eric: president trump today is strongly defending commuting the prison sentence of his long-time friend and advisor, roger stone. you know, that bombshell announcement came last night, days before stone was set to turn himself in and begin a 40 month sentence. he was sentenced to more than three years in prison after a jury found him guilty of seven counts of obstruction of justice and making false statements to conference. the commutation setting off a commipolitical fire storm. welcome to america's news

headquarters. i'm eric sean. molly: i'm molly line, in for arthel neville. president trump tweeting this morning, roger stone was targeted by an illegal witch hunt that never should have taken place. ist is the other side that are criminals, including obama and biden who spied on my campaign and got caught. the president's decision is facing criticism from top lawmakers on capitol hill. >> it occurred to me is what occurred to most americans, if you lie for the president, if you cover up for the president, if you withhold information that could incriminate the president, he will protect you. he will make sure that unlike other people you don't have to go to jail. molly: mark meredith is live at the white house with more on all of this as it unfolds. mark. >> reporter: good afternoon. it's not just adam schiff speaking out of, we're hearing from a number of lawmakers who are upset about the decision to commute roger stone's sentence. he was going to go to jail next week to start the 40 months

behind bars. he was convicted of seven counts including witness tampering and lying to congress. we have heard the president repeatedly defend roger stone saying the investigation into his behavior was part of a deliberate attempt to harm those close to the president through the russia probe. we got a statement from the white house, they wrote roger stone has already suffered greatly. he was treated very unfairly as were many others in the case. roger stonies now a free man. as you mentioned, this news has really sent shock waves throughout capitol hill with democrats accusing the president of abusing his power to protect his own of friends. >> i'm recommending that we pass a law that presidents cannot issue a pardon if the crime that the person is in jail for is one that is caused by protecting the president, which this was. it's appalling. >> reporter: republican senator mitt romney weighing in saying

an american president commutes the sentence of a person convicted by a jury of lying. one person that is happy about this is roger stone. he had a chance to thank the president by phone. he said he wanted to thank the president publicly for what he sees as an act of mercy. molly. molly: mark, never with a dull job there. the president spent friday in florida where he told telemundo that it's possible that more action on immigration could happen within weeks. what do we know about that. >> reporter: the president teasing that's possible, an executive order, some sort of major package on immigration is going to happen within the next several weeks which is a surprise because congress is busy rights now debating the next stimulus bill, there's the coronavirus pandemic that is ongoing. immigration seems to surprise a lot of people but the president not saying exactly what it will or not include but this is what he had to say last night. >> i'm going to do a big executive order. i have a power to do it as president. i'm going to make daca a part of

it. we put it in and we're probably going to then be taking it out. we're working out the legal complexities right now. >> reporter: the timing would be interesting with the election three months away. it would be interesting to see if immigration becomes front and center. the president will be back at the white house and then heads out to walter reed later on this afternoon to greet combat troops. molly: the president talked about legal complexities. the courts haven't always favored him when it comes to immigration angles. mark, thank you. eric: now to coronavirus. after months of decline, the number of daily deaths from covid-19 is on the rice in our country, as the nation records the largest single day increase of coronavirus cases. officials reporting more than 67,000 new infections yesterday. experts say the increasing numbers not just due to more testing but increase in the

percentage of infections, the positivity rate. miami-dade county recorded more than 33% positive, one-third of those who were tested. christina coleman live in los angeles with more on coronavirus today. christina. >> reporter: eric, there's record setting numbers for coronavirus deaths in arizona, florida and texas. there's been 69 deaths in arizona since yesterday, pushing the overall count to 2,00 2,151 coupe2,151covid-19 fatalities. deaths have doubled in the past five weeks. in texas, 95 deaths were reported friday, one of the deadliest weeks in the lone star state. the state's governor submitted a disaster order to provide more resources to deal with the cases. a house rep was on cnn today, saying texas rolled back restrictions too soon. >> we know that texas opened too early and we are now experiencing and suffering the impact of that. so frankly, what we're doing now

is trying to patch. i believing we actually -- believe we actually need a stay at home order that can be determined by science and a phasing out neck time of the open offing -- next time of the openings. >> reporter: in florida, more than 10 o 10,300 cases of corons were reported overnight, the third highest one day total for florida and thursday that state reported 120 deaths in one day, the highest one day count on record since may. now, the daily number of fatalities on average is still significantly lower than its peak this year in the u.s. but for the first time in weeks we're now seeing an uptick in daily deaths. there is some good news, though, in new york there's been a vast improvement. new york is reporting that the three-day average for its death toll is seven, the lowest since march 16th. eric. eric: all right, christina, thank you. molly. molly: it is election day in louisiana, the state holding its presidential primaries for both parties after the coronavirus

pandemic forced a delay in voting earlier this year. it all comes as president trump and former vice president joe biden take the gloves off in some pretty heated exchanges. peter doocy is following it all for us from partne washington. >> reporter: here's how much the world has changed. joe biden was one of 14 democrats on the ballot there. now he is the presumptive nominee and the contest is so low on his li list of priorities of, his twitter account has not posted a get out the vote message today. people who want to vote in person in louisiana are being instructed that masks are recommended but not required. and louisiana's secretary of state says poll commissioners will be wiping down voting machines and hand sanitizer will be available for everybody who shows up. it's part of the louisiana emergency election plan which also moved some polling places out of nursing homes and senior centers today as republicans look big picture at joe biden's

policies and his big plan to spend $700 billion on american goods. >> well, it's going to go right back to heavy regulation, high taxes, growth killing, job killing poll of sis and the thing that -- policies and i think the thing that president trump has done that will be transformational for generations is taking on china and taking on unfair trade practices around the world. >> reporter: it's a centerpiece of the biden pitch that he took on the road this week to contrast himself with trump. >> he promised to buy american. then he let federal contractors double the rate of off-shoring jobs in his first 18 months. i'm going to change that. we're going to double the foreign tax, the tax on foreign profits, so we don't encourage people to leave. >> reporter: that was biden's last public event on thursday.

we haven't seen him since. he has nothing on the schedule for today. molly. molly: we haven't seen the politicking that we normally do. thank you so much. eric: from the turbulence of politics to the remnants of tropical storm fay, now heading north into canada at this hour after tearing through the northeast yesterday. man, oh, man, the storm dumped nearly half a foot of rain in delaware and parts of new york state and boy was it windy. laura engle is at the beach in long island where the surfers are taking advantage of this. >> reporter: they always do that. and again, we're seeing a lot of wind today. we had a bunch of fog and there was sun and now we're back to wind. tropical storm fay may be of usually out of -- officially out of here but not before it closed beaches and flooded roads and left behind a big mess

throughout the northeast. we have video we've been gathering. the storm system lashed the east coast with heavy rainfall and strong winds, causing problems all over the place. new york city, some subway stops were flooded. one station had storm waterpowerring down the stairs. others had pools of runoff. in new jersey, some areas got up to 6 inches of rain, more than the combined total of rain that new jersey usually sees in the month of july, though some seemed to enjoy it. >> we were around during sandy, so any time there's a storm we come to see what's going on. >> everyone's home. the beach is all to our of selfs. best time to come out, bad weather. >> reporter: the side streets turning into rivers, repeated along shore towns along the coast. leaving people to trudge through the water, to make it across the street and intersections. we always see this with big storms, tons of water and winds usually means downed trees and

power lines which were spotted in baldwin, new york. fay wasn't one of the biggest storms we've seen, it was the earliest sixth named storm on record, the previous record of july 22nd set back in 2005. lots of plans this weekend were scrapped including president trump's scheduled campaign rally tonight in new hampshire. the event will take place in a week or two. those along the east coast should get used to this because we are hearing from forecasters that the hurricane season is going to be earlier than expected with a predicted 13 to 19 named storms this season. eric. eric: okay, laura. thanks so much. molly. molly: california couple has changed their plea to guilty in the college admissions scandal. the couple paid $250,000 to get their daughter into usc as a fake volleyball recruit. as part of the plea deal, dianne blake will serve six weeks in prison, her husband todd blake agreed to a four month sentence.

they will pay a $125,000 fine and perform 100 thundershowers of community service -- 100 hours of community service. they are the 27th and 28th parents to plead guilty in connection to the scam. eric. eric: molly, is a video that ricocheted around the internet, that wealthy st. louis couple, mark and patty mcklosky pointing their guns at protesters outside their house. authorities are taking action against them. the kim says they were protect -- the up can he'l couple says e protecting their lives and property. should authorities try to go after them? we'll have that, next. [ thunder rumbles ] [ engine rumbling ] [ beeping ] [ engine revs ] uh, you know there's a 30-minute limit, right?

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>> the president is very clear, as we find the lasting solution, we also need to address the underlying issues that keep creating these illegal populations coming into the country. what we don't want to be is another two years sitting down at the table trying to find a lasting solution to a different set of individuals coming into the country. eric: that is acting department of homeland security head, secretary chad wolf, who is appearing on "fox & friends" on the fox news channel earlier

this morning, talk about the trump administration's desire to find a permanent solution for daca, as the president announced he will sign he says an executive order on immigration in the coming weeks that he says will include what he calls a road to citizenship for the so-called dreamers. what a surprise, john bussey now, associate editor for the wall street journal, fox news contributor. john, as years of attacking daca, has the president decided to change policies because of political purposes? what's going on here? why suddenly announce this decision in a telemundo interview which goes out to a largely latino and hispanic audience. >> eric, we don't know. this was a comment by the president. it's really not an announcement of a new policy because there were no details attached to it. he said, look, you know, we will find a way to -- there will be some sort of pathway to citizenship for the dreamers. these are the over 600,000

people that came to the united states as children. they were the children of illegal immigrants. and so they are technically illegally in the united states. so the u.s. has been trying to figure out what to do. how do you address an issue where over 600,000 people have integrated themselves into the economy, into the culture, into society. so what did he mean by pathway to citizenship? the white house immediately said no amnesty. this does not mean they can just stay here. so did the president mean, well, we'll send them back to their originating countries and they can apply for citizenship? there were no details. so i'm not sure we should make too much of this, quite frankly, quite yet. eric: okay. he said the details would be coming of out in about four weeks. let's play a clip of the president's interview with telemundo about that. >> if you look at the supreme court ruling, they gave the president tremendous powers when they said that you could take in

in this case 700,000 or so people. so they gave powers based on the powers that they gave, i'm going to be doing an immigration bill. one of the aspects of the bill that you'll be very happy with and a lot of people will be, a lot of republicans, by the way, will be daca. we'll give them a road to citizenship. >> when will this be -- >> i would say over the next four weeks. eric: what do you expect, any sense from you on how this will play out? >> yeah, it's unclear. he says we're going to be doing a bill, he'll be proposing legislation. mind you, it's a democratic house of representatives and republican senate that has not been able to find a common ground with the president on immigration. we're going into an election. this is obviously something that has political import right now as the election campaign is underway. it's been a president that's been very anti-immigration. he has put restrictions on hb

visas for foreign workers coming into the united states this year. he said that interstudents who -- international students who are not attending class in person, who might opt for online because of the spread of the coronavirus, they're afraid to go into class, that they must leave the country. it was a supreme court decision defeat for the president that he's referring to. it was last june or this past month. in which the supreme court said that it was unclear why the president had rescinded daca, the protections that were placed for these individuals by the obama administration, the president rescinded them in an executive order and the supreme court said you can't do that without more explanation, more due process, more sort of consideration for why are you doing this. so on technical reasons, he was turned down by the supreme court. that doesn't mean that he can't come back with a more detailed proposal and i think that's what

he's planning to do. eric: yeah, it seems that we'll get that in the next few weeks. he could come under some head winds from republicans. take a look at what ted cruz tweeted out. he said there is zero constitutional i authority for a president to create a road to citizenship by executive feat. it was unconstitutional when obama issued congressional amnesty and it would be a huge mistake if trump tries to illegally expand amnesty. that's interesting. the white house says this is not p amnesty. no amnesty, but a potential path to citizenship. how do you think it will shake out finally, john? >> that's right. that's what ted cruz says, is what the supreme court says, you can't do this by fiat. there has to be a process and explanation for it. the president is trying to straddle a difficult line. he has been elected with a base that is -- that has been energized by him to be anti-immigrant and so the

anti-immigration on the argument that immigrants take jobs away from americans. it's unclear whether that's a rightful argument but that's the argument. what does he do now? he wants to appeal to a broader audience than just his base. but he can't alienate his base either. that's why i think that what was said in the telemundo interview is really going of to have to be examined when the details come out. i'm not sure that the president is going to suddenly change position on this from what it's been up until now. eric: we'll see -- he has a plan, he says, within four weeks he'll announce it so we'll see what the reaction will be on capitol hill and among his supporters. john bussey with the wall street journal of. , john, always good to see you on the weekend. molly. molly: police in st. louis reportedly executing a search warrant at the home of a couple who pointed guns at protesters gathered outside of their home last month, this is a video that

went viral showing the husband and wife emergeing from the house and confronting those demonstrators. the couple saying it was self-defense. aishah hasnie has more on all of this. aishah. >> reporter: hi, molly. the question is is it search and seizure, is it a sign or indication that there might be charges for this couple. according to local reports, st. louis authorities did search the home of mark and p patricia mcclosky, they seized the rifle you see mark holding. the pistol, they claim that is in the possession of their original attorney. they took arms and pointed guns at protesters after the protesters marched into their gated neighborhood. the protesters claim they were on their way to demonstrate outside of the mayor's house. the couple told fox news some of the protesters told them, quote,

they were going to kill us and they were going to burn down the house. last week, it was announced the office would not tolerate the use of force against people exercising first amendment rights. missouri's attorney general said the couple didn't break any laws and the key is really this was a private street. listen. >> i announced loudly, this is private property. please go back. leave. >> they said they were going to murder them and come into their house. so as i said, the doctrine in missouri is expansive. it allows you to defend your life. >> reporter: molly, the couple's new attorney said -- told local media in st. louis that he is hopeful he will be able to meet with kim garthner the prosecutor in st. louis so we'll follow up with that and see what happens in the next coming days. molly: aishah, thank you so much. eric. eric: molly, disney world

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molly: as the economy continues to reopen of, more and more states are requiring that people wear a mask in an effort to reduce the spread of coronavirus. some states have stopped short of issuing a full mandate, despite the recent spike in cases. we are covering all the angles of this story. we have fox news medical contributor, marty mccarry here and phil keating who is live in central florida as disney world reopens the doors to the public. we begin with alicia acuna in denver. >> reporter: four states in the united states don't have some sort of mask mandate, that is iowa, montana, wisconsin and south dakota. we're seeing politicians on both sides of the aisle join scientists in pushing the wearing of masks. one sheriff in ohio said he's not going to be the mask police. >> i wear a mask when i go out in public. i wash my hands.

but it should be your right to wear a mask and the police are so decimated, they've had their budgets cut this year because of the covid, places are closing down, people are angry and the police don't have the resources. i told them, don't call 911. don't call my dispatch centers. we've had all we can take. >> reporter: a growing number of municipalities are requiring masks in public. one denver city council member said they will fine folks up to $2,600 with up to a year in jail. the governor is stopping short of a state-wide mandate. >> if you're waiting to wear a mask until the governor tells you to, i hope you heard that i'm telling you to. if i haven't been clear, i'm telling you to wear a mask. wear a damn mask. >> we are wearing masks and socially distancing and we've been able to work safely and i'm confident everyone else can do the same thing. it's not asking too muc much.

knew and a knew as. >> reporter: folks are fed up with businesses that require them in order to receive service and as frustration boils over, there's a growing number of studies that show the effectiveness of mask wearing in stopping the spread. the president's economic advisor said, we have to socially distance and we have to wear the masks which i do wear the mask. i don't want folks at thi folksg me, saying i'm not wearing a mask, i'm a safe distance from my photographer. molly: thank you so much. she was talking about the economy there and that is part of this. eric. eric: disney is hoping to

recapture the magic after months of the coronavirus lockdown. disney now reopen offing two of its parks in central florida today, despite the recent spike in covid-19 cases across the sun shine state. some things will be different. phil keating is outside the magic kingdom. are mickey and minnie wearing a mask and is dopey being smart about the coronavirus. >> reporter: this is how fast time passes. it's been four months since walt disney world closed to the public. it's back open today. everybody heading into the magic kingdom and animal kingdom are finding strict new rules in what is of course the happiest place on earth. everybody must pass a temperature check before they're allowed in the gate and masks are mandatory for everyone inside magic kingdom and animal

kingdom or else you will get kicked out. tuesday and wednesday park employees did test runs of the new pandemic created system, some dressed up in character on stages, no longer on the ground close to people and there won't be any touching of each other, no more photos hugging mickey and minnie. they will be fewer people on rides, empty seats and plastic partitions to reduce the chance of virus spread. annual pass holders were allowed inside the parks thursday and friday. one woman told us she thought it was one of the safest places she's been. activities were ranked by risk of getting infected, getting restaurant take-out, although risk, going to a beach, moderate risk, and going to an amusement park, high risk. disney which lost about $1 billion in revenue in the past four months would typically see

200,000 guests inside their park on any given day, crowds will now behalf of that. everybody wanting to go must have a ticket purchased online and must make a reservation. disney's goal of course, to make the happiest place the safest place. florida has been surging of late in covid-19 cases. today's new one day total, 10,300, the third highest so far. yesterday was 11,400. everything is on the line for disney with its reopening plan. epcot and hollywood studios will reopen next wednesday and out in california the original, disneyland, has yet to set a reopening day. eric. eric: let's hope it all goes well. phil, thanks so much. molly. molly: for more on all of this, let's bring in fox news medical contributor, dr. marty mccarry, also a physician and professor of public health at

johns hopkins university. we just had the reports, most notably from phil keating, showing us a whole new world at disney. people have to wear masks. have you to have the ear loops, all sorts of precaution, sanitizing stations put in place. can anything be done to make a theme park safe anywhere right now, much less in florida where we're seeing a surge in cases of covid-19. >> molly, disney is doing pretty much everything humanly possible. i do think it will be a safe place to be. but this is probably the worst day of the entire year to reopen an amusement park. right now ther there are probab0 to 100,000 cases in orange county, florida, in that community. they really don't contain themselves. these are people who live with those who work at disney. so disney is doing a lot but remember, it's not just the amusement park. it's the travel there. it's orlando airports. it's the tsa which is still

passing around laminated cards to pass around in the line. it's the drivers that take you there, it's the staff. so we've got to think about high risk individuals and low risk individuals an and high and low risk settings. i'm not sure businesses have done the work to figure out we don't want high risk individuals, based on co-morbidities and age in high risk settings like gate keepers and cashiers and tsa agents. those are the things we have to think about right now. molly: you touched on my next question here. being at disney is one thing, riding a roller coaster and screaming with your fellow patrons in open mouth terror versus geting there, getting the family there, getting the family home to communities all across the country. is that something we should be concerned about. if we're here in ne new england where we see numbers drop dramatically, if families travel to places all around the country and travel back, is that something we should watch for in all sorts of places around the

country. >> we learned a lot of lessons from the early data. one of the biggest drivers of this infection is travel. it's travel, it's large gatherings, particularly indoors and it's dense settings, places that are not exercising defens defenseification. disney is doing a lot of stuff well. i hope a lot of other businesses follow and not wait for local officials or governors to tell them they should require universal masking policies. how do you think europe has been able to manage infections. it's because of universal masking, not from the harsh lockdowns and contact tracing which was hailed as the way to address this early on. i think those strategies have proven counter productive or not feasible given the limited resources that we have. molly: one of the subjects that's come up, op eds on this,

illinois' governor calling for a national mask mandate, others joined him in that, joe biden, phil murphy. really a lot of folks calling for a national mask mandate. your thoughts on that? >> well, one of the argument as to why europe is doing so well is they did not leave it up to local provinces and governors and mayors to come up with a policy. they had a uniform policy across the eu that there would be universal masking and dedensifica tion. i think it's been effective. the easiest thing we can do is adopt the universal masking mandates indoors in public gatherings when public distancing cannot be feasible. molly: and final question here. could this help the economy? there's a lot of information that -- we talked about disney, talking about their budget taking a hit. they're reopening finally. it those be exciting for the people, the staff there. a broader note, goldman sachs says the national mandate on masks could slow and prevent the

spread and potentially mean 5% gdp, preventing 5% gdp loss. your thoughts on that. >> we have 122,000 americans who have died from covid-19, the stock market can is not going to like this, as well as the medical community. it's inhumane to watch that death toll. that is bad for everybody. what we can do is adopt universal masking measures because we see that they're working throughout the world. so it's one simple step that will have broad benefit across society. remember, vulnerable populations don't just live in nursing homes. they're bus drivers. some of them are teachers, some are cashiers and tsa agents. we have to think about everybody when we adopt these measures and make sacrifice for the broader benefit. molly: potentially more masks could be fewer lockdowns and folks could get safely to work. that would be wonderful as well. thank you so much for your insight today. appreciate you joining us. >> thank you. molly: eric.

eric: thanks, molly. they assassinated an iranian nuclear scientists by putting a bomb on the window of a car when struck in traffic. there's been a string of mysterious explosions at sensitive military sites but the exact cause is unknown. is it sabotage to stop tehran's nuclear program? retired four star general jack keane on that, next, on confronting iran.

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this crisis is going to be over know exactly when watch me! and we don't know exactly when the stock market will reach its bottom, we've got to be prepared for this to last a long time. if you assume that you're out of work for nine months but you end up only being out of work for three, well that's great. but if you think you're going to be furloughed for three months and it lasts for nine, well that'll be emotionally devastating. so, we've got to prepare ourselves. tangibly and practically, as well as psychologically and emotionally. eric: for the third time in three weeks, there was a major explosion of what's suspected the be a sensitive military site in iran. the latest occurred yesterday morning in western tehran, caused widespread power outages. it's unclear who or what is behind the string of explosions, including one of a military site, another where they make

centrifuges for the nuclear program. joining us news is retired general, jack keane, fox news military strategic analyst. general keane, we had that computer virus that sabotaged computers. what do you thinks is behind the mysterious explosions? >> in the last several months there's dozens of so-called accidents that the iranians claim have been taking place and largely they're explosions or fires. that is no longer a credible claim, given the sheer numbers of them and as you noted, just in the last couple of weeks, we've had a missile production plant that exploded, we had their advanced centrifuge plant which exploded with an incredible fire, literally destroyed the place and set the nuclear program back at least a year, possibly two. this week there's been two other power plants that have had explosions and a chemical gas leak in another plant.

i mean, it's pretty obvious there's two countries that have the capability to do this, one is the united states, the other is rail. you mentioned the -- israel, you mentioned the cyber attack that took place a decade ago. the united states was involved with that with the israelis, matter of public now. the israeli's conducted an assassination campaign against scientists which you mentioned. in 2018, the israelis penetrated into tehran, the capital of iran, and took out of a secure warehouse a half a ton of classified information which they turned over to the un inspectors and they documented the fact that iran was developing a nuclear weapon. what is happening here? this is a covert espionage campaign, likely being conducted by the israelis, and being assisted by informants inside iran and others who are part of the resistance movement in iran. eric: the national council of

resistance of iran, huge group that have a lot of people out there on the ground, potentially helping out in this? >> yeah, i don't think massad who is likely executing this could do it without assistance. the most secret sites that iran had were disclosed to us a number of years ago and that came as a result of informants who knew where those sites were. so i think there's logically some cooperation. i believe it's a smart strategy. if you accept the objective that we don't want iran to have nuclear weapons with missiles that can deliver them and i'm one of those who supports that. then the strategy that the israelis are doing, likely with support from the united states, at least in terms of moral support, any intelligence they could give would assist them, it's fairly savvy. here's why. because it gives the israeli's denyableity. what we're not dealing with is air strikes that are going into

the missile sites and nuclear sites, obviously it would be known that the israelis are delivering that and that would force the iranians to do what? to escalate up. and this gives them the capability of denying it and making them much more patient and less likely to have this cyber espionage and also kinetic espionage which we're seeing lead to war. iranians don't want that. and the israelis i think are executing their strategy which right now already has slowed the program down a year or two and they may not be finished yet. eric: quickly, 30 seconds, do you think we have other alleged -- we allegedly have other tricks up our sleeves to try to set the nuclear program back? >> oh, yes. and certainly cyber activity is one of our of strongest suits and also one of the israeli's suits as well. no, they're not finished and --

but i do think -- i don't believe the iranians are going to respond very strongly because i believe they're waiting for the november evidence exes in the -- november elections in the united states to see who wins the election to determine who they should negotiate with. eric: all right. and if former vice president biden is elected, how do you think that will impact their thinking? >> well, i can't predict what vice president biden would do as president. but i can say he was part of the team that construed the nuclear deal which brought us to this debacle that we're dealing with, which permits iran actually to acquire a nuclear weapon when you would think the purpose of the nuclear deal would of be to prevent them from having one. so certainly he could be seriously along those lines again but hopefully not. eric: yeah. no sunset clause on that. general keane as always, thank you. momolly.

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tribute with video messages today to victims and survivors of the massacre 25 years later, thousands of muslim men and boys were killed by paramilitary forces in 1995. the killing spree marking the most brutal episode of the bosnian war. brian chilcote is live in london with more. brian. >> reporter: yeah, molly. roughly 8,000 muslim men and boys were massacred exactly 25 years ago today in the town of srebanisa. it's a singular case of genocide after the holocaust. what was particularly i think touching about today, notable about today's memorial service, they were also in addition to of course commemorating the dead, burying nine newly identified victims of that. that's right, newly identified because 1,000 of the roughly 8,000 that were massacred on that day are still missing.

now, secretary of state mike pompeo couldn't be there because of the coronavirus but he did send this video message. >> the united states pledges never to forget that tragedy. we grieve with the families who tirelessly seek justice for the 8,000 innocent lives lost. all these years later. and we stand with our great friends in bosnia. >> reporter: we heard from a number of world leaders echoing that, that that will never be allowed you to hatch again. back to you -- happen again. back to you. molly: important to remember. brian chilcote, thank you. eric: that it is. well, we'll be back at 4:00 p.m. eastern time here, molly and myself. molly: back at 4:00. chocolate would be good... snacking should be sweet and simple. the delicious taste of glucerna gives you the sweetness you crave while helping you manage your blood sugar. with nutrients to help support immune health.

♪ ♪ paul: welcome to the journal editorial report. i'm paul gigot. the president does not enjoy immunity nor subpoenas in office. the court wrapping up a blockbuster term with that pair of decisions, one in which chief justice john roberts again played pivotal role, let's bring in elliot shapiro, constitutional study at cato institute and publisher of the cato