jussie smollett maintains his innocence.gressional republicans unveil historic sanctions against iran, there are 140 initiatives aimed to dismantle global terrorism enterprise as the un watchdog warns their defining the nuclear deal. todd: it is a package to counter rogue regimes including russia and china. joining us is congressman mark walker. thanks for coming on today. a big moving foreign-policy for congressional republicans. >> after iran has been responsible for 600 deaths of men and women from the united states it was time to get serious about this. is the ranking member of the subcommittee we have been noticing a lot of the cash sent to the obama administration has gone to terrorist organizations supporting hezbollah so the funnel through iran, time to get serious about these sanctions. >> the specifics of the proposal, the ends the 2-year electricity deal requiring consent from the administration to lift sanctions sanctions responsible for attacking us embassy in baghdad and end all us military aid from lebanon. wh

todd: lawyers at the heart of the jussie smollett case refusing to testify and cooperate with police saying they were paid by the actor to stage an attack in january of 2019, and they are still being treated like suspects. they want police to retrieve items taken from the grave last year, jussie smollett pleaded not guilty to disorderly conduct charges. >> in a travel advisory starts in the us, new york, new jersey and connecticut say visitors from nine states with a surge in covid-19 cases will be required to court and sign for two weeks, including arkansas, alabama, south carolina, texas, florida, north carolina, utah, and washington state. florida, arizona and texas hit new record highs and coronavirus cases, 88% of icu bed in arizona now. florida seeing 5500 new cases yesterday alone. todd: the quarantine was a settlement to go. the eiffel tower reopening to the public after its longest closure since world war ii. that is a live picture out of paris looking beautiful. the landmark shutdown since march because of the pandemic. >> towards will be greeted with new social distancing

jussie smollett has pleaded not guilty to disorderly conduct charges.rob: voters could decide the fate of the mississippi state flag, the governor prefers having a statewide election to let voters choose the flag's design amid growing calls to remove the confederate emblem from the flag. one gop lawmaker wants to swap it with in god we trust. >> a state senator attack is a protest turns violent in the state capital. rob: protesters destroying monuments without regard to what they were toppling. we will talk about that, the statue of an abolitionist and a statue representing progress destroyed. >> calling for public officials to condemn these attacks, he joins us now, we appreciate it. what is your message to the protesters taking part in this? >> protesters were peacefully protesting please continue to do so, get your message out, that is how we enact change but when these protests turned violent we have to do them violence and all violent and it is unfortunate what happened on madison, extremely unfortunate because this can be avoided. it is clear lack

it wasn't a hate crime against bubba wallace, and it wasn't a hoax, like jussie smollett, because the country didn't need any of that right now. i mean, we've already got police brutality videos going viral every day, protests in the streets. and on top of all of that, there's a pandemic that you think has gone away, and then it comes back with a vengeance like a virus john wick. now, i know there's someone who's probably just as relieved as i am, and that's my good friend roy wood jr. what up, roy? >> what's up, man, what's going on? >> trevor: for once the f.b.i. delivered some good news. >> good news. you must have lost your goddamn mind. there ain't no good news involving a noose. >> trevor: i don't mean good like santa claus is in town. i mean relatively good news. from where the story started this is relatively good news. >> a noose is never good news. that's like finding a turd in the kitchen. you don't care why it's there or who put the turd there. no, there's a turd in your kitchen, and you ain't happy about it, and you want that shit gone. >> trevor: but, roy, apparently the

i've been ththinking about the case of jussie smollett and i''m wondering why and chicago givenn theonditions surrounding the murder of laquan mcdonald, the police department s should be thoroughly investigated and we need to ask, how is it that the public could so easisily be rallied to the police narrative ofof what happenened in the casf jussie smollett? there is so much work to be done. i think the rallies thahat the current o occupant of the white into is holding will fadade ---- don't even merit a footnote in history. amy: angela davis, i want to about another event taking place on juneteenth -- june 19. the birmingham civil rights institute is finally going to issue the fred l shuttlesworth award during a virtual event on juneteenth. i wanted to ask about this because yoyou returned your hometownwn of birmingham alabama last february after the institute had first rescinded during the bds movement and your support of palestinians. after outcry, the institute reversed his decision. more than 3000 people gathered to see you talk in an attorney turn it up event which was hosted by

. >> lawyers in the jussie smollett case will testify.hey changed their mind saying they would not cooperate. their attorneys says a gunman went missing after being taken during a police raid last year has been found. after staging a racist attack, pleaded not guilty to disorderly conduct. >> disney will completely reimagine its popular splash mountain ride, it is based on the 1946 films on the south, they say it has potentially offensive racial stereotypes. the scene from its 2009 from the princess and the frog which features disney's first black princess. >> slowly but surely venice, italy reopening to tours after months of being shut down, the port city will see some big differences in its lucrative tourism industry since the coronavirus outbreak began. >> amy kellogg is live with how the region has changed and the pandemic. >> we are taking a look at venice and the status tourism is the only show in town, the region gets about 20 million tourists a year and the lions share of them are foreign tourists most of whom have not returned so

jussie smollett the protests against police in his own legal battle. >> how he's using them to fightgo's 130,$000 lawsuit the city says he owes them for his alleged hate crime hoax. >> a bone to pick this chick-fil-a employed for wearing a blue t-shirt. >> what the restaurant is saying this morning. "fox and friends first" continues right now. >> a very good morning, you are

important days of the electoral strategy with wisconsin, arizona and north carolina because those jussie smolletts the campaign is spending $15 million for the general election. >> most importantly, who we want to be is all at stake. >> in 5 to head debates, there are three scheduled between donald trump and joe biden but i confirmed the trump team wants more. they got rudy giuliani, pressure, the commission on presidential debates, sending additional invitations. >> sheriffs deputy cameron kinsey was alerted by a frantic mother who had been protesting her baby was having trouble breathing, jumped into action using a finger to dislodge what turned out to be a quarter stuck in the baby's throat. you can see he got some assist, by the time paramedics showed up the baby was breathing and doing well. the story had a happy ending and folks jumping in, we are glad to bring you good news. most trusted, most grateful you spent the evening with us. good night from washington. i am shannon bream. i didn't do it. #1 stain and odor fighter, #1 trusted. it's got to be tide. midas can help get you there. throu

. >> we are in full jussie smollett territory. there are lines and revolutionary logic, they -- it's easy to go to an obscure park. but it is a need to go to the next level, it's the washington monument, the jefferson monument, mount rushmore. change the name of stanford university or yell and they aren't going to do that because atli that redline, they start to offend people with real power on the liberal progressive side and the dnc is going to step in and say, wait a minute, joe biden may not be able to stop you from defacing a world war ii monument, but that's i think they are butting up and we've seen the high price of cultural revolution. there is only one person speaking about it, tom cotton, donald trump, a few people. if donald joe biden can't say a thing about it for the reason you described. g >> laura: biden equals chaos, it will not be quelled if biden wins. mollie in victor, thank you so much for the mostly peaceful protests in lafayette square, nbut they aren't just assaultig police officers, they are also assaultin

some people comparing you to jussie smollett who obviously is accused of faking this attack in chicago does that make you feel? >> yeah, there's no comparison there. just simply listening to the facts that was delivered to me and the processes that were already being -- being held. i was just -- i would say an innocent bystander and people won't buy that but he's okay. people around me know that's the truth and i'll lay my head down at night and sleep good. >> it's so surprising to me the arc of the story over the last 48 hours. >> you're always going to have people that are going to test you, my friend. you're always -- i have learned that from day one of being where i'm at. being on a pedestal, you know? kind of going to sound like a broken record. i keep saying that in the past three interviews i have done this morning, but you're always going to be tested each and every day. it's never a cake walk to achieve success and to be at a level where i'm at. nobody has walked in my shoes and nobody will ever be able to walk in my shoes. so i'll continue to walk with a lot of pride, and sta

we have seen journalists step on that rake time jussie smollett, covington catholic. the russians to buy an election. ratings overresponsability and clicks over consequences because the bottom line is, once you get those ratings and those clicks the payoff has already been done and no need to reprimand anyone. that's where we are in terms of journalism and it's a scary time right now considering that we are such a critical point and everybody is so hyper sensitive right now. instead of the media being careful and measured seeing them take a blow torch to dry grass and inflaming things further by not stepping back like ben bradley would do with the "the washington post" make sure you have the facts before the story and we didn't do that again, melissa. >> melissa: joe, you can imagine if you even questioned the story from the beginning how you would be pounced on as a journalist. >> absolutely, again. that sensitive time. what do you mean you don't believe bubba wallace at this point? so i get it but we have to step back and say let's get the facts. >> melissa: we have

the jussie smollett incident and then a twist in the story of 2 brothers say that smell it paid them to fake it now they say they're done helping authorities charlie de mar report. >>it's been over a whole year now and you know so that's >>according to their attorney to gloria schmidt rodriguez in part because the brothers say they're still treated like suspects despite being cleared by police i would understand if we were. >>defendants in the case which we are not the brothers were initially arrested in connection to the racist and homophobic hate crime smollett reported. >>the u.s. rose later told police they were paid to stage the attack and released by cpd camera to talk too much about that because the case is still ongoing valentine's day 2019 chicago police kicked in sunday rose front door serving a search warrant when the brothers were still under investigation taking a whole list of items, including a safe containing a 9 millimeter gun and ammo able is a legal gun owner legally belongs to me and i want to know what we're about the osundairo stuff is sitting in a chicago polic

of everything was just going to come flowing out because say it's a hoax, compare me toe will jussie smollett. jillian: wallace added checked garages. and according to him none of their ropes were shaped like a noose. dr. fauci on "dancing with the stars." daily mail show producers say approached him informally. spokesperson telling the daily mail he would respectfully decline any formal request to appear. abc is trying to figure out how to shoot future episode while obeying coronavirus restrictions that would be interesting. brian: i don't know if i want a lead scientist dancing. ainsley: he needs to have abreak and have a little fun. brian: a lot of folk. steve: i'm okay with scientists dancing. how is he going to wear a mask and breathe properly during those very active dances? hello. brian: good point. ainsley: sean spicer could donate him that outfit. jillian: that green outfit? steve: that was funny. the national guard rolling in to madison, wisconsin after a night violence and this attack on a state senator tim carpenter. >> not recording on cell phone. steve: that is terrible. country