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arthel: colorado police investigating a violent crash after someone drove a car through a crowd of protestors last night. authorities say a demonstrator fired a gun in response hitting at least 1 other person. welcome to america's news headquarters, i'm arthel, nfl. eric: hello, arthel, thank you for joining us, i'm eric sean. a man shot to death right in the middle of protest last night, that one in austin, texas, we are seeing may joe protests evolving into destructive anarchy and several of our other major cities as well such as in chicago where the police department declared a riot last night, dozens of police officers
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have been injured, dan springer has the latest on what's been going on out on the streets, dan. reporter: yeah, eric, riots were declared in many cities across the country, pot mob and youth liberation were calling on people across the country and other cities to join them in their fight against law enforcement and many thousands did, mostly young people and the result was a lot of property damage, a lot of looting, some -- also some many, many arrests and one death as you mentioned in texas. in seattle in the name of black lives matter, arsonists torched trailers at site where new jail is being built. county executive plans to end all youth incarceration in 5 years, seattle police kept protestors on the move and hitting them repeatedly with pepper spray, 11 officers did suffer injuries from fireworks and other projectiles thrown at
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them but for the most part the city police controlled the situation. the opposite took place in portland where local police have almost completely checked out, thousands have protested at the federal courthouse and, again, only federal officers responding to the violence. some people breached the fence surrounding building and some others fired teargas and nonlethal ammunitions and head of dhs said this morning, it has to stop. >> city leadership there has fostered an environment that allows these criminals to do this throughout the night untouched, absolutely untouched. it's time for portland to join other responsible cities around this country working with federal government to affords this violence. >> the protests in austin, texas turned deadly, details are sketchy but appears protestor armed with shotgun approached a vehicle and he was shot and killed by the motorist inside.
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richmond, virginia also say rise in protestors, dump truck on fire, police did deploy teargas and deployed in many cities across the country and eric, we are expecting more protests today in seattle as they are going to protest the immigration and customs enforcement, we are expecting that protest to begin about an hour from now, so very short night of rest for the police here before they go back at it in a few hours. eric. eric: well, law enforcement definitely has a lot on their hands, dan springer in seattle, thank you. we will have a lot more in newscast, how is the media covering it all? the authorities say that 3 federal officers in portland may have been permanently blinded by lasers from protestors, howard kurtz will break all that down for us. arthel. arthel: well, hanna battering
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southern telephone and parts of méxico with heavy rain and flooding, this as hawaii prepares for impacts from hurricane douglas, meteorologist adam klotz in the extreme weather center with today's forecast, adam. adam: hey, there, arthel, we are continuing to watch hanna even though that made landfall at 5:00 p.m., heavy rain in south texas and linger into later sunday evening and let's dive right in. made landfall at 920 miles an hour, strong category 1 storm. the center is in méxico but the rain in backside of the system. we are continuing to see that. large portions of south texas where you have flood watch and taking you into the rio grande valley from brownsville running you closer to mcallen, those areas where you have flash flood, currently tropical storm will continue to weaken and i do
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think the rain moves out of south texas by monday morning. hurricane douglas spinning in north of big island of hawaii, either way will brush close along the islands coming up on maui and monday morning it's going to be passing by the rest of the island, that's the next system we will pay attention to. the system is there's a lot of wind, most of the rain is going to be out to sea, this isn't going to be a direct hit, arthel, but still tomorrow we are going to be paying to for the next 24 hours. back out to you. arthel: eric. eric: lawmakers begin to go negotiate the coronavirus relief bill this week, 600-dollar a week emergency payment that
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unemployed folks get that's to expire within days, rich edison on any progress. rich: top administration officials will move to next round and treasury secretary steven mnuchin, white house chief of staff mark meadows have been spending the weekend consulting can senate republican staff on a bill that represents only an opening offer to democrats in negotiations and terms are beginning to expire like 600 boost to unemployment benefits, democrats want to continue that payment, republicans are pushing a different formula this time, one they say ensures a government benefit no more than about 70% of a worker's previous pay. >> it wouldn't be fair to use
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taxpayer dollars to pay for miami to sit home than they would get working and get a job. >> the only thing they established was a tax cut for the wealthiest people in america. the cost of $2 trillion to the national debt in order to give 83% of the benefits to the top 1% and they're resenting $600 for single moms to be able to put food on the table. >> in may house democrats passed their latest coronavirus relief proposal, 3 trillion-dollar plan costing 3 times the expected republican bill. democrats say they've been waiting on the republican offer for months, the administration says the republican version includes another round of 1,200-dollar payments to many americans, treasury secretary also suggested that congress could split the issues up and pass bills as these provisions are needed, also on thursday the government reported 1.4 million americans filed for the first
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time for unemployment benefit claims that was increase over the previous week, the first time that's happened in about 4 months, eric, arthel, back to you. eric: rich, thank you so much. arthel. arthel: joining us politico reporter, first of all, why is congress fighting over the amount of unemployment, who is fighting and will unemployed americans win in the end? >> well, this is the final weekend when those 600-dollar a week unemployment checks boost rather will be transacted and sent out to americans under the care's act that was passed in march by both chambers, now democrats want to extend that, republicans as you heard from treasury secretary believe that some americans are getting paid more on unemployment americans and so that's the formula republicans want to try to
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address in their package that they'll be releasing tomorrow but in reality this is only really a starting point for republicans as they seek to negotiate with democrats on a package that can get a majority in both chambers, that's going to be difficult here especially because the treasury secretary said his timeline for completing this entire thing is going to be this coming week. republicans on capitol hill think that that's a highly ambitious timeline and it will probably take at least a couple more weeks given that republicans will be unveiling starting point. arthel: most people are really relying on that money because they are unemployed, they don't have a job to go back to or it's not safe to go back to the job depending on where they were working and people are trying to make ends meet and two weeks is a long time when you're waiting
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for any kind of help financially. >> that's right, that's why you saw the white house chief of staff mark meadows and secretary mnuchin both separately float this idea of a short-term fix that would patch those unemployment benefits for a couple more weeks and give negotiators more time to negotiate on the bigger issues that they -- democrats and republicans are far a part on as far as negotiation. of course, democrats have rejected the piecemeal approach, they passed 3 trillion-dollar package, the senate republican plan is slated to be around $1 trillion i'm told, so in reality the two parties are very far a part on this issue and unemployed americans are really in limbo at this point. arthel: yeah, a joint statement from speaker nancy pelosi and house majority leader chuck schumer, it reads in part, this weekend millions of americans will lose their unemployment insurance, will be at risk of being evicted from their homes and could be layed off by state
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and local government and there is only one reason, republicans have been diddering for months, time is of the essence and lives are being lost. this morning on cnn, larry cud law, head of economic council did say that the administration is going to extend the federal eviction moratorium which is great news so millions of people who were perhaps going to face eviction won't. that's great news. meanwhile let me tell you what mitch mcconnell had to say the about this week, he says we will be laying down this proposal early next week. we have an agreement in principle on the shape of this package, our proposal would not waste the american people's time and we are choreographing political stunts or teeing up the same old partisan trench
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warfare, our proposal would focus on 3 things, kids, jobs and healthcare, andrew, will they get this resolved? >> well, look, that's the big question here. congress goes on recess and highly unlikely at this point based on where they are in negotiations that they can get this done in just 2 weeks of legislative work periods. on the kids portion that senator mcconnell mentioned they are in agreement on funding for schools, house democrats had put $100 billion for schools in their bill in may and senate republicans are proposing now the same amount of money, that's that's one area of agreement between the two parties early on in this negotiation, that's one of the few aspects of the entire deal that americans agree on and it's a big portion of what will be the final product that comes out of the house and senate and
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eventually gets signed by the president, but, again, the timeline would be up how fast republicans and democrats can work through differences. the main difference being the price tag, house democrats wanted $3 trillion, senate republicans are aiming for about $1 trillion, that's a massive gap. arthel: we will see you again soon. thank you. >> thank you. arthel: eric. eric: the u.s. accusing china of spying and theft. they shot two consulates but should china's behavior be a surprise? author and columnist gordon change writing, quote, there's nothing new about the multigenerational struggle china has been waging contest since the fall of soviet unions and americans have reason to have changed over the years oblivious, gordon change, author
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of u.s.-china tech war joins us now. gordon, we could come out of the consulate because you can see they are spying, no surprise there. should this come as any surprise? china has been expanding and spying and trying to steal our stuff for years? >> yeah, this should be no surprise to china that we closed houston consulate. china spying, you know, a lot of countries spy, we spy, they spy. china spying from houston became blatant and a couple of other things going on in consulate. they were operating their operation fox hunt from there, that's to try to cohorts people in the united states to return to china, they were monitoring students on chinese campuses extremely aggressively and houston had links with u.s.
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protest groups, so all in all, just secretary pompeo and the administration decided enough was enough and that we actually had to carry through with the warning. that's great because for decades, eric, we have issued lots of warning to china and not really carried through on them. eric: is the administration getting tough, they are infiltrating campuses, academia, silicon valley, stealing intellectual property, they have tentacles all over the place. gordon: they certainly do. houston consulate was involved in spying activities against u.s. energy companies because of their activities in the south china sea, also texas institutions were the target of spying from china, texas a&m and
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cancer research center and this got to be blatant, so the united states absolutely had to send a warning to china and carry through on it. eric: senator ted cruz has been strong on that subject. meanwhile it was warning from secretary of state mike pompeo, he spoke from nixon library a couple of days ago on china marking the anniversary of president nixon's historic breakthrough trip to china back in 1972. this is part of what the secretary staid. >> if we bend the knee now our children's children may be at the mercy of the communist party whose actions of the primary challenge today in the free world. eric: president trump nixon gave the hand out to china but that hand has been slapped. what do you think the president nixon would say about that today
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and his view of the way china behaves and what has happened and how the trump administration is now fighting back? gordon: president nixon said thy be creating frankenstein. i think he's right. we've ignored very dangerous, belligerent, hostile activities on the part of beijing. we have issued warnings which we haven't carried through on as we talked about before. all of this and we empowered this militant regime in beijing and the important point about pompeo's speech and other senior administration officials including the vice president going back to 2018 is essentially we are saying enough is enough, there's no more engagement. this is sort of like the long telegram of 1946 and 1947 where
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they changed paradigm on soviet union. pence and secretary pompeo and other officials are changing the paradigm this time on china. eric: it appears that china now is the challenge for 21st century. gordon chang, good to see you. in 3:00 o'clock eastern hour, we will have chris cox, president nixon's grandson to talk about his grandfather's legacy and what china is up to today. arthel: congressman john lewis made final triumphant trip over edmund pettus bridge and now on trip to montgomery. joining from selma, alabama steve harrigan. steve: john lewis made final crossing an hour ago and did it
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in horse-drawn caisson. he was moved to hearse. 55 years ago a much younger man leading a testimony station of 600 people, peaceful protestors who wanted the right to vote, they were set upon by the alabama state troopers, pushed back and beaten with wooden clubs, lewis had skull fractured and beaten again as he tried to get up. among was 8-year-old girl who remembered the events. >> he always liked listen the story of when williams picked me up as i was trying to run home from that march and -- and i looked at jose and i said put me down, you are not running fast enough. steve: caisson at peak of the bridge for 60 seconds, there
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where lewis would have been able to see stage troopers, he called them sea of blue, beaten by them, today saluted by honor guard of them, putting his own body on the line, the violence that day was filmed, made huge impression across the nation and led to speedy passage of the voting rights act of 1965. arthel, eric, back to you. arthel: the figure man wins in the end. eric. eric: arthel, you sea the footage of federal officers and violent protests but is the media accurately reporting the actions of both sides? media buzz howard kurtz is here to take a look next on that.
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eric: president trump vowing to send additional agents to temp down on violence, that's drawing pushback from local majors and democrats, show the media portraying portraying the federal crack-down on violence in urban cities, let's bring in fox news media analyst howard kurtz. is it fair or slant or how it's covered?
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howie: eric, it is so divided. let's take a look. >> it's not normal, not the kind of thing that should happen in america. federal agents should not be dispatch today cities to round up american protestors. >> this is a killing field in chicago and we are complaining about trump, are you kidding me? talk about blame shifting. howie: liberal media outlets are presenting president trump as authoritarian, trump's occupation of american cities has begun, conservatives in the media focusing much more on the murders, fires, the injuries, the weekend shooting sprees, the rioting and portraying the arrival of federal forces as welcome attempt to restore order. eric: howard, you hear the critics, well, it's masked anonymous forces who are
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snatching people off the streets and putting in unmarked vans. chicago mayor, she accepted them, bring those in so face the carnage of crime that chicago is going through. howie: look, it's fair game for criticism when you have all of the agents arriving in camouflage and not sure which agency they're from as you say conducting arrest where is you're putting people in unmarked cars or vans, i get that. you don't have to rely on unnamed sources to know that the president wants the issue, he says the cities are being run by liberal democrats, by the radical left, under joe biden, the country would go hell and he's positioning himself and campaign theme for donald trump as a law and order president he's done this for 3 and a half
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years for immigration. the danger for the president if this goes on is that it could hurt him with suburban voters who might become concerned, what's unprecedented as you know commander in chief sending federal forces over the objections, strong objections of governors and mayors. eric: you really have two issues, protests, for example n portland and seattle and you have the almost out of control crime like in chicago that's 18 murders in one day a few weeks ago and record and probably break record this year. it's unbelievable. you talked about and mentioned the vice president joe biden, what is the media saying about his response? >> well, joe biden because of covid his virtual campaign is still isn't getting that much coverage unless when he makes a video with barack obama. he accuses trump of sowing chaos and division in portland. remember during primaries much more liberal democrats bashed biden for authorship of harsh
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1994 crime bill, but if this were to play out where the violence continues to get worse, if the former vice president is perceived as a tolerating it or not being tough enough on it, particularly escalation in more cities as the hot summer goes on, that could cost a backlash against biden and his party. eric: do you think that the media portrays the police situation fairly? look, you see protestors but in chicago 49 chicago police officers were injured when there was -- in grand park, you've got the reports that at least 3 federal agents in positiverland may be permanently blinded by lasers they say were from protestors, you have extremely serious attacks against law enforcement officers of the nation. does the media bring that enough or is there enough stress on what our law enforcement officers are going through in these protests?
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>> howie: well, it's certainly recorded but the focus and the injuries that you talked about, the rioting, it is not just now, as you showed moments ago, it's not just portland, it's seattle, la, it seems like the press views everything through trump lens and election issue, but the death toll, injuries, not just protestors but law enforcement who are trying to do their jobs, that has kind of receded and you see very little criticism of the mayors of the cities at least in the national media. eric: final you, you don't know what you see very much, back the blue, they support police officers, they had one in long island, family members of police officers spoke in the line of duty spoke, maybe they will get
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equal time too. howie: good point. eric: howie, good to see you as always. you were preempted today but we will see you next week. howie: i will be back. eric: media buzz, 11:00 a.m. eastern time sundays right here on the fox news channel. howie will be back. arthel: two-time affect or winning actress olivia has died at age 104. she was among the last of the great stars from the studio age and was the last surviving major performer of gone with the wind. publicist said the actress died peacefully of natural causes at her home in paris. hollywood legend olivia dead at
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arthel: hanna made landfall yesterday, for updates, tropical storm now and new hurricane douglas which is near hawaii, we will go to alex hogan, live in new york, so we've now tropical storm hanna and hurricane douglas, right, alex? alex: that's right, both of the storms touching down on different parts of the country. hanna making landfall, downgraded to tropical storm, tropical storm touching down and first atlantic hurricane of 2020 but again slowing speeds this morning but still causing damage, hanna comes 3 years after harvey which killed 68 people and caused estimated $125 billion in damage. well, hanna made landfall in
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padre island, drenched the lone star state, caused flooding, it damaged property and the state seeing more than 270,000 power outages reported. meanwhile in the pacific ocean hurricane douglas is brewing and while it continues to weaken with wind speeds slowing to 920 miles per -- 920 miles per hour and hawaiian air canceling flights between the islands and mainland today. at the time sending federal assistance issuing emergency declaration. >> i had the opportunity to speak with the fema administrator pete yesterday and we discussed the progress of hurricane douglas and i think most importantly made a commitment that we would respond as one team, federal, state and
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county emergency managers working together in order to protect and help the well-being of the community. alex: of course, concerns over pandemic, 625 people who were self-isolated because they had either come in contact with the virus or had it themselves. the state health department reached out to every single person to make sure that no one reports to shelter, hawaii has one of the lowest infection rates in the country but arthel we are seeing more cases continue to spike there. arthel: alex hogan, thank you very much, eric. eric: president trump facing crucial week as republicans are set to unveil next covid-19 aid package which would extend unemployment benefits, top priority for the president according to mnuchin.
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david spunt near where the president has been spending weekend on golf club in bedminster. david: millions of americans are losing unemployment benefits, $600 and many americans are losing their patience as they want republicans and democrats come together quickly to figure out situation. the august recess is looming in a few days. treasury secretary steven mnuchin and white house chief of staff meadows on capitol hill yesterday and source tellses fox news they are supposed to be on capitol hill negotiating, trying to come up with some sort of settlement for the american people. now this is $600 of weekly unemployment checks no longer going out to those americans layed off, senate republicans reportedly wan unemployment oh checks to drop to 200 week along with 16 billion for covid testing and 500 billion for
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schools. the president, eric hoped for payroll tax cut will not happen because democrats and some republicans nixed the idea. >> we have the direct payments and as you know the direct payments are a much quicker way of effectively giving everybody a tax cut and it's much quicker than the payroll tax cut. david: eric, the clock is ticking and ticking loud. president trump heading back to the white house, of course, he will be dealing with this getting updates with advisers, tomorrow mark meadows, white house chief of staff, tomorrow hopefully there's some sort of movement in place as members get back because after all they are going on august recess and august recess is not just the month of august, typically lasts
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into the first week or so of september leaving many americans wondering how they're going to put food on the table. lot going on, eric. eric: they probably have a deal but we have to see what it is, arthel. ♪ ♪ arthel: universities are trying to figure out exactly how their students are going to get back to the classroom even if that means a full distance, full semester of distance learning, maybe the classroom, maybe continues virtually. molly line has more on what options are being explored. >> one of the nation's most prestigious universities, harvard announced all classes will be online. mary is a rising junior from long island. >> i'm considering taking the fall semester off because after experiencing the virtual spring i really feel like i missed out.
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>> the experience that the students will have will not be experiences as usual. molly: masks will be required, dorm capacity reduced and robust covid-19 testing launched and students will have a choice to attend classes in person or remotely. chronical for higher education is tracking plans nationwide based on the roughly 1200 colleges researchers have looked just over half plan to welcome students on campuses, third are planning hybrid models meaning of mix in person and online. >> more campuses are beginning to reverse their plans for in-person instruction in favor of an online approach and they are citing, you know, worsening public health trends and primary reason for that. >> while students attend classes online, most will still be paying full tuition including those going to harvard.
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front doors of the capitol will be open to the public throughout this afternoon and to the early evening that's where mr. lewis will lie in state in montgomery, alabama, such history there from all the many years of activism and we remember and honor john lewis today as these events continue, we will carry them and continue with them live here on fox news channel. you know the late congressman was known as a fighter in the quest for civil rights but was a man of deep faith and conviction, lauren green joins us and how convictions served as basis, as many life achievements and legacy, hi, lauren. >> absolutely. they used to call him preacher and used to talk about he used to preach to chickens on family
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farm and as he grew he embraced christianity of redemptive salvation and it was that belief that helped shape his work as civil rights leader and congressman. in his memoir he writes at early stage of the movement i accepted the teaching of jesus the way of love, nonviolence, the spirit of forgiveness and reconciliation. the idea of hate is too heavy a burden to bear. john lewis earned a degree in philosophy and graduated from american baptist theological seminary in nashville. when he was still a teen he heard martin luther king speak and he knew that god was killing him to civil rights movement. he learned to turn the other cheek when he was spat upon and beaten, he helped organize sit-ins and marchs and youngest speaker at the 1963 march on washington where dr. king gave his famous i have a dream speech and lewis spoke before king he said in part by the forces of
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our demands, our determination and our numbers, we shall splinter the segregated south of thousands pieces and put them together in image of god and democracy. lewis would have his nonviolent beliefs tested on bloody sunday during voting rights act across edmund bridge in alabama. law enforcement attacked the marchers, the scene shocking the nation and 8 days later president johnson signed the voting rights act and this is the john lewis that's being remembered today. >> a man of peace who truly believes in the ministry of nonviolence with a heart of forgiveness. >> john lewis knew that laws can change but laws can't change people's hearts and that only happens when people embrace god's laws to love one another,
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eric. eric: so well said, lauren, thank you. arthel. arthel: thank you, similarren, thank you, eric. john lewis march across edmund pettus bridge was significant civil rights movement and here it is in his own words. >> selma free and liberate not just the american south but liberated our country and as a nation we have come a great distance, white, colored signs are gone, the only place that we will see those signs today will be in a book, in a museum, on a video. we still have a distance to travel before we lay down the burden of -- somehow and some
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way god almighty. we cannot give up now. we cannot give in. >> no! >> keep faith, keep our eyes on the prize. we must vote like you have never ever voted before. [cheers and applause] >> some gave up their lives. speak up. speak out. arthel: those last words you heard were spoken by congressman lewis on the 56th anniversary of bloody sunday in march of this year at the edmund pettus bridge. and congressman lewis was undoubtedly an iconic figure in the civil rights movement advocating for equality on the streets and in congress and as john lewis made history as you saw from the archival film, much
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of it was documented, of course, and joining me now steve shapiro, he captured some of the most ironic moments of the civil rights movement including with martin luther king, jr., photos and stories behind them are also now available in his book the fire next time, so mr. shapiro, first, i want your reflections, remembrance of john lewis at the height of the civil rights movement. >> john was certainly iconic image. i would like to start by saying when time magazine told me i had the cover and showed me the cover of john lewis this week i cried because i felt so close to help again, attached me to him. when i was putting together i went through pages of context
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sheets and i followed martin luther king and image absolutely the leader but at the same time i saw that he kept looking into the crowds as if harm was possibly on its way in a sense that he got constant death threats and returned to john lewis. the picture i most like is the one i did in 1965 in mississippi, john was bringing a contingent of ministers to a church in clarksdale, we stopped and talked and i photographed him and the picture really was amazing to me because it showed someone who really knew who he was at that age of 23 who knew really what his mission was and what he had to do and from the time after that picture he did it. he was amazing in all of that. dr. king took him under his wing and they spent much time
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together and also i noticed that in so many pictures he is very close to king. he was always close to king, but i had never known that -- that actually john had been there too, but at the funeral for jimmy late jackson who was shot by a trooper, by a sheriff and really was the excuse for doing the selma march, the 3 people most in the foreground in his funeral where martin luther king and john lewis. he was amazing in every way, he was a preacher, he was a preacher at all times, he preached a message of kindness, he preached a message of bringing people together which is the most essential thing on what you have to deal with today in my mind, bringing this country together because i see too much happening on both
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sides. i see that these sides have got to come together. the most important image i have and the most important story i have really about john lewis is about rock hill in north carolina and john went into a white waiting room and two men jumped him, kicked him, messed his face and left him bleeding and what's important is that in 2009 one of those men, an exklan member came to seek out john to apologize and john took his apology and both men sat and hugged and cried and so me that's where america has to be, there has to be a change here. there has to be a change towards a way from division, we can't stand this division.
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we need to come together and all people are all the same. babies are geniuses and when they grow up the circumstances around them tend to make them who they are or who they become or who they want to believe but basically we are all the same and we have to live that way at this time. arthel: mr. shapiro, i appreciate you very much and your words are so important for all of us to hear. thank you, thank you for your work, congratulations on the time coverage and stay tune with us for fox news right now, fox news sunday with chris wallace is up next. i'm arthel neville. eric: and i'm eric sean. we will have complete coverage only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪
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chris: i'm chris wallace. it is now 100 days til the election, and voters must decide who they trust more to deal with the coronavirus, the economic fallout and violence in our cities. ♪ ♪ >> the president, geffen, -- again, is focused on money and american workers. chris: the white house and senate republicans are still at odds over how to shore up the economy as some key benefits expire. we'll ask treasury secretary and lead administration negotiator steven mnuchin when we'll get answers about new funding for workers and businesses. it's a "fox news sunday"
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