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yo furirst stock on us. robinhood. todd: it is monday, august 31st. and this is a fox news alert. police and protesters clash in d.c., officers firing tear gas as protesters set off fireworks. jillian: in portland, dozens arrested after swarming a building and throwing objects. and in kenosha, wisconsin, the democratic governor telling president trump he's not welcome as he's set to visit tomorrow, the war of words as violence continues to erupt nationwide. todd: an historic trip overnight, jared kushner leaves israel for the united states on the uae -- united arab emirates on the uae's first ever
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commercial flight. jillian: we're live with the stage now set for more progress in the middle east. >> he's amazing. but it's greater to acknowledge the heroes that we have in real life. todd: a powerful tribute to late actor chadwick boseman who became an icon. this morning, his legacy lingering over hollywood. jillian: "fox & friends first" continues right now. ♪ ♪ jillian: i'll tell you, todd, the passing of chadwick boseman
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really touching so many people this weekend. i mean, you talk about a hero, you talk about an icon. you look at the pictures, i mentioned this an hour ago, of him visiting little kids with cancer, come to find out he was fighting the same battle himself. it is truly a loss. todd: there are good souls in our world and he was one of them. i happened to see the jackie robinson movie, i you was so moved by his performance, capturing all that jackie robinson went through. in addition to that, his impact on colon cancer awareness. that's one of the big take-aways going forward. if his passing help save lives, it would still be a good one. jillian: good morning, i'm jillian mele. todd: i'm todd piro. jillian: let's begin with this fox news alert. police firing tear gas and smoke bombs to break up protests intensifying outside of the white house overnight.
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>> if we don't get no justice. >> then you don't get no peace. jillian: protesters lighting fireworks while marching through residential neighborhoods. todd: this just one day after five officers were injured during violent protests in the city's black lives matter plaza. police officers were hit with rocks, bricks and fireworks. five people were arrested for assaulting an officer and for rioting. overnight, president trump blasting democrats' failures to maintain law and order in cities plagued with violence and unrest. jillian: coming ahead of joe biden's trip to pennsylvania today, focusing on whether voters feel safe in donald trump's america. todd: griff jenkins joins us with more. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. a calmer night in kenosha with both black lives matter and blue lives matter rallying, it remained mostly peaceful. police say at least 175 people have been arrested since the
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unrest began, 104 of them from outside of the city. now wisconsin's governor wants the president to reconsider his trip, writing this. i along with other community leaders who have reached out are concerned about what your presence will mean for kenosha and our state. i'm concerned your presence will only hinder our healing. i am concerned your presence will only delay our work to overcome division and move forward. white house deputy press secretary, jed deer, responding, saying the president looks forward to the trip, writing the white house has been humbled by the outreach of individuals from kenosha who have welcomed the president's visit and are longing for leadership to support local law enforcement in businesses that have been vandalized. meanwhile, in portland, there was more violence and arrests following the shooting death of a man over the weekend as merited wheeler blames president trump. >> mr. president, why this is the first time in decades that america has seen this level of
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violence, it's you who have created the hate and the division. >> reporter: the president is slamming his opponent joe biden tweeting when is slow joe biden going to criticize the anarchists, thugs and agitators in antifa, when is he going to suggest bringing up the national guard. remember, he can't lose the yeah bernie super liberal vote. biden condemned the violence, writing in part the deadly violence we saw overnight in portland is unacceptable, shooting in the streets of a great american city is unacceptable. i condemn violence of any kind by anyone, whether on the left or right and i challenge donald trump to do the same. joe biden travels to we shall see what heas to say. todd, gillian. todd: a lot more on that trip over the course of the next hour. thank you very much. jillian: rob smith says the left is using the black lives
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matter movement to advance their agenda and boost their campaign. >> i wouldn't in 800 million years call myself a black lives matter activist or anything like that but i have a lot of empathy for the young african-americans that are out there that are pushing for reform in lots of different ways and what i say to them is look at how you're being used by these elites. look at -- look, kamala harris, this is a multimillionaire, she's a vice presidential candidate and she has armed security, always will. it's okay for her for you to go into the streets and put your lives in danger so she can regain power. jillian: democrats are being criticized for failing to condemn the violent riots during the dnc. todd: a st. louis police officer shot in the head after responding to a shooting call has died. 29-year-old tamarris bohannon was with the department for three and-a-half years. he is the first st. louis officer killed in the line of duty since 2011. his family releasing this letter
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saying, quote, he is a hero to many but most importantly to his loving wife and three incredible children. second officer was shot in the knee and is now out of the hospital. the suspect is in custody but no charges have been filed. jillian: director of national intelligence, john ratcliffe, is working with attorney john durham to declassify documents related to the probe looking into the origins of the russia investigation. >> he's not sharing his findings or the work that he's doing but i'm coordinating with him to make sure that he has the intelligence documents that he needs to do his work and what i don't want to do is declassify something that might prejudice his work. so we're going to have to coordinate as we go forward. jillian: ratcliffe adding he is optimistic that he will be declassifying additional documents soon. todd: overnight, jared kushner taking the first ever israeli commercial flight to the united arab emirates after the peace deal broke erred by the u.s. jillian: trey yingst joins us
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live from tel aviv as the stage is set for more progress in the middle east. trey. >> reporter: todd, jillian, good morning. we have breaking news off the top, as this plane is headed towards abu dhabi right now, we're getting reports on the ground in the em rates that there's been an explosion in the capital city, several people have been injured in what officials are calling a gas leak. we are looking to confirm the cause of the blast. jared kushner was joined by the national security advisor, robert o'brien, boarding this plane from tel aviv, headed to the uae on the first ever official public flight between the two cities. the pair is leading an american and israeli delegation on this plane that has been painted with the word peace in english, hebrew and arabic. it is equipped with a portable missile defense system that can track heat seeking missiles and divert them using a laser. the purpose of the flight is to mark the israel, uae peace deal
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that was announced earlier this month. kushner and benjamin netanyahu met yesterday in jerusalem. both kushner and netanyahu appear optimistic that other countries could soon normalize ties with the jewish state. listen to what kushner had to say before boarding the flight earlier today. >> well, this is a historic flight. we hope that this will start an even more historic journey for the middle east and beyond. >> reporter: this announcement has only deepened the riff between israelis and palestinians who believe they are being betrayed by the leader of the em rates. prime minister netanyahu and senior palestinian leadership responded to the claims in the past few days. take a listen to what they had to say. >> as more arab and muslim countries join the circle of peace, the palestinians will
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eventually understand that their veto is dissipated and they will be hard-pressed to remain outside the community of peace. >> i never expected this dagger, poison dagger, to come from an arab country while i'm standing up for the last six months, facing trump and netanyahu. >> reporter: this deal does temporarily halt plans by prime minister netanyahu to annex key parts of the west bank, there is ongoing tensions with the palestinians. in gaza, negotiators are trying to broker a temporary cease fire to avoid a new round with israel in the coming days. todd: thank you. jillian: president trump praising japanese prime minister shinzo abe after he announced his resignation, tweeting he will be recognized as the greatest prime minister in the history of japan whose relationship with the u.s. is the best it's ever been, a
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special man. abe said he's stepping down because of health issues. he will stay on until a replacement is picked. todd: the mtv music awards honoring chadwick boseman, known for playing marvel's first black superhero. >> we need to take time to talk about the devastating loss of chad boseman, whose talent and passion is an inspiration to all the fans he touched and everyone he encountered. he's a true hero, not just on screen but in everything he did. his impact lives forever. todd: the show airing anen core presentation of boseman's 2018 acceptance speech for best hero in a movie. he dedicated it to a man who stopped a shooting at a waffle house. >> he's amazing. it's even greater to acknowledge the heroes we have in real life. todd: chadwick boseman died after a four year battle with
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colon cancer. he was just 43 years old. jillian: so sad. it is 11 minutes after the hour. the dow bouncing back, 2020 losses erased. what does that mean for the presidential race? todd: peter morici says president trump has the advantage. he puts the numbers into perspective, next. ♪ i get knocked down but i get up again. ♪ nothing's ever going to get me down. ♪ ♪
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>> joe biden going to be the champion of the middle class? he spent half a century shipping jobs abroad to china. he went for nafta, all these things that destroyed our american dream. there was not a single economic metric, mark, where we were not better of off than the failed biden, obama administration because they wanted to over-regulate, over of-tax, spend money. you look at the platform of where they want to spend your taxpayer dollars, it's to everyone but americans.
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they want to go back to pushing jobs abroad to china, want to send your american dream abroad. jillian: with the dow jones erasing nearly all pandemic losses of 2020, joe biden's lead over president trump is shrinking, the lowest margin in nearly two months. are we entering a new bull market and could that give president trump a bigger boost heading into november. former chief economist, peter morici joins us live. good morning, peter, how are you? >> i'm good. thank you. jillian: i guess the answer to those two questions, do you think we're entering a bull market and how much could this help president trump? >> if you want to know whether we're entering the bull market, you have you to look at the presidential polls. if president trump pulls even with joe biden he wins and the market will then zoom. right now, big fund investors, money managers and so on are hedging against the disputed election and against a biden win. after all, everything that biden stands for, his entire platform is to attack stock investors.
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whether it's higher capital gains taxes, higher personal income taxes, regulating the way corporations do business, it's a return to obama but on steroids. it's a socialist agenda. and last i heard, socialism has never been good, really never been good for the stock market. jillian: let's take a look at the close on friday here. you can see the dow up, the s&p 500 up, the nasdaq up, all of them in the green, the dow up 40% on the year-to-date. peter, my question to you is this. people, a lot of people who are still out of jobs, looking for work, even people who might still be working right now, say restaurant owners of, restaurant staff, trying to make plans for the winter, unsure if they're able to sustain their business for the next few months, i don't necessarily know that all of them are looking at the stock market thinking this is all great news, right? >> no, they're not looking at the stock market. but what they should be doing is looking directly in the eye of mayors like de blasio and lightfoot and so forth that are essentially using violence in the streets as a campaign tool.
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they permit it. they enable it. they almost encourage it. and that keeps the economy from reopening. you know, law and order is one campaign slogan. another one should be peace in the streets to restore our economy. we cannot reopen new york city, chicago, portland and other places with this kind of behavior. and we can't offer jobs to minorities and women and so forth if all those businesses, those store fronts are closed because at night they'll be destroyed. we cannot have a functioning economy this way. jillian: in the 30 seconds we have remaining, if there's no clear winner come election day, how do you think the markets are going to react? >> it depends on who the markets assess will be in the white house after all the dust settles, after all there will be a lot of handicapping. my feeling is, if it looks like trump will sustain his position in office, the market will be steady. and as the results become
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clearer, it will go up. if joe biden gets elected, it's really all up for grabs because after all, i mean, his first order of business on the first day is going to be a mammoth tax increase. they can push that through on the first day. is that going to be good for stocks? is that going to be good for business? is that going to be good for jobs? the answer to all of that is no. jillian: peter morici, not the last time we're going to be having this conversation. i enjoy when you're on with us all the time. thank you and have a good day. >> thank you. take care. always nice to be with you. jillian: a good one. todd: time now, 19 minutes after the hour. people devastated by hurricane laura picking up the pieces. >> this is going to get horrific. floss water. people can't -- there's no water. people can't bathe. they're drinking out of swimming pool. todd: the desperate situation and their long road to recovery. the fda is fast tracking a coronavirus vaccine, the criteria the decision will be
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todd: welcome back. the u.s. nearing 6 million cases of covid-19 this morning as 36 states see a surge in new infections. more than 8700 cases have been reported from colleges and universities alone. that includes the university of alabama where students were caught crowding bars without masks. the university has reported more than 1,000 new cases since class resumed. jillian: the fda is reportedly willing to fast-track a coronavirus vaccine before clinical trials are done. dr. jeanette nesheiwat joined us earlier to weigh in. >> phase three is what tells us is it safe, is the vaccine going to work, what are the side effects so this is really important and the way to determine this is through time.
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jillian: the financial times reporting an emergency authorization could be granted if, quote, the benefits outweigh the risks in a public health emergency. todd: louisiana residents can now apply for fema aid after hurricane laura devastated the state, governor john bel edwards warning it will be a long and difficult read to restoring power with 170 electrical towers destroyed. jillian: a lake charles resident saying they need help and they need help now. >> there are elderly people sleeping in mold and wet conditions. they can't even get out of their homes. this is going to get horrific. there's no water. people can't bathe. i mean, they're drinking out of swimming pools. jillian: wow. more than 300,000 homes and businesses remain without power. todd: with that, let's go to adam klotz for a look at our weather as we head into a new week. adam. >> hi, good morning, guys. we're still thinking about the tropics, we're still in the heart of that season. here's our areas of concern out there, early this morning.
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none of these are going to be making an impact on the united states within the next couple days but just a reminder that we are in the heart of the season. we have a couple waves off the coast of africa, one off the coast of south america and one off the southeast. this is going to move away from the united states but we are still right in the heart of this season and we expect to see a lot more tropical activity before it's all said and done. otherwise across the country, temperatures already up into the 80s across portions of the south, cooler in the northern tier of the country, in the 60s. it will be along this frontal boundary where we see warm and cold air where we see the possibility of thunderstorms later today. think about the plains as an area where you could see thunderstorms before the day is over. temperatures getting up close to 100 degrees in portions of texas, 86 degrees up in chicago, a little bit cooler here in new york, 76 degrees. maybe just a hint of fall in the air but as i began, guys,
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hurricane season, we are still right in the middle of it and we'll continue tracking it throughout the next couple of months. back to you. jillian: adam, thank you. todd: time now, 25 minutes after the hour. an historic launch for spacex, why this latest mission will land in the record books. >> again, another lie by the president. >> this is not where you cut off congress from getting the information. jillian: democrats outraged over a lack of in person election security briefing. a congressman says this is what happens when you leak information. he joins us live, next. ♪ as a drifter i was born to walk alone. ♪ butri i made up my mind. on king's hawaiian bread! yum! king's hawaiian. yum! start your day with secret. secret stops sweat 3x more than ordinary antiperspirants.
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jillian: protesters lighting fireworks while marching through residential neighborhoods. this just one day after five officers were injured during violent protests in the city's black lives matter plaza. police say officers were hit with rocks, bricks and fireworks. five people were arrested for assaulting an officer and rioting. toddrioting. today, joe biden is heading to penpennsylvania to deliver an astress on the violence and unrest in america. he plans on asking voters if they feel safe in, quote, donald trump's america. this comes as president trump gears up to visit kenosha, wisconsin tomorrow. governor tony evers asking him to reconsider his trip, saying, quote, i along with other community leaders who have reached out are concerned about what your presence will mean for kenosha and our state. i am concerned your presence will only hinder our healing. i am concerned your presence will only delay our work to overcome division and move forward together. demonstrators holding a blue lives matter rally in the city
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yesterday. todd: joe biden is expected to address the wave of violence in democrat run cities by blaming it on president trump. but will pennsylvania voters buy that? congressman fred keller represents the keystone state, joins me live to weigh in. congressman, i think it's clear, biden is trying his best to flip this violence argument on the president. here's just more of what he said or what his campaign said, donald trump continues to fan the flames of division and encourage chaos in our cities, rather than trying to heal this country. on monday, joe biden will offer a different vision for a better future in joe biden's america. so congressman, how you do you answer the question, are you safe in donald trump's america? >> i feel very safe in pennsylvania and i think by the president going of out to kenosha it shows that he cares and he's actively looking for solutions. where the unrest is happening, not here, in a peaceful area of
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pennsylvania, so i feel very safe in pennsylvania. i think the keystone state is great. todd: meantime, house republicans calling on the doj to investigate who is funding a lot of the violence we are seeing across the country. i feel like we've heard this before. is this going to go anywhere? >> i don't know where that's going to go. what joe biden and the democrats have been doing for almost four years now is trying to tear down the president and if they were more concerned about the success of america, they would work as hard for the american people as they are working to try and tear down our president. todd: understood. switching gears, first it was russian collusion, then it was the post office and now it is intel briefings. take a listen to the latest battle on capitol hill. >> i'm going to continue to keep the promises that i made. i'm going to continue to follow the law, information being leaked out of the intelligence community and i'm going to take the measures to make sure that that stops. >> i haven't, my staff haven't,
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i can't speak for what all the members of the committee have done or of not done but this is a falsehood, another lie by the president. >> they're trying to influence our of elections with this information and this is not where you cut off congress from getting the information. todd: congressman, i'm confused as to why the democrats are so fired up. aren't they getting the exact same content, just in written form? >> absolutely. congress is not cut off from anything. the thing to look at, when it's not in writing, and chairman schiff has proven he will fabricate stories and not tell the truth so i think the steps the administration has taken by putting in writing holds the democrats who have been lying for the last four years about proof they had and so on and a phone call which chairman schiff read a fabricated statement, this puts it on the record so it can't be misunderstood or fabricated stories for political
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gains. todd: this is really wonky and in the weeds there of d.c. is there any chance that this resonates the democratic attacks, that is, resonates with the undecided voter in swing states? >> here's where i give the american people a lot of credit. they've seen what's happened for the last three years. they've seen the democrats go after one theory after another, put out false information. i mean, chairman schiff has been saying for three years he has proof beyond a reasonable doubt that there was something. he has never come up with that. he fabricated the story. this is the administration making sure that things aren't leaked and that no one is making up stories. todd: we appreciate your time as always. thank you very much. jillian. >> thank you. jillian: a mural for a fallen police officer hit by vandals in philadelphia. anti-police slogans painted on the memorial to sergeant robert wilson. he was killed trying to stop an armed robbery at a game stop
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store in 2015. he went in there to buy a gift for his son. the city's police chief wrote, quote, you didn't earn any extra woke points. you are not brave, you're not a revolutionary, you're certainly no hero. despite your failings, heroes like rob will still answer your calls for help. the police union also offering a 1$10,000 reward for information. nearly 100 officers from specialized units of the austin police department will be reassigned. the department says it's part of budget cuts approved by the city council. the changes affect enforcement of gangs and drugs. the officers will be shifted to regular patrol duty. the city council voted to cut $150 million from the department's budget earlier this month. todd: today, steve bannon due back in court on charges connected to a border wall fund raising scheme. he will appear by video because of covid-19 concerns. they are accused of using money from donors to pay for personal
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expenses and luxury eye times. bannon pleaded not guilty, calling the charges a fiasco. jillian: spacex celebrating its newest successful launch. >> three, two, one, zero. ignition, and liftoff. jillian: the falcon 9 rocket carrying a satellite, blasting into space overnight and the launch caught some people off guard. people who live nearby say they were startled by a sonic boom, caused by the rocket's booster landing on a launch pad. todd: they've had some success the last couple, knock on wood this is a sign of of things to come going forward. american airlines slashing flights, what that could mean for travelers and their wallets. jillian: as prime keeps growing -- crime keeps going, so does the massive exodus from manhattan. we'll be right back.
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jillian: good morning. welcome back. an author is sparking controversy for defending looting during an npr interview, calling it a sense of joy and liberation. she says, quote, looting strikes at the heart of property, of whiteness and of the police, it gets to the very root of the way those three things are interconnected. and also it provides people with a sense of freedom and pleasure.
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people are sounding off on the radio station for airing an interview glorifying looting. she finished the book in april before the surge in looting over the summer. todd: an hours long police standoff ended under bizarre circumstances after reports of gunfire at a pro trump caravan rally. witnesses heard a woman who appeared to have her tire blown out by a bullet. witnesses pointed to a building, providing a picture of a man with a rifle in the building, when the s.w.a.t. team busted into the suspected apartment there was no one there. no injuries were reported. unclear if the shooting was nexted to the rally. police are search forge a suspect. with the violence we're seeing, turning point usa spokesperson rob smith says there's no incentive for people to return to the chaos they left behind in democrat-run cities. >> everything that you're seeing in california, say from the wildfires and the blackouts and all that stuff, when you talk about the homelessness, how
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dirty the streets are, the top to bottom rampant corruption, you can replace california and la for any other city or state that's run by democrats, i wonder how many people are going to be going back to cities like new york and la, no that everyone can -- now that everyone can work remotely. todd jillian: we've been talking about this nor a while, it appears new yorkers making a mass exodus, lines of people were seen over the weekend to rent u-haul trucks as moving companies are in high demand. many people are fleeing the city's well-known neighborhoods. the mayor was using hotels to house the homeless and recovering addicts. that has ended but the mass exodus is nowhere near ending, it appears. todd: i had a buddy that lives across the street from one of the hotels shown there, very interesting times in the neighborhood. coming up, david webb joins us
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live on the weekend wave of violence against police. jillian: a pop star sends a message to her little monsters. >> i love you. stay safe. speak your mind. and i might sound like a broken record, but wear a mask. it's a sign of respect. jillian: lady gaga's fashion station doubling as a psa. todd: let's check in with steve doocy to see what's coming up on fox and friends. >> good morning, todd and jillian. coming up on "fox & friends," clashes between protesters and trump supporters in portland, oregon this weekend with one man who was murdered near the chaos. we're hear from a retired marine who said he heard the gunshots from his house and rushed to the scene. and joining us to react to the day's top stories we've got white house press secretary kayleigh mcenany, house minority whip steve ca scalise, senator m cotton, newt gingrich.
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parents call for the return of high school football. >> these are our choices, our children, let them play. let them play. >> i think i know what she's thinking. we're going to hear from one of the organizers of the protests that's fighting to get athletes back out on the field to let them play. all right. we're going to kick things off here about 16 minutes from right now, right here on the channel you trust for your morning news. todd and jillian back with "fox & friends first" in just a couple of minutes. no matter where you live, where you live has never mattered more. for over 100 years, realtors® have brought local knowledge and deep expertise to helping people find new places to dream and thrive. the next great place you'll call home. so, whether you're upsizing downsizing or just ready to make a change. look for the r.
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the airlines. >> american airlines is cutting capacity by 55% in october as the coronavirus pandemic continues to hurt travel demand. spokesman telling fox business they're evaluating the flight network to match the current environment. airline going to furlough or lay off about 19,000 employees in october with federal aid expiring unless congress can agree on a new round of stimulus. american previously announced they would suspend service to 15 u.s. cities, that starts october 7th. united airlines nounsing its no longer going to charge travelers fees up to $200 to change their domestic flights, trying to win travelers back after demand plunged. jillian: let's talk about the vmas. i don't know how many people were watching it. if they were, they would have seen a lot of messaging. >> a lot of messaging, that is for sure. the vma held at pop-up locations in new york cities, racial injustice the theme for several
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performers with the recent deaths of george floyd and breonna taylor. when the weekend accepted his you awaraw5rd it was with mixed emotions. >> it's hard to celebrate and enjoy this moment. i'm going to say justice for jacob blake and justice for breonna taylor. >> there were lighter moments with both lady gaga and ariana grande giving blowout performances during the show, both performers wearing pretty darn cool face masks. by the way, these guys were all given exceptions to quarantine when they arrived in new york. that was a decision from our illustrious governor, governor andrew cuomo. the rest of us have to quarantine when we come into new york but none of them did. todd: this is a very important question. what does it say about me and my age that i like the introduction
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to your fox business segment, the music, more than any of the music i heard last night? what does that say? >> that's an age thing, yeah. [ laughter ] todd: i always like tap the desk whenever you come on. i love it. >> we try at fox business to please, what can we say? todd: thanks, cheryl. grand slam tennis is back, the u.s. open kicking off today in new york city but there won't be any fans in the stands and organizers have strong cleaning and testing protocols in place. jillian: despite the safety measures, one player has been forced to withdraw, testing positive for covid-19. he was scheduled to play tomorrow. it is 10 minutes until the top of the hour. a police officer shot and killed in st. louis, more cops hurt in several other cities. when will the violence end? todd: plus, a peace plan to end unrest in portland. is it too little, too late? david web on the months and months of violence, next. want to brain better?
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todd: right to a fox news alert. extremely violent weekend across the country leaving one police officer dead and more than a dozen other officers hurt. jillian: what is it going to take to stop the violence? joining us now to weigh in host of reality check on fox nation david webb. thanks for being here. >> good morning. >> what do you think it is going to take to make this violence
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stop? >> well, it already exists. it's called law enforcement. first, you arrest, you detain, you prosecute the people that have been doing this, but they haven't done that so the idea that suddenly they have a plan, there has been a plan in place that's letting law enforcement do its job. law enforcement doing its job does not mean you can't have your first amendment rights. but this has never been about the first amendment. what it is is cultural destruction of one of america's big cities, one of our major cities and destruction of anythinged that the left doesn't like, which is law and order. societal order, businesses. think about all the after-effects and the down line effects of the destruction of portland. jillian: danksd point taken about law enforcement doing its job. some areas some circumstances aren't we behind that point aren't we unable to whether it be the violence they are dealing with or whether it be officers who are calling out or
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recruitment down low? aren't they handcuffed in some situations? >> well, they are hand cuffed. and if these governors and this governor was smart, they would invite the federal government in which they can do to give them help. the law enforcement simply doesn't have the resources to handle everything going on at once when you have riots. when you have looting, you still have regular criminal activity. you also have wealth-related issues. police show up when you call for health emergency. they get ambulances are a they need to go. they get fire trucks where they need to go. they provide support. you are affecting the entire city focused in an area by a small group of dangerous and now, as we know over time, deadly group of rioters. todd: david, along those lines you just mentioned the oregon governor. she announcing a peace plan and quickly summarize it. basically calls on multiple law enforcement agencies assist the
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bureau for arrest and prosecutions for certain criminal offenses and to protect free speech. i'm confused, david, this thing has been going upon for months in portland. why are we doing this now? >> just go back to what i said before. there always was a plan. but, let me understand. this she wants other edge forcement, other agencies to come in and help. then, they arrest the criminals. the rioters. but then they let them out of jail. todd: right. >> and they let them go. as we see in other cities like kenosha and areas when they arrest them. they are coming from multiple cities. they are coming from other areas. some of them can't be properly identified. so when you let them out of jail, how are you going to prosecute them? jillian: david, let's take a listen to what kamala harris had to say on saturday. i want to get your reaction. >> in the criminal justifiable system, people talk all the time about consequence and accountability. are we holding the system and the people who work in the system accountable and when they break the rules and break the
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law, is there a consequence? jillian: what do you think, david? >> well, let's do this by the numbers. are there people in the system? are there bad cops? yes? in any organization there are. is it city building burning looting buildings? no. kamala harris likes to draw inequivocal it's about false systemic racism in the united states. most people involved in incidents with police are simply ones where they do not comply. whether you are guilty or innocent, compliance is required. whether when you do not comply for whatever reason, whether it's related to psychological issues, which is a tragedy, or maybe it's something somebody running from more prosecution. whatever the reason, fear, it doesn't matter, if you don't comply, you put yourself at greater risk. >> david, 45 seconds left in the
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show. president trump's approval rating amongst black voters getting in almost double digital boost following the rnc. take a look at these numbers. do you think there is a growing number of black voters who will never say they are voting for trump but ultimately will, especially in light of this fascinating trend that we are seeing? >> yes. because black people, like anybody else, regardless of color of skin, care about their safety and security. not just economic safety but personal safety. they want safe communities for their kids and their families. and that matters. if the president supports it and he does, he gets the votes. and more votes the democrats do not, by their actions, and black people just simply aren't as stupid as democrats want them to be. being. jillian: david webb as always, thank you for joining us. we appreciate it? >> any time. jillian: make sure to catch reality check only on fox nation. todd: with that set your dvr for
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