>> ♪ we're an american man griff: the final leg of his journey across the hudson river. todd: bye-bye, everybody have a great saturday. neil: all right, you won't do it congress, i will. growing indications today is the day that the president is going to issue that executive order, executive action if you will, to go ahead and get stimulus out to the american people, sooner rather than later lake i said, today. what we know is that he is looking to provide an extension of jobless benefits. he also could look at keeping obviously the payroll tax issue alive and well, maybe something that could produce instant cash from the american people. the devils in the details but this much we know for sure. the president hinted at this last night at his golf club , that's where he's staying

on the weekend here, and indications are right now he wants to move fast on this to get the economic bang for the bu ck sooner again rather than later. what a busy weekend to start things off welcome everybody i'm neil cavuto. i literally got here the seconds to spare because i was swimming the hudson with pete, and i know the suits a little wet, but i wasn't swimming with pete. i could never get within a mile of that but god bless him. all right let's get the latest on where we stand on this with mark meredith not on the swimming in the hudson but the president and his plans to issue these executive orders. mark what do you think? >> neil good morning to you. i would make it in the hudson either. what we are looking at though is happening is president trump will be signing some executive orders today, senior administration officials telling fox news they will address a number of the issues that the white house and congress have been fighting on all week when it came to the next economic stimulus package and there has been a back and forth with congress over how long to

extend the unhansed unemployment insurance that's that $600 a week that expired last week on top of state benefits well now we're waiting to see how the president may decide to go ahead and address this issue head on a number of executive orders could be signed a little bit later on today we're still waiting to see the language of these executive orders to see how the white house hopes to be able to get this through but we'll continue to stay tuned for that. last night president trump held an impromptu news conference at his golf club not too far away from where we are where he talked about the stalemate going on between the white house and congress, all week long. the president hinted very strong ly that these executive orders were coming here is what he had to say last night. president trump: i will act under my authority as president to get americans the relief they need and what we're talking about is deferring the payroll tax for a period of months until the end of the year and i could extend it at a certain period, hopefully i will be here to do

the job. >> while the president admits the economy does need a boost he is also optimistic the economy is bouncing barbara bush being from its pandemic lows. we got new data from the labor department on friday neil giving us indications of where things stand. the july jobs report showing employers were able to add 1.7 million new jobs bringing the unemployment rate down to 10.2% but of course that remains above double-digits. the president also in his news conference last night indicating the u.s. is providing much needed humanitarian assistance to the people in lebanon after that horrible explosion earlier this creek and the president getting a chance to speak with the french president by phone and plans to do additional phone calls with world leaders tomorrow but neil the big headline we're watching from new jersey later today president trump will be signing some executive orders tied to boosting the economy after those negotiations between the white house and congress have broken down all week long you could bet congress is going to have plenty to say about that

later on today once we know what actually those executive orders are, neil? neil: i'm sure we will, mark meredith thank you very much, with the president in new jersey in the meantime, the effect of all of this is that the president was growing frustrated with the slow pace of the negotiations. they've had 10 meetings at his top republican and democratic players, and nothing came of them. they narrowed the gap by about $1 trillion but in the end the president was frustrated they weren't making much progress and this was going to delay stimulus if we even had stimulus and despite the improvement in the jobs report, that mark touched on and the fact that some republicans think maybe we don't need the stimulus after all certainly as much of it the president seem s to think otherwise and that they should get out and this is sooner the better. let's raise it with francis newton, the capital director of strategy, also dan geltrude, who is the cpa and a market analysis so he's an accountant by training and dan, that's why i

want to begin with you here. the devils in the details of course and on the payroll tax cut holiday, much depends on whether it's for everyone, whether steve moore recommended and we have him the next hour it be for just the 75,000 and under individuals, 150,000 for couples what is your sense, what would bring the most bang for the buck? >> well we don't exactly know what the president is going to do here but if i had to guess, he is going to take a complete holiday across-the-board on this and the numbers are significant. let's think about this. when you combine the payroll taxes for both the employee and the employer, we're talking about 15.3%, because that's split in half, 7.65% each for the employee and the employers, so we're talking

about real savings and real dollars going into people's pockets so i think that's a real incentive for employers to get those employees back to work and think about if you're self- employed, you're the business owner. you're saving the full 15% so like i said i think it be a great move; however he does not have support across-the-board certainly not from the democrats and he even got pushed back from the republicans so that's going to be a tough one. neil: yeah it would have to be a temporary measure if done by executive action nevertheless he could unwind that and lift it some months down the road. there's so much we don't know we'll find out later today but francis is it your sense a payroll tax cut for example, is immediate. it wouldn't be one that you'd have to wait for. people would see it instantaneously in their next paycheck, but the flip side of that is that he's got to help out or wants to help out those who don't have a job or a

paycheck where they could benefit from that, plus his other push now then to extend the unemployment benefits we're told at the full $600 a week level. we'll see later on today but what are your thoughts on all of this? >> so my thoughts are that the extending the unemployment insurance is very important because statistically we have no idea who is being kept from getting a job because of that and who is actually suffering and it's kind of interesting that the moratorium on evictions has occurred at the same time that you've had that unemployment insurance expire and we don't know how many people could get evicted for not having that $600 a week so while there are some that probably aren't getting a job, there's no way of measuring that and so you have to do it to sure up the people paying rent with that $600 a week but i also agree with the payroll tax cut and the reason is that we're nearing 20% of u.s. companies going into

zombie status, meaning that they make less in profit than they have to service in debt and those companies, even if they took some of the paycheck protection act money, they could end up failing and filing for bankruptcy and we have a number of corporate bankruptcies in the u.s. and this puts further pressure on an already- dire employment situation. now the employment situation by yesterday's numbers does look like it's improving but it's too soon to tell. it doesn't include the last week of july, which is when the shutdowns kind of regained some momentum so we just don't know how many people are out there suffering. yes we'll have to deal with national debt, yes we'll have to deal with deficits but it's more important right now that we don't let anyone get evicted because of the unemployment insurance expiring and with all of the political posturing going on because of the election year it's just people are more important than politics so i'm glad the president is stepping into this. neil: all right guys i want to

thank you both. we'll be monitoring this again later today we have this understanding the president will be addressing all these issues the unemployment benefit extension looking at trying to get rid of that moratorium that is set to expire right now, you can't pay your rent you're kicked out of your home he doesn't want to see that happen this payroll tax holiday that could include all americans not just those limited income, and then the student relief, student loan relief extension. this could cost a lot but the president right now has not and we're told has not put any dollar figure attached to any of this just that it's going to happen and it's going to happen because he said that congress couldn't move fast enough to make it happen, so we'll monitor these developments. also monitor how the markets don't seem to care one way or the other about all the federal spending in fact it likes the federal spending and it likes the notion that it's still more stimulus to the economy. we'll explore that in a bit and as i mentioned, we see more a visionary of the payroll tax cut and the implications of that and

the immediate bang for the buck that you get but first i wanted to draw your attention to something happening half way across the world, some disturb ing destruction from the explosion and now the protests that have ensued. people are angry. they're finding out what the government knew and didn't do anything about it, it literally was sitting on a powder keg and now they're the ones who are explodeing. memory, focus, accuracy, learning, and concentration. try our new gummies for 30 days and see the difference.

neil: well, these should be the week we don't exactly know when but joe biden announces his runningmate. it is presumably down to two women, but again that could change as well. we could be getting some different things here but let's get the read from peter doocy, what are you hearing? >> reporter: neil, good morning. we're hearing a lot more about the way joe biden has been meeting with the women who are on his vp short list, because

overnight, we found out that michigan governor gretchen whitm er flew last sunday from lansing to the delaware coastal airport according to the associated press that airport is only about 20 miles away from biden's house and she was reportedly only on the ground for about three hours , so as we start to read the tea leaves see this two nights before that unannounced meeting where she spoke glowingly about biden. >> i am incredibly confident that with joe biden in the white house, we're going to have a leader who is going to stay tethered to the things that the quality of life. >> reporter: we've got vp biden making another unannounced trip yesterday in wilmington delaware where he rolled up to an event center about 20 minutes from his house and the campaign remains tight-lipped about what exactly he was doing there for two and a

half hours although two things he still needs a runningmate and a place to speak when he accepts the party's nomination in delaware to close out a convention fox news confirmed will focus heavily on video storytelling two hours a night, four nights in a row with stories from hillary clinton, bill clinton, bernie sanders, and john kasich ic, the former governor of ohio, a republican, and so far, as we know, joe biden does not have any events on his schedule for today. neil? neil: all right, peter doocy, thank you very very much so poll s are snapshots in time and right now for the president they look problematic but keep in mind they're roughly the same national gap he had going with hillary clinton four years ago but many likened what he is dealing with the president chief executive with what george bush surfing was dealing with iran ic ily an economy coming out but too little too late to help george bush senior back then in

1992 could the spring of good news including strong employment reports three of them back to back to back, is that going to register too late to help them at the polls? let's go to karl rove a best- selling author and former chief advisor to the president of the united states, of course george bush senior's son george w. bush. carl let me ask you about that. it's now, you know, urban legend of course that george bush sr. was hit by a slow down in the economy but the recovery was happening ironically as people were going to the polls they just realized it too late. does this president risk the same right now? >> well he does, but he's living in a much different time and we frankly don't know, because my sense is people understand coronavirus has uprooted and up ended so many things starting with their economic lives and so they're looking for good news, and the question is whether any good news that they see like the recent jobs report, and any improvement in their personal

lives is going to have an impact on the november ballot and my gut tells me that we're in an environment in which people are going to be making their decisions about the economy later than sooner, and they're going to be dominated by how they feel about the coronavirus, so my sense is after labor day and schools start coming back in force, or not, people are going to be making a judgment, so before it used to be sort of that you got the economic cake baked in and sort of july, august, september, my sense is it's going to be a little bit later this time around. neil: i'm old enough to remember as are you in 1992 and what was going on in the economy some of the improvement that occurred in the number that we saw after the election, some of these numbers we're seeing including what's happening on the employment front, are occur ring months before the election, leaving aside the markets that have come back from their lows, home prices are

surging up 4.1% of the latest month, mortgage demand is at an all-time high, mortgage rates at an all-time low, car sales are jumping, online buying is jumping, factory orders are jumping, this is all happening like now, and i'm wondering, i know that old market law is that it's how people are feeling in late summer, early fall, that's reflected in the voting, but how different is it now in that respect? >> well again we don't know but my gut tells me it's a little bit later than in the past. if we were late summer early fall it might be early fall and sort of a little bit later into the fall before people make those kind of judgments. the one advantage the president has on this is in virtually every poll, people seem to sit to view him as more effective in helping the economy recover from the pandemic than they do joe biden, and i think that's another hidden strength for the president. the question is how can he build on that and how can he contrast himself in a way that sticks

with the american people that he's better than joe biden when it comes to bringing back the prosperity that we had in 2019 or the early part of this year and that's going to be a test for the trump campaign. the biden campaign, you could see that they're trying to prepare for this by focusing so strongly on the coronavirus and blaming the president for in action, hoping that that somehow will begin to wear away at his advantage on the economic issue so each side has its own strategy. we'll see how they execute. neil: yeah the executive action the president is reportedly set to take today because he's frustrated that congress working with his top white house aids has not been able to come up with a stimulus package of their own, he is poised right now to cut the payroll tax. we don't know whether that will be for everybody or just some, wants to extend the jobless benefits we're getting increasing word it'll be the full $600 a week so he's not counting the moneys on this but he wants it done like right away

can he do that? by executive action, can he do that? >> well there's a question as to whether or not he can extend the $600 additional benefit unemployment benefit, and there will also be a question of whether or not he can declare a payroll tax holiday. it will affect people who have got a job already and are back at work it's not going to do anything for the people who are not at work unless their employer says that 15% don't need to pay for next two or three months or four months or five months that's good enough for me to call back to work some of my workers. the real key is going to be how does this stimulate the economy, do more people feel better about than their personal financial circumstances, as a result of this , and does it give people who are not back at work a sense of you know what? i can be back at work soon enough and we don't know how that'll all play out but the president taking action, even if you don't necessarily agree with the action is

nonetheless a president taking action, and that's powerful. one of the reasons why presidents tend to get re-elected is they have the biggest mega phone and lever of control over over the levers of power and the president by exercising this is saying in essence to the american people the democrats in congress didn't sit down at the table and negotiate a bill that i cosign so i'm taking every available action i can and if you don't think it's good enough you got to blame the democrats who blocked my ability to get something bigger done. neil: karl rove we'll see what the president has in-store a little later today on those employers who pick up half that payroll tax cost, the issue could become whether they feel free to pass that along to workers if it's only temporary because they don't want to be saddled with that burden and have to pay it back later on so we'll see. we're still focusing on these protests going on, and people are furious not over the 154 died, the 5,000 who were injured and the 300,000 left homeless but that the government knew

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neil: all right, a 71st night of violence although not as much violence in portland but violence and disturbances just the same, the mayor there can't seem to get it under control even though he's warned protesters that they're not helping their own cause in a perverse sense are actually demonstrating to appear in trump campaign ads, because they look unruly and out of control and no matter what he says and no matter what he urges the violence goes on. mark morgan is with us right now commissioner, now this occurs

post the federal agents who were sent there, they are long gone and this is still going on. do you think they should come back? >> so neil there's a couple things, so the federal agents we never left portland that was another false narrative told by the governor and the mayor of portland. what we did do is work with the oregon state police which we asked to do since the very beginning stages of this , and what we did do is take our resources out of the federal court house itself on a standby location, but we still be in portland. what you've seen is the violence started before we got there and the violence continued when we were there and the violence has continued even though we've shifted our resources and now they just directed their violence towards the local police there. here is the irony is that while the courthouse was being target ed and federal less and agents were being assaulted every night the mayor blamed us

but now those same criminal thug s are targeting the police doing the same thing now all of a sudden those are criminals and it's outrageous and the hipocracy i believe the american people see it for what it is. neil: well the portland mayor you're talking about ted wheeler did say the other night he's frustrated that a lot of these protesters when they're preventing people inside these facilities from leaving those facilities, they are in fact endangering their lives something the president pounced on last night when he was speaking from his golf club in new jersey so the president seemed to be sensing that the mayor is almost as frustrated as he is. do you get the same feeling? >> i think it's hipocracy though, neil. this is the same mayor that went out while the violence was happening and targeted against the federal court house and were blaming the federal agents for the violence. he was standing there at the federal court house, the seat of american justice was being firebombed with agents inside and he was there encouraging and

supporting those individuals. it's only when the violence now has gone back to targeted the city of portland and the city police department there that now all of a sudden he's outraged it's hipocracy. neil: so let me ask you, you mentioned these federal agents never left. i assume they are standing down and what and who would make them stand back up and take a more active role in trying to quell this violence? >> neil that's a great question what it's going to be done. we're going to really rely on the information and intelligence from the people that are on the ground there and once they collectively believe there's no specific threat to the federal court house or the federal agents we will start to drawdown , but we're not going anywhere. we are not leaving portland until we have that confidence that the violence against the federal court house has dis it plated. neil: you know, what is your take on these, some are peaceful but many indicate that portland

get out of control and they've gotten sometimes out of control and see how chicago, new york, and a lot of these cities its eased but its not gone away and are you surprised that a lot of this started after the memorial day death of george floyd, and it's not easing up and i'm wondering what you see happening the rest of the summer maybe into the fall. is this just a non stop continuous event? >> neil and that's the question and i think that's what the american people need to understand. the tragic death of george floyd , that message, that very legitimate reason why people are protesting, that message has all been lost. that's another tragedy of this. right now, you and i are talking about the violence rather than talking about how as a law enforcement professional we can work better with the communities we serve to build that trust and increase transparency, all those legitimate things we should be talking about. that's another tragedy to this. that's why i'm saying that the

american people need to wake up and understand that these are anarchists they are using antifa-like tactics to take over and hijack the legitimate protests. we should all be worried about that and united that this must stop. neil: mark morgan thank you very very much. good catching up with you even under these circumstances my friend. i do want to go back tobeirut, these demonstrations are getting a little bit heated let's say portland is put to shame and then some. tens of thousands are making to the streets of course after the big explosion that took about 158 lives and 12,000 of course were injured. many now are left homeless and there are growing questions about what government knew and when it knew it about this facility that had pretty explosive chemicals there and just waiting for this to happen. they want to know why it did happen and why government did nothing about it and they don't like the answers they're getting , we're there, after this

>> one thing we have to be very careful of is these antigen tests or relatively new tests. they've not been deployed very widespread and certainly not been deployed very widespread in ohio and this is an example of how we will have to be very careful with how we will use them and there may be a place to use them, but you know, we've

seen that obviously, that this one did not work and it gave us a false read. neil: so, is the lessen really learned here, good news that governor mike dewine now is testing negative for the coronavirus when only hours before, an initial antigen test had come back positive a false positive at that and it did make us wonder and we were talking about it with the governor yesterday as to whether this happens more often than we think, or we know. dr. ra j joins us right now, the doctor atnyu langone associa te professor of medicine. doctor thank you for taking the time. i'm just wondering how unusual it is for the test to come back the initial one as a false positive, you hope he's really negative. what do you make of that? >> yeah, i mean i think that's the first question is is this really a false positive and i believe he's getting another p

cr test which is the more accurate test today as well because he had the positive antigen, the negative pcr and i do think we need one more pcr before we can jump to any other major conclusions but assuming it was a false positive antigen test we do know they are not very accurate, compared to the pcr test but it's more a problem of false negative as opposed to false positive, but i think like so much about this virus we're still learning, we're still having more questions pop-up, and all of these tests have been created so rapidly that there are going to be issues and the issue really here is when we're talking about reopening society and the potential of rapid testing people, maybe even daily in certain settings, if the tests are not accurate, how much can we really base policy on these tests. that's the problem. neil: i'm wondering the initial antigen test the governor had and this is fairly common in a lot of places where they have

these immediate tests you drive-thru these places where they give them to you, you do get results fairly quickly but their accuracy rate might be a little bit less than the pcr test to which you alluded o which makes me wonder whether the counts given on positive cases are accurate or might be a bit overblown. what does your gut tell you? >> again, i think what we know about these antigen tests is the problem is more false negatives than false positives so i don't think we're in a situation where we're over stating the number of cases, if anything i think most likely we're understating it and of course you also have many people that aren't getting tested that are probably, you know, positive or asymptomatic at home so i don't think that's so much of the issue but remember when it comes to these kind of tests the ideal test is rapid, cheap, and accurate, and they always say you can really only guarantee two of those usually. it's very hard to get all three, and i think in this case it's rapid as you said and it is relatively inexpensive compared to the pcr test but when you think about the reason it's so

rapid is first of all it's detecting an antigen and it can be very quick but also not processed in a lab but what happens in a lab are a lot of steps that ensure accuracy so there is a trade-off and that's what we think about when we're considering how we'll test people. you know about that where everyone was tested before and we're talking about the pcr test everyone was tested before they started the camp, staff and camp ers couple weeks in almost 50% of the people were clearly positive so clearly some of the tests were not accurate and that's really the conundrum that we're dealing with as we think about how to reopen safely. neil: yeah, you mentioned new jersey camp, that apparently was very instrumental in a number of schools, school system, colleges this week, announcing plans to delay not only the start of the school year i believe in the case of princeton university to keep it all online in the first semester echoing what harvard is already doing, my son

's college is delaying it by at least a month before in- person classes can even begin do you think that's wise or are some over reacting? >> it's always a risk benefit analysis and we have to weigh the risks of exposing children to the benefits of getting that in-person education which we know is far superior but i do think as we are still professing the test and still learning more about the virus a little bit more time and some delay, i think, is wise course of action which a lot of the universities and schools are doing. neil: all right thank you so much i threw a lot of at you there but you handled all with your usual skill. i appreciate all the help and getting people to get a handle on this. we are trying to get a handle right now in beirut, and it's going bad to worse because now troops are involved trey yingst in the middle of all that. what's going on there?

>> reporter: neil good afternoon right now, it is turning into a large chaos situation, you have troops in martyr square that are clashing with tens of thousands of protesters who are calling for the resignation of the lebanese president and all we know about the situation in the square is that the lebanese government is trying to push all the military resources they can to this area because it's such a large group of people. the demonstration was scheduled to start just about 40 minutes ago and for the past two hours we have seen people streaming in close to martar square which is right next to the port. as we speak there are still a number of rescue crews trying to search for survivors in the port and the latest count from the lebanese government is that over 60 people are still missing under the debris, some new reporting that we have for you though, according to the czech republic rescue team a number of the european rescue teams inside the blast zone today have been called out by the lebanese army. that team told us they had to

move a lot of the resources overseeing the projects there to look for survivors to the square behind me here. there are tens of thousands of people there right now and again , this has just started. clashes already erupting in the square, tear gas was being fired by these troops towards a number of demonstrators throwing rocks and other objects at the troops that were lined up there. this is by far one of the largest demonstrations that beirut has seen over the past year although there are many protests against the government, these protesters here say they want to see president egg regulations and they want to see them now. to give you a sense of what people think is going to happen tonight. more clashes are expected, the troops behind me here are preparing to clash with those demonstrators in the square, but the one word that everyone continues to yell over and over again is revolution. they want justice for the people who were killed in this explosion that they believe died as a result of government negligence and when you're walking through the streets of

beirut when you're sitting in the few cafes that are left all you hear is people talking about stories of survival and now they are taking those stories and that anger and frustration against the government into the streets of beirut, a bit of a blood letting for the citizens here in beirut and people have lost everything, according to international officials that we have spoken with including the red cross and unicef, more than 300,000 people are displaced, 80,000 of people are children. we've seen international aid organizations operating throughout the city over the past 24 hours. citizens coming to help cleanup, but no government officials and no government resources. i saw one person describing it as a chaotic situation for the government because they understand what this means. you don't even see government services handing out bottles of water in the streets, following one of the worst tragedies to hit this city in years, what comes next is anyone's guess, but again, the people behind me in beirut are calling for

revolution and the government officials has described to fox news are hiding in their castles. neil: trey there are a number of stories this morning that have european union officials eager to send money and aid beirut's way but they don't nowhere that aid should go or who should collect it and maybe back to your point that a lot of government officials are in hiding, president trump is also indicated in remarks that he too wants to help out in anyway he can and this seems to be a similar theme as you reported before many on the part of israel. everyone wants to help but no one knows exactly who they give the money to to provide that help, or the manpower. it sounds like a mess. >> reporter: neil you're exactly right a mess is really the only way to describe it and to give you a sense of what the people in the streets are concerned about, one word they've been saying over again along with revolution is corruption.

we saw earlier in the week french president macron walking through some of the historic streets of beirut and you saw him surrounded by people which was not a familiar scene for a world leader to be in the streets of beirut just talking to demonstrators face to face, and you saw these men and women pleading with french president macron to ensure that any dollars that are sent to lebanon do not end up in the hands of who they are calling corrupt officials. we did see today one of the planes sent by the united states military, a c-17 cargo plane landing at beirut's airport just this morning. it came with medical supplies and additionally, water and food , and an important note here is that lebanon was already suffering. its economy was crumbling amid the outbreak of covid-19. no more tourism, no more economic stimulus activity for the region as a whole, and

many of the lebanese people were relying on international aid organizations for food before the blast happened and when you look at support you see a very tall silo in the middle followed by another silo and another silo each one of those silos are filled with grain. 85% of the lebanese grain in those silos is now destroyed as a result of this explosion that officials believe was caused by [technical difficulties] and that left just 15% of the grain that it was relying on before and although you do have international actors across europe, also the united states now, and even further east, countries like iraq sending what they can to help it is not enough and when we go back to those displacement numbers 300,000 people just in beirut alone displaced. you're looking at people who now no longer have a home. they no longer have things to eat in many cases and they're not quite sure where to go.

underscoring all of this is the fact that when we talk about aid coming to lebanon, we are talking about temporary emergency relief. what the lebanese people need is change. they need deep-seated change to ensure that their economy doesn't collapse and that the civilization here doesn't collapse and again, the people behind me right now want to see that change happened to. protesters tell fox news they will stay in the square and they will continue to clash with these government troops until resignations occur. today we saw more than three ministers in the lebanese parliament resign. more are expected but again that is not enough. they want to see resignations at the very top level and they are talking about lebanese president and also about lebanese prime minister. neil? neil: you know, trey we're separately hearing because of this disruption obviously putting it mildly, covid-19 cases which had been speaking in

lebanon i don't know if it's directly the beirut area it's complicated that relief effort. >> reporter: certainly when you come into lebanon you're require to take a covid-19 test to ensure that you are negative for the virus. that is the lebanese government attempting try to do some form of contact tracing, but the situation here on the ground doesn't really allow for widespread testing and it doesn't allow for laboratories to be operating in major fashion more of the major hospitals including the second largest hospital in the entire country were completely destroyed, so the focus has shifted from covid-19 to the after math of this tragedy and explosion that took place on tuesday, and we've been following the coronavirus situation in lebanon for a number of weeks on the fox news run down, global pandemic podcast and i've spoken with a number of officials organizations, including care, red cross, unicef, all extremely

concerned about what was going to happen about coronavirus in lebanon because now not only do you have a virus that is spreading we are seeing charts continuing to head upwards you now have an extremely vulnerable population and whether it is the coronavirus task force in washington, whether it is european officials from boris johnson to emoon emmanuel macron, we need to ensure to use contact tracing to stop the virus in its tracks and the lebanese people are not focused on contact tracing or masks or social distancing. they are focused on digging through the rubble from an explosion that occurred earlier in the week hoping to find some survivors. there are parents, brothers sisters going to the red cross giving dna swabs in an effort to try to contact or trace their loved ones not related to coronavirus related to the body, that they have found under the

rubble in lebanon. you can hear the sirens behind me right now. we saw a number of people injured in the square just a while ago. we've moved out of the square a little bit to improve our signal because there are so many protesters there. there's a lot of tear gas being fired and again the demonstrator s today are calling for revolution. they are calling for what they say is regime change because that's the way they see the lebanese government today, neil? neil: just in credible, trey you be safe yourself. by the way as trey was wrapping up we're getting more details from local press in the area in-n-out side of the beirut that this ammonium nitrate that kicked off and sparked this explosion was only recently stored there over the past few months and now reports that ammonium nitrate shipments were building there since 2014, and one agent on site had said there

was enough to blow a hole through the entire city and a big chunk of the middle east. we'll keep you posted on that, and also keeping you posted on now official word, the president will be signing an executive order later today because he says when it comes to coronavirus stimulus in this country, congress is letting down and the democrats have failed to work with republicans to get together something to keep the stimulus to get flowing and he is going to sign an unemployment benefit extension and we don't know that will include the full $600 a week federal benefit that expired last week on eviction moratorium extension, a payroll tax holiday we don't know whether that applies to some or everybody and a student loan relief extension. again, the devils in the details , but the presidents going to make it official signing on to this , and tempting congress to challenge him, at 3:30 eastern time. more after this.

neil: all right, you won't do it , i will repeating a theme that the president echoed constantly threatened this move now going to act on this move republican and democratic negotiators couldn't come to an agreement on a coronavirus stimulus measure, be the fourth one by the way he will announcing about four and a half hours, he is going to spell out some sweeping changes that will include everything from extending unemployment benefits to providing a measure to prevent people from getting evicted from their homes if they can't meet their rent or pay their mortgage and also student loan assistance and a novel approach offering a payroll tax cut extension that presumably be for everyone, in other words it isn't parsed out for some versus all. again we just don't know for sure, we know at 3:30 p.m. eastern time the president will detail all of that and announce

this executive action from his bedminster golf club in new jersey so we'll keep you posted to charlie gasparino on the implications of all of this. you know, he's going into sort of unchartered territory on some of this stuff, not all of it, but on the payroll tax issue itself, a lot depends on whether employers pass along those savings, right, charlie? that they might feel this is a temporary measure we don't want to get caught high and dry, having to pay this money back, so where is this going? charlie: yeah, it is somewhat confusing because you know, i guess they're relying on court precedent with the president obama's daca rule, which was allowed to stand for a while, and i believe it still is, and it has to be reversed by the courts, and you know, so that's the precedent here from at least that's what the white house, people in the white house is telling us that they have that's their legal precedent for

doing this. it is highly unusual, as you know congress has the power of the purse string, right? they could, they are supposed to be taxing and spending and the president is a partner in that obviously, but that's what's supposed to go on. i just wonder though how much, you know, listen this is a great election year in my view, election year move for him because think about it. what better way to say congress is disfunctional as to go out there and do an executive order to put money in people's pockets it's pretty fascinating and i believe he's going to do this at 3:00 today, correct? neil: all right, thank you very much, my friend didn't want to jump on you there, 3:30 p.m. he's going to announce this again, this is a sweeping measure we don't know the cost of it here but the president saying he gave congress and his own team of the treasury secretary steven mnuchin and chief of staff mark meadows time to work with them and they have narrowed their difference to about a little bit more than $ 1.5 trillion but it was

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over the phone, or online. - i was glad to learn there are treatments for td. >> all right. weekends are like weekdays now. breaking news all the time and the big news of the moment right now, the president of the united states ready to take executive action to get the stimulus that he wants because congress is not helping him out. he's given them the better part of two weeks right now to cobble together something. they were finding agreement on some loose areas here, but not enough to close the deal and when his top negotiators, the treasury secretary steve mnuchin and chief of staff, mark meadows, reported back they were sort of split on exactly how much money that was going to be committed to this, and that they really go going nowhere fast. the president thought better of

it tweeted out from bedminster new jersey, his golf club, and from that location today, sign signed-- would sign, and we don't know the 600 that expired. a payroll tax cut might be temporary to get off the ground to pass executive order. but we don't know whether that would apply to everybody or some. steve moore, a former economic confidante who talked about a tax cut that would be limited to those making $75,000 a year and couples making about $150,000 a year and we just don't know. steve moore, in just a bit. right now, i want to go to mark meredith who has been travelling with the president in new jersey. mark, what are you hearing? >> good morning to you. like you said, so much for a quiet saturday. it's going to be a busy afternoon as trump will be signing some executive orders

tied to the economic stimulus talks you were just mentioning, we've seen the white house and congress go back and forth all week long trying to decide how much money is needed to pump up the economy. the democrats offering the earlier bill, $3 trillion and the republicans wanting closer to $1 trillion. and the talks drag on day after day, and the president deciding to take an executive action, for enhanced up employment benefits. that was the $600 a week plus state benefits that were in place until last week. those are expired and that's no longer happening. if you're unemployed likely you're getting the state benefits not the $600. the president would be willing to extend longerment democrats wanted it a whole lot longer going until the end of january. we'll find out what the president is doing about this. he previewed what he will be doing and listen to what he had to say at a impromptu news

conference. >> i'll act under my authority as president to get the americans what they need and what we're talking about is deferring the payroll tax for a period of months until the end of the year and i could extend it at a certain period. hopefully i will be here to do the job. >> democrats have accused of white house of stonewalling on these negotiations all along. house speaker nancy pelosi and minority leader chuck schumer say this they have been offering to scale back, but the white house is not going along. the house is majority democrat. meet us in the middle, for god's sake for the sake of america, meet us in the middle. don't say that my way or-- >> you can bet that congress would have a reaction to these executive orders. once they get an idea, it's

unclear how they'll work and see how it could impact either a payroll tax cut or the unemployment insurance. like your previous guest mentioned, congress will control the purse strings here. and i'm sure there will be lawmakers reaction. 3:30 is when the news conference is happening. we'll head over there shortly. back to you. neil: mark meredith. thank you, very very much. following all of that. steve moore right now, particularly on the payroll tax cut part of it, he may have been the guy who planted the seed in a great column, that the affect would be immediate and come out of people's checks right away. a 15 combined tax that you pay along with your boss disappears. and steve, there in that position of, if this is only going to be temporary and i start handing this to back to workers. i'm stuck, i'm on the limb here

to pay it back. what -- how do you work through that? >> well, first of all, neil, good to be with you and let me just say that this is like a nba basketball game where a team is down by two points with 2.8 seconds left and it looks hopeless and you know, donald trump is standing behind the three-point line and as the buzzer goes off, he swishes it and they win. this is a game changer in terms with nancy pelosi it's going nowhere. he's suddenly flipped the tables effectively and strategically on nancy pelosi by basically taking executive actions, by the way, which certainly on the payroll tax is very legal. there's no question he has the legal authority to do this. and now he's got his stimulus and now he can negotiate in a much stronger position in the weeks to come to get some of these other orders. neil: when you say he has the legal authority to do this and

i've been checking with people indeed he does as long as it's temporary. i don't know if that's true or accurate. he can then say, a few months down the road, i'm going to waive this payback. but it gets into the weeds here and even some republicans, like chuck grassley was among those i talked to, and taxes are an issue for the house and the senate and not the white house. what do you make of that whether that could be an impediment? >> so this is a good point. by the way, what the law says, just so people are clear about this, is in the case of an economic emergency which we're in right now, the president has authority to suspend payroll-- or taxes, whichever taxes they might be, income taxes, gas taxes, in this case the payroll tax. now, you raised an interesting question, what happens if employers decide they're not going to turn this money back to the workers?

because the intention is to get every single worker in america a 7 1/2 pay raise starting next week. in other words, neil, think about this. every single worker would see this immediately if their paychecks as soon as say, august 15th, that's a big deal in terms of getting money. neil: you know that's every single worker? i'm sorry to keep jumping on you rudely, but everyone would. in your piece in the journal you talked about the idea of limit it go to individuals making 75,000 or less, couples, i think $150,000 or less. this seems to be, and i don't want to jump the gun on the president on this, this seems to be for everybody. now, he balances that out by extending the federal jobless benefits so everyone gets something out of this, but what are your thoughts on this? >> so i don't know the exact details what the president is going to say today so we'll have to listen at 3:30 to get the exact details. here is how this would play out hopefully. i want president trump when he makes this announcement today at 3:30 to say it is my full

intention when and if i am reelected president to forgive those tax payments so that it actually becomes a tax cut. now, of course, that would have to be passed by congress and you're right, chuck grassley runs the senate finance committee so he'd be a key feature in this. imagine for a moment that we do this and it is going to happen, and you get some employers say we're not going to turn this back to the employees. there's going to be incredible pressure on these employers to give that money back to the workers, actually it's their paycheck, they deserve the money. the other thing that's interesting about this, what is joe biden going to say about this? i mean, joe biden supported a payroll tax cut when barack obama was president, he was the vice-president for goodness sakes. this puts not just nancy pelosi, but joe biden in quite a bind as well. i do expect that this is going to happen. i do expect that donald trump is going to say it's my full intention to forgive these taxes next year so people don't

have to pay a double payroll tax next year. on the unemployment benefits i hope president trump does in the extend $600 a week. as you and i have talked about, i think that's really negative for job creation. we'll see what number he's talking about, i hope it's closer to about $300. neil: well, you know, your own wall street journal is reporting today that for a lot of people relying on their own state benefits, they're running out of them. some are getting as little as-- not all, i stress not all, as little as 10 to $30 a week now because it's depleted. so, the pressure is on, maintaining those new found federal benefits. what do you think of that? >> well, there's no question, neil. that everyone wants a safety net for people who have lost their job. we still have 20 million people unemployed in this country notwithstanding the great jobs number yesterday. there is a need for insurance. i think that all americans

agree that it makes no sense giving people more money for not working than the 140 million people who are working and you know, the many states today, $600 a week, workers getting paid twice as much money for not working as working and frankly, that's just not fair to the people who are working hard, the doctors and nurses and sanitation workers and construction workers and truckers, that are working a hard day's work and they come back and the guy next door is not working and making more than they are. in terms of fairness and getting the economy moving, we've got to get those unemployment benefits down to 200 or $300 a week on top of the normal benefits that they yet. neil: all right. well, no one's going to be counting pennies on this, but, steve, i've got to give you credit, you're like an economic svengali. you write a column and it materializes days later. >> a president who has got the backbone to do it and this is going to be an interesting week to come, neil. neil: also thinking about market reaction.

if they would love this. thank you, steve as always. i learn a lot. the president a little more than four hours from now will take action that he says congress failed to and as the speaker of the house, you can stall, but can't stop. take look what's going on in new york as the governor says all schools can reopen, but not all schools are going to reopen after this. want to brain better? unlike ordinary memory supplements- neuriva has clinically proven ingredients that fuel 5 indicators of brain performance. memory, focus, accuracy, learning, and concentration. try our new gummies for 30 days and see the difference.

i'm an associate here at amazon. step onto the blue line, sir. this device is giving us an accurate temperature check. you're good to go. i have to take care of my coworkers. that's how i am. i have a son, and he said, "one day i'm gonna be like you, i'm gonna help people." you're good to go, ma'am. i hope so. this is my passion. if i can take of everyone who is sick out there, i would do it in a heartbeat. ♪ ♪ back to school ♪ >> all right. who says we're not hip? it's going to be back to school and the governor of new york giving the green light that all schools throughout the empire state including new york city can reopen. that doesn't mean they'll reopen, not in the traditional

way. and joining us now in new york city with the unique dilemma for a lot of schools weighing will it's going to be in person, virtually, a bit of both. what are you hearing? >> hi, neil. it might seem strange considering what's happening in the rest of the country. new york governor cuomo says if there's any state that can open schools, it's new york. here is why. the infection rate is below 5%, that 5% threshold in every region of the state right now. ultimately as you mentioned, 749 school districts will submit their own plans to the state for approval on what their individual reopening might look like and that could include e-learning, some parents might want to stick with e-learning altogether, but the state has released guidelines. take a look. that includes temperature checks for students and staff at home before they go to school and then random checks at school before they walk into the building. everyone has to wear a mask if they can't socially distance.

the state recommends covid testing for staff at least once a month, 14-day quarantine following a confirmed taste and parents and teachers have to start having talks, a minimum of three discussions before august 21st to ensure that everyone is on board and that everyone is comfortable. now, the big question, neil, of course, is what about those asymptomatic kids? how do you control the spread if kids are not showing symptoms? governor cuomo says, that's up to the schools. listen. >> the answer is, testing. but then the question becomes, okay. what percentage of testing? who is going to do the testing? do you have that set up? but that is a conversation. >> more conversations to be had. the state is warning though that schools could be shut down if there are any reoccurring or uncontrolled outbreaks and here in new york city, the mayor says he'll shut down schools if we go above that 3% infection

rate threshold. neil. neil: thank you very much, aishah hasnie in new york city. the grn governor of nebraska-- you might say, neil, why is the governor of nebraska commenting? because he's dealing with this in his state. governor, glad to have you back. you've been saying you want to see nebraska schools resume in-person classes this fall just a couple of weeks away and you've run into a buzz saw of criticism from teachers union types and others who say that you're sort of playing with their health and their safety. what do you say? >> well, i think that it's important that we have kids back in classrooms because for a lot of reasons. first of all, academic progression. we know that some kids are not going to learn well in a remote learning environment and especially you think of special needs kids, for example. and we know that kids are benefitted when they go to

school in physical activities and emotional well-being, their mental health and mental well-being, also nutritional needs. so there are a lot of of reasons why we want to have kids back in school and it really is up to our superintendents, our school boards to put together a plan to manage this. i think we've got to remember that, you know, while we're working very hard to get a vaccine, we have local public health officials talking about getting reinfected which means there could be some snags when you get a vaccine and it may not be 100% effective and it may not last long. so we can't just go forward with our school shut down permanently. we've got to figure out how to manage it. and they've got to put together plans, kids wearing masks and co-who are thing kids and social distancing and trying to spread them out as much as possible. all of these things what we're using in a variety of different areas, to be an i believe to make this work. and we have the issue here in nebraska with our food

processing plant and our university of nebraska medical center published a covid-19 playbook with those to adopt best practices. and we've got single digit says count and every one of them with the exception of omaha. omaha is different because it's a metropolitan area. neil: and timing, small compared to the national average, but you've seen a bit of a spike. so much so the c.d.c. director robert redfield said that nebraska is a state we consider a red zone. if it's a red zone, do you think this approach is wise? >> so, well, first of all, we appreciate the work of the c.d.c. and dr. redfield has talked about some of the great reasons why kids need to get back in classrooms as well. for example, we've seen

increased suicide rates and those above covid guest rates. and the data, one of the things they cited a positivity rate above 10%. that's not true. if you've got bad data you're going to make assessments and they're not going to be accurate. neil: you know, i know you're anti-mandating masks, but you did recommend for colleges that if they want to about you shall that point, that's fine. is that accurate? because it does seem a little like a mixed signal. >> no, it's not a mixed signal at all. masks slow the spread of the virus and policies when to implement it. and we want to look at what the proper use of the mask is. i open all of my briefings and say go to the store, wear masks.

if you're inside closer than six feet you should wear a mask to slow the spread of virus. what i'm with, big government, heavyhanded mandate saying this is what you have to do. i think they're counterproductive. they generate resistance. and here where we've got a mask mandate we're seeing resistance. we are going to be dealing with this in the long-term, even with the best case scenario, it will be early next year. again, we may never have a vaccines and people have to learn how to use these, including masks long-term. neil: gorp, thank you, to you and your fine residents and family. we know that baseball was bumpy getting the shortened season going. it might not make it to the end of the season.

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>> all right. the week started out with the university football coach saying we're scrapping the entour season. we don't have this virus thing under control and i don't want to endanger my players. now news that the mid-american conversation has canceled its entire football season because of the pandemic, including central michigan, eastern michigan, western michigan, akron, bowling green, northern illinois, ohio and toledo because of the cancellations, it was set to already lose millions of dollars. they just shut the entire

conference down. ivy league conference looking at much the same, this on the heels of at least 60 nfl players who have been worried about the coronavirus itself and will not be playing this fall when the pros hit the gridiron. now, growing concerns as to whether that will ever happen. michael, our internet sensation and the guy is a sports encyclopedia. michael, as you predicted, it's spreading like wildfire. i'm not talking about the virus, i'm talking about shutting down ahead of the virus. what do you make of this? >> you know me, i always like to have a good time and look for the positive in life. it hurts me that i have to bring the bad and negative news to everybody out there. the fact is we're not going to get college sports this fall or winter. as you mentioned mid-american conference, that just broke. those are big schools, you're talking ohio university, bowling green, kent state. legitimate football schools.

and you tie it in with the other conferences and not rolling out competition. you individual schools, michigan state, northwestern, rutgers, they've had quarantines because they've had outbreaks on the actual team. most telling is the fact that ncaa president, mark emerts said that the season is up in the air and it would be very difficult to have sports. >> when you put it together. it's not feasible or logical to have college sports this fall and winter. it's terrible for the students involved, but from an economic standpoint, you're talking billions of dollars that will be lost in ncaa sports this year. neil: you know, i'm wondering going beyond it, with baseball, of course, which is trying to get in shortened season going and then you have the marlins players who tested positive for the virus and there were st.

louis cardinal staff members and players that tested for the virus. i don't believe the cardinals have played until the end of july. where is that season going? >> here is the bottom line, we know that a bubble works or at least works better. the nba is playing down in disney world. they're working out pretty well. the nhl is up in edmonton and toronto, hub cities being in a controlled environment. everything is working out there. mlb, it's not a bubble, it's open season literally on everything happening. so the marlins still haven't been able to play and st. louis cardinals until july 29th. what's happening there? but the bottom line is that these players are allowed to go free. there's been reports that perhaps the marlins players, a couple of them got it by going to a club. and then the cardinals there's been alleged reports that they might have gotten it by going to a casino. so, if the players aren't going to follow the rules themselves or at least be smart, then how do you expect sports to

continue? it just doesn't make sense and it's because of all that, how are you going to have college players and college teams travelling all across playing a contact sport where we're not supposed to have contact with other people and yet contact on a football field with other people and then somehow make it all work. people need to be smart. i hate saying this because i love sports, neil, but it's a-- it can't happen. it can't happen. neil: do you want to watch the history channel with me? you should-- >> i want to, you look at the fans and they have the cardboard cutouts in major league baseball. i thought you and i could put ourselves in the cardboard cutouts in the background and have a great time in the background. it would be a great day. neil: and what cockamamie came up with the idea to come up with virtual fans? and said fox broadcasting. [laughter] >> thank you very much, my friend. >> awesome, take care.

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>> all right. well, the more they find out, the more they want to have it out with authorities in lebanon in beirut. you're watching live scenes right now. tens of thousands of protesters gathering right now because the more they have learned about

that explosion earlier in the week that claimed over 150 lives and injured thousands. thousands still missing, too, by the way and about 300,000 homeless, the more they're learning that the government knew the dangerous chemicals were building up, not just recently at a warehouse facility there that exploded, but that those chemicals had been there since 2014. they're not happy about that or that government officials are hiding from them and all of this is disrupting the flow of moneys that could come to beirut to help dig them out of it because a lot of people who want to provide help don't know who to give the money to. it's a mess and it's getting messier. we're watching developments in this country where defunding the police movement is alive and well and in los angeles the latest to say we want to lop about 900 million off the law enforcement budget. don't think they can't get that passed. robert harris is a los angeles police protective league

director, not too pleased with these developments. robert, thank you for taking the time. where did this he come up with the nearly billion dollars to just lop off? >> you know, i don't know how they arrived at the numbers, but i can tell you that this isn't an issue that's really about money. it's really about a lack of leadership. if it was a money issue then the billion dollars that l.a. county has collected to address the homeless issue would have solved it, but it's only gotten worse. if it was really a money issue, then the billion dollars they have sitting in a fund to assist those with mental illness would have been used instead of sitting in the account doing nothing while people suffered. i think the problems are professional politicians like mayor garcetti who is basically a contortionist. one minute let's cut the police budget and stop sending them to calls. the minute people are upset about covid house parties, he

sends them to shut it down instead of sending people with clipboards. it's a knee jerk reaction that isn't going to do anything. neil: your point to the mayor, we did reach out to him and did not hear back. and cutting the parties to those large homes that have parties. we'll get to that in a second. let's say they were able to succeed and cut, 900 billion from the police budget. what would the impact be? i mean, right away, you're talking fewer men and women that would be available on the streets at a minimum, but play it out for me. >> yeah, at its logical conclusion, you end up harming the very communities that you give lip service to want to be improving, that you want to be helping. look, when you start cutting budgets, there's real tangible impacts to that. you start delaying our ability to respond to emergency radio calls. we're up in los angeles in our emergency call load.

you start tinkering with and cutting back on those specialty crime units like human trafficking task force, the homeless issues. the real problem for us, when we look at this, is you know, in los angeles, specifically, we continue to have unaffordable housing, continue to have a homeless population, skyrocketing and mental health population that's skyrocketing and the problem is the politicians want to lay the blame at the feet of our officers when they respond to calls that tie directly back to poverty, lack of education and economic opportunities, failures to address the mental health crisis, so, what we're expecting is the politicians themselves hold themselves as accountable as they want to hold the men and women in law enforcement and start solving these issues. these are not police issues, these are societal issues. >> there are enough for them to seek retirement right now because they're just ticked

off. that the same thing is going on in new york, i understand in seattle. this is a nationwide issue right now. >> it is a nationwide issue, and you are seeing the results of a continued sustained vilification and demonization of a profession and we're watching officers who normally would have stayed on years longer beginning to consider retirement. i will take los angeles for an example, we lose 450 officers every year simply to retirement or somebody laddering to another agency or just resigning and once you start tinkering with the budget and we're not able to hire to our attrition levels, you start creating a real problem. and i think what everybody needs to know is rank and file police unions and the men and women of law enforcement want nothing more than to see our profession professionalized. it seems to be falling on deaf ears. neil: well, not entirely, robert. i would like to think that cooler heads will prevail.

robert harris of the police protective league director. thank you very much for taking the time, robert. in the meantime, we touched on this, the mayor of los angeles saying if you don't cut out the big parties at your big homes, we're going to cut your power. listen to this. >> these large parties are unsafe and can cost angelino's their lives. that's why i'm authorizing the city to shut off los angeles department of water and power service in the egregious cases in which houses, businesses and other venues are hosting unpermitted large gatherings. neil: well, can he legally do that? well, right now he is doing that as they're doing in new york city with a novel series of security pandemic check points throughout all entrances into new york, where they're going to be monitoring you and having you fill out forms, in other words, if you say or that, you know, you're lying to them about whether you you've

gone anywhere else or might have contracted the virus or gone dangerous places with the threat of the virus, this he can fine you $1,000 bucks and throw your hiney in quarantine for 14 days. what do you think of this? >> i'm sure the rich people probably have backup generators in their party mansions, but of course, that's beside the point. look, people are breaking the rules and we see a lot of these liberal leaders saying, trying to basically out-draconian each other and forcing people to follow the rules. what we're not hearing them discuss is hey, why are people having problems following these rules and regulations? because it's hard to live that way. in fact, prolonged isolation runs counter to our biology as humans, experts agree it cannot only lead to mental health issues, but physical ones, lowered immunity, higher blood pressure.

i read a paper by a brigham sigh psychology professor saying mortality. we can't pretend our basic biology as humans doesn't exist either. neil: you know what's kind of weird, too, the heavy-handed big brother nature of it. and the governor of nebraska was hearing saying that it breeds resistance and here we be. >> the language, shaming language, just stay home. it's know the just stay home, it's very difficult for me and look at me, i'm at work right now. i'm one of the lucky ones, a lot of people aren't so lucky and so it's condescending, also, in addition to, i agree, the real big brother vibe of

all of this. it's definitely, it's going to cause dissent and make things worse. people are already miserable and you need to sort of acknowledge they have a right to be miserable. this is really, really hard and it's not that simple to live in a way that we as humans are not wired to do. neil: you just got engaged, congratulations. >> thank you. neil: are you rethinking the big apple, it's not worth it? >> we're thinking about it, wondering why we're paying to rent out a handful of rooms nothing to do at all except walk outside and try not to step on needles. yeah, definitely rethinking. neil: incredible. i've got some issues here. i apologize for that. thank you very much, we're monitoring again, this is be the cities clamping down on

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other universities, we were inviting all students to campus, but giving them the opportunity to take their courses online if they wanted to. however, we changed our plans just about a week ago and the reasons were that, as you all know, there was a resurgence of the virus, mostly in southern states, but that raised a level of concern among members of our community. at the same time, we were surveying both the faculty and staff about their level of comfort, about coming back and we were serving students and what we realized was that, still a good number of students wanted to have an on campus experience, but a significant number of faculty and staff had either issues, such as being immuno compromised or caring for somebody who is immuno compromised and worried about using public transportation and issues like that and as a result our plans changed to the following.

we're still inviting new students, incoming freshmen, incoming transfer students and graduate students for an on campus experience, but we're telling everybody else to stay online. neil: what do you do, doctor, if parents, as well as the students, just feel better staying online? in other words, that it's risky, we've seen spikes in cas cases, some might be overreacting, i'm not here to judge, but keep this going longer than a semester? what do you do? >> you know, it's very, very interesting you ask this question. because in in environment no matter what decision you make, you're going to make some people very happy and some others very unhappy. you talked about parents. the moment we announced that some students should stay home and take their classes online we received a number of comments from parents who were very unhappy with this

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>> all right. we are getting word that joe biden has indeed selected his running mate. we just don't know who she is. we do know he had apparently

whittled the list down to california senator and former presidential candidate kamala harris, susan rice. there could be other names, he did meet with the governor, for example, of michigan and all. we just don't know who he selected, but that he has selected someone. this was supposed to be the week coming up where he was going to reveal that to the world. our peter doocy is reporting right now he has made that decision. we just don't know that could be. we'll keep you posted if we hear any whispering that could detail that. in the meantime, we're waiting to hear the president's move later on in about three and a half hours where he is going to, by executive action, provide some stimulus to the economy because the law states that the had republicans and democrats had a stalemate can't come a moment too seen for my next guest, victoria, an ice cream jubilee owner, she like many businesses have been

depending on those initiatives and a lot of ending today. victoria for you -- welcome, by the way, good to have you -- you'd like to hear something on that front, right? >> yes, thank you for having me. as the owner of ice cream jubilee, i think it's essential for congress and the president to act to make sure that i can continue -- small business can continue employing their employees and workers can continue paying their rent and living productive lives. neil: i was surprised, maybe you were, victoria, so many of that money had not been spent. it was a very popular program. your own experience with it. >> well, you know, i was very fortunate to already have been banking with a community bank and i had a personal relationship with my local banker who helped me walk through the process, who would review my application and say, are you sure about this? you know, maybe -- when i had a

question about what number to put in, she could say, well, hold on because the senate is still deliberating what that could mean, don't submit your application right away. if i didn't have that sort of guidance from a local community bank and didn't have support from other minority-owned businesses. other women-owned businesses i would have been nervous to take on this loan amount. the way it was rolled out it need today come quickly and it did, but it's been very unequal. you have people like, companies like t.g.i. fridays and conway west's company getting more in federal funds than what we do in an entire year of sales. it's just not designed to help the little guy and the american dream, as i know that congress intended. however, the-- yeah, but the ppp did allow ice cream jubilee and my company to continue employing our 32 employees, to continue making

ice cream and to give us a little bit of capital to pivot. so we could say, well, we can't open up our stores, but how do we do delivery, do take home, do subscriptions. the pivots, they're not easy, you've got to get capital to do that. there are friends in the music business, entertainers and arts, haven't been able to get open and do lead congress's strong leadership to act. neil: you have to put up a lot, but with this and the president as planned initiatives he'll sign later on today. help is on the way. victoria lai, ice cream jubilee. in the meantime we've got word that joe biden's running mate search is done.

we don't know who he has settled on. peter doocy is joining us closely from delaware. what are we hearing, my friend? >> neil, this is video that you're only going to see on the fox news channel shot just a few minutes ago. we caught up with the former vice-president on a bike ride and asked him a straight forward question, he answered it it it straight forwardly and followed up with a joke to our follow-up. watch this. >> today, today we're in the middle of the worst global health crisis -- we truly want to reward work in this country. we have to ease the financial burdens of care-- >> have you picked a running mate yet? >> i have. >> you have? who is it? >> he didn't know the follow-up was coming, but answered up with a direct yes, he has picked a running mate, that is

consistent with what we've been hearing from the campaign, that he was going to decide and announce within the next couple of days. so he is out and about away from his main compound in wilmington in rehoboth, delaware. neil: peter, i apologize, the initial video from the vice-president as earlier in the week. but the bike ride was exclusive to you. and i want your take on the two finalists out there, susan rice, security advisor and kamala harris briefing running for president herself. do you know those are the final two or given the fact that he sat down and chatted with the governor of michigan that he wasn't limiting to the final two. >> it doesn't seem that he's quite limiting to anybody. this is something where the

campaign never actually gave us a list and this is the short list and these are the women vetted. we know that he said recently there were four african-american women on the list, but they never actually said exactly which ones in print to hand to us. so there are obviously a lot of stories. we think that we have a good idea, but it is probably too soon to guess who the final two were, but based on what he told us a few minutes ago, it's down to one and probably an announcement-- >> do we know whether that person knows? >> we do not. we know exactly what he told us just now on the bike trail about five minutes ago. neil: you've had a busy week, young man. helping make sure that your sister got married with your ministerial license and the rest. so you've changed life and breaking news all the time. peter doocy, thank you very,

very much. that's the latest, joe biden has apparently settled on a running mate. we don't know who she is and the president has settled on taking executive action about three and a half hours because he doesn't like what he's been seeing going on in washington. some big developments. fox continues. >> fox news alert, joe biden telling peter doocy just in the past couple of minutes that he has picked his vice-presidential running mate and with that we welcome you to america's news headquarters in washington. i'm leland vittert and alicia, we know that he has picked his young mate, he says, but we don't know who it is. >> we don't know who it is, yet, leland. i'm alicia acuna coming to you from denver. the timing is interesting because at 3:30 eastern we're also awaiting a news conference, an executive order signing by the president with regard to helping out americans with covid-