and this story just give me all the good feelings and chills. rob: had to defer payments on mortgage for a while because he had some struggles. they got it done. carley: the american dream. "fox & friends" right now. ♪ ♪ ainsley: well, good morning, it is thursday. it is 6:00 a.m. here on the east coast. we are social distancing. steve: we are. apes ain't steve is over there brian is over there i'm here in the middle. so glad you are waking up with us. thank you so much. steve: good morning, everybody. today is the 9th day of july. we are right smack dab in the middle of summer. ainsley: hard to believe. brian: keep in mind if you are at home we are in studio. steve: we showed the wide shot. brian bine we could choose to

touch each other but we chose not to. let's talk about what is going on when it comes to policing in this country. a lot of sobering up. we need police and people look around and say they do protect us and maybe we can reform for 2020 and that's why the attorney general is working with senator tim scott. they were in south carolina yesterday and reviving some police reform and law enforcement reform in this country. there is also a sense, among others that we need to maybe disband the police and black lives matter's philadelphia representative is making it clear that when it comes to accomplishing the police. it doesn't have to happen today but it has to happen. >> one of the things that we're demanding is the defunding over five years to complete abolition. we don't want to see any police in our community and over the course of those five years. the five years gives time for the community to begin to build what is needed instead of police.

and at the same time, build restorative justice practices. build out our mental health response teams and things like that. and build medic responses and responses that really actually deal with the issues that are in place, then we will have less crime anyway. brian: all right. because that will be good because when there is mass looting and chaos it will be good to have mental health professionals waiting and standing guy wait and talk people out of throwing an ax through a window and attacking and shaking down pedestrians who are looking to get to work. where has this model ever been effective? wherever before. i know for sure where donald trump stands on this and we'll talk for awhile. i'm not sure where joe biden stands on this. the democratic party. and if you click on black lives matter it goes to a democratic cause called true blue, meaning code blue, i'm pretty sure one

of those organizations. anyone who is supporting black lives matter is actually supporting the democratic party. i wonder if the democratic party actually believes in this. ainsley: be careful what you wish for. we saw what happened in chop the first day of summer a young man was killed. another person was killed. many were injured. police officers there said someone was raped. that's an area where police were not welcome. and they are under appreciated. they have a job to do. their job is to keep everyone safe when there is real crime. that's why you are hearing so many police officers are trying to take early retirement. some of them their family members are encouraging them to go to a different direction. i was talking to a police officer yesterday my son is signed up for the academy now they are not having it. i told my son to go a different direction. he says that makes me so sad because we have been a family of wearing the blue for so many generations now my son is going to end that because of everything that's happening. the line was so long down at the retirement office in downtown new york. people were trying to call to

retire no one was a answering the phones because they were so busy. nypd retirement filings from june 29th to july 6th, which was the beginning of this week, 179 officers filed for retimer in new york city. same period of time last year, only 35 hours. that's 411% increase year to year. steve: ainsley, there are so many police officers at one police plaza lining up at the pension office trying to retire now. apparently the pension office says, you know what? we can't being cut from the police department budget. you look at the spike in shooting. you have anti-cop sentiment that is sweeping the country. and then a pending city law that would ban the use of take down

somebody who they want to arrest. that's happening on this coast. on the west coast. why exactly did 300 police officers call in sick at the lapd. there was an anonymous letter that apparently the "l.a. times" got and this is part of it. it says: they succeeded in defunding the police. what do you think is next, our pay, our benefits, our pensions? we have to send the city a clear message that we are not expendable and we are not going to take this crap anymore. so, the question is was that, you know, all those people calling in sick, was it simply a coincidence that they decided to do that or was it part of an orchestrated effort and an organized protest, which would be against the law?

so the lapd is investigating. brian: $143 million out of the lapd budget. only 10,000 people there called horrible things by their current mayor. you wonder you have a degree of pride don't do it for the money or get rich. talk about where the democratic party stands and where joe biden stands. 7 years old. he has got a challenge. he has got to somehow mind meld with the bernie bros and find a way to have the squad be part of his campaign of remaking the democratic party and maybe adapting some of their principles. now, when it comes to redirecting funds or defunding the police, joe biden made it clear on june 8th as the criminal justice proposal made clear months ago biden does not believe that police should be defunded, or does he? joe biden seems to have a different opinion as his task force designed to merge between the radical socialist views of bernie sanders and his alleged

moderate views in the primary emerge and come up with a task force. one of them was policing. joe biden was asked about it. listen. >> surplus military equipment for law enforcement. they don't need that the last thing you need is an up armored humvee coming into a neighborhood like the military invading. they don't know anybody. they are the not the enemy. they are supposed to be protecting these people. >> can we agree we need to redirect some of the funding? >> yes, absolutely. brian: a little bit of a change. redirecting some of the funding. a lot of pressure on the left to do that at 77 years old, can he remake what he wants to do and his beliefs have already been. remember the author of the 1990s law was a crackdown against criminals. now he seems to have gone way to the other directions. good luck with that. ainsley: well, in june, he said he did not support defunding. brian: june 8th. ainsley: exactly. the president had a campaign ad that declared he wanted to

defund he said no, no, no, no. i never said that now he is saying that as of yesterday when he had that interview saying we don't need a surplus of military equipment that leads them to become enemy of a community talking about law enforcement. nikki haley was on with sean hannity last night and she weighed in on this former u.n. ambassador and governor of south carolina. she said if we lose the rule of law we will become a socialist, communist country. listen to. this we have had true results with president trump. you don't have to like him but look at the results he has done and raised the quality of life for some people then look at the results of biden with president obama. the african-american community, women, hispanics, none of us felt those results like we have with president trump. so, facts matter. results matter. there is no question if you put these side by side if we go with a president biden, we will lose our rule of law. we will have the progressives really running away with

everything, getting all of what they want and we will get closer and closer to these socialist countries that we have fought so hard. >> closer and closer. ainsley: unity task force set up by biden and bernie sanders. they are working together as you said, brian, trying to get the establishment on board with the aocs of the world, the progressives. so they were discussing all their different points. they included immigration. they said they want to rescind the president wants fabricated national emergency. steve: we are going to talk about that right now. joe biden is taking a big step to the left. former vice president joining one-time rival bernie sanders to release a platform of party recommendations. the goal is to unite moderate and progressive democrats so that in 2020 they don't do what happened to hillary clinton in 2016 and that was the bernie people stayed home, didn't vote for her and trump won. brian: 110 page plan focuses on a wide range of issues including climate change, aoc played a

role there, criminal justice reform, immigration, education, healthcare and the economy. look at this: critics pointed out some passages word from word from sanders' presidential platform. ainsley: some ideas not endorsed that list includes the green new deal and medicare for all. if you read biden's plan from a while ago, and and bernie sanders from a while ago and now you read their plan together which is biden's plan, it really is word for word. i mean paragraph. he just cut and paste paragraph. steve: if you are a bernie supporter that's great. that means word for word joe, if elected, says he is going to do it. the worry though is because it did stop short of endorsing things like the green new deal and the worry is the fact that while there is a lot of environmental things from this particular plan, there is no ban

of fracking. the worry there is it was alienate swing state voters in pennsylvania. and then the worry is talk about joe biden will support universal healthcare. the worry is during this pandemic so many people will be afraid that they're losing their healthcare coverage that they are getting through their employer. bernie sanders who really likes supports of this said if joe biden is elected and does, this he will be right up there with fdr in the progressive department. >> i was glad to work with the vice president in forming six separate task forces which had some of the most knowledgeable people in the country coming together to deal with education and climate change and healthcare and the economy and criminal justice and immigration reform. and these folks, needless to

say, people who represented the progressive movement had a different perspective on things than biden's people. the compromise that they came up with, if implemented, will make biden the most progressive president since fdr. it did not happen -- needless to say, everything that i wanted. didn't have everything that biden wanted. steve: just because they are putting this unity thing out does not mean necessarily that it's actually going to happen. but, nonetheless, it is a signal to the people who supported bernie sanders and elizabeth warren that joe biden is listening to what they are interested in. and, if elected, certainly will consider it. one of the things he did say during that interview where it sounded like he would defund the police, he did say he believes it is the job of the federal government to go in and systematically change what's going on regarding police. he said banning no knock warrants and improving police transparency were things that he

would really like to see happen. brian: they are not dumb. the squad is not dumb. they understand if they are going to have a president and an administration that's going to do what they want him to do. joe biden doesn't include fracking in here that's a problem with the aocs and tlaibs of the world and ilhan omar's of the world. he needs to be asked directly do you ban fracking? if you don't ban fracking even natural gas burns clean, they are not for that anymore. and when it comes to vouchers for inner city kids who can go to these elite charter schools, he is getting rid of vouchers. some reason try to qualify it's unfair. ainsley: they don't need federal funding. steve: just like the teacher's union. >> just like the mayor in new york city got rid of vouchers. who does it hurt? hits kids in inner cities subpar schools have a chance to go to better schools. he needs somebody right across from him at 77 years old are you a member of the squad? because, if not, goodbye radical

left support. and are you like bernie sanders, a socialist? because, if not goodbye bernie bros. you can't keep insulting the people like bernie sanders and the squad and pretend to go along with them or, worse, go along with them. then we are going to be heading down a path that america has never been down before. steve: do you know who is going to ask him if he is a member of the squad? donald trump at the debates. brian: let's hope. ainsley: remember when bernie was saying when he was running last time he said i want socialism? we were all like, what? socialism? don't you know what countries, communism, socialism, don't you know what those countries look like. half the country was on board with it or at least a fourth if not more. then joe biden a few weeks ago was asked do you want to defund police? what? are they crazy? defund our police? then there won't be la law enforcement officers to combat crime. now here we are two weeks later and changing his tune. steve: a clear difference. there are some in the democratic

party who want to defund the police. donald trump has made it clear he is the law and order president. he says that everyday. he would give police more money if it were up to him. 6:15 on this very busy thursday. thank you very much for joining us. mezzanine level with the headlines some news from hollywood. carley: that's right. starting here with a fox news alert. actress rivera presumed dead after going boating with her son on california lake. police found her 4-year-old child sleeping alone on the boat north of los angeles. the child telling police they went swimming but his mom never returned. rivera is believed to have drowned. we will have a live report on the search later this hour. more than 3 million people in the united states have now tested positive for covid-19. the u.s. also passing 132,000 deaths. it comes as the country sets a single day record with more than

62,000 new cases on wednesday. this as the cdc is set to release new safety guidelines for reopening schools next week. president trump also threatening to cut funds if schools do not reopen this fall. today the supreme court is expected to decide who can see president trump's tax returns and financial records. the justices are expected to rule on two subpoenas one from house democrats, the other from manhattan's d.a.'s office. the push comes after president trump's former lawyer michael cohen told congress the president's financial statements were routinely altered. president trump's lawyers argue he would -- he should receive immunity while in office. the ivy league has become the first division one conference to cancel fall sports. the league's executive director will take a wait and see approach before deciding on winter and spring seasons. stanford athletics also taking a

big hit the university cutting 11 sports teams to help recover from losses during the pandemic. football is not on that list. but, still, concerning news if you are a college football or sports fan, guys. brian: or player. ainsley: yes. totally. brian: happen to be in a non-revenue sport you are in trouble. that's another residue. ainsley: if you are a fencer supposed to go to stanford your sport is done away with. brian: soccer, gymnastics. things like that. joe biden ureblegd to stay off the debate stage unless president trump meets too conditions. that story next. thomas freidman weighs. in the moment has come to deal with the denial of the promise of this nation, made to so many.

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with president trump claiming that he should not debate the president unless, quote: trump releases his tax returns for 2016 through 2018. and there has to be a realtime fact checking team approved by both candidates to be hired for the debate. here to react is black voices for trump advisory board member stacey washington. hey, stacey. >> hey, ainsley, how are you? ainsley: i'm good. thank you. this is in the "new york times." thomas freidman saying there should only be a debate under these conditions. is this an attempt for the democrats to try to avoid a debate? >> i think so. any fact checker that they present is going to be someone who really leans towards their side and the questions that are going to be asked that night during the debate are going to be about presidential topics and things facing the nation les the fact checking happen by people actually washing the debate. americans are smart enough to decide for themselves. ainsley: that's true. unity task force formed set up

by bernie sanders and joe biden. basically all the recommendations for the democrats' convention platform. biden was actually sold to everyone as very moderate. if you read these recommendations they are verbatim, world for word many of them straight out of bernie sanders book. now bernie sanders is saying if he is elected. if biden is elected as president, he will be the most progressive president since fdr. your thoughts? >> that plays right into the hands of the president. so, americans are not obsessed with climate change. it's not in the top five things concerning americans right now. so, ainsley, we have cities on fire, children being gunned down in atlanta and chicago. black lives matter making demands that the father leave the home and all kinds of real issues that existed before we had coronavirus and dealing with the pandemic and getting americans back to work and recreating the fantastic jobs market that we had before all of this began. so, climate change and progressive agenda don't dove

tail into what americans are concerned with i think it's great. black voices for trump. i'm for the president. it's not going to work well for joe biden to come out and start talking about the progressive agenda when americans are wanting to really get back to what we were doing before which was working, earning, living, being free, experiencing liberty and just being american. ainsley: do you think it will scare away the moderates? >> i do. remember, there is a lot of democrats out there like blue dog democrats so the modern vision. 2020 democrats. they feel like the democrats are leaving them. their concerns are unheard. they don't really -- they are not really maybe to move to the right. they want to stay in the center. joe biden at one point had those voters on lockdown because he was very moderate. but, everything he is saying now, defund the police, who are you going to call? are we all going to have personal armed security services? i'm armed to the teeth, but not all americans feel comfortable defending themselves. and i like being able to dial

911. people like that are not going to hear this new joe biden and not want to vote for him. ainsley: real quickly, stacey, why do you support the president? >> i'm pro-life i'm a christian. i look in the bible and doesn't say anything about using abortion or contraception. in fact it doesn't mention that at all. president trump is the most freedom president we have ever had and for school choice. as a black mom and knowing what other black moms are looking for out there, that's a sole refinery enough to vote for him. ainsley: is bideis kanye going a threat? >> so he is the birthday party president. i would like to listen to his greatest gospel. he has never voted, ainsley. ainsley: damage still being felt this morning. our next guest is working to radio build after her salon was burned to the ground. her plea for city leaders next:

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i felt like i was justthis constantly cleaning up his hair. then, i got my paws on the swiffer sweeper. it's a game changer. these heavy duty dry cloths pick up a crazy amount of hair! this is all you. we stopped cleaning and started swiffering. brian: we're back with a fox news alert. actress rivera dead after going missing while boating with her son in a california lake. ashley strohmier as crews continue to search for her. ashley, any word? >> not in the last couple hours but her 4-year-old boy was found alone on a boat on a lake north of los angeles. the actress and her son rented

that boat around 1:00 p.m. yesterday. her son was found sleeping and safe by another boater about three hours later. according to reports, they are still trying to reunite her son with the family. had to stop search after air and dive teams looked for hours for the 33-year-old citing there is a loft challenges in a reservoir that size and sometimes with visibility, obviously. they didn't have details yet on how deep the area where the boat was found was or what kind of conditions they ran into out there. her son was wearing a life vest but she was not. the little boy said he got back into the boat but his mother did not. some people say the department should have searched later into the night but the department likely had to factor in the rescue team safety. brian? brian: all right, ashley. thanks. steve? steve: all right, brian. thank you. the national spotlight has largely shifted from the unrest in minneapolis, hundreds of small business owners in the twin cities are still picking up

the pieces. our next guest spent three decades building successful hollywood salon only to have it burned down by rioters on may 29th. joining us is owner of flora's hair designs flora westbrook. good morning to you. >> good morning. steve: i know you had been closed for a while because of covid. you were going to reopen on june 1st. and what happened on may 29th? >> oh, i got a call that my son, his business was burning so i knew if his business was burning it was going to start my business on fire. so when i got there, everything was just i could not believe it. everything was all up in a big fire a big ball of fire. smoke and fire and i couldn't believe it. steve: i know. had you gotten new supplies because you were planning on opening june 1st and all gone

and unusable as well. i know that in the aftermath, the whole world, it seemed like, was looking in on minneapolis to make sure that things happen for the right reasons and i know you met with amy klobuchar and governor of great state of minnesota, they all seemed to be interested but fast forward to today, have you heard back from them? >> no, i have not. i have not heard anything. steve: what does that say to you? >> well, it's just like i'm all alone. i'm wondering do they care? i have not heard anything. so, i just feel like i'm just left out, you know, just out in left field here. steve: i know. flora, you do not blame the national guard, their deployment you supported although they arrived too late. do you blame, however, the police department in minneapolis, don't you? >> yes.

i thought maybe they should have came around and made sure that our business was safe they didn't do that you know. steve: i understand there are some mornings when you wake up and you think okay i have got to get down to the salon and then it hits you, doesn't it? >> yes, it does. it really does. it hurts to know that i have no business. i have nothing. i don't even have a styling chair anymore, you know. i don't have a salon anymore. it hurts. steve: and you are not the only person in this situation. 1500 minneapolis and saint paul businesses buildings that is to say, have been damaged or destroyed. so you know a lot of people who are in exactly the same situation, don't you? >> yes. yes, i do. yes. absolutely. steve: it is heart breaking. i know that shortly after the aftermath of this, a go fund me page was started for you.

and it took off for a while, and then people just kind of forgot about minneapolis, didn't they? >> yes. that is correct. that is correct. yes. steve: so what are you going to do? >> i want to rebuild i need help rebuilding my business go to flora's hair designs and go fund me page and support me. i wish i could hear something, you know, from the officials. the city or someone to let me know if they are going to do anything. right now i'm just here. i'm left alone. i don't have any help. steve: it's heart breaking. i know that authorities in minnesota and minneapolis watch this program. so i hope somebody does reach out to you. in the meantime maybe the people who purchase wag can reach out. you got a go fund me page if people would like to visit it go to our website foxnews.com and then we will direct them to

yours. floor remarks thank you very much. good luck to you. >> thank you. thank you so much. steve: you bet. keep us posted on what happens and we hope that she hear from somebody who can help her. all right. in the meantime straight ahead. victory for religious liberty, the supreme court ruling employers can opt out of obama's contraceptive coverage mandate for religious reasons. judge napolitano on the gigantic impact of this decision. the judge is next. usaa is made for what's next

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for the little sisters of the poor? >> yes, brian. and good morning, brian, steve, and ainsley it. absolutely is. it's a win for religious liberty. you know, when the affordable care act was making its way through congress there was a small group of catholic democrats who refuse to vote for it unless there was this conscience clause in there that would allow employers whose religious views object to birth control and abortion. not to offer those services in the healthcare that they provide for their employees. the obama administration shrunk that. the trump administration expanded it. and said anybody who has any religious oral moral objection. religious or moral. you don't have to believe in god the father, you just have a moral objection to birth control

or abortion and employs more than 50 people is not obliged to provide those people with healthcare services that includes birth control and abortion. this is exactly what president trump wanted and department of health and human services has mandated and the supreme court has okayed it. ainsley: we will have one of those sisters from the sisters of the poor join us at 7:2520 react to this. let's talk about what's happeninhappening. if you don't -- appearing in public after accepting positive except to get medical care can lead to your arrest. englewood, colorado. all citizens over the age of 6 have to wear a mask. if you violate that you face up to one year in prison or $2,600 fine. is that legal? >> well, let's talk the englewood, colorado case first. it absolutely is not lawful.

there is an area of personal behavior, an area of human choice that the government can't regulate and in that area is what clothes you wear and what you put on your face if you don't want to get covid and you see somebody without a mask on walk away from the person. the government cannot tell people what to put on their mouths and faces and bodies. the supreme court has made that very clear. not in the covid context but in other context where people were prosecuted for wearing clothing that the government didn't like. in terms of actually being infected. the government can quarantine you if you are infected. and if you violate that quarantine, well then the government has means to address that. but the government would have to prove that you were infected and that you were contagious and would have to prove that in a trial, a very difficult

obligation and burden on the part of the government. steve: right. judge, i understand how, you know, people don't like the idea of having the government tell them what to wear. we all get that you have got one of the trade groups asking government for guidance. they represent companies like target and home depot. and because different localities have different rules regarding face masks, we are seeing these standoffs with people who are wearing masks taping people not wearing masks and there are confrontations and the stores would like to simply get rid of the confrontation. how do they do that? >> they do that by posting clear instructions. i'm out here in northwest, new jersey. i go buy my newspaper wonderful little shop. and there used to be a sign you must wear a mask. it's law. i said to the owner, dan, it's

not the law but you are the owner of this business you can tell people i'm not going to serve you anything unless you wear a mask. the sign has changed. you want to come in here. you want to buy products for me i'm informing the mask rule. that's entirely different than the doing so in public. steve: free legal help when the judge is one of your customers. [laughter] ainsley: hope you got a free bagel. >> every morning. where is carley shimkus is she around here today? steve: transition machine. brian: you are bullying the stationery store owner and with us going over our heads to carley. unbelievable. >> i didn't even wear a tie for you, brian. brian: i don't know you had this much casual clothing, judge. are you running snout. >> i can't wait until we are all

together again, guys. governed bless you. steve: that will be great: thank you judge. there is carley. carley: got like a secret rundown stashed up there in his farm in northwest jersey. he has the best laugh. meantime, get to some news. attorney general bill barr is sending federal help to stop searching violence in kansas city. it's called operation legend. agents from the fbi, atf and u.s. marshals will partner with local law enforcement. it's named after legend, a 4-year-old boy shot and killed while he was sleeping in june. kansas city has seen a 40% increase in homicides this year. families of fallen officers furious after a baltimore councilman calls to remove the city's only public memorial that pace tribute to them. >> people realize how the other side feels. it's something that is dear to

our heart because the day i lost my husband, you no longer have that person in your life again. and all we have, like i said, are the memories and the memorials. carley: the monument honors 144 officers who have died in the line of duty. councilman ryan dorsey says the statue represents the fraternal order of police which he calls toxic and divisive. a new jersey man admits his neighbor's trump flag made him so angry he dumped trash on his yard for months. richard is facing criminal mischief and harassment charges. besides the trash. keller threw items like grapes and bags of flour. that's interesting. the homeowner catching him in the act after installing video cameras. keller was released from jail pending a court appearance. how about this? an oklahoma police officer goes above and beyond lend ago helping hand to a fellow veteran. >> breakfast is served, my man.

>> stop by later. >> cool. police sergeant justin schultz gig g givings the veteran a bag of food after finding him sleeping in his car. also handing him some money to help him get back on his feet. that's awesome. there are so many good people out there. he is one of them. ainsley: that's really sweet. hand it over to janis. she is in her weather bunker. hey, j.d. janice: good morning. summertime heat for much of the country today. front moving along the central u.s. along that front we could see the strong to severe thunderstorms. we had tornado reports yesterday for several states and we have a severe thunderstorm watch in effect for parts of kansas, missouri, down towards oklahoma. now, we are also watching some tropical developments over the next 12 to 24 hours. this could become our next named storm that would be fe.

heavy rain, possible flooding. very gusty winds along the coast. going to move northward the next couple of days. new york city in and around that area could get several inches of rain friday into saturday. we will continue to monitor it. back to you steve, ainsley and brian. steve: there goes the weekend here. all right. j.d., thank you very much, for the update and the "foxcast." meanwhile a dozen minutes before the top of the hour on this thursday. harvard going online only this fall, no in person classes. but cornell is welcoming students back for in person classes. dr. marc siegel says cornell is making the right choice and he is calling harvard on it and the doctor is next. sparkly cheeky... ( clears throat) disciplined dapper prepped smart

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brian: tale of two openings. two different approaches school year. harvard keeping online classes only and allowing 40% of undergraduate students to live on campus. cornell is working all students on campus in person for instruction. here to react is fox news medical contributor dr. marc siegel. they got one thing in common. both schools are located in non-hot spots. why the difference?

>> brian, that's a great place to start. and that's exactly right. because they are not in hot spots. because the risk of students actually bringing it to campus is very low, i don't agree with the difference and i don't understand it. cornell has actually studied this and they have found that 50% of their students are already planning on being in campus in ithaca. by the way can i tell you from my own daughter that's where their home is after they go to college and go away to school that's where their home is once they are there, cornell has figured out that they could actually instruct students on how to properly physical distance. where and whether to wear a mask. they can use it as a place to teach about how to prevent the spread of covid-19. now, also, you could be quarantined there so easily, brian, if you are at a university and you got sick, god forbid you could then be isolated. also, everybody could be tested so, and new testing is coming out next week according to

dr. fauci told me this yesterday. rapid test something going to get even more rapid. they can test every student and every teacher. they can protect teachers, professors, they could have them wear some degree of personal protective equipment. i don't understand harvard at all harvard is bringing 40% of the students back but learning is totally online. brian: harvard says this in making consequential decisions we have been guided by the same core principles we established at the outset of the crisis to put health and safety first. the recent upturn of covid-19 cases in certain states illustrates the difficulty of making certain decisions even well-informed ones about the evolution of this virus. so is caution is that something you salute? >> brian, first of all they are charging the same amount. tuition going down. not cautious charging money. charging same thing for online courses. i don't see any ivy growing on

the computers there no social interaction which is the heart of learning. it's about professor and student. and, brian, as a physician, i'm not being a hypocrite here, i'm on the front lines now, back taking care of patients in my office. i feel my identity has returned as a physician doing that why doesn't somebody ask the professors at harvard whether they want to teach or not. if they were protected they would teach. if they are in high risk groups that could be taken into consideration. teachers are like doctors, they are service professions, they should be asked. >> you bring up your daughter and you say that she is over at brown and she is upset there is no cafeteria, you have to live alone and low class sizes. no lecture halls at least she has school at brown, right? >> lecture hall is a key piece that's where a lot of buzz and excitement comes being in a big lecture hall. other problem is they are going to a three semester system there. so there won't be the same presence at the college at the

same time. that's what she is concerned about. some of the people she is used to interacting with the socialization issues are going to be gone. i think -- and dr. fauci agreed with me on this yesterday -- that you can use the university as a model and it's much safer. cambridge, massachusetts where harvard is or east providence where brown or cornell, those could be isolated. if you got sick, you would then not be allowed to leave. brian: put them in a bubble like they are doing at orlando mls or mlb and see how it works. thank you, doctor. still ahead minority leader kevin mccarthy will be joining us live and eric trump where does the republican party go from here? what about the president? a lot of healthy foods are very acidic and they're actually pulling out the minerals from the enamel.

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and dive team looked for hours for the 33-year-old citing there is a loft challenges in a reservoir that size and sometimes with visibility they didn't have details yet on just how deep the area where the boat was found or what kind of conditions they ran into out there. her son was wearing a life vest but she was not. the little boy said he got back into the boat but his mother didn't. some people even said the department should have searched later into the night but the department likely had to factor in the rescue team's safety. guys? steve: all right, ashley, thank you very much for that live report. let's talk a little politics. joe biden is taking a big step to the left former vice president joining one-time rival bernie sanders to release a platform of party recommendations. the goal is to unite moderate and progressive democrats. the key, brian, is unite. they don't want them staying home on election day. brian: right. so they have a fantastic force and put together 110 page thing. had 18 people on it. and said let's look at major people like climate change and

criminal justice reform and education. let's see if there is overlap on healthcare and the economy? and, in fact, there was, ainsley. ainsley: yeah. but look at this. critics pointing out some of the passages are copied word from word from sanders presidential campaign platform. however, several key progressive ideas were notably not endorsed and that list includes the green new deal and medicare for all. steve: i mean, if it's going to be a merging of their ideas, i guess it does make sense that joe would just completely borrow some of the verbiage from bernie. i get that but, what's interesting is the fact that they had this unit task force and they came up with this 110 page, certainly a recommendation list of you who the democrats should form their platform at the dnc. 110 page recommendation. did you realize in 2016 the entire dnc platform was only 50

pages. so this is much longer. they have got many more issues. but, nonetheless, the whole idea is to make sure that those two, on election day, are together and awful bernie's supporters and elizabeth warren's supporters wind up voting for joe biden. joe biden could be a remarkable president, bernie said yesterday on msnbc. in fact, he could be right up there with fdr. >> >> i was flat to work with the vice president forming 6 different task forces had which had some of the most knowledgeable people in the country coming together to work on education and. criminal justice and immigration reform. these folks, needless to say progressive had than biden people. the compromise that that he came

up with, if implemented will make biden the most progressive president since fdr. it did not happen -- needless to say, everything that i wanted, didn't have everything that biden wanted brian would brian so, is this scaring you? he is elated. the only reason joe biden got the nomination was because bernie sanders was about. to say they said the only chance to unite the party was to give it to joe biden. and that's what james clyburn did in south carolina because they knew bernie couldn't win. this guy is basically giving a verbal high five saying i can't believe ho how much we convinces far as lip service goes joe biden and why? because, if you look at the polls, very small number of people are voting for joe biden because is he joe biden. most of which -- 67% of the people voting for joe biden is because it's a vote against donald trump. so, he will do anything to unite the party only thing he has to be is not donald trump.

so to me this is kind of scary and a word of caution who think that joe biden is a moderate and just move the country slightly to the left. is he going to go way over here. guess who is going to beat him there, the squad, the next generation of democrats who let you know where they stood. if you want to see some their bullet points where they want to bring the party. getting rid of the dea and police and extraordinary things have you ever seen on a printed page. joe biden has got to be asked about bernie sanders subpoena and squad agenda. let's see him answer that question. if he answers goodbye bernie bros and squad disciples. is he in a box. ainsley: some say they are going to vote for the democrat because it's a referendum on trump. what about those establishment democrats, the old school democrats? i think the younger democrats they are in bernie's camp they are more progressive. what about the old school.

>> where are they? can you name five? there are no moderates left. steve: right. that's why there is no green new deal. there is no ban on fracking. there is no universal healthcare. they need the moderate democrats. ainsley: ones who don't want to defund police. ainsley: biden said he would four times. trump asking for four debates. there is a lot of talk they they don't want him to debate because of all of his gaffes. editorial in the "new york times" by thomas freidman and he is saying the only way that biden should debate, look this is the headline opinion. biden should not debate trump unless there are two conditions. trump releases tax returns for 2016 through 2018. second, biden should insist that a real-time fact checking team approved by both candidates, be hired by the nonpartisan commission on presidential debates and 10 minutes before

the scheduled conclusion of the debate this team report on any misleading statements, phony numbers or outright lies either candidate had uttered. otherwise, joe, stay in your basement. brian: they are scared. ainsley: they don't want the debate. steve: wouldn't it be ironic end of the debate. 10 minutes before the end of the debate. fact checks was that joe biden had made all the mistakes that would blow up in their face. look at history in 2012 the barack obama, mitt romney debate you had a live fact checker on the air with cnn's candy crowley when she tried to correct mitt romney about him calling it terror after the benghazi attack. and you know, there were all sorts of conservative critics who said she got that dead wrong. besides, every single network has fact checkers on immediately after the debate. i think what tom freidman is doing is simply giving maybe joe

goes, you know, unless you release your tax returns. unless i get the fact checkers, i'm only going to do one debate. that does not help donald trump. so i think he is giving him some cover. ainsley: you cannot enter the presidential election without a debate though. we need to see a debate. steve: but how many? brian: i don't know if you know all the rules seem to be out the window in this world the planet we call earth. we will see if that happens because joe biden was pretty cavuto that he could do well as he said last week in an interview. i think it's very interesting for those republicans who formed that union, that lincoln project. those republicans that were with the bush administration, about 200, no, ma'am none of those recognizable against trump. they should realize the type of country they will get with joe biden. it's not the joe biden from the 1990s. the joe biden in 2020 is going

to be pushed by bernie sanders and the squad country in a direction we have never been. stacey washington, she is a member of the black voices for donald trump. >> she says americans can fact check by themselves, thank you. >> any fact checker that they present is going to be someone who really leans towards their side and the questions that are going to be asked that night during the debate going to be about presidential topics things face the nation. let the fact checking happen by people watching the debate. americans are smart enough to decide for themselves. brian: that how she stands. no one is confident in the fact checkers and almost impossible to think okay now let's see how we did. let's go to the judges at the end. a lot of this stuff is opinion anyway. now you have donald trump with the 3.5 year track record to go against what joe biden watched barack obama do. and what he did in the senate. meanwhile, let's talk about coronavirus and we know that it's really playing the texas,

arizona, florida, as well as california. and there is a situation right now where icu beds are getting full and hospitalizations are growing. the question is can they get that under control in the southeast like they did in the northeast. and then it becomes what can you mandate to make sure that happens? steve: so anyway, what's going on in brooks county, texas, where they have had a total of 10 positive cases and four of those people have recovered, what they are doing is saying that if people do not self-isolate after they test positive for coronavirus, they could wind up in jail. this is what they printed. appearing in public after testing positive, except to get medical care can lead to your arrest. meanwhile in englewood, colorado they would require all citizens over the age of 6 to wear face masks when they're out and

about. actually, that's exactly the same as governor murphy has announced in new jersey where if you are outside, in addition to being inside, if you are outside around people, you cannot social distance with you've got to wear a mask in new jersey. and now you can see that in colorado judge andrew napolitano says it's not the job of the government to tell what you to wear. >> absolutely is not lawful. there is an area of personal behavior an area of human choice that the government can't regulate and in that area is what clothes you wear and what you put on your face. in terms of actually being infected, the government can quarantine you if you are infected. and if you violate that quarantine, well, then, the government has means to address that but the government could have to prove that you were

infected and contagious and prove that in a trial. a very difficult obligation and burden on the part of the government. steve: the problem right now is because some people wear masks and some people do not wear masks. it's leading to confrontations i'm sure have you seen some on social media. in tight quarters people are not there, not wearing a mask. i don't have to wear a mask. i asked a judge about how there is a trade organization on behalf 6 target and home depot asking the government for guidance make te'o cross the board. everybody needs to wear a mask. the judge said the government can into thcannot do that indivl businesses if you want everybody to wear a mask. mandate. put a sign out front if you want to fly on our airplane have you got to wear a mask. ainsley: sign at newspaper shop said it's the law wear a mask. he went in and said to his buddy

who owns the stand he said that's actually not -- you can't legally tell me to wear a mask. now, because it is your store and when i walk into your private business, you can say i'm not serving you if you don't wear a mask. brian: one thing we should have brought up to the judge had we had more time he doesn't need to get the newspaper every day. he could download the newspaper and get himself an app. steve: brian, some people like to hold the paper. look, we are all holding paper. brian: right. but i download almost everything now. steve: our company, i think, owns a lot of newspapers,. brian: brian they like when you download them took. they get paid for that. carley: or just watch "fox & friends." brian: i know, absolutely. ainsley: good idea. carley: let's turn to headlines here. texas executing it first row inmate overnight because of the pandemic. receiving a lethal injection for shooting and killing an elderly man nearly three decades ago.

weighs 18 years at the time. the attorney's denying the request to stop the execution. the attorney claims his brain was still developing at the time. on to extreme weather. one person [inaudible] after several tornadoes touched down in minnesota. a driver capturing this one in dalton, a city northwest of minneapolis. another twister hitting the nearby city of ashby. >> oh my god. that is an actual tornado. carley: get off the road. several storms sweeping the northern u.s. check this out in maine a massive lightning strike setting a tree on fire from the inside out. today, new york city will begin painting a black lives matter muller outside trump tower. mayor bill de blasio is expected to participate. president trump had slammed the project blasting the mayor for going ahead with the muller while thmural while the citysla.

pay respects to charlie daniels. a public visitation will be held at the same funeral home where hundreds honored him at a patriotic memorial service ♪ find out who your friends are ♪ somebody is going to drop everything ♪ run out and drink. >> country singer tracy lawrence one of several musicians honoring daniels at the service. his funeral is scheduled for tomorrow in tennessee. daniels pass awayed from a stroke on monday. he was 83 years old. , 83 years well-spent, guys. steve: there you go. thanks, carley. carley: god rest his soul. house race set kennedy kansas jeff van drew in new jersey. does he like the match-up?

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brian: former anti-impeachment democrat turned congressman jeff van drew beating out robert patterson for the second district he heads for high show down with amy kennedy in november. congressman, running as a republican for the first time. you feel good about the tallies you walk away with the primary in, right? >> i feel real good. we did obviously significantly better than amy did in her primary. we did better than any primary that i have ever had in the democratic party. i mean, 81% of the vote. pretty much everybody voted for us.

republicans have been great. they have been supportive. because i have been willing to define and describe the difference between where i want to go and where she wants to go. and where i want to go and the republican party wants to go. and the democratic party wants to go. it's very, very important. this is the most important election in our history in the united states of america since the civil war. brian: by the way, we reached out to amy kennedy opponent from the famous kennedy family and they did not get back to us. so, a lot of things, people wonder are you going to nationalize this? because have you bernie sanders says we come to an agreement with who is -- so he is a socialist. come to an agreement with the biden campaign and then you have the breathe act led by the squad they want to do some interesting things. eliminate the d.e.a. and ice. they want to climate in all promote environmental justice 50% of matching funds shutting down jails and prisons get rid

of ankle bracelets. going to be interesting if the democratic party take any of this agenda. are they? >> look, this is why i left. i couldn't do it anymore. they are lurching to the left. they are redefining an american in a bad way. and the real bought line is going to be are we going to be a strong america with a strong military, with strong education with strong, you know, production, with strong manufacturing? are we going to be the america that we know and love and even want to attain more and do more and be better or are we going to be an america that in essence is going to fall apart, become weak, become depend denting on others? we need a real supply chain. i can go into all the reasons why there is such a significant difference of where she would be and i would be and where the two parties are it's not the party of your parents. it's not the party even that i started. and this is a much, much

different democratic party. brian: what's key when you switched party the white house embrace dollars you. here is a tweeted from the president of the united states. he saluted you and says congratulations to jeff van drew on a great primary run and great victory against a re tough opponent. maga 2020. what do you think the white house will do for you? what do you need the president to do for new this purple district? >> well, i think he is going to be supportive. i think, you know, and i certainly will be supportive of him, again he is going want to people to are going to thereby to help maintain the america we know and love. that night at mount rushmore and i watched a lot of that it was beautiful. that's america. america is this amazing nation that when we do go astray, we are not perfect that we are self-healing people because of the framework that the actual framers set up that when we are doing something, whether it was

during the civil war or what happened with floyd, that we fix those things. we can make that better. that doesn't mean that we destroy the country. that doesn't mean that we defund the police. that doesn't mean that we don't have borders. because we do need to have borders. we'll don't want open borders and people from all over the world just coming in and out of this country. we need to have real borders. we need to have a strong military. we need to have what this nation has always had, to be that shining and i quoted it over and over again because i love it the shiny city on the hill. brian: new jersey had all voters went out in a major numbers for president trump. they did the same thing on long island and did the same thing in florida. maybe there is a whole bunch of people supporting the president that are just not responding to the polls. jeff van drew you are going to be a big bell whether to see how successful by how successful you are. jeff van drew, thank you so much. >> great to be with you. thank you. brian: looks like a great

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♪ steve: in a big win for both the trump administration and our next guest, the supreme court yesterday ruled 7-2 in favor of allowing employers to opt out of obamacare's birth control mandate for moral or religious reasons. here to react to the victory is the director of communications for little sisters of the poor sister constance veet and vice president of beckett fund for religious liberty. ladies, good morning to you. >> good morning. >> good morning. steve: sister constance, let's start with you, what is your headline from yesterday's big supreme court win for you? >> little sisters of the poor are protected by our lord or god has protected the little sisters. steve: indeed. and you have been fighting this since it became part of the affordable care act. what was your objection to the language that the obama administration put in that? >> well, you know, according to

catholic teaching, it would not be acceptable for us to provide contraceptive and abortifacients to our employees in our healthcare program because they are not -- contraception and abortion are not acceptable in catholic teaching so that was really the whole issue for us. steve: indeed it was. monthsy, a lot of people don't realize this but the obama administration lost this at the supreme court. >> oh, yeah. they lost it big. the supreme court told everyone that they had to accommodate the little sisters. they had to give them their big win in court and it was the trump administration who changed the rule and then the states that came after the little sisters for religious exemption. we're grateful that they're protected and we know that people who object to a sincere religious objections are protected in america. steve: you regard this a gigantic win for religious freedom. >> truly it really is a majority win a 7-2 i know judge

napolitano was talking about that earlier, it really is and majority victory that everyone should be proud of. steve: sister constance, had you lost, you are talking about a gigantic fine and the consequences would be sweeping. what would have happened to the little sisters of the poor had you lost this yesterday? >> yes. well we calculated it outed that the fines would have been about $70 million a year across all of our u.s. homes we have 25 homes here in the state that would essentially had to end our mission. who could afford 70 million fines a year. i do have to say that we knew that god would protect us. we really trust in his providential care. we knew somehow some day he would work things out for us. steve: sister constance, what is your mission today? >> our mission today is as it has always been, since our

founding, is to care for the needy, elderly, to offer them a home where they will be welcomed as jesus christ and accompanied with dignity and true compassion until god calls them to himself. and we are just very happy and relieved that we can go back to doing that without the anxiety of these fines i and this case hanging over us now. in light pandemic our mission is more essential and more relevant than it ever has been. steve: it's got to be daunting to be in your business right now, sister. >> yeah. our elderly are still in isolation for the most part. so they're still in their rooms in isolation to protect them from the coronavirus. steve: monthsy, before you go the beckett fund actually had two big wins yesterday at the supreme court. tell us about our lady of guadalupe and that decision. >> it's another great majority win, another 7-2 where the supreme court protected religious schools that wanted to

be able to choose who teaches the faith to the next generation. it's a very common sense decision that comes after another 9-0 ruling from 8 years ago. so the supreme court just doubled down on this great protection for religious schools and it's a wonderful victory. steve: monthsy, what does this tell you about the supreme court? >> you know, for the past 15, 20 years, the supreme court has really been protective of religious freedom they have been very protective of religious freedom and free speech. tells us we have a majority court that robustly protects religious freedom for all americans. steve: monthsy and sister thank you for being here here today and congratulations to both. hundreds of l.a. police department officers reportedly called out sick over the fourth

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♪ ♪ >> one of the things that we are demanding is defunding over five years to the complete abolition, so we don't want to see any police in our community and over the course of those five years. in the five years gives time for the community to begin to build what is needed instead of police. ainsley: abolish police. a chapter leader of the black lives matter movement in philadelphia calling for a complete abolition of police in her city. and here to react our police panel dallas police officer cmone wingo darryl and dr. darrin porcher. good morning to all three of you. >> good morning. >> thanks for having us.

ainsley: you are welcome. oscaas officer wing dough, whato you think about that? five years no more police officers if she gets her way. >> if she gets her way she says absolutely they don't want any police in their community and i believe she goes on to say something like it's an issue of safety. and to me that's kind of scary. if you think the police is an issue of safety, then you have a real problem. because, if you don't have the police in your community, what is safety? who is going to make you safe? who are you going to call? these community leaders, these psychiatrists, they are not going to go out with the gunshots start and when people are taking hostage and schools bombarded by active shooters. who are you going to call? for her to say that police officers in her community is a safety issue and that she wants to abolish them and get rid of them is totally ludicrous. ainsley: dr. porcher, what do you think philadelphia will look like if they don't have police officers? >> if there are no police

officers in philadelphia, we will see reflection of what happened in chop zone in seattle, washington. it was clear we had homicides. we had shootings. and there was no control over that particular six area block that was taken over by a sense of protesters. we have to take into consideration the need for police. this is something that you merely equate to the volume of 911 calls for service. we clearly have citizens that are calling 911 at a pace of regulator in connection with the need for services to meet that community's demands. as a result of defunding or removing police or the eradication as mentioned by black lives matter, it will now put that public in harm's way. we need to do what's necessary to protect the public not place them in the line of fire. and, unfortunately, it's the communitcommunities of color the receiving this disproportionately high number of volumes in connection with the violence committed in these communities. ainsley: okay. so, sheriff, i want to ask you

about what's happening in new york and l.a. and find out if it's a reflection of what is happening in your area in missouri. so nypd retirement filings are way up. 411% increase year to year. look at that during a certain period of time, june 29th through july 6th, 179 officers applied for retirement. that same time period last year, only 35. and then in l.a., they are calling this the blue flu where there are reports that 300 officers called out sick fourth of july weekend and the commanders are now investigating because it's illegal to call out sick and protest. this is anonymous letter that reportedly circulated around the lapd. they are in defunding the police what do they think is next our pay our benefit our pension? we have to send the city a clear message we are not expendable and not going to take this crap anymore. are you seeing the same kind of thing happening in missouri? >> no. we are not seeing that currently. ainsley: thank goodness. >> i have seen it before. i have been in law enforcement

for 35 years. to me the expression when they have blue flu and they take off like that, that's an expression of dissatisfaction whether it be with policy and support and those kind of things. ainsley: do you blame them? >> no. not really. we have to remember we sign up and take an oath to protect and serve but, on the other side, you know, our men and women have been beaten up lately. over and over, i have seen some phan stand at the front line of some of the civil unrest and take bottles and other things like that, bottles, frozen bottles and they have to stand there and take that that's humiliating. we sign up to take an oath and say we will protect and serve and have to stand out there and take that and feel like they don't get the support. i understand what they are doing and why they are doing it. the big thing and i think the final result of this, it will be camaraderie. they have camaraderie as a result of them sticking together. they have been beat up for a long time and now probably more than ever, faced this kind of

difficulty in the field. i understand what they are doing. i don't condone it but i understand why they feel like, you know, they don't get support. ainsley: they are saying you don't want us here fine, we don't feel appreciated. darrin, do you have friends that are retiring? what are they saying? >> you know, it's been a state of acri money with police and public officials. the public officials are not looking to assist in that disconnect with police and community. we need to bring the parties to a table so they can gain a level of compromise so they can understand it's the police that are doing what's necessary to sow the seeds, to get away from the seeds of discord in connection with these communities. that's not happening. so, as a result of that you have numerous people that are retiring. we're up to 400-plus percent of retirement and this is really catastrophic because no one is coming in the-to-backfill the level of attrition. when you see the $1 billion defunding, it's now removed or eradicated the boots on the

ground come in and take the place of the officers that are retiring. and the public is suffering as a result. ainsley: officer wing dough, the progressive democrats have come up with some legislation, the squad has, planning to defund the police and they are going even further than that they want to eliminate ankle monitors. they want to shut down the gang database. what will policing look like if that happens? >> the squad, ainsley. well, first of all, i can tell everyone, i would encourage everyone to pull this bill up and read it. it makes for some interesting reading. to get rid of the gang unit, surveillance, it is just -- what are you going to do gang units. i think this is what is going to start increase criminal activity and begin organized crime. big time organized crime. because of i think that what these criminals are going to say nothing going to happen to me. we're not going to jail. nobody is going to monitor us. no more knock and talk. we are going to do what we are

going to do. the streets are going to be ran by organized crime. ainsley: i wonder if it will pass. yesterday they said it is not going to pass. most of the democrats don't want to defund. yesterday joe biden had an interview and he said some funding should absolutely be redirected from police. i wonder if some of the democrats in congress will follow suit. we will see. shaking your head. i know. thank you so much. all three of you for your service, what do you to keep all of us safe. we appreciate it. >> thank you, ainsley. >> thank you. ainsley: you are welcome. hand it over to carley for headlines. carley: take a listen to this. the father mourning the loss of his 19-year-old son shot and killed in seattle's chop zone says support has been pouring in from around the world. horace lorenzo anderson spoke to sean hannity last night on the response to his emotional appearance earlier this month. >> i have got cards from around the world. people i don't even know just reaching out to me saying you are a great dad and just

different things. i wish i had a dad like you. things like this, you know. carley: the support didn't stop there anderson says president trump called and offered condolences during his son's funeral services. exbritish spy christopher steele is ordered to pay damages over inaccurate or misleading claims over the clinton funded dossier. must pay nearly $23,000 each to two russian bankers for claiming they arranged pay offs to vladimir putin in the 1990s. the london judge ruling that steele failed to take responsible steps to verify the allegations which were false starting today, walt disney world will sell theme parked tickets hotel reservations for 2020. they were previously suspended amid the pandemic. the orlando theme park is preparing to partially reopen this weekend. magic kingdom and animal kingdom

parks will reopen saturday. epcot and hollywood studios will reopen next wednesday. a thief apologizes for stealing american flags from a military tribute at an alabama church. 100 flags were placed around the church for independence day. several flags had names of veterans. church members say the flags were returned days later with an apology note. it reads in part. i did not mean any disrespect. i was drinking and had a dumb idea. i had no idea there were names of fallen heroes. church members say they expect the apology and won't press charges. they have invited the thief to sunday service. that story has a happy ending there, guys. steve: i wonder if the thief will go? ainsley: hopefully. steve: wouldn't that be something? carley: i think that would be very cool. ainsley: apology accepted. forgiveness, come to church. like it.

ainsley: brian and steve where are you? janice: i love it when we just hear their voices and can't see where they're. take a look at the maps real quick. we had a severe weather day yesterday including tornadoes across portions of the midwest including minnesota, illinois, parts of north dakota as well. we have the threat for severe storms again for parts of kansas, missouri and oklahoma. that's where we have a severe thunderstorm watch and we are watching this area of low pressure. that could be our next named tropical system. perhaps it will be fay in the next 12 to 24 hours. regardless of whether or not it becomes fay it's going to bring quite a bit of heavy rainfall across the mid-atlantic, delmarva up towards the northeast friday and saturday. just be prepared. we could have a bad beach day friday and saturday. okay, ainsley, back to you, my friend. ainsley: thank you, janis. brian, why don't you take it from here. brian: i don't know. my feelings were hurt. i wasn't on camera before but i will try get through it. restaurant workers have been hit

hard by the pandemic no one has to tell them. one group is stepping up to make sure those workers don't go hungry. you will meet the men behind it next.

brian: despite positive signs from the economy in may and june, employment and food services and drinking places is

down by over 3 million since february. ainsley: now a restaurant group in dallas is taking action to support their own providing hundreds of meals a week to workers. steve: that is great. here on a mission ceo and founder of drj concept and co-founder of 7740 dallas jacob. thank you for joining us live. >> thank you for having us. steve: jacob, let's start with you, you got this ball rolling a number of months ago when covid was hitting hard and you were trying to provide food for first responders, people on the front line. explain that program. >> right. so, a very good friend of mine chicken dinner. he and i were talking about how hard the restaurant industry had been hit. this was back in march. another friend of mine actually came down with covid in march. and he went to the hospital and he was in intensive care and he was really struggling through it. and this guy is my age. so this was really hitting home hard at this time. and he came out of it, thank

god. but i wanted to support the ut southwest staff for everything that they did and offer a thank you. and i also wanted to support my friend in his business in the restaurant business. so i said let's cater some meals over to the hospital. and then the more i started thinking about it. the more i realized this is a really big problem and it's -- we are going to peak in dallas april and may. i said let's make this bigger and bring in seven restaurants and let's support seven hospitals and pull the community together. so we quickly pulled together 40 donors and pulled together $90,000 and started delivering over 1,000 meals every week to these hospitals. steve: okay. brian: so, when you look at your situation now in texas, those numbers are going up again. does that increase the need? >> it definitely does. you know, when we started this program with jacob, you know, we were kind of in almost mid may

we are winding it down, getting ready to open our closed restaurants. as we have managed this problem here in texas fairly well. but in the recent weeks you know what has happened. i think the need is going to be there for the foreseeable future. we just started running this community kitchen out of our dallas location this week. and we hope to open two more kitchens downtown [inaudible] shortly. ainsley: so, jacob, what if we want to donate, how do we do it? >> go to to 7740 dallas.com. that has the information we have got a go fund me site set up and we're partnering with our church so that we can get the benefit of the tax write-off on any donation over $1,000. steve: nafee before you go, people watching, you are giving away 200 meals a day to laid off restaurant workers. they have got to show up. it's the honor system. where do they get the free food? >> they get the free food at our

chop house burger location in downtown dallas. steve: all right. very good. >> show up and just ask -- we are there to serve them. steve: sounds great. a lot of people are hungry and hurting so, guys, it is a wonderful program that you are doing, by the way, for more on that donation to the community kitchen, can you go to our website friends@foxnews.com. all right, guys, thank you. here final hour of "fox & friends" for this thursday. is go to my art studio. a couple came up and handed me a brochure on prevagen. ...

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>> ♪ that's the way, i like it, that's the way, uh-huh, i like it ♪ brian: now keep in mind i didn't get the album, i got the knock off which was hustle 76, i was in sixth grade, and they sang this song and it was all cover tunes. it was one band, and they sang every hit song. steve: brian you're missing the headlines. they were on this show singing this song. brian: i know but i bought it. steve: you're going back to your music days? brian: i acted quick and i got the album and it was one band. i say to myself that sounds like a knock off that's how good the

knock off was. ainsley: well you only had so much announce in your pocket you could only afford the knock off. i get it good morning, everyone, it's thursday, the end of the week we've enjoyed being with you lots of news to get to. steve: let's start politics ainsley. joe biden is taking a big step, the former vp joining one-time rival bernie sanders whose way out left to release a party platform of recommendations. the goal is to unite moderate and progressive democrats. joe wants all of bernie's people to show up and vote for him in november. ainsley: there is the plan right there, focuses on a wide range of issues including climate change, criminal justice reform, education, immigration, healthcare, and of course the economy. brian: that's a lot of socialism but look at this. critics pointing out that some passages are copied word-for-word from the sanders presidential campaign platform, however several key progressive ideas were not endorsed.

no green new deal, but there's a lot of principles there, no medicare for all they talk about expanding obamacare, i think it's also important too, joe biden must see these numbers. and they say you supporting joe biden and why? only 33% said they're supporting joe biden because he's joe biden the rest, because 67% because he's not donald trump. so let's bring in congressman kevin mccarthy, house minority leader hopes one day to be speaker. if those are the stats and we're to believe this poll, what can president trump and the other republicans learn from this? >> well we can learn the first thing this is not a unity group. this is a surrendering to the socialist. if joe biden has been in washington for more than 40 years, and hasn't been able to do any of that from criminal justice reform and others, why do we think we're going to have something different? president trump did do criminal justice reform and did open up opportunity zones, he had taken executive order when it comes to police reform so this president is taking action. joe has a long history of doing nothing but now he shows that

he'll even surrender to the socialist wing of the party, because remember, bernie sanders is not a democrat. he was registered as a socialist , ran as a socialist and that's what the new wing of the party is craving. look at the new congressional members. omar, she wants to dismantle america instead of duplicating america around the world. think of being bob in a foreign land in a ref refugee camp, in a first generation she becomes a u.s. congresswoman and she's unhappy about that and unhappy about this country. when this country actually, the freedom and the ideas that we are more than a country should be duplicated and it inspires people in hong kong, shipyard, woulders in politico land, the berlin wall collapses where two germanys become one. that is the power of the america that is not something to dismantle but something to duplicate. ainsley: now you have joe biden saying some of the funding should absolutely be redirected from police and then even further than that you have the

leader of the black lives matter movement in philadelphia saying this. >> one of the things that we're demanding is the funding over five years to the complete aboli tion, so we don't want to see any police in our community over the course of the five years and the five years gives time for the community to begin to build what is needed instead of police, and at the same time, build a sorted practices, build-out our mental health response teams and things like that and build medic responses and responses that really actually deal with the issues that are in place. then we will have less crime anyway. ainsley: congressman what is your reaction? >> well i want her to give that answer to the parents of the young children who were shot and killed through the weekend. the idea that less police is going to bring us safety, now

we've watched the difference of that happening. that is why it is wrong and that is why joe biden is buying in and surrendering to the socialists. that is not what we need. we need greater training of the police department. more accountability, the exact thing that tim scott put into his bill but the democrats would not even allow to come up and be debated. that's the difference. that's why we have one of the most important decisions we're going to make in this november is not just the direction of the next four years. it's whether this country surrenders or this country builds on a more perfect union. steve: so speaking of debates, leader, i'm sure you saw that tom friedman in the pages of the new york times suggested that joe biden not leave his basement to debate donald trump unless he agrees to two things. one, to release his tax returns for 2016, 2017 and 2018 which i think the supreme court is going to decide whether or not congress gets it later on today and the other thing is he should not agree to debate unless there

is a live fact check during the presidential debate about 10 minutes before the end, somebody is going to say okay, donald trump, you said this wrong, and joe biden, you said that wrong. do you think something like that is a good idea and could it possibly be fair? >> it is only democrats that are so fearful of their nominee that they literally write, do not debate, do not come out of the basement, do not talk because you can't hold a rally because no one is going to show up. you have no ideas and what you stood for for the last 40 years you have to change. that shows the strength. what i truly believe is what president trump is talking about about rebuilding, renewing and restoring america. we've watched more than 7.3 million jobs created in the last couple months. we've watched them being able to come back a virus from a foreign land that we didn't invite and we're going to defeat it together. those are the ideas of the vision of what we want for next four years instead of hiding and actually pledging not to come out or not to talk.

that's fearful of even having the job or fearful of knowing who this nominee is and what they stand for. brian: so we're watching the numbers of cases surge in texas, arizona, florida, and mainly those three countries as well as california where you are. now the president still wants people to go back-to-school. i think it's a great idea to find a way to get kids back-to-school. you believe more money to provide the safety and security would do it. in what respect do you think? >> look i want schools to open safely. for all you parents who are watching right now you've now become a teacher, a coach a tutor. i do not want to leave a generation behind. i know democrats are afraid to come to work to even come to congress so they have the shadow voting but what i want to do is pass a bill that provides and focuses on child care and the schools to open safely. we want to prioritize them with funding and safety to be able to do it and protect them from

lawsuits and give parents flexibility to use their savings accounts to actually tax-free to be able to pay for child care and be able to open that back up and i want to focus on opening new child care, because do you know what? most child cares are owned by women, minorities and others. they're becoming the homes and others being an opportunity to put america back on a stage that they can work, renew, rebuild and restore this country, and it's fundamental that we cannot leave these children uneducated and leave them behind. democrats may be afraid to come to work but i believe congress is essential and this is the number one thing we should prioritize ourselves on making sure our children are safe and a plan to open back up. ainsley: so who gets to decide when we open back up and we open our schools? the president and leaders in washington have come up with these recommendations but then governor cuomo in new york has said no one gets to tell me. i'm the governor. does he decide or is it local school boards or mayors? >> well instead of fighting with one another, why don't we sit down and get the very best information.

get the latest information when it comes to covid. let's plan on our ability for the safety so the federal government can provide resources , focusing on education , focusing on child care. working with these governors so how can we do this safely? there may be pockets that you can't but there are a lot of pockets across this country that can. steve: sure and leader mccarthy we heard the president a couple of days ago talking about how it appeared there was some who didn't want to open the schools and he felt like it would damage him, and the idea was for these democrats to damage him politically, because if you can not reopen the schools, people can't go back to work, and the economy does not take off. you don't wind up with that super v-shaped recovery as has been suggested. yesterday i believe the president in a tweet suggested that unless certain governors open up the state for school, he's thinking about withholding funding to those states. is that a good idea? >> well i think our first priority is the safety of the

children and also the education of the children, and we can handle those two things, so those governors that don't want to open what is their plan to open? what are they doing to prepare to open? what are they doing to prepare the schools or have greater child care so people can get the economy working again, but make sure these children do not have a generation that they're left behind because they are not educated. that should be our priority, but many times i find with these democrat governors, it almost seems to be political, but what they are making decisions upon. let's decide this on safety, on science, and the education of our own children. brian: wouldn't that be it. thanks so much, congressman mccarthy, appreciate it. great job. have a nice weekend meanwhile carlie shimkus is upstairs. reporter: we'll start with a fox news alert, glee actress presumed dead after going missing while boating with her son on a california lake. police say boaters found her four-year-old child sleeping alone on the boat, just north of los angeles.

the child telling police they went swimming, that his mom never returned. she is believed to have drowned. we'll have a live report on the search later this hour. >> new police body cam transcript from george floyd's death has been released. officer tomorrow as lane asked floyd to get out of his vehicle after asking to see his hands 10 times. floyd told police more than 20 times that he could not breathe after he was put on the ground. lane's attorney filed to dismiss the charges against him. >> new overnight the university of california planning to sue i.c.e. over a new rule on student visas. the policies ban students under certain visas from taking online courses, requiring them from taking in-person classes or face deportation that comes as northeastern university joins harvard and m. i.t. in their

lawsuit. >> a trust honoring law enforcement will race this weekend in nascar's truck series and the drivers are teaming up with the wounded blue organization in support of officers as they face criticism nationwide. >> i know everyone is scared at this time and i totally get it. i'll be standing in honor of the men and women in blue. reporter: don't miss saturday's race at the kentucky speedway and you can catch it on fox sports one of course. guys? ainsley: thank you so much. do this , not that. a new study ranks activities posing the least and the greatest risk for contract ing the coronavirus. dr. oz is going to break down the list when he joins us live, next. ♪ don't just think about where you're headed this summer. think about how you'll get there. and now that you can lease or buy a new lincoln remotely or in person...

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steve: as states tip use phased reopening a group of texas doctors made a list of ranked activities closing the least risk and the greatest risk for contracting coronavirus. their task force and committee on infectious diseases ranked 37 activities on a scale of 1-10 to determine what had the highest and the lowest risk. here is somebody whose been talking about the risk all along the host of the dr. oz show, dr. mehmet oz. good morning to you. >> good morning, steve. steve: all right, lowest risk, actually did four of these five. lowest risk, opening the mail, getting restaurant takeout, pumping gas, playing tennis and going camping, i've not done that and then the highest risk, eating at a buffet, working out at a gym, going to an amusement park, attending a music conference, going to a sports stadium, going to church with more than 500 worshipers or going to a bar. what do you make of this list? because we like to be told what's safe, what's not safe.

it's kind of easy to just look and think okay. i'm a 7. >> i love the fact that texas medical association created this list because it treats us like adults and gives you a rough idea and let me explain how they did it but this is a movement we're starting to see by medical groups. physicians have a civic responsibility to speak out at things that matter to society. last week the american academy of pediatrics spoke gravely about what they think is best for our kids and filtered out all of the politics and just said what's in it for the kids to go back-to-school and this week we hear from the texas medical association, and they had all of the members and they ranked these 37 activities and the committee said it ranked them based on a couple things, first what did the members actually say. if you could take all of the safety precautions possible, you also want to hear was it indoors or outdoors and how many people are involved so let's go through this. it's imperfect but directionally correct. the idea that you go to a bar into a large group of any kind,

stadium, 500 worshipers or more , is a super event is a real concern, but if you went to a small worship service which could be done, that will be okay if you're outdoors when you worship that will be okay. going to a small concert with less than 50 people is different than going to a large concert with 500 people so it's not a one-size-fits-all effort which is what too often we hear from our governments. now talking about food. you can go to a restaurant because restaurant takeouts too. that's very low on the risk. remember it's 1-10 risk so anything below 5 is in the right space for you, but going eating at a buffet where you're next to other people, that's an 8. very different relationship. and i think if you look at these lists that are being created by texas medical association we'll see others coming forward you can start to make wise decisions for the betterment of your family and yourself without taking whatever is thrown at you as a mandate. steve: and we have posted the graph with all of the number s on our website, fox

andfriends.com. yesterday, mehmet, as you know the governor of new york, governor cuomo, said that malls can open, but they're going to have to have hepa filters to filter out the coronavirus and now we're learning more and more about as people go back to the offices, what the thinking is now about what is a safe office, and it's not just being six feet away from people, because it is something that you have been talking about for months and that is it's the droplets. it's the aerosol when people are talking and so how do you get rid of that? turns out during the summer, maybe turning up the air conditioner not such a good idea >> no it's not. turns out that the conventions these long health conventions which are cool and dry and shaded from sunlight sealed off from the outside air, those conditions spread and sustain the virus, so now all these manufactures all these buildings which are already financially in trouble because the tenants don't want to be there a lot of times, having to

revamp everything, new heating and ventilation systems, filter indoor air more thoroughly and draw in more outdoor air which is expensive. all the folks that want the economically viable system that is also environmentally useful this goes against that move amment that's been so strong in the last decade in this country. steve: but when you look and i know there are a number of mall operators who have said we can't afford to completely redo our heating and air conditioning, so you know, are they going to wind up being closed indefinitely until they can come up with that or what's going to happen? >> that's right there's two ideas you mentioned the hepa filters and they could be implemented and the overall system the hvac system these malls and buildings use but i love the idea of ultraviolet light and there was a study done at columbia university looking at a very small spectrum of uvc light, that shows if you can kill the virus but not hurt people, so we might be able to

use light as a major allie. we know that heat and humidity hurts the virus, but the light itself the ultraviolet light may have an impact as well let's use every tool we have but in the meantime we're going to have to be smart and clever about what we do outdoors and use as much outdoor eras possible and that's what the airline enter has done to make the plane s work right? 50% of the air that comes in the cabin is from outside but at 35,000 feet there's no covid-19 virus so those are the kinds of maneuvers that were naturally already happening in the airlines we'll incorporate. i bet you 20% of the air comes from outside the building and i know that economically and environmentally problematic but it makes the place safe because we believe the virus if it's really humid, and it's really hot it doesn't live as long which protects us. steve: maybe it's time that we have a window that opens in our skyscraper and dr. oz we actually have one of those ultraviolet blue lights in our air conditioner and when it comes to air conditioning, what is the magic temperature people

should set it at? >> well you aren't going to want to hear those folks will be moaning all over the country but 78 degrees seems to be -- steve: are you crazy! >> yeah, so at least get it in the mid-70s if you can. steve: good enough. but what's even better don't blast the air conditioner or leave the window open that's probably the best way. steve: good enough dr. oz thank you very much for joining us. 78. are you kidding? that's hot. but that's what they say. already meanwhile switching gears, dean max well has hired the prosecutor who took down el chapo to defend her in court how is that going to impact her case nancy grace, next.

brian: back with a fox news alert breaking overnight glee actress presumed dead after going missing while boating with her son in california. police were set to resume their search this morning as soon as the sun comes up. ashley stromeyer joins us live with prayers coming from all around the country. ashley? reporter: friends and fans are praying she's found safely. her four-year-old son josie was found alone on a boat on a lake north of los angeles and they rented that boat around 1:00

p.m. yesterday. and josie was found sleeping and safe by another boater three hours later and the child telling police they went swimming but his mom never returned and he was wearing a life vest and she was not but an adult life jacket was found on board. this is the most recent photo at least posted on her social media platforms of she and her son on tuesday, captioned "just the two of us" and her 2016 memoire she called her son her"greatest success." she shares her son with fellow actor ryan dorsey, still no word yet about the situation, but the former couple's past was rocky. the two actors eventually settled on sharing custody of their son. rivera is most known for her 2009 breakthrough role in glee, but she had her first acting gig when she was just four years old appearing in commercials as a baby. her co-star heather morris writing on instagram we need all of the prayers we can get to bring our naya back home to us we need your love and light and

demi lovat o posting a photo of a candle praying for her safe return and saying her son needs her and hoping she is found. police will resume their search at daylight. back to you. brian: thanks so much, ashley. let's bring ainsley why don't you take it away. ainsley: okay thanks brian let's bring in former prosecutor and host of crime stories on fox nation nancy grace. good morning, nancy. >> good morning. ainsley: good morning, we woke up this morning and saw this news, and we can relate, you and i are both moms. and she's a beautiful girl and we've watched her on television for years on glee. what happens next? >> well first of all, sorrow and concern for the little boy still there, asleep in the boat when mommy goes missing. now, because i know her history with her son, i do not believe under any circumstances would she leave this four-year-old boy alone in a life threatening

situation in a boat out in the middle of a lake. now granted the lake, i believe is a manmade lake so there's no white water, there's no rapids or current but still you don't leave a child en a life vest in a boat in a lake. i don't think she left him willingly. the fact that her life vest was still in the boat is very concerning. i have never had a problem with child witnesses, i take what they say as it is stated. he says they went swimming and mommy did not get back into the boat. to me that may rule out foul play and what they need to do now and i have helped conduct under water searches is bring in a dive team, bring inside scan sonar and also bring in dogs, tracker dogs who can track through water. i'd also like to investigate who entered the boat and the life jackets an find out were there just two people mommy and son? or someone else there? also, not to suggest they are involved but the ex-husband,

boyfriends, ex-boyfriends, potential stalkers need to be investigated now. to me this seems accidental on the surface but we don't know yet. ainsley: because it is rare that a mom would go out in the middle of water and you can do it but that be very scary for me to go out with my four-year-old. and i was wondering how the four -year-old if the mom was still swimming how the four- year-old got up that ladder. hayden couldn't do it but some four-year-olds can, so many questions we're praying for her family and hopefully she's safe. so let's talk about gillane max well. she hired that former prosecutor that took down el chapo. is that normal to hire a prosecutor to defend you? >> former prosecutor yes, he brought down el chapo, and his name is christian everdale. i really like this quote because it applies to so many situations when you want to catch a varment

you want to outsmart a federal prosecutor, hire a am toker federal prosecutor. that's because he knows every trick in the book. how do you think he got el chapo in jail? he knows all of the techniques that federal prosecutors use and he can twist them around and fire them right back at the prosecutors on the maxwell case ainsley: some say that there were cameras in the home, surveillance tapes and she has access to all of those. >> of course there are cameras in jeffrey epstein's townhome. it's jeffrey epstein. he's a pervert, so of course he's taking taping everything that's going on in that home so maxwell has copies of all of the videos he took inside that freaky townhome down in florida

and elsewhere. so here is my question. does it show anything in legal? does she really have copies of all of that? remember thousands of images were taken from epstein's home already. does she have anything new to offer? if not, she's going to the slam mer. even if she can name names and show videos of other jet setters and powerful wealthy individuals having sex, if it's not illegal who cares? it's going to have to be with a minor. it's going to have to be illegal for it to be of any value to the fed, plus they may already have it. ainsley: but nancy if she does make a deal and says i'll give you all of the names of the clients if you let me off scott free is that fair to the clients of these young minors? >> hell no. ainsley: you know what i meant. >> yeah, i know what you mean. no it's not fair to them. she's going to have to do hard jail time but listen if you play poker which i do not because i'm

not a gambling person but if you do you got to know how to play your cards and as a prosecutor they've got the power she's looking at 30 years at least behind bars. they might cut her half off do 15 years and name names but they're not going to let her walk scott free. not happening. ainsley: nancy you're so good. thank you so much. you can catch laurie vallo investigation with nancy grace available on fox nation we appreciate it. okay, it's fox news alert the weekly jobless claim, the report is out thursday morning just over 1.3 million people filing for unemployment, we're going to get reaction from the son of the president eric trump, next. up at 2:00am again? tonight, try pure zzzs all night.

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brian: we're back with a fox news alert the weekly jobless claims report is out just over 1.3 million people filed for unemployment last week slightly lower than predicted

still way too high. the numbers dropped for 14 straight weeks more than 50 million americans have filed for unemployment since the pandemic began and you got to wonder how much longer we can afford to give out that $600 too , because that gives more of an incentive to not work as opposed to work. let's bring in eric trump the son of president trump and also running the trump organization. welcome back, eric. what's your reaction? good to see you what's your reaction to that number? >> i actually think it's veri' positive 14 weeks in a row as you said if you go back to may, they thought there was 7 million more jobs lost in may and it was actually plus 2.5 million so there was a 10 million job delta in that month and then you go to june we picked up last month and 4.8 million jobs, jobless claims for 14 weeks have been decreasing, and i can just tell you anecdotally i drive into new york every day to go to work. you did that two months ago you wouldn't see a car on the road and now you're hitting traffic as you go into the city and listen the world's coming back

and we should all be very proud of that and you see the nasdac hit historic highs again yesterday, the dow was 2,000 points off of all-time highs right now, and i think that's a great story to tell given the pandemic that really shook this entire world frankly. ainsley: eric, joe biden has said that he doesn't want to just rebuild nation he wants to transform it and also said some funding should absolutely be redirected from police and this is what he said talking about unions to the electrical workers. >> we're going to have a breath taking opportunity to create good paying union jobs, to liter the promise of america to americans who have been denied it from much too long, to rewrite our economy so the prosperity flows not just to ceo's but the workers who actually build the country. ainsley: what does that mean, rewrite our economy? >> you know it means nothing ainsley. honestly just by listening to that you can tell some intern for him wrote that he doesn't know what he's talking about. he was in charge of nafta, the

biggest component of nafta which cost this country 70,000 factories, the guy has been on the wrong end of every single trade deal. this is a guy who gave $150 billion to iran a country that absolutely hates our guts. and obama presided over the recovery to a recession in the history of our country, and he doesn't know what he's saying he doesn't know what he wants. he's taking the liberal talking points, let's defund the police. he wants open borders, he wants closed schools, he wants total anarchy in this country. he wants to raise taxes on everybody, i mean, you'd have an economic meltdown. you'd have an absolutely economic meltdown if this guy ever got into power. steve: eric there was a headline in the new york times on the op-ed pages, something from thomas friedman. the headline was biden should not debate trump, unless he releases his tax returns for 2016-2018 and secondly, joe biden should insist that a realtime fact checking team approved both candidates be

hired by the commission on presidential debates, and 10 minutes before the scheduled conclusion of the debate, this team reporting on any misleading statements, phony numbers or outright lies from either candidate had uttered otherwise joe stay in your basement it concludes. so what they're saying is because your dad just makes stuff up, they need to have the moderator and/or the panelists or who knows exactly what form it would take come at the end with 10 minutes left to say okay donald trump i've got the list and you said this it's not that. what do you think of that and do you think it be fair? >> steve just think about the state of this. the new york times is trying to convince a political candidate running for president of the united states not to go into debate and honestly guys i'm not trying to be fresh here but if you want to know the truth biden is in a tough spot because he doesn't have the aptitude to debate my father. that's not going to be popular, but he doesn't have the aptitude to debate my father.

at the same time if he backs out of the debate everybody in this country will know he didn't have the aptitude to debate my father and it's really incredible to see news outlets trying to convince a presidential candidate to not go into a debate. no one has seen biden. the guy has been in his basement for the last four months. he hasn't been out and quite frankly the few times he's been out he's stuttered through sentences, he hasn't been able to get through a cohesive thought and they are literally trying to convince the guy not to get on a stage where you have 50 million people each time see ing somebody who could potentially become commander-in-chief of the free world. brian: eric as you know a couple of weeks ago the president went to tulsa, oklahoma and went indoor, didn't sell out and because of people concerned about the virus or there was someone was able to infiltrate your ticket request system but now it looks like there was somewhat of a surge in tulsa. they had a handful of cases now they have 261 confirmed cases, tuesday had 206 before that it was 76 and 97.

does that make the trump team worry about new hampshire on saturday? >> listen, all states have cautions as we always do, they are doing it in the airport hanger, doing it largely outside and guys i really believe we have to get back to life and people are being responsible, death rates are dropping, by 10 fold every single day. the world is restarting and that's what this country needs. people are high risk groups need to take precautions there's absolutely no question about it we have to be start as a country but the world has to get back to normal. ainsley: a lot of people just want to watch from home, we saw that are the ratings. thanks so much eric for joining us. >> take care guys. answer let's hand it over to carlie upstairs for headlines. reporter: guys let's kick it off here attorney general bill barr is sending federal help to stop surging violence in kansas city. it's called operation legend, agents from the fbi,atf and u.s. marshals will partner with

local law enforcement. it's named after legend a four- year-old boy shot and killed while he was sleeping in june. kansas city has seen a 40% increase in homicides this year. >> a seattle ice cream shop is facing backlash for banning police officers wearing a firearm. the owner of the molly moons home made ice cream putting up this sign reading "gun free zone no guns allowed inside" officers sounding off on the move. >> you know, we're human being. i don't think that the reasonable community of the city of seattle support a business saying that we allow police but they can't be armed. reporter: the owner says she put up the sign because some of her employees felt intimidated by officers after they cleared out the nearby chop zone last week. reporter: the washington redskin s could make a major change to its logo. espn reporting the team will drop its native american imagery and will keep its burgundy and

gold color scheme and the team is discussing whether to change its name the move comes as amazon stopped selling washington redskins gear joining walmart, target and dick's sporting goods. >> the army is giving its first female green beret the special forces engineer sargent is set to graduate today after completing the intense 53-week course. for security reasons her identity won't be released but at just over five feet tall, she reportedly has big hopes of going into active duty. the army opened special operations jobs to women in 2016 , so a history making moment today guys for the army. steve: that is awesome congratulations to her, whoever she is. carlie thanks. brian: you're next, carlie. reporter: definitely. steve: meanwhile, heroic act caught on camera a police officer rushes into a burning home and saves an eight-year-old boy. you're going to meet that officer, coming up next, live. coming up next live, on the

channel, with the show, is sandra smith. >> sandra: steve good morning i heard you mention it earlier we've got big news coming up we're awaiting a major supreme court decision on president trump's taxes and financial documents. 10 a.m. eastern time the high court will decide if the president can block the release of his financial records. we have fox team coverage standing by on that breaking news this morning, plus betsy de voss, the president of education secretary here on opening america's schools and we will be joined on the signs of it all recent spikes in the coronavirus and what he thinks happens next with the vaccine and hogan gidley will be joining us in his new role on the trump campaign, what he's seeing in key battleground states ahead of 20 election, live three hours coming up from studio j in new york city join us top of the hour. it's pretty inspiring the way families

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brian: you'll love this a heroic act caught on camera a texas police officer rushes inside a burning mobile home pulling an eight-year-old boy to safety, and his 75-year-old to safety just in time. that heroic officer is joshua gonzalez from texas and officer gonzalez tremendous job. what were your thoughts when you came on the scene? >> my thoughts were i was

afraid, i was scared i didn't know what was going on. my first thought was asking the bystanders what was going on and once they told me there was a 75-year-old female and eight- year-old young male inside of the residence, i had to take quick action to be able to save these lives. i took the initiative to go around their house to attempt to make entry, but i was unsuccessful. i did not let that bring me down or anything, so i took the initiative to go around to where the fire was and make entry. i didn't think about what i was actually doing and it took a lot of bravery to actually go in. brian: no kidding. >> i did at one point believe that i was probably not going to make it but i made myself and assured myself that i could do this. brian: officer gonzalez you get in the door what do you see when you go through and we're watching the 23 second

video by a bystander who caught this and when you get through the door and you see the young boy and the 75-year-old, what are your thoughts? what did they say to you? >> my thoughts were i'm here to help you. i finally got to you guys and their face was in disbelief. they looked like they were already relieved as soon as they got to see my face. i was able to grab on to the child and i was able to get to the female that was 75 years old to go out with me while covering their face. there was heavy smoke and the flames were high, and, you know, once i was able to lead them out of the way to safety, i could see the relief in their face. brian: how did you know you'd get out? >> as soon as i made entry, there's a hallway down to the kitchen and that's where they were standing. they were standing there. they didn't know where to go. there was only one exit and one

entry to the residence, and since the flames were very high i believe they didn't know how to get out as the flames were really high and the smoke as well. once i was able to get to them, i remembered exactly how i went in and i took a few steps back. brian: you get eight-year-old, sit him down and he's upset. why is he upset? >> he's upset because he plays football and i believe youth football so he said his cleats were inside of the home and the only thing he wanted at that time was his cleats. the shoes for football, and he was crying. he was upset that his cleats were in there, not realizing that not only his cleats were burned, all of his property memories and his belongings. brian: wow, we'll get him new cleats. officer at times with all of the negative stories about cops

this is one of the great stories what's your message to everybody when it comes to law enforcement >> you know, even though people are criticizing us, we're still out here to help out the community. we're here to be able to assist and give the love that we can to each and every person that we do meet and it takes a lot of bravery to go out there and face what we do every day. brian: it's appreciated. thanks so much, and that's one lucky family that you were there for them and had the instincts to go in while many people would have stayed out. officer joshua gonzalez thanks so much. >> thank you. brian: for "fox & friends" in just a moment.

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>> i'm going to go with corona light, and squeeze the lime. "happy hour" starts at 6:00 p.m. with tom shillue. thanks for joining us on this busy thursday, and we will see you tomorrow, it's friday. stay within yourself. >> sandra: fox news alert, one hour from now we are awaiting the final three opinions from the supreme court from this term including whether lawmakers can subpoena president trump's financial records and whether he will have to hand those over to a grand jury in new york. a high-stakes dispute testing the balance of power between the white house and congress as well as a president's claim that he can't be investigated while in office. we will have full fox team coverage of that breaking news as it comes in. but first, joe biden facing backlash after saying some funding should absolutely be redirected from police departments.