>> a new bargaining chip as stimulus bill negotiations remain at a standstill. president trump saying on friday he would consider additional funding for the postal service if the democrats agree to some of what republicans want. welcome to headquarters, i'm kristin fisher. leland, august is a time when not a whole lot gets done in washington. if they thought august 2020 would be different they're sorely mistaken. leland: they are indeed.

republicans and democrats are out of town and the postal service, wants billions, and people are voting by mail. david spunt. >> hi, leland, as you know, politics is a give and take business, that's no exception here as kristin just said, president trump would consider, and i want to use the word consider giving funding to the postal service if his demands are met when it comes to covid relief negotiations. he's here at his the golf club in new jersey. he's not sitting across from chuck schumer and nancy pelosi because as kristin said, it's august recess. the first postmaster, benjamin

franklin, you mentioned the billions that usps needs and the president wouldn't give that much money, but yesterday said he could consider it. >> would you sign off for the money for the post office? >> they're not giving it to me they're giving it to the american people. i would do that, sure. >> a new statement out from nancy pelosi, president trump is openly working to destroy the post office and sabotage its ability to deliver ballots in time to be counted. in the time of a pandemic, it's election central. the president has the finger on the pulse of the negotiations, that has broken down as congress is gone until after labor day. the president says he wants to send direct payments for $3400 to a family of four for all

americans and ready to send 100 billion to schools. democrats say that is not enough. meanwhile, the president no longer can hold the those big rallies in gyms and stadiums. he held an event with the new york city police benevolent here, he'll swing through minnesota, wisconsin, pennsylvania and arizona in the coming days and that's likely to be what we will see replacing any kind of rally in the coming months and it's just about two and a half months away, coming up quick, leland. leland: quick, indeed. mercedes is up in wisconsin and we'll talk with her and team trump in a couple of minutes. thank you. kristin: joe biden and kamala harris wasting no time hitting the campaign trail together and raising record-breaking fund raising dollars ahead of the democratic national convention next week. jacqui heinrich is live from wilmington, delaware, hi.

>> hey, kristin, yeah, it appears the democrats may be closing the enthusiasm gap a little bit after adding harris to the ticket. in the 48 hours after announcing harris as biden's running mate, the biden campaign brought in $48 million and that's really a lot of money when you consider that biden only raised a little over 60 million dollars in all of 2019. also, new this morning, the campaign releasing its first ad featuring harris, which is also its first by lingual digital ad. the campaign says it showcases harris as a champion for the latino community. >> now joe confirmed he's walking with perfect company. a champion of the latino community for years, kamala is the final piece of the puzzle. >> it comes one day after the campaign announced new ads in several battle ground states, one a spanish language add. they'll launch 290 million in

paid media across 15 battle ground states. the new poll shows biden maintaining the lead over president trump by seven points. a slight drop from the eight-point lead last month and greater drop from 12 points in june. the poll shows kamala harris with a positive rating for the rating and mike pence is underwater. and biden is favored by women, blacks and hispanics, it's too early to say whether harris has been for women or black people, but the commentary on gender and race. harris talks about what her place on the ticket means. >> what we need to do is also speak about systemic racism, when you have one-- or one ticket that can say the phrase black lives matter, and another who has been full-time sewing hate and division in our country. those are the things that are

going to motivate black women to vote. >> now, yesterday, former president barack obama praised harris as biden's running mate saying she'll be a formidable opponent for vice-president mike pence on the debate stage, kristin. kristin: jackqui heinrich on the trail. >> and they're covering that for now we bring in trump 2020 advisor mercedes from the state of wisconsin they have biden plus 6.5 in wisconsin. when you talk to women there, that's the message you're bringing, women for trump. does the kamala harris pick make a difference to women? >> absolutely not.

we're going here to the women in wisconsin talking about the president's record of accomplishment in terms of building a strong economy. even during this very difficult time, during this global pandemic and his response in the coronavirus pandemic, where we have seen that he's taken strong bold action to help our state and local governments be ready for any sort of fights in their area providing not only the resources they need, but working on the vaccine development of operation warp speed. compare that to joe biden and kamala harris, where we know that they are not running in the center. they have made a very strategic decision to run far left. it is about a california liberal-- >> during the opposition's campaign, the other, certainly an incumbent president goes dark, the president taking a little different approach, going out on the road. monday minnesota, monday

wisconsin, tuesday arizona, thursday pennsylvania, all states that he is behind in on the current polling. team trump will tell you that the public polls are a little bit different and the race is tightening. what specific voters are switching and/or not showing up in the polling? >> well, here is the deal. i think you look at our internal-- in terms of our internal poll, we're seeing momentum on our side, and the enthusiasm is great for president trump. you know, i think that there is this component that we saw in 2016, which is the silent majority. if those-- you had an interesting poll question in fox where you said that there was 39% of those voters who think that their neighbors are going to vote for donald trump. leland: mercedes you're stealing my thunder. that was very three or four. we had the poll ready. we'll put the poll up for you so you can see. who do you think your neighbors are supporting for president,

biden 34%. trump 39%, depends 7%, unsure 20%. it is an interesting poll, but it doesn't show up with people saying actually who they're voting for. we know the 2016 overall average was pretty accurate. hillary clinton was up about two points and won by about two points with specific voters. give me a demographic as you crisscrossed the country, that you feel are going to show up in a way that they're not showing up in polling? >> i think that there are several. one is definitely the women vote. i have been travelling not only, i was just in pennsylvania and now in wisconsin. when i go to these field offices they're filled with women who are going out there knocking on doors, making phone calls for the president. i also think the latino community is shifting towards the president. this is actually another interesting poll number you had where the president was at about 34% with hispanics. that you've seen from hillary clinton's time to joe biden's

time a decrease. she was up in 60% around this time in august 2016 for biden it was down into the 50's. 54% or so. and so i think that there is this motivation coming from the latino community, especially in these targeted states, who are very concerned that a joe biden ticket will lead us down the path of socialism. it is a very -- it's a very important topic for latinos. they also realize that the economy is a driver, that under president trump we've had a strong economy despite the-- >> we've heard you, along with the president talk about the unemployment numbers as relates specifically to latino-americans and african-americans, as well. mercedes schlapp on the road in wisconsin. take a few minutes and have some cheese curds, from my time in wisconsin i remember them well. thank you, kristin. kristin: let's go to strategist and revel ceo.

you heard mercedes talking about throughout the trump campaign, yes, we see these public polls, especially those in the battle ground state showing the president behind in all, but one of the top six swing states. the president really neck and neck in north carolina. but the trump campaign essentially says their internal polling is different. they believe that they have these, you know, the secret, the hidden trump voters that are going to come through on election day and they say that they've seen this play out back in 2016, just repeating again in 2020 with the polls being wrong. what do you say? >> well, i've got to give mercedes credit for putting on a brave face because the numbers are pretty bad and they're tied to-- i understand the polling errors and i think that pollsters have gone leaps and bounds that they don't make the errors they made in 16, but i don't think-- i think talking about latinos and women moving toward the president, just is really isn't accurate. i haven't seen that data just about anywhere.

i think the swing state polls they have to take with a grain of salt just like all polling, but it looks like the trend line is in favor of biden, holding steady in the face of tremendous attacks and we saw kamala harris give him the fund raising bump that you heard about earlier. this is something that, you know, is truly about the president's performance. it's a referendum on his performance with regard to the coronavirus and with regard to the economy. and right now voters are saying no. kristin: well, they're certainly raking in a whole lot of money after the announcement that kamala harris would be biden's running mate. now we've got the big convention, the virtual convention starting on monday, but you know, this is going to be a convention unlike anything we have ever seen and democrats are going first, and so, how do you think the dnc and the biden campaign. what do they need to do to make this more than just a glorified, star-studded zoom call because if they don't do

it right, that's what it could look like? >> it's true. it's a tough job because we know the toughest speech in politics to give is the response fot state of the union because you've got a president talking to the american people in congress and then the response is always someone in a room somewhere with the tv camera and a couple of flags behind them. so that's what the democrats and the republicans for that matter are up against with the virtual convention. but i think you're going to see, with the democrats, engagement. they're asking people to film themselves, send in videos, hoping to appeal to a broader array of folks outside of a convention hall and get into the living rooms of americans and get engaged with voters, we know that former governor john kasich is going to be speaking, unprecedented. the theme is around unity, not just within the democratic party, but also with independents we know leaning toward biden and with some republicans. so, this is really they're articulating an ideal about an american code and unity among

americans that transcends party. so i think you'll see a lot of that messaging in the days to come. kristin: laura, let's pop up this list of speakers, who is going to be speaking at the convention next week. you'll notice familiar faces, but a few that jump out. bill clinton, hillary clinton, but one name obviously not on that list, i believe she's only giving small speaking time is alexandria ocasio-cortez and of course, one of the democratic party's main goal is to unify the party. do you think it's smart to give her that, such a small amount of speaking time? >> i would love to see alexandria ocasio-cortez speak all the time, but the convention really is about-- it hosts a lot of high ranking folks, you know? so we have former presidents, president obama will be speaking and bill clinton and

names you articulated, swing state governors, gretchen whitmer. i don't think that aoc has an ego about this. she's happy to see the candidate she supported bernie sanders on stage. one remarkable things, democrats are unified right now which doesn't always happen and so-- >> well, entirely unified? that's the bold claim. >> protest won't be from bernie sanders, the protests from a president that is usually-- >> laura got to run. looking forward to see how this plays out next week. coming up tomorrow on fox news sunday. chris wallace will have an interview with governor murphy. check for time and channel. and media buzz, howie kirtz will be talking to katrina pierson here at 11 a.m. eastern. leland: well, calls to defund

the police are becoming a large part of the presidential campaign and discussion. with that, big cities across the country are seeing a spike in violence, in shooting and homicides, aishah hasnie is coming to us from new york where it's on the rise. >> leland, you're right. we're used to hearing big cities hit the hardest by gun violence. tragedies are unfolding everywhere, in akron, ohio, an eight-year-old girl was just shot to death as gunfire erupted oust of her home. take a look at this, sarasota, florida, is reporting a spike of gun violence, 41 shootings in one neighborhood since march. a recent study showed that the coronavirus pandemic is associated with increased rates in violence. sarasota's police chief say that people are just fed up and they're becoming violent. take a listen. >> people are aggravated. i think they're tired of being

inside. they're tired of wearing masks. they're tired of the government telling them what to do and how to do it and unfortunately, they're becoming quite aggressive toward each other and even strangers, but also towards the police. >> meantime, chicago is bracing for a massive protest of 2000 people to shut down the dan ryan expressway this hour. police are deploying a thousand extra officers there to try to protect businesses from rioting and looting. of course, we saw a brutal light of looting earlier there this week. in orlando there was a protest that took over a mall and blocked off traffic and some major highways on friday. protesters are demanding the release of body cam footage after a 22-year-old man was killed by a florida deputy outside that mall and then for the 79th night in a row now, hundreds of protesters gather in portland, again, blocking traffic, setting dumpsters on

fire, and throwing paint balls and objects at officers. and we've talked about this, new york city has seen its fair share of gun violence, now add this to it. an off duty corrections officer was apparently shot to death last night right after leaving a party in queens. this, leland, as a very large protest is scheduled to take place right behind me in times square in the next few hours, leland. leland: as you noted, the protests also scheduled for chicago, that's seen so much flooth and violence later in the day. we'll have teams covering both. thank you so much. kristin. kristin: looking for answers. the fbi sends a team to beirut to help in the aftermath of last week's massive explosion. and trey is there embedded with lebanese troops. hi, trey. >> hay there, kristin. as the investigation continues the leader of the militant

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>> secretary of state mike pompeo and poland's defense minister signed a new defense

agreement today that will increase the number of u.s. troops stationed in the eastern european country. the pact allows u.s. forces to access polish military installations and paved the way for troops to be redeployed there from germany. the number could rise by another thousand under this new deal. leland a team of fbi invests is taking part in the probe after the explosion in beirut. hundreds of thousands out of their homes. live from beirut, you can't believe that hezbollah is all that happy with the fbi showing up. >> leland, good afternoon. you're exactly right. there's a lot of resistance here on the ground to the fbi showing up this weekend to assist in the investigation, looking for the cause of that deadly explosion last tuesday. we've also seen resistance even

from top levels in the government, including the president who said that it would just be a waste of time if international players came here to investigate. we do know that senior u.s. official david hale was on the ground today and looking at the port blast site and he stresseded need for transparency. we were down there embedded with the army to get a closer look at the scene. here is what we saw. you can see behind me, it is difficult to describe because it's so large. buildings that are built with concrete crumbled like they were sand castles. goods sitting in the port totally thrown across the area. up in the distance you can see the iconic grain silo for the port of beirut. that silo houses 85% of the country's grain and it is completely destroyed. there are teams around us here and they are digging through the rubble. there are still more than 30 people missing. more than 170 were killed in the explosion. many of their bodies found in

the water behind me here. to give you a sense how powerful this explosion was, this cruise ship behind me was knocked over as if it was a toy. now there are army personnel around guarding the area and assuring that the rescue teams can get in and out. leland, yesterday we traveled into the mountains and interviewed a top ally of the milt tennant group hezbollah. he left all options on the table for the cause of the explosion. later in the day as gunfire erupted in beirut, we heard from the leader of the militant group hezbollah, who you mentioned at the top. he says if israel had anything to do with the cause of the explosion, the country would respond. at this point this appears to be an accident. leland: it tells you who runs the company when the heed are of hezbollah tells what to do. we'll check back later. >> speaking of hezbollah, who

is controlled by iran. the iranian president has renounced the peace deal between israel and the united arab emirates. rouhani warned of israel gaining a foothold. and since jordan did it about 25 years ago, boy, you think about all the american presidents who tried to make real headway in the middle east over those past 25 years since king hussein and the israeli prime minister signed the deal in 1994. it's president trump and his team who come through with it. kristin: yeah, i mean, certainly, this is a win for the president, his administration, but also, jared kushner who was playing point on this and there were so many critics, people who said he simply was not-- didn't have the experience to do something like this, but now you have tom freedman, the

columnist in the new york times praising him, praising this is a geopolitical earthquake, anytime you have headlines like this, saying this deal is the president's first unambiguous diplomatic success and a lot of those headlines coming from more left-leaning publications or news outlets. that's a win, you've got to take a win where you can. leland you think about it, bahrain, qatar and possibly the saudis follow suit and oman, what that would mean. golda mayer used to be quoted we'll have peace with the arabs when they love their children more than they hate us. and wonder if this he fear iran more than they hate israel. and that would be a change over the next couple of years to the middle east. kristin: i could talk about this all day given the time you spent over there as a correspondent, but i want to make sure that we have time for the next story as well because we're going to give ayou a closer look at encounters that are out of this world.

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saying at that causation doesn't equal correlation in this particular case. yes, we've seen-- >> i think you mean correlation doesn't equal causation. >> doesn't mean causation, there we go. that's correct. you got me. thanks for correcting me there. and i think if you talk to the folks who believe in the defund the police movement. i'm not one that believes we should abolish the police, but we need to reexamine how policing is done in communities of color and across the country. for decades, leland, we've relied on aggressive policing and sprawling prisons as the only way to deal with violent crime without looking at other alternative. leland: but it worked, richard. crime rates was going down. bill deblasio was talking about all the time. mayors in democratic cities crime is going down because of increased federal sentencing, because of the gang and drug task force that involved federal agents and because police were out walking the beat. we've seen what happens when the police pull back, look to st. louis after ferguson, look

to baltimore after the freddie gray riots. police pulling back means more violence on the streets. >> but all of those cases you mentioned also are cases that caught-- were protests caused by the fact that we had aggressive policing in those neighborhoods, not to mention the fact that even in donald trump's first step act, his step towards criminal justice reform, he acknowledges that the broken sort of prison conflict that we have in this country has resulted more and more people going to prison with nonviolent crime and not dealing with the impact happening in the community. leland: there's a lot of different things going on. you obviously have the portland protests and george floyd protests and a number of things have merged and come together. if you look specifically at u.s. crime stats and how they have surged across the country and go ahead and put those up, major cities. it's not just new york and chicago, this is across the country. 35% aggravated assaults, 27%

robbery, 200% commercial burglary. we've seen looting and lawlessness happen across the country, just recently in chicago. the portland mayor made a point in terms of when protests turned into riots that it's the best b-roll for donald trump's campaign and the people should think about that before they're doing it, do you agree? >> welcome, look, i agree with the portland mayor to some extent and where i agree with him is this, the truth of the matter is the majority of americans believe in public safety. we believe if somebody breaks into your home, if somebody robs your car you should be allowed-- you should call the police and police should respond immediately to deal with those particular crimes, but with that being said, what you saw after-- in the wake of the death of george floyd, in the wake of the death of freddie gray, in the wake of the death of mike brown is people in communities saying the way they're currently being policed isn't working, and the data backs that up. when we talk about the failed war on drugs, the reason why

it's a failed war has everything to do with the fact that the only answer we had was putting more and more policing in the streets thinking that was going to deal with the public health issue and that we've tried to make it a c i will justice issue and it was not. leland: but once protests-- we can all agree that there's a difference between peaceful protests and what's happening in a lot of cities right now, you know, throwing-- commercial grade fireworks shot at police is not a peaceful protest, it's a riot, i've been in them before. there's a big difference. the question, doesn't the violence, the looting, distract from, and sort of overtake the narrative you talk about, which is an important one, which is how do we deal with nonviolent crime in the american cities and how do we deal with systemic poverty and issues that are in american cities and bringing americans businesses and jobs back in cities. none of those can take place if they don't feel safe to open up stores and factories inside

these cities. >> well, that -- well, that's true and what's also true, when you have a president and attorney general that continue to sort of live in this law and order doctrine and law and order and nothing else, you can also have those conversations, far too long in this country, the policing is done and community hasn't had an input how policing is done to them. especially in communities of color. leland: wait, richard, richard, okay. >> deterring the violent crime and-- >> so many of these cities you've had either mayors of color or certainly democratic mayors for decades now. so i don't know how you can say that people don't have a voice when they're the ones voting in for these folks, but we'll talk about-- >> this is not about-- let's be clear, this is not about political party, this is about how-- >> the political party controls-- the political party conceivably, the political party does control the police department. richard fowler, good conversation as always, we appreciate it and as you point

out, there's a lot of different parts to this. >> good to see you, leland. leland: kristin. kristin: the pentagon is now forming a new task force to investigate ufo's. the task force is going to be led by the department of the navy and of course, this is the pentagon so it does come with a slight rebrand. mark meredith joins us live with my favorite story of the day. hey, mark. >> it's a lot of people's favorite story of the day. good afternoon, kristin. this one is getting a lot of attention. the pentagon says the new task force will essentially be investigating ufo sightings by military pilots and personnel and they're calling it the unidentified phenomena task force set up by the deputy secretary of defense and we just learned about it last night. it was started last week. we don't know how many people or resources are going to be involved, we do know what officials are going to be looking for. the pentagon says the mission of the statement of the task

force is to cad log them. -- catalog them. it appeared to be unidentified flying near military aircraft. the videos went viral instantly and they were reportedly leaked out to the media earlier and how stunned the pilots were on board as they tried to determine what in the world they were looking at. >> there's a whole fleet of them, look on asa. my gosh! they're going against the wind. the wind is 120 knots to the we west. >> this summer, the intelligence committee would like to see the military do a better job on these unidentified threats. and to investigate ut uf0. 's before. he tweeted that the new task force is a step in the right direction and he says i'm glad to see the defense department recognizing the importance of

looking into unidentified phenomena. now, the pentagon says this is also about security, that they're simply trying to figure out what type of aircraft or aerial phenomena may be coming into u.s. air space or coming by the training grounds, but kristin, as you talked about, this is getting a lot of attention and bret baier summed it up last night, the truth is out. we'll see what the task force finds. kristin: thank you, mark. it's just, it's amazing after so many years of basically everybody in the u.s. government trying to squash talks of ufo, how you have the pentagon forming this task force and members of congress talking about it. where do you stand on this debate? are they real or not real? >> it's always, it used to be some guy in his trailer who had a couple, 20 too many beers and i saw a ufo. okay, if the ufo's wanted to be

spotted wouldn't they land in new york city and say hello or south lawn of the white house, but when you start hearing more credible reports from the navy and you see these videos that have, that we have a number of the incidents that not only mark talked about, but a series of these that the navy have released, you kind of wonder, well, what is it? and, but more importantly, one of these videos comes from 2004, showed an incident that happened over the pacific, two navy fighter pilots saw something floating the water and tracked it using radar. couldn't figure out what it was. why has it taken 16 years to investigate it? >> it's a great question for the task force to answer, but when you watch the video and one of the things that the pilots were talking about is the rate at which these unidentified-- unidentified phenomena. the rate at which they go up and down. okay, what? >> so we have here really an expert who has been talking

about outer space since she was born, the daughter of two astronauts. did mom and dad ever tell you bedtime stories about ufo's, they saw out in space and you have something to share? any insight? >> no, that's the number one question that people ask me. no. well, number two. the first is did they go into space together? no, they did not. no married couple is it allowed in space together. number two, did they see ufo's? no. boring answers and-- >> we appreciate your thought on this. and what's dr. fisher, your father's view on this? is he okay, like-- >> well, my father, dr. bill fisher believes there's definitely other life in other parts of the universe, but in terms of, you know, unidentified aerial phenomena here on planet earth and what exactly it is, he hasn't shared it with me. he doesn't know. leland maybe he'll share on his twitter feed.

@dr. bill fisher, one of the great twitter feeds of all time. kristin: wow, great plug for my dad's twitter feed. leland: it's worthwhile. this was not an out of the world phenomena, this happened out in iowa and folks did not really cover it that much over the past couple of days. now we're going to show you that 130,000 people are still without electricity as hurricane force winds took apart much of the state of iowa. what they're doing to recover when we come back. was that your great-grandmother? who stood up. who stood strong. who demanded to be seen. to be heard. to be counted. learning about her courage and grit... ...can inspire you to pass it on... ...to the women who are next.

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>> on monday, a massive weather event swept across the state like nothing we've seen in recent history. most of us had not heard of a dera

derash-- derecho, it covered 170 miles that brought devastation to communities large and small. leland: well, it's a rare storm that tore through the midwest this week packing hurricane force winds and leaving a trail of destruction. downed trees and power lines and complicated in the region and widespread power outages still exist, and are keeping businesses that are still reeling from the coronavirus closed. the storm caused crop damage in the tens if not hundreds of millions of dollars and flattened valuable corn on soy bean fields. kristin: in the middle of this devastation, one organization is stepping up to the plate bringing america together by serving hot, restaurant quality meals to victims and first responders. the chef gary leblanc joins us, the founder and president of mercy chef, the faith-based nonprofit helping to feed those in need across the midwest. he's inside a command post

inside cedar rapids, iowa. chef gary, you guys were already slammed in dealing and responding to the coronavirus pandemic. now this. what is it like? what are you guys doing on the ground? >> it's unbelievable here. the damage surprised us so much when we came into town. this is truly like an ef-2 or a category 2 hurricane that's come through. it caught everybody here by surprise. 1 # -- 100 mile per hour wind that lasted nearly an hour and the damage is nearly complete. kristin: wow, so you got your start doing this in the aftermath of hurricane katrina and you've basically helped out and served meals in every major disaster in the united states since then. how are you able to keep up with all of these demands when you're dealing with food

shortages and people just struggling to get food on their plates in the middle of this pandemic? >> well, we do everything we can do. it's a real challenge. there are a lot of logistics involved. there's a lot of staffing issues to overcome and we just make the commitment. we'll take care of what we need to take care of any way we need to do it so here the challenge was getting all of our staffing quickly, finding accommodations and getting our equipment in from multiple locations and states. now we're having to run our own logistics and supply lines. the major suppliers that we usually get our products and food from have their own issues. it's always a challenge and never easy, but mercy chefs is versatile and we overcome. kristin: gary, we thank you so much for all that you do. i know it's truly a tremendous undertaking and we wish you the very best. thanks so much.

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>> welcome back. as we take a look at your saturday headlines. president trump has gotten the endorsement of a new york police union. the president ramped up attacks

on joe biden and kamala harris claiming they are waging a quote, left wing war on cops. this endorsement comes as violence is increasing across major cities in america. joe biden has picked up the endorsement of his own yesterday from the national association of letter carriers. this endorsement followed president trump's attempt to overhaul the postal service in just months. also months away from the november election. democrats are blasting it as a way to slow deliveries when millions are expect today vote by mail due to the coronavirus pandemic. the clock is ticking for the chinese owned company byte dance, the parent company of tik-tok. and they're giving the company 90 days to sell the u.s. assets. the president saying there's credible evidence that the tech giant is a threat to u.s. security. kristin: well, firefighters now on the ground in california where several wildfires are now burning throughout the state. we are going to be taken a closer look at all of the

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gillian: u.s. postal service warning several states can experience delays as request for additional funding remains in limbo.

leland: anthony fauci told national geographic no reason people can't vote in person if carefully done. something that would be debated. i'm leland vittert. president trump saying there might be room for compromise and could consider additional funding for the post office if democrats argue to gop bill. high, david. david: hi, leland, good afternoon, hi, kristin, a fight that could continue in next few months through election possibly if we get results on election day or a few days after that. we are not talking when officials are concerned about ups or fedex, we are talking about the united state postal service. the agency originally founded during continental congress in 1775. there's a concern, though, with millions of

people expected to vote despite what dr. fauci said that some of the ballots will be delayed. democrats, leland, specifically looking for around $25 million to fund the postal service to make sure that those ballots get in in time. several states are not going to be counting postmark ballots until after election day. now, the postal service doesn't get money in time ballots my be delivered, that's a problem because some of those states, they won't allow them. president trump according to house speaker nancy pelosi in a statement says the president is openly work to go destroy the post office and sabotage its ability to deliver absentee ballots in time to be counted, in a time of pandemic the postal system is election central. this morning a group of protestors stood outside postmaster lewis dejoy. a businessman, republican fundraiser and friend of the president is under increasing criticism for

his stance on funding of the u.s. postal service and making sure that millions of mail-in ballots are counted. the president says he would consider, though, funding the postal service is his demands are met when it comes to coronavirus relief. he did tweet yesterday that he want to sends direct payment, $3,400 for family of four to all americans and ready to send more than $100 to schools. democrats, though, they say that's not enough. you mentioned the president right now in bedminster, new jersey, not far from where i am in bridgewater. that's because congress is out, kellyanne conway adviser to the president said last week he doesn't need to be in front of them talking with them. he hasn't been. it's been through several other proxies, but as far as deal is concerned, things are looking grim right now, leland, because congress is out through labor day, leland. leland: through labor day. at least as far as we know there's not active negotiations going on right now between the

trump administration and the leaders you mentioned on the democratic side. david, thank you. ♪ ♪ kristin: the biden campaign is seeing a record-break fundraising bump after announcement of kamala harris, senator kamala harris as running mate earlier this week. jacqui heinrich tracking it all from wilmington, delaware with 80 days until election day, hi, jacqui. reporter: huge fundraising numbers shows biden's campaign may be closing enthusiasm gap a little bit after adding kamala harris to the ticket in 48 hours after she was announced running mate, campaign brought in $48 million. that's a really huge number when you remember biden only raised 60 million in all of 2019. they held another virtual fundraiser last night and yesterday they crossed the threshold of 3 million grassroots donations. it comes as new fox new

poll biden maintaining lead over president trump by 7 points. too early to tell whether harris, first black and south asian woman to appear in presidential ticket has brought more support. harris is jamal -- jamaican and indian. also adding that the biden justice department would confront religion hate crimes as well as white nationalist terrorism writing indians americans of all backgrounds, hindus and need now more than ever reassurance that leaders in washington will have their backs. biden with previous problem on, quote, muslim ban and overhaul immigration system providing road map to 11 million undocumented

immigrants and ad digital and bilingual and show cases harris as a champion for the latino community. >> now, joe confirmed he's walking with perfect company. a champion of the latino community for years, kamala is the final piece of the puzzle. reporter: starting in september the bind campaign will launch $290 million in general election paid media across 15 battleground states, kristin. kristin: jacqui, thank you, let's turn to arkansas republican member of house services committee congressman french hill. congressman, thank you so much. i'd like to start by asking you a question that's on the minds of so many americans that are hurting right now a lot of them are up sit, angry that congress has essentially gone off on, you know, summer vacation for the august recess without passing another stimulus bill.

do you think congress should be back in session hashing this out right now? congressman: kristin, thanks for having me. glad to be back with you and leland. i'm disgusted that nancy pelosi walked away from negotiating table when we know we have a consensus of things that we must do to help americans cope with fighting the virus and getting our economy back to full capacity. we need to extend the paycheck protection program, we need to have the economic stimulus payments, we need to resolve this issue about unemployment compensation, we need to make sure -- assure schools have proper funding. all of those things speaker pelosi walked away from and i lay it straight in her camp on that basis. i appreciate the president's efforts that an executive order to try to help americans that's good but that's not the way we need to operate. we need to legislate this success to continue to fight the virus. kristin: to be fair, though, both sides walked away from the

negotiating table. the democratic leadership and the white house's top two negotiators, but either way, you know, the president is off in bedminster, new jersey and the senate and house on recess until after labor day, but if they are able to pass some kind of deal when they come back, it would just add to this already massive deficit and i'd like to pop up the numbers right now because i know you're somebody that gets concerned about adding to the federal deficit and take a look at the numbers right now, i mean, the amount that the deficit has jumped since the pandemic is just -- it's really incredible, but if you take a look at one of the latest fox news polls you see that so many more americans are now saying that they need help from the u.s. government. 36% now say that they want the u.s. government to leave them alone while 57% say they want the u.s. government to

lend them a hand. that's a big increase from where we were just one year ago, so how do you reconcile the two, congressman? congressman: well, i do reconcile the two and that's why people shouldn't walk away from the negotiating table. speaker pelosi's spending request are unrealistic given the report that you just made. she needs to compromise on her total funding demands. i think house republicans and senate republicans are willing to spend more money but in a more targeted way and if we need as we fight the virus and get our economy back open, need to come back to the table, we can do that later in the year, but to leave people hanging like she has i think was a strategic mistake and a mistake for millions of american households that are still not adequately employed and back to work, so that's my view on that. as it relates to the deficit, you bet. we are going to end this fight against the virus with the largest debt to gdp since the end of world war ii and, again, congress in both house and senate will have to

come together with the president in the coming year and think through how to best prioritize our spending. it's why i focus on it every time i come back to a new congress. i urge our congress to debate the balance budget amendment in order to make sure that we prioritize the spending of hard-earned american taxpayers. kristin: i only have a few seconds left but i just want to make sure i get in one question about the u.s. postal service. it is now saying that 46 states may not get ballots in time before the election, at the same time, you have president trump saying that he does not want to increase funding to help the post office in the middle of a pandemic. would you support more funding for the usps? >> well, just like president trump said yesterday that he would support additional funding for the postal service in speaker pelosi would be reasonable and come to negotiating table to complete the coronavirus bill. i've heard -- >> kristin: is this the issue to, you know, to

really stand your ground on when you have an election in a middle of a pandemic just 80 days away? congressman: well, the point that people want different things out of the bill. let's do it and meet in the middle and get work done and if people believes it needs more funding, i would vote to support that if that meets the needs of american people. let's be at the negotiating table talking about it. kristin: i think that's something all americans can agree on, congressman, thank you so much. congressman: thanks, kristin, good to be with you. leland: fox news alert, all of the issues are going to come up at 5:00 p.m. today. the white house deputy press secretary tweeting just moments ago that the president is going to hold a news conference 5:00 p.m. eastern in bedminster, new jersey. obviously live coverage of that as it happens here on the fox news channel. bringing reaction from the other side of french hill's interview, biden campaign surrogate john

geramendi, we appreciate you being with us. >> sure. leland: president holding news conference on weekend. he held one yesterday. joe biden hasn't held one in a long time, why not? john: well, because he's working on putting together a great campaign, a campaign that's going along very well. there will be press conferences in the days ahead. i think he clearly wanted to wait until he had team in place. the team is now in place with kamala harris. leland: they didn't do a joint press conference after the rollout, they didn't put anybody on the sunday shows ahead of the convention. take a look at chris wallace who has been covering conventions long before i was born talking about just how unusual that is. chris: they are not putting anybody out and at first i thought, well, maybe it's because it's fox news and they are boycotting us, no, they are not putting out anybody on any sunday shows. this is a piece of the vice president not --

not doing really any serious interviews, not answering any questions since the rollout. i don't -- you know, you can -- you can try and i understand and has worked pretty well. he continues to lead with what i call the strategy, i don't think you can hide from now until election day. leland: do you agree with chris? >> well, in part, yes. first of all, we certainly all would agree we have a very strange election year. leland: yeah. >> for many reasons, the coronavirus and more. secondly, you can rest assured and i'm sure chris will continue to badger about this and as he should and you should there will be press conferences and they'll be q&a and all of that and that will take place in a -- at an operate period of time, 80 days left. plenty of opportunity for the press to question the president and i think you also saw yesterday that kamala harris did answer questions in a talk show

and so she's perfectly -- >> leland: no disrespect, going on the view is no sitting down with journalists of any -- of any, really. alli who is not a fan of the vice president. it's true that biden should do interviews and press conferences but from campaign's perspective why would he, he's a terrible communicator, the risk of a gaffe is huge and much more appealing when he's neither seen nor heard and you can probably add to that seen or heard off script or all tale -- teleprompter, does she have a point? congressman: no. biden is capable of answering any question and will answer those questions honestly without a lie which has been rather unusual in past 3 years. no, but let me just be very clear here, he knows the issues, he's perfectly capable of doing it.

he will be doing press conferences as will kamala in the course of the campaign. we are now in the midst of a democratic convention which is being done virtually. there are enormous number of questions about how to do that including how to be on skype and in an appropriate way and i just had enough problems -- the reality is -- the reality is you do your thing and that is to keep calling for the press conference. i can assure you that the campaign biden and the rest of the team are very much aware. leland: i'm old enough to remember, a year or two, that democrats were crying bloody murder over the fact that there had not been a white house press briefing in x number of days. since july 18 -- 19 president trump has taken questions more than 50 times. joe biden has taken more than ten times including

msnbc and one cbs sunday morning interview where the questions were about wife and son. how do you prosecute your case against the president which joe biden wants to do and campaign wants to do if he's not willing to have the same verbal back and forth that president trump is? congressman: well, the verbal before the is with the press and i think some of us have had quite enough -- we have seen quite enough of the president's daily briefings which were supposed to be on coronavirus but seem to mostly be about campaign blasting away at somebody. leland: you would rather the president not take as many questions from the press? congressman: would i -- i don't know exactly where we are going to go with this interview. here is the fact, let me -- >> leland: you have the last word. congressman: well, i was hoping we talk about some other things along the way but here is the last word, you and the rest of the press out there or whatever you're coming, liberal, condoleezza --

conservative, both biden perhaps simultaneously with the senator or separately with the senator, rest assured that would happen. right now we are in the day ahead, two days ahead of the democratic convention and i can tell you that the campaign has been extraordinarily busy trying to figure out how to do a convention virtually and assuming time, time. leland: we can imagine that. congressman, we have to run because we gave equal time to french hill as we do to you. reappreciate you being here to answer the questions. thank you and we will have you back for a more substantive version and we appreciate it, sir. congressman: i would appreciate that and the public would also. thank you. leland: open invitation. this is something that's going to come up in the press conference with president trump almost certainly. he talked about it yesterday. big cities across the country are experiencing spike in violence unlike really seen in the past

couple of decades especially in new york and that's where we find aishah hasine standing by with the latest statistics and protests later today. hi, aishah. aishah: unfortunately bad news today, new york officers are mourning the loss of one of their own, 28-year-old correction's officer john jeff was shot multiple times and killed in queens early this morning. we was off duty. gun violence as you said continues to erupt in large cities across the country but tragedies are unfolding like sarasota, florida, spike in gun violence, 41 shootings in one part of that city since march and ohio lost on 8-year-old girl when gunfire erupted outside her home. meantime chicago is bracing for a protest, that's expected to shut down a major highway there. the dan ryan expressway,

police deploying a thousand extra officers to try to protect businesses from riots and looting as owners are still reeling from a brutal night of looting earlier this week, listen. >> there's so many looters from everywhere. the license plates i see were from all over. there were from states surrounding us. they were from wisconsin. it's just hard to say where they were coming from. aishah: of course, protests continue in portland for the 79th night in a row. people are blocking traffic, setting dumpsters on fire and even throwing paint balls and objects at police officers. this, leland as you mentioned a large protest is expected to get underway just behind me in times square here in the next few hours. we will see how that unfolds, leland. leland: we will and we will see what night fall brings as well. kristin. kristin: wild fires raging out west as officials warn about a new threat that's about

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christina coleman live in one of those states, california. christina: i can tell you intense heat is causing dangerous fire conditions ruling blackouts and has authorities concerned and so many people heading to beaches up and down the coast. health officials want to make sure people are social distancing because of coronavirus. as for the wild fires they are burning across the west and southwest in california, oregon and arizona. the grisly creek fire has burned over 19,000 acres so far. colorado's governor says fires in his state are the nation's top fire fighting priority right now. >> prioritization, protecting watershed, power assets and protecting the transportation corridor as well as some of the communities that could be threatened as well which are already under evacuation orders. the nation is rallying to colorado in our time of need for both fires.

christina: multiple fires are burning in southern colorado, dry vegetation fueling the flames and massive like fire started wednesday and 12% contained and nobody was hurt but has burned more than 14,000 acres and also strained electrical system prompting rolling blackouts in california, something the state hasn't had in years. on friday san diego gas and electric turned off power and rotating outages for about an hour at a time and the state's largest utility specific gas and electric did the same thing to more than 200,000 customers. rotating blackouts ended last night but this may not be over. the state's power grid operator will decide whether to continue the rolling outages on a day-to-day basis because the extreme heat wave is expected to last through next week and also arizona 38 days of

triple-digit temperatures, there's been at least 25-heat related deaths and excessive heat warnings are in effect right now in parts of california, nevada and arizona through this wednesday because of all of this heat. all right, kristin, back to you. kristin: christina coleman live in santa monica, leland. leland: just for a second take a minute and look at the television and watch this. [inaudible] >> okay. love you. leland: this is a sergeant that flew from italy to tulsa, oklahoma to visit mother recovering from a stroke and the nurse captured moment as mother was speaking to a friend from hospital bed, mason the sergeant brought

home his wife and two kids and it would be hard to imagine, kristin, better therapy or better medicine than a hug from your son who just came home. kristin: oh, that's just so sweet. i absolutely love stories like that. even as you watch wonderful videos like that in this day and age, in this time in the middle of the pandemic has me thinks about families or people who have the coronavirus and they can't hug their loved ones when they are in the hospital. very happy for that family and happy for that mom and what a good son. leland: and it's nice to even in times like this just to remember that there can be pure love and purely good moments. who knew in 20201 kristin: you would do that for your mom? leland: absolutely. who knew in 2020? kristin: yeah, great point. well, as the summer comes to a close the questions, of course remaining of exactly what the upcoming flu year is going to look like. in washington, d.c.,

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leland: we are learning more about what symptoms you should watch out especially with your kids as early warning signs for the coronavirus. white house coronavirus task force member dr. fauci says a thermometer might not be the best answer. hi, charles. charles: hey, leland. dr. fauci said both the white house and the nih have abandoned temperature checks because it isn't effective screening tool. dr. fauci says he finds the best practices to question people about

symptoms they may be experiencing especially at schools for in-person instruction. >> i mean, those are simple things that you can do very easily in a few seconds. you have a sore throat, sniffles, achy, you feel tired, you feel different and if you do, put the child aside and make a decision. charles: and researchers at duke university compare the effectiveness of 14 oh the most common face coverings. the study found coverings like bandanas were at least effective and counterproductive because they disperse droplets that can travel more than 20 feet through the air. cotton masks were found to be better alternatives, n-95 masks without filters considered to be the best option and in georgia governor brian kemp expected to sign executive order that would allow some cities

and counties to enforce mask mandates if they meet health related metrics and, of course, this is coming after a leaked white house task force document said that mitigation efforts to control the spread of the virus here in georgia have been largely unsuccessful and urged the state to put a mask mandate in place, leland. leland: big change there for brian kemp in terms of policies from a weeks ago. charles, appreciate it, good to see you. kristin: now for a look at how local leaders are tackling the question of when and how to reopen their schools. joining us now aleman's county amy and illinois representative murray. i feel like i butchered one of the names in there. i apologize. >> no, it's fine. kristin: okay. sorry about that. you know, this patch work return to school or

online only courses that are taking place across the country, it's a patch-work approach, different things in different states, different cities and counties, why do you go ahead and bring viewers up to speed in terms of what exactly is happening in your area and anne, i will start with you. >> sure thing. so in illinois we have overall guidance that's been given out by the illinois department of public health or idph, and that guidance was put out mid-summer and has been updated all along following the cdc guidelines closely and districts have been having board meetings deciding how they are going to make this all happen and so just as you said there's many different layers of government at play here and what the districts in my area have been deciding have been to start with remote only and one of the biggest

issues that they're looking at are the protocols for students who show symptoms, so what dr. fauci was just talking about is if someone has the sniffles, we are talking about flu season and a lot of kids can have sniffles at the time. the protocol in illinois if one student is outed because of covid-like symptoms, their siblings must also be out, the way that the exposure has happened and whether or not there would be enough substitute teachers to cover anything. kristin: amy, what's the plan in north carolina? thanks, so much, anne. what's the plan in north carolina? >> in north carolina the governor layed out abc-type plan, b is blended approach and then c is all online learning and individual communities, local school boards were given

the option to choose between b and c and many of them have chosen c all online learning at this time, at least for the first few weeks of school to see how things develop and where i live in aleman, that's where they decided to do, all online learning at this time. kristin: anne, i want to ask about a pretty controversial decision that took place in at least one school district where you are, the school decided to turn buildings into a day care and they are charging parents about $250 a week for normal school hours. >> yeah. kristin: i can imagine why that be perhaps pretty controversial thing. how did this come to be? >> yeah, i mean, i think that one of the biggest issues that we are struggling with when we are looking at all online school is the amount of involvement that parents need to have or someone needs to have and making sure that someone is kept on

task and we have dual working households, we have a lot of dual-working households and i think this was an attempted solution of making it a bunch of moms didn't have to quit their jobs but the idea that we have to pay a tax and additional sort of education tax on top of our property tax that is we already pay which if you're in illinois we have some of the highest in the nation. it is a bitter pill to swallow and so while i understand where this is coming from, i think the school district could have done a much better job in implementing a hybrid solution if there are going to be kids in the school using the school for learning anyway. and, in fact, that $250 a week comes out to more than tuition at private schools in the area if you do the calculation, so i i'm very oppose today that and i don't think we should be putting barriers to people working in our education. >> one of the things -- right, one of the things

that aleman county is working on is it came through congress and general assembly we are having a partnership with ymca and also looking at partnering with the local salvation army in providing the opportunity for children at risk to have supervision and have mentoring of progress with their education and we are going to use our care's act money to provide them with tools, the equipment they need to do that, so that is one way that our local community is looking to support those communities in need. kristin: anne, amy, we appreciate you coming onto share perspectives and what's happening in your areas, best of luck and thank you so much. leland. >> thank you. leland: as businesses brace for another weekend of protests and possible looting in chicago, why many are blaming the local district attorney for that increase in

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>> we believe that criminal justice reform is absolutely necessary here in cook county and we also have a responsibility to ensure public safety. i wholeheartedly believe that we can do both and it's disingenuous to inflate the two. leland: kim foxx defending herself that she's been too soft in chicago. citizens of chicago have seen increase in homicides and shootings this year alone. we bring attorney andrew, andrew, good to see you, appreciate you taking time on a saturday especially that you get ready for a trial. two things we are seeing in chicago, increase in shootings in violent crime and we have also seen rioting especially

this past monday, rioting and looting that went unchecked. even the police officers were shot at when they stopped rioters. are the two linked? oh, no, he froze again. we were having the problem in the break and we thought he had it fixed with his skype. he's there in his office in chicago. i don't know, andrew, if you can still see me or hear me but you are frozen, so whatever you are saying we are not seeing right now. we will take a quick break and we will be right back with andrew in a minute. ♪

leland: back now with andrew on not only the rise of crime in chicago but the looting that happened this week. how closely are they linked, andrew? andrew: you know, they are pretty closely linked but we've always had crime in chicago but what is new is the rioting and there are basic steps that kim foxx that our mayor can take to try to curve this and they haven't done it yet and that's been part of major, major reason why we have had run up in looting. leland: kim foxx and the

mayor, seems to be saying ha he and his officers have their hands tied behind their back as they are trying to stop the looters, is that fair? andrew: yeah, absolutely, certain things they can't do right now, they can't use teargas, rubber bullets, guess what, leland, these are criminals so you have to use heavy-handed tactics to control these people so whatever the cop needs, the mayor needs to get it and more importantly kim foxx needs to prosecute these people as felons and not misdemeanors. these people will get the message immediately if they are charged with serious felonies but foxx has been unwilling to do that. leland: serious felonies and perhaps not let out on bail so quickly and perhaps felony charges mean they weren't let out on bail so quickly. foxx is playing defense and she went on this morning. >> we have seen crime rise in places like new york, atlanta, in places like oklahoma, in places like texas. this is a phenomena that we are seeing across the

country and everyone is looking at and saying how we move together. i slightly reject the notion, in fact, it is proven otherwise that you can have criminal justice reform and public safety. leland: thoughts? andrew: leland, that's ridiculous. she has dropped 35,000 felony cases, 25% more than her predecessor. the word gets out on the street that she's soft on crime and this gives a green light to the looters, the rioters and the criminals to do whatever the heck they want so kim foxx, you have strengthen your backbone and prosecute these people and take the handcuffs, so to speak, off of the cpd, the chicago police department, so they can stop these criminals. leland: it's a pretty clear view of things and noteworthy what it's done to downtown chicago, a city you and i love so much. foxnews.com has a great piece right now on the cost of looting and

rioting not only destruction in the cities but the tax base of chicago, minneapolis, seattle and other downtowns, andrew stoltman from chicago, appreciate it. andrew: any time, leland. leland: kristin. kristin: fbi team is arriving in lebanon to take part into last week's deadly explosion that devastated parts of beirut and that's where you will find trey yingst and joins us now live with the very latest from the scene, trey. trey: good afternoon, the fbi is headed to lebanon this weekend where they will assist local investigators with the larger probe into the cause of last tuesday's blast. we do know the death toll is approaching 180 people as u.s. official david hale was touring the damage today, he expressed the need of the trump administration for a transparent investigation. the americans have promised aid like many

countries around the world but they don't want the aid to be misused and fall in the hands of protestors hearsay corrupt government. >> the united states as i said the other day, the fbi is arriving this weekend and they will be playing their role, the invitation of the lebanese in order to make sure that all the answer that is the lebanese people and all of us have about what exactly happened and what led to the circumstances of this explosion. we really need to make sure that there's thorough and transparent credible investigation. i know that's what everyone is demanding. trey: there's a lot of resistance on the ground to having a transparent investigation even lebanese president miche l aoun said it would be a waste of time to do so. if israel is involved in

the explosion that the country of lebanon should respond. there's no evidence so far to indicate that there's any sort of outside actor. it appears that this is an accident. we did speak with ally group hezbollah yesterday who left all options on the table but everyone wants to push the blame on someone else. just last week we saw the key government cabinet resign including the prime minister hassan diab and there's a lot of questions and the investigations do continue as unfortunately we did get word this hour that two more bodies have been recovered from the blast site, kristin. kristin: trey yingst live in beirut, thanks. leland. leland: today marks 70th anniversary of surrender of imperial day

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kristin: let's take a look at headlines, secretary of state mike pompeo striking a defense deal with poland today after four-nation european tour. the u.s. will be increasing troop presence and will gain access to the country's military installations. the goal bolstering security in the region which followed pompeo's warning that of the threat imposed by russia

and china and the un security council voting down u.s. resolution to indefinitely extend arm's embargo on iran. pompeo suggesting the use of the, quote, snapback mechanism in the iran nuclear agreement to force an extension, china denouncing the threat saying the vote shows the u.s. has, quote, no legal bias -- basis and we are also tracking two tropical storms in the atlantic right now, josephine is heading to caribbean islands and kyle move agoway from the east coast. both storms with sustained winds of 45 miles an hour and the threat of landfall remains pretty minimal. leland. leland: still 2 and a half months left in hurricane season. we will keep an eye on the tropics. in the meantime today park marks 75th anniversary of surrender of imperial japan to allied forces in world war ii. war of the surrender spread quickly reaching as far as pearl harbor you children and sailors celebrated waiving american flag and displaying newspapers cover with the headline

peace. today britain's prime minister remembered those who paid the ultimate sacrifice. >> they show grow not old as we would left grow old. age shall not weary them nor the years condemn. as we are going down in the sun and in the morning, we will remember them. kristin: more than 50,000 british and common wealth troops perished during the world, those in attendance today including the queen observed a two-minute moment of silence and in japan government officials reconciling with the country's past, paid their respects at the shrine for the dead and, you know, leland. you have japan's emperor expressing deep remorse over country's wartime actions but japan's prime minister shinzo abe was not there and

did not offer apology today. leland: japan has become one to havest most allies around the world in terms of making our enemies, our friends, that's all for us here in washington. i'm leland vittert, kristin, i will be back tomorrow, take care of ♪ ♪ ♪ arthel: the united states postal service sounding the alarm on the mail-in voting process with just 79 days to go until the election. the usps saying it cannot guaranty all ballots cast by mail will arrive in time to be counted in november. hello, everyone, welcome to america's news headquarters, i'm arthel neville. hi, eric. eric: welcome to the fox news channel. i'm eric sean. the postal service is warning that -- warning election officials and about 40 states about the possible delays and they include battlegrounds states like michigan, pennsylvania and florida. meanwhile 6 other s