50 people a year get lost in joshua tree. most make it out. some don't. as a desert trails appear obvious going in, they disappear in the changing lot. >> trace: thanks for joining us. i'm trace gallagher. here's bill hemmer. >> bill: thank you, trace. good afternoon, everyone. i'm bill hemmer. another snapshot of the u.s. economy. for the first time since march, more americans filed for unemployment than the previous week. jobless claims ticked up as some states hit the brakes on opening. we won't know what that mean for national unemployment. right now we're above 11% for june and waiting to see how senate republicans propose to help americans get through all of this. we expect mitch mcconnell to roll out a new bill but it's not happened. our team on the hill has said that republicans are fighting with themselves big time.

a lot to unpack. we start with eugene scalia. thanks for coming back today, sir. >> good to be with you. >> bill: what is the state of our economy? what is your read on this number? >> generally we're doing well economically. we have added 7.5 million jobs in the course of may and june. that puts us in a much better place than had been projected. so that -- we're seeing a number of other indicators trending in the right direction. that said, a couple of things to bear in mind. we still have many people on unemployment. we want to address that. you're right. the number ticked up about 100,000 claims last week. a lot of that is florida, california where they had to pause. second and related, obviously the virus is out there. we made some problem now getting it back under control in the south and west but that is going

to take continued discipline with distancing, with masks and many circumstances. i think with that we'll continue on the strong trend that we've been on even as we do work to bring more people back to work. >> bill: okay. let me try to dig through a number of topics here quickly. when you dig in to these numbers, where is the good news you find? >> well, the good news is how many more people have gone back to work already compared to what we were expecting at the time that congress enacted the cares act back in march. this is the law that provided the $600 week unemployment benefits that expires. there's discussion now about what might be continued in that vein. we're at a better place economically now than expected. i'm heartened to see continuing claims go down. unemployment claims are 1.1 million fewer people that have

remained on unemployment as opposed to a week ago. look, we're not out of the woods with the virus. we know that. the economy continues to show signs of growth. >> bill: okay. does the airline and hotel business come back before there's a vaccine? >> i think that we were seeing increases in both of those sectors, airlines and hotels. perhaps there was a little bit of a pause as we saw increases in the virus in the south and west. i do think that those sectors can rebound. whether they get all the way back without a vaccine, that's a separate question. a vaccine is when we get all the way back to normal. thankfully we're making incredible swift progress on a vaccine. the president talked about that a bit yesterday. really is a very promising development. >> bill: on the hill to talk about a new phase here, it's not happened yesterday. talking about the payroll tax

cut. the president wants it. steve mnuchin said it won't happen for now. it takes too much time. does it? >> well, payroll tax cut is something that is important to the president. i know that is the subject of ongoing discussions. what we're very interesting in is helping people get back to work, incentivizing hiring of workers. i think incentives of one form or another will and should be in this legislation in order to bring the commit back to the extraordinairy levels that we enjoyed before the virus. at the same time, we'll take up the question of the unemployment benefit, too. there's discussion where to set that level. as i said, congress had put $600 a week in the cares act. in the state of massachusetts, that means that people on unemployment on an annual basis get $75,000 a year. that is obviously very substantial. we know that 70% of people on

unemployment right now are actually getting more than they got while working. that's one of the things that congress is looking to address. 60%, what we call wage replacement is a target a lot of workers say. they say we should have 60% unemployment for what people had while they were working. i think that is part of the discussion going on on the hill now, too. >> hard to give people an incentive if they make more money by working than they are when they had their old jobs now. final question on china. a lot of allegations about labor camps being used to develop ppe that we purchase. allegations out there. you know how much we rely on the chinese for pharmaceuticals. how do we do better for ourselves on these areas? >> well, it's disturbing, bill, what you mentioned. the way china dealt with the virus, of course, was a wake-up

call for many americans about the problems that we do have with china. the problems run deeper than that. you mentioned pharmaceuticals. our dependence in that area. and our supply chains, too. the human rights abuses and for that matter the espionage that continues to be a problem with chinese firms and the government looking to appropriate american intellectual property. these are all areas of concern. i think we'll be more vigilant. i know this is important to the president and to secretary of state pompeo. we'll be more vigilant. also we want to look at ways to reboost american manufacturing, pharmaceuticals here on our shores and in countries we're more alied with. >> bill: thanks. a lot to get to. thanks for your time. i hope you come back soon. >> always a pleasure, bill. >> bill: now to that fight over the next covid relief bill.

i mentioned mitch mcconnell not yet speaking about specifics of it after meeting with top trump officials. house speaker nancy pelosi saying republicans are not prepared. our congressional correspondent chad pergram is watching this go back and forth throughout the day. good afternoon, chad. >> good afternoon, bill. mitch mcconnell, there was the indication that he was going to release this bill today. he indicated weeks ago that he was going to write the next phase of coronavirus relief in his office. he was not going to let this be a project of house speaker nancy pelosi. there's no agreement yet. if you had agreement, if you had a bill, you would release the bill. that's not happened today and that surprise add lot of people here on capitol hill. people want to understand what is in this bill including chair of the senate health committee, lamar alexander of tennessee. >> that's up to senator mcconnell. might be -- that depends on the rest of the bill. i think we'll introduce all the provisions at once. i would not support something

that would pay on unemployment more than you would earn if you were working. >> there's an agreement on the spending portion of the measure. $16 billion for testing and $105 billion to reopen schools. what is not in the package is the president's priority of a payroll tax cut. that's according to the secretary of the treasury, steve mnuchin. >> the president's priority for the moment is to get money into americans quickly and one of the problems with the payroll tax cut is, it takes time. so we're much more focused right now on the direct payments. >> house speaker nancy pelosi wants to know about her priorities. >> when you see what they have on paper, you see what they don't have on paper. when they say a trillion dollars and nothing for state and local, nothing for food stamps, fooding the hungry, nothing for helping with rent and the rest of that, nothing -- so many things that they don't have, then you

realize how they're at a trillion, how unacceptable it is. >> they'll need democratic votes to get this through the house and the senate. this can't be a republican-only proposal. we have breaking news on capitol hill. the senate has just approved the annual defense policy bill. the vote was 86-14. it includes provisions to rename military bases that are named after confederates. president trump has threatened to veto that bill on that issue alone. the house passed a similar bill earlier in the week. both the house and senate have passed these bills with veto-proof margins. they could override the president's veto. there's been 11 successful veto overrides in history. bill? >> thanks, chad. watching that on the hill. nice to see you. the pandemic pushing a lot more people out of new york city and into the suburbs. there's a new report about a third of the city's small businesses may never reopen. it's not just new york. i'm going to bring in the host

of bulls and bears, david asmin who has been looking at this. chicago, 4,400 businesses have closed. they think half of them will never reopen. how do you see it? >> it's not just the covid. there's really a double whammy going on here. you have the covid. just as a lot of these businesses were coming out of the lockdowns and various places, you have the civil unrest, the protests and the riots. that was another whammy that not only individuals that were worried about their safety on the streets were thinking of getting out but a lot of businesses were just beginning to get on their feet again and then hit by the civil unrest that closed everything. ruined several businesses. as if that wasn't enough, then you have mayors of the cities, the four biggest, new york, chicago, l.a., san francisco, not surprising, they're all run by progressives that have very

progressive economic policies that are not business friendly. they're the opposite. high taxes, high regulations, a lot of businesses even before covid, before the civil unrest were thinking about moving to more business friendly cities. even business friendly states. elon musk, the founder of tesla, just announced today that austin, texas is going to be the new home of his megafactory. he was thinking about california but look, he was looking at the taxes and the regulations in california. he said i've had enough with it. i'm going to open in texas. >> bill: money has feet, right? >> that's right. >> bill: it can do that. nice to see you, dave. see you later on fox business. thanks, david. >> you bet. >> bill: in a moment here, we're going to get back to the president's announcement about more federal agents in u.s. cities after you've had more violent protests. chicago is one of the towns and the mayor is pushing back. so will operation legend work?

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>> bill: new fox polling showing the plans for kids going back to school. 15% of dads say school should be fully remote compared to 37% for moms. when you break it down by political party, 38% of democrats are for remote schooling and 10% of republicans support that. more on that later. the president's event happens at 5:00 from the white house today. >> it's hurting people. these lockdowns are hurting people. we did the right thing, marc. i don't know if you agree. i think you do. we closed it down. >> bill: president trump giving an interview exclusively to fox news medical correspondent, dr. marc siegel. he's here now nor the rest of the interview today. good job. very interesting. certainly got a lot out of it. what was your feeling from him about the lockdowns and the impact of this on america?

>> well, first of all, bill, he was very kind to me. he pointed out that i said from the beginning that lockdowns had a huge emotional and physical and economic cost. he was of course keen on that as a business person. with his background. he also felt that there's certain things to be looking at and the hotspots the he's comparing state to state and he's definitely in favor of masking now. social distancing, closing bars. you know, some disparity from state to stay but he's presenting more of a unified message now than before. seems fully informed on this. against going back to lockdowns. he's against what some of the democrat governors are saying. he made that very clear in the interview. >> bill: okay on the vaccines, big news yesterday with pfizer. you asked him about that. here's what we got. >> if i'm the first one, they'll say he's so selfish, he wanted to get the vaccine first. then other people would say, hey that's a very brave thing to do.

if they wanted me too, i'd take it first or last. if i had my choice of vaccines or therapeutics? give me therapeutics every time. i'd love to walk into a hospital and give everybody something and they walk out in two days. that's what i like. vaccine is good longer term. give me therapeutics and we're doing really good work therapeutically. >> bill: doctor, you've been following this closely. are we doing that well on the therapies? what is your view on that now? >> they're getting better. he walked us through steroids, using remdesevir and a steroid inhaler that we're working on. he's focused on the idea of treating people early on. in terms of vaccines, we have 30% of americans out there, i pointed this out to him, that said they wouldn't take it. early trials encouraging do show some side effects. headaches, fever, muscle aches.

i was so encouraged to hear him say he would be at the front of the line with me and take the vaccine together. the vaccine doubters, the skeptics out there, if they see the commander-in-chief taking the vaccine at the beginning, we're going to get more compliance. this could be early next year. i love that. i was surprised by that. >> bill: you have to get the vaccine first. doctor, as a physician, take us behind the scenes. what did you observe at the white house? what did you take note of while you were there? >> bill, first of all, for those out there, he doesn't have the questions in advance. i didn't feet him the answers. he didn't know what was coming. he was ready to answer any particular question. he was kind. he was stately. he was in control. he seemed very alert on every question. when he brought me in to the oval office as i saw him sitting there, i said what about protests? he said all gathers where people

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>> policy is important. laws are important. budgets are important. but you know what is important also? what kind of values are you communicati communicating? >> bingo. >> bill: former president obama saying that president obama wouldn't have been in the white house if he did a terrible job. howie kurtz is here. good afternoon. so we have reached the point where we have played the obama card and how do you think with us played in that one for video? >> well, baseball is coming back tonight. this is play ball! the obama card is the strongest card that joe biden has to play. he shows him sitting around, shooting the breeze with president obama. the president has been ramping

up his attacks. in a virtual campaign, biden wants to connect with obama's 20 million twitter followers. he had been sitting at home till now. >> bill: it was taped about a week ago we're told. former president obama's offices in washington d.c. it was edited in part. this was not a live event. again, you have the question about taking questions from national reporters which has happened one time in four months. at what point does that damn break, howie? >> well, it breaks when biden starts to come down in the polls. many democrats seem convinced, it's a great strategy. the press should be pressuring the former vice president to answer questions because that's part of the responsibility of a presidential candidate. meanwhile, using barack obama, bill, as a character witness is a double edge sword. as we saw from the white house push back, president trump would love nothing more than to run

against the obama administration's record on policing, immigration and other issues. it could change the contest in what is now quite frankly a referendum to a future verse past comparison, do you really want to go back to the old days. >> bill: there was a zoom chat with the former president. he dropped the language of racist suggesting the president of the united states is that. you took note of that. how do you interpret that posture which could be a little aggressive? >> aggressive to be sure. surprised me. biden seems to be moving in a more aggressive phase. when you use language like that and many democrats love it, you're ratcheting up in a way that has some risks. a part of biden's appeal is that he's boring and that might appeal to voters that are a little exhausted by the constant crises of the trump presidency. so to go to -- that's a charge

you'd make in october, i think. to make it now in july, during coronavirus crisis, i'm not sure it was that smart but it did get biden in the news. >> bill: as a media analyst, i wonder if you're more in tune and more eager to see the live events with joe biden. to see how he interacts, to see how he responds and moves through an event. and it would certainly be interesting to see how he would move through an interview with a tough journalist on the other side of him. >> yeah. biden and chris wallace, come on your show, come on my show. look, not just as a journalist but as an american, i think that biden shouldn't adopt this posture that i'm just going to do the speeches. president trump like him or don't like him, he's out there talking to reporters, the deally briefings. joe biden is not doing that. it's a play it safe strategy but i think as we get to the fall

campaign and this takes center stage, he won't get away with that. >> bill: do you think that happens through labor day? >> i think it doesn't happen because august traditionally is a down time anyway, even if there were no coronavirus. people are still trying to go on vacation and so forth. in september, the debates are coming, he's not going to do a couple of friendly chants on msnbc. he has to show he can hit major league pitching. every candidate has to show it. donald trump does it every day. sometimes he scores points, sometimes he talks his way into trouble. biden, people have to imagine him in the oval office. not just as barack obama's wing man. not just the interviews do. >> bill: as you stated, play ball. thanks, howie kurtz. thanks. riots rocking portland another night. this time the mayor of the city got caught up in it. and in chicago, president trump plans to send in more agents.

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>> bill: this was a strange scene. that's portland's mayor among those tear gassed by federal officers. protests have rocked the city of portland for 56 straight days. city council has banned local police from cooperating with federal law enforcement's crackdown. dan springer reports from seattle again on this today. dan, what a night. >> yeah, bill, even by portland's standards, it was extraordinary. the mayor was gassed and fought back the a people that said they would help the federal government. >> if we don't get the

administration to back off, it will happen all across the city jeopardizing our united states constitution. >> wheeler called it a listening session but the crowd heckled him, called him a nazi. some spit at him. he was hit in the head with a water bottle. he was projected on the building behind him. among the demands, wheeler must resign. he was hit with tear gasses as projectiles were filed at the federal courthouse. some vandals used bolt cutters to breach the new fence. wheeler's security officers took him to a city building nearby. protesters set fires and opened a fire hydrant, but wheeler told a reporter on scene that he saw nothing to provoke the federal response. hours before this latest riot, the portland city council passed a law banning city police from coordinating or helping federal officers in any way. >> does not allow local law

enforcement to coordinate or support in life threatening situations federal officers. that is dangerous. >> the last three weeks, federal agents have made several dozen arrests but paying the price. three officers may lose their sight after being hit in the eyes with laser beams and the federal protective service says 38 officers have been docked by protesters. their identities revealed on social media amid calls for violence against them. in a built of irony, theres a hearing on a lawsuit filed by the state attorney general seeking an injunction to limit what the federal officers can do. bill? >> bill: wow. even more irony. you reported earlier today the mayor in portland was the police commissioner who has that job. dan springer, thank you in seattle. i'm certain we will speak again tomorrow on this. thanks. president trump announcing a plan to send more federal agents to chicago as the city grapples with a speak in gun violence. mike tobin reports live from

chicago for us again today. mike? >> bill, a group of activists have filed suit asking a federal jennifer griffin to block the president's surge of federal agents into the city of chicago. their argument is that the increased federal personnel on the ground will inhibit their ability to hold demonstrations. the last demonstration of note was at the columbus statue in grant park. that melted down into vandalism and violence when demonstrators came at the police with frozen water balls fashioned to projectiles and pvc pipes fashioned into spears. chicago has seen a dramatic increase in gang and gun violence. just this week, there was a mass shooting after a service for a reputed gangster. everyone down to the u.s. attorney for the northern district of illinois said federal officers will be there to submit the fbi, drug enforcement, homeland security, the atf and the u.s. marshalls.

so the scenes in portland won't be duplicated in chicago. the staff in chicago will have a different role. >> in chicago, it's the criminal activity that we see in the streets, whether it's gang crime, elicit drug crime and the like. the department of justice and dea, fbi and others along with homeland security are working on the criminal investigations and those criminal activities every day. >> now, operation legend got started in kansas city as it expands in chicago. it will also expand in albuquerque. chicago's mayor, lori lightfoot not a fan of the president insists he's expanding this operation to devert attention away from his poor handling of the covid-19 crisis. >> bill: thanks, mike. and now bring in geraldo rivera and civil rights later, leo terrell. nice to see you both today.

geraldo, we begin with you. 100 agent to chicago. 35 to albuquerque. is this the next face to quell this violence? >> at least it's a start, bill. but yesterday, wednesday, ten more people were shot in chicago. three more people were killed yesterday. wednesday in chicago. a 3-year-old, another 3-year-old was shot in chicago. you know, the superintendent, the police superintendent, david brown a proud black man said that get this number. there's 117,000 gang members in chicago. 117,000. you heard right. that's 7% of the city. i mean, it's an incredible number. there's 55 major gangs in chicago. you know, you watch this amateur theatric in portland where the mayor grandstanding and then, you know, getting it thrown back at him from the very demonstrators that he's trying

to suck up to. that is nothing. that is just play acting. look at chicago with another 3-year-old shot. ten more in total shot yesterday. three more killed. what are you going to do? there's 12,000 cops in chicago, 117,000 gang members, bill. >> bill: it's a mountain to climb. leo, what would you do? >> bill, i'll tell you right now, it's so obvious. three quick points. the president is spot on and legally correct to go in to these cities. because he has the authority to enhance the fbi, the dea. and the pundits of these other cable networks saying he doesn't have the authority, they're wrong and providing a false narrative. so he has the authority. secondly, the cable networks other than fox didn't show the president with these murdered victims families. they're trying to create a false narrative. the narrative they're trying to create is the president doesn't care. the reality is, most americans,

democrats as well, they want law and order. this president is on point and final point, i agree with geraldo. the portland mayor who has been denying access to the federal agents, he was heckled. translation, these extremists groups protesting, they're not protesters. they're criminals. they don't respect the people that are defending them, i.e. democratic mayors. >> bill: as we pointed out, he's the police commissioner. a lot of irony in that. this, geraldo, coming at a time, joe biden suggested president trump is a racist. i don't know if that ties in to the actions that he's taken the way joe biden seeing it. his campaign cleared that up earlier today. it's a season of politics. also a season of law and order. >> bill: you know, bill, i think that joe biden is a decent person. for him to accuse the president of racism was low and cheap

stunt again. he should be embarrassed by it. when you have a situation where the carnage is as intense as it is in chicago, far more than in baghdad or in kabul, afghanistan. you have a situation where lawlessness rules. children are being slaughtered. you need aggressive help. chicago needs help. mayor lightfoot is grand standing and the federal help on the way. you need to treat these gangs as organized criminal organizations like the old mafia. you have to go after them with rico statutes. you have to have traffic stops and stop and frisk. you have to -- this is not be allowed to continue. the people on the south side of chicago, you know, there's only about 750,000 on the south side and 117,000 gang members. 55 gangs. this is for real. this isn't, you know, any one

grandstanding. this is a severe crisis and in which the rights of the law abiding poor people, the vast majority of them, 93%, african americans, it's their constitutional rights that are being trampled on. >> bill, geraldo is being kind to joe biden. he has not gone to these democratic cities and embraced the victims like president trump has. he has not walked hand and hand with police officers. joe biden has -- insulted every african american by saying if you ain't -- if you don't vote for me, you ain't black. i'm black. i'm not voting for him. it's an insult to every american. people decide on the competency of the candidate. joe biden has to help the people in those cities and he's not doing it. he's in his basement. >> bill: it really rings true when you hear the families of the victims. we saw that at the white house

yesterday. >> yes. >> bill: thanks for your time, leo and geraldo. thanks for your input. we'll see how it goes the next week. thanks. secretary state mike pompeo about to speak about china in the next hour. america's feud with beijing escalates by the day. what does he say? the fbi accusing a university researcher of being an undercover chinese military scientist. where the agents say that she's hiding out. attention veteran homeowners: record low mortgage rates have dropped even lower. at newday, veterans can shortcut the refinance process and save $250 a month. $3000 dollars a year. with the va streamline refi at newday, there's no appraisal, no income verification, and no out of pocket costs. one call can save you $3000 a year.

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>> bill: secretary state mike pompeo set to speak about china and the future of the free world as tensions rise with beijing. the fbi claims a fugitive chinese military scientist is hiding inside china's consulate in san francisco. federal investigators accusing her of being an undercover army

biologist that lied about her background to get in the country and become a researcher in california. the chinese government denies it. i want to bring in gordon chang. good afternoon to you. make sense of what could be happening with this woman in san francisco. >> this is unprecedented, bill. because regardless of her guilt, that's to be determined by a jury, china is hiding a fugitive who is from the united states. they're doing that in a diplomatic compound. you know, i think the united states needs to say to china, surrender this woman with 24 hours or we will close the san francisco consulate. of course, that would be the second consulate closure because houston is being closed, must be closed by tomorrow. nonetheless, china has shown that they're not going to be bound by acceptable rules of conduct. >> bill: if that's what's happening in san francisco, how do you explained what happened in the consulate in houston

where they lit everything on fire and the firefighters showed up and they were not allowed on the grounds? what happened? >> china is trying to destroy evidence and routine consulate corresponden correspondence. so that is not terribly unusual. it does show that china does have something to hide. indeed there's many suspicions that the consulate was involved not only in espionage against energy companies and others but indications it was in contact with u.s. protest groups. that's unconfirmed. china has had disturbing connection with the protests this year. so i think we need to be asking some questions about what china is doing in its consulates. seems from san francisco and houston and new york where there was dangerous conduct, china is just not playing by the rules. >> bill: it's been suggested by some that the energy companies in houston doing work in the south china sea, that that might

be linked to it. we'll see if that plays out. two minutes left. you believe secretary pompeo's speech today will be historic. why? >> because it appears that he's going to call upon the chinese people to govern themselves. in other words, to get rid of the communist party. would you have to go to the eisenhower administration to have similar comments. secretary pompeo said in october that he would lay out a series of -- he was going to be engaged in a series of talks that would change the paradigm of u.s.-china relations. this is it. >> bill: we'll wait to see that. quickly, i want to play the sound bite from the woman that left china seven years ago. her father has been in jail ever sense. he ran a website. she said this about the video of the men that we saw blind folded

and transported on the trains. >> there's thousands of people just like my father locked up in a prison. there's hundreds of thousands of daughters or sons like me, that cannot see their parents. cannot call their parents. cannot communicate. >> i me you've talked about that in the past. how do you think china responds based on the recording we've been watching the past three days, gordon? >> china's response will be disgusting and abhorid. her father promoted nonviolence and understanding between the dominant ethnic groups. this is more attempts to eliminate the culture from china and indeed it's in connection with genocide, crimes against humanity and institutionalized slavery, this is horrific. >> bill: heavy charges. thanks, gordon. >> thanks, bill. >> bill: major league baseball

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>> bill: how about this image? a bolt of lightning lit up lady liberty last night. the statues foundation reports she can withstand mining and is still standing tall as expected. visit the grounds on liberty island which reopened this week. of major league baseball is back today. of the world series champion

washington nationals and the new york yankees kick out the season a few hours from now. social distancing at the moment live at nationals park. how's it going? >> pretty good. you have been to opening day before. you know that means. packed house. jets should be flying overhead. this place is empty. the only people walking in here are going to the team store. ryan zimmerman spoke. before he did that, at nationals manager made some breaking news. he said his star outfielder was tested positive for the coronavirus. going back to that interview, dr. anthony fauci was interviewed by anthony zimmerman. he asked if he was ready to throw out the first pitch. >> i am not. i'm quite nervous about it. >> there's nobody there to boo you.

>> the nationals were supposed to be celebrating opening day in april. the pitching matchup will be a repeat of game 1. garrett call end surgery. he signed with the yankees this off-season for $324 million. 123 wins for the yankees apparently was not good enough. the national league will add a designated hitter. there will be a runner on second to begin extra innings. major league baseball will show support for the black lives matter movement. san francisco giants player and manager kneeled during the game. nancy pelosi praised the move. all 30 big league clubs will be traveling around the country. the nationals will play and some covid hot spots. simulated fans in the stands. you can't simulate a standing

ovation. >> david: it's going to be a different game. it's back. we are going to watch it together. a great reporting. nice to see you. the president is up at 5:00. in the meantime, we will catch you tomorrow. bye-bye. >> the new push to defund cities that want to defund belize. republican and democrat are teaming up to do it and both will be here on it. but first, violence continues to escalate and portland. another city is banning the police from working with federal officers. while, everyone. i'm charles payne in the first neil cavuto. this is "your world." >> it with some of the worst violence he had in parlin. hundreds of protesters battled with federal officers. right in the middle of this was the city's mayor, ted wheeler.