♪ ♪ ♪ pete: i think we can keep that shot, september 5th, saturday, a labor day and welcome to "fox & friends." i normally like to discourage new york central shots. beautiful one right there. will: all the colors, purple pink, red. sunrises as i always said under rated. happy weekend here on "fox & friends" will cain, pete hegseth and our friend jedediah billa

too. good morning, jedediah. jedediah: good morning to you. that looks like a postcard and usually you have to drive out to florida offer bermuda or something like that to see a postcard. that's a pretty good one. new york has rivaled with that shot, that's a pretty good shot. pete: true, d.c. better keep up high if you want a postcard worthy shot. making a personal effort to get us out of new york and into america. how are you celebrating labor and labor day. send us sunrise photos. exrarl bonus points for jed, will and i in the program. it's doesn't mean you took the picture yesterday. you took it this morning of sunrise or of your family. extra points show them all morning long. jedediah: include extra points always if there are pitsd involved. i'm sticking to it, pete. it drives you crazy. dogs and cats make my morning better. we are going to kick off today with a big news story.

president trump slamming a report from the atlantic that claims he called fallen u.s. soldiers losers and suckers. the president accusing the magazine of using fake sources to make up a story. lucas tomlinson joins us from washington, d.c. with more on the president's 3u67 back. lucas? >> good morning, guys, that's right. president trump pushing back really hard in that piece in the atlantic. he was asked yesterday why his former chief of staff marine corps john kelly has remains sigh length. i know john kelly, he was with me. didn't do a good job. had no temperament and ultimately petered out. he was exhausted. john you will have to go please give me a letter of resignation. he did that now he goes out and bad mouths. >> well, not confirming the most salacious part of the story calling war dead suckers tells our own jennifer griffin when he spoke about the vietnam he said quote it was a stupid war and

anyone who went there was a sucker. say about american veterans what's in it for them they don't make any money? yesterday joe biden weighed in. >> if these statements are true, the president should humbly apologize to every gold star mother and father and every blue star family that he has denigrated and insulted. hot heck does he think he is? >> roughly 700 veterans have penned a letter offering their support to president trump calling these attacks baseless, guys? pete: lucas tomlinson, thank you very much. there is an old adage don't follow the rabbit. in my opinion this is one of those stories a rabbit created and manufactured by the left there are no sources. all anonymous, no evidence, no tapes. and in my experience runs contrary to what people who know president trump know about his disposition, his love for vets, his love for the troops and appreciation for their service.

the leftist media created this story because they need to change the narrative or create a new narrative. we looked into jeffrey goldberg, the author behind this piece who claims to have extensively sourced and entirely accurate evidence from this. we heard a lot of the same things, of course, about the dossier. but if you look into jeffrey goldberg, who is a registered democrat, big fan of obama, and made sure the atlantic endorsed hillary clinton in 2016 as the editor there, here's some headlines of what jeffrey goldberg has written about over the last couple of years, james mattis denounces president trump describes him as a threat to the constitution. he's getting worse. mattis always understood trump's severe defects. donald trump's mafia mind set. trump's tweets are a narniaen wardrobe to lizard brain. rest in peace. you will always need to in these

situations consider the source. for people who wonder where did this come from sometimes you have to look and say what are the motivations of the persons writing it and why isn't he investigating maybe hunter biden's connection to the communist chinese or business december in the ukraine or the mental fitness of joe biden? no, it's all about trump all the way and his buddies in the media jump on it. will: you are right. you always need to investigate the source, see what motivations may be in play. i don't want to stop there, pete. first, let me say this if it's true that president trump did say these things it's desparticular cable. desparticular cable. no two ways about it. it would be absolutely despicable. how believable are the charges? and try to created a balance sheet, pete, you point out not just the atlantic but the a.p., fox news as well. almost all the sources are anonymous. anonymous sources are not worthless but anonymous and sitting on them for two years that on the balance sheet. what is it on the record sources who claim to know of the incident or have been around the incident said it's not true. you have john bolton who said i

was there. i did not hear anything like that. pete: no fan of the president. will: no fan of the president. i put these together and come out with what can i believe? in the end, jed, i don't know what i can believe. but i ask myself in the end what matters to americans? what matters is the deeper issues on our foreign policy. what matters is how middle class americans are fairing the current economy. what matters is the coronavirus' effect on our country. what matters is our lives. and i have to figure that out before i can figure out this battle of words between anonymous sources and others that are on the record. jedediah: my experience is that people tend to like anonymous sourcesource it serves them andt like anonymous sources when they don't. completely source the anonymously. i will say having our own jennifer griffin who is one of the best reporters i know independently verifying some of

that information not all of it but some of it with her own sources does give me pause. and the truth is, you are right, will, i don't know if any of this is true. i don't feel comfortable today saying oh it's 100 percent not true and i don't feel comfortable in the same breath saying it 100 percent is true. we don't know. there may be more details that emerge. with that being said, yes, the author of the article is biased. no question. you look at the headlines no, question. that doesn't change for me the reality that some of this reporting may in fact be reality. jedediah: change the reality if you realize it's someone though ho led the atlantic tone doors for 3rd time only in 160 history hillary clinton. very cozy with obama. all he does is write hate pieces on donald trump how could that not cloud your view especially what we went through with bob mueller the fact that they say the sources are great. it's all verified. really? jedediah: because i just said you have someone like a jennifer

griffen who is respected widespread in the community and works here and does fantastic work coming out and said my sources have confirmed some of that i also don't think it helps president trump that he has been on record very publicly making some comments about john mccain, for example, in his service. it will sounds very similar people will say if he said that could he have also said this? that's not helpful to him in this moment. that doesn't mean. pete: how they operate. they want to make it seem like he would say it, of course. jedediah: for some that may be a line that they follow. i will say though i agree with will. i think 100 percent the issues, the economy, the way covid has been handled those will be the priority issues. i don't know if these comments and this article will in any way shift the voting public. i don't know. will: look, character matters and neither of you, i believe, are wrong on this. jedediah, the president's past and comments on john mccain are going to weigh in on people's judgment on that. pete: they're past that. will: pete, they are going to use that to inform their belief

of this charge. i agree with you as well they will look at the source and say can i believe the sources leveling the charge? let me ask you the media in general and jeffrey goldberg in particular have eciousd no credibility on making these kind of charges. i will give you, for example, yesterday as evidence of this loss of credibility, these are the questions that reporters were asking joe biden well, in a way, listen to this. >> when you hear these remarks suckers losers, recoiling from amputees, what does it tell you about president trump's soul and the life he leads? >> you know in your heart, you know in your gut it's deplorab deplorable. it's deplorable. >> there are a lot of people out there who are supporting you who are inclined to not vote for the president who would say why isn't joe biden angrier about all of this? >> the president of the united states should be presidential and should lead by example. >> we know the president has

been attacking mail-in voting. are you concerned at all that this messaging may be working that your supporters may give up on voting by mail because they are concerned that it may be rigged? >> yes, i am. that's why i try not to talk about it so much. will: that's the height of absurdy. that is not journal. that is campaign ad advocacy and public relations. i'm telling you on this whole issue the type of political food bite i cannot understand political sources versus the president's past record. in the end all i know is, this americans care about what effects their lives. many of the judgments on president trump's character have already been made. what effects their lives? foreign policy, economy, on a day when unemployment dropped from what was it 11% down to 8.5%? these are the issues that i believe americans are going to be considering over the next month, jefd. jedediah: yeah, those questions to joe biden do an enormous

disservice to joe biden. joe biden has been in the background for a long time. he took a really long time to come front and center and answer questions. he needs to prove that he can do that, that he can answer these difficult questions. that he is not afraid to get front and center with the american people and do this job that he can effectively do this job as president. that he stands for something, that he can galvanize that base. all of that. and i think it would serve him much better if he got asked challenging questions and had great answers to those questions. this is just making the whole thing look like a mockery of journalism and people are sitting back and laughing as opposed to taking it all really seriously. pete: absolute supervisors. serving it up to him. it's the feedback loop. anonymous sources to reporters who are democrats who retweet it with other other democrats who want us to believe it whether we can verify it or not. jedediah: yeah. but people in the center watch that and go, wait a second and those are the people that he needs to get out and vote. we will see, i guess, we will see who turns up to vote and we will see.

we're going to turn to some headlines for you now in this hour beginning with a fox news alert. overnight police and protesters clash in rochester, new york. officers spraying tear gas to break up the crowds after vandals set fires. demonstrators hitting the streets over the death of daniel prud who died in police custody earlier this year. ing. [chanting daniel prude] jedediah: two cars crashed into protesters. norlt clear if anyone was hurt. military newspaper stars and stripes will not lose funding. this comes after the pentagon ordered to shut it down as part of budget cuts. the president tweeting the united states of america will of budget cuts. the president tweeting the united states of america will not be cutting funding to stars and stripes magazine under my watch. it will continue to be a wonderful source of information to our great military. officials plan to stop plusing by the end of the month and completely dissolve it by early

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have been promoting their violence but giving tacet approval to the violence. even more limited capacity we do have historical analogies. you look at detroit, for example, back in the 1960s, my hometown of cleveland in the 1960's and host of other cities that experienced rioting. usually just over two or three days. the rioting may have been more widespread and violence a little bit more profound we see what the impact is. again, 100 days of consecutive days of violence in portland suggests that the dynamic that we saw back in the 1960s may prevail here. look at detroit. detroit at the time was one of the wealthiest cities in the entire world. they had a population of 1.6 million. it has a population of 600,000 within short order nearly a million people left in my home town of cleveland we had 60% contraction of the population. people who could flee, fled. businesses that could flee fled. pete: why are they fleeing,

peter, what is the dynamic that makes them say okay this is over. i'm not going to rebuild. i'm going to move, do something else. >> crime, property damage. businesses have been allowed to suffer the cops in portland at least what i have seen have tried to do the best they can given the stance of the administration which is frankly pathetic stance border wall negligence. when you have an administration. we didn't have this in the 196 0z, whether you have an administration sitting idly by and approving what's going on not almost approving, approving the protest and by extension the riots wouldn't condemn it because have you businesses who can flee flee. property damage is extraordinary. if you can leave, you leave. now, portland has slightly different graphics than some of the other cities do.

it was a growing city at the time it, may not have the type of flight that some of the other cities had but it's going to experience that also going to experience a surge of surge in crime see that in every other city. pete: more recent example is baltimore. you see these types of riots. we cover them. we see the arrests, the looting, the rioting, the arson, but it's the people that are left to pick up. real quick? >> right. so, baltimore after freddie gray, ferguson, st. louis, after the michael brown situation. replicated far more widespread in portland. demographics different in portland but similar dynamic. this was incredible abdication of government responsibility. i can't believe citizens would put up with this. pete: hopefully they don't have to. crime roots urban decay live beyond when the fires are put out. peter cirs now, thank you. >> thanks, pete.

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♪ jedediah: we are back with quick headlines. ice arresting over 300 illegal immigrants in the los angeles area during a month long operation. focused on people with pending charges or who have been convicted of battery, assault and kidnapping. border agents rescue 11 illegal immigrants from dangerous conditions on a train in texas.

agents say the temperature inside the train was over 106 degrees. one of the migrants was found unconscious and later tested positive for covid-19. over to you, will. will: thanks, jedediah. democratic presidential nominee joe biden can't seem to make up his mind when it comes to fracking. >> i'm not banning fracking. no matter how many times donald trump lies about me. >> would there be any place for fossil fuels, including coal and fracking in a biden duration? >> no. we would work it out. we would make sure it's eliminated and no more subsidies for either one of those. will: our next guest is a third generation oil and gas worker in pennsylvania who says the former vice president knows he can't win that battle ground state if he bans fracking. brian lynn joins me now. brian, thanks for being with us today. what do you believe? is biden going to attempt to ban fracking in fossil fuels or in the opposite in his own words does he not? >> thanks for having me on.

and i completely, completely wholeheartedly think he is against fracking. he has said it numerous times. it's the same song and dance from joe biden his whole career flip-flopping. and it's unfortunate, you know that we have a guy that's out there saying oh, i'm going to ban fracking to some people and then is he going to come back here to pennsylvania and say i'm nothing not going to do that i never said that. will: which word to put credence in. he said several times he wouldn't ban fracking. this was joe biden in 2019 making a very deep heart felt promise to a constituent. listen to this. >> i want you to look in my eyes. [laughter] i guarantee you i guarantee you we are going to end fossil fuel and i'm not going to cooperate on that. okay? >> what's your reaction to that brian? >> i would love for him to come

tell me that it's mind-blowing to me that he can -- that people haven't been able to see through joe biden and see what he is about. is he pandering to who he can get his votes from. it's unfortunate. anybody who works in the oil and gas industry in pennsylvania knows that he is lying. and knows that he is not for oil and gas. will: brian, i only have a minute left. i skull. this essentially two questions in one. is it possible to ban fossil fuels, if it were accomplished, what would that do to the workforce and the economy around oil and gas? >> i don't think it's possible to ban fossil fuels. i think their green new deal. i think they are leaving out a lot of things that they're not telling people wind mills are made out of steel. the solar panels there is a lot of petroleum based products. and unfortunately, they are not going to tell you this green new deal, i think we should ask aoc

the bartender what her take is on how we are going to just magically make these wind mills out of fairy dust. will: yeah. whether or not it's the ability or the inability to ban fossil fuels or the job losses that would then follow. it's important to figure out which side of this debate joe biden is on. right now, he is on all sides. brian lynn, i appreciate you jumping on "fox & friends" this morning. thank you. >> thanks for having us. will: a number of schools nationwide are getting ready to welcome students back. how exactly are they preparing? jedediah got a look inside one of new york's schools and how they are planning to get back to the classroom next. ♪ we made usaa insurance for veterans like liz and mike. an army family who is always at the ready.

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♪ me and my gang ♪ we live to ride ♪ we ride to live ♪ me and my gang jedediah: beautiful view. here we are at labor day it t. which markets the unofficial end of summer and for kids across the nation it normally means it's back-to-school time but not this year. how are schools in new york handling the start of the school year with coronavirus?

i went to take a look. ♪ ♪ the president wants u.s. schools to reopen. >> people want to get back to school. >> cdc is on board giving specific recommendations to make it happen. however, only 11 of the 50 largest school districts in the u.s. plan to resume in person learning this fall with new york city being the largest school system making the attempt but not without some bumps in the road. >> what would have happened on september 10th now happens on september 21st. >> the new york city public school system delayed their reopening after the largest teacher union threatened to strike. among their demands a mandatory 30 day supply of ppe for teachers and staff. transitional learning period for students and rapid monthly covid testing at schools. >> we will make testing available every month never school. >> other schools in new york are continuing plans to open next week like staten island academy. >> so we're looking forward to opening with the whole school. >> the independent pre-k to 12th

grade school is taking advantage of their large campus and small class sizes to enact new rules working with parents and teachers to come up with safety plans for even the worst case scenarios. >> we are headed to open. everybody on campus our plan b is if we had to have some children removed. we have a hybrid model so every classroom is equipped with technology, cameras and then the plan c is if we have to go back to remote learning and unfortunately we learned baptize by fire how to do that. jedediah: the truth is even with all the safety protocols in place some parents might not be comfortable sending their kids to school. as luck would have it education has gotten really creative. fofor example instead of school. they created their own learning pods. >> they wanted to feel secured in a safe environment. jedediah: children activity

certain my again offering the both have basement area suitable for students. >> hire their own teachers to bring to the facility. own separate access. own private bathroom keep it very clean and very organized. awful they have to do is show up on time and leave on time and that's it. jedediah: but whatever options parents choose, it's the excitement about a new school year that matters most to these kids and teachers. >> like any teacher, more [inaudible] and. >> i have been looking forward to getting back any way we possibly could and so far it's going well. jedediah: so you guys are going to want to stick around that was a little bit of insight so what we saw at staten island academy. it's pre-k to 12th grade school here on staten island. independent school. can you feet energy on campus. we will show you more inside the classrooms, we are going to speak to students. we are going to speak to administrators awrntiond just going to get a sense of what that energy is and what that protocol looks like up close and personal so parents who are making decisions about education for their kids are at least

going to be able to see what a sample situation might look like in terms barriers, water fountains, you name it, we touched on it all. we are now going to bring in dr. nicole saphier fox news medical contributor and author of the book make america healthy again one of my favorite books. nicole, welcome to the show as always. thank you for being here. i don't know if you were able to see some of that package but i was exploring a particular school, staten island academy and the extensive protocol that they have set up. so at this point from a medical perspective and the perspective of a mom, should all students be today setting up for in person full-time learning for the fall? >> well what an important message andselves by going into the school and showing them. i have now senile videos of my children's school and i can tell you as a mom, you know, i dreamt about it just last night. i'm a little nervous about sending them back to school. i'm very excited to send them back to school because it is so crucial. if you look all across uranium and other places in the world

there are places where they are successfully opening in person schooling. the bottom line is it depends on the surrounding community transmission. think of new york and new jersey. we are hovering at about 1% positive rate. that is -- that is key for successful school reopenings. if you take the dakotas, north and south dakota, even mississippi, they are still hovering at 20% positive rate. that's a bit too high. data tells us that they would not successfully reopen if they went to immediately in person classes. with that being said, jedediah, we can't look at the state percent positives. break it down even further to the counties. if the counties had done their part to lessen that transmission. lessen that community spread, it is essential to get these children back to school. follow the science. the science tells us specifically those under 10 years old will have less severe infections and likely play a lesser role in transmission. those children have to be back. it is crucial for their development. i'm such a supporter for getting kids back but getting kids back safely. we need the ability to rapid

test and we also need the ability to contact trace and selectly isolate. we don't need to shut down an entire school when there is a case. we need to be able to shut down that cohort so the remainder of the school can go on. will: 1% positive rate, dr. saphier and yet my school in new york just got put on remote learning for the rest of the semester. doesn't seem like we are are following science it seems like we are following fear. shut down not just a cohort or school but entire conference of football in the big ten because penn state doctor said that 35% of athletes who had covid developed myocardites. a heart condition. since gone back and said that was not the case. weigh was talking off the cuff. tell us about this potential heart link to covid and whether this is science or fear. >> speaking about the school shut down and heart inflammation in athletes it's unfortunate it

does nothing but hinder progress. a sports guy from penn state made off the cuff comment up to 35% of players could have heart inflammation basing this on a conversation he had about a colleague who was potentially doing a study. i can't even begun to refute that study because we don't know if texas cysts. there is a small study out of germany that did cardiac mri of the heart in 100 patients who tested positive for covid. 78% of them showed some level of inflammation. here's the thing. they also did mris on patients who don't have covid and about 20% of them showed inflammation on their mri. so that being said, we know viruses of all types can actually cause inflammation of the heart. we actually know just being in the hospital being sick from various causes can show inflammation of the heart. do you know what else can cause inflammation of the heart?

being an athlete delete going on a run can cause inflammation of the heart if you look at it. take this mri data with a grain of salt. listen, we know covid manifests with multiple symptoms. we know the heart can be involved because it has those a 2 receptors it does not seem that cardiac man fes stations are the primary symptoms of covid-19. college athletes risks with it one in every 40 to 80,000 athletes will actually die from sudden cardiac death. all of that being said, these organizations are so good at taking the proper precautions, screening their athletes, making sure their athletes are safe and doing everything possible to keep them safe. so if an delete tests positive for covid-19, the good news is, these young guys, most likely are going to make it just fine, about a third are going to be asymptomatic, maybe another third are going to have some mild symptoms, maybe the flu like symptoms and a very small

fraction will even require smoption. i mean, going forward, covid-19 is not the biggest risk for these athletes, the biggest risk for these athletes are mostly those sports righted injuries. pete: just like our young guys in schools greatest risk is not having them there. thankfully the school my kids go to i have observed do the very same protocols that jed just showed in that. everyone is being very responsible as they try to bring kids in. dr. nicole saphier, appreciate it. rescue crews in beirut desperately search through a destroyed building overnight after detecting a heart beat in the rubble. the possible victim was first detected early this week why search and rescue dogs. crews are still sifting through damage one month after a massive explosion in the city. nearly 200 people died. thousands are hurt. and the trump campaign asking a federal judge to allow it to intervene in a lawsuit brought by a group of navajo nation citizens. the tribal members want arizona's mail-in voting requirements changed in line

with other states the group says they fear ballots sent from their reservation won't be counted in the november election. the trump campaign argues the exception could affect the results of the election. last-minute changes to ballots. what could go wrong. a police officer serving a georgia resident, some civil papers found herself in a battle baaattle. >> give it. >> took me a second. it was in the teleprompter it. just didn't register a goat gets into her car and decides the papers were his lunch. the officer makes several attempts to take the papers away. in the end cop wins the battle of the showdown. the scrimmage. baaatle. will: do it again. >> baaaatle. will: best one yet. make you do it, rick? let's bring in rick reichmuth. rick: no.

life is good in douglas county, georgia. if that's what you got going on, i have got to tell you. will: those your headlines. hey, lalsz week i was telling you that the next named storm was going to be nana. nana and so did omar. omar was out to see. now the next storm is pawlt paulette. we are in that most active week of the year and we are going to continue to watch more storms that are coming off the coast of africa right now possibly for some development this week. all right, guys, send it back to you. will: thanks, rick. jedediah: thanks so much, rick. coming up, president trump and joe biden both setting their sights on arizona as the election draws closer. gopher state the one to watch on election night? we'll watch that next ♪ ♪

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pete: with less than 60 days on the election the going all in on minnesota. comes amid tight inning polls the real politics average narrowing. the former v.p. is planning in person stops after labor day. looking at a gopher state showdown this november? pete: minnesota g.o.p. -- mr. society mr. right is what he used to be known as jason wright joins us now. politics put your race tina smith toss-up. we invited her to be on the program see declined. why is minnesota in play? it hasn't gone for republican since nixon? >> well, it's sort of a microcosm of the entire country urban liberals become a little

bit more crazy it drives everybody else into trump country and red country. especially so since donald trump has done the most important thing he could for the g.o.p. and brought the working man and woman back to the party. so that really plays well up on the iron range, out in farm country, in greater minnesota. and we saw that in 2016 whe 201e president only lost by 44,000 votes. when peter said earlier when you are driving people away from a city because they don't have public order, i want you to think about this whether it's portland or minneapolis. those are predominantly liberal urban elites in many cases it means that public orderly is issue number one. everything started as you know in minneapolis and so now the suburbs are coming back and it puts our state right in the smack dab middle of it. and i think we are going to win and i think the president is going to win. will: jason, as pete pointed out irs is time since 1972 if won

minnesota. economy, talked about iron range mayors who talked about blue college jobs coming back. which one is the major issue swinging voters in minnesota? is it that economic issue or is it law and order as you just pointed thought places like minneapolis? which one is the main one swinging voters? >> i think it's both. and i think they're connected. you have a governor who refused to drop or lift the lockdown. that put all of those folks in greater minnesota out of work while ironically they were taking covid positive patients out of the hospital and putting them in long term congregated living facilities, nursing homes. those people saying you are not going to restore public order after memorial day. you are not going to do that but preventing me from conducting business to shutting down my business, my salon? you name it, my resort up north which has a 70 day window in the stage was sort of set for this and also the iron range, i got the endorsement of those democrat mayors on the range, too bete the very liberal representative from saint paul effectively has a bill to block mining on the range.

i will block that my opponent tina smith won't. >> pete: blocking mining on the range what a terrific idea. trump campaign spending millions there. will see the biden campaign in minute society. defending territory they usually can take for granted. good luck, jason lewis. appreciate you being here. >> thank you, you bet. pete: with millions out of work due to the covid-19. our next guest is turning his hardship into opportunity. helping senior citizens and veterans in his community. his inspiring story is next. ♪ ♪ every day is a winding road ♪ i get a little bit closer ♪ every day is a

pete: covid-19 not stopping acts of kindness. a man in new jersey laid off due to the pandemic is now using free time to help others. brian schwartz started a program called i want to mow your lawn he mows the lawn for senior citizens and veterans for free. jedediah: to date volunteers have mowed over 20 lawns. he joining us now. brian, welcome to the show. thank you so much for being here. i think what you have done is just so amazing because in a time of crisis, you have chosen to do something really wonderful with your time that's so inspiring to so many. how did this all begin for you? >> yeah. so mid june i got laid off from digital advertising firm and decided to channel my energy into something figurer than myself. i just didn't want to sit around and -- see what's going on in the world and. [broken audio]

just wanted to do something i like to put some good out in the universe and eventually it all comes back. yeah, no, i'm sorry, go ahead. pete: good point, brian. your shot is breaking up a little bit but we will get it. how did you identify the folks you are helping the senior citizens and the vets? >> yeah, so my late grandpa back in november, he passed away, he was living on a fixed income. and you know, we were going through stress at that time. thankfully we had a proper burial for him. i can only imagine the stress that, you know, folks and families are going through now like through this whole year. i just wanted to help out any way, shape, -- i just love grandparents. started it seniors. i put out a local press release just because i didn't want to go door-to-door it felt awkward. i decided to send out a local press release just to kind of put the word out locally and it just transpired into something larger. so, yeah, people would call

naturally just transition into like language of it all. but, yeah, that's where i'm at now. will: brian it, says you are doing this for free. you loss lost your job how are you making it work? how can people help? are you accepting tips? what's going on here? >> i'm not accepting tips. they offer it, i just say no thanks. it's a good feeling. we have like a donation section where folks can contribute to some gas money, which is really nice, inspiring. helps us keep going. charity close to my heart on the website. i feel like it will come back. looking for volunteers. had a couple volunteers saw the local news stories helping out throughout the process. they have been instrumental expanding. i'm offer to share some gas money and being stubborn about it. myself, like i'm [inaudible] collecting unemployment, health

insurance. mortgage forbearance. jedediah: yeah, unfortunately live we are running out of time we want to thank you so much. what you are doing is wonderful. the website is i want to mow your lawn. people can check that out and brian, setting the example for so many. we thank you so much for your energy and what do you today. more "fox & friends" is coming up on the other side. i don't see it. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ today's discussion will be around sliced meat. moms want healthy... and affordable. land o' frost premium!!! no added hormones either. it's the only protein i've really melted with. land o' frost premium. fresh look. same great taste. i had moderate-to-severes rheumatoid arthritis. i've always been the ringleader had a zest for life. flash forward, then ra kept me from the important things. and what my doctor said surprised me. she said my joint pain could mean permanent joint damage.

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♪ ♪ that's how we do it around here ♪ yeah, that's how we do it around here ♪ pete: happy labor day beautiful morning shot from new york city. we have been working all morning, pete, for viewers across this great land and country to send us sunrise shot. pete: correct me if i am wrong that shot did start in new jersey on the other side of the river. so we're getting closer away from manhattan, right, jed? welcome, good morning. jedediah: that's exactly right. and it starts out when we start out in the morning it's bright. the transformation happens right

here when we're on air. it's amazing, isn't it? pete: the sun or not around us, is that right? oh, no, it's the other way around. just checking. have you been sending in your those all morning long. jim wiggles sent this sunrise billings montana. will: that is amazing. gorgeous. jedediah: matthew sent this beautiful sunrise from northville, michigan, wow, gorgeous with the american flag in there. will: ron is waking up to this sunrise in lake mahopic in new york. gorgeous sunrise no. one has followed pete's instructions to make sure "fox & friends" is on in the background. pete: that's hard. how do you get the tv and sunrise? that would be -- american flag is a bonus point so well done. landscapes across america. will: keep sending those photos in this morning to "fox & friends." jedediah: beautiful. will: big story the last 24 hours the report from the atlantic that president trump

allegedly called veterans and military service members losers and suckers for first signing up for the military and second for either dying or being wounded in war. the president now is firing back at the atlantic's article calling it a hoax, a failing magazine and suggesting they never called him for a comment. listen. >> there is nobody that feels more strongly about our soldiers, our wounded warriors, our soldiers that died in war than i do. just like the russia, russia, russia was a hoax. it was a total hoax, no co-collusion. you will hear more of these things totally unrelated as we get closer and closer. nobody called me from the magazine and said do you have a comment with it? no they write whatever you want to write. they figured you can't get sued. you can get sued but it's very hard bringing lawsuits. we have many witnesses the continuation of the witch-hunt. so that it can hopefully affect the election.

will: we have talked this morning jed and pete about the political food fight. the anonymous sources back and forth. what is true. i told you this is my least favorite aspect of politics. let me highlight something that president trump just said. i believe it is very important. pete, you brought up trusting the source earlier. president trump brings up the hoaxes, the media has subjected us, to over the last just five years. the rolling stone uva rape hoax. the covington hoax, the kavanaugh hoax. the hands up don't shoot hoax. the very fine people hoax. pete, i tang take your point should be judged no credibility over the last 5, 10 years, jed. jedediah: yeah, i think we will have to see if there are other people able to substantiate this as well. jennifer griffin. fantastic reporter said some of her sources were able to validate some of what was said in the trylch. i do think i wish legitimized

what saying in terms of their ability to reach out and actually we don't know if this is true no one knows today. we have anonymous sources what people tend to like when it supports something they like. i'm not a fan of anonymous sources in general, we don't know. some people have weighed in on the network thus far. mollie hemingway fox news senior contributor of the federalist. she did so on "special report" yesterday so listen to her perspective. the story claims she didn't want he did just that we know based on actual contemporaneous evidence that the story is not true and we also know that the story is based on completely anonymous sources and anonymous sources are participating in some of information operation against the president to have an honest debate about what's really in play which is there are big foreign policy

differences. rather than have those kind of conversations we instead engage in these kind of smear operations very much like what happened against brett kavanaugh, very much like what happened in the russian collusion hoax and we don't have the debates we should be having. pete: there is a lot we do know. we know this reporter jeffrey goldberg chose not to ask others who were there deny it on the record. certainly didn't reach out to the president. 11 people who were there have gone on the record including john bolton who is no fan of the president. jennifer griffen confirmed some of it but not the most salacious. remember that word salacious and unverified? the suckers and losers? no one will go on the record. all anonymous sources. this is a typical left wing hysteria story. and jeffrey goldberg, he says it's extensively sourced and entirely accurate. they said the exact same thing about the obama clinton pushed dossier. jeffrey goldberg is a registered democrat. very close with obama. he shaped the fact that the

atlantic endorsed hillary clinton in 2016. this guy is a democrat. he is not a journalist. he is not a writer. he is not a head of a magazine. is he a leftist who believes that donald trump is a bad person and so he decides now, two years later, in spite of the evidence that there was weather and the helicopter couldn't go to that cemetery, despite the fact lots of people would have disputed this account. he decides to drop it now, 60 days before an election. this is precisely what the left does. and when we buy it, we are just following the rabbit into the hole. we are doing exactly what the left wants. people that know the president, i have spent a lot of time talking to him about veterans issues. military issues. gold star families. he loves the troops. loves vets. and cherishes what they have done for this nation. he has a personal dispute, will, with john mccain. there is no doubt about that. but, that's -- and that blidz into this. but john mccain also a lot of people have said was a part of leaking the dossier as well. so there is political differences that exist. it doesn't mean just because it

sounds like that it is true. and amazing to watch people fall into that track. will: absolutely not. let's be clear about the trap. i don't know ohio would be speaking for other than myself accepting it being true or buying it. i don't buy anything here. i'm questioning the credibility of everybody involved every step of the way. only those involved. only those in the room can truly know the truth. i will tell you this. pete: why don't you reach out to everyone in the room. will: that would be good journalism. i will tell you this. i agree with mollie hemingway the real issues are what are important. the things pressing the american people. where weather due process a racist. whether or not the economy should be reopened back up. whether or not the businesses should be allowed to operate. these are the things i feel like we should be talking about that are affecting american lives. not who was in the room and who can tell the truth about what somebody might have said. those happen to be the honest debates i would like to get involved. in. jedediah: yeah, pete, jeffrey goldberg may be agenda-driven

and looks like he was. regardless it's our job to figure out if those things are true. pete: you can't figure it out if it's nawmsz source. jedediah: you can a k. though. pete: you can't figure it out. if they want to make the accusation, come out and make it with you but they won't and can't. jedediah: if our own well respected reporter is using her well-respected. pete: we can all agree or disagree with reporters. jedediah: that give us. pete: she didn't verify all of it. jedediah: that's what gives us pause. she didn't and we said that also gives it pause, unfortunately is, that donald trump himself has made some disparaging comments in the past. not related to john mccain's policy. take policy aside. pete: what other disparaging comments has he made about vets. jedediah: about his service. pete: that's john mccain. jedediah: about him being captured and about whether or not he was a hero. pete: that's john mccain outside of john mccain. we will have gold star families on the program later. jedediah: we will. but that doesn't change the fact it's our job to figure out is

this true or not? that's all. it may be true. it may be false. but that's the what point is that we have to figure out if it's true and will makes an important point about issues. let's get to issues. do people care about the story? i don't know. will it sway their votes? i don't know. what will sway people's votes is how these candidates feel about the economy. how they feel about the handling of covid-19 and how they feel about another topic we don't get to enough right now which is energy. we have a montage of joe biden and kamala harris on their climate agenda. this is back to september of 2019. let's listen to what they had to say. >> i think the green new deal deserves an enormous amount of credit for bringing this to a head in a way that it hasn't been before. what i did what i thought went beyond more detail what the green new deal is calling for. >> i think it's critically important on day one that we end any fossil fuel leases on public land. >> would you support a carbon tax, some other candidates say they would. >> yeah, no, i would. >> there is no question i'm in

favor of banning fracking. >> we set out the rules for what kind of -- coal burning plants, nobody is going to build another coal burning we have to shut the ones down we have. >> yeah. so this is a problem on two fronts. first of all, what does joe biden stand for? it depends on the day of the week. you ask him it, depends on the year you ask him and who he is trying to please number one. on the issue of energy, remember, these policies involve everyone because they involve cost. and some of these decision also skyrocket energy costs, particularly for those in lower income brackets. many people around the country are struggling now. so when you look at these policies, always think about what that is going to do to everyone's dollar. how much their bills are going to go up or down. what it's going to do in the what it's going to do in the name of regulation. how that's going to impact industries and businesse businen those industries. these are the issues ultimately that i think will drive the election. energy is a bigger part of the discussion than we even realize. >> speaking of not knowing what

to believe is joe biden pro-or anti-tracking. this time pete the viewers are not anonymous, issues on both sides of the issue. what does he believe and truly want to do. i asked brian lynn a third generation oil and gas worker what he believes about joe biden and fracking. >> it's the same song and dance from joe biden his career. you know, flip-flopping. and it's unfortunate, you know that we have a guy that's out there saying oh, i'm going to ban fracking to some people and then he is going to come back here to pennsylvania and say no, i'm not going to do it. i never said that it's mind-blowing to me that people haven't been able to see through joe biden and see what he is really about. he is pandering to who he can get his votes from. and it's unfortunate. and anybody who works in oil and gas industry in pennsylvania knows that he is lying. pete: you know, guys how i think we are going to see through. this i think we should put jeffrey goldberg on the case.

write an expose of the atlantic about all sides of joe biden's position and whether or not he knows what position he really holds today. that would truly be fair. anonymous sources on the record whatever you want. will: you will need it pete: if you don't need anonymous sources it's too easy. pete: few additional headlines this morning a woman in the car when it drove through a protest in times square is speaking out. we all saw the video. juliet says she was a passenger in the car. she told freedom news the driver was trying to get her and others to safety after hundreds of demonstrators started harassing them and hittings their car. police say their investigation is ongoing and no charges have been filed. and the country's largest police union endorses president trump for re-election. the fraternal order of police praised the president for his focus on law and order. the union releasing a statement writing in part, quote: during his first four years, president trump has made it crystal clear that he has our backs. the union also endorsed the

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>> trump has mismanaged the covid crisis and that's why it's a k shaped pandemic. the president has botched the covid response. botched it badly. we all know it didn't have to be this bad. it didn't have to be this bad to begin with if the president just did his job. pete: that was joe biden attempting not to mince words accusing president trump of botching the nation's economic recovery from covid-19. but biden's criticism falling flat a booming jobs report as the u.s. added 1.4 million jobs in august. dropping the unemployment rate to 8.4%. the lowest since the covid-19 shutdown began. here to react brian brenberg fox news contributor and professor at kings college in manhattan. brian, you are back in manhattan but the hair is still with you. it's great to have you this morning. [laughter] pete: talk to us about these -- biden is trying to make an economic critique but the numbers say something much different. >> yeah, you know, it's so funny to watch these jobs month after

month, you get biden, you get democrats and the press warning about how this recovery is just about ready to fall off a cliff and then you get another million jobs. four straight months we have seen the jobs number exceed expectations. and you start to wonder how long can this narrative persist at what point does joe biden at what point does the press have to admit that this economy is recovering that we are coming back and to the extent that there is a risk, it's because politicians like joe biden continue to say that they would be willing to shut down the economy again. the thing that hurts low wage workers is shutting down the economy. if you want to stop that make a pledge not to shut down the economy again. can you forget about the k-shaped recovery. it's going to look much more like a v. pete: instead, he is making the opposite argument. yet, even in these numbers, industries hit really hard, brian, travel, hotel, in this august jobs report coming back. you mentioned the type of

recovery. are we looking at a v shape you? are looking at millions of jobs added. it's coming back quick. it's coming back so much faster than what anybody predicted. this is what the beginning of a v shaped recovery looks like. have we completed it? no. we have a long way to go. that's the reality of where we have been in manufacturing, consumer spending, jobs, real estate, you look sector bisek tore, have you seen a come back, and have you seen people expressing the desire to want to get out there. the thing that's holding them back right now is not our responds to covid. the thing holding them back is the economic policies flowing out of that in cities and states that refuse to open up. i'm here in new york city. i'm not in linwood, minnesota anymore, i'm in restaurants that can't do indoor dining and have no idea when they will be able to do it. tens of thousands of jobs depend on it. those are the low wage earners that we want to help. that's got to change, pete. that's the thing that's holding under the circumstances back right now.

>> no plan but keep your mask on and be quiet. everything is going to be fine. brian, thank you very much for being here this morning. >> you bet. >> still ahead. less that two months away from the presidential election. one op-ed is predicting chaos in the streets if biden does not win in a landslide. we will break it down for you next. ♪ anything can happen ♪ anything can happen ♪ anything can happen ♪ ♪ glad you came ♪ applebee's. now that's eating good in the neighborhood.

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out speaker nancy pelosi for violating coronavirus owners. the money will be to keep the salon open after the owner says she is forced to shut it down and relocate her family. next $900,000. that's the price of kobe bryant's childhood home for sale in pennsylvania. includes his original basketball hoop in the driveway. finally 20, that's how many major league baseball games played yesterday, the most in a single day since 1974. the schedule included five double headers. due to the game being postponed for weather. the pandemic, and protest, those are your news by the numbers, jedediah. jedediah: thanks so much, will. reporters attending joe biden's press conference were blasted for, quote, shamefully embarrassing softball questions after failing to grill the former v.p. >> when you hear these remarks, suckers, losers recoiling from amputees, what does it tell you about president trump's soul? >> it's deplorable. it's deplorable. >> are you concerned at all that this messaging may be working

that your supporters may give up on voting by mail. >> yes, i am. that's why i try not to talk about it so much. jedediah: biden taking questions the second time this week after almost a month using his time to criticize the president. here to react "new york post" columnist miranda divine. welcome to the show as always. so those questions to biden, what do you think? well, look, it is embarrassing, you would think that they were on the biden team. you know, are they working for biden? no wonder he just chooses selected hand-picked journalists to ask him those questions. they may think they are doing him a favor but in the end they are not because he has to stand up on a debate stage at some point, you would think, and he is not going to have them in his ear. so, he -- they are just ensuring that he is not -- after all this time he spent in the basement, he is a bit rusty, as you can tell, and so he needs all the

experience and practice that he can get. jedediah: yeah, i could not agree nor. i said earlier this morning that they performed an enormous disservice to him and i stand by that completely. i want to get to this other story with you. finance fascinating. "the washington post" op-ed out this week that suggested measures may need to prepare for war on lekdz night if biden doesn't win in a landslide this is the headline. what's the worse that could happen? is that a legitimate concern that you think people have or should have right now? >> look, what it is is it's information warfare. to benefit the biden campaign. this is what you call shaping the battlefield. and what it tells you is that the democrats have no intention of accepting defeat at the ballot box. if you think that they were sore loserlosers in 2016 you haven'tn

anything yet. they are threatening violence if biden does not win. it's just a variation on the team that biden talked to pittsburgh last week or during the week when he said if you don't vote for him, you ain't safe. it's pretty despicable but that is everything you need to know and it's also very dishonest because the scenarios they put together show that actually the democrat proxies in the street are supposedly peaceful protesters, we have heard that before. and, yet, the republicans are supposed to send in a whole bunch of violent agitators, which is exactly the opposite of what has been happening. jedediah: -mile-an-hour, just quickly what happens if it's just a delay in counting votes or if we don't have those results tallied right away or it gets out a little. do coo that also lead to violence on the streets? you see what's going on on the streets enemy cities as it is. >> look. we are in an incredibly volatile

point in this country's history. and this is just pours gasoline on the fire. it is really reprehensible to be muddying the election night results like this. because everybody on either side is going to assume that the other side has cheated and then they are being encouraged now by the democrats to take to the streets by whatever means necessary to make democracy happen and democracy on their -- from their point of view is only if joe biden wins. they will not tolerate another trump win. jedediah: miranda, thanks so much as always. it's going to be a tough next few weeks. it's going to stay heated for sure. we appreciate your insight as always. >> thanks so much, jed. >> >> still ahead, the kentucky derby is today. this time with no fans in the stands. that doesn't mean all bets are off though. so we take you there live ahead of the big race ♪ our love and

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they don't have the ability to go off script, say and to do different things. they have to follow exactly the way they are trained. will: that's the rochester new york police president defending the actions of their officers of daniel prude. this comes as recently released body cam triggered violent protests across the city. here is suffolk county police. and joseph (tree. as you look at the video the daniel prude, was this police procedure proper change proper execution or do you see mistakes made that led to the death of daniel prude? >> as a former police practitioner, i saw this as a sound practice. the placing of a spit hood over

this individual is something that runs within the performance of the directors of that department. one thing that's being left out this happened in march. this was at the apex of the covid-19 pandemic. therefore, a septic environment was of optimum importance. when we saw the way the officers engaged this individual, it was in accordance with the department's rules and regulations. one of the things i believe that the police chief and the mayor had agreed that the investigation was sound and it was behind them. this is subsequently reemerged and that's what we are seeing the fanfare in connection with with the extreme left that's protesting this death as a result. >> yeah, errol, this was a moment where daniel prude was allegedly saying he had coronavirus, weighs spitting. seem to give indication why they used a spit hood. what about the process of using a body weight to lean on a suspect? it's similar not exact but similar to what we saw in the george floyd case is that also good procedure leaning on a

suspect when they are on the ground? >> you know, first of all, and thank you for having me on. you know, it's very important that if the officers feel that there is a threat to themselves or the individuals continuing to get up, we do know this individual had mental health issues which could be a reason why they wanted to try and keep him in place. i believe he was partially nude or completely nude. and so, you know, we don't know what was going on in those police officers' minds. but we do know that what's going on throughout our country, you know, the police are using reasonable force to really try to restrain individuals and also from self harm or harming others. will: yes. joseph i want to ask you about this. there is movement in new york city when it comes to crime. look at this, 166 percent rise in shootings in august. 47% rise in murders. this comes at the same time that governor andrew cuomo is introducing or suggesting you will not have indoor dining in

new york city until there is a 4,000 person nypd force to ensure social distancing inside of restaurants. so crime on the rise but we don't open restaurants again until 4,000 cops can be out there ensuring people are six feet apart. i want to get your reaction, joseph. >> politicians like him pick and choose when they want officers to enforce the law. what happens is they pit the officers against the community which is never good. we saw the situation with mayor de blasio when he wanted officers in new york city to enforce the -- rule and that didn't go too well and officers got in trouble for doing their jobs. allow the business owners be adults, listen to the rules and function and provide food on the table for their families, everything would work out perfectly. will: are officers want ones you want to send in, 4,000 shops to gotten sure people are 6 feet apart. is this where officers and nypd resources should be allocated in the current crime environment? joseph? >> absolutely not. first of all, we have shootings on the rise.

they just canceled the class of 1200 officers. they used to have something called separation impact where high visibility to deter crimes. you want officers to go out there and enforce the laws in new york city where shootings are happening every single day in communities of color. we have to go to the neighborhoods, target the crime, get the bad guys off the street and not worry whether or not somebody is sitting down and having dinner with a facebook mask. will: let me return to rochester for a moment. i would love to put this back to you, officer porcher. we see protests rising in intensity. obviously we see what we have seen in portland. in seattle we see highways being shut down there the state police are pulling people out of cars to get the traffic back moving in rochester in response to the daniel prude incident. last night there was videos of protesters flipping tables. running people out of restaurants. how should law enforcement be handling these escalating protests? >> we need to put a moratorium on riots. a protest is if it's a lawfully conducted protest and it falls

within the pursue of the first amendment that's sound. but rioters we need to bring -- we need to eradicate these riots and stop them. when we see what just happened here in new york city recently. we had a contingent of rioters that converged on a vehicle and those people in the car were under siege and they had to do what was necessary to get away. so when we look at what is happening in portland, seattle, and chicago. democratic leaders have done nothing and doing nothing has subsequently led to this criminal behavior festering subsequently creating more people that are hurt as a result. will: these protests escalating into riots. the latest being in rochester, new york. thank you some for your time this morning. this morning. >> thank you. >> thanks for having us, will. will: you bet. other to you, jedediah. jedediah: thanks some, will, we are going to turn now to your headlines this morning. a massachusetts state trooper dies two years after being hit by a car during a traffic stop. state trooper thomas devlen pulled over a car when he was

struck by another vehicle while standing outside his cruiser in 2018. he underwent several surgeries after the crash. devlen served in law enforcement for 35 years. he leaves behind a wife and four children. and president trump anowrchessinged u.s. is restarting nuclear talks with russia. >> we're right now negotiating a nuclear nonproliferation treaty which is very important. to me, it's the most important thing. some people say global warming, i don't. i say this is far more important. jed jet the president says he eventually wants to include china which is expected to double its nuclear arsenal over the next 10 years. the current treaty between the u.s. and russia is set to expire in february. and the man who went viral for his passionate plea on boneness chicken wings crashes a nebraska husband kerr's press conference to double down on his demands. >> as you know twitter has been. >> excuse me, i got this covered. i got this covered. >> all right. will chicken wing.

>> i like football because i love tailgates. tailgates mean wings. just like a wing without a bone is just a saucy nug. a saturday without husker football is just a saturday. i propose that, one, we bring college football back to lincoln. jedediah: christensen getting attention of buffalo wild wings offering him wings for a whole year. not a bad deal. pete: best pr. he took to the city council for what he thought was the most pressing issue of his time. call them saucy nugs. will: that bothers me that term doesn't sit right. pete: got to be passionate about something. how dare you call them chicken wings if there is no bobby in them. rick reichmuth, do you agree with that said. settlement. >that assessment.

rick: if you love the buffalo sauce you love it. you do. it's not a wing. it's just a different thing. also, incredibly tasty. all right, whys, incredible heat out across parts of the west. take look at these temperatures breaking records again everywhere across the west from colorado all the way back towards l.a. where tomorrow we are going to be inland looking at temperatures maybe pushing 114, 115 around burbank. monday as well. but then take a look at that blue. we have a huge change coming jed earlier saying labor day is the unofficial end of summer. labor day 91. tuesday 37 and snow. incredible drop in temperatures is going to come and going almost to winter instead into fall really quickly. i want to show you what this looks like across the central plains by the time we get into tuesday and wednesday. we are talking about temperatures into the 50's as far south as parts of texas. so, fall on its way.

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pete: a u.s. air force veteran walks off the job on north carolina food line after he was told he could not wear his american flag face covering to work. the veteran saying weighs shocked when told to remove the patriotic mask and out of principle had to quit. the store now updating its

policy in a statement saying, quote: while we continue to maintain our uniform standards requiring associates to wear mask without writing, insignia or signals, w symbols we will aw them to wear a mask with the american flag that meet this standard. u.s. air force veteran gary dean joins us now with more. gary, thanks for being here. appreciate it. i see you are wearing the flag on your hat right now. love it. >> pete, i swear, if you put wheels on me i think i could be a float in a labor day parade this morning. pete: you are on right show then, sir. tell us about this story it. sounds like food line reversed their policy but only after you were forced to quit. break it down. >> well, you know, if it had been policy at the beginning this would not be an issue. i have no issue with uniform policies, you and i both spent time in the military and are aware of that no problem. i didn't find out about it until four days ago when i was wearing this particular mask and one of the managerrers said i'm sorry

someone has complained and offended by the american flag mask so you are going to have to take it off. i said well, no, sir. i can't do that. my dad jack knuckles was a marine corps -- is a marine corps veteran, 95. still with me. he got the purple heart from wounds received in battle at sugar hills in 1945. i lost my best friend in vietnam got shot through the heart. we bleed red, white, and blue in my family. i said no, out of principle, i cannot do that i'm so sorry. they were very nice about it. don't get me wrong, good people especially at my store. we are a military town air station. we all plead red. >> white, and blue. i said no, i'm sorry, i can't do that i will have to quit. i went home and opened pandora's box apparently. i got on facebook and made my case. pete: good for you, gary. so you are saying there was one complaint about the american flag and we're not talking about

black liveblue lives matter stad american flag one complaint and what is it about corporations that they give in to the one complaint as opposed to saying hey, that's the american flag? >> that does seem to be the quandary. why are we kneeling for a small percentage of people when the majority of us, and we are a silent majority until it comes time that we need to raise our voice, why are we the ones that have to suffer because of the offense of one person? it doesn't seem right to me. i also wear this mask, pete, on occasion, too. and nobody said a word about that. that. i have been wearing these all summer long. so, with that said, a lot of people, thousands of people, apparently, flooded food line's corporate office with phone calls asking why this was. and they were going to boycott food line. i don't want that to happen. these are good people. they need their jobs and make a good living. but if we don't stand up and say something, then who are we? pete: that's it, gary dean,

that's why people are inspired because you are part of the silent majority but sometimes you need to speak up and did you and motivating other people. god bless you. thank you for your service. and we wish you the best in the future. i have a feeling things will work out for you. gary, thank you very much. >> thank you so much. pete: appreciate it? >> thank you, sir. pete: coming up the kentucky derby kicks off today with no fans in the stands. but that doesn't mean you can't enjoy it with a mint julep from home we are live in louisville next ♪ ♪ among my patients, i often see them have teeth sensitivity as well as gum issues. does it worry me? absolutely. sensodyne sensitivity & gum gives us the dual action effect that really takes care of both our teeth sensitivity as well as our gum issues. there's no question it's something that i would recommend.

will: we are just hours away from the 146th runs of the kentucky derby four months later than scheduled amid the pandemic. jedediah: ashley astro miami joining us live from churchill downs with a preview of the race. hey, ashley. >> hey, good morning, guys. we are at the 146th derby at churchill downs. out there practicing and training 5:15. yesterday show you a replay of the oklahoma city winner she dares the devil one was a surprising upset. today it's going to be a different look for derby. it's there is not going to be the glitz and gram and hats and excitement because there will be no spectators in the stands. people are still going to be enjoying derby at their homes which is why we have chef dave here joining us this morning on set. and we have an amazing spread here. i know a lot of it has significance to derby. but i'm just going to hand it over to you. what do we have here? >> good morning. thanks so much for coming out here today. we are happy to be here. we have a great little sample of

some of the dishes we are serving. you know, no spectators, we got we're calling essential personnel some of the owners millionaires row. obviously we have got to start out it wouldn't be derby without mint julep. >> it wouldn't right here. >> mint julep, derby pie. raised short ribs. here we have crab cakes and then a couple salads. we have a little apple fennell salad. this is one of my favorite tomato watermelon salad. >> you have showed us how to make it real simple i already had one. >> one of my favorite salads, simple but fresh. start off with a little bit of cherry tomatoes that we have cut in half. we have got some beautiful fresh watermelon. we have died that up a little bit of red unnone, we are going to throw that in. we have got tom cucumbers, that we have slighted and put that. in we put a little bit of

squeeze of lemon. and then, of course, it wouldn't be derby without adding some mint. so he would going to take some fresh mint. we tear that up and we throw that in. we mix it up. you know, nice really refreshing salad. we got a long day out here. it's going to be sunny and hot. >> chef dave, while you are doing this and putting this together, explain the importance, i know that derby pie and bourbon those are very kentuckyesque dishes what do these mean for the derby? >> everyone is coming here. we love to give them a little taste of kentucky. we work with so many local farms from makers of derby pie and we want to showcase these great ingredients here in the blue grass. >> here is the finished product very easy at home. we will send it back to you in the studio, guys. pete: thank you very much, ashley. oh, look at that your hat is amazing. jed, look at that amazing hat you have. jedediah: it's a little big.

will: not really my style of hat. it's my understanding you are supposed to wear at the derby. pete: we are wearing christine a. moore in case you didn't know. delightful. will: more "fox & friends" moments away. ♪ don't forget your lunch!

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earlier. not that one, dave. >> give him the real one. dave, come on. pete: there we go. he was wearing the derby hat what he wants to be wearing is cowboy hat. >> what i want to be doing is looking like the horse trainer not the people in the stands. better look for you, will. that's the reeled deal. have you been moving new york city with viewer picks. will: we have been asking for viewer photos great sunrise across the land this comes from ellen in seaside heights, new jersey. sun coming up over the beach over the ocean. jedediah: here is one from clint wishing us a good morning from i might say that wrong. pete: saint croix. it's saint croix. >> we are going to need clarification on that. and we don't know. pete: look at that teddy sends us a beautiful pick of a kentucky sunrise. look at that. >> last but not least. a gorgeous florida sunrise from

dan. thank you, dan. will: thank you for brightening our morning on "fox & friends" as we turn now. pete: broadening to middle america. will: yeah, to america. turn now to the story that is the news cycle. report from the atlantic that president trump allegedly called fallen u.s. soldiers losers and suckers. the president accusing the magazine, the atlantic of using fake sources and a made up story. lucas tomlinson joins us live from washington, d.c. with more on the president's push back. lucas? >> good morning, will. that's right. of course, president trump has denied making any of those statements attributed to him in the atlantic piece. in fact, his former national security advisor john bolton, of course, no fan of the president rushed to his defense. >> i didn't hear either of those comments or anything even resembling them. i was there at the point in time that morning when it was decided that he would not go. entirely a weather related decision. and i thought the proper thing

to do. >> the president was asked why his chief of staff at the time marine corps general john kelly, whose son was killed in action in afghanistan, has remained silent. >> i know john kelly. he was with me. didn't do a good job. had no temperament. and ultimately he was petered out. he was exhausted i told him john, you are going to have to go, please give me a letter of resignation. and we did that and now he goes out and bad mouths. >> in a new letter 700 veterans have rushed to the president's defense, quote bay bay baseless media aattacks against president trump from anonymous sources another example the depths the president's opponents are willing to descend and divide the nation and meddle in this election. pete: lucas, thank you very much for breaking that down. we appreciate it. as we assess this. to me, guys, feels like the ultimate political hit job. you can't disprove a negative based on anonymous sources. there is no way to prove it. they didn't in the first place

choose to actually call the president or people who were in the room who would have gone on the record to deny it. but, it is smart politically. they are trying to go at the president's strength, his support of the military, reverence for the troops and change the narrative as the media would want to do, away from violence in the streets, a rebound in the economy, and the china virus. so where would this come from? is this just a story that bubbled up out of nowhere? well, let's look at where it came from. jeffrey goldberg is the editor and chief of the atlantic. he has written more than just this article over the last couple of years. shear basic sampling of the types of stories jeffrey goldberg likes to write, james mattis denounces president trump describes him as a threat to the constitution. he's getting worse. mattis always understood trump's severe defects. donald trump's mafia mindset. trump's tweets are a narnian regard robe to lizard brain. the obama doctrine rest in peace. speaking of obama. was a big fan of obama and big

fan of hillary clinton and the "new york times" breaks this down about goldberg in 2016. he said he shaped the atlantic's recent editorial endorsing oh, who was it hillary clinton for president. only the third presidential edge doorsment in the magazine's nearly 160 year of the endorsement. public last week, called donald j. trump the republican nominee the as stone terrencely unqualified major party candidate in the 227 year history of the american presidency. widow of steve jobs the majority owner. maximum donation to the biden primary campaign, over $600,000 to the biden victory campaign. $1.2 million to democrats in this elections cycle alone. and we know that she talks regularly with jeffrey goldberg. so, with aanonymous sources no evidence, no tapes, jed, i go to, this how does this not look like something you can't disprove as a negative and they

say is extremely well sourced but all anonymous. sea registered democrat who loves hillary clinton and hates donald trump. is he not writing about hunter biden or joe biden's stumbles on the trail it's intentional and what the left does. >> well, and it very well may be agenda driven. you laid out all of those articles written by goldberg and some will say this is another media hit job i don't know. the answer is i don't know. it may be very well may not be, it is possible that president trump said those things. we don't know. no one can sit here and say with 100 percent accuracy that he did or didn't say it. no one can. and we have had our very own reporter and i have said this before. we have had jennifer griffin come out and say that her sources have claimed very similar allegations some would call that verifying sources. others would say it's not verification. her sources have backed it up. she a reporter i deeply respect. the answer is i don't know. i don't know if this will move a needle on anything truly. i don't know that this is a priority issue as americans look

at the economy and whether or not they can put food on the table for their families as they look at covid-19, as they look at the shutdowns and violence in the streets. i don't know if this will have an impact or not or if they will believe the story or not. i think to sit here and 100 percent say this is true or this is untrue would be irresponsible given what we know today did b. this story and what we know about some of the comments that president trump has made in the past, i have brought up the comments about john mccain and his service, that rubbed people the wrong wayment some and we know about the feud. pete: why we like john mccain? jedediah: policy aside. pete these that's not policy. [talking at the same time] jedediah: that does not excuse a comment about john mccain being captured and him not liking people being captured that was abysmal comment. regardless that may make some people give pause if he said that, could he say this? i don't know. that does not mean that he said these things it also does not mean that he did not.

that's all we know. will: jed, i appreciate the point that no one can know the truth except those directly involved in essence those in the room. and what may inform people is extraneous information like what they think about president trump and what he said in the past. i would also suggest skepticism has been earned to your point, pete, not just with jeffrey goldberg but the media at large who has led us down several hoax stories like the uva rape hoax the kavanaugh hoax the hands up don't shoot hoax, skepticism has been earned on these stories. if the story has been held for two years and it's cloaked in anonymous sources that story itself has earned skepticism as well. where i do wholeheartedly agree with you, jedediah, is what matters to the american people are the things that are directly affecting their lives. and this is not one of the issues that is affecting jobs, shutdowns, whether or not this country was founded o on the promise of whiton the onthe -- e

supremacy. pete: what if that's the point joe biden can't stop the rioters in the street. he can't rebound the economy. he doesn't know if it's tuesday or wednesday. jedediah: he can't. pete: anonymous sources at the atlantic democratic buddies cocktails with you are just taking it. jedediah: pete, you can't effectively distract from those things because people are living in those cities. pete: turn the channel right now it's all they are talking about all hour long. jedediah: they are living those realities either they have money in their pocket or they don't. either their business can function or it can't. either they are afraid to send their kid to the grocery store out of fear for their lives or they are not. these are realities that people are living. i don't care what talking point you are spewing or trying to cover up or trying to ignore reality. those are realities and people will vote based on those realities no matter what politicians say about them. will: here, jedediah is some of that reality. this report out just yesterday. august jobs report.

1.4 million jobs added, unemployment rate drops to 8.4%. joe biden has been knocking this economic recovery under president trump. listen to. this economists are starting to call this recession a k-shaped recession. which is a fancy phrase for what's wrong with everything about trump's presidency. it's no surprise because at root of this is the fact that trump has mismanaged the covid crisis. the president's chaotic -- chaotic mismanagement of the pandemic. they are still holding us back. compared to other major industrial countries in europe and asia, during the pandemic, our unemployment rate is still more than double while other nations have only gone up by half. we all know it didn't have to be this bad. will: i think the the american recovery is on a quick recovery right now. quick pace, quick, you know, adding jobs coming out of this.

and you know, pete, to your point. this is the type of story that should be affecting the election and these other stories are a distraction perhaps designed distraction from that. pete: that's, i think, the point. we can get distracted all the time. and these nic numbers are amazing. look at the unemployment rate that's dropped. jobs coming back. it's the intentional distraction. and then they look at us in the eye and jeffrey goldberg says it's is a ostensibly sourced we won't three years on the kavanaugh. rabbit. address it for weeks. that's what they want is to distract. all right. turn now a few additional headlines starting with this fox news alert. overnight police and protesters clash in rochester, new york. officers -- here is the kay office we are talking about. officers spraying tear gas to break up the crowds after rioters reportedly set fire and vandalize property. more than 1,000 demonstrators hitting the streets over the death of daniel prude who died in police custody earlier this

year. [chanting daniel prude. pete: two cars crashed into ghob strarts at the overnight protest. it's unclear if anyone was hurt. and jacob blake pleading not guilty to sexual assault charges in his first public appearance since being shot by police in wisconsin. >> also have the right to waive the preliminary hearing and that's what i understand you wish to do today; is that correct? >> yes, sir. >> blake appearing in a virtual court from his hospital bed. the charges are related to a case from earlier this year. his next court date is set for november. justice moves slowly. jacob was shot last month leaving his paralyze you had from the waste down. and great story here, legendary football coach lou holtz will be awarded the presidential medal of freedom. other coaches have sent letters in support of the former notre

dame head coach. >> looks at lowe's life and his career and what he has done for charity and the football is obvious he was a great coach. >> the 86-year-old hall of famer endorsed then candidate trump in 2016. he recently spoke at the republican national convention on the president's behalf. and those are your headlines. huge congratulations to lou dobbs. not lou dobbs. will: holtz. pete: not lou dobbs. although lou dobbs may end up getting the presidential medal of freedom before this is all done. congratulations to lou holtz. greg gutfeld that walls for you. jedediah: still ahead, president trump promising to protect your second amendment rights as u.s. gun rights soar. gun rights soar. it's time to take safety into our own hands. ♪ ♪ at philadelphia, we know what makes the perfect schmear

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they want to take away your second amendment. if i weren't president you would either not have a second amendment or be gone entirely. i'm standing between them and your second amendment. they know. [cheers and applause] will: there is president trump promising to protect gun rights as sales surge across the country. get a load of this number. there are now 5 million new gun owners in america with 58% of those coming from purchases from african-americans. and 40% from women. here to react is attorney and gun rights activist colion

noire. why are gun sales booming? >> if you think about it, local governments for the longest time has been the security guard of the peaceable neighborhood. it's easy to say can i keep you safe if nothing is happening. as soon as things start ratcheting up you start realizing the limitation of these local governments. people start realizing it as well. they think oh man i actually am alone when it comes to defending myself. naturally people are going to go out and findhemselves. and the best means to protect yourself is a firearm in these times. will: absolutely. right now it looks like the police aren't there in many situations when it comes to riots and law and order in many cities. people go to protect themselves. explain 58% of new gun biers black americans. what's behind those purchases? >> what's also happening -- i think it's safe to say that the black demographics and black people in general have largely voted for democrats. what we are starting to see is

in the communities where a lot of these protests are happening they are also starting to realize they are not holding up to their end of the bargain and they're not keeping their promises. and so as a result of that, they are also taking their lives and their safety into their own hands and going out and getting firearms so they protect not only themselves but their communities as well. you saw that a lot when a lot of the rioting started. you saw groups of black people coming together and actually defending the stores and industries within their communities from the rioters and the people who were trying to take advantage of some of the actual protests that were going on at the time. will: i personally experienced and i know many of my friends have there is an ammo shortage right now. people are having trouble getting ahold of ammunition with so many more gun buyers what do you think the future of any gun control proposals in this country is? essentially you would think that has a big impact on whether or not americans are ready to accept more gun control. >> i'm not going it lie to you, i'm not that hopeful by and large because we spent the last decade talking about gun control

and how to restrict firearm rights. and i think a lot of people though they went out and bought firearms. i don't think they understand the political implications of you who they vote. and so if a lot of them and i talked to a lot of them they feel like, you know, i have my gun, there is really nothing worry about no one can come and take it no, you are wrong. if anybody went out and looked at what joe biden's gun control is for gun control it reads like war and peace. nothing in that proposal has nothing to do about gun rights it. is all about restrict it. people need to understand the reality. they have understood the reality of maintaining their safety by getting a firearm. now they need to understand the reality of you who they vote. because the way they vote can effect their ability to own firearms because i assure you if left to his devices, if joe biden were in charge, you wouldn't be able to get a firearm. will: with yeah with millions of new gun owners i would assume people more understanding of gun issues, not closing the door behind them once they make their purchase that would be something to watch. colion noir thank you for being with us. >> thank you for having me.

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taken down at the university of rhode island. the university made the decision after students complained about the mural's lacking diversity. jed, over to you. jedediah: thanks, pete. nancy pelosi facing backlash after visiting a covid shutters hair salon while businesses struggle amid strict lockdowns in san francisco. after pelosi claimed her own visit was a setup, president trump came out with this new campaign ad. >> pelosi was saying that those people who don't wear masks who don't follow rules are bad people. not wearing a mask and having haircuts indoors is against the rules there. >> be an example to the country. >> here to react two people directly impacted by the san francisco lockdowns regina the owner of insignia hair salon and manager angela flowers. thank you both for being here today on this important issue. let's start with you, ravinena. what was your reaction when you saw that video of nancy pelosi inside a salon that was supposed to be shut down and wearing no

mask to boot? >> yeah, we were really disappointed and frustrated because you know, here we are been closed for months for indoor services and we had to do clients outside because in our county we are able to do outdoor services in 100-degree heat in smoke, outdoors with the masks on. so, yeah, we were not happy seeing her being indoors getting service done like the rest of us couldn't. jedediah: ashley, you are the manager of the salon, talk about what the impact of these lockdowns has been on you, on your job, on the business in its entirety, what's that been like? >> first off, thank you so much for having us here today. the impact has been huge on us. we have had to move the salon outdoors so we could make rent. we did not get the ppp loan.

the struggle has been real on our side. trying to make ends meet every single day to hit the quota to be able to survive to the next few months to keep the salon open for our clients. regina what is your message to politicians like nancy pelosi and there are others who seem to think there are a different set of rules for them than for average citizens? >> yeah. it is very unfair and, you know, since we live in this country it is, you know, we should have all the freedoms for everyone equally. you know, she gets to do it inside. we all should be able to do it inside. our clients are just as much people as she is. so, you know, they have to go to work. they have to look good. and they have to look presentable. they needed to get it done and we need to be open. we need to be able to survive.

jedediah: ashley, just tell us a little bit about the protocol. do you feel that you would be able to set up a safe protocol for your clients in the salon to open in full today? >> absolutely, 100 percent. it's one of those things that we have been trained in safety and sanitation since day one in going into beauty school. so, going to the salon is safer than going to the grocery store and safer than going to a lot of the places that are actually open and ready to take people right now. so 100 percent ready. jedediah: ravinena, what are you hopeful for coming down the pike in terms of your business in the next few weeks? >> at the moment we are allowed to be open at 25% capacity. so i'm hoping to slowly but surely they will let us open up to 100 percent capacity because i have -- we have a lot of clients and a lot of staff that need jobs right now. you know, running low on money. they need to take care of their families, their kids. so, we are hoping that they will

ease up on the regulations in terms of having more people in the salon because at 25% capacity, we can't sustain with paying the bills and just surviving as a business. jedediah: yeah, well, we want to thank you both for being here. we are hopeful that the business can pick up in full for you soon. we have watched many businesses struggling throughout. this and it's been heart-breaking but we wish you the best in the next coming week. thank you so much. >> you are welcome, thank you. jedediah: and still ahead, president trump denies reports that he insulted fallen american soldiers. two gold star family members are here to weigh in. that's next. ♪ ♪

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slamming the atlantic over a report saying he insulted fallen soldiers, our next guests know first hand what that ultimate sacrifice means. joey can't, retired u.s. army special forces chief war story and gold star husband and along with hole ton a gold star parent. they join me now. gentlemen, both of you understandth full measurable of the cost of preserving freedom in this country. joe, i want to starts with you, your wife was killed in syria. tell me a little bit about her story and you've served as well, thank you for that sincerely. and then tell me about your interactions with the president around that. >> thank you, pete. as you said, my wife shannon kent was killed january of 2019 fighting isis in syria. she was killed fights in a place that most americans are very familiar with as isis took it over as they took over syria in iraq. she was there final push to defeat the caliphate.

she joined the military right after 9/11. she felt called to serve just like i did. i spent a full career in the army. army. after she was killed, i had many interactions with president trump. most memorable was he flew out to receive her remains with myself and family at dover air force base. i spoke to president trump there for quite a while met with him privately. he was very compassionate. i could tell he was deeply moved by her sacrifice and the sacrifice of the three others killed alongside her that day. fighting for our country. i could also tell that president trump was very conflicted and he felt a deep weight of having soldiers die on his watch under his orders. he understood they had to go over there and they had to fight the order to do that to crush the caliphate that was something that had -- he had inherited from the last administration. they allowed it to fester.

so he understood that. however, he also wanted to get our soldiers out of harm's way as quickly as possible. so we didn't get bogged down in a long enduring conflict. i was very impressed that president trump took the time to actually talk to me and he had read up a good deal about shannon and about my personal story and he asked for our opinions on what we thought about the war and in particular our involvement in syria. pete: joe, i will get back to you in a moment. david, your son christopher was killed in afghanistan. for our country. >> yes. he was. pete: you were actually at section 60 at arlington when the president was there in 2017 when those purported remarks were made to john kelly. what did you see and what did you hear? >> well, actually you, i was at the of course the memorial service that was held before the section 60 visit where president

trump memorialized chris' story and also general kelly's son's story in his speech afterwards, we were invited up to the upper level there to have some photos and president trump made remarks to me about, you know, chris being a great warrior, a soldier, a winner, and that, you know, he said in his way that he speaks you are all winners, you know, and he was just very honorable towards us. and seemed truly grateful, you know, for the sacrifice that chris had made and that our family had made. i actually got to section 60 after president trump had left that area we were held back a little bit because of secret

service protocol. and when we got down there, we were at chris' head stone, a member of the military that had been a friend of chris had said the president was just here. he actually said where's the family? where are the hortons? he wanted to say something to us. and, of course, again, because of secret service protocol, we were not able to be right there. it wasn't but a few minutes later that we did see general kelly and we greeted him and said, exchanged a few remarks. but, i was not actually there when during that exchange. pete: david, quickly, to both of you because we are running out of time. david i want to you said he said your son is a winner. these anonymous accusations said people who lose their lives are losers or suckers. did you hear anything like that.

>> no, no. nothing even remotely close to that. the entire -- the entire day. public or private. pete: joe, what do you make of these anonymous accusations? >> these anonymous accusations coming out just two months before the election are very, very suspect. they also most of these incidents they talk about happening several years ago. so why didn't these accusers come out at the time? also, the climate in d.c. is so anti-trump right now, i don't believe the senior administration officials who come out publicly and say something negative about president trump reprisal. i don't buy that there has nothing but praise against people who come out for president trump. i'm not buying the anonymous sources. pete: joe kent, david horton, you know of what you speak. thank you so much for providing that perspective and everything have you done for this nation. we are truly grateful. thank you.

>> thanks for having us on. pete: god bless you. all right. we will take a pause and then we will toss it over to rick we will take a pause and then we reichmuth who has some weather updates for us this morning. rick? rick: hey, pete, we had hurricane laura that slammed into louisiana. still some moisture in that area over the last couple days or will be again. there is still almost 200,000 customers that are without power. imagine that now going on nine days here in the incredible heat that's still going on down across parts of the south. so those folks are certainly in our thoughts. all right. we will keep watching the tropics getting into the very peak of it. three systems out across the atlantic that we are watching. we don't see anything right on the u.s. shore for about the next five days a lot of stuff getting a lot closer. incredible heat continues. guys this weekend breaking all kinds of records out across parts of california. take a look what happens over the next few days the heat is on but winter gets here by tuesday all across parts of the high plains. all right. guys, back to you. jedediah: thanks, rick. i don't know if i'm ready for winter yet but we will see.

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jedediah: school is looking a little bit different this year. we have read all the protocols and seen all the plans on paper. what does it actually look like in person? jedediah: we went to staten island academy in new york to find out. they are independent pre-k to 12th grade school and plan to reopen september 9th. >> are most of the students coming back. >> 100 percent of our students. >> 100 percent are coming back? that's impressive number. >> those consider expect changes. >> the morning start with a text to every family asking about how their child is feeling. they will enter the main building and go through a temperature screaming. they will see some little things more hand sanitizerring stations erin obviously kids will be wearing a mask. >> i have taught for years i have to ask this question. what happens when a kids shows up and forgotten his or her mask? >> forgotten, lost, it got wet. sneezed. in all those things. jedediah: this is a lady who has been in the classroom. >> chewed on.

so we have all sizes, shaping, for faculty as well. jedediah: staten island's academy teachers had a major say in the new protocols. >> we met with our faculty virtually all throughout the summer. every other week just talking, brainstorming, what are the angsts? what are the things we are looking forward to? what are those things we want to not lose in this new normal and what are the things that we need to adjust? jedediah: the campus for one, all these doors and stairwells are now one way. tents have popped up and lunch in the cafeteria definitely won't look the same. for younger students like those in erin kennedy's second grade class those adjustments impact everything from the story time to snack time. >> these dividers are going to be used while we are sitting in the classroom if they are eating masks they can unmask and have their snack safely. each child can sit safely and distance from one another. you can see there is a book

quarantine. books have to sit in there for 72 hours after they are touched. >> second grader is grab. are you thinking about that like one student is going to say oh, i will take that. >> again, it's all about rules. there are going to be those hiccups at the end of the day say keep safe. we want to keep it open and come here every day. let's do our best. jedediah: upper level students are trying to do just that. >> how are you feeling about having a mask on all day. >> obviously it's a little uncomfortable. your face is harder to talk. if it's what we have to do to be here i'm okay with it. >> it's definitely nerve-racking adjusting. i know the protocols have been safe. i feel safer here than my own home. >> teachers say with these precautions they are finally ready to get back in the classroom. >> i'm getting excited to be in the classroom physically with the students. i think we did a great job last spring with the remote learning. there is something about being physically together for those you know those conversations that take place outside of the

curriculum that are really meaningful. >> i'm ready to go and to see the smiles or gut smiles or eye smiles i guess is what we are going to see now is really great to see our kids. jedediah: guys, i was so impressed with the protocol. it was so much so that they specified what kind of masks were allowed. on their temperature check if the kid leans in to get his or her temperature check and doesn't have a mask on, the machine actually yells at them. so it's so extensive there is areas on campus outside where students can get a breath and take the mask off. although the protocol is to have the mask on all the time on campus, just easier for them to track it that way. one thing i just want to stress the optimism. that is what i really wanted to get a sense of. how were these students feeling? were the teachers nervous? were people worried? they were so excited and so confident in the administration to keep them safe that was my big take away. pete: yeah, because schools across the country are taking precisely these types of protocols. my kids' schools are as well.

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jedediah: we're going to get straight to the news now with president trump slamming a report from the atlantic that claims he called fallen u.s.

soldiers losers and suckers. the president accused the magazine of using fake sources. lucas tomlinson has more on the president's pushback. >> reporter: john bolton, of course, no fan of the president, he says he doesn't remember any of this, and if so, he would have put it in his book. >> i didn't hear either of those comments or anything even resembling them. i was there at the point in time that morning when it was decided that he would not go. it was entirely a weather-related decision, and i thought the proper thing to do. >> reporter: the president was asked why his chief of staff, who was also with him in paris, marine corps general john kelly, has remained silent. >> i know john kelly. him, john, you're going to have to go. please give me a letter of

resignation. and we did that. and now he goes out and bad mouths. >> reporter: in a new letter, 700 veterans have rushed to the president's defense. quote: baseless media attack against president trump from another example of the depths the president's opponents willing to descend. jedediah: thanks so much, lucas, for that report. and, obviously, we've been talking about this all morning with anonymously-sourced stories being really challenging for many. you know, or you see a lot of conflicting opinion. you see the anonymous sources and what john bolton just said saying i didn't hear anything like that. you see some confirmation from one of our reporters, jennifer griffin, who's one of the best i know. not all of it, but some of the content. so it leaves many sitting and saying you just don't know. the timing of the story is interesting, very close to

election season. and also, pete, you pointed this magazine in terms of the validity of the report and the context. pete: it's not just left-leaning, it's the middle of the left-wing tank. the magazine u.s., the owner donated over a million dollars, jeffrey goldberg himself is a registered democrat who led the loves barack obama. here's the thing, this is the ultimate political hit job because you can't disprove a negative. we can talk all a day long about who thinks what. based on anonymous sources, you can't do any of that. they never bothered to call the president, they never bothered to call other people who were there and would go on the record to refute out. but it's smart by the left because they're trying to attack the president's strength which is investing in the military, loving gold star families. anyone who's spent time with him knows precisely where his heart is and, will, they're trying to change the narrative away from

the mobs in democrat-run cities, away from the economic recovery we've seen go gang busters. it feels like in that sense they're having some effect doing that. but what you can't dispute is the reality of how the president interacts with military families. ultimately, look at his actions kent and david horton, two gold star families earlier on the with the president. >> these accusations coming out just two months before the election are very, very suspect. my wife, shannon kent, was killed in january of 2019. after she was killed, i had many trump. i went out to receive her remains with myself if my family. he was very compassionate. i could tell he was deeply moved by her sacrifice and the sacrifice of the three who were killed alongside her that day.

>> president trump made remarks to me about, or you know, chris being a great warrior of a soldier, a winner and that, you know, he said it in his way that he speaks you're all winners. will wul it's important context, and context is what it needed here to find out the truth. jedediah, while you're right, we might not know the truth for certain, we know a couple of things. all of the reports are anonymous at this point. if you have something to say, it's time to put your name on could coming from the same anonymous sources. you heard the same thing. i think it's important to point out those that are on the record like john bolton are the ones putting their name on it and saying the opposite of what these anonymous sources are pointing out. this was something reportedly why wait two months before an election to release a story in and perhaps the biggest context of all is the skepticism that has been earned by the media at

all whether or not the kavanaugh hoax, the covington hoax, the very fine people hoping, the hands up don't shoot hoax. kept such has been earned by media who does not seem to call fair balls and strikes. and i give you this latest example just yesterday e when it comes to this story and reporters questioning joe biden's response. listen to this. >> when you hear these remarks -- suckers, losers -- what because it tell you about president trump's soul and the life he leads? >> you know in your heart, you know in your gut it's deplorable. it's deplorable. >> thank you, mr. vice president. >> there are a lot of people out there who are supporting you or the -- incline ared would say why isn't joe biden angrier about all of this? >> the president of the united states should be presidential and should lead by example. >> thank you, sir. of. >> we know the president has been attacking mail-in voting. are you concerned at all that

with your supporters, they may give up on voting by mail because they're concerned that it's maybe rigged? >> yes, i am. that's why i tried not to talk about it too much. >> thank you, mr. mr. vice president. jedediah: so a lot of this was just ridiculous. it looked like parody. and a lot of these immediate aide ya with personalities believe they're doing him a favor. they're actually doing him a huge disservice. he just now comes forward front and center. he needed to show that he can answer these questions effectively, that he can get his base excite, that he has solutions to offer. he needs to step onto a debate stage with president trump and showcase skills which he should be sharping in these briefings, and he's not because he's getting loaded up with softball questions. embarrassing. you'd think that they were on the biden team, you know? are they working for biden?

no wonder he just chooses the hand-picked journalists to ask hum those questions. you know, they may think that they're doing him a favor, but in the end they're not because stage at some point you would new, and he's not going to have them in his ear. so they're just insuring that he's not -- [inaudible] and after all this time he's spent in the basement, he's a bit rusty, as you can tell, and so he needs all the experience and practice that he can get. pete: i love all the way reporters go up to the microphone. thank you, sir. thank you, mr. vice president. thank you, sir. thank you, thank you, will mr. vice president. when's the last time you heard that kind of decorum or respect for the count commander in chief? you don't. because these are all democrats askingball questions of their preferred -- asking softball questions of their preferred candidate. think what they're doing is a

disservice that they can give by lobbing easy questions to their preferred candidate so he can try to shape the narrative, that's why he has tried to avoid the debates. that's why people say he shouldn't debate because anytime he's off the cuff, it's bad for joe biden. of. will: don't be surprised when the american people have some ask skepticism about a story you put out with anonymous -- if we can't read through it at this point, it's a heft-wing media complex that feeds into itself, and when we buy into it, we're chasing the rabbit into the hole and ignoring the bigger issues like the recovery we're having and the riots and mobs in our streets. speaking of that, it actually happens to be a tough anniversary right now. not a real one, but it marks 100 days since riots started in portland, and that's been -- we've seen in portland alone as of september 3rd, 2020, 488 shootings. this is something that hasn't

gotten better because of local leadership that hasn't clamped down. the quality of life in portland has detier rated, and we had -- detier rated and we had someone on the program earlier talking about what happens when in a city like portland you let it a hundred days of rioting, and the i green juice abdi -- e egregious abdi base, i won't say they've been promoting the violence, but by their inaction, tacit approval. almost approving what's going on. this was an incredible abdication, as i said, of responsibility. i can't believe citizens would put up with this. jedediah: yeah. is so this is a story that's going to be at the top of everyone's minds, because if you don't have your safety, you

really have nothing. and, of course, that's tied closely with the economy and what's happening in these cities. that's going to be the chief item in the polls. nothing keys tract you -- can distract you from that if you don't feel safe. turning to some headline, an estimated $100,000 in damage. plus say they smashed windows and spray painted graffiti on storefronts and banks. eight people were arrested and charged with rioting. stun guns and tool used for burglary. a gofundme page raises more than $243,000 for the san francisco salon owner who called out nancy pelosi. the money will be used to keep the salon open after the owner down and relower candidate over threats to her family. camera foot an shows pelosi at the salon defewing coronavirus

orders. pelosi says she was set up by the salon owner. so fetch, pillsbury released a toaster strudelling inspired by the movie mean girls. the actress plays a daughter of the inventer in the popular teen comedy, pink icing pact in both strawberry and cream cheese flavors. looks mighty delicious, i'm not going to lie. will: coming up, texas governor greg abbott talking a stand iment the defund the police movement. he's now considering putting austin police under state control toty -- to avoid cuts to the department. texas attorneyñgstmñltyo5nób.?qn paxton is here on potential steps. ♪ ♪

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♪ ♪ pete: texas fighting back against efforts to defund the police. governor greg abbott says he may put the austin police under state control to avoid any cuts after the city council voted to strip $150 million from its police. paxton. ken, thanks for being here this morning. is this something that can be easily done, and would this actually prevent the city of austin from defunding the police department? >> no, it wouldn't prevent them from defunding the police department. however, the legislature passed a bill that would allow the would essentially take it over. so, yeah, there's a process. it'll take some time. we need our legislative session, but with, yeah, we can deal with it, and we can fund the misin a way that will keep -- the police in a way that will keep the city safe, which is what we all want.

pete: here's what the austin mayor said. austin is the safest big city in texas. public safety is our priority, and we support the police. not surprising the president's rhetoric is finding its way to texas as we get closer to november. things are safe in austin, therefore, we should cut $150 million from the budget? >> i don't think anybody thinks that makes sense. that's, like, 33, 34% cut in the budget with a growing city. we're growing fast. that makes little to no sense what's his rationale? we know austin is more left-wing than texas writ large. but what's the rationale then? or is it just appeasing hard core left-wing activists? >> that's the only answer i can give you. left-wing radicals who think this is a good idea. i don't think republican, democrat, whatever party, you want public safety. and i think in general the

people of austin don't like this. pete: well, yeah. they're going to find out if the state isn't able to step in. we'll don't watch this. -- continue to watch this. i want to get your take on something in texas because all school districts are facing challenges with reopening, and in texas there's been some criticism of the governor because some school districts are deciding to go virtual as well. what's your take on how education is happening this school year in texas? >> so, you know, it's a mixed bag. but what i like is it's up to the local schools to make their decisions. those are are elected people and accountable to the voters in that area. so if they make a bad decision, constituents and parents can step in and vote them out. yeah, we have some very good decisions being made by school, okay. a point at which the governor would step in and say, hey, kids need to be going back to school?

>> yeah, he can definitely do that. i think he's tried to leave it up to local districts to make that decision, but at some point can step in and say no. let's send these kids back to school. all of them. pete: these are the two issues facing a lot of citizens, safety and security and education and covid-19. attorney general ken paxton, thanks for breaking it down for us in texas this morning. >> thank you for having me. pete: a massive parade of boats will set sail in an attempt to break records and show support for law enforcement. preparations are underway, and we will talk to the organizers. there they are live on a boat. can they talk to us? is it windy? we will find out. ♪ ♪

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♪ ♪ will: later this morning, a massive no tila of boats will show support for our brave men and women in blue with and our veterans, and for many, our commander in chief. pete: their july 4th event today? jedediah: joining us from the jersey shore where final preparations are underway, the parade's chief organizer, chris. looks like a pretty excited crowd there. give us a little heads up of what we can expect to see today. trying to double our numbers from last parade.

nice peaceful organization of boats coming out to support our law enforcement officers, our veterans and our president. pete: chris, you're taking it to the next level. this might be the first interview i've ever conducted with somebody actually driving a boat at the same time. you're hoping to do another first here and set a record. what is it about your love of law enforcement, support for vets that has you taking to the water at such an epic scale? >> well, the climate in the country and what's going on. i have a lot of family and friends that are on the job, and i wanted to do something to show our support for our law enforcement in a peaceful way that's not going to bother any of our law enforcement, clog roads, bridges or anything like that. was a no-brainer to just have an event that's noise nice and safe and everybody's social distancing on theirñ÷ñ?ñ? own b, and we're all together and just have a nice safe event to show support for the boys in blue in

these troubling times that they're going through. we're here and we support them. will: support for the boys in blue ought to be something that brings a lot of people together. chris, i believe the guinness book of world records is 1,180 boats. are you on your way? what does that even look like? how big, how long does that stretch out? >> we've got a couple hundred boats. it's still early. we've got a couple hundred out here now. we're hoping to double our number. last time was 1200, so 2400 would be nice. 3000 was our goal, and we'll see if we meet it. it was amazing last time, and i think it's going to be an even bigger event and bigger, a bigger show for everybody to see and just the whole town and everybody get involved and show support for the people that need it right now in this climate. will: it'll blow away the

much. yeah. important message rightñ?ñ?ñ? n. looks like a blast. thanks so much for joining us. pete: will the us know. >> thanks for having me. i appreciate it. jedediah: of course. up next, today is the 146th running of the crown jewel of horse racing, the kentuckyer the but. churchill downs and has a live report on the changes coming to the race. that's coming up for you. ♪ ♪

♪ ♪ jedediah: this is your sound of the morning, carhart unveiling more than 1600 hard hats in nashville. pete: the hard hats represent the 1.6 million job openings in construction and manufacturing. will: they chose nashville because it's one of america's biggest cities for construction. pete: on the old "fox & friends," we'd is have carhartt onset here.

all right, a few additional headlines. new i photos showing the moments leading up to the deadly shooting of a trump supporter by oregon. michael is seen hiding and waiting as aaron danielson and his friend approach. he gets into a confrontation with the group. the suspect was shot and killed but law enforcement officers earlier this week when he resisted arrest and shot at the officers. and washington state troopers arresting nine people after they blocked an interstate for a riot, setting up a barricade to block all southbound lanes. they played music and chanted for about 30 minutes before officers arrived and took them into custody. turns out you can't just block traffic with barriers. nine cars were impounded. and joe biden called out by "the washington post" over this new ad. >> the key fact chew ware of the -- statue -- trump's planned cuts to social security. urn trump's plan, social

m:( depleat by the muddling of calendar year 2023. pete: the plan mentioned doesn't exist! president trump has not announced any planned cuts to social security, but that's straight out of the left-wing playbook. always going off the cliff and always the republicans' fault especiallies under trump. willwell all right. off to the races. the 146th running of the kentucky derby is happening just hours from now. four months lauter than scheduled -- later than scheduled under the pandemic. ashley stromeyer has a preview of the race. ashley? >> reporter: hey, guys, good morning. it's pretty empty but, you know, derby is running, that is the good news of now, the favorite today is 'tis the law. he's the favorite. the glitz and glamour just isn't here, but people will be e

enjoying this from the confident of their own home. the derby horses were out training and practicing this morning very, very early, dark and early actually. she dares the devil to calm that derby is still happening. it was postponed, as you said, for four months. i talked to an owner who's actually running in the derbied to, and he said, you know, this is just a very american events and that's what is the spurt the spirit. >> so the fact that they have never not had a kentucky derby ever, world wars, pandemic or the flu of 1918, i think, speaks to its, its spirituality almost. it's the best slice of americana that i can think of. >> reporter: and that is really the general consensus of everyone you talk about here, the americana aspect of the

derby. it is america's most favorite race. but i will tell you just from the experience of, you know, being here in the past, it is, it is a little sad that there's just us here officially, guys. so it's a little different. pete: ashley, it's you and that fantastic hat. thank you very much. it is -- >> reporter: no problem. pete: deny an extravaganza on your head. well done. [laughter] it is marvelous. onset as well. and look who's here. janusz, look, you're making a special awe appearance for us. -- janice. it would not be this day without you. >> reporter: you guys look amazing. i couldn't let a derby day go by even in a pandemic to not events of all time in the u.s. it really is my favorite event to cover. i'm going to be rooting for 'tis the law, i'm not going to lie, a

horse that could actually brick the triple crown. the next stop will be october 3rd, the preakness, and hopefully i will be there. but, you know what? it's a good day to spend time with your family. it's the most exciting minute and 30 -- oh, there i am with the various hats over the years. [laughter] like i said, this is my first derby i've missed. justified just a couple of years ago, the crowd, of course, we are going to miss. but the thrill of the ride is still there. it is one of the most exciting minutes and a half that happens in new york sports. i'm sorry i'm not there. i'm hopefully going to be there next year, so look out. pete: you will. the forecast today, janice, real quick? >> it's fantastic. i know my friend rick is going to put up the louisville forecast. 78 degrees -- there he is! every year that i have been

so i think ashley is bringing some good vibeses and good weather today. pete: rick? what's your hat look like? give me a full screen. jedediah: pretty cool. rick: janice pulls the hats off really well, i gotta tell you. although i'm liking yours, pete. pete: pull yours down a little bit. it hooks like a newsman hat almost. [laughter] jedediah: van mishas the best with hat of anyone i've ever known. janice, you are the hat queen. i have seen photos of you. you have the best hats on the planet, gorgeous, as always. love janice's hats. >> happy derby day. will: see you, janice. weekend. here's your forecast. the east coast, you're looking good. any of the beaches up and down the eastern seaboard, the

beaches across texas, a few problems. continuing to see showers there throughout the day and into tomorrow. but overall the weather is really good in the eastern part go to the western part and it's just hot. take a look at this, we're going to be breaking records of high temperatures all weekend long. anywhere, say, to the east of the central mains. watch what happens, the bottom really falls out, and we switch a pattern really fast, and it's going to feel like winter. here you go. temps into the 100s across areas of nebraska, south dakota, psalm goes for tomorrow. definitely out across parts of the west. los angeles, you're going to be over 110 in the city. and then take a look at that. the cold air comes in but monday. by tuesday we see snow in place like denver, and by we say we've got high temperatures in the 50s in places like amarillo. overnight lows maybe into the 30s across the panhandle of -- pete: rick, come on, you've got to pull that a hat down, man. this is what out looks like on you.

[laughter] rick: he's the problem. with this gigantic held, i thought i was a large. but apparently i'm a medium. so this hat is just really -- pete: there you go, pull it down. thanks so much. rug rick thanks, guys. [laughter] pete: we love, reduction. jed, your hat looks wonderful. jedediah: don't think we didn't see, will cain, that you pushed that hat out. all right. still ahead, two major campus controversies erupting this week from a teacher getting suspended from using an everyday term to a quiz question linking the u.s. constitution to white supremacy. what kind of impact is this having on our nation's students?

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will: dr. swain, this is your at least alma mater in terms of teaching. what is your reaction about the constitution founded on the protection of white supremacy? >> we know that the true answer is both. and i'm not surprised that a question like that might appear on a university quiz because today the political left, they walk in lockstep and the 1619 narrative, "the new york times"

project, that seem to be driving the dial upped today the. will: vanderbilt university, by the way, said the following in stimulate discussion.ñlñ?ñ? students were not, in fact, rewarded or penalized for the answer a. still, doctor, this is ab issue not just at vanderbilt, but across higher education and perhaps lower education as well. from usc where a professor in a language course at the business school was talking about chinese -- [inaudible] how we use filler words in english, and the chinese fill or word sounded like a racial slur in english. for that he has been placed on leave because some students were reportedly offended. >> well, students are always offended by something, is and what has happened in this culture of political correctness is that anyone -- you are not

protected and what it means if students can no longer be educated because there's no way you can educate student when you might be offended and they might complain. and what they have given at many universities because of the multiculturalism, diversity, including, equity -- inclusion, equity, they have given minority everything a professor does. and it means that no education, no real education has taken place at most institutions. and it's not just the colleges and university, it's also k-12 now. and it's all a part of this critical theory. it's destroying american education just like it's destroying other institutions.

will: i want to get to that theory in just a moment, critical race theory, but do you believe this is truly i driven out of students who are offended or is this a power grab, something designed and used to take down a professor or a history book or whatever it may be, whatever the target a may be? >> i think we've been training our students for a long time to be offended about everything. the whole concept of a microawe depression is a per e received -- microaggression is a perceived slight. so universities have had professors,r

word that sounds similar to a racial sure, we acknowledge the cultural and harmful impact of -- another professor teaches that course. we're reviewing to better understand the situation to take any appropriate steps. let us return now, professor swain, to what you mentioned, critical race theory. just last night the white house said federal agency es who teach critical race theory, what they callty viewsive racial sensitive training, no longer receive funding. they're putting an end these types of programs within the federal government. what are your thoughts? >> you would say, praise the lord! says it will do. it is divisiveness training. and what i believe america needs is unity training. and it's something that i will be speaking and writing more about. but corporations and cools, they

need -- and schools, they need rights that are going to bring everyone together and focus on the goals of the institution. we do not needty visiveness training, we need unity training. we need teams to come together. and what's taken place today comes at a critical race theory and critical theory. it's marxist, it is destroying america and its institutions. will: i hope you do write more about a it. critical race theory is something that not many people know much about, and yet the underpinning of so much of this going on in not just government and higher education finish. >> and churches as well. >> dr. carol swain, thank you so much for your time today. >> thank you. will: straight ahead, the winningest man in barbecue teaming up with the uso to celebrate our service members. he's here to tell us what it's all about, and he's got hits for the perfect labor draw cookout, next.

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♪ ♪ jedediah: the uso is celebrating our service members with their vir virtual summer music series will: dleshes food and the winningest man in barbecue. pete: myron nixon joins us now with his labor day advice. us on "fox & friends." tell us, first, about finish before we get to the food, the u is so virtual labor day weekend

exe travel began sa. tell us about out. >> well, the thing is some of the galley chefs at the naval base in connecticut and i think those in virginia, we will be doing the brushing where they do the best dishes, side items and proteins. you've got some great cooks there. not only do they know how to feed a lot of folks, but they know how to do some great barbecue. will: there are people setting their labor day menus, so give us some advice are. what's on your menu? >> i tell you what, you don't want to be tied to the grill all day while everybody's enjoying your backyard or the swimming pool, whatever. you want to do something fast so you can enjoy your friends and :w!g. this my triple b, y bacon butter burger. 70/30 protein, 30% fat gives you that flavor. you want to flatten it out, take

one-half, you want to lay it in. you want the salt in there because that is seasons up your meat for you. and we won't put any other seasoning inside because it is salt few. you take your bacon right on the top of it, this is like 8 strips, crisp, scrum bled up. finish crumbled up. finish then you fold it over. 70/30, then you put that butter in there, let me tell you what finish. [laughter] pete: that grill's going to be fired up, isn't it? >> yep. then you break 'em up. now, you governor to remember because it is such a fatty burger, you need to make them a little bit larger than you normally would. pn;)]uc[6 myron, can i ask,>

do you have to be sure to cook them at just the right temperature because you've got that butter in there. you can't ruin that. >> great thing you've got to do is always cook with your meat they are mom for. you want a medium rare burger, you're looking around 130 degrees right on up to 160 for medium with. careful with hambur meat, but i like a medium rare burger. i'll take a chance. pete: you don't mince words on what makes it good. 70/30, lots of fat. >> yeah, you gotta have some fat. that's why i'm so good. [laughter] pete: myron, we can't wait to have you here on set. those are some great tips for people. go to fox&friends.com for the recipe and see more of myron by visiting uso/mvp. myron mixon, you're the man. thank you so much. good to see you. mile...

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♪ will: we leave you with this gorgeous sunrise picture from viewer shelley in idaho. ♪ jedediah: have a wonderful day, everyone, we'll see you back here tomorrow bright and early. pete: have a great saturday. ♪ ♪ >> you are looking live at the white house right now. still no word from the president who wants to respond to atlantic article that has caused all sorts of commotion across the country. very little discussion about that jobs report yesterday. we'll get into the details of that. but that continued a steady string of better than expects news on the jobs front. know, all those jobs we lost from the pandemic, we've gained half of them back. i didn't think you knew that because it's not getting much coverage, but