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 in cuts to

the cops. ainsley: todd piro joins us live with what went down overnight at city hall. hey, todd. [no audio] steve: we can do. this back up the teleprompter just a bit. and we will start at the beginnings, ainsley, why don't you take it from right there. ainsley: sure, todd was supposed to say the move to defund police getting the green light here in the big apple as new york city leaders approve major cuts, 2021 budget $837 million in cuts to the nypd when combined with associated cost the cuts remove $1 billion from the department spending. brian? brian: yeah, the kay ocean erupting outside of city hall during that vote. remember, these people were encouraged to occupy that area while they were working on the budget by the mayor. a protester seen climbing that up light pole we were showing you painting over nypd cameras.

this is indefensible and despicable. protesters also seen setting up barriers using barricades across from a construction site, steve. steve: it's also vandalism. new york city regarding the painting over the cameras. new york city council with joe borelli says the cuts pose a serious danger to public safety. >> we know that what we are doing will create a more violent city, yet, we are doing itnyway. we are also making these cuts to continue this false propagation that police officers are the gravest danger to the public. as though less police officers will somehow make the general public safer in new york city. steve: how much the new york city council speaker is praising the decisions to cut a billion bucks. >> i have been proud to stand with my colleagues for the past two years and celebrate the victories that the city council fought for and won. unfortunately today is not a day of celebration.

it is the time of necessity. we are going to reimagine policing in new york city. ainsley: congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez does not think the cuts are enough. she says, quote: defunding police means defunding police. if these reports are accurate, then these proposed cuts to the nypd budget are disingenuous i illusion. this is not a victory. the freshman democrat the fight to defund policing will continue. steve: on the cover of the "new york post" today the thanks they get. and can you see there is a butcher knife right into the heart of the new york police department logo. because when you look at the hiring freeze that's going on right now, attrition, they are not -- the people who retire they are not going to replace, and there won't be a new cadet class until october. there will be fewer cops on the streets of new york city to keep people safe. brian: don't let anyone kid you, they are not going full steam

ahead either. they have had it with the disrespect and lack of backing from this mayor. they are sitting there saying, hey, city management and sadly new york city residents, you are going to get a taste of what life is like with a diminished police force, which were lauded around the globe when ray kelly was in charge. this isn't a reflection of a new police commissioner. it's a reflection on the management of this city led by a reluctant mayor who was reelected twice because only 20% of new yorkers decided to show up to vote and this once lauded and sought after nypd, people used to come here to train to learn how to get their police force up to snuff around the globe. we have this unit that goes from different countries to find out from jordan to israel to saudi arabia to find out what's the next terror attack that's going to be hitting us. they are as good as maybe the fbi in this small little area. so now we have a situation where we have less men and women on the street. we have no anticrime force to let us know where the next hit

will be. and we have shootings up something like 8%. murders are up 49%. we are in the middle of self-inflicted chaos in new york city. ainsley: that's right. a lot of people are moving out of new york city. so, in this new budget, they are reducing overtime, they are canceling the july police academy class. all those men and women that were excited about joining the force. nope. delaying a new fleet of vehicles. canceling the cadet class of 2021. moving the school crossing guards and moving the school safety agents and moving the homeless engagement unit from the nypd over to the dee. bernie kerik was the commissioner in new york when it was really bad and unsafe and went through the transition period under rudy giuliani. take a look at what he said. >> the mayor and the city council, they are taking what we would call normally the cap tassel the world, new york city,

and they are going to turn it back into assess pool like it was prior to 1994 under david dinkens. when i look at these cuttings, a billion dollars, you are talking 1200 recruit members coming into the nypd in july that won't happen. they are cutting school safety and crossing guards out of the police department, putting it into the board of education, which is going -- there will be corruption issues there. here's the bottom line. can you have all the youth programs you want security and safety of the citizens are in jeopardy and they will be with these cuts. those programs will mean nothing. steve: you know what? because it's such a short fall it's a combination of the fact that the city revenues are lacking given the coronavirus impact and at the same time an anti cop movement that is sweeping the nation and now new york city many people say less safe. meanwhile, we will talk more about this later but let's talk about that couple out in

st. louis on friday. their images went viral after they appeared outside of their house as you can see right there. the husband and his name is mark mcclow ski and his wife patricia. they torn down the gate. because they are seen with those guns, the local st. louis local attorney is going to launch an investigation into them for protecting their own property. listen to this. >> i am disturbed by the events that occurred over this weekend where there were peaceful protesters who were 34e9 with gun in a violent assault. we must protect the rights to peacefully protest and any attempts to chill it through intimidation and use of force will not be tolerated. since learning of these events over the weekend i work with the public and police to investigate these tragic events. steve: well, when you talk to

the police what they say they are investigating it as a case of trespassing and fourth degree assaulted by intimidation. the actual complaint was filed by the homeowners. now, there is a st. louis university constitutional professor by the name of an address walker. he says missouri's castle law does allow that family to protect their property. so they were within their rights and, brian, this professor says that the crowd who gathered outside to supposedly peacefully protest even though they break the locked in the gate they were actually breaking the law. if anybody broke the law, it was the protesters despite the fact that the prosecutor says they were peacefully protesting. brian: what planet are we on? look at that gate. they weren't peaceful. they were violent. you knocked down a steel gate and you are coming into this house which they built from scratch in a business that they built, they actually defend for

the most part people who don't have money for a living to defend themselves. they have many of their clients are african-american clients. they are defending themselves and now all of a sudden they have to defend themselves to public sentiment? here is mark mcclow ski last night with tucker carlson. >> by the time we looked up, we saw the marchers coming down kings highway and getting loud. we looked over at the gate and there is no police there. our private security wasn't there nobody is there i look over at my wife and i see all these people outside the gate and then the gate bursts open. people start come in. and then a flood of people start come in. they are angry. they are screaming. i looked over at my wife and i said oh my god we are absolutely alonement. there is nobody here to protect us but us. when i saw that mob come through the gate with their rage and their anger, i thought that we would be overrun in a second. to call us racist is ridiculous. and had nothing to do with race.

i wasn't worried what the race was of these -- the mob that came through my gate. i was worried that i was going to be killed. i didn't care what race they were. brian: unbelievable. this seems logical. i was shocked by. this jonathan turley tweeted out of as criminal defense attorney these are the toughest cases in the middle of a public outcry. the image of two affluent individuals standing on the front of their luxury home with these weapons is a nightmare for defense counsel. the image, i thought, and jonathan turley is hardly a left wing fire brand. is he very patrol car particular camaguey with a great legal mind, he says this could be problematic as the attorney general contemplates charges against people defending themselves with legal guns and are attorneys. unbelievable to me. >> he also said one of the guys out in the yard was clicking magazines together and saying you are next. he said he was scared for his wife. he was protecting his wife, his home, his livelihood. he said he was afraid they were going to kill me and i didn't

care about their color. the people that took down the gate were white. he says i support black lives matter. is he an attorney and representation people of all colors. well into the night people were calling him. his black clients saying we support you. but, he legally owns these guns. they were threatening his house. they called police. police didn't show up for a while so he had to take matters into his own hands and he didn't fire off that gun. he just intimidated them. and he said he feels like the guns are the reason that they didn't come up on the steps. they started heading towards his house until they saw the guns. steve: the castle doctrine in missouri does allow him to do exactly what he did. even that street was certainly a private estate. those people were on the way over to the mayor's house because she had released the names and addresses of some of the protesters earlier. ainsley: in one of the interviews i watched several of them, he said you know, i didn't ask for this. he said we were just enjoying a dinner like most families do in

our yard, we heard them coming in. i went inside. i got my gun. i'm protecting my family. he said now my life has changed forever because of this. i didn't ask for this. steve: joe biden emerged from his basement and for the first time in 89 days took questions. he ventured not too far away from his house. he was there in wilmington, delaware. you can see he posed in front of a great big american flag. he did make some statements. he read a little speech. talked about how the president's covid response was lacking. how he would do a much better job if elected. and then apparently there were about five reporters who were cleared to ask questions. and what kind of questions after 89 days of not being able to ask the guy who could be the next president of the united states. so much to ask him about. and what did they ask him about? here's joe biden. listen. >> >> i'm happy to take questions if you have any. they give me a list how to

recognize. alex a.p. out there. >> you called his inaction on this issue a betrayal. so broadly what consequences do you think the president should face for that betrayal? >> what keeps you up at nic nigt when you look ahead. can you maintain this advantage without campaigning in a traditional way. >> do you believe if those reports are true that trump is guilty of violating his oath of office. >> how are you, mr. vice president? >> how are you? >> if elected, how are you going to get americans on the same page? steve: okay. so not exactly the questions i would have asked. but then again, i don't think fox was on the list. i think that, in fact, doug mckelway covered the event and as the former vice president was leaving he asked him a couple of questions, and mr. biden seemed annoyed he was asking about his cognition and essentially i'm tested all the time. and then at one point he called doug mckelway, our correspondent, a lying dog face, which is the first time i have ever heard doug mckelway as a lying dog face.

brian: evidently that's a catchphrase for the biden family. he has use tud before. i think it ends with pony soldier. after listening to that press conference and the joe biden going through using the person's job as their last name, ari inquirier we did thed this out. he knows a few things about press conferences. the difference between the tenor of the questions to biden compared to the questions asked of trump is striking. after 8 years of going easy on obama, almost four years of being brutal to trump, the mainstream media seems happy to go easy again. he went on to say what wasn't asked? anything about biden's role in authorizing violence against the trump administration? do blue lives matter? should chop in seattle never been allowed? will you prosecute those who destroy statues? should the nypd be cut $1 billion? i will add another one. in that meeting where the notes were revealed from peter strzok you of thely were the first one to bring up the logan act when it comes to michael flynn.

what do you remember about that meeting? oh you didn't say. nothing happened and it wasn't true. you are calling the fbi liars. either the fbi is lying what the president was saying at the highest level or you are lying now. one thing or another. he is 100 percent right. and ari fleischer is a perfect person to make that review. steve: great question. ainsley: 89 days since he has taken questions. he got 15 questions over a 30-man spab. u.s.a. poll that says when he picks his vice president, 72% of democrats say it's important for him to pick a woman of color. steve: right. ainsley: he says he will announce who his v.p. is going to be sometime at the beginning of august. steve: he did a little flip-flopping and talked a little bit about statues. essentially what he said the statue of columbus should be protected. the statues of washington and jefferson should be protect even though they may have done things in their past which might be referred to as distasteful the fact that they did own slaves. do you know what? do we have to wait another 89

days for the next one? hope not. anyway. that's how it went yesterday in wilmington. ainsley: let's hand it over to jillian she has headlines for us. jillian: we start with a fox news alert. an f-16 fighter jet crashes overnight killing the pilot at shaw air force base in south carolina. that pilot was on a routine training mission when the jet slammed into the ground and bursz into flames. he was the only one on board. the cause of the crash is under investigation. also breaking overnight, occupiers in seattle's chop zone releasing a new list of demands for police. this as the city tries to clear them out. among their demands having officers tried by independent international tribunal for war crimes changing their names to deescalation officers. and releasing and giving am nest city to all protesters. some barriers have been removed by the city. it's not clear when they're trying to take down the rest. overnight some key results coming in from tuesday's primaries.

former colorado governor john hickenlooper winning the democratic senate primary. he will face incumbent senator cory gardner in november. lauren bow bart defeating five term g.o.p. will scott tipton. jim inhofe rolled to victory in his primary. >> 74% of the vote. in utah former nfl safety burgess owens winner nut primary. he will take on bebb mca dams. the g.o.p. gubernatorial primary is too close to call. spencer cox holds a narrow lead over former governor jon huntsman. send it back to you. as the some report a rise in covid-19 cases. plans for indoor dining mysteriously postponed. next guest owns a restaurant in new york city says it's a punch in the gut.

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it's safe and confidential. let's make sure everyone is counted in our community. for more information, visit getcounted.com, and to participate, go to census.gov. ainsley: as some states rising coronavirus cases andrew cuomo may halt new york city indoor dining. the governor is expected to announce the decision today. what will the impact be on restaurant owners? let's ask operating partners of new york city hold fast kitchen and spirits. good morning, guys. >> good morning. >> good morning, ainsley, how are you? ainsley: i'm doing great. how are you? i know you must be a little panicked i know you are operating at 20% and need to come back to work and get everything back to normal. this could change your plan how

did you feel, shane when you heard cuomo might halt indoor. >> degait flighted. worked the whole take away process. rough with basically and then now we moved up to outdoor dining this past week and just seeing people and the mentality and being around individuals and seeing the growth that could be there and with the good news two weeks ago or a week and a half ago of possibly opening up earlier for indoor, you know, it's tough. so it's just like it keeps coming but, we understand that there is a bigger picture here and you have to look out for the well-being of not only yourselves but just that and customers and what's best for the majority is going to be best for us and we will just ride that wave like we have been doing. ainsley: jason, if you are allowed to reopen indoors. what is your plan and do you think you can do it safely? >> yes, we do. we created a safety plan going barriers, personal protective

equipment for our staff. >> for guests who may have forgotten a mask or mask breaks during the time that they are here, we are ready and all we need is the go ahead. ainsley: shane, what's your message to the governor this morning? i guess i want to say keep doing what you are doing because you probably know a little bit more than us. i guess hold fast because we're going to be there with you along the ride and we are going to do what we have to do in accordance to the mandates and for the safety of the public i hope you understand that there is an influence that's going to directly effect the businesses. and at the end of the day the safety is anything not safe and the businesses don't apply as well. ainsley: here is the impact that corona has had on restaurants and closures. 3981 have shut down at some point during this pandemic. 53% of those have closed permanently. that is more than half of our

restaurants jason, i'm curious,000 this impact your life. >> on a day-to-day basis you feel like an ax in your head. we work hard every day. we think not only about ourselves but our families and friends and staff. our family doesn't end with trying to make a dollar. it really is trying to provide for yourselves. stress level is high but we are focused and determined just like new york hit through it together. ainsley: i don't think lady owns a restaurant and i was in there picking up food i said how are you affected by this? she is said i just without my restaurant from another family in january or february. she is really feeling the effects i know you guys are too. thanks for what you do and being here and representing the restaurant industry. and if you are in. >> thank you. ainsley: where is your restaurant located if folks want to governmental restaurant row in hell's kitchen 46th street

between 8th and 9th. open seven days a week. ainsley: midtown manhattan. hold fast kitchen and spirits. thanks, guys, wish you all the best. >> thank you. be safe. ainsley: thank you. joe biden holds a press conference for the first time in 89 days. how did it go? >> stop appealing to -- the -- the less healthy side of society. ainsley: and there is more where that came from next. i'm greg, i'm 68 years old.

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briefed out of it stem reservations in the intelligence community about the veracity of the agencies. this has frustrated democrats leaving a briefing at the white house rejected that skepticism and out on the campaign trail former vice president biden in a rare press conference was blasting the president. >> idea that somehow he didn't know or isn't being briefed, it is a dereliction of duty if that's the case. and if he was briefed, and nothing was done about this, that's a dereliction of duty. griff: it comes, brian as the "new york times" latest reporting suggest american officials intercepted data showing financial transactions between the military intelligence and the taliban. something top officials are not confirming. defense secretary mark esper releasing this statement saying although the department of defense has corroborating evidence at this time to validate the recent allegations regarding malign activity by russian personnel against u.s. forces in afghanistan, i want to assure all our service members that the department takes very

seriously any and all potential threats against military personnel. we could learn more today because the dni john ratcliffe heads to capitol hill to meet with the senate intelligence committee where we expect there will be a lot of questions because the fourth of july recess, of course, this weekend. and they want to know answers on both the republican and democrat sides of the fence. brian? brian: i don't want to brag, griff, we have robert o'brien a little bit later in the show. next update. i'm not going to tell you what to do. thanks. >> thank you. brian: steve, you are next. steve: thank you, griff. meanwhile, after 89 days without a press conference, joe biden made a rare campaign stop and took questions from a couple of reporters in his hometown of wilmington, delaware, in that high school gym as you can see right there. we are breaking down the top takeaways from biden's q&a with media reporter for the hill joe con sexual harassment joe, good morning to you. >> happy wednesday, how are you? >> i'm doing well, thank you very much. what did you -- how would you

grade the joe biden event when it comes to breaking news? >> breaking news in terms of tough questions? let's put it this way, i take issue, steve, with the fact that people called this a softball session. it was more like a t-ball session while using a beach ball on the t. jonathan swan a former colleague of mine axios he called it a pretty gentle session. i think that pretty much wraps it up. at one point mr. biden said the soft part out loud. he seemed to be going off of a list that -- of reporters that he was told to call on, quote: they gave me a list, he said at one point. another point he said i'm sorry, who was i supposed to call on next? who is he speaking to there? exactly. the questions that weren't asked are just incredible. nothing but evoking the logan act as it pertained to michael flynn. this was a revelation that was just made a couple days ago in the news. pretty relevant, right? no questions about the former chaz now known as chop. what would you do there if a

police station was taken over and 8 city blocks were taken over in a major city. no question about $1 billion being cut from the new york city police department despite the fact that now we have 42% rise in homicides in this city. so, a lot of questions could have been asked here and they weren't, steve. steve: they were not indeed. just something that i kept thinking about when i was watching that, you know, the trump campaign is constantly responding to the fact stories in the media how the president is down in battle ground states in the polls against joe biden. serves just imagining that joe biden who we saw yesterday in wilmington in a high school gym who, at times, was to be polite, at a loss for words. and referring to that one reporter as a lying dog faces a well. that guy versus donald trump who is never at a loss for words. and that would be wit what those

three debates are going to look like. >> precisely. look. donald trump has taken questions from reporters 34 times in the 89 days that joe biden took to take a press conference. and you are right, the hostile questions that go towards the president or his press secretary are astounding. we did not see those there yesterday. brian liz a cnn political analyst also with politico actually asked kayleigh mcenany this two days ago. does president trump believe it was a good thing that the south lost the civil war? so, this is a preview. so when you talk about those debates, steve, i hope that the mod der rargts that are chosen, i hope chris wallace is chosen again, for instance or perhaps a bret baier, somebody who is actually objective and asks tough questions. i hope those types of people are asking the questions of joe biden. because if we got a preview the questions joe biden is going to get from the press from that press conference yesterday. by the way got to go, have a vacation i have to pack up for on the old 4th.

first time out of the house in 45 days. i'm happy about this. steve: you have been out of the house i have seen you at the grocery store. >> you got to eat. support the market basket by all means. steve: that's the grocery store in our town. joe, thank you. meanwhile, exactly, 24 minutes before the top of the hour. overnight city council has voted to slash $1 billion from the police department budget. will anyone even sign up tore a policeman now? why would you? a panel of police officers discuss that next. i'm a performer. -always have been. -and always will be. never letting anything get in my way. not the doubts, distractions, or voice in my head. and certainly not arthritis. new voltaren provides powerful arthritis pain relief to help me keep moving. and it can help you too.

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mone lingo and darrin porcher and erol do you alan. let's start with you. are you having trouble recruiting and what's uptick in shootings and murders. >> the city is not responding in the most appropriate manner. thank you for having me on. mayor de blasio city hole clearly not letting the police do what the police are supposed to do. they are being assaulted and vilified and these men and women are here to protect and serve our community. i met with some young students yesterday who are criminal justice majors and they are all very much enthused to still get into the police field which i was very happy to hear. but, you know, what's going on throughout our country where law enforcement budgets are being

cut, they are being assault and some killed. horrific scene we are seeing in our country right now. brian: now a murder in tulsa where two cops were shot. these cops were trying to get a suspect out of the car. they were arbitrating back and forth the suspect decides to pick up a gun under the seat and shoot them in the head all caught on body cameras. took 45 minutes because they knew they could not be rough and want to be the subject of another atlanta situation or what happened in minneapolis. >> yes. and that's true. it's happening all over the nation. it actually happened here in dallas. i think i just heard this morning that one of the officers from oklahoma passed away. and i think that's so sad. you know you have officers that are working and doing their jobs and answering your calls and coming when you need them. you are feeling like they're the

villain. they're being demonized. who wants to see a cop in that type of society? who wants to be a police officer where they are appreciated. they don't feel like things that are out there that they are doing to try to make society better, they are not appreciated for it. who witness that? brian: very interesting, darrin porcher, because you were on the nypd. corey johnson the new york city council speaker says he wishes he could have cut more. and aoc said this is not enough. and the even the occupy movement, which the mayor supports across the street from city hall, which has taken over countless blocks, they are not happy with the amount of cuts. so we are outraged by it. and the people want more. there's a problem. >> there is absolutely a problem to say the least. the unfortunate thing here is the elected officials are bowing to the sentiment of the protesters. you have to be careful, because they will turn on you at a

moment's in the. true leadership will depict your successes. as a result of your successes, people will buy in from a long-term perspective. they are seeing this through a very narrow lns of what is happening now. in the wake of the sentiment of the officers, these cops are under siege. when you take into consideration cutting a budget by a billion dollars, you are going to have less boots on the ground. we are in a state of anarchy here in new york city. and the mayor doesn't perceive that this is a definite threat to us as new yorkers. the 8 and a half million citizens of new york are crying for help from the nypd. however, he, meaning the mayor, coupled with corey johnson are setting forth a precedence of policing should receive. anna: arckist should advance. brian: we originally talked about policing in 2020 are a we saw what happened with george floyd. we have gotten very far away from that let's go to you, sheriff, and talk about what's

happening in seattle. i know you would not let that happen in suffolk county. seven blocks down to three blocks. people left and it criticized. i'm talking about the autonomous zone where two days ago, two african-american teens were gunned down. horace lorenzo whose son was killed said. this he's 19 years old. this doesn't look like a protest to me no more. looks like they took over and said we can take over whenever we want. man, it's time to go and move on and break this up. sheriff. >> if they want to break it up. the police chief wants to break it up. what's stopping it from being broken up? >> as i said many times on your show before, brian, politics is playing a role the way police should be policing. unfortunately when elected officials are trying to implement policies and procedures that are going to help get them elected, that's where we are going to have officers and civilians getting seriously hurt or killed.

it's time we let the police do what they're supposed to do. make sure our staff are trained properly. make sure they are supervised. supervision and trainings are the key to any law enforcement agency and that's the most important thing. brian: never give up the precinct. simone, they are doing it in new york. an occupy movement. so far no violence. what's going to be the difference -- what's going to stop them going interest this path we have seen in seattle? >> you know, my suggestion for new yorkers is to sell, sell, sell. this is not going to end well. you have a million dollars at the city council which i say shame on you city council. a million dollars going to be taken away out of budget. it's not going to be pretty. our position for the protesters, if you feel like can you do a better job, drop that sign and pick up an application. you want to be a police officer, you want to do something for your community, why don't you serve your community. can you see what these officers are going through. from new york, i would sell, sell, sell. brian: in the lapd, they lost

$143 million, dr. darrin porcher, cut out of their budget they are also transitioning to sending more social workers out on calls. how do you think that's going to go? >> i think that's going to be problematic because oftentimes i think it's great to introduce the social worker component into policing. however, you need to have that armed officer to assist that social worker because many times you deal with emotionally disturbed persons that can present somewhat of a threat of danger. we need to bifurcate and have these specialists coupled with the police practitioners to deal with a lot of the issues that are at hand in policing. and this is something that people don't have a clear vision on because we need to have the practitioners at the table that are assembling these strategies. oftentimes, unfortunately, the unions are not a part of these negotiations. it's essential to have the union buy in to progress and move forth an agenda. but the elected officials often times resent the europes and as

a result we are experiencing a state of anarchy. brian: correct term is the l.a. city council says this is the first step to replacing the lapd. sending unarmed first responders to handle what they think is nonviolent service calls. so it's good to know that city council know what is a nonviolent service call is thanks all three of you come in. c'mon wing dough. darrin porcher and errol to you. has a plan to protect our federal monuments this weekend. what is it? i knew you would ask. chad wolf is here to answer. can match the power of energizer.

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brian: this fourth of july weekend homeland security sr. deploying a special federal unit trained in riot control to protect monuments and statues nationwide as they expect an increase in vandalism. ainsley: acting dhs secretary chad wolf joins us now with all the details. good morning to you. >> hey. good morning. ainsley: good morning. mr. secretary, why are you doing this? have you gotten some potential threats? >> you know, i think what we have seen is really this lawlessness over the past four weeks in a variety of

communities. and the president, the administration, we are taking some really strong action. we surged federal resources here into the d.c. area about four weeks ago to put down a lot of these violent protests. we have seen a number of arrests. we have seen an executive order from the president. and what the department is doing as we go into this july 4th holiday, we want to make sure that federal properties, federal facilities, buildings, statues, monuments, that the department of home land security protects, we want to make sure that we have the personnel there and ready. so we have predeployed. we are predeploying teams to certain areas and we will continue to make sure that we have personnel ready to go. steve: the key i think is what you just said. it's federal property. as we look at different acts of vandalism in different municipalities, some jurisdictions decide not to prosecute. however, this president has made it very clear with the executive order that he signed earlier that if you do something bad on federal property, they are going to make a federal case out of

it, and that has got to be a deterrent to people. >> that is absolutely right. what we saw is we have seen the department of justice arrest over about 100 -- some of these violent protesters and rioters and looters, we have also seen them charge four individuals in federal court for attempting to tear down a statue here in d.c. so the administration, again, something very strong on this. we have partnerships not only with the department of justice but the department of interior as well who also have similar properties. we want to make sure that there is a coordinated whole of government approach. as we look towards not only july 4th but we look towards any other time period after that. we want to make sure that our facilities are protected. the statues and monuments on these facility are protected and people work in those buildings as well. the department is leaning in and predeploying what we call rapid response teams, rapid deployment teams to these areas. brian: so, mr. secretary, no doubt about it. every year we talk to you about

a terror attack on america's birthday because people want to take us down. now we are worried about attacks from our own people on america's birthday. yet, in new york city, there seems to have been a terror attack on one police officer as he took a knife to the neck right in the middle of this mayhem. where does al qaeda, isis fall in line with the other -- with americans looking to athaksin bowls of our. >> we have to be aware of our foreign adversaries, al qaeda, ice success or others going to take advantage of what they see going on here in the u.s. and try to capitalize and try to be what we call violent opportunist. we are certainly very focused on that. we don't see any specific intel. there is always the potential for that we are, again, very, very focused on what we see is really violent extremists and violent anarchists here in the

country. and we said it again. we will keep saying it. we are not going to let these individuals who clearly hate this country continue to terrorize and go after the destruction of federal property, federal monuments. we are here to stop them. ainsley: okay. secretary wolf, thanks so much for joining us. >> great. thank you. ainsley: you are welcome. come up newt gingrich and national security advisor robert o'brien. brian: pictured there. ♪ you try to stay ahead of the but scrubbing still takes time. now there's powerwash dish spray it's the faster way to clean as you go just spray, wipe and rinse it cleans grease five times faster dawn powerwash. spray, wipe, rinse. that selling carsarvana, 100% online wouldn't work. but we went to work. building an experience that lets you shop

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[cheers and applause] ainsley: straight to a fox news alert. overnight. look at that protesters climbing up the light poles to paint over the police cameras as the city council sell slashes $1 billion from the police department's budget. steve: isn't that vandalism? hmmm, meanwhile los angeles one step closer to replacing police officers with unarmed emergency responders for certain calls. terrific. in seattle, occupiers in the city's so-called chop releasing a new list of demands for police as the city tries to clear them out. they have taken away the concrete barricades and they brought in other stuff the protesters did, to build new barricades i'm not sure a summer

of love needs barricades. i didn't know they did. have officers tried by tribunal on counts of war crimes. changing their names to deescalation officer and release and give amnesty for all protesters. some barriers removed from the city. not clear when they will try to take down the rest. what an embarrassment. let's bring in newt gingrich the fox news tributer and speaker of the house and author of brand new book "trump and america's future." what part of future is seattle in these days, newt? >> i finally concluded after doing a lot of background reading and going back into the 1960s to see the origin of this revolutionary surge that we need to talk about the degree systemic effort by a wide ranging group to destroy the united states and replace it

with something that would be radically different. you see that a little bit in seattle. if you actually read what these people say, you begin to understand they are genuine, serious, dedicated revolutionaries. and that their goal is to eliminate the united states as we have known it and replace it with a remarkably different system, frankly much closer to fascism or to move's cultural revolution. do anything we have ever seen in the united states. ainsley: here is joe biden yesterday going after president trump. >> as other leaders in other countries took the necessary steps to get the virus under control, donald trump failed us. he called himself a war-time president. it's almost july. and it seems like our war-time president has surrendered. the president gives no direction and he pits us against one another. we can't continue like this.

americans anxious and out of work are fearful, donald trump is doing next to nothing about it. you call yourself a cheerleader, we don't need a cheerleader, mr. president. we need a president, mr. president. ainsley: how do you think he did, newt? >> look, i think if you give biden a script, and he sticks to reading it, he is pretty good. he has been around a long time. he has been in washington 48 years. problem with biden when he gets off the script he doesn't remember anything. he probably doesn't remember he attacked president trump when trump cut off the flights from biden. biden was on the other team with nancy pelosi who was ostentatiously going through chinatown to prove we shouldn't be worried. i think biden doesn't want to defend the failure of the

biden-obama administration to replace all the masks after the sars virus 100 million shortage. they'll hadn't done their job. i think if you give joe biden a script and convince him not to get off the script, he can read it fairly well. steve: that's right. and, in fact, yesterday, in wilmington, where that press event was, he had a prepared speech and then he took some questions from five or six different reporters who didn't ask him very hard questions. i would have asked about the first question that brian touched on, and that's the defunding police. mr. vice president, do you support defunding the police in new york city to the tune of a billion dollars? what about the chop zone in seattle? nobody asks those hard questions but it -- you know what? when you think a little bit about what's going on in new york city and you were talking about how you looked at history, what mayor de blasio was talking about was he was talking so proudly about how they were taking a billion dollars away

from the police and they were redistributing it -- easy for me to say to different social programs which is right up his alley. >> first thing i would ask biden how did he feel about seconding staff to bail out looters. the democratic party and i wrote about this in my book about trump and the american future. i have a chapter they like criminals and disik the police. de blasio is a perfect example. the footage you saw a few minutes ago. i mean how out of touch with the planet earth do you have to be to have that kind of behavior going on to have the sudden spike in murders that jump dramatically from a year ago and to not figure out maybe you actually need to hire the new additional police. they have senior policemen retiring. they are about to cut off 1300 rookies. and not bring them on.

and but this is typical. all over this country, whether it's aoc or the mayor of seattle, or the mayor of new york, democrats are dedicated to helping criminals and crippling the police, and the cost is going to be a dramatic increase in crime and a lot of innocent americans losing their lives to really bad philosophy. brian: we could be scratching our heads and say how is joe biden doing. in his basement one press conference in 89 days and is. the president can't make it up in the next four months. if you look at the suburbs where is he suck wind and senior women sucking wind. a lot of it has to do with the empathy not shown yet when it comes to the virus which is now in 8 states and hit all-time high and the disease we understand is up 80% over the last two weeks. if you are president, unique situation comes up once every

100 years. you have the ball, you have can govern and win. how do you handle this virus, win over seniors and know your base is not going anywhere? right now in july? >> first of all, i think they have got to do exactly what vice president pence reported on and what is he doing. you have got to go to the places that have a hot spot. have you got to deal with it more and more of the people testing under 40. a lot of people showing up with the virus didn't even know they had the virus. and i think for the news media to start panicking when we find something that has the virus sufficiently mild they don't even know they have it. the number of deaths keeps going down. lowest level since march 6th. italy where we have gone through all of this, they now have restaurants open. museums open. people are out in the street.

but. most do not have increase in virus. some places suddenly have a hot spot and other places don't have. what do we learn from that? i think by september the virus will not be as big a problem as the economy. and that's why i have been advocating the administration the congressional republicans they need to pass a one year holiday in the payroll tax and 100 percent expensing so businesses can bring all their manufacturing back from china. and if they insisted on those two things as part of the next economic package, i think you would seat economy roaring by september. ainsley: we had chad wolf the acting secretary of dhs on. you probably heard that interview a while ago. he says they are going to beef up security for federal monuments across the country during the fourth of july weekend because they are worried people are going to try to take down the statues. how important, have you written

some books, books about history. how important is it to honor american history. >> first of all it's important because it teaches the next generation the values that really matter. the love of freedom. the belief that our rights come from god the fact that hundreds of thousands of people died to end slavery. whether you have abraham lincoln being vilified and general grant who won the war being vilified you know the people you are dealing with -- look, these are anti-americans. they are not engaged and worried about racism. they are worried about destroying the united states. and i will say it this to studying the period of 67-72. when we had 2500 bombings. and the left was on a genuine offensive to destroy america, what ultimately ended it is locking people up. in addition to defending the monuments. tough crack down and lock up every single person who breaks the law until they realize we're not going to tolerate this kind

of violence and, again, you have got lots of footage. you just showed some from last night. people are out there breaking the law. should be identified and tracked down and they should be put in jail. steve: that's one of the reasons the president of the united states signed that executive order a couple of days ago making sure people understood if you credit a crime on federal property it's going to be a federal charge. also, the president of the united states, it sounds like the campaign has canceled the rally in alabama because of covid. they have one a while back in oklahoma that didn't go as planned. campaign shakeup last night. we will talk more about that later. joe biden said yesterday he is not going to have any in person rallies before the election. it sounds like the convention is going to be much, much different. as a stowntd of history, newt, how do you compare this pandemic campaign of 2020 to anything that has ever happened before? >> well, in terms of the

propaganda media that used to be the news media is desperate to defeat trump. so they're going to maximize the threat from covid. they are going to maximize slowing down the economic recovery. a good friend of mine here in europe said to meet europeans are amazed how happy the media is when something bad happens. that's a very telling comment. i would just start and say that we have never had a campaign like this. biden is being very clever to hide. if he can get away with it, he might even become president. the less you know about biden the more likely you are to be for him. the more you know about biden the more worried you are about whether or not he could actually do the job. i remind people, this is not about joe biden. this is about biden, pelosi and schumer as a team and the radical radicalism for example that pelosi showed in hr 5800.

$3 trillion radical bill which i have done a whole series of podcasts on. these people are so radical they are delighted that biden is weak. i mean, i think schumer and pelosi are thinking boy, i can't wait for him become president and i will get everything i want because he won't have a clue what's going on the president has the ball in his hands. he can govern. it's not a theory. he can make the changes because he controls the narrative because joe biden doesn't want to. if the president starts closing the gap in these polls. biden will be forced to do this thing called campaign and could all fall apart. >> worse. can i just make one point? we had a 16-year-old african-american boy killed in that zone in seattle. brian: we talked about that. >> no protesters, nobody showed up from black lives matter. that young man's civil rights and i think the president should ask the attorney general to investigate. you know, when people are being killed in mississippi during the civil rights era, we sent in the

fbi. i don't think americans should be getting killed the way they are and have local. brian: so the president should send in the fbi? do you think the president should send in. >> including by the way in south side chicago. whether you have 18 people killed in one day, those are americans. they deserve to be protected. brian: absolutely. >> mayor, and they have had the mayorship since 1931. if some liberal mayor refuses to protect americans, something has to be done if we really believe black lives matter, we ought to behave as if every black life matters and you will find out all of a sudden that there is no excuse for weakening the police in the face of violent predators who are ol-armed. ainsley: i know. some of those are kids, children in chicago that have gotten shot and killed. okay. tell us about your fox nation show called "crisis 2020." it's very exciting. basically we lay out exactly what i did in my new book on trump and the american future

which is i think this is the most important election, the biggest decision since abraham lincoln in 1860. i think the difference between where we will be in two or three years, if you have a biden-pelosi-schumer world versus a trump-mcconnell-mccarthy world is so enormous. so what we try to do is take each major area show you whether it's radicalism or crime or dealing with china there, a whole range of these things. you may have noticed i think it was yesterday, republicans offered something condemning the chinese for not having told the truth about the chinese virus which politically correct on covid. it's the chinese virus. not a single democrat voted for it. so, you have a democratic party which, in many ways, kowtows to china, is politically correct. prefers criminals to police. and that -- what we talk about in this new fox nation special.

first time i have done something like that where we got into it at length and i'm very excited by it. and i think the fox nation people thought it was really a very interesting dialogue about what's going to happen and how big the choice is for the american people. steve: it does appear to be a binary choice the way you lay it all out there. check it out on fo fox nation. it's crisis 2020 with former speaker of the house newt gingrich who joins us today from rome. and, of course, fox nation available first month just 99 cents. that's less than a buck. the buck stops there. and that's his new book trump and the american future. newt, thank you very much. have a great day. >> thank you. great to be with you. steve: it is a quarter after the top of the hour in new york city. now it's time for the news with jillian who has news from dr. fauci. jillian: that's right. good morning. let's begin with this warning. dr. anthony fauci says the u.s. could see 100,000 new coftd case as day if americans continue to

ignore social distancing guidelines. take a listen. >> we can't just focus on those areas that are having the surge. it puts the entire country at risk. we are now having 40,000 plus new case as day. i would not be surprised if we go up to 100,000 a day if this does not turn around and so i am very concerned. jillian: the nation's top infectious disease doctor adding a vaccine is not a sure thing as several states see grim new milestones and roll back their reopening plans. texas reporting a single day record of nearly 7,000 new covid-19 cases. california seeing more than 8,000 new cases monday. overnight key results coming in from tuesday's primary. john hickenlooper winning the democratic senate primary. he will face cory gardner in november. a big upset in the house though. gun rights activist lauren

boebert defeating scott tipton. in oklahoma incumbent senator jim inhofe rolled to victory in his primary. look at that more than 74% of the vote. in utah former nfl safety burgess owens declared a winner in the g.o.p. house primary he will take on ben mcadams. the g.o.p. gubernatorial primary is too close to call. lieutenant governor spencer cox holds a narrow lead over former governor jon huntsman. adam silver is speaking out about players kneeling during the national anthem. right now the league requires players to stand. silver says if it happens, they will deal with it. >> i don't disagree with this motion that people come together in a unified way to stand for the national anthem. i also recognize that there are appropriate times for protest. at the end of the day, we just sort of have to be true to ourselves and the values that underlie this league and try to make values based decisions rather than political ones. jillian: the league is scheduled

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brian: democrats in virginia 28 major reforms before they meet in august including changing a law from a felony to a misdemeanor for assaulting police officers. also included in that measure declaring racism a public crisis, a health crisis. here to react this next step on

this next step is the former navy seal himself and congressional candidate scott taylor. scott, your reaction to the direction virginia is going when it comes to assaulting an officer. >> brian, it's good to be with you this morning. look, you know, some of these policies are fraying the very fabric of our society. i mean, defelonizing assault on police officers puts a target on those and signals to our men and women in blue who are black and brown and white and gay and straight republican and democrat signals to them we don't have their back. here is the relate the country is dealing with a virus obviously. crime and chaos is as well a virus. there is only one vaccine for that and that's law and order. we have to be very, very careful. because what some of these policies that are coming out from the left, they are not putting our member and women in blue in danger, they are also making our communities less safe and making the people less safe and you are seeing that not just here in virginia but all around the country. and people need to stand up our

leaders need to stand up and say no. brian: here is what the senate dems said. the deaths of floyd and arbery and brianna taylor have awoken virginians to the longstanding problem of policing in america people are arrested. additional damage done by a criminal justice system that has been streamlined to produce conviction and punishment instead of radicalization and justice. so now do you get it? >> no. so, look, i have been working with republicans and democrats since i was a virginia delegate and u.s. congress to deal we actually passed a bill for community policing that was supported by law enforcement and the congressional black caucus. some of these left policies they do nothing for equality. they do nothing to protect black lives. in fact, they put blue lives in danger, which are also black lives in many circumstances. i think these policies are very bad for our country and like i said, i think they fray the very fabric of society.

we ask our men and women in blue to step forward into the fray, to step forth and put their lives on the line every single day for us, for us. so, we can't reduce their ability to do that because then that makes us less safe. and you are seeing that all around the country, not just in virginia but all around our country. i'm concerned. i'm concerned for my community. for my commonwealth, and for my country. brian: scott, very small number of people and one is too many, die from coronavirus. yet, cases are up 80% around the country over the last two weeks. as a guy that put himself in danger often in your previous career. do we have to get more into that mindset of living with -- living with risk? >> look, life comes with risks, right? human beings have dealt with these nasty viruses forever, right? and we understand, i'm confident in the american people. i don't think that heavy handed government is going to protect you necessarily from a virus. there are things that we have to

take as individuals, precautions and understand it is -- it is, in fact, it is a legit thing that is devastating to a certain portion of the population. but you can't -- if you crush the economy, then you actually do a lot more harm than good. if you don't allow our children to go to school, those who need special needs, those who need school lunches. those who may fall behind, then you are hurting our society more so than dealing with the virus. i think that we can open safely. i think that people should take personal responsibility, of course, and protect themselves and their families and others as well. but, look, you know, some of these upticks in cases of course and certainly with a younger demographic are directly attributable to some of these protests around the country and by no means am i saying that people shouldn't have the right to protest. they absolutely should. peacefully, of course. but, it's amazing to me that the media, they just want to attack republican governors. they don't even want to talk about some of these protests which we have seen these massive

pictures and videos of folks that there is no question that people were spreading the virus. but, as you -- as newt alluded to a little bit earlier, some of the upticks in cases people are asymptomatic. they just tested positive. look, i think that. brian: got charges we need to live, right and that comes with risks. brian: scott, it's just amazing the media says all indoor dining or going to the beach. no one ever says 300 plus cities that had protests over the last three weeks which either they are not telling the truth but how you get it or they're just choosing to ignore the protests because they agree with the agenda. scott taylor, thanks so much. >> thank you, brian, good to see you. brian: same here. straight ahead, your kids or your job. next guest says state leaders are forcing new york parents to make an impossible choice. we will discuss that next. bring in the switch.

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ainsley: it is one of the biggest questions on the minds of parents which will our children go back to school. here in new york there is no clear answer. >> we are preparing to open schools. we have plans to open schools, but, look, chuck, i will be honest with you, it's two months away. anything can happen in two months.

let's get the facts and we will make the decision when we have to but we are prepared but if this continues across the country, you are right, chuck, kids are going to be home for a long time. ainsley: our next guest is blasting new york's leaders in a op-ed writing new york to parents, choose your job or your kids. here with more is new york columnist carol mark witsz. hey karol, thank you for being with us. >> hey, how are you. ainsley: i'm good. we don't know if our kids are going back to will school. you wrote an op-ed parents don't know if they will be able to go back to work because kids are home without child care. >> governor cuomo keeps saying let's look at the facts, let's look at the facts, let's look at the facts. kids very, very rarely get coronavirus. when they do get it they often have a very mild reaction to it. so, we are keeping them inside. we are damaging their development. we are not letting them socialize with other kids their

age. it's all really sort of very, very minuscule risks. we can't live like that. there is other important things in the world other than coronavirus. i have written a number of different levels about how kids are being damaged by. this and not having schools start would be a disaster for children. ainsley: do you know if cities are working with the department of health toe prepare to go back to school? because, as the governor said, we are two months away. >> yeah. they keep saying we are two months away as if we are two years away. i don't understand what that means. dr. fauci said we should be looking to return kids to school. the american academic of pediatrics said we need to be looking at person-to-person schooling. i don't see a the love development on this front. we keep having this plan kids will go back to school 50% of the time or third of the time and rest of time they will be home. parents will be going back to work full time. i think it's a real show of privilege from these politicians who think that parents could just continue to work and that the other phases can just go on

as planned and not have schools open. and the joke is, you know, a lot of people just say the really most ridiculous things to parents why did you have kids if you can't take care of them. i'm sorry i had kids 10 years ago not thinking a global pandemic was on the horizon. the real joke is when they say school is not a day care. day cares are closed, too. so we are in a situation where parents really don't have a lot of options and politicians need to recognize it. >> yeah. it's putting it a lot of families that tough position. thank you so much, karol. >> thank you. ainsley: if you want to read her op-ed it's in the "new york post." have a good day. president trump has now been briefed on intelligence connected to the russian bounty on u.s. soldiers. national security advisor roberts o'brien just met with the president. is he going to join us live next.

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ainsley: president trump tweeting just moments ago slamming the "new york times" over its russia bounty story gillian turner joins us live from the white house as the president fires back. gillian? >> senior leadership here at the white house has now coalesced around a messaging strategy to fight back against this russia intelligence bounty story. they are going all in on fighting leakers. president trump now facing allegations that he was briefed about the russian government bounty on u.s. service members as far as back as february. but kayleigh mcenany said yesterday that's not actually what the national security team is worried about. what they are worried about is that in the future, as the result of this leaking, u.s. allies will not be so forthcoming with intelligence. take a listen. >> who is going to want to cooperate with the united states intelligence community? who is going to want to be a source or an asset if they know that their identity could be disclosed?

>> now, overnight the pentagon again insisted they have not confirmed the underlying intelligence report at the center of this firestorm. defense secretary esper himself says they don't have enough evidence. but democrats are saying that's not the point. something this dangerous should have been flagged for the commander-in-chief even if it wasn't 100 percent. >> the idea that somehow he didn't know or isn't being briefed is a dereliction of duty if that's the case. and if he was briefed, and nothing was done about this, that's a dereliction of duty. >> now in the house democratic leadership says the briefing they got from the white house yesterday was way too little, way too late. >> the right people to give the briefing really were not in the room. we need to hear from the heads of the intelligence agencies about how they assessed the allegations that have been made publicly. >> now, in that tweet, ainsley,

you mentioned from just a few minutes ago, president trump called this entire story fake news. he called it a hoax. he is not yet addressed the allegation from intelligence officials that he received this intelligence in his presidential daily brief as far as back as february. as soon as we hear something on that, we will bring it straight to you. brian, ainsley, steve? steve: you know what, gillian? i have just the guy to ask. thank you very much for the report from lafayette square. let's bring in robert o'brien ambassador. >> how are you this morning. steve: doing well. you have answers to the questions we have. was this president briefed on the allegations as detailed in some major newspapers and/or was it in his presidential daily briefing materials because the "new york times" and the a.p. are saying it was back in february. >> right. this is such an unfortunate story, steve, on multiple levels.

number one, no one is more concerned about the safety of america and the security of our armed forces, the men and women who serve us than president trump and he has proven that time and time again during his presidency. number two, no one has been tougher on russia since the end of the cold war since president trump with multiple sanctions and, for example, the united states provided javelin missiles to ukraine, which are the predecessor administration, the obama-biden administration refused to do. when it comes to the briefing, that's another false story. and i'm somewhat surprised that the "new york times" ran with that story. the president was not briefed because at the time of these allegations were uncorroborated. prior segment just showed it it was uncorroborated. the intelligence communities not a consensus. as a result the president's career cia briefer decided not to brief him because it was unverified intelligence. and by the way she is an

outstanding officer and knowing all the facts i know, i certainly support her decision. sadly, because of the leak, it may now become impossible ever to get to the bottom of this, to get to the truth of the matter. and that's one of the very sad things we were working very hard on this matter it. may be impossible to get to the bottom of it because someone decided to leak to hurt the president rather than uphold their obligations to the american people that they undertook when they became an intelligence officer or government employee. steve: leaks are always unfortunate. it sounds like it was in the material but the briefer decided not to present it to the president because it was unverified. could you just explain how he does get the presidential daily briefing because i remember a famous photography of barack obama in the oval office with the briefer and was all on an ipad and they were just swiping between the stories. how does this president get it? >> without getting into too many details we meet with the president with the director of the national intelligence, the director of the cia, his senior

intelligence briefer myself and sometimes the vice president, the chief of staff, and so that's how the president is briefed on sensitive intelligence matters in the first instance. in the second instance, i meet with the president multiple times a day. the chief of staff meets with the president multiple times a day. as they are breaking developments and things for the important to know, i'm in touch with him. that might be at 5:00 in the morning it. might be at midnight and certainly during the day. the president is an avid consumer of intelligence. we get to him everything he needs to know. but, certainly, you know, in this case we were dealing with something that was unverified, uncorroborated. there was no consensus in the ic. nevertheless, we did everything right here. the real story here should be what the united states did. so when this unverified intelligence came, in although it wasn't necessary to give to the president at the strategic level because we were trying to verify it and corroborate it. the cia as gina haspel stated in a public document the other day. put it out to our allies, to our

coalition partners to the dod, the department of defense has come out and said they took all force protection measures necessary. and then at the nfc at n. my shop we began running an interagency process bringing the government together to say, look, if this eventually becomes something that's proven or something that we're -- that we believe, we need to have options for the president to deal with the russians. and i can tell you this. if this information turned out to be true and now we may never know, but if it turned out to be true, we had options ready to go and the president was ready to take strong action as he always is. brian: robert. here is the other thing that really drove home to the american people paying attention. the russians have every intention of filling the gap when we leave. after 19 years, are you willing to turn our influence into the afghan government over to the russians? and to the iranians? is that going to be apt reward for 19 years of sacrifice by the american men and women who fought there. >> no, listen. we are committed to the people of afghanistan and we have been.

in fact. brian: but we are leaving. >> you pointed out we spent 19 years of blood and treasure there and in a prior -- in the bush administration i worked very hard of rule of law in afghanistan. we love the people of afghanistan. what the president has been able to do is develop a peace agreement with the taliban to keep our soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines are from being targeted by the taliban. also encouraging interafghan negotiations. because, at the end of the day, we can't be in these places forever. and the afghan people have to come together. they have to reach a consensus. they have to go on with their lives. and we are facilitating those negotiations. brian: robert, did you tell the russians they have to go on with their lives? >> the russians left afghanistan. their military left afghanistan a long time ago. brian: but they are back. >> under much different circumstances. they have intelligence in afghanistan. just like we do. just like many countries have intelligence operators in afghanistan. it's near them. and they certainly want to, you know, look out for their own

interests. we are certainly going to do everything we can to counter the russians. we are going to counter the iranians and shown that more than anyone. look, we have taken the strongest action against iran than any administration has ever taken. so, we're going to look after our afghan partners but at the same time, we are going to bring our american men and women, servicemen and women home after 19 years of fighting in afghanistan for sure. ainsley: i want to go back to the bounty on american soldiers. i am curious about the briefings. the democrats are saying he still should have been briefed even though your administration says -- the administration says no evidence, didn't have enough evidence. and it was unverified. and then joe biden, we heard, say that it's a dereliction of duty. but i have also heard people say that the reason the president isn't given unverified information is because he could act on that. and it might not be true at all. what do you say? >> well, have you always got to be careful and a judgment call when you are dealing with intelligence and briefing principles and in this case it was uncorroborated intelligence. and we were working to get to

the bottom of it. other things we wanted to do is have options to present the president if we were able to verify this intelligence. let me just go to something about the -- our political opponents and what a strategy that they're trying to make hay out of this. i guess we shouldn't be surprised in this polarized day and age. in the last three months, the united states with respect to russia has withdrawn from the open skies treaty. which the russians were violating and which we were adhering to and that was criticized. so that was strong action against the russians. we sanctioned the russian oil company for doing business with venezuela. again, no praise for from our democratic counterparts and most importantly when it comes to afghanistan, the international criminal court, this purported court in the hague was attempting to investigated and is attempting to investigate and potentially prosecute american servicemen and women and intelligence officers who are fighting in afghanistan who are defending our afghan freedoms that was encouraged and stain

great gaited by the russians we came out against saxes against the icc and democrats who criticized that. so no matter what the president does, no matter how hard he is on the russians there are some -- the democrats find some reason to criticize the president. it's entirely unfair. steve: just one of those things that happens in an election year. ambassador, thank you very much for joining us from the white house to answer some of our questions. >> thank you for having me. steve: now we have a better idea what happened. now, about 11 minutes before the the top of the hour. during the time when the country is so divided, random acts of kindness proving to go a long way. three teenagers surprised this sheriff's deputy with a free meal and you will hear from the deputy coming up next. ur car insurance so you only pay for what you need. almost done. what do you think?

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♪ steve: during a time in when our nation is so divided, three teenagers are providing small acts of kindness and it went a long way. sheriff's deputy mannwell stone was having flunch uniform when three teenagers approached him with a note asking him to wait to read it until they were gone. stone was shocked to find in the not they had paid for his lunch as a way of saying thank you. and the deputy joins us right now. deputy manuel stone, good

morning to you. >> good morning, how are you? steve: doing well. you were wearing your uniform as you are now. usually you like to have lunch with family members. you were in a hurry, you sat down and then how did they approach you? >> so, you know, they were sitting in a booth next to me and they will kind of walked up to me and they will handed me the note. and they said hey, can you do us a favor? and i said sure. they said can you wait until we leave before you taupe? and i said i can do that. and so of course i waited until they left the restaurant and i opened it up and the note said we have paid for your meal, thanks for your serving our community. steve: okay. and how did that make you feel because, you know, i don't have to tell you our lead story today was about how new york city is defunding the police department to the tune of a billion dollars how do you feel that the community reached out to you in the form of three teenagers and said thank you, lunch is on us? >> it was definite encouraging and strengthening, like you

said, during this time and i think coming from the younger generation meant a little more to me. those who know me personally here in the community know i love the kids. i'm heavily involved with the kids in our community. i think coming from that younger generation definitely strengthened me. we definitely have strong action from our community here. surrounding community. that's not only a testament to our community but also our agency here sheriff's office and surrounding agencies and just the training we have been given an the leadership we have. steve: that's great. that note we just showed on tv, not only touched you in your heart, but now it is in your car at all times as a reminder of, what? >> just that we have people on our side. people that love us and people that back us and that support us. and they are for us.

steve: indeed. why did you joint sheriff's department? i know you were in a different business before. >> correct. about four and a half years ago. steve: why did you want to be in law enforcement? >> >> like i said i was looking to make a career change and had family members in law enforcement. i felt like i had the qualities to be a good officer. steve: right. >> i decided to join for my community. steve: did you. you were honored by those three teenagers and, sir, thank you for your service and thank you for getting up early on this wednesday morning. >> thank you guys for having me. steve: you bet. all right. that's great. up next, kellyanne and clint. mischevious restored zen sparkly cheeky... ( clears throat) disciplined dapper prepped smart hopeful

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steve: george it is wednesday, july 1, 2020, and we start this 8:00 hour with a fox news alert. >> [applause] >> [cheers] steve: why the cheering? well overnight protesters climb light poles to paint over and vandalize police cameras outside city hall in new york city after the city council slashed $1 billion from the police department's budget, and put it into other social programs.

ainsley: but some like aoc, they say that is not enough. brian: todd piro joins us live with what went down last night, right, todd? todd: that's right brian, steve, ainsley good morning to all three of you. the move to defund police getting the green light in the big apple as new york city leaders approve major cuts. take a listen, the 2021 budget with an $837 million cut to the nypd and when combined with associated costs the cuts remove $1 billion from the department spending. meantime, as you saw, chaos erupting right outside of city hall during that vote. a protester seen climbing up a light pole and painting over nypd cameras. protesters also setting up barriers using barricades from a construction site. new york city council minority whip joe borelli says these cuts pose a real serious danger. >> we know that what we're doing will create a more violent

city and yet we're doing it anyway but we're also making these cuts to continue this false idea that police officers are the grave its danger to the public, as though less police officers will somehow make the general public safer in new york city. todd: however the city council speaker is praising the decision >> i have been proud to stand with my colleagues for the past two years and celebrate the victories that the city council fought for and won. unfortunately today is not a day of celebration but a time of necessity. we are going to reimagine policing in new york city. todd: but as ainsley eluded to congresswoman aoc does not think the cuts are enough. "defunding police means de funding police. if these reports are accurate then these proposed cuts to the nypd budget are an illusion. this is not a victory.

" the freshman democrat adding the fight to defund policing will continue, steve, ainsley brian back to you. steve: thank you very much todd defunding or redistribution that's what the mayor of new york city described it as yesterday. he was also on this program about a month ago talking about how there was going to be a seven to $9 billion shortfall in revenues via taxes because of the coronavirus when it comes to exactly the same time as this anti-cop movement is sweeping the country and it could not happen at a worse time because suddenly, there's a spike in violence, and crime. a crime wave that has been described as in the new york post in just the last year, murders are up 25%, and in the last week, there were 63 shootings, ainsley, compared to 26 the same week last year. so things are not going the right way and now, fewer cop s. ainsley: well, there's a lot of different opinions on this. corey johnson the council's

speaker the city council speaker said i'm proud of the changes. we're going to reimagine policing in new york city. then you have richard wells police conference of new york president, he says they're handcuffing the police. they are no longer able to get out and protect society. they aren't training anyone. they told us that they're telling us what we can't do and not telling us what we can do. then aoc as todd was saying de funding means defunding. she's not happy with all of this brian. brian: so i was fortunate einto if to have a great police panel on a short time ago to get their take on where we're heading in los angeles, new york and minneapolis especially, and atlanta. let's listen. >> the mayor coupled with corey johnson, are setting forth a precedent of policing should receive an anarchist should advance. >> you have officers out there that are working doing their jobs answering your calls coming when you need them and still, you're feeling like they're

being demonized. who wants to be a cop on that type of society? >> what's going on throughout our country where law enforcement budgets are being cut, they are being assaulted, some are being even killed. it's really a horrific scene that we're seeing throughout our country right now. brian: being killed that's exactly what happens with an 11- year-old boy last night in brooklyn who was shot with 9:45 at night on 29th street near avenue d. immediately wasn't clear if he was the intended target or just happened to be out. factor this in the la city council yesterday took its first step to replace the la pee dee, they are sending police, leaving police back and sending unarmed first responders to handle what they think on non-violent calls. good luck with that. steve: yeah, the people of la and new york feel about all of these changes. meanwhile, let's switch gears president trump in the last half hour slammed the new york times over its russia bounty story. jillian turner joins us live from the white house as the president fires back and jillian, just as we saw you last

time, we were about to talk to the national security advisor and get some answers and we got some. jillian: well, you definitely did, brian, ainsley, steve. so in that interview wrapped up just a couple of moments ago the national security advisor really doubled down on the white house's claim all along which has been that president trump was never briefed on this intelligence that showed russian government put a bounty on the heads of u.s. troops serving in afghanistan so basically what he's saying now is that the president was never verbally briefed. he did not comment or answer the questions you guys posed to him about whether this information was included in written form, in the president's daily brief. take a listen. >> it's another false story and i'm somewhat surprised that the new york times ran with that story. the president was not briefed because at the time of these allegations, they were un

corroborated. the dod came out and secretary esper in the prior segment just said that it was uncorroborated and the intelligence community doesn't have a consensus. jillian: so no corroboration is one of the messaging strategies there. the other was rolled out yesterday. but kayleigh mcenany at the white house president briefing, she said the national security teams really concerned about the chilling effects that this leak will have on intelligence gathering in the future. listen. >> whose going to want to cooperate with the united states intelligence community? whose going to want to be a source or an asset if they know that their identity could be disclosed? jillian: now overnight the pentagon insisted again secretary esper himself that they did not have enough evidence to bring this forward to president trump. democrats though say that's not the point. they say even if some of the intelligence agencies disagreed with this information,

it should have brought, been brought to the president's attention and they say well they say that excuse me, i'm sorry i'm trying to read this in realtime as i'm talking to you guys, democrat being leadership is saying the briefing they got yesterday from the white house was way too little, way too late take a listen to adam schiff. >> the right people to give the briefing really were not in the room. we need to hear from the heads of the intelligence agencies about how they assess the allegations that have been made public. jillian: so we're still reading through the transcript of the interview because it just happened a few minutes ago while we're trying to bring it to you the highlights of it. live on air, we have reached out to the white house again this morning, asked them whether or not the president received this intelligence about the russian bounty in the presidential daily brief. no word yet but as soon as we get it we will bring it to you guys immediately. brian, ainsley, steve? ainsley: thank you so much jillian. all right, today is july 1.

we're three days away from july 4 and we interviewed chad wolf, he's the acting department of homeland security secretary, a little bit earlier in the show and he was talking about how they are going to be beefing up security amid all the rise of lawlessness and they are beefing up security around those federal monuments because they expect rioters could be trying to take some more of them down over the holiday weekend. listen to chad. >> what we've seen is really this lawlessness over the past four weeks in a variety of communities and the president, the administration, we're taking some really strong action so we surged federal resources here into the d.c. area about four weeks ago to put down a lot of these violent protests. we've seen a number of arrests. we've seen an executive order from the president and what the department is doing is as we go into this july 4 holiday we want to make sure that federal properties, federal facilities, buildings, statutes, monuments that the department of homeland security protects. we want to make sure that we

have the personnel there and ready. brian: a couple of things. i'm so glad they are taking action which was a little bit earlier but at least we have a force to protect our path. it's unbelievable that iran, or the super duperh i forgot what the exact title is he came out and said for a while we were the only one chanting death to america and now it seems americans are finally chanting that. that's how we're viewed around the world and it was so hard to see james clyburn say i think we should leave up jefferson and washington and obviously grant and when grant is taken down and lincoln is attacked you wonder where we're going as a country but it didn't stop the university of wisconsin madison students because they also want lincoln down in beacon hill at the university. so you have to wonder, if you don't want lincoln and you don't want grant, you might not want america. steve: i tell you what actually, brian, joe biden talked a little bit about statutes yesterday, and he said, you know, columbus,

washington and jefferson should be protected even though they may have done things in their past that now and then are distasteful, he said monuments do confederate soldiers and generals belong in museums not in public places. so this is the first time joe biden came out of his basement in wilmington went over to a local high high school. there were a number of reporters i think about half a dozen there they were all socially distanced from each other in circles at least six feet away, and you would think that after not having a press conference for 89 days, they would have some really good questions for him. did they? here is the sample. you be the judge. >> i'm happy to take questions if you have any. you gave me a list and how to recognize is alex out there? you called his inaction on this issue a betrayal so broadly what consequences do you think

the president should face for that? >> what keeps you up as night as you look ahead and can you maintain this advantage without campaigning in a traditional way >> do you leave that if those reports are true that trump is guilty of violating this oath of office. >> if elected how are you going to get americans on the same page? steve: okay, so that was kind of the range of things. on the way out, doug mcelway our correspondent asked him about his cognitive acuity and if he had been tested and he said i'm tested all the time and at one point the former vice president referred to our correspondent as lying dog face. was he joking? i think i read in the daily mail that he seemed annoyed at that. brian: right. pretty clear. ainsley why don't you take it from here and i'll say something really intelligence committee after. ainsley: okay, so yes, i watched that exchange that was doug mcel way who worked for fox and he said have you been tested for

cognitive decline and that's when he said lying dog face but he said it jokingly but yes you're right the reporters are saying that he seemed to be annoyed, and then he said yes , i've been tested constantly tested. constantly tested for cognitive? brian: what number am i thinking now? that's something with a mind reader. steve: i thought doug mcelway did a good job setting up the question because he said mr. vice president i'm 65 years old you're 12 years older than i am sometimes i lose my chain of thought what's going on with you and that's when that all happened. ainsley: okay this is the reaction to it all he was on our show earlier. >> i take issue, steve in the fact that people call this a softball session. it was more like at-ball session while using a beach ball. and the questions that weren't asked are just in credible. nothing about evoking the logan act as it pertains to michael flynn. no questions about the former chop, and the police station

where eight city blocks were taken over in a major city, no question steve about $1 billion being cut from the new york city police department despite the fact that now we have 42% rise in homicides in this city so a lot of questions could have been asked and they weren't. ainsley: there is a question we all want to know whose going to be his vice president there's a usa today poll about the vice presidential pick and 72% of democrats say that it's very important for him to pick a woman of color. brian: right real quick about the reviews of this. we saw last hour, there's great tweets about it and biden comes out of the basement and agrees to finally answer a question or two. our press corps uses the moment to ask him to explain over and over again just how awesome he'll be. that's basically what i got from it. speaking about awesome, jillian mele is about to show us what's happening in the news in her own awesome fashion. jillian: keep going brian go ahead. that's fair. good morning to you guys good morning to you at home. we are following fox news alert

right now. an f-16 fighter jet crashes overnight killing the pilot at shaw air force base in south carolina. that pilot was on a routine training mission when the jet slammed into the ground and burst into flames. he was the only one on board. the cause of the crash is under investigation. this is the fourth u.s. air force fighter jet crash since may. >> overnight, results coming in from tuesday's primaries, former colorado governor john hicken looper winning the democratic senate primary facing republican incumbent senator corey guarder into in november. a big upset in the house though gun rights activist lauren bogur t defeating scott tipton. in oklahoma senator jim inhoff rolled to victory with more than 74% of the vote and in utah former nfl safety bu rgess owens declared the winner. the gop gubernatorial primary is

too close to call lt. governor governor spencer cox holds a narrow lead over former governor john huntsman. >> a fox news alert and a live look at the international space station where two astronauts are holding a second space walk in less than a week. chris cassidy and bob bankin replacing old batteries as part of a power upgrade that began in 2017. bankin arrived in may at the iss as part of the historic spacex launch, it never gets old seeing that video. steve: i love that. up in space, kind of jillian thank you. meanwhile 8:16 here in new york on this wednesday. yesterday, the supreme court struck down a ban on federal dollars going to religious schools. our next guest says this is a huge victory for religious freedom. we're going to talk to her about it next. from prom dresses... ...to soccer practices... ...and new adventures.

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steve: the u.s. supreme court has struck down a ban on taxpayer funding going to religious schools. private schools saying, "a state need not subsidize private education" but once the state decides to do so, it cannot dis qualify some private schools solely because they are religious. and that is what some states are doing and one was until yesterday. our next guest is from a law firm that filed a friend of the court brief in the case, and calls this a win for religious freedom. right there you can see the vice president and executive director of the fund,monte alpha rad o. >> good morning, thank you for having me, steve. steve: i know you personally have been fighting for religious freedom for 11 years. this case has dominated your life for the last three years. what does it mean exactly for

the parents who have children who go to religious or private schools? >> it's as you said a great day for religious freedom. the supreme court struck down blame amendments these anti- catholic laws used to limit partnerships with religious groups and schools specifically and to answer your question about parents, parents now have more choices. parents aren't limited any more shackled by these laws that we're limiting their ability to partner with scholarship programs, or participate in programs with non-religious entities and schools. steve: as i understand it it all comes down to these blain amendments and that is what you were arguing against who was blain and what was he trying to do? >> senator blain was trying to pass these laws born of bigotry and in this time of racism when we're grappling with these issues around the country it's good to know that we don't want to discriminate in this country and the supreme court has drawn this line in the sand about what we don't stand for , and religious discrimination is out.

steve: okay well that's good news for people who have been fighting against this for a very long time so now this particular case involves the state of montana. there are what? 35, 36, 37, 38 other states that have blain amendments amendments that you're now going to go after, right? >> about 37 around the country and a couple of others if your state constitution has the word sectarian in it your legislators now have to take a real consideration about the way they partner with religious groups because that's unconstitutional to limit those partnerships now and yes we'll go after those. steve: well the president of the united states has not agreed with all of the supreme court findings in the last week or two but he did tweet this out yesterday. today's supreme court of the united states ruling is a historic win for families who want school choice now. school choice is a civil rights issue, and no parent should have to send their child to a failing school. i will continue to fight for school choice and will always defend religious freedom.

justice john roberts is the guy who was the pivotal vote on this , the president not thrilled with him but in this case, he came to the rescue of your side finding that you were right all along. >> you know, steve as an immigrant myself, i can't imagine the court going any other way. there is no way that we would stand for laws that were born of anti-catholic bigotry. they were created to stop catholic immigrants from having access to schools and that's thankfully today unconstitutional. steve: the way you describe it, you make it very easy to understand so going forward how is this going to impact school choice for millions of american school kids? >> this has opened up choices and this is now it's the new era for everyone to have equal access to partnerships with their state programs, scholarships, and it has even broader implications in that any other religious groups that partner with the government to do good things like soup kitchen s and prison ministries that help fight recid it vix

they now too get to fight on equal ground alongside the government. steve: all right explaining it all for us today from washington , monte alvarado, vice president an executive director of the beckett fund. thank you very much. >> thank you. steve: it's exactly 8:25 in new york city. joe biden held a first press conference in 89 days yesterday. how did it go? >> stop appealing to the , well let's a healthy society. steve: okay there's more where that came from, next.

ainsley: the u.s. mca trade agreement goes into effect today bringing relief to auto workers and farmers. edward lawrence from our sister network fox business, joins us live from washington with a break down of the deal, hey, edward. reporter: hey, ainsley, yeah, the u.s. mca means a new set of rules to trade under, in north america, possibly creating up to 600,000 jobs over the next five years. the administration touting this agreement saying it's the first one that protects intellectual property rights for companies in mexico and in

canada. we're talking about u.s. companies, and also it's the first agreement with a digital trade session in it. we're talking about video games, talking about trading e-books, videos and music and makes about 99% of the products crossing the border with mexico and canada tariff-free. u.s. trade representative robert lighthizer said in a statement, this , the recovery from the covid-19 pandemic demonstrates how now more than ever, the united states must stop the outsourcing of jobs and increase our manufacturing capacity and investment here at home. now he believes that the u.s. mca will do just that. the democrats are concerned that the mexicans will fall short of this agreement the chairman of the ways and means committee richard neil says "i remain concerned that mexico is falling short of its commitment to implement legislative reforms that are the foundation in mexico for effectively protecting labor rights." now the u.s. trade representative says now that the agreement is in effect, they can address those complaints and

the enforcement provision. specifically for auto plants making sure that workers make at least $16 an hour, that is one reason, he says, that this agreement was put into place and not delayed because of the coronavirus as other things were delayed back to you, ainsley. ainsley: all right, thank you for that report. brian: meanwhile, 29 minutes before the top of the hour, joe biden made a rare campaign stop and took questions from reporter s in his hometown of wilmington delaware, not traveling much. here with her top takeaways is advisory board member for black voices for trump, stacey washington. stacey? it was about an hour he took 15 questions. what did you think? >> well, it was not his best performance after 89 days of rest i was expecting more, brian brian: for example, one thing he wanted me to bring you to is his take on the new york times story that the president's team is responding to and that's the russia bounties on american lives, money paid not taliban.

listen. >> he should at a minimum have picked up the phone and said vla dimir, old buddy, if any of this is true and it doesn't seem to me that you've got a big problem. the idea that somehow he didn't know or isn't being briefed, it is a dereliction of duty if that's the case and if he was briefed, and nothing was done about this that's a dereliction of duty. brian: his response to the president' response. >> so brian, was he in the same vein, did he have the same thought back when president obama learned of $1,000 bounty to kill our troops in afghanistan? did joe biden advise that same form of action to president obama? i think that it's interesting that shortly after that, in 2016 , you have the obama administration sending $1.7 billion to the bad actors in that story, so this is not consistent with what he did when he was the vice president or

what he supported under president obama, and additional ly, we don't have any proof that these are verified reports of these bounties, so i suggest that vice president biden leave these decisions up to those currently in power and are fully briefed and are receiving the intel briefings. there's no proof of any of these things. brian: basically people have tuned out for the most part but they aren't tuned out of the corn where over the last two weeks cases were up 80%. he was told by vice president biden, that the president is basically has responsibility doesn't talk much about it. he's trailing in almost every battleground state over the last eight or nine polls and training nationally. how does the president use these next four months to close that gap? >> okay, so first of all, the polls have been highly inaccurate. in 2016 there was a 98% chance that hillary clinton be the president and yet we have president trump. so, my hope is that president trump is going to move forward as he did before the coronavirus

and point out the fact that we're doing a half a million tests a day. we have tested over 30 million americans. additionally we're doing the antibody test where people can find out if they have been exposed to the virus which means those count as positives as well we see an up-tick in young people age 20-30, getting the coronavirus right now. that can be connected to the riot, which needs to be stopped so this is a complex situation but there's no one better equipped to handle it than president trump. brian: nobody has to tell you the coronavirus is hitting minority communities especially the black community. how does the president let them know that's not okay with him? >> so he's been having monthly briefings with leadership in the black community and those phone calls have been attended by thousands of people across the country who are interested in seeing positive action taken in their communities. he's also got a task force for that and the president is moving forward proactively to address that issue within the black community. brian: all right, stacey thanks

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>> when it comes to briefing that's another false story and i'm somewhat surprised that the new york times ran with that story. the president was not briefed because at the time of these allegations, they were un corroborated. sadly, because of the leak, it may now become impossible to ever get to the truth of the matter, and that's one of the very sad things we were

working very hard on this matter it may be impossible to get to the bottom of it because someone decided to leak to hurt the president, rather than uphold their obligation to the american people that they under took when they became an intelligence officer. steve: within the past hour here on this program national security advisor robert o'brien the ambassador called out the new york times and leakers insisting the president was never briefed on a russian bounty tied to u.s. troops. ainsley: here with more reaction from the west wing of counselor to the president kellyanne conway. good morning to you. >> good morning. ainsley: so democrats are saying the leaks are extremely dangerous. they were unverified. that's why the president wasn't briefed. democrats are saying he should have been briefed even without the evidence and dereliction of duty what's your reaction? >> well that's what the joe biden democratic nominee said, ainsley and that's rich with irony since january of this year and in the democratic debate joe biden the fact that we took out soulemani, a terrorist who killed many americans and others he said there wasn't enough evidence to do that and the president should have done

that here sight unseen he somehow knows there's enough evidence verifiable evidence that it was in the president's briefing that he should have acted on it. that's why one of the many reasons joe biden is unfit to be president of the united states and commander-in-chief. now, i talked to the president about this issue yesterday. i've talked to the nfc about this issue. the reason it didn't, the president wasn't briefed is because it wasn't verified. in fact the career cia briefer to the president of the united states, not a political appointee decided against including in the briefing and let me just point out to everyone because you're taxpayer s and you paid for a trip by adam schiff's staff to go to afghanistan this past february, you paid for it folks, and they were given some of this wrong intelligence in afghanistan. some members of congress were briefed in may but you didn't hear anything from the deputies they didn't sequential until they read about it in the new york times. for us, for the professionals we like to see verified information for the democrats and their friends in the mainstream media, if it's on twitter it's real life, and if it's in the front page of the new york times, it's

verified. this reminds me, oh, of russia collusion. we've seen this story before. on january 11, 2017, nine days before donald trump was sworn into office i went on cnn at their then highest rated anchor and said stop saying the president was briefed about the dossier, the fake dossier. he wasn't briefed the way the president and vice president biden were briefed. comey stood up, it's usually a time reserved for how are the kids and is it going to rain tomorrow. that's not where you brief the president-elect on something so important, so we're seeing this all over again. the professionals, the career cia briefers want to know that the intelligence is verified before it rises to the level of a presidential briefing and the director of the cia statement, i thought it was very advisable and the amateures hear the word russia and they get $100 every time we vomit that on tv or put it in an article, don't be fooled americans. joe biden was also in russia and

china for 40 years and they all want him to be elected i think the biden campaign could get putin to vote by mail of course in michigan or pennsylvania they would have him do it. they clearly want him to be the president. brian: the first thing he and his administration did was take out the missile shield to try to kiss up to vladimir putin. >> that's right and we've been tough on russia. brian: let's switch to coronavirus. as you know, kellyanne, as well as anybody, over the last two weeks the cases have risen 80% and in texas and florida two very friendly governors to the president they are starting to put restrictions back and in the case of california, whose also been very friendly with the president they are preventing people from even going to the beaches. what role does the president see himself having in this while the states have control, and does he see himself bringing back the coronavirus task force? >> well the task force is up and running brian. brian: i mean with the press conference, my bad. >> oh, i'm sorry they had a big press conference at hhs on friday. i was there, after he had a task

force meeting that included the vice president, dr. fauci, dr. birx, redfield, second aza r, the whole crew was there and then yesterday they did another briefing in rockville, with the white house press but here is the most important thing i was in the task force meetings the last two days monday and tuesday. i learned a few thins i'd like to share. one is we're seeing a rise in cases in the states of younger people not teenagers not kids thank god but 25-34 year osteen led why. two big reasons i'm told by the professionals. one is people went out to the bars which reopened and two is many are going back to work and their employers are saying before you come back to your place of work you must take a covid test and they've been asymptomatic yet infected. i'm also told we have a much smaller number of the young people, thank god, on the ventilators compared to what we saw months ago when the democratic governors lied about needing tens of thousands of ventilators. everybody who needed a ventilator got a ventilator, but you were looking at much older people, many underlying

conditions, co-morbidities. now the younger people on ventilators, dr. birx says, predominantly have underlying conditions like asthma and obesity. most of them, the vast vast vast majority are thank god are expected to recover but i have something to say. we need to have priorities in our states and in this nation. if you want to open the bars now , or do you want to open the schools and daycare centers in a few short weeks? i vote for the latter and not just because i have four school age children but because we know that opening our schools and getting our children back to their normal routines and structural support is really the key. i think it's essential nervous system to this nation and then people will be able to go back to work. we're creating a pandemic within a pandemic for many of these kids not every kid lives in a state house, not every mother can deal with the horror of knowing she can't support her children she's not back to work yet she can't see them and shelter them. we need to make sure these kids have the services they need. i was in the situation room yesterday for an hour and a half with our wonder wonderful first lady as she talked to a few first ladies and governors and health professionals in the

foster kara zonk space. we have to make sure within covid-19 that people who were up for adoption looking for permanent hopes have them. they did the same thing on mental health recently so the other thing i learned dr. birx said something very important that stuck in my mind last week. she said earlier in the covid infection process months ago if you were young and had mild symptoms you were told stay home now you're told come get a test. so they are being tested and they are testing positive but i think instead of going into permanent lockdown instead of going backwards completely, what's happening in some of these states is they are going back to an earlier phase and i think it's time, place, and amount of restrictions i read overnight a big arm about how california really screwed it up and that i think governor newsom is putting restrictions back on. they got a little too bold because they were one of the belter states early on and all of a sudden they opened up but wearing masks, social distancing, it really does stop the spread and i encourage people to do that.

steve: kellyanne you just mentioned politico, and there's a talk about the guy doing the rallies is being reassigned to handle lawsuits and stuff like that. there's a new chief operating officer. there was some suggestions that the guy got reassigned because the bad attendance at the trump rally, and that is not the case. the question though is a coronavirus question and that is how do you make the rallies work in the time of coronavirus given the fact that they've already had to cancel the alabama rally going forward? >> well first of all since you mentioned that article i read this morning, jeff dewitt is back on the campaign and he did a fabulous job in 2016 and our friend hogan gidley starts at the campaign, alexa henning is going there we had so many people who we loved at the white house win four more years and now one of the original six pro- trumpers will continue at a very high level at the campaign. there are a number of lawsuits

i've seen michael here at the white house discussing those , i've seen him out on the trail, and he's a valued member of the campaign. on the coronavirus, i would point everybody's attention -- steve: quickly. >> pennsylvania, pull it up mas outdoor rally, the president was out on the riser, air force one, fresh air. i think you can do this just has to be fewer people outside gorgeous weather. let's just do it that way and people but i think we have to also understand, many people who support donald trump who walk across broken glass for him are not going to go to the rallies and that's okay. they are going to support him in different ways. they don't want to put themselves at risk but they already support him. they are hardly swing voters and the real key is the silent majority that the hidden trump voters who aren't going to the rallies vote for he and vice president pence many of them. there are no hidden biden voters in the country. brian: just a hidden biden. ainsley: you saw the ratings. >> yes, biden is hiding. ainsley: thank you so much,

kellyanne. >> thank you have a great day. ainsley: country music star clint black is teaming up on our wonderful troops he joins us with more on that and his brand new album coming up next but first let's check in with sandra to find out what's coming up. >> sandra: hello, ainsley, brian and steve. good morning to you, new york city approving the slashing of $1 billion from the nypd police budget, brand new reaction to that this morning. plus president trump and his team continue to defend what he knew about russian bounties and when. slamming irresponsible anonymous leakers, their words and despite spikes in coronavirus cases across the country, the american academy of pediatrics says your kid should go back-to-school for in-person learning this fall. pediatrician is here to respond, and secretary sunny purdue on u.s. mca, neil cavuto on the market rallying senator bill cassidy from louisiana and more and charlie hurt and judith miller on deck to detate we'll begin a brand new america's news

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ainsley: more than three decades since clint black made his country music debut and now he's releasing his 12th studio album called out of sane, with a

patriotic lead single, and this weekend he's teaming up with uso to support our troops as the organization marks the tenth anniversary of their t-shirt campaign and he joins us now with more. welcome, clint black. >> good morning, ainsley. how are you? ainsley: i've been listening to your music forever i can't believe i'm interviewing you that's amazing. my best friend had a huge poster the size of a full body of you. okay anyway, uso kicking off the tenth annual t-shirt campaign tell us about this. >> well the uso fantastic organization, they do need your help still, but they've been supporting the troops we need to support them and you can do it by buying the t-shirt and the outlets helps connect our troops with their families from abroad and anything they need that they can help with. ainsley: how much are they? >> how much are the t-shirts? they're not enough. buy two of them.

ainsley: i'm going to go buy them right after the show. it's outlets.org/tshirt. what about the big special, the fourth of july special this is the first time that the uso has done this right? >> yeah it is i've traveled with the outlets but it's a different time, so we're going to try to bring some entertainment to the troops around the world virtually. ainsley: okay you can watch it if you want to sad morning at 12 p.m. eastern time, it's uso's facebook, youtube, and twitter channels as well. twitch channels, so then you have a new album out called "out of sane." is that like of opposite of insane? >> came from a lyric, can't stop thinking and iraq my brain, i thought that's what making a record is. ainsley: that's great well we definitely need to buy your album while we're buying that t-shirt because you do so much

for our troops. what does it mean to you and tell us about the uso tours and why you do it and a quick message to our troops. >> i think we were all in spier ed by bob hope and seeing that great footage of him singing to the best audiences in the world so when they asked me to go, i jumped at the opportunity. ainsley: well god bless you. thank you so much for what you do. god bless you keep going we'll be watching this weekend. >> thank you. take care. ainsley: thanks, clint. more fox & friends moments away. . they get that no two people are alike and customize your car insurance so you only pay for what you need. what do you think? i don't see it. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ are you currently using a whitening toothpaste, but not seeing results? try crest 3d whitestrips. its enamel-safe formula lifts and removes stains to provide 100% noticeably whiter teeth or your money back. try crest 3d whitestrips.

>> before we go, i have one of your kid set your dvr at 6:00 a.m. eastern so you never miss a moment of fox & friends. we will be back tomorrow but in the meantime, "america's newsroom." >> sandra: fox news alert this morning from seattle where police are moving into the city's autonomous zone known as chop. they are trying to remove the group of protesters that have been occupying a seattle police precinct to their and of the surrounding area. the demonstrators have effectively shut down nearby businesses and have turned violent and deadly at times. city police say any chop protester that does not comply will be arrested. it's a developing situation on the ground there in seattle and we will keep you posted. at the new york city council approving $1 billion in cuts from the police budget.