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incredible work, it is so great to see you. and it's great to meet you and thank all of you at home for joining us. has been a wonderful day to fill in for dana perino, happy fourth. i am kirsten fisher. ♪ >> i am jon scott, welcome to a special edition of bill hemmer reports. president trump heading to mount rushmore later today to kick off the fourth of july weekend. thousands of people expected to attend the event. south dakota's governor says face masks are optional and social distancing will not be enforced. the u.s. reported more than 52,000 new cases yesterday, another single day record. according to the associated press, south dakota is on a downward trend, cases are rising in 40 states including texas. casey stegall reporting live from dallas.
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>> nearly 16,000 new cases were reported across the lone star state in just the last two days, and the number of tests that are coming back positive has risen to more than 13%. back in april when texas governor greg abbott unveiled his plans for reopening the state's economy, he said if the positivity rate got above 10%, things we need to be adjusted so in addition to closing down the states bars, rolling back a dining restaurant capacity and suspending elective surgeries in eight counties, now the governor is requiring almost all residents to wear face masks or coverings. the rule will be enforced in counties currently experiencing more than 20 active covid cases which is 95% of the state. >> the government mandates that you wear a seat belt while you're driving and they can impose a fine for that. i am unaware of anybody being put in jail for not wearing a
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seat belt. so basically, it's enforced the same way that other safety centers are enforced. >> no holiday beach parties in many parts of california this weekend, seeing an increase in cases, officials have closed them in places like los angeles, orange county, and the san francisco bay area to keep large groups from gathering. many florida beaches have also done the same and more communities are also joining new york, new jersey, and connecticut with issuing emergency travel orders. chicago is the latest city for anyone coming in from at least 15 states where community spread of coronavirus is the highest must self-quarantine now for 14 days. that new rule issued by the mayor and goes into effect on monday. pennsylvania leaders are also encouraging travelers coming in from other hot spots to also do the same. in john? >> jon: casey stegall from
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dallas, thank you. let's bring in dr. marty makary, professor at johns hopkins university school of public health, also a fox news medical contributor. and so the of infections on the rise in many states, the question is why? >> this is a critical time, basically two and a half months to try to get this under control before we go into the fall where we know these coronavirus is like the other four coronavirus is flair. so it is clustered in young people and that is relatively good use because it is low. not a big jump for this to cross over to vulnerable people. you look at florida, 22% of the population is over 60, so that is the concern right now. you cannot to cocoon vulnerable populations for too long. we need everybody take these precautions we are talking about. >> jon: but i understand there are some promising signs with regard to a vaccine.
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>> really good news this week from fisa, they reported a 45 patience the results of a phase one trial that showed that the vaccine was able to generate neutralizing or effective antibodies in all 45 patience and that those antibodies were at higher levels than those who were just infected and had a national recovery so that's really good news right now and basically saying it's all good, all promising, just a matter of time and by doing mitigation, we are just buying time until some early 2012 event. 2021 event. >> jon: when the virus was first making its way to the united states, so many hospitals set up supplemental facilities, the javits center in new york for instance was turned into a hospital center, and a lot of those facilities were not used it how are we doing now regarding capacity with the numbers of infections on the
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rise in some places? >> right now, hospital capacity is good. is strong in texas, good in florida, most parts of arizona. the concern is if this crosses over to older people -- right now, the average age in texas is about 34. in florida, very similar. it crosses over, that is where the hospitalizations are much more common. that's where it's going to strain the hospital system, that's the concern in a period where we were hoping to be -- the fall is much more concerning. we can't get this down going to the fall, we will have a massive strain on the health care system and have already seen a massive strain on the testing system, long lines in some parts of the country and you can't just mobilize testing like you can some other capacity. >> jon: it continues to be a political football. they pointed president trump as
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having mishandled the virus, that kind of thing. are they working to eradicate this thing or at least manage it? >> unfortunately, many things in this country are political and many of us in medicine are worried about that. the good news is we are seeing a real coming together, seeing conservative governors and sun belt states now have a real change in tone. look at governor abbott and governor desantis urging people to try to do everything possible now and i think the reason is that we've got half a million cases yesterday using the extrapolation of the cdc that were only confirming one in ten cases, 52,000 cases yesterday is about half a million per day. that is not a good rate going into the false eve got to do everything and that's what they are talking about. >> jon: i want to play something that jerome adams had
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to say this morning on "fox & friends" regarding the spread of this. listen. >> the message of the american people need to hear is that we have the power to control the spread of covid if we take simple measures regardless of where you are in your reopening that includes when you go out in public, staying 6 feet apart at least whenever you can and making sure you are wearing the face covering. >> jon: so that's what the surgeon general has to say. people are getting awfully tired of the restrictions but we will have to live with them for some time. >> what i appreciate about dr. adams, and he is a good person, is we all need to be showing the some degree of humility with a virus that we don't fully understand, and we are seeing doctors and public officials say now that we have more data, let's change our strategy. we have witnessed now asia and europe manage large outbreaks with universal masking. how did china protect over
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1 billion people after two uncontrolled outbreaks in two different provinces from universal masking and distancing? that is now the consensus in terms of strategy. >> jon: dr. marty makary, johns hopkins at a fox news contributor, thank you. big cities bracing for more protests and a possible surge in violence over the holiday weekend. in new york, some protesters are still outside city hall. in other parts of the city, at least one person died, several others were injured in the shooting and knife attacks overnight and in chicago, the mayor and the police superintendent say they are putting more than 1,000 extra cops on the streets this weekend is that city grapples with rising gun violence. let's bring in ted williams, former d.c. detective and a fox news contributor. it's the fourth of july, should be a time for celebration and
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happiness in this country and especially in big cities like chicago it is a time of mayhem and carnage. why? >> you are right. in it is a time unfortunately for mayhem and carnage and chicago is very concerned about this weekend because historically, it is this weekend, the july 4th weekend when shootings are amplified in that city. i was gone about three weeks ago when you had on a single weekend in chicago, 104 people shot or 15 people died and you had shot and killed at that time. a young child in chicago was shot but fortunately, looks like she is going to survive that. but there is a new sheriff in town, that sheriff is david brown, the new superintendent.
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you may remember him serving as the police chief there, and he is trying to bring about change in chicago specifically this weekend, he is going to saturate portions of chicago, especially in the south side where you have the gangs and then on the west side where you have the latino gangs, and he's going to try to take over those box and help police officers there to try to serve and protect the members of that community. >> jon: the meantime, let's talk a little bit about what's going on in portland, oregon, where there is been all kinds of mayhem on the streets, why is that city not able to get this under control? >> i think the unfortunate reason why they are not able to get them under control is the city administrators on both sides of this, some
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administrations who support the protesters and they were others who are trying to bring them under control and as you know, last night we had riots out there where the demonstrators took over the police department and other city buildings and what has happened is the support is not helping because the court will not allow law enforcement officers she even used tear gas out there under certain circumstances, and that is where somebody's life is on the line. but you have these administrators in each other's heads. >> jon: unbelievable in an american city like that. ted williams, happy fourth of july, thank you. coming up, we will take you live to mount rushmore where
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president trump is set to speak later tonight. plus, after decades of resisting a name change, what the washington redskins are now saying. and we will have an exclusive interview with a woman who said she was only 14 years old when ghislaine maxwell lowered her for jeffrey epstein. ar 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. ♪ tvwhere we've got the best to odeals on refrigerators, microwaves, gas ranges and grills. and if you're looking for... (grilled cheese sizzles) (timer chimes)
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maxwell's accusers speaking exclusively to fox news saying maxwell recruited and ultimately raped her with jeffrey epstein when she was just 14 years old. of maximo now faces charges of luring girls for sexual abuse. she has repeatedly denied accusations against her. a bryan llenas reporting live from new york city. >> good afternoon. this jane doe has not been willing to identify herself just yet but speaking to us publicly for the first time about claims against ghislaine maxwell and she says she is willing to serve as a witness in her criminal trial right now in new york. the jane doe claims that maxwell sexually abused her 20 to 30 times beginning in 1991 in florida when she was 14 years old until she was 16 years old. she claims maxwell not only groomed her by showing her how to perform acts on men, but would take part in the sexual abuse herself, abusing her sometimes alone and other
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times alongside jeffrey epstein. >> she is just as evil as jeffrey epstein. in ms. maxwell was his business partner in this period of she did this to many girls. >> jane doe said the abuse ended only after she became pregnant with jeffrey epstein's baby at age 16. she got an abortion, but suspecting that she told her parents about the abortion and fearful she would go to the authorities, they claimed that they gang raped her before a driver dropped her off naked at her grandparents wanted. >> she was a part of it and jeffrey epstein was a part of it and i was drugged, gang raped, and left on the lawn, and they put a gun to me. the man that drove me home that said i would never come back alive. that's why i spoke about it.
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>> her return he represents nine epstein accusers, says jane doe filed a civil lawsuit against the estate over a year ago. he says his client is speaking out in the hopes of inspiring others to come forward against ghislaine maxwell. >> people felt cheated when he committed suicide in prison, didn't get a chance to sit in the courtroom and see him, see the judicial system play out, and they are hoping that there's a different result here. >> jordan said they have corroborated jane doe's claims with her grandparents. an attorney for ghislaine maxwell told fox news "no comment." on the specific allegations. >> jon: let's bring in -- and thank you, bryan llenas. a criminal defense attorney and a former prosecutor, so put on your prosecutor's hat for a moment. when you hear jane doe's story,
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how difficult is it going to be to prosecute at this point? there was little physical if any evidence around. becomes a she says kind of story. >> exactly. i don't think this case is going to be easy to prosecute at all because it is really going to boil down to a credibility contest unless there is some new evidence that has not ever before been made available, and we know that this case, the case against epstein and cohorts has been investigated thoroughly and jeffrey epstein was prosecuted for similar charges back in 2008. so what is new here? if there is nothing, the prosecution really just has these horrific allegations and trust me, they are horrific, but they're going to need facts to back up the story to make sure it is a true depiction of what happened. >> jon: so are these
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plaintiffs going to likely have more success doing the epstein's a state in civil court than they might in criminal court? >> this is really interesting because if they were to get a conviction in criminal court -- we know they can't get a conviction anymore against epstein because he is dead but if they were to get a criminal conviction against ms. maxwell, there are civil cases that would be a lot easier. it's a lot more important to prove. is that a motivating factor here? if you are defending her, you have to contemplate whether people are coming forward and if they are being completely truthful and accurate with their story because they want justice or because they want money. emmett has to be said if you are defending her, you're going to go down that road. >> jon: thank you very much. >> thank you, happy fourth. >> jon: pro baseball teams are back on the field today and we will look at the new guidelines
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care to hundreds of thousands of veterans in this country, tough enough to do in ordinary times but now trying to do it in the middle of a pandemic. how is it going? >> it is nine and a half million and the benefit that we have here is we are dealing with americans who have been in some of the toughest spots on the planet. they know hardship and they also know when to act. we started early by sending information to them as early as the first week of february to prepare for what was coming in one sense, we have been spared the worst of this and that we've had 18,000 veterans infected out of the nine and a half million we serve but about 15,000 of those have fully recovered and it has allowed us to do more than just serve veterans. it's allowed us to serve the entire country. we are in nursing homes across the country.
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we have nurses learning the language in order to help those veterans out in that part of western america. in so they have responded as we thought they would, responded as they always have, responded to it with grace and courage. >> jon: the test rate for the virus test rate among veterans, is it roughly equal to that of the population at large? >> actually, it's a little lower because i think we got a head start on this, but we are seeing surges in the same place that you've been reported income of florida and texas, just in arizona making sure we were ready in phoenix and we have wonderful leadership there are so our veterans are not divorced from what's happening in the rest of the country. they don't live on military
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installations, they are out in the community in a new orleans, we have thousands of veterans celebrating mardi gras out in march in new orleans with the place we had the first wave. the other thing we are doing is making sure if this thing does rebound in the fall but we are prepared to meet that challenge as well. >> jon: there is a bit of good news for your department when it comes to the public perceptions of the people that you serve. they are happier with the va than they've been in some time. >> yes. it's an all-time high. we are sitting in terms of our health care at a 90% trust and approval rating that's not just us. the veterans of foreign wars validated those numbers. the two largest budgets in the
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history of our department and also say that veterans are now under this administration voting with their feet. when we talk about trust and approval ratings, they are almost 40 points higher than they were in the last administration because this president has put veterans front and center and we have seen the benefits of that, and we have seen veterans coming home in record numbers. >> jon: as we prepared to celebrate the fourth of july in the independence day of this country, we also want to salute those veterans and the agency that you had, those veterans who have continued to keep this country free and strong. in thank you very much. >> just like members of your family as well, so we think you for that. >> jon: thank you.
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president trump is heading to mount rushmore as activists plan to protest the monument and as the coronavirus surges in parts of the country. we are live at mount rushmore. and the washington redskins now responding after one of the team's main sponsors calls for a name change. apps are used everywhere...
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kick off america's july 4th weekend. mount rushmore, the iconic site behind me here, we will have a fly passed by air force one as the president lands at nearby ellsworth air force base on the and of course, the evening will culminate with spectacular fireworks display, but this event is not without various issues and they cannot avoid politics. the politics of coronavirus for instance, the governor of south dakota has said social distancing will not be required here and i can tell you looking around for the seven and a half thousand people here, they are packed in without an inch of space between them. masks will not be required. they are on hand and they are certainly not a requirement for attending this event. then there is the question of the potential danger of fireworks.
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displays like this after the fireworks caused some forest fires. there are a firefighter units on hand throughout the area this evening, and the national park service says they are prepared to deal with any potential fallout and any brushfires that might spring up. president trump of course has said look and burn? it's only stone but clearly, there was a lot of forest around here and then there is the question of the land on which mount rushmore sits. there are going to be protests by sioux tribes members who believe that this land is theirs, and it should be returned to them. of course, ultimately, we will have the question of the politics of the president. will he have figurative fireworks of his own in his speech given that he is going to be standing in front of one of the most iconic monuments in america, you can be fairly sure he will take a few jabs at those
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have been intent on tearing down statues and other monuments around this country, but putting all of that aside, it is hard as a new american citizen as i am not to be very proud to be standing here and very excited for what will be a spectacular display tonight. john? >> jon: i was just there last summer myself, and it's a spectacular place. jonathan hunt emma congratulations. thank you. let's bring in senior political columnist for national journal. a lot of people have been tearing down statues or removing statues. no one is putting mount rushmore on a truck and taking it away, it is perhaps the best backdrop the president could want for the situation he finds himself in right now. >> now, and mount rushmore is here to stay in president trump is going to be talking about
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monuments, talking about american heritage in his speech tonight and he wants to make this a big political issue for november, and it is often times we have seen over terms presidency that the opposition takes the bait from the president and we saw this week that the democratic national committee put out a tweet saying that the president's speech glorified white supremacy at mount rushmore. it's that type of rhetoric and that type of left-wing activists within the party really out sizing the reaction to what the president is doing which gives the president a little bit of hope that perhaps he can get political momentum out of the speech tonight. >> jon: hard to believe that we are four months out from election day and it is one of the strangest seasons we have ever seen. >> we are in the middle of a presidential campaign without a whole lot of campaigning and that's why president trump wants to get out there. he loves the rallies, the tulsa
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rally was not a success, a lot of empty seats so hoping to have a reset on july 3rd right before the july 4th holiday in south dakota with a great background and great setting in front of mount rushmore, but the president has some challenges, and i think the fact that there is not going to be social distancing and not a lot of people wearing masks is also an issue for him and maybe not what his supporters want to hear but there are some very public health issues also at play. >> jon: i suppose the white house would push back on your thought that it wasn't a success. on fox news channel alone, i think more than 4 million people watch that event in tulsa so even if they were empty seats, i suppose they would say they reach the folks they wanted to reach. let's talk a little bit about another controversy underway, the washington redskins have been pressured to change their name many times before and have
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never chosen to do so but this time, it seems to have some extra momentum. why? >> it's because of the pressure that corporations are showing in this moment of social activism. corporations are trying to showcase their regressive credentials, and all the polls about the redskins name change, very few redskins fans are really pushing for a name change. you didn't even see native americans, several polls in the last five or six years that showed minimal support among native americans for the name change of the redskins but we are at a moment where there's a lot of social activism going on in corporations are at the forefront. so nike took down all of its redskins gear from its web site. fedex, which sponsors fedex field where the redskins play their games actually put out a statement calling on dan snyder to change the team name, so it is really that corporate pressure that was the final straw and why the redskins are seriously considering changing their name.
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>> jon: josh, enjoy your fourth of july weekend, thank you for being with us. professional baseball players are back on the field nearly four months after coronavirus shut down in spring training. teams are working out of their home stadiums with opening day on track for later this month. matt finn reporting live at wrigley field in chicago. >> for the first time since the pandemic shut down spring training back in march, workouts and practices are happening at ballparks across the field including here at the legendary wrigley field. the practices are a little bit different. players are in staggered groups. the cubs players just took to the field for the first time in months, saw them do a round of lbo bombs versus any other contact. the players are required to have their temperature checked and tested before hitting the field and this year's makeshift major
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league season will have just 60 games and teams will only play other teams within their region to reduce nationwide travel. here in chicago, players health is a major concern. 38-year-old cubs pitching coach recently overcame a brutal battle with covid-19. he says he has no underlying issues, was wearing a mask, but got crushed. took him 30 days to finally test negative, and he battled depression. >> i think dude i do something wrong? could i have -- how could i put my family and that kind of situation? >> fortunately, that coach is doing okay. the league did cancel the 2020 all-star game but opening day get scheduled for about three weeks from today when we will finally see some games on field like this one. >> jon: all right, matt finn in chicago, play ball.
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>> jon: more americans getting back to work than economists predicted according to the june jobs report, the fed say employers added 4.8 million jobs last month and unemployment dropped to 11%, 11.1, but some businesses are shutting down again as the virus spikes in some states. let's bring in a cofounder of the committee to unleash prosperity who served as an advisor to president trump's
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2016 campaign. those june jobs numbers took so many people by surprise. are you one of them? >> yes. i'm one of them. a high track this stuff pretty closely, and this is the second month in a row that we have been incredibly surprised on the upside, that we have created about 10 million more jobs than economists thought was possible, so this is a good first sign that we are in the very first stages of a v-shaped recovery and the good news wasn't just the total number of jobs, but it was that it was so widespread around the economy. you had increase in these blue-collar jobs in manufacturing and construction, retail showed a rebound, saw increases in hospitality jobs and it's hard to find any area of the economy that didn't see a rebound. now, i don't want to sugarcoat this because we lost 30 million jobs in the previous month so we still have a big rebounding a job ahead of us but this is good news.
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we had good consumer confidence numbers from a good manufacturing numbers, retail sales are rising, so all signs right now or are pointing north. >> jon: it was the largest number of jobs added ever in the nation's history, great news there, but then you look at the unemployment rate, 11.1%, still a big number and you have to add a lot more jobs to erase that. >> no doubt about that. i actually think the unemployment rate is quite a bit higher than that because the government is actually paying employers to keep people on their payrolls that aren't actually working right now so we are closer to 15% real unemployment rate which means we have to get america back to work. joe biden took the stage a few days ago and said if he were president, he thinks we opened up too early and that he would've kept the economy locked down. that means we wouldn't have seven and a half million people working today so that wouldn't be a a real clash
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between republicans and democrats right now on this where president trump is pretty firm that we are turning back, going to be smart about this and keep people healthy but move people forward to getting our business is open and getting jobs back, democrats seem to want to shut everything down. >> jon: you have a piece of "the wall street journal" where you argue that extending unemployment benefits would be a bad idea. why? there were a lot of unemployed people out there. >> we have an unemployment system and have had one for 30 years but what i'm arguing for is that the normal system work that provides people with a safety net when they lose their job. really stupid thing that we did back a couple of months ago was we started paying people more money to be unemployed than to work and that's not very fair to the people who are working that their next-door neighbor is not working and gets paid more for not showing up for work and nancy pelosi wants to extend that policy for six more months
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and the point i made in "the wall street journal" with my friend who is one of the top labor economists in the country as if he were to do that, continue to pay people more not to work especially as we get jobs flowing back, you were going to lose 10 million jobs. i can't tell you how many employers i'm talking to who owned stores or restaurants in factories and construction companies, and they say they can't get people back to work now because the workers are saying wait a minute, i make more money sitting at my house and watching tv. people are unemployed, we should give them a benefit but not paid more than people who are worki working. >> jon: the president obviously is going to argue that were it not for the coronavirus, the economic boom that his administration brought around would still be going. do you think there's enough time left between now and election day for the economic numbers to turn around him such a way that the president will see some
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relief from these horrible numbers we seen? >> that is to be seen. i don't think anybody knows the answer to that. we have four months. i still think we are going to have a lot of unemployed people by november. i think what donald trump has to argue and hopefully he will be able to make this case, it will be good for america as if he can say number one, we are still in a bit of a hold but things are getting better. americans feel like things are getting better and we are getting out of this hole, that i think he will be in good shape and then he has to make the argument because his poll numbers are bad, but the one pole number that is very good for donald trump's who do you think is better to resurrect the economy, joe biden or trump? and he obviously killed biden on that. he has to make the case i rebuild the american economy ones, we can do this again. >> jon: stephen moore from the committee to unleash prosperity. thank you. to kick off the fourth of july
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american made for a country, countless reasons and supporting our veterans, our heroes that have started their own businesses, we have a variety of different companies and products that are operated and owned by veterans. >> jon: you've got everything from pocket squares and coffee to jewelry and t-shirts, just about anything made in america qualifies to be part of your featured operation. >> that's right. did a lot of work for the customer and throughout all of the products out there and you mentioned the coffee, just an example of a man who served two tours in iraq, currently a paramedic in new york, started his own company, and pocket squares as you mentioned as well, he is currently a federal
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agent who in the past was in combat as well. so again, doing everything we can to support our veterans in our companies. >> jon: i think they want to support american companies and especially want to support american companies that are helmed by veterans so how did they do that, how did they find you? >> simple. go to our site. for the most part, we have over 10,000 products, now with people still reopening up, we have a featured assortment that covers a bit of everything including ppe, on the go kids. one aspect that we touched upon his safety and quality. a lot of things coming from china these days do arrive eventually with everything going on, you have hand sanitizers, you know it's in there and want
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products that are reliable. >> jon: we are going to have to run, but we thank you very much and we wish you well. that does it for me today. neil cavuto is up next. >> neil: go forth and celebrate the fourth of where you can. in santa monica, california, just can't go to with this weekend, much of the same story right now in dallas where if you want to go out, you are a limited where you can go and you'd better bring a mask with you because that will now be the policy throughout the state. florida meanwhile seeing its own spike in cases, going to talk about the impact with the chairman and ceo, and a lot of business there, biggest casino operator in the sunshine state speaking to him momentarily as the nation gets prepared to celebrate, but you have to pick and choose where you do it. casey stegall in dallas with the very

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