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you. the op-ed dropped last night. white house is now responding to the op-ed and slamming mueller for pontificating. >> hey, leland, good afternoon. robert mueller does not make comments very often on the record. we also heard from robert mueller. we have not heard directly from mueller on camera but the president repeatedly say stone was unfairly targeted, we've made every decision as in all of our cases to act by the law and in accordance of rule of law. president trump appears to be brushing off criticism that he's been getting over the stone.

mueller's op-ed say that it's no place to be speaking out. they believe the russia report should speak for itself. president trump also weighing in on the stone controversy last night. >> people are extremely happy because in this country they want justice and roger stone was not treated properly. mark: but this decision has really sparked new outrage with democrats accusing president of abusing power. we heard from chairman of house judiciary committee in a tweet in which jerry nadler said, quote, partisanship and cronyism and attack it -- attacks rule of law, and at least one power senate republican also had concern, pat toomey writing, i understand the frustration with the badly flawed russia collusion, in my view commuting roger stone sentence is a mistake. so far since taking off president trump has issued less than a dozen commutations since

2017. predecessor issuing a lot more than that, 1700. president bush and clinton issuing far fewerment house speaker nancy pelosi is also upset about commutation and calling on congress to rein in some of the president's pardoning powers. leland: mark meredith, mark will be all day to report it on. thank you, sir. gillian has more. gillian: joining us now president trump's personal attorney jenna ellis. jenna we all know, us being ordinary americans, nongovernment employees that this is something that had been coming down the pipe for a while, pardoning of roger stone. is it something the president gave serious thought to and is it something that was widely debated and discussed or did the president know from the get-go this was a commutation he was going to make? >> well, it is a commutation and

not a pardon. obviously i will not get into the internal deliberations but the timing does speak for itself where this was just days before roger stone was supposed to report to federal report and the judge in the instance could have and should have granted a new trial based on everything that we know about the lack of due process in that case and so with robert mueller coming out with op-ed shows further proof with anyone reasonable watching that this was political target to target president trump's allies for process crimes and -- and due process. that was just absolutely absurd and president trump putting commutation was not only constitutional but proper but keeping with power pardon of the presidents in the constitution that provides that the president is the last full guardian of genuine justice and roger stone absolutely deserves. gillian: okay, jenna.

jenna, the question was, was there an internal deliberation or was this a decision president trump made on his own and did he make alternate considerations, did he hear debate from both sides of the argument here or was he very convinced that he was a commutation he would make from day one? >> i did answer that and i said i won't bet into internal and so what i will tell you is that this -- the timing does speak for itself and this particular commutation was absolutely constitution and the american people looking at what happened to roger stone and mueller investigation and op-ed with robert mueller, he should be disinterested in this particular commutation. it's absolutely irresponsible to come out and have to justify his prosecution with the separation that should be here in this instance and she should have remained quiet and allow the

commutation to proceed. roger stone with underlying health conditions, medical commutation even with whole covid-19 situation. you have people who are violent criminals being released in california and other states and yet, you know, the leftist wants to pretend and the democrats want to pretend that somehow this is some kind of a big deal and it's just simply not. gillian: can you tell us if there was anybody who presented to president trump an argument at any point for not commuting the sentence of roger stone? >> again, those individuals would have to speak for themselves and all of those internal communications are privileged and that's something that as his attorney i'm not going to get into but the constitution does provide an article 2 that if the president regardless of what advice either way is given, whether, you know, advice against, advice for full pardon, advice for exactly what he did, it's ultimately the president's decision with all of

the information to make that call and my humble believe that he absolutely make the right call here and for people like nancy pelosi -- gillian: you just mentioned a pardon, did the president consider pardoning him at any point? >> you'd have to ask that to the president. i know you keep asking me the question. it's attorney-client privilege and the constitution speaks for himself. the president made his decision here and it was absolutely correct and for nancy pelosi to think that through legislation that they can amend the constitution, she really needs to read the constitution and realize the limitation of separation of powers here. gillian: jenna, before we wrap here, i'm asking you because we invited on the show to hopefully get more information from you not to just have you knock on democrats and nancy pelosi, we were hoping that you could provide some perspective on this, we appreciate your time. >> hopefully i did provide a perspective, thanks. leland: chris wallace, betsy devos, fox news sunday at

2:00 p.m. eastern just after this program. joe biden and president trump won primaries in louisiana, no surprise there. be virtual or otherwise, national polls show biden still maintaining lead over president trump. peter doocy breaking the polls down for us, hi, peter. peter: leland, trump advisers had been posting tons of photos of boss wearing mask last night but biden campaign sells buttons that say wear a mask say it's too late to set an example. one of the most important things we can could do prevent the spread of the virus rather than taking responsibility and leading he wasted four months that americans have been making sacrifices by stoking divisions and actively discouraging people

from taking a very basic step to protect each other. covid-19 has thrown the nominating process all out of whack with biden averaging one in-person event in a week, this home in scranton, highlighted by a pledge that as president he would make federal agencies spend 700 billion taxpayer dollars on american goods and services which president trump and other white house officials argue is plagiarism essentially since president trump has been pushing an america first trade policy for the entire half a decade he's been in politics. >> he has basically ripped off the president's buy american program, guess what, i personally stood by the side of the president when he signed 7 buy american orders in his administration, 7 more than the obama-biden administration ever focused on, so that's typical of

biden. peter: joe biden does not have any public events on his schedule today, leland. leland: we will see what the week holds. thank you, little bit more of economic plan, pennsylvania congressman brandon boyle. we appreciate it, congressman. thank you. as we look at this, i'm -- i'm interested in the point peter navarro made, buy american, is that the best the biden campaign can do? [laughter] >> well, thanks for having me on. i'm very excited about the plan that is out there. it's not just as mr. navarro said by a label buy americans, it's a real plan, manufacturing tax credits, one of the things i'm excited about. as far as the trump record when it comes to this, there's no question he came to my state and other parts of the industrial

forth talking a good game in 2016, but here is the reality, even before covid-19 struck, you know, we were in a manufacturing recession in the united states, and, again, that's before covid-19 ever came to the u.s. shores back in january. so i know the rhetoric has been very good for president trump for a number of years, but when you look at the record, there's no there there. leland: it's interesting that you say that because all of our reporting in pennsylvania in terms of unemployment rate and where things were going and i spent time up there reporting, people are pretty happy, people who weren't necessarily huge trump supporters and say he was bringing manufacturing back, he was bringing coal mining back, fracking became a much bigger part of the pennsylvania economy. look at mike allen's reporting from axios, speaking of what the biden administration would look like, day one is making sure approach to covid, blah, blah, is different as well as

reentering the paris accord, combat global warming. that doesn't play very well in western pa that survives in large parton coal and on fracking? >> yeah, well, a couple separate things. first pennsylvania is diverse economy. philadelphia and especial think suburbs, a lot of high-quality white-collar jobs, some other pockets to have state that you just referenced in the southwest as well as the northeast, they are heavily dependent on energy jobs. the reality is coal isn't coming back. big reason why coal has been in decline over the last decade is actually because of the second thing you said, fracking, so really, again, this is an area where donald trump talks a big game but the reality is it's quite something different. i'd also point out, again, like i said before, even before covid-19, including in pennsylvania, we were seeing a decline of manufacturing jobs and that is wrong.

there's nothing that says that in order to have the top gdp in the world we have to decline in manufacturing. i point -- >> leland: i'm really confused. the idea is that you're saying that trump hasn't done enough to bring back manufacturing back to the united states and the biden administration wants to spend more money to do it? >> smart investments and bring manufacturing back, so my point is -- >> leland: congressman, where was then vice president biden between 2008 and 2016 or 2009 or 2017 when the obama and biden administration was in office, spending hundreds of millions of dollars to bring back american jobs wasn't really that high on the priority list? >> oh, i would contrast the obama and biden record of bringing back the economy from the great recession to a point where we had the longers economic expansion in american history. i would put the obama-biden record on jobs and on the

economy up against president trump any day of the week, but if i could just finish one final point on manufacturing, because this is actually regardless of democrat or republican, there's absolutely no reason why we can't have a top gdp country lead the world and at the same time see an increase in manufacturing jobs. i'd point to the example of germany as a country that's proven it can be done. i'm looking forward to helping lead this effort with joe biden in office. leland: i thought we did have the top gdp in the world? >> we do have top gdp unfortunately manufacturing -- germany is an example of top gdp country in which there far more manufacturing jobs as part of overall economy. leland: got it. congressman brandan boyle of pennsylvania, great surrogate, appreciate it. >> thank you. leland: gillian.

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leland: florida just in the past couple of hours announcing that they have set a grim record, the largest single-day increase of coronavirus since the pandemic began. kristina coleman following the numbers from florida and around the country as well. hi, christina. christina: around the world there's a lot of new infections, world health organization reporting increase in coronavirus cases globally logging more than 230,300 cases

in the past 24 hours and in the hour we are breaking grim records, it seems like daily, today florida is reporting its biggest single day increase in covid-19 cases since this pandemic started reporting 15,300 cases since just yesterday. texas also seeing record numbers for covid hospitalizations and new infections this weekend. the hardest-hit part of texas includes harris county which encompasses the greater houston, 42,000 cases have been reported there since this pandemic started. the u.s. department of defense urban area medical task force has crews working throughout texas to help nurses and doctors with this explosion of infections across some of the most heavily populated areas of the state including dallas, austin and san antonio. and despite this grim news, what's being called to covid-19 parties are still being held. that's where people go to a party to see if anyone gets infected. a man in his 30's died of

coronavirus in methodist hospital in san diego after attending one of the parties adding to uptick of coronavirus fatalities across the nation. >> just before the patient died there was a nurse they said i think i made a mistake. i thought this was a hoax but it's not. christina: two of three metros areas with fasters growth of covid-19 cases are in texas. corpus christie and mcallen area, providence, rhode island, for the first time in april weekly rise in number of coronavirus fatalities nationally. >> i think the country is not in a good place with respect to covid right now, across the south and in california and a variety of other states we are having sharp increases in cases, sharp increases in hospitalizations and ventilator use and now increases in deaths.

>> christina: surge in cases is prompting bigger push to wear masks, louisiana issued a statewide mask mandate, one of 23 states to have one in place, leland. leland: governor abbott leaving that door open, gillian. gillian: well, j some of the has of the country are responsing to new coronavirus regulations. we are joined by gido trinidad in south miami and monty, coowner of beer garden in houston. gentlemen, thank you so much for joining us to share your perspectives today, monty, i want to go to you first. i understand that you guys are open now, but what's interesting is to hear from you about how bars really manage to get through the period of time when we were in complete lockdown,

meaning, you know, some restaurants were always keeping things by providing takeout food, a lot harder to do with alcohol. >> thank you for having me on, gillian. actually we are closed. gillian: okay. >> closed currently so when the first mandated shutdown occurred on march 24th, we closed an closed for a period of time until state reopened on may 22nd. we decided it wasn't ready and we weren't ready and we didn't think the state or the county were ready and we reopened on june the tenth with new measure in places, contactless, but we are currently closed. gillian: gido, tell me what your experience with 360 has been

like in miami during this time when, you know, florida is seeing a little bit of a surge but a lot of businesses are reopened? >> yes. it's been a little bit -- thank you first of all for having me on the show. it's been a little bit of an emotional roller coaster to say the least. we were one of the last businesses to be allowed open in our country which was frustrating because we felt like we had the protocols necessary to be able to keep our members safe because we have control over everything they do once they walk into our facility, so, you know, we've been operating for almost a month now and then numbers have spiked up and our county mayor had made a mandate to go ahead and shut down gyms without necessary communicating with anyone, you know, within circle or even part of the wellness group that he had created, however, he allowed us to go ahead and meet with him before the mandate took place and we came up with a few

solutions to be able to level up protocols that we had in order to keep everyone safe, so it's been a little frustrating, however, it is nice to be able to be open and provide solutions to people to continue to build their health and wellness. to be quite honest, some of the members with the numbers kind of going back up are starting to pull back a little bit and some are just, you know, showing up and taking matters into their own hands and, you know, making sure they are wearing masks, 10 feet apart from one another so it's like i said some days are better than others. gillian: we keep hearing, you know that gyms and places that people go to work out, fitness studios, classes, among the last places nationwide to reopen because of the risks of breathing heavily close to other people in an enclosed space so it's great to hear that you are coming up with innovative solutions to allow people to stay healthy.

monte, tell me about your financial outlook going forward? meaning when some day in the future there's a vaccine and everything across america is reopened, do you think you will look back at this period as blip in the road or something that had lasting financial impacts on your business. >> we really hope it's a blip in the road and we expected during the first and so what we did was -- we had been saving up for renovations. things were great over the 5 years. fortunately we are able to pay employees plus tips.

we did go through rainy day fund, though, and now what we are faced with is -- we would be able to open safely. we collectively decided with our employees not to be open right away. i do think it is the right call to be closed right now, bars and it is troubling to see some restaurants, though that are -- but it's very difficult for us as a small-family owned business, for the businesses that i talk that are small businesses, nationwide really, i don't know how we are going to get by this. gillian: gentlemen, we are out of time, we will leave it there, we stay in touch with you, thanks for telling about where

you are, where you're headed and we wish you the best of luck. >> thank you very much. >> thank you so much. thanks for having us. gillian: you bet. leland: new questions about ethics investigation into the prosecutor who charged an atlanta police officer with murder. those questions when we come back.

gillian: two police officers have been killed after an ambush in southern texas. fox news aishah hasine has more on the deadly shooting. aishah: hi, gillian, this is so tragic. the mcallen police office says they were trying to do their job and trying to keep the peace and they had no idea what was about to happen next. let's show you the two officers that were killed in the line of duty. 45-year-old garza and chávez both shot while responding to a

domestic disturbance call saturday afternoon. when we walked into the front door a man open fire, 23-year-old adan ignacio camarillo is the gunman. he killed himself after shootout with other officers. >> our officers did not draw their weapons, did not fire, never stood a chance, never had a chance to, didn't suspect reasons, instead they were taken down by gunfire. aishah: texas governor greg abbott and paxton offering prayers and support for the mcallen community. the governor tweeting, we unit to black the blue. a slogan that's been gaining momentum across the country as antipolice sentiment continues to grow. here in new york city disturbing video emerging showing crowd cheering as the man puts nypd officer in a head lock.

the sergeant's association tweeting out this video criticize new bill that will punish cops who use chokeholds. meantime thousands of people are coming out this weekend for back the blue rallies from oregon to nebraska to right here in new york city where the message is that these officers, these police officers are so necessary to keep our communities safe, gillian. gillian: aishah in new york city, thank you. leland: murder rates are rising in 64 major u.s. cities this year, robert, talk radio host civil rights attorney at the patilla law group, joining us from atlanta, one of the cities seeing uptick in violence. robert, given the amount of animosity towards police officers and especially what we have seen happen in atlanta, hard to be surprise that the police are taking a step back and leading void for violent criminals? >> well, i think the issue is not that people are against

police officers, people are against bad police officers and i think often law enforcement conflicts the two ideas. the communities want to be policed, communities want safe and sound communities where they can send kids to school and not worried about being victims of violent crime but often police think any regulation, any attempts to bad cops is cops in general. leland: then there was the shooting of this 8-year-old little girl by the wendy's as vigilant groups tried to take over atlanta. this is out attorney general of missouri talked about violence on the rise, take a listen. >> this is all hands on deck moment to really tackle violent crime and people deserve that. we've lost too many kids, too many mother that is lost their children and too many children who lost their parents and

something has to be done and we need to work together on that. leland: seems as though the police in atlanta as we talked about are just taking -- don't feel what you feel, they feel as though people are out to get them, be it a good cop or bad cop and taking a step back? >> i think that's the point of having engagement between law enforcement and the community in general. sit down and talk to communities. don't act as occupying force. code of violence says if officer commits violation they are not reported. remember, the officer that he was never disciplined for. leland: but we know that you have strong feelings on the rayshard brooks case. in terms of looking forward about how to end violence that we are having here, you have mayor bottoms in atlanta talking about how enough is enough, violent crime has got to stop. how do you have violent crime end if you don't empower police

and support the police to end it? >> i think you can empower and support police without encouraging bad cops. if you have to go outside of the law enforcement, you are in the wrong profession. leland: if you think -- if you want to say go outside the law, you talk about the person who is prosecuting the rayshard brooks police officers, the two officers involved in the shooting is paul howard, he's under one georgia bureau of investigations investigation before the shooting. he then charged these two officers without the formal outside investigation being complete and now he's under investigation for possibly issuing false subpoenas as it relates to those two officers being charged. that hardly inspires confidence in the people who are policing the police. >> i understand paul howard was the first time he was in runoff

election on august 10th and that's influencing decisions that he's making. i think that -- -- >> leland: hold on. if a prosecutor is being influenced to make decisions, full stop, is that not saying he shouldn't be in office? >> absolutely. there's an investigation being done by civil rights organizations that are complaints against officers that have not been prosecuted. the speed of which this case was prosecuted and 43over cases are not prosecuted, that provides a lot of questions for the community also and this is why there's a runoff election, many people in the community have lost faith in the ability of the prosecutors in atlanta to prosecute the cases. this is why we have to have a community-base policing and prosecution approach, there's outside of political influences, outside of the influence of union and really focused on providing public safety for the

community and getting bad cops off the street and making sure we bring down violent crime. leland: great conversation as always and appreciate your candor and i wanted to get to how this all played into keisha possibly becoming presidential nominee, we will save that for next conversation. good to see you, sir, enjoy the rest of the weekend. >> thanks, leland. leland: all right, gillian. gillian: major questions about daca as president trump says he will take executive action on the program. some leaders in corporate america are responding. we are going to bring you everything they are saying coming up after the break sure. okay... okay! safe drivers save 40%!!! guys! guys! check it out. safe drivers save 40%!!! safe drivers save 40%! safe drivers save 40%!!! that's safe drivers save 40%. it is, that's safe drivers save 40%. - he's right there. - it's him! he's here. he's right here. - hi! - hi.

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boat later that day. he told police his mom went swimming and, quote, never made it out. local officials say they believe the actress has drowned. leland: business leaders from major companies across the country are urging president trump to leave daca program in place. president obama says he will address obama program given recent ruling. hi, david. david: hi, leland, president trump was asked directly about this in an interview with telemundo friday when he was down in miami taking a tour and he's confusing a lot of people, though, not only daca recipients but also members of congress because in the same sentence he talked about an immigration bill, then he talked about executive order. now the trump administration, leland, lost supreme court in june last month specifically on

the daca issue. in its current form and the court ruled that that could not happen and the president said shortly after he would refile on daca as you mentioned and on friday this is what he had to say about it. >> daca is going to be just fine. big executive order, i have the power to do it as president and i'm going to make daca a part of it, but we put it in and we will probably then be taking it out. >> when it comes to daca, when i was at the white house -- david: democrats would disagree they pass daca related bill that would help 2.1 million dreamers. there's no positive sign that it would have any life in the republican majority senate. listen. >> he says is this big immigration bill that would help daca recipients but nobody knows about it. well, if it's a big bill, you would think congress would know about it and executive order,

you know, the white house doesn't appear to know about it. >> well, daca helps 800,000 dreamers in the united states, the democrats have proposed that 1.3 million republicans in the senate are not interested, as you mentioned, leland, the heads of google, the heads of apple,over tech companies, other big companies in silicon valley coming out say, listen, leave daca the way it is, of course, president trump says he has other plans. the white house says the white house has other plans. leland: it's a little confusing, we will have to wait and see as you try to dissect what the president may do on capitol hill. david spunt, thank you very much. gillian. gillian: well, the nation's largest public school district does have plan to bring kids back to classrooms this fall, at least partially. new york city announcing its, quote, blended learning plan

this week and laura ingle has all the plans. >> we are only going to do things that are safe. >> blended learning plan unveiled by new york city bill de blasio wednesday will have students going back to school 2 or 3 days back to school wearing a mask with students learning from home theover days. >> in my opinion it doesn't matter if you're there for 5 days or 2 days, you're still in the environment with kids and germs. >> not all parents are on board, blended learn asking the city's best and safest solution, one of the many proposed strategist put out by the center of disease control. >> we have to continue to work with schools, 6 feet apart, wearing face covering and social distancing seating. >> despite rise in cases, 40 states have plan to reopen ranging from blended to staying from home and staggering students between morning and afternoon classes. still secretary of education betsy devos says she feels that school administrators can make

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gillian: as the coronavirus pandemic puts summer plans on hold for families across america, one town is doing its part now to bring america back together and get kids back outside. summer camp organizers in michigan are giving both parents and children much needed reprieve with free camp program. joining us now to discuss the initiative is parks and recreation coordinate every pete, pete, thank you very much for joining us today, we really appreciate it. tell us about the program. >> pete: yeah, for sure, thanks for having me. we have a super rec summer camp program, normally we have 5 free sites and then we have a camp program where there's two site that is have a weekly registration fee. well, we got sent home to work from home in march, we just got to work and figured out how we

could do whatever the state is going to allow us to do regarding summer camps. we started working field trips and figuring out who could do stuff with kids on site and we were going to figure out one way or another to do this and we just followed the cdc updates and the state licensing updates, april kind of came and we figured, well, looks like we may have to limit to 4 or 5 sites and the number of kids just to keep everything safe and be able to clean everything. may came, 4 sites and my thought was not a lot of parents had been probably working over the last couple of months so we should eliminate the camp site that is had weekly registration fees and just go with 4 free sites knowing that parents might need that assistance as well. so we just budgeted and worked on four sites, making sure we were having a site on different parts of the city so we could attract as many kids as possible and get them involved in what they are used to having.

that was the whole idea, to not give up on it and to just wait and see, i wasn't going to make a decision in april. i know some camps had to do that because they have overnight stuff and with us is how we can make it work, what's it going to take and let's just go from there. if it means we have to hire less, we will have to hire less but we will get what we can get and give kids an opportunity usual 9 weeks or 6 which is what it turned out to be. we have 5 weeks to go. our camps have been filled. 20 kids at each site which is the max we can have. we are excited to get going and give the kids an opportunity to get out and exercise and meet kids. gillian: pete, i wanted to jump in here because we are running out of time. tell us how people can get involved and help support the program if they want to? >> pete: the biggest thing is -- they want to find out more about, they can go to kzparking.org and that's how they can register for camps and

come visit us. it's not too hard. we have a lot of stuff taken care of. any time somebody wants to help or can or get kids involved, that's the best way to go about it. gillian: awesome, thanks so much for joining us today, telling us about the program, we will keep in touch and we wish you the best of look as the summer goes on, thanks, pete. >> pete: we appreciate it, thank you so much for having us. gillian: you bet. leland: i could almost go for a summer activity right now. i'm thinking either archery -- >> gillian: i wanted to ask if there's more spots. leland: sign me up, chris wallace is up with betsy devos, getting kids back to school. take care. ♪ ♪

. . . chris: i'm chris wallace. president trump pushes for the nation's students to return to the classroom. even as the coronavirus spikes. ♪ >> we have to get our schools open and stop this political nonsense. chris: parents, students an teachers debate the risk of prolonged virtual learning versus the risk from the virus itself while the trump administration threatens to cut funding for schools that stay closed. >> why should they receive funds for something they're not going to do? chris: we'll ask education secretary betsy devos about the challenging of starting the new school year in the midst of a pandemic. states dial back on reopening as

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