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 to go back to work. >> you know, joe is a moderate. that doesn't mean that his ideas aren't progressive. >> he is told what to do. he is a puppet for the radical left. ♪ brian: there you go. we have our shine on in about 90 minutes we will talk to the president of the united states. hi, everyone, welcome to what i believe is the wednesday edition of "fox & friends" where there is three trees left in the northeast standing. the rest get out your chainsaw we need to cut them up. who knew everybody's tree roots were so shallow. can you believe it? ainsley: very scary situation. brian: roads blocked. ainsley: some people did die because of those fallen trees. it was so terrifying. did you all experience it where you live? pete: i had branch come down. gavin, our producer here had 12 trees come down in his yard. ainsley: i couldn't get home. i had doctor's apartment and trying to get home. i had a babysitter and my

daughter at my house was terrified because i wanted to get to her. brian: someone should tell after a tree is down make adjustment. ainsley: big show. guess who is on today? president trump. he is coming on our sohio at 7:30 so you have to stay with us. pete: you never know how long it will go. ainsley: you think it's 20 minutes and it's an hour. the rnc sued nevada for mail-in voting. brian: new law undermine the integrity of the november election. pete: our own griff jenkins in washington with the new battle over ballots. griff, good morning. griff: pete, brian, ainsley, good morning. if you had any doubt we could be heading toward an election like we have never seen. lawsuit asking a judge to intervene after the governor there signed a bill on monday providing for mail-in ballots. the lawsuit calling it illegal

and alleging several issues the state encountered during the primary when they used that system. including ballots being mailed to deceased individuals or to wrong addresses. now, nevada is the latest state joining seven others and washington, d.c. who will mail actual ballots directly to voter rolls. and the president has made it well known his concern for universal mail-in fraud. but the president took a different tone when it comes to the state of florida. >> in the case of florida they have done a great job. they have had tremendous success with it but they have been doing this over many years and made it really terrific. so, for florida you can mail in your ballots. you don't have to go and maybe a couple other states they have worked out a system. this took years to do. this doesn't take weeks or months. griff: you will hear a lot more about this. important to note, absentee ballots used in florida than ballots mailed directly to voters on list. absentee ballots are requested by the voter directly. even that though, the absentee ballot voting is causing

problems six weeks after the new york primary there is still no winner. last night in michigan 2 million absentee ballots were missing. this morning votes still being tallied. this over whether states and the postal service are prepared for this scale of mail voting. now, as for nevada's governor steve sisolak is he defending his bill that's being challenged in court saying it's important that voters don't have to choose between voting and their health. pete, brian, ainsley? ainsley: all right. thank you, griff. let's bring in newt gingrich, fox news contributor and speaker oformerspeaker of the house newt gingrich. >> good morning. how are you? ainsley: suing nevada. republicans saying fraud, it could delay the election results. also saying americans should be able to trust the election. then you have democrats like hillary clinton tweeting this out i fear republican sabotage of the usps including slowing mail delivery is a trump strategy to make voting by mail more difficult this fall.

request your ballots and return them as early as you can. in your years of experience, what do you think about these mail-in ballots? >> well, i think hillary misses the entire point. in nevada, for example, according to adam waxalt who is expert on this mail ballots to 200,000 people according to the post office don't exist. either dead, they have moved, the address doesn't work. 200,000 extra ballots floating around out there. seeing it in new york right now. two congressional ballots six weeks after the primary they haven't been able to announce a winner. now, you get into that in terms of a presidential campaign, nationwide, and i think it's -- this is going to be the most disastrous election in american history at the rate at which the democrats are trying, frankly, to set up an ability to steal it. because i don't think they think they can win an honest election. brian: mr. speaker, consider

this scenario as nate silver brought up over the weekend it was senator martha mcsally who won that election on election day. and a week later when they looked at all the mail-in ballots and absentee ballots she lost by two points. can you imagine if we thought we had one president on election day and we have a different one two weeks from now. this country wouldbreak in half. >> look, we lived through it in florida in a very closely contested election. and it was a total mess in palm beach. brian: that's one state. >> an official who did a terrible job that was tense enough. can i imagine a circumstance at the rate the democrats are going to try to flood the system and, by the way, this also happened in california with vote harvesting in 2018. i think there were six republicans who had won their congressional seats on election night who lost them two weeks later as these ballots kept coming in. so i am very concerned. and the expert at the heritage

foundation has 1100 cases of vote theft. i think this is a real thing. i think people need to be worried about it. and it tells you how polarized we are. there is even, you know, there is even one apparently democratic war game where they sat down and began to think through with hillary's campaign manager from last time. brian: john podesta what they would do under certain circumstances basically to try to steal the election if they lost it. it's amazing things going on out there. pete: mr. speaker we have seen delays in primary yet in vote counting and outcomes in primaries last night tuesday night was yet another primary evening. and a big upset in missouri where corey bush who is a progressive far lefty beat 10-term missouri representative lacy clay jr. in a democrat primary. this comes as there have been other surprises over the last couple of years jamaal bowman won in june a primary against 16 term representative eliot engel

the squad and others who have challenged so-called squad more establishment members of the democratic party. is the democratic party in denial of a surge of socialists who are effectively carrying the energy of their race. >> i don't think they are in denial. they are embracing it. that's why have you pelosi and schumer behaving the way they do in washington. the schumer, for example, faces the potential of aoc running against him in the democratic primary in two years. and he is not going to move an inch to be reasonable with donald trump. because he knows it will kill him in that primary. i think pelosi knows when biden hides in the basement it, creates two vacuums. a power vacuum which pelosi is filling and an idea of a vacuum which aoc is filling. i think you are seeing a democrat democratic party be transformed in front of your very eyes. ainsley: dr. jill biden was on yesterday. she was talking about how her

husband -- because many people are saying what is he? is he moderate or is he more progressive? this is what she said. >> you know, joe is a moderate. that doesn't mean that his ideas aren't photographic and bold and forward-thinking. buff he's not someone who is left. he is not someone who is right. he's a moderate. that's who who he has always been. i think joe has a really strong vision of where he wants to take this country. and he has a strategy and a plan and whether it's on climate change or education, or the economy, joe knows where he is going and what he wants to do. ainsley: not a moderate but he does have progressive ideas. is that appeasing both sides? >> first of all, she a lot more coherent than he is. pete: yes. that was evident. >> if he talks as well as she talks he could come out of the basement. i think she did a fine job and i think she is being a pretty good

front for the campaign. but the fact is, on every front, that biden whether it's gigantic tax increases or it is killing the energy industry, or it is abandoning his lifelong commitment with the hyde amendment on abortion and going tore abortion paid by the taxpayers, every time you turn around, biden is more and more the candidate of the hard left and i think he thinks that's where the energy is. and i think he knows that if he was not their candidate, they would go all out to defeat him. so he is sort of caught in a trap much like george mcgovern was in 1972 where if he doesn't do what the left wants, he is going to lose the election and, frankly, if he does what the left wants, he is probably going to lose the elections. brian: they know america is not behind it or else they wouldn't have panicked when bernie sanders was leading the charge and push biden forward. but they are putting biden throughout now to pretend is he a moderate and things are going

to change. let's talk about something else that didn't get a lot of attention yesterday but we kept an eye on it. that is the hearing on capitol hill about antifa. what's behind it and who is financing it. i naively thought this is going to get republicans and democrats on the same page like they were last week with the tech ceos from seeing the outrage and some unsavoriness. i was wrong about that. democrats are in total denial. listen. >> we should all join hands in denouncing and, whatever word you want to use, about violent extreme oextremism on all strip. to say constantly accuse democrats of not caring about that is really, can i only say that you aren't listening. so i hope this is the end of this hearing, mr. chairman, and that we don't have to listen to any more of your rhetorical

speeches, thank you very much i'm leaving. >> throughout her remarks didn't say a negative remark about antifa nor has any democrat here. they instead engage in a political game where they depend you are welcome to say something negative about antifa right now. >> i think i have covered the subject quite well. you are not listening. >> okay. she declined to speak. so that is the position of the democratic party. >> mr. speaker, do you believe this? they are like children. >> look, i wrote a paper recently suggesting that what we are see something a war between two worlds. it's not a normal presidential election. you know, the city of minneapolis has basically now surrendered to criminals. in fact, they just put out a familiar threats on citizens on how to be mugged without endangering yourself they don't have a police force that can achieve anything anymore. portland is a disaster.

seattle is a disaster. the democrats have been consistently as i said in my book the democrats have been consistently pro-criminal and anti-police. brian: but, mr. speaker, what i find alarm something they don't care who dropped off the bats. the pallets of bricks. the frozen water, a strategic site. this wasn't this whole racial speaking up about racial iniquities was swamped by this group and no one seems to care who is financing them and what they're up to. it blows my mind. it? >> shouldn't. you just have to -- look, if i showed you a lion and you noticed that the lions eat zebras unlike the lion king but you know it was a lion, you would think oh it's behaving like a lion. all of these democrats are now basically owned by the left. they are not going to pick any fights. they are owned by people who are

financed by george soros. you look at the new wave of district attorneys who are financed by soros, every single one of them is pro-criminal. i mean, people -- it's not sunk in yet but we are back to the late 1960s in terms of the rises murder rates and the rising crime rates. and you she all over the country. and, of course, the propaganda mr. of the left which used to be the news media is going to do everything they can to hide from it. the average american is beginning to realize this stuff is dangerous. that's why by three to one they don't want to defund the police. pete: i hope you are right, mr. speaker it, turns out it looks like the democrats are afraid of that very mob. you want more of this analysis, newt's new book "trump and the american future" is on sale right now. mr. speaker, thank you so much for joining us. >> great to be with you. pete: toss out to jillian mele who has a new medicine line for us. jillian: we begin with a fox news alert. at least 100 people are dead and

more than 4,000 hurt after a massive explosion in beirut. [explosion] the government says ton of ammonium nitrate a chemical used in fertilizer exploded in unsecured warehouse. rescue crews searching the rubble this morning for survivors. still not clear what caused the explosion. officials estimate it caused up to $5 billion in damage. extreme weather now. at least six people are killed after isaias leaves a trail of destruction on the east coast. [screams] the storm snapping trees and knocking out power for millions. major flooding shutting down roads like this one outside of philadelphia. two people killed after a tornado hit a mobile home park in north carolina.

we will have a report from that town later this morning. president trump doubling down on his plan to take executive action on coronavirus relief amid stalled negotiations on capitol hill. >> progress is being made, always know, very well on the hill. we will see what happens. including the payroll tax suspension. we may do some things. i may have to do something on evictions, too. because the democrats, amazingly, don't want to do it. jillian: the white house and democrats set to meet again today. both sides hope to reach a deal by the end of the week. an historic moment for our military. the first black service chief is officially sworn in. >> so help me god. >> so help me god. >> congratulations. [applause] >> general charles brown taking the oath from vice president mike pence in the oval office. he was unanimously confirmed as air force chief of staff by the senate in june. he will officially take commands tomorrow. that's a look at your headlines. send it back to you. pete: very cool.

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brian: with the presidential election less than 100 days away squalls restrict or end presidential debates all together. the presidential board says they should start by getting rid of audiences. a "new york times" op-ed scrap the debates entirely saying they have become unrevealing and a quip contest. board member and fox news

contributor jason riley. say uptop jill biden says her husband will debate three times and so does the biden camp. what do you think is happening here? >> well, i think they believe that they are leading in the polls and the lead in the polls oftentimes doesn't want to do anything to jeopardize that lead. and so they only see a downside to these debates. biden has been not running a traditional campaign where he has had to expose himself to voters and the media on a regular basis. they are a little bit worried about how he will do this format. i think that's what's driving. this i think biden himself probably does want to debate but the campaign and certainly his supporter notice media are worried. brian: interesting. it was barack obama who said hey, democratic party, don't go too far to the left. you will alienate the country. then it was president obama on the eulogy a few days ago who basically said to joe biden listen to my words. we are moving left with or

without you. jerry magerrymandering. goodbye flip. are you surprised by this president obama is sending a message to the nominee? >> yes, i am surprised by that biden -- by that, i'm sorry, brian. i don't think that's how joe biden won the nomination. he's not an idealogue. he's not this fiery person on the stump. he won it by trying to be a moderate with some success and without some success. but i think that's what he was going for the more moderate voters, independent voters and so forth. when the most popular democrat in the country, barack obama, gets out there and joins at the hip with the progressive left, it puts a lot of pressure on biden, i think, to follow suit. i don't know if that's going to help biden in november with those voters he thinks he needs and those voters to gave him the primary nomination.

brian: headline in your editorial sony a pivot meant to push biden left ward. did he talk about race in america and pretty much left law enforcement out to dry that's unpresident obama like. jason, at one point does joe biden need to give speeches regularly like a traditional candidate? does he need to be hiding in his basement forever. >> i do think he needs to get out there. the debate would be a public service. he cannot duct them. he has not been able to get out there and meet with voters and the press. is he playing in to one of president trump's chief criticisms of him which is that he is not up to the job mentally. that he rambles, that he can't think on his feet. i think he needs to push back at that notion of him, of that image of him and the debates are an opportunity to do it. they would be a public service because he hasn't run a traditional campaign because of the virus. brian: and in tight races if biden is that popular as polls reveal in battle ground states,

they need him going to bat for them. or else he will just be -- an ad that we see on television instead of somebody going to bat with an arm around a would be candidate. that is just not happening in a very bizarre election year. jason, thanks so much. we will make sure to read your "wall street journal" editorial. >> thank you. brian: still ahead, teacher's unions issuing demands before returning to the classroom citing health concerns. why in their list of needs is it things like canceling rent, removing police from schools. our next guest calls this reckless, she explains.

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leland vittert is live on the ground in north carolina from one of the hardest hit areas. leland? >> ainsley, good morning, some really great news overnight for you two thinner missing and feared dead behind me found alive and well overnight by rescuers. you can see from the aerial footage the tornado that tore through this trailer park polarized not only the trarlsz but possessions. sadly two people died inside. there were a number of house fires also over this past 24 hours from south carolina to north carolina and in to virginia when storm surge met with high winds and caused a number of houses to catch on fire because of the gas lines there imagine firefighters trying to fight those fires in 80 mile-per-hour winds. we say it oftentimes not the winds but the flooding that kills people. that's what happened as the storm moved north to pennsylvania. one woman was swept away in her car, rain storms also went

through new york with heavy winds, sometimes gusts to 70 miles per hour at jfk airport. knocking out power to millions. expecting it may be two or three days before we get power. >> ainsley, keep in perspective, we are at the very beginning of what has been predicted to be a very active end of hurricane season. some folks here in north carolina, for example, are still cleaning up from the storms of the past couple of years. ainsley: thank you so much, leland for that report. scary night. pete, over to you. pete: thanks, ainsley. as school districts across the country debate opening classrooms this fall teacher's unions and left wing groups holding a national day reef sis tans. issuing demands before they're willing to return to the classroom. get this. look at these demands. this is what they're including

police-free schools, canceling rents and mortgages. more for yum on a new charter or voucher programs. and reopening funded by taxing billionaires and wall street. here to react center for education reform ceo jeanne allen. thanks for being here this morning. how is this anything other than political extortion? >> you know, pete, it's such a great question. plato once asked that famous question who will teach our children and what will we teach them? he said that because it's the most important thing we can be doing for our society and for sizzles. and, yet, we are fighting with a small militant group of people who are threatening governors, who are challenging school leaders across the country who are opening over whether and how our kids should go back to school. it shouldn't be about whether or not teachers all show up in the same 150-year-old system we have always had. by the way, that's not working. it should be how do we get parents and teachers engaged and

where and how they want to teach our children. online, virtually, blended, on ground, in libraries, in communities. maybe even in homes. that's not what they are saying and, in fact, across the country, school leaders are already doing that. pete: education are essential. are they exposing themselves for being nonessential and how much of a road block are they to a true education, safe one, in classrooms for kids? >> well, listen, parents and teachers and people closest to our kids know the real answer; that kids have to be learning in any way, shame, or form. and teacher's union do not represent the rank and file vast majority of teachers. every year they spend close to $1 billion on political efforts. i'on getting out votes that have nothing to do with education and padding their own pockets. yet, they complain that teachers don't get paid well and if they just give them their money back

you might see those salaries go up really quickly. this is cry that everyone in america who has never realized how political this is needs to wake up and say if you don't want to teach my children, give me the money back. the money should go to parents or to schools who are willing to teach teachers. when you are in fen knoll county florida or phoenix, arizona. by the way, schools are delivering he had ghation a myriad of ways. we know how to do this. it is innovation it. is technology. it is real one-on-one, face-to-face a number of ways teachers are essential. they can figure out how to be safe and educate those kids. pete: and, of course, they want to block charter schools, voucher programs, private schools. they have never wanted competition. they want a monopoly in these government schools. then they demand schools. billionaires and canceling rent as if that has anything to do with the next.

oftentimes indoctrination. jeanne allen thank you for your time this morning. appreciate it. >> thank you. pete: microsoft is a leading contender to buy tiktok. should the app. be told. senator josh hawley sending a letter to microsoft ceo today. he joins us on that next.

♪ >> what i said to them is whatever the price is, a very big proportion of that price would have to go to the treasury of the united states. and they understood that we have had other companies call us, microsoft called me directly, and we have had other companies call. i don't know where they're, it sounds like microsoft is along the way of doing something. i don't blame them. it's a great company. it's really a great company. but, we cannot take the security risks of any of those companies. ainsley: that's the president talking about the sale of tictoc let's bring in missouri josh hawley member of the senate judiciary committee. good morning, senator. >> good morning.

ainsley: so china is upset. calling us a rogue nation saying this is theft, us trying to buy that company or microsoft trying to buy it. microsoft is one of the few that want to buy it or interested in buying it. i know you are sending a letter to microsoft today. tell us about it. >> well, it's not so clear to me that this is a good for the united states of america. microsoft buying tiktok i don't know what that means exactly. dos that mean that microsoft is going to make sure that there is absolutely no chinese involvement from the chinese parent company byte dance in this microsoft deal? are they going to rebuild tiktok? are they going to make sure that they have total control? i'm not clear on any of that. it looks to me that microsoft is only getting a portion of the company. and if the chinese parent company is going to continue to maintain some sort of access. maybe share the platform. share the data, none of that is acceptable. we have got to protect americans here and americans' data security. brian: is there any proof that this is more than just a game? >> listen, tiktok is a platform

that is basically a trojan horse for the chinese government. they are able to scoop up all of our data. i mean, if you use tiktok, here's the problem. they are monitoring your key strokes. they are monitoring your contact list. they are looking, of course, at the videos you post. they are also maybe accessing the emailings that you send, your search history. all of it. we have got to make sure that that data, americans' personal info stay notice united states of america. i don't want china to have any access to it. by the way why should china make any profit on the sale of tiktok? they have been using this to spy on us. why should they be profiting off of it? i have a lot of questions here. pete: senator, should tiktok be banned? is that your stance? end the microsoft deal end it all together? >> i think unless, brian, we can make sure that there is a total separation between china and tiktok it ought to be banned. yes, unless we can absolutely see and guarantee that china is not getting some back door into

tiktok, they are not running it on the sly, then i think, yeah, it ought to be banned. ainsley: let's talk about corona relief packages. both rejected both sides can't agree. gooden, republican out of texas, this is his tweet, he said with $600 extra unemployment expired, which happened last friday, he says business owners in my district tell me this week is the first week that they have had all of their employees show up. so, is the stimulus package even needed? >> well, i mean, here's the deal. it's not a surprise that you have people who are trying to get work now when the unemployment levels that have been forcing them to choose unemployment insurance levels have been forcing folks to choose between going back to work or actually getting unemployment benefits that was dumb policy to begin with. my view is that whatever the level we set unemployment benefits at, people ought to be able to take at least some of that benefit with them back to work. i mean, why would you make people choose twine getting the support they need if they're out of job and actually going and looking for a job.

we'll want people to go back to work. by the way, people in the unemployment line, they want to work. nobody wants to be unemployed. and, yet, the policy that we have had for months has basically forced people to choose. that needs to end. i will just say this on the state of the negotiations. i don't know where the democrats are. it's not clear to me that they actually want to do anything of about any further relief. but my view is this: any further relief by congress has got to focus on jobs. it's got to focus on getting people back to work. it's got to focus on getting businesses reopen and getting jobs back. brian: both sides pledged to get something done by the end of the weeks. the rescue package for the democrats 3.4 trillion. that's what nancy pelosi says she is stuck on. you guys entered 1 trillion. and mitch mcconnell is not negotiating at all. it's mark meadows, senator schumer, nancy pelosi and secretary of treasury mnuchin. how do you see this playing out because there is a lot of republicans in tough senate races who really believe they

need something to emerge from this rescue package if they are going to win re-election? >> yeah. >> it's not clear to me right now that the democrats even want to strike a deal. what we have seen is a lot of stringing this along, ever shifting goal post in negotiation. there is no way i'm voting for 3 plus trillion dollars of bailout money on special interest lobbying projects. forget it. that's not going to help anybody. brian: missouri is hurting with this virus. what does missouri lead? >> what missouri needs is jobs. we have got to do is get people back to work. our unemployment numbers are too high thanks to those government lock down. way too many people out of work. we have got to get people working again. we have got to get them back on the job. we have got to get the economy reopened. that's what we have got to be focused on. that's not what the democrats are focused on. pete: josh hawfully missouri, thank you for joining us. we appreciate it. >> thank you.

heat. pete: now we will toss it to janice dean who has update on weather patterns. janice: over 3 million people without power because of this tropical storm. another indication, you know what? it doesn't take a major hurricane to cause incredible damage. over two dozen reports of tornadoes yesterday as this tropical storm raced to the north and now it's in canada. but the destruction, the path of destruction is quite remarkable for a tropical cyclone. here are some of the wind gusts in exset of 70 miles per hour yesterday. jfk as it made landfall in north carolina, 9 mile-per-hour gusts of wind there the storm is done, but the damage is incredible. over two dozen reports of tornadoes and heavily populated states, again, the storm is well out of the way. but we are seeing incredible amounts of damage, including flooding reports. in some cases three to six inches widespread here across the i-95 corridor and isolated

amounts of 8 to 10 inches. the national hurricane center really got this one right. we will be talking about isaias in the record books for some time to come. in other weather news. okay so, that tropical system is out of the way. we still have the potential for scattered showers and thunderstorms for parts of the mid-atlantic back through the southeast and the gulf coast. still very warm for the southwest where we have heat warnings in effect and the fire danger remains high. 86 here in new york city. and the good news is as we get into the peak season of the tropics is for the next few days not too much to worry about. we will keep you up to date on that. that could change. all right. pete, ainsley, and brian, back to you, my friends. janice: than ainsley: thank you, janice. jillian is upstairs with headlines. jillian: philadelphia a major highway shut down right now because a barge is stuck under it. happening in philadelphia from the rising floodwaters on the river. so much damage.

the judge ruling the hulls of so-called cult mom lori vallow will stand trial. prosecutors presented more than 30 pieces of evidence against chad daybell including a phone conversation he had with vallow on the day her children's remains were found on his idaho property. >> are you okay? >> [inaudible] >> what can i do for you? >> i love you so much. >> okay. i love you. should i try to call you later? >> i don't know. you can try, yeah. >> daybell faces several charges. vallow will have a hearing on the same charges next week. seattle's mayor and top cop opposing a proposal to cut the police force by as many as 100 sphirs this year. >> i cannot do that in good faith, knowing there are no systems in place to bridge the gap. take some time to get this right. i think it's a step forward that you have admitted you were wrong. you couldn't cut the department

by 50% this year. >> the mayor slamming the city council majority for wanting to slash the 2020 police budget by 50%. the council is expected to vote on this year's amended budget on monday. well, the police chase straight out of an action movie. watch this. as florida deputies chasing a wanted fugitive near miramar beach when he jumped into the water and started swimming away. a deputy grabbed a jet ski, chased him down and made the arrest. this is unbelievable. collide merrill hunter facing several charges including grand theft:that is a look at your headlines. i will send it back to you. >> all right. thanks, jillian. let me tell you what's straight ahead. we have the cancel culture front and center. the latest victim? arnold schwarz. >> now we are going to do something extremely fun. we're going to play a wonderful game called who is my daddy and what does he do?

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something extremely fun. we're going to play a wonderful game called whose my daddy and what does he do? ainsley: kindergarten cop the latest target of culture cancel. here with why carley shimkus. >> hey, ainsley, the northwest film center in portland, oregon wants to include kindergarten cop in festival line up drive-in movie festival they are having because the movie was filmed in oregon and 30 year anniversary of it. a local author posted a tweet complaining about the movie she says there is nothing entertaining about the presence of police in schools which feed the school to prison pipeline. she compared this movie to gone with the wind so they scrapped the movie. kindergarten cop has quite literally been canceled. >> this is the kind of thinking that really gets the left in trouble. most americans, 5% of them see this movie for what i what it in innocent comedy. there is so much anger over

cartoons like paw patrol or kindergarten cop or live pd things that don't matter. and it just makes people want to run for the hills. it doesn't help any group of people or any movement whatsoever. ainsley: what about condoleezza rice? she is speaking out what she doesn't like about the left. what is she saying? carley: she made some really interesting comments this week about how the left view the black community. take a listen. >> i would like to get to the place that when you see somebody who is black, you don't have preconceived notions of what they are capable of, who they are. by the way, what they think, which is, i think, a probable of the left. you look at somebody who is black and you think you know what they think or you at least think you know what they ought to think. carley: she said she doesn't think we are ever going to get to a place in this society where we are colored blind. she does want to get to a place where people stop making

assumptions. if you just think back, you know, just a couple weeks ago when joe biden said that if you vote for president trump you are not black. what gives him the right to say that? and this whole notion has been -- it's been something that people have been saying for quite some time. the person who popular rised this once again was kanye west when he started talking about freedom of thought within the african-american community. ainsley: let'let talk about the trick the virginia soldier played on his family. >> we have seen a lot of the homecomings before between soldiers and their families. nothing quite like this. after 11 months overseas, this soldier enlisted the help of his local police department to surprise his mom. watch. >> oh my god. [squeals] jillian: the fairmont police department in west virginia --

this took place in west virginia, pulled over kenneth stall's mom. she thought she was getting a speeding ticket and out pops her son. he is home. she is thrilled. god bless that family. ainsley: we love those stories. thank you so much, carley. carley: thanks, ainsley. ainsley: you are welcome. president trump joins us live in the next hour so stay with us. ♪ on the boat and on the plane ♪ they come to america ♪ there's no looking back again ♪ they are coming to america ♪ ...and new adventures. you hope the more you give the less they'll miss. but even if your teen was vaccinated against meningitis in the past... they may be missing vaccination for meningitis b. let's help protect them together. because missing menb vaccination could mean missing out on a whole lot more. ask your doctor if your teen

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>> oh my god. >> six people are killed as that storm spurs tornadoes and flooding and fires along the east coast. >> hillary clinton tweeting this i fear republicans sabotage of the postal service is a trump strategy. >> hillary misses they are going to mail ballots to 200,000 people that don't exist. this will be the most disastrous election. >> i would also note throughout her remarks she still did not say a negative word about antifa nor has any democrat here. >> i think i have covered the subject quite well. you haven't been listening. >> police union saying police free schools canceling all rents and mortgages. moratorium on new charter voucher programs and massive taxes before they goal back to

work. >> gavin root giving the berkeley county sheriff a check for $500. ♪ i guess what you are just what i needed ♪ i needed someone to please ♪ ainsley: good morning to you on this beautiful wednesday. i'm ainsley and we have brian on that side and pete filling in for steve on that side. steve is about to join us and the president is going to join us too at 7:30. brian: he should be here shortly and we have a lot to discuss from election 2020 to the ongoing challenge of the coronavirus. we want to find out also we got some security yesterday, perhaps, from joe biden's wife jill that he will debate. that will be good news. pete: it will be interesting. brian, we have got to make it short. if we make him wait until 7:31 he might hang up. brian: probably hang up at 8:31. pete: move on to a couple of to come particulars.

suing nevada overnight for expanding mail-in voting. ainsley: the lawsuit claims that the new rule will undermine the integrity of the november elections. brian: griff jenkins is live outside the white house with a new battle over the ballots. griff? >> that's right, brian, ainsley, pete, good morning to you. we may be headed for an election unlike we have ever seen and all the americans voters are going to get an education whether they want it or not on mail in voting. what this lawsuit does is it is saying that what they are doing in nevada is illegal because the bill that the governor signed on monday provides for mail-in ballots to be sent directly to voter registration lists. now, they point to several issues that the state encountered during the primary which included ballots being mailed to deceased individuals or to wrong addresses. in nevada the latest state joining seven others in the district of columbia who will mail actual ballots to voters on registries that differs from absentee voting have you heard about done through the mail but

occurs when the voter requests the absentee ballot. the president has made well-known his concerns for universal mail fraud but when it comes to florida, the president took a different tone yesterday. listen. >> in the case of florida, they have done a great job. they have had tremendous success with it. but they have been doing this every many years and made it really terrific. for florida you can mail in your ballots. you don't have to go. and maybe a couple other states they worked out a system. this took years to do. this doesn't take weeks or months. >> absentee ballots commonly used in florida are causing problems. look at that race in new york. that primary six weeks later still no winner and in michigan which had a race last night, they had over 2 million absentee ballots requested and still trying to tally the votes this morning. one thing is for sure, this is raising a lot of questions, guys, on whether or not we are headed for a problem of epic proportions and whether states

are prepared and the postal service is prepared to handle this large of scale. the nevada governor, by the way. steve sisolak, a democrat says he had to decide to make the call that voters should not have to worry about voting or their health. guys? pete: griff, thank you very much for the update on nevada. what the president said and i think is obvious is not all mail-in ballots are created equal. you have absentee ballots which the voter must request. you identify hot voter is, mailed in, chain of custody. who is the voter? which ballot? was it counted or not? when you push the ballots out to voter roles, you don't know who they are going to. if people still live there, if they are even alive. and you don't have the chain of custody. when you look at how long it's taken to resolve some of these primaries, weeks. we can't afford to have that state by state across the nation. that's the distinction, i believe, the president was making in florida. ainsley: republicans are worried about fraud. they are saying it's illegal and the american people should be

able to trust the election results. democrats want this pretty badly and that's why we have this debate. we will talk to the president about this coming up. dr. jill biden was asked, the wife of joe biden was asked if joe biden was going to debate the president in those three debates. this is what she said. >> oh, yes. he will. i think they have already -- i think there are three debates that they decided on. so, yeah. he will be there. >> do you think it's unhelpful for other democrats to suggest that joe biden shouldn't debate the president. >> no. i didn't even realize he had written the article. no, joe will make up his own mind. ainsley: that was with dana perino. first september 15th in ohio. october 15th in miami and october 22nd in nashville, brian. brian: extremely important if they're able to pull that off. what happened with the ballots a lot of seniors planning on voting on trump in particular

hearing the president say there is going to be fraud and not for the mail-in ballots and throwing them out and not going to use. they a lot of seniors need them because of the pandemic we are in the middle now. number two, a lot of people older say i wasn't going to go to the polls. if it doesn't work i might not as well vote at all. that's what the president was alerted. to say a lot of people misinterpreting what the fear is flooding people with a ballot when you don't request it and people passed away years ago are getting these ballots like they got the $1,200 checks. obviously they are not living to cash. and they are saying that's laying the foundation. no one around to count them. if they are going to be doing it. if there aren't enough people around to count them. they are not going to get it done november 3rd. have you done it before self, yes. not to the tune of 100 million or more. don't pretent like we can do it. don't pretend like we are putting down the post office. nobody is. it is human error. we saw what happened with bush-gore and the staring at the chad's. can you imagine doing that in

15, 20 states? pete: can you imagine also trying to pin the problems of the postal service on the trump administration? have you been to the postal service in the last three decades? we know what that looks like. the reality of florida is they have had a plan. they have a system that they know they can expand incrementally if they have to. other states have noe never done this before. three months before election and they're going to push ballots out. brian: pete, i think, ainsley you will back me up on this. florida screws up a lot of elections, a lot. and we end up hanging thought a few of those counties. they might be better but i really don't want our presidential election hanging on florida again. ainsley: well, remember, gosh, remember all those ballots that were just found in a car. people had mailed them in never even counted? the president said in the axios interview he said my concern is, my other issue is what if these ballots aren't counted for months after the election? and then the election. pete: discovering ballots. ainsley: repeat of florida. jillian: we begin with a fox

news alert now. at least 100 people are dead and 4,000 people hurt after a massive explosion in beirut. [explosion] jillian: the government says tons of ammonium nitrate chemical used in fertilizer exploded in unsecured warehouse. still not sure what caused the explosion. officials estimate a cause up to $5 billion in damage. to extreme weather now. at least six people are killed after isaias leaves a trail of destruction on the east coast. >> look at that live look in philadelphia. pointing out the flooding and what is happening here. river. interstate 676, that highway is

a major highway in and out of the city. closed after unsecured barge got trapped under the road because of the rising waters there on the river. look at that what a mess. several states were slammed with heavy rain and wind hitting over 100 miles per hour. and a live look at capitol hill where in just a few hours former deputy attorney general sally yates will be in the hot seat. she will be grilled by senate republicans and their probe into the origins of the russia investigation. yates is expected to be asked about a 2017 oval office meeting she attended where former president obama and fbi director james comey discussed security concerns about michael flynn. a look at your headlines. i will second it back to you. brian: i will be watching. that's going to be very interesting today. the beginning of a few -- a lot of testimony. thanks, jillian. straight ahead, congressman roger marshall winning the kansas republican primary overnight he just got a shout

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♪ pete: we are back with a fox news alert. marshall defeat ago crowd of challenge gears including kris kobach to win the g.o.p. primary last night in kansas. marshall going on to compete against barbara in the election that could determine the entire senate majority. roger marshall joins me now. congressman, congratulations. you are waking up a happy man this morning. talk to us about the dynamics of that race. both you and kris kobach running as supporting the president

down -- why was it you that had the edge? >> well, pete. i just felt so grateful to be on your show this morning. look, kansas sans across the state had confidence in us. they have confidence in this president as well we do have great relationship with the president. regardless, they saw us as the person who can help keep this republican majority and t forwa. pete: you might say kansas isn't kansas anymore. races have been tighter statewide than people would think in kansas. how do you feel about your prospects in november and the president there? >> i feel optimistic the president is wildly popular in kansas. with him on the ballot we are all going to do great again. we are very, very optimistic. we have got to get through this corona crisis and get this economy going again and the president is doing that the president is doing a great job fighting this coronavirus

economy on rebound down to 7% unemployment. we are rallying together to fight this virus one community at a time. pete: been to the ground with republican primary voters. what is top of mind for the base of the president right now? americans want the american dream back. i have lived the american dream. first generation college student in my dream want to become a doctor. after military service my wife and i moved back to rural kansas delivered 5,000 babies and raised two of our own. can sans want to get back to the american dream. they want to protect their values and get through this crisis what the president is going to do and i will with there with him take care of the health of your family and get jobs back as well get our kids back in school safe way to do it. the president's leadership

through this corona crisis is shining across kansas and across america. cansens know he is the person to get us through this time. >> roger marshall nobody happier this morning than you and relieved. congratulations on your win and good luck in the general. we appreciate having you. >> thank you. pete: we invited his opponent barbara bowlier for an interview we have not heard back. weave will let you know if we do. wondering where the man, steve doocy has been all week? there you have it. he is celebrating the wedding of his daughter sally with an assist from his son peter. steve joins us live with the details coming up next ♪ i know one day that i love you ♪ i love you ♪ i love you ♪ i love you ♪ it's the 11:05 endless-orders migraine medicine

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brian: his or her is exclusive you may have noticed a familiar face missing this morning. pete: that's because our very own steve doocy was walking his daughter sally down the aisle in an extra special wedding that defied the odds. ainsley: father of the bride joins us with all the details. hey, steve. steve: brian, ainsley and pete good morning. nobody told me how hard it was to walk her down the aisle. i want grit my teeth the whole way. it's a tough job. i will tell you what, for a while it didn't look like we were going to get there because while they had planned the wedding for over a year in the last 100 days because of the coronavirus, and the restrictions they had to cancel the big wedding because you can't have as many people as they wanted. in fact, there were more people in the band than are allowed to gather in one spot.

so they had to cancel that as well. and then so the big venue went away and then the priest died. and then we needed somebody to do it. and then we remembered that one family member actually is ordained. and he did the ceremony. and then it was going to be perfect until there was a hurricane. and a hurricane was just offshore during the entire event. so, other than that, it was perfect. brian: wait a second. who is this ordained member of your family and how did he do when the moment -- when the moment came up? steve: well, brian, who knew that network correspondent peter doocy actually a year ago got his credentials online to marry people because one of the producers down at fox in d.c. asked him to officiate. and so peter checked his license

or whatever, and it was still valid and he performed the ceremony. and it was just absolutely beautiful. and he got even a little choked up because, you know, he -- you know, it's a tough thing to do -- everybody in the room was from our immediate family. i know you guys were all invited. you were all going to come. but it did not work out. so it was very intimate where it was just family members. and he got to call his sister mrs. sadry for the first time and we all got a little choked up. >> steve, how is the happy couple and did it make it more special that small? you know, how did you adjust mentally for all of that? steve: you know what? because it was only 10 people. the entire crowd, everybody did a little talking. and it was just -- you know, with a big crowd at a wedding it

can be intimidating. when cathy and i got married there were 15 people there. the doocys are small wedding people. and it was just about perfect. oh, and the last thing that went haywire was the fact that they were going to take a honeymoon in the bahamas but the bahamas said no americans can come. their plan was scrubbed for that, too. but they went some place else and they are having a great time. ainsley: i know you gave a speech. tell us a little bit about what you said to your daughter when you honored her on her wedding day and the story about covid came? brian: and did you put it in prompter? [laughter] steve: you know what, brian, i wrote it down because i wanted to get it perfect because you only get one chance. and their wedding #, his name is ollie sadry. and sally doocy. so their #was when alli met

sally. and so i quoted the movie when harry met sally to explain why they wanted to have the wedding this weekend rather than like so many people who decided to postpone for another year until things calmed down. so from the movie i quoted harry says, you know, when you find the person you want to spend the rest of your life with, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible and so it did. ainsley: that's really sweet. what about the covid king story? >> my neighbor sent a note hey, con grate graduate labor relations covid king 2020. that's when the hurricane was bearing down. ainsley: bless your heart. please give her warm wishes for us. she worked here at fox. we have known her for years. have you done a great job raising those children.

you are such a wonderful family, steve. pete: congratulations. steve: you bet. one other thing, sally now refers to her brother as father peter. [laughter] brian: that is great. one down and two to go. steve: exactly. brian: steve, stick around, president trump is coming up next. that's what he looks like. ♪ we gonna rock ♪ this town ♪ we gonna rock ♪ this town ♪ i logged 10,000 steps today. shingles doesn't care. i get as much fresh air as possible. good for you, but shingles doesn't care. because 1 in 3 people will get shingles, you need protection. but no matter how healthy you feel, your immune system declines as you age, increasing your risk for getting shingles. so what can protect you?

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us down in florida. i think to ask him a question off the top and then we will let you go and enjoy your vacation, steve and spend time with your daughter who just got married. steve: go ahead and ask me the presidential questions. [laughter] brian: play the role of donald trump, steve doocy who will one day run for office. no question. ainsley: i do understand we do have the president. steve, why don't you ask the him the first question. steve: mr. president, good morning. >> good morning. steve: hey, listen, i know a young couple who got married this weekend. what is your advice for a young couple looking forward to a bright america given the restrictions of covid and everything that's going on right now. brian: related to you. >> first of all, congratulations you finally got that done despite everything, it's not easy. but, as you know, i have met your daughter, she is lovely. it's going to be a great combination. they don't -- don't listen to my advice. you just let them lead their life. they are going to be very good. they are going to be just fine.

it's a great couple. and it's an incredible family. she starts off with excellent genes, that's very important. steve: well, thank you very much. that's all i was curious about. i'm still on vacation. talk to you later. >> have a good time. thank you, steve. steve: so long. brian: all right, mr. president. thanks so much for doing in this morning. can we talk about probably the thing that everybody is talking about today and that's mail-in voting? what seems to bother you most and stop me if i am wrong is if the state like nevada or another state just blankets the state with ballots, unrequested, and that's different from requesting an absentee ballot because you are concerned about your health or the pandemic. would you make that -- am i accurate in that dissemination? >> no absentee is okay because you have to go through a process, brian. and you go through a process and you make a request and they send it to you and you get it and you fill it out. then it's a process and it's a

smaller number. what they are going to do is blanket the state, anybody that ever walked, frankly will get one the governor is a clubhouse politician. he is somebody that frankly was shocking. and shocking what he did. more shocking what he did without town halls, without meetings, without the public they went out and approved this ridiculous system and the post office will never be equipped to handle it. and you see it in new york. in a much smaller scale, we have a congressional race, carolyn maloney, a congresswoman. it's been six and a half weeks now. they have no idea what happened they are thousands of votes off. they are missing votes. they are fraudulent votes. they have to do the election over. there is no way that she can take that election because i mean it's between two democrats but, i guess he is probably, as the expression goes, more progressive, but she is in trouble. and, frankly, they have to do the election over. there is no way you can --

brian: you are suing nevada. >> it's the same thing. mail-in voting. patterson new jersey, 20% of the votes were either fixed or messed up or missing or fraudulent. and people are in big trouble. the town council, the mail men, a lot of people are in big trouble. that's patterson, 20% of the votes. you can't do a mail-in vote. florida is different in a sense that they have been doing it and they have had two very good governors, frankly and infrastructure that's taken years to build. nevada, they start voting very soon. and he just threw it out there and the other thing is the votes don't have to be counted or tabulated until seven days after november 3rd. so that means if we're waiting for one state and it's a very great, important state, big state, if we're waiting for that state, you don't know what the answer is going to be until after maybe seven days. and -- but it's not going to be seven days. it's going to be months or years. they will never be able to tabulate their votes because they are not set up for it.

pete: mr. president, thank you for joining us. you mentioned the postal service. women, your former opponent is out of woods or tweeting from the woods this is what she said about the postal service and your treatment of it. hillary clinton tweeting this: i fear republicans' sabotage of the u.s. postal service including slowing mail delivery a trump strategy to make voting by mail more difficult this fall. request your ballots and return them as early as you can. your response to hillary clinton accusing you of sabotaging the post office. >> first of all, remember the famous question when she asked me whether or not i would accept the results of the election? she felt pretty confident until the end of that debate. and, frankly, she was very strong. would you accept the results of the election? well, she didn't accept the results. she still hasn't. she is living in a cacoon. and i guess people don't like her or somebody doesn't like her, but she was -- she didn't do the job. she didn't do the job she was supposed to do and she should

accept that now she continues to go on and she is talking now about the postal service. well, as you know, the postal service for 40 years has had big problems. and they are not equipped to handle a governor where they say millions of ballots, by the way, will be posted in a couple of weeks. gear up. you can't do that. it doesn't work that way. it's a very complex process. so nevada. we're in court. we will see how it works out. if it doesn't work out, you are not going to know the november 3rd election results, i'm i'm talking for the country it, could be for months, actually, it could be for years. they sent and they planned to send these ballots to anybody that's ever walked in the state of nevada. it will be a disaster. ainsley: what about the debates? joe biden was interviewed yesterday by dana perino. and she said that joe biden will be debating you in those three debates. he has already committed to that but then you have people with the "new york times," joe lockhart suggesting that biden not debate you. you have others saying that all

of a sudden it's not an accurate forum and they are not in favor of these debates. why do you think that is? >> well, they are trying to get out. my people are telling me that they are playing very cute. they are trying to get out there. no question about that. but, you know, we should have the debates. one problem i have the debate is very late. it's at the end of september and a lot of ballots will already be cast by that time. they want to make the debates as late as possible. and, you know, this commission, they have already apologized to me for what they did. they were as late my mic during one debate. they apologized. i actually had it in writing they were doing it. this is a commission that is a very left-leaning commission. i frankly wouldn't even have used it and i could have done that except it's been used for years. this is a clinton-observe type commission and, you know, they call it a beautiful name but i'm not happy with it. but why are they putting the first debate so late in the first debate should be before the first -- at least before the

first ballots go out and they have it a month later, almost a month later it's ridiculous. ainsley: september 29th in ohio: >> i'm ready to get out. in all fairness he has not said that. ainsley: would you prefer more debates? >> i wouldn't mind more. what's more important to me is the first debate be moved up so when people are putting in their first ballot they're going to know. a vast difference. never been two candidates or two philosophies, let's say, that are more different than what we have. we want law and order. we want strong police. we are not defunding the police. we probably could say doing the opposite of defunding the police. you look at portland, that's all radical left democrat. they want every city to be like a portland. if we didn't go out to portland, they have done a great job. just a very small group. if we didn't go out to portland they would have knocked down and burned down the post office which is a $500 million the federal building, the court house. and the post office. and anything else federal.

we didn't go just for the courthouse. we went for every federal building there because they weren't protecting it. they were unable to protect it. but, we got it to a point where it's reasonable. and if we have to do something more, we will do more. we have to straighten out that city. it's been a mess for years. run by radical liberal democrats. brian: mr. president, and they did not want to use their state police until you brought in the federal agents and then they agreed to use the state police. that seems to be a victory. i don't want to spend too much time on the election but looking at the pandemic, seniors and those with underlying conditions are most concerned about voting. they could be the most patriotic person in the world but even your age bracket, mr. president, they are concerned about going out in a crowded area. and it's legitimate so having said that what does the administration plan on doing to make it easier more poll sites? clean teams? making -- demanding more places in more areas? providing the financing to do that? so if we admit there is a pandemic and a hurdle, what do

you plan on doing about it if mail-in voting makes you unsettled? >> brian, all of those things and more. but all of those things. and, remember, november 3rd is a long way. that's a long way. the numbers are coming down very rapidly in florida. they are coming down in california. they are coming down in texas. they are coming down. those three places shot up. and those numbers are coming down. so, by the time we get there, we will probably be in very good shape. but all of those things, cleanliness, they will wear the mask, and they will do whatever they have to do, but they want to vote. we have people that really want to get out and vote. it's going to be very safe. but by november 3rd, time wise, that's eternity, frankly, as far as i'm concerned. for trump, that's eattorneys. and, november 3rd is a long ways off, a lot of things are going to happen. brian: but we could have a second wave. the virus has got a mind of its own. >> you could have a second wave. other countries have had a second wave what nobody talks

about countries examples. second wave. look what's happening with vawl. and look at what is happening at france and spain. is it a big, big second wave. italy has a wave going. a lot of countries are having -- but nobody ever talks about that we have done an incredible job in this country, an incredible job. and our testing is the best ever. the best in the world and everybody talks about it, other than some of the fake news. they don't like talking about it. pete: mr. president, your latest campaign ads portray joe biden as a vessel, an empty vessel for the radical left. that's the argument your campaign is making and certainly he has made an alliance with a lot of folks in the bernie camp. well, the joe biden's chief surrogate, his wife, dr. jill biden was our network yesterday. she made a different -- here is what she said. >> you know, joe is a moderate. that doesn't mean that his ideas

aren't progressive and bold and forward-thinking. but he's -- he's not someone who is left. he's not someone who is right. he's a moderate. and that's who he has always been. i think joe has a really strong vision of where he wants to take this country. and he has a strategy and a plan and whether it's on climate change or education or the economy, joe knows where he is going and what he wants to do. pete: mr. president, is joe biden a moderate? is that what voters will believe? >> joe biden is whatever they tell him to be. and i think it's good that a wife -- i would expect a wife to say that. that's the appropriate thing to say. but joe is being taken so far left. look at the manifesto that he and bernie agreed. to say that's further left than bernie ever was. no borders. you know, think of it. open -- open up the walls, let's open up the walls. and let everybody. we are up to 276 miles of wall now. thank goodness we have it because mexico is heavily

infected and we would have a surge -- i mean, mexico is having tremendous covid problems. we built -- we will have the wall completed, almost completed by the end of the year, shortly thereafter it will be completed, 537 miles of beautiful, very, very powerful wall. and wherever we put it, nobody is getting through, nobody is getting through. but the fact is that joe has agreed already. how can they say he is a moderate? he has agreed to all these things. take a look what he wants to do to police forces in florida, texas, they just gave me all of the law enforcement gave me their endorsement, but they have no choice. i told them when we were together, i say i'm very happy to have it but you have no choice because you take a look at what they're doing with the funding, whether it's defund or reducing the funds very substantially, but, joe is totally involved with every one of those horrible things whether it's sanctuary cities and the whole concept of open borders is so bad. and then they are going to raise

your taxes by 2, 3, 4 times. people are going to -- hey, look, our stock market is very close to hitting a new record. nasdaq has already hit a new record. joe will drive the market into a depression. and the biggest thing holding back our stock market is the possibility that biden gets elected because, if he gets elected, our stock market will crash. if we didn't have an election right now, two things would happen, number one, our stock market would be even higher and it's already setting some records. and the other thing is iran, china, everybody will be at the table the first day, within 24 hours, wanting to make a deal, including north korea. by the way, if hillary clinton got, in you would have been in a war right now a long time. maybe it would be over. maybe it wouldn't. but you would be in a war with north korea. north korea we're doing final. we are doing fine with everything. they are all waiting now to see and they don't want trump.

china, the last person -- i have taken in tens of billions of dollars from china. nobody took in ten cents from china. china was having the worst year they have had, brian, in 67 years. pete, you and i talked about it once before. the worst year they have had in 67 years. we had the greatest year we have ever had last year. and now we're going to do it again. next year is going to be a very strong year. very, very strong. maybe competitive what we just had prior to the china virus come in. prior to the plague come in. so, we're set up to have phenomenal numbers. you saw the numbers coming out yesterday. they were incredible having to do with automobile production, having to do with manufacturing. i mean, the numbers that are coming out are shocking and startling to people. the biggest hang in the market is the possibility that if biden gets in and raises everybody's taxes including on corporations, but he wants to raise individual taxes by doubling and tripling and that's their agenda.

and then they want to go with the crazy green new deal, which will put everybody out of business. ainsley: what's your plan for businesses when it comes to the payroll tax cuts? >> well, i may do it myself. we are negotiating right now. i have the right to suspend it. about and i may do it myself. i have the absolute right to suspend the payroll, you know, to do the payroll tax and we call it a payroll tax suspension. that's an incentive for people,s generally to hire back their workers. and we're doing very well in that regard. but, i will tell you this: the blue states, the democrat states don't want to open up anything. they don't want their schools open. they don't want their businesses open. they want to keep it shut. you can't do that you are hurting people by doing that there is a cost. we did the right thing. we closed and then we opened. if we didn't close at that time, with that terrible virus that should have never been here. china should have stopped it. if we didn't close, we would have millions of people dead. we have done it right. now it looks like a strong v.

based on all the numbers we are getting. you will have a big number on friday. i don't know what it's going to be. you will have another jobs numbers. last two months we set a record on the job numbers. now we will have another big job number on friday, so it will be interesting to see what that is. but we are heading definitely a v. but the democrats are standing in our way. they don't want their states open. even if the state isn't in good shape. because, you know, much of the country is in really good shape. we see the red spots and we have them in red, you know, the covid areas. but the country is in very good shape. and we're set to rock and roll. but, the big problem we have is democrats don't want to open their schools. they don't want to -- because, they think it's going to hurt the election for the republicans. and they shouldn't play that game. they shut should put the people first. brian: coronavirus roughly 60,000 new cases days. 18 states increasing cases as they try to get ahold of this

thing. going back to the testing for a second. while we have the testing we don't have the reagents and swabs. i'm wondering what's going on with the abbott test. if you got that 15-minute test that the white house has all around the country, you don't make the abbott test. why can't they flood the country with the abbott test? >> that's what we are doing. brian: schools and businesses. where is this test? >> we are 50% on the test. abbott test or its equivalent where it's a 5-minute test and goes up to 15 minutes. it's a greatest. by the way that test didn't even exist until we came up with that test. brian: it's like they stopped making it. i don't know anybody that gets it. they are all going to these labs that's taking forever. >> 50% of the country is short-term testing. we're going to more. but you have to remember we did 61 million tests. the next country is like germany is at 3. india with 1.5 million people 11. we are 61. nobody is even close to us in

testing. it's another talking point. by the way, when you do a lot of testing, you have more cases so they say we have more cases. that's because we test and we find people that need help and we take care of them. this country has done a great job on the corona. and i will say has not -- the people that have worked on it have been amazing what we have done from ventilators where we had nothing to making them now for the world. we are supplying the world now with ventilators. and you go back four months, we didn't have any. it's a complicated peels of machinery. it's big, it's expensive. the job we have done has been an amazing job. when you say that 18 states. but what you don't say, brian, is testimony that states, most states are coming down, way down, and now, florida, texas, as i said. california, and others are coming down. but most states are coming down. you look at a map and white means good. most of the -- most of the map is in the white color. the red color is the corona or

potential and it's a very relatively small portion. but it's coming down. some states are going up a little bit but they will very shortly. they are under control, they will be coming down. this is a terrible thing that china sent us. this is not easy. is a terrible thing. all you have to do is look at every other country in the world 188 countries are suffering with this plague. pete: mr. president, at this moment around kitchen tables one of the biggest question marks for families and parents of kids is will my children actually be going back to school? could the plan that exists now change later? teachers unions out there making demands like take the cops out of the school. we need medicare for all and crazy political demands that feel like extortion. yet, to a parent, they want to know will it be in person? will it be virtual? if i'm in a private school, do they put the same parameters the governor did on the government schools? what is the latest on your view of you who these schools should

reopen? >> my view is the schools should open. this thing is going away. it will go away like things go away. my view is schools should be open. if you look at children. children are almost -- and i would almost say definitely but almost immune from this disease. so few they have got stronger, hard to believe, i don't know how you feel about it, but they have much stronger immune systems than we do somehow for this. they do it. they don't have a problem. they just don't have a problem. i mean, literally, in new jersey, where you had thousands, many thousands of deaths, the governor, phil murphy told me, good guy too by the way. he told me thousands and thousands of deaths that was hard hit. there was only one person under the age of 1 18 who died of this and i think that person also had diabetes. a young person. and especially when you get younger than that, it doesn't have an impact on them. and i have watched some doctors say they are totally immune.

i don't know, i hate to use the word totally because the news will say oh he made the word totally and he shouldn't have used that word. the fact is they are virtually immune from this problem. and we have to open our schools. remember, this and i think you believe this, pete. it's very bad for our country to be locked into a house, an apartment what's going on with suicide. what's going on with drugs. what's going on with depression. what's going on with so many other things. people lose their jobs. they never get it back. they have a great job. all of a sudden that little business or that big business is forced to close. this is a very bad thing. this isn't like oh we have a choice of one or the other. one is good, one is bad. no, staying locked up, the lockdown. we did the right thing. we closed it down. we saved millions of lives. instead of the number that you are looking at, you could be at 2 million. multiply the number that you have now times 10, 15, or 20. that's what you would be. we did the right thing.

we closed it down. now we are opening up. now we understand the disease. we understand that the elderly, especially the elderly with the problem with diabetes or heart. if they have a problem. they are very, very vulnerable. very, very susceptible to this disease and we have to be very, very careful and vigilant with them and we're. ainsley: well, on that note, what about the elderly teachers, the teachers that are susceptible or have underlying conditions. are you worried at all? is that a concern that maybe one of the moms or dads who drops their child off might have covid and not know it and pass it on to one of these teachers? >> i think the teachers are a different story. and if a teacher is in a certain age group, i think they shouldn't be going in and probably they are going to have to waited until the thing goes by. they will have to wait. it will go by. by the way, with vaccines and therapeutics are coming along incredibly well. i have stream lined the process. this would have taken three or four years to be where we are right now. we will have one, i believe, long before the end ever the year. and we have many that are

already in stage 2 and stage 3 trials which is ending the lap. and it's been incredible. nobody can believe what the fda has been able to do. this would have been a process of two others yoorks three years, or four years. and we are ready just about -- we think -- i mean, we have such great candidates. candidates vaccines and therapeutics where you walk in, a trans fusion or a shot and the people get better. that's the one i really like. brian: president, today's "the washington post" written by four experts, one of which is scott gottlieb who i know you like. he says blood plasma might be the covid-19 treatment we need. if we can get people who have recovered from the virus get the plasma and get it widespread that might be the therapeutic. you are in the meetings with the leading doctors. do you believe this and if so, what are you doing to spread this plasma? i haven't heard much about this in months. >> yeah. it's a big thing. in fact, i had the meeting the other day at the red cross

building. you probably saw that. it was a big meeting mostly on plasma. and it was also a meeting for people that have recovered. people that have recovered, if they would go to their blood bank, give the red cross or wherever they can find and give a donation, because i will tell you what, that would be a tremendous thing. scott is 100 percent right. it's a tremendous thing what we have done with the plasma. and it makes better, you know, it makes people better. it's fought them off once and it will fight them off again. but that's a new thing. that's another -- that's another way of doing it. and it's something that we have very, very much. we are taking tremendous amounts of blood. we are getting tremendous donations from people. these are people that have had the disease, the covid, and they have recovered. their blood, the plasma so valuable, so important to us. so, they are doing it.

we would like to have a lot more and you are right, it is a fantastic answer. it's not the whole answer but it's a fantastic part of the puzzle. pete: mr. president, the debate is ongoing on capitol hill about another stimulus bill, the democrats say they want 3.4 trillion. republicans rightly balk at that a big part of the discussion is how much supplemental unemployment should be given at the federal level. and i noticed a tweet from representative lance gooden a republican from texas pointing out what he has heard from businesses in his district. democrats say it has to be 600. republicans feel like if you are being paid more to be on unemployment it may be a disincentive to go back to work. here's the tweet he said with 600 expected unemployment expired, business owners in my district tell me this week is the first week they have had all their employees show up. do you believe that if unemployment is more than people are making it's a disincentive for people to go back to work right now? >> well, that's what the democrats want to do. they wanted to do that i have to

say this what they really want is bail out money for their states that have done very poorly for years a bad manager. not because of covid. you can add covid to it. but basically for years of bad management. they want bail out money. they want a trillion dollars to bail out states that -- you know the states. i don't have to go over them. i'm not going to embarrass anybody. there are states that have done very, very poorly. and they want bail-out. they want to use covid to get them bailed out and we can't do that. with all of that being said, we want to get funds to people so they can live. but we don't want to disincent at this advise people from going back to work. ainsley: is your second term agenda? what are your priorities? >> i want to take where we left. we had the greatest economy in the history of the world. we were better than any other country. we were better than we were ever. we never had anything like this. this country, 160 million people working. we have never had that before. we have never even come close to that best employment numbers. best unemployment numbers for

african-american, asian-american, women, hispanic. everybody. the best numbers we have ever had, the best stock market we have ever had. although we are coming very close right now. in fact, nasdaq is already higher than that number. so a lot of good things are happening. needs to be jobs. what i want to do is take it from that point and build it even better. we are becoming a great manufacturer again. i'm taking business and i'm taking trade back from these other countries that have ripped us off for years, our allies, also, have been ripping us off for years they don't pay their bills delinquent. allies. everybody says they're wonderful allies. yeah. but they got to pay their bills. we protect them militarily and then they take advantage of us on trade and the military because they don't pay their bills on military in some cases. i mean, germany was very delinquent. they owed us billions of dollars, billions of dollars to nato. they should be paying their bills. they are a rich country. they should be paying their bills. why should we defend countries and not be reimbursed?

i mean, if somebody thinks differently, they can do whatever they want. but germany was totally delinquent. you know, it's very interesting. we're supposed to protect germany from russia. that's fine. but, germany is paying russia billions of dollars for energy. so, we're protecting germany from russia. germany is paying russia. what's that all about? so, there is a whole thing that for years and years -- i don't know why presidents didn't solve these problems, but they are problems that are -- that i'm getting done. i'm getting done like nobody has ever gotten them done before. brian: we are just starting the top of the hour. lucky enough to be talking to the president of the united states about the things that affect your life and affect the country. as you hear around the world the president just to build on what you just said. you are moving troops out of germany. we can provide that natural gas to germany. they chose russia as a supplier, which is pretty insulting. but you're moving troops out of germany to two countries, italy and belgium who also don't pay what they should to nato, the 2%. why move them

>> but they will be paying and i told them. brian, i've raised at nato -- when i went in it was a disaster. 7 countries were paying what they were supposed to be paying. now i've raised and secretary general stoltenberg is trump's biggest fan. president obama would go make a speech and nobody would pay. but he wouldn't talk about it. i went and said, you have to pay. i like you all very much but you have to pay. we are protecting you and spending a lot of money. the united states was paying for everybody. i said you have to pay. bottom line after one meeting we got $130 billion a year more going to $400 billion and then it makes sense. by the way, when they say about russia, that money is largely to protect europe from russia, so when they say trump and russia,

russia believe me, they'd love to see me lose this election. that i can tell you. $130 billion more paid by those countries that were delinquent. they were all delinquent and it's going to 400 billion but germany has to pay. germany is a wealthy country and have to pay and we will not have 50,000 troops in germany, they built cities around our troops. we will let ourselves get rich so germany took advantage and that's what happens. pete: well, mr. president as someone who took in nato mission i can't not agree more that we don't get much back in return. >> we get nothing back. they take advantage on us on trade. we get nothing back. on top of it, they make it impossible to do business. they put barriers up and charge us tariff. they are dreaming about joe biden. they dream about it every night. please joe, let joe win, we will so be rich and all i'm doing is

bringing fairness back but it got out of control. long time ago. long before obama, biden did absolutely nothing. made it worse, but it was long before them in all fairness. pete: they don't feel the need to defend themselves if you'll do it for them. i want to come across the pond, there are reports that you're considering possibly giving convention acceptance speech from the white house lawn. what's the latest on what you'll be doing with the convention? >> we are thinking about it. they move with a lot of people, expensive operationally and the secret service is fantastic, but, you know, it's a big deal and we are thinking about doing it from the white house because there's no movement. it's easy. i think it's a beautiful setting and we are thinking about that. it's certainly one of the alternatives. it's the easiest alternative, beautiful alternative. i love the building. i'm there right now. i spend a lot of time here.

a lot of people didn't spend as much time. i like it, a great place and representative of our nation. so it would be by far the least expensive from the country standpoint because it really is, it's a big deal when you get up and move all of this apparatus. ainsley: so what is the status of the rnc now because at first it was charlotte as you know and then moved to jacksonville but contractually you had to do part of it in charlotte and now we are talking about the white house, how are you going to make sure it's not chaotic. how do you make sure delegate votes are heard? >> well, we are going to have the very first night will be in charlotte but that locked down, the governor, i don't know what he's doing. they locked north carolina down. we were really wanting to go to north carolina and so what we are doing is we are doing one night there and it'll be a nomination night and it'll go

very well. we are going to let the press go and watch it, but socially distanced and lots of things are happening. the state is in a lockdown. we have no choice. we went to jacksonville, a place that we are very good but after we announced, florida got hit and now florida is recovering but what we are going to do is we are going to do virtual and we are going to do some live speeches from different locations and i'm going to do mine on thursday night and that'll be a lot -- first lady is making a speech. numerous people are making speeches, senators, a lot of very terrific people -- we have terrific speakers' list. jim jordan, so many others, matt gaetz, these guys are warriors fighting against horrible force that hopefully -- hopefully we will get their act together. great, great people making speeches. i will probably do mine live from the white house.

brian: looks like live from the white house. would you say you're locked in on that? >> no. brian: okay. >> if for some reason somebody had difficulty with it, i could go some place else. the easiest least expensive would be live from the white house. brian: you're home there and bills are paid for. mr. president, for were taken aback when president obama used eulogy speech to go after you and talking about politics and not about congressman lewis, gerrymandering an getting rid of the filibuster. it made me think who is having harder time getting over the 2016 election clinton or president obama or do you agree more of a campaign speech and less than a eulogy? >> it showed anger there that people don't see. he lost control and he's been

really hit very hard by both sides for that speech. that speech was ridiculous. i think the answer is they both are just in a state -- you know, it's just one of those things. we've redone 82% or something of the obama things. look at the environment and air and water now is cleaner than it's ever been and you look prior to plague coming in and we will have the numbers plus next year, you watch. you look at the numbers that we were doing and despite that our air and water, environmental numbers are better than they ever were. no, i thought the speech was totally inappropriate, very bad. a lot of people don't realize that -- i said it the other day, he fought just as hard or harder than hillary so that hillary won. i didn't know him. he was somebody who wanted me not to win. he wanted -- brian: he mocked at you washington correspondent's

dinner and jimmy kimmel show that you will never become president. do you think to a degree he's not over that? >> well, you know, i was at the dinner and the washington -- a lot of people say i ran because of the dinner. that's absolutely not true. actually he joked but supposed to be joking and he joked and, you know, i actually thought he did a very good job at the dinner. i thought the dinner was a very good job. i thought the speech the other day at the funeral was a terrible, terrible representation of what our country is all about. i thought it was absolutely terrible, but he fought very hard for hillary clinton. he fought -- i think he fought harder than she did. remember i used to complain all of that, he's going all over the place and, you know, it actually inspired our voters and we have more enthusiasm right now with our voters, brian, than they ever had, than we ever had in 2016 and we had great -- nobody ever saw enthusiasm like 2016. they came from the lakes, the rivers, they came from everywhere, they came from

places that the democrats never heard about and they voted and they lined up and i don't know if it was ballots or not. not too many ballots. they loved standing there waiting to vote. they came days early. they've never seen anything like it. we have more today -- i just got back from texas and florida. we had lines miles long along the highway and roadways with the flag and the american flag and the trump fragranced -- flag and the one thing i noticed they never fly the american flag. i can always tell our crowds but there was virtually no, i didn't see any -- anybody, thousands, tens of thousands of people, they were all for trump and trump-pence. mike pence had done a great job, by the way. he's been solid, incredible vice president. he's done a fantastic job. people love him, but they had to trump-pence signs all up and down the highway and it was an incredible thing to see in texas

and i got the full endorsement of law enforcement and, you know, i told them you don't have a choice, in fairness. what's the choice? you don't have a choice. i have full endorsement of law enforcement almost everywhere. pete: mr. president, there's a group on the left that carries the american flag because they want to burn it and it's antifa and we have seen the violence to cities across america. there was a hearing on capitol hill where ted cruz tried to lay out where the funding is coming from and what the group is all about but it seems democrats are hell bent on denying that antifa exists. we had representative jim clyburn over the weekend and he didn't know federal buildings were under threat and nadler well he said this, listen, mr. president. >> there's violence around the country. that's happening in portland. >> that's a myth that's being

spread only in washington, d.c. pete: how can democrats get away with calling antifa a myth and saying federal buildings are not under seem, they wouldn't condemn it yesterday at the hearing with senator cruz, why can't they? >> well, senator cruz is right. you know, look, this isn't being naive, this is being untruthful. these are lying people. these are untruthful people. they know it exists. they are -- antifa is a horrible group. it's a far-left group and they used to try and blame the right on all of this stuff and now finally at least they are not doing that so much anymore. they are not doing that anymore, almost never. antifa is a far-left group anarchists, agitators is a nice word -- brian: who beens them? >> the democrats know they exist. you have democrats funding them. they say soros and other people, who knows, but they are funded. you see them standing there with

weapons that are expensive that -- that -- with signs that were made, i mean, literally they have signs, some of march signs were made in high-class printing shop. i like the signs that were made in a basement. they mean a lot more. antifa is well known by the democrats and when they say, gee, we don't know who they are, who could be they be, they're a bad group. when i signed my bill the other day, the act and it was very important, ten years in jail for ripping down monuments or statutes, it stopped. that was two months ago. it totally stopped at least on a federal basis. even on state basis because when they heard they go to jail for 10 years. i took an old law and reinstituted which everyone said it's too tough. let me tell you, 10 years for ripping down a statute or ripping down a monument and they were going to march on washington. they were going to -- the march totally stopped once i signed the bill. i gave a news conference, i signed the bill. you can come but anybody -- we

now have hundreds of people in court that are being prosecuted all over the country, so it's, hey, we've done a good job. we've done a great job. the fact is that seattle would be burned down now if we didn't threaten to go in. we were going in and when they heard that we were going in they sent the cops and by the way, antifa, radical left, they gave up immediately because basically they are cowards. basically they are cowards. they just keep pushing as far as they can. when i watch police standing there and these radical anarchists are spitting on the police and doing much worse than that, they are throwing things that you don't want to know about and police aren't allowed to defend themselves and stand there, it's a disgrace, but we've done a great job. we've saved portland and we can -- we did it nice and soft but we did a very good job in portland. if we weren't in portland right now the federal courthouse would have been ripped down and burned

down and wouldn't exist a long with -- along with lots of federal buildings. it's one of those things that if you want the country like that, if the whole country will be another portland, that can happen, all you have to do is elect radical group of people and joe biden is totally taken in by them, by the way, totally taken in. he can't say -- it's nice that his wife tries to defend him. he's not a moderate. take a look at the manifesto that he agreed to with bernie. it's further left than bernie ever was. ainsley: pledged to spend billions on aoc's green new deal. what's the latest on tiktok because young people are worried that you will ban it, the adults don't want the chinese to be stealing information about their kids? >> so china has done big number on us for many years. i've taken billions, billions of dollars from china. nobody else has before done it and one of the things we've done has been very strong.

we are not allowing hauwei, big phone company and we got a lot of our allies. i said if you do it, that's okay, but we are not going to be able to share any information with you. so we've literally talked many of our allies that were ready to get free phone system or very inexpensive, you know, 5g system, they. >> going to get the system and and it would have been a disaster from the security standpoint, so italy and many other countries we've talked out of it. there are still some considering it and if they do it, we will not be able to do any security business with because we -- we don't want them going back to holes of beijing, so with -- so if you look attic to -- at tikt, it's okay if it's bought by secured american company and they can buy at 30% which is the american component. if you buy it. the united states which is making it possible to buy, without us they can't do

anything, should be compensated with very big payment. that money would go into the treasury of the united states and by the way, microsoft which is looking at it and others, they all agree to that. ainsley: is china stealing our data? >> absolutely. they've been stealing for years. they've been stealing everything. we come up with new computers, all of a sudden they are being made. we have fighter jet, one of the greatest jets, they copied our planes. i saw it. i said, let me ask you what's that's all about that's the f22, china copied the f22, one of the greatest fighter jets ever made. it's a disgrace. brian: yeah, morris probe looks exactly like ours. let's keep it with china for a second. you have australia who changed defense strategy and uk walked away from hauwei, vietnam extremely worried. japan extremely concerned. they are reconfiguring, reanalyzing their relationship. india they had a scrimmage and

lost people. you have an opportunity to lace together our allies against this rising china tide. what specifically have you done being that we seem to be on the same page but we we are not sing from the same hymn sheet, mr. president, what have you done to change that antichina coalition? >> brian, all of the things that you just said with the uk, they were okay to buy hauwei system, australia. all of the things you just said i've done. i had a big talk with boris. if you look at the system, you can forget about scotland yard frankly. we can't do business with you. italy was set to sign the hauwei system and they terminated. australia has been great right from the beginning, i will tell you what, they are a great ally. brian: mr. president, are you waiting -- are you going to call a summit together? >> we are already together.

these countries are almost as angry as i am at the plague being released in their country. china stopped the plague from going into china but they didn't stop the plague from leaving china and going to europe and the united states and all over the world. 188 countries and those countries have suffered more than we have in many ways hard to believe, more than we have. brian: on the same note they -- right, mr. president, but we condemn, sanction but we did nothing. what if they move on taiwan next? what are we prepared to do? >> hong kong, we are with them. it's attached and with hong kong, they've taken tremendous amounts of business from us. just from a practical standard, hong kong stock exchange, they take massive amounts. we gave them -- because of freedom, for freedom, we gave them tremendous incentives and i wouldn't say it's wrong but they took massive amount of business away from the new york stock

exchange, nasdaq, all of our exchanges and that was okay, we did that for free. we have not taken all that back. hong kong would not be successful exchange. it won't be. we gave them incentives that it was easy to do well. we will make more money now. china has grilled them down. they lost a lot of their fight. brian: they've been arresting, everybody. >> i've looked at it for years. why is hong kong getting so much business, that's not good. we gave hong kong tremendous incentives to get business. that was business that would normally come into new york and business that would come to the united states. the new york stock exchange, they are going to do very well. they will pick up a lot of business. that's very cold to be saying that, right, that's very cold, but the fact is hong kong is there and they didn't honor their agreement. 25 years ago with their

agreement, with uk. they have an agreement that should have been honored and uk has looked at it very strongly but we've taken everything back and we are doing a lot more business. we will be doing a lot more business. hong kong unfortunately, their exchanges and all of that business will now dry up and fail because they can't do it without the incentives that we gave. we gave them so much in order to be successful. pete: mr. president, real quick, on business, i want to talk about the business of sports, reopening in our country. a couple of years ago you very vocal about kneeling for the national anthem. now it seems that standing is the new kneeling in that only 3 players jonathan isaac and leonard and gregg popovich standing for the anthem, your take for the league? >> i think it's disgraceful. we worked with them, worked hard to get open. i was pushing to get open and i see everybody kneeling during the anthem. we are not -- it's not

acceptable to be. when i see them kneeling, i just turn off the game. i have no interest in the game. let me tell you plenty of other people too. black lives matter, nobody has done better for our black community than me. nobody and that is -- with possible exception of abraham lincoln it's true, criminal justice reform, opportunity zones, best employment numbers in history, every single -- what i've done, funding the black colleges and universities, historically they say historically black, but the colleges and universities funded it for a long time. they had no funding, they had to keep coming back to washington. i took care of them for long-term. they are all set. nobody has done for the black community african-american community what i've done and i will tell you, they had black lives matter, where did it start? marching down streets screaming

pigs in a blanket fry them like bacon, they were talking about policemen. all of a sudden it's taken on air of great respectability. well, how does it start there? it's a marxist group. it's a marxist group that is not looking for good things for our country and now i see the leagues all kneeling down and, again, nobody has done more for the black community by far. i always say nobody other than -- i will give the one exception, abraham lincoln, but even that, to be honest with you, but nobody has done more than i have, but when i see people kneeling during the playing and disrespecting our flag and disrespecting our national anthem, what i do personally is turn off the game and the ratings for the basketball are way down if you know. and i hear some others are way down too including baseball because all of a sudden baseball is in the act. we need to stand up for our flag, we need to stand up for our country and stand up for our

anthem and a lot of people agree with me. hey, if i'm wrong, i will lose an election and that's okay with me. i will always stand for our country and flag. that's what we are all about. our country is now respected again. our country was disrespected and now our country is respected and other countries including allies, i say sometimes so-called allies because they've ripped us up more than enemies. the allies are respecting us again. ainsley: mr. president, this would be the last question. is there something you can say to help the country with the race division and inequalities because most of your supporters at least are going to say, i don't support black lives matter when they are chanting pigs in a blanket, fry them like bacon. most people support law enforcement that support you and men and women and hard workers out in the front line but there needs to be the conversation of black lives matter in the sense that condoleezza rice was asked one of her pet peeves. i hate it when people look at me

because i'm black and they come up with preconceived notions how i will vote or what my background is like or my education is like, how can we heal as a nation so that we can look at everyone as americans? as maya angelo says we are more similar than different. >> we had the highest employment, the best employment numbers ever, ever for the black community for african american, the best numbers. hispanic, asian, everybody, but we had the best numbers for everybody. we were there. i was seeing believe it or not with congress. we were doing things -- the election was a walk -- the election was going to be a walk, walk in the park. now i'm working but we are doing well. we have poll numbers now where i'm leading and, you know, we got hit like everybody else and everybody in the same position, all the other countries, but we got hit, but we are doing really

well and we are building it again and people see that we are building it again. biden can't build anything. we were close, ainsley, to being there. we had tremendous success going and i could see things changing and they were changing rapidly and then we got hit with the plague from china. now we are doing it again, the best answer, ainsley s great success, great jobs, great income, homes, home ownership was at the highest rate. now we had great homeowners. you saw yesterday the home ownership numbers were announced yesterday and home sales are through the roof. i think it was one of the highest ever. so we are doing it again but we got interrupted by the virus, by the plague and it was a terrible thing but the answer just in word, success, success will bring us together. there's no other way that can top it. it will bring people together. brian: all right, mr. president, thanks for the quality time

which we really appreciate, on behalf of the audience, thanks so much, best of luck. ainsley: thank you, mr. president. >> thank you very much, i love your show. brian: thank you. a little bit later there's more fireworks, sally yates testifying on capitol hill, we will have mike huckabee talk about this and senator marsha blackburn coming your way, don't move ... (burke) oh, just puttering, tinkering... commemorating bizarre mishaps that farmers has seen and covered. had a little extra time on my hands lately. (neighbor) and that? (burke) oh, this? just an app i've been working on. it's called signal from farmers, and it could save you up to fifteen percent on your auto insurance. simply sign up, drive and save. but i'm sure whatever you've been working on is equally impressive. ♪ we are farmers. bum-pa-dum, bum-bum-bum-bum ♪

pete: welcome back, moments ago we spoke to president trump right here on "fox & friends", we discussed everything from mail-in voting to covid-19 response. ainsley: hey, griff. griff: that's right, ainsley, good job, by my count that was about 56 minutes of hard questions that made a lot of news and let's start with the first amount of news which was when it comes to the stalled stimulus deal here in washington democrats and republicans miles apart. white house chief of staff, secretary unable to get pelosi and schumer on board. the president made news when it comes to payroll tax cut, if the members of congress can't get it done, he has the right to do it himself. here is what he said. >> we are negotiating right now. i have the right to suspend it and i may do it myself. i have the absolute right to

suspend the payroll, you know, to do the payroll tax and we call it a payroll tax suspension. that's an incentive for people and small businesses and businesses generally to hire back their workers. griff: the president also saying that part of the problem of the talks are that the democrats want, quote, a bailout for states run by democrats which are doing poorly. now when it comes to those nevada mail-in ballots and the lawsuit that the campaign filed, he spoke out for the first time since this news this morning saying that if it goes forward, it will create a disaster for the election in november. listen. >> what they are going to do is blanket the state anybody that ever walked frankly will get one and, you know, the governors, he's somebody that frankly was shocking and shocking what he did, more shocking what he did,

they approved ridiculous system and the post office will never be equipped to handle it. griff: and when it comes to much anticipated debates, ainsley, he pointed out september 29th, the president said actually if had his choice he would move things up earlier and he believes biden is trying to get out of them, listen. >> well, they are trying to get out. my people are telling me that they are playing very cute, they are trying to get out. there's no question about that, but, you know, we should have the debates. the one problem i have is that the debate is very late, it's at the end of september and a lot of ballots will be cast by that time. they want to make the debates as late as possible. griff: when it comes to the coronavirus and covid testing he made a little bit as you pointed out, brian, a thousand new deaths a day, very troubling. the president actually saying that the country is in a good place particularly because of the testing we are doing. here is what the president said. >> 50% of the country is

short-term testing. we are going to more but you have to remember, we did 61 million tests. the next country is like germany is at 3. india with 1.5 billion people is at 11. we are at 61, nobody is even closer to us in testing, you know, it's just another talking point. by the way, when you do a lot of testing you have more cases so they say we have more cases, well, that's because we test. griff: now the president left a few issues open-ended, if you will, brian, did a good job trying to pressure him on whether or not we will get the convention speech from the white house lawn. he said it would be certainly an easy way to do but wouldn't commit entirely to it and when it comes to the sale of tiktok leaving open again the idea that perhaps if an american company could safely and securely do it, that's a possibility. we have to wait and see but he made it clear that the threat of china is very real. we should expect to hear more of that in the coming months, pete,

ainsley, brian. pete: thank you, griff, the king of quick turnaround. great job, griff. let's bring the king of quick analysis, mike huckabee, governor, you had a chance to watch the interview. let me play a clip of when we asked the president about joe biden and his wife trying to frame him as a moderate and what he really represents, here is the president from moments ago. >> joe biden is whatever they tell him to be. joe has been taken so far left. look at the manifesto that he and bernie agreed to. no borders, you take a look at what he wants to do with police forces. joe is totally involved with every one of those horrible things whether it's sanctuary cities and the whole concept of open borders is so bad and then they are going the raise your taxes by 2, 3, 4 times. joe will drive the market into a depression. pete: governor, with the help of almost universally friendly mainstream media, could joe

biden frame himself as moderate? governor: absolutely, they will do whatever they can to cover for him. the president's strategy has to be to take from left, right, horizontal election, make it up or down. that's how he wins suburban women and wins back some of the people that are just not sure or that maybe believe the media nonsense. let me run things that can make this up-down election. here is what goes up if joe biden gets elected, taxes, energy cost, construction costs, tax-funded abortion, urban mobs and crime, political correctness, china's influence, the cost of your health care, the cost of food, liberals running the courts and collectivism. that's what goes up under biden. here is what goes down, jobs, religious liberty, protection of the unborn, the rights of the

second amendment, our relationship with israel and military readiness. now when you put in those terms, then it doesn't matter where they position joe biden on the horizontal, left-right scale, the issue is where is he on the vertical up-down scale and with that, joe biden has got a real problem trying to explain why he would take those things up and the other things down. ainsley: the president talked about the economy and he said some of the democratic states, they want the schools to be closed, they want to pay people just to stay at home, they don't want the economy to come back. it happened during election year and they could be using that in their favor. listen to this. >> they want bailout million. they want a trillion dollars to bail out states -- and you know the states, i don't have to go over them. i'm not going to embarrass anybody, there are state that have done very, very poorly and they want to use covid to get them bailed out and we can't do

that. with all of that being said, we want to get funds to people so they can live but we don't want to disincentives people from going back to work. ainsley: governor, your thoughts? governor: well the president is 100% right and the states like california, new york allowed unions to pressure them into bankruptcy. now the states want the federal government which means you, everybody other taxpayer in america to bail out really stupid policy decisions made at the state level which were political giveaways. the president needs to hold to his guns on this because people in the other 47 states don't want to bailout, not just those but some other states that have had ridiculously liberal spend-thrift policies and more the president highlights what the democrats are really wanting to do the more he becomes obvious he's on the right track and pelosi and schumer are just playing political games, trying to shake down the taxpayers for

money. brian: tiktok is one of the hottest apps in the country for next generation that are waiting to get back to school and the president is thinking about banning because of the way they can assemble technology on americans and background on americans, here is what the president said about tiktok. >> if you look attic we said it's okay if it's bought if it's bought by secured american company they can buy the whole thing instead of 30% which is the american component but if you buy it, the united states which is making possible to buy because without us they can't do anything, should be compensated, properly compensated with a very big payment, so that money would go into the treasury of the united states and by the way, microsoft which is looking at it and others, they all agree to that. brian: governor, senator howley doesn't want tiktok at all, he says they will find back door to get information.

governor: well, i'd be disappointed if we lose tiktok because my dance videos are going viral. joe biden think tiktok is a breath mint. we will have to bring him up to speed so he can articulate it. pete: all right, governor, former tiktok sensation, we appreciate it. [laughter] governor: you got it. pete: you heard president trump he wants to move up the first presidential debate but some in the media are call to go scrap them altogether. could that really happen? move up or gone altogether. that's next. ♪ a lot of healthy foods are very acidic

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>> i'm ready to debate. i don't care. i hear he wants to get out. in all fairness to him, he has nod sate that. i wouldn't mind -- what's more important to me the first debate be moved up so that when people are putting in their first ballot they are going to know. there's never been two philosophies different than what we have. ainsley: moments ago president trump push to go move up debates against joe biden as some democrats in the media push to scrap them altogether, here to weigh in senior editor of reason magazine and author of panic attack, we have robbie, hey, robbie, good to see you. >> hi, good to see you. ainsley: thank you so much for being here. you heard the president he wants to move them up. the first debate at the end of september, september 29th but early voting, absentee ballots

are being sent earlier than that. do you agree with him? >> yeah, i think there should be more debates and we should have them earlier as long as proper precautions can be taken in light of the pandemic. i don't know whether biden himself actually wants to not have the debates or whether democrats do but certainly people in the media, they've said it explicitly, there was a new york times op-ed, new republic, i have seen others in the media saying they should be canceled and not be held i think because they have lack of faith that there could be -- or should be discussion, dialogue and exchange of ideas that the american people should be able to see the contrast of styles and kind of decide for themselves what to think rather than be told what to think by the media. so that's the real question, i think. ainsley: so biden and president trump have both said they agree to the three debates. joe biden was on fox said he

will be at the debates, he will be on the stage. how many people -- why do you think so many people in the media are not for it specifically? i hear they are scared he will have gaffes which might guaranty if he has 3 debates, what do you think. >> we got to see a preview of what debate performance would be like in primary debates where joe biden despite, you know, easily winning the primary season didn't -- i didn't think -- i think a lot of people don't think he performed well rhetorically speaking against sanders, warren, klobuchar, harris, et cetera, so there might be some fear that he doesn't fair that well against president trump either. you know, i would agree that there should be some -- there could be substantive changes. i would like the moderators to -- to allow time for longer more thoughtful answers rather than kind of just encouraging them to fight with each other which is often what happens in these debates, so it's -- frankly for

how to handle this pandemic, how to get us out of this terrible situation. ainsley: it's been so fluid. we have seen what's happened with the conventions. you had charlotte and then jacksonville and now the president just said that he's going to give the acceptance speech probably at the white house and then we've seen what happened with the dnc. maybe we be see debates change too. we will see. thanks so much. >> thank you. ainsley: you're welcome, democratic senator walking out of a hearing of antifa violence, watch. >> you're welcome to say something negative about antifa right now? >> i think that that covers the subject quite well. ainsley: senator marsha blackburn was in the room and she's going to react, but first let's check in with sandra smith with what's coming up at the top of the hour. sandra: brand-new reaction of what you just heard.

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24 hours, gop senator marsha blackburn was at the hearing. senator, one thing is consistent, democrats want to talk far-right extremists and not acknowledging antifa and actions. >> it is unbelievable that the democrats will not come out and say violence is wrong,the law i. there is a difference between peaceful protests which is to be protected and within what is happening with these rioters, looters and those creating all of this disruption, and one of the questions i asked yesterday was about the doj task force that is looking at who is funding this and where are they getting this organizational structure. they say they are trained marxists, so doj is working on that, we are looking forward to those answers and, brian, it's quite a week because we had that hearing yesterday and today we

are doing hear on sally yates and trying to figure out what she knew and who knew what and how we hold them accountable and how we have them face consequences and hopefully we will see people that did things wrong and illegally facing jail time. brian do you believe you will get a cooperative witness and what do you think is going to emerge after this today? how much closer are you going get to the truth on flynn and whole russia investigation? what launched it? >> what we are going to be able to do is put meat around the timeline and chairman graham has done a great job of this because we will be able to figure out how this got going without sally yates knowing, then when she okayed all of this, did she know there was no reason, did she know that the dossier was a hoax, so these are things that we are going to be able to get answers to and as you heard in your interview with the president, he knows that it is the democrats that have refused

to accept the outcome of the 2016 election. they have wasted years. they've created this sham so that they could say he didn't legitimately win and what we are going to do is continue our work to expose this and to give the american people the information that they need to realize donald trump won this election, the democrats couldn't accept it, they cooked up a plot and found somebody to carry it out and they knew the whole thing was a falsehood. brian: they talked about women's voting, women suffrage for children, it's been 100 years since women got the right to vote. you did a great job telling the message in the book with your daughter. >> thanks, brian, appreciate it. have a great day. brian: you too. senator marsha blackburn. back in a moment, "fox & friends" continues.

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>> if you have time run to the radio we'll talk to jonathan swan and jason miller. >> stay within yourself, i say play beyond your means today. you can do it. >> that's a good one. >> oh my god. oh my god. >> sandra: a near miss in new jersey tropical storm isaias snapping trees like twigs, the system carving a path of destruction up and down the east coast spawning several tornadoes and living six people dead. i'm sandra smith. >> trace: i'm trace gallagher. isaias is heading into canada now. it made landfall as a hurricane in north carolina before barreling up the earn seaboard. it destroyed homes and left more than 3 million people without power.

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