and fox news will host a special this weekend to cover the remarkable american hero, and the processional will be ♪ wake me up before you go, go ♪ wake me up before you go. pete: the nobody here in the city except for me. i'm here and you guys are here as well. it's great to have you, jedediah bealia, griff jenkins. it is july 25th. can you believe it? middle of the summer. i have been across the country in an rv. it's true. but i'm back, alive, thankfully and seven kids that i'm aware of at this moment still alive. great to be with you all as well. good morning to you both.

griff: good morning. jedediah: can i say, pete, it's an adventure to go to the grocery store with one child and the dog a size of a mouse. i have no idea how you managed to pull this trip off but i'm going to need to see lots of photos behind the scenes. that is quite an endeavor. griff did say there is an rv hierarchy when you pull in the camp site. i learned that we were very low on the hierarchy, quickly. griff: we have got talk about this throughout the show today. the rv thing i have never done it. a friend that did it. whole hierarchy and culture of itself. justice clarence thomas big rv enthusiast has been doing it years and years. you are a new buy. pete: you could tell we were a new buy and half the camp sites only allow to you have four kids. we had seven so we had to lie on the application to get into the camp site. hide the kids and let them all out the door so they couldn't kick us out. more to come.

it will not be an rv show only. we have a little bit of news as well including this fox news alert. chaos unfolding in portland, oregon for a 58th straight night. [explosion] pete: rioters sur rowrchesding the federal courthouse has tear gas fired reports some even trying to saw down the fence protecting that building. jedediah: meanwhile the feds announcing 18 arrests in this weekens riots where nasa portland the judge denies the state's request to stop them. griff: in north in seattle the judge blocked the city's new law prohibiting from using crowd control tactics, that includes, of course, the tear gas that we have seen. federal officers have arrived in seattle as businesses are boarding up, windows bracing for a potential violent weekend of protests.

rioters already busting out 10 windows at this washington state police building. it's always the federal buildings, the police precinct under siege. of course, in seattle, the police precinct taken over in what used to be known as chaz or chop. pete: yeah, i'm trying to follow this. i don't know what people are protesting at this point. we are going to bring in some sound later on in the show from the naacp that says effectively the same thing. these are lawless riots at this point. but, of course, the mayor and by the way seattle and portland not on the rv trip list. we did not attend either as we were going across the country. the mayors of those cities, predictably, are blaming one person and one person only, the president of the united states. here's how they explain it away. listen. >> he is purposefully targeting cities run by democrats. we're better than that as a country.

that is not the way we operate. and i'm just urging everybody who hears my words please, don't take the bait. don't buy into it. be peaceful. >> chaos. this unrest we are seeing on the streets of portland. thousands of people coming outs to demonstrate. this was created directly by the trump administration's heavy handed unwarranted and unconstitutional tactics in our city. pete: i don't know, jenny or ted, when you are pleading please, please, with the mob. please behave, please be peaceful, you have lost control of your city you are not providing leadership and the citizens there who pay their taxes and obey the laws are under siege by complete lawlessness, of course the president has no choice but to send federal officials there when you have got federal property under siege. if you don't defend it you give it away and you have lost all rule of law.

yet, jed, these mayors are pointing the finger at washington saying it's your fault? jedediah: yeah, the accusation that the administration is targeting these cities with no causes a if it's peaceful everywhere and the trump administration is just saying oh, i'm just going to go to these cities because it will help me in the election. no, the cities are on fire. these people are really unbelievable. there is footage everywhere. you see what's going on. you see the police aren't allow nude regions, the crime. you have people boarding up businesses, fleeing the cities with their families. this is absurd for anyone to accuse -- the administration is there because local officials, by that i mean political officials, are refusing to support law enforcement and they are refusing to do their job. it's your job, if you are a mayor or a governor, yes, this should be local. this should be happening on the local level. you are not doing it. and, as a result, federal authorities are having to come in and protect federal property and act as such, i would love to ask these people who say listen, there is a conflict of interest

here. this is unconstitutional. you shouldn't have federal authorities. okay, so what should we do? do we let the cities burn? pete: exactly. justified jed what do you do if local officials refuse to do their job? griff: federal authorities are responding and pushing back not only with just the local leaders responding, jed, but also against the media coverage. i will give you a quick example just an hour ago on the wires racial injustice, portland feds disperse rowdy protesters. it's anything but rowdy protesters as wee have seen violent anarchist. attorney for oregon billy williams said, quote: this is just mindless violence. anyone who allows this to continue. look around is this okay? is there any justification for this? portland is losing its soul right now. what i i'm telling you refuse to call something, late night activity that is criminal. such an important, important quote from billy williams because simply there may be

protests geared towards racial injustice earlier in the day but after midnight for 58 straight nights it has been pure violent criminal activity. we have mark morgan the acting cpd commissioner coming up at 7:15. this is important interview. he has consistently called them out as his officials agents and officers have been getting physically injured as their federal cuter house in portland is under siege every night. pete: look forward to him. if my kids come home and say just late night activity. what were you doing. of course it's not late night activity it's shear accurately. has to be called out. yesterday, there was a bit of -- it almost feels bait tax like he will president at a interviewing the president, dave portnoy the president of barstool sports, if you didn't see the whole interview, go on twitter and watch the whole thing. he said it was surreal to be there to interview the president

of the united states and did he outside the oval office. he asked the president a bunch of sports questions and we will get to some of that today in the program. he asked about these threats, tearing down statues president of barstool sports asked the president of the united states about it, and here is what he said. >> we are for justifiable but we are for law and order. got to be law and order. there is law and order. they started to put something rip down statues old law, old bill you couldn't get it passed today. you get 10 years in jail and no games. we have a lot of people in jail right now. if you rip down a statue, federal statue because the states have to take care of their own. unfortunately. if you rip down a federal statue you get 10 years in jail, not three months. nothing has happened since then. jedediah: yeah, you have to fear consequence. you have to know if you are doing something wrong, someone is going to hold you

accountable. what you see is just people throughout these cities. we are highlighting places like portland and seattle because you see massive violence erupting on streets. you see things being burned down. i have to tell you i was in new york city in manhattan for the first time the other day, the day before yesterday, i was there in the evening. i lived in manhattan for a very, very long time. i have to tell you for the first time in a long time it felt unsafe walking around on the streets in areas that should not feel unsafe at all and have not felt unsafe. it is starting to feel like pregiuliani new york city. even if we are not highlighting cities. there is a difference between what's going on in portland and what's going on in manhattan there are places around the country that are shifting. a lot of people in those places that have voted democrat for a very long time saying hold on a second, what is going on here and questioning. i don't know if that will make them vote republican. ask about leadership and the

lack of leadership in those areas and what leadership should look like in those areas. >> i will tell you i'm just struck by the smartness of doing an interview with david portnoy. entire audience used to tuning in to stool presidente for a pizza review. finding voters that would normally not vote for him. many of these will be millennials and young people all of a sudden in the venue they are hearing from the president and may agree with him. pete: he ended it with a face time with his dad who is not a supporter of the president. i mean, it is a new way to reach people who are watching the madness that we are covering today and saying i don't get it. lining i understood there were protests two months ago. now we're just burning buildings, what is this all about? and i turn to my sports channel and political protest when i watch baseball and basketball as well. where do i go and how i do reconcile it all?

good move by will el president it's e of the president e. jedediah: the u.s. has now reported over 1,000 covid-19 deaths for the fourth straight day. over 145,000 deaths. the country option to 4.1 million cases. mississippi is limiting social gatherings to 10 or less people indoors and 20 or less outdoors as it becomes a leading state for covid-19. massachusetts and washington, d.c. will now put in stricter travel restrictions forcing anyone coming in from a coronavirus hot spot to quawngt. the white house defends calls to reopen schools by calling teachers essential. >> it is our firm belief that the -- that our schools are essential. places of business, if you will, that our teachers are essential personnel. jedediah: new cdc guidelines

recommend schools we open with in person learning. john lewis will be honored this morning hometown of troy, alabama. public service will be held before lewis is held to sill that. the city where he was beaten by troopers on the edmund pettus bridge on sunday. his body will be carried across the bridge where it will move to the u.s. capitol where it will lie in state. special coverage 11:00 a.m. will it's expected to become a category 1 hurricane before hitting southern parts of the state today. heavy rain and winds up to 70 miles per hour are expected to slam that region. preparations are underway and crews handed out thousands of sandbags for people to protect their homes and businesses along the coast. nfl training camps are set to open next week after players approved a deal with the league, the two sides agreed to eliminate the preseason and reduce the size of the camp

rosters, the new orleans saints will report to camp on tuesday and chief defensive lineman lawrence tar def the first player who announced he will sit out the season. only active player with a medical degree. those are your headlines. griff: i'm a pessimist, i'm worried the nfl is not going to get underway. we will see. hopefully they dual it as safe live as they can. pete: might be right. one of the stops of the rv trip pro-football hall of fame canton, ohio. more busts. griff griff one pastor turning to the power of prayer. hear how he is bringing faith to the streets and how he is encouraging other churches to do the same. that's next.

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trying to stem what is clearly an out-of-control problem right now? >> i think possible. in my part of the community really the dured to march through all the neighborhoods was an overphilosophy what led my family and i to do in our own community, specifically in the block that we have lived on. we if someone gets killed then we go out and pray or then we go out in march. just this idea of owning my community. owning my block. praying, getting to know the people. asking individual if they need prayer. especially those who may be involved in gang activity and other activity that is unlawful and so, we engage it, we pray. and in my part of the community by godst grace we have seen results and seen individuals change and violence go down so, yeah. griff: when you talk to people, pastor, what do they say about

local leaders? they feel the mayor and local leaders have abandoned them or do they believe that they are protecting them? >> it's interesting. because, political figures don't necessarily come up as it's really a charge on where are the churches? you know, since covid and everything happened, people were really feeling this idea the sunday service, going into the buildings were the end all be all. some have given me the response of oh, now, you are coming out when in reality, this has been something that the church has been supposed to own and so political figures and things of that nature don't necessarily come up. hey, this is what christians are supposed to you do. are you going to do this more or just because things are happening? griff: you will continue to walk the streets? >> absolutely. so as long as there is a need and as long as people need to hear the good news of jesus.

we as the church need to be out there. griff: we will certainly be praying for the city of chicago because got a crisis on your hand. be safe out there. thanks for joining us. pals tore andrew rodriguez thank you, sir. >> god bless. griff: hurt. is the push to defund police pushing democrats to leave the party? thousands of dems walking away to join his movement after the break. what i'm worried about

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nicholas sandmann covered balch of this viral confrontation in 2019. sandman was accused of confronting an activist. footage revealed sand man was the one being harassed. block state restrictions on attendance. the church accused the state of discrimination because it allowed more people at casinos and restaurants than houses of worship. the court denied the appeal in a 5-4 decision. over to you, pete. pete: thank you, jed. all right, calls to defund the police radiating from the left. the movement is turns some democrats against their party. in fact, one group comprised of former democrats has seen a surge of manipulat membership 80 members joining the walk away campaign. the founder of the walk away campaign brandon strakka. thanks for being here appreciate it? >> good morning, pete. pete: talk about this dynamic.

why people may have been part of the protest in the beginning and see where it's going and leaving the democratic party, why? >> well, i think there is such an exextremity happening right now from the left. overstature rate offed with it constantly. images of people burning, looting, commissioner acts of violence and vandalism. moderate liberals who are moderate democrats who at this point feeling like they have to make a choice here and i'm going to continue to go down the road with these fringe people acting crazy or being pushed over toward the center, toward the right and that's where a lot of people are finding themselves. as you said within the last 60 days we have seen over 86,000 people join the walk away movement and thousands of testimonials rolling. in it's been absolutely incredible. pete: it's not that you sign up on the email list and you are a member. you have to submit a testimonial

why you want to go. you have people who vet those videos. how are they hanging in with all the backlog of demand. >> so glad you asked me that everywhere time i do interview i forget to thank my amazing volunteers and moderation team. they are working themselves to the bone over here. we have as we speak about 46,000 more people who are in the queue waiting to be vet you had. so they're doing an amazing job. pete: you are verifying these are peel people with real stories who truly do want to leave the left and realize what it's become. you are manifesting in rallies. hopefully have you back on and show images of the difficult time with covid-19 stuff. show us about where you are going to governmental sure, today we are about to launch the very first rescue america rally. we will be taking these all around the country. we are in baltimore today. i would highly encourage anybody if you are even close to the baltimore area just make the drive today because at 3:00 p.m.

at the baltimore war memorial, we are kicking off our very first rescue america rally. go to walk away.com to register. the purpose of these rallies is to give a voice to people who are in that common sense center or people who are on the right who are sick and tired of sitting home watching their television sets. watching radical people destroy america. i have been saying that i feel america is in payroll. america needs heroes right now. this is time for conservatives to show up. this is time for people in the center to show up. we want to show people on the left that they do not have carte blanche to destroy our country. we are going to show up. we are going to fight back. we are going to fight for america. i want to see everybody in baltimore today. they can go to walk away campaign.com to register for the rally. >> you are so right. native heroes you are one of them. building a real movement. keep us posted. send us photos and love to have you back on the show. >> will do. thank you, pete. pete: as new school year nears,

calls to get students back in the classroom. next guest explains how school closure is unfair to america's kids. we will bring it to you after the break.

jedediah: as schools rules for the fall how detrimental staying out of the classroom can be for

some students. 22 million students rely on free or reduced priced lunches at school and 20% of black and latino families don't have internet access at home. meanwhile the cdc has rolled out new reopening guidelines emphasizing the importance of in-person learning. here to discuss is family therapist and author the upcoming book "disconnected how to device dependency tom kersting and dr. gentleman netted nesheiwat. thank you for being here today on this important issue of reopening schools: by the way i love your book title i wrote a book that touched on that topic. can you speak to from a psychological perspective some of the potentially damaging effects of remote learning as opposed to in person learning for particularly young kids? >> i will speak to it as i'm already seeing it, right, sings the spring, in fact. at my private practice. i'm getting so many phone calls

from parents with kids, preteens and teenagers are that are experiencing a tremendous amount of anxiety disorld disorders. and depressive disorders. kids need social and emotional interaction. particularly kids it's particularly important to their development. now we are sticking them in their bedrooms staring at a screen all day long. and if they are doing that already on their own and now what we have are kids being sucked into the vortex of this cyber world. that's one of my biggest fears. they are not really living in the real world. sort of a dehumanizing effect. i worry this will escalate even further once fall gets here. jedediah: yeah. dr. nesheiwat, i want to talk about the medical component of this. we know covid-19 is a very dinner animal from the flu the way it attacks the body the effects and the way it will impacts the family. if you look at covid-19 and the

flu simply in comparison how it impact children take look at some those states. 36 children have died since 2019511 children 0 to 17 have died on average each flu season. we don't shut down these schools during flu season. that's not something that has been done in the past. unlikely to happen in the future is that an indicator of what policy should be like with respect to covid-19 at this point when it comes to children? >> yes. absolutely. knowing these numbers, knowing the data and the information can help us to determine what steps and what measures we need to take in the classroom. we know that children under the age of 10, they are less likely to transmit the virus to one another and to teachers and to other adults versus those who are older, teenagers, over the age of 10, 10 to 18-year-olds. it gives us an idea of what steps, what measures we need to take. we have to remember even though the risk is lower, it still exists. and, you know, one person can be a super spreader and children

can suffer from what's called pediatric inflammatory multisystem syndrome. even though that's rare for some people it can be life-threatening we definitely certainly need to keep that in mind. jedediah: you know, tom, i want to ask you because this has been brought to my attention a lot by parents. is there an impact of kids going into school with all of these guidelines, for example, being in masks all day, hours and hours, being in these pods and these bubbles, not having a recess. not having a normal lunch period, some parents are coming to me and saying i don't know, is it worth to have them there under these circumstances just in terms of normal social interaction than to keep them at home? what do you think about that? >> it's almost like an imprisonment a little bit. can i visualize this already with schools that do send the kids back wearing the masks all day long. i wear the mask when i need. to say i don't feel comfortable wearing it all the time because i feel like i have a hard time breathing. it's not -- one of the things that kids might lose out on with

wearing masks in school is as human beings, we communicate mostly nonverbally, believe it or not, and we pick up on the nonverbal nuances from one another, it's hard to read one another, especially kids an important social and emotional developmental stage and i worry that kids are going to lose very important communication skills and therefore emotional skills. we have to figure out a way to get kids back to normalcy and back to the way things are supposed to be. we can't have this permanent thing kids have to wear mask at school and social distance in a school playground. otherwise we will have larger problems down the road. jedediah: yeah not to undermind mask wearing we know that is significant but we also have to consider the impact of having that mask on the face of a child for hours and hours on end. it's a legitimate concern that parents have expressed. dr. nesheiwat, quickly, we don't have a lot of time, we have seen problems with getting into standard appointments covid-19

and concerned kids will be exposed by going to those regular appointments. is there an impact to that? >> yes. absolutely. vaccine hesitancy is a global threat. vaccines alone prevent 30,000 deaths each year. it's very important. can i understand parents are fearful. sometimes it's costs, transportation getting to the clinic. pick up the phone and talk to your doctor and communicate. doctor's office we take every measure possible to keep ourselves safe and to keep our patients safe. but not having your child get the vaccines they need could be life-threatening. you know, we have eradicated diseases like measles and polio, pertussis and meningitis that can be life-threatening to your child it. is safe. call your doctor. talk to them and get your child in to get their vaccines because with flu season around the corner they will be more susceptible to serious complications. jedediah: thank you both for being here. obviously an important topic.

i know a lot of parents watching at home are really appreciative of your voices. thanks for being here. >> thank you, jed. jedediah: head over to griff and pete now. griff: now to some extreme weather. tropical storm hanna gaining strength moving toward texas. expected to become a category 1 hurricane before hitting parts of the state today. griff: preparations underway. crews handing out thousands of sand bags for people to protect their homes along the coast. rick reichmuth is tracking it all as the storm churns toward the coast. rick, good morning. >> hey, griff, yeah, good morning. getting very close to the coast. going to run out of strength which is good news. center of the storm off the shore of texas there and it's really gotten its act together. had not forecast to be this strong but now at 70 miles per hour. 74 is that trigger where it is strong enough to be classified as a hurricane and almost there. can you see the rain with it. it is starting to see some of those rand bands move on shore .

stronger and stronger until the center moves on shore. at this point looks to the south of the core tuesday christie area somewhere along south padre island. the radar looking very organized. i probably by the time we get the next advisory coming out, the next full advisory 11:00, i they this thing will probably be a hurricane. the temperature of the water certainly plenty warm. even though we are early in hurricane season here. already on our 8th storm we have a long ways to go here and the next couple of months are going to be inactive. pressure really low. that is definitely low like the hurricane generally would be. if it continues to get its act together like it looks like it is. south texas the area we will see primarily a lot of the rain. some spots over 10 inches which is certainly going to cause local litzed flooding. all right, guys, send it back to you. griff: if you are partying on padre time to get off the beach. judge rules the gym at the center of controversy after

opening despite new jersey's lock down order can now be shut down by the state. owners of atlas gym fighting back after being found in contempt of court. >> murphy got his way. is he coming to change our locks. we are looking at a showdown because frank andly not be backing down. griff: the owner also join us later this morning with more on their fight. new york's governor andrew cuomo almost gets himself a pretty big promotion. take a listen to this. >> why didn't you look at them all? why didn't you listen to president -- to andrew cuomo as he says 11 times there are other states that have green light laws. griff: cuomo made the freuden strip while listening previously denied any plans of holding a higher office. thorn fauci laughing off first pitch fail as he explains what happened here. >> i was getting the ball pretty

well about half an hour my arm was really really hurting because i haven't thrown a baseball in decades. i went way back and wham and the ball went off somewhere. griff: it did, indeed. despite his less than stellar pitch, he now has his own tops baseball card on sale. and president trump will try on the mound when he throws out the first pitch at yankee stadium on august 15. and, remember, baseball in back on fox today. catch the action starting at 1:00. that's a good thing. those your headlines. pete: the worst pitch i have ever seen. i mean, the worst pessimism i have ever seen. grichuk. griff: 80. pete: 50-cent was barely worse. remember george w. bush that strike. anyway, fauci fail. jedediah: listen, i assure you mine might be worse so i'm not saying anything bad about his

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jedediah: in a new op-ed our next guest warns next guest using the relief to push their own it agenda. griff: share of the finance program brian brenberg. great op-ed out there. obviously things got stalled. mcconnell says we will see phase 4 on monday. but you say what's in it could really be bad news. >> yeah. what i'm really concerned about, griff, is that this isn't about coronavirus stimulus anymore. this isn't about recovery. this is about a convenient vehicle to get the democrats' progressive agenda through congress. you look at what we are talking about right now. we are talking about things that look like head scratchers when it comes to recovery. we are talking about forgiving student loans. we are talking about massive new programs for rent relief and mortgages. we are talking about another round of stimulus checks. the question is these things really help us recover.

is this what the economy really needs? or is this just an opportunity to get this progressive agenda through by another means? americans balk at the tens of trillions of dollars of price tag with the green new deal and now getting it on the installment plan. america has to wake up to it and republicans in congress have to wake up to it. we have to talk about real stimulus or real relief what the economy really needs and not ideology right now. pete: what is it that the economy really needs you? are right. in your op-ed democrats are talking about high efficiency washing opinion machines, electric cars. solar panels. grab bag of a wish list. never let a crisis go to waste. what should republicans be tarvelgt are targeting as a contrast. >> we need a pro-growth agenda, pete. only thing that helps people at the end of the day growing economy where businesses are looking for workers and hiring again. the measurable we should be using for everything in this bill is does it grow the economy or does it stall us out? take the unemployment extension,

for example, we know, we know that when you extend unemployment benefits at a high level, it actually hurts recovery, it actually stalls the recovery because people face an impossible choice. do i go to work and earn less than if i stay home we need to have policy that gets people back to work. republicans are talking about some that are good. liability protection for businesses. we should be talking about ways we can put more money in workers' pockets. make it easier for businesses to hire. i like the payroll tax. it looks like republicans maybe have abandoned that i think it's a mistake. republicans need to go to the country with a pro-growth agenda something that gets people back to work that makes sense to people intuitively. they know pork when they see it. and they know growth when they see it. i think republicans have to do a much better job of putting that on the line clearly not starting from a weak position with pelosi. jedediah: brian, just quickly,

is there a time frame that people should be looking at that makes sense? people say you know, you wanting to provide the relief that's needed but government assassination can't go on forever even in terms of crisis. what should why be looking at in terms of time frame? >> when we're talking about having already allocated $3 trillion for this and now house democrats are talking about 3 trillion more. the problem right now is everybody is in a rush to get this done. and i get it. the unemployment extension expirls at the end of next week. but the problem is when you rush, you get bad policy. you gte the kind of policy that ends up undermining recovery. i don't think republicans should be rushing here. i think they should be taking this on a piecemeal basis. if you have got a policy that you think can work past that policy, i will tell you house democrats won't go for that. they want a package deal, $3 trillion. republicans should resist that. jedediah: brian brenberg providing great economic

insight. can you catch brian's op-ed on foxnews.com. it's a great read. you should check it out. still ahead, a single mom out of a job, don't united states her lottery winnings to an officer shot in the line of duty. now that police department is rallying to support her. the incredible story of paying it forward coming up next. ♪ ♪ ♪ so they can keep more cash in your pockets for when it matters most find out more at usaa.com

pete: welcome back with just $7 in her account. sims bought a scratch off lottery ticket and won $100. instead of keeping the money for herself. she donated the winnings to a kansas city police officer who was shot in the line of duty after her daughter suggested they do so. now the police are paying it forward. starting a go fund me account that has already raised nearly

$120,000. she joins me now along with her daughter rakia, i'm sorry if i didn't pronounce it correctly and sergeant here as well from the kansas city police department. thank you some for being here this morning. let me start with you. you buy the ticket. you win it. at what point did you decide to take the advice of your daughter and donate it? >> immediately as she said it. pete: and why? what was the reason? >> because i know the police have been there for me but that was such an selfless act of my daughter and i don't want to change that i wanted her to continue to be as she is. pete: rakia i hope i'm. >> rakia. pete: my apologies. why did you recommend that it be donated. >> my mom wasn't working and we didn't have enough money to drive around.

i knew that family wouldn't because is he not working right now. >> unbelievable. so your family is struggling yet you are thinking about another family of this officer that was shot. your mom did something right by the way with you that you have that kind of perspective. god bless you. i have got to ask the officer, sergeant, when you hear a story like this of citizens in your area supporting the police this way, when they themselves are struggling how does it make you feel? >> that's really what keeping us going. it gives us the energy to keep showing up every day. you know, we keep serving. and we show up to serve and that doesn't come with conditions. we serve no matter what. but when someone calls us like this and shows us this kind of support, that really gives us the energy we need to keep going every day. pete: amazing. rakiya, what's your message about why you support police officers and you made this recommendation to your mom?

>> because my mom told me to care about strangers and then i thought about his family and how think might need to buy like food and they go and see him. pete: amazing. last word, when you look at the reflect on the choice that you made. >> it's not looking at the money that makes me reflect. it's looking at the comments. these people don't even know me and they have so many nice things to say to me. it was worth more than all the money in the bolder. it was. pete: you didn't even know the officer that you donated to as well which makes it amazing. sergeant, we have to lee it right there. thank you for what you do in that community every day. >> thank you. pete: ladies, god bless you thank you for brightening everybody's morning. appreciate it. what an amazing story go. find the go fund me link on our

website foxnews.com. all right. coming up we have acting cpd commissioner mark morgan. a lot it psycho him about as we have three more hours of this saturday edition of "fox & friends." don't go anywhere.

jedediah: welcome, everyone to the saturday edition of "fox & friends." beautiful morning with pete hegseth and griff jenkins. we are hoping you have your pancakes or whatever you like for breakfast. i like pancakes so i assume you like pancakes. hope you are ready to roll with us three hours. griff: question is can pete make pancakes in an rv?

pete: the answer is yes. multiple times to include bacon. whatever you need. the thing is you don't always have a grill when you roll up on rv site. for our viewers i was on rv trip. everything is plug in so great. plug in the griddle. kids run arranged the campsite don't know where they are. they smell the pancakes and bacon and they descend on the table and you just hand it out. rv life is not bad, griff. i feel like you might be made for it. jed, i don't know it's your cup of tea, necessarily, not really but i think if you did it you would find a silver lining to enjoy it. jedediah: yeah. i generally operate in a bug-free zone. so if there are any bugs anywhere, i'm not playing. pete: there were flies in the rv

that's a bad sleeping night. jedediah: protests in portland, oregon for a 58th straight night. what you see right there are rioters trying to saw down the fence protecting the federal courthouse. griff: tear gas being thrown. feds announcing 18 arrests this week, riots there in portland as a judge denies the state's request to stop them just north in seattle overnight, a judge blocking the city's new law prohibiting police from using crowd control tactics that include tear gas. pete: when you brought a saw that cuts steel you are not protesting anymore. federal officers v. a arrived in seattle as businesses are boarding up windows, bracing for a potential violent weekend of protesters, rioters already busting out 10 windows at this

washington police building, guys, what we saw a lot of this cass indicated since the minneapolis police document there. police departments and federal buildings have been targets. you both made this point in the first hour and entirely correct. there is an impulse to say well, seattle and portland want to do this then let them have their way. forget about it. democrat run cities, they want chaos and defund the police. you can't think that way when it comes to federal buildings that are controlled in washington, d.c. the president of the united states is the chief executive responsible vince sends forces to there to protect them because the state won't. you can't allow them to be defaced and looted and destroyed and burned. and when they are at odds with the local law enforcement, you're going to have clashes. but you have to defend those buildings. otherwise, you have utter lawlessness but you have got these mayors calling it out as if it's it's the president's

faults when he is only maintaining law and/or. hard to understand what it's all about at this point. jedediah: and when you look at that imagery, i mean, just look at some of those images of what's going on in some of these cities, it's terrifying, you have to sit and say how did we get to this point? first of all, we are had the anyst of a pandemic, mind you and have you all of these people, i don't know if that looked like social distancing to you, it certainly doesn't to me. pete: good point. remember when we first started covering seattle and looking at what was going on in seattle. i said people who are inclined to protest in this way and by this way i mean in a destructive way, are going to be looking at seattle and the reaction of local law enforcement and the reaction of local politicians and saying what can i get away with? and now you see what's happening in portland and people around the country inclined to capitalize on moments like this not because they want to be part of a real message about racial justice. these people destroying are not wanting to have a real conversation, obviously. but those people that are

seizing on this opportunity are looking at where they can succeed and saying well, look, mayors, governors, they are making excuses for us so, we have free reign here in many of these cities to do what we want. that is horrific for the residents of those cities. griff: yup. bing dough, you put your finger on it. mark morgan the acting cpd commissioner coming up in the next segment. he is going to explain why obligation legally to protect the federal courthouse in maryland which has been burned for 58 straight are nights. not only the correct thing to do they have to do that. it's the message so important. "the washington post" op-ed yesterday caught my eye it's by the president of the naacp in portland. you see the headlines protests are supposed to been black lives now they're white spectacle. best way to describe the protest. vandalizes government buildings

and hurling projectiles at law enforcement draw attention. how do these actions stop police from killing black people? what are antifa and other leftist agitators achieving for the cause of black quality? it was a powerful op-ed because it lays bear the fact that this has been two months since tragically george floyd was killed. and now you have this absolute chaos lawlessness on the streets of portland that was nothing to do with bringing about racial justice. pete: it's a great question it. answers itself. he is asking that question because as someone who is, you know, charged with that local chapter of the naacp, he has got policy and political prerogatives that he believes in that, you know, we may or may not agree with, disagree with, that's fine. he is trying to advance those views and look at the distractions of the violence and it's counter productive and it's obvious and thank goodness someone like him is willing to speak out in the pages of "the washington post" to say that the problem is most of those looters

are not reading "the washington post." they are getting ready for another day of assaulting law enforcement officers. these people should be arrested and locked up as long as possible. the president talked about it in the last hour. talked about the interview federal methamphetamines monuments 10 years locked up until you crack down completely it won't stop and democrat mayors won't do it so the president has to. jedediah: yeah. and i understand the argument of not wanting federal authorities in the cities and not wanting to have to take that step. i get it. i understand that i'm a limited government girl. i believe that a lot of these things should list in local hands. but cities are burning. they are burning down -- look at what you see. look at the smoke. you see people boarding up their businesses in terror. so the question becomes what do you do? if you don't have federal authorities to come in to not only protect those federal monuments but have some sort of presence because so many mayors and governors seem to have just fled the scene. they want their political talking point and seem not to be bothered by the fact that their

cities are going up in flames. you are left with no other option other than to engage with someone show is interested in preserving the safety and security of those region thes. griff: that the is operative question. the another big story we are fog, cdc rolling out guidelines for schools to safely reopen. pete: recommendations emphasize the importance of in person learning. some schools are making their own plan. lucas tomlinson joins us live. jedediah: lucas. i see lucas yo-yo have any sound go ahead and tell us what's going on with the conflict. >> good morning, guys. outside the headquarters for fairfax county public school outside the nation's capital. nation's largest school district. the county said children would not be going back to school in person neither part time or full time. everyone will be going back to school online drawing the ire of many parents coming here after

the 10 locke a.m. for rally and protest. guidance at odds with the white house and the new cdc guidance. >> it is our firm belief that the -- that our schools are essential places of business that our teachers are essential personnel. dr. deborah birx the white house accord national security says it's still an open question how rapidly children under the age of 10 spread virus. the new crfd guidance says young children are less likely today-to-spread the virus and less likely to experience symptoms. seasonal flu remains the greatest risk to our kids not the coronavirus. 36 children under the age of 15 years old have died from the coronavirus compared to the flu, which killed an estimated 511 children on average each season since 2010. keep in mind fairfax county is one of the largest school districts in the country. some of the highest taxed residents nut country. they want to see -- many parents

want to see their children going back to school in person. that's why they are coming here at 10:00 a.m. bewill be covering the event live. stay tuned to fox news channel. guys? griff: all right. lucas tomlinson. thank you very much. important story lucas has there as the parents of two teenagers there is anxiety on the part of the kids about going back to school. this is a very, very real thing we had earlier in the show. family therapist tom kersting explained the importance of social interaction for the kids. listen. >> i'm getting so many phone calls from parents of kids and teenagers anxiety disorders, depressive disorders and so forth. what kids need and human beings need is social and emotional interaction. particularly kids. it's critically important to their development. now, we are kind of sticking them in their bedrooms staring at a screen all day long and they have been doing that already on their own. now what we have are kids being sucked into this vortex of this

cyber world. that's one of the biggest fears and they are not really living in the real world. sort of a dehumanizing effect. pete: great point. the less time kids are in government schools being indoctrinated the better. at the same time, you need schools to be open. i love what the president said. if they won't open the school then you should have your own tax dollars to send them to a private school, a christian school, a classic school, a charter school that will open in person and is willing to. so he this is a moment where parents are being shook to think about how their kids are educated. hopefully we take advantage of that and, you know, schools, they got to open up but we will see what they do. is it worth it to send my kids do school if they have a mask on hour upon hour if they are going to be in a pod and not have social interaction not go to

recess. a lot of questions how to implement those things and how parents feel about the potential implementation of those things as well. we are going to turn to your headlines. we begin with extreme weather. tropical storm hanna gaining strength as it moves towards texas. expected to become a category 1 hurricane before hitting southern parts of the state today. heavy rain and winds up to 70 miles per hour are expected to slam the region. preparations are underway and crews handed out thousands of sandbags for people to protect their homes and businesses along the coast. a celebration of life begins today for congressman john lewis. the civil rights icon will first be honored this morning in his hometown of troy, alabama. a public supervisors will be held before lewis' move to selma the city where he was beaten on edmund at the time pus bridge on sunday. his body will be carried across that bridge. he will lie in state at the

capitol. fox will cover at 11:00 a.m. allegations of spying. authorities using tools like crowbars and hammers to get inside after building was cleared out earlier in the day. they used the facility to steal scientific. seen burning in the courtyard earlier this week hours before the u.s. ordered of the building to close. pete: our communist chinese friends just burning stuff before they abandon their building. i'm sure everything was above board there unbelievable. this showdown with china is the showdown of our generation. all right. business owners outraged at new york mayor bill de blasio he's quotes the father of communist karl marx, quotes him. we will bring to you what he said and why he said it coming up.

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♪ jedediah: we are back with a fox news alert. tactical teams on stand by as seattle braces for a weekend of violence. the mayor says she has been mislead by dhs. >> i talked to the acting secretary yesterday. he assured me that they would not be surging agents to seattle, that he did not see a threat in seattle like was in portland. shortly after we spoke, they admitted that they had put agents supposedly on stand by and had deployed them to seattle as they needed them. griff: here to discuss it acting cpd commissioner mark morgan joining us.

mr. commissioner, good morning to you. 58 straight nights in portland, you are positioning in seattle. you heard the mayor there, not rolling out the welcome mat. what is the reaction? we heard in the last segment that perhaps what we are seeing is something very different from the protests for racial justice. what are you seeing in portland? what is the reality on the ground and what are you planning on doing in seattle? >> that article, by the way, is spot on. and i really believe most american people see it for what it is these individuals are putting politics over public safety. in the indicates of seattle. the secretary was spot on during that conversation. think about it. it would be -- he would be and indicating hiabdicating. based on what we have seen in seattle not to reposition resources in case there is violence in seattle seeing in portland. makes sense and common sense. title 40, usc 1350.

i encourage everybody to go read that it tells the secretary you will, you must protect these federal facilities port land, griff, we talked about it before. federal courthouse is the seat of american justice. griff: provides your protection but the criticism is that you are roaming the streets of portland and snatching protesters unlawfully. >> yeah, griff. thanks for having that again, just flat out that's a lie. that's not what's happening. we are there defending that federal courthouse against violence. we have individuals, criminals, not protesters, every single night they are going there arming themselves with weapons from knives to guns to bats to crowbars, they are trying to burn down that building that is the truth. so when you see a federal officer, agent out there in portland, it's because they are going to arrest somebody with probable cause that's tried to burn the building down or assault them and i support them 100 percent. pete: mr. commissioner, what do you say to your critics kind of on griff's point who say this

would all be peaceful and lovely summer of love if not for the federal agents. it's who they say are agitating and creation the violence. what do you say to them? >> i say it's preposterous, pete. it's unbelievable. so the mayor in portland is saying federal agents and officers. did you go home and stop doing your statutory authority and watch the criminals burn the seat of american justice to the ground. that's what we see. so instead of telling the criminal to go home. he tells the federal agents doing their job protecting americans to go home. it's outrageous, ridiculous and dangerous. pete: amen. jedediah: acting cpd commissioner mark morgan thank you so much for joining us today. pete: keep it up, we appreciate it. >> you bet. jedediah: mlb's opening weekend finally here with a quad dupre pill. pitcher john smoltz is next.

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griff: welcome back. that's a sound we are glad to hear. mlb's opening weekend is finally here and game one is in the books. this year fox celebrates the 25th season as america's home for baseball. leading off today with the kwame header. what does this season have on deck? here to break it down is fox major league baseball analyst world series champ and hall of famer pitcher john smoltz, the greatest pitcher to play for the atlanta braves. john, good morning to you. >> good morning. griff: what are we going to see today? >> well, i will tell you what, a lot of people have been waiting for sports to come back. and a lot of people have been waiting for baseball to come

back. this is going to be the most unique, rememberable year ever. 60-game sprint where the intensity of games is going to be unmatched because normally it's 162-game marathon. this is a sprint now. i think everybody understands the circumstance we are playing. in we miss the fans. of course, the fans make this sport great. i think everybody has done a great job to prepare for the journey of this season and it's going to be an exciting one and baseball is going to be on as well as a lot of sports coming to your tv when there wasn't many options there is going to be a the are of options for baseball fans this can't be better timing. griff: we are looking there at the cardboard cutouts in the stands and, of course, there will be noise provided in the stadium for the players. you mention the fans, my nats here got stumped by the yankees. there is something about being at home and having the home team advantage providing that energy and now they won't have it. how big of a factor will it be to not have an audience that's

live? >> you know, it's a bigger factor than people understand. players are accustomed to and structured to have adrenaline and to play in front of people. i mean, it's not meant to not play in front of people. you have boon doing it your whole life. take time to certain personalities are going to struggle staying locked in in the game. i know me as a broadcaster i love hearing the crack of the bat but i also love hearing the crowd and the big hit and you will have to create your own and that's going to be difficult. but, i think they have done the best they can in piping in the noise and creating an environment similar to what we are used. to say. griff: the new rules do have social distancing among other things. i guess the umpires are silver lining they will not have anybody in their face screaming at them. >> that will be one of the things they can wipe off their list of concerns. you know, when you watch the game. the game is going to be played with so much more importance.

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♪ >> my focus has not been on the business community and the elite. and i am tempted to borrow a quote from karl marx here. there is a famous quote that the state is executive committee of the bourgeoisie. and i use it no we will work with the business community but the city represents working people. mayors should not be too cozy with the business community.

jedediah: city mayor bill de blasio quoting the father of communism karl marx and that has business owners outraged not surprising. here to react chairman and ceo steve forbes. de blasio is the gift that keeps on giving in new york but quoting karl marx? what do you think? >> karl marx gets low marks in understanding how an economy worked. de blasio is an example of it. he forgets what happened in the 1970s when they bashed the business community, raised taxes. you had hundreds of thousands of people leaving the city. crime went up and new york went bust. had to go through a financial control board. so what he should understand is if you want to help people -- working people wanting to get a chance ahead you create an environment where those people can have a chance to get jobs. that means don't destroy the business community. create an environment and they will do the job. you look at new york, homelessness is open. taxes are going up. school kuwait quality is going down. the infrastructure is going down. and they don't know how to deal

with crime and homelessness. so blaming the business community saying i don't need to work with them that much. i represent the working people. well, people work when they have jobs and they have jobs and businesses are allowed to prosper, allowed to start businesses and grow businesses. economics 101. mark has flunked it. de blasio is flunking it. jedediah: yeah. new york city is in disaster mode. what is he even talking about? he is talking about the working people. a lot of those working people in new york city, guess what? , de blasio, they own businesses. they are boarded up right now or they are waiting for permission to reopen in some cases. they have been looted. they have been destroyed because of your lack of leadership. what is he not getting about the disconnect between his leadership and what has happened to this city? >> well, he is the ultimate bubble man. he's in a bubble and doesn't realize what's going on around him. talk about disconnect. the i see it but doesn't comprehend it.

you talk about small businesses. those people on the street corners with those food carts and the like. a lot of vibrancy in new york. but that's been crushed right now and he hasn't a clue as to how to do it. so you have crime. he bashes the political science. homeless no spin zone? he throws his hand and says we will do something about it by golly and does nothing. people are leaving. quality of life going down. jeopardy. personal safety going down. we went through this in the 1970s, i don't understand how they don't understand how you make a city work. new york recovered once before under de blasio it ain't going to recover any of time soon. jedediah: you know, steve, the citi is in horrific shape. anyone living in new york seeing a pattern reemerge. we have a statement from the bill de blasio team it's long past time recognize that what mayor de blasio does working people, not powerful corporate interest should come first. the mayor is showing that driving a strong economic

recovery means both championing workers and boosting new york's small businesses at the same time is he boosting small businesses in new york, steve? >> well, again, utter disconnect. he should talk to real small business people and ask about the regulations and the crazy licensing and alls things they have to go through to do anything this that that city then get a idea how to make that city live economically. he talks about corporate fat cats and ignores the fact that the vibrancy of the city is small businesses and they feel they are in a very, very hostile environment starting with public safety. if you can't open your store. if you fear if you open it you will have it looted, guess what? it's not going to open. those jobs will be lost. instead of about working people. these people like de blasio always talk about he would the champion of the small people, the working people blah blah, blah. yet they end up harming those with the least and cut off opportunity for those who want to get ahead.

that's why people won't come to new york in the future that under kind of leadership because they see no opportunity there. jedediah: you know, steve, if you look at the impact on bills it has been horrific, particularly restaurants. we have a new study nearly 16,000 restaurants have permanently closed since the pandemic started. even more closures on the horizon as outdoor seating is impossible for some these eateries. if you look at this yelp report 15,000 restaurants permanently closed since shutting down. many new yorkers are worried if there will be a come back if that's really possible in new york. what happens here? >> well, restaurants, as you know, restauranting is the toughest business in the world. they are always on the edge, many of them. very high casualty rate in the best of times. when you go through something like this, you are slammed on the ground. and the way they are doing the reopenings, they could have done it in a way you have distancing inside but might have some of

those plexiglass things and things like that. but there is no way a lot of those places can survive just on frying to do takeouts or on the sidewalk. they feel on the sidewalks you are always looking over your shoulder, are you safe? will the police be around if someone comes and accosts you? it all ties together. and, in terms of creating an environment where people want to go out and have a chance to go out. may not open the bars any time soon or may have to have a little bit of distancing short-term. there is a lot they can do to allow restaurants from a chance to thrive. they don't care. they are looking what new things can we put on like andrew cuomo saying you can't have a drink unless have you food then defines what the food is go online and see humorous reactions to that can't do it on a family station. it's pretty humorous and devastating. get these thanes and going to use a stronger word out of the way.

people have common sense. do the masking and let people take care of it. jedediah: yeah. i mean, these are all great points, steve. we have seen a massive departure by businesses and citizens in new york city and the question remains will they come back? will they reopen? will there be a resurgence remains to be seen thank you for being here. >> why would they want to come back with what he has done to the city? why would they want to come back? jedediah: that is a fantastic final question. thank you so much, steve. appreciate it? >> thank you. jedediah: we will head over to griff and pete now. take it away, guys. griff: now gaining strength as it moves towards texas. expected to become a category 1 hurricane before hitting southern parts of the state today. pete: preparations underway crews handing out sand bags to protect people's homes and businesses along the coast. rick reichmuth meteorologist our friend tracking it all as the storm churns toward the coast. rick, good morning. rick: good morning, yeah. a lot of the population across

that south texas area is going to have big impacts from. this primarily some really significant rainfall totals from this. the worst of the wind is certainly going to be there and moist of the storm surge is going to come on across parts of south padre island it appears that the barrier island it can absorb a so the lot of that storm surge. then we will see the very heavy rainfall when you get to the other side. that's the storm right now. pretty large storm and getting much better organized. when you look at the radar picture here you can see we have a little bit of an eye. looks like it's forming. looks like the storms are wrapping all the way around the center of that good indication hurricane now. it moves very close to the coast. hurricane means the winds are over 74 miles per hour sustained. how strong the storm is tropical storm making landfall early afternoon and cutting across south texas with very heavy rainfall. up to about 15 hinches. all right. send it back to you.

griff: all right. here comes hanna. turning to your headlines. police body camera footage capture as woman opening fire on officers. the video shows the woman in a confrontation with phoenix police over outstanding warrant. look at this. she tries escaping police as they handcuff her before pulling out a gun and opening fire barely policing the officers. they returned fire, shooting her twice. she is expected to su survive. the officers were not hurt. the woman accused of trying to send al-qaeda money to kill americans arrested at an airport in arizona. fbi agents say jill jones tried to board a flight to los angeles with the golf of entering syria to work with the terror group. investigators say jones expressed her hatred for the united states to undercover agents and considered planning domestic terror attacks. faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted. a florida reporter is thanking an eagle eye you had viewer who spotted her cancer while

watching her on tv. a viewrl emailed telling her to get her thyroid check after noticing a lump in her neck that she had with when she with a diagnosed. price said she had put off checkups since the pandemic. if it wasn't for this stranger, cancer would have spread. fortunately an eagle eyed viewer was watching. those are your headlines. pete? pete: joe biden ex psd to name his running mate any day now. the shadow president. one name reportedly on that list is atlanta mayor keisha lance bottoms. what are the chances she will be the pick. jones here to weigh in on that next. for when it matters most find out more at usaa.com

jedediah: we are back with quick headlines. u-turn on cbs.

cvs, home depot and walmart say they will still serve customers who don't wear a mask despite requiring face coverings this as mcdonald's and chipotle require masks. both announced revised rules. chints says the mask mandate is effective immediately while mcdonald's will start requiring them august 1st. pete: joe biden expected to name his v.p. candidate any day now. >> i'm honored to be a part of the conversation and the end of the day this is about joe biden being elected president of the united states because we all know we cannot take four more years of that man who is in the white house right now. pete: democrat turned trump

supporter vernon jones joins us in atlanta and he joins us now. thank you very much, representative, for being on the program. you are from georgia. you are -- have been around, maybe know the mayor. you let me know. what do you think of this potential pick? >> well, first of all, i would love for joe biden to pick a black female. i don't believe he will. primarily because he thinks the black voters are a captive audience. because is he a democrat, he believes they will vote for him still and if they don't vote for him, well, i guess they ain't black. pete: that's true he said that how much of what he said in the past. the actions he takes. not improved for black americans. how much of that relate is part of the consideration here. first of all joe has a dream president trump has a record. joe has a dream if you elect me i will help black people and change their communities. well, he has been there for 49

years and he hasn't done it. president trump, again, has a record in just three and a half years of doing more for the african-american community than any president, democrat or republican going back for the last 34 years. joe biden believes just because is he a democrat that african-americans can be stepped over, walked on and they will still come back and vote for him. but, he believes that, but the american people don't believe that. pete: yeah. they will ultimately, we will ultimately get that vote in november or before and hopefully not on all mail-in ballots that's another subject. you have had the courage as a democrat to come out and say you support the president which is the height of hypocrisy as a democrat from their view. have you had that courage. new poll, not a scientific poll by kato online shows nearly two thirds of americans have political views they are afraid to share because of the current political climate, so two thirds of americans say i have views but i don't feel like i can

freely voice them. why is that? >> well, first of all, this political climate the left has made it that way. if you wear a maga hat you are attacked. if you are african-american, and you say that you support president trump, basted on his policies, then you are not a democrat or in joe biden's words, you are not black. so that environment has been created even if you express your political view at work you may lose your job. physically, your physical security is at jeopardy. and it's all coming from the left and it's just amazing that our freedom of expression is being eroded right in front of us. pete: vernon, what's your advice to regular people out there who look at you and say hey, you are a state represent, you are a democrat, have you had that courage. how do i do it my job my life my family how do i express my views when i feel like i will be attacked? >> do you what you? do it at the polls. elect people who will embrace and support your first amendment rights. you know, the last poll back in

2016 they had it all wrong. because whites were afraid to say they were for donald trump because the liberal media made them look like they may be a racist. blacks were afraid to say they were for donald trump because they didn't want to be called a republican or abandoning the democratic party. so that are silent majority is going to go to the polls and they are going to make their voices known in probably the most significant way that you can and that is by electing someone who support their views, their ideas, and their public policy. and donald trump right now again has done more in three and a half years than joe biden has in the past 49 years. joe biden is throwing a hail mary here. give me another chance i will get it right this time. that dog won't hunt any more. that rooster won't crow. joe biden has not, will not and cannot provide the kind of leadership that president donald j. trump can and has. pete: vernon jones for the first

time in my life you are making me want to vote for a democrat, you. well done, sir. thank you for joining the program. we appreciate your perspective. come back soon. >> thank you. pete: enjoy lunch in the greatout doors this weekend that's a great idea. chef dine hendrix is a here for with a tip dishes for the perfect picnic ♪ i'm walking on sunshine ♪ whoa, and time to feel good ♪ hey ♪ - i'm norm. - i'm szasz. [norm] and we live in columbia, missouri.

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>> i did not know this but it is national picnic month pretty amazing. dining he will fresco is great way to enjoy with family and friends while still social distancing outside. get tips for packing a picnic. i know i need those tips.

diane hendrix is fresh to frozen and back and the guest chef at the lodge atwood lock this weekend. diane, welcome to the show. i definitely need some tips. i love a good picnic. i'm not a great cook. please help me. >> absolutely. jed. having a picnic is so fun. all this social distancing and getting outside what better way? can you do it in a beautiful park by the beach or here right here in the beautiful grounds. simple to do. i have some shrimp cocktail. chicken wings, some humus and cut up vegetables. can you do a little cheese platter with some crackers and a little harm laid. some wraps that you can wrap in individual packs to hand them to your friends and family. i have a little salad and take out container with a little dresser that you do and wrap it

up. no picnic without wine. i love joel gott wine. we have row say here that's fantastic has all these floral had we have fruit and chips and salsa. we want to make a little demonstration of really really i'm going to put it in a bowl. tihini in a bowl. i'm going to add sauce delicious. authentic asian flavor. some sesame oil. we have a quick cilantro, i'm going to show you how easy this is. ginger, garlic, lime juice, some rice wine vinegar. look how simple this is, jed. you can whip this all up together a little bit of spice,

some heat, and peanut butter and then, of course, we have got to have some soy sauce. and, again, this is all the authentic asian flavor. look at this. can you see this? you just take this and watch this. add this to just some cooked noodles. can you use pass attachment can you ususelow main noodles. toss it up mix it really well takeout container, garnish it with peanuts and green onions and wrap it up like that and you are ready to go. it's so good. yesterday jed diane, i love it. we're running out of time and i appreciate you being here. you can v. given us some great tips i'm ready for a picnic now. that's a recipe even i couldn't ruin. >> it's so easy. and delicious. jedediah: still ahead, chaos is

unfolding in portland, oregon for a 58th straight night. protecting the federal courthouse as the judge rules federal arrests can continue there the very latest coming up at the top of the hour.

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can you believe we are more than halfway through the summer it is unbelievable. jed, good morning, good to see you as always plenty to talk about. jedediah: good to see you. i agree with you breakfast in bed tv on. don't rush it. you have to watch it all week. weekend is the time to chill and let us do the work fox news alert we go. again, chaos unfolding in port land, oregon for a 58th straight night. >> rioters trying to saw down the fence. pete: every time i go to a protest i bring the saw that seems normal. tear gas being clean to disperse the rioters to surrounds the federal building. the feds announcing 18 arrests in this week's riots in portland

as the judge denies the state's request to stop them just north of seattle overnight a judge blocks the city's new law prohibiting police from using crowd control tactics so there is some common sense out there. if you can't use crowd control tactics what can you use, it continues federal officers have arrived in seattle bracing up for a potential violent protest. rioters already busting up 10 windows at this washington state police building. so here we are again. it seems like every week you are highlighting or we are highlighting or the world is highlighting a different city in this country that looks like it's just unfolding. i mean, it's horrific to look at some of the footage. you look at it and say am i in a terrible movie that i want to get out of or am i in the reality of what's unfolding in many american cities right now as mayors and governors fail to do the job they were elected to do which is first and foremost to protect the residents of those cities. you see hypocritical calls for

social distancing, which i support by the way, social distancing, i think it's important. we are in the midst of a pandemic but you see deafening silence on the part of many in the media when it comes to social distancing in a lot of these riots and protests manifesting throughout the country i say riots and protests because they are different, right? we cannot conflate the two. there have been people that have wanted to assemble and peacefully protest. then you have people who are simply engaged in destruction and likely can't tell you why they are destroying just that they're destroying, griff. griff: that's great point, jed. you know, during the day you have protesters in the name of racial injustice but you also have time every time it strikes midnight rioters and criminals coming out. distinction one the federal government keeping making day after day, pete. i think i know why they're rioting. orange men bad. they hate the president. the president simply said i'm not going to let leftist and democrats tear down and destroy our country on my watch so i am

going to do what they would never do which is actually stand up to the mob, because who knows where the mob goes after november 3rd, depends on if they get the outcome they want. and but ultimately right now rule of law has to mean something and the president certainly understands that, is willing it fight for it. billie williams the u.s. attorney for oregon there talked about the agitators. that's a kind word for them in portland. here's what he said. >> there are individuals within the crowd who are agitators, who are will will rcial antagonists, anarchists, sort of a combination of those-individuals who aren't here protesting what happened to mr. floyd or the push for racial justice. they are just here to attack law enforcement. it's the community that can

bring an end to the violence by calling out those who have nothing to do with the message of racial justice and reform. pete: jed, i take your point. at one point there were protesters that were hijacked by rioters and law breakers. now if you are protesting you are enabling that in seattle and portland. if you want to be peaceful, don't go out at night. you separate yourself from the people who are doing this because right now you are just allowing them to hide in your midst because you know when people are bringing saws to cut down fences and they are throwing things the amount of officers injured in seattle and port land is incredible. you are part of the problem. and, unfortunately, these mayors, jed, as we have covered, they are not telling the protesters to stand down. they are effectively sort of playing off the federal angle to make it worse. >> it's been sad to watch a lot

of original protesters actually have to retreat back to their homes because they, too are afraid to be out. look at these images. these are american cities. they are quite literally going up in flames in many cases and you see an astounding either silence on the part of mayors or governors or see them saying these are peaceful protesters. this is all, guess whose fault, everyone, the president's fault. take a listen to what seattle and portland mayors in particular had to say about where the blame for all of this should lie. you won't be surprised. >> >> he is purposefully targeting cities run by democrats. we are better than that as a country. that is not the way we operate. and i'm just urging everybody who hears my words please don't take the bait don't buy into it. be peaceful. >> this chaos. this unrest that we are now seeing on the streets of portland, thousands of people now coming out to demonstrate,

this was created directly by the trump administration heavy handed, unwarranted and un. connell: constitutional tactics in our city. >> the idea that the trump administration would be targeting these areas, these -- that is ridiculous. the reason that the trump administration is getting involved in these areas is because they are erupting in massive, massive violence. and have you mayor's and governors doing absolutely nothing about it. this isn't about oh, well, everyone is peaceful so let's just go into these areas and create a problem, no. open your eyes, people. look at the footage. the problem already exists. the question that the administration has had to deal with and not an easy one. whether to engage federal authorities in these regions. the reason they had to do that federal property under attack. have legitimate reason to be there it's not easy when they go into these areas. they have to decide when do we step back? how do we engage local law enforcement? when do we let them take the lead? this is all happening because those local politicians refuse

what gheedz to be done to keep those communities safe, griff? look at the fact that the peaceful protesters right to be there siding with the criminals asking this question why are liberals siding with portland's violent anarchists against law-abiding citizen feds inside i'm if we accept the criticism of the law enforcement. driving problem is that the mayors are allowing protesters to trample on public and private property. they allow it because they share the same left wing sensibilities. protesting should never be a license for anarchy. it will be interesting, pete, to find out what the latest tally is a few weeks ago the police told us the damage to property in the downtown portland area was 43 million. got to be much higher than that now. pete: what's the long-term damage. immediate affect and long-term effect of people fleeing these cities. kudos to the "new york post." it's why i'm a long time subscriber. my -- likes to run out and get

it not always consistent as they should be. they speak truth especially in this city. jed you talked about new york city is fation the same complication. and it feels as if we are talking about a different city every day. yes, it's a tough choice but not really a choice. you have laws and have to enforce them as the federal government. mark morgan the acting cpd commissioner was on our program earlier and talked about why those officers are in portland, listen. >> we they're defending that federal courthouse against violence. we have individuals, criminals, not protesters, every single night they are going there arming themselves with weapons from knives to guns to bats, to crowbars. they are trying to burn down that building. portland saying federal agents and officers you go home. stop doing your statutory authority watch the criminals bush the seed of justice to the ground. instead of seeing the criminals to go home tells the federal agents doing their jobs protecting americans to go home. it's outrageous.

it's ridiculous and dangerous. pete: i think that's what the election will be on. are we going to build america? biden had that slogan build back better or something. no one believes he even came up with it or understands that slogan. are we going to build america or are we going to burn it down? i do think that is the contrast of this moment and the trump campaign is smart to make that contrast because, average people who might be apathetic about politics look around and they say, you know, cutting fences with saws and assaulting federal agents is not where i want to be. jedediah: yeah, and, also, if you looking at this footage and saying thankfully it's not in my city it very well could be and very well may be. this is a germ that is spreading around especially because a lot of these people are not facing consequences for the damage they're spreading. another story we are following. today a celebration of life that begins for former congressman and civil rights icon john lewis. alicia acuna is live in troy, alabama.

lewis' hometown where services will begin in just a couple of hours. alicia? >> good morning jed and guys, this celebration of life for congressman and civil rights hero will begin here in troy, alabama as you mentioned. this is a city where he was born these are celebrations that will span six days in five cities beginning right here on the campus of troy university. as a teenager lewis applied to go to the then all-white college but never heard back. today he will be honored here before he will lie in repose. he will then be taken to selma, alabama for another celebration tonight. tomorrow, by horse drawn carriage he will cross the edmund pettus bridge one last time. this the site of the 165 voting rights march led by dr. martin luther king jr. where hundreds of protesters were beaten by state troopers, including lewis, who suffered a cracked skull. lewis would return to that bridge time and again to reiterate his message of

nonviolence. >> we were beaten, tear gassed, some of us was left bloody right here on this bridge. 176 us were hospitalized that day. we never became bitter or hostile. we kept believing the truth we stand for will have the final say. >> from alabama lewis' casket heads to the nation's capitol where he will lie in state before heading to atlanta. his final resting place. and, jed, due to safety concerns surrounding covid-19, the family and organizers are asking folks not to travel to these locations for these memorials, rather to gather at home in small groups in order to pay tribute to his life. back to you all right alicia acuna, thank you very much. >> our coverage starts at 11:00

a.m. today. turn to your headline because we have a fox news alert moments ago tropical storm hanna upgrating grading to a hurricane as it moves through texas. bringing heavy rain and winds up to 70 miles per hour southern parts of the state. today preparations are underway. crews handing out thousands of sand bags for people to protect their homes and businesses along the coast. u.s. has now recorded over 1,000 covid-19 deaths for the fourth straight day. over 145,000 deaths have been reported as the country tops 4.1 million cases. mississippi is now limiting social gatherings to 10 or less people indoors and 20 or less outdoors as it becomes the leading state for covid-19. massachusetts and washington, d.c. will now put in stricter travel restrictions forcing anyone coming in from a coronavirus hot spot to quarantine. the white house defends its calls to reopen schools by calling teachers essential. >> it is our firm belief that our schools are essential,

places of business, if you will, that our teachers are essential personnel. >> new centers for disease control guidelines recommending most schools reopen with in person learning. >> the man once known as america's toughest sheriff wants his title back. joe arpaio announcing his second bid for a come back as maricopa county sheriff in arizona. a position he held for 24 years. president trump pardoned arpaio in 2017 after he was found guilty of contempt for going against the judge's order to stop targeting immigrants. arpaio is facing his former second in command in the republican primary, the winner will then face off with democratic incumbent paul penzone who beat arpaio in 2016. and those are your headlines. pete: jeff joe. jedediah: thanks, joe. first federal arrests announced in chicago as parts of operation legend. president announcing more help is on the way. former attorney general mattheww

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>> we are here today to answer the pleas of those crying for justice and cry for help for those people in chicago and other cities where we will be, help is on its way. jedediah: president trump earlier this week promising to help chicago as violence continues to surge. nau the department of justice is announcing their first federal arrest in the city as part of the administration's operation legend. here to react former acting attorney general and author of above the law matthew whitaker. matt, welcome to the show as always. thanks for being here. can you talk a little bit about the importance of these arrests which in particular were for illegal firearm possession and what the follow of operation

legend should be? is what the department of justice does best to work collaborate tiffly with local and state law enforcement chicago, cleveland, albuquerque where this operation legend is happening to reduce gun crimes and violent crimes in our major cities. this is something that we have partnered for a long time during this administration to end violent crime and obviously we can't have the types of senseless killings like the operation it is named after legend who died, a 4-year-old in kansas city from a gunshot wound while asleep in his own bed. these are important important to get additional law enforcement to work on these violent crimes. >> what do you say to these people who are concerned about a potential heavy hand of the federal government being involved and them potentially stepping on the feet of local law enforcement and how to

balance that role between local officials and federal officials? >> i don't see that as legitimate argument, jed, what i would say to those folks is you don't understand how the federal law enforcement agencies like atf, fbi, dea and the u.s. marshals work in our major cities already with these task force that work hand in hand with local law enforcement to help and support and plus up their resources and so, what i see happening with the president is rightfully doing is sending additional resources to work on these task forces that are already in place to reduce violent crime. and i think it's going to make a major difference and i think these arrests in chicago are a a good first step. these images that we are seeing are terrifying. people who live in these community are scared to death for themselves their families and businesses is there any message of reassurance that can come through in terms of getting this situation under control

because it seems as though these situations like we saw in seattle with go on for a very, very long time. >> yeah, americans all over our country and especially in our major cities like chicago wanted to be able to have their children play in their yard. reduce drive by shootings. gets trigger pullers and to lock them up because no one wants these people loose in their communities that are spraying bullets into crowds hoping to hit targets. i think it's a great step and will reduce violent crime in these major cities. jedediah: matt whitaker thank you so much for being with important insight. we appreciate it? >> thanks, jed. jedediah: still ahead a legal battle boiling after a local gym defied a shutdown order. owners of at his gym not backing

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pete: welcome back a new jersey gym that you publicly trald governor murphy's statewide shut down found found in contempt of the governor's order in court yesterday allowing state officials to padlock the doors. the owners of atilis gym are not backing down and instead removed the doors to the gym outfront. creating what they call an anti murphy autonomous zone they call it amaz. here with an update is co-owners ian smith and frank. ian, frank, thanks for being with us. you are in the office. >> good morning. thanks for having us. pete: good morning. it's great to see you again.

great to be there when we covered it at your gym. when i watched you responsibly reopen your business. now you are in your office in a gym open 24/7. no doors because they threatened to pood lock them. >> we were charged last friday with contempt of court and murphy immediately got a hearing on monday. monday we actually were found to not be in contempt of court and then wednesday or thursday we were surfed with brand new charges and we had contempt of court friday. we were found to be guilty and contempt the judge awarded the state the opportunity to come and padlock our doors. so frank and i had been here for over 48 hours running the gym 24 hours a day, seven days a week. volunteers and took the doors off the hinges. they locked our door once. this is our private property. this is a place that we have built and spent our -- all of

our time creating. and we refuse to be locked out and bullied by the governor again. so here we are. pete: frank, here's the thing. in new jersey if you own a yoga studio or other types of gyms they are open and able. it's just your type of gym for whatever reason -- >> -- it's not even the type of gym. it's actually he used the verbiage as long as you are not licensed as a gym or health club. mr. murphy likes to use specific words and we like to use them against him. actually even took it a step further on monday and he actually opened up all high risk sports or full contact as long as it's outside. so i can do full contact martial arts. i can box somebody outside. can i tackle them in football. i can do rugby, you know, sacrum and i can't get covid. but somehow if i walk into my gym and decide i want to lift weights or even go inside a martial arts studio, i will get covid if i do the same exact thing. it actually is insanity. pete: if you are rioting, do you

are all set. you should just declare your spot a black lives matter protest and you will be all good. you do you know what i mean? what you are exposing is the utter double standard in this country which phil murphy is driving home and made your gym a point. ian, the doors are wide open. open 24/. they say they are going to lock you down. what happens next? >> we have two weeks worth of clothing in here. and we will not be leaving unless we are arrested or unless the state backs down. we have had enough of this. something i keep saying to people, which is really a powerful statement, they ask for 14 days. 14 days to flatten the curve. and today, in new jersey, we are on day 130. so, we -- we are done with this. we can operate our business safely, responsibly, we have shown that to be true. we haven't had a single case of covid reported and we have everybody -- everybody's records here.

so, we're not backing down from this one. pete: i have been there to your gym. you respect the virus. you respect your comumplets the people that are there. being responsible. yet, the governor and his attorney general were making a point out of this. here is what the new jersey attorney general had to say about your case. while i wish it did not come to this. i'm grateful that the court recognized the need for compliance. the vast majority of businesses and residents are following these rules and doing their part to keep their friends and neighbors safe. few companies who throughout our executive orders are once again on notice that they will be held accountable. so, frank, you know, people that are rioting against police are not necessarily being held accountable. but they are hell bent on making sure atilis gym is held accountable. >> that's the way it's been. we personally believe they know if they open up gyms people will get healthy and build immune system and decrease the spike that they so desperately need in the fall. and we have been on the defense

this whole time. and, yesterday we did something that our lawyers actually are even say something unprecedented we have changed we are no longer an llc. we as limited liability corporation you become partners with the actual the state and the government. so they actually control so we have actually registered as a pma which is a private membership association and we will see what he has to say about that. had 3237 people sign up yesterday for that and had a total of 620 people come through the door yesterday to actually get their workout. in we are prepared to be here and the number of people the fact that 620 people came through the door will tell you a little bit of an idea of how much support we have just locally let alone throughout the country. pete: open the gym and got a civics lesson instead. help me, is it amaz or long

amaz. >> anti-murphy autonomous zone. we borrowed that from seattle. it seemed to work pretty well. so maybe that's why he hasn't come to arrest us yet. you know, because we have -- pete: but no barricades or wall because have you an open door. ian smith. >> no. we're open border society. pete: yes, you are, clearly. frank, ian, good luck. god bless. keep us posted. appreciate it? >> thank you very much. >> thank you, appreciate it. pete: coming up the "wall street journal" editorial board refusing to cave under cancel culture pressure after push back from their own staffers about the paper's opinion piece. media reporter joe concha reacts to the paper's feud. that's next ♪ hey, yeah ♪ stand my ground ♪ and i won't a world without alzheimer's and all other dementia. because this disease isn't waiting, neither are you.

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last month where woke staffers were all up in arms over editorial written by senator tom cotton is he a republican advocating for the use of the military when protests get out of control they become too violent and police locally can't handle the situation. you can say i disagree with it or say you agree with that. that's the point of an opinion page. abc poll shows 52% of americans agreed with cotton, yet the woke staffers at the paper went crazy and ended up to the point of getting the op-ed editor named bennett fired -- not fired but resigned. forced to resign and forced out of the paper. so they're saying, look, i will read you a quote. this is from the "wall street journal" yesterday. it was probably inel evident tillable that the wave of progressive cancel culture would arrive at the journal. as it has at nearly every other cultural business, academic and journalistic institution. we are not the "new york times." they made that very clear and

they're taking a page, guys, from the goya ceo. remember, alexandria ocasio-cortez, social media mob says that the goya company should be boycotted because he said something nice about president trump as he said something nice about president obama when he met with him 8 years ago. and then ocasio-cortez says, you know what? this company should be boycotted 4,000 employees not far from me here in new jersey headquarters. many latino workers there. that's the thing about boycotts you don't hurt the ceo with the money you hurt the people at the bottom if the boycott is affected they are the first to be fired. good for the "wall street journal." don't apologize. stand by your ground and continue to do your work as journalists. pete: how they continue to do their work, joe, freedom of expression it's their job. you don't have to agree with the opinion of the "wall street journal" but you recognize the value of opinion in this country. how do they manage a business where they are effectively under siege from within? >> i think in the end you have people that run the company and they say, okay, your opinions

are welcome. we love your feedback in terms of comments. but in terms of our opinion pages, we are going to offer the left. we are going to or the right. we are going to offer the center. we have been in existence far longer than have you been working at this paper. we will be fine, thank you, in terms of the way we go about doing things. look, pete, there is a poll out just a couple days ago from the kato institute. this was scary stuff. 62% of people are afraid to share some of the political views that they have. and, look, i am right outside of amaz anti murphy autonomous zone such as a periphery. i have friends that are democrat and republican who support the president. those who support the president will tell you very privately and very quietly that they are petrified to share any political views on facebook or especially at work with co-workers because it's not like they are afraid they are going to get yelled at or get nasty instant messages. they are afraid they will get eliminated, fired from their jobs. we saw it this week with a

michigan teacher who said donald trump is our president. that's it. instead of getting pulled aside or say hey, let's tone it down, he gets eliminated from his position, that's why it's a scary time for free thought in this country right now, pete. pete: 100 percent. jedediah: it. >> i got to get it's hot yoga day. that's a saturday thing in the backyard. pictures on instagram. pete: post pictures on our instagram so we can see. >> it's done. absolutely. griff: joe concha, thank you very much. good luck with that hot yoga: right now hurricane hanna is heading toward texas and upgraded from a tropical storm to hurricane moments ago. expected to bring heavy rain and winds up to 70 miles per hour to the southern parts of the state today. meteorologist rick reichmuth is tracking it all as it churns towards the coast looks like it's headed towards padre.

>> richard: beautiful island, incredible beaches right there taking a direct path of it. the center of the storm has got all of that convection. all of the storms really wrapped up right around the center of it. that's why in and out of there i was saying probably upgraded to it a hurricane. certain delay has happened just now the center of it will make landfall to the south of corpus christi. you will be on that edge and get a lot of moisture and rain. eventually this moves in down across parts of northern mexico. category 1 going to make landfall likely early afternoon maybe 1:00 or 2:00 this afternoon. when it does it, will bring a lot of rain. some spots isolated up to 15 inches. you get the idea of a little swath into south texas. definitely 7 to 10 inches for a lot of people it. will also cause significant flooding. all right, guys, back to you. pete: thank you, ring. jedediah: thanks so much, rick.

appreciate it. turn to headlines for you now. new surveillance video just released. ohio police say it shows the suspect who shot at the home killing a sleeping toddler and injuring his twin brother. can you see two people walking around before firing shots into the home killing the 19-month-old. it's unclear what led to the shooting. the fbi is offering a $5,000 reward for anyone with information leading to an arrest. and one person's complaint forces a fire department to remove its thin blue line flag. they were put up in honor of a fallen officer. the fire department just outside of boston fl flew the thin blue line for years to honor a sergeant killed in the line of duty. after one complaint flags are downside citing a policy of forbidding on government property. andrew cuomo gives himself a pretty big promotion. check this out. >> why didn't you look at the law? why didn't you listen to

president -- to andrew cuomo when he said 11 times there are other things that have green light laws? jedediah: cuomo made the freuden slip while blasting a federal lawsuit. he has previously denied any plans of holding a higher office. and those are your headlines. president cuomo. i don't know, pete. pete: they always deny it right before they do it. so, we will see if he ever makes that run and does a bunch of interview with his brother on another network. all right. coming up: follow the money. that's how our next guest went to hunting terrorists to transactioning the network to fund them. an inside look a at the business of drugs, next.

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officer teamed up to see how money moves inside the world of narcotrafficking. >> the war on drugs cost millions of dollars and thousands of lives and the only way we're going to understand how to bring it to an end is to understand the economics that drive it. this. >> is a global multi-million-dollar business. >> no one will stand up and talk about drugs. pete: the business of drugs. a six-part series investigates the impact of the drug trade on our economy. joining us now is executive producer of the series and retired navy seal kach larson as long as with cia officer and host amaryllis fox. we will get a mission you and i had last year and do again this year in a second. i didn't know you were an executive producer. congratulations on a hit series here. tell us a little bit about it. >> well, thank you, pete. you know, it's hard to communicate what we are swimming

in the hudson there. i had the great honor of being age to create this series. i have been covering narcotrafficking for over a decade. and i was able to look at these drug cartels through the prism of economics. when you do that. what it reveals is that drug cartels essentially operate like multinational corporations. they have supply chains. they have distribution wings. they even have marketing departments. and when we looked at drug cartels through that cold hard lens of economics it revealed things about how they operate to helped us take them apart and understand them. you know, in its highest form, pete, as you know, journalism is intelligence gathering operation. so i picked the best intelligence officer i know, my good friend ann. to penetrate networks to understand how they operate. pete: tell us about that. what's something in addition to the economic side. you know, kaj has been in the

navy seals and you have been in the cia. what are average folks going to learn about drug traffic from this? >> one of the things that struck us time and again and how much overlap there is between all of those worlds, a lot of financing for the terror operations that take the lives of american citizens and others around the world actually come from the illicit narcotics trade. that's why it's so important that the policies that w we have in place are actually effective in dealing with the drug trade. that's really what kaj and i wanted to take a look at. it was just tax day. we are all aware of where every one of our dollars goes. it shouldn't be going to failing policies. so, when we see decade after decade more and more drugs pouring across borders. the war on drugs isn't working. we were really interested in as to why not. pete: what i can tell rocketed to the top of the viewing list on netflix a huge success.

congratulations. i do hope folks check it out. daj the gi go fund did a swim across the last year. i did it i did not do it alone. you were my swim buddy. did i not train at all. at one point i had to grab on to your shorts and you pulled me across the hudson. i did a little training this year. do you think a little training can get me across the river by myself this year? >> a amayylls have been been investigating drug trafficking. you will have to do it without me. pete: we will announce it more next weekend. we are doing it again for the gi go fund swim live in the hudson. i will be getting in short shorts and giving it a go. you are doing so much more than that kaj and amayyllis. congratulations. >> i have faith new both.

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jedediah: back with a kwame quae today on fox. there will be thousands of virtual fans in the stands. griff: kurt takes us inside with the tech. good morning to you. >> good morning to you. good to see you jed, pete get

ready for a true or false quiz. mlb, major league baseball has been like majorly lonely baseball. if you have watched any of those games from abroad from south korea, empty stadiums. they were just kind of depressing fox sports teams one silver spoon an mals immigration cool technology to input virtual fan also fill the stadiums really cool technology. include even booing and cheering and you will see a wave happen once in a while. the possibilities are endless. and to help really get a grip -- better grip of this and see if you guys have been paying attention to any of this news, i begin with this true or false quiz starting with you, pete. the new virtual tech relies on cardboard cutouts, true or false. pete: i would say false. hard to get techy with cardboard. >> ding, ding, dings. you are correct.

jedediah, some virtual fan also wear team colors, true or false? jedediah: true. true. >> it is true, indeed. you have got that right. and, griff, go with this one. the crowd technology is going to show a kiss cam? true or false? griff: false. absolutely false. pete: it's true. >> not yet, but it is possible. and then everybody you want to chime in on this one, fox sports originally used crowd reaction news from sony's mlb baseball video game. true or false? griff: true. pete: probably true, yeah. >> it is true. you guys are nailing this one. last question, can you buy a virtual ticket to become part of the virtual fans having your face seen close up during the game on fox sports? true or false? pete: of course, they will sell anything, true. griff: yeah. true. >> false for now but i get a commission if they start using the idea because i think it's a really good one. either way, you will see the fox newtechnology online.

i don't know how are rooting for starts today. pete: starts today. is there a function, can you on your tv screen you can just blur out like social justice messages or is that not part of it? >> have to talk with them about that. pete: okay. just stick to baseball. >> sign up for free newsletter at cyberguy.com. keep you updated with all the tech and see you at the game. pete: good quiz and know how are pulling for. so they spend more money she so they win. kurt the cyberguy, thank you, brother. appreciate it. still ahead. the master of the mile and former kansas congressman jim ryan is award the the presidential medal of freedom. he and his son ned join us live next hour.

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pete: just pan that up a little bit. a little bit. i don't know, but oh, they're not going to move it. the camera is stuck. i'm up here right up here in studio f in new york city welcome to the final hour of " fox & friends" on this saturday morning it's july 25 the year of our lord 2020 and i'm joined by jedediah bila in new york and griff jenkins in the nations swamp, our favorite swamp creature its been hot this week, griff have you been staying cool griff: it has been hot and storm ing here and, you know, what can you do? by the way we should note we opened up this final hour with b ieber, no better way, jed to open up on a saturday than with a little bieber. jedediah: that's exactly right and pete i want to tell you i hope that you are dancing on that couch. i can't see you and the viewers can't see you but a tradition must be maintained even though i'm not there it is a dancing

couch. pete: i try. there's a lot of cameras but none of them happened to catch it. they are all pointing in other directions. there's only one looking at me right here and i hide from that one as much as i can. but yeah. it'll be great when we can get everyone back in here dancing soon hopefully but in the meantime we've got news griff and you are our resident newsman. griff: straight to a fox news alert chaos unfolding again in portland, oregon for the 58th straight night. that is a saw, trying to saw down the fence protecting the federal court house. pete: honey i'm going to a protest where's my saw, that seems to be what's going on in portland. tear gas being thrown to disburse the crowd of rioters surrounding that building. meanwhile the feds announcing 18 arrests in the week's riots in portland as a judge denies the state's request to stop them but just north in seattle overnight, a judge with a little

common sense blocks the cities new law prohibiting police from using crowd control tactics that include tear gas things other than health all ammunition they need to disburse crowds when they don't have anything else at their disposal. jedediah: federal officers have arrived in seattle as businesses are boarding up windows, bracing for a potential violent weekend of protests. rioters already busting out two windows at this washington state police building and, you know, we look at these images popping up in cities around the country, in portland, in seattle, it's terrifying. i've spoken with residents in those cities who are saying we can't stay here, we don't feel safe. people who own businesses in those cities who are terrified that feel that the mayors and the governors are making political decisions to not act in the best interest of those residents of those communities, and it's really, you know, i said at the start of this several weeks ago when we really saw the autonomous zone in seattle unfolding that people around the country who wanted to cause

trouble were going to look at seattle as a model, what were those troublemakers able to get away with? they were looking at new york city where all of that looting happened when you had those shut downs after that were released over because of the pandemic, and what you've seen is you've seen complete in action, when it comes to mayor s and governors and that sets a precedent for what is to come and i would not be surprised to see this popping up in more and more cities. griff: yeah, and you know, what's crazy is people kind of forget that when you go back to the late 90s when the what is now antifa folks were protesting the imf, really, they've been testing in the streets of portland and seattle for many many years more than two decades to see how far they can take the civil unrest, how far they can take the attack against authorities, and now, its reached a level that we have not seen anywhere and that's why, pete. people in other cities across the country are rightfully anxious and worried.

pete: well that's right and that's why the president has talked a lot about the responsibility of the federal government to protect federal locations in these cities, and if the local folks won't do it then you got to send in the feds and we had matthew whitaker former acting attorney general on the program earlier talking about those agents who had been very demonized and mischaracterized talking about the difference they make on those streets. listen. >> the federal law enforcement agencies like atf, fbi, dea, and the u.s. marshals work in our major cities already with these task forces that work hand in hand with local law enforcement to help and support and puff up their resources so what i see happening with the president is rightfully doing is sending additional resources to work on these task forces that are already in place to reduce violent crime and i think it's going to make a major difference pete: guys when i was mobilized with the national guard in washington d.c., we worked alongside a lot of those very same federal agents.

of course d.c. being a largely federal city, federal monument, federal buildings these are welo know this is a part of their mission and when a hotspot pops up they go and do hard work in places they don't live to protect our nation's institutions and the rule of law , so instead of attacking these folks you should be thanking them for the fact they are the thin blue line we rely on in our society. griff: as you saw pete in those hotspots, were criminals, not peaceful protesters and you had yesterday in the washington post an op-ed from the president of the naacp in portland, pointing out portland's protests were supposed to be about black lives and now they are a white specatacle and here is a quote from the president saying unfortunately, the specatacle is now the best way to describe portland's protests vandalizing government buildings at law enforcement how did these actions stop police from killing black people and what are antifa and other leftist agitators achieving for the cause of black equality in the op-ed also, jed

he points to the naked athena, the protesters showing up on a near-nightly basis just stark naked, cursing at the law enforcement there saying that that's why religion of itself on a stage meant to raise the voices of the black community, jed. jedediah: yeah, this does nothing. i mean, this does nothing for racial justice. that was a legitimate conversation that we all could have had with the horrific death of george floyd and now what you see is a bunch of opportunists who have decided to jump on the bandwagon, take control and frankly prevent a lot of those peaceful protesters from coming out making their voices heard because they're tire it tied. why? well you see it in the images. that does not look like a scene where peaceful people who want to assemble and make their voices heard would feel comfortable congregating any more. there is massive destruction going on, businesses can't operate. it's a disgrace and look at that scene. that looks like a war zone.

this is what's going on in cities around the country because you have mayors like mayor deblasio, like ted wheeler people who refuse to do their jobs and i'd remind people you elect these people, you elect mayors and governors and sometimes you elect them in times of peace where there's not a lot of trouble and you don't think about things like this. you have to make those decisions about your voting with these instances in mind that when this stuff happen, who do you want in charge? pete: you know, you wonder if they'll stop and think hey, these are supposed to be about black equality protests and we've lost the naacp. maybe we're off mission a little bit here with our actions and hopefully an op-ed points that out for them but of course these are anarchists and antifa types violent anti-american groups. there's nothing you can do but shut it down with force, if necessary. jedediah: another big story we're following today is a celebration of life and that begins for former congressman and civil rights icon, john

lewis, and we are live in troy, alabama. lewis' hometown, where services will begin in just a couple of hours. alicia? reporter: good morning, jed, good morning, guys and there will be six days in this celebration of life and each day comes with a theme. today is the boy from troy. he was born here to sharecropper parents and went to segregated schools and today he will be honored in his hometown before being taken to selma, alabama for a ceremony there tonight. tomorrow in what promises to be one of the more moments, where it will take him across the edmond pettus bridge one last time and this of course the site of the 1965 voting rights march where lewis' skull was cracked.

he was dubbed the boy from troy by his inspiration and partner in the civil rights struggle dr. martin luther king jr.. the alabama-based civil rights organization, southern poverty law center issued a statement. "as he passes through alabama one last time we will celebrate the life of a towering figure in american history, a hero in our fight for equality and justice and recommit ourselves to continue in his footsteps. his work is from from donald the southern poverty law center won't stop until all of us are truly free and equal." now after lying in state in montgomery, tomorrow evening, lewis' casket will be taken to the nations capitol where he will lie in state from there he goes to atlanta for his funeral and inturnment on thursday and at 11:00 eastern we do begin coverage on the fox news channel so be sure to watch that. back to all of you. griff: special coverage don't miss it. turning to your headlines starting with a fox news alert right now hurricane hanna is headed towards texas upgraded from a tropical storm to a category 1 hurricane this morning. it's expected to bring heavy rain and winds up to 75 miles per hour to southern parts of

the state today. it's the first hurricane of the 2020 atlantic season. >> in the u.s. , has now recorded over 1,000 covid-19 deaths for the fourth straight day. over 145,000 deaths have been reported as the country tops 4.1 million cases. mississippi is now limiting its social gatherings to 10 or less people indoors and 20 or less outdoors as it becomes a leading state for covid-19. meanwhile massachusetts and washington d.c. will now put in stricter travel restrictions forcing anyone coming in from a coronavirus hotspot to quarantine. the white house defends its calls to reopen schools by calling teachers essential. >> and it is our firm belief that our schools are essential places of business, if you will, that our teachers are essential personnel. griff: new cdc guidelines recommend most schools reopen with in-person learning. >> and to football, nfl training

camps are set to open next week after players approved a deal with the league the two sides agreed to eliminate the pre- season and reduce the size of the camp rosters. the new orleans saints will report to camp on tuesday, and chiefs offensive linemen laurent has become the first player to announce he will sit out the season and he's also the only active player with a medical degree. those are your headlines, and hopefully, nfl season will start but i don't know, pete and jed. it may be a big question at this point. pete: it certainly is, yeah. i have no, there's no way to predict where it will go and it could go sideways so we'll follow it. all right, coming up the clock is ticking on the campaign trail , and all hands are on deck in an attempt to boost biden's chances at winning, but is president obama's support enough we asked a former member of president obama's national finance committee, he's up, next >> ♪ i need you too, come on and rescue me ♪

>> you know what it's like and how lonely it can be to make tough decisions, where not every decision is going to be perfect, but you got to make them, and to take responsibility for it. i've seen you with families that have gone through tragedies, and the thing i've got confidence in , joe, is your heart and your character. jedediah: former president obama showing support for his former vice president, joe biden, in a socially distant reunion but a new fox news op-ed argues obama 's endorsement won't be enough to help him win the election so is this right let's ask founder and chairman and ceo the people's corporation and member of the president obama's national finance committee welcome don peebles to the show as always we appreciate having you here. >> thank you, jed good morning. jedediah: so i want to ask how important was it to see this

image of president obama sitting with joe biden, having this conversation, and biden essentially saying you are my trusted leader of choice in this moment. >> well i think that we must wonder why they're doing it now. the election is several months away, so i think the next event coming forward is going to be biden's selection as a vice president, for vice presidential nominee and maybe they're using president obama to pave the way for selecting someone whose not a woman of color, as was the expectation of biden. otherwise, i just don't see the point. i think frankly the first part of that statement that president obama made seems to endorse trump. i mean, he's the one in the white house making tough decisions right now. the vice president just doesn't make decisions when they're president when the president is in office, so biden has some experience, but that is not going to be an asset for him against trump. it was in the democratic primary , because none of them had any experience in running the country or doing anything on the national basis in terms of being the ceo of a nation,

but not for trump. trump is the president right now , and he has been in the white house for almost four years, making tough decisions. jedediah: i mean, joe biden has struggled when it comes to enthusiasm. a lot of democratic voters may want to vote against president trump, but they're not really excited to get out there and vote for joe biden. is that potentially why obama speaking out could be important because if you remember if you look back at the obama elections when he won, i mean, so many young people got excited, people of all race, people of both genders, he really had an ability to galvanize people in a way that joe biden does not so could it be key? >> yeah, i think you make a very good point by the way but also think about obama. it wasn't just the candidate that was inspiring people. it was a message. change. hope, change you can believe in, and an election looking towards the future, where vice president biden has been focusing on is he's going to bring us back to a

day of more congeniality and that's not what americans and democrats want. elections are about the future and his challenge is that he's got to articulate a vision for the future. he can say i've got all these lessons i've learned in the past , but they have to be applicable to the future, and that's what americans are looking for and like trump or not he's talked about the future and that's where he is playing in his game and his election is all about the future , and i think that going back to president obama who was a two term president, someone i think a great deal about and many americans do, but going back to him is taking a step backwards and that's not a winning message ultimately. jedediah: yeah, don you no one of the things we've been talking about a lot is the potential vice presidential pick for joe biden who that will be and what the impact will be. a democrat-turned trump support er georgia state representative vernon jones was on the show and he said he

doesn't think biden will choose an african american woman for vp and here is why. listen to what he had to say. >> i would love for joe biden to pick a black female. i don't believe he will, primarily because he thinks the black voters are a captive audience and, you know, because he's a democrat he believes they will vote for him still, and if they don't vote for him, well, i guess they ain't black. jedediah: your comments? >> well, i think that the vice president and his team have boxed him into a place that there's no winning now. one, he should never have said i'm going to pick a woman when he was desperate to win the primary. he should have said i'm going to pick the best candidate and if he chose a woman he be picking a woman who is the best candidate as opposed to the best woman. then, he has to go to south carolina and sell himself to black voters and then the expectation was a black candidate for vice president, and then he made that ridiculous comment about if you're not for

him or you can't make the choice between him and trump , you're not black. i mean, i found that offensive as did most african americans so i think he's boxed himself in here. there's a no-win choice on his selection for vice president. his constituents a bit core of the democratic party will be unhappy with whomever it is now because they've handled that selection process so poorly. jedediah: yup. don peebles, thanks as always we'll continue to follow it curious to see who he picks we'll have you back thanks so much. >> thank you. jedediah: still ahead, president trump awarding legendary track star and olympian jim ryan the nation's highest civilian honor. the newest presidential medal of freedom recipient and his son, n ed ryan join us live, coming up next. as gum issues. does it worry me? absolutely. new sensodyne sensitivity & gum gives us the dual action effect that really takes care of both our teeth sensitivity as well as our gum issues. there's no question it's something that i would recommend.

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griff: welcome back time for some quick headlines the supreme court rejects a nevada church's bid to block state restrictions on attendance the church, accused the state of discrimination, because it allowed more people at casinos and restaurants than houses of worship. the court denied the appeal in a 5-4 decision. >> and president trump signing a series of executive orders to lower drug prices. the orders allow the u.s. to import cheaper prescription drugs from other countries, requires drug company discounts, and lowers insulin costs. the president tweeting in part, nothing like this has ever been done before, because big pharma with its vast power would never let it happen. pete? pete: huge move that's been massively underreported and will impact a lot of people in their lives. all right, president trump awarding legendary runner jim

ryan the nation's highest civilian honor, the medal of freedom. president trump: the american athletics, a dedicated public servant and a man of charity, generosity, and faith, he's a great man actually, jim, thank you so much for your unfailing devotion to our country and congratulations on a lifetime of incredible success. pete: the former republican congressman and three-time olympian made a name for himself early on in his career as the first high school athlete to run a mile in under four minutes. he joins us now along with his son, you know him american majority ceo and friend of the show, ned ryan, to reflect on this great honor. the ryans with us this morning it's an honor to have you both. congressman i'll start with you. thank you for choosing us as your first interview since that amazing day yesterday. just reflect on that moment at the white house, yesterday. >> well it was very special pete, thank you for having me on pete: of course. >> it was a great opportunity to reflect on a very simple prayer, prayed by a junior high boy who had been cut from every athletic team he tried out for including the church baseball team and i'd go to bed

at night and sigh dear god, my resume is not good. i'd like it to be something i feel like you've had a plan for my life and by the way if it could show up in sports i'd really appreciate it and i'd say goodnight and go to sleep and boy did he show up as you mentioned a lot of wonderful things and then yesterday the presidential medal of freedom a great honor and i'm very grateful for that. pete: cut from the church baseball team. you rebounded nicely to put it kindly but you talked a little bit also about wearing the stars and stripes of our nation as an olympian and the moment we're in right now. reflect on an authentically american life that you've lived. >> it was such a privilege to be on three different olympic teams to wear those colors, know that you're representing your country and wanting to do it in a way that it be honoring and you could express your pride and so it was just i don't have to say it any other way other than a really great opportunity to let the light shine on this fabulous country we have. pete: amen.

ned, we're all proud of our pop s but i got to believe when you're sitting there watching him get this honor, what an amazing feeling as a son. >> oh, it was incredible pete. you think about it. back in the 1960s, track and field is a huge deal. the premier event is the mile and you had this young kid from wichita like a kansas whirl wind and he breaks the four minute mile in high school and breaks the world record at the age of 19 by multiple seconds, becomes number one in the world, becomes a legend, an icon and truly a hero to generations of people, and people always ask me, you know, what was it like to have jim ryun as your father and i'd always tell him, he's my dad and it wasn't until 11 or 12 it kind of clicked that this guy is kind of famous but i tell people all the time that the honest, decent, kind, grateful, humble person you see in public that's who he is in private and he's taught me so many lessons be honest, be humble, be kind, you

know, which i struggle with sometimes, pete, on tv but it's aspirational but also perspective. i mean this is one of the great things about my dad. he was the number one in the world and i tell people all the time, pete of all of the people of the world that walked the halls of congress that are in d.c., there's very few people that can say i was absolutely the number one best in the billions of people, i was truly number one at what i did and my dad can do that but he's kind and honest and gracious but he had perspective, and the thing that he always tells people is this. pursue greatness, pursue something that you think feeds your grasp but remember in that pursuit, you're doing it for god 's glory, right? that's the eternal perspective. the word of god is forever and that's one of the most important lessons he's taught me. pete: jim you're obviously a great father as well and we love ned, love having him on the show. at this moment 2020 where we are with a country with an election ahead of us and so much surround ing us what's your

message as a leader in this country to our country? >> well to dream big and that would fit in well with our country, president trump has brought us to another level of appreciation. there's conflict going on, but look to the future. my coach, coach timmons challenged me when i was a sophomore in high school to become the first high school boy to run in the four minutes just nine nine years earlier, and so he changed my paradigm so that be part of what i would say , you know, ned hasselberg been very generous with the comments but teach timmons mentored me, that you could do something even after being cut from the church baseball team that amounts to a great future so don't be afraid to dream big. you'll fail at something so fail at something you like and remember failure is just a temporary detour to success so don't be afraid to try and i believe that's where our country is, we're entering into another step forward if we choose to make that i choose to make that and millions of other americans do as well. we want to return america to

greatness. pete: beautiful words now i gotta call my dad after this. but jim and ned ryun, thank you both for your service and comments. >> thank you, pete. pete: you got it. today a celebration of life gives begins for former congressman john lewis. the niece of dr. martin luther king jr. will join us to pay tribute to lewis, next.

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griff: we're become with a live look in troy, alabama the casket carrying late congressman john lewis expected to arrive at any moment. a six-day celebration of life begins today for the civil rights icon. lewis will first be honored this morning in his hometown of troy, a public service will be held before lewis is moved to selma. pete: that's where lewis was beaten by state troopers on the edmond pettus bridge on bloody sunday his body will be carried across the bridge as it makes its way to the u.s. capitol where he will lie in state. jedediah: fox news channel will have special coverage of the services honoring lewis beginning at 11 a.m., certainly won't want to miss them. we're bringing in dr. alveda king, niece of dr. martin luther king jr.. welcome to the show today as always your thoughts today as

we remember john lewis. >> thank you so much for this opportunity this morning. i am in a little bit of a noisy environment so i ask you to bear with me; however, john lewis, an icon, a civil rights icon will be laid to rest soon. we're in a tumultuous time right here in the 21st century, and it's amazing that all of this has happened, joseph lowry passed earlier during the beginning of covid-19 , and now, john. dear john. i will miss him. he certainly was an inspiration to me. we did not agree politically at all. everything we disagreed on but he was always peaceful, always loving, and he adhered to those principles, and i think if i if i were to say to young people today if you could learn anything from john lewis, it is how to communicate in a peaceful

manner, to remain strong, even when you're under virulent attack. those are things you have to learn and i believe he was a great statesman. griff: it's a great point, alved a. talk to us about how significant it is today that john lewis will cross again for the last time across the edmond pettus bridge. >> i think it's very significant, you know, my dad was on that bridge that day and he was beaten, many were. i've been to selma bridge as i call it many many times during the years for various reasons so i think even if they renamed that bridge, we will never forget what john lewis went through and how he was able to cope with it through the years. that's going to be very very important. so i think it is significant. now, we've got things to deal with right here, today. covid-19, race wars in america,

and so may we learn to be peaceful warriors as we deal with these issues today. jedediah: alveda that's such an important message. we see federal authorities entering cities across the country right now in an effort to preserve some degree of sanity it for those residents. what do you think and what message do you have as you look at that footage of some of these violent protests that have erupt and some of the massive destruction that we have seen that has really ravaged so many cities across the country. >> can i encourage people to come together in prayer in these cities? that's what we do in anatomy atlanta. we've had several prayer meetings in the face of violence and in the face of death so don't forget to pray and congregate peacefully. support our leaders in prayer. i think, you know, during when i marched, i marched in a youth organization as well, sometimes those troopers had to come in and bring peace and calm and

that will happen, so the less we pray, the more humans will try to solve the problem, but as we pray and bring god into the solution, god's already here we just have to pray, so i'm calling on all leaders to pray, to be peaceful, to be hopeful, to not be fearful and tearful but to be good leaders and to call on god for help. pete: call on god, no better place to leave it, dr. alveda king thank you so much for these words, for sharing the legacy of an amazing american patriot and for your time this morning we appreciate it. >> thank you so much. god bless everybody. pete: god bless. all right now we move on to some extreme weather right now hurricane hanna is headed to texas upgraded to a category 1 hurricane. it's expected to bring heavy rain and winds up to 70 miles per hour to the southern parts of the state of texas today, meteorologist rick reichmuth tracking the entire thing, rick? rick: so we're on our eighth

storm already of this season, and take a look at where we are, we have a long way to go in hurricane season. the bulk of it gets going around say the second week of august, so just keep that in mind, a long ways to go. this is our first, however storm that made its way to hurricane intensity look at the radar picture here you can see all of the energy is now wrapping right around the center that's why we have a hurricane here winds at 75 miles an hour probably strengthening even just a little bit more before it makes landfall, somewhere right around south padre island where the center of the storm goes in and brings pretty significant wind, especially along the coastal areas, the coastal areas just mostly some resort areas and beach hotels and such, once you get to the other side of that barrier island it's where you have most of the population and where you'll see really significant rainfall totals some spots guys isolated up to 15 inches a lot of areas maybe 7-10 inches and cause pretty significant flooding in that area. all right guys we'll continue to watch it. send it back to you. pete: thank you, rick. jedediah: thanks so much, rick.

we'll turn to headlines for you now. police body camera footage captures a woman opening fire on officers. the video shows the woman in an confrontation with phoenix police over an outstanding warrant. she tries escaping police as they handcuff her before pulling out a gun and opening fire barely missing the officers they returned fire, shooting her twice. she is expected to survive. the officers were not hurt. >> and a florida reporter is thanking an eagle-eyed viewer who spotted her cancer while watching her on tv. a viewer e-mailed victoria price telling her to get her thyroid checked after noticing a lump in her neck that the viewer had also had when she was diagnosed. price says she had put off check ups since the pandemic and if it wasn't for this stranger, the cancer would have spread. >> and an out of work mom donate s her lottery winnings to a kansas city officer shot in the line of duty.

she says her daughter recommended they donate it. they joined us earlier to explain. >> we didn't have enough money to drive around, i knew that the family wouldn't because he's not working. jedediah: now officers are paying it forward raising money for her and her daughter. >> and president trump now making a surprising admission, telling sports president dave courtney he often regrets what he posts on twitter. president trump: used to be in the old days before this you'd write a letter and say this letter is really good you put it on your desk and go back tomorrow and say oh, i'm glad i didn't send that but we don't do that with twitter right? we put it out instantaneously, we feel great, and then you start getting phone calls. jedediah: very very very true. the president adding what gets him into the most trouble? that be his retweets. those are your headlines. i hi retweets get everyone into the most trouble. you got to be careful griff. griff: he's not giving up

twitter. you can rest assured that. pete: it was a great interview, check the whole thing out if you haven't seen it. griff: indeed. still ahead, chicago businesses shaken to their core, first they were struggling to recover from the coronavirus pandemic and now many are fleeing the violence and may be gone for good. one chicago business owner forced to close her doors joins us next. my money should work as hard as i do. that's why i use my freedom unlimited card every time i get gas. give me a little slack! with freedom unlimited, you're always earning. i said i need some slack on pump three! ...to soccer practices...

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griff: welcome back the coronavirus lockdowns having major impacts on businesses across the country including in chicago. a new report from yelp revealing that more than half of the businesses in the city will not reopen after being forced to shutdown. our next guest owns restaurants throughout the city, vaughn hospitality groups kristin vaughn joins us now, good morning to you. wow what a double whammi.

first you had coronavirus, the pandemic and then now, violence in the city. how are you surviving, what is the situation you're facing in chicago? >> well, we have a restrictions for the occupancy and that is hurting the business level, but we were working as hard as we could and the downtown location, which was already being hurt by the fact that many offices don't have people coming in, well the violence is further hindered that because people won't come downtown if they're fearful of the situation. griff: kristin, have you seen in terms of just shear volume of people coming or not coming, that the violence now is a big reason why you're not seeing people at your doorstep? >> i think it's a factor. i don't know, right now we don't really have the tourist business but i'm nor concerned about is

long term when coronavirus has some type of a solution, a cure, a vaccine or something, that the violence will keep people from deciding to come visit chicago and it may keep businesses from deciding to bring people back into the downtown area. griff: more than 130,000 businesses have closed in nashville, obviously coronavirus being a big issue but now you're talking about the threat of the downtown safety issue in chicago. as you look at this situation, are you concerned you may have to permanently close any of your establishments? >> i'm fearful that the downtown location is definitely going to struggle and we would hope that if we can get the violence under control, then people once coronavirus and offices buildings start getting filled back up we should be able to survive with tourists and business people downtown, but if that doesn't happen it's going to be an issue. griff: are you confident that your local leaders can get that

violence under control? >> i'm hopeful. i know it's not going to be easy but they do need to come together and work to find a solution. griff: but when you hear your mayor lightfoot say that donald trump is sending in people, escalating situations and to not send in the federal response, what do you make of that, what's your reaction? >> well i'm disappointed. i would like them to work together and come to some type of a resolution. they need to, because businesses and residents, we need to have a safe environment and if it takes brings in federal troops to assist, then that probably needs to happen. griff: and we certainly support you, kristin and the great establishments you have in the chicago area. please keep us posted on the situation. thanks for joining us this morning. >> all right, thank you. griff: all right still ahead,

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griff: chip wade and his family have done a lot of adventures since they kicked off their patriotic road trip on "fox & friends" just a few weeks ago. jedediah: we've been following along from day one as they take their rv cross-country experiencing some of america's most beautiful terrain. pete: he joins us live from the shore of flat head lake at the foothills of the mountains of glacier national park in

montana putting us all to shame. chip, update us, man. this is one of the coolest trips i've ever seen. >> it has been amazing we've been to yellowstone, colorado, we're here right on flathead lake you can see the foothills of glacier national park and it's beautiful here and i've got some must-have updates that every family should consider if they are taking a road trip. i've actually put some of this stuff to great use so far. everybody should have some torches on board, this is called the ts-4,000 it's a nice screw- on lid that goes on to the camping fuel, really easy use it to light charcoal in seconds which is really handy. you could also loosen up anything you got an old camper or anything old these things are amazing and also the micro torch which is the ts-2,200 and fire bands in a lot of places so you can make smores for the kids , and also water filtration is a big deal whether you're a home or away. i've installed an ao smith main

faucet filter and this is going to clean about 99% of contaminates like chlorine that makes the water taste not so perfect but you do not need a plumber. now other thing i thought is super cool this is called the quick lid. look at this thing it clips on to a 5-gallon bucket and now you have a dust pan and a mobile place to just quickly cleanup. this is great for at home the workshop. i have it out here on the camp site which is amazing. now fun is not overrated. you see i've got the kids out here right on the lake. this is the skyline. this is a big ratchet strap that i setup in about five minutes that connects to two trees with multiple swings. this is an absolute blast out here. we've also been taking advantage of electric bikes. this is a category that's exploding. i actually bought four of them. these are awesome because they only take about four hours to charge and ku go 15 miles with pedal-assist or full automatic mode. i've got the seat on here for

j. t. he rides with me and we can stay excited and not be all day on these bikes. griff: chip that is a breath taking shot behind you. i've got to ask you, where are you going next? >> we are actually going to be going to the bad lands, mount rushmore, south dakota and the rest of montana. we are trying to keep ourself comfortable, keep ourself excited and we'll check in with you guys in one more week and the final thing i've got a goal for you guys we also got to think of our pets. i've got my little tiny guy in here but actually this is a pet bed from serta. one thing we've done is we've got one with orthopaedic foam in here and we love our pets. maybe almost as much as we love our kids, but we got to make sure that they're joints are staying comfortable this is great for on the road and now i found this deal with a queen or a king size bed you get $200 off and a free pet bed if you buy right now which is absolutely awesome. but you guys get outside.

the weather is amazing all over the country right now, and it is just so so fun to be out. you guys can follow this trip at wadeworkscreative.com and on the top i have a bar that links to everything we talked about where we've gone where we're going our full itinerary and more tips to make sure you and your family are having a blast. pete: chip you're the man putting us all to shame thanks for joining us. more "fox & friends" on the other side. >> ♪ i want to wake up where you are ♪

pete: don't worry about a thing and after the show-show i'll be telling my storying about my rv trip i can't tell on tv because i'd probably be arrested but there isn't a after the show -show so sorry i'll keep them inside.

jed over to you. jedediah: just call me and then i'll play that tape for everyone so everyone have a happy saturday. we'll see you back here tomorrow griff: that's right have a safe and wonderful saturday and tune in right here for the life and celebration for john lewis. pete: see you guys tomorrow. david: fox on top of officials on alert. seattle bracing for protests later today after more unrest unfolding in portland, oregon. portland mayor ted wheeler doesn't want the president's help in his city. meet the governor of another state who welcomes that help. >> plus the race to reopen the nation with just over 100 days until the election. is it the violence or the virus that has voters attention? all this as family and friends of congressman john lewis gather in his hometown of troy, alabama to honor and remember the civil rights hero. we will talk