arthel: all right, david spunt, thank you very much for that report. eric. eric: well, arthel, the coronavirus pandemic, of course, continues to take a staggering economic toll on our nation. just take a look at the impact. first time jobless claims surpasses 1 million workers for the 14th week overall. 47 million jobs have been lost since mid-march. of those 47 million, nearly 20 million are fellow americans, well, they remain out of work without employment, so what does the future hold. jon hilsenrath, global economic's editor at wall street journal and fox news contributor joins us now. jon, the administration has been touting progress but how could the new increasing infections that are causing some states to roll back their reopenings, how could this impact and negatively hit the recovery? jon: well, it certainly could slow it down. we started to get some very encouraging data in may. we saw a pickup in employment which people hadn't been expecting. we saw a pickup in consumer spending as people came out of their homes and, you know, went out to patio r

jon: david spunt at the white house. david, thank you. coronavirus cases are spiking in the south and west, some northeastern states as well as kentucky are set to continue easing restrictions starting tomorrow. let's bring in fox news contributor dr. marty makary, professor of surgery for johns hopkins school of medicine and the author of "the price we pay." doctor, it was so frightening to be in new york state as this pandemic really began in this country. new york state had the worst infection rate anywhere. now other states seem to be sort of the hot spots, the worry spots. who did new york do or the northeastern states really in particular? >> well, jon, we've learned a lot about the drivers of transmission, and it turns out that public transit, elevators because they have poor ventilation, and this new micro-droplet recognition explains a lot. it explains why in the high humidity some areas did not get hit hard earlier, but ultimately it was seeded a lot more. there were probably hundreds of cases seeding new york early whereas the

jon: david spunt in washington, d.c. david, thank you. >>> now a live look at the protests in minneapolis where more than a dozen officers have resigned or are in the process of doing so, citing a lack of support from their department. matt finn is there live with the latest. matt? >> jon, this sunday afternoon, hundreds of people are still pouring in and out of this location, the intersection where george floyd died. right now you can see there are ongoing demonstrations and rallies. today the minneapolis police department tells fox news seven police officers recently retired from the department writing in a statement, quote, people seek to leave employment for a myriad of reasons. the mpd is no exception. we thank those who are leaving for their time, commitment and service to the city of minneapolis. they have given of themselves and they are appreciated. here at the location, where george floyd died, there is a very large mural and growing memorial at what has become a historical and somber place with also some joyous

arthel: david spunt in washington. thanks, david. eric.se is looking at police reformer yours that it could support -- reform measures that it could support while president trump tries to maintain his law and order of stance. he argues that there will always be in his words bad apples. mark meredith is live in bridgewater, new jersey, near where the president has been spending his birthday weekend at his golf club in bedminister. >> reporter: it's possible president trump could weigh in on the officer involved shooting in atlanta. it's possible he could talk before getting on of dashboard air force one. the president's hud secretary, dr. ben carson, is speaking out, saying the administration is listening to different groups when it comes to possible reforms for the police department nationwide and he believes the administration will address the situation when it comes to police pretallity and -- brutality and misconduct. >> obviously, we do not want to create a situation where the police are under the microscope and they don't want to do t

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chris: david spunt reporting from the white house, david, thank you.now former cdc director dr. tom frieden. doctor, i want to start with the spread of the virus the past 2 weeks. there was on friday more than 45,000 new cases, new single-day high for our country and 13 states set record highs for 7-day average of new cases, but vice president pence said this. >> we have made truly remarkable progress in moving our nation forward. we've all seen the encouraging news as we open up america again. chris: doctor, are we making truly remarkable progress and is that the right message to be sending to the nation at this moment? doctor: there's no doubt we are doing more testing, our hospitals are better prepared but no doubt that the virus has the upper hand. this virus is not going to go away on its own. we have to stop it and only we can do that by working together. we are all sick and tired of staying home, but you know what, the virus is not tired of making us sick and what we are seeing particularly in southern states but most parts of the u.s. is the vi

arthel: yeah, indeed, a busy day, david spunt, thank you very much. eric.: arthel, in florida as we have said officials there trying to get continuing spread of coronavirus under control. that especially ahead of the july 4th weekend. you know, the sunshine state has been hit with record spikes in the past few weeks. in miami-dade county all the beaches and parks will be closed from friday july 3rd to tuesday july 7th, to try to stop the people that have not contained coronavirus so far. miami-dade county mayor carlos gimÉnez from miami. mayor, you take a bar and beach and you get coronavirus, how concerned are you of behavior of people especially young people who seem to be fueling many new cases and did not listen to either mask wearing or social distancing? >> hello, i'm very concerned and that's why i issued the orders for this holiday weekend. it was a tough decision but i had to make it. i did not want to overcrowd the beaches with young people and we've seen a tremendous spike in positive cases from young people and that's very concerning. so the ord

tom frieden, but first, let's bring in david spunt at the white house with the latest on efforts to containhe pandemic. >> the president insists he has this pandemic under control despite the rising number of cases, vice president mike pence has canceled campaign events this upcoming week because of those numbers. as infections continue to climb, parts of the stuntman united states are beginning to close once again. >> wear a mask. this is the single most important thing that you can do to slow the spread of covid-19. >> beaches in miami-dade county will be closed for the fourth of july weekend as florida covid-19 cases rose by 9.5000 yesterday, the largest daily increase since the virus came to the united states. it was numbers are also surging. >> wear very close to overwhelming our hospitals in terms of the number of beds. >> in texas, and other hot spot, the governor is ordering bar owners to once again turn off the lights. the governors of new york, connecticut, and new jersey are requiring anyone traveling from those hot spots to quarantine for 14 days. on friday, the white house coro

david spunt on the story in alexandria, virginia. david? pedestal had a statue here. in frankfurt kentucky at the state capitol, jefferson davis, the president of the confederate states was taken down. that statue being moved to the jefferson state historic site. in other parts of kentucky, calls are ringing through the capitol where 11 controversial statues remain standing in statuary hall. in richmond, another stat you was supposed to come down but it's tied up in the courts. >> it's disrespectful to the country and what the democracy stands for. >> the debate isn't just limited to the united states. there are calls across the word especially in the united kingdom to take down statues from world war ii. listen. >> in london, vandals went after the statue of winston churchill who along with franklin roosevelt defied against the greatest bigot, the greatest hater in the history of humanity, adolph hitler. why would you go after a statue of winston churchill? the fight extends beyond stone. nascar banned confederate classes. a part time driv

david spunt is live from the white house with the very latest. david. >> reporter: hi, arthel. an administration official confirms the vice president will no longer attend the campaign events specific create in arizona and sarasota, florida. however, he'll go to florida, texas and arizona to meet with those states' governors. also health care officials. but as you mentioned, this is all realitied to those spike -- related to those spikes in numbers, those surges that the southern half of the united states are seeing in some of those specific cases. speaking of vice president mike pence, he held a coronavirus task force briefing with the media yesterday. this was the first time that we've had such a briefing in the last two months or so. he was joined by doctors fauci and by,, also health and human services secretary alex azar to brief the american people about the resurgence of cases especially in some of those southern states. >> you have an individual responsibility to yourself, but you have a societal responsibility. because if we want to end this outbreak, really end it and

jon: david spunt at the white house, thank you.a, oklahoma, say fewer than 7,000 tickets were scanned for president trump's rally last night in an arena that seats 19,000. trump campaign manager brad parscale blames, quote, radical protesters for the lower than expected attendance, saying they blocked access to metal detectors preventing people from entering. casey stegall is in tulsa live with more. >> reporter: jon, it was the president's first rally in more than 100 days since the pandemic began, and as you just heard, really the overarching theme of that one hour, 45-minute speech was saying voters in the upcoming 2020 election have a choice, a choice between national heritage or a choice between left-wing radicals. but as you said, attendance numbers were ultimately lower than advertise thed ahead of the event -- advertised ahead of the event. the center here in tulsa was not at full capacity, some 19,000. according to the fire marshal, 7200 tickets were scanned. some four million viewers logged in online and streamed through

eric: the president vowing to take another crack at daca and david spunt is live at the white house withhat. hi, david. >> reporter: hi, eric. good afternoon to you. president trump making quite a bit of news in that exclusive interview with chief white house correspondent john roberts before that rally last night in tulsa, oklahoma, talking about those temporary work programs that he says that he'll be suspending part of those for the rest of the year. i want to put up a graphic, showing which ones are affected, specifically these are effective through the end of the year. the visas are for temporary foreign workers of to come into the united states before heading one, some are for temporary tech employees, some for those in the academic field and some for executives part of large companies. >> with these visa restrictions there may be some exclusions. >> very little. in some cases you have to have exclusions. you need them for big businesses where they have certain people that have been coming in for a long time. but very little exclusion and they're pretty tight and we may even go ver

correspondent david spunt reports from alexandria, virginia. >> confederate statues across the countryoaches were many arrested for more than a century. for some baseball history, for others, hate. >> that people that are still living here but it's respectful to this country and what democracy stands for. >> crews removed the jefferson davis statue inside the kentucky state capitol. the last week protesters toppled the statue of confederate general williams carter wickham in richmond, virginia. >> we can't erase all of our history. if we don't learn from the past, we can't move forward. >> calls for removal are reading through the halls of the u.s. capitol were 11 controversial statues remain standing. removing a statue is up to the states unless congress passes a new law. >> if you put statue here in 1880 it's very likely that somebody has come along since 1880 that is more significant than one of the two people you chose. >> the fight extends beyond the pieces of stone. nascar bands confederate flags at races. a part-time driver quit over the move. bubba wallace welcomed it. >> a lot

david spunt is at the white house with more. hi, david. >> reporter: good afternoon to you.resident trump is golfing on this father's day at his club in sterling, virginia. but yes, the campaign is playing down some of the numbers a day after because over the past week they were really touting those numbers, campaign manager brad parskol said a million people had requested tickets to actually come to tulsa for the event. that actually never happened. vice president mike pence and president trump were supposed to be on of that stage right there, you see that's outside. that's the overflow crowd for people that could not fit inside the arena. that never happened. crews took the stage down after it was clear that the crowds were not showing up. the campaign blamed protesters for keeping trump fans away from the arena and overflow crowd. the rally did receive 4 million views on social media platforms. we just found out from the fire marshal in tulsa, 6200 tickets were scanned. that does not include trump campaign staff and other people close to the president. now, president trum

david spunt is live from the white house with that. >> reporter: hi, eric. tweet is officially gone from the president's timeline, but you have to remember when he retweets something or tweets something, 82 plus million people see this. several thousand comments are on his twitter just seconds after he tweets something, that's how much reach he has. as you mentioned, this is in the villages, florida. this was tweeted earlier this morning. it shows one of the president's supporters in a golf cart. he's in the villages waving his hand while saying "white power" as anti-trump protesters holding up signs and yelling at those driving by in golf carts. the president tweeted thank the villages while taking a shot at his opponent, joe biden. minutes after the tweet went up, eric, there was heavy backlash from both sides of the aisle including the president's close confidant, south carolina republican senator tim scott. listen. >> there's no question, i mean, we can play politics with it or we can't. i'm not going to. i think it's indefensible, we should take it down

david spunt is tracking the president's reaction from the white house. david. >> gillian, good afternoon to you, the president is golfing at his club and he canceled a trip to bedminster because he want today stay in washington and law enforcement when it comes to statues and federal property. yesterday he signed an executive order that protects some of the federal property and monuments, threatening to take away from cities and towns that do not enforce the order and protect the statue. earlier this week, people put chains on the statue of andrew jackson and minutes later, authorities blocked off the statue. president trump tweeted this to 80 million followers that shows 15 people wanted for vandalizing that jackson statue on monday. destruction of federal property could bring up to 10 years behind bars if convicted. yesterday i had a chance to take an exclusive tour of the fbi operations center at j. edgar hoover building in washington where agents are watching vandalism across the country and i also spoke with fbi director chris wray. >> the violence a

david spunt following that at the white house with what this could mean. >> reporter: neil, good morningsupposed to be coming to you from new jersey, but president trump cancel ised his trip to bedminister, instead he's golfing at his virginia club but said he wants to stay in town to protect some of these federal statues and restore law and order. yesterday he signed an executive order dealing with some of these monuments and threatening to take federal funding away from local cities and towns that do not protect these monuments. he announced that yesterday. now, in some cases, neil, monuments were taken down by city officials, but in many cases they were taken down with chains and set on fire as was the case, we've been playing the video all week, with the statue of confederate general albert pike in washington d.c. that happened on june 19th. earlier this week people put chains on the famed statue of andrew jackson across the street from where i'm standing in lafayette park. minutes later authorities were on scene and blocked off the park so there's no access to the statue. this poste