you. pete, when? >> 6:00 to start the show and leaving the set to jump right in. >> can't wait to watch. wish you all the best and love all those guys doing it, too. >> you bet. >> sandra: police firing smoke grenades into a crowd of protestors as portland is rocked by another night of violence. the mayor condemned the rioters who attempted to set fire to the east precinct and block exits while officers were still inside. >> you are not demonstrating. you are attempting to commit murder. don't think for a moment that if you are participating in this activity that you are not being a prop for the reelection campaign of donald trump because you absolutely are. you don't want to be part of

that, then don't show up. >> sandra: we'll have more on the situation on the ground in portland coming up. first negotiations turn sour on capitol hill. white house officials and democrats failing to hash out their differences over the next round of coronavirus relief taking to finger pointing as president trump considers taking executive action. good morning, i'm sandra smith. >> i'm mike emanuel. great to be with you. >> sandra: good morning. >> both sides painting a bleak picture after their face-to-face meeting with no deal in place. nancy pelosi says the gop's proposal doesn't go far enough. mutschin threatened to stop the negotiations if democrats don't meet halfway. >> we have said the republicans and president don't understand the gravity of the situation and certainly just when they set a skinny proposal it was

anorexic and it was not to meet the needs of the american people. >> the compromises that we put forth are significantly greater than the compromises from what we saw from the other side of the negotiating table. >> sandra: kristin fisher is kicking things off from the white house. any movement this morning from either side? >> this is it, sandra. the self-imposed deadline day for the coronavirus stimulus negotiations. after two weeks of near daily meetings these two sides seem nowhere closer to reaching a deal. you have chuck schumer saying on capitol hill last night that he is urging the white house chief of staff mark meadows and treasury secretary steve mnuchin to return to the negotiating table today. as mark meadows was leaving capitol hill last night he said he's not sure if it's worth it to come back because the sides are still so far apart.

>> my frustration is that we could have passed a very skinny deal that dealt with some of the most pressing issues. i think for those that are suffering, they should be asking their democrats in the house and senate why have you failed to meet the needs that we have so rightly expressed? >> the top four negotiators emerged from a three-hour meeting last night saying they had made some progress on small items but remained not just billions but trillions of dollars apart on the big stuff. enhanced unemployment insurance and state and local funding and speaker pelosi says the negotiations last night got heated. >> that's really what mr. meadows did. a fly on the table, walk out. slamming the table on our children and their schools. they didn't take the virus seriously in the beginning and they're not taking the

consequences of the virus seriously at this time. and that's why it's hard to come to terms. >> if there is no deal the white house chief of staff says president trump will take executive action to act unilaterally. it could come as early as today, possibly tomorrow. but the preference is still for them to cut a deal on capitol hill. sandra, any hope that the commander-in-chief may go directly to capitol hill and invite pelosi and schumer to the white house to hash things out face-to-face they're not on the table. president trump has already left washington for bedminster, new jersey. >> sandra: that leaves a lot of questions over what happens the next 24/48 hours. thank you. >> joe biden facing backlash over remarks he made yesterday suggesting the latino community

is more diverse than the african-american community and now walking back those comments tweeting in no way did i mean to suggest the african-american community is a monolith not by identity or issues, not at all. peter doocy is live near the house where joe built. did joe biden actually apologize? >> no, mike, he never said the word sorry. he had some comments he wanted to clarify. here are those comments. >> what you all know but most people don't know unlike the african-american community with notable exceptions the latino community is an incredibly diverse community with incredibly different attitudes about different things. >> the claire fashion. throughout my career i witnessed the diversity within the african-american community. it's this diversity that makes our workplaces, community and country a better place. the trump campaign is trying to

establish a pattern suggesting this comment biden made about race fits in with his previous comment that african-americans who might vote for trump ain't black. andrew clark writes joe biden twice had to publicly retract comments that he thinks black voters are all the same, hum. it is not clear how this might undermine the big ad buy the biden campaign made yesterday, a new commercial focusing on african-american voters. the largest investment by a president campaign ever in african-american media. mike. >> during the covid-19 pandemic how is president trump trying to host in person events with his supporters? >> they're trying to get creative, mike. yesterday they popped up a lectern on the tarmac in ohio and invited some supporters to the tarmac and then they just started talking about joe biden. >> president trump: he is going

to do things that nobody would ever think even possible because he is following the radical left agenda. take away your guns, destroy your second amendment, no religion, no anything. hurt the bible, hurt god. he is against god. >> that part about biden hurting god stuck out to the biden campaign which remains almost fully virtual so they released a statement that says donald trump is the only president in our history to have tear gassed peaceful americans and thrown a priest out of his church so he could profane it with a bible for his own optics as he sought to tear our nation apart in a moment of crisis and pain. biden remains home in delaware. an announcement about his running mate could come at any time, mike. >> speaking of that, are we to believe there may be some zoom calls trying to figure out exactly who the winner of the

veepstakes might be? >> sandra: we have a pool camera, all the networks do, outside his gate in wilmington. there hasn't been much activity of people coming in for in-person meetings. kamala harris, who many speculate could be right there as a top, top tier finalist was caught on capitol hill yesterday. somebody asked her how is the vetting process going? she said you probably know better than i do, mike. >> peter doocy live in wilmington. we await results from the veepstakes. >> sandra: the department of homeland security is expanding operation legend to memphis and st. louis as gun violence rises in both cities. the missouri attorney general is welcoming the federal assistance. >> unprecedented effort to tackle violent crime in st. louis. the numbers of homicides are

soaring more than we saw even last year. there is a human toll that we can't lose sight of. >> sandra: federal forces have been deployed in eight cities across the country. trump administration says it's an effort to help state and local governments fight a surge in violent crime. >> as some school districts across the country resort to remote learning for the first semester parents in new york city are waiting to hear how the largest school system in this country is going to handle getting kids back to the classroom. alex hogan is live in the big apple as we await the governor's announcement. good morning, alex. >> governor andrew cuomo said he would make the announcement by the end of the week to decide if kids go back to class or stay at home. all of it causing a lot of controversy. some say it's been far too long since kids have been in school. others say it's not safe. new york city the nation's

largest public school district. schools can open if the infection rate stays below 3%. the threshold across the state is 5% for seven days. if that ticks up to 9% schools will have to shut back down. >> our decisions will be region by region. we did the economic reopenings in phases based on region. >> districts across the nation taking their own approach. los angeles and chicago public schools will be going online this fall. mississippi more than 100 students are quarantined in person -- after in-person class resumed last week. the top 25 largest school districts taking different routes. 19 going virtual. 2 a blended hybrid. remaining unclear on their decision. new york it's been five months of planning for this proposed hybrid. kids would go to school one to three days a week.

the rest of the time the more than one million students would learn online at home. teachers that i talked with here in the district say this would cause too much uncertainty for kids to spend part of their time and school and part of their time at home. the governor says it is not entirely up to the state. parents need to make their own decisions based on logistics for them. >> difficult issue. alex, thanks a lot. much more how new york city is preparing to reopen schools when new york congressman max rose joins us live just ahead. >> sandra: president trump issuing an executive order blocking the social media app tick to*k over national security concerns with china. what it means between the two countries. historic moment for the military. charles brown takes over the air force becoming the first black man leading a service branch. his reaction to being sworn in

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>> mike: history is made.

charles brown becoming the new air force chief of staff. first black man to head a military service branch. brown spoke at a ceremony yesterday. >> i do not take that moment lightly. today is possible due to the perseverance of those who went before me serving as an inspiration to me and so many others. >> mike: the four star general was previously commander of the pacific air forces overseeing more than 46,000 airmen. brown was sworn in at the white house by vice president mike pence earlier this week. congratulations to him. >> sandra: okay. indeed. great story there and we'll have much more coming up. mike, thank you. >> if a teacher doesn't show up you can't open the class. if a parent doesn't send their child, there is no child to educate. and that is in all doable. >> sandra: the governor saying it will take a joint effort to

get schools reopened. teachers are pushing back on a combination of home and in classroom learning over safety concerns. let's bring in max rose. congressman, thanks for being here. he has to answer to the teachers saying we don't feel safe going back. how do you get everybody on board for the same plan? >> thank you for having me. i think it's important we take a step back and set a table. this mayor is not only the worst mayor in the history of new york city, the worst mayor in the history of this great country. they have not put out a plan for opening the schools. they put out a prayer. an outline at best. there are a few things we should be focusing on here. the first is testing. there is no reason to say that every single teacher in new york city should not be tested at least every day, every other day. we can resource that. secondly we should be pushing funds to our educational systems across the country to

make sure that there is enough ppe as well as infrastructure for social distancing. but nothing can replace leadership and i don't blame anyone to include teachers, parents, families, for not having faith in this mayor right now. it is an utter disgrace. >> sandra: of course, you are talking about his leadership at the local level here in new york city but there are some who believe that there needs to be a clear plan from the top at the federal level. this is the national review on the need for a national plan to reopen our schools. how trump can help. it writes while the federal government has no power to regulate when local school districts open and close a national standard is needed. it should define objective thresholds so parents and school districts no when it's safe to remain open and closed. it should be simple, predictable and make clear schools should open except where coronavirus break-outs

are uncontrolled. how much directive needs to come from the top. >> there is a notion of national plan versus local plan. it has been politicized. i could see how there could be a national cdc standard when a school can be opened but we have local school districts and cities and states. it is one of the reasons why i'm talking about the failed leadership of the mayor of new york city. but with that being said, though, at this point we also have to note here that there is not really any capacity to do anything if we don't have federal resourcing of critical supplies. it is only the administration that can get us enough swabs, that can get us enough medical equipment and enough lab testing procedures so that we can actually get this done for our schools. a combination. we'll come together. >> sandra: you want a lot of the decisions on opening the schools at the local level but

asking for all the necessary supplies to come at the federal level. i want to put up on the screen some of the major districts that have already announced their reopening plans or closing plans. these are some of the largest school districts that are opening for online only, chicago, san francisco, los angeles, san diego. no in-person learning when schools open in the fall. then you've got some who have delayed or are considering delaying their open. houston, atlanta, and others. there are all -- this is the level of uncertainty we have in this country right now. congressman, if you could respond to what this care.com has put out there a survey talking about the lack of in-person teaching have a dramatic impact on working parents. it coincides with a report we got from goldman sachs earlier in the week that said many parents may have to stop

working all together if their kids aren't back in school or they're in this hybrid model where they go some days and they don't go some days. how difficult is that going to be for parents to manage? >> incredibly difficult, incredibly. this is an ecosystem. our economy. if parents can't safely send their children to school many of them won't be able to go to work. not everyone can remote work these days. there are 100% right to point to this which is why we need bold resourcing to our states and our cities so they can have enough testing and fund our schools enough to open them up safely. this is all so deeply interconnected i am happy to see you talking about it in that way. we want unemployment to go down. if we want our economy to rebound we have to figure out a way to safely open up our schools. everyone is on the same page there. our teachers want to go back safely. they didn't sign up to stay at home. they just want to know that

they aren't going to be losing their lives. >> sandra: putting a lot of emphasis on the supplies. you talk to people in the new york area, parents in the new york area, they just want a plan and they want to hear from the governor. a lot of the superintendents say there is a lack of communication there. they've waited a long time. there is still a level of uncertainty that is difficult to deal with. we appreciate the conversation, thank you. do you have a final thought? >> a plan, not a prayer, thank you again. >> sandra: thank you. max rose. mike. >> mike: rescue teams searching through the rubble as the people of the beirut direct their fury at lebanon's leaders after the explosion. president trump a new line of attack on joe biden why he is accusing him of being against god. >> president trump: he is following the radical left agenda. take away your guns, destroy your second amendment, no religion, no anything.

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the state department lifted its global do not travel advisory despite many countries blocking americans from entering. >> sandra: a million people are still without power in the eastern u.s. after isaias. governors are launching investigations into the utility company's responses after the storm. fox new alert. violent fighting as police tried to contain anti-government protests using tear gas. demonstrators throwing rocks at police demanding lebanon's leaders resign for allowing the explosion at the port. the number of dead rose to 154 with more than 5,000 injured. trey yengst is live in beirut for us. >> good morning. the lebanese people are demanding people from their government why there were thousands of tons of explosives

sitting at a port in beirut. 300,000 people are displaced following the explosion earlier this week and like you said, the people are angry. we saw overnight protests erupting in front of the lebanese parliament building. they were clashing with police. tear gas and an effort to try to calm tension where you have many demonstrators calling for the resignation of the lebanese president. now the extent of the damage here is difficult to describe. we did go to one location earlier today near the port that was completely destroyed. take a look. the city of beirut is in pieces. in the immediate vicinity of the blast it looks like a war zone. steel beams bent like paperclips. windows ripped from their frames. you can see the port a few hundred feet from where we're standing. people were home preparing to have dinner on tuesday night. you can see survivors had a difficult time getting out of

the building. the elevator shaft was heavily damaged in this explosion and there was a lot of debris blocking the stairwell. still there are blood stained footprints, reminder of the true toll that this blast caused. >> people are emotionally destroyed as they are physically okay emotionally destroyed. coming to such areas where the explosion happened and seeing all these people helping was it warms the heart and makes us have a little bit of hope again. >> you could hear the emotion in that woman's voice. it is a desperate cry for hope. there are people across beirut that aren't sure what the future holds for lebanon. that apartment building that we were in the owner of that building died in the blast. there were many people critically injured at that site. the days to come are certainly not the most certain thing for anyone here.

there are search and rescue teams from around the world that have landed in beirut looking for survivors in the rubble. as you noted the death toll does continue to rise. >> sandra: thoughts with all those people affected by that. thank you for your reporting in beirut. >> president trump: he is following the radical left agenda. take away your guns, destroy your second amendment, no religion, no anything. hurt the bible, hurt god. he is against god, he is against guns, he is against energy, our kind of energy. i don't think he is going to do too well in ohio. >> mike: president trump claiming biden is against god despite him being a practicing catholic. the biden team is firing back.

let's bring in guy benson and host of the guy benson show. good morning. does this line of attack suggest how important faith or values voters are to president trump? >> it might in his mind and it might be in reality a key piece of his coalition, that's definitely true. we can have a conversation about whether or not it's appropriate to go that far and to say what he said saying that his opponent joe biden is against god. i think the politicians who go that direction should do better. i think it's out of bounds. we've seen it from nancy pelosi questioning the faith or the adherence to their faith of republicans in the recent past. we saw mayor pete when he was running for president do the same thing against the vice president mike pence. not a good look for them or trump. >> mike: joe biden is responding, no surprise. he says quote, for president trump to attack my faith is shameful. beneath the office he holds and it is beneath the dignity of

the am people deserve from their leaders. as i've said so many times before we're in the battle for the soul of our nation and president trump's decision to smear my faith and profane god is a political attack, stark reminder of what the stakes of this fight truly are. guy, to his point is there a chance that this might backfire on the president? >> i think there probably is with some people. i'm not sure we'll talk about it a week from now. the news cycle moves at warp speed all the time. generally when you see political figures make arguments like my opponents are on the wrong side of god. my opponents hate america, my opponents hate the children, one we're seeing now on the debate over reopening schools. people in favor of reopening schools want children dead. when you suggest you are on the side of the almighty and the other side isn't or the other side is in favor of mass suffering and death. take a step back and re-evaluate whether or not you

can make better arguments. it is up to the catholic church to decide if joe biden deserves additional sanctions. he has been denied communion here or there on his slide into abortion extremism. that's a fair issue to bring up. how far he is moved on that issue to the point he supports it unfettered paid for my tax dollars. if that's a point the trump administration or the trump campaign wants to raise on the trail i think it's absolutely fair game. that's different than saying that joe biden is against god or wants to hurt the bible. >> mike: president trump signing an executive order on tiktok basically giving 45 days for microsoft or another company to have a deal that young people are excited about including my kids. does it expedite a deal with this executive order? >> nothing makes me feel older than tiktok. it is a foreign world to --

this is the right move by president trump and glad he has taken this step. it is not a crazy or wild step by any stretch. the chinese communist party is a real present and future threat to the united states. we've seen tiktok banned in india. this is a long-term data collection and espionage play by the chinese communist party. for the west to wake up to that and react accordingly is completely the right thing to do and i think there needs to be a good conversation with the young people and teenagers in particular who love tiktok. they have made friends there and they feel important in a lot of cases there and to try to make the case for why this is the right decision might be a tough sell for some. why i think maybe the best outcome here is for an american company to buy it and scrub any of these data collection opportunities for china and allow that app to just be fun which generally it is on the surface that's exactly what it is. the problem lies deeper.

>> mike: our kids love it. so should we expect, though, the chinese to then try to find another way to snoop on americans? >> oh yeah, right. you've seen some people say the chinese will spy on us no matter what. why ban tiktok? i think that's a silly argument. the chinese will try to spy on the u.s. military. should we open the floodgates to the pentagon, come on in and take a look? you want to do whatever you can to counter china and make it as hard as possible for them to steal intellectual property. president trump has been very strong on this point and for them to steal information about americans that could conceivably -- not that hard to imagine -- be used in the future for purposes of blackmail and extortion. make their lives harder. make the pla's lives when it comes to espionage as hard as possible. show them we're taking attention and not take it lying

down and prostrate ourselves and show up our hands. show leadership. join arms with other people around the world and fight and this is a step in that fight. >> mike: to the biden campaign, he needs the african-american vote to turn out big for him in november. he stepped it in a bit yesterday. tried to clean it up on twitter last night. earlier today i made comments about diversity in the african-american and latino communities i want to clarify. in no way did i mean to suggest the african-american community is a monolith, not at all. does this have any legs, guy? >> i don't know. he said what he said, right? some staffer crafting a string of tweets to clean it up that's fine. they should clean it up. it's a mess that needs to be cleaned up. he said what he said out loud. what he said a number of months ago talking to charl main the

god on the breakfast club. if black people are having trouble deciding whether to vote for donald trump and joe biden you ain't black. he said i didn't mean that. then he said something similar again yesterday. this is precisely why i suspect team biden generally wants this man in the basement limiting interactions because when he comes out and pokes his head up and has things to say, there is a daily cleanup on aisle joe. >> mike: that also illustrates why the trump campaign is eager to get him out and start the debates earlier, right? >> yep. they're right now i think the trump campaign recognizes they are behind at least for the moment. there is some indication they're gaining some ground. and it seems like part of their strategy now is to try to smoke joe biden out to get him talking more and if there is another debate they floated, i think their idea is the more joe biden speak the more

advantageous it will be for them. we'll see if that strategy works. >> mike: is there a way to draw him out to make him more off the cuff. a technique the trump campaign can do to force him to be more off the cuff? >> i mean, they're trying certainly and i think there is resistance from the biden campaign for the reasons we just saw, right? he is not i don't think going to be able to duck the three debates that have been agreed to and puffed out his chest and said i can't wait to debate president trump and show how great my mental and physical fitness is. he had trouble actually saying that sentence, right? so i think that the biden campaign, they know their vulnerabilities. a lot of them lie in the candidate himself. so they have every incentive, including the current polling position, to keep him under wraps as many as possible and have him out there as the generic opponent of president trump. that may prove to be a smart strategy but as i said actually to sandra the other night

filling in for martha, if the thing gets close and if the race really tightens and the polling is nail biting territory and they want to rev up and they need biden out there more, will his skills -- can he be rusty and can he turn on the afterburners when he needs to if he is out of practice? i think that's one of the inherent risks in the strategy they're currently pursuing. >> mike: guy benson. enjoyed picking your brain. have a great day. sandra. >> sandra: mike, thank you. july jobs report is out and it is better than expected. the u.s. adding more than 1.7 million jobs last month and the unemployment rate did fall to 10.2%. what it all means for the recovery and those negotiations stalling on capitol hill next. i wish i could shake your hand. granted.

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>> mike: the annual navy notre dame football game is canceled for the first time since 1927.

the latest sporting event to be affected by the coronavirus pandemic. this ends the streak at 93 games. navy and notre dame were originally scheduled to play august 29th in dublin, ireland. notre dame will open the season september 12th at home against duke. navy will play byu september 7th. >> sandra: fox news alert. brand-new numbers on the economy this morning. the dow did open to the down side, however, down 94 points right now. investors digesting this better than expected july jobs report showing the u.s. economy added more than 1.7 million jobs last month although that is far fewer than the nearly 5 million jobs that were added back in june. so mike, you dig through this report and i can give you some good news and i can give you some bad news. which one do you want first? >> mike: let's go good. i'll be optimistic. >> sandra: the third straight month of improvement. it is a sign that the jobs market, while still deeply in

the hole, is improving. i'll tell you the bad news is that we're still looking at 12.9 million jobs lost since the beginning of this pandemic. so you are still looking at a very difficult economic situation in this country. but both numbers were better than expected, mike. the jobs added and the headline unemployment rate dropping to 10.2%. and i will give you this big picture according to axios. 1/3 of all the jobs gained in july came from the leisure and hospitality sector. so a lot of the big financial analysts will be digging into that and what it means for our economic recovery, mike. >> mike: i was thinking if it was a poor number that that might create a lot of diplomacy on capitol hill to try to cut a deal because, of course, they've been struggling to come together on a coronavirus relief package. now that there is a strong report i wonder if the respective parties will stay in their corners and point the blame game at one another. >> sandra: you have the stalled

negotiations on capitol hill weighing in on market sentiment right now. otherwise you would think the market would be up with such a good report. but as far as the estimates, when you look at the jobs market, mike, what's really hard to tell is how many of the jobs lost that are still lost are temporary layoffs and they really talk about that in this report. economists are watching how many workers are temporarily laid off because of the pandemic and if i could look at the number here, the number of temporary layoffs fell by 1.3 million in july to 9.2 million. so there are about half where they were in april. these are just some of the numbers that the economists have to look at to decide how strong we are coming out of the pandemic, mike. >> mike: great job digging through the numbers. good thing you have a business background. >> sandra: great to be with you. thank yo >> mike: coronavirus pandemic leaving people in need across the country but one 11-year-old is using his front lawn to help

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>> mike: spacex launching its falcon 9 rocket into orbit overnight. the launch happened just after 1:00 in the morning from the kennedy space center. the company's 12th mission in 2020 alone. >> sandra: an 11-year-old doing his part to help people hurting because of his pandemic.

in april ethan reynolds set up a table outside his home to give people free supplies like food and toiletries. now ethan's table run seven days a week and get supplies from the community. he and his mom are with us now. thank you for being here. jessica, you must be so proud. >> i am. >> sandra: tell us what gave you the idea to start this. >> i was seeing people outside on the street with signs and because of covid a lot of jobs have been laid off for people. i know a lot of people are struggling now. >> sandra: i read that you were in town and you saw people holding up signs need food. and you thought i have to step in and help. how are you seeing the community react to this? we're looking at some of the pictures of ethan's table and some of the supplies you've been handing out.

>> can you repeat that please? >> sandra: are people very happy when they come by your table and see that you are trying to help them? >> yes, they are very happy. >> sandra: what are some of the things they say to you, ethan? >> god bless you, you are the best. i couldn't do this without you. >> sandra: i know even before the pandemic you were volunteering at nursing home, an animal shelter and took up some of your own money to start this. obviously people must be looking, mom, looking at your son and saying wow, you've done well. >> yeah, i've got a lot of compliments about how he has been raised. >> sandra: as far as your community, how is everybody doing. ethan is trying to step in and do his part. how is everybody doing amid the pandemic? >> they're hanging in there. we get a various amount of

people. some people it's not necessarily the pandemic they are struggling with. the husband or wife is in hospice or their grandparents raising their grandkids and all of it was happening before the pandemic. and other people it's -- they've lost loved ones to the pandemic and they're trying to gather money for headstones and trying to cut corners by getting groceries with us. >> sandra: wow, ethan, you have seen that other people in the community see what you are doing and they want to help you help others. are you now getting donations from others in the community? >> yes. very much. now our house is a grocery store. >> sandra: wow, such a beautiful thing. we are looking at some of the pictures of the vegetables. protein bars, canned meat, everything you've been able to help those people with. it's a great story during a difficult time. thanks to both of you for joining us this morning. >> thanks for having us. >> sandra: best to you, ethan,

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tires and the smell of burnt rubber. >> it's like a drag strip. >> sandra: those are just some of our top stories on friday morning. more on all those coming up. first back to the violence in portland overnotified. -- overnight. the mayor suggesting some of the protestors were trying to commit murder. police working to clear the streets there as demonstrators tried to burn down a precinct building with officers still inside. welcome to a brand-new hour of "america's newsroom." great to be with you this morning, mike. i'm, sandra smith. >> mike: >> sandra: jonathan hunt is live on the west coast this morning. >> good morning.

70 nights of protests that began as a black lives matter outcry over the killing of george floyd by a white police officer but have now, according to portland's police chief and mayor, completely lost sight of that cause. >> when you commit arson with an accelerant in an attempt to burn down a building that is occupied by people that you have intentionally trapped inside, you are not demonstrating. you are attempting to commit murder. >> protestors again tried to set fires near the east precinct of portland's police department last night and according to portland police threw rocks, bottles and other projectiles at officers. there was less violence than the night before. police did not declare a riot last night and did not deploy tear gas as they had wednesday night. but portland's mayor, a democrat has had enough and warned the protestors they are

simply helping president trump's reelection campaign. >> you are creating the film that will be used in ads nationally to help donald trump during his campaign. up don't want to be part of that, then don't show up. >> thursday's protests have been promoted on social media by a group calling itself the pacific northwest youth liberation front with a slogan, quote, no cops, no prisons, total abolition. mayor wheeler had hoped the violence might dissipate after federal agents whose presence he decried as causing some of the most intense clashes were largely withdrawn from portland streets last week. at this point that seems to have been at best wishful thinking. mike and sandra. >> sandra: jonathan hunt, thank you. mike. >> mike: talks on a new

coronavirus relief deal going nowhere fast as millions of americans look to congress for financial aid. the talks ended with no deal in sight. president trump could issue executive orders to address the economic crisis as early as today. chad pergram is live on capitol hill. good morning. will talks continue today? >> well, that's pretty unclear. we just don't know. they aren't expected to continue. the real reason here is they've only moved millimeters, inches over the past couple of days and why there is so much consternation. let's start with the white house chief of staff mark meadows. >> the president is right to be frustrated with congress. we've been here now going on two weeks and we still don't have a deal. >> democrats are just as vexed that there isn't more movement from gop negotiators. >> we have always said the republicans and the president don't understand the gravity of the situation and every time we

meet with them it is reinforced. >> we don't expect more than a skeleton crew on capitol hill until or if there is a bill which to vote. republicans struggled to align votes for a temporary extension of jobless aid. >> mike: how concerned are rank and file members about having nothing to vote on? >> a lot of tension there and a lot of skepticism from republican members in the senate that they can get a deal at all. there are a lot of republicans who don't want to add any more money to the debt here but worried about the economic consequences going into the fall. here is a democrat from michigan. >> it is not just another thursday afternoon for the single mom of two kids in michigan right now who frankly could very well be deciding whether or not she -- it is so important her children eat. and she can't do both. >> mike: leaving last night's

session the secretary of the treasury said we're not going to keep on coming back every day if we can't get a deal. the sides huddled for three hours last night but there was little difference after nine days of discussion and that's where we keep hearing talk about a possible executive order or set of executive orders from the president, maybe a moratorium on evictions and freeing up money to help with jobless benefits. >> mike: chad, thanks a lot. >> sandra: thanks. the cases of coronavirus across the u.s. are down this week. more than 160,000 amid 4.8 million confirmed cases. we're live at a testing site in florida. hi, bryan. >> behind me is the drive-thru testing at hard rock stadium in miami-dade county. this week it became one of just two locations here in the

county offering rapid antigen covid-19 testing that's being offered by the state. those who can get that type of testing, those who have symptoms and those who are 65 years or older regardless of whether or not they have symptoms. the miami-dade county curfew remains in effect. it has the highest number of coronavirus cases in florida. however, the number of new covid-19 cases statewide is decreasing in the past two weeks. reporting fewer than 8,000 new cases for the sixth consecutive day today. still there have been nearly 8,000 deaths here. that number projected to double by early october. still yesterday governor ron desantis spoke about the importance of youth sports as he emphasized his support for schools to fully reopen in the fall. >> i just think we have to understand that the cancellation of the sports,

that has had huge effects. we don't want to relive that. i think it would be depriving our students of opportunities. >> over 160,000 americans have now died of the coronavirus and the latest projection has the u.s. reaching nearly 300,000 covid-19 deaths by december 1. while infections are decreasing and hot spots like florida, texas, california, and arizona, 11 states are now considered new hot spots including colorado, missouri, mississippi and ohio. back here in florida hillsborough county voted yesterday that they will actually not have classes in person. they will go virtual meaning of the top 10 largest school districts in the country with schools new york is the only one that is offering in-classroom instruction at this point. >> sandra: thank you for that. mike.

>> mike: ohio governor mike dewine tested negative later in the day yesterday and after testing positive earlier in the day. the governor went home to self-quarantine before a different kind of test came back negative. dewine's wife and staff also tested negative. the dewines plan to take the test again tomorrow. >> sandra: we'll be watching for that. hope him well. house speaker nancy pelosi apparently frustrated by the stalled coronavirus relief talks on capitol hill and is lashing out at an interviewer. plus joe biden once again explaining what he really means in a comment about the african-american community. "fox news sunday" anchor chris wallace on what that could mean for his campaign and race for the white house. chris joins us next. >> unlike the african-american community with notable

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community with incredibly different attitudes about different things. you go to florida, you find a very different attitude about immigration in certain places than you do when you're in arizona. so it's a very different -- a very diverse community. >> sandra: that was democratic nominee joe biden facing backlash for that comment yesterday. he later tweeted he didn't mean the suggest the from african-american does not have a diversity of views on different issues. let's bring in chris wallace. it means it's friday and near the weekend. welcome and good morning to you. >> i hope you are also happy because it's me but in any case, sandra, this is why going to be a fascinating three months almost between now and november 3 because both of these candidates say things that make you scratch your head. you've had two comments by joe biden this week. one that comment would seem to

suggest there is not a diversity of opinion in the african-american community. obviously a lot of african-americans don't agree with that. there was his very curious statement when a reporter asked him whether or not he had ever taken a cognitive test and said have you ever taken a test for cocaine, are you a junkie? you had the president who yesterday in cleveland said that joe biden was against god and would hurt god. so, you know, let me just say for us covering this political campaign, business is going to be good over the next three months. >> sandra: he did try to tweet this clarification. i paraphraseed it as i led sboou. i will put the first part on the screen. earlier today i made comments about diversity in the african-american and latino communities that i want to clarify. in no way did i mean to suggest that the african-american community is a monolith at all. that is part of his explanation there.

you just wonder how much this sticks with him because the trump campaign, they are putting it out there everywhere and the president reacted by saying this, listen. >> president trump: i just watched the clip and joe biden this morning totally disparaged and insulted the black community. what he said is incredible and i don't know what is going on with him but it was a very insulting statement he made. i guess you will figure that out and see it in a little while. it was a great insult to the black community. >> sandra: so did he, biden, clear things up with that explanation or does it stick with him for a while? >> i don't know how long it sticks with him. the answer is they both have said things that are troubling. think of a lot of the things that joe biden said -- that president trump has said as well. he was talking about john

lewis's death with an interview with axios, his first reaction was he didn't go to my inauguration. when it comes to insulting statements to the african-american community they both have something to answer for. the answer is i don't know that any single one statement will be all that damaging because they both continue to make statements that put people off. i think when you get to the debates and suddenly it isn't just a clip we're running and suddenly 80 or 90 million people watching the two of them side-by-side to see how they react i think it will have a lot more impact. but i suspect you will see these little brush fires over comments by both of them constantly between now and election day. >> sandra: meanwhile things are still head-to-head on capitol hill with the coronavirus relief package and heading into the weekend. whether congress gets something done or the president acts on his own with this. nancy pelosi lashed out on pbs

with judy woodruff over the stalemate on capitol hill over another round of relief. >> democrats want more money, republicans want a lot less. they are saying they are willing to show flexibility and they are also saying a lot of the money that was passed in the spring, madam speaker, hasn't even been spent yet. if you want to be an -- >> if you want to be an advocate for them. >> i'm playing devil's advocate. i'm asking you for your position. >> the point is we have a bill that meets the needs of the american people. it is called the heroes act. they have not even -- they don't even want to do state and local and when they do it owe very meager and they want to revert to money from before. >> sandra: what does that tell you about where negotiations stand, chris? >> they are nowhere. it tells me i will have an interesting interview with nancy pelosi on sunday.

that was a perfectly legitimate question that judy woodruff asked. they are nowhere. they've made some closure and progress on little issues but on the biggest issues like aid to state and local governments, like whether or not there will be a $600 federal benefit or $400 or $200. they have made no progress at all. there isn't even certainty there will be another meeting today after i think it was 10 straight days of meetings. that raises the question is there -- are they going to continue the negotiations, the democratic leaders in the house and senate and treasury secretary mnuchin and chief of staff mark meadows or as you suggested is president trump going to sign an executive order and take it into his own hands with real question whether he has the legal ability to do that? of course we saw him do it before with funding for the border wall. so on sunday we're going to have nancy pelosi and we'll have the secretary of the treasury steven mnuchin and by

that point we'll have a clearer picture where we stand. the point we need to make here, sandra, it is easy to play this as a game in washington there are millions, tens of millions of people who are out of work and in danger of being evicted from their homes and for them this is really an enormously important and urgent matter. so we are going to try to get to the bottom of where things stand and are those millions of people going to get some help sunday morning on "fox news sunday". >> sandra: a lot of american families and businesses struggling greatly. you have steve mnuchin. here is where he stands on getting a deal done. let's listen to this together and i'll get your thoughts. >> through an exhaustive list of issues. we understand where we are and where they are on a whole bunch of issues. i think there is a lot of issues we are close to a compromise position. if the democrats are willing to

compromise and do something i think we'll get something done. but again we're not going to do a deal that isn't an attractive deal for the american public. >> sandra: is it reasonable to wonder whether or not they are aiming for a stalemate to lead the president into executive action, chris? >> well, you could argue it both ways. you could argue -- i would think that executive action by the president creates a whole new set of problems. actually problems for democrats. let's take a thought experiment here. let's say the president says you know what i'm going to repurpose. there is a lot of money still around. hundreds of billions of dollars that has not been spent in the earlier bills. you sort of wonder why did they appropriate it and not spend it. let's say the president decides i'll repurpose that money and give a $400 or $200 federal benefit. do the democrats then go to court to try to block that and

there by try to block people from getting some kind of a federal unemployment benefit? that's a sticky position. let me say there will be a lot of questions to ask mnuchin and pelosi on sunday. i am looking forward it to. >> sandra: we are looking 230r9ds -- forward to it. i'm always happy to see you friday or not. >> you are like biden trying to clean it up. i appreciate that. i always look forward to talking to you whether it's wednesday or friday or whatever. >> sandra: you, too, chris. we'll watch this weekend. chris wallace, thank you. mike. >> mike: mr. sunday on a friday. two georgia students say they were punished after posting pictures of hallways packed with students and not many masks in sight at their high school. we'll ask the georgia board of education chairman about that and what images may reveal during efforts to reopen schools during a pandemic. more shark sightings on cape

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concerns with both apps. the orders expected to take effect in 45 days. >> mike: georgia high school students say they've been suspended after pictures taken inside the school went viral on twitter. it shows students jamming the hallway most not wearing masks. >> sandra: police in dallas say street racing is on the rise since the coronavirus stay at home order began in april. >> mike: jeff paul saw drivers doing dangerous stunts on the streets of dallas. he joins me now. why is this happening? >> police say these drivers are most likely bored with many nightlife spots closed due to the pandemic. there isn't much officers can do what's become in some cases a deadly trend. a busy texas intersection held hostage by screeching tires and

the smell of burnt rubber. >> it's like a drag strap. it's that loud. >> these drivers are blocking the road for their own enjoyment. >> i enjoy the cars racing but there is a time and place for it. >> there are no checkered flags when the dust settles. sometimes these illegal exhibitions end in tragedy. in may a 9-year-old girl was killed when three vehicles that were racing smashed into the family's car. >> not putting any additional pressure on the police department but they need to step up. >> officers' hands are tied in this incident. >> a dallas police sergeant and president of the local police association says officers can't chase them for department policy. the best they can do chase them away with sirens and hope they stop for a citations and the drivers know it. >> we're just waiting for somebody to get killed.

>> there is some hope on the horizon. dallas city council is considering stiffening penalties. people watching the stunts could face a $500 fine and the cars involved in the stunts could be included as part of a violation and those vehicles could be impounded. >> mike: jeff, thanks a lot. >> sandra: now to a booming fish population is attracting great white sharks in the area. some people want the federal government to step in. mollyline is live in massachusetts. just yesterday lots of beaches were closed due to shark sightings. >> it will send swimmers rushing to shore.

sharks and seals are linked. some would like to see a reduction in the shark's favorite meal. few have come as close to great whites as this marine biologists who tracks them. >> when you see seals concentrated in big numbers you draw the white shark. >> sometimes great whites mistake people for prey. a woman was fatally attacked in maine in late july. 2018 a young man was killed on cape cod. shark sightings have forced people back to the sand dozens of time this summer. >> mike: it's a symptom of the real problem. >> he has been fishing the waters of the atlantic for two decades and seen the local seal population soar. he is calling for the culling of seals. >> shark deterrents, nets, they've tried all these things.

until you remove the food source nothing would make me feel safe until i know they're gone. >> seals are protected under the 1972 marine mammal protection act. the agency that manages them notes that a section of the law allows, quote, officials to humanely euthanize marine mammals causing immediate danger to people but does not permit the culling of an entire population. no one knows that they have not received any calls from local officials regarding this issue and they note that the use of this law to cull seals particularly because of shark attacks would be unprecedented. sandra. >> sandra: complicated issue. thank you for that. thanks, molly. >> mike: the aclu pushing for the release of 50,000 prison inmates due it what it calls systemic injustice. it will allow governors to

grant clemency to those who are older and drug possession offenses locked up for parole violations. >> sandra: police in arizona plan to present their case of lori vallow. a police spokesman told fox news they expect the maricopa county prosecutor will charge lori with conspiracy to murder in the next four to six months. right now she is being held in the disappearance and death of her two children. >> mike: president trump raising the stakes on the executive orders targeting tiktok and another company based in china and how schools in georgia are getting ready for students to return. >> we have teachers as well as other staff members that are being compromised and it pains me to see how devastated they are to come into the building

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wait, what'd you just call me? bigfoot? ♪ my name is daryl. >> mike: president trump is doubling down on his threat against tiktok taking executive action to ban the app in 45 days unless it sells its u.s. operations. president trump taking aim at we chat, a group chat app that lets users transfer money to each other. both social media platforms are owned by chinese companies. the trump administration is calling them a threat to national security. tiktok has denied it stores data from u.s. consumers. >> sandra: teachers in georgia held a protest yesterday honking horns demonstrating having kids return to school. hundreds of tested positive for coronavirus. some schools in other parts of the state have already opened.

scott sweeney is chairman of the georgia board of education. scott, good morning to you and thanks for being here. so first what are the -- what are the demands of the teachers who say they do not want to return for in-person teaching? >> sandra, good morning. the biggest challenge that teachers are seeing right now is just the safety and concern that they have about contracting covid-19 in a face-to-face school environment and even those that are returning to school and working within the classrooms. across the state of georgia, that's a broad scale concern. >> sandra: okay. in this particular county where teachers do not want to return because of the rising number of cases with staff there, schools haven't even opened. so what is known about the spread of the illness to these teachers who haven't even welcomed children back into the classroom yet? >> that's a concern, sandra.

the biggest thing is that you have so many different school systems within the state of georgia. georgia has 181 unique districts, each with their own respective superintendents and boards of education that are responsible for managing the return to school. what looks a situation in gwinnett county is far different than you might find in poll ver county. the superintendent there for example is the superintendent, the principal of the middle school, high school and elementary school. for all i know he probably mows the lawns. the incident rate there could be far different than you have in gwinnett county. they're responsible for doing the most important things for their communities with return to school. and it's a very, very challenging situation across the state. i don't know of a

superintendent across the state who would want anything other than face-to-face education. but most importantly what they are looking out for is the safety of the students, the safety of the staff, and the respective families. >> sandra: when it comes to gwinnett county throw up the stats, 28 confirmed cases and 67 suspected cases among employees as of wednesday. that's according to the executive director of communication relations. is it safe to send kids back to school where you have the adults, teachers and staff spreading it at that level? >> yeah. this is where the fine line crosses between education being medical professionals and medical professionals doing their jobs. i use the analogy of, for example, somebody -- a heart surgeon, for example, is reliant on an anesthesiologist. if he gets the right

information he can perform the surgery. at the end of the day we're reliant information we have not only from the georgia department of public health but the respective county departments of public health and for those communities to make the right decision. one of the biggest concerns that you have, for example, in a high school if you have one student or teacher for example that contracts covid-19 what does the quarantine period look like? 1 to 14 days? what does a return to school look like after somebody is infected? a high school teacher, for example, may encounter as many as 150 or 180 students in some of our larger systems. are all 180 students quarantined? and you can just go ahead and extrapolate those numbers from there. it is a very challenging dynamic and school systems are responsible for making those decisions but they will have to do what's best for their communities in conjunction with information that they have from the respective departments of public health.

>> sandra: the teachers, educators, administrators have a job to enforce the cdc guidelines. this is a high school, the picture getting so much attention of all these kids in a crowded hall in a georgia school. associated press is now confirming that photo was taken @ association less than 50 miles northwest of atlanta where positive tests and potential symptoms of covid-19 have already been identified according to the principal. as parents we look at that picture and say where is the adults telling -- so many kids don't have masks on and not social distancing. how can we send our kids back without the administrators and staff enforcing the rules? >> you've hit on a great example. i'm familiar with the picture and familiar with that county. in georgia governor kemp has done a remarkable job and at

the same time he has refrained from mandating mask wearing by people across the state leaving it up to local communities. local school districts have the ability to impart their own rules with regard to mask wearing. as a matter of fact they would subscribe to that as part of the dress code. again from a state board of education standpoint, from the governor's standpoint, that's not something we can mandate -- from state board of education standpoint or the georgia department of education standpoint. mask wearing is something that we cannot mandate ourselves, it is left up to the local system entirely. >> sandra: it's quite a scene as we wonder what back to school looks like for some areas of the country who will be back for in-person learning. buzz feed is reporting the person who took that picture now has been suspended for five days over the picture and the footage. there is video footage as well. appreciate you coming on the program this morning. thank you very much. our best to you as we work our

way towards the fall. complicated issue, thank you. fox news alert. the dow is trending lower this morning despite a better than expected jobs report showing the u.s. economy added 1.7 million jobs last month. that's less than the 5 million added in june. we are talking to the chair in the program and business finances king's college new york city. fox news contributor brian, great guy. what did you take away from the jobs report? it had some hopeful signs? >> a lot of hopeful signs. coming into this report many people thought we might see a decline in jobs in july because you had the resurgence and the threats of rolling back the reopenings. all those things were weighing how people looked at july. nearly 2 million jobs. 1.8 million was a big upside gain. what it tells a lot of people this economy still has a lot of

that pre-covid momentum. we conned -- wondered if it will show itself again. workers and businesses are not phased by a lot of headlines causing panic around the country and finding ways to get back to work and hiring and it is showing once again in the big job number. >> sandra: you look back at how many million s of jobs were lost, 22 million during the pandemic so far. as far as climbing back with this latest jobs report we're now looking at jobs lost 12.9 million. now the big question is how many of those were temporary layoffs, permanent layoffs, some businesses had to shut their doors all together, some are calling their employees back. what can you tell us about that, brian? >> yeah, we have a long way to go, no question about it. we're getting back at it faster than people thought starting to see some of the core unemployment numbers come down just a little bit. that means that you are

avoiding some of those long-term permanent layoffs but it is an open question. a lot of the big work will be done in the latter part of the year where the rubber hits the road and where employers make decisions about the long-term future, not just short-term future. the big question mark will they be allowed to continue to operate? that will be the determining factor, sandra. not how much money congress spends, it will be can businesses keep operating? if they can what they are showing is they're willing to do it. they're willing to hire. leash -- leisure and hospitality a gain of jobs. nobody expected that given concern about hot spots. that's strength, you have to keep it up. the only way you you keep it up let the business owners know they can continue to operate and don't have to fear a shutdown again. >> sandra: leisure and hospitality accounted for a third of the job gains. could be a good sign for the consumer and good sign for

optimism as we try to recover. brian, great to see you, thank you. >> sandra: you bet. mike. >> mike: snapchat adding new features to get people out to vote in november. what they're adding next. want restaurants to open?

and schools? want the economy to get back on track? you're not alone. and you can help make it happen. stay 6 feet apart. wash your hands. wear a mask every time you leave your home. choose to join the fight against covid-19. do your part. slow the spread. >> mike: the popular social media app snapchat trying to make it easier to vote introducing voter registration. will it take hold with its millions of users? mike gunz is here. good morning to you.

your thoughts on this app that's very popular with generation z and millennials. will it be effective getting them to vote? >> forget the days of somebody coming up to your house and asking if you're registered to vote. we walked along the sidewalk and see somebody with a clipboard and pen, hey, register to vote. with the coronavirus if somebody is coming up to me on the street i probably will run on the other direction. it is because of coronavirus they're doing this. a lot of them registered to vote on campus, with schools and colleges not taking place, a lot of them taking place virtually they needed to come up with a different way to engage that potential voter. so now coming in september snapchat will have four different features including the ability to register to vote right there on the app. then they will also give information such as when malin voting happens or when you can go to in-person early voting

and all of that. so they're trying to engage the generation zers and fellow millennials to get us more active in the electoral process. >> mike: in 2018 they registered 450,000. half went out to vote. we'll see what the numbers are this time. let's shift gears and talk about kanye for president. let's put the fox news headline up on the screen. it says kanye west indicates he is running for president to siphon votes in joe biden. he filed paperwork to appear on the ballot in eight states not to the electoral threshold. your analysis of kanye for president. >> kanye west, rapper, clothing line designer and spoiler. democrats are freaking out all over the place thinking kanye will steal votes from them. he cannot win the amount of electoral votes to become president. he is not going to get enough people writing in his name.

if you ask me it is kanye being kanye. he loves publicity. he has a new album dropping soon and new clothing line that's affiliated with the gap he just announced. kanye being kanye but it is funny to see the democrats freaking out thinking he will take votes from joe biden. >> mike: sometimes in a close race where it comes down to a couple of states one of the third party candidates can make a difference, right? >> that is true. so i understand what they're saying but on the flip side it still is kanye west. the name of his political party is called the birthday party. so calm down, kanye is trolling there. he is a president trump supporter and has spoken kindly about the president in the past. it is kanye west, all right? it's kanye, calm down, everybody. >> mike: mike, thanks, have a wonderful day. >> sandra: joe biden once again walking back comments on the african-american community as

president trump now says biden is no longer worthy of the black vote. plus facebook stopping a pro trump super pac from buying ads on the site saying it's spreading false information. reaction from hogan gidley who will join us live next. ners: record low mortgage rates have dropped even lower. at newday, veterans can shortcut the refinance process and save $250 a month. $3000 dollars a year. with the va streamline refi at newday, there's no appraisal, no income verification, and no out of pocket costs. one call can save you $3000 a year.

>> sandra: 87 days to go. both presidential candidates are fighting to make every

moment count. welcome to "america's newsroom," it's friday morning. i'm sandra smith. hello mike. >> mike: i'm mike emanuel. vice president joe biden is on cleanup duty after suggesting on an interview that black americans are not as diverse as latinos. he has a clarification. not what the campaign was hoping to talk about today. >> sandra: on the republican side president trump is fighting to get a deal through congress for coronavirus relief. so far lawmakers on both sides refusing to budge. today is the deadline to get it done and right now negotiations still far apart. each side blaming each other. >> mike: senator marco rubio saying democrats are stonewalling so president trump can't claim a win. as long as democrats calculate they are better politically to do nothing. that's the calculation they've made it appears. >> sandra: we'll be speaking to the trump campaign's national press secretary hogan gidley.

we have team fox coverage of both campaigns. kristin fisher is live at the white house for us this morning and peter doocy will be coming up in a moment. we'll start with kristin fisher. >> this stalemate on capitol hill is making it sound increasingly likely that president trump will take some kind of executive action to extend this eviction moratorium and extend federal unemployment benefits and possibly suspend the collection of the payroll tax cut. a point that the white house's top economic advisor was asked about earlier this morning. he said he believes president trump will do it. >> the legal drafting is complete. we've had intense discussions about this in the last several days. i don't want to make a prediction. it is up to him to inform the public if he is satisfied with what the work has been done. federal powers that are at the president's disposal and he will use them, you can bet on it. >> as for the hopes of a deal

on capitol hill last night the top four negotiators emerged from a three-hour meeting saying they made some progress on smaller items but remain trillions of dollars apart on the big stuff like enhanced unemployment insurance, state and local funding. white house chief of staff mark meadows left last night he is not sure it is worth coming back today. the two sides are still so far apart. >> we still urge them to rethink an executive order will leave millions of people out and will be litigated. it won't be effective and things will get worse. so we urge them to rethink their position. their position is sort of their way or the highway. >> so here we are deadline day with so far no plans for the two sides to even meet today. this is after meeting almost daily for the last two weeks. they appear to be no closer to reaching a deal all while millions of americans are facing eviction and struggling to make ends meet in the middle

of this pandemic. >> sandra: update coming from there soon. kristin fisher, thank you. >> mike: joe biden is doing damage control after blowback caused by his comments about diversity in the latino and african-american communities. watch for yourself. >> unlike the african-american community with notable exceptions the latino community is incredibly diverse community with incredibly different attitudes about different things. you go to florida you will find a very different attitude about immigration in certain places than you do when you're in arizona. it is a very different -- a very diverse community. >> mike: peter doocy is live in delaware. how is biden walking back his remarks? >> he is not saying i'm sorry but he is saying i want to clarify with this on twitter. throughout my career i've witnessed the diversity of thought, background and sentiment within the african-american community. it is this diversity that makes

our workplaces, community and country a better place. the trump campaign is trying to establish a pattern. this comment fits in with biden's previous remarks who might consider voters, african-american voters voting for trump ain't black. trump said after yesterday's statement sleepy joe biden is no longer worthy of the black vote. we don't know who biden's running mate is going to be. the president is also trying to cast that person along with biden as radicals. >> president trump: he is going to do things that nobody ever -- would ever think even possible because he is following the radical left agenda. take away your guns, destroy your second amendment, no religion, no anything, hurt the bible, hurt god. he is against god. >> that part about biden hurting god stuck out to the

biden campaign that remains fully virt you will. they released a statement. donald trump is the only president is in history -- we have been driving around wilmington, delaware to make sure there is no pot edges running mate in a coffee shop. no sign of any excitement this morning. but the v.p. announcement could come at any time, mike. >> mike: peter doocy live on the veepstakes in delaware. >> sandra: facebook banning a pro trump super pac from buying ads on the platform because it has repeatedly shared false information. the ban will last for 90 days. joining us now is hogan gidley, national press secretary for the campaign. your reaction to facebook banning those ads.

>> this is absolutely egregious. these silicon valley liberally leets are using their platforms to silence, censor, stop free speech. if you want to be a platform, be a platform. if they want to be a publisher, be a publisher. you can't go back and forth and hide behind either title as long as it suits your political agenda. they do that time and time again. a great example. it's similar to fake news in this aspect. so often the fake news will write a story that is completely false and then they'll have to come out and say we made a mistake. the problem is the fake news writes problematic pieces that never cut in our favor. it is always a mistake against this president. it is very similar with these big tech companies when they talk about the glitches. it never cuts in the favor of conservatives, always against our side.

they are literally highlighting liberal feelings and suppressing conservative facts. that something that has to be highlighted and we have to stop it. >> sandra: obviously you are having the debate over free speech and that's certainly a reasonable one considering mark zuckerberg and facebook said they would not be arbiters of truth on this network. and so he is being questioned over that. the president is also being questioned on the things that he has said and that is why this is happening, right? they're sharing that information and they say that their fact checkers deemed to be the president's information on covid-19 false when he said that children just don't have a problem. when he said children are almost immune from this disease. as you know, there is evidence quite to the contrary. the cdc now says that under 18 age group accounts for about 7.4% of confirmed coronavirus cases. that number is climbing up 7% from two weeks ago. 6% from a month ago, hogan. to the question over whether

it's helpful to even in the first place facebook or not have the president spreading that information. >> first of all let's talk about science and facts. what the president was clearly talking about is that 99.96% of all case fatality rates affect adults and not children. that is just a scientific fact. we know that. every death is tragic and every person who gets this virus it's sad all across the board, we know that. the china virus has really hurt this country but it disproportion naturally affects adults instead of children. that's science. the health and medical experts say the same thing. if children are out of school you see increased rates of abuse when they're at home. you see nutrition go down because a lot of their meals come from the public school system. in addition to that, we're already lagging behind other countries in education and it will be further behind in reading and math and other

skills because they aren't in school. the president was true on that. the fact that facebook and twitter are trying to be arbiters of the truth is laughable. it's not about facebook's truth or twitter's truth, it's about the real truth. the president delivered that and think censored it. >> sandra: we put the facts out there as you asked for contrary to kids being immune from it you went to the death rate. just want to make sure we have it out there. to the debates. we know your campaign has been pushing for four debates. there are three scheduled debates. you want a fourth one and you want the added one to be earlier than the scheduled three. the debate commission has responded with this. there is a difference between ballots having been issued by a state and those ballots being cast by voters under no compulsion to return ballots before debates. in 2016 when the debate schedule was similar only a fraction of the electorate had voted at the same time of the

first debate. .009%. they're responding to the trump campaign's concern that you've got people sending in their ballots before they've even seen one of the general election debates. what is your response the debate commission saying it's not necessary? >> 8 million people will have the potential to vote in 16 states before the first debate. the american people deserve better. it is not just about adding a debate. we would like to do that, too. it's taking that last debate and moving it before the ballots hit mailboxes. that makes common sense. they are using a 1980s model for a 2020 election. in 2016 when there was no coronavirus and shutdown 41% of americans voted before election day with absentee and early voting. so they know a vast preponderance of the people will be making their selections. >> sandra: you think then that the early voting before the debate happens, the potential to early vote or cast your vote

would negatively affect the trump campaign? >> no, absolutely not. that's not the issue. the fact is any time the president gets out and speaks the democrats hate it. the media hate it because he resonates with the american people. delivering an uplifting, patriotic hopeful message about this country. when you compare and contrast what he talks about relates to america first and joe biden's american last and policies you see a clear difference. the american people deserve to see it on a debate stage in realtime before they get their ballot. >> sandra: when you you read through that letter and the response from the debate commission did they leave the door open to making the changes your campaign is asking for. >> there was a sentence in there that said if you can agree on something, the trump and biden campaign we're happy to hear it out. we've said before joe biden and his team, we want to move the debate forward. i heard yesterday that one of the campaign people for joe biden said they would be happy

to do it, too. if we're on the same page and want the american people to see these two men side-by-side let's do it early and often. >> sandra: some say the trump campaign is lowering the expectation so much for joe biden that the hurdle may be low for him to jump over. so do you share in that concern or the campaign share that concern? >> a couple of things. joe biden's lowering his own expectations every time he opens his mouth. the second part is the media is being a willing accomplice. one thing about the media, love them, hate them, they'll protect their own. joe biden is a radical like so many members of the mainstream media. they want to protect him at all costs. they're also lowering the bar to make sure if joe biden saunters out onto the stage and says i'm joe biden and running for president instead of saying he is running for senate which he has done before they will give him a ticker tape parade across town. they want to prop up the candidate that supports their own socialist radical agenda.

the candidate joe biden who wants to remake america in the image of socialism. they view the same issues similarly and so it makes sense that they are trying to lower the bar so they themselves can prop him back up. >> sandra: the biden campaign for their part says they look forward to debating donald trump and they have committed to all three debates. hogan gidley, great to have you this morning. thank you. >> mike: violence in beirut as protestors demand answers for this week's horrific explosion. fox news is looking for answers. a legal battle between the nra and the new york attorney general. could the nra really shut down for good? we'll ask an attorney. to severe psoriasis,

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>> sandra: keeping things clean because of covid-19, you could be doing it wrong. >> sandra: a super spreader event. a new forecast is predicting the number of deaths in the u.s. could be 300,000 by december. nearly double what it is now. the model found drastically fewer deaths if people mask up.

>> sandra: false alarm for ohio governor mike dewine. he came up negative during a second test after the first rapid test showed he was positive. >> mike: a quarter million bikers are heading to the sturgis bike rally. critics are concerned it could turn into a super spreader event. >> sandra: cdc reports more than a third of americans are using cleaning products incorrectly. the worst issues people washing food with toxic disinfect acts and using bleach on their skin. protests in portland for a 70th night in a row. overnight demonstrators fighting with police. the city''s mayor accusing them of attempted murder. they tried to set fire to a

police precinct with officers inside. >> sandra: they use millions of dollars for personal use and lavish trips for themselves and their families, private jets, expensive meals, and other private travel. >> mike: that was new york attorney general announcing a lawsuit aimed at shutting down the nra. the nra is firing back with a lawsuit of its own. the question here is it political marksmanship or could the nra close for good? let's bring in thomas dupe re. >> at the same time it is a stunning complaint. 166 pages long and in addition to the various alleged misdeeds that we see about self-dealing

by leadership the stunning thing about it is the attorney general is seeking to shut down the nr remarks as a whole which i think is a substantial reach to say the least. it seems to me very unlikely that ultimately she would be able to persuade a court to force the nra to close its doors. >> mike: take a listen to the virginia attorney general. >> if there is evidence of wrongdoing you want to pursue that. what i think is happening here is you have a political lawsuit being filed within 90 days of a presidential election and the goal of the lawsuit is literally to dissolve one of the political enemies of the democrat party. >> mike: 87 days out, tom, too political? >> you see, that's the thing. the reason why there is a political element to all of this is that the attorney general was concerned about the wrongdoing she could address it by targeting the individuals who committed the wrongdoing.

but it's a quantum leap to say and we're also going to shut down this organization, particularly one that has engaged in a lot of free speech and constitutionally protected activity and a lot of americans on significant political issue so soon before the election. >> mike: might it have an impact with nra membership not happy to hear about lavish spending with the leadership? >> it will resonate. the president has been saying the democrats are attacking the second amount and the democrats slamming the republicans. the attorney general furthers allot of this. they are going to make people worried that second amendment rights are coming under attack. for the democrats to attack republicans for political prosecutions and the like is difficult to defend when you look at this lawsuit. >> mike: if this is not a threat to destroy the nra might there need to be a shake-up to

clean things up internally? >> look, there could be. it is no secret there has been a lot of internal disputes at the nra about the actions of its leadership and the like and the complaint spends page after page talking about misuse of funds. the nra leadership denied it. they'll have their day in court. the attorney general will have her day in court. most people would recognize that if -- i underscore if there was wrongdoing, the solution is to make the people who committed the wrongdoing pay, not shut down the organization as a whole. >> mike: thanks for your time and analysis. >> thank you, mike. >> sandra: now to this fox news alert out of beirut. police using tear gas on protestors raging over the big explosion on tuesday. trey yengst is reporting from there for us this morning. >> good morning.

the lebanese people are demanding answers as to why there was an explosive substance just sitting in beirut's port for years. last night you saw protestors gathering outside of lebanon's parliament building clashing with police, tear gas was fired as the demonstrators demanded the resignation of lebanese president. now all of this is coming as an investigation is unfolding here about what caused this deadly blast on tuesday. government representatives do tell fox news that 16 people have been detained in an investigation related to the blast and 18 more have been questioned but many people say that's not enough. tomorrow there will be a massive demonstration in beirut where more clashes are expected. today you saw people cleaning up. many volunteers coming in from across the world to try to give lebanon a helping hand. there is a lot of people affected here.

300,000 are internally displaced relying on friends and international aid to get by. unicef says 80,000 are children. that creates a very difficult situation for international organizations looking to help because it is so many people and there are simply nowhere to put these people. moving forward though what we do know about the lebanese militant group hezbollah is that they are denying any responsibility or association with the blast that occurred earlier this week as we're talking right now, hezbollah's leader is addressing the nation. we were watching a little bit of that address here a few minutes ago and he wanted to make very clear that hezbollah had nothing to do with the blast and that he did not like to see other international actors trying to blame the group for some of the negligence that many of the protestors we've seen in the past 24 hours say is associated with the government and many of the structures here that could have led to this deadly tragedy earlier in the week. >> sandra: thank you for

reporting on the ground in beirut. thanks. >> mike: members of the so-called squad on capitol hill seeing positive results in the primaries and a chance their group may grow in numbers come election day. what it could mean for their influence on democrats in congress. the action leaders on both sides of the aisle in washington they will take to insure ballots sent to the voters get to election officials on time this fall as the head of the postal service makes this promise. >> we'll do everything we can to deliver election mail in a timely manner consistent with our operational standards. despite any assertions to the contrary, we are not slowing down election mail or any other mail. ♪ ♪ this is my kind of town, chicago is, my kind of town, chicago is ♪

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>> sandra: a look at what's making news at this hour. the labor department reporting 1.8 million found jobs last night. today's numbers bringing the unemployment rate back to 10.2%. >> mike: we could see more hurricanes this season. the feds predicting as many as

25 named storms. with so many this year they might run out of names. if the alphabet is used up and we see get hurricane zeke we'll see greek alpha. >> sandra: lawmakers are warning the postal service to get its act together and do it fast. it tops our election updates at the bottom of the hour. members of congress from both parties are demanding the postal service ditch new rules meant to save money. the problem is without paying overtime workers, mail that's on the move comes to a stop the moment workers clock out creating major delays. mark meredith is live in new jersey where the president is spending the weekend. >> good morning to you. lawmakers from both parties they're worried the post office is falling behind not just

financially but on its critical mission to keep america's mail moving. earlier the summer the post office decided to impose new changes cutting some employee overtime and created new rules to hold late mail an additional day. lawmakers are saying they're worried it could create more problems in november when millions of americans vote by mail. 84 house members wrote a liter saying eliminating overtime and directing postal workers to leave mail on the floor of postal facilities will erode confidence resulting in worse financial conditions in the future. lawmakers want the hear from the man in charge, post master general. they requested he testify before congress next month. unclear if he will accept that invitation. the post master general said this morning that the post office is likely for the surge of mail-in ballots

>> we insure proper handling of all election mail and working closely with public officials throughout the country to insure that they are well educated about the mail-in process. >> a post office spokesperson says they're doing all they can to keep up with demand including hiring more postal workers but the pandemic is creating new challenges. >> sandra: mark meredith from bridge water for us this morning. thank you. >> mike: it's not just the president voters will be picking. lots of seats in congress up for grabs and as the primary suggests the so-called squad on capitol hill is about to get a lot bigger as democrats embrace its left-ring political positions. the story all new this hour. chad pergram is live on capitol hill. >> it's evident that the democratic caucus in the house of representatives is going to be tilting to the left and that's been seen in these primaries this year.

let's start with the squad, tlaib won her primary. democratic minnesota representative omar faces a primary next week. think how the squad was form. aoc upset crowley and we're seeing a repeat this year. progressive candidates defeating long-time democrats. activist corey bush beat st. louis congressman clay on tuesday. >> that doesn't mean we need to switch out everybody in congress. that's not what it's about. what it's about where there is failed leadership. if people are holding a seat but not accepting their communities and saying my

congressman is absent. >> marie newman toppled lap inski and fro gresive bowman knocked off elliott eveningel. more liberals in the house and more support for medicare for all and the green deal. it also means more headaches for house speaker nancy pelosi. >> mike: chad pergram, thank you. >> sandra: new this hour our military's weapons are starting to look like "star wars." pentagon expected to launch a laser battalion soon equipped with powerful laser beams. the next step lightsabers? lucas tomlinson live with how it all works. tell us the reality of this. >> we've started to see some of this emerging technology on the battlefield when the iranian drone was shot down. the hypersonic weapons division says he wants to introduce lasers. >> in the years past the

question was really can lasers work. that's not the question now. how do we make them work effectively? >> contractors are competing with a shoot-off to see who can build the best laser to put them on armored vehicles as soon as next year to shoot down incoming drones, missiles and aircraft. marines on the flight deck on uss boxer downed an iranian drone. technology was similar to a laser. a microphone. much cheaper than using a multi-million missile. the potential for using lasers in the battlefield led the commander of the marine corps to have -- scratch the abram battle tank. the second cavalry regiment use the same striker vehicles and military now wants to install

with lasers. some of these vehicles could be moving to poland closer to russia's border. >> sandra: thank you. >> mike: another major blow for the airline industry. the airline that just let go 20% of its workforce and how joe biden's gaffe stating black americans are not as diverse as latinos hurt his standing with minority voters. a theme of missteps that can't be ignored according to our next guest.

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back positive. a 1% positivity rate. hospitalizations are down to 579 in a day. five fatalities. the governor of new york says all schools can open. more on that coming up. >> mike: huge news out of new york. delta airlines cutting 20% of its workforce announcing 17,000 people left the company last week taking early retirement or exit packages. the coronavirus pandemic has shattered the airline industry. delta's ceo says it will take two years for the company to recover. >> sandra: new reaction coming in after democratic nominee joe biden tried to compare black and latino communities. >> unlike the african-american community with notable exceptions the latino community is incredibly diverse community with different attitudes about different things. >> sandra: he later said he

didn't mean to suggest african-american communities were not diverse but our next guest says we should be concerned about these slip-ups. the headline of her new article joe biden's mental ability is a campaign issued that can't be ignored. miranda devine. what is the point you make in your piece? >> good morning. the point is that if joe biden were your grandfather you would very gently take away his car keys. he is not the joe biden he used to be. that was obvious to voters on the ground in iowa and new hampshire and that is why he came in at fourth and fifth. he just did not have the energy or the mental acuity that the other candidates. he would have to take tell prompters to small rooms to deliver speeches to 150 people. everybody in the room you could see them exchanging knowing glances when he strayed off

script and made the sort of gaffes we're seeing almost every day. this is from someone who is not really out on the campaign trail. he is still in his basement. he doesn't speak very much and every day there is some new problem. >> sandra: tom steyer went on fox news last night defending joe biden saying he knows him personally. here is what he meant. listen. >> i've spent enough time with the vice president and feel i know where his heart is well enough to know he absolutely empathizes and absolutely relates to people across racial boundaries and across ethnicities and gender, across geography and income levels. this is somebody who has suffered and knows suffering personally and who can relate to people. >> sandra: you continue to hear biden supporters make the case that this is a man of empathy, that he has feelings and heart and he is going to listen to his voters.

he said when he tried to walk back those remarks on the african-american community, miranda. >> look, it's about the third terrible slur that he has made towards black people. part of i think his problem is that his inhibitions have declined and therefore he is saying really what's on his mind and his most recent gaffe was similar when he told a radio announcer that you if vote for donald trump you ain't black. in this case he is treating the black community that as one block he has in the bag. the latino community, he has lost six points since february and he is now down points below what hillary clinton did. he has been told he has a problem with the latino community and his way of expressing it. it's appalling and shows you

inside the democratic machine's mindset this is how they think of black and latino voters. >> sandra: i have 30 seconds left. it wouldn't be fair to talk about this without talking about some of the president's recent words about joe biden saying that he would hurt god if he were elected president, joe biden. biden slamming back at the president calling those remarks shameful. miranda. >> look, i guess it's gloves off. we're going into an election for the leader of the free world and both sides are going to play dirty but all i'm saying is i don't think that joe biden is playing with a full deck. i don't see how the democrats can keep papering over these problems. if he does go to the debates we'll see really how he fares there. >> sandra: those will be big moments for this race. the three election debates already on the calendar. great to see you this morning, thank you.

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>> mike: college football players are demanding more protection to keep athletes safe during the pandemic. players have published separate lists of demands how to move forward with the 2020 season. here to talk about it sportscaster and fox news contributor jim gray. so jim, are we looking at the

possibility of a work stoppage with players at schools like usc and ucla, stanford and oregon? >> most definitely. they are not even demands. it's common sense. the ncaa has really had a lack of leadership here. these people have so many rules and regulations for all kinds of things but when it came to coronavirus they were really lacking in protocols. so what the players have done is very prudent and smart and they will have to be taken seriously or otherwise these guys won't play and who would blame them. >> mike: at my office here at fox is a rutgers scarlet knight football helmet. the birthplace of college football. they're near and dear to my heart. big picture, big 10 and sec, will we have a season? >> i think they are going to try. the individual conferences are really going to try. you have to have some of these protocols in place. when you are asking these young men to go to school but some of

the people who are in school aren't on campus it's all online and virtual, to a certain extent that's almost unconscionable. how can you ask the football players only because they're generating revenue, to be in school and on campus but everybody else isn't? they have to work out some of these things. the one thing that's really important is this waiver. if these young men get sick the university should be responsible and take care of them. >> mike: one school that has canceled uconn, here is the coach with fox business's kneel cavuto. >> everybody is making all these decisions and putting schedules together and playing conference only games, we're only doing this and that. but nowhere did you really see where the players had a say in it. that's what i want to make sure that we did. >> mike: no football in connecticut this season. your thoughts, jim. >> well, that program had a lot of problems.

first of all they don't win any games. they're hemorrhaging money. that was made financial reasons. they were that they can't make money. so they want to say health and safety and i'm sure that's on the list but it wasn't predominant in the thought process. it's a shame. a shame for the young men but it is also a wise decision because we don't know that they can be protected. in this instance i believe it's a good decision and you'll probably see more of that. where the revenue is so great, mike, they'll try to figure out how to do it. they have to do it with all the guidelines and safety and health protocols in place. otherwise it shouldn't occur. >> mike: we're nearly out of time. if there is a spike this fall, do you expect that maybe football would come back in the spring? >> i think so, yes. perhaps when they have a vaccination or a treatment or where they see where the curve is going. is virus seems to be on its own timetable as many have said.

if they have a better handle on it, perhaps come back in spring. so many of these universities are so dependent upon these revenues to operate all the other sports but so much else that goes on in university life they'll try to figure out a way. even now there are a lot of universities looking into this insurance program and getting loans so that they can sustain themselves without football. >> mike: hopefully they can do it safely. we're rooting for college football season. jim gray, many thanks. >> absolutely. we want them to play. but we want them to play safely. >> sandra: go tigers. for needy families across the country. no clear path forward, frustrations are boiling over. will the president take action of his own? >> the president is right to be frustrated with congress. we've been here now going on two weeks and we still don't

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rate is low enough to get kids back in schools this fall. districts have to present their plans. >> sandra, a pleasure. >> have a great weekend. "outnumbered" starts right now. >> ♪ >> we begin with this fox news alert. president trump could take executive action today on a new round of coronavirus relief. negotiations on capitol hill are stalled. top democrats and white house officials met yesterday for several hours before talks broke down again with no clear path forward. watch this. >> they didn't take the virus seriously in the beginning. they are not taking the consequences of the virus seriously at this time and it's hard to come to terms. >> there are a lot of issues we are close to a compromise position on. bu