal level. brian: pete. i went ahead and booked your show over the weekend among the guest, congressman adam contentioninger has said, don peebles has said yet. president obama and former. retired staff sergeant david bellavia will be with you is that all right? pete: who said no. a lot of getzs say no too. brian: among the guest who said no. bill clinton has said no for now. president barack obama will not be on the show twheeblegd. pete: got it. brian: can i make a suggestion? could you get some american flags behind you? it looks too plain. steve: put it in front of him. brian is wearing a flag tie. pete: looking good, brian. looking good. brian: looking quite tan, lots of gel. pete: always for you. ainsley: you look great, pete.

brian: wonderful looking man. steve: tall drink. [laughter] steve: okay. more icon -- [laughter] jillian: iconography? is that right? okay. hopefully that word is not in my script right now. let's start off with this. investigation reopened in the death of an unarmed black man in colorado. the governor appointing the state's attorney general to review elijah mcclain's death amid national outcry. he died in police custody last year. the incident caught on police body camera. >> stop right there. stop right there. stop. stop. stop. i have a right to stop you because you are being suspicious. turn around. >> officers used a chokehold on mcclain as paramedics injected him with a powerful sedative. coroners ruled his death was due town determined causes.

mccain's mother says her son was just walking home. she claims officers murdered him. overnight the trump administration urging the supreme court to overturn the affordable care act. the doj arguing because congress individual mandate the entire law should be struck down. house speaker nancy pelosi ripping the move as a, quote, act of unfathomable cruelty. joe biden also slamming the efforts. >> it's cruel, it's heartless, it's callus. donald trump refuses to end his senseless crusade against health coverage. i look forward to ending it for him. jillian: the supreme court will hear arguments on the aca this fall. video jane says it will not oppose roger requests to delay start date. president trump's former advisor is set to report to prison on tuesday. according to a court filing by federal prosecutors, they will consider his request to push it back to september 3rd because of the department's covid-19

policies. however, the judge overseeing the case says prosecutors did not provide her with a copy of that policy. a father breaks down after his daughter givers him the ability to see color for the first time. >> there is a special glasses. >> you serious? >> yeah. >> look at this. he was born color blind and couldn't afford corrective glasses. his daughter gave him a pair for father's day. leading to this priceless moment. oh, his reaction viewed more than 7 million times online. wow. so incredible. send it back to you. brian: i don't know glasses like that existed. ainsley: they are really expensive. steve: can you imagine. jillian: where have you been in. brian: down here. ainsley: that's so sweet. steve: talk a little bit about 2020 the campaign. ainsley: speaking of glasses. steve: discuss healthcare being slammed for this major gaffe. >> a lot of people.

you have unnecessarily now we have over 120 million dead from covid. >> lawrence jones here with reaction to joe coming up. i got an oriole here.

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>> people don't have anywhere to go. they don't know what they are going to do. a lot of people you have unnecessarily now we have over 120 million dead from covid. >> that's a serious error. it's wonderful to say gee i feel sorry or it's too bad because i do. except we are talking about the presidency of the united states. steve: president trump yesterday calling out rival joe biden for drastically inflating the number of covid-19 deaths during his campaign to the campaign trail in pennsylvania. here with reaction fox news fox

nation host lawrence jones. lawrence, so, joe left the basement yesterday. he was out in lancaster, pennsylvania and he said 120 million people have died from covid. here in the united states, it's about 125,000. he was way off. and the trump campaign put out twitter, i believe, where he said, you know, why isn't this being covered by the mainstream media? if trump had said it would be gigantic news. >> yeah. and i think people so often compare the two because the president has exaggeration problem as a part of his performance but i don't think what people understand is that joe biden is not meaning to say these things. i mean, there is obviously this disconnect from the old joe biden where he was known as the best retail politician to now. and, you know, ask someone who

someone on the campaign trail covering both candidates before this pandemic, joe's camp try to keep him away from the people. he likes it, he loves the media. he likes talking with people. but they understand how damaging he can be when he starts going on these tangents and he really doesn't -- he is not really trying to say this stuff. and i think internally although they won't go in there and say to the press my sources they are really concerned about joe when it comes to getting in front of the debate stage or any big crowd because they never know if he is going to be able to stay on track. we saw that during numerous amount of debates. steve: yeah. you know, numbers are tough. i remember joe biden once said 150 million people died from gun violence in the united states since 2007. he was talking about bernie sanders and gun manufacturer's liability. numbers are tricky. but, nonetheless, regardless of

that, lawrence, when you look at the brand new fox news poll joe biden seems to be doing just fine. he is ahead of the president in some key battleground areas. >> look, i typically don't pay attention to the polls because we are in unprecedented times. i think what matters is the day of election. i think because so many polls were wrong in the last election, i don't think there is a lot of people that have a lot of support of the polls. also, have you got to remember that there is this trump voter that does not want to be polled they will not tell you they will vote for him because of that negative stigma. when joe biden is forced to come out of basement, he have to go toe to toe with the president. that's going to be a big indicator on how people are going to turn out the vote on how they perform one-on-one on that debate stage. i would be a little patient on looking at these polls.

>> i think you make a really good point. and you know the uncertainty regarding president trump's poll numbers back when he was just businessman, running for president four years ago. the number did not actually sync up with the way it lined up. given the dynamic of race questions and all of that if i reveal i'm a trump supporter. whether it's people i talk to down the street or if it's the person who calls me up and asks me 15 questions, people are keeping the cards a little closer to the vest this time. >> yeah. like i said, there is a negative stigma when it comes to voting for trump. especially when it comes to race relations and so a lot of people don't want their voice to be heard on that and they would prefer, look, they disagree, a lot of people with his tone and tenor. from a policy standpoint he has been what's best for them. they are keeping their vote

close to their chest. and they don't want to let the world some know that and then you have the people that are within his base that want the entire world to know they're trump supporters. the thing is joe biden has a similar problem as well because, you know, you have these people that are saying they support him. those progressive voters don't want the party criticizing them for not voting for them and they are still on the fence. steve: sure. when it comes to joe biden and gaffes. it was about a month or so ago he was on the breakfast club here in new york city i said famously if you have a problem figuring out if you are for me or trump then you ain't black. the founder of bet robert johnson says he is weary of joe biden just thinking okay, the vote for me will be automatic by the black community. robert johnson said this about maybe there should be a third party. listen. >> i propose that an independent

party formed by black lives matter should echo the founding prince tell pells of the original congressional black caucus members because the democrat party is going to be concerned that if we go all the way where you want to be black americans, we may lose. so they will sacrifice your interest. steve: what do you think about that? >> it's interesting. i'm a third party guy because i'm a libertarian. what robert johnson is saying he wants the democrat and the republican party to be held accountable. of course the democrats get the bulk of black america's support. but they rarely deliver. and so i think he is putting the pressure on both parties. look, i keep saying that there is a real opportunity for republicans to win the black vote if they show up and present a counter proposal to what the democrats are presenting. right now, it's more of they are being forced to vote for the democratic party because no one else is there but the democrats. and i think what robert johnson

is saying, look, it's open for anybody if you are willing to put in the work. i think that third party option forces both parties to get involved for the black vote. steve: all right. let's see what happens. lawrence jones, thank you very much. have a good weekend. >> thanks, steve. steve: you bet. meanwhile, 7:27 here in new york. regions of new york state will soon interface for a reopening and while many businesses will be back, gymnasiums, gyms, clubs like that closed. one gym owner says he is fit to be reopened now. he explains next. ♪

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ainsley: back with a fox news alert. the united states sets a new single day record for coronavirus cases texas pausing reopening plan as the state sees a surge in cases and hospitalizations. ashley strohmier joins us live as the cdc says the deadly virus might have infected more americans than previously reported. ashley? >> ainsley good morning. more cases were reported on thursday. the highest single day count than the entire pandemic. grim milestone surpassing the previous record by more than 3,000 cases. some health experts say the resurgence can be traced back to memorial day. that's when many states started loosening up lockdowns and started reopening businesses. president trump says we are seeing a spike because of increased testing. listen. >> we have more cases because we do the greatest testing. if we didn't do testing, we would have no cases.

other countries they don't test millions. so up to almost 30 million tests. when you do tests have you cases. what they don't say is there are fewer deaths than there have been. way, way down. and our mortality rate is among the best countries in the world. more than 2.4 million americans have tested positive for the coronavirus. the cdc says the outbreak may have infected many more americans than previously thought. robert redfield says this causes so much asymptomatic infection we probably recognized about 10 pierce of the outbreak. cases and hospitalizations surging so much in the south that texas has pawfs the its reopening plan. and then in new york, governor andrew cuomo says inspectors will perform random checks on out-of-state travelers to ensure they are following new self-quarantine orders. this arrests the white house coronavirus task force is set to hold a briefing today that's the first one in nearly two months. ainsley: all right. thank you, ashley. let's hand it over to brian.

brian: right. and the vice president will be running that meanwhile today regions across the set phase four of reopening. most owners will be back in business and various businesses gyms will still be forced to remain closed. they are not even on the phase list. how is that going to impact some of the 2,000 businesses that call themselves fitness centers throughout the state? here with more on this story crunch fitness franchise owner a there is 3,000 fitness centers in new york. 38 states say gyms are okay. why has new york now put you on thnot put you onthe phase list? >> there is no evidence that opening gyms is riskier than opening any other retail establishment. in fact, the university of oslo just put out an amazing study that they concluded working out in a fitness facility does not increase the spread of covid-19 even if there is intense

training taking place. so we feel not being included in the phase is a mistake we want rectified. brian: not only a mistake, i can't imagine being a franchise owner, pouring my heart into a business with small margins and then told i'm out of business for five months. and then you are out of business with no light at the end of the tunnel. has anyone had -- told you what the future looks like? >> no. the future sun clear, which certainly makes the business aspect of this a real challenge. and, of course, if this was just economic we wouldn't be leading the charge the way we are. we feel strongly that we can open up safely. if we can open up safely as the governor has been very successful in his faced approach, we are just asked that we are included in the phases. we are confident we can do this safely. we have a clean and sanitized environment. many gyms are opening up

successfully upholding the enhanced safety procedures they have in place. if we didn't feel it was safe we would be asking for relief from our rent. we want to do this safely. brian: you want to pay your rent. there is no rent relief. and there is no light at the end of the tunnel to open to earn the way to pay your rent. banksly you can go twist in the wind even though health and fitness is almost the best way to fight this virus. >> i agree. yeah, the cdc lists obesity as one of the main risk factors to serious complications from covid-19. we think as members of the health and fitness industry we are part of the solution not part of the problem. we think exercise is medicine and the reason we are so strongly asking to be considered in phases very cognizant we can be the safest. i have think actually our facilities themselves and operations really lend themselves to the distancing protocols and all the measures that and the guidance that we're getting from the governor. we have the size and spacing to

alternate treadmills to have directional signage everywhere. to have the cleaning and sanitizing stations everywhere. utilizing different exits. we are ready to do this safely. we have members, not clients or customers. we can control our environment much better and if someone is not going with our enhanced safety procedures we can deactivate their membership. it's a very controlled and safe environment and we know we can open up safely and we are ready to do so. brian: it's free market. if you don't, members won't go. so all you are asking for is a chance to survive. and right now new york state sells basically the hell with you and they better come to the table and give you a shot at saving your -- you have three franchises. saving your franchises. i know you are speaking for -- >> they didn't think about us. i'm saying think about it us because we have done a lot of work and thinking. we should be a part of the phased openings. brian: that's not a good excuse but i appreciate you giving them

an out. assof best of luck with your franchises and all the other thousands. >> thanks so much. thank you for having me. brian: president trump criminal justice reform saying the previous administration didn't even attempt it. >> the biggest thing criminal justice reform. obama and biden never even tried it. and that was something so important for the black community. they came to me. brian: can you help lawmakers reach an agreement on police reform? deputy assistant to the president jaaron mitt will be with us live. itching for a treat.

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>> especially minorities and especially black and hispanic. it's so unfair. and i said why wasn't this done before? now, obama didn't try. if he did, he would make it up and say we did try. he didn't get it done. i got it done. people said you wouldn't be able to get it done. i got it done. with the help of some very good republicans. steve: and some democrats as well. let's bring in ja'ron smith deputy to the president and director of the office of american innovation. as can you see he is down in washington. ja'ron, good morning to you. >> good morning. how are you? steve: doing okay. the president was talking about criminal justice reform which passed congress a while back. yesterday the house passed their george floyd criminal justice police reform bill. after the senate was unable to even get past the 60 vote rule and now we hear the president is going to veto the house bill if

it winds up on his desk. this has become a political issue. an election year issue. people wanted stuff done, and now it looks like washington is dysfunctional and not being able to pass something. >> that's exactly right. you know, originally, when the house started negotiating on the bill, the way this usually works is they work in a bipartisan manner. that's how the first step act got done. we had a bipartisan advocates and we were able to get a bipartisan process. the same thing in the senate. there was ample opportunity to really consider the bill, have some bipartisan amendments and get something that we can get the whole country behind. but, instead. the democrats have chosen to play politics. that's their whole intent. they never wanted to get something done. that's unfortunate and i think the american people deserve a lot better than what they gave us. ainsley: okay. so president trump says that violence and democrat one cities like chicago and baltimore is like living in hell. listen to him at the town hall last night and then we will get your reaction on the other side.

>> chicago is an example. it's like worse than afghanistan. we have cities that are worse. in some cases far worse. take a look at detroit. take a look at what's happening in oakland. take a look at what's happening in baltimore and everybody gets upsit when i say it. they say oh, is that a racist statement? it's not a racist. frankly black people come up to me and say thank you thank you sir for saying it. these cities it's like living in hell. last week and i think two weeks before that, they shot 14 and 18 people killed and 68 people in chicago. ainsley: so he says get used to it if you vote for biden. what do you say? >> i say that the president is exactly right. we need to go into some of these localities and fix it. there is no reason why a place like chicago has had more deaths since 9/11 than afghanistan. these numbers are just -- we

can't live this way in society. and i have lived in some of these communities and people want opportunity. people want change. what the president is trying to usher in here is a four prong strategy that includes access to healthcare. access to capital. jobs. and safe communities. and that should be the american way. for any community around the country. brian: ja'ron, how do we split the difference. after george floyd was killed. we want to talk about making us as a country moving forward on race relations. that lasted a couple of days. then we are talking about anarchy. we are talking about pulling down monuments. how can would he be -- talk law and order, which i think most people are behind at the same time try to make progress on race relations. have you talked about that in the oval office? have you talked about that with the president? >> right. well, i mean, look, instead of people setting fires to the city, they should fire some of their elected officials who aren't being accountable to them. and we are going to hold them accountable because we are going to show up whether they like it or not because the people want

it. you mentioned chicago. you mentioned baltimore. we have had advocates on the ground who has reached out to us directly. they want to do the work. church leaders, law enforcement officials. what the people want to get the help in the partnership we are going to do what it takes to try to get solutions and the police executive order that the president signside a great first step to do it. steve: we know you have a very busy friday. ja'ron smith, thank you for joining us live today. thank you, mr. smith. >> thank you very much. steve: 12 and a half minutes before the top of the hour and jillian joins us with news from new york. jillian: a refuses to seed. he says the election was plagued by quote intentional black voter suppression because many people were denied a fair chance to vote in predominantly black neighborhoods. blake tweeting in part saying quote with these examples of voter suppression, intimidation, delays and with 43,000 absentee ballots uncounted, i will not

concede. heroic actions caught on camera, watch, as new jersey police officers save a 4-year-old boy from a burning apartment building. they caught him as he jumped out of a second story window before rescuing a 56-year-old woman. the police chief says he couldn't be prouder of the officers. a fox news alert now. you are taking a live look at the international space station where two astronauts are holding a space walk. chris cassidy and bob banken replacing old batteries as part of a power outgrade that began in 2017. it's expected to last up to seven hours. banken arrived at the iss in may as part of the historic spacex launch. send it back to you. steve: cool. ains thans is cool. thank you, jillian. hand it over to janis who has your weekend forecast. good morning, j.d. january january have you seen all the headlines about the saharan dust? i will talk about the severe

weather in a second. it's making its way across the gulf of mexico. it's been making headlines because it has been quite impressive. one of the biggest and most impressive saharan dust clouds that we have seen in decades. so this is san juan, puerto rico. poor air quality is one of the features, unfortunately with this. respiratory problems. the good news is with the saharan dust moving its way into the gulf of mexico is that it is going to suppress tropical activity and give us some of the most beautiful sun sets and sunrises because of the dust kind of lending a hand in the beautiful colors and the hues of the sunrises and sun sets. and real quick, i just want to make mention of we have severe weather today across portions of the great lakes and northern plains, hail, damaging winds and isolated tornadoes. saharan dust lessen and risk for severe storms certainly throughout the day today. steve, ainsley, brian, back to you.

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>> as america starts getting back to work many states reporting new increases in the covid-19 cases. the rise throwing off plans in texas where the governor is putting a temporary pause on the new reopenings to help curb the spread. here to react is fox news medical contributor dr. janette nesheiwat. good morning, dr. nesheiwat. good to see you. >> good to see you too, ainsley. good morning. ainsley: what's the reason? my friends down in south carolina. some are saying because all of y'all are coming down for vacation. we saw the uptick in march and people were leaving then. what's the reason for texas and i think arizona and florida, south carolina? >> yeah, yeah. you are right, ainsley. the numbers are staggering. and now we know that every one person that tests positive for covid, there are 10 undiagnosed patients. so it's really a great challenge to try to manage the transmission of this virus and to try to protect our most vulnerable population. everyone in the high risk groups plus try to reopen at the same time. that's what we have to take a contingency plan and take a step

back and some of the governors, for example, in the state of texas pausin pausing reopening. and this is because bars, restaurants, they are not meeting those limited capacity guidelines. you know, young people are throwing parties and we see these crowds in clusters where they easily transmit the virus from one person to another. on top of that you know, they're not wearing their masks. they are not practicing physical distancing. i know we heard it a million times but that's the best defense we have right now to prevent the spread from one person to another until we get a vaccine on the market. ainsley: do you think it's because of all the new testing? >> yeah. yeah. i think that definitely plays a role in the number of cases. but, also, the mobility, the increased traffic. young people are going back to work and they are in the service industry where they have more person-to-person interaction. they are more socially and economically active. that plays a role. but we also have you know, the other part of our population that is adhering to the guidelines. so that's why we are seeing an increase in the numbers.

we are not so far seeing increase in the number of deaths. that's a good thing. definitely seeing increase in the number of hospitalizations. yes, testing does play a role, but there is actually a true surge in this disease because of person-to-person transmission from not following cdc guidelines and opening up too soon. i don't know if you saw what they were doing in chicago social distancing ambassadors and continuing to do to do surveillance contact tracing and quarantine which i think is a good idea. we need to continue all of that. ainsley: thanks so much for staying with us. i'm glad you stayed healthy through all of this. have a wonderful weekend. >> thanks, you too. ainsley: we geraldo rivera, general jack keane, judge jeanine pirro and senator lindsey graham. stay with us. . okay, okay. i'm going. i'm gone.

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ainsley: let's bring in geraldo rivera, correspondent at large to get his reaction. geraldo, before you talk, hey, good morning. hope you're doing well. all right, let me play a sound bite from sean and the president last night on the rally about what will happen if you are one of these people defacing the monuments. listen to this. >> first of all, we have arrested i think almost but it could be over the number hundreds of people, we have arrested a lot of people for what they've done. they've created bedlam. they've destroyed very important things. nothing to do with any particular vent other than trouble makers, agitators and anarchists, the big thing they want is destabilize our country and we don't let them. we will get tougher and tougher and at some point they'll be retribution because there has to be. these people are vandals, agitators, but they are terrorists in a sense. ainsley: do you agree, geraldo?

>> geraldo: i don't think they want to undermine the republic so much but get off their jollies being destructive and ignorance, they are tearing down or defacing statutes of abraham lincoln, president who freed the slaves, one of the great presidents, if not one of the greatest ever. grant, defeated the confederacy, became reformist president who helped in the, you know, in the reconstruction, the integration to the extent it happened in those days of african americans following the civil war and

megan in madison wisconsin, antislave activist, man who is a colonel in the union army and died in the battle of chicamunga fighting for the union against the confederacy. what's the logic? are they just having the orgie after they were pinned up. now they are destroying everything inside. it certainly seems i logical to say the least. brian: the attack on the monuments is something the president feels to its core and law and order message feels to the core because he expressed that the george floyd and his death can't be explained and things should change when it comes to police. look at executive order, however, when the president wants to handle the coronavirus, so far the american public only

has 40% approve of what he's doing. if you read the wall street journal editorial today when he aspires for reelection, he doesn't really have a message for the next 4 years. do you believe he has to address both of those things? >> geraldo: brian, in terms of the president and his message he is haunted by this virus and now the virus showing surprising resilience, people still frightened. i spoke with, you know, my daughter-in-law had a birthday, 41 year's old living in california, afraid to go down the mountain. everybody around them wearing masks, the society has been affected in a negative way, california, texas. brian: seniors especially and seniors he needs. they are not being tended to. >> geraldo: i think that it is the president's fate that he will be judged by how america

fairs -- we can hopefully, you know, get that vaccine on track, get the therapeutics out there and distributed and really aggressively try to tone it down. i doubt that we can rebox up america, re, you know, reconfine, reconfine the country. i don't think that's possible. everybody has to be their own fence, do their social distancing, wear their own masks, so far. but it is so sad that the trump presidency will be largely defined by the virus, by the awful disease. you have joe biden saying that it's too bad 120 million people died and someone reminded him it was 120,000, factor of 1 and 1,000, he finally figured out the true scope of what was happening. it is devastating whether 120 million or 120,000, you know, it is scary.

you know, i had my -- a second test. i had a procedure done so i had to have a test otherwise i couldn't have gotten into the hospital. it was a sense of relief. a sense of oh, my god, tomorrow you have to have another test to be absolutely secured. i believe that coronavirus is making history of the worst sort and we are all, you know, it is the background music to our existence now, the fact that we have this disease out there and it is so far at least unrival. steve: geraldo, i think you're right. americans realize that going into november 3rd, that's going to be the defining issue. they can't beat him for the economy because for the most part until coronavirus his economy was roaring but i've been watching surrogates over the last 48 hours and they keep coming back to pandemic response, and you know, when you look at the number, the number

today, 125,000 americans have died because of it and that -- that is gigantic. you mentioned the fact that joe biden got the numbers mixed up and thought that apparently there were 120 million americans who actually had died. the president was with sean hannity yesterday before that town hall talked about it, sean gave him the breaking news. the president hadn't heard it. hey, why isn't anybody talking about this? here is the president. >> that's a serious error when he says he's running for u.s. senate, that's error, when he says i'm going beat joe biden which got very little coverage. that's not an error, gee, it's a slipup, it's a serious error. when you told me, i hadn't heard that just happened i guess. >> yes, it did. >> that's a serious error. there's something going on and we can't take -- you know, it's wonderful to say i feel sorry, too bad because i do except we

are talking about the presidency of the united states and it's just not acceptable. steve: you know, geraldo, the president tweeted if i ever said as stupid the fake news would come down on me with a vengeance, this is beyond a normal mistake. why isn't the media reporting it? so why isn't the media reporting it? >> geraldo: steve, if it were trump and the president is absolutely right. if he were the one that made those gaffes which if you make a couple of them or your a gaffe-prone person it can have a charm to it but thin line between repeated gaffe and cognizant, has he reached early stages of dementia, impairments. these are real questions and will be asked as the process unfolds. as you noticed yesterday biden was on teleprompter and hitting trump with pretty good zingers

and he was -- he wasn't committing staffs because everything was written out for him. they can control biden, if they can keep him in the basement as long as possible and only make him appears where there's a teleprompter and hopefully from his point of view he's still in the lead further on, you know, then they'll ponder whether or not to risk open debate with the president, but as of right now i think they are doing their best to keep -- keep the lid on the former vice president and he's doing pretty well. my goodness, double-digit leads. strategy is working, the bunker. brian: the president has to take the bad news, he has 4 months to decide his own fate. ainsley: the debate wills not have teleprompters, they'll be 3 definitely. thank you so much, geraldo. let's hand it over to jillian,

she has headlines for us. jillian: good morning, u.s. setting record of covid-19 cases with 39,000 reported yesterday. the grim milestone comes as 5 new york regions move into phase 4 of reopening today, but gyms will remain close, a crunch fitness franchisee joined us earlier slamming the decision. >> there's no evidence that suggests that opening gyms is riskier and opening any retail establishment. the university put out an amazing study that they concluded working out does not increase the spread of covid-19. jillian: he says health and fitness is part of the solution and not the problem. today the minneapolis city council will take the first step in eliminating the police department after george floyd's death. the council is expected to pass an amendment to the city charter. it then moves onto committees to be reviewed. the council says the goal is for voters to decide in november but

depending how long the review process takes it may not make the ballot until 2021. also happening today the house is expected to vote on making washington, d.c. the 51st state. first vote of its kind in nearly 30 years. the measure expected to pass in the democratic house but not in the republican-controlled senate. president trump also threatening to veto the bill. house speaker nancy pelosi says the move would be a grave injustice. brian: secretary of state mike pompeo calling an awakening saying the u.s. and the eu must team up to stop china. will that strategy work? can it happen? general jack keane here to discuss.

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>> we have to work together to continue the transalantic awakening to the china challenge in interest to preserving society and prosperity and future. united states has accepted high representative proposal to create u.s.-eu dialogue on china. i'm excited about this. brian: demanding awakening against china calling on the u.s. and eu to work together to face down the threat, here to discuss this fox news senior strategic analyst, general jack keane, general, if we ever got in the same page of eu it would send strong message but will we? jack: it's surprising but we are moving in that direction. why is that so, well, because the countries of the world are reassessing their relationship with the chinese communist party and the reason for that is, listen, this recent deception of

covid-19 and massive disinformation campaign trying to place blame some place else has backfired on chinese communists that the ideological differences that we've always had are really now right in front of everybody. we see china much more clearly than we have in the past and in the past we were want to go overlook ideological fundamental clash of values. why, because we wanted economic cooperation, so this reassessment is a good thing. the eu parliament who has no control over the eu countries per se, they can't make policy, but that member has called for sanctions against china based on their malign and aggressive behavior towards hong kong and wants to bring them into the international court of justice. i think with secretary pompeo is going to do with the european leaders is a huge step in the right direction and we will see if he gets cooperation. how would we define that? well, will they come up and do

sanctions like the united states is doing? will they really call china out for being the economic predator that they truly are in addition to being a predator in geopolitical in the region and also globally and also militarily and then finally, how are they going to deal with hauwei and 5g? are they just going to let the chinese dominate their telecommunications going forward in the future and internet operations and give up the secrecy and intellectual property that goes along with that? those would be the signs. brian: right, also, i don't know whether we've done anything or should but they are trying to bully australia and canada over the last few weeks because they've stood up to them for different reasons. i would love to see positive reinforcement from us to our -- in support to our good allies. if we can pivot again the president has an election coming up and has great relationship with president trump, he came to bolster it because america and poland do have a tight bond at

which time the president announced we might be shifting troops out of germany into poland but for sure we are leaving germany, are you comfortable with that? jack: well, first of all, there's a lot of frustration over germany because they haven't paid their dues so to speak, 2% of their gdp for their defense and also want to build a gas pipeline with russia. all that said i think it would have been far better if we were going to unilaterally pull down troops to coordinate with nato leadership and political leadership to see impact. we have the right obviously to do that but that would have been better. if we move our troops to poland which is really the center of gravity in eastern europe, that would be a very good thing, but it would have to be sizable. we -- we know for a fact and our military leaders have told us that we do not have effective military deterrence in eastern europe against russian aggression. we need to put more troops

there. u.s. participation and also nato participation, the other member countries. that move takes place, that'll be effective plus-up. i don't think it's going to be that sizable. remains to be seen. brian: yeah, we do have the natural gas, instead they chose to be russia's -- when it comes to energy reliant to the people that we are protecting them from. i think the president finds that maddening. the other story that came out. south korean president did something rare, he warned the north, we have defense capabilities to deny any provocation from my direction. i don't really hear that much from the south to the north, what's behind it? jack: well, that's particularly true and given president moon and his leadership here. ever since he took power he really wanted to open up the relationship with north korea and to see if they could really genuinely move towards reunite

and denuclearize plus 3 or 4 meetings that president moon has had with the north korean leader, all appear to be positive steps, but the truth is we haven't made any progress. we have stalemated with the north koreans, rhetoric and bluster is normal. president moon i think in south korea is frustrated by that. he's getting a little tougher as a result of north korean provocation. brian: we could say we tried and so could he. thanks so much. general jack keane, appreciate it, have a great weekend. jack: good talking to you, brian. brian: straight ahead, nypd commander he quit over handling of police reform. criminal justice system is imploding this after 30 years, judge jeanine is fired up. she's next.

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ainsley: we are back with quick headlines, american troops will stay in the u.s.-méxico border till late next year. pentagon approved the plan deploying 4,000 troops to southern border starting in october. they're expect today stay there through september 2021. and take a look at, this border agents discover a migrant hidden inside a tool box in the back of a truck. authorities say the driver was trying to smuggle the mexican man across the arizona border in the united states. he was checked for heat exposure and turned back to méxico. the truck driver facing federal smuggling charge. steve. steve: all right, ainsley, thank you. police officers across the country are feeling the impact of nationwide unrest over the last couple of weeks. here in new york city one new york city police department precinct commander is quitting the force after decades of

service reportedly over the department's lack of guidance on reform efforts. while the city police commissioner is warning the criminal justice system in new york is imploding. here reaction host of justice with judge jeanine, author of liars, liberals and leakers, judge jeanine pirro, good morning to you. jeanine: good morning. steve: frustrating for people in law enforcement because they are trying to figure out who they can arrest these days because it is getting harder and harder to arrest somebody and keep them in jail because here in new york state as you know, judge, it's a resolving door, you get arrested, they take you downtown, next thing you know you're out. jeanine: yeah. well, you know, the resignation by this precinct commander in the 46th precinct which is a very high-crime area. we are talking drugs, guns and gangs and he's very well thought of and well respected and very

well liked. his resignation is an indication of the frustration within the new york city police department. when the police commissioner took down the anticrime unit which is responsible for dealing with some of the highest crime areas in the city and worst crimes in the city, we are left with precinct commanders who are left to go to tell their bosses and how many arrests they're made and identify high-crime areas, having to do with anything other than numbers, then they are left with absolutely arrests down, crimes up and no way to fight it. he just said the heck with this, i'm get nothing direction from the department, i'm getting no help, we are not in a position where we can even fight crime because we can't use undercovers anymore, we can't do pro policing and proactive policing

and so their left flat-footed themselves. morale is down in the new york city police department, it's horrible, in fact, shootings this past month are up 340% from the same month last year and gun crimes are up, you know, over the last 2 years, murders are up, crime is going up, officers are having their hands tied behind their backs, morale is down and they're afraid to go out and do what they've got to do. steve: sure. jeanine: this is what we are dealing with and the shame of this is the minority community is being disservice because much of the high crime is there number 1, and number 2, no business is going to come into a community or an area where there is high crime and where there is no police enforcement, and when they make arrests, there's a justice system in new york where there's no bail. the defendants come out. you know, this is just -- it's

crazy and, you know, we are now going to see the reverse of the pendulum where high crime is going to go up now and we will suffer the consequences of a feckless police department, not in terms of the cops but in terms of direction from the top. steve: sure. ultimately the people who live in these areas have to worry about themselves because it's all about security regardless what the leaders decide going forward. now, tell us a little bit on what you have on the big show tomorrow night. jeanine: tomorrow night we will talk a lot about what is going on in the country with the statutes and the destruction as well as the -- what we've got going on with police. we have senator blackburn, republican steve scalise, corey lewandowsky and jaron smith from the white house and we will talk about whether people feel safe in light of what's going on and in light of what people say to

turn it down. police have hands tied behind their back and not being able to do what we expect them to do. this is a bad situation in this country right now and, you know, we can tone for the sins of some but by making it impossible to protect the others we are only victimizing all of us. steve: you have plenty to talk about tomorrow night and we will be watching at 9:00 p.m. eastern time. judge, thank you. jeanine: thank you. steve: all right. meanwhile straight ahead on this friday president trump calling out corruption in the case against michael flynn. >> the fbi said he didn't do anything wrong. they said he didn't lie. steve: you will want to hear what senator lindsey graham has ti say about that and he is next .

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>> what's happening is a disgrace. this is a corrupt situation. we caught them spying on my campaign. they were spying. i said that a long time ago, remember, but i said it without great knowledge. it turned out to be correct. they were spying in my campaign and if they was the other way around, if it was switched with democrat and republican you would have people in jail for 5 years because that's treason. ainsley: case against former national security adviser is to be dismissed in federal appeals court this month. brian: senate judiciary committee chairman, senator lindsey graham. senator, when you looked at this and saw is strzok memo, punt intended, what struck you, what changed? lindsey: well, it's a continuation of theme, enough is

enough. judge sullivan has gone rove. i've never known a case where the government comes forward and ask the court to withdraw charges because they find evidence not revealed to court or defendant and the judge refuses to grant the motion by the government, so the appeals court has ruled 2 to 1 for ordering sullivan to drop the charges. he is staying the hearing so this has become a complete joke and unfair to general flynn and eventually general flynn will receive justice. that's going to take a while apparently. steve: senator, one of the things that we've discovered as this has been announced in the last, i don't know, 72 hours or so, is the fact that we've now seen some of the handwritten notes, thanks to mr. flynn's attorneys and one of them could be just a smoking gun because it looks like the vice president of

the united states while in the oval office with susan rice, sally yates, the president, everybody there, it sounds like vice president biden was talking about the logan act when it came to him and suddenly fast-forward to today it's like, well, maybe that's where it all got started. lindsey: that's a really good question. number 1, why are we getting the notes now? steve: right. lindsey: where have the notes been, where were the notes we got a month or so ago from the department of justice? bill barr is doing a good job of cleaning up the sewer of what was the obama justice department. on january the fourth, the fbi agent in charge of the flynn investigation wrote a memo recommending that flynn be dropped from cross-fire hurricane because there was no there there. i'm trying to interview that agent but i've been unsuccessful so far. i will keep trying. on january the fifth, you have the meeting in the oval office

with the vice president and the president and the logan act is mentioned. the one thing i could tell your viewers, no one has ever been prosecuted under the logan act in the history of the country and there's no way it's a violation of the logan act for the incoming national security adviser to be talking to the russian ambassador about changing policy. that could never be a violation of the logan act, so there's something really fishy here. ainsley: senator, tim scott's bill didn't pass, democrats didn't vote for it as you know and then the house, nancy pelosi's bill did pas in the house obviously, but the president said he would veto it. it reminds me of the statutes, reminds me of what happened in south carolina, back in 20 -- 2000 when remember the confederate flag was on top of state house dome and compromise to move it right in front of the state house on the grounds when you drove down main street as you and i have done many times,

they changed it. nikki haley had grant support. do you think that's what's happening with the statutes, that now, you know, there's all this -- all this confrontation and it's very controversial, but, you know, 5 years we are all going to be in the same place? >> here is what happened in south carolina, we chose the rule of law to deal with the problem and we didn't let the mob deal with the problem. the flag came off the dome of the capitol because the legislature voted it down through the democratic process. it wasn't taken down. the confederate flag was moved from in front of the capitol because governor hailey and the state house vote today move it. what people are doing taking the law on their own hands, this is rule of the mob and not rule of law and what you've got to realize, why would you take abolitionist statute down, why would you be going after abraham lincoln? the people doing this hate our country, they hate the way we

were founded, they hate capitalism and have no respect for religion, they have no respect for diversity of thought. these people are the most radical people known to america, we are at war politically and they hate america and every symbol of flag and statute, they hate. they want to destroy the family unit as we know it and i tell you what to the listeners out there, you may not believe you're in a war but you are politically and you need to take sides and you need to help this president. brian: if you want to know how senator lindsey graham thinks we did a feature, me and you do standup together, all black infantry fighting the civil war and there was confederate statute to the right and you look down and said these people were right, those people were

wrong, but it doesn't mean they were terrible people. they were people of their times and that's in the feature there and now we are talking of the civil war as if it ended yesterday. senator, thank you so much. steve: senator, i think someone is at your front door. i heard a knocking. lindsey: yeah, y'all have to tell rupert to get a new room. he has to spend more money. brian: improving the place all of the time. ainsley: brian, do that, call rupert. steve: jillian joins us with headlines. jillian: good morning, let's begin with the story we are following, a man is charged with shooting and killing a 7-year-old girl hours after getting out of jail. police in north carolina say she killed francis, fired gun hitting aliah in the head. the little girl died tat hospital. francis is now charged with

murder. police rescue a man from going down a pipe after he falls into water while hunting for crabs. stop what you're doing and watch this. >> under your arms. hold up, hold up, hold up. >> not yet. >> come on, keep coming. >> keep coming. >> keep coming, keep coming. >> come on up, man. come on up. jillian: connecticut officers tieing a rope around the man and the police praising man's wife for holding onto husband until officers arrived. father running for michigan state house applauds his daughter for telling people not to vote for him. republican candidate robert regan's daughter, if you're in michigan, do not vote for my dad for state representative. tell everyone, going onto say she doesn't agree with platform. regan releasing a statement, i'm happy that she confident enough

in our relationship to express opposing thoughts so publicly. wow. okay, now to this story that's too dog-on cute. a woman makes her dog apologize for stealing his brother's treat. watch this. >> so what do we say when we steal someone else's chewy? what do we say? do you know? yes. we say we are sorry. jillian: this is so cute. guilty golden retriever apologizing to his brother kiko can an adorable hug. look at that. ears are down. ainsley: that was the sweetest video. we need more of that. brian: was that real? ainsley: yes. brian: it looked like -- jillian: how would it be fake? brian: i've never seen that even in a cartoon.

[laughter] brian: i couldn't expect a mascot to do that, not a real dug. ainsley: janice, we give you virtual hugs. janice: dogs do hug. i've seen it happen before, we have to get rocky and apolo to try it. we've got 70's along the coast here, 73 in new york city, 72 in raleigh. we have the threat for stronger storms especially across the great lakes, the midwest, back through the central plains especially this region that you see in orange where you think ingredients will come and some tornadoes, that will happen this afternoon. just know what to do if there's warning or watch in your area. we will see potential for scattered showers in gulf coast. it's going to be warm, actually very hot across central california and parts of oregon and if i could real quick, happy birthday to my husband sean, we

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sarah: brand new reaction from president trump, taking questions of everyday americans of taking down of u.s. statutes and protests happening across the country, how biden's rise in the polls is being interpreted on wall street and the latest developments of police reform from democrats, all this as canceled culture continues to take over, now the band of dixie chicks changing their name, larry kudlow from the white house and the secretary of the interior are our guests this morning. ♪ ♪

[music] ainsley: country music star sara evans no stranger to musecal covers, she actually started seeing in cover bands with her brothers when she was younger and her new album copy that is tribute to songs that help inspired musical career, fox nation friday night sara evans herself, hey, sara. >> good morning. ainsley: who is with you? >> my son avery and my daughter ava. this is my quarantine band. ainsley: tell us about your new album. >> first cover album in my career. i grew up on stage with my brothers and started singing when i was 4 year's old and learning the big hits. this album is probably the -- maybe most fun experience i've had in studio, awesome songs from chicago, hank williams,

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>> not only are we going to look to its past, going to talk to its current resident. >> i hope everyone is able to tune in on sunday at 10:00 and again at 1:00 and depending on where you were because what made america great, the fox nation series is going to debut a brand-new episode. we go inside the white house which is really the history of the country. this guy named george washington pick the spot and designed it so

it's truly americana and no one will ever tear it down. >> we will look for that. this wraps up our first week live in the studio. i thank you very much for being patient with us during our remote shows and we will see you back here. >> have a good weekend. >> sandra: thank you. president trump taking questions from everyday americans last night on everything from mail-in voting to rioting in cities across the country had a wide-ranging fox news town hall. good morning, everyone. i'm sandra smith. >> i am trace gallagher in for ed henry. president trump threatening to take action to stop protesters from defacing historic landmarks publishing retribution against agitators. >> we have arrested a lot of people for what they've done. they've created bedlam. they've destroyed very important things. you are also talking about statues of george washington,