at don'tquit.com, dana, have fun. >> dana: i'm never going to quit. i will quit this segment because i had to turn it over to the next hour, thank you so much. thank you for joining us, i'm dana perino, see you on "the five" purity is a guy that never quits, hey, john roberts. >> john: the hardest part of exercising is convincing oneself to actually get into the gym. working on that. >> dana: take care, have a good show. >> john: thank you. i'm john roberts come in for bill hemmer. good afternoon to you, joe biden and his newly named running mate kamala harris speaking moments ago in wilmington, delaware, calling for a nationwide mass mandate. this is our second day in a row appearing together after biden made the announcement on tuesday. in just a couple days we've already seen a handful of attacks from both sides. reaction from the trump campaign coming up in just a moment, lara trump is standing by but first, live in wilmington.

hi, jackie. >> we just heard from former vice president and his new running mate saying that he's calling for a nationwide mass mandate for at least the next three months to be worn outside and to be enacted by governors. he said it could save lives, take a listen. >> wearing a mask will give the life of a clerk in your local store, your letter carrier, your child's teacher, it will increase their prospects of not contracting the virus. even though it's uncomfortable, we are not used to it. but wearing a mask is going to get our kids back to school sooner and safer. it's wearing a mask, every american wearing a mask outdoors will get our businesses back into full strength long-term. >> the call for that mask mandate came after our meeting with doctors, including a former surgeon general. biden said he's been doing these

hour and a half meetings for a while and today he was joined by senator, l kamala harris. biden also reacted to the president's comments from this morning, indicating he's holding up stimulus funding to block mail-in voting. >> they want $25 billion, billion for the post office. they need that money in order to have the post office work so it can take all these millions and millions of ballots. if we don't make a deal it means they don't get the money and they can't have universal mail-in voting, they just can't have it. >> he doesn't want an election. >> some democrats suspect president trump' eventually privatize the service but he also said it would prevent republicans from getting elected. the president appointed a new

loyal postmaster general who cut costs to promote efficiency in financial stability after the agency lost $9 billion last year. the changes are being blamed in part for a significant mail delays. the biden campaign said the president of the united states is sabotaging a basic service, cutting a critical lifeline for rural economies and what for delivery of medicines because he wants to deprive americans of their fundamental right to vote safely. democrats say the $25 million they were seeking was proposed by the board of governors, not by their party. john? >> john: thanks so much. let's bring in lara trump, she is the senior advisor to president trump's 2020 campaign. she is his daughter in law as well. good to see you this afternoon. let's start where we ended there, biden-harris accusing the president of undermining mail-in voting by not fully funding the postal service, what you say? >> very clearly there are a lot

of issues with just the universal vote by mail which the president pointed out, absentee voting, incredibly safe. there is protocol that is to be followed there, you have to have a signature to prove it is actually you voting. whenever you have this universal mail-in voting situation with the democrats are proposed recently and a couple months before an election is ridiculous, you have no idea who is getting these ballots. the president has talked about this many, many times. even a cat who had been dead for 12 years received a ballot in the mail in the state of north carolina. this is the kind of issue that the president has with the universal mail-in voting. it is ripe for voter fraud, something that absolutely should not happen and to a lot of people it looks like the democrats know their candidate cannot win fair and square so they are trying to rig an election. >> john: the choice of kamala harris has been suspected for a long time, seems it was down to her or susan rice.

yet some political observers have noted that the trump campaign doesn't seem to have any coherent strategy to go after her. so what is the strategy to go after, harris? >> seems a good's a question for a lot of people as to why joe biden would pick somebody who called him out on his racism on the debate stage during the primary debate, who said she believed a woman who accused him of sexual harassment. but i guess it just goes to show that maybe they are two peas in a pod because they are both empty vessels for the far left to move forward their radical agenda which i think is very, very clear to people. it is a little surprising that he chose her in other instances because if it's possible she is even less exciting to people than joe biden's, she polls very poorly during those primary debates, she left the scene before her home state of

california could vote for her because she was pulling poorly in her own state. i think it will become increasingly clear to people in this country that president trump is standing up for the america we've always known, for freedoms and economic success and joe biden and kamala harris are very clearly being round by the far left socialist in the democratic party and that's who they are now. >> john: do you think there needs to be a more pointed strategy to get to her? you can say she wasn't nice to joe and this, that, and the other thing but the president gets along well with ted cruz, they say horrible things about each other during the 2016 campaign, he gets along well with marco rubio, rand paul. politics is one thing, working together is a different thing. >> i think we had a very coherent message from the trump campaign but there is a curious emphasis on the vice presidential pick. after all we have to remember who is at the top of that ticket. it is still joe biden and he is still a very serious prospect to

a lot of people to become president of the united states. i know he and his own words has said he feels he's too feeble took over two terms in office, so maybe then we should be putting more emphasis on his vice presidential pick because i guess she would be has political living will of sorts. we so to remember, is joe biden at the top of that ticket. >> john: let me ask you this, he just completed a three day dy bus tour of pennsylvania, you'll be doing the same thing for the next 83 days of the campaign. in pennsylvania, joe biden leads by 6.4 points. what you do in pennsylvania? do you try to turn the numbers around or do you believe there are enough secret voters to pull him across the finish line? when you look at the numbers we got up on the screen now, back in 2016, hillary clinton at this point in the campaign was nine points ahead of the president. >> it is not even called the silent majority anymore, it's called the silenced majority.

people in this country feel they cannot speak out and voice their support for the sitting president of the united states but i believe on november 3rd they will seek out resoundingly and re-reelecting him. pennsylvania, people are terrified of a joe biden presidency because although he tries to claim pennsylvania as his home state, the fact that he supports the green new deal would destroy energy jobs to specifically in the state of pennsylvania overnight. it's a very scary prospect for people there. so eye of course have never fully believed the polling. as you remember 2016, the poles were very inaccurate, i think they are even more inaccurate now in 2020 and i think we are going to see that on election day. >> john: good to see you, thanks for joining us this afternoon. have fun on the bus. >> thank you. >> john: over on capitol hill, nancy pelosi calling on republicans to come back to the negotiating table on coronavirus relief as millions of americans continue to struggle.

the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell claims democrats are only pretending to negotiate and refusing to budget on what he calls absurd demands. congressional correspondent chad pergram reporting live on capitol hill. yesterday you were saying that the talks were basically dead in the water, are we still there? >> they are not moving at all, the senate has just gone out until september 8th here in case, unless they have a build on whic bill on which to vote, y are not here at all. the treasury secretary and speaker talked yesterday for the first time in five days and basically they couldn't even agree on which issues to disagree upon. they put out dueling statements later yesterday afternoon. here's the speaker of the house, nancy pelosi. >> sometimes some of the reporters asked, why can't we resolve our differences? i want you to see how vast those differences are. for months and even until now,

they have ignored the science. they called it a hoax. speaker pelosi says she told secretary mnuchin, don't come back unless you are ready for a bill that cost $2 trillion. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell says democrats are stalling for a wish list. >> instead of staying focused on the real needs of our nation, democratic leaders have held the talks hostage for weeks now over 9-covid-related political items that the left has wanted since well before this virus hit our shores. >> this is where we stand, the house of representatives passed a big bill back in may, the senate can't pass anything so we are stuck with these executive orders. >> john: we will see where it goes from here but it doesn't look like it's going anywhere.

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♪ >> just a few moments ago i hosted a very special call with two friends, prime minister benjamin netanyahu of israel and crown prince mohammed bin zayed of the united arab and where they agreed to finalize a historical peace agreement. everybody said this would be impossible. >> john: president trump talking about a peace agreement between israel and the united arab emirates, the first deal of its kind in 25 years now. let's bring in bret baier, this was a big piece of news this morning, one even joe biden applauded today although he did try to take some credit for it. >> he did not treat that it was a big blanking deal but he did say it was a significant step forward. joe biden to pay for anybody that's following middle east foreign policy, and it really is not in the headlines as we've been focused on social unrest here in the u.s. and covid-19

but this is a tectonic shift in the way the middle east operates and the fact that israel is fully normalizing relations with the united arab emirates, this is only the third arab country in the middle east to do this and this wasn't thought that it was going to come to pass. the fact that this announcement happens, both president trump and prime minister netanyahu today said this announcement will likely start a cascade of other announcements from arab countries and they believe it's going to change. it is this agreement is the greatest advance toward peace in the arab world in decades. this is no small thing. it also is a big foreign policy win for the trump administration heading into th this election. i think we are going to hear more about it from possibly other countries in the region. >> john: all part of the program to put pressure on iran as well. let's go to what we'r we were tg

to lara trump about, the president's refusal to approve $3.5 billion to give to the u.s. postal service for mail in voting. his refusal to do it, will it kill mail-in voting or do you think governors and states who want to do mass mail in voting will go ahead and do it regardless which could cause enormous bottlenecks in the system? >> i think the governors will probably step up in a lot of the states. but you're already seeing on capitol hill the negotiations which are stalled and kind of going nowhere on this big a deal, are trying to figure out a way to get a post office as a part of this to get back on the table. i think it's a long shot but this is an issue and you've got states going out with ballots in just a matter of weeks. i think there is 28 states that send out ballots in, by the end of september. it's a huge deal and when you talk about trying to get an

answer on election night, more and more it doesn't seem like with we are going to get there. >> john: six of the biggest battleground states will be sending them out at the beginning of september. the trump strategy, we talked about this but the trump strategy for going after biden-harris, they knew she was a real contender for weeks but that doesn't seem to be any really focused strategy on how to get to her other than saying, well, she wasn't nice to joe biden and she's a vessel for the radical left. should they have more in their arsenal to go after her? >> maybe, maybe there is criticism there but the focus on kamala harris is just for a few days, as we head into this convention it's all about joe biden. i think the conventional wisdom is that they are going to stick with this vessel of the left kind of progressive and if you look at this post by michael moore on his instagram he goes into detail how, harris is the most progressive and left

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♪ >> john: since the covid-19 shutdown started, more restaurant workers have lost their jobs and people in any other industry. industry leaders are urging congress to pass a bill that would create a $120 billion grant program for independent restaurants and bars. tom, it's good to see you this afternoon. how bad is it out there in the restaurant industry? i try to go to restaurants when i can to help support some of our local folks in our community. they seem to be keeping their head above water but times are obviously difficult. >> thanks for having me, john. they are not keeping their heads above water. when we are opening and looking at severely reduced seating capacity, we are barely getting by. my restaurants are down 80% right now, i can't survive on that. and estimates are that without some help here, 85% of

independent restaurants in this country will close their doors. >> john: there is a trickle-down effect of the entire community as well. think about a restaurant, we think of at the restaurant, the restaurant owner and the people who work there. but they are really attached to the community and so many different ways. >> absolutely. to set the table here, we are talking about 11 million people who work in the industry but if you factor in farmers, cheesemakers, winemakers, the person that delivers my linen, we are talking probably in excess of 15 million people. that's what's at stake here. if we are talking stimulus dollars, the restaurant industry is probably one of the best places to put money because 95-$0.90 on every dollar goes out the door so we think it's a great investment, it will stimulate the economy, give a lifeline to the industry especially when we come back and jobs are available. and what's interesting here is, our bill, senator wicker, republican from mississippi

wrote the bill. on the senate side you have john cornyn from texas and elizabeth warren cosigning the same bill. that's probably never happen and will probably never happen again so we have bipartisan support for this and our industry is not a blue or read industry, it's an industry that all americans are involved in and you are right, we anchor communities. you want those restaurants there because that's going to make you feel normal again. >> john: whatever your politics, you've got to eat to stay alive. this is called the restaurants act, would provide $120 billion in relief but it's going nowhere, it's not in the heels act that was passed by the house, not being considered in the covid relief bill in the senate and was not included in any of the executive orders or memoranda that the president signed so what are you going to do? >> we have a lot of momentum, 181 cosponsors in the house, 29

in the senate so we do a lot of momentum. there is two things that can happen, this can get negotiated into the stimulus package, hopefully we can break this logjam and have two side start talking or we can also wait for september when we actually have to fund the entire government. we can't wait for september, restaurants are closing everything the day right now. >> john: not too long ago, they are all sitting at a roundtable in the state dining room, you weren't there but a lot of your colleagues were, gave the president a lot of suggestions about what they thought would happen. what they thought would be bigger ppp programs. >> we were there and specifically talking about ppp, we thought the extension from eight weeks to 24 weeks so it did give you much more time to spend that money so i did get

something out of that meeting but during that meeting behind closed doors there was a lot of talk about the restaurants i believe secretary mnuchin was clearly listening, you know, most people don't remember, i do. a senator he's close to the bus. >> john: he's getting his ear twisted all the time. hey, tom, it's great to have you on and we hope you do get some relief. when i lived in new york, that was one of my favorite places to go. thanks for coming out. good to talk to you. chyroniran holding an oil tankep to pay violent protests continuing in some u.s. cities including an hour long standoff in oregon. geraldo rivera and leo terrell take that up, stay with us. we will be right back. ♪

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♪ >> john: bottom of the hour headlines for you now, thousands of people without power in some businesses remaining close after a windstorm ripped through the midwest this week. the right rear storm hit on monday, starting with tornadoes ripping off roofs and flattening cornfields, at least two people reported dead. firefighters battling a huge wildfire in california, hot and dry conditions, getting their efforts. the lake fire has already course course's course more thousand acres. fire officials said it was 0% contained as of this morning. the u.s. military says the iranian navy briefly seized a liberian oil tanker, video appears to show special forces repelling out of the ship. the iranian navy held the ship for about five hours before releasing it. iranian state television referring to the operation as a routine i inspection.

protesters and federal agents facing off in oregon last night, this is in bend, about a three hour drive from portland where demonstrators have gathered for weeks, the protesters blocking buses, these were i.c.e. buses carrying two men in custody. the fed's firing pepper spray into the crowd to try to disperse them. dan springer in seattle. >> to be clear from the protests we've been seeing over the weeks have been in portland. bend has been really quiet but immigrations and customs enforcement was doing a special operation, going after criminal aliens they say had committed domestic violence. they had committed two arrests when things went sideways. they surrounded them for almost 12 hours, demanding the men be released. the i.c.e. agents were also inside the buses. bend police showed up but much later after the crowd had grown

to several hundred, more than a dozen border patrol agents arrived and started using pepper spray so they could get to the buses and get everyone off. a source tells me both illegal immigrants have convictions for domestic violence. one has multiple convictions and both have been previously deported back to their home country of mexico. still, the county district attorney john hummel who was at the blockade to eat it "i've never been so disgusted by my government and so proud of my community." the former head of i.c.e. was outraged. >> it is disgusting. he is in direct conflict of his duties as a district attorney to number one protect his community, number two, protect law enforcement in a rule of law. >> in addition to the d.a., two city council members were at the standoff. one block to the buses with her car but the mayor was asking people to leave, putting out that she was told that there were arrest warrants for both men. a different story in portland where there was a protest for

the 75th night in a row but for the first time since federal agents left the federal courthouse downtown, protesters returned and were hit with teargas by portland police. a day after the county district attorney announced he would not prosecute what he considers nonviolent riot-related crimes like interfering with an officer. protesters threw rocks, bottles, and fireworks at police, the cops used stun grenades and made several arrests but it's unclear if those people will ever see a jail cell because of the new policy. >> john: dan springer in seattle, thanks so much. let's bring in geraldo rivera, host of the roadkill podcast and leo terrell, a civil rights lawyer. start us off here. what we see in bend, oregon, and the did shoo district attorney,d create some havoc there last night. these are two people with history of criminally violent behavior and they were a danger

to the community. >> well, if that is so, change my opinion. i absolutely support federal efforts to protect the courthouse and federal property in portland against antifa and his other organized anarchists. three hours outside in the town of bend, i'm not so sure. i don't know if there were a criminal arrest warrants for these two illegal aliens, two undocumented immigrants. if there were warrants i feel differently about it but i have it have to say, the spontaneous uprising of the community, this wasn't antifa, wasn't organized protesters are anarchist of sow chaos, these were the guy's wives and their children and their neighbors stopping i.c.e. from deporting one guy who works in a restaurant, the other guy is a house painter. it seems they have citizen-born children there. it seems exactly why people

don't like i.c.e. the enforcement and removal branch is very unpopular even within the department of security. you go after the criminals, that's fine. >> for you to speculate, they had arrest warrants for these individuals. you're basically questioning the credibility of the federal government. what you have is a simple situation where another democrat, you don't know, wait a minute. you have a democratic mayor and city official blocking the lawful conduct of federal officials. no, no, no. stop bringing the children. we are talking about the two, you want to cut me off, go ahead. let me finish my comment. you're talking about two individuals where there are arrest warrants, border agents, and protect the i.c.e. agents and detainees, let them have their day in court.

let them have their day in cou court. you are encouraging chaos and criminal misconduct. >> john: let me jump into change of subject a little bit. all these calls to defund the police, happening exactly the same time that crime has been skyrocketing, is it the time to be talking about defunding the police? >> it's disgusting, i hate the whole notion of it. the entire democratic party in presidential ticket, it's a ridiculous idea. violence is surging to levels unseen in decades. most major cities have already surpassed their 2019 homicide levels, already and it's only august. i think defunding the police is a suicidal idea and it will sink the democratic party if they don't wake up and understand how ill-conceived this whole notion is. >> john: might this be an issue on which the two of you

agree? >> john, you heard crickets from biotijoe biden and harris aboute defunding of the police. the democrats are not going to say anything about the lawlessness because they are in the pockets of the extreme left. >> john: we haven't really heard much from joe biden, harris since they rolled out the two, rolled out the ticket. should they be stepping up to the plate to talk about what's been going on across the count country? >> i think, john, they are hoping that everybody is obsessively interested in the covid-19 and the vaccine and so forth as people should be but the democrats hope that they do that to the exclusion of people caring about "law & order" and the decay and decline of our great cities.

what happened on miracle mile in chicago should not be allowed to happen again. >> john: i won't take the time to ask the question, leo, you know the question is, go ahead and answer it. >> yes, yes, they should speak out right now, today, on your show they should speak out on this lawlessness. democrats are going to vote for trump. >> john: we had to go questions where you agree. what do you disagree on? >> the immigration issue is different. >> immigration is separate from criminal misconduct. >> john: do you want to take one more swing, we've got a couple more seconds left, do you want to take one more swing? >> i will right now. >> leo, 30 seconds. i want i.c.e. to concentrate on true criminal violence, undocumented immigrants. go after the ones who are the real violent, not the apple

pickers, the restaurant workers, the house painters. that's a law enforcement using its power for no good reason. >> you know what? domestic violence is a serious crime and for you to downplay that crime is a little disingenuous. >> their wives were there at protesting their deportation. >> john: we've got to run but at least we finish with a little bit of fire. thanks for joining us, appreciate it. teachers and principals calling on new york city's mayor to delay reopening schools. we talked to dr. marc siegel about concern that students could spread the virus to their families coming up next. ♪ ropped even lower. and now you can save $3000 a year. veterans can shortcut the process with newday's va streamline refi. there's no appraisal, no income verification, and not a single dollar out of pocket. rates are at the lowest they've been in our lifetimes.

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school and want to start learning again. we have all the tools we need to create extraordinarily better and safer environments. we can say we have all that stuff but let's take the easy way out and just shut everything down. i'm not going to do that. >> john: new york city mayor bill de blasio doubling down on plans to reopen schools for in-person learning. teachers and principals unions have urged him to keep schools closed until they are able to address the coronavirus concerns. in response, the mayor is promising that every school will have a certified nurse. david lee miller reporting live from new york city and the tables are kind of turn here david, you got the mayor going against the unions. >> to some extent that is surprising, you're absolutely right. mayor de blasio said that among the ten largest school systems in the entire country, new york is the only one that is now on track for in-person

instruction. the mayor who toured a city school yesterday, learned firsthand how things are going to be clean, unions representing educators are calling on bill de blasio who you point out is a longtime booster of organized labor to reconsider the city's september 10th reopening plan. an open letter said in part "the city has failed to address many of our crucial concerns and ignored repeated appeals from school leaders to implement highly complicated protocols." ahead as you mentioned, bill de blasio addressed one union's concern and said each school is going to have a certified nurse. about 15% of teachers have asked to be exempt from returning to their classrooms citing a health issue but he remains confident that the vast majority will show up for work. >> this is what they get paid to do and more importantly this is what they do because they are devoted to kids. so unless folks have a medical

accommodation, their job is to come in and serve our kids and i'm convinced that's what they're going to do. >> although the de blasio administration and the unions are still talking, there is nearly a month left to work out the kinks in the reopening plan. as her parents, they are siding with de blasio. 3 out of 4 surveyed said they want their kids to return to the classroom. john? >> john: david lee miller, thanks so much. >> even though it's uncomfortable, we're not used to it, wearing a mask is going to get our kids back to school sooner and safer, wearing a mask, every american wearing a mask outdoors will get our businesses back to full strength long-term. >> john: joe biden calling for a nationwide mandate that would require americans to wear masks. let's bring in dr. marc siegel,

a professor of at nyu. the national mass mandate as proposed by joe biden, would that do anything more than the situation we have now which is, it's up to the individual state somewhat to do and an awful lot of governors are saying let's have a man mass mandate in our state. >> well i think that keyword vice president biden used there is outside and i think that's disturbing because what's been shown and this is especially recently, epidemiological studies showed that in 15 states and washington, d.c., a study published, a couple other studies have shown that wearing masks decreases spread of covid-19 in areas where there is a lot of it. where there is a lot of it. they protect other people mainly from you if you happen to have it and not know it but the word "outdoors" is disturbing because

again, where it seems to have worked is in close quarters indoors where people are close together, closer than they should be, closer than what social distancing would say. if you're walking alone outdoors and there's no one near you, i don't think the mask adds anything. >> john: i often see people up by themselves in a car wearing a mask and i wonder what they're thinking. the other big issue was opening schools back up what the education secretary betsy devos said about children and coronavirus. >> we know if children are going to get the virus, adults are going to get the virus but the facts have been that the virus has not impacted children in the same way that even the average flu season does. >> john: we do know that children can get infected, maybe they don't get as sick as adults do but our twins are going back to school in a couple weeks and there is something in the back of my mind that says, what happens to me if they come home

with coronavirus? we are going to take steps to try to limit cross-contamination and infection but, you know, should kids be going back to school? >> john, there's a big amount of debate going on on this right now, a recent gallup poll shows everybody split across the board. a third of parents a remote learning only, a third of parents say in school only and another third say both. hybrid. some at home, some remote learning. and it may be something, too, if you're at a lot of risk, your high-risk group as a child or a teacher may be then virtual learning makes more sense but the socialization of schools and with the schools have to offer kids especially younger kids is usually important and under the age of ten it looks like the risk of spreading covid-19 from a child to an adult is much less. we are seeing more and more cases being diagnosed but most cases in children are milder. one of the complicating issues here is going to be the flu season. we have both the flu where

one-third of all cases are in kids and covid-19 where one one one-tenth of all cases are in kids happening at the same time. i'm on the side of trying to open schools if possible, doing a very carefully with a lot of caution and a lot of distancing built-in and teachers especially being on the lookout and being careful not to spread to. >> john: the fact that our twins are nine gives me some comfort and we are going to get our flu shots this weekend. dr. siegel, as always, thanks for the advice. >> thank you. >> john: police in chicago using social media to try to catch the people behind recent looting and the mayor calling the violence "a planned attack." that's coming up next. i had this $100,000 student debt. $225,000 in debt. ah, sofi literally changed my life. . .

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magazine she said the planning and equipment were far too sophisticated garrett tenney reporting live for us from chicago. this puts a whole different character on this thing, garrett. >> yeah, it absolutely does, john. the way that the mayor is trying to portray this as no kind of spontaneous gathering. she is describing as it a planned attack. in that interview. w. "time" magazine light foot says the looters came prepared with sophisticated equipment to cut through metal and brought u-hauls. people were able to take out cash registers atm and get metal grates and get behind security systems pretty sophisticated. not your average looter. the timing ringleaders are timed to hit precisely when they knew the fewest number of cops would be out to overwhelm any attempts to stop them. the chicago police department has launched a new website to post clips from the hundreds of

hours of video they have collected from early monday, including some that were live streamed to social media by the looters. a task force of detectives, fbi agents and officials with the u.s. attorney's office are now going through all of that video to identify anyone who is involved and they are asking the public for help in looking at those videos and letting them know if they recognize anyone there john? >> garrett tenney for us in chicago. that's quite a shock, derek, thanks. dallas cowboys owner jerry jones expects the team to play home games in front of fans. rolled out safety measures in daily testing and maps. the league getting high tech using proximity trackers that look like smart watches. they help enforce social distancing and provide information to contact tracers if someone tests positive. so far the league reports positive test rate less than 1%. anyone ever tell you back in my

day movie tickets were 15 cents? amc opening 100 august 20th. retroticket prices one day. start off by showing classics like back to the future and greece. great they are going back to the theaters. i'm john roberts. "your world" with neil cavuto is next. >> neil: thank you very much, my friend. we are following a lot of developments simultaneously. white house and capitol hill and debate what a coronavirus stimulus should look like. the whole matter of this changed when we got news this morning that jobless claims were soaring but under 1 million. first time we have seen that in some 20 weeks it follows on the heels of a employment report that showed that unemployment rate continues to tick down. larry kudlow, the national economic council director has been saying he could see it in single digits and maybe sooner rather than later. he will be joining us momentarily. in the meantime, the