a good day. rob: carley, good to see that will do it for us "fox & friends" coming up here in about 9 seconds. jillian: have a great day. good to see you everyone, have a nice day. bye-bye. steve: good morning, everybody, it is monday, june 29th, 2020. this is "fox & friends." hour one starts right now with this: overnight president trump pushing back on a "new york times" article about russia reportedly offering bounties on u.s. troops killed in afghanistan. ainsley: todd piro joins us live as the administration is set to brief members of congress on this later today. hey, todd. todd: steve, ainsley and brian, good morning to you. president trump say he was not briefed about intel that russia offered bounties to taliban fighters to kill troops in afghanistan. president trump tweeting intel just routerred to me that they did not find this info credible and, therefore, did not report

it to me or the v.p. possibly another fabricated russia hoax. maybe by the fake news at "new york times" wanting to make republicans look bad. the president and national security council discussed the russian bounties in late march. congress, of course now demanding more information. republican congresswoman liz cheney report something reporting on russian bounties is true the white house must explain why weren't the president and the president briefed? was the info in the pdb. who did know and when? what has done in response to protect our forces? this goes much deeper. >> we have called for a report to the congress on this. this is as bad as it gets. i don't know what the russians have on the president politically, personally, financially or whatever it is, but he wants to ignore. todd: congressman ted lieu tweeting, quote dear richard

grernl did you really tell real donald trump and vp pence that russia was paying militants to kill u.s. troops or is the press secretary lying? >> i never heard this and discussing how you to continue to politicize intelligence. you clearly don't understand how raw intel gets verified. leaks of partial information to reporters from anonymous sources is dangerous because people like you manipulate it for political gain. the a.p. reporting that the administration is expected to brief select members of congress later today. steve, anxiously, and brian, bark to you. brian: the story emanated from the fact that interrogations of captured militants played a central role in making the intel committee confident. inthedges community confident that the russians had offered to pay bowntdie bounties in 2019 ay taliban would be official. if you can call taliban official who killed an american because

they found large bodies of cash; however, the one thing to keep in mind, too. there is no proof ever in the president's utility brief. had you two one acting and one current director of national intelligence who said flat out that we have never been -- we never briefed the president on that because it didn't seem credible. k.f. mcfarland the national security advisor will be with us at 7:156789 what i find disturb no, sir matter how this turns out somebody in intelligence is telling the "new york times," maybe out of frustration or to upend and make the administration look bad. bottom line there is a schism between the intelligence community and the administration which should be disturbing to everybody. steve: well, but that's been the entire trump administration. we still don't know who anonymous is we know coming up on four years, that white house has leaks like a sieve with people inside it who simply work for the president but don't like

him. this should come as no surprise. so it will be interesting to see what sort of information the our leaders probably the gang of 8 will be released on this later today and see? they change their tune because nancy pelosi said it was outrageous yesterday that the president didn't do anything about, apparently he didn't know anything about it. meanwhile, let's take you out to seattle. ainsley: can i weigh in on that? steve: absolutely. ainsley: ric grenell who was dni ted you don't understand how raw intelligence gets verified he said that to congressman ted lieu really you didn't tell the president? no. i never heard of this. you don't understand how raw intelligence gets verified. i read that as because when you hear what the president says he says intel didn't find it credible. so they didn't tell me. they didn't tell the vice president. ric grenell didn't know. so it sounds like it wasn't credible. if they did have this information it didn't go high enough to where it would reach

the president's desk oar be in his daily briefing. brian: both could be true. carter scholar with the cna worked for joe dunford the bounty information if true could be a random initiative rather than one that reflected a well accord nafted program ordered by the highest level of government which would lead to not be in the presidential daily brief because a random initiative would not make it there. steve: all right. more on this a little later on. meanwhile, let's go ahead and talk about what's going on out in seattle. the very latest on that chop zone we had heard that the seattle mayor jenny durkan was going to start taking down the barricades. she said she was going to clear barriers from the chop area by sunday morning. late sunday, still up there because what's going on there right now has become very clear that the people in that zone are not being served with the city services can't get the police to

come in there if somebody is being shot at or robbed. carmen best says it's absolutely necessary for the public safety that we can respond in that area. and so now sounds like while the city wants to remove those barriers you see there reorganize hes want to call anderson park because there have been all sorts of problems right there. they want to take the protest over to the east precinct which is still closed. and although the mayor has said we are going to reopen it. the aim of the protesters is to keep the east precinct from opening how are they going to do that? they are prepared to form a human chain around the building to make sure the cops never come back. ainsley: exactly right. they marched over to the mayor's house. not every 911 call requires a police officer with a gun. that's why chief best and the seattle pd are conducting a deep review of seattle pd's budget in

accessing what function could be removed to other doiments or be removed intirlg. the protesters want to defund by 50%. brian: they do and not the only ones. in milwaukee they are defunding and diminishing police and shootings are going through the roof. in saint solution 13 people shot. there is video of two business owners sitting throughout with guns saying listen if cops aren't protecting me i'm shooting anyone that comes close to us let alone what's happening in people's homes. and the mass retirements which we'll discuss at the bottom of the hour. 272 nypd cops have retired over 100 milwaukee cops are retiring. they don't want anything to do with it. in terms of this quhop i don't know the lawsuits are mounting. >> city council going to take the chop zone down on friday agitators won that one. then they said it was going to

happen on sunday. agitators won again. now they are saying it's monday. do you know what happens when you keep moving the goal post, right? the goal posts keep moving. we don't have any confidence that this is going to end any time soon. now, i will tell you that we have a very capable police force that could probably go in there but we believe they probably have a standdown order. so this city has gotten so progressive here lately that i talk to my friends who own restaurants and other businesses i can tell you the crescendo keeps increasing here with people saying we want out. brian: but instead new york has a good idea let's do the same thing there they have an occupy zone which they welcomed because they want to defund the police. in seattle they want to defund and close down precincts. they want social workers in milwaukee. they want to reimagine the entire thing. unless joe biden and company speak out and say that's not me specifically and that is go ho go s. going to be held to

account eventually they must be compliant with it. meanwhile as you know last week was a big week for legislation where the senate and house both proposed theirs. the house passed theirs in a simple majority. for tim scott he only got three votes from the democrats. not up to 60. therefore the republican version of police reform, law enforcement reform died. but, it might not be over. he talked over the weekend. >> while i do talk about the fact there are a lot of things in common. there are a few things that i believe makes it worse on cities, makes it worse on the most vulnerable populations within those cities. and what we are seeing manifesting in new york city today is a buy product of those concerns that i have about the house legislation. there is a reason why murder suspect 79% over the numbers last year. 64% shooting increase over the numbers last year just in new york city. when you start demonizing and stereotyping up a law enforcement as evil and bad you

start putting targets on their back. the demonizing of law enforcement is not a part of my bill, because i don't want law enforcement to demonize african-americans. steve: exactly. when he was with us last week. he was very frustrated and broken hearted that he had put so much into this and gotten so much up put from people, from stakeholders in this particular issue that he thought that given the fact that he said that he had billion 70, 75% common ground with democrats, he thought this could actually go somewhere. but he also said this has become a political hot potato and it's going to be an issue, obviously, for both sided republicans are going to be able to say going into november. don't look for anything to happen before then. the republicans are going to say, look, we tried to do it but the democrats wouldn't work with us. the democrats, ainsley, are simply going to say, look, we feel that the republicans simply didn't have enough in their bill

and we could never go along with that. ainsley: yeah. tim scott, who is the only fraternal republican senator. is he from my home state of south carolina. he sat down with karen bass, the chairwoman of the congressional black caucus which is 50 black legislators that discuss issues that reflect their community. tim scott met with her this is waterfall thing because this is about compromise and we need to save lives and we need to talk about this republicans and democrats together. he said the difference is the republicans, they say no chokehold unless the officer's life is in danger. democrats want to say absolutely no chokehold at all. >> and the other issue tim opposes allowing the victims of misconduct at the hands of police officers to be able to sue the police. instead maybe we can compromise bile suing municipalities or counties or states. steve: you know, anxiously, the other big thing is the democrats want to strip police of immunity so if they are involved in something when they are doing their job they have immunity.

the democrats want to get rid of that. republicans say absolutely not. there would be no incentive to a police officer ever to step into the fray unless he is protected and his bosses have his back. brian: i think we should understand what is happening. this isn't subtle difference between the way you view police and the way you view law and order. we are actually witnessing what happens when police pull back. this originally was a situation which i welcome in this country where we are looking at racial iniquities and talk about things that may be in our society that we can balance out by creating an awareness and a discussion. and now we all of a sudden said all cops are bad. now push them back, defund them, lessen their responsibilities. legislative the numbers and guess whether a? they have a degree of pride. they understand what they are doing on a daily basis. they might be overextended. not only are they not getting credit for doing stuff that would normally be out of their

auspices they are getting discredited and blamed for what is going wrong. some like the bronx precincts commander even though i'm coming up on 30 years, i quit. even though 279 officers in the nypd quit. 183 in milwaukee, in minneapolis quit. let me ask you something is that the outcome you want? because giewrks welcome to the wild west in 2020. because, without police, who by the way everyone calls, everyone wants police when they need them, but no one wants them when they don't, so, you can't have it both ways. it's up to these lawmakers, everyone running for a senate seat or a state senate seat to speak up and tell us where you stand. because there's a way to make this better, and there is a way to make it worse. we are in the middle of anarchy. all these cities are change, seattle, new york, milwaukee, minneapolis. every major city is changing right before our eyes.

i can't believe we are allowing this to happen. i can't believe we are allowing our police to be the bad guys. ainsley: some of my police officer friends say that downtown, i guess it's city hall or somewhere downtown in new york, that's where you have to go there, you make an appointment. you call when you are ready to retire. they said that the phone lines have been so busy, police officers actually physically going and waiting in line hoping that they get in so that they can file their retirement papers. iit takes months to do that anda long process. some people eligible for retirement are doing that because their family members fear four their lives and they are too. steve: they did track that and there was a report out yesterday that said that the number of new york city police officers who are retiring since the george floyd killing has gone up 49% in the last one month as oppose to the year before. ainsley. it's something. ainsley: yeah. we will talk to bank did that coming up. right now, let's talk to jillian. she is upstairs and has

headlines for us. jillian: a protester now charged with murder in a deadly shooting at a louisville demonstration. [gunshots] >> gunshots at a park where people gathered to protest the death of brianna taylor. steven lopez accused of firing on the crowd arrested and hospitalized by after being shot by a by stander. lopez had been arrested at another protest less than two weeks ago. a grim milestone as the world continues to fight covid-19. global cases surpassing the 10 million mark. deaths passing 502,000. the u.s. is the worst affected country with 2.5 million cases and other 125,000 deaths. california ordering bars to close in seven counties. in pennsylvania, allegheny county is banning alcohol consumption at bars and restaurants starting tomorrow.

at least 17 states pausing and even reversing their reopening plans as of sunday mississippi state flag will soon be history. state lawmakers passing a bill to change it by removing the confederate emblem. the bill is now heading to governor tate reefsz who says he will sign it. the 1894. commission a new flag without the emblem but featuring the phrase in god we trust. people will vote in november. patriots assign ago former mvp to replace tom brady. cam newton spent the last 8 years. will will losing a draft pick for forming the bengal sideline last season. the won't be allowed to report any this season. cam newton in a patriots uniform.

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little boy right there. he was killed in his car seat when somebody opened fire on his mom's car after they were leaving the laundromat. our next guest was at the shooting scene to help the family. is he a victim's advocate and founder of solutions and resources pastor donovan pryce joins me right now. pastor, good morning. >> good morning. how are you? steve: i'm doing okay. you know, a lot of people looking in on this story are heart-broken. when you arrived at the scene, to comfort that mother who had just lost her son, leaving the lawn drirks he was in his car seat. what do you say? >> >> you kind of hold people and try to help them through each second, each moment. the whole thing itself is just so overwhelming that the air even around is overwhelming you try to help each moment, each movement. steve: can you explain to folks across the country what's going on in chicago? why so many deaths and why so

many shootings? >> chicago has always been a hot bed of one sort of another right now what we have been having for years seems to have taken an upturn. there could be several reasons. there could be thousands of reasons at at one time said there were as many reasons as there were people. in any case right now we are in a situation that we need to take care of and perhaps do asking different than has been done before. steve: right. pastor here in new york the number of shootings is going through the roof ever since george floyd was killed. is that having an impact in chicago as well? >> well it, has an impact on the people in chicago. the crime in chicago in terms of the shootings or homicides has kind of been on the rise even before that even during covid. and so i would say is that is part of the problem.

with this young man killed in his car seat a couple of days ago. >> baby. steve: it sounds like it could have been two rival vehicles shooting at each other and he and his mother were unfortunately caught in the crossfire. i understand with. so moms you work with the mom also go up to the gangs and they will say my son is dead and i don't want that to happen to you. it's potent coming from a mother but is anybody listening? >> well, unfortunately things like that don't happen often enough. and if you do it enough, then, of course the law of averages is going to mandate that somebody is going to listen unfortunately, it's not done enough, not done on a widespread area. there are so many things and so many people that need, perhaps, to converse with each other to come together with each other to hold hands and to hold hearts with each other. and, unfortunately, it takes a while for people to come together. especially in a world where there is so much going on right

now. steve: sure. absolutely. i know that you have had a very effective message there in chicago because you arrive at the scene and you are not wearing a uniform. a police uniform that is to say. >> no, sir. >> and that just gives the -- you know, there are a lot of people who are not comfortable talking to the police. which is something you have found, right? >> absolutely. there is a risk. there is a lack of trust. there is a lack of confidence. in the police department. which is something that needs to be worked on. and, perhaps, me standing in the gap in the interim helps a little bit with the communication process definitely on scene and perhaps heals a little bit at a time. steve: indeed. folks would like to move forward and help support your organization flint firefightersa website go to solutions and resources.org. pastor donovan pryce.

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brian: glad you are up. and i hope you are dressed. here is what the headlines right now. denver police arresting three people suspected of burning a pedestal of a civil war statue. it was toppled last week amid protest of george floyd. one of the three being held on suspicion of second degree arson. and today a montana man is in court for allegedly toppling a 10 commandments monument. anthony weiner wrapped a chain around the statue attaching it to his pickup truck before tearing it down. he drove off, leaving it in the street. the driver now facing criminal mischief charges. ainsley? ainsley: thank you, brian. the number of coronavirus iinfections passing the 10 million mark globally. united states top spot in deaths including texas, arizona set new daily record for infections. here to break down the pandemic

is fox news contributor and author of "make america healthy again" dr. nicole saphier. good morning, dr. saphier. >> good morning. put up a picture of 17 of our states have paused reopening plans there is the map. take a look at that and see if your state is on there you probably already know already if they paused reopening doctor sapphire what what is causing all of these new cases? >> well, ainsley, florida, texas, and california comprise about 50% of the new cases through the our entire country. when we break it down even further from there, arizona, mississippi, and south carolina are actually leading new cases per population. what does this tell us? this tells us we are doing more testing than ever before, over 500,000 test as day being conducted. anxiously, also evidence of increased viral transmission, most of it contact tracing apps are showing us a lot of it is occurring in indoor social gathering settings, specifically bars and night clubs.

so just like we talked about several months ago, we need to just look at not only states but at counties and see where there is increased viral transmission and the states are doing what they need to do. they need to go county by county and limit some of these tight-knitted indoor activities to lessen the spread of the virus. ainsley: what do you make about the american academy of pediatrics they recommend that schools do reopen with the goal of having students physically present. >> ainsley as a mother you are a mother. i was extremely happy to see what the american academy of pediatrics put out talking about school plans in the school. they said whatever we do, we have to have a primary goal of making sure these children are physically present in school. ainsley, you know how strong i feel about this, that social interaction is vital for our children's development so i was very happy to see they were supporting that they also gave some recommendations and they even broke it down by pre-k to elementary to high school and some thoughts of what they can do. the bottom line is we will not

eliminate the spread of this virus. our goal is to mitigate the spread of this virus until we have more treatment. and until a vaccine is available. so, again, we are going to continue to have new cases. and we are going to continue to have to maintain some level of social distancing that does not mean we need to shut down school. it does not mean we need to shut down our economy again. it means that we just need to be mart, remember how this virus transmits and do what we can to lessen the spread. ainsley: there are so many factors there. my teacher is a school teacher. if we don't have school parents who have to go back to work who keeps their children. a lot of them don't have people to do that or day care options or other people that can come in and baby-sit. that's quinn issue. also zooming. parents are not equipped to do. this especially if your kids, i mean you're concerned with your middle son because is he at the age now where he really needs a teacher, right? >> absolutely. i mean, so i have three boys. one is in college. one is going into 3rd grade. one is going into first grade.

i will tell you my two younger boys have a hard time with the zooming. and they need to be able to have their teacher standing next to them and showing them how to do things. interact with those children on the play ground. zooming is not a long-term solution which is why the american academy of pediatrics does not recommend it. they do say we need to make sure we have that option say a member of that home sick. we don't that child going into the school system. we don't want them missing school. make sure they have thaption o covid is very different from the flu when it comes to children. children play a major role in transmitting flu during flu seasonal. it doesn't seem like they have the same role when it comes to covid-19. and we have to keep that in mind. this is not same thing. children are less likely to be severely affected. and also less likely to transmit infection of covid-19. so, really, it's adults. we're the ones responsible for transmitting this virus and we need to act accordsly to to make sure we are reducing the risk so our children are are not suffering because of.

ainsley: yes, pray for a vaccine shortly, too. thank you, dr. sapphire, great to see you. >> thanks, ainsley. ainsley: the nypd under siege. glass bottles thrown at officers responding to call. former rurej nypd officer dan bongino is going to join us. is he furious. and is he next.

steve: new york city police department under siege debris and bottles thrown at officers responding to call of shots fired in the area. the pba put out this tweet. this is what a light touch looks like. police officers responding to shots fired job in harlem last night were met with this. new york city mayor. new york city speaker corey

johnson and company should be held responsible for surrendering our city. ainsley: this as shootings across new york city reportedly more than doubled last week compared to the same period last year. brian: here to react fox news contributor and former nypd officer dan bongino. dan, th the headline in the "new york post" h editorial fresh sis new york city is spiraling out of control. do you see the same thing? >> brian, it's not like this hasn't happened before. anybody who is a new york city resident in the ed koch david continue kens mayorships there shaw. this thousands of people murdered a people on the streets in new york city. again, anyone can look this up on the internet. it's out there for you to see. i know liberals have a tough time with history and all. they may want to check this out. now, listen, we should argue as a country and we should about public policy and things like taxes and things like that. one side of conservatives lose the argument, it's probably not going to result in your

immediate death or anything like that, thankfully. that's not the case with arguments about policing. when you attack the police, depolice neighborhoods and outrageously argue to defund the police, people will literally i do. not figuratively. not some fairy tail movie kind of way. real world people will lose their kids. so much going on right now with this. it's not just one thing. the abandonment of broken windows policing which i know you know about. you know, aggressive policing. i don't mean physically aggressive. i mean aggressive in that they're pulling criminals off the street. the abandonment of that. this is going to get a lot worse. it's a real shame good people are going to get hurt by. this when you look at the violence in the streets and lawlessness with vandalizing statues and pulling down public property and the guy we just did a story a little bit ago about guy hooked up a rope to his truck and the 10 commandments

statue pulled that down. he has been arrested. this is an election year issue ultimately. when you look at what happened in congress last week where the democrats stopped the republican senate bill and the democrats passed something that absolutely has zero chance of passing in the republican senate. people will have binary choice in november, won't they? >> steve, it's not like hasn't happened before either while we are on the whole history note. we have had presidential elections in the late 1960s flip entirely on the law and order issue. this is -- it's not complicated. history books have been written about this kind of thing. just one more point here. again, just that we changed our mode of policing from aggressive policing where we are actually locking people up for breaking the law. but now these attacks on the police you are seeing actual uniformed officers pulled off the street number one. seeing a brain drain at the top where experienced 20 and 30 year police officers who keep in mind, steve, they can retire

after 20 and 25 years many of them. they are saying you know, i might have stayed two or three extra years. it's not worth it now. there is no public support. they are losing that finally these political attacks on cops are killing the recruiting. so, not only are you losing people at the top and losing people in the middle. your pipeline of young good quality people who come into the pipeline to be cops, yeah, i'm going to do something else instead. i don't need this job to be attacked by de blasio all day. thanks. ainsley: dan, to that point 272 officers are retiring between may 25th and june 23rd of this year. that's 49% increase since the same time last year. when steve was reading that intro to you and he was talking about how cops were responding to a shooting, shots were fired and they went there and then all these bottles are thrown at them. nowadays if you were still on the force, what would go through your mind if you got one of those calls and you knew you had to go there? >> i mean, everyone is going to have to go with backup. each individual precinct and

burrow we had task forces. i was in brooklyn north there was a task force. can you imagine if every job you go to god forbid a shooting, an assault, auto rape a domestic violence. you have to call in the task force, ainsley, on any given night on the 75 precinct in brooklyn we were backlogged 20 or 30 jobs that's how busy the precinct was. can you imagine now you are backlogged and every single job you have to call the task for backup? ainsley: how many in the task force? >> typically three or four in a van and roam around the neighborhood to provide brooklyn to provide help. can you imagine now? you just had your car stolen. you call the coming. yeah. we will get to you. we will be there tomorrow morning at 7:00. tomorrow morning? ainsley: is that because more are retiring? people are not signing up? >> absolutely. i just had a friend down who just retired a couple months ago. he was helping me out with something at my house. do you know what he said? thank god he got out when he

did. he was going to stay. do you know how much experience is being lost. he is a gang officer. look at tattoos and figure out who knew each other. gone now. you could have had him five more years. peak experience. now in the wind and hundreds more doing the same thing. i'm telling you people are going to get hurt and killed -- ainsley: can i say one more thing? then why doesn't these police departments with guys that have long records of misconduct, why are they still working for the force? why didn't they clean those out and we wouldn't be in this position, right? >> yeah. i mean, listen, nobody disagrees with you. that's where i said we have to work better -- the unions have to step up here. they know hot bad cops are i'm not one of these guys who think we should disban police unions they do good things as well. keeping quotas out of policing and policing for profit. yes, the police unions do have to do a better job saying listen, this guy is not one of us, i'm sorry. but you have got to go. you are destroying the profession. brian: it is kind of interesting

to see democrats coming out against the union but they are doing it against this one. dan, thanks so much. >> thanks, guys. brian: meanwhile jillian mele is supposed tpoised to give us alle breaking news. jillian: four former minneapolis police officers charged in george floyd's death are due back in court. derek chosen will appear remotely from jail charged with second degree murder. the other three accused of aiding and abetting are expected to appear in person. all four could enter pleas. a texas sheriff running for congress claims a postal worker dumped his campaign fliers in the trash. fort bend county sheriff troy nell posting this video on twitter. shows a driver getting out of the truck and throwing something in the dumpster. the sheriff tweeting this picture of a flier he says he found inside. is he calling on the postal service to investigate. they have not commented on the claims.

>> first player coronavirus still dealing with side effects three months later. his sense of smell still hasn't fully recovered. the utah jazz player intends to play when the season resumes. ggober. >> it is known for touching all the press mics. he tested positive just days later. arizona healthcare workers are showing their appreciation for law enforcement amid the pandemic. first responders hanging up posters and ribbons at several police precincts as part of their operation blue ribbon initiative. >> our local departments came around and supported us with parades and clapping and cheering. it really comments a lot to us. so, we decided covid is getting crazy right now here in arizona. so we need to show our support to the heros that supported us. ainsley: grand canyon state

seeing 4,000 new cases on sunday. a look at your headlines. send it back to you. steve: all right. jillian. thank you very much. meanwhile on this monday morning get the "foxcast" as we start this holiday week. adam klotz joins us right now. hey, adam. adam: good morning, guys. what we are track something going to be extreme heat over the next couple of days piling up middle of the country and stretching farther out west. bringing elevated risk of critical fire danger. that's an area you are looking at out across new mexico and arizona. it's going to be very, very dry. that with dry lightning. gusty conditions could lead to wildfires before it's all said and done. that's that is an area paying attention. to say very extreme heat i was talking about. especially in the northern plains, temperatures running up into the 90's. heat indices going to get up to 105 degrees and looking at temperatures the 90's getting close to triple digits. yeah, getting into the holiday weekend, guys, it is going to be feeling like summer across the

entire country. brian: some will say it actually is summer. adam: some would say that. ainsley: god bless america. fourth of july this weekend. thanks,adam. the minneapolis city council voting to dismantle the police department. but they are also getting private security paid with tax paired dollars. a former officer turned congressman sounds off next. and it doesn't stop there we're also here to help look ahead that's why we're helping members catch up by spreading any missed usaa insurance payments over the next twelve months so you can keep more cash in your pockets for when it matters most and that's just one of the many ways we're here to help the military community find out more at usaa.com

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brian: after advancing a measure to abolish their police departments. city council members are spending thousands of dollars per day to hire their own private security. can you believe this? fox news confirming the city has spent, the city 63,000ness just the past three weeks. our next guest is a former police officer of 23 years. and has a message for the defund police movement. joininjoining me now congressma, former police officer as i mentioned. what is your message for the defund police? which is happening? >> well, i think, brian, that's hypocrisy at its best, right? city council votes to abolish the police department and then hires taxpayer funded private security to protect them. what about the families and children in the city of minneapolis that need that protection? and i think that minneapolis,

the business owners and the citizens have some grave concerns of what is happening in the beautiful city of minneapolis. brian: try to wrap your head around this. you are trying to get better policing, better law enforcement by giving them less money and less tools and the first thing you usually cut back is training. >> i think that you need to invest in your police department, and that's invest in the best practices, transparency and accountability and performance matters. that's what community policing does it. builds trust between law enforcement and their community. and it starts with leadership at the top. >> you sacrificed a lot. you were shot. >> i was shot. i was shot off duty in '95 and another gun incident where criminal pulled a trigger while the gun was pointed at me and it malfunctioned and i was literally fighting for my life. brian: and that's something that sticks with you but you are still in to service obviously

serving as congressman. they did an estimate. since the george floyd killing, the 20 largest metropolitan areas have suffered $400 million from rioting and looting. so what do we learn from this? where do we go from here? >> i think we are a nation of law and order. out republic was established by laws. the lawlessness that is happening. the rioting, the disrespect for one another has to stop. mob rule does not take over this country. and i think that's a dangerous precedent. and there is a lot of people standing up to that we have the ability in this country to look forward and look at the prosperity and freedoms and the opportunities that this country can afford all of us. and i think that's what we need to strive for. brian: exactly. the lawnessness is not getting anywhere but might give an idea -- you know this

congressman pete stauber. hopefully people will be listening to you thank you so much. >> thanks, brian. so much. have a wonderful day. brian: wanting personal security while letting the city be without it. we reached out to the minneapolis council for a statement but did not hear back. maybe we will hear some names soon. still ahead on our show, mike huckabee is going to be here talking about politics and how much the trump administration has to do in order to get back into contention to get another four years in the white house. and k.t. mcfarland. is it true about this story about russians paying taliban to assistant our men anassassinate. we will talk more the next two hours. hours. don't move. pproved, hours. once-daily 3 in 1 copd treatment. ♪ with trelegy and the power of 1, 2, 3, i'm breathing better.

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ainsley: overnight the president pushing back about a report russia offering bank accounties on troops. brian: brief members of congress later today. where is this going, gillian? >> so far, guys, president trump is really placing the -- bounty on the heads of u.s. service members on the front lines. president trump says the reason he believes he wasn't briefed is because that existing intelligence was not credible enough to warrant moving up the

chain to get to the presidential level. but now lawmakers, national security officials on both sides of the aisle are demanding to know why not? congressman ted lowe tweeting dear richard grenell that's the former acting director of national intelligence, did you really not tell real donald trump and vp pence that russia was paying militants to kill u.s. troops or is the press secretary lying? richard grenell responding via a tweet i never heard this and disgusting how you continue to politicize intelligence. you clearly don't understand how raw i object tell gets verified. leaks of partial information to reporters from anonymous sources is dangerous because people like you use it for political gain. now, lawmakers are demanding an accounting of what went wrong saying if the president is telling the truth, there may have been a major intelligence failure. house speaker nancy pelosi is taking the reigns on this issue. take a listen. >> we have call call called fora

report to the congress on this. this is as bad as it gets. i don't know what the russians have on the president politically, personally, financially, or whatever it is. but he wants to ignore. >> well, the white house now scrambling, the national security council sighing overnight that they were working on looking at these claims to see if there is any truth to the matter at all, you know, whether there is underlying intelligence that verifies this that president trump wasn't briefed on we will get back to you, brian, ainsley and steve with this developing story all morning. >> that's right. gillian turner outside the white house where it's a beautiful day in washington. thank you very much. if somebody in the house did know, why didn't they tell the president? good question. kt mcfarland former deputy national security advisor going to join brian for a chat on this big topic coming unjust in about 10 minutes from right now. >> meanwhile a grim milestone as the world continues to fight

covid-19. cases over the 10 million mark. deaths passing 502,000. the u.s. is the worst. we are the most affected country with more than 2.5 million cases and over 125,000 deaths california has ordered bars to close l.a. county after what happened in other parts of the country. governor also recommending but not requiring 8 other counties follow suit. dr. nicole saphier joined ainsley earlier to discuss the increase in cases. we need to just look at not only states but at counties and see where there sin ceased viral transmission and the states are doing what they need to do. they need to go county by county and they need to limit some of these tight-knitted indoor activities to lessen the spread of the virus. >> at least 17 states pausing and even reversing their reopening plans as of sunday. let's bring in mike huckabee, fox news contributor and former governor of arkansas. good morning to you, governor.

>> good morning, great to be with you. >> great to be with you, too. i'm sure if you live in one of these states it's heart-breaking because you -- we went through all of this and now they are pausing the reopenings and businesses need get-to-get back to business but at the same time we don't want spikes. how can governors respond propghtsdly? >> well, i will tell what you they are not going to do. they are not going to completely close their economies again. that's not on the table, i don't think, for anyone because the negative effects of that not only financially and economically, but the negative effects of that to the mental health of the people, and the devastation to people whose jobs disappear, they are not going to do it. i think dr. saphier was exactly right. you need to be very specific in localizing where the problems are. then you need to be prudent in making sure people have good information. rather than just a joan blanket we are going to close every bar. maybe it's close the bars in places where a lot of young

people are hang out. if there is a silver lining to the cloud, it's that the cases tend to be with younger people who don't get as sick and the death rate is actually down. so, i think there is a good reason to say take this seriously. maybe look at closing some places down that people are being reckless in. doingted shutt the entire economy but be very specific and have good information when you do shut something down, whether it's a bar or a gym or wherever it may be, be sure that you have got the facts on your side or otherwise people are going to be in open rebellion. brian: couple things going on right now. we have civil unrest and war on history taking place where we have got to run for our past apologize it or take it down and pretend it didn't exist. i had a chance to talk to the president about the war on history. slavery is a stain on america. it's our original sin we get it. where does it line up now where we look back and look ahead? listen. >> my message is we have a great

country. we have the greatest country on earth. we have a heritage. we have a history and we should learn from the history. and if you don't understand your history you will go back to it again. you will go right back to it. you have to learn. think of it. you take away that whole era, and you are going to go back to it some time. people won't know about it. they will forget about it. it's okay. now, what i do like, i like the idea of building new statues to people. to say great people. people that have done something. and i think that's okay. but you don't want to take away our heritage and our history. brian: how do you deal with this, governor, you are the perfect person to ask this as governor of a southern state. there is history, relatives people that fought with the confederacy. at the same time you are african-american and look at that statue they fought to make sure i stay a slave. how do you deal with that? >> first of all, people need to understand that history is to a sizzles what memory is to an individual. if, brian, you were to wake up

this morning and you didn't know your name and whose place you were sleeping in and who these people are in your house and what you are supposed to do with yourself if you had total ammunition, you would be lost, a country, a civilization is lost if it doesn't have a sense of history. let's be specific about statues. if you are going to take it down take it down by the same process you put it up. if it was done because some county or some city government put it up. then go to that government and do it in an orderly fashion. steve: that's right. >> i think there are statues that need to come down not by a mob a hunch about of thugs taking the law in their own hands. that's anarchy. you do it by going through the process of government. if you don't do it that way, now you are inviting something that's very tragic and one observation very quickly. whatever behavior you reward you get more of it. whatever behavior you consequence you guess less of it. more anarchy in the street

reward it by letting it go. if you want less of it, consequence it, consequence it severely that works whether you are training a dog or training a country. steve: the way you put that is funny. mike, the thing about what we have seen over the last couple of weeks though with the vandalism and looting and destruction. people looking in thinking what's going on? it seems like things are so lawless. and then the news over the weekend the president tweeted out 15 images of people wanted in connection with the destruction of the jackson statue across from the white house. and then the news this morning that apparently four men have been charged in federal court for trying to tear it down if nobody else is enforcing the law

the president of the united states is going to make sure that happens. >> that's incredibly important not just a message to be sent but as a genuine consequence. people say is that a deterrent? it is for the four people that are going to be in jail. they are not going to be out on the street tearing things down. i think a lot more people need to be incarcerated for this. we don't need to lock everybody up who he commits a crime. but people who are destroying the siflts of a community. it's not they are destroying a piece of property that's bad enough. they are destroying a sense of order, safety, peace, where a single mom can't even take her child to the park because she is scared to death they are going to get accosted by a group of thugs and beaten up. and the cops won't come because thetheir stupid leadership in tr cities have told them back off. that's nonsense. this is worse than the inmates running the asylum. the looneyness people in this asylum in some of these cities are the mayors and the people who are making the decisions like the city council.

ainsley: yesterday on maria's show peter navarro was on this. we will play the clip and let you react here is peter navarro on president trump's vision for a second term, governor. >> this vision for a second term is very clear. we are going to finish what this president started. he is all about jobs. what that means is all those jobs and supply chains that joe biden offshored during his 40 years ever failure, we are going to continue to bring them hope. and then, of course, the big thing is putting an end to china's deadly sins they hack our computers, steal our intellectual property. force technology transfer. massively subsidize currency manipulation and kill us with fentanyl. president trump has negotiated a beautiful phase one deal but it only gets with some of those deadly sins we need to get back

to that. ainsley: do you agree with him? is that what the election is about? what are your predictions for november? >> i think he is partially right. i love peter navarro. great guy. i think it's an incomplete list. there are a lot of people who are going to listen to joe biden and donald trump and they are going to both say we're going to bring jobs back. we are going to fight china even though you know joe biden didn't. he is basically in their pocket. there is some significant contrast on issues that will tip a voter. for example, the sanctity of life. there is going to be a 180-degree difference between these two. if you are pro-life, you don't have a choice. you are going to vote for trump. there is also going to be on open borders vs. securing the border. if you believe we ought to control our borders, have you got to vote for donald trump. judicial appointments. if you really think that the judicial branch ought to interpret the law and not create it, you better vote for donald trump. and so there is a whole list of things. that's all the time i know we have for now, but, believe me, there are things that are highly

charged emotional issues and the president has got to get in front of them and show the contrast. brian: so you do you think, governor, that the president has done that effectively and bringing it to the fact that he is losing in battle ground states in every single poll? in fact, is he struggling in georgia. is he only up by two in arkansas. and the politico yesterday says he has told people he knows is he losing. chris christie came out yesterday and says if the president doesn't change course, both in terms of substance of what he is discussing and the way he approaches the american people, he will lose. even if what you just said is right, if that message isn't getting through and this continues. do you agree with chris christie he will lose? >> i think the only person who can defeat donald trump is donald trump. i say that his message is the right one. but the matter in which he says it becomes critically important. we are in very tense times and there needs to be that calming voice of reassurance. he can do that he has done it

before. and that's the balance he has got to strike. it's not too late. i think he will win. because he's a smart guy. he got there the first time. i think he will get there the second time. and he is running against somebody that half the time doesn't remember what he is running for. so, yeah. i think he has got some things to course correct. but, is it too late? or is he in that deep of trouble? it can be fixed. and i believe it will be. steve: ultimately, the coronavirus will be the defining issue. because, for so many people, governor, it's an existential threat. >> well, i think it's a serious issue. but nobody is going to blame donald trump because a pandemic struck the entire world. if the united states were the only place that had it, and we mismanaged it completely and just pretended it wasn't serious yeah then i think you can blame him. nobody is can say this he was

acting prior to dr. fauci restricting travel from china into here. he has listened to the medical experts. nobody can say he didn't. and he provided states and governors with exactly what they were asking for to the point that you even had guys like gavin newsom of california and cuomo of new york praising the president for the rapid response of supplying them with what they needed. so that's going to be a non-startser if that comes out as the big democrat bombshell. i would say that's going to be a fire cracker like a dud that's wet from the inside out. [laughter] ainsley: thank you, governor. always nice to have you on. >> thanks a bunch. ainsley: you are welcome. hand it over to jillian for headlines. jillian: we begin with a fox news alert. at least three people are killed in a terror attack on pakistan. killing four guards and a police

officer. they have may have been planning a long siege. all four were shot dead by special police force. the man accused of being the golden state killer is expected to plead guilty to murder and kidnapping charges. joseph d'angelo will be spared the death penalty. 74-year-old former police officer is also expected to admit to dozens of assault across california in the 1970s and 1980s. his sentence something scheduled to take place in august. evacuations are ordered for more than 13,000 people amid raging brush fires in utah. the knowles fire breaks out near sara toba brings south of salt lake city. high winds fueling the flames ravaging nearly 2,000 acres. evacuation orders are lyfted nearby as the crews gained the upper hand on traverse fire. officials say is smoldering and don't expect any more flare-ups. police believe it was sparked by fireworks. nascar wrapping up a double header in the poconos.

yesterday's poke mow's 350 rain delays and darkness. drivers trying to finish before sun set because the track doesn't have lights. in the end denny hamlin grabbing the spotlight. >> denny hamlin is going to identify jeff gordon all time pocono winner with six checkered flags at the tricky triangle. jillian: hamlin holding off harasser richold harvick.a look. steve: hurry, we are burning daylight. brian: thanks, jillian. we have been telling you about president trump pushing back on russia putting bounties on u.s. troops. k.t. mcfarland says the timing of the report is interesting. gee joins us next. to severe psoriasis,

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brian: all right. we have been telling you about president trump pushing back on the "new york times" report about russia offering bounties on u.s. troops in afghanistan. here to react and make heads or tails of this former deputy national security advisor and author of revolution k.t. mcfarland. k.t., so we find out, we still don't know if this news of the russians paying the taliban to assassinate american troops in afghanistan is true or not. we don't know if it's in the president's daily briefing orntsd. what do you think about the story as we know it? >> okay. i think i have got a couple of questions. i was in the president's daily briefing every day when i worked for president trump. intelligence that gets to that level is stuff that's been verified. it's been checked. it's been vetted. what this sounds like to me is

early reports that maybe the russians paid the taliban to put a bounty on americans to kill americans to push americans out of afghanistan. i have a bunch of questions about the logic of that to start with first of all, the russians don't have a lot of extra dollars to put anywhere. secondly the russians hate the taliban and third why give the taliban money to kill americans to push americans out when americans are already leaving afghanistan to start with? brian, i think the more likely answer to this is this some early intelligence that maybe has come from the intelligence community, hasn't been verified. hasn't been vetted. and they are checking it out now. but, at that stage, intelligence should not go to the president's desk. why? because what if he acts on it and turns out not to be true. what if this is another weapons of mass destruction in iraq that in the end turned out not to be true. brian, that's why. brian: ric grenell the acting dni said i never heard of this and disgusting how you continue

to politicize intelligence and that was in response to a congressman ted lieu. the president tweeted this out intel just reported to me that they did not find this info credible. and, therefore, did not report it to me or the vice president. possibly another fabricated russian hoax maybe by the fake "new york times" books wanting to make republicans look bad. so you noted these are the same reporters, many of which who work the whole russia homosexua- russia hoax story there has been going back decades. if you look at what happened in the russia hoax, for three years the intelligence community senior levels of the obama intelligence community said to "new york times," "washington times" stories maybe had a colonel of truth in it and blew out of proportions and fabricated and fake news. three years we were chasing around this fake russia hoax

story. russian collusion. donald trump is an agent on the russians. donald trump is not tough on the russians. not true. why is the same intelligence community doing it again? brian: closing question, if it is true, what should our reaction be? evidently ambassador khalilzad was briefed on and it gave his recommendation on what we we should do if the russians are out there paying to assassinate our men and women? >> well, then i think we take even more severe actions against the russians. then we sanction them even further. we started looking at bank accounts. we may want to start looking at which russians are in the united states, where the russians, for example, going to universities in the united states. then i think we do sort of ramp it up. if it's true. let's wait until we'll find out whether it's true or not. brian: we will find out. if all started when one official said there was a seizure of a large amount of american cash at one taliban site. it got everybody's attention. and that's how this story took root. k.t., we will see what happens next.

because liz cheney among the republicans and lindsey graham who want to get to the bottom of it either way. thanks, k.t. >> thank you. brian: meanwhile straight ahead andrew cuomo dodging questions about his state's nursing homes crisis. >> do you think these senior centers are safe? >> i have taken political heat, okay? there are facts and there are politics. brian: i'm not sure what that means. congresswoman elise stefanik says he needs to be held accountable. she joins us next. ...and new adventures. you hope the more you give the less they'll miss. but even if your teen was vaccinated against meningitis in the past... they may be missing vaccination for meningitis b. let's help protect them together. because missing menb vaccination could mean missing out on a whole lot more. ask your doctor if your teen is missing meningitis b vaccination.

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steve: state of new york is looking into a outbreak. the cluster of cases apparently tied to a high school student who attended a drive-in graduation ceremony after a visit to florida. since the event on june 20th. that individual and four others in attendance of that graduation have all tested positive for covid. joining success elise stefanik. good morning. >> good morning, steve. steve: that's unfortunate. you know, you went down to florida, came back, next thing you know he is actually at the

event sounds like that's where he got the symptoms. >> the sad part is that he investigating the graduation. the governor continues to be held accountable for the thousands and thousands of seniors who lost their lives because of the failed and fatal nursing home policies so, yes, of course, we need to contact trace individuals that attended that high school graduation ceremony, but it really have hypocritical that the governor is pointing fingers at this high school student. that's right ar if you are comig state from a state having a spike you have to self-quarantine for two weeks. that's the mandate for those three states. congresswoman you were talking about what governor cuomo is taking a lot of heat for here in new york and regarding the

nursing homes and that is after after a period of time after somebody was released from a hospital with covid, then they were released back and they could go back to their nursing home which exposed potentially all the vulnerable people we're supposed to be taking care of. >> yes. it was a fatal policy and most importantly it did not follow federal guidance from cms. it was very clear that a nursing home should only accept a positive k0e6d patients if they were able to isolate them and did they had adequate ppp and testing. new york state has not been transparent and family members of seniors who lost their lives have not gotten answers but most importantly were not even made aware when there was positive covid cases in these senior living facilities. they're is bipartisan outcry for answers and transparency both at the state and federal level. last week the new york state assembly of the new york state

senate started having hearings on this. and of course the federal level i as many of many of my colleagues have called for independent investigation from the feds into new york state's failed policy. we also need to see that at the state level. but i believe what's most important is that it has to be independent and it cannot be conducted just by one of governor cuomo's top political allies which would be the attorney general of new york. steve: sure. he has been asked about it a lot. i have heard him on his daily news capsule where essentially is he giving updates on the coronavirus where he has blamed the federal government we were just following the federal government guidelines. but, let's back unjust a moment ago to when you were talking about the attorney general of new york. you do not trust the attorney general of new york to fairly look into the governor? >> well, you know, again, i think it's important for both the federal government and new york state, but what i want to focus on is an independent

investigation. either the department of justice or health and human services. it needs to truly be independent and not political. what i think is interesting, steve, is you started off the question talking about who he has blamed. he hath s has not just blamed the federal government. he has blamed the journalists. he has blamed "the new york post." he has blamed the healthcare workers. he has blamed seniors. he blamed president trump. he blamed republicans in congress. this is about him pointing fingers. these families deserve accountability. they deserve transparency and they deserve answers and most importantly we need to need to make sure as policy makers this never happens in new york state or anywhere again. steve: indeed. because, congresswoman, we all know people who have died in new york nursing homes. >> we do. and i have spoken with constituents. these conversations are absolutely heart breaking. who have lost one or both senior parents. steve: it's terrible. congresswoman, thank you very much for joining us today. >> thanks, steve. steve: by the way we did reach out to governor cuomo for a

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ainsley: it is already the end of june with so many issues addressing our country, the pandemic, law and order. a number of factor could say situate the voters. steve: let's talk about the current state of the race fox news analyst lawrence jones joins us right now. lawrence, because of the pandemic and the lockdown and people are keeping their distance and joe biden is in the basement most of his day and night as well. it just seem like the campaign has started yet. even though he is the guy versus trump. >> yeah. and good morning, guys.

i think it's fair to say that the campaign really hasn't initiated. what is clear is that because americans are at home and they haven't been able to go out is that their eyes are open. and the way that they look at the world and the way that they look at the country is much different. you know, it wasn't just the pandemic, but it was the state's abuse of power. it's the way that they look at policing. it's the way that they were affected. people weren't allowed to go to church and work. and they have been able to look at their government officials in a different light and the one thing that i hear from people is that they want to change if yint meensz accepting the status quo. they don't have a stomach for that. brian: the one thing we are understanding, too. this all started with george floyd and it started with having raciaequity.

black lives matter is probably the most popular organization that has emerged from. this the way of getting their message out was expressed yesterday with chris -- on chris wallace's show. here is hawk newsom. >> i'm not encouraging people to go out and hurt other people. that's not what i'm promoting. what i'm talking about is systemic inequality. what i'm talking about is america treating crime defunding police and looking at crime from the perspective that it's a health crisis. brian: do you know what he is trying to say? >> no, i don't. here's the deal. when i got involved with politics it was during the tea party movement. during that period of time you had all these local groups that wasn't a heirachy. but the media would always find this fringe person.

they would say that represents the entire tea party movement. i think in many cases, it's the same with black lives matter. their leadership structure and the way that they operate, they have their own agenda. it is not about the black lives matter like the people that are on the street that are peaceful protesters or marching about. so when you have people like hawk, he is the same guy who said the other day when val demings who used to be the orlando police chief also being considered for vice president that she shouldn't be considered for vice president because once you are black and you become blue being a police officer, then you are no longer black. i don't think the majority of black people that are at home or the ones that are marching peacefully believe in that type of ideology. and so i think it's important to separate the fringe group that had their own radical marxist agenda from the people that are on the ground. ainsley: so he is saying don't treat crime with policing. treat crime as a health issue

and if that's the case, how do you fix that? how do we heal this country in your opinion? >> yeah. well, so, i think there are two separate issues. obviously there are mental health issues. and i think it's important that we do not send law enforcement officers that are there to combat violent crime out to do the job of mental health professionals. i think it's a real important statement to make when i talk to law enforcement officers and going on police ride alongs that they are overworked and doing things that they obviously should not have to do. and so, i think that is a separate conversation. but, when people are committing criminal act, you have to arrest them. if they are committing violent crime and terrorizing their communities, you have to go after them. but if we are going to have a conversation about drugs, and different mental health issues, i think it is an argument to make that you should be sending social workers to do it. but, i don't think you have to take the police budget to do it.

there is plenty of line items that city councils have to eu78 prove. if you want to have a dedicated effort to mental health, then it's time to create a department that is responsible for that but i think mixing the two becomes very complicated. steve: all right. joining us to talk some politics on this monday morning, lawrence, thank you very much. >> thanks, guys. steve: you bet. it is exactly 17 minutes before the the top of the hour and jillian joins us with a fox news alert. jillian: that's right. good morning. let's start here. two oklahoma police officers are fighting for their lives after being shot during a traffic stop. tulsa police say the officers got into a confrontation with david anthonyware. that'ware they say pulled out an and fired. both officers are in political condition and undergoing surgery. ware is on foot and considered armed and dangerous. a mask manhunt is underway for him right now. we will keep you updated two. people shot near seattle's cop-free chop zone overnight

according to the seattle police department. both men are in critical condition. protesters were called to clear the area last week after violence broke out numerous times. however, reportedly, hundreds of protesters are refusing to leave. today president trump is meeting with defense secretary mark esper to discuss plans to pull nearly 10,000 u.s. troops out of germany. the move would cut u.s. military presence in europe by nearly 30%. german chancellor angela merkel criticized the plan insisting troops protect american interests by stopping adversaries like russia. dallas maverick's owner mark cuban calling on the nba to push back the start of next season. >> i have always been a proponent of starting on christmas day because that's when we go to broadcast television. whether it's christmas day or possibly a little earlier because part of the thought process is hopefully there is a vaccine by then. jillian: the 2021 nba season currently set to start 1st

after the current season ends in orlando. jillian: hand it oveorlando. ainsley: let's hand it over to adam klotz. adam: holiday weekend fourth of july around the corner. really warm temperatures piling up across the country. currently already sitting close to 80 degrees in kansas city. the other big story we are going to be paying attention to for the next several days is extreme fire risk across the dessert southwest stretching up into the inner mountain region and even getting into the southern rockies. everything there highlighted in pink boxes. there is critical fire warnings there which means the humidity is very low. gusty winds possibly some dry lightning that could spark those fires. that's going along with that heat that i'm talking about before it's all said and done today from those areas already warm. climbing up into the 90's. you add in the humidity inned middle of the country running into the northern plains. the heat indices getting up to

105 degrees. as you said earlier it. is summer. it feels like summer. and it's going to be a hot one here for the next couple of days. back out to you. brian: beats winter. i'm pro-summer. thanks so much. adam. meanwhile last night i hope you were kind enough to watch 10:00 fox nation presented. interview with the president of the united states. bud knap and jonathan put together this in four days oftentimes with these specials it takes maybe four weeks. they were able to put together clips and did an incredible job. i had the easy part. one of the quells i was able to ask the president get away from politics for a second. talk about the first moment when you realize you are president. brian: do you remember the moment when this became your office, when this became the place you lived? do you have one of those? >> i do. i remember the first night more than any other night and any other time when i walked up and you know the lincoln bedroom is right next to where i stay.

and you think of the history, and you say it's my first night at the white house. and you really have to grow up with the white house, the president the white house. all of the sudden first night out of four years. now we are into it three and a half years, and we have an election coming up, but, at that time it sounded and seemed so far away. brian: one thing is pretty clear, i thought, too. he really wants the next four years as much as he wanted the first four. i just think that he is thirsting for that meanwhile, what made america great season five is now out on fox nation includes a two part series on sam houston women's sufferin woj 1919. we look back at their right to vote they should have gotte gotn 1776 or 1789. and for 99 cents can you join now fox nation and be a true

member. i know you are tired of netflix and watching everything over and over again. this stuff is brand new and in a time in which we are questioning our past. we can look back and see some of the positive things that happen to make america what it is today. steve: you know, brian, some of that stuff on net flixz is from 50 years ago. this is brand new. you just did the interview and did a great job. brian: right. steve: making headlines all over the place. check it out. ainsley: definitely worth watching. good job brian and all the folks who helped you put that together. we have been telling you about colonel allen west recovery from a motorcycle crash. now is he auctioning that bike off once it's restored for our veterans. he will join us next ♪ ♪ [ engines revving ] ♪

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ainsley: alive by the grace of god lieutenant colonel allen west thankful to be alive after a motorcycle crash this last may. using this accident as an opportunity to help struggling veterans. he will be fixing up his bike to auction off for charity. he joins us with more. good morning, colonel west. >> good morning, ainsley, how are you? ainsley: i'm good. i'm glad that god spared you and you are doing okay. how are you feeling? >> i'm doing very well.

it was three weeks ago today i had surgery on my right shoulder because my socket bone was completely destroyed and so they had to go in and reconstruct the socket bone. ainsley: that's a painful one, isn't it? >> you know, look. i just doing three miles before i came on with you all so i'm doing well. ainsley: three miles on the bike? >> no, three miles running. ainsley: good for you. so you are you going to go get back on a bike or are you done. >> my motorcycle days are over. i have been riding motorcycles since 1958 when i was a young lieutenant over in italy. i don't want to put my wife and daughters through what they had to go through. all they got was a phone call that said i had been in a motorcycle accident and i will be transported to a hospital in waco that was the only information they had. they had to drive about an hour and 20 minutes from dallas area down to waco with not knowing. ainsley: not knowing anything. >> not knowing. ainsley: so scary. tell us what you are doing now to give back. >> sure. the mighty oaks foundation is

headed up by former recon marine chad robocho. dear frind friend of mine. i sit on the board. faith based organization that works with ours veterans who are struggling with post-traumatic stress. and they have a successful success rate, ainsley. i have a good friend also down in south florida by the name of taco. and he customizes motorcycles and probably a couple weeks after the accident he got in touch through my wife angela and said he wanted to get the bike. he wanted to restore it and customize it. and he said he would be willing to auction it off and just asked me what charity why like for the proceeds to go to and i told him the mighty oaks foundation. ainsley: that's so touching. you told our producers my life was saved and i want to continue to save lives for others in uniform. that is beautiful. thank you for your service to our country, too. how can folks find out about it if they want to look into putting a bid in? >> well, it's going to get

picked up this week. so we're in the early stages of everything happening. so, i will give a call to taco and make sure that we post the information out there on my social media so that folks can understand how to put a bid in but i think he is going to do a great job and i'm also donating all of my motorcycle riding gear, leathers, jackets and everything with it. so, it will be a full complement. ainsley: you know. of us collect different things, things we grew up with that we cared about as children or or parents cared about and passed along to us. for me i love collecting antiques that were important for my mother and grandmother. for you love this bike. tell us the story about the bike so when they buy it they have a personal touch? >> this motorcycle is a 2016 victory cross-country 8 ball. and as a matter of fact in 2018, polaris corporation said they would no longer make the victory motorcycle line so it is a classic. but it also has a customized

paint job which includes all three of my airborne wings, sets of that on the front. my artillery cross cannons and also the seal of the united states emergency i think taco is going to do his best to preserve that and he will make it a sweet slick looking motorcycle. ainsley: if you are interested in it mighty oaks.org or colonel west's social media. jack this price up so we can give a lot of money to veterans. thank you so much, colonel west. >> god bless you. ainsley: god bless you. so glad you are here. congressman dan crenshaw and kayleigh mcanne. kayleigh mcenany.

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for when it matters most and that's just one of the many ways we're here to help the military community find out more at usaa.com brian: overnight president trump pushing back on the new york times report about russia offering bounties on u.s. troops in afghanistan. jillian turner is live about a block from the white house with an update from the national security council. jillian, white house is asking what does the president know and when did he know it and you have a better idea. reporter: well a few minutes ago i spoke with a senior national security official here at the white house who confirmed to me that first off president trump was not briefed on this russia bounty intelligence, they tell me the reason the president wasn't briefed on this is because the intelligence community department and agency heads had not reached consensus. what that means inlayman's terms is that raw intelligence reports

rarely make it up the chain to the president of the united states. everything he gets from the intelligence community is carefully reviewed and vetted and discussed, and the heads come to an agreement about it before they decide to raise it with president trump. that is not stopping lawmakers and other officials, national security officials both sides of the aisle now from asking why the president wasn't briefed on this. lawmakers tweeting overnight, at the former director of national intelligence, richard grenell did you not tell president trump and vp pence that russia was paying millions to kill u.s. troops or is the press secretary lying and richard grenell responded via twitter and he says i never heard this and it's disgusting how you continue to politicize intelligence. you clearly didn't understand how the leaks of partial information to reporters to anonymous sources is dangerous and because people like you manipulate it for political gain

now lay maker lawmakers are saying if the president is telling the truth here this may be a major intelligence failure. take a listen to house speaker nancy pelosi whose leading the effort. >> we had calls for a report to the congress on this. this is as bad as it gets. i don't know what the russians have on the president political ly, personally, financially, or whatever it is, but he wants to ignore. reporter: so, now the national security council spokesperson tells me that they are working around the clock right now to try and verify the veracity the truth essentially of the intelligence that has been leaked out publicly. obviously, brian, ainsley, steve before it was ready for primetime. ainsley: thank you so much, jillian. yeah, so when you look at all of the facts and you read all of the tweets and read everyone's reaction it sounds to me and i agree with k. t. mcfarland who by about interviewed earlier she

said if you listen to richard grenell, he said i've never heard of this. there is a protocol for raw intelligence that has to get verified because before it makes its way up the ranks. the president said he had never heard of it. the vice president said he had never heard of it and then the president tweeted that the intel did not find it credible so that's probably why it didn't make its way up. possibly another russia hoax the president said. lindsey graham the senator from south carolina says congress is going to get to the bottom of this. here is k. t. mcfarland. we'll toss it to her now. >> i was in the president's daily briefing every day when i worked for president trump. the intelligence that gets to that level is stuff that's been verified, that has been checked and vetted. so the more likely answer to this is this some early intelligence that maybe has come from the intelligence community, hasn't been verified, hasn't been vetted and they're checking it out now, but it's that stage

intelligence should not go to the president's desk. why? because there's an x on it and it turns out not to be true. what if this is another weapons of mass rest duck in iraq story that turned out in the end not to be true. brian: so dmetri peskoff he is the vladimir putin spokesperson said if we were asked to act on this diplomatically i'd give a response but i'm not going to respond to a news story we know nothing about this i'm not responsible for this the russians deny it and then the taliban, hardly credible but came out and said something kind of interesting. these kinds of deals with russia intelligence are baseless. our killings and assassinations were ongoing so they were admitting they were trying to assassinate us before, ongoing years before and we did it on our own with our own resources and that changed after our deal with the americans and their lives to secure we didn't attack them we've lost two americans this year, 10 in 2019, 16 prior to that, so where this came from

is making a lot of people question because the president said he never heard it and the vice president never heard it, the current dni never heard it and it makes you wonder how does this story get out? steve: the new york times ran it as they run a lot of stories by the way while there have been a number of service personnel killed in afghanistan, it is unclear whether or not this bounty program, if it exists, actually resulted in any loss of american lives. there were, however, two people injured, shot, in seattle overnight. near the "chop" zone, once again and while the mayor had made it very clear at the conclusion of the last work week that that" chop" zone she was going to clear the barriers by sunday morning, by sunday afternoon, the barriers were still there. the problem is they're realizing they've got to be able to get in there but the protesters want to stay there and it's interesting because now apparently what they're going to do the

protesters are currently they've got the tent encampment over at that cal anderson park but that has become pretty much a mess so what they are going to do is refocus everything and they are going to shift away and go over to the east precinct house, ainsley, where obviously its been boarded up for a couple of weeks, and what they want to do is they want to make sure as they protest police brutality , do you know what? we don't want the police to go in there so we're going to link arms and we're not going to let the police in there. we'll see how long that lasts. ainsley: there's 70 of those concrete barriers in there and a local structural engineering firm says it'll take four to six hours to haul them off, but it sounds like they're not going to let that happen the folks in there. they want a written agreement. they want the police defunded and the mayor who says she wants to listen to them, they're not happy with her either so they marched over to the mayor's mansion and the mayor tweeted "

not every 911 call requires a police officer with a gun. that's why chief best and seattle pd are conducting a deep review of seattle's pd budget and assessing what functions could be moved to other departments or be removed entirely." brian: right, the police are the problem in crazy town which is seattle. unbelievable. the people that are paying the price are the people that try to earn a living. they don't care about democrats or republicans. they just want to be able to pay their bills and maybe make a profit. joey rodolfo is one of them he's a business owner. >> the city council said they were going to take the "chop" zone down on friday and the agitators won that one and then they said it was going to happen sunday, agitators won again and now they are saying it's monday, so you know what happens when you keep moving the goal post, right? the goal post keeps moving. we don't have any confidence this is going to end anytime soon. now, i will tell you that we have a very capable police force

that could probably go in there but we believe they probably have a standout notice so this city has gotten so progressive here lately that i talked to my friends who own restaurants and other businesses and i can tell you, it keeps increasing here with people are saying we want out. brian: keep politics out of it. keep logic into it and make sure this doesn't happen anywhere else. oops too late. and invited by our mayor in new york city we have an occupy movement right outside city hall because they want to make sure a billion dollars is cut from the nypd who already is over stretched to witnessing 272 retirements, almost up 50% from a year prior, so hopefully, people understand this isn't politics. this is law and order and sanity it. steve: you know, and brian i believe we had that, we just ran the sound bite from on the program last week and he said he was so fed up, he was

thinking about moving to arizona , and so you've just got to figure if you're living in one of these communities whether it's seattle or minneapolis or new york city, where suddenly, it seems like it's hard to get a cop to come investigate a problem you've got, how long are people going to stay there? that's why so many people are thinking about moving to the suburbs where they've got police departments that seem responsive but nonetheless, this has become a gigantic election year. brian: instead of running away, stand up and let your voice be heard. don't just run for the hills. you want to stay in the city change things in the city. these people are letting law and order go by the wayside and just leaving. it's incredible. steve: but it's an election year for a lot of people and ultimately the cops are, you know, they have the light touch of policing because they are terrified that the scrutiny will wind up with them, losing their

job, and they don't want to wind up on the front page of the local paper, ainsley and they don't want to get in trouble. they don't want to lose their pension. they don't want to, you know, it's going up in smoke. ainsley: the ones eligible for retirement are standing in line trying to get that paperwork in and you're right. all of us know people that are moving out to the suburbs or moving down to florida or moving down to low tax states because they are worried taxes are jacked up in cities like new york where there's been so much looting and so many people leaving and so much of a deficit brian: for republicans you know what the problem is. if you take your democratic principles and your liberal views and you leave the city that you helped elect officials who couldn't watch your back or run a city, then you take your democratic liberal principles into a red state and then you start turning that upside down, and certainly would poison things for republican candidate. steve: you know and because of the pandemic where every municipality has a revenue short fall, a lot of the taxes are going to go up.

so in other words the taxes are going to go up and the amount of money they spend on the cops is going to go down. how is that going to end? i think we know. ainsley: it'll be interesting to find out if more states go to this no tax thing maybe jack up taxes but property takes or take that state tax out of your paychecks. brian: more lottery tickets. ainsley: let's hand it over to jillian. jillian: good morning and we begin with a fox news alert now. two oklahoma police officers are fighting for their lives after being shot during a traffic stop tulsa police say the officers got into a confrontation with david anthony ware, when they say ware pulled out a gun and started firing. both officers are in critical condition and undergoing surgery police say he is on foot and is considered armed and dangerous. a massive manhunt is underway for him right now. >> turning to extreme weather. heavy rain leaving a trail of devastation in the northeast overnight in massachusetts, streets turning into rivers major flooding forces a hospital

to evacuate patients. >> it was something like a movie like we were running away from water when it burst opal of the doors in the basement. reporter: officials say the hospital basement just outside boston was flooded with up to four feet of water. >> mississippi state flag will soon be history. state lawmakers passing a bill to change it by removing the confederate emblem. the bill is now heading to governor who says he will sign it and the current flag has flown since 1894 a commission will design a new flag without the emblem but featuring the phrase "in god we trust" people will vote on the new design this november. >> the head of the nfl players union calling out tom brady and russel wilson for practicing as covid-19 cases spike. telling usa today the workouts are not in the best interest of protecting our players heading into training camp and it could complicate ongoing talks with the league about what to do if

players test positive. teams are set to begin training camp on july 28. so see what happens there. brian: it's not the athletes from being athletes it's kind of tough. meanwhile texas is one of the states seeing a surge in covid-19 cases so what can leaders do to keep people safe at this point? what did they do wrong to get to this point? we're going to talk about that with congressman dan crenshaw. [. he used to have gum problems. now, he uses therabreath healthy gums oral rinse with clinically-proven ingredients and his gum problems have vanished. (crowd applauding) therabreath, it's a better mouthwash. at walmart, target and other fine stores.

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congressman dan crenshaw. congressman rohrabacher you concerned about texas? >> we're definitely concerned. we're always going to tell people to keep taking precautions wear your mask when in confined spaces with other people always wash your hands and social distance to the extent you can but we don't need to go back to full-on universal lack down either. it's important to note something about comparing things in texas. if you asked average americans right now, based on media coverage, who do you think is doing better, germany or texas overwhelmingly everybody would say germany, they're highlighted as this great success story in the covid narrative. reality is texas still has a lower death rate than germany, and new york they have 20 times the death rate texas does, california has twice the death rate texas does. there was also falses put out about our icu space especially in the houston area. we can surge up to a thousand more icu spaces just in the houston area, and our hospital administrators came out and said listen this is not

eclipsing our capabilities. people should take precautions, we want them to, but we're going to get through this. it's a virus without a vaccine and we always knew this kind of thing would happen especially when we had tens of thousands of people in the streets just a couple weeks ago. this shouldn't surprise no one. steve: over 300 cities, 300-plus cities had some type of rioting, looting, protest happening. how do people not link those to in fact i've seen reports saying no proof that the riots in the streets and the protests led to the riots of coronavirus. you'd have to suspend logic to think that. >> yeah, don't believe your lying eyes. everybody wants to say it was a few people hanging out at bars that caused this. texas has been reopening since may 1. we've been getting back to normalcy since may 1 and everything was declining as a result. cases were declining. the spikes happened after tens of thousands of people got together in close proximity. again, there's nothing wrong with saying that. that's just the truth and we're just dealing with it now. it's not about blaming anybody.

it's just about being honest with causes and effects. brian: congressman you also wrote a column in the national review just about this war on history and this attack on the monument, the president signed that act, to act against people who are taking these down tying ropes and chains to monuments and throwing them in lakes. what is the fundamental problem that you have with this? >> well, we always knew that this would never stop with what is an honest and frankly a good debate to have about confederate statue? i think we should have that debate but now its gone to george washington. now its gone to grant. now its gone to abraham lincoln. it's burning the flag. brian: ted eroosevelt. >> it's getting rid of the pledge of allegiance and the national anthem. they want to erase the various things that you night us as

americans and the various thins that stand for equality and justice and freedom and this was always part of the plan it has been for decades actually , and it started well back into when marxism made its way into the united states in the 60s and they're always looking to take advantage of some kind of situation to make people think their country is evil so that they can justify their own revolution. that is what's happening here, and you can't be blind to that. see the whole political correctness debate was always just some kind of nice feeling platform from which to launch this thing which is essentially a perge of american ideals and the things that bring us together as americans. we can't give into it so it's not just protecting statues and i hope our local officials start to actually do that and get police out there and say you're not going to do this any more. it's also up to each one of us. tell corporate ceo's to stop giving them and letting them erase everything about us. tell your teachers, start teaching why america is actually

good. stop teaching the countyargument to america to our kids. they're growing up hating this country and this election in 2020 is quickly becoming about that. there's one party that will teach your kids to love america and one party that won't stand up for it and that really matter s in 2020. brian: and if you want proof to your premise where is the democratic outrage as washingtons hands are spray painted red? where is the outrage that john wayne his name has to come off an airport? it's not going to stop. if you look at anybody's background, dan, people might want to give you a statue, if you did anything wrong ever, it's going to be taken down 10 years after you die. so who could ever live up to the scrutiny of any generation from here on in? >> it's impossible and cancel culture has no end. and you have to remember that. my well intention liberal friends always want to give an inch and then another inch and then another inch because they want to be liked and they

want to be liked by the far left progressives and they think they can be appeased but you can never appease the mob and this is a lesson that americans have to learn, not until the destruction of america is complete so what they're after fundamentally, again, marxism runs deep in their ideology, we know that and they've said it outloud. this isn't conjecture, antifa is based upon this fascist marxism ideology. they really believe what they say and they're out there on the streets violently acting it out. brian: twenty seconds left. you combine that with defunding police forces around the country i mean, you just put a match in the liquid gas. >> yeah, that's exactly right and i'll tell you what the communities we're trying to help the most when they go to community meetings the last thing in the world they want is less police. they want more police and they want safer communities, and democrats across the country are doing the exact opposite. brian: congressman dan crenshaw

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steve? steve: all right, great thank you, ainsley. meanwhile, health and human services secretary alex azar issued this warning about the spread of covid-19 yesterday. >> the window is closing. we have to act and people as individuals have to act responsibly. we need to social distance. we need to wear our face cover ings if we're in settings where they can't social distance particularly in these hot zones. steve: here to discuss is dr. oz , host of the dr. oz show. dr. oz, good morning to you. what do you make of the window is closing? >> i think he's right. he's arguing the reversal of this trend gets harder once the virus is widely spread when it's filling hospitals which you just heard from the congressman in houston it hasn't happened yet but they are getting fuller so we don't want to push it too much but remember a lot of these open states are not suffering like texas and florida and arizona, california that we keep hearing about and the stay-at-home orders were designed to not eliminate covid but to bend it in a direction

where we can control it so we control our destiny but we don't want to throw that away. remember the median age is 35 so yes for now there's less symptoms and if you look nationally we're not seeing more deaths at a national level but what we don't want to see older folks or vulnerable population getting infected by younger ones so being meticulous for the next two weeks to ensure we don't allow this current spread to get out of hand we'll go back to where we were headed otherwise we'll end up with more steps being lobbied for by some folks. steve: that's right. so over the next two weeks, do everything you can to social distance and wear a mask, although you know, dr. oz, wearing a mask has become political in the last couple of weeks, couple of months. >> it has. for me, it's not about politics it's about being kind. you're not protecting yourself you're protecting the person opposite you and you have personal responsibility to think what we're looking at now is sloppiness that's why closing the bars is a good idea so it encourages people to not be thoughtful about this issue and

there's folks revolting whether it's against masks or in the streets for other purposes but bending the rules and that leads to the kinds of growth here. remember in europe, think about this , they have one-tenth the cases we have here so what are they doing differently? in some parts of the country they aren't having resurgence even though they are opened up so there are differences between areas we need to again thankful ly as opposed to three months ago we have much better therapeutics, the care has gotten better with medications like remdesivir and steroids and a recent study that came out over the weekend on this we're getting a lot more information that can keep people alive if they get sick but we don't want vulnerable people especially in these high-incidence areas exposing themselves to the virus those are the folks that end up in the icu and the folks we lose steve: sure and to your earlier point about the median age of the people who have tested positively for this , has gone down. that suggests that the vulnerable actually protecting themselves. the problem is in these multi-

generational households where you've got a kid, parents and grandparents as well they go out, they do their jobs they come home, they don't wear a mask around grandma or grandpa and that is what is causing the problem. >> especially in lower socioeconomic areas here in new york city, even though they have been shut down for weeks and weeks most of the people admitted for folks that have been shut down but because their son or child has a frontline worker they had gone out and done whatever the job required because they couldn't sit in front of a computer and when they go home because they are living in more cramped spaces they infect grandma and that's what i want to avoid happening. you can't say i'm 30 years old i can go out and have a good time and for you it won't and that's why again you mentioned it and everyone is pointing out the mortality rates have not gone up and the symptoms seamless significant. we probably only have 1 in 10 people being symptomatic when they're young and we're guessing that because we don't to for sure. steve: sure i was reading this morning about a study out

of france where they looked at close to 4,000 people and they looked at hydroxychloroquine and z-pack and people had pretty good results and not as many people had the heart problems which is interesting although they stopped clinical trials here in this country, but one part about that particular study they talked about people who were taking before the virus swept across the world, were taking zinc, zinc apparently in some measure protects people. can you explain that? >> one of the arguments, yeah, so zinc apparently gets into the cells that are being infect ed by the virus and prevents the virus from replicating and doing its deeds and that's one of the reasons early on we thought zinc might be effective. its been shown for the common cold to reduce duration of illness as well theoretically for that same reason so i think this study gets from infection disease specialists they are one

of the big advocates for hydroxychloroquine and again it's retrospective data but reported excellent results but let's focus on one thing that doesn't matter. if you look at zinc levels in the blood of the patients and folks with lower zinc levels did not do as well so taking zinc works for other types of viral infections. i think that should be part of the recommendations folks take advantage of you aren't going to hurt yourself with a little zinc every day. steve: by the way last week was his birthday and today, mehmet and lisa oz celebrate 35 years of wedded bliss. mehmet, congratulations. >> it was the best move i ever made, the best decision i could have made and congratulations to you and your 34th is tomorrow. steve: it is, all right good time of the year to get married, end of june. dr. oz, thank you. >> bless you. steve: twenty-five minutes before the top of the hour, president trump pushing back on reports about russia putting bounties on american troops to

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>> this is as bad as it gets and yet the president will not confront the russians on this score. i don't know what the russians have on the president political ly, personally, financially or whatever it is, but he wants to ignore, he wants to bring them back and the invasion of ukraine, so he's kissing us for putin and so totally irresponsible. something is wrong with this picture. ainsley: that was nancy pelosi. brian: i know. ainsley: of the russia stuff so kayleigh mcenany is the white house press secretary let's

bring her in. she's saying this is as bad as it gets, everything is so political. what is the real story or at least your side of the story kayleigh? >> first nancy pelosi is entirely off base. this president has been very tough on russia sanctioning russian targets closing russian consolates she's just off base on her facts there, but secondly , let's put this in the context of what she's talking about. she's talking about alleged intelligence that was never briefed to the president of the united states, and what's she doing? she's taking a report based on anonymous sourcing that was just dead wrong. the new york times was wrong, believe it or not, and she's politicizing it so the only person playing politics here is the speaker of the house, and it is truly despicable. brian: when it comes to the russian story among the people that need answers, liz cheney is the rosensteining about russia bounties and u.s. forces through the white house must explain why the president and vice president weren't briefed so when people like liz cheney who has been a very loyal allie to the

administration have questions has there been an effort already from the executive branch to brief her? >> so there will be a briefing today. i think it will clear up a lot of the false reporting from the new york times. the president has made clear he's never been briefed, two dni 's made that clear, rad cliff and click grenell, and even john bolton said he was not aware of this intelligence, and intelligence, we don't comment on it routinely but just so you know how it works its vetted and then it only goes to the president and the high level officials, when it is deemed as verifiable and credible, so i think it'll clear up a lot when members of congress are briefed today but it is truly egregious when you have anonymous sources feeling out this information on the pages of the new york times and wrongly giving them false information. steve: kayleigh do you think their sources, their unnamed sources are in the white house? we've seen that before. there's some people who work in the white house who don't like

the president. >> yeah i don't know who these unnamed sources are but it is really egregious, there's no place for this kind of leaking it does not serve the interest of the united states to go and to share classified information or unverified intelligence or any of the thousands of reports that come in on any given day that have to be assess ed for their credibility. ainsley: kayleigh, chuck schumer is urging the administration to renew the covid-19 emergency declaration. what is the administration's advice to the states that are seeing this up-tick because i think there's 17 of them now. >> so i won't get ahead of the president on the action but the president did say to me he has no interest in resending an emergency declaration so he did say that to me last week but what i'd say to the states that are reopening, this country can't afford to stay closed. we saw suicide hot lines spike, increases in drug use, people missing their cancer appointment s and cancer screenings and treatments, they have been very clear about those

consequences but i'd say we've entered a different phase of this disease. we've entered a phase where we do have therapeutics that are working like remdesivir. we secured 500,000 treatments of that, course treatments as confirmed bisect azar this morning. we've entered a place where we're catching people in the communities not in the hospitals at late stages so we're at a place where we can handle the cases we're seeing president always said there be embers but the cure cannot be worse than the problem. brian: just moving ahead real quick, on something else that popped up last week. obamacare just by the way works its way through the court system the president had an opportunity to leave it be because we're in the middle of a pandemic or let it go through the core system and possibly be front and center , and could be exterminat ed in october. do you worry about the wrong message being sent? especially to seniors at a time like this? >> what i worry about are democrats here, who have not come to the table with the

viable option. let's remember democrats left obamacare behind, and in the mind of democrats obamacare is a thing of the past. you have two-thirds the senate democrats who want government takeover in healthcare, many in the house, so they're the ones who left it behind this unconstitutional law, if it's is as our administration maintains, we have to find a better solution. we've put forward graham cassidy and good healthcare plans that would bring down costs but democrats want to eliminate medicare entirely because that's exactly what so-called medicare for all would do. brian: but kayleigh that's true but they would like to keep obamacare intact until whatever it is the administration that wants it out, but there's no replacement, the skinny deal died two and a half years ago, so is this "the rock", is it politically detrimental to go forward with this , especially when the court case is going to be heard in the fall. >> well, no because i think once the american public looks

at this and says if democrats pass an unconstitutional law several years ago then it's on democrats to come forward with this solution democrats got us into this to begin with and their solution of government takeover of healthcare is not the answer. we've put forward solutions under this president. he's worked to bring down healthcare costs. democrats need to come partner with us instead of embarking on this radical trajectory that would eliminate affordable healthcare for all. steve: kayleigh what the people don't know is where you are standing on the north lawn if you look to the right you could actually possibly see the andrew jackson statue, which is just across the street from you, and the president signed that executive order to protect monuments over the last 48 hours , and he also tweeted out i think there's a little more than a dozen or 15 of those fbi wanted posters of people who were involved in damaging that particular monument. just out of curiosity what has the response to the fbi been as

the president has tweeted that out and i'm sure their phone is ringing in some measure >> yeah, well the response to the american public is to support this proposition. look, none of us support lawless ly ripping down our statues and it took this president to secure a statue of a former democrat president andrew jackson from coming toppling down. he's signaled this weekend with these charges from the doj that there will be law and order in this country. you can not rip down statues you can not deface ghandi and the lincoln memorial and tear down statue of andrew jackson. there's no place for that kind of lawlessness in society. not going to happen in president trump's americas. ainsley: kayleigh the president tweeted out that tweet yesterday and took it down if you played it, it was a guy saying and another woman or -- brian: white power. ainsley: the woman was yelling obscenities because she doesn't like the president at some of the guys in the parade. what's the president' response. did he know what he was tweeting did he accidentally tweet that?

>> so the president did not hear that phrase and that portion of the video and when it was signaled to him that this was in there he took that tweet down, but he made very clear to me that he stands with the people of the villages, our great seniors men and women in the villages who support this president. he stands for them and his point in tweeting out that video was to stand with his supporters who are oftentimes demonized so he took it down but he does stand with the men and women of the villages. ainsley: okay thank you kayleigh for being with us. >> thank you. ainsley: let's hand it over to jillian upstairs with headlines. jillian: good morning we start with this. chicago is following a weekend of gun violence that left 15 people dead. among them, a teenage boy, a 10- year-old girl and a 20-month old baby. pastor jonathan price consoled that baby's parents and joined us earlier to explain how the city can deal. >> there are so many things and so many people that need to perhaps to convert with each other to come together with each other to hold hands and to hold

hearts with each other and unfortunately, it takes a while for people to come together. especially in a world where there's so much going on. jillian: more than 45 other people were injured during the weekend shootings. >> new york city police officers coming under attack while responding to a shots fired call . >> [rioting] reporter: you can see in that video glass bottles and debris thrown at police cars, and the police are slamming bill deblasio for surrendering our city. >> the pane union is expected to officially ban americans from traveling to europe tomorrow. according to spain's foreign minister the covid-19 safe list could include 15 countries and citizens would not be allowed to travel to countries in the eu starting on wednesday. the list is based on the country 's ability to stop

the spread of coronavirus. it's expected to be reviewed every 14 days. i'll send it back to you. ainsley: okay good deal thank you so much. well still ahead boeing now cleared to begin critical tests of its 737 max jet. when could they return to the air? we're going to be live with a preview coming up next but first let's check in for what's coming up at the top of the hour. reporter: hey, violence targeting new york city police, bottles thrown at cops responding to calls as big apple season alarming rise in crime coupled with more officers retiring all amid a growing movement to defund our police plus facebook under fire as more companies pull ads saying the social media giant is fail ing to stop the spread of hate. how big a hit is the company facing, and the move to take down or rename confederate monuments across the u.s. gaining steam. the question everybody is asking , are we on a slippery slope? i'm trace gallagher all that and more, coming up at the top of the hour. 300 miles an hour, thats where i feel normal.

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download the xfinity stream app today to stream the entertainment you love. xfinity. the future of awesome. ainsley: good morning we're back with quick headlines and we start with a fox news alert. we have just learned one of the men shot near seattle's " chop" zone overnight has died. a hospital confirming the news just moments ago. the other man who was shot is in critical condition. >> denver police arresting three people suspected of burning the

pedestal of a civil war statue that was toppled last week in this protest over the death of george floyd. one of the three is facing attempted arson charges. >> and today, a montana man is in court for allegedly toppling a 10 commandments monument and police say anthony weimer wrapped a chain around the statue attaching it to his pick-up truck before tear ing it down and he drove off leaving it in the streets, brian brian: all right, thanks, jillian i'll take it from here. boeing 737 max jets could take off for critical test flights today. the planes have been grounded for two deadly crashes last year , remember. steve: meanwhile jackie deangelis from our sister network fox business joins us live with what this could mean for the company and they need help, jackie. reporter: oh, they absolutely do good morning. look after being grounded for 15 months, boeing 737 max set to start these key flight tests possibly as soon as today as you said. the goal be putting these planes back in service around the endoscopy of this year. now, boeing has conducted many

of its own tests and critical fixes to its fleet of the 737 max jets to get to this point, but this is of course a set of tests by the u.s. air and safety regulators that would validate if the software and hardware changes the company have made actually comply with certification standards and now the faa is emphasizing there is still more evaluations that could take several more months and many more seals of approval need to come but so far this is the most definitive steps putting these plains back into the air. just to get to this point boeing has conducted more than 2,000 hours of flights to test all of these fixes, but remember, after this plane has killed 346 people in accidents, a lot of people worry that boeing has this big black eye and there's still a big question, are passengers going to want to ride the 737 even with the fixes, are they going to be able to put all of this in the past in the rear view mirror and trust these planes especially at a time guys when flying is causing a lot of

additional anxiety because of the coronavirus as well. so we shall see. ainsley: we will thank you so much jackie. we have more fox & friends just moments away. brian: i believe her.

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never miss a minute of fox and friends. what's coming up on radio? >> amongst our many guests is going to be rick perry when we joining us tomorrow. >> fox news alert, vice president mike pence urging americans americans to take options as part coronavirus cases surge across the country. more than two and a half million americans have now been infected and more than 125,000 have died accounting for a quarter of the 500,000 deaths worldwide. good morning, i am trace gallagher. >> am i am melissa francis. ed and sandra are both off today. the spike of cases in over a dozen states to put reopening plans on hold as the race to find a vaccine continues with some experts optimistic that one could be available by the end of the year. >> trace: vice president mike pence and