it's the ball being dropped on new year's eve and this is going to be the final week of summer for 2020. >> can we end this year now? >> trace: a tense stand-off in the nation's capital. police firing tear gas into a crowd after protestors gathered around black lives matter plaza for the second night in a row following a weekend of unrest that left five officers injured. more on the situation there in just a moment. [shouting] >> this was the scene in portland saturday. trump supporters riding in a

caravan through the city as fights break out between the two sides. i'm trace gallagher. julie, good morning to you. >> julie: i'm julie banderas in for sandra today. an unidentified shooting and killing one trump supporter. meanwhile police declaring a riot overnight in portland and arrest dozens after rioters swarmed ablg and threw things at officers there. the mayor of portland called for an end to the violence over the weekend but now the mayor is blaming president trump. deviceive rhetoric is making the problem worse. >> mr. president, why this is the first time in decades that americans have seen this level of violence. it's you who have created the hate and the division. it is you who have not found a way to say the names of black people killed by police officers even as people in law

enforcement have. and it's you who claimed the white -- >> what is responsible for the violence is the deeply irresponsible defund the police movement. >> julie: matt finn is live from portland. portland detectsives are asking for the public's help to submit video and give eyewitness accounts. tell us about that. >> yes, this morning portland police are actively investigating that homicide. this is the intersection where police say the man was fatally shot in the chest saturday night. police have not officially released the victim's name us to. they say it will happen after an autopsy and next of kin are identified. the man's name is appearing on social media as aaron daniel son, a reported supporter of the conservative group patriot prayer. the shooting happened after a caravan of president trump's

supporters cruised through portland's downtown streets on saturday. they clashed with other groups and a man was shot dead hours after that caravan ended. local reports say there is a shooting suspect being investigated this morning. the suspect was previously cited for bringing a loaded gun to a public place and interfering with police. those allegations were dropped. we'll keep you updated throughout the day if police formally identify either the shooting victim or shooter. here in portland it was the 94th night of unrest last night. police formally declared another unlawful assembly and made 29 arrests because of criminal rioting including throwing objects at police. the mayor urged anyone who might have the idea coming to portland to seek revenge for this weekend's shooting to stay away. >> for those of you saying on twitter this morning that you plan to come to portland to

secret retribution. you have a constitutional right to be here but we're asking you to stay away and work with us to help us de-escalate this situation. >> oregon's governor announced she will authorize state police from outside of portland to come into the city to assist portland police, which has been stretched thin as we approach nearly 100 days of unrest and violent riots in the city. this is the second time state police are returning to assist portland police. the u.s. attorney and the f.b.i. will also be committing additional resources to the city and assisting in the homicide investigation. back to you. >> julie: matt finn, thank you. >> trace: police firing tear gas and rubber pellets to break up protests near the white house overnight after demonstrations grew violent over the weekend. president trump is planning to meet with law enforcement in

kenosha, wisconsin tomorrow. governor says it will only hurt the city's attempts to heal. how concerned is the white house that the president's visit will cause an up tick in violence? >> it's always a concerned but the president wants to support the community and those sworn to protect those in the community. i can show you the pictures. it is an unfortunate scene that has taken place over several days. now going into weeks. we've seen the unrest in places like kenosha, portland and elsewhere. i want to share part of a letter from the governor. he is urging the president to reconsider his visit to kenosha. he says i'm concerned your presence will only delay our work to overcome division and move forward together. it is our job as elected officials to lead by example and to be a calming presence for the people we know are

hurting, mourning and trying to cope with trauma. now is not the time for divisiveness. as you just saw matt talk over in portland an unbelievable scene that seems to be getting worse before it gets better. more than 90 days of continued violence. here is the mayor of the city ted wheeler talking about the president needs to help calm things down there. >> i believe in a collaborative manner by saying earlier that you need to do your part and i need to do my part and then we both need to be held accountable. i think it would be helpful not for me to tell you how to do your job because frankly i don't appreciate it when you tell me how to do mine. >> the mayor alluding to the fact on twitter the president calls the mayor a dummy saying he wasn't doing his job to protect those in the great state of oregon's largest city. i worked over the weekend here in the nation's capitol and we have seen continued unrest here.

we had a bit of a break for a couple of weekends. as you saw over the weekend things were not good here. we do know that kayleigh mcenany will meet with the press today at 1:00. i'll be there for you. back to you for now. >> trace: kevin corke on the south lawn. thank you. jam-packed morning on "america's newsroom." we'll talk to acting homeland security deputy secretary ken cuccinelli in a few minutes. in the next hour the trump campaign's press secretary hogan gidley joins us. their reactions to all the breaking news coming up. >> julie: st. louis police officer shot in the head over the weekend has died. he was responding to a 911 call from a home on saturday when an armed man who had ordered a family out of their home and barricaded himself inside opened fire. the suspect was then taken into custody sunday morning after a nearly 12-hour stand-off. another officer was also hurt

but treated and released been shot in just the past three months. >> trace: for all this let's bring in byron york, from "the washington examiner" and fox news contributor. great to see you. now that joe biden has made this about face and he is acknowledging the crime in cities, i guess the strategy is to blame the president. i want to put the former vice president's quote on the screen here. he says quoting donald trump has been president for almost four years. the temperature in the country is higher, tensions run stronger, divisions run deeper and all of us are less safe because he can't do the job of the american president. what is driving, byron, joe biden's sudden change of heart? internal polling? what do you make of all this? >> well, certainly polling is doing it. there is a sense that as you know joe biden did not say anything during the democratic

convention about the violence in portland or seattle or chicago or minneapolis or new york. and people were beginning to worry about it. the statement he released yesterday began with a condemnation of the violence in portland but went on to basically blame president trump for the whole thing and also hint that perhaps the supporters who went into portland were asking for it. suggests they were spoiling for a fight and they've been whipped up by president trump. it was a little bit of condemnation of violence and a lot of blaming of president trump. >> trace: you have this kind of the democratic party's talking point. the portland mayor as we've shown in the first several minutes of the show today, he has gone after the president and vice versa. i want to play that back and forth. here is the portland mayor talking about the president. >> your campaign of fear is as anti-democratic as anything

you've done to create hate and vitriol in our beautiful country. you've tried to divide us more than any other figure in modern history. and now you want me to stop the violence that you helped create. what america needs is for you to be stopped. >> trace: the president responded quoting here, the people of portland like all other cities and parts of our great country want law and order. the radical left, democrat mayors like the dummy running portland or the guy in his basement speaking of joe biden unwilling to lead or even speak out against crime will never be able to do it. where do you see this ending, byron? >> it's hard to see it ending. it was an extraordinary press conference by ted wheeler yesterday. as you could see, his strategy was to blame everything that has gone wrong in portland on president trump. what was extraordinary was he

was asked well, what is your -- you are the mayor, what is your specific plan for dealing with this violence? and he didn't really have one. he said he would continue to implement his 19-point plan for racial justice. which by the way, included dissolving the police bureau's gun investigation unit. an amazing way to respond to a gun killing in the city. but beyond that the mayor said i'm not really sure there is a way to prevent this. >> trace: that was my next point. he was asked what do you do and he didn't have a response except to say well, we're working on these points here. i look back a month ago and coronavirus by far and away the number one topic in the country, coronavirus, coronavirus. now there are a lot of people all over the country very concerned about violence. you can feel the shift a little bit.

>> yeah. the reason is public safety is always the number one issue if it's not there. if there is a threat to public safety, it's always the number one issue. now, there are different types of problems going on. problems in portland and chicago are not the same. but we are seeing a huge uptick of violence in a number of major cities across the country. the issue is voters might not feel that themselves, they might be in a place that has not had a surge in violence but they worry about it coming to them. clearly president trump is making this an issue and joe biden has helped him by up until now being very quiet about it. >> trace: always good to see you. thank you, sir. >> julie: fox news alert now. the u.s. approaching another grim milestone in the fight against coronavirus. the number of confirmed cases is close to 6 million and more

than 183,000 people have died from the virus. meanwhile fda commissioner steven hahn said it would consider granting emergency authorization to use a vaccine before phase three clinical trials are finished. hahn also told the financial times that politics won't play any role in the decision to fast track the vaccine. >> trace: back to intelligence director john ratcliffe moving to plug leaks on election security and ending in-person briefings for lawmakers. now he is facing a threat from top democrats. plus the administration considers sending federal agents back into portland to contain the violence. will that end the chaos? acting dhs deputy secretary ken cuccinelli with an update next. >> to suggest that somehow it has been peace one portland is not looking at the facts. we've had over 200 an arc consists. these aren't peaceful. every single night they conduct

violent acts.

>> will you subpoena intelligence officials to appear in public in a hearing before the election? >> that is certainly one of the tools that we may use. we'll compel the intelligence

community to give congress the information we need and compel the intelligence community to speak to the american people. >> julie: adam schiff there threatening to subpoena top intelligence officials before november's election specifically national intelligence director john ratcliffe. they announced friday congress would no longer receive in-person briefings on election security. >> my only condition is that you treat this information with the respect it deserves and keep it private. i'll continue to keep congress informed but we have had a pandemic of information being leaked out of the intelligence community and i'm going to take the measures to make sure that stops. >> julie: schiff says ratcliffe's explanation doesn't make sense because written briefings could just as easily be leaked. he also says any decision to hold a hearing before the election would be up to house speaker nancy pelosi. >> trace: oregon's governor

sending state police to portland after a weekend of deadly violence. the governor mobilizing state troopers after the head of homeland security said he might send in federal agents even if state and local officials don't want the help. >> they have failed to protect their community specifically in portland. we've seen that. we have over 90 arrests, 74 different criminal citations that the f.b.i. is pursuing against individuals. we need portland to step up. bring this violence to a close. i think you'll see a lot of this go away. >> trace: ken cuccinelli is acting deputy of homeland security. thank you for joining us, sir. we greatly appreciate it. you can tell when the governor of portland starts to send in state police you know the situation is escalating. i want to play one more sound bite from chad wolf and asked if he would send in federal troops. >> is our consideration of

sending in more federal law enforcement in defiance of local leaders? >> all options are on the table as we talk about portland. >> trace: big difference when something is on the table and troops are on the move. how concerned are you or how confident are you this is going to happen or not going to happen? >> well first let's just -- these are officers we're talking about, not troops. there is a major difference there. but as you've seen, we have had a heavy presence in portland out of necessity because many of the targets of the attacks for a period of time were federal facilities. and as the secretary said it is very much on the table to expand those numbers again. we still have an augmented group of officers there, including investigators, participating investigators and f.b.i. investigators. they've added some as well. there is a lot of activity in

portland but it hasn't stopped the violence. you have seen the formula for stopping the violence in kenosha. unfortunately the governor and mayor refuse to utilize that simple formula. the president has been pushing them to do that. we stand ready, absolutely ready just like we were the kenosha to bring and end to three months of violence. it is not complicated but it takes the political will and commitment to do it. >> trace: if i said troops i met federal agents. thank you for that. in an open letter to the president the portland mayor said the following quoting. we don't need your politics of division and demagoguery. portlanders are on to you. we've already seen your reckless disregard for human life in your response to the covid pandemic and have reached the conclusion that images of violence or vandalism are your

only ticket to reelection. the president responded. he tried mixing with the agitators and an -- we have only been there with a small group to defend our u.s. courthouse because he couldn't do it. intimating that might be a bigger group going in the next time, sir >> no, absolutely. the president has made it clear he wants those options maintained available. we're dealing with a mayor who hates president trump more than he loves the people in portland. and he doesn't care about peace if he thinks he can score cheap political points on the president while he is up for reelection. and the president just wants peace. that's all we did in kenosha is advance what was needed to achieve peace there. that was done -- some reluctance at the governor's part as first. when the violence escalated he took the president up on his

offer. you have some doj and 2,000 national guard. it works if they would take the president's formula in oregon. but the reason they won't is simply because the president wants them to do it. that's the only reason they are doing this and it is terrible. it is pathetic and horrible leadership. >> trace: you mentioned wisconsin governor tony evers. he has asked the president to stay away and the president says he is going to kenosha tomorrow. if federal officers do go back in to portland, sir, will the strategy be different or very much the same? >> no, i would -- we went in under certain circumstances. when we say went in, augmented beyond just the federal protective service. we're always in portland but we still have an augmented number of officers there. and we'll deal with the circumstances at the time. they aren't the same as the end of june, beginning of july. i don't want to say it will

look the same as early july again if we undertake that. particularly now with doj participation. >> trace: things have changed. ken cuccinelli, thank you, sir. >> good to be with you. >> julie: so as colleges reopen for class, many states are reporting coronavirus outbreaks on campus. why some doctors are now telling students not to return home if they get sick. plus devastation in louisiana after hurricane laura pounded the area with 130 mile-per-hour winds and flooding rains last week. many parts of the state could be without electricity for weeks. >> 172 towers that have been damaged or destroyed. 70 of those were the very large 300 foot towers rated for 140 mile-per-hour winds. i'm thinking wow, that's

terrible. that is going to take a long time. what happens now? now that the rent's due but they've cut your pay. now that the virus has cost lives but your healthcare costs too much. now that our president has had months but he still doesn't have a plan. what happens now? joe biden knows how to lead through a crisis because he's done it before. when our economy was on the verge of collapse, joe biden led the largest economic stimulus in a generation and saved millions of jobs.

now joe biden is ready to lead us through this crisis. he knows rebuilding our economy starts with fighting the virus, increasing testing, getting more protective gear for healthcare workers and calling for mask mandates nationwide. as president, he'll get working families back on their feet by lowering healthcare costs and helping small businesses recover. so what happens now? we elect a president who will build back better. i'm joe biden and i approve this message.

>> julie: bottom of the hour. time for the top of the news now. a tense stand-off in d.c. as protestors gathered around black lives matter plaza. officers were hurt over the weekend after demonstrators set fires and threw things at police officers. >> trace: joe biden is set to

deliver his first major campaign events in pittsburgh. he will focus on whether voters feel safe under president trump's administration. >> julie: and the u.s. is on the verge of hitting six million coronavirus cases. meanwhile more than 183,000 americans have died from the virus. >> trace: at least 14 people are dead in louisiana after hurricane laura made landfall there last week as a cat 4 storms. thousands of people had to shelter in hotels to less en the threat of coronavirus infection and now they're coming back home to pick up the pieces. we're live in lake charles, one of the hardest-hit areas in louisiana. the national guard helping with cleanup and recovery now. >> that's exactly right. 6200 troops are on the ground here working. we're at a chevron gas station near downtown lake charles. back there you can see what 150 mile-per-hour winds can do. the metal is just twisted and

crumpled and wrapped around some of the pumps back there. that isn't half of it. follow me this way and i want to show you. this is all that is left of the actual convenience store itself. look at that. the roof is gone, the sides are gone. incredible. just to think it's one street, one corner here in lake charles and there is damage like this for miles and miles and miles in all directions. south of here along the coast where laura made landfall if you can believe it's worse. holly beach and cameron, louisiana practically wiped off the map. wind and storm surge sweeping homes off their foundations. more than 200,000 have no running water. 368,000 with no power. >> they're working extremely hard but that is not to say that power will be restored to all areas of louisiana very soon. that's because the damage to the system is extensive.

>> as we said the national guard is working. they're handing out things like ice, water, food, tarps. thousands of cars lining up to get much-needed supplies. at this hour there are nearly 15,000 evacuees in hotels across louisiana and over in texas. >> trace: devastating scene. casey stiegel live on the ground in louisiana. thank you. >> julie: there were plans for a new school curriculum in california. it is raising alarms among critics. it would require an ethnic studies course that they sound extreme. jonathan hunt is live in los angeles with more. what is going on here? what's all the to do about this, jonathan? >> supporters of introducing ethnic studies as part of the high school curriculum says now is the time given the ongoing conversation and violent upheaval over race in america.

assembly bill 331 is likely to go before the state legislature any day now. if it passes and the governor signs it, california would become the first state in the country to mandate ethnic studies. the death of george floyd and shooting of blake have given impetus who support the bill. christina garcia called the bill a clear and great way to make sure we're picking students' consciousness before they enter adulthood and before any more people die. the time is now to answer the call for justice in a meaningful way. the course would be designed to encourage all students to examine their own ethnic origins but focus on the groups who suffered the most from racism. but some are concerned it might actually promote more division. a letter from jewish groups warned that the course and material should avoid becoming, quote, tools of political

indoctrination that promote hatred and incite harm against any race, group or individual. if the bill becomes law it would be introduced for 9-12 graders beginning with the class of 2025. there is a long way to go. doubtless a lot of changes to that curriculum before any california high schooler begins this ethics course. >> julie: jonathan hunt, thank you. >> trace: earlier this morning a historical first commercial flight took place from israel to the united arab emirates. jared kushner and u.s. national security advisor robert o'brien accompanied israeli officials on that flight. trey yengst is live in tel aviv. what do you know about the flight? >> trace, good morning. the purpose of this flight was to mark the uae/israel peace deal announced earlier this month. the plane took off from tel aviv and on the side had the

word peace in three languages and equipped with a missile defense system. jared kushner was joined by robert o'brien, leading the delegation to the uae. curb near told reporters that the sale of f-35 fighter jets would be discussed between benjamin netanyahu and the president in the future. in addition to a security cooperation, the israelis and emotion rather will have open trading, healthcare and they met to discuss the normalization of ties that was brokered by president trump after a failed attempt at peace between israeli and palestinians. >> the very few and critical peace agreement are the ones with the long track record of failure entrapping their own

people in misery and poverty. the middle east is filled with brilliant, industrious, tolerant and innovative people and the future belongs to them. >> while this deal temporary halts plans to -- there is ongoing tension with the palestinians who tells us they are betrayed by those uae in the gulf where the meeting is taking place today. as we speak now negotiators are inside gaza trying to avoid a new round of violence and trying to cut a deal between the factions in gaza and the israeli government here in israel. >> trace: trey yengst live in tel aviv. thank you. >> julie: joe biden hits the campaign trail today for the first time in weeks. but it is what he is speaking about that is raising eyebrows. president trump planning to

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>> trace: long time coming. an american national phenomenon record back to life. a geyser in yellow stone park

erupted after being dormant for more than six years. it sent steam more than 200 feet into the air. the 6 1/2 year gap in between eruptions is the longest since the 1980s. the national park service has the geyser erupts two to six times a day. >> julie: as students and professors across the country are returning to on-site classes new coronavirus cases are now showing up by the thousands with a large number of states reporting positive cases at their colleges and universities. but there is a growing consensus among doctors to keep those who get infected on campus. don't send them home. contain them on campus. basically they are thinking it will risk transmitting the virus to anyone else. dr. marc siegel is a professor of medicine at nyu and fox news contributor. great to see you, marc, way too

long. let me ask you at least 36 states across the u.s. reported positive cases at colleges and universities that adds to more than 8700 cases to the country's tally, 1200 students just tested positive at the university of alabama which started classes on august 19th. what do you think about keeping those covid positive cases on campus rather than sending them home? >> i'm for that. i've been for that for a long time, julie. i'll tell you why. add to that number 570 cases at notre dame, university of north carolina over 1,000 cases. a lot of this is occurring at sororities. kansas state had an outbreak at sororities, fraternities, gatherings that shouldn't be happening. the reason we have to continue to quarantine at the university in my opinion is that word. quarantine. you can take people who have covid-19 and we'll have advanced testing very shortly

because abbott released an antigen test 97% sensitive that they'll have the united states government just contracted for 150 million doses. so we'll be able to screen vast amount of students at these universities and then separate them out from the general pool. as you started here, julie, if we send them home instead off campus or on gap years, guess what they do? they'll spread covid-19 from one date to another. containing it is the way to go. >> julie: okay. containing it. what about stopping the spread before it happens? there have been over 6 million coronavirus cases in the united states, 180,000 coronavirus deaths. in alabama alone since we're talking about the university of alabama here, 125,000 cases, over 2,000 deaths and that number is rising. my question to you is was it time to reopen schools given those numbers? >> well, listen, schools are open for discussion. bars are not. indoor restaurants in my opinion are not.

all large gatherings are not. the reason schools are open for discussion, universities is because what i said. you can focus in on prevention. but i think the point you are getting at here is we're not social distancing enough in this country. we're not disinfecting. especially -- another point i want to make about young people that's not getting enough attention is we're finding out more and more even if you have a mild case of covid-19, you can have serious side effects from this. they are much milder and much less likely to end up in the hospital but they can have long term problems. >> julie: speaking of the university of alabama as well they've responded to reports of asking professors to keep quiet about covid cases on campus and faculty were asked not to discuss the outbreak of cases. the university is citing the family education and privacy acts. that prevents faculty on any

campus from publicly identifying an individual's health concerns including a positive covid test. here is my issue with that. aren't widespread covid spread information that must be shared with the public? >> i think so. now, there is always an issue of patient privacy. this kind of information has to get out there. you aren't talking about privacy. you are talking about a contagious disease. if they have it they're putting other people at risk. you're on to another point. across the countries teachers and professors are most concerned about enough precautions not being taken at the schools. that's key. we don't want to put our professors at risk. that's why they need that knowledge. >> julie: alabama added more than 1100 coronavirus cases in the last day. all those cases adds as hospitalization rates dropped to the lowest since early july. what does that tell you? >> well, it tells me that again most of the cases are very mild.

but again, the other problem is that this could be the beginning of something else. we're concerned that if you have a lot of cases among younger people, you can't ultimately protect the people most at risk. hopefully it means we're doing a better job protecting the nursing homes responsible for 40% of the deaths in the united states from covid. that's right, 40%. but there is still a lot of people out there at high risk that haven't had covid yet. obese people, people with high pressure and heart disease and pre-existing lung disease. right now we're seeing it spread among our young who aren't taking enough precautions. young people need to know that ultimately they will be putting people more elderly at higher risk. people at higher risk with pre-existing problems. >> julie: always great to see you. miss you, buddy. trace. >> trace: 3-year-old girl swept off her feet by a kite. how she was pulled back to safety is coming up next.

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>> julie: joe biden back on the campaign trail today in pennsylvania where he will be delivering his first major campaign address since the dnc. going after president trump's covid response and handling of ongoing protests of police brutality. joining me now is donna brazile. first of all i want to ask you why did joe biden skip on the chance to deliver the message in wisconsin where the president is planning a visit tomorrow? >> because i think it's important to listen to state and local officials. governor evers has enough on his hands. he has called out his national guard and working with the community. of course, the blake family is

there front and center while their son is fighting for his life. i think it's important that joe biden, donald trump and others stay away so that they can calm things down and really work toward a solution. >> julie: you just mentioned governor evers. he wrote the president a letter urging that he reconsider his trip to kenosha as the city continues to deal with racial unrest following the police shooting of jacob blake. in the letter he actually wrote he was concerned the president's presence would hinder healing. isn't that what the country needs right now is healing and if biden is criticizing the president for how he handled racial unrest and the ongoing tension but he doesn't go and try to support where the epicenter of the violence is happening himself, you know, it begs the question why wouldn't biden want to step in after he came out yesterday condemning the violence and urging the president to do the same? >> well as you well know

violence is violence whether at the hands of a law enforcement officer or, you know, gang members, or members of the militia. i mean, this is a moment where we need to insure that nobody is inflaming tensions and stoking tensions or creating more chaos. and i think it's important that we talk about healing during moments like this. you know, i've grown up my entire life like so many people of color worried about violence, worried. i've lived in cities where there was violence. we don't want violence. we want healing. we want jobs, we want opportunity for all people. we don't need violence right now and we don't need anyone to stoke it. >> julie: we leaders to stand up to the violence and that's what people are looking for going into the election. did biden pass up a golden opportunity to get to the battleground state before the president? let's take a look at the latest real clear politics poll in

wisconsin and the average right now biden is at 48%, the president trailing behind at 44%. but let's remember clinton didn't travel to wisconsin in 2016 where polls had her ahead of trump and guess what? the president won in 2016 the presidential results in wisconsin ended with president getting 47% of the vote and clinton 46. could it hurt biden? >> well, i hope jacob blake is able to withstand his wounds and have an opportunity to get back with his children, his three little boys. but i know we talk about politics during moments like this. but just remember three months ago we talked about an inflection point. the inflection point. if we aren't going to have that moment to make sure that we can decrease tensions and bring people together, then all we're talking about is politics. this is beyond politics. yes, donald trump won in 2016

by less than 23,000 votes. but what's important right now is that we bring about healing. that we bring the community together and leadership comes from the top as well as the bottom. and i hope that the city and state leaders work together as well as our national leaders. >> julie: donna brazile. thank you. >> trace: president trump and joe biden pointing fingers after another violent weekend in cities across the u.s. how both campaigns are addressing the growing unrest. i'm greg, i'm 68 years old.

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democratic presidential nominee joe biden back on the campaign trail traveling to southwestern pennsylvania to pitch himself as the man to restore peace in the united states. and welcome to a brand-new hour of "america's newsroom." i'm trace gallagher. julie, good morning to you. >> julie: i'm julie banderas in for sandra smith. biden planning to lay out a core question for voters. do you feel safe in donald trump's america? the president himself is expected to visit kenosha, wisconsin tomorrow, one week after the deadly shooting during protests over the police-involved shooting of jacob blake. wisconsin's governor is asking the president to stay away. >> trace: more on that in a moment. first to peter doocy live for us in pittsburgh with the biden campaign. peter. >> trace, good morning. the biden campaign is beginning to argue there are two reasons that americans are not safe under donald trump's presidency. reason number one, covid-19 and the way he has handled it. reason number two, violence that stems, they say, from the

things that president says and biden is now laying out what he is going the say this afternoon in this written statement. quote, the job of a president is to lower the temperature, to bring people who disagree with one another together, to make life better for all americans, not just those who agree with us, support us or vote for us. the trump campaign argues that biden is the one encouraging violence by not speaking up louder as people who could be biden backers miss behave. their question is -- "new york times" had been reporting biden's remarks today would be in kenosha. that never materialized. the fact he is flying at all for the first time since june since meeting with george floyd's family is houston is notable. a week and a half ago he said he would still win the election even if all his events were

virtual from delaware. >> answer my question. he said a week ago that he could win the election from home. he was asked that and he said we will. we'll follow the science. now he goes on a big campaign trip. >> that is disingenuous. he said we'll win from following the science and we'll continue to do that. >> biden's first flight in 2 1/2 months will be his first in-person event of the general election cycle in the same place he had his first event of the primary cycle and that goes to show how important pittsburgh and southwestern pennsylvania are to him. trace. >> trace: peter doocy live on the ground. thank you. >> julie: president trump is expected to meet with law enforcement in kenosha, wisconsin tomorrow one week after the deadly shootings at police brutality protests there. the state's democratic governor tony evers is urging the president to reconsider his

visit. garrett tenney is live in kenosha. why are state leaders pushing back on this trip? >> well, julie, there haven't been any riots or destruction for five days and the situation is improving, however. so some local and state officials are concerned that president trump's visit could be throwing gas onto a simmering fire. in a letter to president trump on sunday, the governor tony evers said 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. everyday folks here, a lot of mixed emotions about the president's trip. >> i don't think he should come at all, no. i think he should stay where he is. >> this city is burned down. we need to be seen by the whole

world that this is what they're doing us to. >> trump will make a frenzy and he is here for the cops, not for the people, which is disgusting. >> i think trump needs to talk to the blake family. show some type of empathy with what took place. >> president trump did try to call jacob blake's mother last week but they haven't been able to connect. blake's family said they haven't heard from anyone at the white house about a potential meeting with the president during his visit. there were several protests over the weekend. all of them peaceful including this one where around 1,000 people marched with the blake family to the kenosha county courthouse to demand justice. jacob blake remains in the hospital recovering from the seven gunshots to his back as several investigations into the shooting continue, including one by the u.s. department of justice, a civil rights investigation. julie.

>> julie: all right, thank you so much. more on this coming up when trump 2020 national press secretary hogan gidley joins us at the bottom of the hour. >> trace: fox news alert. at least 50 people shot and 10 killed during another weekend of violence in chicago. among those hurt two police officers who were trying to make an arrest. chicago mayor lori light foot praising them after a weapon was recovered at the scene. >> this was another instance where our brave officers took someone off the street who had a very dangerous weapon and could have been wreaking havoc in the neighborhood. so that neighborhood, our neighborhood, is safer tonight because of the heroic work of these two officers. >> trace: the violence included a drive-by shooting yesterday at a pancake house where one person was killed and five hurt. >> julie: a fellow lawmaker is joining senator rand paul

calling for an investigation of protest violence. a crowd of demonstrators surrounded senator paul and his wife last thursday as they left the president's convention speech at the white house, as you can see things got dicey there. colorado congressman is tweeting this. the justice department needs to open and investigation into who is funding these violent riots. that echoes part of senator paul's statement that, quote, my wife and i were attacked by a mob, dems would worsen problem by bowing to rioters, my question is who paid for their hotel rooms and who flew them in? law enforcement needs to look at the violent activity like this and national democrats need to confront it. is senator has called on the f.b.i. to investigate and make arrests if warranted. >> will you subpoena

intelligence officials to appear in public in a hearing before the election? >> that is certainly one of the tools we may use. we'll compel the intelligence community to give congress the information that we need. >> trace: it was house intel chairman adam schiff after john ratcliffe told lawmakers due to leaks he is cutting back on in-person briefings on election security in favor of written reports. let's bring in our congressional correspondent chad pergram. will the house issue subpoenas for this information? >> it's very possible. there is a dispute as to whether or not this information has to be presented in person or written down. of course, if it's written down the members of congress can't ask direct questions to those doing the briefing here. but this is what concerns the director of national intelligence john ratcliffe. he believes that democrats are trying to weaponize this information that he presents in these briefings. listen. >> i said my only condition is that you treat this information with the respect that it

deserves and you keep it private. and yet within minutes of that -- one of those briefings ending, a number of members of congress went to a number of different publications and leaked classified information. >> democrats and republicans on the senate intelligence committee often speak with one voice. not the case over the weekend. the top democrat on the panel said ratcliffe's office has to brief congress and democrats say it's an essential debrief two months before an election. adam schiff likeened the refusal to how the administration handles health information amid covid virus. >> they can withhold information about public health issues. we already see the white house intervene to pressure the fda and other health organizations to try to conform their testing protocols, their public

information, to the president's preferred and false narrative and when it comes to the national security of the country or comes to the public health of our people, it is not only dangerous, it is deadly. indeed, i think that effort to chill good information has cost lives during the pandemic. >> the head of the national counter terrorism center has indicated to congress that china wants the president to lose the election and china sees the president as unpredictable and also indicated that russia is trying to undermine the biden campaign. you will see a lot of arguing back and forth between the administration and congress over the next couple of months here about these types of issues. keep in mind that the house foreign affairs committee late last week indicated it was going to try to hold the secretary of state mike pompeo in contempt of congress. trace. >> trace: chad pergram live in virginia. thank you. >> julie: as millions of americans look to washington for financial help amid this

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>> julie: scary moments for a toddler after being swept up by the tail of a kite. oh my god, it happened in taiwan. strong winds picking the 3-year-old girl up into the air, flapping her wall over the place carrying her through the air for over 30 seconds which must have felt like a lifetime for her parents on the ground before people were able to grab her. incredibly the girl was not seriously hurt. strong little kid there. wow. >> i thought it was fake when i first thought it. i thought it was -- remember the boy and the balloon in colorado several years ago and they thought the boy was flying up 5,000 or 10,000 feet. that was a hoax. that looked like a doll or something. it was a real child. >> julie: a 3-year-old gripping on for dear life. that poor kid must have been

scared beyond belief. it is incredible the child hung on the entire time. >> trace: white house chief of staff mark meadows putting the blame for stalled talks on nancy pelosi. she has inflexible during negotiations. >> we aren't going to negotiate here. the speaker has been clear when she said 2.2 she said don't do anything at all. >> trace: pelosi saying on friday this is a debate about values and common sense not dollars and cents. we hope republicans will come to the table and except our lower offer to save the lives and livelihoods of the american people. >> julie: president trump getting unlikely endorsements from six democratic mayors in minnesota. they say they think he can do more for working americans than joe biden can. quote, life long politicians like joe biden are out of touch with the working class. out of touch with what the country needs, and out of touch with those of us here on the

iron range and in small towns like ours across our nation. let's bring in babbitt, minnesota mayor, thank you for talking to us. mayor zupancich. thank you for standing by while i correct myself. the first time you have endorsed a republican despite being a democrat and a long-time democrat. why this time around? >> well, you know, i need to just kind of correct something. i wouldn't say i'm necessarily a long-time democrat. i vote both parties mainly for whoever is going to stand by what we believe in. i represent our town. so that is what's most important to me. we've got some -- we need to protect our way of life. we need to protect our -- the way we sustain our living up here. the democrats now are trying to put forth a moratorium against mining and president trump has been supporting mining for the last four years of his term and

he has proved that he is behind us and he is looking for our way of life. >> julie: in the letter you signed it says by putting tariffs on our products and supporting bad trade deals politicians like joe biden did nothing to help the working class. explain how the president using tariffs is different. >> well, joe biden has been in office working in government for 47 years. and what has he done? he wants to change things now. why hasn't he changed stuff in the past? this is all about what we have going on up here. this is our way of life. president trump has been working for us and has proven that he is behind us and understands the vitality that the minerals that we have up here to mine for the united states are much more beneficial and why do we want to rely on someone who is going to be mining in unsafe conditions, using child labor, whereas we can do it safely and we have the largest deposits around.

>> julie: i want to go back to the letter regarding tariffs. do you believe placing tariffs on our products is a good or bad idea? >> on our products it's a good idea. regulating and going forward with what we have. >> julie: let's talk about farmers. when we speak about tariffs. last year farmers were actually hit really hard by the trade war when beijing imposed tear ifs on a variety of u.s. agricultural products. tumbling commodity prices, huge losses for u.s. farmers. do you think biden would look out for farmers? farmers are very interested in this. >> you know, it's really hard to say. we are not so much of a farming community up here. we are more so in the mining. my heart goes out to all the farmers that were affected no doubt. everyone is affected one way or another by what is happening globally, internationally and nationally. it is a matter of having to work together and try to put

everyone's best foot forward and work together to get through this. >> julie: the mining community is the center of many towns like yours. wilkes bury, parks a couple states away from us in new york. these are blue collar working individuals. do you feel that they and their livelihoods would be threatened with a joe biden as president? >> absolutely. even though he is behind the green deal, you know, the precious metals that are mind for those things. those -- we can do it safely and we have the strictest standards in minnesota for mining. i just don't think we should put all our eggs in one basket. we should be able to sustain our own way of life and our own living up here as well as with the minerals that the country

needs. >> julie: mayor zupancich from babbitt, minnesota, thank you very much for talking to us. appreciate it. >> thank you. >> trace: joe biden back on the campaign trail in pennsylvania today and expected to go after president trump for his handling of ongoing protests across america. and the president expected to visit kenosha, wisconsin, a week after demonstrations there turned deadly. but the state's democratic governor is urging president trump to stay away from the city. trump campaign national press secretary hogan gidley weighs in on all of that for us next. >> what we saw in kenosha, wisconsin again, federal help came into that area and we saw a noticeable difference when they came in. this president is always willing to help and he is going to show up and he will be there tomorrow. look limu! someone out there needs help customizing

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officers firing back tear gas and reportedly tackling demonstrators gathered at black lives matter plaza. at least five cops hurt in unrest over the weekend. >> trace: more than 300,000 customers in louisiana and texas still without power this morning after hurricane laura slammed the gulf coast last thursday. the outages could last for weeks. >> julie: joe biden back on the campaign trail today. the democratic presidential nominee is in pittsburgh where he will be delivering his very first major campaign speech since the democratic national convention. >> the president just wants peace. that's all we did in kenosha is advance what was needed to achieve peace there. that was done -- it was some reluctance on gov evers part at first. after the violence escalated he took up the president on his offer. >> trace: that's ken cuccinelli last hour defending president

trump's response to deadly violence at protests in kenosha, wisconsin. the president expected to travel there tomorrow despite the governor there asking him to reconsider. now with us national press secretary hogan gidley. you saw there governor tony evers wants the president's help in fighting the violence, does not want the president himself to come visit wisconsin. he wrote in the letter i along with other community leaders who have reached out are concerned about your presence or what it will mean for kenosha and our state. i am concerned your presence will only hinder our healing and i'm concerned your presence will only delay our work to overcome division and move forward together. we should note the mayor of kenosha says the president is welcome to come, just not now. what does the campaign hope to gain by going at this point, hogan? >> look, the president all along has been fighting against so much of this criminality,

this lawlessness, this death and destruction across the country. kenosha is no different. it is sad what's going on around our democrat-controlled cities in this great nation but he wants to go there and begin to work to heal what has happened there. these people are divided. they are angry, upset, they're scared to see what their communities have devolved into. this anarchy cannot continue. let's be fair. if the president of the united states didn't go there, the media would all be saying why isn't he going to wisconsin? it doesn't matter what he does, the media, democrats, are all against it. it is no shock that biden allies are coming out saying the president shouldn't go in there. they know they allowed this to happen in these democrat-controlled cities and they didn't say a word about this for four days of a democrat convention. and this president has taken leadership with bold, decisive, aggressive actions to restore peace. it is working where they have allowed federal assets and he will go to wisconsin and see

exactly what is going on on the ground. meet with the brave men and women of law enforcement and trying to heal the nation. >> trace: despite all this back and forth he tweeted he is going to kenosha tomorrow. yes, the biden campaign is acknowledging the violence in cities across the country. i guess the strategy now, hogan, is you acknowledge it and blame the president. and biden says the following quoting here, as a country we must condemn the incitement of hate and resentment that led to this deadly clash. it is not a peaceful protest when you spoil for a fight. what does president trump think will happen when he fans a flames of hate and division and using the politics of fear to whip up his supporters. he is recklessly encouraging violence. your thoughts. >> that is absolutely ludicrous. 90 days we've seen in this country of this type of criminal activity in our cities. the democrats haven't said a

word. all joe biden said was to defund the police and by the way, the police themselves are the ones inciting violence. democrats had a four-day convention in which they had the ear of the entire country and they didn't mention any of this. a democrat convention, democrat-controlled cities and they refuse to address it because they know the chaos breaks in their favor. this isn't about politics for the president of the united states. it is about the people. it is about protecting our cities, our families, our communities from this type of criminal activity. democrats have ignored this for so long. now the media is giving them cover. joe biden says one word bit and they say it is going on and president trump's fault. what a complete scamper pe traited by the mainstream media. the american people saw this side-by-side from the democrat convention to our convention. we're for safety and security. democrats prop up and allow this criminal activity.

we cannot let it continue. this president won't. >> trace: even some republicans are saying maybe now is not the right time. an op-ed in the "wall street journal" that says mr. trump should tell his supporters to stay away from portland, kenosha, wisconsin and other cities where rioters reign. they'll make alleged vigilantism the story rather than the failure of governors. maybe now is not the right time to go. >> look, when is the right time? when would they like this president to show up? that's the point here. the democrats and mainstream media refuse to give this president any credit for stopping the violence in minneapolis when he sent in federal assets and done the same thing in wisconsin and we've seen a tamp down in violence there. we don't want any citizen to try to take the law into their own hands, no question about that. when democrat mayors and democrat governors take away the power of the police and

they won't let them use non-lethal force or lethal force for sure and won't let them do the very thing that these law enforcement people are supposed to do, protect and serve. the president wants to express the differences between the two parties and show the pathway forward how to get back to safety and security in our communities. >> trace: we got comments from vice president joe biden. these are what he will deliver. we don't have them on the screen because we just got them. what he will deliver today. he talks about the whole idea of putting the president in charge is not going to lower the violence and goes into a several point plan. i want to get your reaction. he says you elect president trump again you'll get economic devastation, unwarranted police violence, emboldened white nationalist,, reckoning on race. an incumbent president who makes things worse, not better,

and who sews chaos rather than order. the talking points for the biden campaign. >> what a lie. you saw people leaving the white house the night the president gave his speech. you saw what happened when rand paul walked out and shouted down. you saw what happened when the elderly couple was absolutely harassed on the way out as well. what did you think was going to happen when people like congresswomen across this country on the democrat side. maxine waters said harass them. get in their faces. make them know they're not welcome here. this is their platform and plan. they want this chaos and they want to sew division in this country. so often democrats accuse republicans doing things they themselves are guilty of actually doing. this is a great example. this president has gone to heal this country with an upliftings patriot i can message. democrats only talked about how trump was to blame for everything. joe biden has been in office

for 50 years. he has nothing to show for it. they know it. and so they don't have a message at all to deliver. >> trace: hogan gidley. great to see you as always. thank you, sir. >> thanks so much. >> julie: fox news alert. president trump's former chief strategist steve bannon and three others expected to appear before a manhattan federal judge today on a video screen, not in person. facing charges they defrauded donors through a fundraising campaign meant to help built a wall along the u.s./mexico border. we're live in new york city. what is on the agenda for today? >> good morning. this is a discovery hearing, we might see some bail conditions set later today. we could also expect we're watching to see if a gag order might be put in place in this case. former trump advisor steve bannon along with retired air force veteran and their

associates, these men are all accused of defrauding hundreds of thousands of people who donated to the we build the wall fund. bannon alone stole a million dollars from the $25 million fund some of which he gave to the other veteran. they allegedly spent money on travel, credit card debt and even though they originally told the people everything was going towards the wall. bannon pled not guilty and calls the whole thing is political hit job. [shouting] >> president trump is keeping his distance from bannon and the wall fund calling it inappropriate. prosecutors are threatening to request a gag order if the

veteran doesn't stop talking about the case. he needs to tone down his highly inflammatory language. by the way, the prosecutor has requested his bail to be set at $500,000. if these men are convicted, they are looking at up to 40 years in prison. julie. >> julie: thank you. >> trace: a terrifying moment caught on camera. a tourist sent flying through the air as her boat explodes. what happened right before the blast. plus democrats outraged after national intelligence chief john ratcliffe said he planned to scale back in-person election security briefings to congress. >> they're trying to influence our elections with this information and this is not where you cut off congress from getting the information. i think the house is going to have to subpoena the director of intelligence in order to get information, which is crazy. up at 2:00am again?

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>> trace: a huge explosion on a boat in italy caught on camera. take a look. the blast sends a woman flying into the water after she was fueling the boat. wow. you could see her husband and daughter also jump into the water at a port in southwestern italy. nobody luckily was hurt. >> i'm going to continue the keep the promises and made and follow the law and keep congress informed. but we've had a pandemic of information being leaked out of the intelligence community and i'm going to take the measures to make sure that stops. >> julie: director of national intelligence john ratcliffe blaming leaks for his decision to cut back in-person election security briefings for lawmakers. now some democrats are saying that they may consider a subpoena for intelligence officials to testify on election interference. dan hoffman joins me now, a

former c.i.a. station chief. what do you make of democrats particular tli the house intelligence committee chairman adam schiff threatening to subpoena the director of national intelligence? >> well, first look, the -- whether the briefings are oral or written format leaks are wrong. they risk compromising our sensitive sources and methods as well. it flat out shouldn't happen. what's extraordinarily disconcerting to me is that our elected officials are unable to find any bipartisan consensus when our democracy is under attack. they're aiming their fire at one another rather than at our enemy, the kremlin. and this inability to find some consensus how to move forward is of great concern. >> julie: john ratcliffe defends halting election briefings and accuses members of congress of leaking classified information. what, if any heat will be put

on congress for these leaks? >> right. i think that is an issue that the administration is going to have to grapple with. leaking has been unfortunately a longstanding tradition over the years from both sides of the aisle frankly. and i'm just not sure that withholding information or withholding the briefings is going to accomplish the mission here. i think the democrats will find a way one way or another to bring our subject matter experts to the congress for these briefings. i'm hearing from some sources that it's possible that there will be a briefing for the senate intelligence committee only. >> julie: schiff wants to subpoena top intelligence officials between november's election due to the announcement that they won't receive these in-person briefings on election security. i want to play chad wolfe and have you react. >> they will continue to provide congress all the information they need in a

written finished intelligence product. so that congress can have the information they need to do their oversight responsibility. this is not about limiting access but providing the information to congress. they'll do that in a different format. >> julie: it is not about limiting access, he says. why the push by democrats? why are they so adamant with in-person briefings with that said? >> there are two points here. i respectfully disagreed. i testified a lot on capitol hill and yes, we provided written briefings. there was a lot of value to follow-up questions and i think there would be value in this case as well. i think there is concern on the republican side that democrats are leaking for political purposes. that simply has to stop. they would do well to promise not to do it. on the republican side i think we do need to find some consensus here and proceed with some -- with these briefings. our election and the integrity of our election is at stake and i don't think we want anyone to have the perception that we're

not doing all we can to protect ourselves. the only ones celebrating is the kgb operative in the kremlin vladimir putin. >> julie: schiff says it doesn't make sense because written briefings could be leaked. any decision to hold a hearing before the election would be up to house speaker nancy pelosi. their statement this is a shocking abdication of its lawful responsibility to keep the congress currently informed and a betrayal of the public's right to know how foreign powers are trying to subvert our democracy. this intelligence belongs to the american people, not the agencies which are its custodians. so what happens next? >> more political infighting unfortunately to the detriment of our national security which is exactly what vladimir putin is exploiting. you see him amplifying these

themes on the radio. it opens up opportunities for our enemies to exploit the differences between our two parties and that is again to the detriment of our country's political process. which vladimir putin has done a good job of trying to soil. >> julie: he certainly has. dan hoffman, thank you very much. appreciate you coming on. trace. >> trace: wall street already prepping for a longer than usual fight for the white house. how the markets may deal with what they are being no clear winner on election day next. to severe psoriasis,

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a national championship in 1984. thompson was also known for his support of black players. in 1989 he walked out of a game against boston college to protest a rule he said discriminated against poor and black athletes. john thompson was 78 years old. no word on the cause of his death. >> trace: exceptional coach. fox business network reports that options markets are already preparing for the possibility there won't be a clear-cut winner for the white house on november 3 and that the controversy surrounding the election could go on for months. let's bring in connell macshane after the bell co-anchor on the fox business network. they're praising for this. they write the following quoting the possibility of a contested election could wreak havoc on the country and financial markets as americans question the viability of our nation's democratic process.

bridgewater associates writes the real uncertainty that could confront investors is if there is a material concern over the legitimacy of the process to decide a winner. we all know the markets don't like uncertainty and that's the pinnacle of uncertainty. >> right. it would be, trace. i think what happens is investors like the ones that you cite and they watch shows like this and they read a loot of the political articles and look at the odds of who will win. they watch the polls. they want to hedge their bets. that's what is really going on here is we see a little more hedging than we might normally see. we see it in the options market. where you have a lot of professional investors giving themselves as it sounds the option to buy or sell an asset like a stock at a certain price. they are saying to themselves if things do get dicey later in the year i want to protect myself. now, i will say it's a caveat, a lot of this is normal.

we're seeing a little more of it than we might normally see and to add something to the mix in addition to the election uncertainty and the idea we might not have a winner on the 4th of november after the election on the 3rd you have a market -- keep this in mind -- has gone straight up. you do have investors wanting to hedge themselves against that as well. that can only last so long. it is a lot of factors here and people just want to protect themselves from any volatility or any down side as much as they can. >> trace: interesting to say people are hedging. some advisors are saying there is the possibility the s&p could drop 25%. if that happens we want to make sure we can make money on the back side of that. how does that work exactly, con el? >> in the options market you have an option to buy or sell a certain asset at a certain price. you might bet there is a decline in that asset.

maybe the s&p 500. they set a record by the way. could add to that today even though the dow is pulling back. well -- we'll see how the day goes. you give your option to have the asset at a lower price. you own stocks going up and benefiting from the increases but you want a little protection so you make money on the downside as well. it is a complicated strategy employed mostly by professional investors but not abnormal. what is a little interesting this time around is we're seeing according to some investors a little more of it and the election might be the big reason why. >> trace: for context i want to put this on the screen back in 2000. bush versus gore, the s&p p dropped 8.4%. this is very real. it's real. the possibility is real. >> it is. it is absolutely real and the other thing i think i've heard

from investors, this sounds contradictory, once we get resolution to the election, even the vaccine for the virus, that could some people are saying represent a top in the market because then all the help that's there the reserve might start to go away. there is a little hedging on that down the line. >> trace: thank you. >> julie: chaos in portland, oregon over the weekend. police declaring a riot last night after a deadly shooting near protests on saturday. how the white house and the governor are responding to the violence next. [shouting] benefit lets you easily refinance to a lower rate? one call to newday can save you $3000 a year. with newday's va streamline refi there's no income verification, no home appraisal, and no out of pocket costs. it's the quickest and easiest refi they've ever offered.

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>> trace: as the unrest in portland spirals out of control police again declare a riot a day after a deadly shooting. now the mayor and president trump having a public argument over who is really to blame for all the violence. meantime the governor of oregon calls for the state police to return to portland. welcome back to "america's newsroom," everyone. i'm trace gallagher. julie, good morning. >> julie: great to see you. i'm julie banderas for sandra smith on monday. three plus months of nightly protests in portland showing no signs of slowing down. dozens arrested last night after rioters swarmed ablg and threw things at officers on top of the hundreds arrested and more than a dozen riots declared since the first began.

it first began 100 days ago and all took a deadly turn over the weekend with one man killed over fights broke out between black lives matter protestors and trump supporters. a counter protest, if you will. while the city's mayor has called for an end to the unrest he is now accusing the president of dividing the nation. white house press secretary kayleigh mcenany responding. >> what is responsible for the violence is this deeply irresponsible defund the police movement. what we've seen with defund the police is when you get rid of police officers there is an uptick in violence. it's what we're seeing in portland. mayor wheeler is responsible. >> trace: we're live in portland with more. >> portland police say a great deal of investigation remains this morning in this homicide. this is the intersection where police say that man was shot in the chest and killed saturday night. there is some flowers and a card taped to the tree nearby.

so far police have not identified the victim. they say that will happen after any autopsy or all next of kin are notified. the shooting victim's name has appeared on social media and in local reports it's aaron danielson, a reported supporter of the conservative group patriot prayer. it happened after a caravan of president trump supporters cruised through portland's downtown streets in a planned demonstration on saturday. opposing groups and rioters clashed and a man was shot dead hours after the caravan ended. local reports say there is a shooting suspect this morning. we'll keep you updated if police dint file the victim or shooter. here in portland the 94th night of unrest last night. police formally declared yet another unlawful assembly and made 29 arrests because of criminal rioting including throwing objects at poils.

portland's mayor urged anyone that might have the idea to coming to portland to seek revenge for the shooting death to stay away and portland's police chief said it is critical people refrain from conjecture in the homicide case and everyone must do better to -- >> portland desperately needs calm. we're living in an extremely divided era and it is time for yours to start focusing on what we have in common and not what divides us. lives are at stake. >> oregon's governor kate brown announced a plan to end the violence and is authorizing state police to once again return to portland to assist portland police. officers here are being stretched thin after nearly 100 nights of unrest. working through repeated nightly attacks where rioters throw large rocks at them and flash lasers in their eyes. oregon's governor blamed the patriot prayer group and militias for the violence this

weekend. it appears the man associated with the group patriot prayer was the one who was killed. oregon's governor said the right wing group patriot prayer drove into downtown portland last night armed and looking for a fight. every person in oregon has a right -- i will not allow patriot prayer and white -- >> matt finn live in portland. not going to happen that's the white house responding to leaders in wisconsin who asked president trump to cancel his visit to kenosha tomorrow. they say it will hurt the city's efforts to recover from violence following the police shooting of jacob blake. >> realistically from our perspective our preference would have been for him not to be coming at this point in time. all presidents are always

welcome and campaign issues are always going on. it would have been, i think, better had he waited for another time to come. >> trace: the democratic governor of wisconsin says he is concerned about the president's visit. the white house says the trip is still on. >> julie: president trump firing back at kenosha's mayor and getting into a back and forth with the portland mayor wheeler. >> what has happened in portland is tragic but there are questions julie about what is the best way to move forward to help the city advance past all the violence there. now the president has been forceful in blaming the mayor, ted wheeler, saying he is responsible for the violence continuing unabated for more than 90 days. let's go to twirt. the president says it's been an ongoing circumstance and may be time to move in.

in this joke of a mayor doesn't clean it up we'll go in and do it for them. the inference he is willing to send in the national guard to restore order since the mayor seems from the president's perspective either unwilling or incapable of doing so. for his part the mayor said it's the president sewing hatred and division about which kayleigh mcenany said this. >> mayor wheeler is responsible. he is not charging individuals and by contrast the doj has charged 74 individuals with federal crimes. we're doing all we can. until he accepts our help, there is a limit to what we can do. >> kayleigh mcenany earlier today. the president will travel as you pointed out, julie, to kenosha this week to meet with law enforcement officials and others as the state's democratic governor again says he is hoping that the president will reconsider and maybe not come at this time. he said this in part of a statement. i'm concerned your presence will only delay our work to overcome division and move forward together. it is our job as elected

officials the lead by example and to be a calming presence for the people we know are hurting, mourning and trying to cope with trauma. now is not the time for divisiveness. about which perhaps the president responded on twitter. if i didn't insist on having the national guard activate and go into kenosha, wisconsin, there would be no kenosha right now and great death and injury. i will see you on tuesday. the president will also have a meeting today about law enforcement issues with the a.j. bill barr set to take place at 3:00. closed to press for now. back to you. >> julie: trace. >> trace: more now on all this from the protests raging across the country for the president to think about his visit to wisconsin. guy benson is the host of the guy benson show. i want to start by playing.

we talked to dhs secretary ken cuccinelli earlier. i want to play the sound bite and get your thoughts on the conversation. watch. >> we're dealing with a mayor who hates president trump more than he loves the people in portland. and he doesn't care about peace if he thinks he can store cheap political points on the president while he is up for reelection. and the president just wants peace. that's all we did in kenosha is advance what was needed to achieve peace there. >> trace: it is a battle between the democrats and republicans now in several cities across the country, guy. >> yeah. if you look at portland, oregon, it is laughable to suggest that it is anyone's responsibility other than the hard left democratic leadership of that city and that state. to say this is donald trump, the true divider here, almost no one in portland takes their marching orders from donald

trump. we're at almost 100 consecutive days of riot ins that city where these goons and antifa and marching through residential areas and assaulting people in the street and murdering trump supporters over the weekend. my head almost exploded listening to matt finn's report where the governor in that state, another left wing democrat blames the group that had the victim of that murder for the violence. talking about how she is now going to put forward a plan to stop the violence in that city. she has had almost 100 days. now someone is dead. she is victim blaming and realizing maybe it's time to do something about it. and all president trump has done -- you can say his rhetoric has been too fiery and not enough of a healer. he has offered federal assistance to help bring that situation under control. it was rejected by the

democratic leadership of that city and state. chaos has continued. now there is a body count and they want to turn back around and blame it on the president. it is absolutely ludicrous. >> trace: i was surprised to see the governor immediately blaming the right wing activists. they are the ones that lost somebody this weekend who died. i also want to play this. on that same vain the "washington post" writes this at the end of the op-ed. the difference is clear to trump. his supporters' lives matter. the rest of ours not so much. that's a pretty bold statement, guy. >> yeah, although you have u.s. senators like chris murphy actively saying that trump is murdering people. that's a u.s. senator. he tweeted that. he tweeted a few days ago condemning rioting and got bullied into deleting it from the hard left and had to make amends to the mob by tweeting president trump is a murderer.

we're governed by fools and incompetence. it can very very bad consequences for families and security and lives as we're learning. >> trace: lastly i want to put this and i won't put it on the screen. joe biden said he condemns the violence and wishes the president would do the same. i went back and found 75 different quotes where the president condemned the violence again and again. last word on this. >> i'm glad that joe biden is finally taking something more than just a -- i think it is the least he could do the day after a trump supporter was murdered by left wingers in the streets of a major left wing city. maybe that's just me. >> trace: guy benson, good to see you. thank you, sir. >> julie: another bloody weekend in chicago where more than 50 people were shot. at least nine of them died.

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because for years he has fomented it. he may believe mouthing the words law and order makes him strong but failure to call on his supporters failing to act as an armed militia shows you how he is and he will ask the crowd this as well. does anyone believe there will be less violence in america if donald trump is reelected? this after biden condemned the violence in places like portland and kenosha. he made the case to voters that president trump is to blame. >> this is trump's america. the chaos that suburban voters are feeling and voters all across this country are feeling is the result of donald trump's failed leadership. what joe biden is going to do. he will continue to lead. he is going to continue to work to bring us together. >> president trump continues to link biden with the cities facing chaos tweeting when is slow joe biden going to

criticize the agitators in antifa and suggest bringing up the national guard in cities and states. he can't lose the crazy bernie super liberal vote. biden heads to pittsburgh shortly and learned in the last few minutes that tomorrow the biden campaign will release a conversation between joe biden and kamala harris talking about how to go forward. the president will go to kenosha tomorrow despite wisconsin's governor asking him not to do so. >> trace: he says it is on. griff, thank you. >> julie: for more on this let's bring in jose arist muno. as joe biden looks to set the right tone amid the civil unrest across the country particularly in portland and wisconsin, how does he do so without stoking violence from both sides? remember, the latest shooting death being a trump supporter killed while counter protesting?

>> first and foremost he has done the right thing by being very outspoken and being very clear he condemns all violence. from any sides republican or democrat. violence is not democratic or republican issue, an american issue. when you see the president of the united states currently is president trump. he has to take responsibility to say enough. there is no time here to be blaming democrats for violence in america. this is again the united states of america. instead of president trump trying to bring us together as a country, as the leader he is supposed to be, he does the total opposite. he is trying to use this violence to his political advantage and it won't work. >> julie: to the president's point. he is going to kenosha because he is trying to help in that state. governor evers doesn't want him there. he is going anyway. he can be criticized for saying

this is a political play on him but i believe he is trying to do the right thing as the president of the united states. steve scalise on "fox & friends" earlier today basically talked about what i would like to call a bit of a double standard. i'll explain that for a moment. first i want you to watch this. >> president trump has been very clear from the beginning that you can peacefully protest but you can't go and burn down buildings and attack police officers and yet joe biden continues to denounce president trump on things like bringing in the national guard and won't stand up to antifa. >> julie: here is the double standard here and maybe you can help me out. it is interesting how some democrats including biden denounce the president for calling in the national guard while there are other democrats like wisconsin governor tony evers that are doing it themselves. evers summoned the national guard to head off protests in kenosha. when a democratic governor does it it's okay but the president

not to do the same. do you see a little conflict there? >> i understand that. this is the thing, though. the president of the united states today is donald trump. he is the one that has to bring us together and tell the american people the same message. when we see him on twitter say this state is violent because it is a democratic governor or mayor, he is confusing the american people. why is he confusing the american people from day one. he said the virus wasn't going to come. 200,000 deaths and of million infections. he should be bringing us together and not doing it. he started with the blame game. i can't speak for a specific governor what he is doing or not doing but what i can tell you is this. joe biden is waiting to lead on day one. he said he condemns violence. what does the president do he lies day after day? he said democrats want to defund the police and democrats

there will be a scary scenario. the scare owe scenario today and donald trump is the president. >> julie: the scary scenario is today and you must look at the democratic side. biden during a four-day democratic convention didn't make much to do or even mention kenosha or portland for that matter. hogan gidley was on our show earlier in the hour and pointed out the fact that biden now is sort of catching up. the question now is they look for a leader, right? voters look for a leader in condemning the violence. yes, he has done that but a day late, a dollar short or not? he has cut a video condemning the violence and made unscheduled appearances on cable news after the fact. twho is leading the charge? the president is heading to kenosha and supposedly going there to try to quell the violence. we want to see leaders enter these states unafraid. do you not see the president trying to do that? >> i don't see it.

again, when you see him on twitter blaming democrats for the violence. when you see him bashing democrats instead of saying i'll invite democrats to the white house. we have to find a solution together. call joe biden or nancy pelosi no, nobody leads congress. whatever the case may be. i understand he is traveling now. he wasn't doing that before. he was blaming democrats from day one. this is not a democrat or republican issue and he should admit that and he hasn't done that and i haven't seen that. >> julie: thank you very much. great to see you. >> trace: the sharp drop in air travel is hurting airline employees. american airlines announcing a plan to cut 40,000 jobs in october true furloughs, layoffs and early retirements. thousands of jobs could be saved if the airlines get another bail-out package from congress. >> julie: bed, bath and beyond will reduce its workforce by 5% cutting nearly 3,000 jobs from its corporate headquarters and

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>> julie: top headlines at the bottom of the hour now. more kids and teens are going to the hospital or dying from covid-19. that is from the american academy of pediatrics. it reports that it is true children are less likely to catch or spread the virus but data from the last month shows a big jump in the number of children hospitalized or dying with black and latino kids most at risk. >> trace: a begunman killed a police officer with a shot to the head leaving behind a grieving wife and three kids without a father. it happened in st. louis. the officer was responding to shots fired when he became a victim. another police officer was shot trying to save him.

the suspected shooter surrendered after a 10-hour stand-off. >> julie: blood shed in cities coast to coast from violent protests in portland to 25 people shot in new york city. another major city more than 50 people shot this weekend alone including two police officers. mike tobin is following this story for us live in chicago where the shootings have seemed non-stop, mike. >> the bullets continue to fly. not just in the city of chicago. however, starting with this city 42 shooting incidents friday night to sunday night. 52 people were shot. 10 are dead in the city. most dramatically a shooting at a pancake house. very popular with the after-church crowd. three gunman unloaded 40 bullets. a 31-year-old man apparently the target of that mass shooting was killed. four others in the crowded outdoor dining area were wounded. on the southwest side some people say they're getting used to the bloodshed.

>> it's kind of normal for me but boy, to hit home, no, it is always, you know, that much worse because i'm affected by it, yeah. but it seems like, you know, me personally this goes on all day every day, everybody knows it. it is just like, you know, i just hope for better days. >> two victims of the chicago gunfire are cops shot in the line of duty. both recovering. one in serious conditions. they were on the westside assigned to the hot spots. he stopped a car because it matched the description of a vehicle with a suspected gunman in it. the driver fired. st. louis police officer was killed the call was for an armed man who wenlts into a stranger's home. the shot came out of the house and killed the officer. the homeowners reportedly said that god protected them.

in madisonville, kentucky someone opened fire on a block party. a 14-year-old girl was among those hit. columbus, ohio, a little girl was hit by a stray round. 5 years old. shot while sleeping in her bed. >> julie: mike tobin in chicago live. police here in new york city arresting a suspect allegedly caught on a shocking video trying to rape a woman on a mid town platform in the busy middle of the city. this is video that went viral on social media. we have to warn you the video is tough to watch. some of it is blocked out. the attack happening in broad daylight at 11:00 a.m. on saturday. there were passersby watching videotaping on their cell phone. nobody jumps in to help and what jumped out at me. the victim a 25-year-old woman was waiting for a train when this suspect who see did not know identified as jose reyes pushed her to the ground and

got on top of her. he stopped only when a crowd of bystanders intervened. since reyes had prior arrests police caught him by using facial recognize software to nab him to match his image on the video to his previous mug shot. new york city seeing a wave of gun violence over the weekend, meantime. at least five people killed, 25 people shot across the entire city which includes brooklyn and the bronx. 58 total shooting victims this week. the police benevolent association of the city of new york says it's a 100% increase in shooting victims from the same week last year. >> trace: some new york city lawmakers are saying the rise in crime is due to a deliberate slowdown by officers in an attempt to protest police reforms. mayor bill deblasio and police commissioner both deny that.

joining me now retired nypd detective and pat brosnan. there have been accusations of a slowdown. the nypd released a statement, the nypd has been for the people of new york in the past. we are here for them today and be with them tomorrow. nothing about the allegations of a slowdown. what are your thoughts on these accusations, pat? >> my thoughts are crystal clear, trace. both politicians, the councilmen and eric adams, 1,000 percent wrong. the 100% uptick in violence is very, very straight forward. i call them the seven deadly sins. it started with defunding the police. it moved into disbanding city wide anti-crime. the folks who take the guns off the street. moved on to disinterested prosecutors.

we're not going the prosecute those crimes. not important. let's empty the jails. discharging prisoners. what did you do? it desecrated the nypd and just when it couldn't get worse they dropped the diagram law. the diaphragm law on us in mid august like a hand grenade. the birth of those six -- they all start with d, interesting. the birth of that is the empowered criminal. fully empowered. >> trace: it's interesting because in there the police commissioner agrees with you. he said quoting here. you can keep new york city extremely safe and we can do amazing things with the resources we have. what we can't do is with the resources that we have and a system that continues to let criminals back on the streets and keep new york city safe as we need. they are saying you can't put these people back on the street and expect the cops to round them all up. >> commissioner shea is an outstanding commissioner and a

very bright guy. an opportunity to respond to half of it. the other half is they're carrying guns because they can and no one is searching them because the disbandment was part of the defunding. they're empowered. they know they can carry a loaded gun in their waistband with complete impunity. the people that normally would search them are molting behind a desk in headquarters. that's a fact. >> trace: i want to know if you think that part of this is that the police officers -- i talked to a buddy of mine who is a police officer in a different state. the bottom line here is a lot of police officers are receipt sent and just won't do their job. they know the politicians don't have their backs. >> it's -- i hate to admit it, sad but true. a level of hesitation like we have never seen before because the reality is the politicians

don't have their back, the laws no longer support them, they have none of the tools that they need going in prior, they can't search for a weapon and the level of hatred. the level of vicious vitriol. if you remember a million years ago they were throwing water at them. october of last year. that was outrageous. now they are heaving bricks at them and spitting in their face. it is unbelievable. and the day will come when it pays. the pendulum will swing where lawlessness will rule and it will be a different ballgame. very sad and tragic. >> trace: good to see you, sir. thank you. >> my pleasure. >> julie: israeli jetliner making history. senior u.s. and israeli officials landing in the united arab emirates earlier today on the first commercial passenger flight to the country direct from israel. white house advisor jared

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in-person briefings suggests that director doesn't want to face questions from lawmakers. >> we'll compel the intelligence community to speak plainly to the american people. this information, this intelligence paid for by taxpayers doesn't belong to donald trump. >> trace: christian whiton, are written intelligence briefings more secure or in-person? where do you stand on this? >> they're more secure if they're in writing. the selective leaking becomes more difficult if reporters know that there is a written product that was the source of the intelligence that is being illegally leaked. so if adam schiff is calling you up as a reporter and spinning you, if you know this is the product of something written you can just ask for that. but that creates a paper trail. of course, what these congressmen are doing is illegal so they're probably less likely to pass that on to

reporters in written form. >> julie: what about the concern over leaks made by congress? here is james clapper, the former director of national intelligence appearing on cnn today. i have a question for you on this. >> obviously the rationale given well, we'll provide written briefs doesn't -- that dog doesn't hunt to me because you can leak written materials just as easily as oral. it is too important a subject not to brief. >> julie: so of course it's too important a subject not to brief. the question is can you leak the written as much as you can the oral? he says yes. you say with the oral there is -- i guess in-person leaks where in written there is a paper trail. so it might be a little harder. why is it the democrats are so adamant on the in-person intelligence briefing? is there something they're afraid of? >> there is. the democrats are doing -- not alone in this. adam schiff is at the forefront

of do doing exactly what they accuse the other side of doing. politicizing intelligence. the consumer of intelligence is supposed to be the president of the united states. it is the executive branch that is informed by this and not intended for public consumption. congress has a role in oversight but it can perform the role with written communications. this is about trying to head off some of the outrageous perversions of intelligence we've seen over many years. particularly the last year. adam schiff, for example, knew very well russia had not colluded and continued to lie and use the sort of leaked intelligence as the basis of that. >> julie: i want to play kayleigh mcenany. she was on "fox & friends" earlier today talking about exactly how out of control these leaks are and how quick the turnaround is. it's incredible. >> john ratcliffe is going to do what is his statutory responsibility and make sure

congress is briefed but what we aren't going to do is enable leaks that are all too often done for partisan purposes. he briefed on july 31st. within minutes there were leaks all throughout newspapers by congressmen and women. that's what he won't accept. >> julie: obviously this administration has seen leaks like no other in history. whether in-person, in writing, regardless. aren't these leaks inevitable no matter what? >> they shouldn't be, no. we can get rid of the gang of eight. these eight members of congress who leak to other members of congress don't have any business receiving this information. maybe the chairman and ranking member of the intelligence committee. if they started doing their job. but cut the number of people. this makes it harder to collect real intelligence. not the phony sort of analysis dressed up as intelligence that you can read in some newspaper but actual information that our enemies possess that they don't

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>> julie: forecasters are watching a quartet of tropical systems that could eventually become a hurricane. look at your screen. the national hurricane center saying four of the systems in the atlantic have a chance of developing into tropical depressions this week. the first step to becoming a tropical storm. if conditions are right, it then becomes a hurricane. >> trace: hundreds of thousands are without power after hurricane laura battered the gulf coast last week. in louisiana thousands were forced to shelter at hotels instead of the usual churches and convention centers because of exposure to the coronavirus. casey stiegel live for us in lake charles, one of the hardest-hit areas. what's the extent of the damage where you are? >> it is extremely widespread and the damage estimated to be in the billions. check out what hurricane laura did to this chevron gas station.

it literally blew open one of the fuel pumps. hard telling where all that sheet metal came from and then back in the distance what is left of the store. fema is on the ground working with tens of thousands on claims. major disaster declaration has been approved for 29 parishes across louisiana. nearly 15,000 evacuees remain sheltered in hotels and 6200 members of the louisiana national guard are deployed doing things like clearing roads and handing out supplies. mile-long lines at distribution centers for people left with practically nothing. >> no, they have no water, no air, no gas, you know. and then with the holes in the roof and it is raining. it is raining in the house. >> roughly 200,000 people still have no running water and more

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