>> that worked out so well. we've been renewed, going to do the same show three hours starting day. >> this is a killed and her husband critically injured in an attack at their new jersey home. police say the judge's husband was shot as he opened the door to the families of north brunswick home sunday afternoon and her son was killed when he came running to help his father. the suspect was reportedly dressed as a fedex delivery driver and is still at large according to authorities. the judge, was not heard in that attack. most recently assigned to handle the deutsche bank lawsuit connected to jeffrey epstein. >> bret: we are awaiting taped police have not yet link that playback from the white house, the press pool of reporters shooting to that case. much more on all of this later called into the oval office for in the show.

a meeting there. house minority leader kevin another big story we are mccarthy, senate majority following, federal officers try leader mitch mcconnell, to restore order in portland, vice president pence, treasury secretary steven mnuchin and oregon. mark meadows all talking about those federal officers also the next steps in the coming under fire. coronavirus bill, what they are working on, what they can get through congress, also a couple of other news elements in there, this marked the 53rd straight we expect taped playback in just night of protest and the rose a few minutes and you will see that live here on city with demonstrations growing fox news channel among the items increasingly violent across the pacific northwest gray to is that the president is going good morning. to restart the coronavirus welcome to "america's newsroom." i'm bret baier. task force briefing by being at that briefing we are told good morning, melissa. >> good morning. tomorrow, 5:00 p.m. is what he i'm melissa francis. said in this get-together, other sandra smith is off today. you saw what's happening in things said about the pandemic portland, maine while in seattle and where they want to get to at least a dozen police officers you as far as getting schools were hurt sunday as protesters open, et cetera. smashed and looted businesses again, taped playback from the before trying to set the cities white house and the oval office meeting they are coming in just a bit. east precinct ablaze. that is the same precinct have hogan gidley is the trump 2020 campaign national press been in by police during the secretary who joins us now. chop zone occupation. good morning. how are you? >> doing well. meanwhile, the mayor of portland is demanding federal --

>> bret: the president says >> bret: after you. he's going to be stepping back >> melissa: nope, it's all you. >> bret: federal officers up in these coronavirus leave the city accusing them of task force briefings. there was some back and forth about whether that was a good making the situation they are thing for him back in the worse, the head of the police beginning. now, there were some people at union calling for talk between demonstrators and city leaders. the white house pushing for that to happen and looks like it will happen tomorrow. your thoughts on that? >> obviously, i don't know the >> it is leading to more palace intrigue of who was on what side, not they are violence in more vandalism and currently but let's be clear, it's not helping the situation the american people do want to at all. they are not wanted here. hear directly from the president >> people that are out here every night that are rioting and burning, if they want to sit about his aggressive bold strong leadership on coronavirus and down and have a conversation, we when you compare and contrast are more than willing to have a with this president has done conversation, talk about with shutting down travel, bringing in all of the medical experts, relying on them solutions. but rioting and looting doesn't solve anything and what that exclusively on a lot of the does is divide us all more. decisions he made, compare and contrast that with joe biden, >> dan springer is live outside you will see a stark difference of seattle's east precinct. good evening, dan. because he had to come out and say i think the president may have been right and when he was >> rioting and chaos into of the faced with the pandemic under the obama administration, he biggest cities in the pacific northwest's there was widespread just decided to cancel all of the testing and said i just damage throughout both cities. don't think it's worth it.

in seattle, looting and property we know it's out there, we know it's around, so we don't want to damage at least a dozen police quote unquote waste resources. officers injured and for the first time since they reclaimed this area and this precinct i think as far as moving back behind me, the protesters came into some of these coronavirus back and they did more damage, briefings, you will see a broke windows and set a small president who was resolute and strong and can continue to lead fire inside that building. the american people through this fudge is one of many places crisis and through this pandemic and let them know we are all targeted by violent going to be okay and work demonstrators yesterday trying to break into the west precinct together and we will be better off on the backside of it. and when they were turned back, someone in the crowd started throwing mortar type fireworks at officers. >> bret: the number one issue as several cops were hit and people are concerned about, our injured, at least when we know what was hospitalized. the violence was also spread to poll also shows that joe biden is ahead by eight points. that tracks other polls you have many private businesses and amazons store was damaged and seen recently. are you guys on the campaign looking at this saying we are looted, starbucks store also vandalized. losing? meantime, there was a violent protest for the 53rd straight >> no. we are looking at that and night but unlike in recent thinking anything close and nights, the police officers in winning in so many other ways. portland did not include the the polling you are talking anarchists. they were free to do what they about obviously is skewed in wanted and we saw fencing taken various ways and don't want to get into the methodology being from a park that was closed, stacked up in front of the ten points different this time

around in 2016 to oversampling doorways to the federal courthouse. versus the exit polls, we all a night earlier, the officers know that and that's fine. union office was broken into and so many people relied on it back a small fire sat inside. in 2016 and were wrong then and the union president blasted city they are wrong now. but the fact is, the president officials. >> destruction is taking his message directly to the american people, and they were so many out there who and chaos of our city. understand elections come down to choices, and the choice is they emplace their agendas ahead of all of us in the welfare of the community. between donald trump who this must stop. systematically rebuilt this country and its economy, remained the judiciary and in so >> portland's mayor, both u.s. many wonderful things for the american worker and it's against senators, and many others are blaming the trump administration for sending federal troops but joe biden, someone who has kicked the american worker in this violence started long before they arrived and trumps chief of staff yesterday said this teeth. that's the difference and we think they will come out on our they will not back down. side when it's all said and do done. >> you will see something rolled >> bret: we appreciate your out this week as we start to go time here the president is coming up here from the oval office and we will take you in and make sure whether it's chicago or portland or milwaukee to the tape. president trump in the oval office. take a listen. >> thank you very much. or some place across the you've asked to see with going heartland of the country, we need to make sure our on in their meetings, so i communities are safe. figured let you come in, you will look and see, a lot of good >> with all this violence we saw things happening. we have tremendous progress on

in both portland and seattle, we know of only two arrests made vaccines and therapeutics, here in seattle, nothing down in getting reports and studying the portland where police completely reports very closely and i think disengaged finally at the end of the night well into the morning, people will be very pleasantly surprised with what's going on federal troops came out and they on the vaccine front and the therapeutic front, and that to dispersed the protesters but us is always the first topic. only two arrests with all this violence in these two cities in secondarily but very importantly, we are working with the pacific northwest. >> bret: dan springer just the democrats on trying to get a after six in the morning, thank you. more on this with acting plan that helps small commissioner of customs and border protection mark morgan. businesses, helps people, helps this country, and i think we've he joins us in just a few minutes to discuss the situation made a lot of progress on that and the discussions are going in portland including many report that is raising questions on, want to say a few words as about how the federal agents are to where we are? >> mark and i have been working very hard over the last few handling the protests. weeks on really what we see as >> melissa: president trump sitting down with chris wallace the focus is jobs, the recovery on "fox news sunday" for a wide ranging and sometimes contentious interview. the president challenging critics of his handling of the coronavirus pandemic and addressed growing questions about his relationship with act, we have spent an unprecedented amount of money in coronavirus task force member the good news is a lot of the

dr. anthony fauci. $3 trillion we still have left to put in the economy and put back to work, focused on starting with another trillion dollars, that will make a big >> he is a little bit of an impact. and the focus is it's really alarmist. about kids and jobs and that's okay. a little bit. let me just say, dr. fauci at vaccines. want to make sure that we have a the beginning and again, i have vaccine by the end of the year a great relationship with him. for emergency use in the plan is i spoke to him at length yesterday. we just updated the president he said at the beginning this and the vice president, they will pass, don't worry about it, signed off on this, mark and i this will pass but he was wrong. will be meeting tomorrow with dr. fauci said don't pay in china. the republicans at the lunch to he admitted that i was right. give them a full briefing and >> you made mistakes too appear then we will also be reaching out to the democrats to begin >> i guess everybody made our discussions. but we are committed that by the end of this month, make sure mistakes. >> melissa: chief white house correspondent john roberts is live from the north lawn with the key takeaways from that that before the enhanced interview. unemployment insurance expires what i loved was both men looked that we passed legislation so we like they might burst into flames because of the heat, but can protect americans that are neither would give an inch. unemployed. we said the number one issue is was a riveting television. we have to face the technical >> it was a great interview and fix on enhanced unemployment. i'll tell you, chris wallace at we are going to make sure that out there for almost an hour and we don't pay people more money 15 minutes and 90-degree heat to stay home then go to work. waiting for the president. we want to make sure that people i'm very impressed that chris who can go to work safely can do held it together. a lot of mistakes over the last so and tax credits that few months in terms of incentivize businesses to bring people back to work, tax credits

coronavirus particularly this idea that it would go away in the heat and humidity, for safe work environments and coronavirus case is setting an all-time on friday. big incentives, money to the sending 75,000 cases unlikely we states for education for schools will see another spike today as that can open safely and do the numbers from the weekend come in, get in the face of that, the president still education. insisting that despite mounting cases, increasing the number of we want to make sure frivolous deaths, more closures any lawsuits don't prevent schools, restrictions at the situation is universities, and businesses still under control. from reopening. listen here. >> one day this week, 75,000 new >> mike. >> mr. president, i just want to say how much we appreciate the cases, more than double. >> because we have the best testing in the world. leadership in the house and if we weren't testing them he wouldn't be able to show that senate, today's conversation as charge for those numbers would a continuation of your be down. commitment to do whatever it >> but this is a forest fire. takes to get the american >> i say we will put out the people, american businesses, and flames and we will put out in communities through this very challenging time. some cases burnilame like, of the outbreaks across the sun belt are serious, but because of the support that but it's going to be under we've had from leaders in both control. >> the president weighing in on political parties and the

congress of the united states, the 2020 election suggesting we are meeting this moment with joe biden isn't all there. the president saying he has expanded testing, personal taken a cognitive test and protective equipment and as you said, mr. president, with the challenged biden to do the same, and it turned out the president was not the only person who has development and distribution of taken a cognitive test. therapeutics and a rapid chris wallace did as well. development of vaccines. listen to this. that will all continue but it's important that congress comes >> joe and i will take a test grade let him take the same test together and provides additional that i took. >> incidentally, i took the test resources for families that have too when i heard that you took been impacted, businesses that have been impacted, make sure it. it's not the hardest test. that our health care workers in it's a picture of an elephant. our state's other resources that >> that's a misrepresentation. they need, but also we are going the first few questions are easy, but i bet you couldn't to continue to advance policies even answer the last five that will make it possible for questions bear they get very us to open up america again and hard. >> one of them was a count back open up america's schools and i from 100 by seven. look forward as you do the >> i guarantee joe biden could looking forward with leaders not answer those questions. that are gathered here and members of congress in both >> the president also appeared to dial back a little bit on his threat from last month that he political parties to deliver another important element of a recovery package that will keep would veto the national defense authorization act that would on working until we bring our include language to change the names of military bases that are country all the way back and reach that day that we someday put this coronavirus in the pa named for confederate generals. the president when asked by

chris wallace that he still past. didn't support the idea had in fact objected to the idea of >> mitch, please. changing the names and when asked if he would veto, said he >> tomorrow begins the process of socializing what we have been might. in some going on at the discussing with the administration over the last two white house today looking forward to the first talks on weeks with our members, and if you are looking for a theme the phase four stimulus plan that could be coming out in congress later out this week. here, sync liability protection mitch mcconnell is preparing for those who have been trying language will be at the to deal with the pandemic. white house and chief of staff. we don't need an epidemic of we will keep an eye on that. lawsuits on the heels of a pandemic we are already as you know, there is nothing on struggling with. the public schedule right now, but i can always change. school, jobs, and health care is >> melissa: if you haven't the theme of the proposal that seen the interview anyone out we hope to come together and there, it was fantastic and i loved the fact-checking back and forth, both sides saying bring present with the secretary of me this, bring me this. the treasury and obviously passed a bill in the senate without the democrats and we was fantastic, great television. john roberts, thank you so much. will get it from them as well. >> bret: for more on all of this, let's bring in byron york, >> just to sum up what we are looking at. chief correspondent and also a you are sitting at home i'm fox news contributor. concerned that you don't have a first, good morning. job, we want to make sure you're what did you think of the interview and what is your take? able to come back. we don't think -- we want to >> good morning, brett.

was really terrific back and make sure we have incentives to forth and on this issue of a keep going. cognitive test, the fact is on want to make sure kids can go back to school, but go back inauguration day, safely not just for the president trump will be 74 years children, but for the teachers old and joe biden will be 78 as well. we continue to make strides in years old. make sure we get to a vaccine and find a cure for this virus this has never happened in american history before. that we did not invite. ronald reagan ended his second term at age 77 and it was a lot and that is the focus that we of speculation at the time about have to be a part of. whether he had slipped a bit, which talks about, and i think whether he was still mentally it's fundamental not just for sharp. this is actually going to be an schools, but for any businesses driving whether they can open issue in the presidency of back up or not. either man when he serves. we need to give the protection >> bret: let's take a look at that we rebuild, restore, and renew this country to where we the polls. the first look at the fox news were and we can do it together. poll mat, the new one. that's why we are working here and will be reaching out to the now about the lead for joe biden democrats and i hope for that moment in time that they put here. is smaller, but still large for politics aside. joe biden, but has improved from we look at one nation that we don't sit back and decide a rule june. asking voters with the most within a senate that the important issue is, coronavirus, minority denies the ability to 29%. the economy, 15%. have this debate.

race relations, ten. denies the ability to have here's the president criticizing america unite and solve this problem once and for all. these polls specifically. we are making great strides when >> not losing because those are it comes to therapies. fake polls, they were fake in warp speed, history will write about this. when we get to the moment in time where we have this vaccine, 2016, and other even more fake. i have a poll where we are they will write about how fast leading in every swing state and it was a no other country could i don't believe -- first of all, do what we did because of this nation and that is the focus of the fox poll's, whoever does what we are trying to do. your fox poll's are among the the safety of this country for worst. they got it wrong in 2016 and our students, for our teachers, have been wrong in every poll and for businesses that we are i've ever seen. back to work again stronger and >> bret: just to be clear, the safer and more united. last fox poll in 2016 had the >> it came from china. should have never been allowed race that clinton 48, trump 44 to get out, could have stopped with plus or minus three is the it, could have stopped it easily, they chose not to, and margin of error. the final popular vote, real we will have for the report popular vote was clinton 48.18, back, but it came from china, they could have stopped it, they trump 46.09. just to be clear on the final didn't. fox poll in 2016. going from the rest of the but your thoughts on where these world, didn't stop it from going stand now? to europe, to us, they could have stopped it, they weren't >> the president always says that it has been saying it transparent at all. forever, and the fact is this was the opposite. it's not good. poll does not say what's going i spoke with the president of

to happen in november. france this morning and i spoke shows where the races right now. is a snapshot in time of right with the president of egypt, and now. all the polls show nationally we had a very, very good conversation, both of us, and joe biden has a lead over president trump. that's just a fact. all of us together, i've had but he says this, his supporters many conversations with leaders often repeat what he says about all over the world over the weekend went over the last couple of weeks in particular, support, and you are right, at and this is a pandemic that is the end of 2016, the polls were basically correct saying that flaring up all over the place, hillary clinton would win the countries that thought they were popular vote, which she did read in good shape and all of a they were wrong in terms of sudden, they have a big flareup state contests, especially did i see that over the weekend pennsylvania, michigan, i guess on friday, there was a wisconsin, that prove critical record worldwide number of to that race. >> bret: what about that question in our new poll about death, worldwide. because when you watch the news, the important issues in the fact the local news and you see it, the coronavirus is so high, seem to be spikes in different states and obviously it's on the minds it's all about the united states of pretty much every american. and nobody can talk about what's going on in the world but you look at mexico, brazil, many >> on coronavirus, clearly two countries in europe, all over, to one over jobs in the economy, that's a huge thing. russia, russia has a tremendous the fact is, issues of life and

problem. death or public safety are what's going on is terrible. always the most important thing it's terrible. but there's a worldwide problem, to voters when they are a big thing. the city and we are helping the world with ventilators, helping a lot has a huge crime rate and of countries that don't have there's a mayor's race, the issue is always public safety ventilators and sending thousands of ventilators to because that comes before other things. different countries, but i do want people to understand, this an coronavirus having burst on is a worldwide problem caused by this unit earlier this year, no china, but a worldwide problem. countries are going through, and pulling back before it ever existed, has just taken over in this recent rise in cases as it's going to -- we are going to give you a lot of briefings in people very much on edge because the next week and over the next few weeks as to the vaccines on they are wondering whether this is a return to the bad old days the therapeutics. going to bring some of the great with those terrible death tolls companies that are working and of april or whether coronavirus very successfully in the past will play out a bit differently that worked on these things and going to tell you very in the coming months, but there is no doubt it's the issue of top public concern right now. specifically what they're doing and how they're doing, but i think we are doing very well in >> bret: it was a fascinating interview. as always, thank you. that regard as to those items. >> thank you. i think therapeutic, i like almost better at this point. you go in and you make people >> melissa: at least one better. he have had some very good luck person is killed and 23 others

with remdesivir, that's been are injured as multiple successful, and others have been shootings cap up another week of successful, but we are really bloodshed in new york city. how city leaders plan to curb the growing violence. coming up with good answers, plus, chaos in the streets of portland. the city's mayor says federal allover the world, working very agents deployed there have only closely allover the world with made a bad situation worse. the vaccines and the new reaction from acting cdp therapeutics. we are going to have some of the commissioner mark morgan next. heads of these great companies coming in, johnson & johnson is doing very well in particular. >> i believe the portland police department want to do their job they seem to be doing very well. but their leadership has really numerous are doing very well. tied their hands. i cannot believe that we don't is something that i really feel have people on both sides of the aisle being united saying this certain, i guess you can never is not the right way and this is use totally certain, but pretty wrong. certain that they are going to that's my calling-- have the vaccine, going to have therapeutics and it will start to give back to younger people. taking place shortly, and that will be a great thing for the i think most adults will start realizing world, but this is happening all that they don't recall things as quickly as they used to over the world, not just the or they don't remember things as vividly as they once did. united states, and it is a tough one, very tough, very sad when i've been taking prevagen for about three years now. you see the death. people say to me periodically, all death that could have been "man, you've got a memory like an elephant." stopped by china.

it's really, really helped me tremendously. they wanted to stop it, they could have stopped it. prevagen. healthier brain. better life. thank you very much, everybody. thank you. >> lets go, thank you. thank you. >> how important is a payroll tax cut? >> i think it's very important. it's a very important thing, it's very good, been proven to be successful. is a big saving for the people, tremendous saving and i think it's an incentive for companies to hire their workers back in to keep their workers. a payroll tax cut to me is very important. we are working on it. and i don't think there's too much dispute as to the level of importance. it's a very important thing. that's one of many elements we are discussing. we are discussing probably a total of ten different elements, but payroll tax cuts are very important.

absolutely. no, i think hopefully we will get there, but we are talking about a lot of things, not just the payroll tax cut. >> do i understand you correctly? >> we have very successful briefings. i was doing them and we had a lot of people watching, record numbers watching in the history of cable television, there's never been anything like it. and we were doing very well, and i thought it would be automatic and a lot of positive things were happening and frankly, a lot of the country is doing we well. we have had this big flareup within florida, texas, couple of other places, and so i think what we are going to do is i'll get involved and we will start doing briefings. whether it's it's afternoon or tomorrow, probably tomorrow, and i will do briefings. part of the briefing i think much more so than last time,

vaccines or therapeutics and let's say that ended six weeks ago, we will start them again and i think it's a great way to get information out to the public as to where we are with the vaccines, the therapeutics, and generally speaking, where we are. i think we will start that probably starting tomorrow, do save without even leaving your house. that at 5:00 like we were doing, had a good slot and a lot of just keep your phone and switch to xfinity mobile. people were watching them. you can get it by ordering a free sim card online. that's a good thing. i think that kaylee will once you activate, you only have to pay for the continue her's at o'clock just like they were, and i'll be data you need, starting at just $15 a month. there are no term contracts, no activation fees, discussing as i call it, the and no credit check on the first two lines. china virus, the china plague, get a $50 prepaid card when you switch. i'll be discussing it. i'll also be discussing perhaps 5g is now included with all new data options. some other things. we are doing very well in so switch and save hundreds. xfinity mobile. many different ways but unfortunately, this is something very tough but we will get us out. we will get it solved in numerous ways but the two best would be vaccines and therapeutics. so we will be having that.

>> helping local law enforcement, can you fill us in on that? >> they are sending law enforcement, portland was totally out of control, the democrats, the liberal democrats running the place have no idea what they were doing. they were ripping down for a 51 days, ripping down that city, >> melissa: a manhunt underway after three friends were found destroying the city, eluding it. beaten and shot at a remote lake the level of corruption and what in central florida late friday was going on there is night. at a $5,000 reward is being incredible, and then the governor comes in and says we offered in the search for their don't need any help. how about chicago? killer or killers. i read the numbers were many of the father of one of the people killed over the weekend, victims who rushed to the scene looking at chicago, looking at after his saddle called him new york, look at what's going begging for help. on, all run by democrats, all no suspects have been named. run by very liberal democrats, all run really by radical left. >> if you look at what's gone on but we can't let this happen to in portland, those are anarchists and we've taken a the cities, new york was up very tough stand. we didn't take a stand in 348%, the crime rate.

portland, arresting many of the governor has to do something these leaders, if we didn't take about it and if the governor is that stand right now, you would not going to do something about it, we will do something about have a problem -- they're going it. to lose portland. what's happening in new york, a place i love, look at what's >> bret: president trump going on over there? defending his decision to deploy federal officers to portland. the woman who was shot because mayor ted wheeler is demanding they leave the city. she said could you please not now house democrats are calling bite off firecrackers and they turn around and shot her rate for an investigation into times and she died? reports of agents on lawfully arresting protesters. that's not our civilization. let's bring in mark morgan, acting commissioner of customs and border protection. the police are afraid to do thank you for being here. anything. >> you bet. >> bret: let me play the sound bite about federal troops in the city. i'm going to do something, that >> we have dozens if not i can tell you. hundreds of federal troops new york and chicago and descending upon our city and philadelphia, detroit, and they are sharply escalating the baltimore and all of these are situation. their presence here is leading to more violence and more in a mess, we are not going to let this happen in the country, violent nomadic vandalism and it's not helping the situation all run by liberal democrats. at all. they are not wanted here. we have and ask them here. going to have more federal in fact, we want them to leave. law enforcement in portland, they've done a fantastic job, been there three days, and they

>> bret: your response to that? >> is just ridiculous. have done a fantastic job in a very short period of time, no it's really a stupid statement that is not based in reality or problem. a lot of people in jail, these are anarchists. these are not protesters. fact. the reality here is this violence began in his city well before we deployed additional these are people that hate our resources they are in these country. we are not going to let it go individuals were talking about are not protesters, they are criminals. forward. the governor and the mayor and every night, willfully the senators out there, they are coordinating, organizing, and afraid of these people. that's the reason they don't planning to intentionally attack and destroy federal property and want us to help them. they are afraid of. harm federal agents and i believe they may be physically officers. afraid of these people because those are criminals. that's who we are talking about. that's why we are there and we what they are doing is are not going anywhere. incredible. we didn't just go and it started >> bret: the federal authorities were on the ground including border patrol agents, is that right? right away, we went there after 51 days. we said we can't let that happen >> that's correct. we have our special trained anymore. but these are anarchists and the politicians out there, yes, they agents, the largest law enforcement organization in are weak, but they are afraid of the united states and individuals we are sending up there are specially trained for these people. they are actually afraid of these people and that's why i ty specific situations just like this. say they don't want the federal >> bret: to that point, government helping.

"the new york times" has this would you say they need help report in which it says the after this weekend? did you hear the numbers? tactical agents deployed by homeland security include officials from a group known as many, many shot, many, many a highly trained group that is killed. i'm not talking about one, two, normally tasked with investigating drug smuggling organizations as opposed to 18 people killed. protesters and cities. they are saying they don't have i think more than that. and ended up over the summer the proper training to deal with the situation at hand. this is worse than afghanistan by far. >> it's just false i'm kind of this is worse than anyone's ever ironic. saying they are highly trained but then they are not trained so seen. all run by the same liberal these individuals as well as from the special response team democrats. are specifically trained in biden got in, that would be true for the country. this. the whole country would go to we have over 300 ports of entry, which we have individuals and hell and we are not going to let large groups and protests on a it go to hell. >> bret: trump in the oval office meeting with regular basis. not only trained, but highly republican lawmakers, leaders, house minorit minority leader ae experienced in exactly these kinds of situations. majority leader talking about sending federal officers to >> bret: how do you take it down a notch with the people cities around the country including chicago like they did in portland to try to stem the that you have on the ground? violence. on the phase for stimulus, the

the portland mayor saying they are inciting it and the federal president saying he wants a payroll tax cut and said he is working hard to get it. government believes that you have to be there because the john roberts in the oval office violence is getting out of asking are you all signed on control. pointing to leader mccarthy >> the president's rights, we and mcconnell, mccarthy have a statutory responsibility. nodded, senator mcconnell smiled. the federal protective service we will see where a payroll tax has a responsibility to protect cut sits but senator mcconnell federal buildings and also has did say that we need liability protection. the authority to do that. we don't need an epidemic of that's why we are there and i lawsuits on the heels of a will restate some of the violence started well before we pandemic as we try and form what exactly their pitch will be for put additional resources they are. phase four stimulus. we had edible information that president trump in the they were going to be attacked. that's what led us to putting oval office. more resources there and that's former vice president exactly what happen. just the past couple of days, joe biden's warning about continued russian election had both police stations boarded up with commercial grade meddling based on u.s. intel saying "we know from before, and fireworks to set them on fire i guarantee you, i know now, with people inside. because now i get briefings to answer your question, what we again, the russians are still need is we need local leaders to engaged in trying to delegitimize our electoral stop saying ridiculous, irresponsible things, reach out process. china and others are engaged as to these protesters and get the well in activities that are police to work with us to go out designed for us to lose and stop and arrest these

criminals. that's when he has to be done confidence in the outcome." but they refuse to do it. general jack keane is chairman of the institute for the study >> bret: this is a time where we are focusing on this violence of war and a fox news senior in cities, but what is happening strategic analyst. so that statement sort of begs on the border for people who want to know what's going on the question, would he have been there? seeing the same thing four years >> so i'm glad you asked me ago when he was the that. right now, but our main focus vice president and did he and his former boss and running mate is, every single day, we continue to stop criminals and president obama make the same kind of warning then? apprehend criminals and drugs that are ported killing citizens >> there is no doubt in 2016, in this country but obviously, the russians were conducting a covid-19 is a focus for us and because under the cdc order, prolific undermining of our what we refer to as title 42, election. chinese were involved, iran, this is not a border enforcement north korea as well. issue, this is a public health the one that penetrated was issue in a public health order certainly the russians. it's not surprising that given that came from cdc and what that does is it gives them the the success if you look at it from their perspective, the authority when they encounter divisiveness that came out as a someone to immediately return them back to mexico about 86% of result of this, the country those we apprehend we returned became polarized and we are still dealing with it to this back to mexico and in under two day. there is no wonder are trying hours. again. the evidence seems to indicate that prevents us from from our officials that what is

introducing those into our system and really furthering the taking place now is less than spread of covid. it's been a game changer and i what took place in 2016, and it believe it saves countless liv may be an explanation for that. lives. the president gave an interview >> bret: acting commissioner mark morgan, thank you for the to marc thiessen from "the washington post" who is time. also a fox news commentator >> melissa: new hope for a about a week or so ago, and coronavirus vaccine. the promising the development during that interview, he that could very well be a revealed to mr. theissen that in breakthrough. dr. marc siegel joins us live. 2018 during the midterm plus, president trump touting the recent surge in the stock election, the russians attacked market and making a bold us again in our election attempting to metal in it. prediction to our own chris wallace. maria bartiromo joins us next. however, we responded with a cyber attack back on the >> we are open, got to do things, the best job numbers. russians. supposedly a successful cyber attack. and that may be an explanation for why this year in the 2020 i built the greatest economy in history. i'm not doing it again. election, at least in the minds of our people who watch this ♪ every day, there is considerably less activity taking place now than what we have seen in the past. ♪ >> melissa: i want to put you

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likely unknown to many of our viewers, even though russia is a modern industrialized state, they have one of the worst hospital infrastructure systems on the planet. the rural communities in some places they don't even have running water. so what has taken place is deaths as a result of the coronavirus or higher as a result of their hospital system some companies still have hr stuck between employeesentering data.a.. changing data. more and more sensitive, personal data. and the lack of infrastructure to support the people. and it doesn't just drag hr down. also, the economy is it drags the entire business down -- with inefficiency, errors and waste. considerably worse now because of the coronavirus also, oil it's ridiculous. prices have dropped so ridiculous. precipitously. so what we have here is with paycom, employees enter and manage their own data in a single, declining quality of life and that's fundamentally what these easy to use software. visit paycom.com, and schedule your demo today. demonstrations are about. in the rural community where these are out in the east, quality of life is declining significantly. this is what this is all about. putin is being held responsible and something we are not used to seeing. >> melissa: we will see what

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>> bret: another weekend of deadly gun violence sweeps across some of america's big cities in chicago, more than 60 people have been shot since friday, several fatally. in new york city, at least one person was killed and nearly two dozen others were in separate shootings. this after mayor bill de blasio and police commissioner rolled out there and gun violence plan. live in new york city with details. >> brooklyn was a hot spot once again with several shootings in that borough, 23-year-old man

was shot multiple times and killed in the bureau looking for this man seen riding away in a motorcycle pair the number of people shot this weekend, 87% from the same weekend in july last year and this past week, new york city sought more than triple the number of shootings compared to the same week last year. did you know liberty mutual customizes your car insurance ta-da! violence comes as the city so you only pay for what you need? launches this new and the gun violence program with the nypd given my unique lifestyle, that'd be perfect! shifting more officers now to let me grab a pen and some paper. areas with more spikes in know what? i'm gonna switch now. just need my desk... brooklyn in the bronx. also held a big gun buyback program this weekend. my chair... and my phone. here's the commissioner this morning. >> i think there is an atmosphere right now, and if you only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ don't think this is true, you don't see what's happening on the street, video after video. i think if there is an atmosphere of no consequence.

>> he also said he is losing count on the number of officers and getting assaulted last wednesday. we remember this, a counter protester assaulting several protesters with a cane during a >> bret: traffic at a standstill on the washington, d.c., expressway, peace march. all because of this little dog. of one who was injured left the hospital in a wheelchair after a white dog named astor leading suffering an orbital fracture to the eye and said he bled for the first responders on a chase down city and would do it again the interstate. even driver sitting in traffic tomorrow. tried to capture him. it was all because astro escape we are looking at video now from a fire department vehicle online according to local he was put into following a reports, police have now arrested a suspect and that crash. he is okay, he eluded them for a while but was finally caught. good dog. hey, this has been fun, melissa. would prevent the van from being >> melissa: a slippery little able to break and being able to devil! [laughs] >> bret: i'll see you stop, so that's incredible. thursday. >> melissa: absolutely, i have mayor de blasio is set to hold a different dance partner every day this week. up his daily briefing in less i will see the audience back than an hour and will try as we always do to get some of our here tomorrow, and, bret, it questions answered. will see you thursday. >> bret: for much more on all "outnumbered" starts right now. of this straight ahead when former new york governor joins us. he says of the violent trend >> gillian: this is a fox news alert, president trump at the white house just a few moments continues, new york city is "going to die" he'll be with us

ago threatening to send more in just a few minutes. federal officers to the pacific northwest after yet another day >> melissa: trading getting of violent protests. rioters in downtown seattle underway right now on wall street. we have been looking to a smashing windows, looting negative open and where you can businesses, and trying to set see they are just down fire to the police precinct. fractionally. we keep toggling back and forth at least two people were arrested and a dozen officers between positive and negative territory. hurt, one of them hospitalized. investors helping to build on meanwhile, in portland, oregon, last week's games after a more than 50 straigh promising coronavirus vaccine study. maria bartiromo joins us now, host of sunday morning futures and mornings with maria on the fox business network. first of all, set us up for the week, what are the big thing is the market is focused on right now? i can see next to you, slightly positive but it looks like investors are really scrambling for direction. >> you are right. i think the most important thing this week will first of all be these talks on the next relief bill. there is some coming out, sam'se consensus about what could happen but you have important

meetings this morning at 10:30 a.m. eastern where you will have mitch mcconnell, kevin mccarthy, steven mnuchin all getting together to try to come up with the right things that need to go into this next bill. but they think the consensus seems to be around liability protection for businesses as well as schools so they don't get sued if somebody goes into a business and sits down at a restaurant and get sick and then tries to sue that restaurant. one of the things that will likely go in there. also conversations about a lot of money for states, half a trillion dollars apparently earmarked for states in terms of their coronavirus efforts and relief. has you know, new york mayor de blasio joined me recently saying he needs seven and a half billion dollars right now just to become hole. so that's just one city, cities and states wanting federal money. there's a debate of course on what to do for employees at this point, it goes away july 31. what i'm hearing is you are

going to come to a middle ground there, maybe $300, the new head of the national economic council at the white house this morning and said we want to try to replace 50% of income for 75% of income also saying is that going to be $600 but it does sound like they are trying to affect some additional benefits on top of the state benefits by this is happening in a two week period. they've got to hammer something up before they leave again on august 9th that's what markets will be focused on and of course, we are in the middle of the earnings season. so far, earnings have been strong. tesla later in the week, a number of consumer companies coming up to give us a good window of what happened in the second quarter with regard to impact on the company business and then shut down. to make it seem like the big fight on the bill is between how you're going to pay the individuals. doing a lot of great reporting on this last week but there is a

divide. the team that is potentially behind larry kudlow saying let's have a payroll tax cut. we could even hand out direct payments, one-time payments like last time, that $1200, but this extension of the weekly unemployment creates a disincentive to go back to work. seems like on the other side and both republican side but on the other side of the fight is talking about maybe we need to go ahead with the extended unemployment benefits, and that's really where the disagreement is. here is what house minority leader kevin mccarthy had to say about this. i'll ask you where you think it is on the other side. >> and a 10-year using federal money, it shouldn't he incentivize the ability to work. we've made a mistake where we overpaid on unemployment insurance where now it's hard for people to come back to work because they are making more on unemployment than they can work in. we have to straighten that out as we move forward.

>> melissa: what do you think? is he right? >> yes, and a congressman discussed this yesterday with me on sunday morning futures, just hearing him say that tells you there is a willingness to do something with regard to those unemployment benefits, those federal dollars, but 600 is too much. at this point, the president is trying to get the economy open again seeing lots of states try to slowly but surely get back into some sense of normalization. who would want to go back and work at a restaurant, who wants to go back and work at a hotel and you know you are fine living at home, got more money staying at home then you would if you went back to work. having said that, people need to feel some confidence and they need to feel like they can pay their rent check, have meant coming up at the start of the month and so that's why i do think you're going to see a balance, $300, may be lower than that, i don't know. i would say it's not necessarily a fight as much as it is lots of

ideas. the democrats want to bill us $3 trillion. that's not going to fly. probably going to be a little more than 1 trillion. said we are in the range of about $1.3 trillion on the next relief package. so there's a lot of ideas being thrown at the wall. we will see what sticks. we probably will have more unemployment benefits, but unlikely it will be that $600. >> melissa: all those interviews yesterday were terrific on this topic if people haven't seen them, a lot of great topics there. thank you. >> bret: a brutal attack targeting a federal judge in new jersey when a man shot and killed her son and injured her husband at the family home sunday. now, the hunt is underway for the gunman. another violent weekend in new york city, multiple shootings killing at least one person, hurting many others. up next, former new york governor tells us why for the first time in his life, he fears

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>> melissa: new york city among many other big cities in the u.s. reeling from an alarming surgeon gun violence. critics laying the blame at the feet of mayor bill de blasio including our next guest, former new york governor telling "the new york post" in part "for the first time ever, i fear for the future of new york city. the defazio administration has been a disaster in new york has been hit by decision after decision that really jeopardized its future. is not just the city but albany

to pair this cannot all be allowed to continue or new york city is going to die. former governor joins us now. thank you for joining us. what do you mean by that? >> i hate to say those words but i really feel that new york is in dire straits. and certainly part of it is the coronavirus has had a huge impact and that's going to hurt new york, but it's political leadership that is failing almost as though they are doing things intentionally to damage the future of new york and let me just refer specifically to the police. what they have done to demonize the police department and take away police rights to allow people to violently assault police and be out on the streets the same day is already leading to a spike in crime when you combine that with the shut down from the coronavirus and it concerns people have before any of this happened, i'm really

concerned more so than at any point in my life. >> melissa: specifically, what could either the governor or the mayor do in terms of this police violence? i understand what you're saying about letting people out without bail especially when you saw that assault on the top officer in uniform and new york city where his orbital bone was broken and that same suspect was back out on the street on the same day but be on those bail rules, why is it the fault of the mayor or the governor that we are seeing assaults on officers and crime run rampant? >> first of all, it's beyond the bail reform. there should be a felony and no bail at all allowed. you assault a police officer, they should be put away and placed in jail without any prospect of bail until there is a trial. the fact that they are out on the street the same day just encourages more of that on police officers. the second thing they can do is

undo the bad laws of the city of new york has passed. you see pictures of police officers struggling with criminals resisting arrest. if that police officer ends up sitting on the back of a person resisting arrest, that police officer can end up a criminal spending a year in jail under a new law. so you see the surrounding police communities in westchester and long island saying we are not going to let our police go to new york city and going to see more and more new york city police not doing their jobs that because they don't want to but because they can or retiring and stepping away from the job. crime is one of the most important drivers of economic opportunity in new york. tourists won't come, restaurants won't open, businesses will mo move. the fact that people don't need to be concentrated in a high

density place like manhattan and new york is in dire straits. needs dramatically different policies, dramatically different leadership. >> melissa: it does feel like the city is in a free fall. in fact, new york commissioner earlier said we had to stop things here rather than this race to the bottom. let's listen. >> what is frustrating right now is to see an environment where we are seeing rising crime, seeing that pendulum swing, if you will. swinging from one extreme to the other. can't we just stop it for everyone's sake? give the officers the tools they need to keep new yorkers safe. >> melissa: there is a call to stop in the middle but to be frank, the criticism is always with the republican party in new york city and in new york state that they do not

feel candidates that are strong enough to be even unpopular democrats like bill de blasio. is it the parties fault and do they need to find new more appealing candidates and how do you do that? >> no. we've had republican m for 20 yl bill de blasio came on and i fault the radicalization of the. what you have seen is at the most radical democrat wins the primary. when you have a one party system like you do into many parts of new york city, that radical gets elected without consequences in november. we do need a stronger two-party system and we do need people to consider the republicans but also need democratic voters to reject the far left and antifa a radical anarchist wing of their party and they're not doing it. they are empowering that wing of the party. so if city hall can't do it, albany has two. albany can undo the no bail

criminals on the street. albany could stand up to the police and say we've got your backs instead of saying you'd better look behind your back because there's nobody there. the politicians aren't doing it and those of us who really care whether or not new york will have a future has to stand up. >> melissa: thank you so much for coming on. we appreciate your time. >> bret: new development in the race for a covid-19 vaccine. what scientists discovered in human trials that could potentially provide a double defense against the virus. if your dry eye symptoms keep coming back, inflammation in your eye might be to blame. looks like a great day for achy, burning eyes! over-the-counter eye drops typically work by lubricating your eyes and may provide temporary relief. ha! these drops probably won't touch me. xiidra works differently, targeting inflammation that can cause dry eye disease. what is that? xiidra, noooo!

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>> bret: some encouraging results in early covid-19 vaccine human trials in the u.k. new reports say oxford university scientists believe they may have come up with a vaccine that would

provide a double defense against the virus. dr. marc siegel is a professor of medicine at nyu langone and also a fox news contributor that joins us now. good morning. what are they talking about? >> this is very important news. what double protection means is not only does the vaccine make neutralizing antibodies and that's what neutralizing is exactly what it sounds like, antibodies that attack and killed a spike protein on the virus killing the virus bear the second layer of protection is called t-cell immunity, the other immune cell we have that goes after viruses and that is the self that really destroys viruses. it's designed to attack viruses, so the study out of oxford university being published in lancet today looking at 1,000 patients, volunteers and early trials, but that's a large number of early trials. shows that the antibodies are there and the t cells are there, doubled immunity.

what remains to be seen as they give it to 30,000 people around the world is does it work against the virus itself? if you had the virus in your system, does the vaccine protect you from being infected by it? that remains to be seen. >> bret: we have heard that it takes a long time for these trials to happen and we are on this path that is a lot faster than ever before. this is two doses four weeks apart. how fast potentially could we get there considering what they are reporting today? >> i think we can get there in an unprecedented rate. this particular vaccine could be ready by the end of the year. in operation warp speed has already set up in the united states to make 300 million doses of this vaccine if it's the one that works. so the manufacturing is not going to slow down the process here which is what's never been done before in human history. the science has been at a very

pernicious pace but they are going to the hot spots around the world, brazil, the united states, united kingdom, south africa, going to areas where there is virus and testing it right now with 30,000 people. those trials are underway. those trials should be completed by the late fall. this vaccine works, we should know by the end of the year. astrazeneca at the drugmaker signed a deal to produce 2 billion doses if this trial turns out to be accurate. the production of it is a big issue too. >> asked, and that's always what slows down vaccines and out of that 2 billion, we have 300 million contracted. but that could end up being money that is wasted if the vaccine doesn't emerge. that's the chance being taken. but that chance is very dramatic and her relic given we are trying to fight covid-19 which is an incredibly deadly virus that is spreading everywhere. so i'm all on board with this

and it may be a money waste, but it's extremely important that it is being done exactly this way. >> bret: it's good news. dr. marc siegel, think you as always. melissa? >> melissa: president trump covering a lot of ground in an exclusive interview with chris wallace. he talked about everything from his relationship with dr. fauci to whether he will accept the results if he loses in november. chris wallace joins us live ne next.

>> bret: fox news alert. the fbi hunting for the gunman who killed the son of a federal judge, critically wounding her husband at their home in new jersey. welcome to a brand-new hour of "america's newsroom." i'm bret baier. >> melissa: and i am melissa francis. sandra smith is off today. the fbi taking the lead in an investigation amid reports the gunman was dressed in a fedex uniform. the federal judge esther salas was in the basement when her son open the front door and was reportedly shot in the heart. her husband was also shot several times before the shooter took off. laura ingle has more from new brunswick, new jersey. >> good morning. a devastating crime scene you see here behind me where the son of u.s. district judge esther salas was murdered at the entrance of her home seen here

just behind me with that yellow crime scene tape. her husband is said to be in critical condition at a local hospital after undergoing surgery with his wounds. some background of what happened, multiple law enforcement agents are now involved, the fbi, u.s. marshals service, and new jersey state police investigating this deadly t apparently is the lone gunman in the case who was reportedly dressed as a fedex delivery person when he opened fire when that door was open. judge salas was reportedly in her basement at the time and was not injured. neighbors say her son daniel was a student at a catholic university in washington, d.c., and was pursuing a career in law and was the couple's only child. her husband a criminal defense attorney and former essex county new jersey prosecutor is in critical but stable condition after undergoing surgery at a nearby hospital. salas is a district judge for the district

confirmed by the senate in 2011. she is the first latina to serve as a federal judge in new jersey and is overseeing several high-profile cases in her position in new work including drug trafficking trials and fraud convictions of former real housewives of new jersey stars who were both sent to prison. i'm in just days ago, was appointed to preside over a class action lawsuit brought by investors against deutsche bank who claimed the bank failed to flag questionable transactions made by jeffrey epstein. anyone with information is urged to call police and the fbi as well and of course searching for a motive, so you've got the u.s. district judge and a criminal defense attorney who lived in this home behind me. back to you. >> melissa: really tragic, thank you for that report. >> you know why? the country in the end are not going to have a man who was shot, mentally shot.

let him come out of his basement, go around, i'll make four or five speeches a day. let biden sit through an interview like this. he'll be underground crying for mommy saying please take me home. >> we've asked them for an interview, sir. >> he can't do an interview. he is incompetent. >> bret: a wide-ranging and at times contentious interview with our own chris wallace, the president slamming what he calls faking as election polls. the latest poll released yesterday shows biden up by eight points 49-41 although trump closing the gap a bit, other surveys have biden ahead even more. chris wallace anchors fox news sunday. good morning and congratulations. you know it's a great interview when all the networks are playing sound bites over the weekend. i wanted to ask you big picture what is your biggest takeaway from the time you sat with the president? >> i think on the biggest issue that's out there, the coronavirus that he does and at this point seem to have a handle

on the best way to handle it both in terms of policy and in terms of politics. he is sitting there saying the only reason we have more cases is because we have more testing, all the indications are that yes, testing has increased, but the spread of cases, the positivity rate has increased much more and seems to be at loggerheads with some of his own top public health officials like dr. fauci, like dr. redfield ahead of the cdc. i'm not sure that's a winning strategy in terms of dealing with the coronavirus and at least if you look at the polls and one of the internal polls that we have shows that the public by 17 points trusts biden more than the president in dealing with the coronavirus. seems to me he's got to find a way to answer and to deal with that and to reassure people. he is taking it seriously and has a plan for it. >> bret: we should point out

that when you interviewed the president, you have to take a test to be able to get near him. when we see this video of you walking right there, it's because you not only were tested but sat with him for an hour in the 100-degree heat. >> it certainly was hot and one of us wanted to do it inside and one of us didn't and i think you know which when i was. but yes, you are right, everybody in the crew, the makeup artist and producer, everybody came and all had to have their noses swabbed, we all pass the test, and that's an understanding as to why the president doesn't need to wear a mask because everybody around him has been tested, but you wonder whether he can do a mandate or not is a good legal question, but if he were to press further that he has in the past on the idea that it's good to wear a mask and that it's probably away to at least get some kind of handle on this

virus that might be useful and maybe we wouldn't see this enormous spike in cases over 70,000 cases a day now. >> bret: one of the questions you ask you have asked before about the president accepting the outcome of the election, take a listen. >> you've gave a direct answer, you will accept the election? >> i have to say. i'm not just going to say yes. i didn't last time either. >> bret: that's basically the answer he gave you in the debate last cycle. >> i didn't bring that up. what happened was, i was talking to him about the question as to whether or not how he would deal with the idea of losing, and i also asked him was he a good loser just in general in sports and whatever and he immediately brought up that if he thought this was a possibility of this election was going to be rigged because of mail-in voting, we know he feels very strongly that's an opportunity for voter

fraud, which of course is talking about the election possibly being rigged in 2016. so that i said are you going to accept the selection and you got the answer there which was i'm going to have to wait and see which obviously raises the possibility if he thinks there has been undue voter fraud, he might challenge the results of the election. i was just going to say, there's another alternative here which is that he could win and he turned it around, how many of us rode him off in the summer of 2016 and he went ahead and won the presidency by a good margin in the electoral college and may do the same this time. >> bret: also pointed out that it was hillary clinton in his mind that he never gave up thinking the election was hers in the wake of 2016. he was the president on joe biden, his competitor. >> biden can't put two tet sentences together. they wheeled him out, he reads a

teleprompter, and then he goes back into his basement. >> i'm going to ask you a direct question about joe biden. is joe biden senile? >> i don't want to say that. i say he's not competent to be president. to be president coming up have to be sharp and tough and so many other things. >> bret: just from a political analysis standpoint, is there a danger here of going down this road that he and his supporters though when talking about joe biden? in other words, all biden has to do is show up on the bar is very low for him to have a success? >> it's a very good question and that's what a lot of republican strategists are worrying about. you set that bar and the expectations so low for biden in those three presidential debates, if he shows up and doesn't drool, his supporters can say he had a good debate. having said all of that, the president is out there than those broiling heat with me for an hour, took all the questions.

you can like his answers or dislike them, but he had answers and joe biden has in face that kind of scrutiny, has in face that kind of exposure yet. you've got to feel at some point, he will come out from the basement. i know he's done a few events, but pretty selective and oftentimes just reading from a teleprompter. he's going to have to be more exposed and take questions just as tough as the ones i asked this president and i hope you'll do it with me or maybe a little bit less, hope you do it with you. but he's going to have to do it with a bunch of people and of course, he will have those three debates with the president and you know the president can handle himself in these debates. i think there is an open question there, can joe biden do the same? >> bret: we ask every week as well for joe biden interviews, so we will continue to ask as well on special report. just a little bit behind the scenes, talk about the challenges with this president

in particular perhaps about challenging him, but not wanting to interrupt, but you kind of have to get ian on the breath sometimes when he is going on a long answer. >> he does like to go on and you have limited time although we did have a full hour and i was very grateful to the president and his staff are giving us the full hour and he lived up to that even in the heat, but you are exactly right. he's the president and you have to respect him and you have to respect the office and on the one hand, i wanted to do the kind of job that we do asking the tough probing questions and he was the one who challenged me for instance on the mortality rate. i was pretty sure of my facts and then he started calling aides in and they were bringing papers and we were going back

and forth on that, did the same whether or not biden in the compact had called for defunding the police. some people will say he is done in other venues but certainly didn't do it in that platform. so it was contentious, but i will say this and i give the president high marks on this. he was gracious. afterwards, we were going to do this shot and said let's go to the oval office where it was 30 degrees cooler, had a very pleasant talk. he couldn't have treated me better. he was a real gentleman. and he knew it was a tough interview and he accepts that. he understands that's the game. >> bret: congratulations, you made us all proud. >> thank you, sir. i appreciate that. >> melissa: fox news alert from the texas gulf coast, 85 babies under the age of one have tested positive for the coronavirus since march.

in in corpus christi, the county health director shows that no one is immune, the virus has been spiking in texas which reported record daily highs for infections friday. so far, the lone star state has more than 325,000 cases and nearly 4,000 deaths. >> bret: in another hot spot, florida, some icus are nearing capacity there after another day with more than 12,000 new coronavirus cases. a florida congresswoman represents the miami area and says the community is terrified and wants action. >> it's the working poor, seniors, now young people, and is totally out of control. we need to close down in flori florida. we have asked the governor to do that, and we've even asked him to do the simplest thing, and

that is to require masks for everyone. he has not done that. luckily, our mayors of the south florida done that. >> bret: former head of hhs and the clinton administration, phil keating is live with the latest. >> not only did the representative but the entirety of florida's congressional democrats are calling for the governor ron desantis to issue a new stay-at-home order as well as masks on everybody. in which the governor has so far declined to do. another 12 and a half thousand positive cases added to the tally now. 350,000 in the state death toll has now reached another unwanted benchmark, 5,000 people have succumbed to covid-19. >> curfew was in effect. >> the spread of the virus is so

concerning in touristy miami beach that city leaders have now imposed an 8:00 curfew every night in the entertainment zone like ocean drive. despite being the epicenter of the state, tourists keep coming from around the country and just the past week, florida added 80,000 new cases and the reason miami-dade and broward counties have put a freeze on airbnb and rental properties is because of house parties like this one south of orlando. the sheriff's department release a video showing one of the series of problematic house parties with clearly no concern about social distancing. some testing sites around the state are offering designated lanes specifically for people who are symptomatic so they can get their test results faster and ideally stop spreading the virus. more doses of remdesivir are coming from the federal government and most people getting themselves tested around the state are asymptomatic.

>> and we ask people when they are coming in why they were coming in, what prompted them, and what we found is 80% of the folks who were going through that drive through testing the site were not exhibiting any coronavirus symptoms, some of them just were curious. >> just about 60 miles east of miami beach is the bahamas which is now banning all entry to u.s. citizens because of the surgeon coronavirus cases. brett? >> bret: phil keating live in miami beach, thank you. >> melissa: congress considering another round of relief to help those the coronavirus has forced out of their jobs. but can lawmakers also create an incentive to go back to work? plus, the push to reopen school safely has the pandemic keep spreading. senator bill cassidy was also a doctor joins us next.

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potential breakthrough for human trials going on in the united kingdom. oxford university scientists now say they believe they may have come up with a vaccine that would provide a double defense against the virus. we talked about this with marc siegel earlier. they research was just published the journal lancet and saying it provides and produces antibodies to neutralize the virus and causes a reaction in the body's t cells which help fight off the disease. that's a double protection. saying that vaccine could be ready for mass production as soon as october. astrazeneca is behind the production. a live report on all of this coming up next. >> everybody understands the economy would only get worse. if we do not continue to support working families in our country. >> now, it's hard for people to come back to work because they are making more on unemployment than they can working. so we have to straighten that

out as we move forward. >> melissa: congress now pushing for another coronavirus relief package with only three weeks left before the august reset, house democrats passed a $3 trillion bill in may and republican leaders are heading to the white house this morning for talks on their plan for president trump and treasury secretary munition. louisiana senator bill cassidy is a republican on the house education labor and finance committee. he is also a medical doctor and if i could start there because i know one of the big contentions is whether or not kids are going back to school as a parent of three myself, very concerned about this. on one hand, you have this new research coming out of south korea that says children younger than ten transmit to others much less often than adults, but those between the

ages of ten and 19 seem to spread the virus at least as well as adults do. on the other hand, when you don't send kids to school, they risk food insecurity. a lot of kids get their meals at school, and there's a huge disparity in the damage that is being done to kids. we are actively expanding the divide between rich and poor in the sense that in some districts, 20 to 50% aren't logging into remote learning and those are along economic lines. what is the best for their health for your opinion? >> you nailed the essence of the argument. it's not because they have an increased risk of complications is because they don't want to spread it to other people. saying wipe away a year of your education knowing that you are only seven years old of 11 years old. you will never get that

opportunity to learn once more, so that we don't spread it to other people. that is an opportunity cost that particularly affects those who are less well-off. what can we do? if you have a strategy where a child is symptomatic, you check their temperature when they arrive, and then you have a testing strategy either in the community or at the school whereby if they are positive, you ask them to quarantine, then you can protect the students, teachers, staff, and students family. we couldn't do this safely and we must. >> melissa: the teachers union hall across the country has been in different spots in l.a. for example making all kinds of demands that seemingly don't seem to have that much to do with the crisis in order to go back to work, things like defunding the police, in opinion piece in "the new york times" that said don't make me risk my life in order to teach your child. what do you say to teachers who

say i don't feel good about going back to school and i don't want to risk my life? >> we must use the best medical science from the medical experts. and the medical experts will say if you do what i just described them as screen for symptoms, check the temperature and then have a testing strategy in the school than people can safely go back. by the way, the teacher does not have to approach the child bear the teacher can maintain social distancing and can wear a mask and gloves. very good study that just came out from cdc about two hairdressers that i think they interacted with 115 or 130 customers during the day. both were positive but everybody was wearing masks. they did not spread the infection. so they are cutting hair and not spreading the infection because they are following the best medical advice of the medical scientists. that's the advice i would give to anybody be it a hairdresser or a teacher, you can safely return to work.

>> melissa: the market and investors and just regular people at home are very focused on the battle over money. give us the inside scoop on where things stand on the next funding bill in your opinion. >> clearly, the president mitch mcconnell said he wants to top out at a trillian and democrats have a wish list of 3.5 trillion. the trillion is targeted for families, for schools, for testing, and for tax base for state and local government to support our police officers, teachers, firefighters, et cetera. i think that targeted approach is better, we continue to support people through the economic crisis but we do it not just with an eye for the present but also an eye for the future. >> melissa: senator, thank you so much for your time today and we appreciate it. >> bret: the latest on the coronavirus pandemic next hour including the search for that

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>> bret: this is a fox news alert from the u.s. supreme court getting word now that the supreme court will not expedite house committee cases aimed at getting access to

president trump's financial records. a bit of a formality here, but this essentially slows down the legal process for the democratic house committees run by democrats only to slow down the effort to get access to the financial records, the only dissenting vote was justice sotomayor so this means it will be a long time if that legal case moves forward to get access to the president's financial records. meantime, the coronavirus pandemic tops the economy is the most important issue in the country. the latest fox news poll mack of registered voters, joe biden leading. they trust biden to do a better job at the coronavirus pandemic and telling chris wallace some states are rolling back the rio openings for political reasons.

>> the end of the year will be 10.5%. j.pjpmorgan says it will contrat with states now rolling back some of the reopening. there are a lot of republicans states that are doing it like texas. >> they will be open very soon pair there's no reason. to be doing what they are doing. >except for november 3rd. >> bret: that's bring in our panel. a former advisor to john kerry and the gopac chairman, thank you for being here. listen to the president there, clearly believes this is politically motivated on the part of some states, but if you look at the issues that matter most in the latest fox news poll mack, coronavirus takes the biggest number. as of today.

>> the fox news poll mack makes it clear that this is a referendum on donald trump's handling of covid-19, period, false. it's by a 2-1 margin over the economy. so the only way to deal with his political problems is to deal with covid-19 and he is underwater on all the elements of this covid-19 problem going back to schools, all of it. when he moved to the next issue which is the economy, you can fix the economy until you fix covid-19. that the collateral damage here. and it now has mandatory masks, now has rolled back its reopening, donald trump and everybody in the country should do and at the political consequences for donald trump. >> bret: your response to that? >> keep in mind that even in the fox poll mack from june to july,

president trump close the gap by three points. let's also look at consistently the fox news poll mack that president trump is as strong with his base now as he was then. the question as we look through these next couple of months is can biden keep his base when he has really two different constituencies. he has a very progressive side of his party that he needs to keep excited and want to go out and vote and the enthusiasm amongst them is not nearly as strong as it is amongst republicans according to public research and also, he has to try to win over those suburban voters who honestly aren't going to like the agenda he has to talk about to win his base whether that be getting rid of private insurance, whether that be getting the green deal, all of that said, 30 days out is really what's going to matter as far as where do voters see the economy and where they see covid. these expedited testing of

vaccines are going in the right direction, that's a positive for the president. and as people start casting their votes 30 days out, if the economy is good just like in 2012, voters said we might not like everything about barack obama, but we don't want to change forces as the economy is starting to improve. the president has those type of environments 30 days out, he wins reelection. >> bret: let's look at the states that are changing their dynamics, the future of texas. >> the future of the country and the american dream are very much at stake in 2020. never said anything like this. in texas, the stakes are especially high.

texas is the key of national domination for years to come. the democrats win texas, it's all over. >> bret: you look at the real clear politics average of polls in texas, joe biden is outperforming for any recent democrat has been at this point in a presidential race, you are a political strategist, some states like texas that have been like lucy on the football on charlie brown where democrats think they're going to do it at the last minute, it's taken away. a it is realistic to say democrats are going to fight in texas? >> joe biden's spending money in texas of bond tv with ads and the ad is talking about covid-19. not only all the things that need to be done but being empathetic and sympathetic for what people are going through when that started two weeks

before the blaze of covid-19 crossing texas. so the worst-case scenario for democrats in texas is it will add to the popular vote, we probably picked up congressional seats, may be a senate seat and if democrats win texas, it's game over. that's it, it's over. i agree with ted cruz breed of democrats win texas which we haven't done since 1976, it's game over. >> bret: last word here. is making the map look different and then again, the caveat is a long way to go, but fighting on a number of different fronts. >> if barack obama couldn't win in 2008 and 2012 and his alumni and hillary clinton couldn't win, they are inferior number two and joe biden isn't going to win texas. this is going to be the republican alamo, take a look at jane nelson and texas state senate district 12. a district that democrats have

crept up on and made competitive. president trump loses state senate district 12 and jane nelson goes down in her bid for reelection, maybe it is the alamo for republicans but as i said, if barack obama couldn't win it, is inferior number two is not going to win it. >> bret: as always, thank you very much. we have a long way to go. >> melissa: protests in the pacific northwest showing no signs of slowing down. 12 police curtain seattle as protesters loot stores. meanwhile, another night of chaos in portland. what will it take to get things under control? and could we soon see indictments in the durham probe of the russia investigation? president trump's former deputy national security advisor on that next.

>> the fbi did not act appropriately as they were investigating. it's all starting to come unraveled and i tell you, it's time that people go to jail.

>> melissa: white house chief of staff mark meadows is hinting indictments could be intermittenimmanence.it's time o jail. let's bring in former deputy national security advisor for president trump and author of the new book revolution trumped washington and we the people. thank you so much for joining us. i know that you said this really hits home for you, why is that? >> an increased number of documents are coming out showing that they administration when they were plotting how they were going to go after president-elect trump and his

senior officials in the intelligence community, the investigation on the fbi, what they were scheming even in the trump administration was something about the logan act and other things, that was their whole excuse for going after president trump my general flynn, myself. in fact, when they came to me, they said they really wanted me to plead guilty to confess that the trump administration had violated the logan act and when nye laughed at them and said that's like a joke in the foreign policy community, they said no, the logan act is really serious, and i said how you guys even know about the logan act? and they said we know about it because we just looked it up. we never heard of it before. come on, this is not even a real thing and they knew it wasn't a real thing and yet, they pursued me, general flynn obviously in a very different and serious way all because they wanted to get to president trump. and now the evidence is coming out. the differences when the first

stories were coming out in 2017, it was always anonymous sources say, but now there is cold hard evidence. turns out these senior officials in the intelligence community of the fbi all took notes. they all texted each other, all had handwritten notes, so there is no disputing the fact that there is cold hard evidence and from what i'm hearing, the durham investigation and the justice department is getting to the point where i think we can expect some indictments before the end of the summer. >> melissa: here's what mark meadows had to say to maria bartiromo yesterday about that issue. take a listen. >> the american people expect an indictment. i know i expect indictments based on the evidence i've seen. lindsey graham did a good job getting that out. we know they not only knew there wasn't a case, but they continue to investigate and spy.

>> melissa: so my big question is how do you keep that, what you would call the correct punishment from looking just as political as what happen in the first place to the public? it looks like it is just a slap back politics as usual. >> that's an important question to ask and i think the attorney general already talked about that and said we are not going to have a tit for tat. what we are going to do is charge people with cold, hard facts and evidence. it's not going to be anonymous sources, rumors, reports of. will actually be evidence in their own hands and in their own words. i think when nobody's talked about and what i've noticed in the last couple of weeks is more and more documents coming out, who have we not seen on the airwaves? we used to hear from jim comey and clapper and mccabe. they haven't been around, why? i think they are feeling the heat and if there are going to

be indictments coming before labor day or before the end of the summer, my guess is that heat has turned up really high on some of those people and at the end of the day, if an indictment comes down, then you can always go to court. i was willing to say you guys want to charge me with a crime? i'll defend myself in court, and i think i would've won that and it would have been a hard fight so let's see now that there is cold hard evidence that these people have violated the law. >> melissa: that is a fascinating point and you are right, haven't seen them on tv lately. thank you for coming on, we appreciate your time. >> bret: is the so-called cancel culture grows, seeing more and more boycotts of celebrities or businesses that say or do something people don't like. some people now saying big tech is making it a lot easier to ruin careers and destroy companies grade more on that next. as a caricature artist, i appreciate what makes each person unique.

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>> melissa: gioia just the latest target of the so-called cancel culture and some experts say big tech and social media are helping with the attack. let's bring in david as men, anchor of bulls and bears on the fox business network. thank you for joining us. so one of the things people may not realize is that all of social media and all of these different platforms whether it is google search results or twitter when somebody reacts to something amplified by an algorithm it just gets much bigger much faster. is that right? >> absolutely. these social media platforms get paid more money depending on how many eyeballs are looking at it. that's the key. they are basically a more realistic when it comes to having a dog in a particular fight going on in social media.

but the more people who look at their site and pay attention to their platform means that they can charge advertisers more money and nothing gets more eyeballs than outrage. so the more outraged that they have on their site, the better either from someone who is in favor of what this cancel culture means or someone who is absolutely against it. they both create outrage and that creates more viewership. goya as you mentioned is the most recent example. is political of course as well as corporate, but you have an intersection of the two. there was a franchise owner, a wendy's franchise owner who got -- was the recipient of one of these cancel culture campaigns and all he did was exercise his first amendment right to send money to the trump campaign. and that alone is caused to be canceled now by this particular culture or environment. but it is being the fuel of the fire is coming from these social media platforms who were

doing all they can with these algorithms are not necessarily intentionally although there might be some of that. we know they have their ideologies as well but primarily, the algorithms kick in automatically depending on how much outreach these culture platforms generate. >> melissa: there is an even more nefarious underbelly to this whole story. more than just worrying about which pop culture figure it's going to lose their show or is going to become unpopular, but there are other nations meddling as well. what does china have to do with this? >> china got into this whole canceling business a couple of years ago and they did it for their old wow own personal interest, usually had to do with companies that did something against their political correctness, something dealing with taiwan for an issue that they care about, but that has now trends more focused into something even more nefarious

where their views of who would be better or worse for them in the election whether it's in the presidential side or even in local elections can cause them to get these bots where electronically they generate thousands or hundreds of thousands, sometimes even millions of tweets or other kind of notices on social platforms indicating that there is a vox populate movement against a particular idea. a lot of these campaigns have been traced back to china now and the question of whether that qualifies as election meddling is now a very legitimate question. >> melissa: so what is the answer? someone wanting to put the onus back on these companies in order for them to regulate their site and at the same time, part of me thinks we are all getting a lot

smarter. you see something catch fire and you're like who could be pushing this? >> we saw the kick back against the cancel goya movement that a lot of people are saying by matt goya now. the fact is, the social media platforms, most of them are very open to both sides of the equation. yes, they have in the past tried to skew them one way or the other, cancel culture is never a good thing. we have seen it before with book burning. i hope it ends one way or the other. >> melissa: thank you so much. we will be right back.

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>> bret: chaos on the streets in the pacific northwest as protest spiral out of control escalating into riots and looting into comajor american cities and now federal agents are on the scene, controversial move but can the feds clean up the streets? welcome to "america's newsroom." our third hour. i'm bret baier bret baier. >> melissa: and i'm melissa francis in today for sandra smith. protesters in portland on the streets for more than 50 days in a row now and last night, they surrounded the courthouse with federal forces moving in. north in seattle, rioters trying to set a police precinct on fire. the very same building that

officers abandoned during the so-called occupation. >> protesters lit mortar type fireworks and then threw them at officers at very close range.an find, maim, and kill people in shorter distances. >> bret: dan springer is live in seattle, dan? >> this is not random, this appears to be a coordinated effort to create chaos in portland and seattle. we did not see black lives matter protesters in either city yesterday. what we saw were young agitators and anarchists who were bent on violence and really trying to provoke a response from police. here in seattle, people dressed in all black carrying baseball bats and businesses among them starbucks and macy's and the amazon store was also vandalized and looted but the worst violence happened at two seattle police precincts. rioters try to break in the west precinct and when they were

stopped, some in the crowd through fireworks and injuring at least a dozen and sending one to the hospital. windows at the east precinct were broken and a small fire set inside. in portland, protest for the 53rd night in a row and like most of them ended in violence, writers took dow surveillance camera. federal officers eventually came outside and push the crowd back with tear gas and left lethal munitions. portland police did not engage it all in the city's mayor blames the violence on the presence of federal officers. >> we have dozens if not hundreds of federal troops descending upon our city and what they are doing is they are sharply escalating the situation. their presence here is actually leading to more violence and more vandalism. >> but portland was besieged by violence long before federal officers arrive to defend the

courthouse and other federal buildings in the city. last week, chad wolf, the acting director of homeland security to the area and pushed back against the growing number of local critics. >> we are trying to hold those folks accountable. what we are not going to do is allow them to attack a courthouse and simply step across the street onto city property and say you can't touch me. that's not how this works. you're going to be a criminal, do criminal acts, we will arrest you and hold you accountable. >> we are expecting this week to hear from the federal government that they will be more actions like what they are taking in portland and other u.s. cities and by the way, yesterday with all the chaos and violence in portland and seattle, only two arrests made here in seattle. >> bret: dan springer live in seattle, thank you. so they want federal officers to leave. should they have been deployed there in the first place? will ask judge napolitano about the constitutionality of that move when he joins us minutes

from now. >> melissa: meanwhile, president trump address the protests in portland. he tweeted "the radical left democrats who totally control biden will destroy our country as we know it. unimaginably bad things would happen to america. look at portland, where the polls are just fine with 50 days of anarchy." look at new york, chicago, philadelphia, no. chief white house correspondent john roberts is live on the north lawn with more on this. >> good morning to you. as dan springer just pointed out, that total count is up to 53 days of straight violence. at oregon's attorney general is suing the federal government claiming that federal officers have been involved in unlawful law enforcement and violation of civil rights. portland's mayor wants federal forces to leave in the local police no longer allowing federal officers to use their

facilities anymore. back in june, the president signed an executive order dispatching forces to defend federal buildings, monuments, and statues including the federal courthouse they were in portland which comes under siege nightly. in an interview with chris wallace, the president defending that action. listen here. >> you look at what's going on in portland, those are anarchists. here we've arrested many of these leaders, if we didn't take that stand right now, you would have a problem. they're going to lose portland. >> also asked about the novembed whether the president would accept the results of that election if things don't go his way. listen to his answer. >> and you give a direct answer, you will accept the election? >> i have to see. i'm not just going to say yes and i didn't last time either. >> this morning, house speaker nancy pelosi saying she is not worried whether the president accepts the results are not saying measures are in place for a transition of power.

>> got to building it will never happen but there is a process. has nothing to do with a certain occupant of the white house doesn't see it moving and it has to be fumigated out of there because the presidency is the presidency, not geography or location. >> from later on this afternoon, this evening when he meets with the trump international hotel with his fund-raising committees but kevin mccarthy will be here at the white house to talk to the president and the chief of staff about what would be in a phase four stimulus package. expected to unveil the outline of that on this week, the president wants to ensure that any measure includes a payroll tax cut for employees. melissa? >> melissa: fumigated out of there, that's where we are. john roberts, thank you for that. he has, there you go. >> bret: breaking news on what might be the biggest

breakthrough yet in the search for a vaccine for covid-19, new report dropping in the lancet medical journal a short time ago describing promising work at oxford university that could have a vaccine ready by the fall. where is that? joining us now, dr. stephen hahn, fda commissioner. thank you for being here. what we know about it. >> thanks for having me. that's a report of an early stage clinical trial showing that it was tolerable, seem to be safe in this early stage trial but also it stimulated a strong immune response, both antibodies which we hear about in the news as well as what is called a killer tea response which is the cellular response. this is important. at the end of the day, we have to wait for the data to come in from the larger clinical trials in larger groups of patients to help us determine whether the vaccine is ultimately safe or effective. >> bret: this is 1,000, they said they have 10,000 pending

and 30,000 in the u.s. you look optimistically, how fast could something turn around those big numbers? >> that really depends upon when that large clinical trial is complete, and hopefully we are all looking for a vaccine to get here as soon as possible and i am cautiously optimistic. so our vaccine guidance as we put out which really gets to the issue of what does the fda want to see to make that judgment, to call the balls and strikes around safety and efficacy and that large clinical trial will be it. we want to make sure the right populations are included including vulnerable populations. we want to see that data ultimately to make those decisions and can assure the american people we want to cut corners on that, we will use our standard approach that has been tested for years to determine safety and efficacy. >> bret: short of a vaccine, where are we on therapeutics and will there be some efforts that

are sped up in that front before the fall? for example, blood plasma, is that still something you are looking at to get a national people who have had coronavirus to donate? >> absolutely. so we are in a fundamentally different place now than we were back in march and april. we have a number of therapeutics that dividers can use right now, remdesivir, dexamethasone, the study with dexamethasone showed a 30% reduction in mortality for six patients with covid-19. we have the plasma program in over 58,000 patients in the country have been enrolled in this program. look at how well plasma works. we have seen data that shows it is safe and remember, this is where you take the plasma or the protein portion of the blood from someone who recovers from covid and give that natural immunity to someone who sticks with it, they have been treated with it and more on the way and

one thing i want to encourage americans if you have been infected with covid and recovered, please go donate because although the data is out and we are looking at them, it could save a life. >> bret: what about those tests in california suggested that the antibody somehow wayne or they disappear over time and that is frustrating efforts here in the u.s. >> thank you for that question because this is a really important point for the american people to understand. is very natural after an infection for antibodies to wayne. that is, to go down with time. the body has a remarkable resiliency and in response to reinfection, antibodies can come back up. but we also saw from that oxford study as it is not just antibodies, it's the cellular response, it is those t cells, the immune cells can also fight the infection. going back to our vaccine guidance, one of the reasons we stipulate what they want to see from a vaccine is either the

prevention of infection or lessening of the severity of infection. what we all care about is that a vaccine works to either prevent or lessen it so when it turns into the common cold. that's important at this point. we get data showing that these antibody responses or the cellular responses correlate to the protection, then that's a different ball game and we can take a different regulatory approach but for now, really interested in the clinical outcome from the vaccine, not so much the antibody story. >> bret: how concerned are you about the people who would take the vaccine? the poll out today that suggests those numbers, some who just won't take it because even if they take one that they consider effective, what is the concern on your part, there is the poll there, definitely or not, probably not, some would wait a couple of iterations before with they would take it, what is your

concern about that? >> i am concerned with all vaccines, they are a proven way of preventing disease, one of the most cost-effective ways and bottom-line effective ways of preventing disease. we have a lot of experience with vaccines. i think the mistrust is an issue. one of the things we are trying to do that fda by providing that guidance, doing as much as possible is to let the american people know that we have incredible expertise at the fda. these are known worldwide as people who can assess the safety and efficacy and as i mentioned before, we are going to do the right thing in judging this and i hope that by being very transparent and giving regulatory clarity about what we need to see, we can provide the american people confidence that when we make a decision about safety and efficacy that is made with the absolute best science and medicine. >> bret: last thing, the president keeps saying more testing gives more positive cases. testing is up 37%. cases are up 194%.

with positives on the rise. we just definitively can say that this virus is outperforming testing and that's just not the case? >> what i can tell you is the virus is here with us. we have to address it. there are an increased number of cases, a component of that is testing, but a component of that also was the fact that the virus is still among us and we have to take it seriously and follow the public health advice and as you know this past weekend, we issued guidance around pooling, so one of the things that fda is interested in doing is trying to increase testing as much as possible. pooling is one strategy to do that. that is one tool in the toolbox but every day, we are looking at new tests and new authorizations to try to get more into the market. >> bret: think you for your time. >> melissa: a fishing trip turned deadly for three best friends made their bodies found beaten and shot at a

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>> bret: a mysterious triple murder in the middle of nowhere. police saying the three friends were going ice fishing when one of their fathers got a call back home. was his son on the phone begging for help. the database to that lake mchugh found with the sheriff calls one of the worst scenes he's ever come across. william la jeunesse's life with more. william? >> three things police are not telling us his motive. why were these men killed, possible suspects, and what was said in that phone call between one of the victims and his father moments before he died. this happened friday night,

three men meet to go night fishing. the first arrives and is attacked, but his friends arrived moments later and they are beaten, then shot. the sheriff called it a massacre. who is offering a $5,000 reward for information for what they believe is more than one killer. this happened in florida, a rural area of citrus groves east of tampa, population 3,000. one victim before he died called his father who arrived in 10 minutes but the attackers were already gone. the sheriff has said this is an area where kids hang out and drink and use drugs but these were not kids. with two others were 30 and 33 and this is not an area you stumble on. the sheriff has said the attack is not random but has not revealed if any of the victims had prior criminal record which may or may not shed light on why this happened. back to you. >> bret: thank you. melissa? >> melissa: for more on this now, we have polk county

sheriff grady judd. thank you so much for joining us. are there any other details you can share other than what we just heard right there for example, what do you know about any of the backgrounds of anyone who was involved? >> we have been investigating this 24/7 since friday night when it occurred, and you pretty well encapsulated what we were releasing to the public. we have followed up over 100 tips up to this point. we are following leads as we speak, but we still don't have it figured out. and that's why we need the community to help us. and that's why it's important, just think, put yourself in the place of this father. he receives a cell phone call and all he hears from his son is. to see his son and his two best buddies all shot up, just a horrible scene. holding his son who was taken his last breath, that's the kind

of case we are investigating here, and we need the community to help us out. >> melissa: it does sound like based on the fact that they were in such a remote location and it happened so quickly that the perpetrators of this crime were laying in wait. is that right and what does it tell you about the crime? >> we don't know what we don't know at this time but what we can tell you is this county is 2,000 square miles. our population center is kind of in the north central part, the 700,000. we were in the very south end of the county is really remote, it is a small clay road that goes from nowhere to nowhere. is not the main road. is not where you would think there was a lot of traffic. so that's probably why the kids hang out, smoke, do dope, and drink on the weekends.

but these weren't kids, so we don't know if they interrupted a crime in progress. we don't know if somebody was laying in wait. what we suspect is when damien arrived, he was shot first, and our other two victims, both brandon and his buddy when they arrived in the white pickup truck, they were shot up because they had been on the scene of the first murder. we have three people. what is more wholesome on a friday night, we have three people that were viciously murdered. they were massacred, and we need the community's solve this. >> melissa: i'm actually familiar with this on the idea of all of these people showing up at a same place at the same time by accident. as you said, there are many lakes there, many places to go

fishing, is there any indication to you that the victims knew their attackers? >> your very intuitive because you're exactly right. this road only serves orange groves and orange grove owners and cattlemen and cattle operations in the lake. we have no indication or no idea of what occurred, but as you know, it is a tight-knit community. everyone literally knows everybody in this tiny town in the south end of the county. so it would not be unlikely that there is some relationship there or past relationships or we don't know if there's a road rage because our friends trucks were parked side-by-side. did they block the road and make somebody mad or did somebody block them off? that's all under investigation right now.

i hope you'll come back and give us an update and we hope this terrible crime gets solved, thank you for coming on today, we appreciate it. >> we are here to do everything we can to solve it sooner rather than later and the folks watching the show can help us make it sooner. >> bret: thank you a lot. updating or breaking news this morning, potential game changer with covid-19 breaking down promising results from a new vaccine trial and why this trial is different. plus, the trump campaign trying out a new ad strategy targeting a whole new group of voters but will it work? from 2020 campaign national press secretary hogan gidley joins us on that next. newday usa is helping veteran families with a va loan save $3,000 a year. that's me. our va streamline refi takes just one call to start the process.

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