>> thanks for joining us and allowing us to reclaim her time. brian, have a great day on the radio. >> i'm going to try, nine until noon. >> sandra: would begin with the fox news alert, president trump set to depart the white house to midland, texas, to tour an oil rig there and speak on america's energy independence. as he often does come with the president could stop and speak to reporters on his way out and if he does we will have those remarks for you. meanwhile to another fox news alert this morning, this time from capitol hill where bickering is about to be underway. the heads of tech giants amazon, facebook, apple and google all set to testify before a house committee. good morning everyone, i'm sandra smith sandra smith. steve linick good morning to you, i'm trace gallagher. lawmakers on the house

subcommittee will question the four ceos about their complete dominance of the technology industry. that comes amid criticism that competition and free speech are being stifled. there are also antitrust investigations of all four companies, regulators looking into whether big tech companies should get broken up. griff jenkins following this live from d.c. >> trace, good morning. it's hard to overstate the significance of today's hearing, and it won't lessen the scrutiny from my side of the aisle. the antitrust committee is led by rhode island's david sisley who has conducted a 13 month investigation into the industry's practices and amassed more than a million pages of documents and evidence to confront the titans with. it's expected to be particularly rough for amazon's jeff bezos, the world's richest man appearing for the first time before the committee facing questions over a "wall street journal" article alleging amazon accesses sales data from its authors to launch competing products against them,

which is something that amazon denies. in prepared remarks he embraces the oversight and says this. i believe amazon should be scrutinized, we should scrutinize all large institutions whether they are companies, government agencies or nonprofits. our responsibility is to ensure we passed that scrutiny with flying colors. now tim cook and mark zuckerberg also getting hit hard as lawmakers try to assess whether current antitrust laws meet with the committee calls to today's monopolistic behavior. and they expect republicans to alleged bias against conservatives. congressman ginger jordan this to say. this morning. >> they censored conservatives. there is no we feel that is the case or we think that is the case, that -- if those are the facts. this is crazy. so they are going to hear about that today in the hearing. >> the hearing begins at noon and perhaps the biggest question

is whether any actions are taken or even if they could be broken up. that answer may come trace when the committee publishes its report on the investigation in the coming months. we will see what today brings in with the report has. >> trace: indeed we will. we will have much more on today's historic antitrust hearing. maria bartiromo will join us at 9:30 with what we can expect to hear during the proceedings. >> trace: it will be looking forward to that. now fox news alert from portland where protests continue there for the 60s second straight night. >> sandra: the white house and talks with the governor to withdraw federal agents from that city. william la jeunesse's live from portland on what may be happening next to there. good morning. >> this is the lay of the land,

this is offense that the feds installed to try to buy some space at the federal courthouse and this is where the protesters staged pretty much on a daily basis for the last 62 days. this city is actually finding the federal government $500 an hour because they say they erected this fence without a permit. the headline as you said it, the ap is reporting that the administration is in talks with governor kate brown in the mirror ted wheeler, provided portland police protect the building that does not address or answer or solve why a federal agents are here in the first place and the issue that people have here with what they consider systemic racism and police violence. the director of the marshals

office address that last night. >> if you look at this concept of racial inequality on this idea that we should engage in the discussion about police conduct, i think those are all good and healthy kinds of things. i do however, believe that we should not be burning down courthouses. >> so right now, there are about 114 federal agents inside and there you are here from attacks from different ages in virginia and and still just a 6:00 a.m. herour here. what was the nature of the protests and demonstrations last night? >> it's pretty similar. this gives you the lay of the land, you can see people inside who will jump this fence and put

fireworks up against the building. they will throw gas soaked rags and so forth inside and create fires in here which causes federal agents to come out and put those out, and and then did fire pepper balls and tear gas and try to clear the area. we put out two different fires. now, there is a disagreement inside of the protest if you will about tactics. some want them to be peaceful and others are much more confrontational. and they are on the agitation. >> the way the situation is right now, and that's obviously

very unruly. that's kind of the lay of the land right now and we don't know whether the portland pd will help the feds, or not. >> sandra: a lot of uncertainty on the ground. >> a departure of surgery underway right now, the casket will then be flown to georgia after lying in state for two days. the civil rights hero will be taken to the state capital now an update on the coronavirus pandemic, the death toll from covid-19 is now approaching 150,000 as several states that

weekly fatality records. florida is one of them, and hitting a record 186 deaths in a single day. that happened yesterday with a milestone coming as florida's governor eases up on a push to fully reopen schools there. >> what's clear to me is i think that parents want to have the ability to control their kids is destiny and have a meaningful choice. so for me as parents believe that the distance learning is the way to go, then i think they have that right. >> they reopened in person classes next month. >> fox news alert, president trump expected to leave the white house for texas any moment now where he will focus on energy production. this comes after attorney general william barr faced the house judiciary committee in a contentious five hour hearing. our chief white house

correspondent john roberts is live with more on that. >> good morning. the tactics that the democrats employed yesterday were two groups called general. the attorney general is rude for even attempting to answer the questions. >> let me just tell you -- i'm starting to lose my temper. >> i gave instructions as to -- you only have 2 minutes. >> this is a hearing, i thought i was the one that was supposed to be cured. >> the violence and protest, was punishing the president enemies and giving his friends a free ride when the attorney general

finally had a chance to answer and he said this. >> federal courts are under attack. at trying to burn down a federal court. am supposedly punishing the president, what enemies have i indicted? you have to think about what you feel is unmerited and what you feel violates the rule of law. >> one of the big things facing the country's police reform, and what we know as the president had a telephone call with vladimir putin last thursday, and he refused to disclose any of the contents of that call. the president did weigh in on reports that russia had been

offering bounties to the television to kill american soldiers. speak to frankly that's an issue that many people said was fake news. we had a call talking about nuclear proliferation which was a very big subject, where they would like to do something and so would i. and, this was never confirmed. this was in the president's daily briefing a little while ago and it was not in the oral presentation that was given to the president. that will probably be the first question that he was asked. we will see if he responds to it. >> trace: john roberts life to us in the north lawn.

former deputy national security advisor kt mcfarland joins us and that is at 9:40 a.m. eastern right here on "america's newsroom." >> sandra: a lot happening on this wednesday morning. the trump administration while rejecting new daca applications as a white house review of the program. and mitch mcconnell revamping his coronavirus relief package less than 24 hours after it was unveiled. we've all asked republican senator marsha blackburn will join us from tennessee comes next. >> what we want to have temporary and targeted relief, not a permanent policy position that leads into 2021, and beyo beyond. to severe psoriasis,

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>> sandra: brand-new video of an arrest and in new york city protest sparking fears reaction. watch. that is a young woman who was picked up by plainclothes nypd officers and shoved into the back of an unmarked van. new york police explaining that the reason for the arrest saying, this woman was wanted for damaging police cameras during five separate criminal

incidents in and around city hall park. the arresting officers were assaulted with rocks and bottles and the woman has since been released. >> trace: while the trump administration will be begin rejecting applications for the daca program of the white house reviews. the program shields and undocumented immigrants who came to the u.s. as children from deportation. president trump now says he's working on a migration system. >> are you still considering a path to citizenship for current daca applicants? >> president trump: we are going to make the daca people happy and the representatives happy and it with the fantastic immigration system. >> trace: joe biden slamming the move writing in the statement that trumps action what up and the lives of thousands of our teachers, nurses, doctors, engineers and lawyers among others.

this wrong and it's un-american. >> i am opposed to nongermane amendments whether it's funding for the fbi building or for example whether it's a tax cut i would hope all of the noncovid related measures are out no matter what bills they were in at the start. a >> sandra: that was mitch mcconnell announcing changes to the g.o.p. relief package less than 24 hours after it was unveiled. he's calling for the removal of $1.5 million she joins us now. senator, good morning to you. the clock is ticking, tens of millions of people are set to

lose benefits. >> bear in mind for every one case of covid we've had in the state, that has been economically impacted end of been furloughed and they lost their job. they seen their wages cut. as we have worked on this package over the past couple of weeks, i think numbers of the republican conference have been pretty specific on this. we wanted to get people back to work, children back to school, and clarity on how to use the money that's already in the pipeline. we have continued to say those three things. this should be targeted, it should be limited and it should be specific. >> sandra: what about the fbi funding? this seems to be a point of contention and even the republicans are at odds around

this. senator shelby has reportedly said that steven mnuchin and mark meadows, the chief of staff of the white house, were pressing republicans to keep that money and proposal. >> we should have this very specifically. it should be forgetting people back to work, children back to school and clarity on how to use the money in the process. so all of these extraneous things that end up being very similar to earmarks. we need to make certain that we leave that discussion for another day. they should be as simple as it can be, sandra. people are saying, we need liability protection, regulatory relief. let us get some tax credits, like a payroll tax credit to incentivize people going back to work.

let us get a tax credit for what we are spending for covid compliance. that is the type, specificity and simplicity that we need in this package. >> sandra: but to be clear, leading these negotiations on the part of the white house, pressing to leave the funding from the fbi headquarters in the air that democrats want to come up do you support that, senator? >> i would say respectfully let's leave that discussion and that funding for a different vehicle. right now the focus has to be getting people back to work and kids back to school and clarity on the money in the pipeline. >> sandra: lawmakers have to bridge this gap and there seems to be big differences between the republicans and the democrats in the senate and the house. so do you think that there is a negotiation and site? can both sides come to an agreement? >> my hope is that they will be

in agreement on this. when i hear from tennesseans every single day, and from employers in tennessee, as they have the help wanted sign out. and business is picking up. they need to be able to get people back to work. they need the supply chains to be clarified and opened up. we are doing virtual meetings with all of our county mayors. last night on one of our meetings they brought up a specific company in this county that was having trouble getting products in from mexico in order to complete the processing. if so then there were things that were being done out of the country because they couldn't get the workers here. they couldn't get the supply chain working. so we need to get people back to work.

clearing away the roadblocks to this is going to get the economy moving. payroll tax, you'll see better job numbers in september and october. that will help us reelect president trump. >> sandra: i just wanted to get this. >> we are going to fight hard so that state and local governments, they will fight harder for heroes pay. we have leveraged and we aren't afraid to use it. >> we've only got a short time left here senator. but will something get done this week? >> chuck schumer wants to bail out the blues states, trying to find a pathway for joe biden to win this election. we are pushing hard to get people back to work and kids

back in school and to meet the needs of the american people. >> sandra: senator blackburn, we appreciate your time this morning. >> trace: we got some breaking news, the president is speaking to reporters that are on their way to texas. in the meantime the president has said that protesters in portland, he calls them anarchists and agitators, and he says that federal agents will not be leaving portland and lots adjuster is actually back away on the courthouse, that the federal agents are protecting. he went on to say that he thinks kamala harris would be a good choice for vice president joe biden's running mate. remember there was some kind of speculation that joe biden might have left his notes out there and might have been leading towards kamala harris and a steven mnuchin is also traveling with the president. he spoke as well about the new stimulus bill and steven mnuchin says apparently they are fall fr

apart. they are seeing if they can work together and of course the unemployment benefits run out. the president is speaking to the media right now.

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from senator blackburn in tennessee on the funding that is being put into the coronavirus route relief bill, obviously mitch mcconnell is unveiling what he did the day prior. the funding for the headquarte headquarters, it's been said that steven mnuchin and mark meadows are pushing for nick negotiations. he was asked about that and he said they've been trying to build a new building for many years and they have that in the bill and it should stay. so this is about the tech ceos and censorship. the president is taking a lot of questions from reporters and we are told he still talking. we will have that tape for you, we are talking about energy independence in america.

still talking to reporters and we have that tape for you we will play back for you. >> trace: in the meantime, just 96 days to go until the presidential election and joe biden is confirming he will announce his choice for vice president next week. >> i'm going to have a choice in the first week in august and i promise i will let you know when i do. >> trace: lets go live to jacqui heinrich. >> sometime sometime next week,e narrowest window we've had. a photographer snapped a close-up shot of his notepad and senator kamala harris' name was hand written at the top. paris is widely viewed as a top contender for the vp's slot and

biden prepped himself for questions about here after a political article cited anonymous sources after a member of the vp vetting committee. he claimed chris dodd was dismayed by her answer when he asked her about her ambush on biden when she took biden to task over busing during the first democratic debate. harris reportedly laughed and said that's politics, leaving dodge with the impression that she had no remorse. they do not hold grudges, talented and great help to campaign a great respect to her. it seems an open and shut case but politico mistakenly ran an article yesterday naming harris as biden's vp pick and this is

not real, and as the vice president said today he looks forward to making his announcement in august. and that was outside of his house in wilmington. >> trace: jacqui heinrich, thank you. >> sandra: another big day on capitol hill, facebook, amazon set to testify remotely at a house hearing. the president maria just talked with reporters and when we have those remarks. that's a luxury of their home offices of course but at noon

you'll likely hear more about antitrust, censorship, all hot topics right now. >> absolutely. in this government has one of the most important tools to address some of this issue and that is antitrust. they are pressing forward in terms of dominance and market share. we hear explanations about how these companies are trying to get around this. google right now has a market share in search of 90%, so even if you see competitors to google, they are dominant in the search space. we will hear a little of that, but even more important is looking at the protections that these companies enjoy. and they are supposed to be "bulletin boards." they are supposed to be like the

square, the platform for lots of different conversation and lots of different debates and opinions about things. what we've seen is many of these companies have taken the side of democrats and removed conservative speech and taking things down on their platforms, if it's something they did not agree with. that is the real issue. this law has not been changed since 1996, including those protections and that really is one of the most important things that are at stake. devin nunes, congressman is suing twitter, and they are no longer these bulletin boards and that in fact they are creating content and agreeing with content and they should be subject to the same lawsuit potential that larger media companies are subject to. we will hear a lot of pushback

from these companies saying we are bulletin boards and we do allow free speech. time and time again, we will see companies like twitter that will remove or take down the accounts of people like donald trump jr. if they don't like what's being said and that's an issue. >> it will be fascinating to watch because maria as you know, interviewing all these news anchors especially in the business world, these are ceos. obviously, we will be watching that in the president will be watching that as well. he said steven mnuchin said they will be making but i wanted to ask you about the coronavirus

relief package. i know you've been talking about this all morning. that's as far apart as the two sides are on gettin with the prt and mark meadows, they said the two sides are very far apart. so we will see what that indicates as far as getting a deal done. we don't know exactly what the president is saying on this, but where do things stand? >> i think there is common ground on a number of items. there is an agreement, we keep the $600 per week payment until at least january, this is encouraging people to stay home. we need to take those numbers down. stephen the nation's idea was to

create 70% of lost wages and that provides 50% of lost wages. taking up to 70% of the lost wages, that will be available via those unemployment benefits. one sticking point that i think the two sides cannot come to an agreement on is the money coming to cities and states. i spoke with senator chris coons who said it looked. it's imperative that our cities and states get the money that they need partly to give money to schools. president has earmarked and more money will go to those schools that are actually reopening sooner than later and it seemed like the senator felt that was not enough. that's not one of the priority

list from the republicans and remember, there's also a group of senators that do not want to vote for $0.10. that includes senator ted cruz and there is still money left over. but i think there is a lot of agreement on liability protections and people want to make sure on both sides of the aisle that if we do go out, go to a restaurant and go to school and then get sick we will not be able to schoo us to that schoole business so that's the point of common ground. there is also common ground on the fact that we do need to do something companies unemployment benefits are running up on july 31 and the rent payments for many americans are due and it's in that state and city issue is one of the holdups he here. >> sandra: and also on potential vaccines, the president has a lot of good

options. also talking about reports that a lot of americans will not take the vaccine. he said i'm a bit of a therapeutic person not concerned about that. also talking about the protests in portland and calling them anarchists in the mirror week. next maria. >> thank you sandra. >> trace: at the miami marlins pausing their season after 17 players and coaches tested positive for coronavirus. they are expected to shut down for more than a week as andrew cuomo offered the mlb a home away from home for the shortened season. >> new york state has a full department of health protocol system in place. we have a testing system in place. i offer to major league baseball, if you are having problems playing in other

states, come play here. >> the problem is, you have the marlins on pause for at least a week and really this weekend is the opening of major league baseball, and everyone wonders will it be the last weekend of the season? because i could have more problems. the questioner says no, we are going forward. others say we will see about that. >> sandra: there has been a lot of response to the governor's words they are on baseball saying what about schools and what about businesses? new york city is a ghost town and there's a lot left to be done here as far as the city and the state. but we will see what happens, it's anybody's guess at this point. >> trace: it is anyone's guess. we are waiting for the president's playback, he's done and he is now traveling with the chief of staff mark meadows and treasury of the secretary steven mnuchin. >> sandra: that's a live look at the white house. he's heading down to texas and

will be touring an oil rig here as you know and he stopped and talked to reporters and he talked about just about everything. he stopped for about 20 minutes and made a lot of news, even talking about the convention and what he is going to do in terms of his formal the acceptance of the nomination, as we are looking at options. could it be at the white house? we will see what exactly he says and we are depending on the pool notes for now but we will have that news from the president in just a moment. the president is on his way to texas and we will have more news when we come back. dirtier streets. but some say our states should just go bankrupt. text fund to 237-263 to tell congress

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the coronavirus, the protests overnight in portland and the tech hearings happening at noon. he touted a lot of good options, and he's not concerns is a relief package for small families and businesses as a result of the pandemic. on the negotiations and the funding for an fbi building, he said we are trying to build this building for many years. he says we have to have that in the bill. and it should stay reiterating the disagreement that is happening between the white house and republicans on that issue. on the protests overnight in portland the president called protesters their crazy people and anarchists calling the governor and mirror week. he again warned that they needed

to clean up portland or, and this is in quotations, we are going into do it for them. on the tech hearings that are happening at noon eastern time today on capitol hill, four major technology company ceos will be testifying before lawmakers on trust issues, and steven mnuchin said they will as well. not the upcoming convention, they will be picking a location fairly soon. he was asked, will it be at the white house, it might be. it's about the president hitting on a wider range of issues as he emerges from the white house.

he will be landing in midland, texas and he will tour an oil regular. he will also be discussing energy independence and that has allowed american energy independence. the president emerging with the negotiators of the coronavirus relief factors, likely we will hear more on that. but what a morning, where we should get a lot of news from the president. as far as a vice presidential pick for joe biden, there is some news on that as well. according to the notes after it emerged, there were some notes seeing of joe biden and he thinks kamala harris would be a fine choice for vice president. i'm reading through here as we go. he railed against democrat run cities and said they wanted a bailout, and that wants to take care of people. all of this happening with the

backdrop of capital hero hearings, ongoing violence relief negotiations and, he stopped to talk to reporters for about 20 minutes and we have that for you now. we will play that for you and talk to you on the way out. >> president trump: we are heading out to texas right now. we have the courthouse very well secure. we are not leaving until they secure the city. if they don't secure their city soon, we will have to go up and the and it out. we will get rid of the anarchists, they are not protests. we have many in jail, and they

eat either clean out their studies and do it right or we will do it for them. would you like to say something? >> as of now we are very far apart, and that's the president. president. >> president trump: we will work on the eviction, and we want to take care of the people. the payments are enough. not making the payments, not making them high enough. the democrats are not taking care of the people. nancy pelosi takes care of

herself but she doesn't take care of anything else. so when schumer and pelosi can get together and take care of the people, we want to stop the eviction. >> is this a short-term bill? are you doing a short-term bill? >> we are working on that, and we are using more time. >> president trump: the rest we can discuss later.

we look at what's going on in seattle, democrat run cities whether you like it or not is terribly right. and the democrats want a bailout fund, and most of the country is very well-run. we are watching seattle and watching new york where they had off 400% increase in crime, 400%. my city that i left, but i love, to do this job and they had a 400% increase. that's unacceptable. most of the country is very well-run and republican cities are very well-run. it's the gains and they are

looking towards the city to throw it away for the cities that are poorly run. >> reporter: [inaudible question] >> president trump: i told you i've read about it and have certainly talked about it. colin powell says that's not true and other people say it's not true. if it were true i would be very angry about it. but if you look at russia, they lost a fortune and a lot of people. so i don't know why they will be doing that, but nobody has been tougher on russia.

no one has been tougher on russia and china including our allies, and nato, where we got to pay $140 billion. you know why? no one has been tougher on russia than i have. and they've been off the years, and the united states has been taken advantage of. and i'm here and i've been

straining it out. but germany owes billions and billions of dollars to nato. now germany is saying it's bad for the economy. germany is delinquent, and they have taken advantage of us for many years. i was all set to fix that and then we got hit with the china plague. but we will be fixing it. >> reporter: [inaudible question] >> president trump: we will see what happens. >> are you planning on -- of the

fbi? you don't want to be too far away. i said the best place is right where it is, the best piece of property in washington. so we will build a new fbi building. that's our renovation of it existing, so we have that in the bill. people have wanted a new fbi building for 20 years. >> you need a new building. it's a bad building and a dangerous building, not ou a god

building. i would -- you could have it done quickly. the fbi building is not new. you will be watching the hearings today very closely. there is no question, and it's very bad. >> we have lots of alternatives. >> will you be -- speak to what? >> th the doctor --

>> president trump: i was very impressed with her and other doctors. she's a very respected doctor and she was not alone. there are other doctors that swear by it, they think it's great. she was with the whole group of people and the reason their ratings are so bad is because the coverage is so bad. that goes -- the network is so dishonest, that was just about everything. certainly you could put her up and let her have a voice. they seem to never take down the

other side. they only take down, i don't care if it's hydroxy or anything else, all i want to do a save lives. we are doing very well and very well on therapeutics. but i happen to be a believer in hydroxy. i used it and many people agree with me. and we will see how it is. >> i thinking about it. >> they are always there to defend tourists. >> you are right and they are there to protect europe and there to protect germany and

germany is supposed to pay for it. and we don't want to be -- the united states has been taken advantage of for 25 years with trade and on the military. it's very simple, they are delinquent. very simple. and there are native country, there are 28 countries that are paid out. most of them will be up to date, most of them will be up to date. we spend a lot of money on germany and they take advantage of the military.

we are working on the vaccine, and we have a lot of good options. >> i can hear everybody but you will. >> is there progress -- >> yes, there already are. we are in formal negotiations we will talk about that later. right now we are the great nuclear power china is searchi

searching, i don't know if it's going to work out but we would do it first and then go to china together. i wish him well, i haven't seen him in a while. i'm a therapeutic person, too, let's be honest. i love the idea therapeutics where you go in and give somebody a transfusion or a shot and they get better. i am a big therapeutic person.

we take a very strong chance. they are radical crazy people and they are either going to straighten it out for themselves or may be of the state gets involved, that's the governor and of the mirror. but there are very weak people. these radicals, these anarchists are controlling. the governor and the mayor. the mayor went into a rally that was accurate and reported. they excoriated them. but what they did to him was incredible. lucky he had a five body guards, but him. nbc, i didn't i didn' see cnn be

i don't watch it, but he was in great danger of dying. if he didn't have his bodyguards. these are bad people. these are anarchists and agitators. either they do something, or we will do it. in the meantime, our purpose there is to protect the federal building. they are nasty and vicious people but our people are very powerful people. ray powerful. either they will clean up portland soon or the federal government is going to do it for them. we are going to clean it out. thank you very much. >> sandra: that was president trump wrapping his

remarks as he spoke to reporters leaving the white house a short time ago and he's now making his way down to odessa, texas, for a fund-raiser there. the last thing he left off with, talking about the unrest, the 62nd straight night of unrest in portland referencing those causing the unrest in that city, anarchists and crazy people saying we are taking a very strong stance there as far as federal involvement calling the governor and of the mere week. he said we are not leaving until they secure their city. if they do not secure their city soon we have no choice. we will have to go in and cleaned it out. a lot of news relief package, we are very far apart said steven mnuchin on a vaccine effort. i think we will have one and we have lots of good options, talking about the convention and not ruling it out, saying it's something we are thinking about. on senator kamala harris has a vice president pick for joe biden, i think she'd be a fine choice. the president is heading down to

texas now as we begin a brand-new hour. >> sandra: that dramatic video out of new york city showing plainclothes police officers pulling at teenage protester into an unmarked van and that'll happen on the side of manhattan. we know police have released that young protester from custody. welcome to the second hour of "america's newsroom" on this wednesday morning. >> trace: i'm trace gallagher. that demonstrator has been identified as 18-year-old nikki stone, marching with other protesters when police detained of the 18-year-old on vandalism charges. >> sandra: bryan llenas has more on that terrifying scene. what happened last night, and what happened this morning?

>> good morning, protesters and activists are outraged over that video that was shot here. that shows the nypd acting far too aggressively. and putting them into and that dealt with five separate incidents. they were attacked with rocks and bottles. they defended their tactics saying the warrant squad uses unmarked videos to effectively locate wanted suspects.

and he was placed into the warrant squad's unmarked grave minivan behind a cordon of the nypd bicycle, and that will help affect the arrest. he was charged with criminal mischief and graffiti vandalism charges. >> how are new york city officials reacting t to the vido this morning? >> new york city mayor bill de blasio has yet to comment on the video. he's having a press conference right now as we speak. presidents are saying that this video shows in the new york city council speaker cory johnson, it's clear that using an

unmarked van and plainclothes officers to make an arrest for vandalism, that's a massive overstep. then federal officers in an unmarked van. at dhs and the police say the use of unmarked vehicles for unrest is common practice for the police and the feds were reportedly not involved in any way for yesterday's arrest. and the legislation was passed.

lots of people were shot. there is so much violence in recent days and weeks. >> these two men worked shot and killed in separate incidences, no reported arrests, and a 19-year-old man was stabbed outside of a prominent riverfront hotel in downtown chicago after a fight broke out and violent seems to be increasing downtown this summer

and they should do a better job that is 25% homicide rate. and that creates witnesses are too afraid to give critical information to police. they are afraid of not just being intimidated but they are afraid of being killed and we are them. less than two weeks ago he was found dead at a police facility on chicago's west side. his death was ruled a suicide and that will be the tense chicago police suicide in two years. boyd was recently upbeat but struggled with the death of one of his officers who has gunned

down in 2018. we are truly at a loss of words, to every officer we want to - -- >> sandra: that's the latest from the city of chicago. more on all of that coming up. >> trace: some of the world's most powerful titans of tech facing competition about market power. hillary vaughn reported with the fox business network and she's alive for us in that nation's capital. >> this hearing will be one for the history books. this is the first time all ceos will have shown up together in front of congress. lawmakers have their own agenda and it will take advantage of a captive audience with the tech titans. sources tell us and censorship,

and that slave labor in china is used to make that. we think that's the case, that is the case and those are the facts. they censored don jr. instance or the president, this is crazy. they will hear about that today in the hearing. >> we got an early look at their opening statements and he is the take away from each. amazon jeff bezos has talked about how target and walmart have become more competitive as consumers shifts to curbside pickup and online ordering. one of the biggest rivals of sitting on the virtual witness bench next to him. google and their android devices, we will talk about the free services they offer like maps and gmail and how that has

been keyed to keep them online. facebook ceo mark zuckerberg which has made up facebook unhappy, and they are saying, i believe companies should not be making so many judgments about important issues such as harmful content, privacy and election integrity on their own. the hearing starts at noon eastern and we will have live coverage all day on fox business. >> yes we are. hillary vaughn, thank you. >> sandra: fox news alert from seattle where federal law enforcement officers have left the city after being sent there to contain a wave of violence at demonstrations. so how are things now calming down? there's no income verification and no out of pocket costs.

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class has control of the elected officials. and they had the progressive ideology. seattle's policies are paving the way across the nation. i need everybody to get involved across the nation, and go to stop the funding.com and push back against the far left progressive ideology.

>> you bring up the point, you have the mayor of seattle with jenny durkan talking about the bringing in of federal agents. she thinks it's a dry run for martial law. listen to her and it will get your response on the other sid sides. we are seeing a dry run for martial law. it should be chilling to every american. >> the feds have said to look. we will stop threatening to burn it down or try to bring it down in the federal agents would leave. >> clearly what the dry run was for seattle was the chop

experience and multiple people were shot and killed. now i ask for support from any local, federal, and state law enforcement because we almost lost the ability to have tools that were effective in holding a riotous mob back. if we lost that tool we would have lost a precinct over the last weekend and the evidence is 60 cops were hurt by him improvised explosive devices. to deny any type of assistance is unconscionable, and i get to hear what elected officials that were hurt this past weekend. so please go to stop the funding.com. >> trace: that's a question, people say you are going after the federal movement of agents across seattle, not one elected

official has shown concern for any of the officers that were hurt. that's criminal behavior on the behalf of the fringe group of anarchists that is pushing the political agenda and cops are in the cross hairs. look, elected officials two months ago, the president of the seattle city council and the mayor are saying that the seattle police department is the most progressive agency in this nation. that leads away in training and the escalation of policies. i find it ironic that the city council is looking to defund us by 50%. that move will make chaz and chop, the experience that it was, look like child's play when you have up to 800 officers that will lose their jobs.

and thank you very much, i appreciate it. >> at noon eastern time today, but for curing and the ceos will face a grilling. google and facebook will defend themselves at today's blockbuster hearing.

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>> trace: a fox news alert, president trump is on his way to texas after leaving the white house last hour. his visit was meant to spotlight america's energy dominance. >> more on what the president is doing and where he's going in just a second but, at the white house just a little while ago the president weighing in again on those reports that russia offered bounties to the taliban, he did not bring up his topic on his way out of the white house and the president said that colin powell said the story was overblown and other people are saying that there wasn't intelligence to bear it out. and i apologize for the bad audio here, the pool had a problem with her camera but here's what the president said. speak to other people said it's not true, if it was true i'd be very angry about it. i would certainly take that

under consideration. >> the president also suggested that senate republicans have to do a smaller phase for relief package due to immediate concerns about evictions saying democrats don't want to help people by passing the bigger phase for relief package. they current building is in a state of disrepair and he wants to keep it near the justice department, and the oil and gas sector this afternoon and he's visiting double eagle energy, a midsized company in midland, texas. the oil and gas sector hit hard by the coronavirus crisis. things are starting to get better, oil is back up to about $40 per barrel now but the government will announce more federal assistance to help rebuild oil and gas industry. president also said this morning that he will be picking a

location from which to deliver his acceptance speech for the nomination as part of the republican national convention. we should learn about that in the next few days. meanwhile, brett larson from fox news headlines 24/7 channel 115 on sirius xm. this is being billed as one of the biggest tech hearings and you have the world's richest man and mark zuckerberg on the world's largest social media network. what do lawmakers want to ask them? >> it is going to be quite a slew of questions. as you mentioned we have jeff bezos, and tim cook from apple. jeff bezos, the richest man in the world is worth $171.6 billion and it will be

his first congressional hearing. there is a lot to unpack here today, these four companies have a combined market value of $5 trillion. they are the most valuable companies in the world. and there's a lot going on here. facebook has issues with data privacy and privacy concerns and they made specifically whatsapp and instagram, and with googles we will be hearing probably a lot about advertising and online advertising. google pretty much control the lion's share of ad revenue they are delivering more packages,

and they will create their own products and direct people to purchase those products and the concern there is that apple promotes their own software versus competitor software and tim cook will point out in his opening statements, apple has a fraction of the a software of the sum million plus apps in the online store. there's a lot at stake. these companies are collectively worth $5 trillion and they are certainly going to be a lot of questions ask to them. i'm curious to see exactly what they grow each of the individuals on and they are going to be all there virtually at the same time. it also comes at a very interesting time. because of the coronavirus, more of us are using social media to stay in touch. there's an increase in facebook

usage, facebook usage is up 61% versus this time last year with more people stuck at home, where people are ordering things from amazon. online sales have gone up, and we are using more of the internet as we are stuck at ho home. >> sandra: when you use jeff bezos and amazon as an example, "the wall street journal" did an investigative piece and looked into one particular incidents where amazon used information about a car trunk organizer to create and sell trunk organizers of its own. amazon controls 40% of the u.s. percent to e-commerce space, it is a giant. so of course the political discussion is have some of these tech companies got so big that they need to be broken up? that is where they will face a grilling and jeff bezos will certainly face some questions on that. final thoughts? >> you know we saw this with microsoft 20 years ago, they face the scrutiny because of the control that they had over the

desktop market space. certainly jeff bezos, the car organizer made by a company here in new york city, a company in brooklyn was making out and there's a lot of small companies that are saying that amazon is buying into and investing in their small companies only to learn their trade secrets. i think this will be an interesting day and we are definitely not out of the woods, this is just the beginning of what will likely be a long marathon of investigations. >> trace: it's fascinating to watch this. we will see where the news comes from, brett larson, thank you. >> trace: joe biden attacking a trump campaign ad attacking "law & order" and how swing voters are responding. >> is determined to stop division and chaos, it's not good for the country. but donald trump doesn't care. his campaign is failing and he is looking for a political

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"law & order" 2020 campaign. it's >> sandra: up the trump campaign and fearmongering, hello marie, and katie pavlich, both are fox news contributor's. i believe we are 98 days out now, katie. soul is the trump campaign fearmongering? >> i think the trump campaign is taking a look at what joe biden's advisors have been saying about defunding the police and what joe biden up until yesterday refused to do which was condemn violence around the country. some eight might make the argument well, it's not happening across the united states but in st. louis you had a couple who defended themselves in their home, on their property, of a mob of hundreds of people and are being prosecuted for it. when you have fewer police officers there are fewer people

to respond to crimes and i think if you take a look at the way joe biden has changed his language, he knows that the law and order messages the way that president trump got elected the first time and something that people are seriously concerned about as they see the footage coming out of places like portland and st. louis. they think about what if this comes to my doorstep as it has in so many communities. >> here's the challenge for republics. joe biden is not a radical, he's a moderate. since the beginning of the conversation about defunding the police, joe biden has made it clear that he does not support defunding the police. he's not going after independent voters, he's going after his base. he sees the numbers, is worried his braces slipping anti-stripling down on this message like katie mentioned that he was in 2016 to shore up his base. but he's having a problem and a challenge really identifying who joe biden is in really messaging

on job item because joe biden is not a radical and president trump is trying to tie him to radical things and radical ideas. when voters look at these two candidates, voters know what joe biden. that's a challenge that president trump has in terms of how he can define joe biden, someone who is a moderate with many progressive ideas certainly but who voters know and trust. >> sandra: and for that very reason i do believe, that's what he's getting challenged on that very point. 40 years in service, what has he been able to change thus far? i want to play the words of the president just a moment ago as it comes to the continued unrest in portland. here's the president on what he is willing to do at a federal level moments ago. >> president trump: we told the governor and told the mayor, secure the city. we will have to go in and cleaned it out, we are all

prepared to do it. so it's important to clean out the city and get rid of the anarchists and they are anarchists and many of them have been put in jail. they need to clean out the city and do it right or we will have to do it for them. >> calling them anarchists and agitators, how does that message play? >> that message has been strong which is why you saw joe biden yesterday changing his tune saying anarchists and agitators should be -- it's been going on now and not just in portland, but it's not true to say that joe biden doesn't want to defund the police, he saying he's

willing to reallocate the funding. he called police officers going to neighborhoods enemies of the people. you see these two major police union groups who usually endorse democrats coming out and endorsing president trump because joe biden has been not on the side of police officers as he used to be, as a moderate. he has people like alexandria ocasio-cortez and other advisors who are pushing him to the left on this issue and he's losing the argument which is why he changed his mind about how these things should be handled. >> he's winning the argument across the political spectrum. if people know that joe biden is not a radical. should we talk about reallocating some money in the wake of this conversation we are having nationally, about how particularly black communities are treated by police? sure. but joe biden has said from day one that he does not support defunding from the police and that's a legacy holder voters

and white working-class voters, these voters who voted for donald trump in 2016 coming back to joe biden and that's why the number is so concerning for the trump campaign right now. senator tim scott was on fox & friends this morning and identified a very key issue that was missing from that hearing. when they had in front of him the top cop. listen to that. >> if the democrats were so serious about police reform, you have the top cop in america in a hearing for five hours and they did everything except for talk about the issues that are impacting minority communities. instead of having that conversation, they decided to do what they always do, play politics with america's future. play politics with america's minority communities. >> sandra: why is that, why not use that as an opportunity

to ask him more about that, about minority communities and police report? >> that's not true. i watch the hearing and numerous members of congress asked him about racism in the country, law enforcement pressed him on whether he thought it was systemic or not. the house passed the george floyd justice and policing act over a month ago and it's been sitting on mitch mcconnell's desk. and, the president a moment ago when asked about a potential kamala harris vice presidential pick, the president said i think she would be a fine choice. final thoughts, katie? >> while we are expecting that announcement from vice president joe biden next week on who his running mate will be. kamala harris didn't do too well in the primary, she does check the box off as a woman, but when

it comes to democratic voters and especially in the african-american community, they have a lot of issues with her record as the attorney general of california and that sort of thing. so we will see how that plays out. it may not be heard, as a whole list of other women that he may have in mind for the ticket so we will just have to stand by and see. >> sandra: i know maria is chomping at the bit to get to that but we are out of time. but we will see. >> trace: we've seen video of the violent protest nationwide but is the mainstream media downplaying it? howard kurtz joins us with that, next. using their va benefits, veterans who refi at newday can now save $3000 dollars a year with the va streamline refi. at newday there's no income verification, no appraisal, and not a single dollar out of pocket.

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these efforts as a ploy by the president. but are they downplaying the violence that we have seen from some of these protests? >> what's really striking is, the overwhelming focus of the trumpets estimating is the president's tactics in combating urban violence and it's almost reducing it to a footnote. now, over the objection of local officials on the toxic stack they use, it's a legitimate story. it's something that the president wants out there. too many in the media are greatly downplaying with the rioters are doing, throwing bottles, aiming lasers, hurling

fireworks and setting fires, and that should be at least equally part of the story. >> sandra: how we, as far as a political reaction that we have seen, we wonder what it does to the actual impact that we are seeing in these cities and the economic shutdown in the cities and how it needs to be handled. the latest we've heard from the president, if they don't step in in, we will. now, calling the mirror and the governor they are weak. but it's how these protests are covered that greatly affected from the american people. >> and very little focus on how the mayors are handling protests that do appeared to be out of control. "the washington post" referred to this the other day as the leaf blower wars, and michelle dixon, those are a distraction from the everyday needs. my life is not going to improve,

she says, because you broke the glass at the louis vuitton store. >> sandra: good to see you this morning, thank you. >> trace: and fox news alert, coronavirus disinformation online. washington says russians are using english language websites to exploit the health crisis in america. we will have details on that. plus breaking news, at the top of the hour.

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>> sandra: fox news, president trump making it clear that federal agents will not be leaving portland, after the white house agents were in talks with governors to pull them out of there after 62 straight nights of unrest. welcome back to "america's newsroom" on this wednesday morning. >> trace: i'm trace gallagher, the demonstrations in portland were mostly peaceful last night and with the dhs tactical unit already demobilized from seattle, there was word that the same thing may happen in portland. the president says not so fast. >> president trump: we need to get rid of them, and they are anarchists and we have many in jail, many of them have been put in jail. or we will have to do it for

them. what happened next? >> good morning sandra. i want to give you a piece of contacts that i often gloss over which explains why we are here today. that did not exist. the protesters were protesting out of the county courthouse and then they migrated over here and then broke down the windows in the door here and tried to set this building on fire. that's what prompted the feds to bring in the guys that you see now in the tactical gear. they also put up one fence that was kind of a flimsy one that was torn down in like a day and that's when they put up this one which is bolted together on top which makes it more secure. we also put in these concrete barriers down here to stop them from using cars and grappling hooks to pull his fence down. unfortunately that makes it easier for the protesters to

jump in the fence which is when they get arrested. the headline here today is that in portland according to the a apa, they are now in talks to reduce the number of federal agents here, provided the city protect the courthouse. >> president trump: we are not leaving until they secure their city. we told the governor and told the mayor, to secure the city. if they don't secure the city soon then we will go in and clean it out. >> that starts with the federal government withdrawing its officers. we need to de-escalate the situation, not do what they have done which is escalated. >> mayor wheeler says the talks have been "fruitful and they are ongoing and he expects an announcement in several days. the cleanup is underway here as it is the last two months, if you will. this trash that you see it has

been thrown over the fence, and they get sprayed with and bleached when they come out. last night they had to put out to fires and two fence jumpers. then around 1:30 a.m. federal agents came out and put out a fire and use pepper balls and tear gas to try to clear the area between the fence and the building. neither are the people in the park across the street. the federal agents i talked to, the spark they illuminate the problem. so portland pd which has been nonexistent in this area for several weeks will come in and secure the area. the aclu says there's a lawsuit,

and some of these journalists aren't journalistic, but they are not pressed. the cop one guy with a gun, we will check back in with you. >> trace: at 150,000 americans dead from covid-19, 23 times the number of americans killed in iraq and afghanistan. as more states are added to the government's red zone where there are severe outbreaks, they are missouri, north dakota and wisconsin. now the federal report is reckoning all 21 states on the list impose more restrictions. >> sandra: r8. at least one coronavirus mystery may finally be solved. scientists now say that they know why some patients are losing their sense of smell and

taste when they contract covid-19. a team at harvard medical school found it with a virus attack cells that helps and smells to the brain. but there is some good news out there. scientists say that damage to the cells will probably not be permanent. teresa? >> trace: using coronavirus to make democracy thick, that is the message from u.s. officials who say russia is spreading fake information about the virus on line to before the election. >> with long been warned about the potential russian middling but this could be hard evidence of such an effort speaking on the condition of anonymity, and u.s. officials telling the ap this. "to russians that i felt senior roles in moscow's military intelligence service known as the gru have been identified as responsible for a disinformation

effort meant to reach americans and western audiences. they go on to detail, between may and early july, the russians used at trio of english language websites to disseminate information about covid-19 and published about 150 articles regarding the pandemic response including russia's counter covid-1covid-19 aid to america t mirrors chinese narratives early on. naming three register russia, and identify the two russians as dennis valerio vic and alexander janovic. russian officials are blasting the accusations calling it conspiracy theories, some kind

of persistent phobia. we reached out and should not be surprised and we should worry about china this it election cycle. >> trace: at graph, thank you. >> sandra: former vice president joe biden set to announce his vp pick next week but politico tried to beat him to it, whether they meant to or not. mistakenly reporting that he had chosen kamala harris as his running mate. the magazine telling fox that we regret the error and any confusion it causes. joining us now is karl rove, former deputy chief of staff. the response is obviously out there and they regret the error but she has not been ruled out in the president weighed in on that this morning and said that she would be a fine choice.

sorry, i'm not playing the sound. to you, carl. >> it's not like 1948 and you are the chicago tribune and do we wince is in your headline in the paper. normally, if you are putting out a publication, there would be an editor that would sign off on the placement of that article on the headline but apparently when we live in the online world you can just pop it up on twitter and put it up on your website and may be the editor doesn't see that. it's a little bit of a problem. >> sandra: as far as who is the top choice, susan rice has moved to the top of the list. what do you see happening here if the announcement is expected soon? >> who knows. this goes down to personal chemistry between the candidate and his prospective running mate. we know that kamala harris had a

great relationship with joe biden's son beau biden who is the attorney general in delaware. susan rice on the other hand is someone who has worked rather closely with him in the white house and she was a national security advisor. now that does represent some challenges with him and she was of course the famous full ginsberg on tv shows after benghazi said this was all spontaneous reaction to a video that nobody in the middle east actually saw, rather than what it really was which was a deliberate attempt by extremist elements to deal the u.s. a big body blow. and she knew that. she knew what she was saying on those programs was not correct but there is also another interesting angle here. remember she was a national security advisor, when hunter biden goes on the board of burisma, and when the vice president is giving the responsibility for taking the responsibility of leading anticorruption activities in the ukraine.

so the question is, if she is the running mate, did you know about hunter biden's addition to the burisma board, or did you ever talk to then vice president joe biden about how that would look and you might step aside. and has refused to answer, but if she becomes a running mate she will have to answer. >> since it seemed i promised it moments ago, here is president and that's a short time ago. >> there is -- so an interesting moment. very interesting response, the person they are most excited about was kamala harris, 35%. those that they say would be the

most acceptable going back to susan rice at 35%, the person they say they don't know enough about his karen bass, of course the congresswoman from california. it's anyone's guess what happens here in the next week or so but here is a political headline on susan rice. it's absolutely serious. susan rice vaults to the top of the vp heat and rivals for the vice presidential nod are growing nervous that the former national security advisor has a powerful edge, her relationship. >> he wants to pick somebody with whom he is comfortable wi with. but look, that's one of the things that he's got to be thinking about. the most important thing he's got to be thinking about are, who would, if something were to happen to him, who has the record and the ability and the experience in character to do

the top job? and that's the number one requirement. the second very distant requirement is who might help politically. vice presidential running mates, to have little or no impact and nationally to have a localized effect in their home state which is, the democratic column, susan rice lives in maine and they break out the vote. and tromped one with number two. val demings has been talking about it and she's from a critical battleground state and that is the critical battleground region within the battleground states. so there are lots of political reasons that you might want to go with somebody other than harris. joe biden is a person that wants to feel comfortable around his

vice president, and the relationship that his son has. >> thank you, carl. >> thank you sandra. >> trace: president trump headed to campaign and raise money, not in a swing state 12, does today's trip signal concerns that the lone star state could turn blue? also the democratic national convention could have serious security problem on its hands and we will tell you why police are dropping out left and right. refusing to protect the event. but first, a woman playing with her daughter in the ocean is suddenly tossed out of the water into the air. she came back down right into a great white's jaws. that's not the only monster.

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we talked about the fact that he is again sometimes wearing a mask on capitol hill, he's done interviews in recent days where they have asked him about his reluctance to wear a mask around capitol hill, and he says the reason that he does not wear a mask is because he has been

tested on a regular basis and if he does test positive, and the chairman jerrold nadler dip test dies and criticized a number of members for not wearing their masks and louie gohmert was not among them. he has been prone not to wear the mask in recent days and weeks and months. let's bring in our chief white house correspondent john roberts who actually confirmed this news. and the next day you can pap test positive for it, and the next day tested positive and had to take 14 days off.

anyone who comes in proximity to the president and we all get tested from coronavirus and, since air force one was leaving in the 9:00 hour, and it happened that he came back positive. what the white house medical uses, is the rapid test. because he tested positive for the sources, and he was removed from that trip to odessa and midland where the president is doing some fund-raising this afternoon as well as offering more help for the battered oil and gas sector. testing positive for coronavirus usually brings with it a convalescent. that is anywhere from ten days

to sometimes, depending on how ill you get, it could be a number of weeks. the time that i spent with him in various situations and, the coronavirus illness could bring with that particularly deleterious effects. and it, chairman jerry another admonished a couple of the republican monitors as well as jim jordan. what's ironic is that when nadler issued his very strident admonition which is not like

wearing a mask at all. the whole idea, it strikes a lot of debate and sometimes a lot of tensions among people. and not long ago he was a ejected from a convenience store. the confrontations about masks are often escalating into situations that people wouldn't normally expect them to do. of course not seeing anything like that happening in detroit, but still's attention sometimes run high. he's not on the trip today, yet to hear anything official from him and as you pointed out, if you came down with coronavirus disease you would not see him without a mask. once you go through a convalescent period, you have

antibodies and you likely wouldn't be positive for coronavirus. >> john roberts reporting from the white house. >> sandra: louie gohmert has tested positive, the congressman from the state of texas, and we also just got word that kerri kupec from the department of justice is now confirming that, because louie gohmert was at the hearing yesterday, with ag bill barr, that william barr will be tested today because of his proximity to the congressman. so we will keep you updated on any news that comes from that as it breaks. meanwhile, more than 100 police agencies pulling out of c&c secure engagements. they ordered milwaukee to stop using tear gas and pepper spray. christina kallman's live in los angeles because of that. christina? >> for the past two months we think he did and sometimes dangerous conversations between

protesters and lawmakers across the country and a certain police tactics coming under increased scrutiny. they will have they directed the city's police chief to change milwaukee's police policy to restrict officers from using crowd control measures like tear gas and pepper spray. more than 100 agencies are sending out agreements to bolster security after this order was issued they may not have the proper equipment to safely perform their duties and protect the public.

they have come under intense scrutiny because of complaints of police brutality from during the national protest. one, the milwaukee alderman says the officers are pulling out of the dnc agreements over politi politics. >> they are claiming, i think it's politics mostly that's being played in support of law enforcement in general. >> the dnc will be held in downtown milwaukee from augus august 18 through 20th. >> sandra: christina coleman reporting live from los angeles. >> trace: ellen degeneres program is reportedly under investigation after accusations of a toxic work environment. details on that coming up. plus a big antitrust hearing about to get underway on

capitol hill. the ceo of google and facebook all in the hot seat. how they could affect the industry, next.

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has never seen anything like this. 603 hallowach-year-old julie was swimming with her daughter. another witness as it pushed her up and out of the water by as much as a foot and a half. her daughter escaped by swimming to shore. a nearby kayaker rushed to help the victim. but the scene he found when he got there was simply too much, he just turned around. officials say attacks here are so rare that they aren't even closing the beach. officials say the victim was wearing a black wet suit at the time and that shark could have mistaken her for a seal. it made for this terrifying cover of today's new york post but new yorkers do not have to go all the way to maine to see sharks. there have been shark sightings all over the northeast this summer. one in fact was spotted off of plymouth, massachusetts.

a guy died in a shark attack off of massachusetts two years ago. jones beach is closed after a series of sightings. in atlantic city a 10-foot great white was seen in the water. scientists named that shark missed me and you can track or online. let's bring in james sue zukowski, a director at the arizona gator for the city of school and natural sciences. when you hear about the shark sightings and attacks off of the northeastern seaboard, what do you make of that? >> like you alluded to, it's extremely rare and there are a lot of sharks in those waters. white sharks have been in the northeast if not for hundreds or thousands of years so it's not uncommon things to know that there are sharks and those waters. >> trace: the question becomes, what do you do? you've had a few shark attacks in recent years, and we are trying to give people a little

bit of peace of mind. >> if you look at the history and it, they are eating seals, and there's a robust population of seals in the northeast. >> i was wondering because i heard these reports, she was wearing a black wet suit. do you believe that the great white mistook her for a seal? >> you look at where these attacks are happening, and that's the loss of the prey items around. the the seals look weak, dead or dying and we often look like that when we are swimming in a wet suit. >> the water is cold up there.

good of you to join us here, thank you. >> trace: mcdonald's is planning to close 200 restaurants per year, so the company is going ahead with plans to build 400 new restaurants in china, about 96% of the chains 39,000 outlets worldwide are now open compared to just 75% of the start of april. and it is being called an industry changing agreement. amc theaters and universal studios reaching a deal to allow phil to play at home. after that, and before the pandemic movie is played in theaters before being made available at home. so enjoy.

>> trace: epic hearing is about to get underway. the ceos of facebook, amazon, google and apple set to testify before the house subcommittee and respond to claims of political bias and unfairly muscling out their competitors. buck sexton joins us now, former cia officer and a host of the bobuck sexton show. if you have congressman matt gaetz who has filed a criminal complaint against mark zuckerberg saying, he writes a quoting, so disgusting to watch what are so-called trending were so many trends are about me and never a good one. they look for anything they can find and make it as bad as possible and blow it up trying to make a trend. it's ridiculously illegal and very unfair. facebook tried to kind of remedy this a while back, is there a solution against this perceived

discrimination? >> i think it's important to see with the progression has been early on, and we were told there was no bias, going back a couple of years and it's just algorithms, it was effectively automated in the back end of websites, high level advanced map stuff that nobody needs to worry about and then we find out in case after case, and he's been talking about it, anyone who sees the pattern here, and we really are operating as monopolies now. just act as a platform and not a publisher, or else he will have to start regulating the same way. i'm in the radio business and there's all kinds of things that you can say and you can do radio stations can't all get rolled up by one company, all of these issues come up by the sec, and they get away with this. why should they be allowed to operate under a different set of

rules. that issue of bias going into a political election is the single most important, among many questions that will be addressed today. >> trace: and had an up" my -- there are no legitimate studies, no documentation of company officials ordering up conservative bias or policies. but to say there's no evidence for these allegations is too weak, these complaints are just false. where thoughts? >> the atlantic has the same website that fired kevin williamson right after firing him because of a twitter mob. these are people that don't have any credibility when it comes to the issue of bias, and they are just gas lighting because they understand, it's very important for the democrats to the left. they have a massive distribution advantage as well as information editorializing advantage here

because of these tech platforms. we know it will be a great help for them going into the election, and right now they are just hoping that they can prevent any action from the congress or even the threat of action so they would have to change ahead of that. i think the biased question should be settled in for anyone being honest about it and to say there is no bias against conservatives and social media is clear gas lighting. i can't tell you how many friends i've had suspended off of twitter, and, meanwhile there are new reports of the ellen degeneres show is under an internal investigation looking into claims of a tactical work environment. currently, when are we curing? >> this stems from several

reports, and they sure that in a very negative light, mostly at a buzzfeed news report that was published earlier this month that details a laundry list of complaints from the 11 current and former staffers. a black woman who worked on the show and then quit said she was subjected to racist language and she also talks about micro aggressions that made her uncomfortable. other staffers said that they were fired after they took time off and others still just talking about a negative and nasty feeling and culture. some of the complaints do seem a little bit nitpicky like being forced to work ten hour workdays, and they seem a little bit more serious. this has less to do with ellen degeneres herself and more to do with the executive producers but because her name is on the show they also love her in with the folks that are

to blame. a >> sandra: she issued a statement to buzzfeed saying the day-to-day ellen show is on us, and we need to do better. carley shimkus, great to see y you. >> trace: another setback for the dreamers as a trump administration refuses to accept new daca applications is that reviews the program altogether. martha maccallum will be here live to weigh in on that come next. - sir. - we need a doctor. [running footsteps and siren]

you're talking about a first generation american from the streets of the imperial valley who rose to beat the odds. she worked nights and weekends till she earned herself a master's degree. she was running in a marathon when a man behind her collapsed from cardiac arrest. and using her experience saved this man's life. so why do i think there should be more people like carmen bravo in this world? because that man... was me. >> trace: fox news alert, the oregon governor agreeing on a plan to end violence in portland. the plan includes a "robust presence of state police and the city's downtown. dhs says it will keep the current number of federal officers in portland until they are sure that all federally owned property as it "will no

longer be attacked. the president before he left for texas said federal agents would remain in portland. sandra? >> sandra: meanwhile, changes to the program that protects illegal immigrants who came to the country with their parents as children. the department of homeland announcing it will no longer processing new daca applications and evaluate existing renewals on a case-by-case basis. all this coming in response to a supreme court decision last month, blocking the trump administration to end of the obama era program. martha maccallum is the anchor of "the story" and she joins us now. obviously this will bring on immediate court challenges. >> sandra: as you mentioned,

and those are the two areas that they had in conjunction with the white house is saying that they are now basically going to go around that ruling and carry out that part of their desire to limit, basically eliminate new applications and make it pay out one year renewal process which would obviously make it tougher for dreamers or daca recipients to continue to use those. it's difficult for people to claim reliance on this program if they are not already part of it. you see a lot of legal creative ways to get around this and, the president also mentioned yesterday that, he brought this up at his press veil, he would support merit-based immigration programs and i think we will expect to hear a lot more about that as we will forward through

the election season. what he has done month to month here and that joe biden was at 54% and that was at 61% in june. the president was pressed at a news conference tuesday on considering a path to citizenship for daca recipients. we are working on an immigration bill, which is what i wanted for a long time. we will see you at 7:00 tonight martha, thanks for joining us. >> trace: it has been nearly six years since a public i execution of james foley at the hands of isis. his family is joining relatives of other victims in a plea for two terrorists to face justice on american soil. we will have more on their

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>> trace: families of victims killed by isis terrorists are making an urgent plea for justice. next month will mark like six years after the murder of james foley, and his parents and the parents of other victims are asking attorney general barr to let two isis members face charges in the american courtroom. both men are currently in u.s. military custody in the middle east. joining us now is diane foley, james foley's mom and jeanne shaheen who sits on the foreign relations committee. i know this has been a horrifying ordeal for you but i want to put on the screen's op-ed from the family of the

victims that reads "like any grieving relatives we want to know the full truth about what happened to our loved ones and we want to see our children's murder is held accountable. these things can happen only if the suspects are put on trial before a jury and american court of law. why is it so important for you to have the suspects tried here in the united states? >> thank you, teresa. our justice system is one of the best in the world and i think it's essential that we bring them to trial to send a strong message to all terrorists who seek to harm our citizens abro abroad. i feel we must lead in this regard and hold these men accountable for their horrific crimes. >> trace: senator, there has been some pushback from the bridge supreme court saying, because of the united states death penalty there has been resistance.

they don't really want these men come they the so-called beetles, these terrorist sent back to the united states for trial. what obstacles are you facing? >> first of all let me thank diane foley and the foley family as well as the families of the other victims were continuing to speak out and advocate that we need to bring these terrorists back to the united states. we need to try them in civilian court and we need to get justice for their family members and we need to send a strong message to terrorists around the world that they cannot get away with these kinds of murders of american citizens. we have been cooperating with the brits on getting information because we want that information so we can build the strongest possible case in our courts and unfortunately right now that's on hold because of a high court decision in england. >> trace: mrs. foley, one of these terrorists has already

implicated himself in the abuse and death of your son. when you see him, if you see him in a u.s. court room, how difficult would that be for you? >> well, it would be difficult, there's no question about that. but i think unfair to them to be held indefinitely without charges and i think it's essential that we know as parents what really happened. i feel that we must send a strong message to the world, to anyone who seeks to harm us, that if they just take innocent citizens around the world that they must be held accountable for those crimes. i feel it's essential. thanks to the bravery of several

journalists, we have new videotapes that show them implicating themselves, that in fact they were very involved in the capture and torture of these american citizens. >> trace: and senator come very quickly, have you heard anything from the trump administration? i've got five seconds. >> we've been working with the administration at a hopefully will be able to continue to do that to bring these terrorists to justice. >> trace: senator andl mrs. foley, thank you both. we will be right back. so if there's a better treatment than warfarin, i'm reaching for that. eliquis. eliquis is proven to reduce stroke risk better than warfarin. plus has significantly less major bleeding than warfarin. eliquis is fda-approved and has both. what's next? i'm on board. don't stop taking eliquis unless your doctor tells you to, as stopping increases your risk of having a stroke.

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>> trace: sandra, great to be with you on another very busy news day. >> sandra: you, too, trace. see you back here tomorrow morning. thanks for joining us. "outnumbered" starts right now. >> melissa: fox news alert, the federal government striking a deal with oregon state officials on a plan to address violent protests that have continued in portland for 62 straight nights. the governor tweeting, "after my discussions with vice president pence and others, the federal government has agreed to withdraw federal officers from portland. they have acted as an occupying force, and brought violence. starting tomorrow, all customs and border protection and i.c.e. officers will leave downtown portland." dhs officials say agents will be on s