change we begin this hour of "fox and friends first," the president's campaign and rnc suing the state of nevada for letting voters use mail in ballots in the november election. >> griff jenkins has the breaking developments. >> if you have any doubt this will be an election unlike any we have ever seen look no further than nevada this morning, the trump campaign's lawsuit asking a judge to intervene after the governor signed a bill monday providing mail in ballots. the lawsuit alleges there were several issues the state encounter during the primary including ballots mailed to deceased individuals or wrong addresses. nevada is the latest state whom mail ballots to voters without being requested. the president made it known his concerns for fraud in that

situation, the president took a different tone yesterday when talking about florida. >> in the case of florida they've done a great job, they've had tremendous success with it. they've been doing it for many years. for florida you can mail in your ballots, you don't have to go -- a couple other states worked out a system but this took years to do. this doesn't take weeks or months. >> important to note florida uses absentee ballots frequently and absentee ballots differ from ballots mailed without being requested yet even that is causing problems six weeks after that new york primary, still no winner and in michigan some 2 million requested absentee ballots, votes are still being tallied, this is raising questions of whether the postal service is prepared for the scenario democrats accuse the president of trying to alter the election, hillary clinton tweeting it republican sabotage of the postal service, is a trump strategy to make voting by mail more difficult this fall.

request your ballots and return them as early as you can. senator joe biden defending her husband against the president's claims that joe is not up to the job. >> joe is anything but that characterization. you have been listening to the experts, scientists and doctors and they told us stay home and be safe. donald trump, there are -- >> this could be an interesting exchange. it will be an interesting election. todd: six people killed as isaias spares tornadoes, flooding and fires along the east coast.

jillian: a tree smashing into one of our producer's cars in queens. one of the hardest hit areas in north carolina. >> really good news overnight, the trailer park behind me was decimated and pulverized by one of those tornadoes, rescuers found a couple kids who were missing. there were two people who lost their lives, two adults, the cleanup will go for a long time and you can see by how large the debris field is. a number of other houses caught on fire. this combination of storm surge and gas means breaking is not a good one. makes it more difficult for firefighters to fight those fighting 80 mile an hour winds.

flash flooding is an issue because of how quickly the storm moved south to north. this video from philadelphia where a woman was killed when her car was swept away by floodwaters. 3.7 million people are without power. >> you can hear a splintering and glass breaking. it may be 2 or 3 days before we get power. >> it could be weeks in rural parts of north carolina and south carolina and keep in mind, we are entering the beginning of what is supposed to be a very active end to the hurricane season. >> in philadelphia one of the major highways in center city is closed because there is a barge wedged under the expressway

hitting support pillars because the river is completely flooding everything in that area. the storm was quick but powerful. >> very powerful. one of the most damaging storms the northeast has ever experienced and goes to show you you don't need a cat 3, cat 2 or even a hurricane to cause incredible amounts of the damage. we are getting into the active period, already a historic year. the eye named storm and we could see a j in the next week or so but for now there is tropical activity, not even peak season and several weeks ahead of us. just to recap, named storms, 9 so far, the average is 12, hurricanes 2, average is 6. we haven't had any major hurricanes, 3 or higher but as we get into the active period of hurricane season that is when we typically see the strongest hurricanes when they form. the history of isaias, six days

and named storm, a couple days where it became a hurricane. once it made landfall across north carolina. watching this area of concern. i don't know. this not going to be it for me but we have some way of it off the coast of africa we have to keep an eye on. our next-door would be josephine. this was a hard one to pronounce, the rest of the names look relatively easy for the meteorologist that have to pronoun them. when we look at tropical activity a lot of waves off the coast of africa are the ones that become the really strong major hurricanes as we go through the peak season in the next few weeks. todd: sparks between ted cruz and maisie hirono, ted cruz is concerned about radicals.

>> i hope this is the end of this hearing and we don't have to listen to more of your rhetorical speeches. thank you very much, i am leaving. jillian: she says protesters need protection from federal officers sent into us cities to keep the peace. our next guest was among those testifying at the hearing. >> reporter: should not be an acceptable excuse for law enforcement, federal, state or local to tolerate overthrowing the constitution. antifa will execute this behavior unless it is checked. >> joining us live is director and senior analyst for homeland security and counterterrorism epicenter for security policy, thanks for coming on, we appreciate it. we saw the exchange with hirono and ted cruz.

give us the general feel of the meeting overall. >> i don't think the two parties could be further apart on the issue of how to deal with antifa or even as we saw in the case of the democrats whether antifa even exists in one of the things i was hoping to show yesterday is clear evidence of antifa as an organization that needs to be dealt with by law enforcement but with politicians in the state, local and federal level who if anything are bolstering antifa that will be hard to do. shannon: let's listen to what dick durbin had to say. >> instead of focusing on the real and significant violent threat of domestic terrorism by white supremacy and right-wing extremism, terrorists who killed americans the trump administration has repeatedly tried to vilify protesters and conflate social justice movements with antigovernment extremism. >> what doesn't the general public know about antifa?

>> the general public has not been told, one, antifa has a long history in the united states. antifa comes out of domestic radicals from the 1960s in 70s like the weather underground in its latest winter faction, the may 19th communist organization which was responsible for a number of armed robberies and bombings in the early 80s including bombing of the us senate. they have the history of communist radicals and learned the lessons of the 60s in 70s that makes them extremely dangerous. it gives them excellence connections across the radical left spectrum they can use for support and fundraising and political support so that makes them exceedingly dangerous. >> dick durbin in that soundbite is talking about right-wing extremism and talking about left-wing protests. who does he think are the ones trying to burn down the federal

courthouse? did anybody put them on the spot about the obvious evidence of left-wing radicals trying to do a lot of damage in this country for the last 60, 70 days? >> senator ted cruz tried to get them to condemn antifa or admit that antifa even exists and they simply would not do it. the attempts to claim damage being done in portland and elsewhere is being done primarily by far right extremists or white supremacists even though groups like antifa openly post on their website their own responsibility and after action reports on their success in burning down police precinct as they did in minneapolis. antifa could not be happier to take credit for these actions in the epidemic rats are covering for them. have a good day.

a fox news alert, two primary results coming in overnight. commerce and roger marshall taking down former secretary of state kobach. ron meyer joins us to weigh in. >> from won by 20% in 2016 so it should be a relatively safe republican hold. however the polls show roger marshall only being a democrat by one person so i say it is a race to watch. >> in missouri progressive corey bush upsetting 20 year incumbent congressman lacy clay in the democratic primary and rashida tlaib taking the lead in michigan's primary, fighting to keep her seat in congress, brenda jones who she beat in 2018. minnesota democrats divided over national guard deployment. rob: a mob showed up on a gop

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♪ jillian: mayor jacob fry is calling out fellow democrat tim walsh for allowing minneapolis to burn in the wake of george floyd after death, sending in the national guard. todd: truth that liberal leaders are scrambling because voters want to end to the lawlessness we see destroying a number of american cities. it has been a mess. senator warren live this morning to talk about this. you dealt with this firsthand. >> quite a hurling event as we watched for three days the city of minneapolis burning and being looted, we all felt the anguish

of george floyd's death but the aftermath was quite alarming. minnesota does not express itself that way. this was alarming and quite disastrous for the city. jillian: let's look at responses from both parties, starting with the mayor, through a difficult situation i told the truth, relayed information the best i could to state partners and we did what was demanded for the sake of the city. the governor's office responded, quote, the governor's staff will pry a verbal request that could not be considered an official response for the national guard. the national guard mobilized thursday morning and was on the ground in the twin cities within 24 hours, of the informal request. what do you think residents of minneapolis think of this in party back and forth? i imagine for a lot of them they

are beyond the point of frustration. >> it is beginning to become a logbook of experiences we see on text messages, email messages, the mayor has a very good record. it is part of public documents, the governor has something to answer to. the question our citizens would ask is why do you need a formal invitation? that city needed help and needed it fast. it was growing, all the local news stations, even anchor news people were calling out to the governor where are you? it has been going on for a day and a half, almost two days and nothing, no response. todd: we saw it became

politically fashionable to allow this to happen. the idea of calling any authority was seen by democrats as insensitive and they avoided doing that but there cities be destroyed out of political desire. what do you make of that? >> my state constitutions is the purpose of government is the protection of its people. in this case the government failed the people of minneapolis. jillian: on july 18th you were not home when this happened but protesters stormed outside your house. let's look at this. >> if you want to be voted in again you will talk to us. otherwise you will never have office again. jillian: tell us about this, what happened? >> that was the second protests

by black lives matter at my home. this one was much more aggressive. right up to our door. the screen door was wide open. they were pounding on the inner door and quite honestly i think most every neighbor of mine if they had that experience they would be very fearful of a mob outside their door. it wasn't just a few people at the doorway. it was close to 40 people on the sidewalk with speakers, profanity, threatening other neighbors, pushing them back, guiding them back. even police officers were told you think this is our street? you think this is your street? this is our street.

it is quite unnerving when you have a group of people standing at your very door trying to literally pound it in. i am really amazed, it really is a new day in america when this type of behavior continues. rob: when it shows up at your house i can only imagine. thank you for telling us about it, appreciate it. 20 minutes after the are, new york city top health official steps down but is not going quietly. rob:'s handling of the pandemic. expert guidance, helping people find new places to dream and thrive. when you're ready... look for the r.

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>> we are back with fox news alert, at least 100 dead, 4000 hurt after a massive explosion in beirut. >> can't see this video enough times. unbelievable to watch. desperate search underway for survivors who might be trapped in rubble in beirut. 5 into levine, the aftermath of the story. >> the lebanese people are waking up to survey the damage from this massive explosion the red cross is left more than 100 dead and thousands injured. rescue crews worked overnight going through pieces of glass, splintered wood and twisted metal searching for survivors. lebanon's president has released $66 million in emergency funds and aid is pouring around the world. there was a two week state of

emergency of the government pledged to hold someone accountable for the blast. the official explanation of what caused the explosion as a stockpile of ammonium nitrate. hospitals are overwhelmed at this hour. you saw story after story of people losing everything was one interview with the governor in beirut stand out where he compared the devastation to that of hiroshima as he choked back tears. donald trump weighed in saying his generals told him this. >> this was -- seems to be according to them, they would know better than i would but they seem to think it was an attack. a bomb of some kind. >> been beneficial so fox news there is no evidence to support these claims by donald trump, indications right now this is an accident in beirut, making any other baseless claim about what happened yesterday puts israel and the us allies in the region at risk. rob: it was something to see when that thing went off. thank you so much. >> cancel culture coming after kindergarten cop?

liberal led cities, for screening of the 30-year-old comedy. >> former deputy attorney general sally yates said to testify on the russia probe. francie hayes worked with yates for 20 years at the doj. what can we learn from this?

jillian: in a few hours sally yates will be in the hot seat over her role in the fbi's russia probe. >> questions the senator was once answered. >> reporter: sally yates will save face a firestorm of questions from republicans investigating the origin of the russia probe. he expects the grilled about an oval office meeting she attended in 2017 with president obama and james comey about national security information being shared with michael flynn, charged with lying to the fbi,

his attorney says yates have a lot of questions to answer. >> we know now from the record they told her they believed general flynn and he showed no indications of any deception and yet the very next day she runs to the white house not once but two times to get general flynn fired. todd: this includes reviewing probes into carter page and the alleged abuse of fisa warrants. lindsey graham says that will come up in today's hearing. >> the warrant application in january, against carter page, there was no there there. if she knows then what she knows now would she have signed the warrant. rob: donald trump telling lou dobbs about his campaign. >> we caught them spying using the intelligence apparatus a

country to spy on opponents or the opposing party's campaign before and after the election. it is up to our attorney general. i hear it is breathtaking what they found was that all i can say. rob: graham plans to call former fbi director andrew mccabe who was fired before the november elections. this is just getting started. rob: francie hanks is a former doj official and worked with sally yates for ten years. jillian: she joins us with what we can expect that today's hearing. you heard the clip of lindsey graham saying if she knew then what she knows now would she have signed the warrant, what do you think about that question? >> i hope she says no, she

wouldn't sign the warrant but this is an interesting question because sally has a lot of experience, she has been a federal prosecutor since the late 80s, she had done hundreds if not thousands of criminal investigations and overseen thousands of criminal investigations as united states attorney. she has a lot of experience and to me the minute it was made public, the steel dossier. i look at that as a criminal prosecutor and i don't understand how any criminal prosecutor or investigator with any level of experience can have taken the allegations in that does he seriously enough as an american citizen to bring the intelligence apparatus a country to bear to spy on him and to get into those with whom he communicated over a period of years including those in the trump campaign. i hope she says she regrets

signing it. rob: the allegation when you hear from the trump campaign, this was all the conspiracy against the administration and the campaign. creates the in that? >> i think government conspiracies are difficult to maintain and here is proof of that. i don't know if there was a conspiracy or cabal of people plotting and planning but what it does look like is an awful lot of people thought it was fine to use government assets to spy on a political campaign. wasn't just the isa in the interview with flynn but a debriefing of the trump campaign, using confidential human sources against multiple people involved in the campaign. it was a rounded investigation of spying on american citizens using intelligence access and i hope it is the only time it ever

happened in american history and i hope it is the last. jillian: things to look forward to in today's testimony. would she sign off on the fisa documents with president obama and general flynn, does sally yates stand by her testimony that michael flynn could have been blackmailed by the russians? the question before we let you go, does this have any influence on john durham's probe? >> it is really interesting. sally's statement before the committee, i don't think she meant having cooperated with john durham. i think she will talk about having cooperated with the inspector general and robert mueller. i don't know if she talked to durham and i don't know what he found. i wonder whether or not she's willing to cooperate in the

criminal investigation which is looking at criminal behavior by people in the department of justice including her. i don't know that her testimony will impact the probe but i don't doubt that john durham will be watching with interest to see what she says and whether it comports with what he has been finding so far. jillian: we will certainly be watching, thank you. rob: new york city's top health official stepping down. in her resignation letter, blasting mayor bill diblasio's ability to lead during the coronavirus pandemic saying the city would be well served by having them at the strategic center of the response, not in the background. bill diblasio appointing her replacement, served as white house fellow under president obama. >> south carolina boy raising money for law enforcement delivers in a big way. gavin given the berkeley county sheriff a check for $500.

the 8-year-old hand delivering it himself. rob: we talked about his efforts last month. >> people came out in droves to support him in support the police. >> it got bigger and bigger and bigger. rob: great people too. even getting a vip tour of the sheriff department. he just exploded off the screen. 36 after the hour. forget instagram influencers. the giveaway contest for one food chain's all school customers. jillian: a liberal led city scrapped a screening of the 30-year-old comedy.

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rob: condoleezza rice taking a jab at the left accusing them of making assumptions about black people. >> i would like to get to the place when you see someone who is black you don't have preconceived notions what they are capable of, who they are, what they think which is a problem of the left. look at someone who is black and think you know what they think or what they ought to think.

rob: this is week after joe biden was land for significant americans who wouldn't vote for him, quote, and black. jillian: the latest victim of cancel culture is arnold schwarzenegger's film kindergarten cop. >> now we are going to do something extremely fun, a wonderful game, for what this would do. jillian: the comedy pulled from an oregon film festival after protesters claimed it glorifies police traumatizing children and compared it to the 1915 silent movie birth of a nation. they will show documentary on congressman john lewis. >> a contest for grandparents where winners can get free food for a year. jillian: they looking for people to nominate their favorite southern grandparents to become grandfluencers.

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>> you are watching "fox and friends first," 14 minutes and 36 seconds, we have a packed shows today. senator marsha blackburn with sally yates, josh holly and more. we have mike huckabee, charles

payne and what his steve doocy been up to during his time off. we have newt gingrich on the ground. and at 7:30 a.m. eastern. we have plenty to talk to talk about. >> rather exciting news. as they prepare for a semester of uncertainty donald trump continues to push to safely reopen schools. >> the best path forward his aggressive strategy for protecting americans at highest risk as we race toward development of a vaccine while allowing those at large risk to carefully return to work and school.

jillian: questions remain over safety of returning to in personal learning. kathleen mcgee, mother of two and fox's medical contributor and family and emergency medical doctor, thank you for being here. as we are getting closer to the school year starting how are you feeling as a mom? >> feeling good. hoping and praying for a reopen. my two daughters who are 6 and 7 have been in camp all summer and as a mom, seeing the emotional impact of how positive it has been for them to be around their peers again has been so powerful. i am so impressed with their ability to implement safety measures such as daily screenings, taking temperatures

and each of our kids has been assigned a part of 10 or less and they don't interact with one another. one child doesn't necessarily get sick. this has worked beautifully and it is all summer long, even more reason to attend school in the fall. there are so many reasons to reopen not the least of which is we as parents get back to work and our children deserve an in person education. they are the future and this summer. jillian: i know you said there is no answer to the question of whether all schools should reopen because they are seeing different numbers. there are things we now know

would help with this. >> we are in a different situation than we were in march. so much we didn't know about the virus, how to protect families and communities but we know so much more. masks can be tremendously effective. things like improved ventilation, can go a long way towards protecting communities, protecting classrooms, protecting kids and teachers. we know that things like contact tracing, so i think as we look to reopening it can be scary to think about going back particularly where the infection rate is lower than cdc guidelines by 5 persons, it is

time to go back and there are things we can do to keep in shoulder. jillian: so you think schools can shelter. >> he is. jillian: 5 cities or counties, shortly after reopening schools, you heard what? elizabeth said as a mom, what do you think is the best practice as we get closer to this decision? >> they are both absolutely exactly right, have a well-organized plan with guidelines and a subset with the knowledge we gained in the past 6 months. it can be done safely. we've seen this in sweden, norway and germany, reopen with a low prevalence of this disease, planning organization and knowing what to do if someone tests positive, how to protect other students and teachers. >> what you think of the pods to

smaller groups of kids that way. if someone gets sick. context trace and white is accomplished. >> fantastic. >> to protect the children. and ventilation in the classroom. intheclassroomblooge we are protecting the staff. the social and academic and emotional role to help them grow up. jillian: your schools are opening and what is the plan? >> through catholic schools in

harlem, going back 5 days a week in person and offer a robust system. so that parents have choices and was we plan to do is implement the same thing, bringing classes together and making sure cohorts don't mix. rather than having students switch classes or have teachers which classes, it reduces rioting in the hallways, students interacting with large groups. if we have a positive it allows us to contact trace with students and teachers. we will make sure all our teachers so they feel comfortable. jillian: 20 seconds to go. what have they set about this? >> talking to my older daughter

last night and burst into tears when i told her schools would be reopening in person. and >> >> of 4-year-old suite surprise. thank you for joining us.

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♪ rob: welcome back. cooper stansbury is a fighter battling cancer with a smile on his face past year with a smile on his face. ban together with other law enforcement agencies and give young cooper the surprise of a lifetime. it is a fantastic story. and joining us now are cooper's parents lauren and samuel stansbury and sergeant matt bagiana of the how done county sheriff's office. thank you for coming on this morning. we really do appreciate it. mom, start with you, lauren, tell us what exactly happened here for young cooper. >> so, we have been friends with officer bagiano through facebook. he has been able to see cooper's journey and updates we have

shared from the start back in november up until now. so he reached out to me and asked if he could do something special for cooper, and we agreed and we thought it would be a good change of pace. rob: okay. sergeant, tell us exactly what you guys did. what was the big surprise? >> so, saw a little story about cooper and update that lauren had done. talked about a little battle he was having between washcloth and fever and brain. caught my attention. reached out to the sheriffs of sur surrounding counties and the highway patrol commander here and asked if we could do something. within minutes, they were on board. we gathered the troops, if you will, and threw a little parade and had a day of being a kid for him. just get away from the hospitals and the procedures. rob: i imagine that made his day. dad, we want to go to you. sam, tell us what that did for your son. >> it was amazing. from the beginning he heard the

sirens coming down the street and realized everybody was coming in and just for him. got to meet the police officers, play with the bikes, play inside the cruiser, get in the helicopter, it was incredible. he had a great time. rob: that's just so fantastic to hear. can i only imagine how that would help in a tough time like this. lauren, your son is fighting neuroblastoma, i understand and a little too tired to join us this morning which is completely understandable. how's he doing? >> he is actually doing really well, given the circumstances from day one, i mean, he goes 100 miles per hour and the doctor says make comments about his positive energy and his good attitude and that helped him continue on this journey and fight it as hard as he has. he is very resilient. he is needing his rest right now. is he currently in proton therapy. he will be doing that.

rob: we wish you guys the best. sea beautiful young man. thank you for your time this morning. what a great message and great story. lauren, sam and sergeant thank you so much we appreciate it? >> thank you. rob: best wishes. jillian: the president up next on "fox & friends." have a good day. >> at least six people are killed as tropical storm isaias leaves a path of destruction along the east coast. >> breaking overnight president trump's campaign and the rnc suing nevada over mail-in ballots. the lawsuit alleges several issues including ballots mailed to deceased individuals or wrong addresses. >> i would also note throughout her remarks she still did not say a negative remark about antifa nor has anyone here. >> i think i have covered the subject quite well. >> teacher's union is police-free school canceling all rents and mortgages charter program and massive taxes before they even agree