occupied about a month. people demanding the funding of the nypd we have been told has been cleared out. carley: this all started after the death of george floyd. we will keep you updated as it is still developing right now. "fox & friends" starts right now. have a good day. ♪ >> >> right now we have 60 cases on the state. >> tragedy striking again in chicago. 14 people hospitalized. >> we wish it would stop. federal troops out here really bike we are in iraq. >> deployed tear gas on protesters in the city's 55th night of unrest. >> if you are a violent rioter, you need to find another line of work. we will not retreat. >> shovel ready jobs what we can do immediately that. >> echos back to the stimulus package under president obama. shovel ready jobs weren't that shovel ready. >> it will probably get worse before it gets better when you are not able to socially distance, wear a mask.

>> david schwimmer revealing eagerly anticipated friends reunion film in march could actually film in august. ♪ jump ♪ might as well jump ♪ steve: live from new york city, we have a friends reunion. good morning. we have a friends reunion every morning at 6:00 a.m. eastern time. brian is on vacation and ainsley, look who is here it's griff again. ainsley: what an honor. we miss brian but we love having you with us. griff: thank you, plying van halen i couldn't be happier. thank you for letting me join you. steve: indeed. we prepared a 3 hour program. we have lots of new information and delighted you would join us. we start this hour on this wednesday morning with a fox news alert. and get this: 14 people were

shot in a drive by shooting at a chicago funeral. >> anywhere. all over. legs, stomach, back. all over the place. you would have thought it was a war out here. >> it's the latest act of violence as that city sees a rise in crime. murders up by 51% this year. shootings are up 47%. griff: meanwhile in portland protests continue for the 55th straight night, protesters clashinclashing with forces as y to restore law and order in that city. expected to address the rise in crime later this afternoon. first, we want to start this morning by bringing in mark morgan the acting cbp commissioner. good morning to you. i want to hit on both of those. let's start, first, with chicago, sir. and we. [sneeze]

griff: bless you. lori lightfoot addressing the thought of the administration putting officers into the spiraling virus out of control. sound bite. want your reaction. >> unlike what happened in portland, what we will receive is resources that are going to plug in to the existing federal agencies that we work with on a regular basis to help manage and support violent crime in our city. i have been very clear we welcome actual partnership. but we do not welcome dictatorship. we do not welcome authorism. we do not welcome unconstitutional arrests and detainment of our residents. griff: and she followed it up, mr. commissioner with this tweet under no circumstances will i allow donald trump's troops to come to chicago and terrorize our residents. mr. commissioner, your reaction? >> well, first of all, i

completely dismiss her reference into what happened in portland. those are misinformed, irresponsible and reckless statements and just devoid of any fact or truth. again, our presence in portland is to respond to violent criminals who are willfully, knowingly, with intent attacking federal property and the federal law enforcements there to defend that property hard stop on that. very important to know that what's happening in portland is very different than the violence in chicago. those are two different things. this president has been very clear, he is not going to stand idly by while he sees the type of violence happening in portland or the type of violence happening in chicago. i have been law enforcement officer for a long time there is hundreds if not a couple thousand federal agents in chicago. what i anticipate. federal agents are going to go into chicago and work together

to stop this violence. steve: all right. you mentioned portland and chicago. we have got a soundbite from chad wolf. and is he talking about what is going on in portland. and you are right. it is different. watch this. >> if you are a violent rioter looking to inflict damage to federal property or law enforcement officers, you need to find another line of work. we will not retreat. we will continue to take the appropriate action to protect our facilities and our law enforcement officers. steve: and, mr. morgan what's going on in portland last night was the 55th fligh night of pro. that's why the president sent in the troops to protect the federal property there. it's within the law of the president to do just that. but it's interesting. senators dick durbin and tammy duckworth who are both illinois democrats they warned the white house not to send what they referred to as camouflage secret

police to chicago. they want to pass legislation to prevent the president from deploying what they called paramilitary troops to cities uninvited. what do you make of that? because a lot has been said about these guys and women up in portland who are in uniforms that don't have their name on them. but we heard yesterday that apparently i think 35 of the officers were doxxed by somebody and now their information is all over the internet. >> steve, again, it's just a false narrative. unfortunately, there are lies that are being told. i was at that press conference. i actually stood up. i held the uniform actually being worn by the federal agents. they are not troops. they are professional federal law enforcement personnel. they have patches on them. they have patches that represents cbp. border patrol. they have police on the front and back that clearly identifies them as police as federal agents. so people are saying that's just knot true. to your point real quickly on

the name tags as acting commissioner i support and i authorize for them not to wear their name tags because they are specifically being doxxed. so now it's not just putting their lives but also putting their family lives at risk. that's unacceptable. i'm not going to allow that to happen. steve: one other thing, i had heard that they had unique markers to indicate what branch of the government they everywhere from but there were no names because of the fear of their identities being, you know, doxd, et cetera. but, regarding the unmarked vehicles, i have read a number of explanations of why you have decided to do that. >> absolutely. first of all, the use of unmarked vehicles are used throughout this entire country by city, state and the federal agencies. i spent 20 years in the fbi and the only vehicle i drove was unmarked vehicle to do my job. in this case, these specific circumstances, we have seen marked vehicles across cities and country being attacked. we saw new york where incendiary

device was thrown inside a marked police vehicle with uniformed people inside. this is a common sense approach to safeguard the law enforcement officers that are doing their job. ainsley: commissioner, it does make sense to work together, right? we have to come together on this. we are all americans. that's more important than what party you are with. this is an election year. many are saying that these democratic mayors don't want to work with the president and don't want federal agents in only for that reason because they're making it political. last night on sean hannity's show he had a man on. his name was raymond lopez. he lives in chicago. he is alderman a elected person who represents a burrow. people are throwing bricks in his windows people who represent counties and government. he is a democrat. he said that several times on sean's show last night. he said look, it's not about being democrat or republican. we all need to work together. we are all americans. listen to this. >> i am a democrat who actually

also cares about the safety of my residents and the safety of all of chicago. so it's not a lost cause for the democratic party to be both a democrat and believe that people should be safe and secure in their neighborhoods. our mayor and president has gone on for weeks whether or not to have federal assistance and jewels today she finally said well, okay, i'm okay with it now. how many of our children had to die because of that back and forth political posturing. how much of this nonsense had to continue as opposed to just saying to the president look, i know we don't agree but let's agree to help put an end to the carnage in our city. ainsley: exactly. people should be able to go to a funeral. they were modern mourning a man shot in chicago last week. people come outside on the sidewalk and 1 people are shot when this black vehicle drives up, shots are fired and people at the funeral even had to bring weapons. they fired back at the guys. the car crashes down the street 14 people shot. some people said it looked like a war zone.

we cannot keep ignoring this problem right, commissioner. what with k. we do to bring people together? >> absolutely right. that representative spoke. this should not matter what political party you're on. this is about law and order. this is about wanting to walk down the street and not be concerned that your baby and your stroller is going to be shot. that you can attend a funeral and there's not going to be a war zone in the aftermath. this is incredulous that we're not joining together and being united saying this must stop and as you said work together. this should not be about political ideology. that's what we are seeing. we are seeing politics put before public safety. this has got to stop. as someone who has been law enforcement my entire adult life, i have never seen it like this before. this should not be political. this has to stop. griff: let me ask you, mr. commissioner. you mentioned the politics of it and, of course, we played mayor lightfoot calling it trump

troops. earlier in the week speaker pelosi called what your agents are as storm troopers. what is the reaction of the men and women carrying out law enforcement there to words like that and what do you say to her? >> i'm disgusted. i'm disgusted, griff. look, so far this year, cbp, just cbp alone we have lost 10 personnel, 10 in the line of duty. and for her to refer to those men and women as storm troopers, that is ir -- it's absolutely disgusting. it goes right to the heart because i know the character and i know these men and women that are sacrificing so much. when their political leaders are using disparaging terms like that, it's just reckless and untrue. these are professional, civil law enforcement individuals that are out there doing their job protecting this great nation. they are not storm troopers. and nancy pelosi -- griff: you mentioned the

politics of it, just to bring a point here, what you are doing in portland is authorized under 40 u.s. code 1450 to protect federal property. was that ever used before in your law enforcement career? >> yes. yes. this is not the first time. i wish people would read it. again, title 40, usc 1315 read that statute. it doesn't tell the secretary if he wants to he can go protect the 1900 federal buildings it says he must. that's what's happening in portland. we had credible information that these violent criminals were going to attack the federal building. that's why we surged additional resources. guess what in the first night we did that, the violent protesters and criminals did just that i don't understand what the issue is. and the mayor is asking for federal agents to go home. shouldn't he be asking for the criminals to go home? steve: sure. but, mark, you know, what's going on. it's an election year. we are about 100 days away from

an election. this has become a political hot potato. that's one of the reasons why the president is going to address the crime waive as he sees it across the country later today as he talks about operation legend. you know and you worked during the obama administration as well. you proudly served the nation. you know there are people in towns not impacted by violence today but they are sitting at home and going i wonder when we're next? >> that's absolutely right. and they should be asking this because if we have leaders in cities that allow this type of violence to happen and then by somehow, ainsley, like you said, working together is somehow a bad thing, i have faith in the american people that they don't believe that that they see what's going on and they should demand that political leaders across the aisle make us as law enforcement professionals get together to protect the citizens in their state.

that's what they expect. that's what they should demand and that's what we should be doing. what we are seeing right now is politics being plalsed above public safety. people should be outraged. >> does that mean we will see an end to the violence on november 4th? >> look, i wish i had a crystal ball. but, what i am hoping for is that we can continue to get together, push politics aside, and do what we need to do to protect the citizens of this country. what we are seeing in chicago and new york and other cities is unacceptable. it's got to stop. i mean, look, 14 people shot in one night. we should all be standing up saying we have got to stop that. ainsley: a lot of them were women that were on the street outside on that sidewalk in in front of funeral home. we have heard of children being killed. babies being killed. you are right. it has to stop. thanks so much, commissioner, for joining us. >> it does. griff: thank you for joining us. >> you bet.

ainsley: jillian has a fox news alert. jillian: start with a fox news alert. protesters are clearing out outside city hall right now. dozens of officers lined up with riot shields protect dismantling their tents. they have been outside city hall for a month demanding the police budget be slashed by more than a billion dollars. one city hall protester has been arrested for trying to cut the brake lines on nypd van. this is developing overnight. breaking overnight, trash cans full of classified documents are burned in the courtyard of a chinese consulate in houston it. ordered china to close the building to protect america's intellectual property. the chinese government now threatening retaliation. firefighters were not allowed on the property because it's considered chinese territory. that fire is now out. president trump giving his first coast briefing in more than two months. the president warning the american people that the pandemic will get worse before it gets better. this comes as the u.s. reaches a

grim milestone in the covid-19 pandemic. with more than 1,000 deaths in a single day for the first time since late june. right now, more than 142,000 people have died in the u.s. there are more than 3.9 million total cases. nearly 1.2 million people have recovered. for the second time this week, major league players taking a knee during the national anthem. four players on the cincinnati reds including star joey votto demonstrating before the exhibition game with the tigers. bell supports the protest. comes one day before several players kneeled. a look at your headlines. send it back to you. >> it will be interesting to see what happens tomorrow in washington. gnats opening day. that thethatnats opening day. he says he is going to throw a curve ball. see how that goes. steve: he has been doing that for a while.

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>> president asked about that this morning he said it is absolutely absurd what is happening to the mccloskeys. he noted this is an extreme abuse of power by the prosecutor. >> the truth of the matter this is nothing more than a political prosecution brought by a st. louis prosecutor kim gardner. >> after a law abiding citizen and attacked by a political process that's really unfortunate. it's a sad day for missouri. steve: st. louis, missouri prosecutor kim gardner facing

backlash after charging the two homeowners who defended themselves with guns during a protest. here with reaction is former federal prosecutor and former u.s. attorney for utah, brett tolman. brett, good morning to you. >> good morning, steve. steve: steve just to set the stein if anyone has forgotten about the mccloskeys in st. louis. live on the same street as the mayor. one of these big protests. given what happened in the media and they see all these things happening. they see these protesters are on their private street, trespassing. they grab their guns. is there any law against having a gun in your hand on your own personal property? >> look, i want to see outrage by prosecutors across the country at this decision. merchandise gardner decided to follow the problem and the protesters rather than the rule of law and that's what worries me because you clearly have what

we refer to as protecting or standing your ground and protecting your castle or your home. they are there. their fear is reasonable. we have all seen what's been going on in the media. the reports of what has happened when these protests turn violent. they were violent verbal exchanges. they are standing in front of their home letting people know, hey, you are not going to come here and destroy there place like you have other places. steve: what does it say to you, brett when we just played the governor saying i will pardon and the attorney general saying we are going to try to throw it out. but she, kim guard next the prosecutor, nonetheless is doing this to punish the homeowners who, as you say, were within their rights. it seems political. >> yeah. this country is aching for the rule of law to be implemented regardless of your political

leanings. and when you see a prosecutor cave to the interests of the mob, which has been destructive everywhere they have gone in this country at some point it has led to violence or destruction. to see individuals who clearly are concerned and afraid, to grab firearms, to warn people off, and then to go after them for doing it when they stayed on their property? but the mob didn't? that's hypocrisy and a level of, you know, i guess, ignorance to the rule of law that it's scary and should outrage prosecutors across the country. steve: i think it outrages a lot of people, brett. before you go, brett and i were talking during the commercial. and you said that you actually prosecuted one of those cases like we're starting to see now bubble up across the country where the president has sent in federal troops simply to protect

federal property. you were involved in a case. didn't involve federal troops, but it did involve the destruction of federal property, right? >> yeah. clearly. there are over 70 federal law enforcement agencies that have police authority across the country. they can protect the federal property. i prosecuted one of my first cases i prosecuted and those individuals destroyed some national park picnic tables. and were charged and spent time in jail. and so, for us to see the destruction that's going on now and to try to ignore it or for mayors to say we don't want you here, we want to destroy our federal property is outrageous. steve: doesn't it shock that you a lot of these people aren't even being charged? >> yeah it. is shocking to me that we are now seeing and living in a time in which an angry mob bent on destruction for no purpose, no

rational thought is not suffering any consequences. and, again, it's, you know, we have flipped the justice system upside down. we charged the mckoloskis but let those individuals clearly destroying pull down and tear down our rule of law and our federal buildings. yeah. it's upside down right now. and it scares me and a lot of people across the country. steve: cautionary tale. brett tollman, thank you for joining us today. >> thank you, steve. steve: president trump holding first coronavirus briefing last night, warning the virus probably going to get worse before it gets better. dr. nicole saphier joins us with her top takeaways. she is coming up next. r car inse so you only pay for what you need? given my unique lifestyle, that'd be perfect! let me grab a pen and some paper.

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or not, they have an impact. >> here to react is fox news medical contributor and author of make america healthy again is dr. nicole saphier. hey, dr. saphier. >> good morning, ainsley. ainsley: good morning to you. i am sure you watched that yesterday. what did you think. >> i actually thought that the address by the president last night was exactly what americans needed to hear. he gave a concise and pragmatic update without the rhetoric and without the false promises that so many people were betting on him providing. what he did was, ainsley, he told us, yes, the cases are up. and there is a spread throughout the country and a lot of it is going unchecked right now. he gave the positive update though saying that the hospitalization and the death rates, although they are decreased. a lot of that is largely due to the improved treatment and protecting the vulnerable. but, in the same very important message, he said it is important that people are wearing masks when unable to socially distance. it's really important for the president to deliver this message, ainsley, because there are a lot of people who

criticize general mask-wearing and rightfully so. general ridessed mask-wearing is not 100 percent full proof. when we are talking about public health and really healthcare in general. it's not about absolutes. ainsley. it's about risk reduction. if you can reduce the risk of transmission of this virus by up to 50% wearing a cloth mask, that's the right thing to do right now moving forward yes, it's very encouraging to know treatments are on the horizons and vaccines may be on the horizons. right now we need to do what we can to lessen the amount of percent positive. we also need to call on our industry to shorten the results time when it comes to testing. right now people are being quoted 5 to 10 days waiting for their test results, ainsley, that's unacceptable moving forward. it has to be shorter than that and the president touched on that point of care testing. ainsley: also yesterday five of the drug companies trying to develop the vaccines, they were testifying in front of a house committee. and i was watching that and listening to them and not one of

these companies has promised a vaccine by the end of the year. they were being really pressed on making sure they aren't going to overcharge and won't make big profits on this. what's your take away from watching that yesterday? >> well, ainsley, i think i have said no fewer times than about 10 times that the vaccine is not going to be the end all, be all when it comes to covid-19. we have to move forward as a nation without the expectation that we will be having a vaccine in 2020. yes, i'm extremely impressed to know that at least three trials the nih, the oxford and one out of china are entering phase 3 which means that they're proving that their vaccine is safe and it actually does induce some sort of immune reaction, whether it's antibodies and/or t cells. the truth is they go into phase 3, now we are going to see yes they are immunogenic but will they actually prevent infection? that takes some time, ainsley. they also need to diversify the demographic they are going to give it to.

i'm extremely optimistic in 2021 there will be at least one, maybe many successful vaccine candidates and they will be available. however, there is yet to be a successful coronavirus vaccine so we as american people need to be prudent to do what we can to lessen the spread and that will constitute wearing masks when necessary and continued social distancing so we can keep our businesses open and we can get our children back to school. ainsley: okay. dr. saphier, thank you so much for joining us. there is her book on the back shelf make america healthy again. thank you. good to see. 34 minutes after the top of the hour. joe biden unveiling 775 billion-dollar plan to boost our economy. will it actually work? charles payne says there are some serious flaws. he joins us next. they can du more with less asthma. thanks to dupixent, the add-on treatment for specific types of moderate-to-severe asthma.

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day. that's right. that guy right there point something james walker, senior vice president of nathan's famous restaurants. james, good morning to you. when nathan's started selling hot dogs back in 1916, how much were they and what does that have to do with today? great question back in 1916 when nathan started in conni coney i. just a nickel each. can i show you inside? steve: let's go. i have been to that location. it's great and smells perfect as soon as you walk in the door, james. >> it does. and it's still early here in the morning but as you can see we have already got hot dogs on the grill for you. and we have also set up some hot dogs that viewers at home can make with their own nathan's famous out of their refrigerator. ainsley: yum. is that where the hot dog contest is right out front?

steve: used to be. >> so normally every year until this year the hot dog contest was right out on the street here right on the corner. this year undisclosed location just tell my friends at "fox & friends" was actually upstairs here in this building. ainsley: very nice. got to bring my daughter down there. steve, you have been down there? steve: yes, indeed. coney island, so fun. ainsley: if you want to get a hot dog for 5 cents at any of those participating nathan's locations can you go today from noon to 5:00. griff you have got to go. steve, got to go. griff: i get those. you can buy them here in d.c. at the safeway store. i buy them all the time they are great. ainsley: nice. steve: they have them at my grocery store. ainsley: bring in charles payne host of making money on fox business. good morning to you. >> good morning. ainsley: let's talk about joe biden. he put together a plan build

economic plan. it focuses on care giving and education. going to cost $775 billion over 10 years. he wants free universal preschool, which is preschool available to all families. child care tax credits for low and middle income families. 3 million new care and education jobs and increases medicare funding. your thoughts on, this charles? main problem with all of these things that biden has rolled out so far they are sort of cookie cutter plain vanilla, democratic glance. the only thing that's changed are the taxes are changed. you know, here's the thing. joe biden is talking about paying for this by taking away tax breaks for investors. now, the operative word there is investors. without investors you don't have the businesses, without the businesses you don't have the jobs. without the jobs you don't need caregivers. you don't need a caregiver if the parent doesn't have a job to

go. to say so nonsensical. right now at the last 20 months. 19 of the last 20 months, blue collar wages have gone up faster than overall wages. this is an economic miracle that we haven't seen in this country in well over a decade. and the reason to believe that happens is because of investments have gone up. a sense of entrepreneurship has gone up. the sense of opportunity has gone up and success has not been punished. if you want to stop investors from seeding the real success of this nation and leave it to the federal government to redistricts wealth, well they're going to run out of that wealth. because, ideally we want to generate more. we want to expand upon not keep it where it is, make it smaller and split it up. that's not what put us in this position as the greatest country in the world in the first place. you know, you hit on the idea. sure, child care is a serious issue. but the way he is talking about punishing successful investors to pay for it is going to backfire.

>> charles there, did you go making sense again. let me play for you what biden had to say about president trump and his knowledge and understanding of the economy. here is what he said yesterday we ingest that in building our economy back better than before. this is about dignity and respect for working people. and these precisely what this election is all about. this man simply doesn't understand he can't deal with our economic crisis without serving and saving and solving the public health crisis. for all his bluster about his expertise on the economy; he is unable to explain how he will actually help working families hit the hardest. griff: charles, sounds like biden doesn't think the president understands the economy. >> well, you know, listen, the president long before he became a politician was involved in the

real economy significantly more than biden as a career politician. i'm if i'm in the trump administration i put up the chart of blue collar wages over the last 10 years, over the last 12 years. you start from january of 2009 when jondz was vice president and you show how it fell precipitously. how it could not keep up with inflation. how it started to turn around. part of biden's plan also yesterday whicwhichi thought wan their part. they admitted this plan would increase the amount of people who would participate in the jobs force. increase labor participation. when joe biden and president obama came into office the u.s. labor participation was over 65%. when they left it was around 62%. now, it's back -- until the coronavirus it had gotten back up close to 64%. i agree we want labor participation. whenever the jobs report comes out, that's the first thing i look at. i want americans engaged. i want them hitting the bricks looking for jobs and believing they can get one.

that's a core element to economic success. it's interesting that they admitted that was a key part of it. unfortunately though when you take away jobs by punishing businesses. no one is going to look for one. so, mixes up the so-called economic plans and goes back to the more emotional stuff. i get it because his economic plan is truly not something that's going to grow this economy. steve: charles, one of the other things joe biden said yesterday in delaware. he said, you know, remember, back in, i think it was 2009, i'm the one who managed the $800 billion recovery act with the shovel ready jobs. but as president obama himself later said, you know, the shovel ready jobs weren't so shovel ready. i don't know if that's a good thing to be bragging about. >> you know, that infamous scene now with president obama and jeff immelt, the former ceo of ge who did not do a great job

when he took over ge number one company in the world when he left it was barely hanging on. bottom line is they kind of snicker and laughed it wasn't that there wasn't shovel ready jobs it was too much bureaucracy. every state is marveled with all this bureaucracy and government marveled with all this bureaucracy. can you throw a trillion dollars on it, it won't get down to the problem. the money will be hijacked like this money was and used for different things and it's unfortunate. and that's part of the debate right now with this next stimulus plan. if we do help states, how do we know it will get to those who need it because certainly those shovel ready jobs were still shovel ready and waiting even after almost a trillion-dollar check was written, the moneynery never made it where it was supposed to go. steve: there you go. we will be watching charles on on fox business with making money. >> thanks. steve: janis, it was hot yesterday and still going to be

another bad hair day across much of the country with a lot of humidity. > janice: that's a perfect way to describe the northeast today not a good hair day. we could see potential for stronger thunderstorms across the northeast including new york city later on this afternoon. also want to point your attention to what's happening in the gulf of mexico. we have an area of low pressure that would develop into our next named storm. regardless of whether it becomes a tropical storm or not, it's going to bring an increased threat for showers and thunderstorms along the gulf coast. this is something we are going to have to watch certainly over the next couple of days. heavier rain as we get in towards the weekend. here is our next system. tropical depression number 7. this one has a 90% chance of becoming a storm in the next 12 to 24 hours. we will have to watch this over the next couple of days and then over in the pacific tropical storm douglas that could impact hawaii over the next couple of days. so the tropics are perking up.

the rest of the country very warm. 107 in phoenix. showers and thunderstorms across the gulf, florida the keys as that depression moves into the gulf of mexico. later on today around new york city down towards philadelphia, even new england, strong to severe thunderstorms including the risk of identifies lated tornadoes. so just keep that in mind. we will keep you posted. griff, steve and ainsley. back to you. ainsley: thank you, janis. it is 48 minutes after the top of the hour it. started with a few community flags. a father teaching his son a lesson about patriotism. both of us join us live about their story. it's an all-american story ♪ i love my country ♪ i'm loud and proud ♪ bum-bum ♪

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griff: welcome back a father's lesson to his son about patriotism now has an entire community honoring the red, white and blue, all started last month when eric and his son frankie went out to hang a few american flags. what started into a flag here and there. turned into hundreds throughout their community.

here with more is father and 8-year-old son franky. good morning, thank you for being here. >> thank you, thank you for having us. >> good morning. griff: all right, eric, let are the start with the obvious question. why did you start doing this? are you surprised what it's become? >> i am, i am. i started doing it in june. i seen flags popping up throughout the five boroughs, and i thought it would be a great idea to get frankie out there with me because we were stuck in quarantine. it was something to do together. and i just -- we started with one flag in front of my house on utility poll. and then i started a page on facebook and it took off. griff: franky, let me ask you a question. your father wanted to teach you a listen why you are doing these flags? do you understand why you are doing this? >> because there is a quarantine and he wanted to get me out of

the house. griff: has he talked to you about america and what this country is? >> yes. griff: what has he taught you? what does america mean to you, frankie? >>frankie? i'm putting him on the spot there, eric. do you want to help me out a little bit? what do you want frankie to grow up to know about america? >> you know, i wanted him to see that there is so much good in the world and by doing something as small as putting up a flag on a utility pole could cause such an amazing movement. and him being out there with me, the entire town of seaford came out beeping horns. saying beautiful things to us. wishing god bless america and the whole point is for them to go out and hang a flag in front of their home with their family and they have come out in droves. and i wanted him to see that

something so small could be so big. and it could be an amazing, amazing and positive change. griff: frank yrkts i see you smiling when you see cars honking and people singing the anthem, how does that make you feel? >> good. because like i love when they honk because i feel like we're getting a lot of like care. griff: let me ask you, eric, tragically we have seen night after night and elsewhere as we have seen the riots throughout the country, american flags being burned. is this part of the reason why you dooring that and how does that make you feel? >> you know, when i first started doing it, it was, again, because i had seen other towns and communities doing it. i love the american flag. i love what it stands for. i wanted it to decorate the

streets. i just you wanted it to be a positive look at the flag. i wanted him and everyone else to seat positivity in what the flag is and what it could be. griff: it's not going to stop. only a few seconds left. franky, are you going to keep hanging flags? >> yeah. griff: atta boy. thank you very much for what you are doing and thank you for joining us this morning. >> thank you so much for having us. bye, guys, thank you. griff: coming up congresswoman liz cheney and hhs secretary alex azar on deck: stay tuned we have a lot more. ever since i got this little guy,

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steve: 14 people shot in a drive by shooting at a chicago funeral. >> we wish it would stop. we are glad the federal troops are here in chicago. >> this president has been very clear. he is not going to stand idly by. >> nypd is clearing out protesters outside city hall right now. demonstrators have been demanding the police budget be slashed by more than a billion dollars. >> focused on shovel ready jobs what we can do immediately. >> that echos back to the stimulus package under president obama. shovel ready jobs went that shovel-ready. >> we will develop a vaccine and we will defeat the virus. >> the president last night was

exactly what americans needed to hear. he gave a precise and pragmatic without the rhetoric. >> coney island to celebrate national hot dog day. that's right. >> today our participating restaurants are offering up to two hot dogs at just a nickel each. ♪ a beautiful morning ♪ i think i'll go outside for a while. ainsley: beautiful morning. it's wednesday, july 22nd, here on the east coast 7:00 a.m. steve: they were one of the featured summer concert series and they sang this song. griff, good morning to you. thanks for joining us on this wednesday. griff: good morning steve and ainsley and thanks for making me really really hungry for a hot dog. nothing i'm going to do faster after the show than go get a nathan's hot dog. steve: only a nickel. can't beat that we start this hour with a fox news alert. 14 people hurt in a drive by

shooting at a chicago funeral home. >> shots everywhere, legs, stomach back all over the place. we thought it was a war out here. steve: it is the latest act of violence as that city sees rise in crime. murders are up 51% this year shootings are up 47%, ainsley. ainsley: that's right. meanwhile in portland, the protests continuing there for the 55th straight night. protesters are clashing with federal forces as they are try to restore law and order in that city. griff: david joins us live from the white house where the president is expected to address later today. >> good morning to you. president trump says to undecided voters also his supporters that i am the president of law and order. he promises the rest of this term and another term to make sure that violence is decreased across the country. as you mentioned he will be making an announcement today. we are told it's an expansion of

operation legend. griff, operation legend is an initiative put forward by the justice department use federal resources to stop rioting and other violent crime in kansas city, missouri. the operation named for legend, a little 4-year-old boy shot and killed while sleeping. department of justice and white house will expand this to other cities. many of those cities don't want federal help. >> unlike what happened in portland what we will receive is resources that will plug into the existing federal agencies that we work with on a regular basis to help manage and suppress violent crime in our city. >> if you don't want to talk to me that we have been. work with local law enforcement and do the job and address the violent criminal activity so that the peaceful protesting can continue. >> chicago mayor lori lightfoot tweeted yesterday under no circumstance also i allow donald trump's troops to come to

chicago and taser our residents. griff, this afternoon, 3:15 talk about operation legend of course we will be following it. back to you. griff: we will be watching it, steve? steve: let's bring in republican congressman liz cheney, chair of the house g.o.p. conference and member of the house armed services committee. she joins us from capitol hill. good morning to you congresswoman. ainsley: good morning. >> good morning how are you this morning? steve: we are doing okay. for the last couple of weeks we have been starting the show and there is all this trouble on the american streets and the president has made the offer look, if you guys can't handle it, i will send people. in he has sent people to portland, completely legal as we have heard from various authorities now he has made it clear. send people to chicago. maybe new york city. what's the problem with taking the federal government's help if they can't get a handle on the trouble? >> i think it is absolutely

incumbent on these local officials to take the help. when we are seeing people killed every single night in america's cities. when we are seeing communities that aren't safe and these leaders of these quiewnts and, unfortunately, it tends to be mostly democrat leaders. mostly leaders who have been willing to put up with rioting, who don't seem to know the difference between rioting and protests. and he was simply seemed not to be able to keep their communities safe. president trump is going to keep those communities safe. and i think it's very important that we do so and i start his efforts. i'm glad he is going to be making another announcements this afternoon. ainsley: want to ask you what matt gates said calling on to resign. some republicans upset with you because you were backing the primary opponent of thomas, it all came to blow during a conference meeting on tuesday yesterday what's your response to that are you going to step down? calling for you to to. >> we have a wide range of views

within our conference. we had a healthy discussion about a whole range of issues. but our conference meeting yesterday, which you have not seen the press report on is the fact that the conference meeting yesterday opened with and focused on what america will look like if joe biden and chuck schumer and nancy pelosi are running this country and how important it is for us to be unified against that if they are allowed to win and run this country you will see taxpayer funded illegal immigrant healthcare. you will see taxpayer funded abortions. we watched over the last few weeks they have bills on the house of representatives that will make it harder for us to develop vaccines and therapeutics to fight covid-19. watch today they will put a bill on the floor that would have prevented president trump from banning travel from china at the beginning of this pandemic. so, we're focused on that. we know that you know, joe biden in his basement because he can't make it through an interview. also he doesn't want to defend his socialist policies.

you may have discussions and debates. we believe in free speech. we are aoun unified in ensuring come november joe biden and nancy pelosi and chuck schumer are not running this country. griff: congresswoman though congressman gaetz was pretty direct in his criticism in you in not supporting president trump and some of his policies. would you like to address that criticism for supporting president trump. >> my voting record with president trump is 97% of the time. areas that tend to be on national security where we don't always agree. i have find in my experience the president appreciates people who are direct. people who explain what they think. but i think most of the time far more of the time we agree than we disagree. and when it comes to national security, when it comes to the importance of keeping this nation safe, i look for example at china, which sour largest national security threat right now and the fact that president trump, secretary pompeo have taken hugely important steps to hold china accountable to combat

the fact that china has spread the coronavirus globally. the government of china is responsible for the problems we face that is a stark contrast to nancy pelosi who even yesterday refused once again to say she would hold the chinese communist party accountable for this. you saw strong action yesterday with the administration saying we are going to close the consulate in houston. there is no comparison in terms of the kind of leadership that we need in the world and the chis have a very clear one. the american people are going to have to choose between a world in which the united states and the other free nations set the rules of the road or a world in which china and russia and our adversaries who do not believe in freedom set the rules of the road. that is the world you will see under a joe biden presidency. if nancy pelosi remains speaker god forbid if chuck schumer is able to be the majority leader in the senate. we are all working together to

stop that. steve: just one final question about this inner party squabble behind closed doors yesterday which has been widely routerred in the washington papers now. you know, you must have seen the fact that during the primary season when you endorsed thomasy's primary opponent you were going to get some blow back and you got some yesterday. according to something i read in politico today, jim jordan was yelling at you. all these people were yelling at you. what do you attribute the hostility toward you where does it come from. leader mccarthy said we are honored to have her as our conference chair. where does that come. >> from first of all, thomas massey and i had a nice long talk yesterday. we are in a good place. i made the point, actually, that president trump was harder on thomas massey than i was. i think that you know, as i said, we have a different --

differing opinions in our conference. i think that's a good thing. i think that if you look, for example, what the democrats do, you have a situation where they believe in the cancel culture. they are trying to ensure that only people who believe a certain set of things are allowed to speak. they want to erase our history. and i think on our side of the aisle, it's a healthy thing for us to have those kind of debates and discussions. i'm sure we will have more as things go along. but the fundamental point here is that we're unified in making sure that president trump is reelected in november. that nancy pelosi is no longer speaker. that we take back the majority in the house. and that we ensure that we hold the majority in the senate. because, at the end of the day, when you look at the set of accomplishments that we have had, holding china accountable. operation warp speed. the work that the house republicans have been able to do with the white house. president trump and this administration to make sure we are working as quickly as possible to develop vaccines and therapeutics to get the economy open again there is no comparison. i'm very confident we will all

come together on the big issues that matter the most come november. ainsley: congresswoman, let me just press you one more time on, this because have you so much experience, not only was your father the vice president and you watched him and learned so much from him, you have the third most senior g.o.p. role and then matt gates who is a rising star in the republican party who is in your party and most republicans would want y'all to unite and he is calling for you to step down. what is your message to him and congressman jordan this morning? >> look, i have been pretty clear, ainsley that we have had a number of different discussions. we will continue to have those discussions. i think it's healthy that we can have those discussions. but, when you look at the challenges that we face going forward, when you look at where we have got to get as a party, when you look at the extent the president trump victory in november and joe biden victory in november couldn't be starker. joe biden for the first time in history has allowed the person who lost the primary to help him

as a coequal partner to form his policy committee. so there is absolutely no debate about the extent to which we have got to make sure socialism doesn't take hold. make sure we have a leader who is going to keep our country safe and hold china accountable and ensure that we can get out of this pandemic and we can, frankly get the economy back growing again. whether or not we have debates and discussions internally as i'm sure we continue, we will continue to do, we are going to be absolutely unite you had going forward on the big issues and i'm not going any place. griff: congresswoman, let me just quickly, you mentioned the closure of the chinese communist party's consulate in houston. that's getting a lot of reaction this morning. china complaining overnight and morgan ortagus the state department spokesperson putting out a statement simply saying the won't tolerate sovereignty. calling for coalition against the ccp. your reaction this morning? >> listen, i think this is the

latest example of the extent to this which administration has taken very important steps to hold china accountable. there is no question the chinese communist party has, for decades and, you know, i think parties both of our parties when they were in power got china wrong for 20 years think going we simply opened up to them economically that they would become a responsible member of the community of nations. they have not done that they have in fact, been at war with us in many ways whether you are talking about espionage. whether you are talking about what they have done in the south china sea. whether you are towering about stealing our intellectual property or the extent to which we have seen hacks into our personnel and other places. the chinese communist party has got to be held accountable. we just passed the national defense authorization act yesterday in the house that had important resources in it to do just that to help to build the defense initiative in the south china sea. funding crucially important to

make sure we can maintain our sovereignty. very important sign we are seeing steps like this one. steps like the president saxes people and government of china who are responsible for uighurs and concentration camps as well as what's going on in hong kong. the world has to hold china accountable. the chinese communist party has to realize we will hold them accountable. won't be tolerate you had. an important step that i support. steve: we should point out that there was a banner that talked about a fire at the consulate. just apparently somebody called the fire department yesterday and it turns out the chinese people at the consulate were burning all the documents. so i'm sure that's just a coincidence. >> a sign they are trying to hide something i would say. steve: do you think? >> yeah. probably. steve: congressman liz cheney thank you very much for joining us today. >> thank you. good to be be with you. steve: 7:15 in new york city. time for news, jillian. jillian: that's right.

we begin with a fox news alert. the nypd is clearing out protesters outside of city hall right now. dozens of officers lined up with riot shields confronting occupy city hall protesters. dismantling their tents. a dump truck cleaning up trash left in the street. and you can see the complete aftermath here as demonstrators have been outside city hall for nearly a month demanding the police budget be slashed by more than a billion dollars. this all started after the death of george floyd. and a judge puts a gag order on four former police officers charged? george floyd's death. the minnesota judge still expects toimple disclose rules. the judge foiled a motion it lift the gag order earlier this month saying they have the right to defend themselves from negative publicity. today the house is expected to voted on a bill to remove confederate statues from the capitol building there are 116 those monuments on the hill. several pantings of confederate

speakers were removed last month. today's vote comes after the house passed $740 billion defense bill which includes removing confederate names from military bases. it now heads to the senate. president trump has threatened to veto the bill. "fox & friends" family celebrating a very special birthday today. world war ii army veteran j.w. stein turns 102 years young today. b 26 pilot in the army air corps. captain stine flew over 50 combat missions in europe. more than 70 great grandchildren. one of his grandkids is "fox & friends" producer jason stine. we thank you for your service to this country and we want to wish you a very happy birthday captain stine. ainsley: gosh. he does so much for our show. he looks amazing. 102. steve: i bet he is watching

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as we can it will probably, unfortunately, get worse before it gets better. we are asking everybody that when you are not able to socially distance, wear a mask. be safe. and be smart. steve: threw have got president trump you saw him live last night on the funeral issuing a call for action to americans as dozen of states report increase in covid-19 cases. ainsley: joining us now with update health and human services secretary alex azar. good morning to you, mr. secretary. >> good to be with you. thanks for having me. ainsley: vaccines are on all of our minds affecting every single person around the world. we just gott an a news alert. our producers just sent us. this the u.s. reportedly reaches an agreement with pfizer for vaccine doses once approved. what does this mean? obviously not enough for everyone in america. 100 million. does this mean that the first 100 million that pfizer produces goes to us? explain this for us.

>> it does: historic and breaking news on your show under the president's leadership we just signed a contract with global pharmaceutical leader fisa tore produce 100 million doses of vaccine starting in december of this year with an option to buy another half a billion doses. now those, of course, would have to be safe and effective according to the fda's gold standard, but this now adds to what president trump has delivered, which is four other vaccine candidates. we now have five vaccine candidates that prioritize the u.s. people where we are going to manufacture vaccine and work to secure fda approval of them all at the same time. griff: where, mr. secretary are we. yesterday we reported good news out of oxford with their progress. yet we don't have a vaccine that will prevent infection. where are we? >> well, we are making incredible progress. the five vaccines that now president trump's leadership has

cost us to be invested in three of them. pfizer vaccine as that zeneca vaccine which we also have a piece of as well as the moderna vaccine which we have a piece of. each of those have reported very positive phase one trial results that show they basically cause the immune system to work and create neutralizing antibodies that would fight the virus succinct perhaps people had not seen or heard if they were watching another channel they did not see or hear it either. when the president said things may get worse before they get better, what does that mean exactly? >> he was doing a great job

commanding and being transparent and reassuring the american people. we are facing outbreaks in the southeast, southwest and in other communities. and we are in a much better position than we were even two to three months ago to tackle them. we have got healthcare system capacity. we have three therapeutics already that the president has delivered. we have remdesivir for patients in the hospital. steroids for lung illness and convalescent plasma to give people that comes from those who have already recovered from the illness. so, it's really leveling with the american people. it's a very serious situation we are facing now. but we have tools to deal with it. one of the most important tools that we have is if we can wear face coverings in social settings. hygiene. we have data that we can turn the rates of infection around. ainsley: the president said he called on americans to wear a mask, social distancing and stay out of crowded indoor areas.

let's talk about remdesivir, it's a covid-19 treatment. and progressive. stories that progressives are demanding the president set prices and confiscate this treatment. why? >> well, i think that's that same old playbook they don't want to see the kind of innovation that america's biopharmaceutical' cans deliver. it's thanks to our biopharmaceutical companies that the president has been able to deliver these therapeutics and will be delivering these vaccines to the american people what did the president do? he negotiated an historic agreement with the maker of remdesivir where over the next three months almost all remdesivir that will be produced in the world will be dedicated to the american people. half a million courses of therapy over the next three months. those get distributed out. according to where the states say that is needed most, which hospitals it's needed most. in and it's reimbursted through our insurance system. ainsley: can i just follow up on that?

why would they want to confiscate it? why wouldn't they want americans to get this if it's going to help them stay alive. >> i can't understand the thinking. what we're doing is getting it out there. the hospitals can afford it. we reimburse it, say in the medicare program medicaid program. commercial insurance pays for it for the hospitals. we made it clear to safety net hospitals or others if there is any reason have trouble affording to there we're going to make sure anybody in america who needs it has access to it according to supplies. griff: quickly before we run out of time masks are on the minds of every american in this country. what specifically would you like to say this morning about masks and really if we you will a just start wearing them, as the president has suggested of would be patriotic. how much of a difference will that makes a we head towards fall. >> they make a real difference. last week we put out a study that showed a couple

hairdressers salon in missouri were infected active disease over a week took care of 140 of their clients. according to the salon's rules they wore face coverings and their customers wore face coverings. not a single client got covid-19 as a result. we have seen a turn around in phoenix of infection rates just from face coverings and closing bars. so it really can work. so, please wear face coverings when in public or any setting where you cannot socially scans from other people. steve: all right. alex azar the health and human services secretary. thank you very much. ainsley: thank you. steve: it is 7:38 and 30 seconds in new york city. joe biden unveiling the $775 billion economic plan but take zero questions from the press again. how long ca can joe stay in his basement? that's next. s.

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i'm off to another event. steve: all right. here to react. media reporter for the hill joe concha. joe, you saw joe right there. he said i look forward to your questions at another time. peter doocy was actually there in delaware trying to get a question to him. of course, they try to keep peter as far as away from him as possible. but, isn't it appropriate that if you are about 100 days away from an election, the candidate for a major party should be answering questions from the press. >> if you want to be leader of the free world wait to go to that next event for five or 10 minutes and take some questions. joe biden did not do that as you said, only one press conference in 100 days. meanwhile president trump has been regularly accessible during this time, obviously brought back the coronavirus task force briefings yesterday and took questions from multiple outlets for an extended peer of time. appeared safe spaces used to be for college students now they are in vogue for presidential

candidates as well. he took questions from six reporters including one that said what keeps you up at night as you look ahead. can you maintain this advantage without campaigning in a traditional way. media who complain about president trump and his treatment of the press don't have any problem with joe biden not speaking to it, steve. steve: yeah, you know what they are doing. you know what his handlers are doing. he is ahead in the polls and it's working for them. so why bother, you know, taking the chance of a question he doesn't know the answer to or makes him look bad when in the meantime you forget about talking to the press you just get in your suburban and drive off, it's working for him. >> yeah. hillary clinton thought it was working for her, too, when she didn't do a press conference for 270 days during the 2016 election. the bottom line is that you have to face scrutiny. chris wallace said this just a couple days ago at some point president trump sat down with wallace for nearly an hour in

100-degree heat which in a suit had to be a hoot i'm a poet and didn't know it. joe biden at some point has to define what his campaign is about and not play not to lose because it didn't work last time for the last democratic nominee. steve: meanwhile we did see the president. he resumed his corona briefings in the briefing room at the white house yesterday and he talked for, a little under a half an hour about the state of the pandemic in the united states. meanwhile, nancy pelosi, the speaker of the house, this had this observation about coronavirus. listen to what she said yesterday. >> he recognized the mistakes that he had made by now embracing masks-wearing and the recognition this is not a hoax. it's a pandemic that has gotten worse before it will get better because of his inaction and, clearly it is the trump virus. steve: all right. the trump virus.

>> interesting april 3rd the president said at white house coronavirus task force briefing he encouraged americans to wear masks in public to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus, also said that measures should stay at home as much as possible. avoid social gatherings. maintain six foot of distance between all people at all times. nancy pelosi did not require masks to be worn at house committee meetings until june 17th. that's per "the washington post" report from that day. also did not support the china travel ban in january. encouraged people to go out and shop in chinatown four weeks later. pelosi's approval rating is nearly 37%. it might as well be 95% by those in the press because they simply do not do the very basic research as did i in about 18 seconds to push bark when she says things like this. because, obviously, it appears that some in this media not all may be rooting at her side. got to go. reeling beagle it was a tough one when i say got to go i mean

go back to bed. steve: joe concha always so busy after his segments here on "fox & friends." joe, thank you so much. >> all right. steve. thank you. steve: see you later it. is 24 minutes before the top of the hour. listen to this. a starbucks worker has been fired after being charged with spitting in police officers' drinks. one lieutenant in that town in new jersey says they are not used to anti-cop moments like that. and he joins us live next. memory, focus, accuracy, learning, and concentration. try our new gummies for 30 days and see the difference.

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lieutenant, good morning. this story is just outrageous. what do we know about trejo? when did he do this? have you identified the officer who possibly drank the coffee? >> good morning to you. thank you for having me. right now the investigation is still ongoing there are still bits and pieces of the puzzle we are trying to put together. we received a tip last week. later last week that an employee at starbucks had spit into the drink of a police officer who is unknown at this time obviously the investigation is still ongoing starting around may 25th. we received this information late last week like i said before and immediately started the investigation. steve: so, in other words, you heard about it after he allegedly had already done it and i know -- >> -- correct. steve: i know he hasn't filled in a lot of details. he said i only did it once. what else did he say he did?

>> that's obviously still ongoing investigation. i don't want to release too much information. steve: did he say why he did it. >> we have confirmed -- he didn't give a reason why. we didn't confirm -- we did confirm that he actually did it though. so we can tell you that. ainsley: so, you know, this is more not against -- it's not necessarily against starbucks, it's more the sentiment against police officers and americans that don't want police officers. they want it disbanded. starbucks has released a statement. this individual's behavior was reprehensible and not at all a reflection of you who our partners and employees treat our customers on a daily basis. we have apologize touted park ridge police department. that was nice of them. are you satisfied with that comment? >> yeah. i mean, being from a small community, we have a great relationship with all of our businesses that support our

policing programs. starbucks has always supported our efforts. the poor actions of one individual to don't speak to the actions of good employees of that company that care for us. griff: how concerned are you about this anti-law enforcement sentiment? >> well, we are concerned about the fact that, you know, we went into a starbucks simply to have a break and to grab a cup of coffee and, you know, with the whole pandemic of covid-19 going, that just adds another level of the troublesome, you know, actions this person took. it's just unnerving that we could go into a place, try to grab a cup of coffee and have to deal with that when we are trying to, you know, just grab a break. steve: right. because it's so hard for you to do your job anyway these days. but then for somebody to spit in a drink during the coronavirus pandemic and you don't know whose drink he spit in, everybody has got to be freaked

out. >> correct. correct. a lot of our guys are obviously upset, rightfully so. but, we are, you know, we have to, you know, fight through this. we have to be strong. and we have to still serve our community. ainsley: did any of your officers get sick within the two week range after -- or during that date. >> not that we know of. we have been relatively healthy. and we hope it stays that way. steve: we do, too. lieutenant, we hope you join from us park ridge, new jersey. thank you for telling the story. >> thank you very much for having me. steve: all right. there you go. i wonder how many cops are now taking their coffee from home to work. you just don't know. all right. 14 minutes now before the top of the hour. jillian joins us from the mezzanine level. good morning. jillian: good morning to you. we begin your headlines with this story. police are protecting a new york

state chief judge after her photos and address are found inside an accused killer's car. the suspect roy denhollander disguised himself ad as a fedex driver. is he accused of killing the federal judge's home and shooting husband. he took his life one day after that attack. described himself as antifeminist lawyer who left onlineman fest toe detailing his hatred of women. a former google engineer claims a glitch may have exposed a secret blacklist of conservative news outlets. several conservative sites and one liberal site blocked from google searches yesterday. he was fired from google last year says the glitch reveals a blacklist that disproportionately targets conservatives. google has previously denied interfering with search results. the tech giant is investigating

the glitch a dog cannot contain his excitement after his owner returns from the navy. watch this. [squealing] >> come here, buddy. [whimpering] jillian: the australian shepard as you can here squealing with excitement while running up to cammeron. returning home from connecticut after a seven month deployment. oh, that just tugs at my heart. steve: they never forget. the dogs never forget. crying, the dog was crying, so shep. thanks, jillian. ainsley: janis, over to you, my dear. janice: good morning, everyone. yes, you know what? it's been hot. it feels like summertime. but, some of that summertime heat is going to have some relief across the northeast; however, the potential for showers and thunderstorms, some reaching severe limits including hail, damaging winds, heavy

rainfall and even isolated tornadoes, especially later on this afternoon as we have got the daytime heating. so widespread area here where we can see the stronger storms later this afternoon. just keeping in mind it includes some of those big cities. now, we are watching an area of low pressure in the gulf of mexico. this actually could get a name and become tropical. bottom line is, if it becomes a tropical storm, it's still going to bring the same results over the next couple of days, heavy rainfall along the gulf coast. tropical depression 7. this is expected to become gonzo low in the next few days. maybe next few hours and move closer toward the caribbean. that's something we are going to have to watch. and have tropical storm douglas which is going to become a hurricane perhaps affecting hawaii over the next couple of days. bottom line is the tropics are starting to perk up and we've keel you up to date. griff, ainsley and steve, back to you, my friends. griff: all right, janis. thank you very much.

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ainsley: the pandemic is taking a devastating toll on black owned businesses. 41% have 3er789ly closed due to covid-19. compare that to 17% of white-owned businesses. it's a problem our next guest, a navy veteran is well aware of as he takes on a new mission to serve in congress and he is looking to unseat the democrat congresswoman maxine waters for california's 43rd congressional district. that navy veteran and g.o.p. congressional candidate is joe collins and he joins us now. good morning to you, joe. >> good morning. how are you? >> we did ask maxine to join us too and we haven't heard back from her. we wanted your reaction to this. so many black businesses have closed because of covid permanently. >> yes. yeah. this is true. it's because of leaders like our so-called leaders like maxine waters. you would think that when you

are a black leader in a black community, your prime responsibility is to ensure that the people that are in your district have what they need in order to survive during times like covid-19. but, unfortunately, that has not been the case. we have tons of black-owned businesses here in los angeles that has not been able to receive any type of benefits, not from the state, not from the city, or from the federal government. and part of the reason is or the majority of the reason is because of maxine waters. ainsley: why are you running as a republican first of all, and what do you want to say to the voters out there in your district that could go to the polls and vote for you? >> well, the reason why i am a republican is because whenever i joined the navy back in 2004, my mentors and my leaders in the military said that you pick your party based on the values that align with you when you vote for people based on the values that align with you. when you look at the history of the republican party and you talk about the things that the republican party have been able to offer, such as the, you know, the fight for to end slavery or the fight to remove big

government from intrusion of your life, the fight for, you know, to keep your gun rights and things of this nature, you know, these are things that resonate with me. especially a navy veteran. the reason i'm running against maxine waters because i am grew up in south central los angeles. and i think that, you know, coming back home after 13 and a half years of service, seeing things considerably worse, especially with the homeless pandemic, the lack of quality jobs, our education beginning among dead last in the country, the prime issue here is the person who hoots most influence and that person is maxine waters. so me being a resident of south los angeles, i think that, you snow, we as young people have to step up and star leadership rold start removing aged politicians from office to start move forward productively. ainsley: she has a lot of name recognition after she was screaming impeach this president. you raised $3.1 million. how did you do that? >> well, we have been very

blessed to have a lot of great supporters from across the united states, especially in california in our district. people want to see maxine waters gone. i want to tell you, she has lost a lot of trust especially with impeach 45. look at the accomplishments she has had over the years and it's been very, very few. she said she was going to get the president of the white house, and she absolutely failed on that issue as well. ainsley: joe, sorry to cut you off. we are running out of time. we wish you the best. thanks for coming on. we did reach out to your opponent maxine waters, we have not heard back. we would like to have her on the show too. god bless you, joe. thank you for your service. coming up. congressman jim jordan and tammy bruce.

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produce 100 million doses of vaccine starting in december. >> coney island celebrates national hot dog day, that's right. >> today our participating restaurants are offering up to two hot dogs at just a nickel each. ♪ ♪ steve: well, i hear the banjo right there, and we just saw that one minute of sound bites from our previous two hours, and it has been a busy day. thank you very much for joining us here on "fox & friends." we know you have a lot of choices on what morning show you can watch, what channel you can watch. we are delighted that the you could join us today. ainsley: we're so grateful. steve: and we picked griff to fill in for brian who should be back tomorrow. griff: thank you so much. i'll return tomorrow doing some reporting because so much is going on from politics to

violence in the streets. steve: indeed. 14 people were hurt, shot in a drive-by shooting at a chicago funeral home yesterday. >> shot him everywhere, all over his legs, all over the place. we thought it was a war out here. ainsley: well, it's the latest act of violence as the city sees a rise in crime. murders are up a 51% this year, shootings up 47%. griff: meanwhile in portland, protests continue for the 55th straight night. protesters clashing with federal forces as they try to restore law and order in the city. president trump is expected to address the riots and violent crime later this afternoon. we want to bring in now, though, ohio gop congressman jim jordan, ranking member on the house judiciary committee. congressman, good morning to you. >> morning. griff: from chicago to portland, it's just out of control. specifically e we've been talking about chicago this morning, and the mayor there, lori e lightfoot, here is what

she had to saw about the administration offering help. listen. >> unlike what happened in portland, what we will receive is resources that are going to plug into the existing federal agencies that we work with on a regular basis to help manage and suppress violent crime in our city. i've been very clear that we welcome actual partnership, but we do not welcome dictatorship. we do not welcome authoritarianism, and we do not welcome unconstitutional arrests and detainment of our residents. griff: then the mayor took to twitter writing: under no circumstances i allow donald trump's troops to come to chicago and terrorize our residents. congressman, your reaction. >> don't send help, she says, even though 49 officers were injured on friday night in chicago, 14 people shot last night in chicago.

portland, 55 days, 8 weeks the city has been burning, and democrats there say don't send help, don't help us with more reinforcements coming. we'll write letters to the doj, we'll send out betweens, we'll defund the police. and then the kicker on all this is if private american citizens defend themselves like the mccloskeys, we'll charge you with a crime. this is how crazy, how inept, how -- this is borderline malpractice when it comes to trying to lead your city like these democrat mayors have been failing to do. i think the american people see it for what it is and, frankly, i'm sure the residents in these areas would love help from the federal government to deal with the crime that continues to surge in every major urban area in this country. steve: and the president's going to be talking about that later on today. congressman, we wanted to ask you about this, there are a couple of stories that popped up in the washington press about how behind closed doors for the

first time the republican conference was able to get together yesterday in the house. and a number of members, including you, were yelling at liz cheney for not being to-trump enough. can you explain -- pro-trump enough. can you explain what was going on? >> look, steve, i'm focused on one thing, making sure president trump gets reelected. you look at what the cancel culture mob is trying to do to the country, we've got to make sure he wins because if joe biden's elected and chuck schumer leading the senate and nancy pelosi running the house, that is a scary, frightening scenario for the country. where they will let the mob take us, what we see happening in these cities will continue and a host of other bad things that threaten fundamental liberty and freedom. i'm focused on one central thing, we've got 103 days, let's make sure president trump is reelected as president. i don't typically get into what gets discussed behind closed doors in republican conference. steve: but why the anger at liz

cheney? >> again, again, steve, it's all about reelecting the -- steve: no, i understand that, but i was just -- everybody's just curious what's going on behind the scenes. >> and i don't talk about what happens in republican caucus. ainsley: she didn't either. [laughter] we asked her four times. steve: how important it was to reelect mr. trump. but, you know, we asked her specifically about this back and forth, and it went on for a while, and here's what she told us just an hour ago. >> we have a different set of differing opinions in our conference. i think that's a good thing. i think that if you look, for example, at what the democrats do, you have a situation where, you know, they believe in the cancel culture. they're trying to insure that only people who believe a certain set of things are allowed to speak. on our side of the aisle, it's a healthy thing for us to have those kinds of debates and discussion. i'm sure we'll have more as things go along, but we're

unified in making sure president trump is reelected in november, that nancy pelosi is no longer speaker, that we insure that we hold the majority in the senate. steve: so, congressman, you both took the high road, matt gaetz took the twitter road and tweeted out: liz cheney has worked behind the scenes and now in public against president trump. liz cheney should step down or be removed. what do you make of that? that seems like he's going way over the line. >> matt gaetz is a good friend, and he wants president trump to get reelected just as strong strongly as i do and everyone in the republican caucus does. i think when americans step back and look where joe biden wants to -- take china, for example. which model, i've not seen a president stronger on china than this president. which model do you want, the joe

bide within/hunter biden model in china or the president trump -- steve: so, congressman, the good news is you republicans are all sticking together. it sounds lie you don't think they should -- like you don't think she should go anywhere. >> i'm focused on the reelection of the president. plain and simple, steve. [laughter] steve: okay. ainsley: let's talk about russia collusion because there are new declassified documents that show fbi leaders knew early on this dossier was not enough information for them to go and surveil carter page. in 2017 strzok allegedly said that the dossier was a bust and that there was no evidence of collusion. and then lindsey graham went on to say that strzok and the fbi, based on this information, they should be in deep legal jeopardy, in his view. so this is strzok's lawyer's statement in response to lindsey graham. he said senator graham's statement represents another attempt to use peace work

project to paint the russia investigation as a political witch hunt. what do you say about all of in this. >> no, it was a witch hunt. there was never a proper predicate for launching the information. and do you know how we know that, ainsley? they told us. the obama-biden intelligence community told us. they didn't want to tell us, but thanks to ric grenell who released their testimony, we have all -- we now have what peter strzok said, but we've already seen what susan rice said, never any evidence of a conspiracy. jim clapper said i never saw evidence of any collusion between the trump campaign and russia. you can't say it any plainer. so they didn't want us to know that, but thanks to ric grenell who released their testimony, we know there was never a proper basis for it. the first to point this out was the attorney general when a little over a year ago said i think spying took place, and that's why the democrats have been out to get bill barr since then.

let's hope john durham has some indictments coming soon. griff: that's what i want do you about, congressman. lindsey graham's going to hold hearings, but durham's investigation has criminal prosecution power, and the documents just released, the 56, 7 pages of interviews with christopher steele's primary source and strzok's notes essentially suggest the fbi mischaracterized the steele dossier to pursue carter page and that there may be illegal criminal behavior here. do you believe peter strzok or others should be prosecuted criminalliesome. >> yes, definitely. remember, you don't have to take my word for it, take the inspect e or general's word. he said they lied not once, not twice, not three times, 17 timings. they lied to the fisa court when they took the dossier to get a warrant to go spy on a fellow american citizen. so, heck, yes. there should be consequences. people should be held accountable. and i love what the chief of staff of the white house said,

mr. meadows, on sunday, he believes it's coming soon, and he believes there's going to be indictments. i've said this many times, number one question i get from constituents in the fourth district of ohio and around the country, jim, when is someone going to jail? they are sick of the double standard, sick of certain people getting away with things like if your name is comey, baker, mccabe, strzok, page, they're sick of that. they want the same standard of treatment under the law. steve: it is hard to get your head around what you are alleging and what we're seeing documents suggest happened where an outgoing administration, democratic administration, essentially spied on the republican candidate for president and continued it even though there was no realistic basis on or predicate to base the investigation upon. >> yeah. and look what they did between election day 2016 and inauguration day, january 2017.

in that two month time period, look what they did to michael flynn. and why'd they do it? because a they knew the former head of the defense intelligence agency would figure out what they did, so they had to go get michael flynn. that was the real thing. get michael flynn because he's going to figure it out, he's going to be national security adviser to president trump. so in that two month time period, 38 people, 49 separate times unmasked michael flynn's name. they set him up. we know that because bill bill said they needed to cover up the fact there was never a proper predicate. and if you want to know why people are mad, why the president's upset about this, just look at that fact pattern. that is scary. and if someone's not held accountable for that, that is just gnat out wrong. that's -- flat out wrong. americans want someone held accountable, what they did to michael flynn to cover up the fact there was never a basis for

an investigation in the first place. ainsley: hopefully someone can be held accountable, at least asked about it. thanks so much for being with us this morning. 8:13, jillian. >> good morning. you heard it here first, the u.s. reaching an agreement with pfizer to buy 100 million covid-19 vaccine doses after receiving approval. health and human services secretary alex azar joined us in the last hour to break the news. >> starting in december of this year with an option to buy another half a billion doses. now, those would, of course, are to be safe and effective. this now adds to what president trump has delivered which is four other vaccine candidates that prioritize the u.s. people where we're going to manufacture a vaccine and work to secure fda approval all at the same time. >> the pharmaceutical company says americans will receive the

vaccine for free. another fox news alert and break overnight, the nypd is clearing out protesters outside city hall. dozens of officers confronting occupy city hall protesters dismantling their tents. a dump truck there cleaning up trash left in the street, and you can see the complete aftermath here. demonstrators have been outside city hall for nearly a month demanding the police budget be slashed by more than a billion dollars. police now believe the sister of an accused terrorist was out for revenge when she attacked a police officer. surveillance video captured the woman lunging at a florida officer with a knife outside a police department in may. investors say she planned the attack and called it jihad. the two officers who shot and killed her are cheered of any wrongdoing -- cleared. her brother was i arrested for terrorism after planning an isis attack in tampa. this is funny. a delivery driver takes leaving a package in a safe location a little too literally.

watch this. [laughter] my god. [laughter] >> glenn jones erupting into laughter after finding this 3-foot package underneath the door mat, the video racking up over 157,000 likes on -- i think that is so funny. steve: you couldn't see it. i love it. ainsley: was that a joke? steve: it looks like he specifieded. ainsley: under the mat. griff: very creative. thank you. meanwhile, remember the new jersey gym openers who were shut down for defying lockdown orders? they're still fighting and not

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♪ ♪ >> i think that we are being hounded by this date because we are pushing back against a very, very clear political agenda at this point, and we've become a thorn in the side for governor murphy. and my partner and i are not willing to back down. this is the weaponization of these offices that are meant to serve and protect people, and they're clearly being used to punish us. ainsley: a new jersey gym owner taking extraordinary measures to stay open as he fights to keep his business from from closing. our next guest is calling out state leaders from putting

control over common sense. here to explain, fox news contributor tammy bruce. good morning tammy. >> good morning, ainsley, hi there. eaps iowans hi there. what is your reaction to what's happening in this state and the gym owner saying he wants to stay open? >> well, look, that's the natural american ethic. we -- our an's to haves risked their lives, some died trying to get here to get away from the heavy boot of government that toll them what they could and could not do at various times during the day. i know, obviously, the pandemic has been serious. we're all interested in our own lives being safe and being healthy and our families, but we've noticed decision making by certain governors, murphy is one of them, who followed the new york model and cuomo's decisions, for example, with the nursing homes. so here you've got politicians responsible for thousands of deaths based on their decision making to move covid-infected patients into vulnerable populations, and the next thing we know you've got these same

individuals, cuomo and murphy, making decisions that seem to be arbitrary, are about the weeds of decision making. out here in new york it's about where you can sit, if you have to eat, whether you have a drink that you can't be moving around, and these things change seemingly arbitrarily from week to week. and murphy is doing, i think, the same thing. you've got -- government's nature is to control, and this dynamic pandemic has brought out the worst and the best in leadership. and unfortunately for new jersey, it's the worst. and men like the gym owner and other business owners, parents, all of us normals are really going to have to support each other in the aftermath as we investigate why certain things were occurring. ainsley: is it political? is it because we're 104 days away from an election? i mean, i've heard people say they're putting politics first and people after that. >> you know, i think initially, of course, there was clearly a

dramatic reaction to what china did. all of this is china's fault. but we're finding out about ourselves in the process. in the beginning it was a genuine issue. remember, i don't know, ainsley are, do you want the 15 days to flatten -- do you remember the 15 is days to flatten the curve? that was reasonable. but now look at what's occurring. then it becomes -- and we deal with this in our own lives. what do you do when you can do whatever you want? and we're finding in november we're going to remember in november there's going to be a lot of pawback in that regard. -- payback in that regard. as a nation we have to look and be reminded. like after katrina officials confiscated people's firearms. it was determined unconstitutional and illegal, but they did it anyway. this is government's nature, and so good news for our citizens and our patriots whether the gym owner or parents or others who want to respect the nature of being safe in a framework but not at this framework of killing

everyone, you know, throwing gasoline on the nation and setting it on fire. and it is an election year. that is not a coincidence. they want to keep this framework going of panic and chaos. i think in part because they think it might hurt the president. they are wrong. americans are not infants. we know what is going on, and we are going to defend our lives. the president, i think, is within that a framework. he understands that, but this is not going to bode well for the democrats in november. ainsley: nancy pelosi was on another network yesterday and called this trump virus. [laughter] >> that tells you everything you need to know. we can't deal with the serious problems if the democrats are not even willing to face reality. and that is the case in many dynamics. you know, great segment earlier on your show about the violence in chicago. what we're going to be abled to do it -- able to do about it. the violence in new york. it's not a coincidence they're finally cleaning up in front of city hall because of president trump saying he's going to send federal agents.

this is chaos that they want to push out as far as possible. the american people aring being thrown into a political volcano because certain craven politicians think that it's going to get them something in november. they're going to have another message coming to them. this is unacceptable no matter what your political party that our children are being used as hostages when it comes to schools reopening and our businesses are being destroyed because some politician thinks that he's god, and he doesn't care because you with, you know, you're going to be cannon fodder because of the next job he or she may want. ainsley: tammy bruce, thanks for joining us. 25 minutes after the top of the hour. joe biden revealing the third part of his plan to rebuild america's economy, but will any of it actually work? two economic advisers are here to debate next. ♪ ♪ i like liberty mutual.

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understand. he can't deal with our economic crisis without serving and saving the public health crisis. he's unable to explain how it'll actually help working families hit the hardest. you know, he's quit on you. he's quit on this country. steve: here with a conversation about how this proposal stacks up, fox news contributor and former economic adviser to president obama, robert wolf, screen left appropriately, and member of the white house economic recovery task force, steve moore. good morning to both of you guys. >> hi, steve. >> and he's screen far right, i should say. [laughter] steve: yeah, okay. robert, let's start with you. yesterday regarding the build back better plan, we're going to put up some of the graphics, tell us why you think it's a good idea. >> well, the contrast couldn't be more stark, and the correlation between the pandemic and the economy is spot on, right? we've had people lose their

health care, the unemployment rate worse than any point since the great depression, and steve's touting and the president a payroll tax cut which makes no sense at this point because it doesn't help those unemployed that's been hammered by the pandemic. and why do we need to give money to billionaires who, you know, really are going to have payroll tax cut for them which is why, the by the way, the senate's not for it. vice president biden's plan is helps manufacturing, it helps infrastructure. and steve and i just have a disagreement on what the right strategy is for this time. steve steve all right. let's just ask steve himself. steve, what's your problem with it? >> well, first of all, i've never seen an economy in the history of mankind that got rich by raising taxes. maybe robert knows of an exception, but we're talking about perhaps the biggest tax increase in american history. tax on american companies, american corporations and every

shareholder in america with the biggest increase in the capital gains tax we've seen in the history of the country. there's also a new -- people don't realize this, a 40% increase in the death tax. so after all these taxes, then you have you have to pay an additional 40% tax when you die. look, we built a great economy before coronavirus. we had almost a million and a half new manufacturing, construction and mining jobs. obviously, the economy got slammed by coronavirus, and the real question the american people are going to ask is who do you trust the rebuild this economy as we move forward. do you believe biden who wants to tax and spend or a guy who's been in business and has shown he can build the economy once,he can do it again? steve: you know, robert, conventional wisdom was before coronavirus that joe biden would capitalize on other things and emphasize other things because the economy was roaring. we all know it was doing very, very well. but now this has given him a chance the talk about his plans

given the fact that, you know, we've got unemployment near around 10%, millions of people still looking for work, waiting to go back if and when the coast is clear. >> yeah. i mean, i have to unpack so much what steve said because a lot of it's not accurate with respect to joe biden. and with respect to the history of this country. one, after every war in this country, republican or democrats in 1776 we have raised taxes. the revolution are, the civil, world war world war i and ii, so we're going to raise taxes to pay for it. there was a time that steve was a fiscal hawk. today no one's spending more than this president, and by the way? we're in a recession under this president. you can unpack it, he cannot take responsibility for it, but that's where we are today. another republican president and we're in a recession. we were in a resession with george bush -- recession with george bush, a democrat had to take him out of it.

joe biden's tax plan doesn't touch anyone that's making less than $400,000 whereas the tax plan that steve wants to help helps people like me that actually are happy top pay my fair share in taxes to make sure people have health care. once again steve wants to help husband friends and the wealthy -- his friends and the wealthy. we've been hearing about steve's plan in an infrastructure plan for three and a half years. it's stuck in the mud. why is it? steve: well, i think the president would need help from the democrats -- >> put the plan up. steve: we'll let steve respond. >> robert, first of all, you were criticizing the payroll tax cut. we want to eliminate the payroll tax for the rest of the year for every single one of the 140 million working americans. that includes, robert, minimum wage workers who get a 7.5% pay raise under that plan. every single small business

employer in the united states, every single one of them would be, would see a 7.5% reduction in their payroll cost. now, why in the world is joe biden and nancy pelosi against giving middle class and even minimum wage workers a pay raise? >> you don't want -- >> by the way, hold on -- [inaudible conversations] steve: robert, let him finish. >> the best way to help people who are unemployed, know democrats don't believe this, the best way to help unemployed, not give them a government unemployment check, get them a job. steve: 20-second rebuttal. >> well, it's not factual. we don't need to give 140 million people, okay, a payroll tax cut. we need to help those who are unemployed where payroll tax doesn't help. and by the way, it's not going to bring the demand on jobs. aisle -- >> really? obama did it. robert, obama did it? why was it good for obama and bad for trump?

>> i said that eventually. right now we have to get people -- steve: okay, robert? >> i know you want to spend taxpayer money because that's what you guys do more than anyone. steve: robert, that is your time, and, steve, we'll give you the final word. >> look, a payroll tax cut was good for workers when obama wanted to do it but bad for workers when president trump cants to do it. steve: all right. good debate, robert, steve. all right, meanwhile on this wednesday, we're going to switch gears, the city of portland has seen 55 straight days of protests, but the media are blaming the feds for the trouble. >> president trump threatening to send militarized federal agents to more cities. >> local leaders say they don't want them, don't need them. steve: coming up next with reaction, ben domenech. stay with us.

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steve: 8:40 in new york city, back with a fox news alert. you heard it here first, the united states is set to buy 100 million doses of covid-19 vaccine from pfizer once approved. ainsley: health and human services secretary alex azar making that announcement in the last hour of "fox & friends." griff: david spunt joins us with more on this breaking news. david, what's the latest? >> reporter: well, good morning to you three. this took many people by surprise, big news, a developing story. let me pull out the headlines, 100 million doses is going to cost the government $1.95 billion to enter this agreement with pfizer, and it's going to cost anybody that wants a vaccine zero. it's a joint effort between health and human services, also the defense department and pfizer who is going to make the vaccine. health and human services

secretary alex azar dropped this news an hour ago on this show. listen. >> starting in december of this year with an option to buy another half a billion doses. now those would, of course, have to be safe and effective. this now adds to what president trump has delivered which is four other vaccine candidates that pyretize the u.s -- prioritize the u.s. people where we're going to manufacture a vaccine and work to secure fda approval of them all at the same time. >> reporter: okay. secretary azar talking about the option to buy half a million doses, that's part of the deal. the first wave's going to be 900 million doses -- 100 million doses with the option later to buy that 500 million. of course the vaccine will undergo testing, and this is all subject to change if it's not safe. again, those 100 million doses expected to be delivered and actually given to patients by the end of this year. quite a big piece of news in the last hour. steve, ainsley, griff?

steve: david, thank you very much. let's bring in ben domenech, publisher of the federallest. good morning to you -- federalist. it was good to see the president last night. he resumed his coronavirus briefings with the country. i think it was less than a half an hour long. it seemed very succinct. there was a lot of information that a lot of peopled had not heard. but he also took questions from the press. this continues to be not only a global pandemic, but a political hot potato as well. >> it shul is, and i think that it's clear are that the democrats are trying to advance a narrative that they've done very successfully to this point that puts all the blame for anything that goes wrong at the president's feet. and that completely absolves anyone else, especially anyone with a d after their name of any responsibility when it comes to the spread of this virus. and so you have the weird circumstance where the headquarters of this in america in new york, is sadly, under

democratic leadership in governor cuomo and in mayor de blasio is completely absolved of anything that's gone wrong there. meanwhile, everything that's bad is laid at the feet of the president. ainsley: what east interesting is when you look at what's happening in portland are, the federal agents that were sent to guard the courthouse, 55 continuous days of the protests there and a lot of violence there. and then the fed agents go in just a few days ago, and mow the media is trying to blame the federal a agents for all the chaos that's been going on for almost two months now, ben. listen to how they cover it. >> president trump threatening to send militarized federal agents to more cities after scenes like this in portland. >> local leaders say they don't want them, don't need them and that their presence is fueling some of the protests. >> the trump administration says it sent federal agents to portland, oregon, to defend federal buildings against violet attacks. but the mayor there says that escalated the conflict. >> round after round of tear gas and i rubber bullets fired into

the crowd by federal agents is becoming a nightly routine. >> the protests start out peacefully here every night and then gradually turn into chaos. ainsley: are the feds to blame for the chaos there? >> that's as ludicrous saying because there are a lot of firemen showing up at burning houses, they started the fire in the first place. i mean, it's a situation where the media advances its narrative in the way they want the story to be told which is they don't show anything that comes before, they don't show any of the violence, any of the gras fitty, any of the types of things that we've seen that would have federal officers be deployed in order to protect federal buildings as is their job. and outwednesday they -- yet once they show up, they brought the with them. the media get -- the violence with them. the media gets away with it time and again. griff: what is going on with house speaker nancy pelosi? she called the federal officers in portland stormtroopers that deeply defend the women of dhs.

we had mark morgan on earlier, upset about it. and then on the coronavirus, she's now calling it the trump virus. she did so yesterday. >> you know, the media and the democratic party are really working as one in advancing this. i mean, it's kind of ludicrous, particularly given that this is a week in which house democrats are likely to advance a vote on the no ban act which is a piece of legislation that would restrict the president's ability to do what most people believe is the most logical and smart thing that he did addressing this virus in the first place, which was forbidding the travel from china that i think prevented the situation from being much worse. the aim is to make the president own the virus, have it be the thing that prevents him from getting reelected. and i think you have to see every one of these stories as an effort to advance this cause. steve: that's an old play in their playbook, isn't it? >> it is. the president needs to stop

getting in the fights he's tried to engage in and recognize it's much better at this point for people to hear the plan that he ought to be laying out in front of them for how he's going to have a real comeback both economically and as a country from this type of chaos that we've seen in cities and in the challenges that we have within an economy that was rolling along very well but now, i think, people need the hope of a clear path forward from the president on how he can get us back on our feet. steve: he is the publish of "the federalist." ben, thank you for joining us live. all right, it is 13 minutes before the top of the hour, and before she departs "fox & friends" for the day, janice dean -- uh-oh, some tropical trouble perhaps in the gulf. >> we are watching this area of hoe pressure that could develop into a named storm, but regardless of whether or not it gets a name, it's going to bring a tremendous amount of rain and showers and thunderstorms along the gulf coast as we go through the next couple of days.

certainly something we are watching. we don't think this is going to be a hurricane, but it could be a minimal tropical storm. this could also be a tropical storm within the next couple of hours as it moves across the atlantic, plenty of time to watch this one as it moves into the caribbean by monday. and and then we are also watching tropical storm douglas, this is also expected to become a hurricane over the next up couple of days and perhaps impact hawaii. so a lot of things happening in terms of tropical trouble. we will keep you up-to-date. the other big story across the nation is the heat. high fire danger over the great basin, showers and thunderstorms for the gulf coast and the potential for stronger storms including severe weather for parts of the northeast as well later on today. so just keep that in mind, and we will keep you up-to-date. ainsley, griff and steve, back to you. ainsley: thank you, janice. 48 minutes after the top of the hour, and the sports world is gearing up to restart their seasons without fans in the

stands. one company has a drone that can disinfect an entire stadium in just three hours. steve: what? awesome. ainsley: first, let's check in with martha maccallum, the show that she's filling in for sandra, she's on vacation. martha, you're working double duty. >> i need one of those drones at my house. [laughter] thanks, guys. great to see everybody. you've been talking about it all morning, more violence overnight across the country. at least 4 -- 14 people were shot outside of a funeral home in chicago. but the mayor there still saying she does not want and will reject any federal help. plus, president trump holding the first coronavirus briefing in months and it comes under attack from joe biden and nancy pelosi. we'll talk about that. reaction from the white house and kellyanne conway today. plus, we'll talk to st. louis homeowner who is facing charges for what he says was nothing more than self-defense of his

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debate how to simply get back into the game, one pennsylvania company has developed a drone that could disinfect stadiums in as little as three hours. here to tell us about it, nick brooker, cofounder of the company. nick, good morning to you. this could be a major breakthrough. tell us how this works. >> yeah. so basically our goal as a company was to try to get people back to doing the things they enjoy doing, going to a live sporting event, going to concerts. so what we did is we took two pre-existing technologies, electrode static which has been around since the '40s and '50s, and drone technology, and we've combined them. right now we have a patent pending on our technology, and once that's approved, we will be the only company who has the ability to deploy electrostatic technology via a drone. so we're excited about it. griff: how's the drone work though? you can do a stadium? like 20 acres per hour coverage,

but you can actually get the seats and the hard to reach areas as well? how does that work? >> that's correct. and that's basically what the electrostatic technology is. once particles are charged, they have 75 times the value of gravity. so it's basically defying gravity, those particles. and so they become part of the air, and they encompass the areas around them, so underneath handles, railings and things like that. that's just the science behind what electrostatic technology is. what we did is paired it with drone technology for speed. and so we're mitigating the human error side of this as well. griff: we're almost out of time, but let's take nfl or baseball. you would spray the stadium beforehand and spray it afterwards and cover it from the front end to the back end. >> that's correct. and we can do that all in less than three hourses, correct. griff: wow. all right.

nick brooker and the aeras fog company, we hope you get that moving forward because we all want to get back to watching sports. keep us updated on the progress. >> thank you very much. griff: all right. thanks, nick. stay tuned, more "fox & friends" just moments away. from prom dresses...

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>> yep, notice the skyscraper to the right, we still haven't seen anyone going to work in those offices. >> and must be financial because most people in finances are zooming from their houses. >> great to have you back. goodbye everyone >> fox news alert, a fire overnight at the chinese consulate in houston after the state department ordered that if we shut down by beijing. this fire apparently is coming from their burning of documents that were inside that building. all of this happening after the united states demanded that this consulate be closed to "protect american intellectual property. "earlier in the morning, senator marco rubio tweeted that the building was a mess spy center in texas. china now says they will retaliate for this action. much more on this, straight ahead.