"fox & friends first." jillian: president trump is going to be joining "fox & friends" at:00 eastern to stay tuned for that. todd: my guess is he is going to answer questions and take longer than a few minutes. i have think he is going to be on there for a while. that's my prediction. jillian: startjill "fox & friends," starts right now. bye-bye. >> democratic national convention kicking off today. joe biden, kamala harris and more than a dozen former rivals teaming up to lay out a virtual vision for the future of their party. >> this is a critical moment. biden has been content to stay in the basement in wilmington. acceptance speech is he going to have to say this is why you ought to vote for me. >> protesters shoot fireworks at them in what was declared a riot overnight. >> we see what's happening throughout the united states. most specifically to communities governed by democratic mayors. >> speaker of the house nancy pelosi is reportedly ready to call everyone back to figure out how to fund the postal service. >> if the democrats feel like this is a big issue, put it with

a stimulus check to go to americans. let's put it with enhanced unemployment extension. >> trying to make history. elliott three road course wins in a row. he is going to win at daytona. ♪ you know i'm here for the party ♪ will and i ain't leaving until they throw me out. steve: we have a camera and as you can see it's actually pointing west toward milwaukee where today at the wisconsin center none of the principles are there for the start of the dnc. the only important people there at the convention center are the people in the control room in the basement because everybody else is appearing virtually. welcome to hour one of "fox & friends" for this monday august 17th and we are all much -- we are inching closer and closer. not quite yet on the couch. but nonetheless we're on the mezzanine level.

ainsley: happy monday. dnc kicking off today. rnc next week. two big exciting weeks for our country. president trump is going to join us at 8:00 a.m. he lost his brother the other day and is he going to come on to talk about that and, of course, the news of the day. brian: brother a great guy. have you seen him around. he kept a lower profile. but, obviously, a huge locals for the family. and you forget that these politicians are people. they have families. they have other concerns besides winning elections. meanwhile the democratic national convention kicks off today. it will be all virtual for the first time ever. steve: joe biden set to appear from his basement in delaware. that's nothing new, as president trump hits the road with a campaign blitz in two battle ground states that normally doesn't happen during the opposition's convention. ainsley: things have changed this year. griff jenkins is live in wilmington, delaware with a preview. hey, griff. griff: hey, ainsley, brian, and steve, good morning. talk about change it was only four years ago all in

philadelphia 25 north of where i'm standing thousands of backing of convention hall now out in miami no one there except gaveling in and ho out. joe biden will accept at the chase center his party's nomination. so they're essentially going to do the world's largest zoom call but they have quite a lineup of people that will be kicking the things off. tonight same as we the people let me show you the list. starting with senator bernie sanders. have you new york's governor andrew cuomo. michigan governor gretchen whitmer who near liver was a running mate. one republican former ohio governor john kasich critic of president trump amy klobuchar and michelle usama bin laden. senator sanders giving us a preview of where he thinks his party is headed and it's one that's more progressive. listen. >> we have got to do everything that we can to defeat donald trump. he was the most dangerous president until american history. we're going to do all that we

can to mobilize people for progressive agenda. griff: neither biden or harris made any public appearances over the weekend. they have none planned for today. did speak to a website. here is a little bit of what she had to say. >> i would encourage everybody, look, you may not fall in love with who you are voting for, but if you just look in on a piece of paper at the issues that are impacting you every day there is so much on the line in this election. >> meanwhile president trump not sitting still, heading to several battle ground states. today he starts off in minnesota. then he will travel to oshkosh, wisconsin. tomorrow will go to arizona and thurelsz he will go to pennsylvania. but, before all that, he will call in to you guys and a few hours we will see what he has to say. brian: great move of the president of the united states to not sit on the sideline along with his team and go to the

battle ground states. even though you can't have the big rallies. want to stay on the grassroots level. knock responsibly on doors in neighborhoods, with 80-something days left. with everything pushed back you cannot go dark an entire week. i think that's smart. i'm a little shocked by the agenda with the democrats. they are bringing up religion. they have a lot of religious leaders speaking. guns, they want to talk about guns two, areas in which the rubber hit the road on a lot of independents and undecideds. how low the approval rating of governor kasich speaking at this event. under 50% of people want to hear from the conservative republican who just doesn't like donald trump. lastly, only 8 -- when asked, what you wants to hear at the convention, 84 percent said they wanted to hear positive things about what the democrats will do and only 14% wanted to see hits on donald trump. here's governor phil murphy on the biggest story of the day, and that is the nominee. the vice president who wants to

be president and how few appearances he makes from friendly interviews to unfriendly interviews challenging interviews. he is mia. listen. >> balancing public health with the sacred right of voting as was discussed with democracy. i'm sure the vice president will be between now and election day up to his eyeballs in interviews and debates. i'm sure he will get out there. but we have got to get that balance. we have got to balance right. that's a message that i think is being sent to america by the vice president that this is a moment in time unlike any other. and balancing public health with democracy is something that we have to get right and i believe he has gotten it right so far and i'm sure he will continue to. brian: governor murphy goes out of his way not to bash the president. maybe bringing up wishful thinking. the only thing to get the vice president out of the basement is for this race to tighten up.

and if you look at the cnn poll a national poll it has tightened up. it's now a 4 point difference nationally. steve: right. cnn poll 50% of registered voters say that they would vote for that guy right there, joe biden. 46 for the president. that's 4 point difference in early june it was 14 points. so, you know what, until now, the staying in the basement approach has actually worked for joe biden. no wonder why he is smiling right there. as karl rove reminds us now, now is when people start paying attention and now is when they have got to get the message out that he is different than the current president. here's karl. >> this is a critical moment for the last roughly six months months since securing the democratic nomination. biden has been content to stay in the basement in wilmington and prevent defense in football or basketball throw it around the edges, run out the clock, whatever it has been. his message has been i'm not

donald trump. the convention acceptance speech is the pointed where he will have to say this is why you audited to vote for me because of what i stand for and what i intend to do. it will be a big important moment. see how many people tune in. steve: let's see what joe biden's message is other than i'm not donald trump or he messed up the response to the pandemic because what we have heard from joe biden aside of from the national mask mandate is that he would do everything that the current government is doing. so, tonight, they are going to kick things off. michelle obama is going to be speaking. bernie sanders is going to be speaking. it's interesting. the principles get a little longer. the average speech tonight, ainsley, will be two minutes of all the people aoc gets 60 seconds. bernie will be live. hillary clinton will be live eventually. bernie gets 8 minutes, which is good. but the reason they are slimming it down is because and it's a tv

show. because there is no applause. and if somebody is speaking for 8 minutes and it's like what's going on there during the big traditional conventions when there is a big flourish of applause, it's oh that must have been good listen how those people are going crazy. nobody is going to be clapping. nobody is going to be screaming. nobody is going to be going joe, joe, joe. ainsley: the establishment democrats don't want to push these progressives. they are trying to say that kamala harris is a moderate. we saw that last week in the press. but, if you look at her voting record in the senate, she walls considered the most liberal senator last year if you look at the bills that she was voting for. the nation reporter, ken kidnappen stein. he tweeted this out. he said a liberal republican, john kasich is going to get more speaking time at dnc than every member of the squad combined. now, democrats are also worried about the postal system with all these mail in voting is our postal system able to handle all of these mail-in ballots. nancy pelosi sent a letter to her colleagues to focus on this

post office crisis. she is asking for everyone to come back from recess because they are not supposed to be back at the hill until the middle of september. she is asking them to come back. some are saying this saturday to talk about this. she had an emergency call on saturday. this is what a portion of her letter says. alarmingly across the nation we see the develops stating evenings of the president's campaign to sabotage the election by manipulating the postal service to disenfranchise voters. mark meadows is on one of the sunday shows he is the white house chief of staff. former congressman who worked with nancy pelosi. this was his reaction. is he a republican. >> i'm saying tha say sorting ms between now and the election will not be taken off line. when you look at it the normal process of doing all of this, jake. i had the postal system under -- i had the only bipartisan bill to actually deal with the 146 billion-dollar loss that the postal service has been -- will see over the next 10 years. and so when you are looking at

this, these postal machines and the drawdown, that was a 2006 bill that has been implemented that i don't necessarily agree with. but that's not this postmaster general that did that. that was the previous postmaster general under obama. ainsley: republicans are saying that the post office has been a disaster for decades as you most know. and they are pretending to pin this on donald trump; therefore, if he wins they can say he rigged the election. mark meadows goes on to say democrats should return to washington. begin negotiating again. let's get stimulus check to the americans, protect small businesses. let's get more ppp and put postal founding in there and he says the president will vote for it. brian: be stunned why the stats will will how critical president obama has been on the past in the same thing he went on a podcast and criticized this president about. you would think that president obama is running for president. jillian meally is poised to give us the rest of the news and back to debate more on the post

office, i can't believe it, and what it means for this election. jillian: good morning, guys. so we're following a number of stories and we start with this. six correction he is officers hospitalized overnight after being ambushed by inmates. the officers were attacked in a yard at donovan state prison in san diego. another guard fired a warning shot to stop the attack. the officers' injuries stab wounds to possible broken bones. two inmates were also hospitalized. fall classes begin today at oklahoma state university where an entire sorority is under quarantine. 23 members of pie beta thy testing positive for covid-19. u.n.c. capito chapel hill aftera fourth cluster of coronavirus is found on campus in three days. cases linked to several dorms and a fraternity. all students being isolated. the school start the classes last week. senator ron johnson startled by information uncovered by the russia probe's origins.

>> what we have found out in just the last week, you know, the prehead at a timed lie on the part of fbi briefers to the senate intelligence committee, now the fact that the fbi knew that carter page was an operational contact back in august of 2016, these revelations are stunning and we should have known about this years ago. jillian: his committee is issuing a subpoena to fbi director christopher ray last week. the agency must provide documents to the committee by thursday. that's a look at your headlines. i will send it back to you. steve: all right, jillian. thank you very much. because today the dnc does kick off in earnest virtually across the planet for the most part. it's supposed to be in milwaukee but nothing is really in milwaukee. let's start today's program with a political panel. we have got joining us "new york post" columnist miranda devine along with white house hispanic commissioner recall fernando or tease in the center square and

tezlyn figaro. ladies and gentlemen and gentlemen, good morning to all of you. miranda, let's start with you, bernie sanders is going to be one of the keynote speakers tonight. he gets 8 minutes. he is a democratic socialist and he is being given 8 minutes at the dnc. you know, a lot of people never would have imagined something like that that goes to show you how far left the dnc has gone in the last four years. >> good morning, steve, well, it really does. and it also tells you something very interesting. that the dnc is trying to paper over. that is that they are in the stills of the civil war and establishment. and this entire convention is going to be about trying to convince the voters how moderate they are going into the loin's

den. pretending that joe biden and will joe biden and kamala harris are somehow going to prevent that tidal wave of entitled leftism engulf the party. the fact that bernie sanders gets a prime speaking spot tonight with michelle obama tells you everything. i pity the person who had to balance the schedule of speakers because if you look at it, it's balanced perfectly by identity politics. by gender. by race. by ideology. >> i wouldn't say necessarily what i would want to see. i'm just one personal. what i would wants to say for those trying to unite the party they want to see bernie sanders but really see bernie sanders as the nominee. bernie sanders will be there to talk about how the party is

united. obviously this virtual scweangs benefit to him because if it was in person rest assured the benchers would be there screaming and yelling and holding signs in their hand as they did in 2016. i can't say personally what it will be like this is all new for everyone. without having the crowds cheering and energy. we will watch and see how it pans out. the bought line is joe biden is a moderate. we can say the party is moving left. that's not the reality within his policies. so tonight will be about trying to get some type of unity and we will see if that happens. brian: it's going to be kind of interesting. alfredo, they are looking to get the whole party together because they know it happened under hillary clinton and the bernie sanders people went crazy on the floor and caused a lot of uproar. they want to stop that this time. here is a member of the squad congresswoman tlaib said yesterday. excuse me, on saturday. >> said today i cast my dnc ballot and voted no on the

proposed platform. i constantly hear from constituents demanding we push for single payer system and for profit systemming that is leaving people to suffer and die just because they cannot afford healthcare. future where everybody can thrive. rid our platform of oppression and greed. that's called unfortunately in my view this platform does not do enough. bernie sanders told her not to say anything but he believes the exact same thing. what's going on here. >> that's right, brian. i mean, look, at the end of the day, they are the democrat party overall, they are still shooting for that single payer option overall. they like trying to call it public option so it sounds more moderate. a year ago secretary tom price and i actually wrote a op-ed on this saying this is exactly what they were going to try to do. america should not be fooled. they are still shooting for for single payer government control healthcare system. it's the difference of taking the express train versus the

local train there joe biden is kind of the local train there bernie sanders was the express train. again, they like calling it this public option but it's still about single payer. america can't be fooled. they are still looking for government control of our healthcare system which will completely disseminate where we are as a country today. steve: miranda, i don't think if you asked anybody a year ago politically what the issue would be on the day of the dnc as they commence that it would be the post office but here we are. you know, over the last number of years, the post office has seen declining revenues, even though the congress is propping it up and the treasury gave him $10 billion last month. but, nonetheless, they sent out a note over the last couple of weeks that warned they could not promise to deliver all the ballots in time to be counted because, in certain states, you are allowed to request a ballot just a couple days before the election. so they're going we don't know that we are going to be able to count all this stuff.

and now, here we are, where the democrats are saying that trump is trying to sabotage the post office for a variety of reasons. and the democrats are saying we are not going to let them. what's going on? >> look, this is just mother one of the democrats' hoax to try and cheat donald trump out of rightful votes. and basically the democrats started this problem. they are the ones that decided to do all in mail-in ballots. now you can tell that they're not all that confident about winning because what they are doing is they are trying to set up an alibi for if they lose they will be able to say that donald trump didn't win legitimately so they can restart that resistance of the last four years only on steroids. it is really despicable and i just wonder since they have been promoting so-called peaceful protest aka riots if people can

get out and protest outside the postmaster general's house then surely they can go and their ballots in person. ainsley: do you trust the u.s. postal system? did you trust it four years ago. >> my grandfather served in two wars and retired at the post office twice. he retired once and couldn't sit and went back. i would say i trust the postalselves. this is not the time that it should be used as a political pawn to be quite honest with you. our veterans need medication. our seniors need medication. people disabled needs medication. congress needs to figure this out. i will say i believe in this election. people will crawl over glass to vote whether they're voting against trump or for trump. i don't know that the post office will stop that mail-in ballots have been shown to have very little fraud. at the end of the day, i think people will definitely be standing in line to vote. they need to figure this out. congress needs to figure out this problem. brian: i want to hear what

governor chris christie said especially by what's happening in new jersey. vote by mail. vote in person it's going to be provisional. listen to the former governor. >> in my home state of new jersey, we still have people waiting in line six, seven, eight hours at motor vehicle to get licenses and registrations and license plates. our governor is permitting that but somehow to stand in line to vote is everywhere too dangerous. but, standing in line at the motor vehicle is okay? it seems to me we have our priorities backwards. brian: alfredo the whole thing is blanketing everybody with ballots. real quick, your thoughts? >> this is going to be a turnout election for sure. job creators network launching 10 tore 20.com campaign. we have got to get people out to vote. what we say is if you can pump your gas and going to the grocery store you can show up to the polls and can you vote. steve: absolutely. brian: thank you so much and miranda and tezlyn, great job. steve: we are going tosh talking politics all morning long as the

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we are back with a fox news alert. violent rioters striking three police officers with explosives overnight. >> this is the latest in a string of dangerous anti-police demonstrations over the weekend. and todd piro joins us live with the disturbing stories from coast to coast unfortunately. todd? todd: ainsley, unfortunately is right. disturbing weekend of violence against police officers not stopping overnight. in seattle police declaring a riot after at least three officers were hurt. the department sells some of them were hit by fireworks. one officer taken to the

hospital. in texas now, three officers are hurt after a suspect opened fire during as who damage situation. right now that man still barricaded with three family members. the officers are expected to be okay in chick police releasing surveillance video from a violent clash this weekend. one man seen we would ago skateboard as a weapon. 17 officers were hurt. lori lightfoot praising police for their commitment to keeping demonstrators safe. >>what we have also seen is people embedding themselves in these seemingly peaceful protest and come for a fight. so what happened was really over very quickly because our police department has resolved to make sure that we protect peaceful protest. >> but, there is no peace in portland. two officers were hospitalized after getting hit by rocks on saturday. take a look. one of those rocks weighing nearly 10 pounds. the violence is having a ripple effect on the entire force there portland police say more tha 601

calls went unanswered because of those riots. anxiously, back to you. ainsley: for thanks for that report, todd. brian over to you. brian: emergency coronavirus hospital in chicago was supposed to deal with the massive influx of covid-19 patients. however, according to a new report, the fear is unfounded. the $66 million project with 2700 beds ended up serving 38. leaving a majority the tab on the federal government. the chicago mayor's deputy defending the project saying quote it's something i'm incredibly proud of and the money was not spent in vain. here to react is project hood pastor corey brooks. pastor, your reaction to the lack of need and the money that was spent. >> i understand being prepared. unfortunately, $66 million and $1.7 million per patient is very

unfortunate thing. especially when we have areas on the south side and west side of chicago that are impoverished and dealing with their own issues that need resources. it's unfortunate that those areas go without even though we are facing every single day. we see taxpayer money being spent and not used properly. $56 million and 1.7 per patient is a lot of funding. brian: absolutely. listen to the mayor when asked about the federal government on face the nation yesterday. >> we are never going to get everything that we need from the federal government. if we waited for them, we would be in dire straits. it would be great if there was not the chaos that we have seen at the federal government. the white house fighting the cdc. hhs hijacking the reporting process and still we don't have a consistent testing regime. we still don't have a federal mask policy. brian: she is a big blamer and she needs a mirror.

>> well, you know, every single day in the city of chicago we are facing a myriad of issues that need to be dealt with very unfortunate that the areas that need them the work and things need dealt with are not being dealt with. on the south side of chicago we have so many health i. specifically violence where funding is so needed. but, yet, we keep seeing funds being spent in other places and spent on things when these areas are being deprived. brian: pastor, real quick, she blamed outside forces u-haul trucks organize to ho just destroyed some of the most successful areas in chicago. she doesn't know or realize that black lives matter chicago organizers say it's all about reparations they have insurance anyway. black lives matter chicago is not an outside organization. your thought? >> yeah. my grandfather used to say there is only one thing worse than ignorance and that's organized

ignorance. and black lives matter seems to be an organization that is operating with a lot of egg nowrns. any time that you say that is reparations that we can go in and loot stores and commit crimes and offer people opportunities to go to jail because of it is the most stupid thing that i could ever hear. so i'm hoping that the leaders in chicago will step up and provide leadership, to provide people going in the right collection. and that's what needs to happen. but black lives matter is definitely operating under a lot of ignores making statements like that. brian: unbelievable. pastor, thanks so much. always great to see you. >> thank you. brian: truth with what's going on on the ground. still ahead, democrats slamming president trump for what they calling a postal service crisis. trey gouty says the problems at the post office started way before donald trump. he joins us next. ♪ ♪ a lot of healthy foods are very acidic

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ainsley: nancy pelosi calling the house back to d.c. to address the postal crisis slamming president trump. brian: the usps troubles began long before the president such as facing a $78 billion in losses since 2007 dating all the way to 2019. steve: so here to weigh in we have fox news contributor former house oversight committee chairman and author of a brand new book that comes out tomorrow doesn't hurt to ask trey gowdy. trey, good morning to you. >> hey. how are you all? steve: we are doing okay. let's ask you about the post office. for years, as more and more people use email and things like

that, the demand has been reduced. the president put in a guy to try to streamline the post office. that's what he has been trying to do. and now the democrats are going wait a minute, he is trying to sky up our elections. is that what's going on? >> yeah. you know, the post office has been in trouble financially for a long time. we actually had a reform bill that shockingly, jason chaffetz authored and sheparded through the committee. just never got a floor vote. post offices has always had problems. whether it's a business model, whether it's prefunding retirement, they just like to blame trump for an entity that was financially strapped a decade ago. ainsley: i don't know -- i'm sure you saw last friday the durham investigation and the news that broke there first guilty plea and do you think the networks covered it? cnn zero seconds cnn tonight. rachel maddow zero seconds.

nbc nightly news zero seconds. cbs evening news 22 seconds a and world new tonight 26 seconds. why didn't they cover it. >> ainsley, i'm going to save some time. i will write the headline for. they more fbi employees have been indicted than trump family mexico. in the russia probe more russia employees have been indicted than trump family mexico. that's why they didn't cover it. dome and the democrats and the d.c. media belittled us for looking into fisa abuse. they belittled us and low and behold mike michael horowitz finds two dozen instances of misconduct now we have an indictment and supposed guilty plea. that's why they didn't cover it doesn't fit their narrative. brian: this fbi worker decides he gets an email from an inquiry. they wanted to find out if carter page had to do with the cia. that would stop the inquiry or the fisa application for carter

page. if you are helping the cia you probably shouldn't be the subject of surveillance, correct in the problem is the cia answered and said yeah, he is. the other issue is this fbi guy changes that response. and that ends up going as part of a package to the fisa judge who said okay, you can keep looking a after him. he said i still don't think i'm being deceptive but, i regret this happened. what's he talking about and do you sense as an investigator that he is talking about who told him to do that? >> i hope so. i mean, lindsey graham is going to find -- i don't think anyone believes that kleinsmith came up with this on his own. brian, you put your finger on it. you can't have it both ways. is carter page a russian asset or was he a u.s. asset and if you are a u.s. asset, don't you think you ought to tell the court that? not only did they not tell the court. they intentionally misrepresented the truth to the court as one of two dozen instances horowitz found of fbi

misconduct. so, if you like investigating police misconduct and god knows the democrats have liked it for the last six months, if you want to talk about police misconduct. how about start with the fbi which is the one entity you actually have jurisdiction over. steve: sure. trey, here is why perhaps the other networks didn't have any coverage of it. that is this owe curled during the obama administration these were obama administration officials. when the president of the united states says he was the targets of the biggest political dirty trick in history. is he right? >> it's one of them. whenever you try -- whenever you try -- first of all, stop. you know, remember, peter strzok promised to stop it, and then they had an insurance policy in the unlikely event that he won. president trump is right. there has been a cloud cast over his first term as president and that cloud was manufactured by the department of justice and the fbi.

so, if you want to a justice system that we can all have confidence in and that's why people are setting cities on fire. then how about start with the fbi. ainsley: we want to talk about your new book called doesn't hurt to ask. using to connect and persuade. out tomorrow book drops on tuesday. why did you write this what is it about. >> it's about persuasion, ainsley. people want to be heard. they want to be understood. they want to move others to their way of thinking. it's not what a book about what i believe. it's a book to empower you on thousand communicate effectively what you believe. and in particular how to use questions. i was in a courtroom for two decades. i was mediocre in congress. but i was okay in a courtroom. and if you meet my wife you will know i'm pretty per swaivel in other facets of life, too. that's how i got her. it's how to persuade and how to move people closer to your way of thinking. and, in particular, how to use questions to do it. brian: so much video of you

doing this to your advantage in that you ask questions and six months later they become a story line. you know the answer. rather than accuse. you have that person basically confess. >> well, thank you. that's very gracious of you but you all ask questions for a living, too. part of it is to elicit information. part of it also is to move. you want to per situate. you want to effectively communicate your point. and lots of people do it by saying i think, i believe. i'm trying to team you to do it by asking questions. steve: i read the book over the weekend it is terrific. congratulations. >> thank you. steve: you talk about in the beginning about your job as a lawyer and how at peace you were when you were in front of a jury. give the folks who are watching right now just a taste of what you are talking about because part one is what you need to know before you open your mouth. give the folks at home a little advice.

>> have you got to note facts. have you got to know your jury. have you got to know your purpose. i'm stunned by the number of people who want to persuade and want to communicate but they don't know what particularity what their purpose is so, know both sides of the argument. if you want to be an effective advocate. you have to know what you believe but other anticipate what the arguments are going to be. note facts, note jury. know the objective and the burden of proof. how heaviy of a lift. are you trying to get somebody to switch religions or loan you $5. it's a different level of persuasion. ainsley: you got that right. thank you so much, trey. congratulations. >> thank you alleluia. ainsley: jillian has headlines. jillian: wwwe star thanking police after suspected stalker arrested at her home. thomas traveled from south carolina to florida to kidnap her. accuse of cutting a hole in a patio screen and waiting outside for hours. he was arrested inside after tripping an alarm allowing --

police say he had a knife, duct tape and zip toy ties and had been planning to kidnapping for months. a man who punched a great white shark to save his wife says it's t. was like hitting a brick wall. he jumped off of the surf boar and onto the 10-foot shark after it refused to let her of her. >> saved the mother of your child and you support everything that's how are so you just react. suffering severe journalist to her leg. she is now covering from surgery at the hospital. watch this. a horrific high speed crash caught on camera at the motorcycle grand prix in as you industry a two drivers bumping into each other at 200 miles per hour sending both men and their bikes flying. the out-of-control bikes flair missing another driver despite being thrown across the

concrete. the two drivers both miraculously escaped without major journalist. they are lucky. nba tipoffs in orlando. four games two for each conference. miami heat's jimmy butler won't be playing but he has found a way to pass the time. >> i'm working on my coffee skills. after my career i'm opening my coffee shop. right now i'm charging 20 bucks a cup. so if you want some, come through. >> people here can afford it so anybody can plan it. >> butler selling french pressed coffee from his disney hotel room. apparently coffee is hard to get in the bubble. who knew? send it back to you guys. brian: they have been stuck at disney in the bubble for a while and play offs finally begin. go out to adam klotz he has been preparing the weather i hate to let him down and not go to him. >> i appreciate that what are we talking about continues to be extreme heat. shift willing from the middle of the country off to the west.

these were yesterday's highs. 130 degrees in death valley. something like that is going to be continuing the next couple of days as we are once again looking at extreme heat, watches and advisories from arizona running you all the way up to the west coast. that heat again getting up close to triple digits in some places well. 126 in death valley. 115 or so in phoenix. anthen you are going to see thoe temperatures. 110 in sacramento. a lot of extreme heat a little bit cooler on the eastern half of the country. today's high 80 degrees in new york city. chicago a little bit cooler also. but summer, yeah, i know, it's still august. so summer continues as i at all times it back out towards you. steve: all right, adam. thank you very much for the "foxcast." coming up on this monday. an entire neighborhood backs the blue by going blue like at that right there. homes changing their porch lights to support the police. you are going to meet. so people who organized and from an officer in that department quexz on "fox & friends" live from new york city.

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jillian: back with quick headlines. cincinnati reds thumbs up waiting to take the field again. unnamed player testing positive covid-19 against saturday's game against the pirates. a double header today was postponed. the reds could travel to play the royals tomorrow. and today the sec is expected to release the schedule for the fall football season. this as ohio state quarterback justin fields starts a petition

for the big ten to bring his seasonal back. it has more than 200,000 signatures so far. ages have any. ainsley: all right. thanks, jillian. you will love this story. one nevada neighborhood is going glow back the blue. mesquite police sharing this image showing every house lighting up their porches in blue to show the supporter for the police officers there the department saying quote they say a picture is worth a thousand words but there aren't enough words to explain what this picture means to us. here to tell us more is sergeant wyatt oliver in the mesquite police department and. so nice residents who helped organize these lights. have you bobby can you say pa and sean swanson. good morning to all three of you. >> good morning. >> good morning. >> good morning. ainsley: bobby, i will start with you your neighbor did this first and you followed. you were the second person in the neighborhood to do this, right? >> correct. ainsley: so why did you do it? >> well, because we like to support our police and we had

done this one other time. we have a neighbor that lost her son in the line of duty. well, those light bulbs burned out. when my neighbor got the blue it was time to start all over again for our police doing their great job here in mesquite. >> john, how did you get involved? >> well, once bobby gets involved in something, she starts -- and i think i'm the only one my age stupid enough to get up on a ladder. [laughter] ainsley: so how many homes are lit up in your neighborhood? >> we have at this moment because two more lit up last night, we now have 40. ainsley: that's great. so, sergeant oliver, what does this mean to you and your department? >> yeah, this is so important to us. you look at the picture and you can tell that it's a very powerful image and actually drive through there at night it's more -- brings out a lot of emotions especially with everything going on in the country right now. it means so much to us that our

community has come together to express the show of support for us. ainsley: you know, our country is divided rise now, bobby. have you had any backlash? >> absolutely not. we're just getting where can we get these light bulbs but we don't want to tell too many people yet because we are still ordering. john just placed another order last night. ainsley: okay. so how are you all -- search paying individual light bulb but you are buying them in bulk. >> we are buying them and been buying them in sixes and tens and people just pay them for it. that's how it's working. we are just a neighborhood. and that's how our neighborhood works. besides john there is about four other men that are gray,ly climbing ladders to put the light bulbs up. ainsley: john, you be careful doing that are there other neighborhoods that have followed you? >> yes. we just found out that there is a neighborhood right next to us that are trying to get permission from their hoa to

start the program -- not a program but to start this. ainsley: sergeant oliver, i know you are about an hour and 15 minutes fleet of of los angeles las vegas. tell me about your community, what's the makeup of it? >> we do have a large retirement community. but we have a lot of young families as well. we are a great mix right along interstate 156789 there are a lot of people coming from all areas of the world. ainsley: what was the reaction from the community. sorry to cut you off. what was the reaction from the all of the police officers that you work with and the community? are you hearing good response and are a lot of people traveling into this neighborhood to go take a look at the lights? >> yeah. i haven't heard if anybody actually going out of their way from out-of-town just to visit the neighborhood. all the officers are very grateful. you know, like we said before. this community really supports us, the citywide does. and that starts from the mayor and city council. they have always supported us.

and. ainsley: bobby, do you mind if people do bring their kids? it's such a teachable moment for them and drive through the neighborhood? >> absolutely thought. in fact, we were out the other night looking at some of the lights that had gone up that day and we had, i think, two or three cars go by up and down the street looking at our lights. no, we don't mind. ainsley: okay. well, god bless you all. thank you so much. sergeant, thanks for what you do. >> thank you. appreciate it. ainsley: coming up congressman doug collins and newt gingrich plus, president trump is going to join us live. ♪ ♪

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quarterback justin fields asking the big 10 to reverse its decision to postpone the season. ♪ ♪ ainsley: look at that shot, y'all. isn't that beautiful? in between all the skyscrapers a church stand go ahead saint patrick's cathedral. steve: so big in person look how it is dwarfed. ainsley: how many years in construction. briang in new york are people. there is nobody everyone is in their boxer shorts at home doing their job on their laptop or ipad. steve: we are here. brian: i know. we have got to get people back to work. steve: well, listen, we are going to be here for the next two hours and coming up we have got the president of the united states. he is going to be joining us at 8:00 a.m. you know, historically,

historically the opposition party during a big convention essentially does not do anything that week but donald trump, you know, not a conventional politician. is he going on the road to a couple of battle ground states. we are going to talk to him about that. meanwhile the dnc kicks off today. it's going to be virtual for the first time ever. ainsley: joe biden is set to appear from his basement in delaware as president trump is going to hit the road with a campaign blitz in two battle ground states. brian: right. going to be doing that all week. griff jenkins is live in wilmington, delaware. griff? griff: brian, ainsley and steve good morning. dnc kicking off in milwaukee problem is no one is there exception someone in the control room doing virtual appearances from all these folks around the country. here in wilmington just a few blocks where i'm standing joe biden on thursday night will receive the party's nomination and give his speech in a pretty much empty room no. balloons will drop. going to be something to see. take through the list of the virtual appear ands tonight. theme is we the people.

kicks off with senator bernie sanders. new york's governor andrew cuomo. michigan governor whitmer almost became the running mate. one republican ohio governor john kasich amy klobuchar. and big speaker of the night former first lady michelle obama. sanders says this party is becoming more progressive. listen. >> all of the ideas that we have been campaigning the right to understanding the healthcare is a human right. the need to raise the minimum rage to $15 an hour. the understanding that climate change is existential threat we have made enormous progress in bringing the american people in our direction. griff: national security biden or harris made any public appearances over the weekend. recall phil murphy defended the lack of appearances. here is what he had to say. >> i'm sure the vice president will be between now and election day up to his eyeballs in interviews and debates balancing

public health with democracy is something that we have to get right and i believe he has gotten it right so far and i'm sure he will continue. to say. griff: meanwhile president trump is hitting the road heading to several battle ground states. today he goal to minnesota first and then wisconsin. tomorrow he ghoul to arizona and on thursday to pennsylvania which really significant, guys about this virtual convention seasonal is to see whether or not it gives either candidate a bump and of course be speaking to president trump are in an hour see what he has to say about it brian, ainsley and steve. steve: talking about how new york city is pretty much a ghost town. milwaukee would be where tens of thousands of people would convene, hotels overflowing. the restaurants as well. nothing really going on there because it's all being done virtually via this a lot of the

work has been done to because it's just a tv show. for instance the voting to approve joe biden and approve the party platform happened by email and happened by saturday. already done. that part are you love to see everybody votes. they have already essentially approved the platform and voted to nominate him what you will see for two hours a night although you are watching broadcast network only going to see one hour. you will see the world's biggest zoom call where the people in the basement of the convention have their fingers crossed hoping there are no technical glichings. at the same time, it's kind of a telethon where they not only ask you to support joe biden, ainsley but support him financially as well. ainsley: that's exactly right. average length for the speeches is two minutes. joe biden 8 minutes prerecord his speech just in case there is a technical glitch because we

have never had to deal with something like this before. john kasich speaking tonight former governor of ohio remember when the convention walls there four years ago he didn't show up. he is not a supporter of president trump so he is speaking at the democratic convention. cbs news did a poll which would you like to hear speak at the dnc the majority said yes to aoc and to bill clinton when it dime john kasich 38 percent said yes and 62 percent said no. a reporter from the nation reporter treated a literal republican john kasich is going to get more speaking time at the dnc than every member of the squad combined. brian: of course john kasich used to work here. amazing anti-trumpism kept him away from the republican convention in his home state where he was governor but then when he got the job, when he asked to see the president, the president saw him right away but he watched what the president has done the last three and a half years and think i'm going to speak for joe biden and the democrats. big headline will be michelle obama, of course. the people is going to be how the president screwed up the

covid response. that seems to be polling the best when it comes to the economy. that's where the president does the best. of course, the stunning poll you will probably not hear on cnn is that the 14-point deficit on the national poll and in battle ground states is now 4. the reasonable why this matters so much is because it's very typical. actually doing better the president now than he was doing against hillary clinton and we know how theangedded up and number two is, if it gets closer joe biden has got to do this thing called actually win the election by campaigning and selling a message. right now there is no reason for him to leave the basement. soon he have to if this trending continues. let's bring in congressman doug collins. he wants to be the next senator from georgia where its heading. what do you expect in this virtual virtual convention, congressman? >> well, i think you are going to see what bernie sanders said. he said they have become more progressive. they have not become progressive. they went to the left so far that they found the edge and jumped off.

their message is going to be continually more big government. more control. you heard it laid out there. they have a vision. the underlying vision is not the left politics. it's the hatred of donald trump. they do not like donald trump. this has been started since 2016. all they want to do is beat donald trump. they don't have a vision for how america will be. they only have a vision of beating donald trump. steve: they do have a message right now. that is donald trump is trying to screw up the post office so essentially we had miranda devine with us about an hour ago. she said so that if the democrats lose they have got an alibi why they lost just like last time they had an alibi russia collusion although that didn't turn out. watch this montage of people talking about the post office. >> i am deeply deeply concerned about trump's effort to undermine democracy by defunding the postal service. people should not have to put their lives on the line and get sick and maybe die in order to

cast a vote. >> do you believe in american democracy? we have a crisis now. it's a crisis in democracy. >> this is about the future of american democracy and whether people have a right to participate. this is a crisis for american democracy. we have got to act and act now. steve: so there you have got tonight's keynote speaker bernie sanders talking about the post office. congressman, i know nancy pelosi said yesterday she is calling you back to the home office early to take up some legislation. really isn't this a squeeze play to try to get the republicans to agree to that $3.5 trillion coronavirus bill that does have $25 billion worth of bailout money for the post office. >> this is all about politics. you can hear it in. this is about democrat voter suppression. they have a problem joe biden. they don't like what the election is going to mean.

they believe trump is going to be strong and we believe is he going to get reelected. when you are calling on the post office. postmaster general make sure voter is what can you do with the post office. some theories out there really sad. the reason i know this is political and not after something. when speaker pelosi sent a letter to her colleagues she talked about social security checks not being sent out. folks, we know that president obama put everything for the most part on electronic payment for social security. this is a scare ache particular. they are trying to scare voters into thinking something is wrong with the voting system and that they can't go and vote and republicans are doing it to them. and this is what 24 is. this is really wrong. ainsley: i know you want to be a cincinnati for georgia ayanna pressley congresswoman from massachusetts g.o.p. senators in office now and governors continue to carry water for the president. ignoring what the voter wants so she is calling for unrest in the

streets now. listen. this is about public outcry mobilizing and applying pressure so that this gop led senate and these governors that continue to carry water for this administration putting american people in harm's way turn ago deaf ear to the needs of our families and our communities, hold them accountable. make the phone calls, send the email, show up there needs to be unrest in the streets for as long as there sun rest in our lives. ainsley: congressman collins, your thoughts? >> highly irresponsible. those comments fan the flames. do you know who is carrying the water for anarchists looting and robbing and going through our city. carrying the water for those who want to defund and disrespect our police. back to getting our civil society back where it should be instead of this rhetoric that just breeds the problems that we are seeing.

again, when you are wanting to have more unrest but yet you are wanting to take away our police and security. i think that shows exactly what they want to could keep everything up in the air because they want to get this election and blame it all on donald trump. brian: i know you want to be the next senator from georgia, and one of those jungle primaries where everybody is going to be together republicans competing against democrats. look at arizona and montana and north carolina all those republican senators are in trouble. alabama looks like it could reverse. are you getting worried that the trend is trending against republicans president is closing the gap but the senate isn't. >> the buzz is we can get into the final stretch. get into september and october when people start focusing what's going on in this election and start seeing the very stark real results from donald trump and senate and joe biden and

kamala harris. -- we saw it in 20167. didn't see it in '18, see it again in '20. is it a real election? yeah. that's why joe biden cannot hide out in the basement all the rest of this election. he is going to have to get out and campaign and tell people what he actually wants. when that happens, then you will see how republican senator and president house and keeping president trump four more years and turn these elections. i do think you will see donald trump win this november. it's going to take work and republicans not taking it for granted and actually getting out. steve: congressman doug collins joining us from recess in georgia. congressman, thank you very much for joining us live. >> great to be with you all. take care. steve: it is about 14 minutes after the tom of this hour on this very busy monday. jillian joins us with some headlines. jillian: that's right. good morning. we begin with a fox news alert. three officers are hurt after anti-police protest turns into a riot. seattle police say fireworks, rocks and bottles were thrown at

officers overnight. one of the injured cops was hospitalized with a serious eye injury. another was burned on the neck. 18 people were arrested. the trump family is mourning the loss of his younger brother robert. jared kushner says father-in-law having a hard time. >> he loved his brother very much. his brother was proud of him obviously a tough moment for the president. is he looking forward to continuing to do great things and make his brother proud. jillian: roberts died at new york hopghtsd saturday. he was 71. funeral plans have not been announced. president trump will talk about his brother's passing and much more on "fox & friends." live it morning at 8:00 a.m. eastern. today new york governor andrew cuomo is expected to announce guidelines for gyms to reopen in the state. meanwhile bowling alleys can open for business starting today. face coverings are required. facilities limited to half capacity using every other lane to enforce social distancing

ryan newman returning first time since his crash. he suffered a head injury in the fiery wreck during the daytona 500. he thanked the healthcare workers who helped save his life. >> this is a special day for me because of all the things that you guys did back in february. thank you for your support not only for me personal lear but all the things you do for all of us drivers. it goes a long way. >> newman finished 19th, chase t picked. good news about ryan newman. steve: all right, jillian. thank you very much. joe biden campaign gearing up for one of the biggest weeks of the 2020 election cycle. you might not know it judging by recent air time. chicago mayor lori lightfoot only campaign surrogate to appear on a sunday show this weekend and only briefly mentioned today's convention that kicks off it. is a stark contrast from from 2016 when a top clinton campaign surrogate or high profile

democrat appeared on new yearly every sunday program on the eve of the dnc. but that was then and this is now. and now let's talk to media reporter for the hill joe con challenge. good morning to you. >> good morning, steve. steve: what do you think their strategy is by staying off the air? >> well, it seems that they are playing not to lose the biden campaign. and the hillary clinton campaign tried to in 2016 when it came to the actual candidate. hillary clinton went 270 days more than during that campaign anddo one press conference because she thought she had it in the bag. and what that got her was a set of steak knives and concession speech. you have to be out there talking in these situations because the biden campaign screams about transparency and about honesty. yet it conducts itself in the hop sit manner in terms of doing introduce. we have never seen a campaign like this before. and if the biden campaign won't take questions from the press. how do we expect it exactly to stand up to china or russia.

and this is particularly now, steve, remember. kamala harris was just announced last week as joe biden's running mate. yet, she won't sit down for any serious interviews and i have a feeling why because she is probably going to get questions like okay you support banning fracking how do you explain that to voters in ohio, pennsylvania and florida. you support a buy back program for assault weapons in your first 100 days. that's what you ran on. you support medicare for all. you are open to having 16-year-olds vote. you are open to having the election toler college abolished. you believe joe biden's accusers yet going to work for him now shavmentd. justifiable kavanaugh called on just last year justice kavanaugh to be impeached over a "new york times" story that the "times" later retracted when she was asked about it she gave this answer which you would never expect from an attorney general from the nation's largest state. well the onus is on kavanaugh to prove they didn't happen even after the story was retracted. kamala harris knows if she sits down with somebody who is

halfway decent journalist she will be in big trouble to explain these positions only 80 days before the election certainly can hurt the campaign. they are playing four corners taking a knee in the third quarter planning not to lose, steve. steve: there is this new cnn poll that dropped last night where donald trump was 14 points behind joe biden about a month and a half ago. now he is only four points behind joe biden. it's 50 to 46. so, is that cnn poll just an outlier or is there some movement where people are going yeah, why is he not doing interviews? >> that's an interesting number, isn't it, from that cnn poll, steve. 46. that's exactly the percent tangeg the vote that donald trump got in 2016, 46.1 i believe. is it just an outlier? i don't like to cherry pick polls so i always go to the real clear politics index. they basically take 8, 9, major polls and give you an average of all those polls.

joe biden was leading in late june by more than 10 points. that has now shrunk almost in half somewhere in the six point range at this point. not just cnn poll. things are trending in that direction because how do you define the biden candidacy? what are they running on? what's the bumper sticker? you are in an elevator for 15 seconds. how do you explain what joe biden will do to make the country better you? can't run on donald trump is bad vote for me. ronald reagan shiny city on havment barack obama hope and change or donald trump make america great again. joe biden doesn't have a great message at this point. the longer they think they can't talk to the press and define that message, the american people are going to be suspicious hey why aren't you talking to us right now. we have the dnc. obviously that's something right now this convention. this is going to be a glorified zoom meeting joe biden isn't even going to wisconsin for the convention. your honor what it is about democratic candidates not going to wisconsin. probably a good idea to do that but he is not leaving delaware,

steve. steve steve he has been in his basement a lot. he will eventually go over to one of the convention centers in wilmington but you make a great point. wife isn't he going to wisconsin? doing something in? do you know where joe biden. donald trump going to wisconsin today. he is starting the day in man indicated dough, minnesota. he is going to be talking up jobs and the economy. then flying to wisconsin as well and i have, you know, we are going to have him here in 45 minutes or. so i would imagine one of the things he is going to say it's great to be in wisconsin, where is joe biden if i had to guess. >> where is joe biden and, you see all the violence going on in cities like minneapolis nearby wisconsin or portland, seattle, atlanta, new york, obviously we see it here. we are both in jersey, steve. we get the local news reports. they are horrifying. then i look at goldman sachs and they have a forecast that says that the g.d.p. in the third

quarter could expand by something like 27%. in other words, get back what we lost in the seconds quarter of this year. so, when you look at those numbers, the economy going in the right direction. and all this violence in major cities. those are the two major issues outside of coronavirus and we don't know where we are going to be with that because of the virus and vaccines and everything else going on. if all those things are going in donald trump's direction, can you expect these polls to tighten even more before we get to election day. there was kay dough poll last week 62% of americans, adults, are afraid to share their political views that might be with polsters to a certain extent as well. donald trump when you look at a poll. always add a couple of points i have a feeling. people quite scared to share that they support the president cancel culture. 50 to 46 very concerning for the biden campaign, steve. steve: joe concha joining us from his bunker. thank you, sir. coming up, another violent weekend for police. officers swarmed by protesters. one hit in the head with a

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ainsley: time for news by the numbers. first 130 degrees high temperature recorded in death valley on sunday. it is the hottest weather that california has reported in more than 100 years. next, 12 years old that is the age of a young girl caught on camera gambling in that casino right there. police in australia revealing that her mom held an exit door open so that she could sneak past security. and finally 21 months that's how long been since quarterback was on nfl field. smith returning practice in washington since breaking his leg in november of 2018. he needed 17 surgeries, brian.

brian: he almost died he had septic shot have you got to see that 3030 on espn: in chicago a man charged with hitting an officer with a skateboard saturday. the violence capping off a weekend of attacks attacking police in major cities. here is dan bongino. dan, this is not a surprise. it was also 14 deaths 70 plus shootings in new york city. what's going to break this trending? >> it's going to be hard. you have like the three must kit tiers of stupid here. you have liberal politicians. some far left media activists unwilling to tell people the truth about what's really going on and then have you this back up of the culture war that comes from people like entertainers and singers we had? disaster in minnesota. people's businesses were destroyed. lives were ruined.

people attacked after the george floyd incident which did nothing to advance any kind of message floyd's family wanted by the way had people like justin timberlake and other hollywood folks bailing these people out. what's going to break it? vote these people out. vote them out. there is really no other answer other than that brian, it is not a coincidence that this is happening almost exclusively in cities dominated by liberal politicians. it's just not. brian: i just wanting to tell that you governor cuomo is going to be speaking tonight. he was asked about the violence in new york city. he says well, this goes back to charlottesville and i think trump has a lot of liability for the increase in crime. is that the stupidest thing he said? he says a lot of stupid things. >> it's just from so frustrating you think voters have to be seeing through. this is president trump the cause of your problems in chicago? he has offered cuomo everything on coronavirus, federal assistance when it comes to law

enforcement. federal agents. federal task forces. some of them turned it down some of them take it. all you have to do is go to the internet and look it up. trump has tried to help them. they don't want it and these cities continue to decay. it's an absurd statement by cuomo. brian: as you know the durham probe is moving forward. senator ron johnson has been determined as lindsey graham and others to get to the bottom of this. here he is yesterday on what the durham probe could result in. >> andrew mccabe should have been indicted over a year ago after the ag report belied his own fbi investigators. george papadopoulos spent 10 days in jail in wisconsin is for lying to the fbi. can i only assume from that standpoint that there are much greater offenses that they're investigating andrew mccabe for. what we already flow there should be a host of indictments. brian: meanwhile, there was a discovery and it was an fbi worker who admitted he changed

an email that said that carter page was not working for the cia and when the cia says yes he is working for us. you believe there is something bigger here. >> yeah. i mean, this is huge. think about it. clinesmith, who is an fbi lawyer, intimately involved and by the way please don't fall for the left wing media talking point that this lawyer was a low level guy. he was not. he was the main lawyer working on the case the fbi had to spy on trump. just, folks, please just look at the fbi's own chart. don't listen to the media obsessed with lying to you about this outside of this network. actually tell you the truth. this is the guy. the lawyer and he is given the responsibility, brian. this is critical. they tell clinesmith, the fbi lawyer, go and contact the cia. we want to spy on carter page who was working for the trump campaign. find out if he was a source for another federal agency. think about why, right? the fbi is trying to spy on trump. they need someone associated with trump. carter page has had contact with

russians. this lawyer is tasked with making sure those contacts were somehow illicit. now we find out that a lot of page's contacts with russians, brian, were at the behest of the us government where he is serving the government as a source for our government. clinesmith, the fbi lawyer, this upper level lawyer, realizes now that's a problem. we can't spy on the guy if is he helping us spy on the russians. so what does he do? he changes a document from the cia, the intelligence agency and says hey, this guy is a source for us. and he changed it to say he's not a source for us. can you believe this? brian: they would have stopped the investigation right there. dan, i'm up against a break but that's why people should tune into your podcast because have you been unwinding this years before everybody else caught up to you. thank you so much. >> you too. brian: meanwhile, still ahead, democratic socialist bernie sanders set to highlight the day of the democratic convention. what does that say about the

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♪ out in the holler out in the back woods. ainsley: look at that president trump is going to be on our show in about 25 minutes. we will have him on at the top of the hour, 8:00. keep your tvss right here on the fox news channel. let's bring in newt gingrich this morning. fox news contributor. former presidential candidate and author of trump and the american future. good morning to you, newt. >> good morning. great to be with you. ainsley: great to be with you. exciting time for our country, dnc kicks off this week. rnc next week. bernie sanders is going to be speaking tonight for 8 minutes from vermont. the average speech is about otwo minutes. this is what bernie said about what we can expect.

>> couple points i will make is that the progressive movement has been making enormous progress. not only in electing candidates to congress. not only in electing candidates to state legislatures but also electing candidates running for district attorney who are transforming criminal justice in america. ainsley: when you hear a message like that, we are going to go so progressive. you know kamala harris look at her voting record she is radical in the way that she voted. then biden is an establishment democrat. that's the direction of this party? >> well, look, i think that in minus letter this week is going to say that this will be the high water mark before the collapse of the biden-harris ticket which i think will clasp collapse and probably by election day will resemble george mcgovern in 1972 rasmussen came out and said 55% of the country does not think biden will complete his first term which means people are going to be looking at harris as

a president not a vice president at the same time 39% of the country according to mass muffin thinks biden has significant cognitive problems and they just sent out this really pathetic thing from the biden harris campaign headquarters that said these two people are ready to lead from day one and they have this weird picture of harris and biden in masks. both of them looking down like they don't want to fall. and that was their fundraiser. 5 bucks for it. i didn't send it. in it gives you a flavor of where they are going. one other pointed by the way, you know, the police chief in chicago believes that precisely the district attorneys that bernie sanders is proud of is the reason you are seeing an explosion in crime because all of these george soros funded hard left district attorneys refuse to prosecute criminals put them pack on the street

where they go back to committing more crimes. what sanders thinks is terrific has blown up in seattle and chicago and portland. i think it's madness that these people cannot figure out when you put criminals back on the street you encourage them to commit more crimes. brian: talk about the election where it's at. polling do they do show trends. "wall street journal" has a poll out 50 to 41 it turns out that they believe biden is winning. however, the cnn poll which had trump trailing by 14 points on june 2nd now has him within 4 on august 12th and the 15th after harris was named. what's your take on that? >> well, first of all, i don't think we know anything. and i have been through lots of elections. harry truman was down 13 points in september and won the campaign george h.w. bush was down 19 and won the campaign. i'm very do you know yus about it. i do think that the contrast. i mean, think about what we are

going to see this week. donald trump goes to wisconsin whereby den is supposed to be and biden doesn't have the guts to go to milwaukee but trump has the guts to go to wisconsin. brian: good point. >> even though he is not getting nominated this week. by the way, remember, accepting the nomination from the white house is something delano roosevelt did. this is not inappropriate for the president to do this. but, i just think the contrast you are going to see day after day, i mean, harris is so far to the left, she is -- and i wrote a column last week saying flatly she is an anti catholic bigot. i listed item by item by item. she was a disaster. she started at 15%. dropped to 4 before she dropped out. dropped out before a single vote was cast. why would you pick somebody to be the vice presidential candidate who collapsed from 15 to 4 during the primaries. showed no ability to track black votes. in fact, i think there were five

democrats getting a larger share of the black vote than harris. and i just think she is going to be the worst vice presidential nominee since tom engelton had to resign in 1972 for having to have electric shock treatments for depression. i think she is going to be disaster. steve: joe biden talks about every other time he has run for president he has only gotten 1% of the vote. so, it is what it is. >> he will do better than that. [laughter] brian: you don't believe the polls. steve: yeah. fake news. >> i think he will get more than 1%. that's all i will say. steve: newt, the number one topic over the last 48 hours has been how the post office is not prepared for the election and the reasonable is because the postal officials came out and said, you know, there are certain states where can you request a ballot up to about 48 hours before election day. we can't get it out and we can't get it back. can you please explain to the folks watching why the post

office is messed up. it has been messed up since you were speaker. >> first of all, as the postmaster general has tried to say to no avail with the national left wing media, post office handels enormous number of mail at christmas. this is not a question about the volume of mail. the problem is you have some states, new york state, for example, they just took 9 weeks to count a congressional primary. nine weeks. that mean they wouldn't finish counting the presidential campaign until after the constitutional requirement to vote on the electoral college on december 20th. i think the postmaster's concern isn't the post office, it's a series of states so incompetent that if you suddenly try to pile this whole thing into two or three or four days, they are going to have thousands of ballots that they throw out. they have tremendous problems counting them. i think the post office can handle the mail. now, i think maybe the states

ought to have to say you got to have your ballot in three days earlier or it's got to be postmarked as of election day. all of that the post office can handle. this is a bad wrap the post office is getting. it isn't the problem. the problem is you start doing what nevada is doing where they said they want to send out a ballot to everybody and the post office came back and said look 200,000 of these names don't live there. they are not there anymore. why would we send a ballot to sit at an apartment complex for some political corona to pick ie illegally. the problem is not voting by mail. if it's an absentee ballot if we know how are. perfectly legitimate. the president has said this over and over again. the problem is mass mailing to people who may be dead. i think in michigan last week they announced there are 800 and some ballots disqualified because the voter was dead. now, it is an old tradition in chicago you are allowed to vote for at least three jeerntions

after have you died. most of the country that's not a legitimate tradition. and i think it's just a remind to people if you want to have an honest accurate election can you do it and you can have the post office help you do it. they do it in washington state. they do it in oregon. they know how to do. this you go to this wide open send out letters to everybody even if they don't exist, even if they move -- guy was telling me that he left california 21 years ago and still gets a ballot to vote. and that's why i think the difference. i think the post office can handle. this i'm not worried about that. the states can't. there are a number of states that cannot do. this they will collapse. ainsley: newt, thanks so much for joining us. >> glad to be with you. ainsley: have a good day. hand it over to jillian for headlines. jillian: good morning. high heat and lightning fueling several wildfires out in california this morning. the lake fire near los angeles torching more than 18,000 acres.

it is only 12% contained. firefighters are battling the flames from the air and ground. some first responders were forced to pull back because of dangerous conditions. oklahoma group claims to have enough support to oust its mayor to cut police funding. members of unite norman collecting 20,000 signatures on a petition to recall mayor berea clark. organizers are not happy with the radical agenda being pushed. the democratic mayor hasn't commented on the petition yet. the owners of the cleveland browns say they will support players who kneel during the national anthem. dee and jimmy are prepared for any player backlash. will vote our country is built on freedom of speech. baker mayfield revealed friday he still plans to take a knee this season to protest jocial injustices. that's a look at your headlines. send it back to you. brian: thanks so much. jillian.

i thought nfl worked it out they aren't doing the national anthem because of coronavirus. i'm not sure that's going to be an issue. adam klotz is focused on the weather and his job. adam? adam: yeah, brian. yes, i am. do you know what i'm talking about is extreme heat. it continued yesterday in death valley 130 degrees. we have seen a lot of heat piling up across the west the last few days. that's going to be the story that continues. we have got heat watches, warnings, advisories, all the way up the west coast arizona, utah and farther north hot and dry and continue to be an issue for some of those wildfires also. again, those numbers, one more day, 115 degrees in phoenix. 126 in death valley. as far as north as sacramento. getting up to 110 degrees really extreme heat out there. we do know this is a little bit cooler on the east coast, high of 80 degrees in new york city. again, it is hot out there, as it should be, as we ever moving through august. back out to you. steve: if it wasn't hot, we would be freaked out, adam, just

saying? >> yeah, we would. steve: exactly 13 minutes before the top of the hour. still ahead, president trump joins us in 13 minutes at the top of the hour. plus, what isable buy hornacek doing walking through a national park with llamas? good yes. we're going to ask her when she joins us live with her parents coming up next. ♪ ♪ no matter where you live,

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ainsley: well, you can take a trip and explore all of america's natural treasurers without leaving the couch thanks to season for of the fox nation

show called "parked." >> i'm so excited. oh, look at that jack rabbit. lamb mass, jack rabbits. mom and dad. we got the whole crew here. ainsley: this season host abby hornacek is joined by two very special co-hosts her parents for a 12-day rv adventure. abby and her parents join us now with a preview. hey, everyone. >> good morning. >> good morning. ainsley: good morning. abby, tell us about your trip. >> oh, my goodness, ainsley, where to start. we hopped in an rv. went for 12 days. my parents were troopers. that was truly a special thing for me. because they got to come along and it's different because season four we are dealing with the safety precautions of covid. we are all wearing masks and maintaining social distancing. we are thinking how are we going to film this season? what better way to hop in an rv with your family. that's what a lot of people will be doing if they are going to

these national parks in general. we started in arizona. we went up through utah. ended in colorado. we wecht to, what, 12 national parks or i'm sorry five national parks, two state parks one national monument and made a lot of memories along the way. we are excited for the viewers to seat season, ainsley. ainsley: let's watch a clip. >> that's pretty high. >> that's pretty high. it's like a 10-story building. >> how am i doing? >> you are doing awesome, abby. >> this is parked. >> wow, you actually -- you were climbing hell's revenge. where is that? >> yeah. so, that was in moab. we are pretty much scaling down these petrified sand dunes. that's going to be great for people to see because it's not necessarily about the activity but where you are. we are in or near these national parks. i'm talking about the geology, the human history of who came

through this land many, many years ago. and really saying what we can do with our families and how we connect with nature during this time. ainsley: jeff, i know with your nba career climbing probably was easy for you. you are an athlete. >> i'm an old athlete. ainsley: what was it like as a dad to have two of your favorite women with you. we are doing this right now. we are all spending so much more time with our family and making new memories together. >> it was a blast to see these national parks and watch abby work. we were just kind of there i drove the van the big rv. >> not very well. [laughter] >> did a great job. >> it was fun to see the crew. just to watch them work, see the beautiful landscape and, you know, we live in utah for a long time and you forget how beautiful it is. it's not just see the park and it's over. everywhere we drove it was spectacular view.

ainsley: stacey, reminding all of us. >> i was going to say to tag on what you said utah is like one giant national park because it really have beautiful everywhere. ainsley: it's so pretty. stacey, i know you are proud of your daughter and husband i know you are amazing mom and wife. will whats was it like to soak it in or during covid. >> see all those beautiful things because it's uplifting. it's great for the soul. it's great to be with your family. it's fun because it's like when you are a mother you get to see life as a child. doesn't matter if they're older or your honor seeing family is beautiful right now. ainsley: abby, what did you learn from it? >> i learned if you want to kind of revive yourself and revive your soul like my mom said spend time with your family and spend time outdoors and be thankful for all the things god has given

us. ainsley: absolutely. god bless you all. thank you for raising her up in a strong faith. we are in a bible study together and i love that god. >> god bless you. >> season streams on parked from now. now until august 22nd get a free copy of sean's book live free or die head to fox nation.com for more information. donald trump is going to join us live at the top of the hour. you hope the more you give the less they'll miss. but even if your teen was vaccinated against meningitis in the past... ... a whole lot more. ask your doctor if your teen is missing meningitis b vaccination.

steve: the dnc kicks off today. it's virtual the first time ever >> they don't have a vision for how america is. they only have a vision of beating donald trump. >> speaker of the house nancy pelosi ready to call everyone back to figure out how to fund the postal service. >> i'm demanding that the senate hold hearings and if mr. de joy refuses to appear he should be stamped to return to sender. brian: had a rioter striking at least three police officers with explosives while in chicago a man charged with hitting an officer with a skateboard. >> it is not a coincidence this is happening almost exclusively in cities dominated by liberal politicians. ainsley: every house lighting up their porches in blue to show support for the police officers there. >> especially everything going on in the country right now it means so much that our community has come together. >> ♪ ♪

brian: everything is new again. the statue of liberty is going to be open i imagine and soon we might have health clubs in new york city to go to, maybe one day we'll be able to eat in side in a restaurant. those are some of the things you look forward to in america these days. hi, everybody welcome to a special hour of "fox & friends." why is it special? steve, ainsley, do you have any idea why? ainsley: hmmm. steve: i think it could be our special guest whose going to be calling in in just a moment, donald trump is joining us right now on the newsmaker line mr. president good morning to you. president trump: good morning. hi. steve: listen, you know, a lot of people have been thinking about you and your family over the weekend. i know you were able to get to the hospital before your brother robert died here in new york city. we are so sorry for your loss. president trump: well, i appreciate it. it was not a great weekend.

it's very hard. you knew it was going to happen but still, when it happens, it's a very tough thing. he was a great guy. he was a tremendous guy. he was my friend. i guess they say best friend and that's true, and, you know, los ing him, not easy. brian: mr. president, i'll tell you what i've noticed firsthand. i went to two of your finales, one of our buddy geraldo with the apprentice was in the final and he foolishly thought he was going to win but your brother was in the audience and i could not believe the warm feelings towards you, how proud he was even though he was a younger brother and it was also my first time to really see you interact with your family and in the breaks your grandchildren would run up to you and he would tap me on the shoulder and he says i tell you fundamentally people look at the trump deserves as this bigger than life family and we're just like any other family and we just saw all of the grandchildren jump around you even though you're about to announce the winner in a matter of minutes. they don't really see that side

of you and too bad people didn't see how much you and robert interacted more. president trump: well we did interact and he was always there and he was, you know, he wasn't a jealous person. he was a very smart guy but he wasn't, you know, he be there and he be behind me and if i had the number one show, or if i had a big success and no matter what i did whether it was real estate deals or anything else he was right there and in many cases helped with whatever i did and then when i became president he was one of the most loyal people, there was no jealousy. you know a lot of times in families i hate to say it but there's jealousy and especially among children and among children that are competitive children, because he was very competitive. there was not an ounce of jealousy. he would go around talking about how great this is for the country, and it's so incredible, and he was my biggest fan. people would tell me all the time i spoke to your brother and your brother was so thrilled and so thrilled at what was

happening. and what was happening for the country, he was so angry with china, because of what happened where the plague came in and they shouldn't have allowed it to happen. they could have stopped it. he was so upset by that. he couldn't more than people be upset. a lot of people have already forgotten, and you can't forget, but he was fantastic guy. ainsley: we're very sorry for your loss. president trump: well thank, ainsley. ainsley: you've been in my thoughts and prayers, so bernie is going to speak tonight, dnc kicks off and joe biden will be at home in his basement no one is actually going to milwaukee, everyone is doing this virtually. what do you expect this week? president trump: well i'm going to wisconsin, i can tell you that, and we'll be doing a lot of interviews and a lot of i guess i'm making a speech and it's a great place and we won it last time, i think we'll win it this time. i was told every lawn has a trump sign on it practically out there and there are no biden signs anywhere, so i don't know, look. i see things although crazy cnn

as bad as they are i guess there was a poll that i was 14 down and i picked up 10 in the last month, 10 points, so that's a crazy thing but no i think i see much more spirit than we had even in 2016 was record breaking , everything, i mean it was probably the most exciting night in the history of politics , according to most, and of course i'm not sure about the other side but according to most and i think i see more spirit. did you see down in florida the boat parade yesterday? they broke the guiness book of world records, and the boats just thousands of boats. that's all over the country. you know it's everywhere you have a lake or river or ocean, there's these massive numbers of boats and bikers for trump. i think 99% are trying to figure out who the other 1% is and law enforcement, i just got the new york city police, according to every source you could look at it was the first time they've ever given an endorsement. pat lynch is a fantastic guy who

heads it up and he says it's the first time they've done it so we just got the new york city police endorsement. that's called law and order and i understand i'm getting some really big ones. people that don't given doors ments you know generally speaking police groups don't give endorsements but they are giving me the endorsement and they are tired of what's happening and we can stop that so easy. in fact if chicago and any of these places they would call us in and would stop it in a matter of minutes like we did in minneapolis. minneapolis was out of control, and they finally brought in the national guard and you saw the scene. they walked right through the streets like it was a knife cutting butter. it was over. it stopped. they should have called five or six days earlier, but they didn't do that, because of pride or because of something, but we ended that in about an hour. brian: so a couple of things. governor cuomo was asked about the crime in new york city where there was 76 shootings over the weekend, 14 fatalities they've already passed the year

in terms of total shootings and that was in july. it is a mess. you wouldn't even recognize this place, i know you were here briefly but governor cuomo was asked, he says well donald trump kind of set the tone with his attitude in charlottesville so he's partially responsible for the rise in violence to this country. what's your reaction to that? president trump: he brought up charlottesville? i wish he would listen to laura ingraham whose a very good and talented person who covers charlottesville and he said what trump did absolutely there was nothing wrong, he was perfect. you know, they saddle you with things and when cuomo says that then, that's why these people don't get , you know when they go to washington and they want to be friends and make statements like that and then we turn our back on them, because they are just bad people. you know, they make up lie, they make up stories. look at the job he did in the nursing home and the press is trying to sweep it under the table, but if he said a thing like that he's just a bad guy, you know, what can you do. you have a different type in new

jersey. he's a very liberal guy, but you know, he's somebody that's paid a lot of respect to the job we've done on the coronavirus. we had 50 states none of them were prepared for this , none of them and we ended up making so many ventilators that we're giving out to the rest of the world which desperately needs them 188 countries and a lot of the governors even if they're on the democrat you know , if they're democrats they are saying we did an incredible job. we have a stockpile. we have nothing in this country and now we have a stockpile, a tremendous stockpile that can handle anything, and when the governors called they should do it themselves. they should be able to get this equipment themselves but if they can't, we've got equipment like nobody's ever seen before, so you know, we're ready but we did this on the fly we did this , i always said the cupboards were bare when we came in which is true. we didn't have ventilators and neither did governors have ventilators, for the most part

they didn't have enough and i don't blame a lot of people for that because who would have ever thought a thing like this could happen but it did happen and we have, they say that it's the biggest mobilization since world war ii, and that's true, and we have generals doing it, generals and admirals. steve: yeah, and there was quite a learning curve in the beginning because we did not quite understand exactly what the coronavirus was, fast forward to today, we've got a better handle on it, whereas your government, the federal government is the way you describe it, it's pretty much all hands-on deck, but mr. president, tonight, governor cuomo is going to be giving one of the speeches. we know that michelle obama is going to be speaking, aoc is going to get a minute, bernie sanders is going to get eight minutes tonight. when you look across the political spectrum, when you've got aoc, you've got bernie sanders, you've got the clintons as well, the democratic party has a lot of moving parts with a lot of people pulling it in different

directions right now. the big question is can they unite around joe biden whose got to be everything to everybody. president trump: well i know all those people very well. you remember i beat them all last time. i beat clinton, i beat obama, everyone said obama got into the campaign. i said so what. i mean, obama got in so what, and he worked harder for clinton than she worked for herself. obama was all over the place i kept saying you know this guys campaigning harder than she is, and but we beat them, and like in georgia, he spent a lot of time with michelle and with oprah in georgia for their candidate and i spent mine for brian as you know, brian ke mp, and brian won the primary and he then won the state, but we've had many many successes and the big one be these are the same people i beat last time and they're not going to unite because they can't unite. they don't know how to unite and also bernie is very unhappy but actually biden went for the left

and bernie wanted him to and bernie is still unhappy. steve: well mr. president -- president trump: i call him crazy bernie for a reason. you'll never make him happy. steve: well they are united. they are going to essentially say donald trump has to get kicked out of office because of your coronavirus response. president trump: well, i think according to most, the real people, not the fake news and this press that we're running against, because my biggest opponent isn't biden. it's not the democrats. it's the corrupt media. we have a corrupt media in this country the likes of which nobody's ever seen before, and no matter what you do, i will say we made a deal with israel and the uae on friday, it was essentially signed, and it was, it got great press i couldn't believe it. i was shocked. first time in really 45 years i guess they would say 25, but for different reasons, it's much longer than that and we're doing peace in the middle east. we're bringing our soldiers back

home from afghanistan. we've got very few left. we're dealing on that. we're bringing them home from syria. we're bringing them home from iraq. these endless wars they never stop. we end up acting as policeman, not fighters that we destroyed isis as you know, we got rid of al baghdadi and what we've donald of course soulemani, and all of a sudden it started following into place. the big thing we broke that horrible deal made by biden and obama, the worst deal ever $150 billion they paid and 1.8 billion in cash and they made a deal with iran. the worst deal i had to get out of that deal and it's never going to happen. you'll end up with peace in the middle east. real peace in the middle east. now, by the way, uae was the leader and they signed the first one and now all of the countries, almost all are calling, well what about us, we want to sign too. brian: whose next? president trump: it's an incredible thing for israel, it's incredible for the evangelicals by the way,

the evangelicals love israel. so we're doing things that nobody else would do or could do. ainsley: so mr. president, i know today you're going to be in minnesota and wisconsin. tomorrow arizona and thursday pennsylvania. what do you say to the critics that say traditionally, an opponent doesn't go out and campaign during the other parties convention. president trump: well i have no choice, because we have a fake media in this country so i have to work. i don't have the time not to and we have a guy that doesn't come out of his basement and the media covers him and look at me i go and when they ask me questions, i have these people, there's fire out of their eyes coming asking questions, and i see the fire is burning in their eyes and i'm looking at some of them and i said boy how could you have so much hatred and we're having such success. if the virus didn't come, this would have been the most successful in history and now, on top of the virus, the stock market looks like it's going to be setting new records, nasdac already did, and you know, we're going to have an economy. we're going to have an economy, wait until you see the numbers

in the third quarter which fortunately get announced prior to the election on november 3. the numbers are going to be the probably the greatest gdp numbers in history, and you see the retail sales numbers are the best in history. think of it. the retail sales increases the best in history, and most importantly, the unemployment numbers we're setting records on employing people, big records. and somebody like biden, he doesn't know what to do. he doesn't come out because he can't. he doesn't take any questions from reporters. i keep saying to my people, here i am getting bombs thrown at me every day by people that are totally, you know, frankly dishonest reporters, but i'm getting, you know they are aspou sing the view of the radical left but here i am, bombs every day and every day and do a good job handling it that's why my polls have gone up 10-12 polls but i think they are phony suppression polls.

these suppression polls are supposed to suppression your enthusiasm but they make our people angrier, but this guy doesn't come out of his basement , and he hasn't taken one question. somebody said yesterday, i don't know if this is so, but he hasn't answered one question in months, and you really say can he? now look, if he were president, he's dealing against president xi of china, president putin of russia, kim jong-un, by the way, whatever happened, were we going to war according to obama and hillary clinton with north korea brian: let me ask you about china because i know you're supposed to have a virtual meeting to update on the trade deal. you canceled it and they also in the last two weeks setup a trade deal with iran to circumvent your sanctions and they also voted against keeping the arms embargo away from iran along with russia, so where are we at with china? why did you cancel it? is it because they were not living up to the first phase or just because of the residue

from the virus? president trump: china has taken advantage of our country for 25 years like nobody else. four, five, almost $600 billion a year, we'd lose on a regular basis for decades with china. a one-way street. we didn't even have it wasn't that we had a bad deal. we never even had a deal. i made a great deal with them, in fact, last week, they ordered the largest order of corn in history. brian: are they living up to the deal? president trump: they are more than living up to it. last week, because they know i'm very angry at them, because this should have never happened. they made the largest order of corn, the largest order of soybeans in history. they made the largest beef order that they've done in a long time they are going the opposite way because they know how i feel, because look they can't make it without us. if we have a decouple from china , they would fail, okay? we paid them so much money, our

representatives, our president, you have to stop, our presidents and not only obama, he got taken to the cleaners him and biden, but they all did, and china had the worst year in 67 years last year but then the plague came in so we made a great trade deal. you see that with the farmers, the farmers are happy they aren't even complaining. in fact my biggest problem is they are so happy they want me to do nothing. i can't forget that they allowed this to happen to the united states and by the way, europe and the rest of the world. this happened to the world, not only us, you know, when they report, they don't report what's going on because they have new flare-ups in germany, they have new flare-ups in france, and spain and italy. they have flare-ups all over the place. they keep saying -- brian: australia. president trump: we've gone phenomenonally on this thing, look what's happening in brazil and sweden. they talk about do it the swedish way, sweden is having a very hard time but okay

, so it's really something i can't forget, brian that what they've done to this world and i can't just say we made a great trade deal so i'm having a very hard time and china knows it and they're ordering more than we've ever done which is very smart. but the stupid country would say we don't want to do anything. brian: we just got a report from your secretary of state that he is putting additional sanctions on huawei. do you know, do you want to expand on that? president trump: yeah, we don't want their equipment in the united states because they spy on us, and any country that uses it we're not going to do anything in terms of sharing intelligence absolutely, huawei is a disaster. they used to have free reign over our country. they knew everything we were doing. huawei is a way of really i call it the spyway. what happens is huawei comes out and they spy on our country. this is very intricate stuff.

you have microchips, you have things that you can't even see , the average person and beyond the average person the people that do this can't even find it. no, they spy. the uk, and the european union, but they were going to go, we said if you go we aren't going to share intelligence with you, that's okay and with the uk we said we love scotland yard very much but we're not going to do business with you because if you use the huawei system, that means they are spying on you that would mean they're spying on us, and i've gotten just about every country to drop it. you know, look china did a terrible thing to us. they could have stopped it. they stopped this disease. i call it the china virus. they stopped it and stopped it cold from going into china, but they decided not to stop it from going into the u.s. and the rest of the world, and i did something that biden totally fought me on. he didn't know what he was talking about. he just took a guess at it but i put a ban on people coming in from china, and dr. fauci said

trump saved hundreds of thousands of lives, because even he didn't want it, most people almost nobody, i wanted it and it was done in january. a month later, pelosi and everybody are saying there's no problem with this disease. i put an early ban. if i didn't put that ban on and frankly if i didn't close up the country because we had the greatest economy in history. i closed up the country. we saved millions of lives, and the numbers you're looking at now you could have multiplied them by 10, 15 or 20 times it would have been not even sustainable to watch. it would not have been sustainable or acceptable. i then and now we're opening up our country. we understand the disease, we're careful with our seniors, we're careful with our nursing homes, because the seniors, older people especially older people with a heart problem or diabetes problem, with a problem, they are really susceptibile to damage by this horrible i call it the plague.

it's the plague from china. the plague from china. so what happens is but the young children handle it very well. i want to open the schools. i hope big 10 is going to do it. i'll tell you what we got to play football. they put out false rumors saying i wonder if people are angry trump closed up football. i'm the one that's fighting for it to open and a lot of it is open. i have to call trevor lawrence the great quarterback from clemson. he was fantastic. steve: mr. president -- president trump: he called me out of the blue and said we want to play football. steve: a lot of people do want to see football played and getting back to normal and on capitol hill things are going to get back to normal it sounds like on saturday nancy pelosi has called the house back from their recess because she says, you know, you're messing up the post office. she sent a letter out to her colleagues to the democrats that said alarmingly across the nation we see the devastating effects of the president's campaign to sabotage the election by manipulating the postal verse to disen franchise voters.

you know, we know that the postal service has not been efficient for decades and we know you hired a guy to try to streamline and make it work better, but at the same time, fewer people are using the post office, because we're doing e-mail for so many things, and the postal service sent out a note and said you know, different states have different requirements. some states you can request a ballot three days before the election, and we don't know that we can get them the ballot, and get it back in time. so can you explain how you're sabotaging the postal service? president trump: yeah, well no i'm just making it good. we have a very very good business guy running it, and i want to make jokingly say but it's true. i want to make the post office great again, okay? the post office lost $78 billion over a very short period of time think of it. over the last 10-12 years something like that. 78 billion, with a "b", billion

and we're making so it is going to be good, and we're going to take care of our postal workers above all. we're not firing people, but the way they ran that thing for many years, this isn't a trump thing. it was a big editorial by you know who over the weekend. this isn't a trump thing. this has been one of the disasters of the world, the way its been run. its been run horribly and we're going to make it good. now what am i supposed to do let it continue to run badly? so if you fix it they say oh, he's tampering with the election no. first of all absentee ballots like in florida those are great things you send for it they ask for it they send it to you you send it back with your vote those are great things. universal ballots where they drop millions of ballots into a community into a state, like new jersey is doing now, it's going to be a disaster. look at nevada what's going on over there. it's going to be a disaster. no signature verification. you can bundle up, they call it more vest. i mean, harvest is illegal in

most places and they're letting you harvest. it's going to be a disaster and just one thing. take a look at what happened in new york, disaster. patterson, new jersey, disaster. virginia, disaster. it's a disaster what's going on. they can't count the ballots. they don't know where the ballots are. steve: mr. president? president trump: yes. steve: one follow-up to that is do you think part of this is because nancy pelosi has been unable to get her very expensive i think $3.5 trillion coronavirus bill passed but in that bill is $25 billion for the postal service to make sure they've got the resources although the postal service has put out in financial statements they've got enough money to run through next year, summer of next year, so is this just another way of trying to get that great big corona bill passed by the democrats? president trump: it's a nancy pelosi con game with, you know, her associate schumer. this is a con game by pelosi and

schumer. look, the post office, there's 25 billion sitting there but they really want $1 trillion to bail out their badly-run states, like new york state, which is horribly run, like if you take a look at california, the money they lose, illinois is a disaster, just a disaster. this guy pritzker has done a horrible job in illinois, and the republican states are doing well. sure they'll take money, they'll always take it but they're doing really really well so she really wants what she wants more than anything in the world is to get $1 trillion to bail out people that are doing a bad bad job running these states that have been running badly for years but running these states and in the end, the republicans aren't looking for it, the democrats want it, because it's new york, it's

virtually every one of them, but virtually every one of them, they want to bail out democratic -run states that have been running badly but they want the whole nation to do it so instead of just accepting that, i fight for the nation, and then they do the number, you know the phony number about the post office, and the post office we want to make it run efficiently, run good. we want it to run for less money , much better, always taking care of our postal workers, and i'll tell you the biggest problem one of the biggest problems maybe the biggest problem with the post office is amazon. amazon and other companies like it, they come and they drop all their mail into a post office, not all of it but a big percentage of it, and they say here, you deliver it you stupid people, you deliver it, and it costs us every time they drop a package. it costs us like $3 to deliver the package for them, $3 a package. we're losing a fortune. i said you got to raise the rates you'll have to raise the rates, but amazon they build their big plant always near a post office and then they take a lot of this mail into areas

where they could never go, because the postal system is massive , and they drop packages into the post office, by the thousands, and then when i say thousands, for some little place and they drop them but drop them and then they say here , you deliver them and we lose $3 and $4 a package on average, we lose massive amounts of money, and i said raise the price. this guy is supposed to be so wealthy, so raise the price. let him pay for it. why is the post office paying for delivery for amazon and in all fairness, for other services like that. ainsley: so we want to make it clear, we're not, we love our postal workers the ones that deliver our mail. steve: post office gets 91% approval. ainsley: yeah, exactly. president trump: it's great from that standpoint, but if they raise the prices to these companies, you'd fix it very quickly. i tell you right now they are losing a fortune on delivering for very wealthy people with

very big companies. let those companies pay, not the purchaser. let the companies pay. ainsley: we want to show you this interview this is an msnbc host talking to loretta lynch about predictions if you decide not to leave the office should you lose the election. listen to this. >> what if donald trump doesn't leave? like what does that look like? we completely remade the doj under this new leadership. what happens if he just refuses to go and how could he use bill barr to potentially create this dictatorship? >> well look i think the first thing we have to focus on is the upcoming election and making sure that there's a clear mandate going forward so that all branches of government are clear and know that there will be a peaceful transition of power in the middle of january of 2021. ainsley: mr. president, your reaction? president trump: well the first thing i think of is crooked hillary clinton when during one of the debates she asked whether or not i'd leave office, would i accept the results of the election.

do you remember, would you accept the results? and i gave her a decent answer and the problem is she didn't accept it. she went crazy. she's still going crazy. i mean, she's gone nuts and so have they. they call it trump derangement syndrome i don't know if that's true or not but it's certainly close. i go by the election and with that being said, i have to tell you that if you go with this universal mail-in where you send millions of votes, in california tens of millions of ballots being sent to everybody and their dogs, okay? dogs are getting them okay? people that have been dead for 25 years are getting them. you have to see what's happening then you're never going to have a fair election, i'd say this you're never going to have a fair election. brian: mr. president, we agree on this the pandemic has made it more challenging for certain people especially with underlying conditions which is 40% of the country they might be concerned about voting, they are the ones who don't go to the liquor store and not going to target and if 40% of the country said 39% of all registered voter

s prefer to vote by mail. 49% say they are at least somewhat likely to vote by mail, so more than ever, would you say if someone's going to go through the effort to say i'm not going to be in town like you won't be in florida that's absentee, would you support someone writing in a request for a ballot and having said my reason , concern about covid? would that be something you'd accept and number two -- president trump: i totally support that. that's called absentee ballot. that's a great thing. that's like florida. brian: right so certain states aren't, so you would support that. number two is being that we all know we're in a pandemic, no one denies that. would you be open to doing anything different than novembe? you'd be open to november 2, would you be open to voting through the weekend to give people a chance to socially distance? would you support more locations national guard working? would you sit down and try to work some adjustments in? president trump: i would support all of that. that's what you want to do and

people we voted during world war one, we voted during world war ii, we voted during many crisis. i mean, we voted like nobody would believe we never had a problem and now we have problems . look at carolyn malone, the horrible thing that took place and they are declaring her a winner with no idea where the ballots and votes are. they should do that election over but patterson, new jersey. take a look at what's going on, brian. there's nothing -- brian: so you need to put both sides together and do something. president trump: i be for opening more voting booths where people actually come in and they say here is where i live and i live in the state, you know, you're going to have people, you're going to have mailmen, people are in trouble like you wouldn't believe on small, little elections. in patterson 20% of the vote is tainted. 20%. brian: a whole bunch of ballots on the post office floor. president trump: but it's a terrible thing that's going on and they are going to get us

into a mess and we'll be a laugh ing stock all over the world. you won't know who did this two years from now you're not going to know. steve: mr. president you were citing some statistics there, brian had a poll a moment ago. going back to the poll business with the cnn poll that shows now you're within four of joe biden, it could be an outlier and then there was another poll that we were talking about last week, where more people believe that their neighbor is going to vote for donald trump than will vote for joe biden. then there's always the suggestion that there are all of these hidden or secret trump voters out there, and i know they certainly went to the polls four years ago. do you have any idea how many there are? is it 2%? is it 4%? is it 8%? when you're doing the calculation in your head, you say to yourself, well the hidden trump voter is x percent. president trump: so when you look outside and you look at all

of these tremendous events that are taking place having nothing to do with us, the votes, thousands and thousand of votes that we talked about and the bikers riding thousands along the highways bikers for trump, when you look at that , when you look at all of the things that are going on, when you see the level of enthusiasm, don't forget there was one poll that nobody talks about. it was a poll by a very respected company that said 62% remember it was a couple weeks ago, 62% of the people polled have said they're not telling the truth about what they're doing. if that's the case you're talking about a landslide because whether we like it or not they are talking about from one side not the other side. steve: so how many are there? president trump: i don't know i think there's a lot. i can only say this. we won every swing state. every one. we won states that are republican hadn't won in decades you know when you talk about wisconsin, you talk about michigan and talk about so many

other places, but we won every swing state. we won pennsylvania which hadn't been won is a great state. they can't to stop fracking. if you stop fracking then you can tell your energy costs in the whole country is going to go up by three, four, five times. brian: biden says he doesn't want to stop fracking. ainsley: kamala harris does. president trump: he always wanted to stop now he's changing his mind because the people in texas were killing them in texas , you know, can you imagine going to texas and saying we don't like oil? they don't like oil, guns or religion. other than that they're wonderful. they don't like oil? they don't like guns, and they don't like, then you suppose, george washington couldn't win texas with that platform. so now, what they're doing is saying this isn't working out well in texta pennsylvania, ohio, all these places, and it's not working out. well let's change our mind and after we get in, you saw bernie sanders. he said look we got to get biden in once we get him in we'll get him changed. you saw that horrible congresswoman, she was horrible, bragging about how she totally

controls biden, that he'll do whatever she wants and that was two days ago. that's what's going to happen. joe biden is shot. let's face it. joe is shot. now, maybe people are going to feel sorry for him but our country is too important for that. you're dealing with people that are very sharp. you're dealing with world class chess players in the leaders of these countries. i know them all. we do very well with all of them urduwan of turkey all of them. you can't have a guy that's shot you can't have a guy that doesn't know where he is. you can't have a guy that's afraid to leave his basement because he can't speak any longer, and by the way his best day wasn't good you know that? he was not the guy, but we're not talking about a bad time, and you can't do that. you can't feel sorry for him and vote for him because if that means then the kamala harris is going to take over and she's a disaster. look at her positions on everything. she wants to takeaway everyone's gun and totally ban fossil fuels

and literally, she has no idea how you're going to power up your factories i guess the best way is to cut them in half you won't have any factories and we're going to have the greatest quarter and next year will be the greatest year we ever had, we're cutting taxes, our energy, we're energy-independent now, we're winning wars, we're getting out, look at the isis caliphate. 100% when i took it over it was all over the middle east, it was all over syria. i knocked it out and i'm bringing everybody back home. biden can't do that. brian: they are reconstituting in afghanistan. ainsley: if you look at her issues -- president trump: well think about if they are reconstituting i'll take them out but we had at one point, more than 100,000 soldiers it's ridiculous and we're ready to do whatever we have to do. we're dealing with the taliban. i said look, let me tell you something and i've dealt with them directly. these are tough people like you people. maybe not that tough, but you

know what? these are tough people. i said look if you play games, we're going to come and we're going to hit you harder than any country in the history of the world has ever been hit. and they understand that, but we've been there, brian we've been there 19 years. i greet people coming back home. now, nobody has been killed there in a long time, do you notice in afghanistan, you haven't, you know, nobody has been killed in afghanistan in a long time. nobody has been killed in iraq in a long time. iraq we're down to 2,000 soldiers, and you know, but it's an amazing thing what we've done, and get no credit for it. do you remember when i was, you know, people think that i'm this warrior, war-like person. they said oh, it's going to, we're going to be in a war right away. where's the war? i've gotten us out of wars i don't want to be in wars. no i'm the best fighter if we have to go into a war but we only go into wars to win the wars and i get along with a lot of these countries that in theory we could have war. they call me up, they need help

with turkey. the heads of countries last week , they call me up. could you call urduwan. i said why. you're the only one he'll listen to. you're the only one. i said is that because of the united states, he says no that's because of you. that's because of your personality. you're the only one that he will listen to. and do you know what i don't like saying this publicly but it happens to be true. i get along with him and he listens, and you know, we took the border. remember between syria and turkey, i took our troops out and i said let them control their own border. we have enough borders to control, and by the way on that on our southern border the wall is going to be built very soon. it's almost built, it's moving very rapidly we're up to about 280-mile, it'll be built right by the end of the year, a little bit after the end of the year, and that's where the party totally against me. you notice it's never mentioned any more. nobody mentions the wall anymore because i won. ainsley: well kamala harris wants to stop construction on

the border wall but can i ask you something about new york city? president trump: then you shouldn't let her be in office because we would have right now the plague coming in, like you know those 280 miles i built have stopped like hundreds of thousands of people. mexico is heavy, heavy covid territory. they are tile it infected. i built the wall and that wall has stopped people from coming in. if she said that and i know sleepy joe said it, he said we should stop the wall and i might even tear it down. he wants to tear down a wall that's the best border wall ever built in terms of the success of it, in terms of the best-ever built he wants to tear it down. a country needs borders or you don't have a country. people were flowing in remember the caravans that had been coming in, thousands of people just pouring in. we stopped all of that. we have one of the strongest borders we've ever had now at the southern border and i've got mexico, 27,000 troops, i said you guard the border. i want you to guard otherwise i

charge you tariffs and they've been great. ainsley: mr. president, let me ask you something that so many people are concerned about in our country if you look at portland, seattle, chicago, if you look at new york city i know you've sent a warning to our mayor here in new york,deblasio, after another bloody weekend. what's the mayor's response and what are you asking him to do? president trump: the mayor has no response. he doesn't know what he's doing, he's a fool. he's a socialist, communist maybe he's a fool. he got rid of some of the most talented policemen that there are in the world and that includes looking for very bad things all beyond new york. some of those people are gone and that's no good. no, this is a fool. this is a fool. look at the shootings. when i left new york four years ago, new york was, i could see the seeds of this because he's been a bad mayor but new york was good. it was okay. it all happened recently. it all came together. all of this over a period of

years as he's been mayor, but about a year, and then six months ago, it's incredible what happened. when i left new york four years ago, we were doing great. i was doing good. everybody was doing good. now but you could see the seeds were being sewn. the seeds it was happening, bad stuff was happening you could see it, the squeegies were starting to come out, tents were starting to be built on the sidewalk. rudy giuliani was a great mayor. rudy giuliani did a great job, between window, you know, fixed broken windows because he said that's a sign and it leads a lot of people wouldn't even understand that. it's psychologically very important but rudy, he was a great mayor and he did stop and frisk. he did stop and frisk. he took guns away from bad people. now, if you take a gun away from a bad people oh, you got, you know, they sue you. they sue you. it's so crazy what they've

allowed to happen and if the democrats got in you have to understand you're only talking about a small, tiny portion of our country. most of the country is strong, law-abiding, no games. i was in texas, we had 100,000 people along the highway. i was in texas, i was in florida , i got the sheriff's endorsement all over florida and you have to see. these people aren't playing games. this is new york, chicago, these are portland is just run by fools. it is run by fools. steve: mr. president, you know because the dnc is kicking off today and because for the most part reporters have not been able to ask joe biden any serious questions, because he is sequestered at his place there in delaware, in large measure it's going to come down to the debates, where it's you and him on the stage for two hours, over three nights. can you tell us a little bit about your debate prep so far and what your approach is going to be, because i'm sure you're going to feel like the

moderators are asking you questions that are much harder than joe biden and then you're going to turn to joe biden and you're going to bring something up that they have not. are you going to be super aggressive toward joe biden as well as answering the questions or what's going on? president trump: well that happened last time with hillary and also in the republican primaries. they gave me much tougher questions than anybody else and according to the polls they do the polls after the debates and i won every single poll and every single debate and i never did it professionally before, you know, all these guys and their politicians and that's what they do for a living i never did it but you know what i mean, time magazine poll and this and that all these different polls that they had. i won every single poll of every single debate. steve: so how are you preparing for this debate? president trump: by working very hard, you know what by working very hard not on debates but on running the country, but because you know it's like i see where everybody says oh, we're working with trump. honestly what i'm doing is i'm

doing my job. my job is telling me, i mean that's the best debate prep. i've sort of been preparing all my life that's what i do but i guess i'll do some preparation but i didn't do much last time because i understand what's happening. i mean, law and order we need law and order. you don't have to prep for that. you can't have these stupid stupid people from portland where the mayor goes into the crowd and they want to tear him apart. i mean the whole thing is crazy what's going on. brian: but mr. president, for example, you know that you have to prepare for ted cruz differently than marco rubio and you watched joe biden against bernie sanders and you said you were surprised how well he did. will you go back and look at biden against ryan, will you go back and look at sanders and the word is you're using chris christie to play joe biden. president trump: well no, i'm not using chris. chris is a friend of mine that got out there. everybody says oh, i'm helping trump with this. no, i'm not. i get along with chris he's good and i may use him.

i used him last time to play the role of hillary clinton. there was big differences there between those two i will tell you but chris was good and tough brian: what does biden bring? president trump: biden, look, biden is shot. i'm telling you he's shot. there's nothing going on. now with that being said, i don't underestimate anybody. only a fool would do that, because joe biden is okay. he wasn't winston churchill but he was okay against crazy bernie now, bernie was bad in that debate, you know, he was ranting like a lunatic, so joe sat there and watched and he was able to get answers out but joe, i've seen joe in other debates where he is so bad, i never thought joe would get there because if you go back into the many debate s that they had because i got to watch quite a few of them as much as i could that's called debate prep too to be honest but i watched joe. he was so bad in some of those democrat debates where he had a lot of people on stage

that i said well, joe is dead, has to be dead, and remember if elizabeth warren got out, just got utility, didn't have to endorse, joe wouldn't be the guy it would have been bernie. bernie got wacked twice unfairly by the party. he's the greatest loser i've ever seen, in a nice sense, in other words he obviously likes losing because i want to use a different word more accurate but they took advantage of him the first time in 2016 and they took tremendous advantage of him here. they piled up on him and then she left right after super tuesday. if she would have stayed in, if she would have stayed in the race, by staying in the race she gave it to joe. if she would have gotten out, bernie would have gotten all of those votes, all of those votes or most of her votes. he would have won every state because super tuesday is where it ended and the only reason is that she stayed in. and then she got out right after super tuesday but by that time it was too late. brian: you don't expect much from him. president trump: i have to tell

you it's amazing how nicely bernie takes it. he takes it like, you know, he's a major loser. brian: but when you look at biden in particular, if he goes and is okay and if you got the standards so low that'll look like a win for him. do you feel so you have to do that? president trump: brian, so i have big news. this is breaking news today. if we won a debate and we're all set we've agreed, they're making one mistake they should have one of the debates before ballots start going out, you know the absentee ballots hopefully. we have many court cases so a lot of things are going to happen over the next two weeks we have a case in pennsylvania a lot of cases. we have a case in nevada so you know, a lot of things are going to happen with respect to the universal voting which is the greatest scam of all-time if it's allowed to go but absentee ballot but the one of the debate s should be early. one of the debates should be early, but you know, joe biden, we can see that joe biden

doesn't want to debate but here is the story. if joe makes it through the debate, i think they are an hour and a half and i said only standing you have to stand, but if joe makes it through the debate, the news, not you people, let's see the three of you, yeah i'm pretty sure you'll call it straight, but the news will say it was the greatest performance in the history of debating. he was brilliant. he was unbelievable, joe biden all he has to do is if he can make it off the stage and walk back unassisted, they will say it was the single-greatest debate performance in history. you know that and so do i. ainsley: so mr. president, what are the issues to separate you all? because when you go to the polls you really have to look at the issues. either people agree with your policies or they agree with biden and the democrats and sometimes the progressive policies so what are the different issues that separate you when people are on the fence when it comes to this

election? president trump: well it's everything. you just don't have enough time left. you only have a short number of hours left. i mean, we could talk all day, but it's energy. it's fracking. it's stock market. look what's going to happen with the stock market. it's going to set new records and joe will crash it. the market will crash. it's health care. they want to do socialized medicine. socialized medicine. now you're going to lose your doctor just like obama lied, you can keep your doctor, you can keep your plan, you remember he said it 28 different times. it was a total lie, but now you're going to lose your doctor we got rid of the individual mandate for obamacare, that was the most unpopular part that actually killed obamacare by the way, but that was the most unpopular thing in all of government, and i was able to get it voted out, which was amazing. they want to put it back. you just told me about the wall. they don't want security they

don't want open borders. second amendment, they want to either obliterate it or get rid of it entirely. look at kamala and biden. he put beto, who turned out to be a total anti-gun guy, who turned out to be a total disaster for the party by the way but they put beto in charge of guns. nra gave me the strongest endorsement they've given anybody by the way and if you look at the gun situation it's horrible. one other thing real fast. i watched today and you have drug companies advertising against me. that's because i'm going to reduce drug prices by 50, 60, 70 % because i'm doing favored anythings nobody's done that before. germany pays a tiny fraction, uk , canada all these countries they pay a fraction of what the united states pays, and i told them for a long time you're going to make a deal or do favorite nations. favored nations means we pay the same as these countries that

are paying much much less. now so what they're doing is going out and doing ads against me. anytime you see a drug ad against donald trump that means prices are coming down but nobody's ever done that plus rebate. we're getting rebate and keeping them and giving them back to the people. steve: mr. president? president trump: nobody's ever done that. steve: let me ask you about a breaking news story from the wall street journal. they say the trump adminitration plans to open up part of the pristine arctic national wildlife refuge to oil drilling. what can you tell us about that? president trump: well we're looking at different thick things, we may or may not do it we did do an war that's a big deal that ronald regan couldn't get done. everybody wanted it. steve: this says you're planning to allow it. president trump: well no we are looking at it when you say planning to allow we are looking at different things in alaska. i've been very good to alaska, very good to alaska and we are looking at things in alaska. i got them a highway that's going to be built they've been after for 44 years, we will take

a look at that. i am very pro-energy. at the same time, i'm very, look at what we just signed with corey gardner and steve danes just two weeks ago we signed the biggest environmental bill. they said the biggest since teddy roosevelt and it could be bigger when you add for what i did for utah so i'm very much i hate to say it, in theory i should go down as a great environmental president, because if you take a look at that, add that on to what we did also, if you look at i opened up the mine , the iron ore mines, we have the best in the world, so i opened that and you know, i've reversed things also. look at maine. president obama shut down 5,000 square mile, do you know what 5,000 square miles of fishing and lobster fishing in maine. i opened it up for maine. then i got rid of the tariffs in europe and china for them because they couldn't do business because europe and china had tariffs on them as

usual. they take advantage of the u.s. , and i should win the state of maine, i mean what i did for them was, you know i don't know that i will. i know i'll win half of it, i'll win maine two but i've done things no other president be capable of doing and hate to brag, but i have no choice, because the press isn't going to say it. ainsley: mr. president we appreciate you being with us i know you tweeted out about your brother's death. you said you'll see him again one day and to rest in peace. we wish you the best as you have to plan his funeral you're in america's thoughts and prayers godless you thank you so much. president trump: i really appreciate it thank you all very much. brian: thank you. ainsley: we have more "fox & friends" moments away. from prom dresses... ...to soccer practices... ...and new adventures. you hope the more you give the less they'll miss. but even if your teen was vaccinated against meningitis in the past... they may be missing vaccination for meningitis b.

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>> i just have to go in with 15 minutes for the president of the united states. standing by now is lawrence jones. you know him on fox nation and all over the channel. lawrence, everybody conventional wisdom is it's about coronavirus. do you go with the election will be decided who is best to handle it? due subscribe to that and what you got fra this interview? >> first condolences to the president. he lost his brother. that's something we're all impacted by. we never want to lose a family member someone we grew up with. condolences in the president in our thoughts and prayers. the coronavirus is definitely one aspect of it. when you look at american cities right now and you see

them up in flames. i don't mean some are literally up in flames, but the crime rate, new york city 177% increase in shootings. that will be the defining issue. why do i say that? most people would say campaigns have a list of issues. education reform, economy, you've got people's healthcare, you have environmental policy. none of that matters if you don't feel safe. for the fact that all these major cities are experiencing such increases in shootings and crimes. that will be the defining issue. i think it's pretty unfair to ask people to choose between good policy and their safety. and that's where you'll see a lot of those silent trump voters. >> if you're watching a lot of the other channels, that law and order thing you would never see that on the other channels because they're talking about the peaceful protests. they're not peaceful. >> the people that were once

peaceful are at home now or planning to march on washington that will happen next week. a lot of the people burning up these cities aren't protestors, they're professional paid anarchists and there needs to be a distinction. the democrats boxed themselves in. we were having a great conversation when the state abuses their power what should we do? these people have their own agenda. it is not talking about black folks and improving their lives. what the president has to do and will be traveling across the country is make that case and talk to black men about the criminal justice policy and what republicans can do on the local level. that has to be the case for america. >> thank you for joining us. good to see you. he was saying law and order he thinks will be such a deciding factor when people go to the polls in november. >> let's see if the democrats talk about it tonight. complete coverage of the dnc tonight and tomorrow the

post-game show. >> see you tomorrow. >> sandra: more violence in portland, oregon, overnight. police fighting with protestors there while trying to break up a large crowd as the city marks it's 80th straight night of often violent protests. a riot was declared overnight in seattle tweeting several police officers were hurt when people threw fireworks and other things at them. here we are. the democratic convention ck