thank you so much. i will also be hosting a lot of virtual ovens. they are free, anybody can join. all the information on hannity.com. and amazon has a 40% discount. let's not your hearts be troubled. laura, how are you? >> laura: i'm great. i'm here in minneapolis where all the unrest started. we decided to take to the streets to find out how people are trying to come back. it's a very, very difficult task. but it's important to talk to the business owners who lost everything. >> sean: these things happen, the media leaves, and who starts to rebuild? what are they going to rebuild in chicago? it's so sad. >> laura: i can't wait to share these stories with our viewers because it's a heartbreak, but there's a lot of hope here as well. fantastic show tonight as always. >> sean: and people are dying.

all right, laura, have a great show. >> laura: think so much. i'm laur laura ingraham and this "the ingraham angle." in minneapolis tonight. lori lightfoot watches her city burn and somehow blames president trump. the head of the chicago police union sounds off as football players and coaches now including nick sagan, beg for a fall season. administrators stand in their way. why the young man must play. and what biden did this weekend on two wheels. it was so impressive. new details of the convention, seen and unseen has answers. but first, democrat cities implode. but the focus of tonight's ang angle. ten weeks after the duffel of george floyd during an attempted arrest a few miles from here, we came here to assess the

situation on the ground. because the riots that left behind block after block of destruction left people in their wake. and tonight, we are going to bring you the never told stories of those business owners who were abandoned by the politicians and the police. how much of what you are going to see and hear tonight is extremely disturbing. and it begs for political change. >> elected t officials should be focused on public safety. without it, this ecosystem doesn't work. >> we have been waiting for response from our officials, elected officials. we have not heard any word from them. our dreams have been shattered. >> i can sense it's not just about you, it's about this. it's about a formerly vibrant community. >> yeah. >> the scene here now is... all of the emotion comes back.

all of the sadness and anger kind of just flows back through. >> laura: now more of these riveting stories of ruin and hope later on in the show. now as we walked to east lake street today, i kept thinking about how so many of the good people there -- they just can't get a break. their votes have been taking for granted for decades. and when they needed safety most, the political leaders were nowhere to be found. now when the governor finally mobilized and accepted federal help, it was too late for many people in the neighborhood. criminals and rioters? they were able to flatten livelihoods and terrorize those who deserve safety and peace of mind. now here in minneapolis, let's use the tragic death of mr. mr. floyd for the devastation. and over the next several weeks, and portland, they blame the

violence on president trump. it was just as pathetic. >> the whole presence is just has the opposite effect. >> president trump is making trouble. we know what today's. this perverse, pandering to white americans. >> trump continuing to focus on and perhaps even fueled the already volatile situation between law enforcement and protesters. >> laura: but now we see that it was all a lie. more chaos occurred over the weekend. days after the federal presence retreated. mayor ted wheeler should apologize and then resign. but he won't. he did however finally have to admit it's not a peaceful protest. >> when you commit arson with an excel event in an attempt to burn down the building that is occupied by people that you have intentionally trapped inside,

you are not demonstrating. you are attempting to commit murder. we anticipate additional attacks over the next few days. i cannot, and i will not, tolerate that. >> laura: now i think chicago's looters felt left out of the fun. they went wild last night taking all of the action to downtown to the same magnificent mile shopping district. it was also brazen that they drove up to luxury stores and loaded up on merchandise. but the police were too overwhelmed to stop all of them. now let's remember, this is happening. not because of george floyd, not happening because of police brutality or some altercation earlier in the afternoon. this is happening because of 50 years of terrible leadership in these cities, a breakdown in the

family, lack of father figures, we all know that. it is culminating in a summer of inoculatioannihilation. you can destroy property, you can get away with it. you can steal from stores in broad daylight and get away with it. you can brutally beat and assent by standards, and you will get away with it. and of course, you can march by the thousands with zero social distancing during a pandemic and get away with it. now for months, officials and the media -- they alternatively tolerated all of this. while hassling the rest of us for wanting us to have our kids go to school or have college football or to have an outdoor picnic. which is what mayor lori lightfoot was focused on just hours before the chaos in downtown. it's called a pandemic people, she tweeted.

this reckless behavior on the beach is what will cause us to shut down the parks and late front. reckless behavior? what's reckless is your leadership. along with the leadership of so many of your democrat colleagues across the nation. she is hassling taxpaying citizens for out enjoying the sunshine, meanwhile presided ova horrific july. homicides up 139% compared to last year. at least 107 people murdered and 573 shot including 58 minors. now, if that was happening just like mayor wheeler, mayor lightfoot has been blaming president trump for her city's problems. to speak of the trump administration obviously thinks that they will score political points by trying to demonize ane democrats, particularly women mayors, because it will

score points. good luck. the mayors are getting it done. to protect residents of the city, whether or not the president of her steps up not. >> laura: they are getting it done all right. if your version of getting it done is what we have been seen for the last several weeks. by the way, caving to the teachers union, did you check that out? they are shutting down schools for in person learning. it will all be online. that's going to be great for the kids. another chicago disaster. but the message is clear. no matter how rich and successful city is, or a neighborhood in the city is, it can't be saved from port port democrat leadership. they will cry racism to avoid any accountability for their own failures. and then when it comes time to clean up the mess, everything

left behind, they are nowhere to be found. after the dust settles, they will still expect minorities, those hurt most by their god-awful policies, to vote for them without question. otherwise, remember as joe biden said "you ain't black." if the democrats win, the looters will know that they have free reign to attack not just every city and town in the country, but the suburbs as we well. and that's exactly what they will do. and that's "the angle." tonight, we are coming to you live from an area of minneapolis represented by congresswoman ilhan omar, the radical squad member who supports abolishing the minneapolis police department. that's why my next guest is

trying to unseat congresswoman omar. joining me now is lacey johnson who is running against her in minnesota's fifth congressional district. lacey, i was out and about in your district today and i can tell you, i talked to a lot of folks, none of them have seen congresswoman ilhan omar along lake street, not along all of those buildings that have been wrecked and ruined. is the city ready to make a change? >> absolutely. and just to piggyback off of what you are pointing out earlier, whether you look at chicago, seattle, portland, san francisco, los angeles, we could go on and on. wherever you find leftist liberals, democrats in charge of these cities and these urban areas, you find killing, you find stealing, and you find destruction. importantly, a lot of black communities affected by this,

poor communities affected by this. it does not surprise me at all that ms. omar is not seen during this period because we know that her main goals is personal things. it's not about solving the problems, it's not about caring for the people of this community, it's not about the people of this community. she's looking for votes from the people of communities like most democrats do and it's all about voting and not about the lives of the people in these communities. >> laura: now, lacey, what i was also gratified to see is how many people want to stay in the community. we are going to hear from them later on in the show. they want to stay here. these are good people. people who work 13-14 hour days to launch their businesses and neighborhoods that they love, only to have them destroyed in a matter of hours and no police

presence i hear at all now. there is no police. there's like six police in 14 square miles. obviously, boarded up and no one is there now. but these people are like "this isn't political, this is common sense." nobody is going to come back here unless we have safety. and ilhan omar says this, watch. >> you can't really reform a department that is rotten to the root. the current infrastructure that exists as policing in our city should not exist anymore. and we can't go about creating a different process with the same infrastructure in place. >> laura: what is she talking about? i know there's a complicated process for actually trying to dismantle the police here. the deal with the city council

and another organization trying to slow it down. but what does this mean for the residence? >> it means that she cares more about her political ambition once again. shbut even more important than not, the whole idea is just insane. it points to the fact that she's just -- doesn't understand the community. i live in this community. and everyone who lives here who has witnessed this, they have had a great increase of robbers, home invasions, murders, and everything in this community. so we know that in politicians talking about defunding the police, d militarizing the police, disarming the police, they are just don't have a clue of what's going on in these communities. and they need to be replaced. omar fits into that category and the people of this community deserve better.

one of the reason i went into politics is because we deserve better leadership than what they are currently doing. whether you look at it from the mayors level, any level, they are all doing a disservice to this community. >> laura: at every level in this state, every level has to be looked at. and frankly, turned upside down. after what i saw today i thought i was back in baghdad in 2006. and it was a heartbreak. i got angry watching, really angry for the people here. i'm really glad you are running and i wish you the best of luck. come back soon. thanks so much. and the chaos that started right here in minneapolis, the rest of the country has dramatically changed. and while the polls show joe biden head of the president, that lead is drinking. one reason for that is obvious, the democrats decision to align themselves with the anti-cop

anti-american radicals ripping apart our cities. and add to that the covid lockdowns an in opposition to everything we enjoy. schools, sports, football, everything. and it's clear why president trump is gaining support now with fewer than 90 days left until the election. victor, it was a shock for me and my crew today to see this. you see it on television, but until you walk the streets and talk to the folks here who tried to build this community, you don't really get it. and the camera has pulled back a long time ago. a lot of anger on the ground here. the anger wasn't directed at the police brutality, it was directed at police for not being here and politicians like ilhan omar not being here. >> it's growing, laura.

i think the problem with the left as they think racism is an art. they look at these polls and they think these issues are all going to be static, but they are fluid and volatile. we had the first outbreak, the law, and then the second. historically it starts to taper off, and it may well do that in the united states, already declining. the lockdowns being redefined is whether to go back to school or not. the damage on millions of children, people don't realize -- they have to go back to school. trump is advocating for that that's an issue where biden is on the wrong side. the economy is volatile, starting to pick up. cognitively impaired, it seems like. there is a theme now to it. a very volatile situation with the race relations. he keeps coming out with the statements that are bizarre, so realistic about asians all

looking alike. insulting a black journalist and professional in suggesting he might be a junkie or a cocaine addict. that almost resonates earlier things you said in the past about barack obama. when you put that volatile situation and with the vp selection, it's not a static situation. i think trump is doing a lot better. i'm not a big fan of executive orders, but whether we like it or not it's the way that a lot of people act. he has really taken the lead without bypassing schumer and pelosi. i think he's got better and more sober advice on the health issues. i think he's much more attuned to the social and economic repercussions of these decisions. with all of that, it explains why he's going down. >> laura: victor, back to the nitty-gritty of safety. and back to minnesota for a second. it's emblematic of so much else going on across the country. there is a minnesota bail fund

that all the celebrities gave money to like steve carell and don cheadle, chrissy teigen, seth rogen. $35 million to bailout supposedly "peaceful protesters." these are violent felons allowed to go free. and local fox affiliate reporting among those bailed out from this minnesota freedom fu fund, a woman accused of killing a friend. and a twice convicted currently charged with kidnapping, assault, sexual assault, and $350,000 in cash for his releas. how radical are these people? >> they are not serious people. these are people who have private guards, private security, and preferential police to patrol their own enclaves and estates. i don't think we need to take them very seriously at all.

this is a class issue now. it transcends race. it's basically middle class and poor people who depend on the elements of government and people who are immune from the consequences of their own cheap ideologies starting pontificating and yet are in a different world. they are in a cocoon. and they start lecturing mother it's the politics or the cuomo brothers, they keep giving these sermons but they don't live the life that is the consequences of their ideology and rhetoric. i think people are starting to get really angry. it's not a racial issue anymore. i think it's across the divide, and class is becoming much more important than ray's. >> laura: i agree with you. i heard it time and again today on the streets. people kept referring to common sense solutions, family, faith, freedom, and safety. and i think donald trump sticks on those issues. you will see that gap narrow.

great to see you tonight as always. even more chaos in chicago, incompetent radical there lori lightfoot refuses federal hel help. that's next. what happens when a wireless carrier

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>> laura: this chicago mayor, lori lightfoot, she's as clueless as she is dangerous. july was the dangerou most dangs month that the city saw in three decades. lightfoot rejected the help to support an overwhelmed chicago pd. last night, into the early morning, you probably saw some of the video. it is all come to a head. chicago has paid for her unwillingness to punish the rioters early on. all the looters come all the vandals who ransacked the cities just weeks ago. she bristles a that even being asked about it. >> the prosecutors were not doing their job. they were going too easy on the looters from the last time. >> if you go by what was done, i don't want to do your job, but go by what was done. there was no consequences for the people arrested.

>> do not bait us. this is a serious situation. >> laura: do not bait us, don't like... i can't believe i'm actually watching the spirit this is one of the great american cities. they were ripping down statues of christopher columbus. they are nowhere to be found. and she is now supposed to protect and defend all of the good chicagoans out there who are suffering. no one trusts these people. >> good evening, laura. thanks for having me. sorry for the casual attire, i'm out of town. but you used the word "incompetent." i couldn't agree more. showing more and more with the

crisis going forward, the whole narrative that triggered that rioting and looting downtown yesterday was a person that was shot by the police. and the narrative got out in the neighborhood pretty quickly that the defender did not have a gun. which is 100% alive. so much so, his grandmother was on the scene basically telling everybody to knock it off. she told them to -- he just wouldn't listen. this is a notorious criminal. at 20 years old. so it's an excuse for bad behavior because they know they will not do a thing about it. just a couple of quick stats. kim fox, the state attorney, and how she is prosecuting much less than her process till my predecessor. it has gone down and half since kim fox is taken office in the

first three years. drug offenses -- she was dismissed over 53% of the drug offenses. felony drug offenses in this county. >> laura: but no one is going to jail. they know it. they are walking into gucci, prada, pulling up in cars, loading up the marriage, and speeding away. laughing, playing music. the video was unbelievable. the only person who i think doesn't seem to know why there were riots in chicago last night is actually kim fox herself. >> i don't have an answer for what happened last night. the quest for a simple answer is not a legitimate quest. we have to be thoughtful. and i'm not here to tell you what the answer is, i'm telling you that i don't know. >> laura: we are next. final thoughts, john. >> pretty please doesn't work. i don't know what it's going to

take to get that through her head. she needs to go and she needs to go fast. the mayor needs to follow her out the door. all of them are finally waking up. there are people who paid a lot of money for condos down in downtown chicago who can even leave their building anymore at night time it's ridiculous. >> laura: i have to tell you john. people have to change leadership. you are going to keep getting the same incompetence, keep getting the looting, writing, blaming racism for everything, blaming the cops for everything. it's going to roll through the whole country, because they can. and they can get away with it. chicagoans are good people, i don't care what your politics are. this isn't working. john, we have to roll. they give so much. college football, we all look forward to it every fall and now we have a lot of people, mostly

democrats, who want to take college football away from the country. citing concerns about covid. but now high profile quarterback and other coaches themselves are stepping in and say no. the kids are going to be safer in a football program than they will be at home or back in their home towns. joining us now burgess owens. he doesn't need any introduction. but burgess, thank you so much for being with us tonight. what are these college administrators trying to steal football from an american public that desperately needs football? >> laura, first of all, thank you so much for inviting me on. we love normalcy. we love to be predictable and dream and pursue our dreams. what the left loves is chaos. right now, they are doing everything they can become a

more than church or schools. these young men want to go out and play. safely on the field and do their thing. this is the grouphat is least at risk. most of them want to go out. give them a choice of not losi losing. but the left is so concerned about keeping chaos in the picture, they don't mind who suffers in the process. this young man, and the coaches, will suffer. without any idea of how they should be really running this thing. >> laura: burgess, we had an incredible social media post from people, prominent players like trevor lawrence. they want to be back. and #wewanttoplay. on and us i msnbc, we had a very interesting conversation. watch. >> is anybody out there

complaining that the priority is to have kids play for free? >> the far right-wingers want to see those. it's clearly not -- it's not on people's minds. >> laura: at far right-wingers who want to change the subject from -- i think ohio state wants to play, don't they? >> normalcy. we are looking to get back. we are back to a way of life we have all been used to. these guys love chaos. look around. you see everywhere there is no predictability. no "law & order," no -- you see the handprint of the radical left. i would hope that these young men play. to those who do not want to participate, give them a choice. let the fans enjoy our games

without bringing politics into the picture. and move this thing forward. >> laura: burgess, you are a fan fave. we are so happy you came on tonight. thanks so much. >> thank you laura. >> laura: take care. we have video of joe biden's work out. and what does a muppet and a former mvp have in common? we will see on "seen and unseen," next.

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>> laura: there would be debates. what about conventions? for the answers, we go to our "seen and unseen" segment. fox news contributor, raymond. we miss you in minneapolis. it's not the same here. what is the latest on this debate gate? >> you remember former clinton press secretary joe lockhart, first had the idea that biden should not debate jump. since then, others have called for scrapping the presidential debates. now the idea has made it to the

entertainment industrial complex. watch. >> at this point, who even needs tdebates? [laughter] i need at least three debates. haven't figured out who i'm going for yet. then once i do, after the third debate, may be the fourth. >> that of course strengthens joe biden's hand, which he loves apparently. >> laura: my question was was that supposed to be funny? was jimmy fallon supposed to be funny there? i was waiting to laugh. is that really qualify as humor? >> everybody is anticipating biden making his vp announcement, but his sidekick is covid-19. that's his running mate. it is flattened the economy,

weakened his opponent, things have moved in his favor because of covid. i always feel like the more vibrant candidate always wins. watch this cnn report. >> this is joe biden out there on a vigorous bike ride. fox's narrative for months has been that joe biden is falling apart. there he is out for a bike ride. definitely wearing a mask, by the way. >> definitely wearing a mask, know how much! >> laura: how long did he ride for? this is like a geriatric -- you know. it drew more attention than the tour de france. first of all, for seconds and then he hops off the bike. i'm just joking, who knows. watch. >> biden wants to show that tia has mental ability, but the physical ability to be

presidents. >> he teased his pick today as he was bicycling by some reporters. >> i want to follow this logic. if hiding in your house and going for a bike ride are qualifications for the presidency, others might quali qualify. pee-wee herman for instance. lance armstrong. maybe not lance armstrong. but certainly kermit the frog. they have a lot in common, laura. both are used with other speaking for them. both broadcasting from their basements. and they have similar difficulties with notes. >> i'm just letting you know that i looked at the title card and i have a few notes. >> i'm going to send a message to the gang. >> no, no, no please don't do that. >> maybe that was his qualifying position. think people would prefer a muppet to a puppet in the oval office. this could be progress. >> laura: i think he just looked adorable on that bike and

now it's time to get back to the memory care unit with the rest of the patience. it's a joke. that is humor. before we go, there are new details about what the democrat republican convention -- what do we know? >> per usual, biden will be at home to accept his nomination. he won't be in the basement. he won't be in the basement. we are also learning that democratic convention will be eight hours of tv programming a night with rotating hosts and video storytelling. don't snooze yet, we get the first crack at it. and the podium talk will be out. democrats will be highlighting the coronavirus come up the struggle he and i economy. this is going to be like binge watching a politically charged walking dead. and the first night speakers, you guessed it. >> we are going to see michelle obama who was an exciting figure for the democratic party.

bernie sanders, who could energize progressive voters to come out and vote for joe biden. and also former ohio governor john kasich who happens to be republican. this is a show of unity. >> laura: i have a question. where is the squad? raymond, when -- remember this? and next, john kasich. time to hit the refrigerator for a snack. boring. >> the muppets are more interesting more interesting. >> laura: exactly. they should all come on stage on a bike. thanks so much, good to see you. today, i spent the day speaking with minneapolis business owners whose lives were turned upside down and they felt like they were just destroyed in the wake of george floyd's death. now in moments, what they told me about their city, the lack of leadership here, and what's next. stay there.

♪ >> laura: a little over ten weeks ago, mass rioting and looting broke out in the wake of george floyd's death. hundreds of millions of dollars in damage was done. lives and 1500 businesses were destroyed. i spoke with some of those

business owners right here in minneapolis. >> this is where it all happened. may 27th, 2 days after the killing of george floyd, the autozone which is right here burned to the ground. then it was target. terribly damaged, destroyed, looted. important for the community, minnesota company of course. and then the precinct abandoned now, but destroyed, burned, and they allowed it to burn. more than ten weeks later, what is happening in this community? what about these businesses that want to rebuild, that want to stay here. one of the road blocks, what are the problems, and how can we move forward? we decided to come here and try to bring you these stories and i hope shed light on what happens thas to happen next. >> how do you justify burning down someone's business? >> laura: casey white and her

husband charles started an incredible business my business for you years ago. >> i watched the old side come burning to the ground. my husband was asleep and i said "you need to wake up now!" and we sat there and watched it just melt to the ground. all of our hard work. >> people with bats, people at the front windows, hundreds of people went in and looted. then they came back the next night, and the next night. six shires, it's unbelievable. john wolf is a prominent minneapolis business dealer. >> laura: this is the famous door of her everybody was coming in and out during the nights of

the riots and the looting. they took as much as they could out of that door. >> they were coming in from the basement, they were coming out here, they were taking shopping carts. >> laura: how much merchandise was taken out? >> a million dollars worth of merchandise. more importantly than that, it's now taken 40 plus jobs away from the people who live in the neighborhood. who lived, shopped, and work here. what happens to those guys? >> laura: 30 years ago, he came here with his family from ethiopia for a better life. this is what's left of it. this is what happens though mike happened ten weeks ago at the minneapolis riots. >> we put our sweat into this building. >> laura: i heard the city had been in touch with you about one issue involving... >> the city came in and put up

with the funds as you see here. and they sent out the bill for $3700. they said they don't have any resources. so the city that you support, the big communities, send you a bill? enough is enough. let's rebuild this community and to stand by it. we let our country for a future to see the american dream. and look how it happened. we have not done anything wrong. the peaceful protest was hijacked, then the government can -- where are they? it's been ten weeks. no response. no response. >> laura: no response. silence was as deafening on the night on the riots. the silence from elected officials is still deafening. larry mckenzie, longtime

high school basketball coach, youth advocates, and north minneapolis. so many people love you, larry. it was she could be in the studio with me here. what is it going to take to truly get minneapolis back on its feet? these are great people. i got a chance to meet so many wonderful people today. these are good neighbors, good people, but they are mad. and they are heartbroken, but they are mad. >> i mean, rightfully so. in terms of what it's going to take, one of the things is a time around elections and politicians making promises and those kind of things. it's going to take really the community holding those who are in those positions accountable. >> laura: asked a number of the folks i interviewed where the politicians are? they happen to be mostly

democrats. they said no one is here. we never hear from them. we call them, they offer sympathy, but they say we have to have a change. and the new people come in and they are no good, we will kick them out too. that was basically the sentiment. they want political change. >> i don't think you can -- i don't think i would disagree. i think obviously from what i have seen that right now we have leadership that is not in touch with the community, that is not necessarily representing the voice of the community. >> laura: i'm going to bring you back tomorrow night, because we will be here tomorrow night. so hold that thought until tomorrow. we will continue with you. a very important message from you. stay with us.

>> laura: earlier today, cnn displayed a embarrassing show of historical knowledge.

>> and gettysburg, pennsylvania, that could be controversial as well. particularly because this is a president was consistently positioned himself as a defender of confederate symbols and monuments to confederate generals. >> that's a fair point to make. >> laura: oh, my god. the site of the confederacy's most noteworthy feats would somehow speak to the trump glove of the confederacy as a new yorker? okay. that's all the time we have tonight. the "fox news at night" team takes it from here. >> shannon: thank you. beginning tonight with a fox news alert. new details about what happened outside the white house today. to cause the secret service to suddenly pulled the president out of his coronavirus briefing. the secret service just told us more about what happened.