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, abraham lincoln, they'd like to

get jesus. they are anarchists. the big thing they want as they want to destabilize our country and we won't let them. >> sandra: we have fox team coverage for you, gillian turner standing by nbc but first, chief white house correspondent john roberts joining us live from the north lawn this morning. good morning, john. must be met we were expecting an executive order coming out today to help protect statues and monuments across the nation. is now looking like that might be pushed until next week rather than today. we are told the president wants to take the time to get this right but that he believes law and order is the best way to address the situation. it's still not clear what that executive order will do or if there will be anything new in it. what is more likely is that it will create a uniform process in applying existing law to what's been going on across the country and throw the weight of the presidency fully behind it. the president assisting the way

to address the situation is to get tough pointing to that attempt on monday to tear down the statue of andrew jackson in lafayette square. listen here. >> i stopped at the other night. every night, we are going to get tougher and tougher. at some point, there's going to be retribution because there has to be. these people are vandals and agitators and they are terrorists in a sense. >> the president will be signing another executive order today moving federal hiring policy from education based to skills-based. this is in a anke trump initiative, they believe book smarts are the only or necessarily the best criteria for hiring people and skills are also a very valuable commodity. he will be signing that executive order at a meeting of the american workforce policy advisory board at the 2:00 p.m. hour today. also for the first time since april the 27th, there will be a briefing by the coronavirus task force. the backdrop for the meeting as

a spike in coronavirus cases. the united states now setting a new high with more than 39,000 cases reported yesterday read at the same time, daily deaths are down about two-thirds from their highs but more young people are contracting the virus leading to implications for school re-openings this fall while some states like texas are pulling back on their reopening this, the president made it clear yesterday he is not going to go back to where we were in the spring tweeting "coronavirus deaths are way down, mortality rate is one of the lowest in the world, the economy is rolling back and it will not be shut down. embers or flareups will be put out as necessary. now we should point out that we are coming up on the beginning of july at the beginning of the third economic quarter, the president has promised that that will be a transitional corner, and then the fourth quarter should see very strong economic growth, so the potential for closing down the economy really could affect that projection. it's also interesting to note that president trump will not be

leading this coronavirus briefing. will be led by the vice president and it will not be here at the white house briefing room. it will be over at hhs. things a little bit different than what we've seen in the past but the first briefing again since april the 27th, that's been a long time. >> sandra: it has. we will look forward to that. john roberts reporting from the white house this morning. >> trace: targeting the emancipation memorial vowing tonight to topple the statue of abraham lincoln over and kneeling a black man and his broken shackles. law enforcement patrolling and fencing off the area around the statue to prevent any damage. gillian turner is live for us in washington with the latest on that. >> so the emancipation memorial is still standing. you can see it they are behind me here in lincoln park. was not torn down last night as had been the plan on social media. has really become a flash point

this week in the fight for racial justice not just here in the nation's capital but really across the entire country. now, there had been several hundred national guard troops deployed to this area surrounding the park where the emancipation memorial is standing and now d.c.'s black female mayor, muriel bowser who two weeks ago established the country's first black lives better plaza says it is time to restore some order to the process when it comes to tearing down monuments and statues. she also readily admits americans have vastly different feelings about this particular statue. >> there are a lot of competing views about the emancipation statue at linkin park. so i'm getting my thinking around how we can have a discussion about that. >> president trump actually echoed that sentiment last night in an interview with

sean hannity and says he gets how different groups of americans can see different things and feel different ways about this very same monument. take a listen. >> hits a position of getting up, he's being freed by abraham lincoln, and i can see controversy, but i can also see beauty in it. and it was paid for by. i don't know if you know that. was paid for because they were so grateful to the president. >> you mentioned off the top that there may be a renewed effort to topple the statue tonight. we are hearing that as well, a lot of chatter about it on social media, or a couple of outlets have reported that protesters will gather again here tonight, renew their efforts to get things done. fox news is not independently confirm this with any of the major protesters here in the city but obviously as soon as we do, we will get that information to you. one that we will be watching. gillian turner live in washington for us, thank you. >> sandra: for more on all

this, let's bring in "wall street journal" mainstreet columnist who is also what former chief speechwriter anna fox news contributor. what do you have to say on all of this as we see these calls continue and now the emancipation memorial, they want to take that down, continued efforts to do so. >> right. it's ridiculous. to go after abraham lankenau. the people that think this is ridiculous, too many of our leaders are trying to present arguments to the mob saying didn't you know he paid the, a mob is not interested in those, they just want to cause disruption. i think the president is right, the only answer, are we going to have national guardsmen or park police station in front of every statue with a chain-link fence? the only answer is if people try to move on these monuments and so forth, they should be

arrested and prosecuted. as the president said, we have a civilized way for doing this and no group of people should arrogate for themselves the right to tear down something that is public. they want to remove it, go through the process. i think it's a bad idea to rewrite your history, but this is an example of a triumph of public education in our country tonight but at least it would be a civilized process. any kind of indulgence during the mob i think just invites more of the same. >> sandra: we are watching the way muriel bowser is handling all of this, and obviously acknowledging those that are calling for it to come down who say doesn't represent african-americans them it doesn't take into consideration their perspective and says we don't need to do this with violence. watch. >> this is what i think we all need to do with statues is have a reasonable conversation on

statues and other references to historical figures, not have a mob decided that they want to pull it down and certainly not destroy anything in the district or set anything on fire. >> sandra: and then you have the president reacting, taking questions from everyday americans calling these people who are in the middle of violence trying to pull down in this case planning to pull down the emancipation statue calling them vandals, agitators, and going as far as calling them terrorists. what did you think about that? >> right. in the words don't matter to me. we can't enjo indulge the mob. the mayor of d.c.'s finding out what her early indulgences costing her. once people get a taste for this, i don't read of people being punished for pulling down the statue. so it's going to be a lot harder to put that genie back in the bottle now.

>> sandra: want to talk to you about 2020, some brand-new pulling out that we saw the president react the campaign, continues to react to him flipping behind in the polls. these are the fox news poll's that show that president trump behind in four states that he won back in 2016. florida, georgia, north carolina, texas. mick mulvaney went on special report last night's saying he believes is still a little too early for the campaign to be relying on these polls. listen to his point. >> obviously would like to be ahead in every single poll but at the same time, you could manipulate easily. the president's approval rating going into the 2016 election was in the upper 30s, yet he still won, so you would like to be ahead in the polls but not too worried at this point in the race. >> sandra: so it was one thing to dismiss or shrug off a few

polls leading up to election day but we are getting closer and there certainly is a trend emerging. your thoughts? >> i agree with him in the sense that it is way too early. it is really before the campaign has heated up to decide an election or declare an election loss. that said, i think the polls show the president has some trouble. the riots, the killing of george floyd, just been a lot for the american people. usually, the incumbent bears the blame for that. so i do think the president has to take these seriously and i do think that not everything he did last time, might have to adjust a little to how he campaigns. first of all, he is the incumbent's i was a different kind of campaign, but i agree, it's too early to say but it

should be a warning signal for people at the trump campaign. >> sandra: and you are hearing that warning from some top republicans including john thune in the senate who is concerned about the president strategy, how he's doing with urging the president to shift his strategy at this point. great to have you this morning from "the wall street journal," thank you. >> thank you. >> sandra: we are going to have a lot more reaction from the trump administration on the protesters plan to topple that emancipation memorial winter headliner interior secretary will be our guest live the next hour. stay tuned for that. >> trace: the u.s. setting a single day record for new coronavirus cases with infections stacking with phase three openings. as the road to recovery stalled? plus, d.c. police stepping up protections as protesters threaten to topple statues and our nation's capital. house minority leader kevin mccarthy said demonstrators

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>> trace: fox news alert now. the u.s. that's another record for covid-19 cases in a single day. in nearly 40,000 reported yesterday alone a greater portion of test now coming back positive across the south and the west. and the cdc says the real number of infections may be ten times higher than the number confirmed in testing. hospitalizations also spiking, all happening is the white house coronavirus task force is said to hold its first press briefing in nearly two months later today. we will have much more on this when dr. marc siegel joins us and 9:50 eastern time. >> sandra: protesters targeting a statue of abraham lincoln in washington, d.c., calling the image of a freed kneeling at lincoln's feet of monument to white supremacy as antiracism

demonstrations continue across the country, our next guest says those responsible for defacing and tearing down statue should be prosecuted "to the fullest extent of the law." kevin mccarthy is here and i'm quoting you, so what is it you would like to see happen to those who would be unlawfully tearing down the statues? >> i like to see them prosecut prosecuted. there are already laws on the books but we need people to enforce them. in if they don't, i've introduced legislation that would withhold federal money to those cities who do not. you cannot continue to have this happen and it isn't about george floyd when you look at the statues and what they're doing. they took down lady freedom, they took down an immigrant who died, an abolitionist who died in the civil war, but what happened in san francisco? saint sarah was taken down. do you know in 2015, i prayed

with pope francis, nancy pelosi, and joe biden in front of saint sarah? but you know who's district that's in? nancy pelosi, and she has not said a word. joe biden has not said a word. that's why the mob continues. we believe in the rule of law in america has to stop this. you have a right to protest. floyd has a right for justice, that was appalling what has happened to him. but those who loot and tear down statue should have consequences for their actions. >> sandra: you felt compelled to write an opinion piece on this this week, if you are asking "where will they draw the line it has been clear they won't. that is because they are mobs. they aim to offend society, not reform it. as history shows, tearing down statues is a symbol of revolution in all countries." what is the message they are? >> the message is america has always strived to be a more

perfect union. mobs are out of control in this process. they do not strive to make it a more perfect union, and they didn't stop there with statues. you know what else they did? they literally knocked out a democrat state senator who stood with them. they knocked the individual out. that's what i believe when there are no lines. they are lawless in the process. they don't believe in a mission except for destruction. we have an ability to have a change of ideas, exchange those ideas, and strive to become that more perfect union and work to make sure that america is stronger. i am looking for individuals who want to rebuild, renew, and restore america. i know we are going to a perfect storm with covid with people out of work, with people out of school, but this is not an opportunity and should not allow that we break down the rule of law. we are better than that, and i think we can rise to do something better.

>> sandra: you of course are taking on those unlawfully tearing down statues without having a debate or discussion on it. they were protesters showing up who are having that discussion, and they are raising points like this. here is one protester on the ground outside the emancipation monument. i will get your reaction to this on the other side. >> the statue right here embodies the white supremacy and the disempowerment of black people that is forced upon us by white people. that is why we are tearing the statue down. >> sandra: how do you respond? >> my responses people have a difference of opinion. but there is a process if you do not like it. but do you understand the history of that? and i think we should go through

that process. you don't walk up and tear something down. and just as i don't walk up and knock somebody out. i disagree with something, i move through the process of what we have in america. that's what we call only talk about democracy. you break down the rule of law, you break down society, and that's exactly what is transferring right now and that's what has to be stopped. >> sandra: i want to transition to the president's popularity just talking about in the latest fox news polling numbers and how that is affecting the sum of the senate races that we are seeing as far as bowling is concerned, obviously in the state of north carolina, there is concern, congressmen, and i will ask you to speak to it, that the president's sagging popularity as far as recent polling numbers is starting to affect some of the senate races where now trailing cunningham, the democrat thereby a couple of points. the georgia senate race now has

the incumbent david perdue ahead but within the margin of error, perdue polling 45% to 42%, are you concerned? >> of the election was today, yes, you are concerned. can we do better? yes, we can. to me, who is best to rebuild, renew, and restore america? who was best to renew this economy? does anyone know what joe biden's policies are? joe biden yesterday said there was 120 million americans who got killed from covid. joe biden hasn't really been out of the basement yet. i think when you have that contrast going, president trump will get reelected. there has been a special election during covid which got one of the most difficult times in california. from a democrat see that they won by nine points that hillary carried by a majority. handed individual who has never run before, mike garcia, first generation american defeat of

the democrat and they change the election process where it was all by mail and ballot. so polling would say one thing that the outcome said something much different. so this is going to be a competitive race and it should be about ideas and i think once the ideas are out there, is joe biden going to let the socialists run his policies like you let aoc and others? i think america wants to see where people stand on who is best standing up to china, who is best about rebuilding this economy, and who is best to make the next century the american century. >> sandra: if i could with the 30 seconds asking about the recent spikes in coronavirus, obviously dealing with this in your stay as well but the spike we are seeing in texas, arizona, florida, and other places obviously causing great concern and something this will be a defining moment in president trump's presidency and a defining moment in reelection for the president in 2020 depending on where we are a couple months from now. what are your thoughts on that this morning? >> i have a real concern and

remember, we are coming after where we saw those thousands of young people and others coming out to protest. was a concern they were close to one another and now we are seeing the outcome from that. we have better testing, better tracing. we need to deal with it. remember, this is a virus we did not invite. came from a distant land, but we will defeat this together. the progress we are making when a vaccine, the progress we're making on therapies, this is what needs to happen and that is being led by this president. the fda has transformed what we've been able to do. we've tested more than 28 million americans already. 500,000 in the process almost every day. that's an improvement and that's where we are going to see but as more people gather together, they are not wearing a mask, not washing their hands, not keeping social distance. when i watch that drone video of los angeles that went for a mile, people shoulder to shoulder, you know there was going to be a spy could now we are seeing the outcome of that. we have to be smart about this

and we have to be able to treat and make sure that we build and find a vaccine that will stop this, 95% of this never would've happened. >> sandra: congressman mccarthy hitting on a wide range of topics this morning, really appreciate your time, thank you. i >> trace: on the topic of covid-19, by the coronavirus pandemic is threatening decades of job gains for women and how to help keep women in the workforce. >> before that came in, had the best job numbers and best economy, getting very close to those numbers anyway. one call can save you $3,000 a year. newday's va streamline refi lets you refinance without having to verify your income, without getting your home appraised, and without spending one dollar out of pocket

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>> sandra: checking in on wall street on this friday morning after yesterday's rebound. you're looking at the dow down 150 points as we begin a brand-new trading day just under the 26,000 mark, liz claman incurs the claimant count down on fox business network. good morning to you, always good to end a week with you. so you are looking at the dow down this morning although we have seen it making this rebound but now we've got coronavirus spikes happening across the country, so what is going to have to happen to keep this rally going and are there fears that this virus is making a comeback? >> i would take it back to what the federal reserve chair jay powell said, and that is that until the fabric of this

nightmare that we are talking about regarding coronavirus has one threat of a vaccine finally working through it, we won't see an entirely free let's go rally continue all the way smooth move to the upside. is just that kind of thing and that goes for the economy too, but i'm not terribly concerned by half a percent loss on the dow jones industrials considering the u.s. just had its worst increase single day of coronavirus cases yesterday so i think that we do have a market that is very tightly tied to what happens with the vaccine but until then, we are looking at a and nasdaq that is up five out of the past six weeks. >> sandra: it's interesting as so many are trying to get back to work as a result of the coronavirus shutdown, there is so much that changed as a result of that. and women returning to the workforce struggling with child care at home because of changes

post coronavirus and politico takes that on in an article, a lack of child care, he writes the problem is on track to only get worse, continued shutdowns on the need to implement costly safety and social distancing measures are threatening to run so many child care providers out of business that the country could permanently lose an estimated half of its capacity. what are we seeing and hearing their? >> two pieces to this. the health care workers, the child care workers, labor department, i don't know if you saw this, 1 out of 3 workers and child care have lost their jobs, and those are quite usually women. but putting that aside, the women, the working mothers who depend on the child care heavily depended on quality licensed child care operations around their area, and we just don't see this. interestingly, the cares act which congress on the president

put together had a couple billion for it they appropriated 3.5 billion for child care grants, 750 million for head start programs. the latest, the democrats version has 7 billion which is more but child care operators say that is nowhere near enough and besides, that hasn't even been approved yet and we don't expect congress to get their act together when the next couple of months. we certainly hope they do but this is an economic disaster for the working women out there. all the jobs that were lost and we are talking about hospitality, hotels, retail, heavily dominated by women workers. so those are the areas that have been completely hammered during the first leg of this coronavirus and therefore, that plus the issue were child care workers have lost their jobs, we've got a problem here. >> sandra: and the labor

department statistics for the month of may where we got those job numbers did reveal just that, 61% of men over the age of 20 were employed in may while less than half of women were. according to that brand-new data, so getting that child care to get women back to work is going to be so important in getting kids back to school in the fall will be a big part of that as well, and i know the federal reserve just said the key to our economic recovery will ultimately be a vaccine. great to see you on this friday morning. we'll see you at 3:00 on fbn. >> trace: the dixie chicks no more. the popular country music group changing its name amid nationwide protests for racial justice. howie kurtz weighs in on that. plus, should the black lives matter movement be its own political party? the founder of black entertainment television believes yes. a reaction that coming up. >> african-americans should have their own interests.

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>> sandra: a judge rejecting the trump family lawsuit to block a new tell-all book by the president's niece mary. president trump's younger brother robert sought to halt the publication saying it violates a nondisclosure agreement but a judge dismissed that attempt. robert trump's lawyer says he plans to file a new suit in new york supreme court. the book is set to be released next month. >> trace: more trait changes coming in this cancel culture era, the dixie chicks changing their names to adjust the checks. disney says it will strip away the song of the south theme from splash mountain at theme parks in california and florida and instead feature characters from the movie the princess and the frog. while several controversial south park episodes are now

banned from some platforms, let's bring in howard kurtz, fox news media analyst and host of media buzz. always good to see you. we have lady antebellum drops antebellum and then you have the dixie chicks, did you see any of this coming? >> yes, the cancel culture is out of control and it feels like the entire country is being sent to reeducation camp. how can the dixie chicks stop at that, why not the ladies or maybe that is too uppercrust and how many people even knew that disney splash mountain was tied to a racist 1946 movie? the new name, princess on the frog, doesn't that put the poor frog in a subservient position to rich royalty? how can that be allowed? and by the way, disneyland's reopening is being delayed because of the pandemic. >> trace: it is interesting because you talk about the dixie chicks, not even named after the mason-dixon line, named after dixie chickens which

is a song by little feet. you talked about the derogatory statement and online was not kind to the dixie chicks in a lot of ways. want to put these on the screen and get your reaction. one writing "seriously? dixie is a bad name now? i am from the south and proud of it. history is not there for you to dislike. is there for you to learn from. is not yours to run a race. belongs to all of us." and someone said might as well just call yourself th. chicks is more offensive than dixie so kind of negative press on that. >> i guess any association with the old south obviously is going to take off some people. was particularly absurd for hbo max to yank gone with the wind which everybody knows is the product of a more prejudice era and now if you want to watch it, you first have to watch a foreign a half half minute lecture by a black film critic talking about how black servants in the movie are kowtowing to their white masters.

i think most people understand that and if they are offended, they don't have to watch the movie. >> trace: it's interesting when you talk about does anybody really know when you look at splash mountain and i've been 1,000 times, i couldn't tell you the theme of that. here is what disney said in the change here. let me put this on a screen for you, the new concept is inclusive, one that all of our guests can connect with and be inspired by and it speaks to the diversity of the millions of people who visit our parks each year emma but you go online and it's really true, people just didn't realize that splash mountain really had this theme and, i'm sure the avid disney fans know it but what is the message that disney is sending out here, that hbo is sending out saying we are going to pull some of these south park episodes, is this just the start of something -- cops, gone, live pd gone. what is the next thing to fall?

>> i think corporations have become so skittish that they are making the changes that not many people are actually demanding. i think it's fine to make some distinctions to yank certain episodes of south park and retrospect perhaps it was gratuitous but it reminds me of the conversation you were having earlier about statues where it began with tips let's take a look at the confederate symbols because they were traders writing for a slavery regime and now it has veered off into an abraham lincoln statue, ulysses grant, andrew jackson, it starts with a reasonable request and then goes so far into political correctness twilight zone that you realize everyone in america is offended by something. we have a flawed history and we can erase every bit of it. >> trace: you talk about the statues and now you've got these movements in south dakota talking about bringing down mount rushmore in the entertainment world, what is the next met rushmore in your opinion? >> i don't have a particular

prediction, but every single entertainment conglomerate is so worried right now that it is scouring its archives whether it's shows, movies, certainly this will have a chilling effect on any new filmmaking or tv making, and the whole point is to avoid controversy, but when you go too far over this line, and i think it would be kind of funny at this point except it's kind of sad, then i think you are undermining the effort. we shouldn't gratuitously offend people but especially with things that are tied to the past and the old south, i like the name dixie chicks just fine. >> trace: it is good insight. good of you to join us, thank you. >> sandra: okay. thank you. the house about to vote on a bill granting statehood to the district of columbia district of columbia. critics worry it could give the district too much power. democrats say it's about time. in >> partial citizenship is not

an option. we can deal away the rights of an american simply because they live in the district of columb columbia. the option is to recognize 706,000 people as full and equals citizens to the united states of america with the voting rights in the capit capital. >> sandra: the white house threatening to veto that bill if it were to pass. >> trace: the u.s. seeing a new record for the most covid-19 cases in a single day, nearly 40,000, so is the road to recovery stalled? dr. marc siegel joins us with more on that next. >> we are where we are. i didn't say we are going to go on to the next phase. we have done a step-by-step approach, and it was an approach that has been reflective of the unique situation in each area. the course structure the university of phoenix offers-

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>> trace: of grimm a new milestone, the u.s. reporting over 40,000 new covid cases yesterday alone, the highest daily total with a virus surging in the south and the west. let's bring in dr. mar marc sie, professor of medicine and a fox news contributor. it's always great to see you. you see 39,000, it is one of those eye-opening numbers, and you look across the board and think we're doing more testing, i get that. but then you see is the number of positive tests, the percentages going up for that and really more concerning his hospitalizations and a lot of the states also going up. your thoughts.

>> that's absolutely right. i want to start by saying 39,000 cases, still only 644 deaths across the united states yesterday which is a number as low as we've seen since march so, so far, the numbers haven't caught up in that sense and it is partly because of what you said, we are testing younger people, testing them earlier in the game, we have treatments to offer that we didn't have to offer before. we know how to handle covid-19 but especially in texas and in arizona and florida, we are seeing more and more hospitalizations but let me tell you the biggest problem with that outside of the risk to the patient is covid-19 let's not forget is an infectious disease. so if you have it in the hospital, you have to wall off certain units and isolate the patients. this is really, really importa important. infection control precautions we now learn how to do. guess what that gets in the way of? it gets in the way of elective procedures and surgeries so when governor abbott of texas says i'm going to have to stop elective surgeries, to me, that means lives, cancer surgeries, diagnostics. in her and at the same time that this going on, bars and restaurants still having indoor

seating engines are open and in my public-health brain and i've been studying pandemics a long time, i think maybe we should dial it back in a state like texas a bit so we can have elective surgeries. we don't need this influx in hospitals for many reasons. >> trace: you mention texas, want to put this from governor greg abbott down there saying the last thing we want to do as a state is go backwards and closed down businesses. this temporary pause will help our state corral the spread until we can safely enter the next phase of opening our state for businesses. they say they don't want to shut down the economy right now but if these cases get worse, it's one of those things it's always going to be on the table for some of these governors. >> that's right, and i'm not saying shut down the economy either and i am not a big believer in lockdowns, but i am saying let's look at everything individual. what about jim's? how are we working in jim's? could you have bars with more

physical distancing built-in, could you have more emphasis on outdoor seating? may be movie theaters we have to take a step back. everything needs to be looked at piece by piece. not a lock down, but a focused laser approach that we don't end up with the influx in hospitals. i want the elective procedures and hospitals, hugely important. >> trace: were you surprised by the cdc coming out talking about these anybody tests and in fact let's play the sound and i will get your response. >> the cdc has completed a series and will continue to do fairly extensive surveillance using antibody testing and our best estimate right now is that for every case that was reported, there actually were ten other infections. >> trace: you extrapolate talking about americans that could have had this disease. that is significant. >> i am not surprised by this at all.

in fact, i have thought this and set it for months already because when we started surveilling communities, we started seeing the something like new york city, ten to 20% of people were testing antibody positive. we had nowhere near that number of cases and we started seeing the spreads in march and april to people we couldn't figure out how they got it. so one of the things we were definitely misled about this virus was just how contagious it is and it is very contagious. the good side of that is that there is a ton of mild and asymptomatic cases out there are so overall, not as deadly as we thought. but it certainly spreads like wildfire and this confirms it. i am completely keeping with this and thought it for a while. on>> trace: a lot more young people getting it as we've seen. >> sandra: president trump meanwhile vowing to protect historic statues and monuments threatening retribution for

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there was going to be retribution because there has to be. they are agitators, but really, they are terrorists in a sentence. >> sandra: president trump they are at a fox news town hall last night in wisconsin vowing payback against protesters who destroy and vandalize u.s. monuments. is executive order hiking penalties is expected to be signed at any day now. of all of this with demonstrators in d.c. threatening to tear down the statue that celebrates lincoln issuing the emancipation proclamation. so what needs to be done to stop all this? that's a question for our headliner, interior secretary david bernhardt when he joins us later live this hour. but we begin with another fox news alert on this friday morning, the standoff inside seattle's chop zone despite the mayor telling protesters they must end their occupation after a recent rash of violence.

welcome to a brand-new hour of "america's newsroom." i'm sandra smith. >> trace: am trace gallagher in for ed henry pair the so-called zone is shrinking after many people left but hundreds of demonstrators remained camped out and defiant. reaction now from all sides. >> the truth is that even if they force activists out of chop, it will not stop us or this movement. >> there is people here supporting anarchy, supporting no more police coming back, defund the police, we are not sure who those people are affiliated with. >> they were protesters in here that the original message of george floyd black lives matter is here, but that is separate. that's over here and this is still going on. >> live in seattle with more on this. >> the day has barely started in already, we have a standoff underway here with the workers

who have brought in heavy equipment to clean out this morning on one side and several dozen protesters on the other side of these concrete barricades refusing to let them in. we've got a protester as you can see lying in the street and a car blocking the way. seattle's mayor has faced mounting pressure to dismantle chop and has ordered the department of transportation to remove the porta-potties and concrete barriers they brought in here nearly three weeks ago. the move that some capitol hill residents and businesses think enabled the occupation to take hold in the first place and some are now suing the city in federal court. these protesters have remained entrenched outside an abandoned police precinct since june 8th, and they vowed not to leave until their demands which include abolishing the police department are met, they say holding that building as their bargaining chip but at some point today it appears they will lose their bathrooms and their barriers and the support they were getting from the city, but not anymore. this removal is part of the

negotiations that have been going on so that police could move back into this building safely. the marriage eddie durkin refusing to put a timeline on when that will happen but for the first time in 18 days, we are seeing a police presence, an officer that is a working traffic control just down at the end of the street here. is unclear exactly when the work here will actually get going. you can see that we have the department of transportation worker in the cab of this heavy equipment here, so things could get started soon as the chop wakes up on what could be its last day. >> trace: live for us in seattle, back to you as the news breaks, thank you. >> democrats think it's wonderful that they are destroying our country. it's a very sick thing going on. no one's ever seen it. look. i don't think biden is a radical left, but it doesn't matter because they're going to just do whatever they want to do.

the republicans have to get tougher and i'm telling them all the time because they are sitting back and want to be politically correct. >> sandra: that was president trump last night slamming democrats at a fox news town hall in green bay, wisconsin, fielding questions, many of them hot button issues including violent protests and voting by mail has he visited the battleground wisconsin. let's bring in a chris wallace, good morning to you and thank you for being here. the president very firmly stating last night what he thinks about these vandals as he calls them, agitators, and even went as far as calling them terrorists. >> it is obviously one of the points the president is going to make. we understood that he was going to sign an executive order today stiffening the penalties for mobs taking down statues. now it's not so positive that it will be today. next week, they want to get

everything right because obviously there will be a court challenge to it. but clearly, the president thinks is as a way to appeal to his base. i don't think anybody of any political persuasion except for the people that are doing it thinks that the right way to approach statues is so that mob violence take them down. there certainly is a debate over whether or not some of them should be taken down but i think most people would say go through the proper processes. the mayor of washington has said there needs to be going through the city council or zoning or things like that and maybe you put them in museums, maybe you destroy them but the idea of mob rule, going to take down the statue, most people don't like that and the president clearly thinks it is one that is wrong and 2, talking about is a good political issue. >> trace: one of the big topics of this whole thing, the president's town hall last night, he said this, and i want to get your reaction on the other side.

>> the mail-in ballots, they mail them to anybody and they send them out by the millions. we went through world war i and we voted. we went through world war ii when we voted, and now we have a virus and by that time, it will be less and less. why are we going to vote? people want to vote but it would be nice to be able to see the people and on top of that, they should have i.d. voting. >> the big thing is criminal justice reform. obama and biden never even tried that and that was something so important for the black community. obama didn't try. he did, he may come out and say we did try but 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. >> trace: we've got 2 for 1 on the sound bites they are for president trump. he is trying to set himself up here is the law and order president again and again, what are your thoughts on that? >> it is clearly a decision he

has made and very much appeals to his base, a lot of people who are disturbed by the protests that have in some cases devolved into rioting and looting and tearing down statues. on the other hand, you look at the polls, the fox news format, "new york times" poll that are out and it indicates -- you see the president behind nationally by 12 points in a fox format, 14 points in "the new york times" poll behind almost all of the key swing states and the key issue seems to be race relations. the tom wolf since the murder of george floyd. and when it comes to the economy by a narrow margin, people trust trump more than biden. when it comes to covid by a narrow margin, people trust biden more than john but when it comes to who is better, who do you trust to handle race relations, trump is losing to biden by double digits. so the law and order certainly

appeals to his base, but the hard line he is taking doesn't seem to be appealing to the mass majority of voters out there. >> sandra: so go back to the sound bite you first heard there, from the president last night talking about mail-in voting. he said the mail-in ballots, they mail it to anybody and they send them out by the millions of making a very clear where he stands on this issue. he went on talking last night to say that he believes mail-in voting poses "the biggest risk to a fair election in november." >> they were two points i'd think about that. one, i have considered a lot of other groups, there just isn't a history of fraud with mail-in voting. fewer than 1,000 cases since 2000 with billions of votes cast, so i think it is for 500 cases and all of them very minor and the fraud doesn't particularly advantage one party

or the other. you see in some cases utah, couldn't be a more red state has all mail-in voting, and it doesn't seem when you vote that it does for one party over the other and it doesn't seem to be fraud in one direction or the other and i guess the other point i would make, the president says we voted in world war i and we voted in world war ii, yes, those were huge crises for the country but it had nothing to do with voting. people weren't going to get attacked by the germans because they were voting. but there is a danger obviously of covid and the spread of the disease with voting in person this time so i'm not quite sure i understand the point there when it comes to people voting during world wars. >> trace: you go back to 2016 and there was all this excitement with the trump campaign i know you look at people think there is this fatigued coming off of the riots in the coronavirus and i think wrote in "the wall street journal" and put this up here and said quoting here the real picture of

the tulsa rally was not the empty seats so much as the empty faces. the board looks, the yawning and phone checking as if everyone was reenacting something, hearing some old song and trying to remember how it felt a few years ago when you heard it for the first time. in other words, the whole point here is is there were away when you see the president down in these polls nationwide, is there may be just this fatigue factor that figures into that? >> i don't think -- the polls are significant. the fact that the president is down nationally which matters less than the fact that he is down substantially in swing states, but the bad news for biden is this is late june and the election is until early november so a million things could change between then but if i am on the trump team and i'm sure they are, you take it seriously. he is trailing joe biden right now, no question about it and what is he going to do to change that? it seems one of the best

possibilities is clearly when they are counting on is at a certain point, this ceases to be a referendum of trump versus trump and how trump is doing on race relations or how trump is doing on covid and the economic fallout from that and it becomes a choice election versus biden and one of the things they are clearly hoping especially in these debates, and you see this theme, you heard it there in the town hall the sean hannity that somehow biden is in up to the job and that once you get into debates and biden on the campaign trail every day, people may not like the president but they are going to sit there and say i just don't feel safe with joe biden as the commander in chief in the oval office. do not want to bring up the polling in swing states what we are seeing there was biden

leading against trump in those key states for the president. i want to move on to the coronavirus because this is grabbing more headlines now as we see more spikes in more cases across the country right now, even in some areas where it was not as big of a problem before, texas talking about shutting down or at least rolling back some of its reopening. i know you've got the former cdc director coming on your show this weekend, when you think about what we are seeing right now? >> it is very troubling. 40,000 new cases yesterday which if not the highest was close to the highest daily increase that we've had since the beginning of the pandemic. you hear reports of uncontrolled spread across the sun belt. in certain places for instance in houston running out of icu beds, so this is exactly the kind of thing that we saw. we haven't seen the number of deaths yet and certainly seeing the uncontrolled spread of cases

across the sun belt and when you talk to the experts, it isn't just that we are doing more testing. seeing higher positivity which means the percentage of people we test is going up, seeing more hospitalizations and it's not that the virus isn't as bad, it's just that we've gotten a little better in terms of treating people who have the virus because we know things that may work. but when you get anthony fauci saying these next two weeks are going to be critical, i think you need to take him seriously. >> trace: you mention the death toll they are, the president really is focusing on that saying the numbers have gone down and they have significantly. do you think that's resonating? >> i don't know. obviously, hospitalizations are serious great if you don't want people to die, but obviously one of the concerns are you get more and more cases, 40,000 new cases in a day, it may be young people and they may not be as

susceptible to dying from the disease, the danger is if you don't watch them and if they don't stay isolated, they can pass it on to their parents or grandparents and then the health consequences get much more serious. >> sandra: chris wallace, we will see you great if we are watching all of that. we will see you this weekend. thank you for joining us. >> trace: meantime, tensions escalating over a variety of issues and now analysts are warning of the communist regime in beijing may try to interfere in our upcoming presidential election. rich edson is live for us from the state department with more. a rich? >> good morning. u.s. officials say that much of the chinese government policies trying to influence the u.s. election happens before americans even approach the ballot box. fbi director chris ray told bret baier that much of the campaign is focused on changing americans political thought to

make them more friendly towards the chinese communist party. >> we have certainly seen in the past a variety of foreign adversaries looking to amplify controversy in this country, and they use state media, social media, some of that through propaganda, some of that through disinformation, some through fake information. >> secretary of state mike pompeo is warning american allies to avoid security and business relationships with china accepting an offer from the european union to begin discussions on threats china poses to the west. >> it is tempting for many particularly in business communities who make money in china to say we must, tensions and simply accept increasingly belligerent ccp. that is nonsense. >> china's government has denied it was ever involved in the internal affairs of different countries specifically as to u.s. election interference. as china's foreign ministry says

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>> trace: joe biden mixing up his numbers when it comes to our nation's coronavirus death toll, the presumptive democratic presidential nominee wrongly saying 120 million people have died from the virus in this country. >> they don't know what they're going to do, and a lot of people, you have unnecessarily now over 120 million dead from covid. >> trace: as of thursday, there were a hundred 20,000, not million coronavirus deaths and now blasting for the remark.

>> that's a serious error, not a permissible type of error. there's something going on. and it's wonderful to say high feel sorry for it's too bad because i do. except we are talking about the presidency of the united states. and it's just not acceptable. >> trace: biden made his comment at an event to unveil his health care proposals. his campaign is revving up for more appearances after months indoors amid the coronavirus pandemic. >> sandra: wall street executives now bracing for joe biden to potentially win the presidency. the economic downturn caused by the coronavirus pandemic and the slide in the polls convincing the some finance professionals and charles payne host of making money on fox business seeing the headlines out there, obviously so many big investors on wall street trying to manage risk and expectations, they have

to sort of anticipate what is to come in november. what are you seeing and hearing on that front? >> i've got to tell you, i got my first call from an investor on this 30 days ago and she wanted to know if she should start selling or diversifying her portfolio. you're absolutely right. the market took a big drumming on tuesday and the headlines talk about covid, but the fact of the matter is covid was up every single day in the eight days prior to that when nasdaq was up every single day and up s always something else beneath the surface that people need to know and it was a resounding victory of far left progressives on tuesday night that probably underscores the notion that joe biden even though he saying he's only going to raise corporate taxes to 28% probably will be forced to do a lot more than that. i think he is so beholden to the left that if he wins, they're not only going to undo all the economic policies of president trump, they're going to go a lot further and

considering how vulnerable our economy is right now, you have to be worried about that. if of course he wins the election. >> sandra: there's a lot of anticipation based on the presidency and who wins in november. obviously a lot of that happening when it comes to what is next with the coronavirus with the recent spikes, a lot of folks are wondering if it's going to get worse before it gets better, and now we have word in the state of texas that governor abbott has just issued an order that all bars must be closed by noon 1:00 p.m. eastern time today deciding in a statement he just put out that they believe a lot of the rise in cases is due to people congregating in bars. so if you do more than 50% of your business as a restaurant, you have to shut your doors at noon central time today. this is happening in the state of texas right now.

>> it is, and i think we knew that the cases were going to go up as we reopen the economy, but i think the rate they are going up and obviously, the young folks who for the most part have gone to those bars whether in florida or texas kind of believe listen, i don't know that i'll get it. i think i'll survive it if i do get it and it's probably one of the realities but from a governor's point of view, you have to be responsible for all of your citizens so this is a prudent thing to do. ultimately, i think as human beings, we always ultimately do the right thing so i think we will get to a place where most of society is wearing masks and trying to social distance themselves and i think abbott will probably just keep this order in as short a period as possible because the restaurants and bars are the ones that are the most vulnerable right now in this economy. >> sandra: the restaurants can still do curbside and delivery and they couldn't be at 50% of

capacity, but that is the max. also putting an end to gatherings at 100 or more people must be approved by local governments. a final thoughts on american airlines saying they're going to go back to full capacity airline seats july 1st right in the middle of all of this, said we are no longer going to distance people on our airplanes. final thoughts. >> american airlines is the most vulnerable of all the major u.s. airlines, just raised almost 10 billion in cash and that will only take them out a few months. this is a gambit on their part to stay alive as a business starting june 30th, they will ask folks if they've had any symptoms and if you want to get on that plane, going to be full capacity as often as possible so it's an interesting case study to watch but it's really for them survival of their business. >> sandra: get ready for it and have your masks ready because he will be seated next to someone else. charles payne, great to see you. thank you for hitting all of

that this morning. >> trace: in our nation's capital, the emancipation statue becoming a major flash point in the battle of her monuments, protesters so far prevented from tearing it down as they have done the statues across the country so what needs to be done to stop this? interior secretary david bernhardt is our headliner and he is on deck next. safe drivers save 40%!!! guys! guys! check it out. safe drivers save 40%!!! safe drivers save 40%! safe drivers save 40%!!! that's safe drivers save 40%. it is, that's safe drivers save 40%. - he's right there. - it's him! he's here. he's right here. - hi! - hi. hey! - that's totally him. - it's him! that's totally the guy. safe drivers do save 40%. click or call for a quote today.

next.>> sandra: it was a night of tension in the nation's capital last evening, gathering at the emancipation statue intensifying their threats to tear it down a claim monument is racist in the way it portrays president lincoln standing over a newly freed black man. authorities taking no chances installing fencing to protect that site, so what should be done to stop the nationwide destruction of statues and monuments? it is time for our headliner this morning, secretary of the interior. mr. secretary, great of you to be here this morning. so we have heard from you, heard from the president and that you plan to punish those who are unlawfully tearing down the statues to the fullest extent. how far are you willing to go to hold those people accountable? >> the reality is that the destruction of government property in a deliberate manner is a crime that carries with it a very severe and significant

penalty. and we are ensuring that when we have an opportunity, we arrest individuals and we are asking the department of justice to prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law. there are severe punishments for criminals who destroy government property deliberately, and we will be asking the justice department to utilize that. in addition, we are providing our great law enforcement professionals with all of the tools that they ask for to ensure that they can do their job to protect these resources for the american public, and we will continue to provide them the manpower and the material necessary to effectively do their job. >> trace: mr. secretary, you talk about giving your law enforcement professionals the tools they need to protect these monuments of the statues but the president says he wants the marshal's office to protect

some of these monuments and the problem the marshal's office says as they were too many targets. in the list is growing every day. these protesters saying they want different things torn down, how do you give law enforcement the tools they need to protect the vast number of monuments across this country and statues and so forth? >> the reality is i am not involved in the discussions with the marshall's but i can tell you from our end, we have engaged in a process to examine the security of our monuments, obviously certain memorials and monuments have a higher level of security, but we are in a process of doing just that, analyzing it, deciding what we need, and you are right, there are a lot of monuments and memorials that communities have placed on public lands. often with great fanfare and many of these monuments when you go back and look at them when they were commemorated in first

displayed, it was with presence at the offense. these were important to the communities when they were placed, and they will -- people can evaluate that in hindsight and processes to do just that. but the reality is our job is to protect them. >> sandra: the president did this town hall when sean hannity last night, he was asked about this, and he went on to call for retribution for people who are destroying these monuments. let's listen to the president together and i'll ask you on the other side. >> it's bedlam. they have destroyed a very important things. also talking about statues of george washington, abraham lincoln created these have nothing to do with any particular event other than they

are troublemakers or agitators and they are anarchists. in the big thing they want as they want to really destabilize our country and we won't let them. we are going to get tougher and tougher. at some point, there's going to be retribution because there has to be. these people are vandals, but really they are terrorists and a sense. >> sandra: speak more about what the president means by retribution and the use of the word terrorists as you heard him say they are at the end. >> i haven't visited with the president about that specific remark but i do believe that criminal punishment and incarceration traditionally have a number of factors associated with them. deterrence and retribution certainly be two of the words commonly associated with penal punishment. >> trace: some groups around the country have said may be an alternative solution to tearing

these things down would be to have a conversation, to look at some of these monuments and statues and see what they might be placed in museums. having that conversation with various groups who say we are not going to tear these down, but we want to have a discussion about moving them to a different place. >> at the end of the day, these are all america's property and they directed that many of these be placed into the extent that the public wants to petition the government whether it's the executive branch or the legislative branch to reevaluate these and think about them and consider them and have a process, i think that is entirely appropriate. that is not criminal destruction and that is not -- that is a dialogue we should welcome in this country if people want to engage in it. >> sandra: i know you have said in the wake of all of this

for those who wish to take down the statues, to use the proper channels to which you are describing now. what do you expect a night and in the days and weeks to come after we saw another night of this in washington last night? >> the reality is washington certainly for the emancipation memorial, washington was pretty quiet last night compared to the siege of america has so much to be inspired by and many of our great memorials and monuments than those are designed to bring us together, and they do so, so my expectation is that we will continue to protect these memorials and monuments and should congress or anyone else want to change them through appropriate channels, we will certainly comply with their

requirements, directives, and participate. >> sandra: all right, we appreciate your time this morning, thank you for coming on "america's newsroom." >> trace: the minneapolis city council is set to take its first steps to disband its police department today, what this could mean for the rest of america is a nationwide cry for police reform grows louder. plus, suggesting that the black lives matter movement should film its own political party and stop waiting for action from the democrats. our panel talks about that next. >> if you look at the permanent interests of black americans, i would say in many ways, it diverges from the interest of the democratic party. at university of phoenix,

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there in the democratic party because the democratic party is more concerned that if we go all the way, we may lose so we will sacrifice your interests and so they tend to take you for granted. when they write an essay to prove this. >> trace: wrote an essay saying democrats take black voters for granted and that the black lives matter movement should form a third party to use african-americans political power more effectively. here to discuss, fox news political analyst at a cohost of the five juan williams and former chief of staff to senator mitch mcconnell josh holmes. gentlemen, welcome to you both, let's start here. robert johnson is a very influential guy coming out and saying here's the deal, we believe that democrats take black voters for granted and maybe black lives matter should start to form its own party. your thoughts on that one? >> it's an interesting take.

reminds me, used to be a democratic black congressman who said no permanent allies, only permanent interests and i think reflecting that kind of political strategic thought that you maximize leverage when you have both sides competing for your votes. the difficulty is a historic one in which you go back to the late 50s and you have vice president nixon competing with his newcomer john f. kennedy for the black vote in a very important way because the black vote that historically has been a republican vote all the way going back to the party of lincoln. but then you come to 1964 in that campaign the civil rights act and it's clear that blacks identify with the democratic party and going forward in terms of black political empowerment, the election of black elected officials, all in the

democratic party. that is a deep historical marker for lots of black americans. >> trace: i just want to play the sound bite because this is what robert johnson things a black lives matter party should focus on. >> i propose 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 reason they were coming together as a party, they said black americans should have no permanent friends, no permanent enemies, just permanent interests. >> trace: what do you make of that? >> and completely understand and sympathize with his feeling like the democratic party has taken black clouds for granted. it's gotten worse and worse in recent years. i do however have some trouble

in the idea that we've continued to organize politically around how we look at not what we think about. i think we would be a lot better off in this country if we could figure out how both parties could compete equally in a battle of ideas. i think right now, republicans have a pretty strong case to make to inner cities across this country that have suffered for 30, 40, and 50 year history of the democratic rule and how has that looked out? 's not very good. perhaps a battle of conservative ideas for black votes would be really healthy thing for this country. i hope we can get there. >> trace: meantime, the city of minneapolis going to take its first step today by disbanding its police department. still going to have license law enforcement officers this is going to be community policing. they have vowed not to call police. got 300 or so in homeless encampments in the local parks. they have seen a little bit of a

chaotic turnout this. what are your thoughts on the minneapolis city council taking this first step? >> police reform right now is practically a bipartisan issue so popular in america, one of the great data points in terms of the polling has been the sudden shift, it is about 60% of americans now in favor of police reform in favor of police refo reform. first step because what they are doing is pulling out of a contract with the police in order to reorganize and reform. the question is how do you do that successfully and as you point out, you get things like this homeless encampment, i do you handle that interim period? as not to take away from the idea that it's so important police reform that you have on

the republican side in washington, senator scott of south carolina involved juggling with the democrats at the moment, but the democrats with him over the issue of how strong of how much reform can be possible at this moment. there's no question. >> trace: the whole premise here is minneapolis city council doesn't know how it's going to work. they have no idea how it's going to work. but it's going to be chaos or danger, going to take it step-by-step. you have mayor frey in minneapolis who sat and watched as the fourth precinct burned to the ground. started basically all of the unrest against the police and i've got to tell you, we have important ideas like tim scott because warren mentioned, unfortunately democrats are

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>> sandra: the dixie chicks changing their name shortening it to adjust the checks amid

protests for racial justice. fox news headline 24/7. good morning, great to see you. dixie chicks founded in 1989 formerly changing the name among the unrest. >> a lot is changing right now, and it's a really big deal for a company to change their name. so 33 million ambles under that, so certainly not a decision that anyone on their end is taking lightly but it's also a decision that people are really making for them because there was such a laser focus being put on anything that could be perceived as controversial and really are left with two choices, either you change your apologize or people will try and make your life really hard. the yank sponsorships and damage your career, so it's a decision that in has hit a lot of people and companies control.

in >> sandra: as far as i can see, they wasted no time, everything related to the band has now changed and this is a quote from the chicks as it is now. "we wanted to meet this moment. that was from those who know that the women in that band. >> they also have an album coming out i believe next month and they just came out with a song honoring recent protests, but i've got to point out how much has changed over the past 15 or 20 years. the band really suffered severe consequences in 2003 for speaking out against george w. bush and the iraq war. they were blacklisted from thousands of country music radio stations because they spoke out against a conservative president and now think about how things are now. you speak out against the conservative president, you are celebrated so there has been such a wild evolution that's taken place over the last decade or two, certainly the biggest

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>> sandra: fox news alert as covid-19 forces sun belt states to press pause on reopening is a new and the last hour, one state shutting down some businesses again. the governor of texas just ordering all bars in the state to close within two hours from now and in the next hour, the white house coronavirus task force team will be holding its first briefing in nearly two months. a lot happening at this hour on a friday morning, welcome to a brand-new hour of "america's newsroom." i'm sandra smith. >> trace: i am trace gallagher in for ed henry. vice president pence set to speak next hour as a u.s. hits a new daily record for covid-19 cases with more than 39,000 reported yesterday. the cdc chief sounding the alarm saying the number of cases could actually be ten times higher than the number confirmed

through testing. a notable surge scene in florida, texas, and arizona. in fact, they were more cases in that state per capita than any european country. now governors are hitting the brakes on plans to reopen more businesses. >> sandra: we will have fox team coverage for you, john roberts is at the white house but we will begin with casey stegall with details this morning. >> texas reported more than 17,000 new coronavirus cases and just the last three days alone, and the test positivity rate in this state has climbed to about 10.5% in just the last week. so to help combat the spread, the governor of the state, greg abbott issuing a new executive order that will require bars across the entire state to close effective at noon. in establishments that have more than 50% of their sales coming from alcohol. he also noted that dying and restaurants have to reduce their

occupancy from 75% to 50% starting next monday. this follows the governor's announcement yesterday that pause the states further reopening, more than 4700 people are now in texas hospitals fighting covid-19. in a figure that has more than doubled in just the last week. icu beds quickly filling in the cities of houston, austin, dallas, and san antonio. the governor also halting elective surgeries now in those cities to free up bed space. was known as governor also not moving forward with additional openings after that state too has seen an increase in coronavirus cases. arizona's icu beds capacity now close to 90%. here's the governor. >> we expect that our numbers will be worse next week and the week following in terms of cases and hospitalizations. when we make some changes, it

takes several weeks for those changes to catch up and the numbers affecting real people. him >> in florida, cases also skyrocketing for the second consecutive day, the sunshine state reported more than 5,000 new daily cases. in the seven day average positivity rate reaching 14.4% this week, governor ron desantis stopping short of saying that reopening as will be put on hold, but florida is also seeing a high number of infections among young people especially. sandra? >> sandra: all right, that breaking news out of texas this morning, thank you. >> trace: meantime, president trump taking questions in a fox news town hall last night in green bay, wisconsin,, covering a lot of ground including his handling of the pandemic and testing. >> when you do testing, you have cases but what they don't say as they were fewer deaths than there have been, way down, and our mortality rate is among the

best countries in the world. meaning it's a case that it kids is an even know -- in some cases, people that didn't even know they were sick. maybe they weren't, but it shows up in a test. >> trace: chief white house correspondent live for us on the north lawn. >> good morning to you. and about 90 minutes from now, we will have the first public briefing of the coronavirus task force since back in april the 24th, that is two months in between coronavirus briefings. the last time there was a briefing, president trump said the focus of the coronavirus task force now move toward a reopening, and they have added some new members who were going to help in the reopening although the medical team we are told is going to be there at the briefing today. the new members of the coronavirus task force include the nih director francis collins, labor secretary eugene scalia, agriculture secretary sonny perdue and health resources and services administration director thomas

ingle. of the briefing was called in the wake of the spike of coronavirus cases. yesterday, nearly 40,000 new cases reported. that is as you pointed out an all-time high. at the same time, there has been a significant reduction in deaths, the daily deaths down about two-thirds from their high back in april. in the town hall at sean hannity last night, the president said the u.s. has the best and highest level of testing in the world. in nearly 30 million people have been tested so far. the president also pointing to the number of deaths going down. listen here. >> sometimes i jokingly say you are sarcastically say if we didn't do tests, we would look great. but is not the right thing to do. we are way up and testing. but what it also shows by doing that, it shows a very low mortality rate, just about the lowest so we are right at the bottom in a positive way and i think that people are starting to see it. >> as you pointed out at the top

of all of this, the centers for disease control yesterday said the actual number of coronavirus cases could be ten times with the testing is finding. that would mean that nearly 30 million people in the united states have been infected with coronavirus at some point, and that would mean yesterday's numbers are more like 400,000th as opposed to 40,000. by the mouth some states like texas and arizona are slowing down on the reopening phase, president trump said the nation is not going to go back to the lockdowns. the president tweeting "our economy is roaring back and will not be shut down. embers or flareups will be put out as necessary." the president will not be leading the coronavirus briefing at half past noon today, it will be led by the vice president who is the official head of the coronavirus task force. also not going to be held here at the white house, it will be held at hhs. but one thing that should be pointed out his people were predicting, and these were the experts, back in the spring that has begun to the heat and

humidity of the summer, coronavirus would likely begin to die off. that clearly is not happening and that completely changes the equation. >> trace: john roberts live for us, thank you. >> sandra: for more on the breaking details this morning, top health officials seeing and rise in cases are sounding the alarm about the burden hospitals are seeing right now or may soon face. >> we are very close to overwhelming our hospitals in terms of the number of beds and also the number of icu beds, that is not a good place to be at all, and we are not the only state in this position. >> sandra: a family and emergency medicine physician and fox news contributor. thank you for joining us, getting a lot of new information right now, so try to break it down for us. i know you are sitting there in your medical office talking to

us, seeing what we are seeing and people want to know, is it coming back and? did it ever go away? is it getting worse? where are we in this? >> the volume has certainly intensified and it's so enlightening to see a governor taking aggressive action. so the virus has always been here, just making its rounds and we are going to see peaks and spikes in certain areas of the country like we see in texas, california, arkansas, arizona which is the highest number of cases per capita and also in florida. so when we see these outbreaks if you look closely, there are areas they have reopened where people are going back to work and then you have the young people who are more socially active and forgetting to wear their masks and social distancing and that sort of thing. and then we see these large parties and crowds where you can transmit the virus from one person to another so as not the entire country, a few states where we are seeing these and i commend the governor of texas were taking action, pausing

elective surgeries, pausing reopening was, shutting down the bar is where you have the close crowd of contact so we don't continue with the spread of this virus of this is the type of behavior that we need to do, the type of action we need to take so that we don't see an increase in two to three weeks. in arizona, they were at 84%, that's the goal is to make sure that we don't overburden the health care system. reached icu capacity, where we going to put all the sick people that keep coming in and especially that is a younger population? back in march, the median age of this virus was 65 and now it's down to 35 so we have to be sure to continue to adhere to guidelines, masks, facial coverings, physical distancing, continue our surveillance, or contact tracing, quarantini, those sorts of things so we can minimize the death rate.

right now, it's an increase in hospitalization and increase the number of cases. we don't want to see it go up but it will be two to three weeks before we see those numbers. >> sandra: i would like to point out that you have seen this virus first hand. have treated multiple patients with covid-19. you know the pain that this can cause especially to those that higher risk of complications from the virus. want to throw this up on the screen because this is what we are learning now from the cdc about those higher risk people to the infection includes obviously increases with age, so it can affect younger adults if they have a body mass index of 30 or higher and pregnant women. we are also learning about some of those conditions that will cause greater concern for this virus. chronic kidney disease, chronic

obstructive pulmonary disease, sickle cell disease, we have heard about these, diabetes. we are also learning about new symptoms tied to covid-19, so update us on the latest guidance. >> new symptoms, congestion, runny nose, nausea, diarrhea, g.i. upset. previously, it was cough, chest pain, shortness of breath, but any patient that comes in, covid-19 is on my differential diagnosis because in it can affect any part of the body, so we just have to continue to take precaution and if you're having severe symptoms that are persistent, that's when you want to seek medical care. but yes, was added to the ris lt of risk factors. emphysema or copd or kidney disease, then you are at a higher risk of complications,

but you are at higher risk of complications, shown to possibly put you at a higher risk coming or metabolic requirements, it could make your immune system weakened. we definitely need to pay more attention and focus on the most vulnerable groups that are now included. >> sandra: we often talk about florida and what's happening in texas obviously with the news there this morning shutting down ours but as we have arizona companies, seeing a 45% increase in net from just over 43,000, june 18th, spiked to over 63,000 on june 25th. we are watching all of it. we always appreciate your time. be well, thank you. >> trace: ripping president trump's handling of the pandemic. >> like a child.

who can't believe this has happened to him. all his whining and self-pity. this pandemic didn't happen to him, it happened to all of us. >> trace: the president hitting back at biden for a gaffe of his own. plus, new polls show by the neck and neck with trump and some traditionally red states. karl rove is here to talk about all of this just ahead, but first, president trump last night. >> he is a candidate that will destroy this country, and he may not do it himself. he would be run by a radical fringe group of lunatics that will destroy our country. and people have to know that. refinance to a lower rate? one call to newday can save you $3000 a year. with newday's va streamline refi there's no income verification, no home appraisal, and no out of pocket costs.

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>> sandra: fox news alert now, texas pausing its reopening plans and made a significant rise in coronavirus cases that includes closing all bars as of noon central time today. a short time from now and reducing restaurant capacity as well. let's bring in texas lieutenant governor on that breaking news this morning. good morning to you, sir. thank you for being here. why is this necessary? >> i am usually a fast talker as you know, been on with you before but i want to slow down a

minute to be sure everyone here's what's happening because there's been a lot of misinformation, misleading information even coming from hospital directors in its confuse some people. leadership is about being calm, not panicking, and making the right decisions to protect the life and safety and the health of the population and also keep our economy afloat in business open the best we can do. so earlier on fox this morning, they were given some misinformation that we were at 97% of our icu units in houston. that's correct. however, they normally run between 89% so the additional cases has made them crowded. however, if you look at our 7200 icu beds in texas it was between 13 and 14 of covid patients.

one of the reasons the governor made the decision which was the right decision to scale back in elective surgery, not emergency, not a heart attack, but elective surgeries with the help clear out those icu units and other hospital bed so they can adapt if the numbers continue. that's number one. number two is when you look at the positive testing, it's a factor of two things. we are doing a lot more testing. 35,000 a day on sundays. we tested 100,000 more people today, you would see a lot more positive cases. so they are out there, being revealed as they test now in almost 200 of our 54 counties as opposed to 20 counties that we were going back in april. secondly, if you look at the demographics of those people in the hospital, they are now about 50% under 50. as i was getting ready to come on air with you, the doctor said it dropped from 65 to 35.

the primarily under 50 at the same ratio as they did before it march and april and they are not dying from this as of now and let's pray and hope that trend continues. two other facts i will give you. in march, one of our main hospital system said in march, there ratio of death the positive cases was about 12%. in may, it was 9% and this month it is 9.5%. so we've increased positive cases because young people are out at bars and socializing without social distancing. they had it, i'm not staying in the house anymore, may be single and living in apartments and going to go out there and socialize and haven't been wearing masks and social distancing and they are the one spreading it but we are not seeing it so far. so far, we are not seeing it catapult icu numbers, and those are the two numbers that we watch closely. >> trace: i just want to jump

in here because i understand what you're saying here. the reasoning, you follow the data, followed the signs, do you have proof that they are contracting that's from bars and restaurants and that's why governor abbott has shut these bars down and brought the restaurants capacity back to 50%? it seems to a lot of business owners in texas that this is a little bit knee-jerk and less you have very solid evidence to back up the fact that this is actually being propagated through restaurants and bars. >> particularly in bars more sore than restaurants, here is what we know. and you guys have done a great job reporting all of this, i appreciate what fox is doing. you look at the bars and some of the areas, the beaches and other areas were younger people are congregating, the numbers are dramatically up in those areas and so do i have exact data over the last seven days of how many

people were at a certain bar and how many tested positive? we have stories anecdotally but not collected data seeing where people gathering without a lot of positive cases from that. however, it is pretty clear that since we opened up the bars and opened up some of the areas where young people congregate that they are out there more. again, we have 29 million people in texas. we expect the number to go up. we expect of the hospitalizations to go up because more people are going to be socializing that one before. again, but i look at is icu units and deaths and if we see those numbers go up, then you continue to make adjustments. i know you are wrapping me up. what he did with the right decision. >> sandra: not wrapping but i wanted to follow-up real quickly with the time that we have left, will this fix the problem? this is a tough pill to swallow for residents of your states, small businesses, bar owners, restaurant owners to shut down again. well this fix the problem or do

you see more shutdowns necessary? >> we have to adapt as we go through. what we definitely don't want to go back and as ever to go back to my lockdown. that's not the answer. the answer is if we think we see an area where we see spikes, we are going to address those areas and we will tweak and make a pause in elective surgeries as we go through. i am a small business guy. i don't ever want to be locked down again. but they also want to be safe and feel comfortable, so that's why i wanted to clarify the numbers for you. yes, positive rates are up, mostly young people, not dying in so far we can keep on that trend that we can get back to where we were just a week ago fairly quickly, but right now, let's take a week, ten day pause and let's watch those icu numbers and let's watch the fatalities. the bottom line to our people of texas, they expect us to protect their life and also to protect their liberty, protect their

freedom and protect their businesses and their jobs and that's a tough balancing act and that takes, leadership that is optimistic, based on data, and moving forward. still moving forward with a slight pause ahead of everyone else and going to watch these numbers but going back to a lockdown, that would have to be something catastrophic and we don't see that in the future. >> sandra: lieutenant governor dan patrick, appreciate you keeping us posted, our best to the people of your state because we try to climb out of this. thank you so much, come back soon. >> trace: fox news alert on a major crime scene in the u.k. right now, police converging on a street in downtown glasgow, scotland, where they say a man stabbed a police officer and was then shot dead by another officer. the associated press is reporting that six people are hospitalized with stabbing injuries including the police officer who was in critical but stable condition created

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by a physician. so 16 players in the nba testing positive. we will have an update coming up. >> trace: meantime, despite joe biden's gaffes, fox news poll max shows the vice president either leading or neck and neck with the president and some key battleground states. former white house deputy chief of staff and a fox news contributor. is always good to see you. in its your home state, and i just wanted to start if i could with some of these polls coming out of texas here. is about who do you trust to do a better job and let's put this on the screen when it comes to the economy and immigration, the president is doing pretty well in texas as you can see, he leads they are. when it comes to race relations and coronavirus, joe biden leads. a kind of surprising because overall, he has a one point lead and well within the margin of error but is there something here that surprises you when it

comes to who would do a better job? >> not really. i think the coronavirus and race issues are difficult for the president to deal with one because he is the president and biden is nowhere to be seen except when he wants to surface so biden can pick and choose the moments that he comes forward and the president can't. let's step back. this is part of a broader drama and if you take a look not only at the fox poll's but "the new york times" polls and key battleground states, the president and many of those states is behind and in some states, it is close and within the margin of error as you say by the president is behind today. all the national polls suggest he is behind, real clear politics average is now close to nine points, six weeks ago, it was five. these things happen in campaigns. in may of 1988, george herbert walker bush was behind michael dukakis by 19 points and won by nearly eight.

a 1948, august of 1948, harry s. truman the incumbent president was behind, charting a strategy. so the question is not where our people today, but where does it regain the advantage? got some powerful tools. the president and all of these polls show tends to be number one in the campaign, namely the economy that still has an advantage. but he's got to do in my opinion three things. what does he want to do next? no president gets reelected by simply saying i've done a good job so last night, he was asked this question by sean hannity and needs to get a better answer but this is the most important thing. the second is what are the big choices that he must to make this issue about. things on which he can contrast himself with joe biden, and the least important but still important is what are the biden weaknesses he ought to exploit? things like the statements he's

made about china, weakness is on china policy for example. but you can't win unless you've got a discipline focused campaign strategy and these polls point to the president and his team needing to re-examine what they're doing and come up with a better game plan. >> trace: i'm curious because you put that board back up, your top one is what is he going to do next and he's going after obamacare now, he wants a supreme court to look at that and it's one of those issues that pulled very well for democrats and you say some political pundits think maybe that's not the best move to be going after obamacare right now. what are your thoughts on what do you think should be the answer for that tough question you just rolled out? >> first of all, he's got time to do this. for he's got to have this already is in the third week of august when he stands up in front of the american people. i realize biden doesn't have an agenda of what he wants to do. he has outsourced this. he's got these committees domestics committees. he appointed five members of the

committees. bernie and biden both appointed a cochairman and those six committees on the big issues of the campaign are supposed to figure out what joe biden believes. we don't know what he's going to do for the next four years either. both of these men are in the same place. but you mentioned health care, the president needs to have an affirmative agenda and the good news is republicans in congress have been talking about one. let's let small businesses band together and get the same discounts for insurance at big companies get. let's expand the ability of people to save money tax-free for their out-of-pocket medical expenses. let's have transparency in pricing and outcomes. they have done a lot in this regard and can explain what they're going to do more in that regard but the president has to lay out what it is he wants to do over the next four years. >> trace: you talked about going after joe biden's weaknesses. i want to play the joe biden gaffe and get your response on the other side. >> people don't have a job, people don't have anywhere to go, they don't know what they're going to do and a lot of people,

you have unnecessarily, now over 120 million dead from covid. >> trace: the president weeded out saying he is not playing with a full deck, so the president going after his weaknesses. you don't think that's effective? >> i don't think it's effective, but is number three on the list. you have to pay attention and number one, what is it on one wt i want to do. here is what he wants to do. these weaknesses like biden's inability to connect two sentences together, that is going to be an issue that is going to emerge and grow itself over the course the campaign. they've been watching these interviews that he does with local tv stations every day or two. he is not good. he is dreadful. he can't string together two sentences. when they get into the heat of the campaign in august, september, and october, we are going to see it most prominently in the debates. biden doesn't have a better game together by the time we get to the debates, same thing like you

said yesterday kevin cutler those debates and a lot of people's final perceptions of the campaign. >> trace: always good to see you, thank you. >> thank you. >> sandra: was got some breaking news now on the heels of the news out of texas now announcing a new case announcing 10,000 new coronavirus cases in the state of florida. and now they are shutting down the sails of all alcohol. now all bars are ordered to stop serving alcohol as they see the number of coronavirus cases growing in that state. we have more on this breaking news. with your phone or tablet.

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if they are part of a transaction. if you wanted to seek the freedom, that requires a political solution that would help with the u.s. government finding its release. >> sandra: now his anticipation of a prisoner swap would be why he originally thinks that he was set up. that the russians wanted to swap them for something. and i think there's any interest in doing a trade there. we are hoping for that too.

>> sandra: what is your hope for this? >> information they may not know, information they get from paul, and tend to get information back in that same sort of way but we don't share any consultative approach with the state department or any other group and next steps or worry about what they do. >> sandra: how was your family doing? are you hopeful for your brother's return? >> we are hopeful. sounds strange, but all of this is coming to the end of the trial, the dismissal of filing an appeal is all a silver lining. we are getting closer to the end then we were a couple of months ago. so hopefully in the next few months we will see some sort of revolution. >> sandra: are best to you and your family, we will continue to follow your story, thanks for joining us and keeping us post posted. >> trace: even as more states close bars and restaurants, one

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>> sandra: american airlines will not be leaving any seats empty on its planes starting five days from now. the airline adding that customers have the option of rebooking on a more open flight when and if one is available. american also adding 1,000 flights back to its daily schedule starting july 1st. meantime, delta ceo saying about 500 of its employees have tested positive for the coronavirus and ten have died from it. but an airline spokesman telling a "newsweek" the number of positive tests has decreased steadily since march. >> i hope you are able to

appreciate what we did in your state and what it means for the rest of the country now and what it will always mean to those who love and care about you the most. i am wowed by what you did and more importantly, wowed by how you did it. >> trace: the latest interview involving cnn anchor chris cuomo and andrew, getting some backlash after chris cuomo praised his big brother's handling of the coronavirus outbreak in new york. our next guest ripped that segment saying they are both awful. with me now is a media reporter for the hill and did some research and found out that 6% of the population is in nursing homes, 1 out of 200 people. about half of those who died from covid-19 in nursing homes. for those people around the country who had loved ones who died in nursing homes especially in new york, this nightly news cast thing was infuriating, to say the least. >> keeping up with the cuomo's is one nickname this has received of off the kardashian series and rightly so. by the way, the quote wasn't for

me. that was from janice dean, the fox news meteorologist who lost both her parents and nursing homes in new york. the cofounder of the intercept, not going to get an invite to cpac anytime soon had this to say. this is the most embarrassing and self-destructive things i've seen a news outlet do. i doubt even north korean state tv would allow an anchor to interview his own brother and use those airwaves to declare him a great and noble leader and let's look at chris cuomo in terms of what he said during the interview. his brother, he said of course i'm not objective but let's call it straight. look at the state and the numbers. more than 6,000 people died in nursing homes in new york state. to put that in contrast, that is more than the death toll of 43 u.s. states, 37 countries. the overall number, 25,000. you compare that to florida which has an older population, they are only have 3300.

a democratic run state with twice the population, 5500 ranked seven times less. you want to look at the numbers, they are not good looking at this objectively. >> trace: you mentioned janice dean and wanted to play what she said yesterday and get your response on the other side. >> we only saw through news reports that march 25th was when the governor put the order in for covid recovering patients to be forced into nursing and assisted living facilities. was only may 10th that he reverse that decision. we did not have funerals for them. >> trace: as you say, you lose both of your in-laws in a case like this, her husband, both his parents. it's unbelievable to think this wasn't brought up at some point on all of these appearances on cnn. >> that's correct and not just chris cuomo's show but cnn in

general, in edict because what other evidence can there be that you are not to ask the governor a question about what was arguably in one of the worst decisions we've seen throughout this pandemic on any level and another thing people aren't talking about as well is the fact that the governor waited seven weeks to sanitize the subways on a nightly basis. those subways served as careers for this virus to a four other boroughs of new york city. perhaps that's why we are seeing such a difference of the death tolls between florida, california, and new york. and mit came to a conclusion that it was a career for this virus so governor cuomo in terms of his performance, to say that he has wowed by it and how he did it showed that he shouldn't play a tv anchor anymore. he should go work for the cuomo campaign if and when he runs for president and be a spokesman because that is basically his job at this point. >> trace: could to see you, thank you.

>> sandra: the democrat led house voting on a bill to make washington, d.c., a state. what republican senators are thinking about that idea.

>> a ton of breaking news over the last three hours, and one of the big disorders of the day started in texas because governor greg abbott has said starting today that the bars, and tracked in one hour, the ban texas will be shut down. he also backing off because of

the coronavirus baking in cases there. he is telling restaurants they have to back off from 75% capacity to 50% capacity. just a short time ago we had the lieutenant governor, dan patrick, on with us. he was telling us, yes, it is a problem. have a spike in cases, but he wants to remind people that hospitalizations and i see yous, though they are up, they are still manageable. and that the death rate in texas is still low, sandra. when he is talking about is kind of being extrapolated and some other states around the country, as well. >> sandra: really interesting perspective that he added to the entire situation. meanwhile, that's happening in texas. in florida, then, in the past hour, we learned that overnight 9,000 new cases reported in that state. the breaking news they are, and now, as far as the bar situation, bars have been ordered to stop serving alcohol on the premises.

florida is taking action, texas taking action, and then the breaking news on the nba, 16 players testing positive. >> they're supposed to start july 31st, the nba season. 16 players over the past several days have dusted positive. they tested everybody. in the early part of the season, we knew that some nba players tested positive, and now 16 more, those players will be isolated. they should have plenty of time to recover before the nba season starts. the long trip the president has planned, we don't know if it is covid related or not. this just came in. but it's now off. the weekend trip to the new jersey golf club is not going to happen. it has been planned for a while. we don't yet know why. we are going to find out and dig into that. we will have more answers for you coming up a little bit later on the show. >> sandra: no reasons given just yet but he was scheduled to leave this afternoon. i'm sure we'll get more on that breaking news got the day you're on the fox news channel. it was great to be with you this morning. >> great to be with you as well,

sandra. i will see you on "bill hemmer reporting" in about three hours to bring you through the rest of the news in the afternoon. >> sandra: good stuff. we will see you then. thanks so much. have a great weekend, everybody. "outnumbered" starts right now. >> melissa: fox news alert, vice president mike pence is set to lead the first white house coronavirus task force briefing and nearly two months as the u.s. suffers a record number of new coronavirus cases for the second straight day in a row. we will bring you that live just as soon as that happens. another fox news alert, president trump issuing a new warning to vandals tearing down statues as far left protesters are now threatening to topple the emancipation memorial on capitol hill. that comes after two statues were toppled, the pres