you very much for watching us and making us your choice for morning news. >> everyone have a great weekend. the next thing to look forward to is the debates. >> the very next thing the radio show. >> with brian today at 9:00. [shouting] >> sandra: tense moments in our nation's capital. a crowd of protestors confronting senator rand paul as he left the white house following president trump's acceptance speech. video shows officers trying to keep the peace while escorting the senator and his wife back to their hotel. senator paul tweeting his thanks to the police for literally saving our lives from a crazed mob. we'll have more on this in just a moment. we begin with the fourth and final night of the rnc. president trump accepting his

party's nomination to run for another term in the white house. the president making his case for reelection while attacking joe biden as too weak to stand up to progressive democrats. i'm sandra smith. hi, trace. >> good morning to you. i'm trace gallagher. fireworks on stage and off as president trump addressed supporters listing his accomplishments over the last four years and painting his opponent as -- >> president trump: biden is a trojan horse for socialism. we've spent the last four years the damage joe biden inflicted over the last 47 years. at the democrat convention you barely heard a word about their agenda but that's not because they don't have one. it is because their agenda is the most extreme set of proposals ever put forward by a major party nominee. joe biden may claim he is an ally of the light, but when it

comes to his agenda, biden wants to keep us completely in the dark. >> sandra: kicking things off this morning peter doocy is report being live from delaware where joe biden is preparing to hold a round table. but we begin with kristin fisher reporting live from the white house this morning. so kristin, how is the campaign feeling the morning after the big speech last night? >> sandra, all of the white house and trump campaign officials i've talked to this morning are thrilled that the republicans were able to pull off this unconventional convention without any major technical issues and they believe that president trump did what he needed to do in his acceptance speech last night. you can see he walked out beneath the grandeur of the white house essentially thumbing his nose at everyone accusing him of violating the hatch act and he lit into joe biden speaking his name about 40 times during this 70-minute address. the second longest acceptance speech in history. >> president trump: joe biden

is not a savior of america's soul. he is the destroyer of america's jobs. and if given the chance, he will be the destroyer of american greatness. >> there were between 1,000 and 2,000 people gathered on the south lawn to watch that speech. there was no social distancing. hardly any masks and hardly any coronavirus tests administered beforehand. there is no way this event complied with the president's own government's guidelines. critics say it's the possibility to become a super spreader event and symbolized the difference between the president and the former vice president's response to the pandemic. >> president trump: the cost of the biden shutdown would be measured in increased drug overdoses, depression, alcohol addiction, suicides, heart attacks, economic devastation,

job loss, and much more. joe biden's plan is not a solution to the virus, but rather it's a surrender to the virus. >> ironic because joe biden used that same or similar attack line against the president. president trump will be going straight from the convention to the campaign trail. he has an event in manchester, new hampshire tonight and this weekend likely to be heading to the gulf coast to tour some of that awful damage after the hurricane. >> sandra: we'll have more on that coming up. kristin, tell us more about what exactly happened to senator rand paul as he was leaving the white house last night with his wife? >> it was a scary event to watch the video. senator rand paul was on fox and described the event as horrific. he was leaving the white house after the president's address last night trying to get to his hotel which was just a few blocks away. he was surrounded by a big crowd of protestors and the senator says that they were threatening to kill him and

hurt him and his wife. he believes that they would have killed him if the police had not been there to help him get out. >> they were shouting threats to us to kill us, to hurt us. they were also shouting say her name, brionne yeah taylor. the irony is lost on these idiots they're trying to kill who is trying to get rid of no knock raids. >> those kinds of images in the streets of the nation's capital. that kind of -- the crowd coming so close to republican senator right here, that really just plays right into the president's playbook that he believes he is the law and order president and the person that's needed to quell the violence on these streets. >> sandra: more on that interview with rand paul coming up.

trace. >> trace: joe biden sitting down for his first interview in days claiming president trump is rooting for violence across america because he thinks it helps sell his political message. peter doocy live for us in delaware. what makes biden say that president trump wants violence in the country? >> trace, joe biden is trying to argue now that donald trump wants there to be these violent confrontations in the streets so that voters focus on that and not on his handling of covid. >> he continues to root for violence. the country will be substantially safer when he is no longer in office. >> you think that he wants violence because it allows him to claim a law and order mantle? >> sure. it takes everybody's eye off the ball. >> the former v.p. is going to have three chances to say that to president trump's face. he pledged to attend all the

scheduled head-to-head debates this fall even though his parties highest ranking official nancy pelosi says there shouldn't be any debates period. >> as long as the commission continues down the straight and narrow as they have. i know for certain that i'll be a fact checker on the floor during the debate, in fact. >> he also said in these interviews that he may soon go to wisconsin to visit with jacob blake's family if it can be done safely. but remember, just a week ago his convention speech in wisconsin had to be called off because none of the party's officials thought it could be done safely in the covid era. trace. >> trace: when does joe biden plan to start campaigning again? >> in-person events within the next few weeks. he was speaking to donors on a zoom call last night. here is the deal.

without jeopardizing state rules one of the things we're thinking about is i'm going to be going up to wisconsin and minnesota spending time in pennsylvania out in arizona. but we'll do it in a way that is fully consistent with being responsible unlike what this guy is doing. and remember, last week abc news asked joe biden if he could win by staying at home. he said we will. but that calculus may now be changing. >> trace: peter doocy live in delaware. >> sandra: hard to believe both conventions are officially in the books. and the messaging could not have been more different. democrats talking about character and compassion while republicans focused largely on law and order and economic recovery. let's bring in bill mcgurn. former chief speech writer for george w. bush and fox news contributor. i say hard to believe because it seems to be going fast now as we work our way towards

november. both parties have officially had their chance, their big weeks to make their case for four years or in the case of president trump for more years in the white house. which candidate's message resonated with voters the most? last week and this week? >> well, we don't know that yet which resonated the most. clearly joe biden's message that he is the man for the job resonated with a lot of people that don't like president trump and want to see him defeated. but i do think that the republicans put on a more successful convention just in terms of everything from production values to optimism and so forth. i wasn't expecting it to be quite as good as i think it was. i think that's driving some of my colleagues in the media a little crazy. >> sandra: it is really interesting. you saw both candidates take on each other's records on the issues. the "wall street journal" editorial board takes on donald trump's record this morning

with this piece. the trump disruption they call it. his policy record better than he and his opponents have made it sound. the beginning of the piece when donald trump won the presidency four years ago half of america nashed its teeth or cried and weren't sure what to expect. four years later our verdict is he has been better on policy than we feared but worse on personal behavior than we hoped. whether americans reelect him depends on how they assess that political balance sheet. it was an interesting way to put it, bill. >> right. look, i agree with her own editorial. what the republicans did this week on the policy i think. they did something democrats usually do. instead of lecturing people about policy they told stories. they showed people who were affected. the woman who was affected by the right to try law. the other mom of special needs child who got into a school because of a school choice

program and so forth. the widow of the st. louis retired police captain who was murdered. they put faces on policy. i think they did it in an extraordinary way. it is not a skill republicans usually have. it's usually democrats that are much better at putting the human face forward. >> sandra: i want to finish off by asking you about what happened to rand paul and his wife as they left the white house last night. he describes the moment that he and his wife were attacked, what he described as a mob on the streets right outside of the white house. here is the senator moments ago. >> the crowd was getting bigger and bigger and pushing me in. they were yelling threats trying to push the police over to get to me. they were grabbing at us and it got worse and worse and worse. and they were shouting threats to us to kill us, to hurt us but also saying shouting say her name, breonna taylor. you couldn't reason with this

mob. i'm actually the author of the breonna taylor law for no knocks raids. >> sandra: you see this happening right outside of the white house. police trying to protect the senator and his wife and trying to keep the peace. what did you think as you watched that scene play out? >> well, you know, a couple of things. one is for all the lectures on donald trump and character and civility, we really have to contrast last night watching the president put on his convention at the white house where right outside there are these people demonstrating. it looked quite ugly at different parts. another thing is you would think this would be an opportunity for joe biden to come out and say clearly and definishively what happened to my former colleague rand paul is disgusting. it does not represent what i stand for and these people are -- they're only helping donald trump when they do it. it would be nice to see some

condemnation. we hear all about civility and we have these kind of regular clashes where they intimidate innocent people and in the worst forms where they riot, break into stores, hurt people, and set people's businesses on fire. i think this is again another thing if you want to reelect trump, have more of the same. >> sandra: you hear the shouting behind the senator and his wife. shouts to kill him. continued threats coming from those surrounding him. we'll continue to get reaction to that throughout the morning. bill mcgurn, thank you. >> trace: fox news alert from kenosha, wisconsin, police arrested nine people traveling in out of state vehicles wednesday on suspicion of disorderly conduct. they found fireworks, gas masks and fuel cans inside the vehicle after stopping them at a gas station. meantime prosecutors filing more charges against the 17-year-old suspect accused of

shooting and killing two protestors in kenosha tuesday. kyle rittenhouse is getting hit with one count of reckless homicide. one count of attempted intentional homicide. two counts of reckless endangering safety. he had already been charged with first degree intentional homicide. he will face a judge shortly at an extradition hearing in illinois. >> sandra: meanwhile six people are dead and hundreds of thousands are now without power as the gulf coast starts to assess the full damage and destruction left behind by hurricane laura. plus an ex-democrat making his pitch for president trump accusing his former party of adopting a radical socialist agenda. will that message resonate with voters on the fence about joe biden? congressman jeff van drew will join us next. >> here is my advice. be true to who you are now, not

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abe suffers from uls rative colitis. he had two hospital visits in the past week. this is the second time abe has resigned of prime minister because of poor health. he will stay on until a replacement has been elected and approved by parliament. >> i have had enough with their radical socialist agenda. do you really believe joe biden is ready, willing, and most of all able to do the same? as joe says, come on, man. joe biden is being told what to do by the radicals running my former party. the same radicals trying to install him as their puppet president. >> sandra: democrat turned republican congressman jeff van drew tearing into his former party saying a lot of democrats support president trump because they're disgusted by what their party has become and president trump made him feel more

welcome in the oval office than nancy pelosi ever did in her caucus. new jersey congressman joins us now. good morning to you. thank you for being in here. what was that like for you to be on that stage with the spotlight on you tearing into the party you were a member of for nearly 30 years? >> well, i just think i told the truth. it wasn't a matter of tearing in. it was just telling it as it is. i think what's so important to realize is the contrast of these two conventions. i mean, this is really about the future. which direction do you want to take, the direction that president trump an many speakers laid out or a direction of the democratic party? i think americans believe this is a good country and a country that has a tremendous future and a country that can do anything and where people can reach any aspiration. it was an aspirational convention. i wanted to just point out to people who were democrats and people who just wonder what is

going on that you don't have to be true to a party that is so substantively changed and no longer represents the party that you loved or that you knew or that your parents and grandparents knew. it is not the same party. it is not the same party at all. things change. that has changed a lot. it is time for us to move on and make sure that our country has the future that we believe in. >> sandra: you said a lot of democrats are supporting president trump because they're disgusted with what their party has become. what are you seeing on that front as far as the upcoming election? >> well, i think you are going to see that people are -- many hard working people who just do their job every day and are looking for a good future in america, they believe in the rule of law. they don't believe what they saw outside the white house yesterday or what is going on in wisconsin or what's going on in portland or what's going on in seattle or chicago. they don't believe that's right.

and they don't believe that just giving in and not making sure that we have the rule of law is the right thing to do. they believe that we do need strong energy production. they do believe that we need to support our military. they do believe that we need, without question, not to defund demean or diminish our police. the clips you're showing of rand paul i'm sure he always knew the importance of police. when you go through something like that you really understand what those men and women go through. how many of them are hurt. how many of them literally are killed in this country every year. yet we never talk about that. we should be honoring those folks for what they're doing and yes, you know, there could be one out of 1,000 that does something wrong and that should be dealt with. that's what we do. america is a self-healing, self-correcting nation where we come together, every race, every color, every creed, and we work together and fight

together to make america even better. the difference in the democratic convention was it is almost like we are going to work to even bring us down more and say how we aren't a good place, we're not the shining city on the hill. we're not this special place where we can all really grab the brass ring and do better. it was more about those images and what you really, you know, felt about the kun -- country. yesterday was the america we know and love. it is okay to say god, to sing god bless america. it is okay to have faith and believe in family and it's okay to work hard and obey the rule of love and okay to love our military and police and our emts. it's all okay. >> sandra: you have a big message to share. we heard a lot on that stage last night. if i could ask you about something i just talked to bill mcgurn this morning. in their piece in the "wall street journal" the verdict for

them is donald trump has been better at policy than we feared but worse on personal behavior than we hoped. so finally what is your message to those democrats that might be on the fence who they might like some of the things they heard and saw at the republican convention this week but they still question the president's behaviors or like ivanka trump addressed his tweeting in her speech last night. what is your message to the democrats on the fence and haven't quite decided yet? >> this isn't a competition about behavior. it is a competition about getting the job done, loving america and keeping the america that we know and have loved. that's what donald trump represents. he says things that he believes. you are not going to change the man. he is still going to tweet and he will still say things he believes in. sometimes he might be a little rough around the edges. he is not a politician. he is a builder. he is a person who created a lot of entrepreneurial en dever

in the country and certainly in the new york area. he is a different kind of person but that's okay because the net result is that he has done good. look at all those individual families and people that talked about what he did. he sure did. there are many more voices out there. many things people don't know. how many people we bring back from other countries where they weren't safe. how many people we help. you don't hear those. those are the real things. what's really happening. >> sandra: you are a big voice in this election having been a democrat for multiple decades and now republican supporting the president. we appreciate your time this morning. thank you. >> thank you. >> trace: unprecedented moment in major league baseball. two teams walk off the field in support of the social justice protest. how players and fans are reacting is straight ahead plus hurricane laura leaving at least six people dead and hundreds of thousands without power. a live report from one of the hardest-hit cities in louisiana is next. >> it looks like a tornado has

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>> sandra: it is the bottom of the hour. time for top stories. at least six people are dead and 900,000 homes an businesses are without power this morning after hurricane laura barreled across louisiana yesterday. entire neighborhoods in ruins.

a full assessment of the damage could take days. >> trace: the republican national convention ended with president trump accepting renomination. speaking from the south lawn of the white house the president argued that he has delivered on his promises while attacking joe biden as a trojan horse for the radical left. >> sandra: people in four california counties are starting to return to their homes after 12 days of wildfires. some having to decide whether to rebuild. two of the biggest fires are more than 30% contained. hundreds of fires have burned. more than 1.3 million acres across the state. an area six times bigger than new york city. >> i have a dream that one day on the red hills of georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

>> sandra: today marks 57 years since the march on washington and that historic speech by martin luther king junior. to mark the anniversary activists gather at the steps of the lincoln memorial once again this time protesting police brutality in a summer of civil nationwide northwest. kevin corke is live at the lincoln memorial in washington this morning. who will be at the march today? >> good morning to you. you just heard the conclusion of lift every voice and sing. we're expecting the families of george floyd, trevon martin, eric garner and breonna taylor. we've been here since before 6:00 a.m. and we've seen other -- >> sandra: thousands set to march in washington today. get your knee off our next protests happening in d.c. kevin cork tried to give us a look at the scene there as they

turn the camera, we lost the shot. trace, what a beautiful morning this is and we're about to see festivities underway really the meat of it beginning at 11:00 a.m. eastern time in washington >> trace: you look at the chain of events and go back to last night. you had the president renominated. acceptance speech on the south lawn of the white house and walking away from that ceremony you had rand paul who was attacked by this crowd and there has been this movement, this protest all summer long and you have now major league baseball, the nfl, the players walking away culminates with this in washington today. it really is this entire epitome of coming together on the washington mall will be something to see today. >> sandra: we'll see everything beginning a short time from now. many were already gathering at the steps of the lincoln memorial there. you mentioned the gathering of all those folks is starting now because of course there is social distancing in play.

people will be spread out. as you can see some beginning to speak. this is sort of the pre-program that is happening you reference the tik tok and the actual program will begin at 11:00 and run for two years. the get your knee off my neck commitment walk in washington will happen a short time from now. we'll be watching for it. >> trace: the new york mets and miami marlins were just talking about staging one of the most dramatic protests ever in sports in response to the shooting of jacob blake. they stepped onto the field and shared 42 seconds of silence. the players then walked off before the first pitch leaving a black lives matter t-shirt over home plate. robert redfield defending new guidance and the cdc revised recommendations. previously they were

encouraging everyone who was exposed to the virus to get tested even if they did not have symptoms. now the cdc says there is no need for asymptomatic people to get tested. in a statement cdc director says this. everyone who needs a covid-19 test can get a test. everyone who wants a test does not necessarily need a test. the key is to engage the needed public health community in the decision with the appropriate follow-up action. of course, the best course of action is to call your healthcare provider if you know you've been exposed and ask how to proceed. you have to constantly stay in touch with what the cdc guidance is. as we know through the pandemic so much has been added or changed. >> trace: the key thing. the whole thing. if you feel like you were exposed, do you get tested? that's what we're waiting for clarity from the cdc. them saying if you don't have symptoms you don't need to get tested.

what if you were exposed in the past 24 hours and you know how asymptomatic spread has been talked about. >> sandra: best course of action, always call your doctor. >> trace: we're awaiting the first court appearance of the teenager shooting and killing two in kenosha. where the case goes from here. plus joe biden responding to calls from within his own party to skip the debates against president trump. some top democrats saying the president isn't worthy. >> why even waste everybody's time listening to what he has to say? (upbeat music) - [narrator] this is kate. she always wanted her smile to shine. now, she uses a capful of therabreath healthy smile oral rinse

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charles for us this morning. jonathan. >> the destruction is devastating. look down this street here. you can see businesses torn to shreds by the 98 mile-an-hour sustained winds and even a gust clocked up to 132 miles an hour tearing through this community destroying many homes and businesses. in the nearby town of west lake, firefighters and hazmat teams are still on the scene of a chemical fire at a chemical plant. they extinguished the initial fire that erupted there yesterday but then a second fire flared up. teams removed chemical products involved in the second fire which is still moldering. emergency and management officials have extended their shelter in place advisory to a one-mile radius. very difficult for residents to do without electricity. as we come back to our live shot you can see downed power lines. most people in this community

are without electricity unless they have electric generators and there is no water service. it is not a boil water advisory. that means if you turn on the tap, nothing comes out. >> sandra: hard hit lake charles, louisiana there. jonathan, thank you. >> why i said he shouldn't debate him has nothing to do with joe biden. joe biden will be great. he is great as a debater. what it is is about how totally inappropriate -- if that's the nicest word i can think of is. has no even slight flirtation with truth, fact, evidence, data. >> trace: speaker nancy pelosi explaining her suggestion that joe biden should skip the debates with president trump. the former vice president ignore that advice saying he plans to attend all three debates. here to talk about it is juan williams. fox news political analyze and

company host of "the five". i was struck when nancy pelosi went on to say she doesn't see any reason for joe biden to engage in a conversation with president trump. i mean, he is, after all, juan, the president. >> for sure. i think the american people are accustomed to seeing their presidential candidates debate and i think they could be crucial in terms of establishing some sense of not only joe biden's ability, because he has been under attack by the president and the president's allies for being a bit doddering and older and all that. but also i think just establish exactly the choice in the election, which is what the president was trying to do last night versus a referendum simply on trump. i will say this to you, trace. i think her message was about president trump and she feels that the press has enabled trump and let him get away with telling untruths.

biden yesterday said that trump has a pathological tendency not to tell the truth. and i think pelosi is kind of putting pressure on the press to call out falsehoods, lies by the president during that debate. >> trace: how much more pressure could they put on the press, juan? you have cnn and msnc, abc and cbs and nbs have a stance opposing the president. how much stress could the press be put under to put the president's feet to the fire? >> i think that from the pelosi point of view i just give you a quick example, exactly what she said. why did the press allow candidate trump to walk up behind hillary clinton in an intimidating stance during their debates? why didn't they tell him to sit down? i think in this case it's much more about being active, being sort of in the moment.

biden yesterday said he would be correcting the president act fact checking him on stage. from pelosi, the press is slow to say that isn't quite true or -- rather than saying this guy is exaggerating or even lying. in the moment. >> trace: the statement quotin biden has vehemently opposed holding one debate before millions of americans start voting. one has to wonder why he would fear a side-by-side comparison with president trump before ballots are cast. joe biden then went on to say this, watch. >> look, i'm used to dealing with bullies. i understand how they work. and i'm going to go by the rules of the debate commission, play by the rules and we are going to have a debate. >> trace: this is setting up to one of the old prize fights, right? this is going to be interesting. >> oh, that's why i said

earlier, i think it will be crucial, trace. yesterday the president was the one who said well, maybe joe biden is taking drugs. he said biden had done better in i think it was a march debate against bernie sanders and he thought maybe the president -- maybe the former vice president was on some drugs. it is unbelievable. so i think both sides are now trying to ratchet up the attention and sort of, you know, throw some early blows to undercut confidence on both sides. >> trace: i have to go, juan. i'm just interested in what your take on this whole debate on whether joe biden should go out and campaign. you have some of his campaign saying he shouldn't. some campaign members saying they should. why are they not going out? what's the measure, juan? do they fear something? >> i think there is a lot of talk about last night on the white house lawn. people not being tested, we know what happened in tulsa at

people getting sick with covid. they want to be cautious and want to emphasize a message that they listen to the scientists and the experts and abide by local rules about how contact is limited and no big rallies. because they see that as a contrast with the trump campaign. and democrats are much more sensitive to this issue, i think, than republicans about the masks and the touching and the like. >> trace: we'll see you tonight at 5:00 on "the five". thank you. >> thank you, trace, good to be with you. >> sandra: coast guard sailors have a close encounter with a shark. how one sailor's quick thinking protected his crew from harm. president trump and joe biden portraying each other as a threat to our democracy. howie kurtz says the mudslinging hasn't been this bad in decades. >> china supports joe biden and desperately wants him to win. i can tell you that upon very

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chance, he will be the destroyer of american greatness. >> trace: let's bring in howie kurtz fox news media analyst and host of "media buzz". there was a time when you wanted to see what your opponent was going to do, right? what they had to offer. republicans don't watch to watch the dnc and democrats don't want to watch the rnc. how do you sway voters, howie, if nobody is watching the other guys? >> that is very much the question. the ratings would indicate that you are right, trace. when president trump last night calls joe biden the destroyer of american greatness, when he says he will abolish the suburbs and said he will enable violent anarchists the question is how many persuadeable voters will buy that portrait of a guy in the washington for 47 years but big attacks last week about trump's second term and a front to democracy.

so we're in a sea of vitriol. each guy saying the other would take the country to hell in a hand basket. for the reduced ratings i don't think it resets the race. >> this is what you wrote. no problem with journalists calling ot falsehoods at conventions but the cable news have other 22 hours each day. there is no comparison between the way msnbc covered the democrats and republicans but its audience probably loved the trump bashing. fact checking, criticizing, mocking at some of the guests at the rnc, howie. >> yeah, do it on your opinion shows. during the convention coverage. last night msnbc joy reid compared the trump speech to one from fidel castro. constantly interrupting. bringing on obama people to rebut the president was like a counter convention. not the way the dnc was covered

last week. i do think one issue broke through, trace, for the republicans this week. that is the true fact that biden did not and his convention did not talk at all about urban riots. it was a blunder. joe biden who has been lying low this week did have interviews to denounce the street violence as well as blake was shot in the back. the democrats on defensive on that issue. >> trace: i want to show this video of rand paul to get your take on it quickly. rand paul coming out of the white house speech as we have said repeatedly here. he and his wife were attacked by this mob. police had to push the crowd back for several blocks. what are your final thoughts on this and goes into the whole vitriol you were talking about? >> it's an absolutely sad commentary on where our democracy stands that protestors think that attacking a united states senator who was invited to speak at the trump convention is a way of

expressing their distaste. it is despicable. rand paul had a brutal attack from a neighbor who left him brutally hurt. there are other ways to express your dissent. >> trace: thanks, howie. >> sandra: the conventions officially coming to an end. the next big 2020 event the first presidential debate. nancy pelosi says there shouldn't be any. chris wallace will be here to react and hurricane laura carving a path of destruction leaving hundreds of thousands without power this morning. the first steps in the recovery effort next. tide pods child-guard pack helps keep your laundry pacs in a safe place and your child safer. to close, twist until it clicks. tide pods child-guard packaging.

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>> sandra: fox news alert on friday morning. laura now a tropical depression racing across the southeast leaving billions of dollars in damage. massive recovery effort is underway. neighbors helping neighbors. chain saw us out and prayers are needed. good morning, trace, i'm sandra smith. >> trace: good morning. i'm trace gallagher. laura turning lives upside down. one of the strongest hurricanes ever to hit the united states killing at least six people. nearly a million homes and businesses loseing power. entire neighborhoods in ruin. >> it looks like a tornado has come through, or a bomb has gone off. we couldn't even recognize many of the landmarks. i didn't even know this was our street. >> i will take prayers from every american, everyone watching the broadcast. i believe in the power of prayer. we ask for that. >> sandra: thoughts and prayers to all those affected on the ground there. jeff flock is in one of the

hardest hit areas there, lake charles, louisiana. jeff, you have been going through so much covering this hurricane. how do things look there this morning? >> sandra, you say prayers. i have a story for you this hour of somebody whose prayers were answered. you wouldn't think that would be the case if this fell on your house. look at this situation. this is lake charles. what if you were sitting in that window watching as it turns out the fox news channel and hurricane coverage as this tree fell on you? you are about to meet that man garrett. would you take me inside there garrett? you were sitting in the window right there. can i see where it happened? i'll follow you inside. he is sitting in the window as the storm is coming in. to let you know we were directly in the line in lake charles directly in the lane of the storm so getting the worst of it. come on in through here and perhaps you can see, what are you thinking at this point as

this hurricane is hitting? >> i always watch fox, hannity, those shows and i was sitting here watching tv. got up, water, came back to sit down sitting in this chair and this is what happened. >> if you look, sandra, that's the window we saw. that's a pine tree, right? >> yes, sir. >> trace: what did you do when it came crashing through? >> i ran into the back of the house and was really scared and shocked. >> you told me earlier you said you screamed like a girl, no offense to the girls. i would have screamed just that way, too. >> that is correct. >> wow. i don't know what to say? where is your head right now? >> we have to deal with it. we've dealt with it before in louisiana. louisiana people are tough but this is a big one. we will all have to work together. >> the president is coming this weekend. you are a fan of his? >> a big fan. >> what do you need from the president? >> i know with covid-19 the

government has put out a lot of money and if he can help the best the government can help we can use the help. if he can't we're tough and we're going to make it. >> that's the american way. yes, sir, i'll leave you, sandra, give you a picture. i tell you sometimes these things don't need words. this story needed to be told. incredible stories of, well, hurricane laura made its mark here in lake charles. >> sandra: will you tell me that man's name again? >> this is gary littleton. >> sandra: i see gary has his lsu hat on and he is going through a lot. jeff, one thing you see when you are on the ground there is how strong these people are. they know it's a risk. they know these storms come. they've been through so many as i'm sure gary has. the resolve and the strength that they have to rebuild, to come back and they love those communities. they want to stay there and

it's horrible to see what's happened there. >> as gary said if you can help us, help us. but if you can't by golly, we'll do it. we'll do it. there is the tv he was watching right there. not going to be watching that one any time soon. >> sandra: he was sitting in that chair in that room. >> not a scratch on the man. >> sandra: very fortunate and very blessed. thank the lord. >> talk about those prayers in advance. >> sandra: our best to you, gary, as you try to recover. jeff, thank you for your reporting on the ground there. incredible to see what's happened. thanks. >> trace: how strong was hurricane laura? it appeared to make the mighty mississippi river flow backwards. the river looked like it was running upstream wednesday when it approached. high winds were pushing water near the surface. the storm surge was not severe enough to actually reverse the mississippi's flow.

>> sandra: fox news alert on the deadly shooting in kenosha, wisconsin. status here to begin at the top of the hour on the teenage suspect. protests last night were peaceful in kenosha for a second straight night after charges were formally filed against 17-year-old kyle rittenhouse. he is suspected of shooting and killing two protestors on tuesday there. if convicted he could face a life sentence. jonathan hunt is live in kenosha on that for us this morning. jonathan. >> good morning, sandra. we're now getting first details of the case against 17-year-old kyle rittenhouse. take a look at this picture of him. he now faces six charges over the killing of two protestors tuesday night. the most serious charge being first degree intentional homicide which carries a mandatory life sentence in wisconsin. take a look at this video. the complaint filed by prosecutors says in the first shooting incident a protestor

joseph rosenbaum was following rittenhouse and threw a plastic bag at him. it did not hit rittenhouse. moments later as rosenbaum, unarmed, approached rittenhouse again according to the complaint rittenhouse fired several shots at rosenbaum who was fatally wounded. let's switch the video to the next one shot moments later. rittenhouse is chased by several protestors. he falls and is caught. according to the complaint protestor anthony strikes rittenhouse with a skateboard. rittenhouse fires at him and wounds him fatally and then shoots another man who approaches him. wounding that man in the arm. that man, according to the complaint, appeared to be holding a handgun. then there is another video rittenhouse walking away. that video shows him passing police vehicles without incident as protestors shout out that he just shot people. now one of the high-powered

group of attorneys now representing rittenhouse claims that video evidence, quote, clearly shows justified acts of self-defense. prosecutors equally clearly disagree. jacob blake meantime, whose shooting by kenosha police officer that sparked the protest is in leg restraints in the hospital despite the fact he can't walk. listen here. >> when i walked into that room, you know, he is paralyzed from the waist down. yo do they have the cold steal on my son's ankle? he couldn't get up if he wanted to. >> return to 17-year-old kyle rittenhouse, sandra, he is, of course, due in an illinois court any moment now. he lives in illinois. this court hearing is on his potential extradition here to

wisconsin where he would face those six charges and a possible life sentence. sandra. >> sandra: from antioch, illinois. the hearing will be happening in illinois later on. >> trace: now to the 2020 race. joe biden holding a pair of virtual events. president trump heading to new hampshire later today for a rally after winding up the republican national convention last night accepting his renomination from the white house south lawn. the president saying the very future of america is at stake in this election. griff jenkins is live for us in the nation's capital. >> it was quite a show with the stateliness of the white house and stunning fireworks worthy of a fourth of july celebration that came afterwards. the president spoke from the south lawn for some 70 minutes. he had 1500 guests in attendance. most weren't wearing masks nor were they social distancing. clearly in defiance of the

government's own guidelines. the president striking an optimistic tone promising the best is yet to come but hammering his opponent by name. >> president trump: biden is a trojan horse for socialism. no one will be safe in biden's america. my administration will always stand with the men and women of law enforcement. [applause] >> meanwhile in realtime joe biden was countering tweeting multiple times with things like this. when donald trump says tonight you won't be safe in joe biden's america, look around and ask yourself how safe do you feel in donald trump's america? earlier in the day his running mate kamala harris delivered a rebuttal.

>> donald trump has failed at the most basic and important job as president of the united states. he failed to protect the american people. plain and simple. >> the gloves are off and now we're off the campaign trail. biden and harris holding a pair of virtual event with biden saying yesterday he will indeed return to in-person events when it can be done safely. while the president travels in person to manchester, new hampshire for a campaign event. vice president pence heads to minnesota and michigan 67 days to go, trace. it is definitely on now. we'll see them on september 29th in the first debate in cleveland. trace. >> trace: we'll be there. griff, thank you. >> sandra: meanwhile anger in the streets near the white house after the president's speech last night. senator rand paul and his wife were surrounded and attacked by protestors as they walked back to their hotel.

d.c. police escorting the lawmaker through the crowds there. the senator talked about it this morning on "fox & friends." >> they were yelling threats, they are trying to push the police over to get to me and grabbing at us. and it got worse and worse and worse. and they were shouting threats, you know, to us to kill us, to hurt us. they were also saying shouting say her name. breonna taylor. you couldn't reason with this mob. i'm the author of the breonna taylor law to end no knock raids. they are trying to kill the person who is trying to get rid of no knock raids and shouting and screaming and really, these people were unhinged. but i can't tell you how i'm not sure we would have made it. as we are walking surrounded by the police they are attempting to push the police over to get to me. >> sandra: he and his wife were not harmed after the encounter. he thanked the d.c. police for quote saving my life.

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>> trace: fox news alert. extradition hearing for 17-year-old kyle rittenhouse accused of tilling two people in kenosha, wisconsin tuesday night has been moved to september 25th. he didn't waive extradition. what happened is the 17-year-old and his lawyers are asking for more time to kind of mount their defense so the judge agreed and is giving them 30 extra days. that's why it has been pushed to september 25th. he is facing felony multiple murder charges and other felonies. we are getting more about court documents, learning his mindset, interviews, social media posts, rittenhouse considered himself a militia member who said he was trying to protect life and property. and when he was approached by those people that ended up

being gunshot victims. two dead, one wounded, he was being interviewed by a reporter and the reporter went on to write that kyle rittenhouse wasn't handling his weapon very well. of course, he was chased. he fired. he was chased again, he fired back. facing multiple counts of murder. again his extradition hearing from illinois back to wisconsin now set for september 25th. more on this as we continue. >> president trump: joe biden is weak. he takes his marching orders from liberal hypocrites who drive their cities into the ground while fleeing far from the scene of the wreckage. >> sandra: president trump taking direct aim at joe biden on the final night of the republican national convention. now the race moves into a new phase with the first debate about a month away now. speaker nancy pelosi says joe biden should skip all of them.

>> i don't think that there should be any debates. i do not think that the president of the united states has comported himself in a way that anybody has any association with truth, evidence, data, and facts. i wouldn't -- i wouldn't legitimize a conversation with him. >> sandra: chris wallace anchors "fox news sunday". she said that about this time yesterday morning. that was at her weekly news conference. i think it is important to point out she went on tv last night given the chance to explain those remarks and she doubled down on them. listen. >> why i said he shouldn't debate him has nothing to do with joe biden. joe biden will be great. he is great as a debater. what it is is about how totally inappropriate, if that's the nicest way i can think of the

president is. he has no even slight flirtation with truth, fact, evidence, data. >> sandra: why do you think she put it out there that she doesn't think joe biden even step up on the stage with the president? >> you know, i don't know. i don't think it is particularly helpful to the biden campaign. it sounds like he is paving the way to duck the debates. i don't see that he is. joe biden has been very firm from the beginning he is going to participate in all three commission on presidential debate events and the fourth vice presidential debate. i don't -- you know, to me it's a lot of kind of talk on tv or chatter. we have cover it because nancy pelosi is an important person. do i think it means anything? no. >> sandra: for so long we heard democrats pushing back against speculation that joe biden

would never debate the president saying it was a right wing talking point. nancy pelosi made it a reality it's a consideration. she is the speaker of the house. joe biden to your point came on and responded immediately said , no i will show up and i'm ready to do this. >> i'm used to dealing with bullies. i understand how they work and i'm going to go by the rules of the debate commission, play by the rules, and we are going to have a debate. i'm happy to run on the record i had as a senator and as a vice president. >> sandra: so we all look forward to the debate. as you and everyone knows it is an important part of the process, chris. if not one of the most important parts. last night was a big nights. we saw your reaction to the president's speech, chris. this morning looking back how did the president do? >> well, what i said is i thought there were some effective points he made in his speech.

i thought the delivery was flat. i thought the speech was way too long. it was 70 minutes. you know, there is an old line that says everything that has been that hasn't been said by everybody. it was said again and again and again. the thing that strikes me about this campaign different from any other campaign i've covered. i have company covered a lot of campaigns. generally speaking what you hear from both sides and their acceptance speeches is i think my opponent is wrong and it would take the country in the wrong direction. but what we heard from joe biden last week and what we heard from donald trump last night is not my opponent will take the country in the wrong direction. my opponent will destroy the country. the president talked about destroying the american dream. and biden was just as apocalyptic in his acceptance speech last week. this will be a different campaign. it is not just right or left.

or liberal/conservative. it is right or wrong for the survival of the country. which is going to make for a very rough, choppy nine weeks ahead and starting -- not starting with but highlighted by those debates. >> sandra: peggy noonan's analysis in the "wall street journal." the gop tries to make its case. the republican national convention was strange. sometimes compelling, she writes. the president's leadership in the coronavirus epidemic was lauded as timely and visionary. it was a mistake to insist it was a success. that ship has sunk. what lifted the convention, she said, was the normal people who spoke. who were moving and provided the policy balance politicians often did not. that's an important point to make. the republicans do seem to be getting a lot of credit for those real americans, those stories of real americans that they brought up on the stage to make their points, to make their case for four more years of president trump, chris.

>> i couldn't agree more. i thought some of the strongest moments were women talking -- obviously the has a real problem gender gap with women talking about how he has empowered them and spoken to their concerns. african-americans the same. without any question to me the most powerful moment of the night last night was the mueller family. the parents of kayla mueller who has held hostage and killed by isis. the father held her picture up and they talked about the fact that the lack, they said, of empathy and support that they got from the obama-biden administration and the tremendous support they got from president trump and that they believe -- you can't know this -- but they believe if donald trump had been president while their daughter, kayla, was still alive she would have come home safely.

that was tremendously effecting and a tremendous character testimony from two people who have gone through hell about why they think that people should vote for donald trump. look, this is -- we haven't seen any polls yet. we don't know. my guess is biden still has a lead but it probably tightened. both sides are coming home rallying to their party. there was still probably 10, 12% of the country that hasn't decided and may not decide until we get through the debates and into october. this race is still as i've said before. this race is up for grabs. >> sandra: we'll be watching "fox news sunday" this weekend. who do you have coming up, chris? >> well, we hope to have somebody from the trump campaign. we haven't gotten anybody yet. as you can see we have the deputy campaign manager of the biden campaign and really what we want to look at this sunday it will be 65 days until the election. what's the plan the theory of the case and how to win the

white house in the nine weeks left? >> sandra: she put out a statement this morning responding to last night saying the convention brought same lack of solutions for the crisis facing america, same divisiveness. we'll be watching on sunday. thank you, chris. >> trace: sports world folks over the police shooting of blake spreading beyond the nba. protestors right at home plate as major league baseball players walk off the field and delay another game. plus china, how is china shaping the race for the white house as president trump says beijing would steam roll a president biden? white house trade advisor peter navarro on that next. >> president trump: joe biden's agenda is made in china. my agenda is made in the usa.

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>> trace: bottom of the hour. time for top stories. president trump warning that quote, no one will be safe in biden's america. >> sandra: hurricane laura killing at least six people and leaving a million homes without power across texas and louisiana. laura now downgraded to a tropical depression as it moves through the mississippi, tennessee and ohio valleys today. >> trace: the judge setting a

september 25th extradition hearing for the 17-year-old suspect in the deadly kenosha, wisconsin protest shooting. kyle rittenhouse could face a life sentence if convicted. >> president trump: china would own our country if joe biden got elected. unlike biden, i will hold them fully accountable for the tragedy that they caused all over the world. >> sandra: president trump last night unloading on joe biden over his stance on china warning a victory by biden would give beijing a big prize. the tough talk amid new tensions with china over the tech company huawei. peter navarro is here and joins us now. peter, big night for the administration last night. china a big part of this. the president is making the case that china would own this country if there was a joe

biden presidency. to that you say what? >> i say that's exactly right. the problem with joe biden is he has a record, 44 year record. one of the things he did in 44 years. in 2001 he voted to allow china into the world trade organization. that created basically a tsunami of offshoring where we lost over 70,000 factories, 5 million manufacturing jobs. that happened also on his watch when he was vice president. he was doing his little shuttle diplomacy over there meeting with xi before he was the unelected president of china. so joe is dangerous when it comes to offshoring american jobs. he is compromised. there is a whole hunter biden issue related to bringing back a billion dollars of head fund money on air force 2.

>> sandra: they are trying to debunk all that. i want to talk about the huawei issue and medical supplies issue. what does that mean for the american people? chinese come you nift party advisor for vitamins and antibiotics, 90% of their raw materials are produced in china. the u.s. won't be able to produce them in the short term. how are we supposed to respond to that threat? >> it is important that every american read that story and understand that the chinese communist party is trying to bully this country into submission, take our jobs, our factories, invade our capital markets using threats like that. president donald trump is the only president to stand up to china. what we learned from this pandemic we need to bring home our supply chains and manufacturing, not just for our

essential medicines or medical supplies like masks or medical equipment like ventilators but for everything. china is bullying australia right now for daring to question how that virus was created. australia wants to do an investigation of china about where that thing -- where the virus came from. the next thing you know china is punishing australia and new zealand. it is a bully. we need to understand that and we need a tough president like donald trump in the white house, not the pushover in joe. >> sandra: you are making the case this is the toughest presidency, donald trump's presidency on china. kamala harris on the ticket with joe biden, she says that president trump is weak on china. listen to this. >> yeah. >> right at the moment that we needed donald trump to be tough on the chinese government, he caved.

on january 24th he praised the transparency of the chinese government. he said, quote, china has been working hard to contain the coronavirus. >> sandra: that echoes what we heard from joe biden dated august 6th, 2020. we're going after china in the wrong way. so what is the administration message back to the biden camp on that? >> well, let's be clear about what happened in january. that was january 31st, the day donald trump pulled down the flights from china, which saved hundreds of thousands of american lives. at the time joe biden called it xenophobic and racist and then he had to apologize. i can't take kamala harris seriously for one single reason. she put over 1,000 black men in jeopardy or in jail for smoking pot and she would not -- she would not go for the death penalty for a cop killer.

so whenever i think of kamala harris that's all i need to know and she is just a mouthpiece. she knows nothing about china policy. we haven't heard boo from her while she has been in the senate or when she was back in california to talking point for her. she doesn't understand the history of joe biden in 2001 voting to put china into the world trade organization and then having them strip this country of our factories across the midwest. good luck for her going to ohio, wisconsin, or michigan. going into a factory and pulling that kind of crap. everybody knows across the midwest who brought the factory jobs back and it is not kamala harris, joe biden or barack obama. >> sandra: a preview of what the vice presidential debate when she faces mike pence on the stage. they'll make their cases on that. final question, the president hitting biden on tax hikes and economic policy. listen to this. >> president trump: he has

pledged a $4 trillion tax hike on almost all american families, which will totally collapse our rapidly-improving economy and once again record stock markets that we have right now will also collapse. that means your 401ks, all of the stocks that you have. >> sandra: meanwhile kamala harris says the trump tax cuts would cripple social security. quite a debate happening as the president touts further tax cuts for american people. >> it is fun having them talk about policy for a change. they didn't do it at their convention. let's be clear. donald trump is the greatest jobs president in history. he built this economy on four things. deregulation, tax cuts, cheap energy and fair trade deals. what we know about joe biden is he is going to do just the opposite and that's going to be slow growth and crash the stock

market. he promised a $4 billion tax height and put more regulations on our farmers, ranchers, loggers, fishermen. he will cap every oil well in this country and he wants to go back to the old days with the trans-pacific partnership. he has promised the take off the tariffs on china, which look, sandra, that's the only thing that ever got those guys to the table. and will keep them there. so we love having the debate about policy. what they want to do, sandra, what the dems and biden want to do is hide in the basement and blame the pandemic on donald j. trump, the only president that takes responsibility for that pandemic is the unelected president of china. we need to hold china responsible for the cost they imposed on the american people. nobody is buying that joe biden and kamala harris are tough on china. >> sandra: we're starting to hear joe biden is going to be out and about after labor day.

>> kamala, let's see how it goes when you go to the fact -- >> trace: the mets and marlins walked off citi field after a moment of silence at the start of last night's game leaving only a black lives matter shirt covering home plate. we have reaction from the president on this. >> this all began wednesday night when the milwaukee bucks refused the play game five of the nba playoffs protesting racial inequality as they demanded justice in the wake of the jacob blake shooting in their home state and the nba, wnba, some major baseball teams canceled games. a strong show of protest the new york mets and miami marlins

observed 42 seconds of silence on the eve of this season's designated jackie robinson day and left a black lives matter t-shirt on home plate and walked off the field. more than 100 current and former black major league baseball players make up the players alliance. the organization says their players will donate yesterday and today's salaries to fight racial inequality and help black families and communities impacted by recent events. >> we are not going to shut up and play ball. >> nba referees showed their support thursday marching in orlando wearing everyone versus racism shirt. nba players and reps were in talk yesterday afternoon and no official announcement when to resume playoff games. they were hoping to do so today or this weekend. yesterday president trump weighed in on the nba. >> president trump: they have become like a political

organization and that's not a good thing. i don't think it's a good thing for sports or for the country. >> already today the baltimore ravens announced they are canceling their practice and will hold a team unifying session. trace. >> christina coleman live in l.a. thank you. >> sandra: a potentially big problem looming for the economy. zombie forecloche us. what are they and why are they rising in nearly every state? charles payne is here to explain. that's safe drivers save 40%. it is, that's safe drivers save 40%. - he's right there. - it's him! safe drivers do save 40%. click or call for a quote today.

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against amazon they've been behind the 8 ball. wal-mart could use it as a golden opportunity to monetize the tik tok base that could start to rival instagram in the next few years given its global presence. agree or disagree, charles? >> well, i disagree that they're getting crushed by amazon. look at the growth over the last year earnings recently. wal-mart is a real player online. this earning seasonal these brick and mortar names survived have done incredible business online. a fantastic fit for them. all of those eyeballs and younger shoppers, a lot of them just young millennials won't be spending a lot of money. they need to go to a retailer like wal-mart. you know, they don't need to make money off the service itself but to your point you monetize it by getting those millions of eyeballs to become customers. a no-brainer for them and one of the reasons their stock has really popped in the last 24 hours. >> trace: the stock is up 5% in

24 hours. i want to move on to zombie foreclosures. put the numbers up on the screen. 216,000 in the process of foreclosures. homes overall. 7,960 are zombie foreclosures where you abandon the property but still have it in your name. the largest increase in kansas, missouri, georgia, kentucky. it sounds like a warning, charles, right from 2008. >> yeah, but it is completely different than 2008. what do we know? we know the housing market is absolutely on fire. there is not enough houses out there to be sold. existing home prices are at all-time size. if someone wants to bail out on their home that's good. the real problem. you need people to keep the house up, right? cut the grass, make sure the shingles aren't falling apart. it is so irresponsible if someone abandons the house because it hurts the entire neighborhood. there are a zillion buyers

lined up the buy those houses. hopefully local municipalities will make it easier to expedite the foreclosure process if someone abandons the house. unlike the great recession when we have a protracted, long term housing collapse and there wasn't any demand for housing for a couple of years, this is 1,000% different. i would love to buy some of those zombie houses right now if i could. >> to your point the executive vp of real tee track says. the sooner these properties can be sold to home buyers the better it will be for communities and neighborhoods across the country. somebody has to cut the grass and clean up the house or the whole neighborhood goes down. your last thought. >> absolutely. it is unfortunate and really a shame. there are certain responsibilities we take on. a promise to repay the mortgage. if you can't do that, don't abandon the place. just get it done. >> charles payne good to see you, sir. thank you. >> you, too. >> sandra: the director of the

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comes in contact with someone who has covid-19 should consider getting tested but they don't have to. health experts including the american medical association, warn that this will cause more spreading from people without symptoms. the governors of new york, new jersey, and connecticut issued a statement saying that their states will not follow the cdc's new guidelines and credit a strong testing program for reduced infections. quote, this 180 degree reversal of covid-19 testing guidelines is reckless and not based on science and has the potential to do long-term damage to the institution's reputation. new york state has had 20 straight days with a rate of positive test results under 1%. new jersey governor will allow gyms and indoor water parks to open with restrictions next tuesday. and on the final night of the rnc president trump addressed a largely maskless crowd on the white house lawn sparking a lot of criticism for the lack of social distancing at the event

the president thanked his task force for the role in taking on the virus. >> president trump: we are meeting this challenge. we are delivering life-saving therapies and will produce a vaccine before the end of the year or maybe even sooner. >> so sandra, a more optimistic thing we've heard from medical experts. back to you. >> sandra: thank you, alex. >> trace: fox news alert now a massive cleanup underway in louisiana after hurricane laura kills at least six people and knocking out power for nearly a million customers. an update on how people are coping next.

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full-time trying to sew hate and division in our country. on the other hand you have joe biden who has been all about saying we need to unify as a country. >> what a different message we had as republicans. the democrats spent four days telling everyone that america is inherently evil and that is a flat out lie. this country is the greatest idea ever realized. >> sandra: we have live fox team coverage for you on this friday morning. peter doocy has the latest on the biden campaign. we begin with kristin fisher live at the white house for us this morning. >> good morning, sandra, president trump is going straight from the convention to the campaign trail. he has got an event tonight up in new hampshire and this weekend he is likely heading down to the gulf coast to see the hurricane damage for himself. and so this is it, the final sprint before election day. we are bow a month away from the first debate despite what house speaker nancy pelosi said yesterday.

both president trump and joe biden say these debates will happen and between now and then one of the issues that the trump campaign is going to be looking at very closely is this ongoing violence in cities like portland and kenosha. last night president trump said the choice is clear. americans can have four more years of the law and order president or joe biden the president called the former vice president the destroyer of american greatness. >> president trump: your vote will decide whether we protect law-abiding americans or whether we give free rein to violent anarchists, agitators and criminals who threaten our citizens. and this election will decide whether we will defend the american way of life or whether we will allow a radical movement to completely dismantle and destroy it. >> between 1,000 and 2,000 people were on the south lawn watching that speech. you can see there was no social

distancing. there were hardly any masks, a clear violation of the government's own guidelines and it crystallized the differen between the dnc and the rnc on the final night of these unconventional conventions. sandra. >> sandra: kristin fisher at the white house for us this morning. thank you. >> trace: the biden team has some campaign events of their own today but holding them virtually due to the pandemic. last night the democratic ticket tried to take its message straight to trump supporters airing an ad in the middle of an rnc speech. peter doocy is live in delaware. what was the message of that ad? >> trace, that ad basically tried to lay out what the biden campaign says biden has been coming up with in terms of a game plan for next year just in case he wins. >> when joe biden is president, america is just going to have to keep up. we won't have to wait to deal

with covid-19. he has already got a plan. >> biden said last week he could win this election without leaving the house and featuring mostly virtual campaign events. but that calculation may now be changing. he is teasing in-person events in swing states and the four he named say a lot about where this election will be decided. here is from a fundraiser. here is the deal we plan on without jeopardizing violating state rules about how many people can assembly. we'll think about i'll be up into wisconsin and minnesota, spending time in pennsylvania, out in arizona. but we're going to do it in a way totally consistent with being responsible. unlike what this guy is doing. biden is accusing trump of favoring chaos in the streets because he thinks it could be a distraction for voters who might otherwise be paying attention to the trump administration's handling of covid-19. >> he continues to root for

violence. the country will be substantially safer when he is no longer in office. >> you think he is rooting for violence, that he wants violence because -- >> absolutely. >> it allows him to claim a law and order mantle? >> sure, because it takes everybody's eye off the ball. >> biden does not have any public events on his schedule for today. trace. >> peter doocy live in delaware. peter, thank you. >> conventions for both parties are now in the books. hard to believe. we'll soon see which one resonated the most with voters, with just 66 days to go until election day. dan henninger is the deputy editor. we're almost done with august. 66 days to go. here we go, the homestretch. both sides were able to make their cases in each week of these conventions. which message do you think resonated with voters? >> well, the question is, you

know, these conventions are political events, sandra. they are aimed at discrete groups of voters. not just the general public. in the case of the democrats, they were aimed at turning out voters they think are in their base or inclined to vote with them. that would include younger, left-wing oriented voters, millennials, minority voters and suburbanites who are supposedly upset at donald trump's personality. so the democrats over and over again went after donald trump for his lack of empathy. the republicans i think saw an opening that had been created by the democrats in the last three months which is to say that with the rise of black lives matter and the idea that the united states is guilty of systemic racism they've created an idea of american society. and again, the republicans said this over and over again, but they aren't making it up.

this is a self-proclaimed position now of the democrats. and you have to add that to the urban protests, the urban violence, the smashing of monuments such as george washington's monuments, the lincoln memorial, these events are real and i think the republican strategists just saw that this change in view of the united states was so abrupt, happening just in the past three months, that they would take advantage of it. and indeed they had speaker after speaker talking about a traditional america and in terms of empathy for the president, i think rather than empathy they emphasized voters, individual's gratitude towards the parents such as the parents of kayla mueller who was kidnapped and killed by isis. extraordinary display of emotional fortitude by those people. two really distinct views here. i think those views do reflect what is going on in the united

states right now. >> sandra: it was an incredibly powerful moment on the stage for the convention last night. but to your piece in the "wall street journal" yesterday, dan, and this is a powerful message as well. you write joe biden can't restore normalcy. for many voters this election is a choice, you write, between the devil and the deep blue sea. the democrats' blue sea has risen past embracing transformation to defending tumult. that may be more disruptive than pandemic and protest fatigued americans want right now. it is a really important message, dan. you do have people who see this violence in the street and finally see joe biden condemning that violence. michael goodwin wrote yesterday finally, but it is too late. so what happens now 66 days to go? how do both candidates really hone in their message and how do they adapt their message to what is happening? >> yeah, well, that's a good

question. peter doocy was just reporting the president does indeed intend to go out and campaign hard. and you can expect to see him in all of those battleground states that he needs like pennsylvania, michigan, wisconsin, nevada, florida. the big question is whether joe biden is, in fact, going to go out there and campaign out on the campaign trail. and i think that he is going to run a great risk at this point after these conventions if he does not get out there and campaign in front of groups of people or indeed debate the president. if nothing else, the two conventions made it clear that the parties really do have distinct visions of the future of the united states and voters are going to have to make up their minds which party they are going with. it will be difficult for democratically-inclined voters to do so if their candidate spends most of the campaign in delaware. i just don't see them getting

away with that. >> sandra: we're starting to hear that he will be coming out a bit more after labor day. we'll see what capacity that happens. dan heng henninger from the "wall street journal." thank you. >> i regret i made this decision. i said we'll walk the two blocks. we walked one block and we could see police in the distance. we saw a mob of about 30 people marching and yelling. they all of a sudden saw me right as we got to the policeman fortunately or i don't think we would have survived. >> trace: rand paul talking about the dramatic confrontation he had with a crowd of protestors last night. the group surrounded the senator and left -- after they left the white house. >> what many america's saw was

a celebration of the south lawn and spectacular fireworks. for senator rand paul it was a very different kind of fireworks than the ones on your screen now. a group of protestors surrounding the senator and his wife angered by racial injustice and police students. noting the irony of his efforts. >> they were shouting threats to us to kill us, to hurt us. they were also shouting say her name, breonna taylor, it is like you couldn't reason with this mob. i'm the author of the breonna taylor -- >> they proposed saving our lives from a crazed mob. twitter was full of videos harassing other white house attendees as they departed. this climate is becoming increasingly dangerous and faults joe biden and kamala

harris for not denouncing it. >> it has become so dangerous for us. i don't see joe biden or kamala harris saying one thing about the violence. this mob is their voters, the new democrat party. if we don't resist this, the united states will become portland. >> there was little discussion of portland last week at the dnc both biden and harris have condemned the violence publicly. senator paul believes what happened to him was part of a much larger criminal state effort. he says he thinks some of the people who attacked him were not from washington, d.c. and he wants the f.b.i. to trace them and arrest them. trace. >> trace: griff jenkins live in the nation's capital. thank you. >> sandra: a live look now at the lincoln memorial in washington, d.c. where thousands of people have gathered there to recreate the march on washington 57 years later. of course, that was when martin luther king junior delivered his iconic i have a dream

speech. organizers expect 50,000 people to come out for this. right now they're gathering listening to some speakers there as the event is underway. they are talking about topics like criminal justice so far, reform for criminal justice, racial equality. later on this afternoon the crowd will march from lincoln memorial to the martin luther king junior memorial. the event coming during a reckoning and racial relations in the united states after the police killings of george flood and jacob blake. we'll continue to watch this event as it unfolds throughout the afternoon with a live look a bit later on. >> trace: republicans in midwest states the president trump won now predicting victory again. why they say joe biden won't be able to rebuild the democrats' blue wall and cleanup underway after hurricane laura slams into the gulf coast leaving widespread destruction in its wake. louisiana's lieutenant governor will give us an update on the

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>> sandra: hurricane laura tore through louisiana. the storm killing at least six

people. one of the hardest hit areas is lake charles. that's where our own jonathan serrie is this morning. jonathan. >> you can see roofs torn off of buildings. shattered windows. this community suffered sustained winds of 98 miles per hour and gusts of up to 132 miles an hour. heavy winds dislodged a river boat casino and it lodged between pillars on interstate 10. west lake, firefighters and hazmat teams are still on the scene of a fire at an industrial site. they extinguished the first fire but a second fire flared up. teams removed chemical products involved in the second fire.

emergency management officials have a shelter at home in a one-mile radius telling residents to keep windows closed and air conditioning off that is if they have electricity to run it. most of this community is without electricity except those fortunate enough to have electric generators and the city has completely shut off the water supply. if you turn on the tap nothing comes out. sandra, back to you. >> sandra: jeff flock was talking to a resident there gary sitting in his lounge chair when a tree fell right through his house and destroyed everything. thank you for the update. >> trace: disturbing images from louisiana as you just saw where clean-ups effort are underway. jonathan serry was showing us some of the destruction. fema is bringing in meals and waters for survivors. tens of hundreds of thousands of meals and bottles of water. the lieutenant governor joins me on the phone.

you caught a bit of a break. these pictures are devastating because the storm surge instead of being 20 feet was 10 feet. a little break but man, you look at these pictures and the devastation is widespread especially in lake charles. sir, what is priority one for you right now and what is it that your state desperately needs? >> well, we need to get the electricity back on. people reaching out from all over to help. we will be needing people -- you saw the pictures of the chemical fires and the casino lodged under the bridge to add to difficulty. closing i-10. many of those manufacturing facilities, the petrochemical industry but they also make products for cleaning supplies, hand sanitizer, things we use to battle the spread of the coronavirus. so it's kind of a double hit in getting those facilities back online. getting people back to work. but starting with the cleanup, housing people and making sure we're housing them safely, not

in large groups where the spread of the coronavirus would also be a risk for them as well. so many challenges for this. we dodged a bit of a bullet. it didn't wipe out everything in its path. >> trace: you're right. for people in your state who may be watching fema sending 500,000 meals, 800,000 bottles of water and for their clarification, lieutenant governor, do you know what the status is on the power being turned back on? almost a million people without power. >> no, i flew with the governor yesterday and we're getting ready to fly for alexandria, shreve port. it was a hurricane through the whole state. there are rows of trucks of power trucks from all over the country, tennessee, alabama, that have come in to help restore the power. so we've got an incredible team on the ground that's working quickly to restore that power. >> trace: i want to play some

sound. as we're looking at these pictures we should note there are countless homes that are damaged and destroyed. six people lost their lives but rescue teams have not gotten to all the hard-hit areas because, you know, quite frankly it is tough to navigate around here. listen to a man who rode out the storm near lake charles. the quote is it looks like 1,000 tornadoes went through here. houses are totally gone. houses that are totally gone. what do you know of the teams like the cajun navy out now looking for people who may be trapped in their homes or who may need some help? >> at 1 11:00 last night i was talking to the cajun navy pulling elderly people out of a home and waiting on transportation to get them to safe shelter. they are out there working day and night along with the first responders. and are getting as you said many of these homes are out on the coast isolated areas.

very difficult to get to and look, i rode out katrina, never again. i urged people to get out. we always see people that won't leave their belongings and stay and believe they can protect them. and risk their lives. so hopefully we'll find more survivors as we get to these remote areas. >> >> trace: lieutenant governor, best of luck to you and your people. >> sandra: a new controversy unfolding in kenosha, wisconsin as the city sees another night of protests. why the culture within the cities' police department is getting more attention and some key spring state republicans telling "the washington examiner" they have no doubt president trump can pull off a win in november. why they are so confident on that next. ♪

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reasons. he has long suffered from ulcer ative colitis. >> sandra: the winner of the race this november could come down to a handful of spring states like michigan, wisconsin and pennsylvania. republican leaders say they have no doubt trump will win. the chairman of the gop joins us now. why are you so confident? >> well, certainly last night the president's speech and the entire republican convention this past week presented a very positive message that we are a land of opportunity with a great future standing in stark contrast to biden and the democrats' convention which painted a picture of despair and hopelessness. in addition, the economy has been just strong issue for the president as well. >> sandra: as you know, the

former vice president joe biden has been leading president trump in many of the polls. here is real clear politics average. in some of those key states including michigan where joe biden is still leading by 7 points there. in pennsylvania you've got joe biden leading the president by more than 5 points in that state. wisconsin biden leading by just under 4 points. so why is the president not polling in the way that you are describing? >> well first of all, these polls are just a snapshot in time. many people don't want to say they are for the president because of the media barrage against them all time. when you look at the key issue, which is the economy in this election, the president in pennsylvania is leading biden by 5 points. no one in their right mind is going to choose joe biden over the president on the economic issues we face in this country. by the way, biden's poll

numbers in pennsylvania have been coming down. the momentum has switched to the president. >> sandra: you look at some of those key states for the president in the midwest and rust belt states in 2016 that the president was able to flip from obama, iowa, michigan, ohio, pennsylvania, and wisconsin. what do you think the next 66 days look like as i hear you touting the president's record on the economy, but we're still in the middle of a pandemic where you've got millions of americans out of work. what happens in the next couple of months? >> well, the pandemic is going to end. who is best to restore that economy? the president has proven he has done it for all americans. african-americans, latinos, hispanics, women, asians. the key factor in all those states the building trade unions and their members are pro growth. they see that biden and the democratic policies will slash

their jobs and their opportunities and they are moving towards the president. in all those key states including pennsylvania. and energy, a big industry with agriculture in pennsylvania. the president's policies are supportive of those and joe biden's policies will destroy those economies for the agriculture industry and energy in pennsylvania and the rust belt. >> sandra: lawrence, one talking point from the left and those supporting joe biden say the president hasn't followed through on his promises for manufacturing jobs and that the growths in those manufacturing jobs has not been as robust as he promised. to that you say what? >> well, before the crisis they had grown for the first time in decades. manufacturing in this country. plus his policies with china have meant that we will have even more manufacturing done in the united states. if that's joe biden's best point against the president, then we are going to win in a landslide. >> sandra: appreciate you

coming on with your viewpoints on all that this morning. thank you. >> trace: protests in kenosha, wisconsin remaining mostly peaceful after several days of violence over the police shooting of jacob blake. 17-year-old kyle rittenhouse faces charges of first degree homicide and other things. he is accused of shooting and killing two people during protests on tuesday. the wisconsin justice department has named the officer who shot jacob blake. he is a 7 year veteran of the force and police department is getting close scrutiny after some comments the sheriff made two years ago resurfaced that five black shoplifters should be warehoused. the aclu is demanding his resignation. thousands of activists gathering in the nation's capital to protest police

brutality on the 57th anniversary of the first watch on washington kevin corke live for us at the lincoln memorial in washington who will be at the march today, do we know? >> yeah, we have an idea actually, trace. the families of george floyd and several others who were killed will take part in activities. jacob blake's father is also here and i suspect we'll hear from him as well. as i bring you live pictures as i step out for a moment so you can get a sense of what we're seeing on the ground. we got her shortly before 6:00 a.m. and we were joined by huge crowds as you see there are perhaps thousands here on the mall in washington hoping to capture a glimpse of history honoring the past and building for a brighter future. organizers tell us we should expect frequent messaging about the importance of voting in november. november for a change in law enforcement engagement and an

end for police brutality in stark contrast to what we saw last night in the nation's capital. protestors mixing it up with police. they were entangled outside the historic st. john's church. we are here until 1:30 in the morning. this altercation happening shortly after midnight and unfortunately part of a trend around the nation's capital for a few hours. we also saw a scrape involving senator rand paul. you probably saw that as well. now, historically as you pointed out, 57 years ago a march on washington right here. they are hoping to recreate that history here today. we'll see what will be similar and what will be different. trace. >> trace: we'll dip into the protest throughout the day. kevin corke live in washington thank you. >> sandra: one of america's best known stores going out of business calling it quits just

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>> trace: coronavirus continuing to hit american businesses hard. united airlines is warning that nearly 3,000 pilots could be grounded by october. those cuts are significantly worse than competitors delta and american airlines. iconic clothing store lord and taylor is closing for good. the company collapsed six years shy of becoming 200 years old. the number of restaurants permanently closed could double in the next two or three months.

that according to the head of the real estate investment firm who told fox business that non-chain restaurants will be hit the hardest. he reports nearly 16,000 restaurants had closed for good as of last month. >> sandra: republicans campaigning on law and order in response to the violent protest in some u.s. cities as more democrats appear to recognize the political risk of failing to condemn that violence. a headline in the "new york times" this week how chaos in kenosha are swaying voters in wisconsin. some democratic leaders seem to be failing to take control of the situation. richard fowler is here. is that a concern for your party now that maybe some of these democrats are speaking out too late? >> look, don't get me wrong. i think we do have to deal with what is happening in many of these american cities and it is

very important now more than ever that we hear a strong message from joe biden and kamala harris and democrats up and down the ticket. with that being said i do believe that we really have to examine donald trump in this law and order doctrine he is trying to push forward. nobody is against law and order. i want law and order and safe and welcoming streets in my community. that's not what really is in question or in debate. what's in debate here is excessive policing and overpolicing in far too many communities. the president didn't talk about that last night in his 75 minute address. he talked about why there was violence in the streets. but he didn't talk about why millions of americans are protesting both yesterday, both today and the day before that. >> sandra: well, does that protesting to which you are referring, does that refer to the violence that we're seeing in so many american cities? this is from that "new york times" piece, richard. left me

tell you because residents in kenosha and minneapolis aren't see the law and order that many other americans get to enjoy in this country. kenosha county where the president won by fewer than 260 votes. those already supported trump said the events of the last few days have reinforced their conviction he is the man for the job. some voters less sure about their vote and the inability of elected leaders to stop it were nudging them towards the republicans. is that perhaps the reason why we're now seeing joe biden speak out on this when he hadn't previously? >> well, the protests that i'm referring to is the fact that jacob blake was shot seven times in the back in front of his three children or the fact that george floyd had a knee in his neck for 8 minutes and 46 seconds and this white house beyond saying they think this is awful have been pretty muted about how they would solve the problem that when it comes to

many koun tease of color law ard order isn't equal. that's what the fight is really about. nobody is against law and order. i want policing in my streets. a recent gallup poll found that 69% of african-americans like the police presence in their community. but only 1 in 5 african-americans feel that police treat them with respect, courtesy and dignity. now, this is the place where the president of the united states and his justice department should be leading to make police departments more accountable to the communities where they serve. unfortunately, what we heard yesterday was none of that. >> sandra: perhaps that's why we saw your party through kamala harris have this message. a brand-new interview she did this morning with the "today" show and asked about jacob blake and the police officer involved and she said he should be charged. listen. >> you think the officer should be charged? >> i think there should be a thorough investigation and based on what i've seen, it

seems that the officer should be charged. >> sandra: final thoughts? >> look, i agree with kamala harris there and caution the white house and the president. he continues to champion this idea that he is the president of criminal justice reform. but you have to acknowledge that one input to our criminal justice system is law enforcement. if you are not willing to also reform law enforcement -- >> sandra: we get your message, richard. we got that message but if you could answer the original question. is your party growing more concerned that as this unrest continues in many american cities that while the president and republicans have been touting this message of law and order, that that may work in their favor politically since democrats have been reluctant to address that? we had a week of the democratic convention where we didn't hear a mention of the violence happening in our city streets.

>> listen, like i said i think joe biden and kamala harris have been stronger on these issues and the american voter is smart enough to know one of the reasons why we have issues that we have in various urban communities there are far too many illegal guns on our streets and many of our communities have been stripped of resources. we have a president that wants to reopen schools when we know that schools don't have school nurses or adequate ppe. >> sandra: schools have school nurses, where did you get that? school have school nurses. that's a conversation for another day. >> in the state of texas there are 14 million students that have a school resource officer and do not have a school nurse. >> sandra: we'll have you back. we'll continue the conversation. appreciate you coming on. thank you. >> trace: pro athletes calling on americans of all ages and colors to take action against social injustice as the sports world comes to a bit of a stand still. what may come of this and what

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>> sandra: fox news alert. the house foreign affairs committee has just announced proceedings against secretary of state mike pompeo. the committee chairman democrat eliot engel because pompeo has refused to comply with a subpoena for records that show state department misuse and his speech from jerusalem before the republican national convention which democrats say violated the law preventing using government resources for political purposes. again the house foreign affairs committee announcing it will be contempt proceedings against secretary of state mike pompeo. so far no response from the state department. we'll keep you posted.

>> it would appear as though after a moment that the mets and marlins won't be playing baseball. >> trace: they walked off the field before the first pitch and left a black lives matter shirt on home plate. other leagues postponed games over the past 48 hours. a reporter with new england public media and instructor. we saw baseball, we've seen it in the nba. the nfl is also involved. baltimore ravens said we must unify as a society. it is imperative that all people come together to say enough is enough. this is bigger than sports. racism is embedded in the

fabric of our nation's foundation and is a blemish on our country's history. if we are to change course and make our world a better place we must face this problem head on and act now to enact positive change. it seems, michael, the movement is starting to resonate. >> it is and it looks like we're going back to what happened five months ago with the killing of george floyd and the professional leagues are wearing black lives matter t-shirt and the players are being allowed to express themselves and the reason why you are seeing the protests now they feel like after all these efforts, all this talk, all this conversation it feels like these efforts are still falling on deaf ears. they feel like they don't want to be a source of entertainment while ignoring the issues at hand and feel we'll continue to play sports and we'll continue to have an open discussion. maybe this will get everybody's attention and they will finally listen and see why these issues matter to many of us who are impacted by what we've seen

over the last several months. >> you had jason whitlock saying jacob blake had a criminal record and saying it is a joke. the architects of the system are using lebron james and athletes to point black people at the wrong target. the athletes are useful idiots talked into dedicating themselves to insuring that career criminals are unharmed while resisting arrest and refusing to comply with police instructions. is that a fair point, michael? >> no, it's not. that's the issue with athletes. we have to get this notion out of our heads multi-million dollar athletes can't express themselves. that's way out-of-pocket. i think the issue is they're athletes but also human beings. and they have a right to express their views and their viewpoints without being criticized because they make a certain amount of money and that means you are an athlete and make this kind of money you should entertain us, no liberty

to speak your mind about politics and it's completely unfair. you hear guys like lebron james spearheading the movement to say we've had enough. so until we get to see the change that we've been demanding for a long time. it is not just starting five months ago. it has been going on for quite some time now. we talked about -- you see four years ago kneeling during the national anthem. four years later we seem to be finally making movements but the progress is there but the athletes are frustrated. they're angry, not happy and they don't want to be a source of entertainment and looked @ guys who make a lot of money and we're only good just to entertain you. that's not fair. >> trace: i want your opinion what about the people criticizing some of the athletes who send out the tweets that are inaccurate. is that a fair assessment to say look, this is not an accurate depiction and needs to be corrected? >> again, it is about the

dialogue, trace. this is the problem. people need to listen. the biggest issue they have to listen to the athletes and we need to have a dialogue and discussion about what matters. if we can get that conversation going maybe we'll get to common ground. until then we'll continue to have different views. it is all about listening. that's where it starts and maybe we can go from there. >> trace: michael, thank you for joining us, sir, we appreciate it. >> thanks for having me. >> sandra: president trump getting an update of hurricane laura relief efforts before touring the region over the weekend and squeezing in an appearance on the campaign trail where he is heading tonight and why as he makes the case for four more years. your knowledge of victorian architecture really paid off this time. nah, just got lucky. so did the thompsons. that faulty wiring could've cost them a lot more than the mudroom. thankfully they bundled their motorcycle with their home and auto. they're protected 24/7. mm. what do you say? one more game of backgammon?

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>> trace: sandra, about the busiest "newsweek" i've seen. or to be with you. >> sandra: you, too, trace. have a good weekend. "outnumbered" starts now. >> harris: thousands of people gathering in the nation's capital to mark the 57th anniversary of the march on washington. that's when martin luther king jr. delivered his famous "i have a dream" speech. it was 1963. this, after the police shooting of jacob blake and the deaths of george floyd, breonna taylor, and others. civil rights activists from around america are rallying against police brutality and what they call a commitment march, entitled "get your knee off our nexts." kevin corke 's life at the lincoln memorial. yove