>> don't forget to watch over the weekend. starting monday the dnc, speeches monday night. we'll cover it all. if you have some time at 12:00 i'll be at "outnumbered" in the same outfit on behalf of steve and ainsley, bye. >> have a good weekend. >> get out of the way, get out of the way. >> sandra: a chaotic scene in washington, d.c. police breaking up a late night protest there. crowds had been marching for hours through the streets in the northwest part of the district. at least one person was arrested. all of this as we follow the situation on the ground in portland where state troopers have now ended their protection of a federal courthouse. we'll have more on that in just a moment. >> every single american should be wearing a mask when they're

outside for the next three months at a minimum. >> president trump: today we saw joe biden continue to politicize a pandemic and to show his appalling lack of respect for the american people. joe doesn't know too much. >> sandra: president trump firing back at joe biden as the presumptive democratic nominee slams the administration's coronavirus response while calling for a national mask mandate. good morning, everyone. ifm -- i'm sandra smith. >> trace: i'm trace gallagher. president trump calling the proposal unscientific but public opinion appears to be in biden. more than 70% of americans support a requirement to wear a mask outside the home. >> sandra: jackie is reporting live for us this morning. >> good morning to you, sandra, good morning, trace. 16 states currently don't have statewide mask mandates. all of them run by republican

governors. former vice president joe biden was talking to them when he called on governors to enact a nationwide mask mandate. >> the estimates by the experts are it will save over 40,000 lives in the next three months. 40,000 lives. if people act responsibly. and it's not about your rights, it's about your responsibilities as an american. >> white house reaction was swift. president trump said biden is politicizing the pandemic and defended his administration's approach of urging people to wear mask while focusing the work of the government on therapeutics and vaccines but suggested what he is asking is draconian big government. >> president trump: he wants the president of the united states with the mere stroke of a pen to order for citizens to

wear a mask for a minimum of three straight months. if the president has the unilateral power to order every citizen to cover their face what other powers does he have? >> back in june biden suggested he would use executive power as president to mandate masks in public. yesterday he did not say his administration would enact a federal mandate for masks or call on the white house to enact one. he called on states to take the lead. kamala harris discussed testing, tracing aund funding of vaccines. it comes after a new fox news poll shows a majority of voters in every party favor requiring mask and half think the federal government failed to respond seriously enough to the pandemic. >> sandra: thank you. stay tuned for fox news special coverage of the democratic national convention anchored by

bret baier and martha maccallum at 10:00 sunday eastern time and starting monday we'll have prime time coverage with special report 6:00 eastern time. hours of powerful analysis and opinion every night right here on the fox news channel. >> trace: as the mail in ballot debate rages on the usps is telling pennsylvania their -- they say some ballots may not be delivered on time because the time frame is too tight. having thousands of ballots floating around could create serious questions about the integrity of the election according to barr. >> i think it is grossly irresponsible to be doing what the democratic party is doing now. we've had very close races in recent history. the country is divided. if anything, we should be assuring the integrity of our elections.

the idea of conducting elections by wholesale mail-in ballots is reckless and wrong. >> trace: officials in pennsylvania have filed a motion in state supreme court asking for approval counting mail-in ballots up to three days after election day. >> sandra: a senior official confirming the u.s. seized cargo from four iranian ships believed to be carrying oil to venezuela citing sanctions violations. they've been rerouted to houston as the trump administration ramps up its maximum pressure campaign against teheran. the a.p. is reporting unnamed iranian officials saying no ships or gasoline cargo has been confiscated. >> the signing ceremony will be in the white house. i don't think we have a date set yet. i think we hope for sometime in september. we'll do everything we can for as long as we can.

as long as we're honored with this position to not only solidify what was agreed to yesterday between israel and the emirates to extrapolate that to every other nation in the region and truly change the middle east for the next 100 years. >> trace: u.s. ambassador to israel praising the new peace deal between israel and uae. the two middle east nations work to establish full normalization of relations and israel agreed to suspend efforts to annex parts of the west bank. what are they saying at the white house today about this? >> they're pleased. they were talking about it all day yesterday and even democrats are saying this is a remarkable achievement. it is because this is the first deal of its kind in a quarter of a century. the last time that an arab country signed a normalization with israel was jordan back in

1994. the president predicting this will be the first deal of many to come, even though the palestinian authority is condemning the agreement, the president believes that ultimately the palestinians will come to the table. listen here. >> president trump: others will be following and i think the palestinians will, without saying it necessarily yet, i think they very much want to be a part of what we're doing. and i see ultimately the palestinians -- i see peace between israel and the palestinians. i see that happening. i think as these very big powerful wealthy countries come in, i think the palestinians will follow quite naturally. >> among democrats mixed reaction to the deal. the former national security advisor and head cheerleader of the iran nuclear deal said it enshrines the status quo in the region including the exclusion

of palestinians dressed up as an election eve that want trump to win. nancy pelosi saying the agreement to establish full diplomatic relations between israel and the uae. it could benefit both nations, the region and the world. as you mentioned at the top of this agreement calls for israel to suspend its plans to annex parts of the west bank. benjamin netanyahu didn't have much of a workable plan to do it anyway. in a speech yesterday netanyahu said while he is suspending the process of annexation, he is not giving up on it. that is still his ultimate goal. >> as for the election are you hearing anything more whether president trump decided between the white house or gettysburg delivering his appearance speech? >> i asked him about that at the press briefing on wednesday. he said he was still mulling it over. yesterday in an interview with the "new york post" the president said that he could do gettysburg at a later time and

looks like the white house will be the setting for it. that will attract criticism from people who say this is the people's house. the president shouldn't be giving a big political speech here. he may be able to make it wash because of coronavirus but i'm sure he will get criticism about it. we'll hear more from the president on this. he has a briefing in the noon hour maybe around 12:30 or so. stay tuned, trace. >> trace: will do. john roberts live at the white house. we'll have more on the historic agreement between israel and the uae. jared kushner joins us to talk about the peace deal and the impact it may have on other middle east countries. >> sandra: looking forward to that. calm night in portland after oregon state police say they're pulling out of the city and leaving the federal courthouse besieged by protests for weeks now. all part of an agreement with the trump administration to calm the unrest there. dan springer is live in seattle. what did the oregon state police say as they were leaving?

>> they had some choice words ahead of the oregon state police took a veiled shot at the district attorney as he announced osp had left portland and no longer in charge of protecting that federal courthouse. in a statement kim fox said the oregon state police is reassessing our resources and the needs of our partner agencies at a time we are at this time we're inclined to move those resources back to counties where prosecution of criminal conduct is still a priority. it is obviously reaction to the local d.a. no longer prosecuting protest-related crimes that he considers non-violent such as interfering with a police officer and disorderly conduct. the state troopers committed to protect the federal buildings for two weeks allowing dhs to pull most of its officers out of the courthouse. the hope was it would ease tensions there. as far as the courthouse is concerned it has worked. protestors have been violent

but turned their attention to the portland police bureau. state troopers have been in the background the last two weeks. now they're out of portland all together. what happened their first night away from the courthouse? almost nothing. there were a few scattered demonstrations across the city. technically the protest streak is still alive but none of the events drew more than a few dozen people and there was no police in sight at any of them. a welcome calm night finally in the city of portland. sandra. >> sandra: dan springer in seattle for us. dan, thank you. >> trace: the austin city council approving a plan to cut 150 million from the police department budget coming after months of nationwide calls to defund the police. funding will be slashed from overtime costs, license plates readers, records management and redirected to other services. texas governor greg abbott quoted austin's decision put the brave men and women of the austin police department and their families at greater risk

and paves the way for lawlessness. >> sandra: just 80 days from the president election, who do americans think can better handle the economy, do a better job on immigration and other hot button issues. we'll take a look. an arrest in the shooting death of a 4-year-old boy in missouri. suspect now charged with the child's murder. reaction from his grieving mother next. >> president trump: horribly shot, wonderful young man. good news they caught the killer alleged. i'm a performer. -always have been. -and always will be. never letting anything get in my way. not the doubts, distractions, or voice in my head. and certainly not arthritis. new voltaren provides powerful arthritis pain relief

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>> trace: investigators say they caught the guy who killed a 4-year-old boy. the suspect shot into the child's apartment complex. ellis now faces a series of felony charges including second degree murder. the boy's mom says there is a lot of work that needs to be done on stopping crime. >> as a community i appreciate you guys for stepping up. now we have to take it a step farther and help calm the violence down and do what you guys did to help my case. let's do that for other cases

and stop things like this from happening. >> trace: it sparked the department of justice's operation legend sending hundreds of law enforcement officers to cities around the country and helps remove violent criminals from the streets. >> sandra: brand-new fox polling showing former v.p. joe biden with a 7-point lead over president trump in a head-to-head match-up. although the race does appear to be tightening a bit. charlie hurt is a fox news contributor. welcome. happy friday. when you look at that 7-point lead and what it has done in recent months, what is the state of the race today? >> i think to me one of the most important things as you point out the race -- those numbers are tightening. i always put the caveat out about polling especially in this sort of rancid environment where you have both sides pretty well set up. but if you look at the polling

today as opposed to four years ago, it is tracking remarkably similarly and of course we know how that turned out. one of the most interesting things about this poll is not only did it ask voters who do you -- are you going to vote for in november or who are your neighbors going to vote for? that's a trick that pollsters do when you have a question that's very sensitive that people may not want to be totally honest about and when they ask who are you going to support, biden does better. when you ask who are your neighbors going to support trump does better. the reason they do that they're afraid people are not being completely honest with a stranger who calls them on the phone and asks them do you still support donald trump after all this incredibly negative stuff that you hear about him in the media? and so i think that's the very interesting. it does suggest that maybe there is at least some gap between what people are telling pollsters and what people will

actually do in november. president trump likes to talk about that and it was something we saw in 2016. i think it's clearly something that is going on here today. >> sandra: we'll have more on that coming up. you look at how the president is polling on the economy, charlie. of course, he and his campaign like to point to this. he still polls above joe biden 47% to joe biden 44%. if there is one area we're always on this talking about our pocket books and talking about the future for our family. putting food on the table. how much does that help the president in november? >> i think he wins or loses on the economy. law and order is a very important thing. and also defining joe biden versus donald trump and making sort of the race more about joe biden than it is about donald trump. that's very important for the president. but nothing matters more than the economy. if people feel like -- even

with the pandemic going on if people feel like i'm going in the right direction. we'll make it through this pandemic and we'll survive and i can take care of my family and my neighbors will take care of their families, then president trump will get reelected. if president trump allows this election to be about something else, about his behavior or about some of the things that he says or about some of the other issues going on, then joe biden wins. i think that they understand that. >> sandra: it's interesting you say that. i'll throw out some of the other issues. trump is polling ahead on the economy but on other issues joe biden is ahead of the president. when it comes to some of the of those words that even some of the president's supporters say be careful you don't want the race to become about that, here is the "new york post" editorial board this morning. lose the nasty words, it does

you no good. president trump continues to be his own worst enemy. he called kamala harris a mad woman making everything person is unbecoming. surely there are enough sub stative issues to hit them, their views on crime, foreign policy. why not focus on that, mr. president, instead of resorting to callous insults that do you no good. questions the "new york post." >> there is a lot of wisdom in that. i've always believed that a lot of people in the media hysterically overreact to president trump when he says things. lord forbid we have a president that's funny. a lot of people in the media get really offended when he is funny. and -- but i do think that we are in a different era now. we have endured a pandemic, we've endured the worst economic collapse since the great depression. things are very different now and i think the president needs

to respond in that way and if that means cutting out -- it certainly means cutting out a lot of the stuff that his supporters find humorous and myself included. i find a lot of that stuff to be, you know, animating and hilarious but this is not a funny time. this is a very serious time. people are very worried about their health, worried about their pocketbook, and at a time like this it is probably a good time for the president to put that stuff away and focus on as you point out the economy and law and order and dealing with this pandemic and getting the country through that. and then we can get back to the funny stuff later. right now is not a time for that stuff. >> sandra: finally want to throw up the poll. the first look at the vice presidential favorability kamala harris polling above mike pence, 44% for her, 41 for him.

making the convention very interesting and the debate that we anticipate between the two of them coming up this fall. charlie, great to have you this morning, thank you. >> trace: senate leaving down until september and leaving millions of people relying on unemployment in limbo as the stimulus talks hit a wall. plus how other nations are reacting to the historic u.s. brokered peace deal reached between israel and the united arab emirates. jared kushner joins us next. >> the president dramatically for the better changed policy in the middle east and brought these two countries that had been neglected abandoned under the obama administration and he brought them together. just because of an accident. cut! is that good? no you were talking about allstate and... i just... when i... accident forgiveness from allstate. click or call for a quote today.

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>> trace: top stories. oregon state police pulling troopers out of portland where they were assigned to protect federal property after the district attorney announced he would not prosecute protestors arrested for non-violent crimes. >> sandra: california surpassing 600,000 confirmed coronavirus cases. "the new york times" reporting it's the first state to reach that number. >> trace: two out of control wildfires outside of los angeles, the lake fire and ranch 2 fire. triple digit temperatures are slowing down efforts to get the fires under control. evacuations. >> sandra: israel and the

united arab emirates establishing diplomatic ties in a peace dee. the uae the third arab country to normalize relationship with israel after egypt and jordan saying it will bring cooperation and a wonderful future for both countries. >> israel and the uae are two of the most advanced countries in the world. together we've transformed the region and forge a better future for our people. >> sandra: president trump's senior advisor and son-in-law jared kushner played a key role in brokering the deal. let's send it to trey yengst live in beirut this morning. not everyone happy with this deal. how are other countries in the region reacting this morning? >> good morning. that's exactly right. today we saw statements from turkey and iran condemning the uae for normalizing ties with israel. the palestinians also reacting swiftly pulling their ambassador out of the country.

we got a statement in hamas in control of the gaza trip who -- it will freeze west bank annexation plans put forth by benjamin netanyahu. peace plan between israelis and palestinians continues to be stalled. other gulf countries including bay rain and aman could be be next to normalize ties with israel amide political uncertainty in lebanon. the prime minister visited with outgoing prime minister in beirut outside the country's parliament building the phrase is iran out. demonstrators over the weekend said they were tired of the lebanese militant group hezbollah taking government resources to fulfill iran's proxy wars across the middle east. we spoke with a top hezbollah ally and son-in-law of the lebanese president there are missiles in the southern part of the country pointed at u.s. ally israel.

>> you make peace, you don't make wars. you strengthen the lebanese institutions and on top of them the lebanese forces and give guarantees to the people on both sides that if you isolate and threaten you will increase the number of missiles because people -- you will increase the need of the people for more protection. >> who you just heard from there will face sanctions from the united states in the coming days. something he says he is not concerned about saying they are a small price to pay. sandra. >> sandra: trey yengst reporting from beirut this morning. thank you. joining us now is jared kushner, senior advisor to the president. welcome to "america's newsroom." thank you for coming on this morning. >> great to be with you.

>> sandra: how did this deal come together? >> this has been an effort that's benon going for the last 3 1/2 years. president trump's first trip when he was elected to office to riyadh in may of 2017 when he went there and outlined the problems in the middle east and saw that isis was running wild and taken over a caliphate the size of ohio, executing american journalists and causing a lot of devastation. iran was emboldened. the last administration gave them $150 billion and funding proxies around the region. president trump had a new vision how to approach the middle east. a lot of people criticized it. we saw the fruits of that labor yesterday. the first peace deal in the middle east in the last 26 years and in the run-up the clip you just showed you see what a rough region it is. you have a lot of bad actors, complicated situations. peace is not a word that's very achievable or associated with the middle east. the fact that president trump

was able to achieve it by building strong relationships. strengthening america's alliances and working with our allies is a great testament. deal making ability and the fact that president trump delivers results and do the unexpected. >> sandra: you have been involved in the negotiations to reach this deal. what was the breakthrough moment? >> well, i think what happened was everyone -- i find in politics everyone can tell you what the problem is, everyone can tell you why something won't work. very few people are being willing to be courageous and find a pathway forward. the first thing president trump built back the trust with israel and uae and other regional allies. i would say over the last year president trump outlined a vision for peace which was the first of 180 page document very detailed. the first realistic proposal that showed israel he understood their security needs and showed the palestinian people he had a pathway to make their lives better. the people in the middle east these are not real democracies

other than leadership. the leadership isn't always what the people want. israel agreed to a palestinian state and agreeing to a map the president was able to outline that showed what the future territory could be. that built a lot of trust. israel's move to then apply sovereignty to areas of the west bank where it is filled with israeli settlers and israel won't give back. it made people in the region uncomfortable by making the move. he then brokered a deal with two great leaders and the crown prince and prime minister netanyahu who both saw that the region would gain much more by having people focus on shared interests. you have two countries that are both technology powerhouses. they are economic powerhouses and security powerhouses. bringing them together will make the region much stronger and gives people the opportunity to live a much better life. this is an historic breakthrough. when president trump ran for

office he spoke about islamic extremism and the radicalization that was happening. it will allow more muslims to visit the mosque and see it is not under attack and welcome there and bridge relations between the two faiths hopefully. >> sandra: the "wall street journal" writes this morning israel's normalization with uae squeezes saudi arabia and says u.s. could exert significant leverage given president trump's unwavering support for the saudi crown prince. the "wall street journal" says it piles pressure on saudi arabia to follow suit. does that happen? >> so president trump again has built trust. we've been very pleased with a lot of the actions that saudi arabia has taken over the last three years. we opened a center with them to counter terror financing and seen the amount of money going to terrorist organizations over the last 3 1/2 years go down tremendously. we opened up a center with them to counter extremism. they are the custodian of the

holy mosque and leader of the muslim world. one of the top leaders. working with them we've seen them modernize their country. more rights to women and relaxed guard anship rules. this happened under president trump's leadership. we'll continue to work with saudi arabia around common objectives. not old grievances. the king and crown prince care about the palestinian people but very pragmatic how do we move things forward? they want to see progress that the palestinian people can live a better life and realize in the region israel is not their enemy. it is a country that can provide a lot of solutions technologically, security-wise and i think they see there is much more to be gained by partnering with israel than by having this non-relationship that has existed for far too long. >> sandra: is it realistic to say a deal is in the works with saudi arabia? >> again, this deal surprised a

lot of people yesterday and i think it shows the nature of diplomacy we've been able to do. we've taken a lot of criticism for people who tried and failed and we're not doing it the same way they did it. we've kept our cards to the vest and built real relationships and trust. i won't betray that trust. this deal has been very, very positively received by the good actors in the region. people are inspired and want to see the region go forward. when you have hamas and iran going against you played the clips in lebanon. iran has totally led to destabilization of that place, which has caused great harm to the people of lebanon. the people of the middle east can be much more hopeful seeing there is the possibility for progress and for good things that could happen in the region security-wise and economic-wise. >> sandra: we listened to ambassador friedman who said every nation in the region is on the table. we can assume it means saudi arabia based on what you're

telling us now. bahrain. you said there is a good chance another country could make a deal with israel in the coming days. can you tell us who that might be? >> well, again it could take some time. think we're having a lot of good discussions with people. we want to get this deal done first. they announced it and we want to get the embassies exchanged and get ambassadors exchanged and want to start flights. we have a lot to work to do here. people have been pleased by how this has gone. the one thing with president trump. he is willing to reach out to traditional enemies and willing to strengthen relationships with allies but a common sense president and calls it as it is and people respect that especially in this region. he keeps his word and like iran he has nothing against the iranian people. he thinks they are a great people but he doesn't want their leaders to have a nuclear weapon and stop threatening israel and american and stop funding proxies. president trump is a peacemaker. when he was running a lot of

the traditional washington people who created all the problems throughout the world said that president trump would get us into wars. he has done the opposite. he made a peace deal in afghanistan, he now has a peace deal in the middle east. bringing our troops home to america and getting along with kim jong-un and doing it from a position of strength to push american values. look, president trump, our interests in the middle east used to be we relied on them for oil. now he has made america energy independent. gives us a tremendous advantage. a deal like we accomplished yesterday, the first peace deal in the middle east in the last 26 years enables us to risk fewer american soldiers in the region and in addition to that it allows us to counter extremism and terrorism, something that has hurt our country and a lot of americans fear. >> sandra: does it stand the test of time? you read through the reporting this morning. axios talking about the crown prince emphasizing the annexation aspect of this deal while sounding far less

definitive than trump about the diplomatic breakthrough, a sign there could be hurdles ahead? can you address that? >> look, nothing is easy. i do think that both leaders -- all three leaders have a same intent. to figure out how to get interchange between the people and again advance both countries' security needs and economic opportunities. both countries are interested in artificial intelligence, vaccines, healthcare, fighting the coronavirus together. uae has a ton of capital. israel a ton of innovation. two wealthy, innovations nations coming together. with regards to applying israeli sovereignty to these areas that's a long dispute gone through many wars and years between the palestinians. president trump is able to show israel he understands their issues and trying to find a solution and gotten them to make compromises they weren't willing to make under the previous administration. i'm confident president trump set the stage over the last

years by building these relationships, laying out a plan. made a lot of people uncomfortable but yesterday we saw the first fruits of the labor. there are many more to come in the middle east and throughout the world by president trump continuing to implement his policies. >> sandra: will there be a signing ceremony at the white house? >> we're in discussions about it. getting to yesterday was a major, major step. we're working on what will come next. >> sandra: appreciate you coming on this morning. >> great to be with you. good luck. >> trace: bill deblasio drawing a line in the sand as teachers push back on his plan to reopen schools. what it means for the larger debate on getting kids back in classrooms. what do you think? i don't see it. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪

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>> trace: bill deblasio making it clear he experts teachers to show up for the first day of school next month as principals and teacher's unions call on the city to delay in-person learning. dr. marc siegel joins us now. you have two sides of this. the cdc director robert redfield saying we could have the worst fall ever and deblasio saying we need teachers in the classroom. >> united federation of teachers is pushing back against the mayor and school supervisors. new york city is not a hot spot right now. we're testing less than 1% positive. we did 88,000 tests in new york state yesterday alone. this is the place to look at and say if schools are going to open, we have to open them here because the risk is way, way lower. children under the age of 10 are much less likely to spread

it to adults. the biggest risk for teachers is actually spreading it among themselves. school chancellor said if you want to come to school and you are a child, wear a mask. that's in place. no mask, no school. also built in physical distancing. i like the way new york city is approaching this. it could be a paradigm for the rest of the country, trace. >> trace: dr. anthony fauci says temperature checks are unreliable but the school district is relying on them as their first line of defense. does it concern you? >> i agree with dr. fauci on that but mayor deblasio is also saying he will have nurses in the schools. i tell you why nurses are so important, trace. nurses do more than check temperatures. they check symptoms and ask how you're feeling. children the end to have behavioral changes when they aren't feeling well. we need screenings more than just temperature, i agree with dr. fauci on that. remember, the amount of vier

-- virus in the community is very low. we need the ability to test teachers and children's frequently. that needs to be in place as well. we're being looked at by the whole country right now on this. it's a very, very important we have this paradigm. >> trace: what's the threshold? you have the schools in martin county, georgia, where a child had symptoms. shut down the whole class and shut down the bus route. is that the threshold or something 2% of infections. what do you think the benchmark should be for schools? >> great question, trace. it has to do with how well you can separate out someone who is sick and get them out of the pool. what was worrisome about cobb county in georgia. everyone was congregating in the halls. no one paying attention. if it can be systematic and reliable you can tolerate a few positive cases. again, it can only be a few positive cases because it is so contagious. 1%, 2%. it has a lot to do with

compliance. if the schools comply and the kids are taught how to behave, then maybe. kids are kids, right? let's face it. there has to be a system in place where the teachers teach the kids to behave in a certain way. then you can tolerate a few positive cases. >> trace: we are about to find out. always good to see you, sir, thank you. >> sandra: patrols picking up after a surge in u.s. east coast shark sightings. fox news going on a ride along getting an up close look at how they are trying to keep swimmers safe and you are out. you won't believe why washington nationals player was ejected from a game. ♪ and i heard her shout, take me out to the ballgame, take me out with the crowd. buy me some peanuts and cracker

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>> sandra: long island, new york now experiencing daily shark sightings. nassau counting is increasing its shark patrols along the beaches now. fox news got a chance to ride along on one. laura engel is live. what did you see? >> well, we saw a lot of action in the water but i didn't see any -- these repeat shark sightings this summer in new york prompted officials a few weeks ago to be just as aggressive as the predators basically going on offense saying we'll go out looking for you before you spot the swimmers in the water. we did get on a boat. shark patrol teams are out in force on new york's long island this summer combining the efforts of marine units on the water. aviation teams in the sky and lifeguards on shore scanning the waters for any sign of dangerous predators who seem to

be moving in closer to the beach this summer. as we mentioned we took a ride this week with the nassau county police marine patrol as they work the shores off long island. >> that might be attracting a few more sharks. i'm not really sure but i don't remember having to be out here as much as we have been this year. >> summer 2020 has been the season of the shark with sighting after sighting up and down the atlantic east coast with bull sharks, thresher sharks and one great white which killed a woman last month in maine. 17 shark attacks so far in 2020 compared to 36 attacks last year prompting nasa county -- not only looking for finishes but also flocks of birds feeding on bait fish in the water a good indication a shark could be close. >> you get the hit or see some activity.

what's the time lapse between getting the information to the shore? >> we have the radio so we can get right on radio with our operators and they can notify long beach. just a couple of minutes at the most. >> we had two shark sightings here yesterday and shark patrol will remain in effect through the summer. >> sandra: i hope you didn't get sea sick. thank you. >> trace: no mr. no more mr. nice guy. our live coverage of politics continues next hour. ke saving on insurance easy usaa. what you're made of, we're made for. usaa

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marilane. >> sandra: first president trump accusing joe biden of playing politics with the pandemic as some battle lines are drawn in the race for the white house. welcome to a brand-new hour of "america's newsroom" friday morning. i'm sandra smith. >> trace: good morning. i'm trace gallagher. the presumptive democratic nominee calling for everyone in the united states to wear a mask while outside for the rest of the year. the president firing back later at a briefing claiming biden is putting politics ahead of science. >> sandra: griff jenkins live in washington for us. this has turned into a war of words. where do things stand this morning? >> it sure has, trace and sandra. the white house is pushing back saying masks are good but washington shouldn't tell people how to live their lives. clearly the former vice president getting under president trump's skin calling for this national mask mandate asking governors to take the lead, something that biden is including in ads running in battleground states and prompted a swift reaction from president trump. >> president trump: to jove i

would say stop playing politics with the virus. we've entrusted the governors of each state elected by the people to develop and enforce their own mask policies and other policies. >> only 16 states do not have statewide mask mandates. you see them on the map in green. all run by republican governors. as to the voters in the latest fox news poll 74% say they favor everyone to wear a mask outside. >> sandra: on another issue, biden is going after the president for holding back funding on the postal service. >> that's right, sandra. the president says without additional funds sought in the next covid stimulus the post office won't be able to handle a flood of ballots from a mail-in. >> [inaudible question] >> let's go, let's go.

>> he doesn't want an election. >> trace: with only 81 days to go. it appears trace and sandra that every front of the pandemic will be a battleground. >> sandra: thank you, griff. >> trace: meantime hillary clinton suggesting her days of public service may not be over at an event yesterday marking the 19th amendment giving women the right to vote. she floated the possibility of working in a biden administration. >> i'm ready to help in any way i can. i think this will be a moment where every american -- i don't care what party you are or what age, race, you know, gender, i don't care. every american should want to fix our country. so if you're asked to serve you should certainly consider that. >> trace: clinton served alongside joe biden as secretary of state in the obama

administration. the democratic convention starts sunday night with bret baier and martha maccallum anchoring here on fox news and once the convention gets underway monday we'll have complete prime time coverage starting with special report at 6:00 p.m. eastern all the way through fox news at night. do not miss it. >> sandra: meanwhile we could learn more about the investigation into the origins of the russia investigation. at any time now attorney general bill barr telling our own sean hannity last night there will be news today from u.s. attorney john durham's review. >> there are going to be significant developments before the election. we aren't going to do anything inappropriate before the election. but we're not being dictated to by this schedule. what's dictating the timing of this are developments in the case. there will be a development in the case. it is not an earth shattering development but an indication that things are moving along. >> sandra: barr adding that

durham's review is moving along at the proper pace. >> trace: americans seem to be heading south to escape rising big city crime as well as crowded urban areas during the pandemic. a lot of them are heading for places like florida. we are live in west palm beach. >> good morning. the evidence is growing that people are leaving the cities and opting for the suburbs of south florida. a storage company in west palm beach has never seen ever in their 100 year history this level of stuff. people's household stuff being shipped from connecticut, north jersey, new york, chicago, 180,000 pounds being held at this facility of just beds and furniture. this storage company is up 50%

year to year in terms of their business and it is not slowing down. >> if you look at our increase, our increase started about april. for what reason that was it started about april. but it is steadily increasing. usually our season ends about the end of september. we don't see that happening. we see moves booked out into october and november already coming from other part of the country. >> there are no signs this is slowing down. >> not yet. >> people are shipping stuff from the northeast and having it held until they can find a single family house on the market they like or condo. despite being a coronavirus hot spot the real estate market here in florida is highly competitive. new floridians are looking to move into single family homes and so are floridians who live in condos. house prices have gone up 4.7% to $277,000.

condo prices up 6.2% to $207,000 median price. list to a realtor in miami. >> pre-pandemic 12 months prior we were seeing an uptick in the northeast buyer coming here. and then when the pandemic hit, we started getting a lot of different calls where it was shocking. >> a thousand pounds fit in these vaults. people are buying properties, trace, via face time not wanting to see it in person. they're buying them up when they can. >> the market has been flat for a while. that's significant. thank you. >> sandra: president trump looking to turn new york red this november. he tells the "new york post" i'll solve the crime problem and tax problem and solve all their problems. who wouldn't vote for me? new york hasn't voted republican in a presidential election since ronald reagan in 1984. let's bring in fox news

contributor bryan bran berg. i'll throw some stats up here. you look at the reporting in florida, they're fleeing places like new york, homicide rate up 29% in new york. shooting incidents 833 in 2020. up 79%. you've got a jobless rate in new york that in january was 3 1/2%. it is now above 20%. well above the national average, even as things have start evidence to improve on the jobs front. no wonder people are fleeing. >> when you walk down your street and every other restaurant is boarded up, maybe your own shop is boarded up and you are questioning whether you feel safe taking your kids on a walk on your sidewalk. when you are asking those kind of questions, you get out. you look at what is happening in florida. people buying properties sight unseen. that's desperation. that's how bad things are in some of these cities. the reason people are leaving

isn't just it's bad now. they don't have confidence it will get better. they don't think mayors like bill deblasio are serious about sofmg the problems. you find a place where you can take your kid out on the sidewalk. if mayors in chicago, new york and portland elsewhere don't fix it, it will accelerate. not slow down. >> sandra: hillary clinton in 2016 in the race in new york she took 59% of the vote to trump's 36 1/2%. and you wonder about him making the point that new york is in play for him. is it, brian? >> new york has given him an opening. he gets to go to new york and make a simple pitch and ask people do you feel safe in your city? do you feel like there is hope ant *r and opportunity in your city? for the first time in a very long time people who are even ideologically committed to blue even on the left will have to

start asking that question. i don't know. now does trump win the state? that will be tough. can he flip some congressional seats and can there be change in local government that might actually move the needle a little bit? i think the answer is yes. we are not in business as usual mode. we're at the level of fundamental quality of life do i feel safe in my community. if you're in that phase anything can happen. we've seen it before. >> sandra: he takes on taxes in this "new york post" interview. over the last six months what happened is insane. it is insane. we'll try very hard to win new york. the first time since ronald reagan. i'll bring down taxes and make sure new york city is safe. this is one of the cherished diamonds of the country and we can't let this happen to new york. his home, his heart is there and you look at what is happening with the tax situation on top of everything that is happening, brian, new york is still home to the highest tax burden in the

country with residents here forking over 12.7% of their income in state and local taxes, brian. the president clearly taking that on in that "new york post" interview. final thoughts. >> look, you might be willing to pay higher taxes if you are getting great services, if your city is run well. my goodness you look at new york city right now and ask yourself do i want to pay the highest taxes in the country to live in this city? that's why people are getting out. they're not getting value for their money and they don't see it getting better. bill deblasio inspired zero confidence. if he keeps this up he will lose his tax base. forget about high tax rates you won't collect revenue when people aren't there to pay it. >> sandra: there are not many people here still. streets are empty and there is a lot of problems. brian, great to see you, thank you. >> trace: police searching for a missing mother of three last seen traveling to alabama from her home in kansas. a key investigator in the case

joins us ahead. plus oregon state police leaving portland but not saying it's because the protests are now under control. so what does this mean to the effort to stop the violence? that's next. >> we're comfortable with our staff being in communication with oregon state police and other officers who are on the ground. >> if we could we would not still have people in the street every single night. you would not have your police officers declaring a riot every single night. stressballs gummies

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>> trace: canceled division i championship for every fall sports except for football. several canceled football seasons because of the pandemic.

talks are underway to possibly play championships in the spring. >> sandra: oregon police no longer protecting the courthouse in portland. the county is not going to prosecute this criminal behavior according to the district attorney. they're moving their resources to areas where prosecution is a priority. protestors have tried to repeatedly set it on fire. let's bring in a portland attorney james buchal. what does it mean for that city? >> i think it means the level of violence and disorder will continue to escalate. >> sandra: why did they leave? >> why did the oregon state police leave? i think they left they were disgusted. nobody likes to go to the trouble of arresting somebody which is hard work and just have them turned loose with no consequences whatsoever. >> sandra: what does it mean for the federal courthouse? we've been watching this unrest for quite some time and it seems that leadership doesn't know what to do about it.

>> well, i don't think it's fair to say they don't know what to do about it. the leadership of portland is deliberately encouraging this disorder and so that's what they want. i don't know exactly why they want it but that's what they want. >> sandra: it's interesting. you see this happening on the ground there and you wonder what it means for other areas of the country seeing similar sights of unrest and how this is being handled with the state police now saying this isn't a top priority to prosecute criminals, we'll leave. >> it's a horrible thing. the more sinister aspect of it is there seems to be a conscious alliance between the democratic party and these antifa elements to create disorder and to bring about a sort of a mob rule to affect what they would call revolutionary change. it is a very unamerican phenomenon and we now have elected leaders in portland who basically have declared entire classes of criminals that are

just fine as long as they're carrying the preferred message of the democratic party. >> sandra: what do you think when you hear the debate escalate to federal resources and sending in national guard in cases of severe unrest and in these cases where you had tear gas being fired at federal officers there? >> there is a point at which there is something called the anti-insurrection act where a state can become so broken that the ordinary processes of law don't work anymore and at that point there is almost an obligation on the part of the united states to restore order. i don't know if we're there yet but we're definitely going in that direction. >> sandra: you look at this on the ground. i should say by federal officers there. as we saw when it comes to the tear gas, when we saw sights like that as you are talking to me playing out there on the ground and you look at the

local leadership in cities like portland, you look at the federal debate and discussion over what has to happen next, and then you put it in the context of all this happening in an election year, james, and you wonder where we can get with that debate considering we're in 2020 and we're now just months away from a presidential election. >> well, i think part of what is going on is there is some sort of weird rallying around the red flag as it were against president trump. and -- but to use disorder as a conscious strategy is, i hope, not going to appeal to the vast mass of americans in the middle who just want to get on with their lives. they don't appreciate getting woken up at 3:00 in the morning with people shrieking on bull horns and many -- amplified stuff. i don't know if it will work

well for the democrats but it seems to be their conscious choice. >> sandra: it is a debate that's sure to fire up as we move closer to november. james, we appreciate your time and your viewpoint on that this morning. thank you, james. >> thank you. >> trace: fox news alert. tracking wildfires scorching the west. the damage so far and the areas in danger next. plus the latest on the search for a missing mom and how her family is keeping hope alive. >> law enforcement from over land park has been in great touch with us and so far they said they don't believe a crime has been committed. they're keeping all options on the table to try to figure out and get to the bottom of this so we can find marilane. ere thas to refi his home, he may want to purchase, we can help them and provide that financial solution for they and their families. it's a great rewarding feeling.

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>> sandra: it's the bottom of the hour. time for the top t headlines. dr. anthony fauci saying temperature checks are unreliable. it's better to just question people and save the time. >> trace: the search continues for a missing kansas mother who disappeared nearly two weeks ago on her way to alabama. a detective in the case joins us in minutes. >> sandra: kim foxx says at least 42 people face felony charges in the looting spree that hit the downtown shopping district earlier this week. the mayor and police superintendent have said foxx's policies have emboldened criminals. >> trace: breaking news out of california. wildfires forcing hundreds of people from their homes out

west. the fast moving flames have destroyed more than 90,000 acres across three states, california, oregon and colorado. jeff paul is live in lake hughes, california with more. jeff. >> there are now three major wildfires burning here in southern california. the biggest the lake fire is still burning with very minimal containment. has destroyed several homes. just like this one right here. about 90 miles away from this particular fire the wran much fire is now growing in size. so far it's burned about 3,000 acres and has zero containment. officials do not believe there is a threat to buildings. mandatory evacuation orders are in place as a precaution especially today as the weather takes a turn. that's the concern as hundreds and hundreds of firefighters work to contain the lake fire. so far it has burned 11,000 acres and is now 12% contained.

a bit of good news from yesterday where it was 0% contained. with temperatures expected to get into the triple digits crews are working to prevent the fire from reaching additional homes. at least three have already been lost. >> at that point it was like get out of my house and then i got out in the street and had to watch the fire come down the hill and across the street and engulfing on both sides and we were migrating and retreating down the street and then it rolled in and taking everything as it went down. >> it's not just california that's experiencing wildfires in the west. we have colorado, we have oregon, and it's expected to get pretty hot here in lake hughes. temperatures are expected in a few hours to reach triple digits around 100 degrees and they expect it to continue on for at least a week. it will be a cuff couple of days for firefighters as you see them rolling into town to

work to protect more homes. trace. >> trace: winds and hot weather bad combination. jeff paul live for us in california, jeff. thank you. >> sandra: a kansas cityman facing charges in the shooting death in june of 4-year-old legend, whose name inspired operation legend. the federal crackdown on violent crime in cities across the u.s. garrett tenney is live in chicago for us. how did police find the suspected gunman? >> it was thanks to a lot of help from the community. numerous tips came in identifying 22-year-old as the shooter including from a woman who was in the car with ellis right before and after the shooting in june. they says she heard the gunshots and heard a gun hit the floorboard. when he got back in the car she drove away. 4-year-old legend tall pharaoh was sleeping in his family's apartments when bullets tore through a door and took his

life. it was targeting legend's aunt who shares a child with ellis after he allegedly assaulted her a few days before. legend's mom is asking the community to help solve other murders as well. >> we appreciate you guys for stepping up. now we have to take it a step farther and help calm the violence down and do what you guys did to help my case. let's do that for other cases and to stop things like this from happening. >> legend's death led to the launch of operation legend, sending hundreds of federal agents to cities across the country to help fight violent crime. attorney general bill barr touted the effort yesterday saying the arrest of legend's alleged murder illustrates the potential of operation legend more broadly. it's a model for joint efforts to solve crime and reduce violence in other cities. at the white house president

trump praised the arrest as well. >> president trump: attorney general barr we named operation legend after this boy where we'll be helping out and are in the process of helping out cities throughout our country that have difficulty with crime and certain types of crime. so that's really good news. they caught the killer of legend. >> justice department officials say operation legend has already led to hundreds of arrests in a little over a month since it began. >> sandra: garrett tenney reporting from chicago for us. thank you. >> trace: police now searching for a missing mother of three marilane carter. she was driving from kansas to alabama. she checked into a hotel in missouri. let's bring in over land park, kansas, detective brett larson who is involved in the case. you have sonar boats and search crews searching parts of the

mississippi river where you picked up the last ping of her cell phone. are you able to narrow the search area? >> that information is very accurate as far as we're aware. the cellular telephone ping is a 2500 meter direction and in any direction from that point so approximately a mile and a half in any direction from that last ping. she was confirmed to be in that location by a videotape. >> trace: she and her car are both missing. if for some reason the car went off the road into the river wouldn't there be clear signs of that? >> you know, i don't work down there and i don't know the area. that's what has made this investigation extremely difficult being 400 or 500 miles away. but with our partners in law

enforcement and citizens down there in the memphis area, i have been told that they do believe that it would be difficult to get a vehicle into the river. and if one did they think there would be definite signs of a vehicle going into the river. >> trace: i know you say there are no signs of nefarious activity on behalf of the family or anybody else. marilane was going to alabama to seek mental healthcare and why was she allowed to drive 650 miles on her own to go down and seek healthcare? >> nobody has figured out exactly why she wanted to leave that night and what got into, you know, her mind on wanting to go. i spoke with the family, husband, mother, brother-in-law, and, you know, i think that they all knew that she wanted to seek mental health help but i don't think they knew maybe -- i don't think they knew the extent of

which she was being in crisis. >> trace: i want you to listen to marilane's mom and i'll get you to respond on the other side. >> we were in contact with her all the way. part way through the trip she started seeming confused and disoriented. she kept on getting lost. >> that's concerning, right? they were talking to her on the phone and she was disoriented and kept getting lost. that plays into that investigation clearly. >> absolutely. 100%. we know as investigators and law enforcement that she left overland park, kansas on saturday, august 1 at approximately 8:15. if you don't mind i would like to go through a short timeline for you so people know kind of what we are doing. >> trace: sure. >> at that point she traveled through and stopped in west plains, missouri with a hotel room and checked in at 3:45 and checked out less than three

hours later at 6:05. we have her on video confirming the location. the first time we put eyes on her on video and shows she was by herself. she doesn't look under duress. >> trace: three hours in a hotel room. 2:20 inside that room. what do you make of that? >> absolutely. we think that's very strange and what i make of that, what we as law enforcement have put our collective minds together and made of that, we feel that shows that she was in that -- in a mental health crisis. even though she looks non-khal ant walking in and out of the hotel she seems at that point to be at the hotel for two hours plus, it was concerning. >> trace: there is the tipline on the screen. you can see it there detective. the best of luck to you and the family. we're pulling for you and any indication of any new evidence please get back to us.

thank you, sir. >> all right. thank you for having us, we appreciate it. >> sandra: brand-new fox polling showing joe biden holding his lead over president trump. it also indicates shifting opinions on the role of washington we'll dig deeper with chris wallace. another example of how the police risk their lives each and every day to help us. an officer saving a man in a wheelchair stuck on the railroad tracks. that heroic officer will tell us about that amazing rescue. >> i need an ambulance now. 911. that's safe drivers save 40%. it is, that's safe drivers save 40%. - he's right there. - it's him! safe drivers do save 40%. click or call for a quote today.

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chris wallace. state of the race, good morning. state of the race as you see it today as we work our way into two weeks of conventions. >> you know what's so interesting is think of all the huge events that have happened in the last few months. obviously the coronavirus, the economic fallout from that. millions of people out of work. george floyd's killing and the new push for racial justice in the country. this race really hasn't changed very much over the course of that time. it has been locked in about from a kind of closest of about 7 or 8 points to i think a 12 points a month or so ago. it has been a sizeable outside the margin of error and steady biden lead without much change in it. having said that, that's what has happened in the past. doesn't mean it is not going to change as we head into the conventions and the debates and the full campaign. but this has been a pretty steady race for some period of time now.

>> sandra: it is interesting in that fox news polling as well when the respondents were asked the question what message would you send to government a year ago people said leave me alone. now a majority, 57% say lend me a hand, chris. what does that say about stimulus negotiations, the stalemate on capitol hill, about something getting done to help americans who are still greatly struggling from this pandemic? >> well, it is exactly as you suggested, sandra. people are in trouble and not surprisingly. look, we have had the worst public health crisis in this country in a century. we've had certainly one of the worst economic crises in this country, you know, in the last 100 years. so people are feeling vulnerable and people are looking to the government to help them whether it's in handling the public health crisis, whether it's in bailing them out in terms of the economy. people who are out of jobs,

businesses that are on the verge of bankruptcy, and i do think that's a potential avenue and certainly they do for the biden campaign and something that the trump campaign is going to have to figure out a way to address. people obviously, you look at the country right track, wrong track, leave me alone, help me. people don't think they're getting enough help from the federal government it could be dangerous territory for an incumbent president seeking reelection and they have to answer that. both in terms of shoring up and having people feel donald trump is the person who will help you out of this and also to raise questions about is joe biden capable of helping you out of this situation right now? >> sandra: really interesting. chris, could you give us a preview of what we should expect next week for the dnc as the president is going to hit the ground running in four key states and traveling to pennsylvania, wisconsin, minnesota, arizona. will that take away from the

democrats' big week? >> it's interesting. i just saw that he has got these -- barnstorming the country mid campaign and usually when one party is holding their convention the other party sits back because they figure they can't break through the wall of sound and media attention for the convention. but obviously this is a different campaign. we're not all in this case it would have been milwaukee, all of the press, all of the politicians. and focusing on that. it is going to be a two-hour tv show 9:00 to 11:00 eastern time each night and there is, i think, some question as to how effective it is going to be in communicating the message for the democrats and a week later for the republicans. so clearly the president and his team feel that there is an opportunity for him to put some points on the scoreboard, which is why you see him in a lot of these key battleground states like wisconsin, like arizona. it is a different kind of

action by the campaign that isn't holding their convention but then this is a different kind of campaign year. >> sandra: absolutely. we'll be covering all of it right here on the fox news channel. the dnc and rnc the next two weeks. meanwhile coming up this weekend new jersey governor phil murphy a guest of yours. news out of new jersey this morning, chris, that new jersey is now announced it will become the ninth state to move to nearly all mail-in voting. big news. i'm sure you have a lot to talk to him about. >> absolutely. we booked him before this announcement had been made, because he is one of the co-chairs of the democratic convention. but you're right, they have now said they are going to be as you say the ninth state to do all mail-in voting sending ballots out to everybody and it raises a key question in this campaign, which is, is mail-in voting a way for people to vote

to exercise their ability to cast a ballot and democracy in a virus, in a pandemic situation, or is it an avenue for fraud and disorganization and a very contested election? those are the two arguments being made by biden and by the president. and we'll be exploring that with governor murphy who is right on front lines and also a top official from the trump campaign. we'll get both sides fair and balanced debate over the issue of mail-in voting. >> sandra: look forward to that. new jersey governor revised the reopening plans for schools as well. a lot of schools have now gone to all remote learning. a lot happening in that state. we look forward to that interview. thank you. >> trace: fox news alert here. we're hearing the president of the united states will stop in new york to visit his brother, robert, who apparently is said to be very ill in the hospital. white house has not specified that illness except to say that

he is very ill. and the president will visit his brother at some point today. much more on that breaking news as it comes into "america's newsroom." meantime a train bearing down on a man in a wheelchair stuck on the tracks. the police officer who risked her life to save that man joins us next.

>> sandra: tropical storm josephine has become the earliest j storm on record to form in the atlantic ocean. they're named in alphabetical

order each season. experts say it's the sign of a busy hurricane season ahead. good news the national hurricane center says josephine will be short lived and is unlikely to get anywhere close to the east coast. >> i'm going to try to get him out. can you get up? get up, get up. >> trace: incredible video of a police officer rushing to rescue a man in a wheelchair stuck on the railroad track. you hear the whistle before the speeding train plowed through. that police officer joins us now. there is a lot of animosity toward police around the country. these heroic stories like yours aren't getting enough attention. i'm glad you are getting your due. congratulations to you. i want to start. you see a man, he is in a wheelchair stuck on the tracks. i know you have to be doing the math in your head because the train is bearing down.

what are you thinking at that point? >> honestly the only thought i had in my head at that time was i need to get him off the tracks. it is the only thought i had. as i'm running up there trying to see where the train is coming from and when you see trains coming a lot of times you don't know how fast they're coming. i thought i had a little time. but as i went right up to him i can see the train from my peripheral and it was coming pretty fast. i grabbed him and like i said my thought was just get him off the tracks. >> trace: that's the amazing part. i know you can just kind of see where the camera is going you're trying to help this guy get off the track and keeping your eye on the train. you only have so much time. you fall back with this man who is out of the wheelchair. what is he saying at this point and what is his reaction?

>> you know, i honestly don't remember if he said anything. i just remember me saying just get up, get up, get up, and once he fell, i don't remember him saying anything once i came back to him again i had a lot of adrenaline going and my thought was okay, i need to contact dispatch, have them bring an ambulance. i thought he was injured and i just needed to pull him away. i didn't want him -- i didn't know what his state was as far as -- i didn't want him rolling over. maybe not knowing what exactly he was. i didn't want him rolling over towards the train or anything so i pulled him a little further away. i don't remember him saying anything at that point. >> curious if he said something to you afterwards or have you spoken to him since. >> no, i have not. afterwards medics got there, fire got there. my partner was a couple blocks

away and he got there immediately and helped render first-aid. but no, i don't remember him saying anything at all. he was very calm. and i think he was in shock. he wasn't really saying much other than can you call my wife? so i got that information, contacted his wife. but no other words were said other than that. >> trace: officer urrea, exceptional work. tip of the hat to you. thank you for joining us, we appreciate it. >> thank you. >> sandra: hats off in a different way here. nearly everything about baseball looks and feels different during the pandemic. it goes for empires ejecting players. look what happened in last night's game between the national and m*ets. >> i don't think it was the manager. stephen strasburg got ejected.

>> sandra: he was watching from the empty stands. apparently strasburg was complaining about some calls. he had to watch the rest of the game from the visitor's locker room. sitting injured in the stands not even playing does not protect you from umpires not liking some of those calls. >> trace: when there are no fans in the stands you can hear everything. when he is ragging the umpire, the umpire is not appreciative of that and that's why he said you are out. >> sandra: tipped his hat and he left down to the locker room he goes. >> trace: yeah. fox news alert now on the new polls. joe biden may be ahead by seven points. now the fight is on for those crucial indecided voters. who has the best chance of winning them next? own well-beig especially if you have a serious chronic medical condition. at aetna, we're always here to help you focus on your health. because it's always time for care. we know you're always at univethere for them.x,

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joe biden leading president trump by seven points nationally in a head-to-head match-up. now the race is on for those undecided voters with 80 days to go until election day. welcome to a new hour of "america's newsroom," i'm sandra smith. hello, trace. >> trace: good morning to you. i'm trace gallagher. biden still in the lead as he and his new running mate hammer president trump on his response to the coronavirus. the 2020 candidate calling on all americans to wear masks in public places. >> mask mandate nationwide starting immediately and we'll save lives. the estimates are we'll save over 40,000 lives in the next three months if that's done. >> trace: president trump firing back accusing biden of exploiting a crisis. >> president trump: to joe i would say stop playing politics with the virus, too serious, partisan politics has no place

here. it is a shameful situation for anybody to try and score political points while we're working to save lives and defeat the pandemic. in times of national challenge americans, we're working with countries from all over the world. they're trying to learn from us. and some of the countries that you spoke most well about are having a tremendous surge right now. >> sandra: we have live fox team coverage on friday morning. dana perrino joining us to dig into the new polls. good morning. jackie heinrich is in delaware with the biden campaign and john roberts is at the white house. the president has been asked about a mask mandate before. has his tone changed since biden has come out in favor of one. >> it has evolved over time. the estimate of 40,000 lives being saved comes from the house metrics and evaluation and online and seen the curves

and how they change based on how people behave. the wearing masks definitely according to them does bend the curve a little bit. the president has said in the past that it is a patriotic to wear masks in certain situations but scoffed at the idea of a federal mask mandate saying masks may be great, good, not so good, we don't really know. biden's call for a federal mandate would fly in the face of both states rights and the situation with coronavirus varies from place to place. listen here. >> president trump: he does not identify what authority the president has to issue such a mandate or how federal law enforcement could possibly enforce it. or why we would be stepping on governors throughout our country, many of whom have done a very good job and they know what is needed. >> what is the temperature of the populous?

just regarding wearing masks in public. all adults 75% are in favor, 13% oppose. among republicans 58% in favor. 27% oppose. and let's go back to the poll you showed at the beginning. our new fox poll showing biden with a seven point lead over president trump. we should point out, though, that number is the best number for president trump since may. he is actually doing better than he was a few months ago. >> sandra: more on that coming up with dana. do we have additional details where the president will give his nomination acceptance speech? >> we do know he had it nailed down between gettysburg and the white house. yesterday he said he would probably do gettysburg at a later date and go for the white house for his speech. that's bound to draw some criticism. you remember, too, back in 2016 the president began his closing argument october 22 in the campaign in gettysburg. it is possible he could do the white house for his appearance speech and do the closing

argument beginning in gettysburg sometime in the fall. >> sandra: we'll learn more orn that in the coming days. >> trace: the biden/harris roll-out goes on leading up to next week's convention with both running mates expected to participate in an event today in wilmington, delaware where we find jackie heinrich. >> good morning, trace. biden and harris will sign a documents required to accept the democratic presidential and vice presidential nominations at the dnc next week and tonight there is a fundraiser. now, in the 48 hours after announcing kamala harris as the v.p. pick the biden campaign brought in $48 million. as of last night the number was up to $50 million. that's a huge sum for the campaign when you keep in perspective harris brought in over $40 million for her entire presidential campaign and bride en brought over just $60

million in 2019. biden is leading with 7%. a large majority of voters concerned about coronavirus. yesterday he called for a nationwide were mask mandate. >> we didn't have to be this way. the president acted sooner, it would have saved just one week earlier would have saved 30 some thousand lives, two weeks earlier 50,000 lives. hope we learned a lesson. hope the president has learned a lesson. >> president trump defended his administration's approach leaving the issues of masks to the states focusing on treatment and trying to preserve the economy by keeping it open but claimed he did everything biden said. >> president trump: every single thing he said to do. every single thing we did and we did them well. so biden has no idea on his own. he only knows what he thinks we should do and he spews it out

and then he -- i guess you could say he -- >> the biden campaign responded with a memo entitled president trump's coronavirus lies, 152 and counting detailing the various ways they say the president undermined the public health response to the virus, trace. >> trace: jackie heinrich live in wilmington. keep it on fox news for the democratic national convention that kicks off sunday at 10:00 p.m. eastern right here on the fox news channel. >> sandra: thank you. for more on all this let's bring in dana perrino co-host of the five. when you dig into the polls there is an interesting story to tell when it comes to in particular this question. are you satisfied with the direction of the country? as you can see it has moved up to no.

66% since january before shutdown, before the pandemic. then when asked who is your choice if you are voting today for the presidency? 49% say joe biden. trump 42%. but then there is this, dana. who do you think your neighbors are supporting for president? trump pulls in 39% there to biden's 34%. what does all this tell you? >> well, that last one about your neighbors i feel like to me i don't look at that and think it's too relevant. that's a guess and you don't know. i don't think it's really representative as much as it is people saying what they are going to do in the election. what i've noticed these polls have been remarkably stable for a long time. if you actually look at from november of 2016 all the way through, there hasn't been all that much changes. the one thing that has changed is that first number you showed. that was the direction of the country. and that has to do with

coronavirus, that's the number one issue, because of the coronavirus you see an economy that is struggling to get back partly because we don't have the relief in place that we need and congress left town and we're looking at these small businesses and workers saying well, what about them? they need the help. so there is that. then i think racial strife. there is a lot of reasons that you can be upset about the direction of the country if you think it's going too far left or too far right in that direction. you would be upset. so that is a pretty interesting dynamic between trump and biden going forward. i expect biden and harris will get a little bit of a bump in his polling in the next week or two out of the vice presidential nominee announcement. a good roll-out for them in the age of coronavirus. it is not that exciting but for them they've done a good job. what will change? when they do an interview together or when she starts doing interviews, that's when you will start to see a little bit more of a difference.

they will actually have to answer tough questions and then you will get the president a chance to define this as a choice rather than a referendum on his performance. >> sandra: interesting analysis. you hear the trump campaign talk a lot about enthusiasm. they believe that that's where they are still winning. they have the most enthusiastic voters and supporters. in this latest fox news polling we look at interest in the 2020 presidential election and 71% of biden supporters say they're extremely interested in the election. 61% of trump supporters extremely interested in the election. what does that tell you, dana? >> well, i think when you look at -- we know that the enthusiasm for biden is not that great. if i were running a campaign i would rather have the people that are enthusiastic about voting for my candidate rather than people who are enthusiastic about voting against the other person. i think one of the reasons you

see interest so high on the democratic side is they might not think that joe biden is the best candidate, they might not think he is the future of the democratic party. there is a lot of friction within the democratic party themselves but they want to defeat donald trump and they're united. i would rather be on the side of enthusiasm for people who want to vote for something than against something. i could be wrong. that could turn out to be a big number. >> sandra: how much do you think the discussion over mask mandates is changing the state of the race right now? >> i was surprised at some of the polling that showed how many people believe wearing masks would be a good idea. can you remember another issue where you have 75% agreement in this country on anything? i don't think you can get a mother's day resolution with 75% agreement. that was pretty telling. i also feel like what joe biden suggested is what president trump has suggested. he has said the governors get to decide. he is encouraging people to wear masks. it was kind of a distinct

without a difference. however, i think the biden team was smart to show they had some clarity. they have focused group every thing. they know what they did yesterday is popular with the majority of adults registered to vote in this country. >> sandra: he'll see you later this afternoon. >> trace: documents obtained by fox news show -- in many cases these are the same machines that would sort mail-in ballots. the move is causing concerns how the post office will handle the election this fall. the postal service hasn't yet provided and official explanation for the removal of sorting machines. senator susan collins of maine sounding the alarm on the postal service. the republican up for reelection in november sent a letter to the post master general asking for a meeting listing a series of issues with the service including delayed deliveries of prescription drugs, checks and ppe.

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murder before back in 1985. >> sandra: tens of millions of americans will be feeling the heat this weekend. southwest expected to see triple digit temperatures while parts of the pacific northwest could see temps 30 degrees amove normal for this time of year. extreme weather has increased chances of wildfires. meanwhile crews in california are trying to get a handle on a massive wildfire there that forced families from their homes. you can see the huge plume of smoke across much of southern california. 0% contained and expected to burn for days. in the nation's hartland some 180,000 people are still without power after a series of wind storms earlier this week. the storms packed winds of up to 100 miles per hour and caused major damage in iowa and illinois. >> trace: a county in maryland has voted to keep a statue honoring con federal soldiers. thought to be the only confederate memorial in all of maryland. city council voted 3-2 to keep it where it has stood for 104

years. you know that jingle you always hear from the ice cream truck coming by? turns out the jingle has racist roost. it was a staple of minstrel shows. they are making a brand-new jingle. >> sandra: members of the oregon state police say they are leaving portland. they've been protecting the federal courthouse there that protestors have been attacking for weeks. announcement was followed by a calm night in the city which has seen constant anti-police protests for months. what else are we hearing from them? >> it's clear you can add the leadership of the oregon state police to the list of people upset with the county district attorney. in a statement announcing the departure from protecting the federal courthouse he took a jab saying the orjohn state

police are looking at the need of our partner agencies and inclined to move those resources back to counties where crime -- it is a reaction to mike schmidt not protesting crimes that he considers non-violent. felony rioting if there is no clear evidence of violence. state troopers committed to protecting the federal buildings in portland as part of a deal with homeland security allowing dhs to pull most of its officers out of the courthouse. the hope was it would ease tensions there and as far as the courthouse is concerned that really has worked. protestors have still been violent but they've turned their attention to the portland police bureau so state troopers have been mostly in the background these last two weeks. now they're completely out of portland. what happened their first night away from the courthouse? almost nothing. there were scattered demonstrations across the city but no more than a few dozen people and no police in sight

at any of them. a welcome calm night in the city of portland last night. the first time we've seen that in a while. >> sandra: thanks, dan. >> trace: new york city mayor bill deblasio dismissing the pleas of teachers and principals as he opens the largest school system. what union leaders are saying. a new poll showing a big partisan divide when it comes to joe biden's running mate kamala harris. a closer look how her favorability is tracking among voters. that's next. veterans, record low mortgage rates

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>> trace: making news now. no coronavirus relief in sight for americans looking for aid. democrats and republicans blaming each other for the stalemate. the main players in the talks are leaving dc. any relief package is stalled until at least next month. >> sandra: the justice department reporting u.s. has seized four iranian ships accusing them of violating u.n. sanctions. >> trace: new poll numbers telling us which voters kamala harris has won over and which ones she still needs to

convince. it tops election news at the bottom of the hour. joining me now mo elleithee from the institute of politics and public service and former communications director for the dnc and fox news contributor. mo, good to see you. let's take these things first. the polls were taken just before joe biden selected her as his running mate. georgetown university poll particular battleground poll. overall voters. favorable rating at 43%. if you look to the next two columns her unfavorable and no opinion equals 57%. what do you make of those numbers, mo? >> well, first of all it shows a dramatic flip from where she was just back in october as she was presidential candidate. it showed almost reverse.

favorable/unfavorals. there has been a dramatic uptick in how voters are looking at her. she has work to do. the entire ticket has work to do and vice presidential candidates oftentimes come in not as well-known and so there is time for her to do that. look, the number one thing about the vice presidential pick do no harm, right? you don't want someone who will detract. people the end to vote on the presidential candidate not the presidential but a vice president can hurt as we saw with sarah palin. so it shows that when you start dissecting these numbers she is doing well in areas where the biden campaign needs to do well. and -- but there is also room for growth. >> trace: the next up i want to put up this is voters on broken down by party and it shows democrats love her. you see it 76%. unfavorable 7%. gop unfavorable 65%, bottom of the screen.

it is the middle number the politicians are most concerned about, right? the ones the pundits are looking at, the independent vote she is in the middle 37% favorable, 40% unfavorable. your thoughts on that. >> yeah. independent voters the end not to necessarily track vice presidential candidates until a little bit later so there will be some work to be done there. she the polling better than the president is in our poll with independent voters and he is far better known. so she have does have some room to grow there. what's also interesting are on a couple of other subgroups that we have been paying very close attention to, suburban voters, her favorable rating is net positive 48 to 35. and among middle class voters which is really emerging as the battleground. they are the true swing voters in this election. middle class voters. she is at a 47 to 36% net

advantage. those are pretty good numbers for her at this stage. again, as you mentioned this was all before she got rolled out. we'll see how being now introduced to the nation at the convention and as the campaign progresses how the numbers may shift. >> trace: the last poll here. voters broken down by race. blacks 64%. whites 41%. hispanics and latinos 39%. anything in this poll jump out at you, mo? >> well look, i think if you look at a lot of the different questions we ask in the poll there are some very big dividing lines. racial dividing lines and how voters are looking at politics and politicians. one thing i will say about what these numbers say about kamala harris is one that she is energizing the democratic base.

that includes black voters. they are excited to have her on the ticket and every campaign has to do two things, right? they have to mobilize and energyize supporters and persuade the people persuadeable. they won't scare away the persuadeable voters. >> trace: you think he energizes an already energized base. mo, always good to see you, sir. thank you. >> sandra: new york city mayor bill deblasio brushing off opposition to his plan to open schools next movement he is confident teachers will show for the first day of classes despite unions representing principles and teachers asking for a delay. david lee miller is live in new york city. fair to stay there is some tensions between deblasio and the unions on this issue? >> indeed there is, sandra.

although the mayor has been a long time booster of organized labor. he is clashing with some of the teachers union and the administrators union in new york city over whether or not there should be a return to in-person teaching. deblasio yesterday said that among the 10 largest school districts in the country, only new york city is now on track for a return to the classroom. and deblasio earlier this week toured a city school and wanted to see how buildings will be cleaned and other measures in place to prevent the spread of the virus. open letter from unions representing school principals addressed to the mayor said in part the city has failed to address many of our crucial concerns and ignored repeated appeals from school leaders to allow enough time to implement highly complicated protocols. following the release of that letter deblasio addressed at least one of the union's concerns and said there will be a certified nurse in each city school. according to the mayor about

15% of teachers have asked to be exempt from returning to the classroom citing a health issue. nevertheless he remained confident the vast majority will show up for work. >> this is what they get paid to do and more importantly they do it because they're devoted to kids. unless folks have a medical accommodation, their job is to come in and serve our kids. i'm convinced that's what they are going to do. >> although the deblasio administration and unions continue to remain at odds the two sides continue speaking. deblasio yesterday said there are still several weeks, nearly a month before school is going to resume. most parents are siding with the mayor on this controversy. three out of four parents surveyed said they want their kids to return to the classroom this fall. sandra. >> sandra: fascinating to watch. david lee miller, thank you. >> trace: coronavirus has changed almost every part of our lives. even how we remember and honor

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called off because workers would have to get too close to each other to set it up. comparing 2020 to a century ago. according to one doctor covid-19 echoes the flu of 1918. he joins us, dr. jeremy faust emergency physician at brigham and women's hospital. what is your message with this piece over the weekend "the new york times" spring virus surge, a frightening echo of the 1918 flu. >> good morning. the point of this research is really to give people a context for what it is we're living through. what happened in the spring in new york city this year had 70% death rate per capita as 102 years ago. people don't realize that. a bigger jump from our baseline. we live in a healthier world today. i think having that context may help people understand why we're going to such lengths at this point. i think sometimes when we

downplay it it can seem like a little much. >> sandra: some will say it's hard to really compare this to anything this country has gone through. you are trying to do exactly that with some of the data points that you make in this piece. the toll of the pandemic in new york city during the peak of the virus outbreak you point out during this pandemic 33,000 plus deaths during a population of 8 million. in 1918 you point out it was nearly 32,000 with a population of 5 1/2 million. what do we take away from that? >> what i take away from it is that covid-19 and 1918h1n1 belong in the same conversation. the next six months are going to tell us just how close they really are. so we thought oh, this isn't china, it won't come to us. it came to new york and people said it's new york.

now miami. it is human to say that's not here and not my problem. what we show in this research is that when it happens quickly and you don't respond in time we don't know enough amazingly bad things can happen. that's the experience of my colleagues. i trained in new york as an er doctor and know the hospitals. they encountered something this spring that none of us imagined. we see a lot in new york as you know. >> sandra: you think of the medical advancement we've seen in the country and globally since 1918 and then you talk about such similarities and this pandemic is echoing that. historians who are also looking back at 1918 and comparing it to now, do they agree with you, doctor? >> certainly the numbers suggest that as i said before they kind of belong in the same ballpark which is the point. there are some important differences in what is happening today as opposed to back then and we're not saying that they are completely analogous, there are big

differences. one thing that we do know is for example older people 102 years ago really weren't as affected. but today 65-year-old today has a lot of life in them left. 75 a lot of life. that's the people who we're worried about and also to some extent the younger people, too. there is a growing sense that while thankfully younger populations haven't been hit as hard they are nowhere near immune and numbers are starting to pile up a bit and we're keeping an eye on that. >> sandra: we hope it all gets better, of course. this piece ends by asking you to simply state whether or not based on your data, your analysis, doctor, whether or not this pandemic is similar or the same or even worse as you are now seem to be pointing out? >> it could be. that's why i think that when we understand that we won't be nickel and timing what to do. it is hard to wear a mask and not do the things we love to do. those are hard things.

i don't want to downplay that. if we understand how unusual this moment is, it kind of makes some of those sacrifices a little more easy to stomach for the time being and hopefully we'll get through it and back to life. that's what i'm looking forward to with the most of us healthy. >> sandra: get back to school and that distancing and mask wearing will be important. thank you for your input on that. trace. >> trace: covid-19 is hitting hard around the world but britain is having a tough time. the british economy crashed to its lowest gross domestic product in history. the entire economy shrinking by 1/5. more than any other nation. out of all of europe britain has the worst economy and the most deaths. >> sandra: the most wins in college football history the university of michigan won't be playing this fall. the big ten postponing the season even though the players

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>> sandra: the owner of washington's nfl team reportedly feeling the heat. "wall street journal" reporting the chan much ice east minority owners want schneider to sell the team after retiring its redskins name after pressure from sponsors. >> trace: the university of michigan won't be playing football. the wolverines part of the big ten conference that decided to postpone the season leaving the big house in ann arbor empty

despite last ditch efforts by some players including hunter reynolds who joins the show now. welcome to you, sir. i know you've weighed the health concerns here and looked at a lot of different perspectives and you still want to play football. tell me why. >> football is just something i put so much time and dedication into with the rest of my teammates. we've been working since january for it and the work outweighed the risk and thought we could play football and that the university could keep us as safe as possible this season. that's just how we felt as players. >> trace: it is interesting hunter, across the country there are several unity movements and players gathering and doing different things about this. do you feel like they are all kind of on the same page? there are different perspectives but do you feel like they're all working toward the same goal? >> i definitely think they're all working toward the same goal.

you saw we are united from the pac-12, big 10 united and we want to play and in the media there was a lot of sort of everyone sort of thought they meant different things and they were trying to achieve different goals. in reality, all we players really wanted was for as safe an environment as possible to play in. >> trace: i want to get your thoughts on this, hunter. the purdue coach has now proposing a really two seasons in 2021. put on the screen there. the first would be an eight-game season that would run from february 27th to april 17th. playoffs go from may 1 to 15 and then you surge forward another 10 game season october 2 through december 11. what do you think of that idea? >> i think playing two seasons in one calendar year is something that has never been done before but i think if we

start planning for it now and start including the players in the conversation surrounding how to move forward i think that we can -- everyone can come to an agreement on the best steps moving forward. >> trace: and if there is no 2020 fall season or spring season what does it mean for you eligibility-wise. are you concerned about that and concerned it will shorten your college career? what concerns do you have of the fact there will be no fall season? >> i know the ncaa recently put out a statement saying that anyone who had their season cut short or lost their season wouldn't lose eligibility. i think them acting in a swift manner in that instance was really good and really reassuring for players knowing that, you know, something that is completely out of our control isn't going to cost us our college experience. >> trace: yeah. i know one of the great voices in college football for the past 25, 30 years has been

steve spurier. the renowned coach said this when asked about the not playing football in the fall in the big 10 and pac-12. >> i really feel for the big 10 guys. i do. the coaches and players have done what i've asked and then they say we're not going to play? what do you mean? i believe they ought to have the right and deserve to go play the game. they want to play and they want to compete against the other guys, you know. most people nowadays live 80 years and these young men have four years the play college football. >> trace: the coach makes a good point. the players really have done everything they've been asked and coaches have done everything they've been asked and taken the safety protocols and yet you have the presidents of the big ten and pac-12 coming in saying we aren't going to play football. do you feel and do your co-players feel like they kind of got short changed in the whole thing, hunter? >> i think we definitely feel like our opinion and our voice

wasn't heard on the matter and that if there were conversations throughout the summer, throughout ever since march madness was canceled if there were those conversations we really feel we could have come up with a plan and just made everyone who was in charge of making those decisions realize that obviously there is no way to completely eliminate the risk in a situation like this but there were measures that could have been taken. limit the risk as much as possible. and as players we feel like that wasn't -- that didn't happen. >> trace: very quickly have you heard from coach harbaugh has he given you any reassurance? >> coach harbaugh spoke with us the day after or the day of the announcement being made that the season was being canceled in the fall and, you know, within a matter of hours and

days the coaching staff put together a real comprehensive plan that we feel like will put us in the best position possible so whenever the reason does start we'll be prepared. >> trace: hunter reynolds best of luck to you. i hoefp the season goes off in the spring and fall again. thank you for joining us. >> thank you for having me. >> sandra: good luck to him. fox news alert. a former f.b.i. lawyer will plead guilty to making a false statement in the first criminal case arising from the john durham investigation. we'll have the braerking details after the break. now fallen even lower.e by refinancing, you can save $3000 a year with one call to newday usa. our team is standing by right now to take your call. and from start to finish, you can do it all without ever leaving the house. with our va streamline refi, there's no income verification. no appraisal. and no out of pocket costs. nobody works harder for veterans than my team at newday usa.

>> sandra: fox news alert now, the associated press now reporting that a former fbi lawyer will be pleading guilty to making a false statement in the first criminal case coming from the john durham probe into the russia investigation. that former lawyer is kevin kleinsmith. the durham probe, of course, look into the origins of the russia investigation after the fbi opened that into whether the trump campaign was coordinated with russia and the 2016 election. kleinsmith is being charged in federal court in washington and is expected to plead guilty to one count of making a false statement. according to his attorney. the term investigation has caused a deep concern among dev democrats. they call it a politically charged exercise meant to relitigate an already close investigation. trace, we are getting the

breaking details on this as the ap is now reporting that has come from the durham probe. >> trace: you go back to the ig report, this came up with kevin clinesmith accused of tampering with some of the information that was turned in to the fisa court over one of those warrants, to surveilled carter page. that was the whole crux of the deal there, and now they were saying there could be some criminal indictments coming out of this. kevin clinesmith is the first. we do not yet know what the remainder of john durham's findings are, but we will -- today, but there will be information coming out before the election, which i think is key. speak of "the new york times" is saying that clinesmith will admt he'd changed an email in 2017 for a secret wiretap on the president's campaign advisor, carter page. those details are just breaking now, as we conclude our morning

here in "america's newsroom" and had off into the weekend. >> trace: it was a great week, and it was great to be with you. fascinating, and the news is breaking left and right. speech full coverage of the conventions coming up. trace, great to be with you. "outnumbered" starts now. >> harris: let's begin here. at any moment now, former vice president joe biden, senator kamala harris are set to sign the required documents for accepting the democratic nomination for president and vice president. this is where we are awaiting remarks from president trump, as well, who is set to speak at the white house in about an hour. we will bring all of it to you as it happens. and the president meanwhile is going after democratic rival joe biden's call for a national mandate. the former vp says it would require americans to wear a face covering outside for at least the next three months. president trump asking how you