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jillian: friday july 17th, the suspect accused of punching one of new york city's top cops released without bail. mounting frustration for police as more out hits new lows. >> state and local leaders in portland and oregon, violent anarchists. >> portland's liberal mayor shows dhs the door after six weeks. we are live in washington with calls to end the lulls.
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jillian: several countries sounding the alarm over russia's apparent attempt to hack covid-19 research. how it could impact the timeline for a vaccine and what the white house plans to do about it. >> my whole life. todd: a tiny fisherman somebody the catch of his life. "fox and friends first" on friday morning starts right now. ♪ a super adorable video to
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talk about. todd: they can't. jillian: you are watching "fox and friends first" on friday morning. todd: let's get right to it. new york city's top uniformed cop, violent clash released without bail. campbell accused of hitting terrence monahan as he tried to arrest him for punching another cop. the attack happened during a protest on the brooklyn bridge, the judge granting campbell supervised release. >> a police officer is beaten unconscious outside a panera bread restaurant, police reported a disturbance at the
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atlantic beach restaurant. stomping on his head, beating him unconscious. the man tried reaching for the officer's gun, both in the hospital. the officer is seriously injured and is expected to survive. violence escalating in portland as protesters clash with police. todd: it comes hours after chad wolf slammed portland leaders for enabling weeks of demonstrations. griff jenkins live forest in washington with more on this. >> reporter: this is been the scene of clashes for 7 weeks. look at this video, around a police precinct. chad wolf calling a local leaders to clampdown.
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>> i am asking allstate and local leaders in portland and oregon, it has come out these anarchists. fostering an environment that continues to breathe this type of lawlessness. >> portland's mayor ted wheeler slamming the law enforcement presence to protect federal property like courthouses and statues. >> the problem is leaving the facilities, going on the streets to the community and escalating and intense situation. >> it is clearly a coordinated strategy from the white house. it is irresponsible and escalating intense situation. remove your presence. kevin mccarthy says he introduce legislation withholding federal funding if they refuse to defend monuments. >> we have local officials who
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have a responsibility for will of law. why don't they have greater regard for rule of law instead of encouraging the mob to tear it down. if they allow that to happen, why should federal dollars flow to that city. >> they will start to work on the next coronavirus package but no indication speaker pelosi needs to address the violence in places in portland. jillian: thanks. todd: dan bondgino sherry businesses with voters who don't want to watch their cities overrun by violence. >> we do hate donald trump because the media painted him as a lunatic which he is not despite his terrific record. is your hatred of donald trump so severe that you are willing to watch your neighborhood go up in flames and joe biden instead? i don't think that is the case. i think a lot of reasonable people, maybe i don't like the
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tweets but that is my guy who can watch my neighborhood, sorry, joe. jillian: us marshals detain a person of interest in the killing of a one-year-old boy. police say two men walked to a barbecue in brooklyn on sunday and started shooting, killing dale gardner junior and wounding three of this, the suspect is believed to be a gang member shooting at another gang when he was siding killed in his stroller. investigators trying to determine if a person of interest is connected to any other shootings. todd: the man accused of killing a washington state officer makes his first court appearance. henry eugene washington is behind bars facing murder and assault charges. washington accused of shooting and killing officer jonathan shoop during a traffic stop. he claim self-defense, yelled come on, pig, before opening fire. another officer was wounded and is out of the hospital.
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jillian: the new head coach of washington's nfl team promising to create a new culture after 15 former employees claimed they were sexually harassed for years. >> rob schmidt joining us with more on these allegations. and the allegations include uncommon -- pressuring female coworkers into revealing clothing of with clients for sales deals. emily applegate who worked as marketing coordinator was the only woman, telling the post for female coworkers cried about the realization their dream job of
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working in the nfl came with relentless sexual harassment and verbal abuse that was ignored and in some cases condones by top team executives. the other 14 women spoke anonymously due to concerns about being sued as some have signed nondisclosure agreements. dan snyder is not accused of sexual harassment, two executive in a radio announcer all of the organization days before it was published. juan rivera responding, quote, trying to create a new culture here, hoping to get people to understand they need to judge us where we are as opposed to where we've been. former washington player josh norman tweeting a cryptic message about the team's passing, quote, what goes around comes around, what is done in the dark will come to the light, a high profile attorney to investigate the team's culture is the organization searches for a new identity. after retiring the redskins name after all those years.
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jillian: the city of oakland agreed to pay $32 million to settle lawsuits in the warehouse fire, filed by 32 victims who died in the 2015 fire, flames tore through the warehouse that was converted into living spaces for artists, charged in connection with the fire. 's retry was scheduled for october after the first trial end in deadlock. todd: greg abbott defend his mask mandate think it is a decision he did not make lightly. >> i know many of you are frustrated. so am i. i know that many of you do not like the mask requirement. i don't either. the last thing any of us want is to lock texas back down again. we must do all we can to prevent that.
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todd: after addressing republicans, his mask order was criticized despite a growing number of cases. hospitalizations have gone up every day this past month. the convention is being held online. jillian: remember the proud military parents who welcomed their daughter into the marines this week? mom and dad took part in an unforgettable ceremony last week, beautiful moment capturing two generations, how to defend americans. mom and dad and second lieutenant ashley hung will join us to talk about that moment in the next hour. stay tuned. todd: can't wait for that. 10 minutes after the hour as calls to the fund police, what about defunding liberal universities? >> because of their resistance to embrace free-speech policies and ideas that are about the betterment of america? todd: a movement to make it
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jillian: the man accused of punching chief terrence monahan in two of the cops is back on the street. a judge granting supervised relief after 3 counts of assaulting a police officer. todd: two more protesters arrested on the brooklyn bridge, still being held. thanks for being here. what message does it send when there are seemingly few consequences for someone brazenly attacking a cop in the nypd cheap -- chief know this. >> completely outrageous. will a judge be held
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accountable? when he attacks a civilian, when you have criminals not afraid of the police, law-abiding citizens have no reason to be afraid of the police but when it, was not afraid of the police were afraid of going to prison. they will keep attacking cops, they will attack civilians, this is why the crime rate is skyrocketing in new york city, skyrocketing in philadelphia. anywhere you have rogue mayors you will have this issue. we need to protect our police. jillian: i want you to react to two things, here's a clip from terrence monahan. listen to this. >> they know the time they ran into a burning building, they know the time they saved the life of a baby. how often they run into gunfire to save people. these are the men and women you
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are hearing put down on a regular basis. these are the heroes of 9/11. jillian: so many of our heroes and these men and women in uniform who are now, one of the papers here, listen to geraldo rivera. >> they are not saying anything about the anarchists, people perpetrating violence against cops. it has gone from disrespect into contempt. 60 videos, not one shot of a protester using force against a cop. what they have on their mind is wreaking havoc. jillian: what is your opinion on that? seems like right now if you are an officer you don't know what will happen when you walk out the door that morning. >> these police officers strapped that vest on, goods were prepared to die for all these people, but the fund the
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police crowd, everybody. it is discussing the way they are being treated. we will try to find elected officials who are pro-police, time to get rid of the ones who are creating this culture, anti-police culture. it is dangerous to police officers, they are dying, dangerous to the community, they are dying. it has got to stop. todd: you mentioned earlier we will pop up on the screen you raised 100,$000 from donors in all 50 states, one week after launching but do you think it could have an impact on the november election which is four months away in our current environment. >> we are not looking at the presidential election but local and state elections, absolutely amazing, 2000 donors in 50 states, fox news posted an
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article where 100,$000 without a single answer. a little lady in texas calls up couldn't figure out her website, we walk her through a $10 donation. a zoom meeting with the rest of the nursing home in a week or 2. the flipside, it is heartbreaking. a lot of them are please help us, we are entire need of help, people who support police and against defend the police, this is all across the country. we will restore law and order, city to city. protect our police, join us on facebook and twitter, join the movement. >> you are a third-generation police officer, spent 12 years
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todd: a battle over facemasks in georgia, governor brian kemp suing atlanta's mayor after she went against the mask mandate in her city. >> marion rafferty is the us shatters the daily record in covid-19 cases. >> the two state leaders clashing of cases surgeon the state nationwide was governor kemp is suing atlanta's mayor over face covering rules she put in place to rightly challenging
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his executive order not to require masks. the lawsuit reading as the mayor of the city of atlanta mayor bottoms does not have the authority to modify change or ignore governor kemp's executive orders. mayor bottoms heading back tweeting 3100 for georgians have died. i and my family are among the 1000600,000 to tested positive for covid-19. i have been sued by governor kemp for mask mandate. better use of money would be to expand testing and contact tracing. johns hopkins university reporting 77,000 new cases, 10,000 higher than the previous high, 969 deaths, despite those numbers white house chief of staff mark meadows defending the president's handling of the pandemic after polling shows americans think joe biden would have done a better job. >> what has he done in the basement for americans.
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if you want to look at that. >> i'm tell you what the numbers are. >> his rhetoric is better than his actions. >> the president is gaining a new critic in facebook ceo mark zuckerberg who slammed the white house response to the virus. >> it was clear there were some outbreaks no matter how well we handled this but now we are here in july i think it was avoidable. >> reporter: amid the criticism in the race for vaccine russia is blamed for recent hacks of pharmaceutical companies forcing a denial by a vladimir putin spokesperson who says russia has nothing to do with those attempts. todd: the foreign secretary slamming russia's reckless
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actions undermining vital global cooperation. >> dan hoffman joins us. >> great to see you too. >> i trying to disrupt research by doing this or are they trying to get out vital information? >> it is a reasonable question. it is an advanced persistent threat the g.i. you have deployed in the past including to hack into the dnc in 2016. they hack by planting malware into the system and while their goal according to what our government is saying is to steal intellectual property, i certainly believe that if possible they could inadvertently cause damage to our data which would irrevocably
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change and impede, given it is rush i would not put it past them to interfere with her ability to make a vaccine to causes economic harm. todd: tim kane is getting political on this and here's what he had to say. >> it screws up vaccine development. it will affect millions of people. no one has confidence the white house will take this seriously and push back on russia. todd: is that a concern? are we pushing back on russia on this? >> the first thing we did with this news reports was issue a public service announcement to our citizens, the scientific community that we are under attack from russia. the second thing is this administration countered attacks
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and efforts to interfere through hacking, allegedly targeting a cyberattack, the internet research agency which view was will recall was responsible for some of the hacking in the 2016 election. this administration made it clear they are ready to target russia if russia is conducting these espionage operation this and that is why the public disclosure was so important. >> mike pompeo says he's confident foreign countries will try to interfere in the november elections. there's been a lot of talk about male in voter fraud and a lot of conversations around that. what is the best way to make sure everything is accurate come this november? >> it shouldn't be a surprise mike pompeo named china, russia, iran, north korea would be targeting us in our democracy
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would be under attack because liberty, freedom democracy and all the things we hold near and dear, that is an accidental threat to those autocratic regimes. we are hardening our election infrastructure and morning hours citizens of the potential for this threat, social media and other things and there's a growing public private partnership we are seeing between our government, the intelligence community and private-sector to enhance our ability to deter and counter these threats. jillian: we value your opinion. it is 28 after the hour. the national association of police organizations bailing on joe biden with his endorsement of donald trump.
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>> the news with this organization was endorsing democrats before hand in previous presidential cycles, did not endorse hillary clinton but didn't endorse the obama biden ticket early on and now they are endorsing donald trump and that signals that again here we are with organizations that were previously endorsing democrats coming out in favor of a republican president. this isn't about joe biden standing up for police reform. this is about police across the country feeling the democratic party has abandoned them. >> the national association of police organizations pivoting away from democrats and joe biden with that endorsement of donald trump. the a criticisms being hurled officers from the left will no longer be tolerated. deputy communications director
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joins us now with reaction. will this endorsement have any noticeable impact at the ballot box come november? >> we hope it will because the brave men and women of law enforcement and the 241,000 members of the national police organization have a champion in their corner with donald trump. compare that with joe biden, a trojan horse for the left, he clearly said yes absolutely when asked about cuts to police and when we see an increase in violent crime across the country, and democrats turning their backs on law enforcement, it is easy to see why law enforcement stands with donald trump. he is steadfast in his support of them. those brave men and women who protect and serve their communities have a fighter with donald trump on their side.
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>> contradicts what the campaign continues to say. >> defunding the police, he is saying, he wants police department to have the tools they need to do their job. >> to redirect the funding. >> absolutely. >> is that ambiguity from the biden campaign resonating with voters, that they play both sides. >> joe biden playing both sides, handlers again cleaning up the mess of joe biden who clearly went off message from what they thought they wanted him to say. he unequivocally said he is going to try to be cute. when they say redirect funding,
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don't let socialist democrats, on average between 90-95% that goes to police departments to make payroll to pay officers. when they say absolutely and we don't want to, talking about the number of officers, to violent crime in this country, joe biden wants to get away with having it both ways and his handlers have to clean up the mess he made for himself but he was clear that yes, absolutely when it comes to cutting funding. todd: the jacksonville convention, the changes that will be in place. this is according to rhonda mcdaniel. is the convention going to have the same impact under these restrictions? >> we believe the convention
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will be a huge success and have a great impact on making sure we get donald trump's message out from the president and vice president. we will make sure this is a safe and successful event, the republican national committee will make sure it happens not only to success of 38 years in office but what we can look forward to for four more years and make sure this is a few for delegates to get the job done so donald trump and mike pence become the formal nominees of the party on the ticket in november. todd: thanks for joining us. over to you. >> overnight police identify a person of interest in the brutal murder of a tech ceo. he was repeatedly stabbed and dismembered inside his manhattan apartment, the killer reportedly wore a ninja lawsuit and followed him out of his
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apartment elevator tasting him before the attack. investigators believe the murder was financially motivated. scaffolding collapsed, 3 heard in manhattan, workers were restoring a building's roof when the scaffolding collapsed just hours after a vacant building partially collapsed. police are investigating. fire aboard a navy warship is out five days after it started. crews are making sure nothing else that could start another fire, fire sparked during routine maintenance at naval base san diego, they are not sure what started the fire. kayleigh mcenany made this comments during a briefing. >> derelict mayor of chicago should step up and ask for federal help, did a poor job securing groceries.
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>> reporter: mayor lori lightfoot writing hey, karen, watch your mouth, violence has gone up in chicago amid nationwide unrest. todd: goya's ceo should be able to speak his mind, that is what former papa john's ceo john schneider is saying. >> they are trying to say if you don't believe in their ideology they persecute you. they attack you, a bad path for the ceo. todd: democrats and high-profile celebrities are coming to boycott goya because the ceo spoken supportive donald trump. he step down from his role as papa john's ceo after criticizing players who kneel during the national anthem. a boy gives his father a proud dad moment while fishing.
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>> the best day of my whole life. >> his first fish, ethan held his big cats for a picture before releasing it back into the water. how cute is he? it is 39 after the hour. the pandemic leaving many catholic schools entire straits, 100 across the country closing for the fall. todd: one parent doing everything he can to keep one in his community open joins us live next.
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todd: pictures for patriots, a new conservative movie studio plans to take on projects but hollywood studios would never do, quote, no more blacklisting and no more injustice from the socialist the leader. he declared his support for donald trump at the 2016 republican national convention and said he has been blacklisted in hollywood losing out on a number of projects. as calls grow to defund the police what about defunding liberal universities, turning point usa launched a new initiative for donors who believe their values no longer align with their all mom are's to the commit? >> $7 million for a handful of donors d committed from universities like harvard university and baylor university because of their resistance. in the betterment of america.
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>> schools could be stripped of their taxes if they engage in radical left indoctrination. >> the push to reopen schools is sparking heated debate across the country. there is an education casualty of the pandemic going largely unnoticed. 100 catholic schools will not open this fall including the new york city school that is fighting to keep its doors open. joining us live is john mitchell, good to see you this morning. >> thank you for having me. >> let's look at the numbers of people impacted by the school closings including 2500 students and 50 staff members. tell me your plan because time is running out.
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>> we are all scrambling, we are trying to enroll in local catholic schools. we understand could be more schools, depending on the funding they get from federal and state agencies. we are apprehensive about putting our children into another school to have this, a big hit on the kids who have gone through a lot in the last few months. it would be a shame to enroll them to have them go through this again. we are in contact with a number of schools but very apprehensive. jillian: there 20 new york city catholic school that will not reopen. just days earlier to this being announced the archdiocese, there is no communication of this. is that accurate? >> that's my understanding. union officials, the archdiocese wasn't touched with teachers
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discussing plans, everyone was very excited about and no mention of upcoming layoffs or school closings. jillian: here's what cardinal dolan has to say, children are the most innocent victims, too many lost parents and grandparents to this insidious virus, thousands will not see their -- i'm grateful more schools didn't meet this date. a lot of parents see their kids had a hard time during the pandemic. i don't know the ages of your sons exactly, but what are they saying? >> miles boys 10 years old going into fifth grade. he is heartbroken. he got the opportunity to meet cardinal dolan to invite him to the school, a year ago.
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a profound impact, cardinal dolan was a role model, someone he looks up to. he feels heartbroken and betrayed. these catholic schools are a tightknit community. devastating to the kids, devastating to parents and hurts local merchants in the community. jillian: keep us updated. todd: switching gears, asking your help to wish cardinal dolan a happy birthday. the world war ii veteran, former senator and presidential nominee turned 97. he and his wife, former senator elizabeth, organizing a
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jillian: carley shimkus has the slow-moving developments. >> reporter: more politicians affected by lockouts following twitter's massive hack, the accounts include those belonging to congressman doug collins, jim jordan and democratic senator mark warner and donald trump junior immediately following the hack of high profile twitter users twitter itself lockdown thousands of accounts to protect them. a company spokesman failed to say why these accounts were still locked down saying they are working to provide answers. this is a topic of conversation on twitter with conspiracy theories, this twitter user says nothing to see here, only major conservatives still locked out, pamela chinese because twitter is afraid of conservatives. donna saying it sure sounds fishy to me. mark warner, democrat from virginia's account was also
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affected. todd: he is one of the most amazing athletes of our time. take a look. >> 5, 4, three, two, one. a world record. >> it is like roadkill. you want to watch but you don't. >> joey chestnut isn't giving it his all. >> he 875 hotdogs this year which is a world record but like you were saying, an exercise scientist of all professions developed a theory on maximum amount of hot dog the human canadian two minutes and that number is 83 and he did so by analyzing 40 years of data from the hot dog eating contest. what a thing to do. the question is not if you can
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883 hotdogs but if you should. another twitter user glad to see someone is doing useful research, challenge accepted. the -- exercise scientist throwing down the gauntlet say you can eat more. todd: he is also a veterinarian. totally random. >> police on a wild pursuit in florida. take a look at this. in how many years i am so happy. >> police in florida arrested an unusual suspect because residents spotted a kangaroo on a busy street, made for an interesting day for those officers.
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i they taking it to kangaroo court? i will let myself out. do not say anything until your lawyer arrives in this twitter user, fort lauderdale will rue the day louisiana will won't be returned to its owner because you are not allowed to have kangaroos in florida. it will be living at a wildlife conservation. that is how that wrapped up. todd: there is a broader question. do we have kangaroos in america? carley: i think this was a pet that was illegal. jillian: joe biden's stand on defunding police unclear, david weber joins us to dick discuss the democrat's apparent flip-flop. todd: this is one family you
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>> it is july 17th, fox news alert, the suspect accused of punching one of new york police's top cops released without bail. mounting frustrations for police as morale hits new lows. >> i'm asking all state and local leaders in portland, oregon, specifically and publicly condemn these violent anarchists. >> 12 demonstrators i urge you to keep up this effort. >> the head of homeland security says the chaos stops now as portland's liberal mayor shows dhs the door after 6 weeks of unrest.
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