our annual reminder to try to figure out the dvr if possible and if so, congratulations, beyond our capability. have a great night and now, sean hannity takes over from new york. >> sean: people can make mone money, goods and services, that's america, called freedom, capitalism and as long as it's honest, right? great show. welcome to hannity. this is now just breaking just the second, literally a minute ago, nine people were just shot in the city of chicago according to the "chicago tribune," getting the details and we will bring them to you in a moment. nine people just now and the hysteria on the left completely out of control, it's hurting our country. we see it in american cities were hating president trump clearly has become more important to democrats than the safety of innocent men, women, and yes, children. it's repulsive and beyond psychotic madness, also seeing this mania all through

washington, d.c., for the swamp, the media mob rating against the white house. press secretary kayleigh mcenany on a daily basis responds tonight and will join us in a moment. but we also see this far left hysteria in the fight against coronavirus. believe it or not, liberal democrats like schumer hates donald trump so much, doesn't want him updating the american people while people are worried, they want updates, they deserve updates, some are suffering. we want to end the invisible enemy and destroy it. we are well on our way and will have an update tonight. speaker pelosi literally calling the coronavirus the trump virus and using terms like stormtroopers. how sick is this radical group of socialists and how repulsive? also today, fake news cnn as they have done in the past where they don't take any of the president's comments are updates on covid-19, let's try and stump

trump portion starts. hoping for a gotcha moment only, not showing viewers all of the important facts, statistics and updates that are important to american families, and by the way by it a teleprompter, very bizarre today, doesn't take any questions during that short frankly dumb presser. his words are meaningless because by it, schumer, pelosi now have 125 years combined failure and broken promises in the swamp. who knows if biden is even able to really truly answer tough unscripted questions. that has yet to be determined. is now clear fake news cnn is nothing but a range of failed vindictive trump cult. they hate trump so much they don't even want their own viewers to decide for themselves and hear critical life-saving information, progress surrounding covid-19, new information on therapeutics, advancement with vaccines,

pretty pathetic and also predictable and here are the statistics that fake news cnn viewers didn't get today. fatalities in the u.s. have fallen since april, our covid-19 fatality rate is now lower than the entire e.u. and most other countries in the world. children have a near zero fatality risk, hospital stays have now been cut in half, stockpiles, ppe, medical treatments, medicines are surging. testing capacity is now quadrupled in just the last 60 days alone. the united states has conducted now almost 50 million tests, more than any other country on earth. india comes in second with 12 million tests and we have now conducted 50% more test per capita than europe, three times more than the rest of the western hemisphere combined. now, there have been zero unfulfilled equipment and supply requests from state governors even in the sun belt, these

so-called hot zones are hot spots and to date, all states and the administration have sufficient hospital capacity. and by the way, now nearly 7,000 national guard, military medical personnel in texas, california, florida, and arizona. the president also sent senior officials to nine states to coordinate the efforts on the ground. you wouldn't know it if you were watching fake news, but last but not least, to go vaccines, actually over 100, but two now, madura and astrazeneca and that oxford study entering the final phase of testing. and they start that in four days and that's for vaccines and they have made tremendous progress. used to take years to break down the sequence of a virus. we now did it in six weeks, a record. will have a record time for a vaccine as well. therapeutics dramatically improving, thank god. at first vaccine that clears the final testing threshold will be

made available immediately, president outlined a full logistical support from the federal government and the u.s. military to get it out to where it needs to be as quickly as possible. why wouldn't fake news cnn want to highlight this impressive progress? that's right, because it exposes them. and it might actually show donald trump is doing his job. everything they've been telling their viewers, conspiracy theories, hoaxes, lies, never ending. by the way, president trump never stopped working. the pandemic is not spiraling out of control as they projected nightly. is the worst pandemic since 1918 losing one life is way too many. the situation is getting better, not worse and by the way, and of these people on tvs and no democrats supported the travel ban ten days after the first identified case in coronavirus and the subsequent travel bands on the first quarantine in over 15 years. that alone become a huge decision to save lives. this administration has

fulfilled every request from every state governor. take a look. >> fatalities nationwide have fallen. 75% since mid-april. that's a great number has cases and fatalities rise in certain hard-hit states which you are looking at right now. we are imploring young americans to avoid packed bars and other crowded indoor gatherings, be safe and be smart. surging testing capacity to identify and isolate cases. this includes a newly approved testing platform to nursing homes across the south, being very vigilant with respect to nursing homes, ultimately our goal is not merely to manage the pandemic, but the end it. we want to get rid of it as soon as we can. that is by getting a vaccine remains a top priority. >> sean: showing viewers these important facts about america's significant progress in the fight against covid-19, the mob,

the media, the fellow democratic socialists would rather ribs as of late compulsively trash the president. nancy pelosi now actually going this far saying it's not the wuhan virus has fake news cnn once called it, not the chinese virus, not allowed to say that, she is calling at the trump virus. of course. the dog bites, the bee stings, if you're feeling sad, blame donald trump. you cure cancer, they blame donald trump. >> recognize this mistakes he has made now embracing mask wearing and the recognition that it's not a hoax, it is a pandemic that has gotten worse before it will get better because of his inaction and clearly, it is the trump virus. >> sean: so where was nancy and chuck and all the democrats on january 31st after the first identified case from january 21st 10 days after what he was putting in place that

hysterical xenophobic fearmongering travel ban and the subsequent travel ban and the quarantine, that's right, they were impeaching them while ignoring quid pro quo joe in zero experience hunter. in addition to using it as a political weapon, democrats are also engaging in their other favorite past time conspiracy theories. as of late, favorite hoax president trump will refuse to leave the white house white house. he loses in november emma they believe this. take a look. >> the first thing we should be doing now is understanding that the president is already doing to the u.s. postal service. he has sent his henchmen over to run it and already getting complaints from people who are saying that they believe the president of the united states is managing the delivery system, slowing it down, interfering with people being able to get their mail. we met we are looking at a trial

run for a genuine attempt through intimidation and potentially through force to try to steal this election. >> i think it is a fair point to raise as to whether or not if he loses, he is going to go quietly or not. and we have to be ready for th that. >> sean: okay. you can imagine, white house press secretary kayleigh mcenany has to deal with this on a daily basis. jonathan karl, abc news tried to ask a gotcha question about the situation in portland, kayleigh mcenany was prepared. let's take a look. >> where in the constitution does the president derive the authority to send federal law enforcement officers to the streets of american cities against the will of elected officials in those cities? >> what you're referring to is portland and 40 u.s. code 1315

gives dhs the ability to deputize officers in any department or agency like as custom and border patrol and secret service secret service and officers and agents can be deputized for the duty in connection with the protection of property owned or occupied by the federal government and persons on that property and when a federal courthouse is being lit on fire, commercial fireworks get being shot at it, i think that falls pretty well within the limits of that code. >> sean: by the way, we have an update on what has just happened breaking literally 10 minutes ago, now 11 people confirm shot tonight, "chicago tribune" and the city of chicago. 70 shot this weekend, ten died and one child was ten and another was 11. we will have more on portman, chicago, new york city, and all the other liberal run cities for decades in a moment, but first, we have two more clips from today's briefing. at one point, sounded like a reporter calling the press secretary allying b word.

others heard the reporter say she didn't want to engage. okay. i literally did my own poll of my staff. they say it's 50/50. but learned earlier might be a history of using that word but we give the benefit of the doubt, we will let you decide. >> is there a question about mass mail out voting, and i know you don't want to hear them, which is why you talk over me but i encourage you to read the op-ed. >> on the china vaccine resear research. >> okay, you don't want to engage. >> sean: my staff, formal poll, 50/50. i give the benefit of the doubt. remember, this show was the show that doesn't rush to judgment. we stand strongly against boycotts, silent voices that we disagree with and never call for anybody's firing, we let people decide and while it's not totally clear what was uttered under the breath, it's obvious these briefings are incredibly tense, always combative and at the very end of the presser, one

reporter even screaming at the press secretary kayleigh mcenany to wear a mask. take a look. >> wear a mask! >> sean: okay. in case you don't know this, anyone that surround the president is tested every single day. anyone that is around joe biden is tested every single day, which i believe is the right thing to do. the shaming game is total b.s., just another day of the press secretary dealing with the glowingly hostile media, a lot of money to get paid for hating president trump every second, every minute, every hour of every day. joining us now, press secretary kayleigh mcenany. i don't think you can pay me enough money to do that job. you're doing a great job, sarah sanders as others have before you. let's start with the environment there. do you have any thoughts on you

now have listen to the tape and heard what i think i heard the members of my staff disagree with me on? >> i told my staff and my staff was 50/50, but unlike with the media does to me, does to this president, does to anyone in the trump administration which is not to give us the benefit of the doubt but actively take this out of context, chop up our words in a way that's politically convenient to them and distorts the entirety of the message. unlike the dishonest brokers i've seen in the media, i won't do that to a reporter who showed animosity, who was cruel and rude and wasn't taking answers for the american people. i'll give her the benefit of the doubt if she says she didn't say that, something they have never given this president actively taken out of context. >> sean: and then this mask shaming thing that is happening. you are around the president or joe biden and joe biden has admitted this, everybody gets covid tested. that would mean you are tested

probably every day, my guess. i know that the people in the room are tested every day. that means they are very safe. president pulled out his mess today, encourage social distancing, mask wearing, but then cnn won't even run him explaining all the updates on this, but they only get to the part where they can play gotcha with the president and to me, it's a dereliction of duty. it's their bias, their cult of hatred, their psychosis about anything donald trump. >> that's exactly right. on march 31st, this president was asked about masks. he said if you want to wear a face in covering, where one. does no harm. by all means, where one. then the cdc came out with guidelines and a set of opposing face coverings and mask said it's recommended but not required. the president was ahead of the game because he was behind the game? the white house press corps. a full month later when i did my

first briefing, i looked around the room, no one was wearing masks. so it's very interesting to see the politically convenient white house press corps when that was never the case, always has been open to it. >> this is just breaking as we come on the air. including a 10-year-old and 11-year-old. we are seeing them die in brooklyn, 8-year-old in atlanta, 7-year-old in chicago and saw the autonomous summer of love zone, murders that took place in injuries of others. calling it a war zone. 11 people shot as of now just tonight in chicago. you got a lot of questions, what is the president's authority to have the authority to protect these cities that are war zones, i would argue when i think the attorney general has had i think many other attorneys, the

insurrection act is clear, i would warn the president against doing it unless it's absolutely necessary, but these governors and mayors seem to hate the president and they want to yell at him rather than protect the roman citizens at this point and i don't understand that. >> that's exactly right. mayor lori lightfoot of chicago has lost control of her city. bill de blasio of new york city has lost control of his city. these democratic governors have lost control of their streets and there is a human cost. we need to know their names. lost her life in atlanta, you have who lost his life out in kansas city and at least in misery, you had a governor who came to the president and said i want federal help, whatever i can do to make sure what happened never happens again. that's what a responsible governor does but instead you have derelict mayors and children dying and it's unacceptable and this president will always stand up for those children, and that's what i love so much about president trump.

>> sean: kayleigh mcenany, thank you. couldn't pay me enough to do that job but you do it very well. tonight is we are telling you, horrible news in the city of chicago again, reports now at least 11 people were just shot near a funeral home in the cities southside. so far this year, more than 1900 americans have been shot, more than 370 have been shot and killed in chicago. there were 82 murders in the month of july alone. you have an incompetent mayor and again, what do all the cities we talk about have in common? decades of democratic rule. in this case, mayor lightfoot saying don't want any more federal help. in portland, get out of her city but first, clean up the graffiti. portland, oregon, for nearly two months chaos has ensued with the violent riots nearly every single night. cops are injured daily. businesses, property destroyed daily. innocent people are not safe. democratic politicians allowing the rioters and anarchists to wreak havoc on the city's

downtown districts. and get this, oregon's governor kate brown, portland's dumb mayor ted wheeler working together to prevent police from dispersing violent crowds, even using tear gas, the method you use to disperse crowds as buildings were led on fire and vandalized. city officials prevented law enforcement from protecting life and property and getting injured in the process, even federal buildings have now come under attack. dhs secretary chad wolf noted the administration has a duty to protect these important structures when local leaders fail to do their job and maintain peace and safety and security and law and order. take a look. >> we support and we will protect those who want to peacefully protest. unfortunately, what we are seeing in portland every night from midnight to 4:30 a.m. or 5:00 a.m. is the complete opposite. these individuals congregate in the same area night after night. we see them plan their attacks.

and yet, the city of portland takes little to no action to stop or disburse this crowd. the law is clear on what our authority entails. specifically, federal statute states that the secretary of homeland security and encoding shall protect buildings, grounds, and property that are owned, occupied, and secured by the federal government. >> sean: democratic politicians and oregon, all these liberal cities and states outraged the federal government is trying to protect federal property and courthouses. oregon's governor calling federal law enforcement officers secret police, floating in the same conspiracy theories that they are objecting people. meanwhile portland's mayor just called federal officers and said they are un-american. let's look. >> this is just crazy. we coming to the end of our nightly demonstrations, the part where people were vandalizing and some scattered acts of violence, but we saw the energy coming out of that and that it would be done in a couple of

days and the tactics they are using are very un-american. >> sean: wow, okay. guys that risked their lives to protect and serve, of course we see a similar level of insane rhetoric on the national level. nancy pelosi calling officers stormtroopers, congressman clyburn, comparing them to gestapo. take a look. >> in this president and this attorney general seem to be doing everything they possibly can to impose gestapo activities in local communities, and that is what i have been warning about for a long time. >> sean: let's get this straight, democrats in portland, oregon, allow violent riots to fester for two straight months. trying to stop buildings from burning, protecting federal property, that is their job. they are the villains? absolute, total insanity and

frankly psychotic madness. these democrats have no desire clearly to protect innocent men, women, and children in their cities and towns. they have abandoned what is their number one responsibility, to protect people. and now they are more interested in bashing president trump and accepting help when they desperately needed them a playing politics with people's lives, pathetic, repulsive, sick, disgusting, and america deserves better. in chicago, the mayor they are, 11 people shot just now announcing federal officers will not be welcome in her city. this comes because one alderman's home an officer both were vandalized in recent weeks. here with reaction, dan bongino, geraldo rivera and the chicago alderman we mentioned raymond lopez. can you update us on what's going on tonight and what happened to you? >> good evening, sean. good evening, everyone. i received a report that approximately 17 people have been shot.

>> sean: 17 people? >> 17 people. it's unconfirmed at this point but we will seem more information as the night progresses. >> sean: it takes my breath away. they are angry president trump is protecting federal property. they spend more time lecturing the president than the anarchists that are violent, committing acts of arson and looting. i'm having a hard time understanding this mind-set that your hatred of donald trump surpasses your desire for these people to protect their men, women, and children. makes absolutely no sense to me. >> i would love alderman lopez tell joe biden, nancy pelosi, hillary clinton, and the others in the democratic leadership that it's now up to 17 shot. last weekend, 50 shot. >> sean: 70 last weekend. >> how many more will be shot

and killed before we recognize that this is a crisis, this is an urban civil war, this is a ghetto circular firing squad. people are dying, men, women, and children are being shot, and they obsess about nothing. they obsess about theater. they obsess about demonstrators being herded off the streets. when they look at what's happening, the streets of chicago are running red. this is not just hyperbole, this is literal truth. at a certain point, you have to recognize that even people who have in their vested ideological interest to ignore the fact cannot ignore the body count, the bodies being piled up. at what point does this become the news? >> sean: we've talked about this, we have one commonality

here be at atlanta, new york, chicago, philly, seattle, minneapolis, portland. all cities run by liberal mayors for decades. most of them run for decades. >> that's right, liberalism is a forest fire. burns down every single thing it touches. i read an op-ed in "the wall street journal" by bill mcgurn and i like his work but he said trump has to be careful sending federal agents and they are to clean these places up because of the pottery barn theory. you break it, you own it. i can't disagree more. trump didn't break anything. he is walking into a pottery barn or everything is already broken. these cities have fallen. think about what the alderman said today. 17 shootings. you had just ran a story, breaking news that 17 people shot in afghanistan, it would be a big story. this is chicago. this is one of the major american cities. it's chicago.

17 people shot, and you're worried about president trump going in and breaking something, what is left to break? he's in there cleaning the place up. i applaud the president was a big round of applause and open arms, send those federal agents in there and give the people of those cities the right to public safety. they are american citizens, they deserve it. >> sean: let me go to you, go ahead, sir. >> i was going to say, if i could be clear, first and foremost let me say that i am a democrat who also cares about the safety of my residence and the safety of all chicago. so it's not a lost cause for the democratic party and believe that people should be safe and secure in their neighborhoods. what we have seen time and again is there's been so much pandering over twitter and getting into social media battles that people in my own cities, our mayor and the president have gone on for weeks now whether or not to have federal assistance and just

today finally said i'm okay with it now. how many of our children had to die because of that political posturing, how much of that has to continue as opposed to just saying look, i know we don't agree, but let's agree to help put an end to the carnage in our city. i don't agree with many of your panelists on a lot of things but i can say with certainty that i don't want to see people die. >> sean: are you a republican or democrat? >> i'm a democrat. >> sean: this is not a democrat or republican issue to me. this isn't a liberal or conservative issue to me. this is about men, women, and children. grandma, grandpa, mom, and dad. you can't pursue happiness if you are living in a city where people are being shot him a reports you tell us as many as 17 just in the last hour and a half. that's called a war zone to me, and the problem is, that's the

hometown, they barely mentioned it for eight years. that's political for me. why didn't they do something? they didn't. now the president is offering to help and is being thrown out. can you explain that politics to me? >> i think when it comes to the politics of calling people out for bad behavior, you talked about the vandalism to my home into my office and i think often times we have politicians who are afraid to tell their own constituents that our own people are the cause of the problem and i have called out their enablers in the lan landlord to turn a bd eye. because we have the means to hold these people responsible for their bad actions, we see pushback. >> sean: why are they attacking you? you're a democrat, you are just calling for people to be safe. why are you getting attacked? >> i think it makes for an easy target when i am the lone one

doing it. i think we have more individuals willing to say that we are all for a peaceful protest but when you have people dropping off frozen water bottles and sharpen pvc pipe steering at demonstration under the cover of being a peaceful protest. >> sean: people who say hannity never supports a democrat, i support you. i support the safety of the people in your neighborhood. geraldo rivera, here is the quandary for the president. there's a political risk here. he has the constitutional right, jonathan karl, supposed to be more than you are, there is the insurrection act, no constitutional issue for the president to defend these cities. here's the problem, if he does use federal troops and god forbid now now we have federal troops, then you have the insane anarchists and bent on trouble and god forbid a conflict occurs and somebody dies, donald trump calls that when he's trying to protect grandma's, grandpa's,

and 7-year-old little children and 10-year-old and 11-year-old children in chicago. >> as i understand it, mayor lightfoot who enjoys hitting the president and criticizing the president saying don't you dare come here, that is at the front door. at the back door, she is just as i understand it, alderman lopez can correct me if i'm wrong, has agreed to 200 federal fbi atf and dea agents, a federal task force going into chicago right now hopefully to do what i have long urged, go after these gangs as the organized criminals they are, far more deadly than anything else capone or his cohorts ever did back in the roaring '20s. in terms of the jerks on the west coast, this is theater to them. they are professional agitators,

provocateurs, with their job, these young people. they go from seattle to portland and other cities causing the trouble and they seized on this federal courthouse. now this is the nexus of their passions for now. i absolutely applaud and agree with the president using federal force to protect the federal courthouse in federal buildings and they have that right. >> sean: he could help the people and save lives. they are more focused on throwing him and lecturing him and getting him out. dan bongino, we talk about my no know comrade de blasio in new york is big on miracles. they are out there. the problem is, is a 300% increase in shootings in the city of new york and when you look at new york statistics for example and it's the same in many of these cities, in

new york, on any given week, 97, 98, 99, or 100% of shooting victims are minorities. so do black lives matter? yes. help the president save them. >> they don't matter to de blasio. he is the modern-day nero. he paints while the city burns to the ground. by the way, my hometown, where i was born and i still love and my heart will always be in new york. but if i can make one quick comment here. the reason the federal government matters and can help him if they would stop painting and start enforcing the law is people are scared of the federal system. one of the few commentators on the network who has been a local police officer and a federal agent with the secret service and let me tell you something, having arrested people and sending them through both systems and andy mccarthy wrote a piece about this the other day. trust me on this, nobody wants

to go to the federal system. the bail is usually ridiculously high and you are not getting out the next day. >> sean: there is no bail in new york. >> you get right out in new yo new york. >> sean: we have biden saying the police -- i have not heard one word out of biden that praises the good police at 99%. and then of course, reallocating funds, that's a genius move in the middle of all this, attributed to adam schiff. i probably ruined your career by saying something nice about you tonight, probably not going to go over well and i apologize in advance, life and death is too important. we are one united american family here. and when you read 17 people shot tonight, those are real american citizens, real families, real lives, real devastation and its continuing and nobody's fixing

it and they would rather attack the president. we will have more breaking news out of chicago in a minute. also tonight, senate majority leader mitch mcconnell said today republicans will introduce a coronavirus relief bill very soon. he previewed the new g.o.p. coronavirus proposal noting that it will include liability protection as well as help for small businesses, schools, and testing. senator ted cruz reportedly has some reservations about the amount of spending in the proposed bill and also protects a heated exchange on twitter and yes, our own friend dallas mavericks owner mark cuban who insanely supports joe biden and even admits isn't exactly the most illiterate person. force the issue of the national anthem, black lives matter, the ties to china, all part of that debate. joining us now, texas senator ted cruz. let me get to the violence first. the president is offering help. your constitutional scholar. i don't think there's any doubt in terms of the

constitutionality of the president with the insurrection act, the attorney general said so, but i don't like the idea. but they are spending more time attacking the president for offering help and actually helping keep the city safe. >> what we are seeing right now, the democrats have unleashed the craziest, the angriest voices in their party. and we are seeing extreme radicals, seeing them advocate socialism, seeing them advocate lawless autonomous zone's, even a month ago if i had come on in your show and said the democrats want to abolish the police, you'd have laughed at me and said that's a little ridiculous, they are not quite that far out there. that's where they are now and it is utterly lossless. this isn't complicated. >> sean: you stay right there, we are going to hold you. we have a press conference in chicago. >> began firing at attendees of a funeral at that time, the attendees of the funeral exchanged gunfire with a black vehicle from a vehicle then

turned north going north bound and continued to fire at the attendees of the funeral at which time the vehicle midway down the block ration came to a halt. the occupants of the vehicle did exit it in multiple directions fled, we currently have a person of interest being interviewed by detectives in the area. as of this incident, 14 victim is being treated at five separate area hospitals. conditions are unknown at this time. the detectives will be conducting a canvas for the rest of this evening and early tomorrow. we are hoping the community if you have any video or anybody that knows anything will help to the detectives on their campus and offer any information that can help solve this crime. >> how many shots were fired and how many shooters do you think they were? >> right now we have 60 shell casings on the scene. shooters are unknown at this

time for the exchange between the attendees of the funeral and those that were in the vehicle, so right now, still being looked at by detectives. at this time, we have no known juvenile victims, all adults at this moment. >> funerals are often targeted, as they had interactions with each other in the past, is that the motive? >> that's currently being investigated by the detective division. can't say at the moment. no, sir. right now, no motive. detectives are looking into that and investigating that. unknown at this time. all occupants of the vehicle fled in multiple directions so we have one person of interest in custody. right now, no injuries so still seeing that.

>> right now, the shell casings are still being investigated, but we will go further from there. >> you have multiple people, at any point are any of your victims people that were on the street back >> right now, unknown if anyone was not a part of the funeral or a part of vehicle, so it is unknown right now if there were any innocent bystanders so to speak on the street. there is a car that was assign assigned. that was assigned by the district commander just as a precaution because of the size of the funeral. that's being looked at.

>> any prior knowledge that this was a possibility, any indication they gave you or warning today? >> not aware of you the community action is that you speak of. >> were all 14 victims shot? >> waiting for results back from the hospital but so far, it appears they all sustained some injury as a result of it. not sure if it's all gunshot wounds or not. thank you. >> sean: that is the chicago police holding a press conference, confirmed them according to the "chicago tribune" 11 people shot earlier tonight, as many as 17 according to the alderman. we continue with senator ted cruz of texas. the president is calling this a war zone. 70 people shot this weekend including a ten and 11-year-old, ten or 12 murdered this weekend. this is now a war zone and 60

shell casings, that police officer just announced until nights shooting alone. we don't have the total number yet. it's a very difficult when he is getting help in getting lectured but these governors and mayors don't keep their citizens safe and secure. >> this is the consequence of the radical and extreme left when you're threatening to abolish the police, threatening to defund the police, holding the police back. we know for a fact the result will be more and more new murders including mass murders we don't know where they will survive or not, obviously our prayers are with them. one of the consequences is they were going to be more mass shootings in schools. the left is arguing for pulling police officers, armed police officers out of schools. the best way to keep our kids safe in schools as having police officers there to protect them. we know there will be more

physical assaults, sexual assaults, and it isn't complicated. don't commit violent crime and if you commit violent crime, you need to be arrested and locked up and put in jail. and the democrats who are facilitating this are making a political judgment in their partisan interest. this week, i'm introducing legislation in the u.s. senate colic reclaim act that provides that anyone who weighs physically harmed and a lawless autonomous zone or in a riot or anyone whose business is destroyed or home is damaged that they have a right to sue the local officials, the mayor, the local officials if they have pulled the police out, if they have willingly ceded authority to a lawless zone and refused to provide law enforcement, then you are entitled to triple damages against these lawless democratic officials that are allowing people to be killed and tragically, what they are doing with these democrats are doing is racist because the consequence of this and you pointed this out earlier in the show is that a lot more black

lives are being lost, a lot more hispanic lives are being lost, a lot more white lives are being lost. murders need to stop, and it's the democrats creating the environment for this, and it's wrong. >> sean: let me go to the issue of what is going on in terms of covid relief. the president was very clear. we have all of these other 22 countries that have been able to open schools safely around the world. i think you learn from your mistakes and you learn from your successes. in terms of masks and testing and things for kids, that would be a top priority to me. also, those businesses still left behind, we've got to help them out in this final phase as we now slowly begin the process of rightly reopening the entire country and doing it safely. we have major progress on therapeutics and vaccines. do you support for example he wants the payroll tax for a year

or a period of time? what would work for you? >> i think that's a good idea and we need to keep the focus on what we want to accomplish. we want to keep people safe, but we've got to get the economy going again, got to get people back to work, back in their jobs and providing for their families. we are seeing democrat politicians who want to shut everything down and keep it shut down from now to election day because they hate donald trump and want to be donald trump. so we had the first meeting of senate republicans in a couple of weeks where leadership rolled out their proposal for yet another spending bill, and i've got to tell you, i said to my republican colleagues, what in the hill are we doing that we can't just keep shoveling cash at this? we are going broke. we are bankrupting our country, and the answer can't be trillions and trillions more money that we keep printing or we keep borrowing from china. we don't have it. so what we need to be doing is not another relief bill.

we did that in march in the middle of an emergency, in the middle of a crisis. we need a recovery bill and to be pulling back taxes and job killing regulations to help small businesses reopen and create jobs. we get into a spending war with the democrats, who can be the biggest santa claus will always be outbid. we spend a trillion, they will spend to go. we spend three, they'll spend four. that's not the answer and you want to know what this election is all about in november? if our economy is a reopening, if people are going back to work, if they are hopeful and optimistic and see a future they feel better about, we win, donald trump wins, we keep the senate and we retake the house. but if we are shut down, a 40 million americans are out of work, if people are hopeless and demoralized, that's how we get a president joe biden and a majority leader chuck schumer, and that's how we see devastating damage to this country. our focus has got to be reopening the economy and getting people back to work.

>> sean: think he was always for being with us. we appreciate it. on the phone now with more, brittany, we have the tribune reporting 11 shot, we just heard from the police department they are 60 shell casings on the ground and lastly, we had an alderman telling us there might be as many as 17 people shot. [indistinct] >> sean: we are going to have to get -- okay. not exactly sure where i'm goi going. what's that? okay. senator tom cotton from the

great state of arkansas. senator, you are watching what's going on tonight, also want to get your thoughts on the covid relief package being discussed in the violence on the idea of the president having the authority to help these cities, their outright rejection of any and all help. >> what we are seeing in chicago and new york and other cities over the last two months is heartbreaking. these are a fellow citizens who deserve the protection of their local police and sheriffs departments. unfortunately, you see in cities like chicago and portland, you have far left wing mayors who are essentially in league with these violent anarchists and rioters and looters, the mayor of portland has allowed the federal courthouse in federal buildings they are to be vandalized, to be defaced, to be firebombed. of course, the federal government has to defend its property and if these local mayors won't defend the lives and property of their citizens, they need to be able to look to the federal government to do that as well. >> sean: i totally agree.

i am concerned that there are now with such a fierce pathological hatred of the president, when the president helped in minneapolis, it worked. when he helped in d.c., it worked. would work in new york and it would work in portland, it would work in seattle and it would work in chicago. we are the united states of america. we have the ability to protect our citizenry, the president is right, this is a war zone but if the president goes in, he is hated and then i guess the anarchists don't get any criticism from these democratic mayors or governors. i am not exactly sure what the right call is, to be very blunt. >> it is hard for a federal officers who aren't large in number across the country to go into these cities where the local police have essentially been told to stand down. we've heard that repeatedly from our troopers out on the front lines, that they've been told by their local mayors to stand down and let this rioting and looting

happen. we have just a handful of federal officers that can be deployed and given time to one place. frankly, it's not a challenge that the numbers match up to. that's one reason why in early june, it was essential to call out the national guard. that's where it ultimately allowed order to be restored in washington, d.c., in minneapolis and other cities and like you, i think the insurrection act should be used as a last resort but of course, the president has the power under the insurrection act, has a duty and the responsibility under the constitution to protect the lives and the property of american citizens and that means all lives wherever they are. >> sean: okay, so these governors don't want them in these mayors don't want them. they are allowing the anarchists to run wild, losing as many as 17 shot tonight in chicago. they reject help in new york, reject help in chicago, portland, seattle, california, city after city. i don't know what the result is

going to be, you'd think the mass exodus out of california and new york has been big up to now with their horrific handling of covid and of course the anarchists. i see people exiting these cities in mass numbers over time, probably quicker out of new york, chicago, and places like that. >> in some cases, it is really essential that the governor step in. the governor is ultimately responsible for their states as a whole. the power of cities and towns is ultimately derivative of state governor, the governor has control of those national guard elements in their state again as we saw in early june, that's what helped stop a lot of the rioting in the looting and anarchy. but when we see dozens of our fellow citizens killed in the streets of chicago and in new york, we ought to have zero tolerance for that. this is what happens whenever you restrain the police, when you condemn the police, when you don't allow them to do the job. >> sean: and tom cotton, walk

through us when federal troops are brought in and then of course the mayors on the governors are not stopping the anarchists and there's chaos in the streets, to the people leading some of these movements, 156 i believe arrested because of the department of justice and then they have to fire to protect themselves or others, who gets the blame for that? >> ultimately, the blame lies with the criminals who are doing things like firebombing federal buildings or pelting frozen water bottles for sharpened sticks that police officers in chicago are looting and rioting in cities like washington and new york. the president was right in early june when he urged governors to call up the national guard is not only to stop the crime that was happening on their streets, but to deter it from stopping in the first place. ultimately, the power of cities is derivative from the power of

state governments and that's why the governors are in charge of their national guards and in places where they can't control crime in the streets, it's the governor's responsibility to step in and ensure the lives and the property of their citizens are protected. >> sean: stay right there, we have britney -- apparently we don't have her on the line. dan bongino is back with us. let me go back to you and we are watching this whole thing unfold and i think this is now -- i think the failure -- apparently we are staying with tom cotton now. i think the failure, senator, of these mayors and these governors his now paramount. let me go to the covid issue and the president's press conference today. number one, so much hope as it relates to therapeutics, so much hope as it relates to a vaccine. we've never broken down the sequence of a virus that quickly. so much hope in terms of all of

the governors that have asked for things and gotten everything they wanted, federal officials on the ground in nine states sent by the president, using thousands of troops, national guard troops, california, arizona, texas, and florida, all of that happening, and then you have the media in this country that hates donald trump so much they don't want to report it. >> most networks other than this one i don't think even picked up the president's remarks until they got to the question and answer period whenever the reporters can try to steal center stage but as you say, there's a lot of good news the president conveyed today in terms of progress made on treatment regimens and potential vaccines by the end of the year and are case rates are going up across the country but the death rates on the hospitalization rates are not going up as fast. why is that? because our great doctors and scientists have learned so much about this virus over the last three and four months. that's one reason why we wanted

to put our guard up in march and april and spread out infections over the space of a longer time so we learn more about the virus and we can treat better those people who have the virus. we could learn what populations are most at risk like nursing homes and long-term care facilities and what we need to do part to protect more effectively. >> sean: all right, stay with us. we now have britney with us. i know we lost you, what's the latest on the ground tonight? >> chicago police say 14 people were shot following the funeral on the southside of chicago. going to step out of the way so you can take a look. we right now or at the university of chicago hospital. police say the suspects were driving by in a car and opened fire, driving away from the scene and later crashed, all suspects ran. one suspect in custody. happened at the 1,000th block of

west 79th street and the victims were taken to five hospitals as you can see here at the university of chicago, very active scene. we've been here for 45 minutes to an hour now, a lot of people outside the emergency room and the lot of people driving by and of course still waiting to learn more on the condition of those 13 victims. >> sean: 14 victims, we've heard 11. is it possible, they talked about 60 when i was listening to the police presser, shell casings that have been found, is it even potentially higher? >> right now, we've only heard 14, but of course police are still investigating at this time. >> sean: sad thing is, we have 70 shot last weekend? ten and 11-year-old shot last weekend, ten or 12 died, is that the right number? >> i would have to double check on those but it has been a very

violent and several streaks of weekends here in chicago. >> sean: sounds like a war zone in my view. we appreciate you being with us. let me now go, you know this case of mccloskey. we had on hannity last night vowing that he would pardon the mccloskeys, the missouri homeowners who defended themselves from rioters, criminally charged forward by the radical prosecutor kim gardner. here was a reaction, st. louis homeowner mark mccloskey. i'm sure that made you feel well, your guns were legal. you were threatened, you described on this program. they told you what rooms, i'm going to take that room and your dog is going to die. and yet, this is how you've been treated and now it's going to take a pardon from the governor to get you out of this which he pledged last night. your reaction? >> just hearing what's happening

in chicago, st. louis is not a big city but we've had 135 murders in st. louis so far this year, all but 12 of them black victims and the prosecutor chooses to prosecute me for defending myself? not a single person that broke into my neighborhood is being charged with anything even though they are all admitted criminals for having trespassed at a minimum, let alone threatening us and threatening our lives and threatening to burn our house and i'm getting prosecuted for that? it's a felony they are prosecuting me with. the governor running for reelection, there's no guarantee that governor is going to have power over my fate. i hope he does, but for years in prison, $10,000 fine, and nobody else getting charged for any of the stuff in the same prosecutor let out of jail all the people that burned and pillaged and looted in st. louis and they are prosecuting me.

and they've taken my gun and if i get convicted of a felony, i can never have one again. this is a penalty for defending yourself against the mob in united states of america these days. >> sean: i am watching your experience and watching for example what's going on in chicago tonight, 14 people now confirmed killed in chicago, 60 shell casings, the death toll might go higher and i pray it does not. we had 70 shot last weekend, about a dozen people died. you see now since this all started, 1300 cops have been injured, rocks and bottles and bricks and molotov cocktails and knives and guns. yet they have even a presidential candidate talking about the police have now become the enemy. have not heard one word out of joe biden defending the honorable police, the 99% that i argue do a great job and put their lives on the line for us every single day, the guys in the baseball field when steve scalise was shot in the guys that were going up when everyone else was coming down. and now they had a warning that

this was going to happen in the neighborhood, no police presence whatsoever, threats against you and your family. you're trying to defend yourself with a legal weapon and now this on you. what do you make of this effort now with defunding the police or as biden calls it reallocating? >> i think you hit the nail right on the head earlier. the powers that be, the democrat majority, the liberals, the mob and combination of inciting violence, supporting the violent mob and then withdrawing the support of the police can only lead to a violent confrontation. i really believe there was an absolute callous disregard on the part of the people that run these democrat-controlled cities to inflame violence and then provoke a federal response, try to create a kent state type situation and then blame it on the president. i think as hard as it is to have to admit this, this is a callous plan and it's just political and

they don't care how many people have to die in the process. >> sean: it's very scary and i'm sure it was a scary moment for you. i have been a pistol marksman since i was ten, my mom was a prison guard, carried a gun license for my entire adult life. i've been a mixed martial arts student for five days a week, and are a half a day for seven years now. and most people don't have that ability. these cities we are moms and dads, grandmas and grandpa's, 1-year-olds, 7-year-olds, 8-year-old, 10-year-old, 11-year-old, our national treasure are dying. i'm trying to understand this mysterious reluctance and resistance to do the job of any politician, their first job is to protect innocent people. >> the circuit attorneys for the city of st. louis as an elected official, she works on our tax

dollars and she has taken it upon herself not to protect law-abiding citizens against criminals, but to protect criminals against law-abiding citizens. go figure. >> sean: glad you joined us. final 45 seconds with dan bongino tonight. watching this all unfold, what advice to be give the president tonight, anybody can the president? >> it doesn't matter what they want anymore. they are not actual mayors, not doing anything. there cities are burning. don't forget this and the 30 seconds we have left, criminals talk. that's why these acts are getting increasingly more brazen and why you had 14 to 17 people shot tonight. we don't even know the number. criminals talk, i did this. once they find out they can get away with one thing, they do the next thing and then they start doing drive-by shootings but also talk in the other direction. once you start cracking down and people start getting arrested

again, not to do what they're doing right now in chicago and new york. >> sean: i misspoke earlier, i said 14 killed. 14 shot tonight. we apologize when we make a mistake. that's 14 people too many shot tonight. dan bongino, thank you. let not your heart be >> laura:. we have a lot to get to tonight. i am laura ingraham and this is "the ingraham angle" from washington out of chicago and according to the police, 14 people were injured. most of them shot near a funeral home in a community called auburn gresham. and a press conference a short time ago the police said there was a planned ambush outside of the funeral home where memorial service is going on inside for a homicide victim. at the end of last week in chicago, renders up 51%, shootings 4 4047% and the staggering numbers, mayor lori lightfoot presided over a