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and alert? forebrain, from the harvard-educated experts at force factor, contains key ingredients to help boost memory, learning, clarity, focus, and more! rush to walmart and find forebrain, our #1 brain booster, in the vitamin aisle. >> in new york city. >> what we are doing will create a more violent city and we are doing it anyway. jillian: new york city votes to cut $1 billion from the police budget making it the largest funding shift in the nation.
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protesters seem unmoved as they set up barriers outside city hall, live with breaking d funding development across the country. >> joe biden holding a press conference for the first time in 89 days, how did it go, joe? >> the less healthy side of society. todd: some big changes to his campaign. shannon: going viral for spring into action to help with a crash victim. "fox and friends first" continues right now. >> very good morning, you are watching "fox and friends first". >> thank you for starting the day with us.
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new york city tasking next year's budget slashing police department funds by $1 billion. rob: cities nationwide work to replace men and women. >> the movement to defund police gaining traction is the leaders approve a budget for 2021 that includes cuts for the nypd. large groups of protesters gathered outside city hall, the occupy city hall protesters setting up barriers for a nearby construction site at using bike calls and brooms with red paint. the council announcing just under $1 billion in cuts and spending reductions for the nypd including canceling the july recruit class which would slice $55 million from the budget alone. >> with will create a more violent city and yet we are doing it anyway.
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we are also making these cuts to continue this false propagation the police officers are the gravest danger to the public as the less police offices will make the general public safer new york city. i won't be a passive participant as we undo 3 decades of good work by our predecessors. >> reporter: savings from spending cuts would be redirected to see program such as education, family and social services in communities hardest hit by the coronavirus. a similar move i city council takes the first step to defund the lapd. adopting a plan that would cut the budget by $133 million, this would be reinvested in communities of color, the city council voted to defund the police department, barriers in the chop zone were removed after two where by occupy protesters, the city have smeared demands the city council investigate a
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member for leading a protester to her home. responding in a statement saying the attack on my office is an attack on the grassroots campaigns we participated in and helps lead alongside many others. impressive victories we all won together. directed at me and my like to office, don't take it personally. in reality this is an attack on working people's move left and everything we are fighting for. barriers in front of the abandoned east precinct of not been removed. chop protesters aiming to stay inside and use it as grounds for continued bargaining city officials. jillian: thank you. todd: the department politically will have a special unit to monuments and statues nationwide this weekend. a memo exquisitely obtained by fox news says they expect an increase in vandalism, protecting american communities task force.
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>> donald trump with a warning ahead of a congressional meeting on the defense authorization bill today. the defense authorization, the list for foreign amendment which will lead to the renaming of other bad things, fort bragg, fort robert e lee and many other military bases from which we won two world wars is in the bill, the measure would require the pentagon to do that nationwide. rob: donald trump briefed on intel regarding russian bounties on us forces. however the intelligence community has not validated those claims. jillian: the white house is firing back at leakers for endangering our troops. >> reporter: the white house press secretary lashing out at
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the media and anonymous sources with classified information, saying it undermines the country up security. >> the united states intelligence committees, the source for an asset if they knew their identity could not be disclosed. >> they share information with us, some rogue intelligence officer can go cut that information on the front page of the major us newspapers. >> american officials, in large financial transactions and the taliban and. the president has been briefed, there is information in the intel community on the veracity of the allegations as adam schiff, rejected the skepticism. >> the right people to give the briefing were not in the room, the heads of the intelligence agencies about how they assess
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the allegations that were made publicly. >> former vice president biden holding his press conference in 89 days. >> the idea of isn't being brief, the dereliction of duty if that is the case. if he was briefed and nothing was done about this is a dereliction of duty. >> mark esper say although the department of defense has no corroborating evidence to validate the recent allegations regarding the line activity by russian personnel against us forces in afghanistan i want to assure you all servicemembers the department takes it seriously in any and all potential threats against us military personnel. the director of national intelligence john ratcliff heads to capitol hill to meet with the senate intelligence committee.
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rob: the pilot of an f-16 that crashed at south carolina's shot air force base is died. missouri officials say the pilot was on a routine training mission when the jet slammed into the ground and burst into flames. unclear what caused the crash. a police officer charged with killing ray to bussard brooks out of jail, half $1 million bond and will be required to wear an ankle monitor and not talk at any atlanta police officer. body cam struggling with brooks during a dui stop before his death. fired in a political move stemming from that killing. >> that was the primary motive. i received full support from the direct manager.
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i needed to be -- rob: the support of the company stop the day after her stepson was indicted on murder charges. she was creating a hostile work environment. jillian: joe biden holding his first press conference in 89 days. the former vp slammed the coronavirus response saying he would stay off the campaign trail to keep voters safe. >> i'm going to follow the doctor's orders not just for me but the country. that means i am not going to be holding rallies. >> reporter: biden says he would prefer to be out speaking one on one with response to his virtual speeches. eric trump not exactly impressed. >> everyone was falling asleep. he was stumbling through it. he has no confidence. jillian: biden responded accusations of cognitive decline saying he is frequently tested
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and looks forward to proving his ability during debates. stay tuned for that. rob: a big decision on school choice, the supreme court striking down a ban on funding for religious schools in montana the court deciding the state cannot exclude students at private religious schools from using a scholarship fund it indirectly by a state income tax credit. they overturned a 2018 ruling which chief justice john roberts violated against the guarantee of free exercise of religion. jillian: tributes pouring in for carl reiner. his career started in the 1950s on your show of shows. lifelong friend in comedy partner mel brooks saying a statement saying he wrote or performed or was just your best friend, nobody could do it better. reiner created, wrote and starred in the dick van dyke show. >> doesn't matter whether she will, the important thing is she
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didn't lose. rob: he won five enemies for that iconic sitcom it would later starring movies like it's a mad mad mad mad mad world and the oceans 11 series. he was great. jillian: he died of natural causes, 98. rob: two brooklyn lawyers and a molotov cocktail attack free on bail in terms of their release. >> nba players protesting in the streets, we will discuss.
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>> one of the two oklahoma police officers shot during a traffic stop has died, craig johnson shot in the head during a confrontation monday morning,
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the officer still fighting for his life. johnson's brothers morning their loss. >> craig's passing is a tremendous loss to our department. i thank the johnson family for sharing sergeant craig johnson with us. his sacrifice will not go unremembered. todd: suspect david where charged with murder. sergeant johnson a 15-year-old veteran of the force, leaves behind a wife and two young boys. jillian: chicago police and federal authorities asking the public's help to identify 19 persons of interest linked to arson attacks during recent riots. the atf releasing images and video of the suspects believed to be responsible. the suspects committed 53 acts of arson from may 30th into june. investigators are urging business owners who might have surveillance video colluding or arson to share them with
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authorities. rob: results from two primaries, take a look, former colorado governor john hickenlooper beating the democrat rival for senate, he will face cory gardner come november. a big upset in the house, guns right activist bogert defeating 5 term gop congressman scott tipton. quite a lead too. in oklahoma incumbent senator jim inhofe got 74% of the vote. nfl safety burgess owens declared the winner in the house primary. he would take on democrat incumbent been mc adams. the gubernatorial primary too close to call, spencer cops with a narrow lead over former governor jon huntsman. a lot of intrigue on the primaries.
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the dnc deleting and tweeting insults about the upcoming independence day event at mount rushmore claiming the iconic landmark is a, quote, glorification of white supremacy. jillian: congressional candidate lacey johnson joined us, thank you for being here, appreciate it. here is what the democratic party has to say the ten reads trump has disrespected native communities time and again. he's attempting to limit their voting rights and blocked critical pandemic relief. he's now holding a rally glorifying white supremacy at mount rushmore, a region once sacred to tribal communities. what is your response to that? >> typical election year politics. i think the democrats spent the last four years talking about russian collusion and ukraine quid pro quo, immigration and other issues affecting native americans. it is part of their campaign.
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they pulled out racism, white supremacy and things like that to get the black people vote and women votes. if democrats were really concerned about the lives of native americans they would be talking about the positive things in these communities, talking about these communities, economic development and those type of things but they native or -- never talk about real instances. they use buzzwords like white supremacy, racism and things like that in an attempt to get the native american vote. todd: here's what the governor of south dakota is saying about this tweet from the democrat national committee, george washington unified our nation. thomas jefferson wrote all men are created equal. abraham lincoln in did slavery. teddy roosevelt was the first president to dine with a black man at the white house. it is shameful for the democrats
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to slander these great leaders. are you worried cancel culture has become so powerful we run the risk of losing hundreds of years of history in just a few months? >> i agree with you 100%. america is the greatest country to be in no matter what group you are in. we did not start as a perfect nation but when you look at the progress we have made, the civil war we fought to bring this nation to gather, civil rights, the fact that a black man talking to you running against an immigrant that recently moved here. those are the types of things, opportunities america offers people, framers of the constitution had a lot to do with as we keep honoring them instead of criticizing and pointing out things like white supremacy.
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jillian: you are racing to unseat ilhan omar. thank you for joining us. we will be right back.
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jillian: gop senator tim scott blasting liberal democrats for spending him racist messages as he pushed for police reform. >> so profanity laced you can't blame 5 seconds of videos on your show because there are that many f bombs, the n-word by liberal democrats. it is the most audacious
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repugnant behavior i have seen in a long time. jillian: scott says he is open to working with democrats to compromise on a police reform bill. christopher liddel was lawyer defending his actions after he and his wife gained national attention protecting their homes. >> the rage and anger. i was literally afraid within seconds they would surmount the wall and come into the house and clean us in burn the house down and everything they have 34 years. >> st. louis prosecutor kim gardner launching a probe into the couple saying she may press charges. jillian: we are following this, two lawyers charged with tossing the molotov cocktail out on bail, appeals court reversing a
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decision to revoke the bond ordering them to confinement. the incident happened during the fight -- the height of the george floyd protest in brooklyn. four officers were able to escape unharmed. rob: the 74-year-old manager in a protest in buffalo, new york released from the hospital. his skull was fractured after police pushed him to the ground during a demonstration over george floyd's death last month. two police officers charged with second-degree assault, they pleaded not guilty. both of them are suspended without pay. jillian: 25 minutes after the are, time to check the summertime forecast with adam klotz. how is it going? >> hope you are both doing well. it is looking like summer. we will see a summertime forecast. more on that in a minute but there is an area we are tracking big storms across the middle of the country.
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this has been round after round of heavy rain getting to the ohio river valley. an area across portions of southern illinois getting the worst of it, flood warnings across this area as inches of rain, anymore rain could cause flooding and likely there will be more. we have heat advisories across texas and farther to the north, actual temperatures will be into the mid-90s closer to 100, add in the feels like temperature, it feels heavy. those numbers are even higher, 110, 115 degrees, feeling like 100 degrees. summerlike forecast talking about triple digits.
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>> giving me some fall vibes. >> finally made it close. todd: when we were officemate you never let me borrow the jacket. for three years. >> you can sneak in now. jillian: todd is fond of that. thank you. todd: democrats demanding answers based on leaked unverified intelligence. >> nothing in the briefing we just received let me to believe it is a hoax. we did not get everything we needed to get. todd: there is no corroborating evidence to back up reports of russian bounties on us troops. jillian: tom reimburses democrats may be jumping the gun in joins us live to explain.
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todd: a look at top headlines beginning with this fox news alert, new york city cutting $1 billion from its police department as it passes the budget overnight, protesters seen climbing up a light pole and hanging nypd cameras outside city hall, protesters seen setting up construction like barricades during that. jillian: mitch mcconnell says another round of coronavirus relief could be passed this month, the trump administration says details would depend on how the us economy recovers from the impact amid the pandemic. todd: a look at the capital where the congressional black caucus will meet amid growing calls for reparation. george floyd's death ramping up the fight to get black americans restitution for slavery. the bill would set up a commission to study racial inequality.
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jillian: no corroborating evidence, the deferment of defense secretary mark esper announcing reports on russian bounties of not been proven. democrats latching onto the news to attack the white house. >> the president called this a hoax publicly. nothing in the briefing we just received let me to believe it is a hoax. >> the right people were not in the room to give us the briefing we needed to get. there may be reluctance to brief the president on things he doesn't want to hear and that may be more true with respect to vladimir putin. todd: with november just around the corner could this become the next talking point to defeat donald trump? here to weigh in former intelligence officer don braemar. jillian alluded to the statement earlier. i will read it in full, the department of defense has no corroborating evidence to validate the recent allegations
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regarding my line activity by russian personal against us forces in afghanistan. members of both parties going back and forth have not been on the ground. you have. someone familiar with the types of bounty rumors, what do we need to know? >> rumors of bounties have been going on for many years. i recall them in iraq. al qaeda and iran paying bounties for us personnel. there was a rumor that a senior interrogator, you hear these constantly. they are not unknown. what is important to understand is you take this information and start to go through the process of validating it and making sure it is credible, that entails reaching out using every asset whether it is electronic media or second sources, going through
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the process to make sure it is credible before it becomes actionable intelligence. jillian: kaylee mcinerney took a lot of questions regarding this. >> this report makes it more difficult to come to a consensus on this matter, to verify intelligence and this level of controversy and discord plays directly into the hands of russia and serves their interest. jillian: how would this are russian interests and what is the risk of this information being made public? >> one thing about information like this, once a story like this breaks and get this much media attention the notion the we would now be able to do a valid investigation and reveal all information we would need to determine our next course is null and void. this gives everyone the opportunity to cover their tracks if through, make it fade
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away, alter the facts and now a good solid investigation is now and void. the other thing i would like to say, adam schiff alluded to the fact that the president -- a double agent. once again using the same soundbites he used in the past. it is like next stage of collusion we are looking for. i feel horrible for the families of these marines. because of politics they are having to go through this painful process over again. >> 10 seconds we have remaining, knowing what you know about this report and the timing of it, would you have expected the president to have been briefed back in 2019 when rumors are that he knew or could have known about this based on what intelligence had at the time. >> great possibility this
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information may have made it into his brief but wouldn't have had the focus many people do because as i mentioned those types of rumors have been around before we heard this. the next step, he would have been briefed, a river came out, a single report, we have some evidence possibly from a location, here are the next steps. jillian: thank you for joining us, we appreciate it. todd: the time is 36 after the hour. a lifeline for small businesses extended. how long struggling owners have to apply for paycheck protection program. they jillian: a new crash victim, this photo is going viral. we will tell you about it.
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>> kevin >> don't abraham lincoln standing before a free slave, the petition for its removal gained 12,000 signatures and the weight of george floyd's death in minneapolis, the monument will be placed in temporary storage, its removal date is not set. rob: planning to declare racism a public health crisis. hamilton county unveiling a draft resolution after weeks of nationwide protests. the proposal would study communities where minorities are impacted with health and financial resources to expand training. a final vote expected later this month. jillian: the senate votes to extend the application deadline for ppp loans. todd: what does that mean for
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small business owners? >> reporter: hopefully a good thing for small businesses. the senate moved to extend the deadline to apply for a loan for the paycheck protection program until august 8th. the deadline was midnight last night and $730 billion available in the program. marco rubio and ben carson were assessing what to do with the funds. they will extend the program as past by unanimous consent. jillian: a big quarter for wall street. >> reporter: it was, this quarter since 1998. i call it the covid-19 quarter. a wild three months, the best quarter since 98, real roller coaster ride for the market, the dow gained 17% first quarter into second quarter, s&p gained 20%, the nasdaq, 36%, the nasdaq is above 10,000. that was an all-time record over the last three days.
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because of what is going on with the economy the markets do this but the market bottoms march 20 third as the epidemic was ripping the country at the time. a lot of countries like apple and microsoft and united health push the dow higher. ; and of the virus in some areas in hopes to prevent a vaccine to boost markets. we will see what q3 looks like and see if we can keep going. jillian: thank you. todd: time is 42 after the hour, they are honored to answer the call despite anti-police sentiment that has rocked their city and their nation, live with two new cincinnati police officers reveal it is more important than ever to wear the badge. jillian: time to check with brian kilmeade for what is coming up on "fox and friends". >> we will talk about this after your show is done. coming up on our show we have a
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lot to discuss including defunding the police and our own security internationally with robert o'brien. what do we know about the russia situation and of bounties? people at lena story. kellyanne conway will talk about trying to respond if he chooses to to his democratic nominee who challenged him a few times yesterday. chad wolf will talk about what is hurting our direction, newt gingrich, what he needs to do in the next few months if he wants to get 4 more years, newt gingrich will weigh in on that. during a time the country is so divided random acts of kindness proving to go a long way. surprising the sheriff's deputy with a free meal. why the small show of support speaks volumes in his community and country music star clint webb teaming up with the uso, stops by with details on that and how to support our men and women in the military, gains from the fourth of july. ♪
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>> anti-police sentiment growing in police department across the nation feeling the impact but in the midst of unrest and still want to wear the badge saying the duty to serve is more important than ever. new recruits olivia vick and tyler whitaker, we appreciate it. i am curious why it is more important than ever to be an officer and curious how everything you are seeing happened right now in public,
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what would you take away from this. >> it is important now more than ever. it is really tense with the community and the police as you see on the news. people feel like the police that are representing them don't represent the true community. i want to be part of that. i want people to know i am representing them, police do care about them. jillian: your family had a hard time with you wanting to join the force. what have you said about the experience? >> during the academy, going to college almost.
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now that i'm out on the street, the farm area outside scranton, pennsylvania. there are safety concerns. concerns within our family, the best training and the whole country, the continuous training i am getting with my training officer for the next three months as well. jillian: i'm very familiar with the university of scranton. you talk about training. i am curious. you hear this talk about defunding the police and people saying of the police it funded training is one of those things that could get cut. how vital is your training? >> training is everything. officer whitaker and i, they are
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coming into this, training is are we having the academy staff in cincinnati to handle in-service training and they are there for a reason. in common knowledge. new recruits on the street. >> cincinnati crime numbers, homicide is up 36.3%, robbery up 10%, aggravated assault up 9 person. what is going to take to get to a place you have community members trusting officers again, where you can have this relationship, what will it take to get there? >> it will take a lot of work.
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the entire, justice system needs reworking, improvement and not -- it will take a lot. it is one of those questions that has to go into this, i can't give an answer what needs to happen but this needs to be a reworking of the system. jillian: we have a minute off -- what makes you proud to wear that uniform? >> since i have a great department this is something no one in my family was ever in law enforcement and this was never a dream of mine but i met some amazing officers in the department and seen how they are in the community and in life just in general, makes me proud to wear this badge.
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>> for me, cincinnati has performed especially with the protest or everything going on, training is incredible and never stops. and do another three on the field, constantly going back for in-service training so the training here makes me feel prepared to do this job and i feel i will be on the streets with the knowledge it takes to be successful. jillian: you are making a lot of people proud, thank you for joining us. we've seen numbers of recruitment being down, what you are doing is definitely admirable. thank you for joining us, appreciate it.
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todd: not far enough congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez slamming the $1 billion nypd budget cut. jillian: carley shimkus here with reaction. good morning, carley. carley: good morning jillian and
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todd. you said it. the $1 billion cut to the police force does not go far enough for alexandria ocasio-cortez who posted this on twitter yesterday saying defunding police means defunding police. it does not mean budget tricks or funny math. this is not a victory. the fight the defund policing continues. this budget reportedly canceled the incoming class of over 1,000 cadets cut overtime pay and vehicle purchases and also cancels police precinct in jamaica, queens. aoc says that's not good enough. her tweet is sparking mixed reaction on social media. this twitter user says pull the police out of her district as a start for cutting costs. daniel has a big endorsement though, aoc needs to run for mayor of new york city. but mark says let the people vote. i'm sure they will want more police not less police. some say this bill goes too far.
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others say it doesn't go far enough. everyone is unified in their displeasure for this. todd: nobody likes anything. carley, the nba now dealing with some kneeling issues of its own. >> interestingly, the still requires players to stand during the national anthem but the season is about to start at the end of the month and commissioner adam silver weighed in on the possibility of players taking a flee. i don't disagree appropriate times to protest and at the end of the day we have to be true to ourselves. timothy says ultimately i think he will allow it. then this dewitter user says the tammy is usually not even on the broadcast aside from the finals. let players protest however they choose. i think it's pretty certain that
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we're going to see some kneeling taking place during multiple sport seasons. jillian: we'll. that's for sure. a bride from minnesota goes above and beyond. >> take a look at this picture which really says it all. minnesota bride and groom were driving home from their wedding when they witnessed a car crash. so bride rachel taylor, who just received her nursing degree immediately hopped out of the car to help a woman who injured her leg. wedding dress and all. of course, she didn't care. that woman is recovering and rachel is making a big impression on social media. her new husband says he is blessed to have a wonderful wife who is always willing to help other people. how cool is that picture though? and everybody apparently made it out okay. they are on their way to their honeymoon. jillian: oh, they are. do you know where they are going? carley: i do not. jillian: i'm just curious.
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todd: carley, we need to know. jillian: thank you, carley. and thank you at home for watching as always. we will be back here tomorrow 4:00 to 6:00 a.m. have a good day. ♪ [cheers] brian: yes, new york pride just to this. fox news alert. overnight protesters climbing light poles to paint over police cameras outside of the city as they call -- we call new york. steve: city hall. brian: city council slashes $1 billion for the police department that for some is a reason to celebrate? steve: time to move. some say that 1 billion bucks, ainsley, not enough i

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