joining us today, everyone. i am off to plan a family halloween costume that i may wind up deeply deeply regretting will: thanks for hanging out with us this saturday morning we'll see you again tomorrow morning. pete: will this is for you. have a great day. david: voters and investors on edge as the 2020 race gets into full swing. president donald trump heading to the battleground state of nevada within hours, and democrat nominee joe biden will be fueling up for florida within days, so, how will this battle for the battleground shake out? welcome, everybody i'm david asman, in for neil cavuto, and this is cavuto live, and we are live in washington d.c. with lucas tomlinson where the president is preparing to head out and wilmington, delaware and hillary vaughn where the man who wants to be president is hoping to see his florida numbers heading higher.

let's begin with lucas. hi, my friend. reporter: good morning, david both florida and nevada have shifted to the right which explains why the president is heading to reno and las vegas for the weekend. now according to the recent poll s, nevada is in play and that's why the president is heading out there. now before pausing to observe the 9/11 attacks, the president attacked joe biden. president trump: joe biden surrendered your jobs to china, and now he wants to surrender our country to the violent left wing mob and you're seeing that every night. >> booooo. president trump: if biden wins, china wins. if biden wins, the mob wins. if biden wins, the rioters, anarchists, arsonists and flag burners win. >> booooooo. president trump: but i wouldn't worry about it because he's not winning. reporter: before leaving

foreground zero in shanksville, pennsylvania joe biden told reporters he didn't plan on making news he said he was talking about nothing except for 9/11 on friday. the biden campaign took down its advertising to mark the 19th anniversary of the terrorist attacks. the trump campaign did not reciprocate and accused the biden campaign of continuing to run its ads. >> it's a solemn day. reporter: in 2016 hillary clinton won nevada by less than three points and before that obama won the state but back in 2004 george w. bush won the silver state which explains why the president is heading out there. now, according to a monmouth poll released thursday, nationally, biden currently leads president trump 51-42% with 3% of the voters undecided. the lead the president hopes to narrow after his trip to nevada of course not everybody trusts the polls, david? david: that's putting it mildly lucas thank you very much. well joe biden is hitting the

sunshine state on tuesday, as the race tightens in key states, hillary vaughn is following the biden campaign from wilmington, delaware. hi, hillary. reporter: hi, david. well florida is the largest swing state up for grabs in the general election and right now, biden is slightly ahead in the polls, there, according to the real clear average of polls, biden is up by just over 1 percentage point but he is way behind in in-person visits to the sunshine state, so this visit on tuesday is a big deal for biden. he's not visited the state since the coronavirus pandemic, but his vp, kamala harris, did beat him there last week in a visit to miami on thursday, and president trump was also there last tuesday, holding a rally in jupiter, florida. biden is way behind in in-person campaign stops overall, since both became the official nominee s trump has been to 11 different states since the general election officially kicked off. biden has been to just three

states, but he is way ahead in tv ad buys as the new nfl season kicks off biden's campaign is taking advantage of fans tuning in spending over three times as much money on tv ads this week compared to the trump campaign but trump's team spent more on digital than the biden camp 3.5 million more with nfl players getting back on the field the biden campaign is pointing out fans aren't getting back in the stands, blaming trump for the economic impact of nfl arenas not being packed, due to the pandemic. former super bowl winning packer s coach mike holmgren will be holding a press conference virtually today on behalf of biden to blame trump for a multi million dollar revenue loss for nfl teams saying this. "donald trump's botched response to the coronavirus is causing economic harm to green bay and economic harm to this country. there is simply too much at stake in this election to sit on the sidelines" but david, green bay is in wisconsin which is a

key battleground state. the governor of wisconsin, gretchen whitmer is the one whose banned large gatherings and is really part of the reason why there aren't fans packing the green bay packers stadium this weekend. david? david: some people hate to see politics get into sports. we're going to be talking about that a little later hillary thank you very much. well polls are tightening in battleground states as president trump and joe biden hammer each other on all things from the virus to violence, biden has the edge right now, but can he keep it? washington examiner's emily larson, former democrat congressman harold ford jr. , and fox news contributor deneen border patrol borelli. first to you i want to talk about the bob woodward interview with donald trump and the rucus that has created. let me play a little bit of that to remind folks what was on at the salient point, roll tape. president trump: well i think bob really, to be honest with you. >> sure i want you to be.

president trump: i wanted to always play it down. i still like playing it down, because i don't want to create a panic. david: so, emily, how do you think trump dealt with this , this week? is it still an issue? is it going to be an issue going into the election? >> well definitely, joe biden's campaign is going to keep making this an issue. this is something that his campaign has already created digital videos about. it's something that biden addressed on the campaign trail in michigan on wednesday, and it's really benefit for joe biden that there have been two stories in two weeks that are un flattering for president trump that biden has had the opportunity to amplify, and to create advertisements off of, so the trump camp team and trump allies have said that this is something that trump expressed sort of a long time ago and this isn't necessarily new

information, but because we're closer to the election this is around the time that voters were tuning in and this is something that the biden campaign will definitely keep hammering. david: and deneen, now the media has been playing around that story or at least blossoming from that story, there are new reports that the cdc, the centers for disease control has been somewhat hamper ed in getting information out by trump political appointees, that's a big story on that, so we're going to see more stories sort of circl ing around this issue, aren't we? >> well first of all, david, i think the woodward excerpts from the book and audio is nothing but a hit job on president trump and the media is all too complicit to fall into this , to support the biden campaign. woodward sat on this information for months, david. not only that the timing is also

suspect because we're days out from the election, and also, you look at the fact that again, why didn't woodward put this information out in advance when he knew immediately, so i just think it's another hit job on the president and we'll see , i'm sure, we'll see more coming out as well. it also came out the same day that he was nominated for the nobel peace prize, so that was something else that happened the same day. david: and harold, it also came out in the same week that joe biden seemed reverse himself on the mask mandate, during the convention he said absolutely he's going to have a national mask mandate but then he had an interview on sunday in which he said here is the deal. there's a constitutional issue whether the federal government could issue such a mandate, so why wouldn't issue a mandate. it kind of leads to the question of what joe biden would do differently from what president trump has already done, and dealing with the covid. >> well first off good morning and thanks for having me.

david: good morning. i think that there's so many issues that have been raised. look we have to remember president trump actually talked to bob woodward. he said those things, what is without dispute is that the president according to the facts in the book and the president has not disputed any of the things that bob woodward wrote in the book, there have been different interpretations of it but here are the facts. he was told in january this be the worst national security threat he faced as president from his national security advisor and was told that president trump was the deputy national security advisor this pandemic be on par with the one from 100 years or go or the flu pandemic on the pandemic in 1918 so i'll let the washington insiders and the others go back and forth about that. with regard to joe biden and the mask mandate, look he's following the facts and the law. if the federal government is not allowed to mandate we wear a mask, if he has to encourage governors to do that he should do that. i hope these two candidates get back to talking about main street, how we're going to

reinvigorate, rekindle, and -- david: i think a lot of people agree with you on that harold but i have to for example us in what area would joe biden do something different than what donald trump has already done because when i read through the list of things biden says he would do in dealing with covid, they are virtually stuff that donald trump has already put into practice. >> well if we're going to look back we can look back for two seconds. one i don't think joe biden would have encouraged governors to reopen bars and reopen parlor s and reopen things all in an effort to try to have it prepared for schools to reopen. we may be seeing and i pray we don't some sort of resurgence in certain parts of the country particularly amongst young people going back-to-school so there are a number of things. if there's anyone in the country that doesn't leave joe biden would have handled the coronavirus differently they aren't paying close attention to the race. in fact the one area joe biden enjoyed a lead in the polls

throughout is how he would have handled the pandemic versus how president trump. david: right but again i haven't seen it in his list of proposals let me go to deneen on this because the political violence issue which we talked about at the beginning of the hour is rising to the forefront as americans are worried about what's p haing to their cities and it's not just the biggest cities like new york and chicago and la. pittsburgh and rochester, new york were hit by blm and antifa violence last weekend. how much of an effect do you think this is going to have on voter's minds? >> it's going to be a huge effect, david, because americans want law and order and safety and security for themselves and for their families. the president has been talking about that very issue, law and order and safety and security. he's also offered to send in federal help if the governors would just ask for it so why is it that these democrat leaders governors and mayors are not

pushing back on this violence and destruction and not con tell ing it. they are allowing it to go on and fester. the people, the citizens are being harmed, businesses are being harmed. it's dangerous. it's wreckless and these are democrat-run communities, cities , and states, so why are they not condemning the violence the antifa, black lives matter who wants to defund the police. where are the democrats with this? this is what voters need to know david: biden just to be clear biden has in a broad sense, has condemned violence but again, emily not specifically -- >> only recently. david: not specifically with regard to antifa but no specific s on antifa and blm. is that hurting democrats, emily emily? >> well actually, biden, i can hear you, biden has actually condemned antifa specifically on this week he was asked about antifa specifically and he did

condemn violence from that, but this political violence issue, i mean, i think it's a concern and something that voters are having anxiety about on both sides but in different ways. i was in michigan this week and i was talking to voters both who were trump supporters and who were biden supporters. biden supporters are border patrol ited about republicans or trump supporters showing up at rallies with guns and trump supporters are worried of course about antifa and riots and things like that leaking into their communities, and so this is something that voters are having a lot of anxiety about after the election, that no matter who wins we're going to see more violence and destruction because of the division in the country. david: its already become deadly so it is a big concern gang thank you very much for coming on a saturday morning we appreciate it emily, harold and deneen, good stuff we appreciate it. small business warnings of more

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business in general. why can't we find some way of at least breaking that issue away from everything else in the pending covid bill and agreeing to do some work on that >> well, david it's good to be with you. david: thank you. we desperately need a bipartisan bill to deal with covid-19. the cares act was passed in march. the house passed their bill four months ago. we need to negotiate a bipartisan bill and yes it's critically important for additional help for small businesses and i'm confident that senator rubio and i will be able to work out those issues but we also need to provide for state and local government so they can provide essential services which are critically important for small business. we also have to make sure that families can afford to use small businesses, and can afford their rent and can afford their life needs, where they have unemployed workers so we need a comprehensive response to covid-19. david: well senator, i get that

and i think most americans do, but at the same time, couldn't you at least break it up and the things that you do agree on you were talking about how you and senator rubio find agreement on small business. just do it separately and at least it be better to get something than nothing wouldn't it? >> well i think we need to respond to this crisis. i can tell you the small business owners are not going to be able to survive unless they have consumers that are able to purchase their products, so we have to help american families and if we don't do that, it's not going to give our small businesses the relief that they need. it really requires a comprehensive approach in order to get our economy back on track and to deal with covid-19, so look, i'm optimistic that we can get together. let's negotiate a package. let's get as much in it as possible. we know we aren't going to get everything that everybody wants but let's get what we can and negotiate in good faith. david: you know our

congressional correspondent chad pergram and i'm sure you respect him as most of washington does. he says there probably isn't going to be a bill because there are too many head knockings to get anything done. that's why i keep asking about at least do something, maybe piecemeal, maybe just focus on a small business bill and break that out. but you know let me just ask you a general question because i was listening to bbc earlier this morning, very early this morning, and they look at what's happening in the united states and wonder, they say how could you politicize the coronavirus pandemic? we here in europe and i don't look to the europeans for answers usually, but in this case, i had to agree with that bbc correspondent. isn't it frustrating to see how politicized dealing with a tragic pandemic like this has become? >> david i couldn't agree with you more. the cares act that we passed in march, to me, was one of the high points of this time as we came together, democrats and republicans. we need to do the same. this is a national emergency.

we got to put partisan politics aside. families are really hurting. businesses are hurting. we've got to get this pandemic under control and that requires congress to put partisan poll sicks aside and work together, and that's why we need to negotiate, so let's not give up. let's get our key players together in the same room and i can tell you that there are a lot of my colleagues on both sides of the aisle rooting for a bipartisan solution. david: well it certainly doesn't help, does it when you hear speaker pelosi talk about the "trump virus" when clearly the virus came from china, not from donald trump. >> well look. we start talking about the partisan going back and fourth that won't help us reach an agreement. let's sit down, negotiate. i know that speaker pelosi said she's willing to come i think she said half way from the differences in dollar amount between the white house and the heros act to pass the house.

i know that speaker pelosi and senator schumer they told us personally they will sit down in a room and work out a compromise let's sit down, work this out, let's put the american people's needs first. david: you certainly have have a history of working with the other side and we hope this sort of compromise agrees a the least dealing with small business. give them the support they need. we have to leave it at that senator ben cardin, always a pleasure to have you on, sir, thank you very much. well, forget covid why some top ceo's are telling mayor new york city bill deblasio to crackdown on crime from macy's to mastercard, tok jet blue you name it, no matter where you live you could be affected by it who's there? my husband was kidnapped. our sources tell us doug was nabbed by hezbollah. your wife is cia and so are you... no one knows where you are. you gotta get him out. we'll get back to you.

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david: jpmorgan wants its trading floor workers back in new york city to work in-person by september 21 after covid-19 shutdowns but for many other companies, it's not just covid that's preventing business as usual it's crime, over 160 major u.s. corporations calling on new york city mayor deblasio to clean up the streets so new yorkers can safely return to work. joining me now fox news contributor john layfield, gary b. smith, democratic strategist jenna arnold and kat tempf. i haven't seen a lot of you for a long time, too long. john layfield first are we ever going to get back to business as usual? >> yeah, ever is a long time, when i say something like that but yes we're going to get back to business. we're going to lose 30-50% of our small businesses in new york city because of covid. we've already had broad way has

become dark. we're losing the heart of new york city, up to 40% of east side and west side according to cell phone data are left out of the city and that's a shocking stat for new york city. david: we were losing some of your mic during your statement so we'll have to work on that but kat, new york city has a double whammy. it was the covid lockdowns but also has a tremendous increase in crime and there's been rioting from some protests that got out of control. is that becoming more of a problem now than covid itself? >> it's definitely a problem for me, and sometimes i'll take to twitter and i'll sort of share things that i've experienced because i am still living in manhattan and i'll have people say well that's not true or that's not a narrative. it's not so bad. walk down my street. i live in what was a nice area and now, it's very very difficult to walk my puppy because i have to worry about needles that he might step on, i've been harassed and screamed

at in a pharmacy in the middle of the day picking up my prescription, someone in my building a maintenance guy was held at knifepoint. it's really really bad, and anyone who is saying otherwise is either not here or has some sort of agenda that is having them completely ignore and argue against absolute reality. it's scary. david: jenna i've got to tell you, i live in the upper west side of manhattan and i'm in touch with a lot of people who live in san francisco and other cities run by liberal democrats. they too are saying this is the last liberal democrat we ever vote for , even though they've done so all their lives, because of some of the policies that they blame that are increasing crime, increasing homelessness, increasing or lowering the quality of life in these cities. >> let's be clear as a new yorker who resides in chelsea on 23rd and 9 i'm familiar with the state of poverty in my city and also my responsibility as a

new yorker to contribute to improving it for everybody and this be an issue if trump responded covid more quickly, so when i look to the corporations and i say oh, you don't want to come back because crime is a concern of yours what exactly is it that you're doing to help support everybody? and on the front of crime, they are in very isolated pockets throughout the city and yes, i condition could you with one of the other panels that we've seen a rise of those in great need on our streets right out of my front door, i walk south of midtown, madison square garden and i've seen a tremendous amount of people falling into the trap of drugs and falling into the traps of violence, and i'm desperate to participate in a solution and one thing i know for sure is that this would not be an issue if our current administration responded covid sooner. david: it was becoming an issue even before the covid lockdown the tremendous increase in crime partly because of the police being pulled back forcibly from what many people say is their

responsibility and duties. gary b., let me just talk more about getting back to work and the importance of it. reed hastings, the co-founder of netflix is a guy that benefit ed from these lockdowns because so many people are stuck at home and they turn on netflix one might think that he'd be in favor of working from home, but he's not. he had an interview with the wall street journal which he was asked whether there are benefits from working from home and he said i don't see any positives at all. he said not being able to get together in-person particularly internationally is a pure negative. he said if i had to guess, maybe the five day work week will become four days in the office and one day virtually from home. so, we even, reed hastings whose benefited from working at home says we've got to get back to work. >> exactly. there's been a number of studies done all right that show person- to-person contact not only amongst adults but especially among school children

which is why here in florida they are making a big push to open the schools. there's so many physical and psychological effects, so hast ings is on to something and i think also, you know, david, when people are together, they feel better, they work actually more productively and they make more money, which of course, benefits hastings in the long run the more money you have to spend the more you're willing to indulge in stuff like netflix, but you know, none of this gets solved of course, you started off on the topic, those 160 companies wants deblasio the very first responsibility of government is to protect its citizens. if you don't feel you're safe to go into work or as kat said even walk down the street you're sending new york city into a death spiral. david: and of course it's not just new york city. there are a lot of cities even rochester and pittsburgh were having problems last weekend. john, we only got i'll take a risk that your mic is working

better now, but you came back from bermuda where you were hanging out for a long time to come back to live in the city in washington d.c. in particular. do you have regrets for having done that? >> no, we had great leadership here and senator ben cardin on with the cities and that is a difference in leadership unfortunately. david: unfortunately, your mic is still having some breakups but we're going to try to fix that because we are going to see more from you coming up. meanwhile amid protests for racial justice, why are african american police chiefs losing their jobs? it's already happened in three major cities and now there's a push to make detroits top cop number four. he'll be next.

david: a it very positive new development in the race for a covid-19 vaccine, the university of oxford is set to resume its vaccine trial, fox news correspondent charles watson is in atlanta with the very latest on this , hi, charles. reporter: good morning the university of oxford is resuming a clinical trial for its coronavirus vaccine across all of its uk clinical sites and a standard review process triggered a global pause of the vaccination across the university's trial sites to allow the review of safety data after a participant became ill, and in a statement the university is saying "in

large trials such as this it is expected that some participants will become unwell whenever are case must be carefully evaluated to assure careful assessment of safety, oxford said it could not disclose medical information about the illness to protect participant confidentiality. and back here at home, in an opinion column published in the usa today, eight top regulators at the fda say they are going to uphold the scientific integrity of their work and defend the agency from political influence, the career scientists warned that people will not rely on the agency's warnings if its credibility is lost. this coming after the trump adminitration has repeatedly pushed for a vaccine to be ready by november. >> at fda and me as fda commissioner, we will independently call the balls and strikes on the medical products. at the end of the day, the decisions we make, the decisions that the career

scientists make will be made based upon the science and the data. reporter: public health experts say americans should not expect a return to normal until well into 2021 even with a vaccine available. david: charles watson thank you very much, charles. well with protests escalating the number of police chiefs stepping down is piling up, so why does detroit's top cop refuse to join them? chief james craig is coming up. - hey, can i... - safe drivers save 40%!!! guys! guys! safe drivers save 40%!!! safe drivers save 40%! safe drivers save 40%!!! that's safe drivers save 40%. it is, that's safe drivers save 40%. - he's right there. - it's him! safe drivers do save 40%. click or call for a quote today.

david: nationwide civil unrest over social justice leading to the resignation of a growing number of major cities police chiefs. some groups now calling for my next guest to step down over his crackdown on violent protests joining me now is detroit police chief james craig. chief craig great to see you again. for those who don't know, detroit back in the 60s and 70s

was a city that was known for having problems with riots in the streets at a time when they were generally common in the united states for many different reasons, but you have avoided what many cities have suffered over the past six months. some people say largely due to your policing efforts. why is that? what has been your, why your measure of success in preventing the protests in detroit from getting as out of hand as they have in other cities? >> well david let me start, thank you for allowing me to come on your show. david: of course. >> what's so interesting today, this group they don't speak for detroit, and that's the biggest issue. they don't speak for our community and recently, the chair of our police commission spoke boldly, the chief stays. our police officers have spoken boldly. metro detroit bold speaking.

we support chief craig. we support the detroit police department so the problem this group has with me, i spoke out boldly, i am not going to allow criminals to attack our police officers, attack property , and i absolutely am not going to allow them to take over our city streets. just like what happened in seattle. so, we speak a very different language. they know it, and they want me to leave, and so the best way to respond to that is oh, i'm staying. you should leave. you don't live in detroit. you don't represent detroit, so it's time for you to go. david: now, the charges from the groups calling for your resignation and from others including congresswoman talib is that you have dealt with " peaceful protesters" violently. how do you answer those charges? >> it's comical that u.s. congresswoman has never

tried to sit down and have a conversation. she also has another agenda so she doesn't speak for a lot of detroiters but here is the fact. we're now in excess of 100 days of managing protests. of that has been six instances who weave had to use force, and its always been in response to violence, perpetrated by these criminal, and in one instance, or several instances where we gave several warnings that you will be arrested and took our time, took about on hour the last time, when 44 were arrested, they resisted arrest. they resisted a lawful arrest, david, and so we use that force that was necessary, so they would prefer they just take over and do what they want to do. they do not represent detroit and that's what makes this city so different and this region so different. david: now, 20 police chiefs in the united states have either been forced to resign or have

resigned out of frustration in dealing with city councils and mayors that had a very different approach to policing. i should mention that at least three of those police chiefs are african americans and it leads some people to wonder why forcing a police chief like the police chief of seattle, or the police chief of rochester, to resign even though their appointment in itself was seen as healing wounds of racial injustice because they are african, how that helps fire black police chiefs. what do you say to that? >> again i have to look at detroit. i think race has little to do with it. what has more to do with it is is that these groups making these demands, i could care less if the police chief is male, female, black, brown, asian, it just doesn't matter, david. they want what they want and if

you're opposing their agenda, undermining it in their mind, then you gotta go. so it just doesn't matter and so as long as i have the support of our police commission, our community, our mayor, and that's the other thing. how many of these police chiefs and mayors are aligning? the mayor doesn't want violence taking over. what impact, you know, one of your earlier shows, they talk about, you know, allowing criminals to come in . what's happening in new york right now? businesses want to leave. why? because they don't feel safe and you know, when you allow criminals to take over our streets, in the manner in which these groups are doing it, it creates economic ruin. look, detroit knows very well what it's like going through bankruptcy, the largest municipal bankruptcy and all this talk about defunding the police. if you go against their message, in their mind, you must go.

david: right. you know, we only have about 45 seconds left, but you look at what happened unlock and pittsburgh last weekend where businesses that had just managed to find a way to make ends meet with particularly restaurants with outdoor dining were a attacked by blm protesters the people there, the patrons of those restaurants were forced out, the tables and glass wear was broken, et cetera. it's just tragic that businesses , most of whom are mom and pop businesses, are struggl ing to survive and then they are attacked has nothing to do with racial justice. it just has to do with attacking business in america. >> senseless. so when you think about that u.s. congresswoman tlaib, she would have you say, these are peaceful protesters. just support their right to free speech. we do support right to free speech, which is evident by the number of days that these protests have been violent but

we're not going to let you terrorize our community, period. david: police chief james craig from detroit who does have the support of his mayor, and we're glad you have that support , chief always a pleasure to see you thank you for coming on again appreciate it. >> thank you look forward to it goodbye now. david: why are lawmakers still fighting over the next stimulus when steve moore says they could be using billions of dollars that are still unspent from the last stimulus? steve moore joining us next.

david: president trump is heading to the battleground state of nevada today, mark meredith is in mindon, nevada with what we can expect. hi, mark. reporter: david good morning.

sorry we were just getting setup as we were getting ready good morning from beautiful nevada. president trump's campaign is determined to hold an event out in northwestern nevada a little bit later on today even though the state has made a little bit of a difference trying to decide what kind of in person event could happen because of covid-19 spreading similar to what we saw earlier in the week as the president was holding an event in michigan we expect the president's supporters to show up at an airport here south of reno, for a chance to hear from the president himself and while there are a lot of questions about what this event may look like the campaign is determined to get out the vote, the president losing nevada some four years ago by 27,000 votes but this time around the chairwoman of the rnc says she believes they have a real shot because of one particular group of voters throwing their support behind the president. >> i'm very bullish on nevada. the president going out there today, we've seen a lot of energy already for this event. we've seen a lot of support from hispanics. reporter: now nevada democrats they are furious that the

president's campaign continued to try to hold these in person events because of the covid-19 and concerns of what it could mean for it spreading. we've heard from the party earlier this week as rallies were influx. this is what the democrats had to say they put out a statement "trump and his allies are making nevada the target of their lies and deceit turning a public health crisis into a partisan issue. " now, many spent the night in las vegas and are set to hold two events there one in vegas and one in henderson and the real clear politics shows joe biden with not a big one, and trump's re-election campaign says they are still looking at better polling internally, and they still believe they have a chance out in the southwest and the president also likely, david making a stop in arizona another battleground state. david? david: i'm just wondering, mark , if these rallies are going to be socially distanced rallies

or if they are people are going to be congregating together closely or how they are arranged. >> my colleagues were at one in michigan earlier this week and people were not social distancing. some people do wear masks and some were at a rally if you want to call it that in minnesota two weeks ago and for the most part people did try to keep their distance but you have a lot of people gathering in one spot but we are outside and it's a beautiful morning in nevada minus the smoke so there's a possibility with events being outside it's safer for people to gather. david: i'm also wondering whether nevada had the same kind of problems we were just talking about violence whether it's political violence or street crime, whether that has become an issue in nevada as it has in the rest of the country. reporter: well, the nevada has certainly dealt with its fair share of problems and the biggest one the state faced because of the coronavirus is the economy. you think of places like las vegas which depends so much on tourism even in reno where we

were last night, we could see that the casinos were slowly bringing people back. i was speaking with a blackjack dealer after we got in last night and he was saying slowly but surely people are starting to come back in but there's also a lot of fear about what could happen later on this fall. they are cleaning and trying to welcome guests back but the mask s they are required everywhere we saw inside whether at the airport or in the hotel last night. david? david: we wish those folks the very best. they have been struggling. mark meredith thank you very much from nevada. well with the president heading to nevada within a couple of hours the man who wants to be president heading to florida, within days. and your taxes we'll find out which way they are heading, coming next. are you preaching to muslims? well, i was invited. not by me, mate. my husband was kidnapped. this is terrorism! no! we're not afraid to die. that's why we're gonna win. i'm not afraid either.

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>> a live look at capitol hill and the white house where the stalemate over additional coronavirus relief continues. this as president trump claims

$3 billion in funds from the first relief packages haven't been spent yet. do we really need to spend more? with me now is former trump economic advisor, steve moore. good to talk to you, thank you for coming in today. is the president right? is $300 billion still available to be spent? >> well, the answer to that is no, david. in fact, we've already spent 2 1/2 trillion dollars in coronavirus aid and much of that money has actually gone to states and cities. incidentally, david, of the $250 billion that's gone to the states and cities, over half has not been spent yet. there are still sizable sums provided to the states and cities and the fact is, reports just came out this week that showed that because the economy is doing so much better than anyone expected, the amount of money that states and cities need is much less than what is

anticipated. most of the money, by the way, david, that's being requested, would go to four or five states, illinois, new york, new jersey, california, states that of course are blue states. a lot of the rate states residents and governors and state legislators are saying, wait, we balanced our budgets already, why do we have to pay more taxes to balance out new york, new jersey and illinois? >> there is about $44 billion in something called the lost wages program and this is money that is, as you suggested, is primarily going to a couple of cities that are in really dire straits, including new york. this week, governor cuomo really did actually open up the doors for new york's unemployed and there are a lot of them here in new york, to receive that extra $300 from the feds for unemployment insurance. that's, first of all, i'm wondering why governor cuomo waited so long, he could have

done this three weeks ago and the people were probably getting less than they needed. at least on that front, are things going to improve? >> look, trump did something smart when he said let's provide $300 a week benefits not 600. when we had the $600 a week benefits you and i have talked about this in the past, david, workers-- 80% of workers according to the congressional budget office were getting more money for not working than working. this is provided in the senate for workers to get back to work, but also providing the safety net that people need if they can't find a job. i thought that was a reasonable compromise. a lot of states said if you're not going to give us 600 we are going to take nothing. and one of the reason it's fallen is because we're not going to pay more for not working than working and get people into the work force. david: political sour grapes

should not be at the expense of our nation's unemployed. that's what was going on, at least in new york. we hope that the flood gates will open on that one. i was talking to senator ben cardin earlier, democratic senator whether or not we can break up the remaining covid bill into pieces. >> right. david: instead of trying to pass the whole darn thing. there are too many issues from both sides about it, but there are certain issues that democrats and republicans agree on, like small business, help for small businesses. why can't we do that? why can't we break up the bill into pieces and pass what is passable? >> because what's happening, it's a great question and i think the american people should know what's going on here. it's all politics, david. in the middle of, you know, health and economic emergency, we've got politics. and so nancy pelosi is basically saying unless you give us a trillion dollars, a trillion dollars for states and cities, we're going to hold the whole relief package hostage

and that he doesn't make any sense. why not agree to what you agree on. by the way, that would include something i'm not necessarily a huge fan of, but is popular with people, give thousand dollars checks to people. that would be $3,000 for a family you could get that money out tomorrow, and start sending out so people could get it next week, a stimulus to the economy. some aid to hospitals and schools. you're so right. i mean, a reasonable compromise would get that money out there and then you could have a debate how much money to give states and cities. it's all held hostage to politics. >> steve moore. great to talk to you at least being here by phone, we appreciate it. >> call it the tale of two tax plans as the 2020 race heats up. president trump is pitching more tax cuts and joe biden is pitching tax hikes. whose plan is going to win over two voters in battle ground

states. and let's bring in john layfield, gary b smith and jenna arnold and the house of sincerely kat on fox nation. and gary, i'll go to you first, does it make sense while we have 10 million americans unemployed, does it make sense to think about raising taxes? >> well, you know, i guess this all boils down to politics. look, the tax foundation has already shown that biden's tax plan is going to cripple the economy or at least slow it down, probably cost about 200,000 jobs. but the key is in the marketing. you know, biden is saying this is just going to be a tax on the rich, just going to be a tax on the corporations. well, corporations don't vote, and most of the population out there is not rich. so, it's one of those not in my back yard, so, yeah, stick it to the rich guys! stick it to the ibm's of the world. who cares?

it's not going to affect us. i think it's bad for the economy and i think it's shown that tax cuts all along are good politics, good for the economy, but again, it's all in the marketing. david: well, jenna, even rich corporations hire people and we need people and corporations who are going to hire people when we have 10 million unemployed americans. is now the time to raise taxes? >> listen, i care about taxes because i need money for my family, too. but trump has to run on his record and not on the twitter feed. trump's tax codes with trillions and with the coronavirus, he's done the same thing, by bankrupting them six times. and forbes, 1.9 billion in the past three years. the corporate tax cuts has not increased jobs. he takes it's a game, a game -- those cards, i know the

american public is smarter than that. what trump has been telling us is very different than what he actually does. what biden has said clearly and important all viewers remember this, he only wants to increase taxes for those who are to make $400,000 or more. $400,000 or more. david: the how many times-- how many times have we heard that a tax increase is only going to affect the top level and it ends up affecting people below that? >> well, how do you-- . >> hold on a second, go ahead, kat? >> yeah, a lot of times, that's how we've heard it. we can get in the weeds of these plans. most experts do agree if there's a democratic sweep, if biden wins the house and senate go to democrats that the markets will dip because of this exact reason, right? but also, looking at the bigger picture, a lot of people, and this is on both sides of the aisle, really see this election

in terms of individual policies, between trump and biden and one between socialism and capitalism, right? it's the question of things are bad right now, let us help you. and versus things are bad right now, let's get out of the way and let you help yourself. david: yeah, and john, you know, even if it does just affect these tax increases, just affect it, by the way he's hoping to get $3 trillion over a 10-year period and i imagine it will affect more than just the top. even if it just does affect the top, these billionaires and milli millionaires are smart folks and move it-- >> in new york city, you have a huge group moving out to the hamptons or connecticut to get away from new york city city or state taxes and the same thing, money is fungible for very wealthy people and they get around the taxesment i agree with gary b, it's about

marketing. when you're talking about the market. presidents don't get reelected. william mckinley being the exception, but presidents getting elected during the crisis. the american voters look at what president trump is doing, almost solely a referendum on president trump, has he done the job, and the boom before was he responsible? and was he responsible on what's going on. i don't think it's a tax issue, i think biden has done a good job i'm just going to tax the rich. i don't think that's forefront because of the covid, and civil unrest in this country. david: gary, one thing that hasn't approved this week are the markets. they took a big dive this week and the president, for good or bad has many times linked his presidency to how the stock market has been doing. you know, as neil cavuto often says, if you live by the stock market, you die by the stock

markets. if they don't recover by the time of the election in a healthy way, could this drag his chances for winning reelection down? >> depends. and if we go down 10% or so, i think it will hurt trump's chances. look, if it dropped down and levels off and sideways, trump could say, yeah, overall the market considering the whole coronavirus is doing pretty well. so i guess it depends on the magnitude of the pain of the market from now until november 4th. david: all right. that's got to be the last word. gang, thanks for coming in. the nfl, are there signs that politics are ticking off fans? hall of famer andre reed is next.

>> as u.s. cities continue to see civil unrest, president trump is putting an end to critical race theory training in federal agencies, calling it, quote, a sickness that is anti-american. so exactly what is it and why did he get rid of it? peter is a member of the u.s. commission on civil rights and he joins us now. commissioner, it's a pleasure and an honor to have you here. thank you for coming in. >> thanks for having me. david: it's the first time i've seen newsweek and the federalist agree with something editorially, both of them ran pieces praising the president for ending this critical race theory in bureaucratic training. what exactly is it that they ended? >> you know, it's a malignant and corrosive set of ideologieses. the overarching is all the structures and systems in the united states of america were formed to white supremacy and

the doctrine has been perpetuated for the last 30 years. what we've been seeing on the streets the last three, four months is the natural result of critical race theory, anti-american, and to some extent anti-white-- not to some extent, to a large extent anti-white. a lot of these theories are taught in colleges, 1619 is now in nearly 5,000 schools and is the primary school version of critical race theory. it's based on a false narrative and it is essentially a marxist doctrine and it is something that i think is-- it necessarily erodes american exceptionalism or the belief in american exceptionalism and the training-- >> forgive me, commissioner, how could something like this find its way into our bureaucratic system?

i mean, we're talking about millions and millions of dollars, some say over $100 million have been spent on this in our training programs with our federal bureaucracy. how did it find its way in there? >> yeah, a lack of vigilance on the part of a lot of people. it's part of a long march through the institutions and it's been going on surreptitiously and sometimes recent will i overtly because a lot of people have adopted it and see nothing controversial about it. it's extremely important. i applaud the trump administration for taking actions, and recognizing the dangers inherent. this is something that can cause the country-- the confidence in the country it implode and also make people skeptical of the primacy of america and it's based, again, on a false narrative that america is infused with systemic racism. there's no systemic racism in the united states of america. for the last 60 years we've erected a multi-billion dollar apparatus to disperse any

vestiges. with one exception. in academia. it's profound. on the ground today, the entire george floyd situation is that blacks are disproportionately shot by cops, that's not true. blacks are underrepresented in police shootings relative to overrepresentation of crime. david: i just want to clarify something you said. when you say systemic racism is current in our education system, you were not referring to anti-black systemic racism, i suspect. >> no, exactly right. david: let me just ask. how -- it has become conventional wisdom not only in our education system, the idea of systemic racism, but also in the media. you hear is all the time and when the president of the united states just said the other day that he did not believe that our police force in america was infected with systemic racism, he was highly

criticized in many quarters of the media as though it's obvious there is systemic racism. were your fellow commissioners, do they believe as you did or as you do, or as the media responded to what the president said? >> until just the last few weeks, the civil rights commission had a 6-2 progressive split so i would say the majority of the commissioners thought the president was wrong about this. right now we're 4-4 and i would suspect that four of the commissioners are clearly believe the commissioner is correct. he is correct. it's not a matter of opinion, he's precisely correct. the president is not om correct, but it's important that the president of the united states say these things. this is not a minor matter. this is something that has the cause to cause some of ur structures and structures and perhaps our government implode in itself. everything is described as racist. if you disagree with somebody, you are racist.

more importantly there's poison doctrine, toxic doctrine that says that whites are inherently racist, this is being taught in our schools that whites are inherently racist. it causes division, and dysfunction in our public institutions. i'm so happy that the president and the administration, the civil rights division, the ocr of the department of education, are taking this thing head-on because it's been allowed to mushroom and grow for the last 30 years. david: peter kirsanow commissioner of the civil rights commission, thank you. >> thanks, david. david: and shutdowns in san francisco. first it was nancy pelosi's blowout and now san francisco gym owners are lashing out. find out why coming up next. we made usaa insurance for veterans like liz and mike. an army family who is always at the ready. so when they got a little surprise... two!? ...they didn't panic.

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>> well, the death toll continues to climb as the west coast continues a horrific and devastating wildfire season. fox news christina coleman joining us from monrovia, california with the latest. >> hi, david, i'm here at the bobcat fire burning northeast of los angeles. you can see some of the firefighters staged on the mounta mountain. more and more of them have been gathering as the fire a burning in the angeles forest. the past hour i've been here, the flames have been getting larker since we have been here and this is one of 30 major fires burning right now in california. it's what's been a recordbreaking year in the golden statement and so far this fire season, more than 6,000 homes and structures have

been damaged and destroyed. at least 19 people killed in california alone. yesterday, california governor newsom toured some of the hard hit areas of california and stressed that climate change is taking its toll. >> over 7700 wildfires. this contrasts to last year where we had 4900 wildfires, 26 times more acreage burns this year in the state of california than in 2019. >> washington and oregon also seeing record fires and destruction. oregon's emergency management director says they're preparing for a mass fatality event with dozens of people still listed as missing, and thousands of homes and structures destroyed. at least a million acres have burned there. and while the air quality is really poor, you've got the heavy smog and smoke, you can

smell it and taste it. according to firefighters, they say that the smog is covering the sun and making it cooler, which is better fire conditions than we've had recently. david. david: boy, when you have to hang on threads of hope like that, you know you're in trouble. christina thank you very much. do take care, it looks awful smoky there. let's keep it on the west coast and take a look at live pictures of san francisco where on monday private gyms and other businesses will finally be allowed to reopen albeit at limited customer anticipation. some government gyms in the bay area have been open for months though and that discovery came out this week enraging folks like my next guest. join me now is golden gate gym owner in san francisco. danielle, the reason simply, these were government gyms were open.

while you private gyms were supposed to close, the government were having a grand time in their gyms. how much of this affected their limited capacity opening up private gyms. >> it was a shocking discovery and for two weeks i could not figure out how nothing was being done about this. we certainly did not want to see those city gyms close, but how did it not set a precedent for private gyms to open? so for two weeks there was not one word and i was shocked and finally, on thursday the department of public health announced that the city gyms were to close immediately and within hours the mayor held an unprecedented press conference that salons and gyms would be able to open.

david: and remember, this is speaker pelosi district. they claim they're guided by science. this clearly shows a lot of politics is guiding these decisions. >> i don't know how, from day one, they've been saying this is science. san francisco has had some of the best covid metrics in the entire country. we have fewer than 90 covid deaths since day one. there has not been a single day where there have been more than 38 covid icu patients in the hospital. we have very successfully flattened the curve. there has not been a curve. so the prolonged closures are completely unjustified. i have never been able to wrap my head around it. i would completely understand shutting down my business if we had temporary morgues set up in the streets, but i do not personally know anybody who has had covid in san francisco. it's been tough to watch them force our businesses close and to learn about the city gyms

was more than a slap in the face. david: tell us, danielle, how tough it's been for you as a business. i imagine you put a lot of your life in the business. how tough has it been for you to shut it down. how much have you lost? will you be able to recover? >> i don't know if i'll be able to recover, it's been devastating to me. our rents are so high, depending on the month, 10 to $13,000 a month for rent and i've been in the space with no rent relief. i don't know if i'll survive even to open on monday. it's been absolutely devastating. i spent eight years building this business, this is my life and livelihood and this is how i feed myself and i watched it be-- get burned to the ground. david: now, in many cities, danielle, as if things weren't bad enough, crime and homelessness has increased and many people have different

reasons or explanations for it. how much is that going to affect your clientele, stepping over more homeless people and crime. >> san francisco is in tatters. i don't think i've ever seen anybody walking down the street with an ankle bracelet and i've seen it more than once. we're encouraged to operate outdoors which i hesitated to for that reason. and i had this in the outdoor area and mentally ill people with crow bars and smog. it wasn't safe, it wasn't clean and we find out that city employees are working out indoors. it was pretty unbelievable, but this city is becoming worse because of the prolonged closures. people are leaving, store fronts are closing and becoming dark and that's contributing to blight and crime and homelessness. david: danielle, we really pray for you and wish you the very best. you are such a hardworking person as are most of the small

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>> for thursday's nfl season

opener down more than 12% from last year's opening game and many fans throwing a flag on the players after a member of the kansas city chiefs took a knee during the national anthem and the entire houston texans team stayed in the locker room until the anthem was over and the fans began boos when they joined arms in a so-called show of unity. take a listen. [crowd booing] >> that must have hurt. is politics a big reason why ratings are tumbling? joining me a hall of famer andre reed. thanks for being here. is politics or at least the reaction to a little politics on the field, one of the reasons why ratings were down? >> i think it is. i think, you know, players regardless of the situation, you know, football is back, but

they're going to use their voice, they're going to use, you know, what they feel is right for them as a team, as an organization, to show, you know, their protests or whatever been going on and i really don't think that they really-- it's not that they don't care, but you know, it's going to be happening all through the nfl this season. so, i think the fans and the people that get to go to the stadium, you know, they've got to be ready for that and they're going to get booed and they're going to get-- the ratings are going to be down. if you watch the game on thursday night, there was only 25% capacity there, due to covid, but there's going to be a lot of things different about this season and that's just a fact of what's going to happen. david: you know, sports does have a history in the united states of bringing people together at key moments. >> yeah. david: and i think of that moment in yankee stadium right after 9/11, of course, it was

during the baseball season 9/11 and they had to close down for a week. ne they reopened with gw bush with yankee stadium throwing the ball in and it was a perfect throw and the crowd went wild and all of america, no matter which side of that game you were on, everybody was cheering like crazy. still gives me goose bumps to watch that. is something like that possible given all the tensions in this country? something sports related? >> that's a great question. i mean, you know, how do the players, fans, different communities all come together and make it-- are they going to make it right? i don't know. this is a little tougher than what happened in 2001 there with 9/11, what the president did. i mean, would the president do that? would he go to each stadium and to different games during the

season and show his support? who knows if that's going to happen or not, but the players feel like they're in this together. they're a team. you know, playing team sports you feel like if one guy is in, everybody's in. and they're going to do what they feel is right for themselves and the organization. i'm sure, as far as what the organization goes, they're going to say, hey, you only can deal with so much, but this is going to be happening the whole season. guys are going to be protesting in their own way, they're not going to come out of the locker room. they're going to kneel. the whole team won't come out of the locker room, i think it's the norm this year and we've got to be ready for it. we are going to watch or not, it doesn't matter and that's the way i think the teams are going to do it this year. david: the new normal. >> yeah. david: i've got to ask you specifically about football. let's get politics out of it for a second. the 40-something match-up of breeze and brady. >> yeah. david: this is going to be a

heck much a team in new orleans. two great over 40 quarterbacks, it's the game of the week and fox is going to be playing it. what's your bet on that match-up. the first time in six years that tom brady has been the underdog. >> yeah, i'm sure he's surprised at that. [laughte [laughter] >> well, you know, these are two teams, especially the saints, i mean, drew brees will be a first ballot hall of famer. they're going to be at home starting the season and all of that kind of stuff and a great offense and pretty good defense and tom brady has been the talk of the off season mostly because of where he's at now in tampa. i think it's going to be a great game and i feel tom brady, because of what he's done. he's always out to prove something that he's the best, the best to play the game. people think this is going to be a shootout. the tampa bay buccaneers have got two great receivers in

godwin and they have to replace him. as long you have tom brady, anything can happen. i think he brings credibility and-- >> it sounds like you're going for the underdog, andre. >> yes, yes, so much, right, right. david: we've got to leave it at that, but it's going to be a great game. watch it on sunday. thanks. >> thank you. david: indoor dining, a c.d.c. study could be coming at a bad time. dr. nicole saphier coming up next. the future. surprise! we renovated the guest room, so you can live with us. i'm good at my condo. well planned, well invested, well protected. voya. be confident to and through retirement.

>> a new c.d.c. study finding adults with covid-19 are twice as likely to have dined out at a restaurant within the previous 14 days of becoming sick. this is florida just reopened bars and new york city is set

to reopen indoor dining at least on a limited basis the end of the month. joining me is dr. nicole saphier. what do you make of this new c.d.c. study? >> so let's talk about the study a little bit. this is a case control investigation put forth by the c.d.c. where they talked to 314 people who had symptoms of sars cov-2 or covid-19. only half tested positive for the fires. the people that tested positive for the virus were twice as likely it would have gone out to eat within the last two weeks of developing symptoms, but it's really important that we distinguished the difference between causation and correlation. they didn't say that these people were exposed to the virus while eating out and that is how they got covid-19. they just said that they had gone out to eat within those two weeks. one of the important points that i found while reading this study was that 42% of the people that actually tested

positive for covid-19 got it from a close member of their family or friends and not actually from the restaurant at all. david: right. a great point. >> it's a correlation, but it's not that surprising that people who may be going out to eat right now are those that are also increasing their risk of exposure compared to those that say, maybe are still hunkered down and staying home and not going out. you know, it's like the addage, you're more likely to die in a plane crash if you actually fly in airplanes, compared to people who say don't go on airplanes. david: good point. >> yes, we know going out, going to dining may increase your risk of exposure, but one of the crucial questions, again, in this study was, they didn't actually say whether the people were outdoor dining, indoor dining and again, there were a few other biases in this. david: doctor, we're short on time, but i want to get in a question about a vaccine. oxford, which is using astrazeneca's vaccine has

restarted the program. they stopped because one of the participants got sick. i assume that's good news the program, the trial has begun again? >> well, of course, it's very encouraging news. they did put a pause on their trial as someone did have a severe reaction, again, we don't know if the reaction was from the vaccine or something just happened to them. they haven't really released that data, but we do know it was severe enough to put a pause on while they investigated to make sure that they wouldn't harm anybody further by giving the vaccine, the fact that they're moving toward tells it's likely unlike it's from the vaccine and unable to identify anything else causing it and gives us hope for a vaccine coming up soon. david: we only have 10 seconds literally, but even then, dr. fauci could be a few months do you agree with him. >> and dr. fauci said the end

of 2021, but i would like to see it. david: thank you. >> thank you. david: president trump teeing up a middle east peace deal dining in mid september. what impact could that have in november?

>> president trump announcing bahrain has agreed to normalize relations with israel. this ahead of the signing ceremony of a similar deal with israel and the united arab emirates. the retired lieutenant general jerry boykin joins me now. thanks for coming in. i was shocked, shocked, even "the washington post" called this deal a triumph for president trump and his administration and of course,

the nobel prize committee has now nominated him twice for nobel prizes in the same week for these two deals. does he deserve it? was it a spectacular deal as the post and the nobel committee says? >> israel was created in 1948, the 14th of may, 1948 and i don't know that in their 72-year history you've seen anything occur this rapidly that's such a significant change. you now have four arab states and probably more to follow that have recognized israel's right to exist and are now putting embassies and ambassadors in-- established in full diplomatic relations. does the president deserve is nobel prize? i'll say this he probably deserves it as much as some people that received it in the past. in a 30-day period he's brought

in two gulf states into a diplomatic relationship with israel. that's significant. david: and of course, you and i are old enough to remember them, and sadat when he stepped off the plane in israel and after that he was assassinated and that was the end of that deal. is it conceivable, i don't mean to rain on anybody's parade that this deal could fall apart in a similar fashion. >> this is the middle east and many things are unpredictable in the middle east and you have a lot of turbulence. watch what countries are most negative about this relationship with bahrain and the uae. that's your problem. those are your problem areas in the future. right now it's the one that has the least positive to say about

it is turkey. and we know that erdogan is an islamist and he wants to establish an islamist caliphate and i've been told by one of the head of the arab nations during a 2017 visits with him. and what we have to be aware of is the fact that there are going to be some kind of blowbacks as a result of this, it may be terrorism, it may be something more significant like coming from turkey. david: fasten your seat belts. very quickly, general, one of your own got a medal of honor yesterday. it was a very appropriate time for it, september 11th. sergeant major thomas patrick payne, a member of delta force receiving a prize that was well-deserved. he's the first living member of delta first to receive that. request i can nil lnil lnily -- your thoughts on that? >> incredibly well-deserved and

i'm proud of him and the unit and the fact that they've remained below the radar. david: as you guys like to do. it was a brilliant ceremony and you must be so proud. deservedly so. general boykin thank you for coming in. appreciate it. and september 11th, a reminder of what brought us together then. can we get back to the unity we felt after 9/11? war hero jones is here to talk about that.

>> a rare moment of unity during a divided campaign, a divided country. vice-president mike pence and joe biden sharing a moment together at a 9/11 ceremony in new york city yesterday as both campaigns put political differences aside as best as possible, at least for the day, to honor those who lost their lives 19 years ago. reminded me of the days

immediately following 9/11 when our country was reunited in the face of terrible tragedy with so much division today, have we as a nation lost that ability, that mentality of coming together for what we all believe in? joining me now is a man who served our country well post september 11th, marine staff sergeant joey jones. great to see you, thank you for coming in. will we ever get that back, joey. that unity, the idea that we as a country are united under the same principles of what this country stands for? >> well, the problem is social media, right. we have the opportunity to throw opinions out there and not have any consequences from it. when that happens a million times over it feels like we're not united at all. but i believe if someone were to fall down on the sidewalk from a heart attack, nobody is going to ask what their political affiliation is. we care about each other and we have to get away from politics and remember we're americans

first. i think it's still there. david: there's a wonderful example of what you say, it happened i believe in new york, where some hood was riding on a bicycle and he knocked over an old lady and he made the mistake of doing it in front of a fire station. a group of firemen got out, black, white, every-- there was no division between their immediate impulse to go out and grab that guy. they grabbed him. brought him down and held him until the cops came. that sense of unity is still shared by most americans, don't you? >> absolutely. we care about each other. that's what makes this country great. it's not our wealth, our military, our system of government. it's that we all come from somewhere different and learned over hundreds of years to care for each other because we're americans, no other reason. we still have that. you talk about a group of firemen, i'm with a group of firemen right now, 12 firemen come for a duck hunt for 25 years they watched the towers fall from here.

one is my brother-in-law, it's an amazing event to come out here and remember the country for what it was and what it's found for and it's doing something people have done for a long time. david: where exactly is that? it's a beautiful setting. >> it is. it's the lake at the border of tennessee, missouri, kentucky, an amazing mra place and it's a small town and to think they had been coming here six years before 9/11 on this week, it's ironic, it's poetic, it's really an amazing experience. david: how much did 9/11 have to do to get you into the service? was that a part of your reason for getting in? >> you know, it was everything. i was playing football at the time and i wrote an op-ed at the time. i didn't understand what else was out there in life. a football game was most important for me in high school and when the towers fell, i didn't understand it until a few years later until i was ready to graduate. if my country was going to go to war to defend the people in it, i was not going to be left out. that wasn't a part of who i am

and i spent eight years in the marine corps. one bad day, but i'm thankful for that opportunity and as a country we do respond when we get pushed against the wall. david: you say one bad day. it was a hell of a day. and you suffered a life altering injury as a result of that. no regrets? >> no regrets whatsoever. it was a bad day because i lost a teammate that day. what happened to me is a part of war. you get through it, get over it and you become better for it and so everybody's got something they're going through and for everyone out there. to understand, you can get through anything, especially with the help of people to care for. david: you are not a victim, i've got to say that. you're not a victim. you're a real oir and hero and i'm sure you would scoff at the term. but have a wonderful weekend. >> thank you. david: as we look back on the days following 9/11 may we remember that sense of unity that we all had.

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