acting director. >> dana: that he was there for you. please forgive me, i am running out of time. congratulations to you. thank you for joining us. bill helmer. that's an american citizen the there. >> amazing story, thank you, let's get rolling here. okay, i am bill hemmer. new york city protesters demand to defund. that is the crowd throwing graph to my glass bottles at officers when they showed up to investigate gunfire over the weekend. this is today's cover of our corporate cousin "the new york post." the city out of control. "the post" reports 85 people were shot in the city and a single week.

new york city's mayor agreed that the protesters want to slash a billion dollars from the nypd, $6 billion budget and use it for social services. he says that's the goal. life outside city hall where protesters have been camping out there. >> the protesters you see behind me may get exactly what they wanted tomorrow as the mayor just announced today that he has a plan to defund the nypd. $1 billion and reallocate those funds to community services. he says he can do that will keep a new york city safe. the numbers are painting a different picture right now. violent crime is surging. the number of people shot is not more than 51% and more than 350 officers have been injured so far since the unrest began. this video from harlem shows people throwing glass bottles and debris at the police who are

responding to gunfire, gunshots. according to local reports three people come up black lives matter protest mixed with pride celebration on the 51st anniversary of the stonewall riots. one police officer popper sprayed, another fell off his motorcycle. here is the mayor this morning on the spike in violence. because of the reality of months and months of people's lives being disrupted. people lost their lives, the loss of life. the frustration. there is no parallel in history. there is a lot of factors coming together. >> of course the police union is not happy with the mayor's plan. the malevolen association releaa statement saying, the mayor and the city council have surrendered the city to lawlessness. we will find out what happens tomorrow.

tomorrow morning at 11:00 a.m. >> bill: thank you for that spirit to the west coast we go now. seattle's police chief saying enough is enough after another shooting at the occupied protest zone. two members shot, one of them died this morning according to the hospital. it is the fourth shooting. the city has been trying to start shutting down that zone but they have blocked city crews from removing any of the barricades. jonathan hunt has mourned out from the west coast. >> afternoon, bill. like some of the other shootings this latest one took place just outside the protest zone known as chop zone. at the moment it's unclear whether the protesters from shop or others from outside were involved in instigating it. some witnesses have claimed the shots were fired from a vehicle you see there that was driving toward the barriers. the police are investigating end of the police chief says whoever was behind this, it's time for

action. >> i can tell you from my own perspective we absolutely believe in the cause. we believe in black lives matter, but this situation, you can see there is danger >> the capitol hill occupied protest area has shrunk from its original site and now essentially circled the block with the abandoned seattle polie precinct is spirit as well as the nearby sports park where some of the protesters are staying intense. one of the issues where protesters as well as local residents and businesses is at the area with free food and medical supplies available has become a magnet for some of seattle's homeless and mentally ill. that has left some of the protest organizers concern to their original focus police reform is being drowned out. jenny durkan has been negotiating to clear most of the

remaining barriers as well as the tent encampment, but clearly that has not happened yet. to wrap up its worth remembering that all of these protests that have been going on were sparked by the police killing of george floyd. his name some time lost in chaos of these moments and this movement spirit >> bill: thank you. jonathan hunt. >> the cia director, national security advisor and the chief of staff can confirm the president or the vice president were briefed on the alleged russian intelligence. >> bill: the trump administration deny "the new york times" reported that the president was made aware of russia's secretly operating bounties the taliban militants for killing american stroop in afghanistan. the white house said and invited eight members of congress today for a briefing on that matter. retired army colonel, military analyst, nice to see you again. heads or tails, what's going on?

>> the intelligence community along with the special operating forces, killing a captain in the tele- band, interrogated and got this issue up, the intelligence community. the got coalition forces killed. they do their jobs, we do it all the time. these are american soldiers. this had some weight to it by march and the intelligence community brief to the white house. the issue seems to be whether there were soldiers killed. reports of two, that is the only thing in question. the issue is whether the soldier's death spirit >> bill: to have the shower

on? it's hard to hear. you have water running? >> i don't have the shower running. >> bill: the white house says the president was not briefed on it. you don't buy that story. why not? >> we are in the middle of having a negotiation with the taliban. this kind of information would be critical to the white house and the fact that american soldiers are being threatened. it'll be a normal procedural briefing with the white house. i'm not sure why they want to deny this. i know there are a lot of politics involved. why would you not brief the president? >> bill: if you could not verify the information, would you brief the president or keep that information until you could? >> it would have to be verified.

70% effective which is pretty high. the intelligence community to go ahead with something. of course he would not tell the president of united states unverified information. >> bill: general earlier today said someone got a sniff of some intel and linked into the media. could it be that simple? >> i think it is that simple and it was linked to the media. for reasons we don't know. intelligence operatives in europe also talked about the spirit someone is upset about it, no question. >> bill: colonel, thank you. we will see what we get from the white house today. nice to see you. thank you. breaking news now on covid from the state of new jersey. this is not good news here. it's more states including

new jersey are rolling back their reopening plans. they were going to do indoor dining on thursday which helped kick off for july 4th weekend. that has been halted for now and the reason being, covid-19 cases continue to rise. from california the governor has joint officials in texas and florida order of the bars shut down. some peaches and florida are said to close before the fourth of july weekend. john hopkins university's in the u.s. has more than 2.5 million confirmed cases of the virus, under and 26,000 people have died from it. casey stegall back on that story with us now. >> the white house and today that there are still coronavirus emperors as they put it. texas is certainly one of them as you know. mike pence and dr. deborah birx traveled here to texas over the weekend to meet with local health officials and also the

governor of texas, greg abbott. this came on the heels of the state logging days of record cases of new hospitalization records and also the number of new cases. here's the governor. >> we need to understand that covid-19 has taken a very swift and very dangerous turn in texas over just the past few weeks. over just the past few weeks. a daily number of cases have gone from an average of about 2,000, to more than 5,000 per day. >> bill: gavin newsom ordering barnes and seven of the states counties to close following the number of cases among young people. he urged the closer and another eight counties, but has not require that as of yet. the golden state has more than 211,000 confirmed cases. the meantime in florida the communities of palm beach county's all closing the beaches for the holiday

weekend. that state ordered to the suspension of alcohol consumption at bars. the governor is attributing the hike and new infection numbers to a hike and increased testing. and there is no mask requirement for the whole state, although a growing list of counties passing their own mandates. that includes jacksonville which starts today. that is breaking this afternoon. as we know, it's also the host city for this year's republican national convention. no doubt it will be interesting to see how that plays out. >> bill: nice to see you. supreme court striking down the abortion law in louisiana as a chief justice john roberts sides with the liberal side of the court. did they get it right? after the pandemic, much of the sports world on pause continues to be that way. baseball is coming back. trevor bauer had some very strong feelings on this. he joins me a bit later in the

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months before the planes are allowed to fly again since the faa needs to review the results. >> things are very different. we now have three therapeutics, hospital capacity, reserves from equipment. speeding our way towards having vaccines. it's a very different situation, but it's a very serious situation and the window is closing for us to take action. vehicle a warning. we will bring in the doctor, director of the harvard institute. nice to see you. the window is closing on what? >> thanks for having me on. what he is talking about is that the window is closing on action and the hot spots, arizona, south carolina, florida. a number of cases rises so quickly that unless dramatic action is taken quickly, though

states may find themselves looking at a shelter-in-place order which nobody wants. >> bill: what would be the action? >> i think there are a few things that we know can slow this thing down. any large indoor gatherings are very dangerous. bars, restaurants, nightclubs, all of those right now have to be put on pause. i believe that mandatory face masks orders are critical and states should implement that. and then you have to work on moving forward on testing, other things to slow the virus spread down. >> bill: big story about children going back to school. would you allow that today? >> look, the single biggest factor of whether schools will be able to stay open. you can open up schools anyway you want, the question is can you keep them open. the virus and of the community levels are very large, schools will not be able to stay open because they will become a

breeding ground. the teachers and staff will get sick. we have to bring the virus levels down if we have a shot at opening schools. >> bill: here is my impression watching the news, texas has a problem and so does florida and arizona, and my guess is it a month we will have that problem under control. a lot of folks moving around over the summer months, going back to michigan and ohio, new york, the commonwealth of massachusetts. perhaps the numbers start to tilt back again. if i'm right you've got this rolling tided that comes and goes at the time of its choosing. what's your feeling on that? >> i think you are right. i think there's clearly movements. we saw the states getting pretty heady heart and hours in the south and southwest. here's the bottom line, we can do something. we can prevent the outbreaks, we

can get texas and arizona under control now and prevent the big outbreaks coming back to massachusetts and michigan, ohio. we have to decide that we want to act overly take this on seriously. >> bill: are you concluding that it does come back to the states we mentioned? >> i'm concluding that if these dates become lenient and say now it's a problem in the south and not massachusetts, absolutely massachusetts will see it again. p1 they have had some pretty tough governors. gretchen whitmer. they've had a pretty hard bargain with people in that state. >> i think both of those governors have been terrific. on this issue they have been standouts and i think the governor has to take a tough line and do the right thing to protect the people in those states. >> bill: one more thing. i know you're a critic, i've got to tell you, new york has gotten better. i went in on friday and i got to tell you there was very little

weight. i was in and out in 30 minutes and i got my results within 6-8 hours. i think that's really good. am i wrong? >> you are right. new york, i don't know if their number one or one of the top in the country, but over the weekend we saw pictures of people waiting for hours in line in texas to get a test. it's on even across the country. we need to have a national program on this, every state figuring it out for itself is not the best way. >> bill: would you agree we have gotten better? >> no doubt, but we still have some ways to go. i was one of us to do better than we are doing. >> bill: nice to see you. thank you. as the debate over some of our national monuments unfold, some protesters are calling for the removal of mount rushmore before the president's visits. dusty johnson says that will not happen and he will explain why

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>> bill: president trump plans tto to mount rushmore. some native americans are protesting that trip, they say the money meant as a symbol of white supremacy carved out of sacred land taken from them. dusty johnson from south dakota has a bigger idea and he wants to make sure mount rushmore is never changed. thank you for your time. what is your legislation all about? >> let me start by saying i know america's history is not perfect and i don't have any problem putting that history and context, but these activists are not interested in context. they are interested in erasing and removing the images of these

four great presidents on mount rushmore. these activists are wrong in my legislation makes it clear that there will not be one american nickel that will be invested in their efforts. >> bill: you are going after the dollars? >> absolutely. i'm not trying to concoct some sort of bogeyman. across this country we are seeing governmental agencies make decisions that really seek to bury american history. i think now we as a country have to come together around these values that bind us together. things like liberty, freedom, equality. that is what mount rushmore is about. >> bill: statues and monuments. is there something you can do or need to do to protect mount rushmore? >> absolutely. i think we've got to make it clear that our federal government is not today and not in the future. we are not going to invest any

dollars and blowing the mountain up or giving it a new name, or shaving off those braces. washington, roosevelt, these were not perfect man, but as much as anybody and american history, they embodied our journey to a more perfect union. that is worth celebrating. as long as i'm in this job we are going to continue to celebrate those values. >> bill: is there action being taken to protect mount rushmore? perhaps graffiti events in the middle of the night's? pico absolutely. the national park service has been aware of. we have had folks like greenpeace, folks like native american activists in the past will try to pierce this national monuments. they're working overtime to keep it safe. >> bill: what will happen on july 3rd? >> it's going to be incredible. i don't know how you build a

better event than mount rushmore, the beautiful black hills of south dakota with the president of the united states, thousands of freedom loving americans. i'm going to be as happy as i can be. you will not be able to beat it with a stick. >> bill: we will see you then. thank you for coming on. i appreciate your enthusiasm. dusty johnson, republican from south dakota. >> he will not stand for lawlessness and chaos, he stands with the 71% of americans who say there's no place for tearing down the statue is that these anarchists are doing across the nation. >> bill: destroying our nation's it's monday. ready to take on this growing debate. that should be good. plus a group of pediatricians weighing in on whether students should be allowed to go home or go back to the classroom this fall. that's coming up. your home loan

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>> bill: 28 minutes away from the closing bell. we are surging right now. record-breaking spike. earlier today, that cheered up some folks. up more than 44% in umea, doubling expectations after a slump. a huge slump. the four officers and minneapolis facing charges in the death of george floyd appearing in court in minneapolis. a date set for march 8th of next year. the three officers charged with aiding and abetting, but derek chauvin who is facing second-degree murder. their next court date is now set for september. >> 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. the one that is a gentleman there who says he's the leader of the black lives movement

talking about protests. he was urging americans to consider the reasons for the protest and set up trying to vilify the participants. i want to bring in our monday team. former spokesman for hillary clinton's campaign and marc thiessen, former white house speechwriter. it is monday. nice to see you both. i was listening to the gentleman with chris wallace on sunday, i know where he's coming from but i don't know what he was asking for. the one thing he did say is that politicians, republican and democrat have failed in the cities. >> i think there is a real movement out there right now to figure out one after the horrific death of george floyd and others, how to reform our police so that we can finally put an end to the police brutality we have seen. i think there is also a very real desire out there that is

spurring these protest to look at some of the underlying conditions that are holding certain communities back. whether it is the inequities we are seeing in health care. the inequities we are seeing an economic opportunity. and yes in criminal justice. that's what spurring a lot of the protesters. i didn't say the writers, the looters. those people are being motivated by -- >> bill: the protesters are looking for policies. to our viewers, it's a covid world. gentlemen, i look at greenwich village, lower manhattan, i've been there 15 years. every election year, the marchers, it's all good. this is what i saw it earlier today. around washington square park they have a beautiful arch, you know well after having lived here. this is what they did to

george washington. this is red paint, two statues of washington. shone with him and his role as a general. you want as a statesman and politician on the right. this is what you are getting in a lot of american cities. >> this is a problem with the american left is they always go too far. instead of pushing for police reform which is what american support including on capitol hill. they go for defund the police which is a line or tear interview and instead of starting a national conversation on confederate memorials which i think a lot of people would support revisiting and removing, they go after george washington. they go after abraham lincoln, tearing down and defacing these statues. what it shows is they're not against the confederacy, they are against the union.

they are against america. they think america is racist because we have slavery and our institutions that were founded during slavery were irredeemably racist. let's start with canceling the democratidemocratic party whichs founded to get -- to get rid of slavery, to oppose the civil rights movement and defend segregation. if the democratic party, if you are roots and history make you irredeemably racist in the democratic party needs to go. >> bill: is the answer to defund the police? mark, i think i know what the answer is from you. new york's mayor bill de blasio says he will make it a goal to cut a billion dollars from the nypd. is that the answer? >> the devil is in the details. do i think we should dismantle police departments? absolutely not. i don't think there's a lot of

interest. if we are talking about taking some money for out of police departments which are stretched too thin and terms of what they're responsible for and putting those into other programs. police officers are often called to people's homes to deal with mental health issues, counseling issues. they may not be the best people for that. period may be other programs to take pressure off 911. maybe there was bipartisan support after ferguson to indeed militarize the police and take care of some of the big heavy military weaponry that some of them used. if we are talking about programs like that and putting money into programs that address some of these issues so police don't have to deal with them, i think that's a legitimate conversation for us to be having. i don't think there's a lot of support for taking all money away. >> bill: let me get mark back into this. >> i agree. we can sit down and hammer this

out pretty quickly. the problem is that the democrats should shutdown the conversation on capitol hill about this. tim scott has legislation that had a lot of things the democrats wanted to do and we all studied, we'll head schoolhouse rock. we all know how a bill becomes a law. they sit down and they compromise and they sent it to the president. the democrats wouldn't let this, even after he promised to filibuster his own bill. it seems to me that at least on capitol hill democrats care more about having the issue than having solutions. b1 let's see how that is resolved or not. "wall street journal" writes this, "even the bible is full of flawed characters. the destruction of monuments only impoverish he is our sense of history." i encourage everyone to hear it.

it's very interesting. he dives deep into the issue and it probably comes from a perspective from someone you would not anticipate. >> i think a lot about the cardinal writes is dead on. we are flawed and that we have to look at a lot of our historical figures, both the good of the bed. and learn from it. there is a difference between that and a monument that is directed to a traitor which is what these confederate monuments are. we can tear down those monuments and put them in a museum and then they will serve as a historical educational purpose, but are not commemorating the way some of these are. a lot of our leaders are complicated. i agree, we should be tearing down washington or jefferson. if we are talking about confederate generals, let's learn from them and a different way.

>> bill: even the bible is full of flawed characters. >> if we only had people who were without sin, we'd only have statues of jesus. even robert e. lee did not want to have confederate memorials. a lot of these were put up during the jim crow era to celebrate segregation. they should be gone. a few years ago donald trump said, if we start tearing down the confederate memorials then were going to have a slippery slope to george washington. everyone laughed and said, of course we can tell the difference. it turns out we can't. we need to have a national conversation but you can't do that when mobs are tearing down statues. >> bill: we will see you next monday. thank you, gentlemen. top group a pediatrician saying solution make it a priority to get students physically back in

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that is so important for access to abortion care in the state of louisiana. b1 chief justice john roberts siding with the supreme court liberal side over the louisiana abortion law. 5-4 decision that would allow doctors to perform abortions to have privileges at nearby hospitals. we just heard reaction from both sides. president of the judicial crisis network and the clerk for justice clarence thomas. thank you for being here today. thomas writes, "because we have neither jurisdiction nor constitutional authority to declare louisiana's law unconstitutionally, i respectfully dissent." the court get it right? >> unfortunately no, and as the justice pointed out you did need to get to the question of whether these laws unduly restricted abortion and this case, although i think it's clear they were lost to designed

to bring abortion up to the same medical standards that other surgical procedures were being done at. the court didn't get there. this case was being brought by abortion providers challenging those laws on behalf of their clients. they were saying no, they wouldn't want higher health standards. that's kind of a tenuous proposal. justice thomas pointed out normally the coat dumb court doesn't hear cases from someone else was a conflict of interest with the person whose rights are claiming to advance. the women who are receiving the abortions, they're the ones who is the law is designed to protect and they would have to sue if they thought it was going. they should never have gotten there. >> bill: there was a case in texas similar to this. justice roberts ruled in favor. he writes this in the majority opinion, "louisiana's law of as an obstacle to women seeking an abortion. its determination offers no

significant benefits and consequently imposes an undue burden on a woman's constitutional right to choose to have an abortion." >> yeah, i think that's what they, the majority would say. this, the right to abortion, they discounted any of the positives effects and louisiana was careful to explain all the women who had been injured and heard by the fact that they didn't have any privileges to hospitals. complications that they were able to get dealt with. it is strange that chief justice roberts changing his opinion. he didn't end up agreeing with the majority, but he said, i will go if that's because we decided that four years ago. it's a strange way that he simply slipped from his previous decision, even though he claims to still disagree with it. b1 you look at the last two

weeks, decisions that have come from the supreme court. people have wondered why robert sides with the liberals on this and that. i think what that does is it brings us around to a fundamental question. a lot of people think this is a center right supreme court. do you believe it is? or is it more center left? >> i think it's a separate question. he overwhelmingly agrees with justice thomas more than any other justice. unfortunately with the chief we see a pattern. he seems to be torn between two goals. he says he wants to calls balls and strikes but he's also afraid of the court coming in for criticism. so many of these cases like the obamacare case look like chief justice roberts changing his mind because he wants to dodge criticism for the court.

a lot of inconsistency. >> bill: you still think it's centered right? >> i think the problem is the courts, where lever chief justice roberts is and he is very inconsistent. whatever he is thinking that day and that's unfortunate on a good place to be. >> bill: thank you for your analysis. thanks for coming back today. starbucks announcing it will suspend as advertising on social media in response to hate speech. they explain more must be done to make online communities welcome and inclusive. the spokesperson confirmed there will be discussions about the best way to stop the spread of hate speech. starbucks joins a growing list of companies will in their ads from social media and that includes coca-cola on verizon. last week they announced they would ban hate speech in its ads. major league baseball getting ready to fire it up. gary back on the diamond leader, i talk with the outspoken trevor

bauer about the state of the game next. ♪

>> bill: major league baseball now set to begin spring training 2.0. they have rolled out their 60-man player pools. the league aims to start the season in late july. i want to bring in cincinnati reds picture trevor bauer. the really driving from nashville to cincinnati as we speak coming into his ninth season here. how are you doing a good afternoon to you. the obvious question, do you have any reservations about getting back in there and possibly becoming infected? what do you think? >> now, i really don't. i thank all of us really want to get out there and compete. provide entertainment for fans and do the thing that we love to do. the vast majority of the players

still play for the love of it. despite what it might seem like on social media. we have all been missing it. we all want to get out there. the leak in the organizations and everything have put together a really safety protocols for us. we're excited to to get out there and play. >> bill: how does that sound to you? how close do you get? how far do you stay away? how does it work? >> it sounds awful. it is not what we are used to. chewing gum, giving high fives and all that stuff. we are going to have to be a lot more conscious this year. but it is better than the alternative which is not playing. we are all excited to get out there at abide by the rules as much as humanly possible while not taking away from the competitive nature of the game and trying to win. >> bill: list of changes by the day. you could have a plan on monday

and it's gone by wednesday. >> yeah, i'm sure it seems like that. the health and safety protocols like you said have changed quite a bit in the negotiations over the past couple of months. at the landscape has changed. as early as a week ago, everything seemed to be dying down quite a bit. and then there's news of a couple of outbreaks in spring training facilities. it is clear that the league's monitoring at very closely and adjusting it in real time which is nice. >> bill: did baseball screw this up? >> that is a loaded question. there are a lot of different aspects to look at. i think the public negotiation part of it -- all of it is going to have to be done behind closed doors anyway. it was never going to be negotiated and finalized in the public eye. making it public from the jump when there is the first thing

happens will be a leap. and they will propose a 50/50 revenue split to get back on the field. it immediately turned the conversation from health and safety to the dollar amount. it wasn't even a proposal. it was strictly to judge public sentiment and picked the fans against the players. the other business would intentionally drive a wedge between their customer base and their product does not any sen sense. >> bill: there's a lot of money on the line. home run derby derby back in april or may. people would have -- they were watching horse games on espn, trevor. >> marbles running down the hill had millions of views on social media. i agree with you. something i try to do a little bit with my media company, momentum, we built a portable mound in the desert and through life to each other. >> bill: you could have done it. good luck to you. you guys might have a pretty

good team this year. as you know, i'm a fan, so we will be following. drive well. trevor bauer, cincinnati reds. we will talk again. set the dvr. neil, comes your way right now. >> neil: thank you, bill. at 70 cases, so little time. where do we go? looking up florida and texas and south carolina across the country that is suddenly seeing a spike in unexpected cases. right now, the difference seems to be that they are infecting mainly the young. if that could be mainly good news. the young are generally much more resilient to this sort of thing and that bedding seems to be that they will hear. all of this occurs as worldwide cases surpass 10 million. worldwide deaths, half a million in the united states, 2.5 million cases. and 125,000 deaths. it