explicit. plus, harris faulkner special. the fight for america, airing this sunday at 10:00. katie, great job. steve, fantastic week. run to the radio because at 3:00, fantastic guests. have a great weekend, everybody. >> fox news alert as we keep rolling on on this friday morning. violence escalating. federal officers using tear gas to disperse rowdy protesters overnight. that city marking 50 straight nights now of demonstrations as the top dhs officials say it is time for local leaders to take a stand. good morning to you. i'm john roberts. good morning to julie banderas. >> julie: good morning to you. i am in for sandra smith this morning. issuing a scathing statement for enabling weeks of chaos. but portland's mayor blaming the

white house for creating more tension by sending federal officers and to protect federal buildings. secretary wolf telling sean hannity about the destruction he saw firsthand in portland yesterday. >> we are not going to have these violent anarchists who show up about the same time every night for a series of hours, having that federal destruction to the property. i was able to tour the courthouse here. i saw the graffiti. the broken windows. the broken doors. there is a facility right across the street that has 47 coats of paint on it. they paint the facility every night after it gets graffiti. it's time to take a stand. we publicly condemn what the violent anarchists are doing. >> john: william la jeunesse starts us off this morning. good morning, william. >> good morning, john. these protest going to be about local police violence against black americans, yet much of the

demonstrators attention is directed at the federal courthouse, which has become the flash point for these demonstrations. two groups gathered, one outside of the downtown federal building around 11:30. homeland security agents used nonlethal agents. to disperse the group. a second group of about 300 said they plan to burn down a sheriff station, and they did not, but they did use garbage can lids lined with foil to protect themselves from those rubber bullets and to reflect on law enforcement. they also use lasers to blind the deputies. chad wolf did visit the federal building earlier today it and spoke with the officials about the chaos gripping the city. >> what we've seen is that they allow law enforcement do their job, going, address these violent anarchy has or violent activities. having a measurable impact. it goes back to that environment that has been fostered here

locally, that they are not going to take action. >> they did not meet with will vance at federal police should leave portland. leaving them to start cleaning up the graffiti. the blatant abuse of federal power by the federal government. police yesterday did put up fencing the last six weeks by new protesters. they pulled down some towns and barricades where they try to set up benetton mazzone zone. excuse me. the mayor urged protesters to basically harass and intimidate people going in and out of the federal building as part of the occupy i.c.e. >> john: we will get much more on this in the next hour, william.

chad wolf was in portland yesterday. his take on the chaos in that city and how the mayor and governor are responding, just ahead. julie. >> a lot of animosity towards the police. and we are feeling and not just in the protest but on the streets. there is a feeling that they don't have to listen to the police and that they are willing to fight the police officers. so it something that our men and women have to deal with every single day. >> julie: new york city's top uniformed cop they are on the violence police officers face. a day after he was attacked in a confrontation on the brooklyn bridge. the man accused of punching him in the face and two other officers have been released without bail. meanwhile, new york city mayor bill de blasio now claiming the recent rise in crime is the fault of the state courts.

laura ingle is live in new york city. >> hey, julie. well, the continuing rise of violent crime here in new york city is keeping the nypd working to control the violent acts not just against officers but against civilians as well. we have some new video we want to show you what the woman who was arrested believed to be responsible for the cain attack against high-ranking officers on the brooklyn bridge. she has been arrested with two counts on an officer. one of those men, as you mentioned, he was charged with three counts of assault after breaking a bon bone in one offis face and injuring the nypd's highest-ranking uniformed officer. it endangers every new yorker and the officer who arrested all to protect them. meanwhile, it doesn't seem to be

letting up. the city has seen 51 shootings with 70 people shot and three left her dad, including that one year old baby boy who was shot in his stroller in brooklyn. while the suspect in that case has been arrested, bill de blasio said the city needs a fully functioning court system, which has been partially shut down by coronavirus. >> to really have both justice and safety, we need to have our criminal justice system function again. so i am imploring everyone at the office of court administration, please. we need our court system to run again. >> the nypd commissioner says that the uptick in violence really culminates with a perfect storm of a couple of things. the court system being shut down, bill reform, antipolice sentiment, and new bills that put restrictions on police. julie. >> julie: laura ingle,

thank you. john. >> john: julie, thanks. let's bring in doug collins. he is a member of the house judiciary committee, and law enforcement is right there in your wheelhouse. when you see what's going on in new york city and other cities across the country in terms of police coming under attack, what do you think? speak out i'm disgusted. there is a state trooper down here -- it really makes me just curious to see them, whether it is the new laws to restrict them, not letting them do their job. the fulton county d.a. down here. let me just say this. to any of these legislators, aoc, if they don't like what the police are doing, go out and do their job. and if they want to get out there and do the job, and when you saw a new york city police officer chose the other night, then they need to get into these cars, do the job, make a

difference, or shut up. i'm just tired of these politicians saying what police can do. they won't do the job. >> john: and that was a suggestion made by a former new york city police officer on this program yesterday. there was also an incident in florida yesterday and watch a police officer was beaten until he was unconscious. let's listen to what the acting police chief of atlanta had to say about that. >> witnesses confirmed that the officer was laying on the ground, and the suspect was actually punching him in the head while he laid on the ground. >> people seem to think out there that they have got a license just go ahead and attacked police. how do we reverse this trend, congressman? >> we start standing up for law and order. this is not about coming in and shutting down a city. but we have to have a community that actually has law enforcement, people that do their job, do it right.

99.9% of all of these police officers do it right. we need to get the bad ones out. the communities have to understand what their role is in being part of a civil society. i think the reason that they are feeling this is what you see in these cities, new york, portland, seattle. when you have mayors and elected members of congress who blame police and say everything else will fall in line, that is not the way the civil society works. that's why you see what you are seeing. it has got to stop. people do not need to feel unsafe in their communities. >> john: going back to school. they have announced that they are not going to go back to school. they are going to begin online learning when the school year begins. are you concerned, congressman, that students will not be going bacback to school? >> i am concerned. my wife is retired from teaching. those younger minds needed teacher. they need to be in a classroom

where they have that environme environment. parents need to be a part of education as well, but there is an important place for our teachers. learning is something -- the focus is not going to last long. i hope they get these kids back into school as quickly and safely as possible. we have to get these kids back. it doesn't have to be used as the fear of what could be. if not, we are going to pay for this several years down the road with throad. >> john: the national academy of science medicine and engineering issued a report that that online learning is ineffective for elementary school students as well as students for special needs. it would suggest that they should go back to any class learning, but let's put it back. a new quinnipiac poll found that 62% of people think that it is unsafe to put students back in place. how do you reconcile that? >> just an honest assessment of

how we can take precautions, good hygiene with hand washing, masks where needed. but we also have an environment where most of the mainstream media, especially on the left, is advocating a shutdown, a society that lives in fear. and unfortunately, a lot of that has to do with political leanings. that is just what we are seeing. we have to get back to honesty in our discussions on science and how education should take place. we can do this safely. but they also are getting scared. every time they turn on a media outlet which says that the worst is here. >> john: there is a dustup over masks. the mayor of atlanta, keisha lance bottoms, a mandate to wear masks in public. she set about the georgians have died. we have tested positive for covid-19. meanwhile, i've been sued for a mass commanded. a better use of task they are

money would be to expand contact tracing. what is wrong with that mass commanded? there are plenty of places across the country where we are being mandated to have a mask on before we walk in the door. >> that's right. private enterprise can do it. this governor has actually told people that they need to wear masks. he has encouraged it. what mayor bottoms is doing, she has been talking about a waste of taxpayer dollars. why doesn't she get involved with her atlanta police department who has charge them without investigation, without having them finish their's. this is not about people not wearing masks. i would ask the mayor how are you going to enforce this? police are are struggling to maintain law and order. use common sense. >> john: you can get a lot in, but i am afraid we are out of

time. good to talk to you this morni morning. >> take care. >> john: julie. >> julie: the soon to be renamed washington redskins are facing a whole new controversy after 15 women claimed they were sexually harassed while working for the organization. we've got more on what else they have to say and a new bombshell report. plus, rising crime in chicago sparking a war of words between the mayor and the press secretary. joining us on that, next. >> we have to have strong law enforcement that is taking place in the areas that we are responsible for. we want others to call us to. there is nothing wrong. let chicago fall. my gums are irritated.

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>> john: 15 women who used to work for the washington redskins telling "the washington post" about claims of sexual harassment and verbal abuse by former team employees. mike emanuel is live outside of fedexfield with the latest on this story. my, good morning. >> john, good morning. the national football league this morning says these matters as reported are serious, disturbing, and contrary to the values of the league.

the nfl statement concludes "the club has pledged it will give its full cooperation to the investigators, and we expect of the club and all employees to do so. we will meet upon the conclusion and take any action based upon the findings." they have hired attorney beth wilkinson to do an independent review of the team's culture, policies, and allegations of workplace misconduct. julia payne told "the washington post" "i have never been in a more hostile, manipulative, passive-aggressive environment, and i worked in politics." and this from emily applegate. "it was a most miserable experience of my life, and we all tolerated it because we knew if we complained, and they reminded us of this, there were 1,000 people out there who would take our job in a heartbeat. all this while the team is trying to move on from a culture of losing over the past 20 years or so and changing its nickname. >> john: mike emanuel outside fedexfield forest this morning. we will have more on the story

later on this hour. joining us on what washington's team should do about the allegations. julie. >> i agree that the names of these kids, it is unacceptable, and he will take action, and the derelict mayor of chicago should step up and ask for help because she has done a very poor job of securing her streets. >> julie: kayleigh mcenany calling out the chicago mayor, lori lightfoot, over rising gun violence in her city. the mayor responding harshly with each week, saying "hey karen, watch your mouth." a political editor for townhall.com, fox news contributor, and a host of "the guy benson joe." i want your response to her calling her "karen." >> i lived in chicago for about seven years. i think it's a great place, and

in some ways, julie, i actually prefer mayor lightfoot to some of the others that chicagoans typically elect, but i've course disagree with her on a number of fronts, including this one. violence in chicago has been a very serious problem. it is not new, although it does seem to be getting quite a bit worse recently, and whether you like that though way the press secretary raises the issue, doing it for political reasons, to respond the way that the mayor did suggest to me a lack of seriousness. what we have here is sort of an insult. "watch your mouth." calling her "karen." there is a serious problem, and the white house is pointing out that problem, and to just do a little clap back for twitter may be appealing to certain people certainly in the press, certainly in the democratic electorate, but in terms of solving the problem, it accomplishes nothing. >> julie: let's take a look at how mayor lightfoot is handling crime in her city.

we've got the later chicago crime statistics, and just in the last year to date alone, murder is a 40% from 2019. in the last 20 days alone, it is up 63%, and shootings from 2020, they are off 46% from 2019, and 98% and a 20 day span compared to 2019. how would you rate the mayor's job of controlling these stats? rather than calling the white house press secretary names, perhaps take a look at your own city, and maybe do a little reflection. >> exactly. the stats speak for themselves. you don't need a grid for me. those are just statistics. those are people. so we look at weekend after weekend, and it is not new, where you have dozens of people shot in the streets of chicago every single weekend. i believe last weekend, the number killed was 11. just heartbreaking stories of small children getting caught up in this violence, some of them killed. and so i understand it is

probably a frustration if you are a politician who is not getting the job done, who city is getting more dangerous, and then the white house is calling you out and targeting you specifically. you might want to lash out and sort of clap back and do the sorts of things that politicians tended to do, but again, i think the problem here, very obviously, is not kayleigh mcenany. it's not the white house. there is a systemic problem in the city of chicago. very strict gun laws have not solved it. sort of knee capping the police has not solved it. so what comes next? that is an issue for lightfoot to solve. not for kayleigh mcenany to ignore. >> julie: the app. last, kayleigh mcenany ended with a call for law and order and police support. you know, she read out the names of eight children who died as a result of gun violence in chicago the summer. i want to show you kids killed

by deliberate violence in chicago and take a look at those numbers, and then we can really talk about failures. 2019, year-to-date, the ages of children between the ages of 12 to 17, up 288. ages of 0 to 11, 26 killed. and now you look at 2020, and the numbers are skyrocketing. ages 12 to 17. ages zero to 11. 41. and new york city, i want to mention, is a mess too. mayor de blasio is accused of doing nothing to protect our pleas. we have seen a rise in the shooting deaths of children as well, including a 1-year-old without laura ingle just reported earlier. enough is enough. we want our streets back. we have to get our streets back, and clearly these mayors, whether it is chicago, new york city, the chicago mayor says that they are a punching bag for the president. that's not true. the president has pointed out that new york city is a mess, and many others as well, so at

what point, if this does not stop, when do they clean up what these mayors are clearly not capable of doing? >> sure, sometimes you will see people pointing out that problems in chicago not done in good faith, but you have to look at the actual results. it's a shooting gallery in that city. people would say that violence is mostly in a very specific part of the city, as if that is an excuse, but we have seen the violent seeping into other parts of chicago as well. but you are right, julie. new york city, other major cities, minneapolis, other places have seen a spike in crime. i am all in favor of police reform. i have been very consistent about that, but demeaning the police, attacking the police, that is not a solution, and another nonsolution is democratic mayors who are failing, going on twitter and attacking the president or the white house. that might get them some applause from certain corners, but it is not going to save

lives. >> julie: no, it is not. guy benson, thank you. >> you bet. >> julie: john. >> john: julie, the u.s., u.k., and canada now claiming that russian hackers are behind cyber attacks on organizations trying to develop a coronavirus vaccine. how big is the threat to the united states? plus, scientific panel is now urging schools to reopen, or young kids education could suffer. what steps do schools need to take to reopen safely? we will discuss. >> try to get the schools open. if you can't do it an unnatural way, do a modification. school principals and the superintendent have very creative ways of doing that. omir insurance so you only pay for what you need. what do you think? i don't see it. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ with spray mopping to lock away debris

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crossing the street, and i just feel like this is worth the risk. >> the suburban chicago mother is choosing to send her three children back to school in about one month. >> my children work best having a teacher in front of them. >> they have roughly 2700 students in an affluent chicago suburb. they can learn an entirely online return to school for a hybrid here. >> this is what a classroom normally looks like. you can see the desks are clustered and facing each other to encourage collaboration. that will have to end. the district also tells us that soft surfaces will have to be taken out because they can't be easily sanitized on a daily basis. this is what the modified classroom looks like. the desks are all 6 feet apart. they are facing one direction. no collaboration. >> the district superintendent tells fox news he feels confident with the district's plan within state guidelines and as i work in progress.

developed after input from community surveys and feedback from parents and 100 educators. >> we also have to be flexible and know that we can go fully online if we have to. >> major school districts like los angeles already announced no classes this fall. we are just outside of chicago where the powerful teachers union is also asking for no classes here this morning, the city's mayor is set to announce her plan for this fall. julie. >> julie: thank you so much. john. >> john: for more on this, let's bring in the executive director of the american association of school administrators. good to see you this morning. your appearance this morning coincides with a new report from the national academy of sciences, medicine, and engineering which suggests that online learning is ineffective for elementary school students. the headline says "schools should prioritize reopening in fall 2020, especially for grades k through five while risking --

well it will be impossible for schools to entirely eliminate the risk of covid-19, young children in particular will be impacted by not having an prison learning and may suffer a long-term economic consequences if they fall behind as a result. it children are still developing the skills to regulate their own behavior, emotions, and attention, and struggle with distance learning. does that suggest of the plan for beginning fiscal year with online instruction, which so many school board seem to be going with right now, will be wholly inadequate to educate our children? >> well, we have seen that report, and earlier than that, we have seen the reports from the pediatric association, and when you read both reports, and we agree totally with the reports. we want the children back in school, but both reports indicate that it has to be done safely. and that is the key word. so the problem is that when we see the academic and the rate of infection going up the highest it has gone up in so many places around the country, the

environment for opening schools, then, has to be considered in terms of what you can do. what you were just showing in terms of naperville outside of chicago was a perfect example. we have been working with school superintendents around the country who have developed very creative and innovative solution for opening schools and bringing the kids back. did you notice of the social spacing as part of it? in many cases, they are wearing masks, the sanitizing of the facilities is also part of it. this is what districts want to do to open the school safely. now, the problem is that if they don't have the money to do that, if they don't have the resources to do that, the only fallback that they have is online learning, which by the way, no one will dispute the fact that learning is as productive as being there in person. schools are designed to offer in prison learning, not remote learning. we want the children back. >> john: but if you have

this -- and then the science shows that there is a disparity among young children in terms of the rate of infection, the rate of transmission is very low. it starts to maybe get a little more problematic as you get into late middle school and anti-school, so why not try to open schools for the youngest of students and at least get them back into an in person learning environment? >> absolutely, and there are a lot of districts that are doing that. a hybrid model, bringing the children in. and all these other issues, you can prioritize kindergarten, first, second, third grade. because admittedly, those youngsters do you do not do well with online learning. these are all parts of the plans that have been developed. the only thing that stands in the way of implementing this plan is having their resources to be able to do it. >> john: there's a new quinnipiac poll out that fund sentiment is against the idea of putting kids back in school.

62% of voters think that it is unsafe to put that back in school and also raises issues -- there are a lot of after-school programs or summer programs that are issuing liability waivers for sports and other things. you are involved with congress, trying to come up with some liability relief for schools. what is it that you are coming up with at this point? >> absolutely. we are very appreciative of mitch mcconnell. he has given us indications that liability is going to be a major component of the relief bill, and we absolutely support that and appreciate that. because that is a fact. as you know, the best that schools can do under the best of circumstances, they are still going to be cases. they are still going to be outbreaks. so the schools need protection in terms of that. and we appreciate that the senate's new bill will have that included.

>> john: thanks for joining us this morning. we certainly hope that the school districts can get kids back in school as soon as possible. >> thank you, john. >> julie: a push on capitol hill for testimony from joe biden about his son, hunter. how could that effect to the biden campaign? we will have the next. unlike other sleep aids, our extended release melatonin helps you sleep longer. and longer. zzzquil pure zzzs all night. fall asleep. stay asleep.

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people mean for biden and his kanban? >> julie, i think this is an effort by the senate to put the spotlight on what happened during the obama administration. what the vice president knew, what the advisors close to him new. certainly, congress has had no shortage of time investigating presidents in the trump administration, and this is a way maybe to turn the tables a little bit and put the spotlight on the ice president, rather than on president trump. >> julie: the senate homeland security and governmental affairs committee chaired by republican senator ron johnson, by the way, is still working to secure its witnesses. voluntarily, anyway. so far, no luck. negotiations have faltered in recent weeks. here he is on the burisma issue back in march. >> it is not our fault that they got wrapped up in the whole ukrainian story.

we are not closing our eyes to this. he has never answer these questions. if there is wrongdoing, the american people need to understand that. >> julie: okay, so what do the american people need to understand about joe biden? >> well, i think there are legitimate questions concerning the role that his son played in burisma. whether or not he was improperly taking advantage of his father's role in the united states government, whether he was aware of that, and those in the biden orbit were aware of that, i think they appeared not to have secured a voluntary agreement by biden advisors to testify. it doesn't surprise me. i can't imagine they would be afraid of their advisors, but it does suggest that they are turning up the heat a little bit by threatening to issue

subpoenas rather than obtain voluntary cooperation. >> julie: politico writes about the political implications of the probe and writes this in part: "president trump has long urged his allies on capitol hill to target his political enemies, issuing the subpoenas with mark a key step in the probe. also as the president finds himself behind in most national polls, and they are in danger of losing their senate majority. what could testimony mean for the trump campaign? >> well, it would give the trump campaign i think a chance to maybe turn things around a little bit by identifying issues, putting it into play politically and no way that helps the trump campaign change the narrative. obviously, the present rainouts is struggling politically, at least as far as the public polls. and it is quite possible that they use this as an issue that might resonate with the american

public. putting the vice president on the defensive and really take the spotlight off of the investigations on the trump administration and try to put it to what happened under the obama-biden administration. >> julie: i want to talk about a few of the witnesses being called. the senior foreign policy advisor on biden's campaign. also, you have former special envoy for international energy, former senior state department official. victoria newland, catherine novelli. if they don't want to testify voluntarily, then you have the subpoenas that are going to go out. what happens next, and will this all happen in time for the election? because clearly, that is the motive here. >> that is a good question, and the fact is if it ultimately comes down to a subpoena, meaning that the witnesses refuse to cooperate voluntarily, they will issue subpoenas. it is entirely possible that it

gets propelled into the federal courts, and you have seen in different contexts, going to court to try to force congressional subpoenas is all long, hard road, and i suspect that if they refused to cooperate, it is entirely possible that they could push all of this stuff off beyond the election. i think the republicans are going to have to keep in mind that they move forward on the investigation front. >> julie: all right, tom dupree. always good to see you. thank you for your insight. have a great weekend. >> thank you, julie. >> john: washington's nfl team making more headlines as 15 women who used to work for the organization come forward with allegations of a toxic culture in the team. plus, the top republican lawmakers sounding the alarm about november. one minority leader kevin mccarthy says is at stake. coming up.

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the city is and allow people to have exotic animals, so the kangaroo is being capped at a barn until they find a shelter. >> john: washington's nfl team now facing allegations of sexual harassment and verbal abuse by former team employees between 2006 and 2019. 15 former female redskins employee is telling "the washington post" that there was a toxic culture within the organization. dan snyder was not involved in any of the allegations pure let's bring in sportscaster and fox news contributor jim gray. the unwanted overtures seem to run the gamut here. comments of the sexual nature, being urged it to flirt with clients to close sales deals, and it seems to be with these 15 people making allegations, a pretty pervasive situation. >> well, according to "the washington post" and everything that has been on turn, it is deplorable and

despicable, and it has been a toxic culture, and it has gone on there for an awful long time. these allegations and a lot of these things that have been set are very disturbing. >> john: the only woman who has come forward publicly so far because most of the other ones have nondisclosure agreements, emily applegate, who worked in the marketing department. she said "it was a most miserable experience of my life, and we all tolerated it because we knew if we complain, and they reminded us of this, there were a thousand people out there who would take our jobs in a heartbeat. your reaction? >> well, obviously, she was working under these conditions, which were deplorable. i mean, for her to have to tolerate that is wrong. professional organizations do feel that it is a privilege to work for them, but that doesn't mean that the privilege of working for them means that you have to be abused. or means that you have to be sexually harassed. this is wrong on all levels.

>> john: they are hiring washington attorney beth wilkinson. she will "conduct a thorough independent review of this entire manner and help set new employee standards for the future." three people have been fired in recent weeks as well. larry michael, and his assistant, richard mann ii. doesn't sound like the team is responding quickly and comprehensively enough to this? >> it sounds like they are responding now that they have been caught and pushed to the brink. obviously, this culture has gone on therefore an awful long time. that's an awful lot of years that this has gone on, so it appears that this has been either acceptable behavior or tolerated or that the people at the top didn't know. this is hard to fathom with people who are running the organization don't know what's going on, but as of now, there has been nothing to implicate bruce allen, who is the former president, and dan snyder, who is the owner of the team here "the washington post" has said that they are not implicated at

this time, however, this culture did go on for an awful long time, so it's hard to imagine however many people did know, human relations never reported back to these people. there are a lot of questions that have to be answered. this independent counsel that is being hired by the team. the nfl has come out and said that they will hear what she has to say. she has worked with the nfl before, worked with the ncaa. she has also represented -- so this is an independent person but being hired by the league appear not by the league, but by the team, so how independent candidate before their client? there's a lot of answers that still need to come up out of this. >> john: the nfl is looking into this as well. one thing i am wondering, do you think that this behavior was confined to just to d.c.? could there be more here? >> you mean outside of the

washington redskins? >> yeah. could there be other teams that have allowed this behavior to go on? >> well, i think what we have found in the #metoo era is that this goes on in a lot of places that we didn't know. this goes on across society. so yes, this is coming to light. i don't specifically know of any other nfl teams where this is going on, nor what i want to say or make any allegations to try to substantiate anything like that, so i have no idea, but i would say was just what we know and what we have come to know over the past couple of years, i would say yes, there are other places where this goes on, including our own house where it was brought to light. >> john: jim gray, thank you so much. we will be right back after this. ever since i got this little guy, i felt like i was just constantly cleaning up his hair.

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>> john: a fox news alert, protesters fighting with police in portland, oregon as seven straight weeks of chaos, 50 nights now has cost us to be tens of millions of dollars in damages and lost revenue. welcome to a brand-new hour of "america's newsroom," i'm john roberts. hello julie. >> i'm julie banderas in for sandra smith this morning, happy friday to you all at home. acting security secretary todd wolf blaming the violence on portland's leaders saying they have refused to restore order and protect their city from what he calls a "mob of protesters." >> john: portland mayor ted wheeler says the white house has made the situation worse by

sending in federal officers to defend the city's courthouse. he's calling for agents to either stay inside of their building or get out of portland altogether. >> what i have a problem with is them leaving the facilities going out into the streets of the community and then escalating an already tense situation. >> john: joining us now is acting dhs secretary todd wolf in las vegas this morning. i know that you were in portland, oregon last night, mr. secretary. you have u.s. marshals, customs and border protection among others there in portland. what's the situation on the ground and what are the federal officers doing? >> thanks, john. as you know i was in portland yesterday, i wanted to take a first-hand look and see what was going on. it's a courthouse that has been under siege for over 47 nights. repeatedly graffiti to, door is broken and windows broken and the federal facility, there's a number of other federal facilities are on that

courthouse laid siege to night after night. as you indicated, dhs, that's our responsibility to protect that courthouse and other facilities there in downtown portland. we continue to see violent activity, violent anarchists night after night targeting those facilities. i want to be very clear, we see fropeaceful protest they are in portland. dhs, and homeland security has no problem, that's a first amendment right. we are talking about a different group of individuals that has become violent and are targeting federal courthouses and we won't let that stand. what i saw yesterday was a dhs force, we have about a hundred or so federal officers there to make sure that we support that courthouse and defend that courthouse. they are motivated, morale was high and they will continue to do their job day after day. they want to protect their community, and i think the community that i have and local and state leadership, they are fostering an environment where it's very difficult for

law enforcement to do their job and they are in my opinion coming out strong enough and condemning the violent activity there in portland. >> john: local leadership is not shy about saying they don't want you there, they tweeted today homeland security asked to speak with me about demonstration activity in portland and expressed his concern about ongoing violence and how his agency could help. i told the acting secretary that my biggest concern was the violence that officers brought in recent days on the life-threatening act on mike tactics his agency used. we do not need or want their help. has the dhs secretary in any way overstepped in terms of the antiriot control that they've been using? we saw the gas or smoke or whatever it was on the ground there last night. >> no, absolutely not. it is a situation on the ground. we have violent protesters coming in and targeting other federal buildings and again our law enforcement officers are going to respond in kind.

they have been judicious in that and getting attacked night after night after night. here's my concern either with local, state or u.s. senators, they are more concerned about individuals, violent criminals and those crowds getting hurt then they are my law enforcement officers. if they don't talk about individuals that are getting hit in the head with a sledgehammer. but enforcement officers. so i wished it would be more concerned about law enforcement than they are about the violent criminals that are, again, targeting that courthouse and federal facilities there. they need to speak out against that because again what they are doing as they are fostering an environment. i heard from local law enforcement officials there, i'm very concerned about the atmosphere in which portland is operating. if you go back to 2018, we saw the same response. we saw the city in portland, and ice facility was laid siege to

428 days while local officials did very little to intervene. it's an ongoing pattern in portland to come very concerning. i was out there to look at it and send a signal that again dhs is not going to retreat from its authorities and responsibilities. >> john: and this has gone on for 50 nights but the mayor believes that politics is behind this, he saying that this is clearly a coordinated strategy from the white house, it's irresponsible and it's escalating an already tense situation. remove your heightened troop presence now. his politics behind us, mr. secretary? >> i disagree with that. i placed a phone call not only to the mayor but to the governor earlier this week and my message was simple. what can dhs do to partner with you and bring an end to the violence? it was that simple. they offered assets and capabilities. they cut me off and they didn't want to listen and they said please remove all of your law enforcement officers from

portland. i wanted to reach out, i wanted to partner with this violence and instead of partnering, you mentioned the tweet storm that occurred and they have been prolific over the last several days. i wish they wouldn't use the energy, they are talking about my trip to portland to come up to focus on the violent activity that's going on in my community. >> john: and mr. secretary, the president has hinted the last couple of times that more federal action in these cities were violence is spiraling out of control may be in the offing for next week. i assume that dhs would be part of it. can you give us a little preview of what might lie ahead. >> i'm certainly not going to get in front of the president but what i will say is continue to partner with mike department of justice colleagues on addressing the various violence that's going on in the number of metropolitan cities. again dhs using our unique authorities, and we will continue to protect federal facilities, about 9,000 of those across the country. we want to make sure that those are protected and not be

violated and we will continue to do that. we will also continue to come to the aid of not only federal law enforcement but state and local law enforcement. we came to the aid of portland police who asked us to intervene and we will continue to do that because of the capabilities and assets that we have around the country. >> john: one other quick question, the united states, the u.k. and other allies are saying that russia is trying to hack into our pharmaceutical companies to try to steal vaccine data. i assume that dhs is looking into this as well. what are you doing about it? >> what we seen since the covid-19 pandemic, we see malicious cyber attacks across the board. we have seen specific targeting of the health care industry and we are also focusing on those entities that are part of operation warp speed, whether it is again a private industry, research and labs, and educational institutions making sure they have the cyber

hygiene. they have their cyber awareness up because what we know is that russia or other nation state actors are certainly involved in that effort. >> john: dhs secretary chad will for us here in las vegas, mr. secretary, great to see you and thanks for spending the time. a special programming note, chris wallace it's down with president trump this weekend in an exclusive interview on "fox news sunday." the fight against covid-19 and the surging violence surely will come up. julie? >> julie: all right, some big news in the presidential race. john, fox news confirms democratic party officials have sent a letter to lawmakers urging them not to attend the democratic national convention in milwaukee next month. last week they told delegates not to come in person and the republican national committee will also limit attendance at its convention in florida. peter doocy has wrapping it all up for us, and he joins us live in wilmington, delaware, this

one. >> julie, good morning. the dnc was counting on 50,000 people at their convention in milwaukee, and they will have 49,000 fewer than that. 300 people is the new gas, according to "the new york times" and that would include democratic staff and security and press. delegates have been asked to stay away and members of congress just got a letter from a party, this is what it says. we've been working closely with state and local public health officials as well as epidemiologists and have come to the hard decision that members of congress should not plan to travel to milwaukee. now the dnc is rebranding brighton's nominating convention as the convention across america because except for his acceptance speech, most of the high wattage stars of the democratic party will likely make their addresses via satellite. so, what will that look like? no crowd but the program could have hints of the super bowl halftime show or maybe that tony awards because they hired the

guy who produces those events. republicans will still have a live audience but it will be smaller because it's delegates only for the first three nights, 2500 people in all. then delegates plus alternate delegates and guests for the trump speech, six or 7,000 people in all. this happened as a party moved to their event out of north carolina because they wanted a big celebration. >> the president loves the people of north carolina and they are well aware of that. the president wanted to be able to hold his convention which is why it was moved to jacksonvil jacksonville. >> republican leaders are split about whether or not to show up. kevin mccarthy says he's in. julie? >> julie: all right, peter doocy, thank you. >> john: fox news alert now on the coronavirus pandemic. more states issuing mask mandates. colorado and arkansas now recovering facial coverings in

public as texas governor greg abbott struggles to stop the surge of cases in his state. >> now i know that many of you all are frustrated. and so am i. i know that many of you do not like the mask requirement. i don't either. last thing that any of us want is to lock texas back down again. we must do all that we can to prevent that. >> john: casey stegall live for us in dallas, and what a change from about a month ago, casey, when texas was so looking forward to getting back open again. >> that's right, john and now we are near the top of new cases. the u.s. by the way set a new record yesterday, more than 77,000 cases were reported. that's the most in a single day in this country since the pandemic began. i had about 20% of them were right here in texas.

that number now 10,800 infections reported in just one day. sadly, the lone star state also logs the highest number yet of new deaths, 129 and a single day. more than 10,000 patients are hospitalized with covid across the state. a red roof inn in laredo is being click. mike cleared out and used as a hospital as hospitals continue to report a shortage of beds. in the meantime school districts are announcing plans to reopen. nearly all so far like houston, austin, dallas and grand prairie have decided to delay the start for a few weeks. some will offer online classes first and when students eventually returned to impressing learning hygiene and face coverings will be top priorities. >> making sure that hands are washed, we do the masts and other things that we heard over and over again that we know are tried and true majors.

>> i think we leave it up to the parents because each household is different. >> greg abbott implemented that statewide mask mandates back on july 3rd and prior to that many local communities had already created policies requiring them. the governor says there are no immediate plans to place the state back on lock down, though he has warned all along that it is not entirely off the table either. john? >> john: casey stegall live in dallas for us this morning, thanks so much. julie? >> julie: house minority leader kevin mccarthy now threatening action against states that fail to protect statutes as angry protesters target and vandalize monuments across the country. and as we just mentioned, the u.s. and other countries say russian hackers are again trying to steal information, at this time, steel coronavirus vaccine research. how we can detect such valuable

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are instead of working on other projects, using their mind and talent and trying to steal this from western democracies. >> julie: that was secretary of state mike pompeo there, the u.s., u.k. and canada together are accusing russian hackers of trying to steal data from researchers working on a vaccine. let's bring in morgan wright, chief security advisor at sentinel one and a former state department senior antiterrorism advisor. thank you for talking to us this morning. how vulnerable are we for such attacks? >> julie, great question. if we are talking about military and intelligence agencies, they are pretty hardened. but if we are going after universities, research and develop into areas, areas that have not been known for their cybersecurity so, quite frankly quite like the power grid that's vulnerable, these universities are used to sharing information which makes them very vulnerable to russian hacking.

>> julie: so what can we do to protect against these types of attacks? >> everybody has to step up their game, a lot of these are making them more aware of spearfishing attempts but you have to evolve to where you have technology and countermeasures that are using artificial intelligence, things called sheen learning where the response and detection of it is faster than the humans attacking you. so some of this is a combination of technology in some of this is a combination of training. as secretary pompeo was talking about was one of the things that you are hinting towards is deterrence. you hit back harder than you they hate you, you give them a big blood he knows and they stop what they are doing but if tried that with the russians and it hasn't always been successful. >> julie: no it hasn't and that's a problem. raab said in a statement, and i read it in part, it's completely unacceptable that russian intelligence services are targeting those working to combat that coronavirus pandemic while others pursue their

selfish interests with reckless behavior. the u.k. and its allies are getting on with the hard work of finding the vaccine and protecting global health. and we need to send a forceful message to russia, and it ends illegal tempering, just like russia. we know the russian government has thought the same. >> we are releasing the nsa, and you remember the u.s. cyber command new authorities to release a tax to be more aggressive in terms of those. some of these are sanctions, we know from the 2016 election that russia doesn't have its hands directly into it and they tend to outsource this stuff so they have plausible deniability. at some point you have to get beyond that and say whether you

did it or not you allowed it to happen, it happened from your soil and so therefore the sanctions will be against you. the big key thing here is julie, the first want to market with a vaccine who may have the patents of the prophets, they dictate who also gets a vaccine and that's one of the areas that russia is looking for. they are stealing this information not just to steal it but they want to be the first to market and they compete with the chinese to do this. >> julie: you have to love that video we showed there, a vladimir putin not wearing a mask. russia has hackers that are trying to get the vaccine illegally. what good is that going to do first of all to anybody out there in the hacking community to get a vaccine that is not even currently in its full stage yet? >> you know what they are after is the intellectual property. where are they in the research and develop meant? russia cannot spend the kind of money that the u.s. and our allies can so one of the ways

you get to market first when it's military technology as you steal it. you bring it back into your own labs and you develop a vaccine based on stolen research from other areas so that your vaccine makes it out first. they are not going after the vaccine itself is much as they are going after -- it's being developed but they are going after the research. what are the chemicals, what are the compounds, what are the mixtures? everything that goes into that vaccine is what the russians are after. >> julie: all right, morgan wright, thank you. it should be a global cooperation for everyone to want to protect that information and we would certainly hope our allies put the pressure on russia to do so. morgan wright, thank you very much. >> john: is no question about that julie, thanks. a change at the top of the campaign, what bill step in replacing brad parscale as campaign manager means for the 2020 race with joe biden leading in most polls. plus a dire warning from a top republican on capitol hill what a democratic really don't like elections could mean for the

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telling sean hannity what could happen if the republicans don't win and win big in november. let's bring in our political panel, juan williams, fox news poll to go analyst and cohost of "the five and josh holmes. josh and a juan, he is warning if democrats do not win in november they will do things like expanding allowing noncitizens to vote like the canyon school board elections from lowering the voting age like in some areas of california, expand this supreme court and effectively making it so that republicans may never win again. is that the game plan? juan i don't think so, it sounds like a game plan that's fairly draconian and i think it would scare most americans. i think that's intended to just exercise a little hyperbole and say, it's important for republicans to win. i don't think it has any relationship to reality. i do think if the republicans don't win in november what has been the party of trump will

have to reorganize itself and maybe get back to some of the old republican orthodoxy's entree to, spending, global alliances and spreading democracy throughout the world. but i think principally on outreach to people who haven't voted republican in the past and i think is a great opportunity there. >> john: josh, do you agree that it's just hyperbole or is there a chance that if democrats were to take both houses of congress and the presidency that some of those things might happen? >> no, it's not hyperbole. every two years the parties say all these crazy things will happen if the parties are elected but this year is real for the following reason. joe biden talked about eliminating the legislative filibuster in the united states and that something that has been unbelievably radical and not supported basically by anybody up until a year ago. now you have what looks to be almost a consensus amongst democrats and the senate, they eliminate that. why that's important is because

everything that bill mccarthy talked about from the statehood to puerto rico, to d.c., the green new deal and everything else, it will run with a simple majority. if democrats have that simple majority than the senate will operate just like the house of representatives and nancy pelosi. we've seen that come out of the house of representatives with nancy pelosi on that agenda, was to be very clear. what she's passing is intended to be law, they passed all of these things that we are talking about, with joe biden sitting behind the oval office desk and the senate that has been compliant to everything nancy pelosi wants on the democratic side, the only stoppage has been senate republicans. you could see where it would be a big problem if they one in november. >> john: it sounds like you could have written "the wall street journal" op-ed which says "joe goes with the filibuster flow, democrats will kill the 60 vote barrier if need be. democrats are increasingly confident that they will control the senate in 2021 and if they do they don't want 47 or even 49

republicans interfering with democratic plans for the green new deal making the district of columbia estate, for giving all student loans and perhaps packing the supreme court. i remember democrats were apoplectic when mitch mcconnell invoked that a nuclear option a couple of times. what about this idea of getting rid of the filibuster, is that bill idea and when they try do that? >> it's a real idea, i don't know that it's a realistic idea. you have to remember here, at the moment republicans hold a strong majority in the senate and i think lots of people have failed on the democratic side that they had been run over, especially when it comes to judges, something that josh's old boss mitch mcconnell and senate majority leaders have a strong hand in. so there is an impulse to say, if democrats get power, is what our agenda will be. but i think that the other half of that, the other half of that dynamic, john, is that you have

joe biden who is a moderate democrat. you have the democrats in the house really relying on their moderate block and i think -- in fact i would say a majority of the democrats in the senate are people who are moderates. i don't see them or democratic voters that support them buying into some radical shifting to one side or the other. people are looking for sensible, rationagovernment especially in contrast to the chaos we've seen in recent years. >> john: in terms of the agenda, is what kevin mccarthy would say beat the republican agenda last night on the "hannity." >> we want to focus on bringing this agenda back, restoring it and renewing it. that means law and order and justice. that means the idea that we have a strong economy going forward, the next century will be ours and will be prepared to make sure that your children will have the greatest opportunity in a generation before them. we want to know that is a point,

although it's his agenda, that joe biden has been making the last few days. josh, as a president been forceful enough in articulating his vision for a second term? >> this is an area where i think the campaign should focus almost exclusively between now and in november because they have a great proving points. the question is, who do you believe will help rebuild the american economy like the one that we had in february of last year. is it letter a come guy who did it in the first place, the president donald trump, or b, somebody who just had a policy paper for his economic agenda essentially penned by aoc on the progressive left's remark is that sound like something that resonates with average everyday americans? certainly the suburban voters who probably talk about the outcome of the election, do they want a socialist economy rebuilt in the image that we see play out from aoc on the rest of the squad on an everyday basis? i don't think anyone will convince you that joe biden's

some left-wing lunatic but there's nobody in the world that can convince me that he strong enough in his career at this point to stand up to it. he spent four years in washington, d.c., basically watching the leftward swing of the democratic party and has been along for the ride but there's absolutely nothing that would indicate that he would be the voice of moderation if he were president today. it's been real quick on this last topic, a shake-up in the trump campaign, bill stepped in elevated to the campaign manager. >> i think it's an indication that we seen in polls this week that the trump campaign is in real trouble. >> john: i don't know about late to be switching horses because kellyanne conway didn't come until late in the anc, but is the strategy that the campaign has right now one that will be delivered on november 3rd or do they need to rewrite that? >> i think they need to execute

the nuts and bolts which is what he is the best at. bill has an incredible record of executing behind the scenes, blocking and tackling that goes into winning elections, making sure that your vocals are hit and your volunteers are out delivering literature, he is really well-suited for that and that's what this campaign needs. he just needs to talk to and out the noise and execute which is what i imagine they will do. >> john: thanks for joining us, have a great weekend. >> julie: evangelical leaders across the country are on a voter registration drive. the nonpartisan effort called "our church devotes targets churchgoers in every state. lauren green is live the story.

>> you know evangelical christians are huge voting bloc in the nation and one organizations has millions of them did not vote in 2016 and they were working to change th that. >> when we unite and turn our faith into action we have term of this influence. >> "our church votes" is that campaign for fellow christians to bring their faith to the voting booth this november and the goal is to register at least a million evangelicals in key swing states to bring their biblical values to some 100,000 federal, state and local elections this fall. the campaign is providing resources like registration guides, party platforms, promotional resources, sermon outlines and themes. >> are challenged to churches across the nation is to engage, and encourage every conqueror get to vote. we want to ask every church and pastor to hold at least one voter registration drive before the elections.

>> good evening everyone and welcome to faith in america, evangelicals for trump. >> although the campaign is touted as a nonpartisan, evangelicals have traditionally been strong supporters of the g.o.p. nearly 80% of white evangelicals are credited with trump when the white house, but they recently found that his approval rating has slept, six-point since april. down from 78-72% and that decline is an indication to the biden campaign that some of their votes may be up for grabs. >> i think there are a wide number of evangelicals with a lot of different backgrounds in the united states open to looking at a biden presidency. >> a federal law allows them to engage in politics as long as they don't endorse any one candidate or policy.

>> john: and congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez throwing her support behind a tax on billionaires thing it will help working families. but could it end up hurting them over the long haul? moneyman charles payne gives his take coming up next. >> did you know that there are 118 billionaires right here in new york? not in the united states, not in the world, in new york. oss. the shark vacmop, a complete clean all in one pad. you think it smells fine, s in your car. but your passengers smell this. eliminate odors you've gone noseblind to for up to 30 days with the febreze car vent clip. wow, it smells good in here. so you and your passengers can breathe happy.

>> governor cuomo, we need you to pass t the act in order to me sure we are providing for working families. it's time to stop protecting billionaires and start working. >> julie: congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez pushing for a wealth tax.

but fellow democrat governor andrew cuomo has said the taxing high earners could drive them out of state. let's bring in charles payne, host of "making money on the fox business network. when you have a democratic governor basically saying, you better pay attention here, you don't want to drive more business away from new york. it makes you wonder, is this a risky move that may force more to leave the city or even the state? >> you know, it's amazing to me that the aoc just won't look at the stats. she won't look at the history or to be quite frank, to use common sense. we already have a mass exodus out of new york before covid-19 of a lot of wealthy folks, a lot of people who are trying to make it up the economic ladder and there are too many hurdles and to say that these people aren't paying their fair share, that's just such an old -- we are kind of tired of hearing. new york city is in new york city in part because

all these billionaires are attracted to live here. they pay exorbitant prices for these apartments, for the people they hire and the companies they bring with us. you know in 1991 there was a great case study. you know the building on 42nd street, the grace building with the curve, it's an unique architectural building. anyway the entire company up and left in 1991, the ceo moved to boca and took the company with him. any of these ceos for the most part can do that. they don't have to live in new york city so the notion of going after them is so backwards, it has failed every single time and andrew cuomo knows this but i think most people know it. >> julie: yes. we are not only in the midst of a global pandemic but our economy and unemployment rate has had historical lows. people are looking for jobs and people that are looking for jobs are relying on the so-called billionaires to hire them. so isn't this hurting the economy, and the long run? isn't this hurting the middle

class as well, if you go after the potential employers? >> absolutely. there are different ways, do you want to help people that aren't successful in this case, let's say what this is all about. initially, to help 1 million people not covered by federal eta, 800,000 of those are undocumented illegal workers in the city or state. it's going to be hijacked and used for other things, it's just -- it's going to be self-defeating and i would have thought she would have learned a lesson after the amazon debacle but she hasn't. i thought she would have learned a lesson in the last week with a boycott of goya but she hasn't. her whole thing is about destroying jobs, destroying hope. her whole thing is not about helping people but some what i did as a social justice is a punitive punishment to try to bring billionaires to their needs needs. while you will do is bring people around them to their

knees. >> julie: you had the nail on the head of regarding amazon, that would have brought in tens of thousands of jobs and there they go. and you know amazon is doing amazing right now so i bet those new yorkers who could have gotten those items on jobs would be flourishing instead of right now suffering at home with children that they can hardly afford to feed whatsoever. with the economy and its place right now in new york city, a lot of ceos are moving out already as it is like you mentioned. they are moving out and commuting from different suburban communities. how can this help or harm the economy in the long run if alexandria ocasio-cortez were to actually get her way which, chances are, she's not? >> that's a great question and a question that the entire nation will have to grapple with in november. do we want to have higher taxes, particularly as we are trying to come out of this disaster? most economists don't think we will be back at full potential what we can be until late next

year perhaps even 2022? do you handicap that, do you put a speed bump to that, do you make it impossible with higher taxes? the answer is yes. this is the worst time to raise taxes and particularly when we saw all the good things that were happening, to lower taxes and regulations for everyone in country but more importantly for the workers that are seeing wages outpace inflation, we hadn't seen that and a decades. we see that happening and it could happen again if we don't blow it. >> julie: charles payne, thank you very much. hey, did you notice that there are two books of yours behind you? i don't know, is that a coincidence? >> someone said to me, why don't you have your book in the bookcase? and i'm like, oh, yeah. how to make money, unstoppable prosperity. >> julie: that's right, the moneyman charles payne. thank you so much.

john? >> john: that is indeed the house of pain. with tensions growing between the united states and china new reports say that they are trying to cripple our economy. plus fox news dives into america's past, present and future of the sunday when harris faulkner hosts "the fight for america-a discussion on race and other issues shaking our and other issues shaking our nation. she joins us coming up next. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ you try to stay ahead of the but scrubbing still takes time. now there's powerwash dish spray it's the faster way to clean as you go just spray, wipe and rinse it cleans grease five times faster dawn powerwash. spray, wipe, rinse.

>> john: "outnumbered over time" anchor harris faulkner takes on some of the most complex issues facing our country tonight when she hosts "the fight for america" at 10:00 eastern here on fox news. the show will examine race relations and the debate over defunding the police.

harris joins us now on what we can expect. it really seems apt because it feels like we are out of pivotal moment in america as things unravel across the country. >> that's exactly what we will tackle. we are all at that tipping point together, and i figure, they are going around people's kitchen tables, that proverbial table, but they are life enhancing and that life depressing conversations. some people will feel the heart of the struggle. post george floyd's death on may 25th, and we were all together at that point, we all agreed that would happen in those 8 minutes and 46 seconds was wrong, it was murder. we were all together and somehow

or another we split apart. everyone went back into their factions and corners and now some of it has turned to violence and hate. it isn't that we are just dealing with that one thing, we are dealing with a pandemic. we are dealing with the economic fallout from that, we are dealing with our children trying to make sense of the world before them and spending much more time on digital devices, then science is told us his reasonably correct. and i know, you and your wife, you have young children so you know what i'm talking about. so it builds it to a point where we can't even talk to each other as human beings anymore. then we want to talk about tearing down what keeps us safe in america. the government really only has one job and that's to keep us safe. so that apparatus is being challenged legitimately by some of the breakdown between some police officers and citizenry and that's how we got to rayshard brooks. when these other incidents that

are far too numerous, they shouldn't exist. >> >> john: you got a great lineup of guests, you have tim scott, herschel walker, evita king, mark cuban, the fraternal order of police, vice president joe kamali and sean hannity as well. are you looking for solutions on sunday night or just looking to spark a dialogue? >> i personally think that part of the solution is striking that dialogue. i just want us to talk real with each other. senator tim scott when he got pulled over the seventh time and on that time he had to pull with the prove to the capitol hill police that you are in fact a u.s. senator, talk to the nation about what it means to then turn around and fight for antilynching legislation in 2020. like where are we in the country. i can tell you this, we are not where we used to be. we can look at the past and we can say we are in the present and then we inform what the future will be and we do that

through dialogue. and very quickly john, you probably wonder why sports? it's because so much as worked out. we see seem the kneeling in the nfl, so much has worked out in terms of people's grievances and activism that it happens on that platform where we see particularly a lot of black men with wealth. and so they try that conversation and it will be fascinating to see what people say. you and i never know until we asked the questions. >> john: exactly. harris, great to see you. >> julie: high california city moving forward with plans to replace some police with unarmed civilians as the debate over defunding law enforcement heats up. that story is next. ♪ ♪

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>> john: a fox news alert as we start our third hour of "america's newsroom," a covert plot to cripple the american economy. you accusations that the chinese are using propaganda to push for more lockdowns and bring the country's communist rivals to their needs. welcome to a brand-new hour of "america's newsroom," i'm john roberts, hi, julie. >> julie: i'm julie banderas and for sandra smith this morning. china is flooding twitter with fake tweets, some praising the effectiveness of lockdowns, hoping to keep its biggest economic competitor in check. all part of china spoken plan to

rule the world by 2049. the federalists writing, and i quote, "blocking america down again is exactly what china wants because it will just ruin us. >> john: and no doubt the united states is hurting. close to 140,000 americans are dead, desperate cities are taking drastic measures and a texas hospital calling in the military. morgues in phoenix running out of space to store bodies. in charleston, south carolina, the mayor is urging people to pray. one governor warning what could happen if people don't wear their masks. >> now i know that many of you all are frustrated, so am i. i know that many of you do not like the mask requirement. i don't either. the last thing that any of us want is to lock texas back down again. we must do all that we can to prevent that. >> julie: preventing another

lockdown, exactly what china reportedly wants. federalist publisher ben domenech will be joining us in just a few minutes but first we had to steve harrigan in atlanta who joins us live, where georgia's governor seems to be doing an about-face about face masks. >> there is a real battle here in georgia which has now become a legal battle over face masks. the governor of georgia, brian kemp, is suing the mayor and city council members trying to stop a mask mandate from going into effect, making people wear masks in atlanta. the governor says he is pro-masks, and he wants people to wear masks but he does not want the mask wearing to become mandatory. he was governor kemp. >> we all agree that people should wear a mask but when you have the same politicians that then start deploying actions that want to shut our economy down and destroy our local communities and local businesses, i'm just not going to stand for that. >> at least 12 cities across

georgia now have mask mandates and effective. more than 3,000 people in georgia have died from the virus. there's been more than 106,000 positive cases. among those testing positive, the mayor of atlanta, keisha lance bottoms, her husband and one child. here is the mirror. >> what the sciences are telling us is the right thing to do is wear a mask. what health care professionals are telling us is that they are being overrun in our hospitals. >> at least 25 states across the country now have a mask mandate including alabama and arkansas. at the u.s. hit a record on thursday 477,000 new cases. in florida, 156 people died on thursday which is a single day death toll record from the virus. south carolina and texas also recording single day death toll records on thursday. julie, back to you.

>> julie: thank you so much. >> john: now for the propaganda campaign encouraging lockdowns, we welcome ben dominik nitsche. good to see you this morning. we've heard from the president, and china intentionally allowed this virus to spread around the world so it would share the pain in terms of the economy. now are you suggesting in "the federalist" that they want to keep it going, they want to keep us locked down in order to allow their economy to flourish while ours continues to suffer? >> absolutely, john. we need to understand this is part of china's overall effort which i think has been involved in a number of positive decisions that they have made in terms of affirmatively taking action in certain areas, in terms of the way with a treated wuhan but also affirmatively choosing not to inform the global community of the nature of the virus from the get-go. what we found is over the last several months, twitter has almost deleted 200,000 different

accounts, ones that they connected with china, but there are many other accounts that still exist. when you pay attention to them they may be only have a few followers but they are posting material in favor of lockdowns and there is also material that they are posting regarding hong kong and taiwan, things that are very obvious tiles were being part of this overall chinese propaganda effort. it's something that i don't think people should be aware of if they go online and we have heard the kind of scare tactics that were involved in the 2016 campaign, around people upset at the russian level of influence. i think that what we are seeing here is going to end up being something that is far greater than that, and effort of china not just here but other areas around the world to try to influence the rest of the world to lock their economies down. >> john: there is a suggestion in this article that the mainstream media is a complicity in the part of this -- the

national debt, poor education, failure to pay for decades of overspending. the chinese communist party knows all of this and that is why it has expertly manipulated american corporate media's anti-american biases to undermine their biggest competitor for control of the world. do you really believe the americans yet is carrying the water for the chinese communist party? >> i don't think they are doing so intentionally but i do think that favoring the kind of lockdowns that we've seen many in the media add scape four, is frankly irresponsible. it's the way we approach these lockdowns that we've seen the experience particularly in places like europe where they have opened up their schools and allowing their kids to go back to school. some, they never even shut down and their experiences have really, i think, said a lot about what we could do here in order to put things back on track and to get things back reopened and allow our economy to function again.

when major media figures take up a very simplistic view of this, assuming that this is something that everybody can just weather in the same degree that the economy won't have the kind of nuclear long-term effects in terms of the devastation that will be brought by these lockdowns, i think they are being irresponsible and playing into china's hands. >> john: at the chinese maybe have a propaganda campaign going, but they are not making up the spiking numbers of coronavirus, particularly in states like texas and california, south carolina, florida and others. >> they are not making those up at all but i also think that one of the problems with the situation that we have here is that the early push for lockdowns meant that a lot of the states across the country locked down in the wrong timing. they locked down way too soon and they don't have a real process in terms of any kind of hope for the small businesses or the economies in these areas to give people hope about what they

can expect. this is kind of a wave of a recurring lockdowns and it's the kind of thing that completely undermines the ability of small businesses to function and has long-term effects in our economy that no amount of stimulus will be able to paper over. >> john: in terms of stimulus, federal assistance has gone out in ways we've never seen in the past but it's got to have a limit. what is not limited to, when we reach it and what about the effects of continued shutdowns on schools, on kids who should be going back to school and some research has suggested could go back to school but they are not, because of fear among so many people in america is that if you send your kids back to school, he will exacerbate the pandemic? >> the problem really is, john, that we have to view this through the lens of reality and that is that we won't have a vaccine anytime soon. people have this false hope i think that we will be able to turn this around, and we are not

just looking at one lost school season. and we need the school lunch program, and that's a longer term view as opposed to, we will evaluate things and another couple of weeks, we will evaluate things and another couple of weeks, kicking the can on this and i think the politicians unfortunately need to offer more leadership, need to balance the economic needs with the very serious side of things and we need to do things that will allow us to reopen to the extent that we can. >> john: a lot of food for thought there. ben domenech's, great to see you this morning. >> good to be with you. >> julie: fox news alert as new concerns emerged in the race to contain the coronavirus

pandemic. american and british officials now claiming that russian hackers are trying to steal western research on the vaccine. doug mckelway is live in washington with more. hi, doug. >> let's start with some good news first. we can tell you with all definitive assurance that the race to find act covid-19 vaccine has now entered a phase three trials for three separate vaccine candidates. one here in the united states, one in england and another in germany. phase three means the vaccines will be tested on 30,000 people. at that level of international cooperation to reach that point is truly unprecedented. >> it has always taken years. if we get a vaccine done by early 2,021, it will be heroic, it will be unprecedented and it will save millions of lives. >> and now the bad news. there is strong evidence that as she said, russia is attempting

to hack into the various efforts to produce a vaccine. here's general jack keane. >> we shouldn't be surprised, this is a thug who has on hand at basically everything he does. they have such a poor infrastructure in the hospital system, and here we are as opposed to trying to work together to develop a vaccine with other countries in the world, he's trying to steal it. >> russia is not alone. china may also be attempting to hack into efforts to stem the vaccine and not only to stem the damage done to china's countries of the international scorn that has been heaped upon china for his failure to contain the virus. those hacking attempts have been made easier by two factors. the first of all the international cooperation with and talking about, and many sciences like the rest of us and

providing opportunities for hackers to infiltrate networks. the fact that we are on phase three of these trials says there is less to be gained from hacking simply because the cat is already halfway out of the bag. it's also affirmation that china and russia have less interest in international cooperation than they do in international exploitation. >> julie: doug mckelway, thank you so much. fox news alert, a person has been taken into custody in the gruesome killing of text ceo fahim salai. we've been covering the sickening story all week of his gruesome murder. on tuesday, his sister found the millionaire's dismembered body

inside of his luxury manhattan apartment. now investigators are telling the associated press that the person in custody has worked as his personal assistant. the 33-year-old was the founder of a right hailing motorcycle start up that began operating in nigeria in 2018. >> john: police officers under assault and now the nypd is busting several people accused of beatings that left several cops covered in blood. and another state mourns police officers murdered while responding to a domestic call. one city moves to stop cops from pulling people over and having unarmed civilians do it instead. we will talk to the head of a major police union on his take on how that will work out, next. >> in the vast majority of cases, an unarmed individual can lead to a better outcome than someone who is armed and can only write you a ticket. no income verification, no appraisal,

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>> julie: new york city police arresting a third suspect in wednesday's attack on officers during protests on the brooklyn bridge. the assault leaving for police officers injured including the city's top uniformed officer. 24-year-old shanice race is accused of hitting officers over the head with a cane. there he is in custody and two

more suspects were picked up earlier. ♪ >> john: the solemn sound of bagpipes filled the mcallen convention center yesterday is a heartbroken community gathered to honor to phone officers. members of the law enforcement family saluted the flag draped coffins. the two officers were killed saturday at them when they responded to a domestic disturbance and both will be laid to rest today following funeral services. >> julie: the deaths of those two officers in texas is a stark reminder of the danger our police officers, men and women in blue, face every day in this country. as one california city is proposing now to eliminate traffic stops by police officers. here's how it works. officials in berkeley believe

that they think this is the solution. they say they want to use unarmed civilian city workers to do the job instead. rob harris is the director of the los angeles police protective league and also a 19 year veteran police officer. so you do not need to tell us, i mean, you know how dangerous this could be. how dangerous though indeed is it? to send out unarmed civilians, meaning me, to make traffic stops. >> this is the very definition of reckless emotional decision-making that will inevitably cost lives. doing traffic stops is one of the most unpredictable things that you can do on the job. not to mention and how playing

the scene of the crime that they just committed, and it's absolutely absurd. and this is not of an experiment which will lead to any good consequences. >> julie: appears to berkeley mayor and city council on the decision. >> and to look at shifting their responsibilities out of our police department. >> most police calls are for mental health issues, and calls her on homelessness that don't involve any threats or allegations of violence. >> have officials may be paid attention to, i don't know, the headlines of police officers being shot dead during routine traffic stops? i'm not talking somebody on

pursuit after a robbery, and we've got an angry criminal behind the wheel. and at what accountability will the berkeley officials take when the first civilian was shot dead on the street with no gun? >> this is the problem when like i said before you are reckless. and it might make them feel all warm and fuzzy and, this is how they go about reforming and professionalizing. and should be we be more focused. what you don't do is that you don't take one of our core functions which is traffic

enforcement and had that over to civilians. and you don't ask your mechanic how you go about doing brain surgery, you go to the experts to do it. it's a rank and file unions being at at the table to talk about how we improved our profession and some of these reform ideas. >> there are many ways that these could fire big time. >> what if a driver does not pull over. what if the driver is armed with a weapon. what if? they should never be what ifs when it comes to people who could potentially put their lives on the line.

>> we should be improving our profession, and figure out ways they can improve police and public interactions, then let's do that. you have to have the subject matter experts at the table to help inform you of those decision-making's and this is just another example of the idea of defunding police, which will always have negative repercussions for the safety of our communities. you know, san jose and california did a defunding experiment and it was a travesty. it almost destroyed hants san jose. they lost almost 50% of their department, violent crime rates went through the roof until it got to the point where the resident said please bring our officers back and it's taken years and years to recover from that. so let's not experiment with public safety like this because the only ones that suffer are our communities. >> our communities are suffering nationwide because of this whole

defunding the police movement across the country. rob harris, thank you very much and we appreciate you coming on. >> john: washington's nfl team dealing with more controversy today as 15 former female employees came forward with sexual harassment allegations. what else they are claiming straight ahead. plus, it's a battle between faith and hate. an alarming number of new attacks on catholic churches and statues, some burned to the ground and others desecrated with graffiti. the latest case, the head cut off up the statue of christianity's holiest figure of all. we will talk with theologian johnson morris about what's driving so much hate, coming up. >> it's a sad day when you go after a church in my opinion. >> you can take our church away but you can't take our love away. ta-da!

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christian religion in particular, and what does christianity have to do with all the anger in our country right now? >> and the christian ethic stands for something strong, something secure. when there are people that are out of control, and this movement in many ways has been very positive in many ways but there is an element that is out of control. when you get out of control, you don't like any barriers including the ten commandments and you can do whatever you want. >> julie: here's part of the statement from the archdiocese of miami and it reads in part, the archdiocese of miami expects police to investigate the desecration of the jesus christ statue as a hate crime. this crime reflects the increasing attacks on the catholic church across the country. i also want to mention that, they said that as a christian community, we pray for those

that have done this, that the lord may forgive them and grant them the gift of conversion. >> i love it, i love both of those elements. we are hearing right now, no justice, no peace. but martin luther king jr. also taught us, with no peace, meaning peaceful protest, there won't be justice. it's no peace and there will be no justice and we have to stand up for those things that represent so much of what our country is. >> julie: and i say that the catholic church and the archdiocese of miami is handling this in the classiest way possible by forgiving. but there also needs to be punishment for destroying religious statues, the same as you would be punished for destroying a historical statue. what message would you like to send to those today harboring this kind of hatred to do such a

thing? >> first of all 99% of americans say that is absolutely disgusting, ridiculous, and we thank god that we do have that majority of rational minded people. it's really up to governments right now to make sure that these fringe elements which are very destructive for their cause as well don't get out of control. that is on our police and our government and the government to support our police. i picked up a friend of last night at one in the morning at penn station. i've never seen anything like it, motorcycle gangs are roaming the streets. maybe not all of them are wreaking havoc, but "law & order" actually brings peace and justice. >> julie: jonathan, i'm going to completely switch gears here because i'm so excited to talk to you about this. >> 17 years plus another nine years, 17 plus nine years of education and prepare for it.

>> julie: saw 26 years and you left the priesthood when? >> i requested a sabbatical about a year and a half ago, and - -- >> julie: why don't you tell us about when you got engaged? >> well i tried to keep it personal but a couple days ago it was announced very publicly through the daily mail that i got engaged to my girlfriend, and i couldn't be happier. caitlin, i hope you have a picture of her up there. because as all smart men know, it's all about her at this point. >> julie: she's absolutely beautiful, she's a lucky girl and you are certainly very lucky to have met such a lovely girl as well. i'm so happy for you, i am elated. i mean you served to the priesthood and now you are going

to enter marriage. and good luck by the way on that, it ain't easy. don't expect it to be easy but then again priesthood isn't either. >> no, but god's grace is sufficient when we are in the right place and i want to think the viewers of fox news who accompanied me all along this very public discernment and decision i made. you guys are awesome and i will continue being here to discuss those issues that matter most to me in the country. ethics, religion, "law & order," all these things that matter to us. >> julie: and you are the perfect example for what marriage should look like when you enter that as well. thank you so much, jonathan. we love you and congratulations again. >> love you, too. >> john: a bipartisan group of u.s. policy figures today for participating in a virtual event calling for a regime change in iran. it comes days after tehran dined on military and trade pact with china and also executed a man

convicted of selling missile information to the cia. benjamin hall is live in london with more. >> this is a major event that takes place every year. it's run by the largest iranian group in exile. this year because of coronavirus it has to be moved online but that messages the same. the iranian bureaucratic regime must be overthrown and it's a reminder of the threat that they pose. hundreds of thousands joined from around the world and lawmakers including rudy giuliani, cia chiefs, homeland security chiefs all signed a letter participating saying in part, while the u.s. and other governments contemplate policies to deter and contain iranian threats and aggression, the can and must act through accountability to people with the blood of so many iranians on their hands. this comes a year after major protests in iran and the and tra claims they have active units on

the ground preventing this unrest. the people of iran are now fed up and pushing for a new start. but they have just signed a trade and military partnership with china to sell china discounted oil and it is a critical move that will shore up the resume and the message today is clear. the iranian regime is a threat and they continue on their part and cannot be negotiated with. rudy giuliani will be speaking any moment now as well a number of former and u.s. current lawmakers. >> john: thank you benjamin. roger stone said she wanted him dead. the presidents powell accusing a congresswoman who plotted to put him in prison, and forgot about offering him clemency. we will get the congresswoman

response coming up and live. and it new questions for governor cuomo, the state still not naming the new york nursing homes in order t to in coronavis cases, leading to thousands of deaths. they are keeping secret the information that could connect with the governor's controversial order to thousands of nursing home deaths. but first of the military labeled a soldier, and a deserter. denied him honors and broke his veteran grandfather's heart. we will talk to a mother who fought to prove her son was no coward or run away and finally getting her something on honor he deserves.

>> john: order resort for the remains of private gregory morella's were discovered near the base. his family said the u.s. military failed their son. and now the military has finally restored his active duty status, clearing the way for a full military burial. joining me now is his mother, kimberly. first of all, my condolences to you. i can't imagine first of all losing a child let alone having to go through what you've gone through for the better part of a year. let me start by reading a statement that was issued wednesday for major general jeffrey broadwater who

is the commanding general of the first calvary division who said it "while no words or gestures can make up for the loss of a family member or friend or fellow soldier, and the friends he served within his time of terrible grief. >> i know that you have had a big disagreement with the military over this, do you take any comfort from what general broadwater said? >> it's comforting to know that he can finally come home and have a funeral, that he won't be buried under the cloud of deserter status, and that's the comfort at this point. >> john: let me go back to the bigger issue. your son was last seen august 19 of last year, he was days away from being discharged and he went missing. the military said it, he's deserted. why would the military think

particularly coming from a military, coming from a military family, his grandfather was a major in the military, why would they think he deserted and instead of looking for where he was? >> i honestly never understood why they felt that way. recently i have been told that he wasn't really up for a soldier of the year, he had come back from kuwait and was having a lot of personal issues and i have been told that he didn't do everything he needed to do. but that doesn't mean that in this case he decided to take

off. >> john: i work with military organizations, and there are so many of our military soldiers, marines and airmen who come back and they are changed in their life is different than it was before, but it doesn't mean that they just walk away from their duties. you say that the military failed him, how did the military fail him? >> the military has spent thousands and thousands of dollars training the soldiers and to just assume that because he is having some issues that he would walk away two weeks, and they are shot there are soldiers who see the light at the end of the tunnel which is walk away with everything they've earned it, and gone through all of this, almost five years, to walk away and believed everything he earned? it made no sense. he was excited about getting out, he wasn't mad at anybody, he wasn't mad at himself, he was happy, he had plans. and they just forgot about him. >> john: the police chief of

killing texas as the investigation is ongoing but they don't have any leads as to how your son might have met his end. but, obviously he came back from kuwait and he said he was different than when he went over there but what do you want america to know about your son? >> i want them to know, he was a good guy. it was his dream to always serve his country, he always felt like going into the military. it was just a good old boy from oklahoma. you know, he wasn't out to hurt anybody, he wasn't out to make any bad decisions -- i mean that's not what anyone's plan is, to make a bad decision. i want people to remember him for just being a good kid, a good guy who is willing to give up his life for his country.

just not on american soil right outside of his base. >> john: have you had an opportunity to work with any of the support organizations? >> i have a lot of people reaching out to help and support me from different organizations. i haven't actually reached out to too many yet. we are still processing, i mean we went through ten months of grief wondering what had happened to him and now we get to start all over again. >> john: was definitely leaning on them because they are a tremendous amount of help. again, we are so sorry for what happened to her son but at least he has been reinstated and will receive full military honors at his funeral. thank you for joining us, we will be right back. >> thinking.

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>> john: roger stone is going after two republicans in congress and he claims they warned president trump against granting him clemency before the presidential election. >> i know that kevin mccarthy and elise stefanik were guarding the president against any act of clemency, they wanted me to die and a star in georgia of coronavirus. it's >> john: congresswoman elise stefanik joins us now. did he want roger stone to die in prison? >> of course not, john. when i talk to the president it's about issues with the 21st congressional district. i have not advocated for any issues with the president and i believe constitutionally any issues, and i support the president's choice.

i also think that this highlights how corrupt the space mueller investigation has been and it's disconcerting to people who see that top aides that are donating and actively working to campaigns for joe biden and these are also the same people who donated and actively campaign for hillary clinton. my focus is always on my district and ensuring -- >> john: but let me jump in if i could. roger stone claims that in a conversation with the president aboard air force one, he suggested that the president should wait until after the election before granting clemency, is that true? >> that is inaccurate and again i have not advocated on any part of any issues to the president. i always advocate for issues important to my district so the conversations with the president have been focused on support for rural hospitals, our needs across the country and our need for fort drum. >> john: so you do agree with the president but do you personally think it was the

right decision to commute his sentence? >> i think this is a decision that presidents have to make and ultimately the constitution wrests that decision-making -- in a pardoning decision. i'm very concerned with the law in this country, very concerned about the politicization of the mueller investigation which we are seen as more and more information comes out. in my conversation with the president it only went down for my district. >> john: is certainly something that doesn't concern you enter a district is a report that the cuomo administration came out with about the prevalence of coronavirus disease in new york state nursing homes. propublica reports that the cuomo administration has yet to make public the names of dozens of nursing homes that had a problem with current virus disease. why do you believe there was a

need to know where the coronavirus disease was and what happened inside of those nursing homes? >> i think it's important because families deserve answers. many constituents that i've talked to and really, new yorkers who have lost loved ones, they have not gotten the most basic answers. many have found out that their loved ones were covert patients not from the nursing home facility but the death certificates. this is one of the reasons why the new york state department of health "investigation" is unacceptable. so we need transparency and we need a wholesome answer from new york state on this. >> john: and governor cuomo has had this "too many leaders across the country have been playing politics for that virus. we need to keep being smart and prevent us from going back to the hill we went through. at the cuomo administration and the governor have used this

report saying, see, we will write about what was going on with the nursing homes, suggesting that the majority of them did not have coronavirus spread inside of them because patients with coronavirus disease were sent back to those homes. >> again, this is governor cuomo accusing others of what he is doing. yes politicize this from the start. both democrats and republicans are calling for an investigation and they have said that governor cuomo has not followed cms guidance. new york state and governor cuomo chose to accept nursing homes for positive patients regardless of the ability to isolate and provide appropriate ppe and testing. we need answers and families deserve answers, they are still mourning the loss of their loved ones. it is not political, there has been bipartisan outcry for an independent investigation and, politicization which is an

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