secretary mcenany: the f.b.i. director, much like the secretary of defense, if the president decides he has no longer have confidence, you guys will be the first to know. reporter: a couple more on new york if it's ok. yesterday, new york's governor made a pretty big statement saying he might relieve de blasio of his duties. has there been any talk with governor cuomo about sending in the national guard troops to new york or is there any plan right now to send any national guard to new york? secretary mcenany: the president will do whatever is necessary to protect america's streets. he's made that clear. and he has several tools. that is one of them, sending in the national guard. he does have the ability to federalize the national guard should he choose to do that. but i would note and i am very glad you brought up new york, the very clear-cut cases of d.c. and new york, d.c. was in chaos on sunday night when you saw the burning of the church. when the mayor did not set the curfew. the president said this is unac

mcenany: this movement? the president believes if you look at and i will use their own words, black lives matter. black lives matter means to defund the police. of course, the president stands against defunding the police. all black lives matter, including the life of david doran who perished in the last week and a half. including patrick underwood who lost his life this week. all black lives matter, but in terms of the movement, they defined themselves as defunding the police and that is something the president stands against. >> blacks are disproportionately arrested and incarcerated in this country. when they return to society, they are often denied the right to vote sometimes for the rest of their lives. is the president concerned about this disparity and does the president favor restoring the rights of all those who complete their sentences, so they can participate in the 2020 election? sec. mcenany: i have not spoken to him on that issue specifically. but i would note is your question does edge on the

mcenany: no, he did not say that. as secretary carson emphasized, i talked to the president about the juneteenth event. i was pleasantly surprised about how much he knew about it. the whole history of it. he did not just learn about juneteenth this week. that's simply not true. as to juneteenth, there were a lot of people who didn't know what juneteenth was. and google search has proved that. i looked up the google searches and they went like this and that thanks to president trump. reporter: i wanted to ask if the white house is planning to issue an executive order in the coming days to suspend visas for foreign workers and any details you can provide in terms of what types of visas for how long that would last? press sec. mcenany: i have no announcements on that front. i'm aware of the reporting but no announcement. reporter: could i follow-up quickly if the president plans to take any health precautions at the rally tomorrow? sec. mcenany: we're administering hand sanitizers and masks to those in attendance if they

mcenany: this movement? the president believes if you look at and i will use their own words, black lives matter. black lives matter means to defund the police. of course, the president stands against defunding the police. all black lives matter, including the life of david doran who perished in the last week and a half. including patrick underwood who lost his life this week. all black lives matter, but in terms of the movement, they defined themselves as defunding the police and that is something the president stands against. >> blacks are disproportionately arrested and incarcerated in this country. when they return to society, they are often denied the right to vote sometimes for the rest of their lives. is the president concerned about this disparity and does the president favor restoring the rights of all those who complete their sentences, so they can participate in the 2020 election? sec. mcenany: i have not spoken to him on that issue specifically. but i would note is your question does edge on the

mcenany: let me address the first part. allowsction -- title 18 -- defines touristic -- the --tic terrorism as actions --ines domestic terrorism as invoke greater investigatory authority and harsher penalties. i would note that the justice department has in the past used domestic terrorism in consultation with acts of white supremacy or racially motivated acts. in april 20 20, afford a man pled guilty to threatening an african-american charlottesville city council candidate. same in february 2020, where it was used in connection to racially motivated violence extremists. we know the president's long history of condemning white supremacy and racism. there is no place in society for these ideologies. has he nothy designated any white nationalists groups? sec. mcenany: i explained how domestic terrorism will be used as a way the crime is prosecuted. ands a prosecutorial method it was utilized in the same exact way in regard to white supremacy. reporter: on the minnesota police officer, do you think they should be charged as we

>> secretary mcenany: he has done that repeatedly. he talked about understanding the pain that people are feeling and he does understand that pain, he has talked several times about the right to peacefully protest. and i have seen some of the peaceful protests in the sit ins. it is a shame when you have anarchy and anarchists come in and you have antifa, and that dilutes the message of the protesters, and it is a legitimate reason they are protesting. he hates to see antifa come in and dampen the message, which has been in many cases peaceful, but over taken and overwhelmed by organized effort of people from out of state coming in and causing havoc. >> reporter: on friday is he going to maine? >> secretary mcenany: he still plans on going to maine, i have not heard any other changes. i like your mask. >> reporter: i have a call about police reform, national security advisor says that he does not think there is systemic racism among law enforcement in the u.s., does president trump share that view? >> secretary mcenany: where the presi

kayleigh mcenany. >> secretary mcenany: the information on a newspaper.here are two bad scenarios that emerge from this report. number one, this report makes it more difficult to come to a consensus on this matter, to verify intelligence, and this level of controversy and discord plays directly into the hands of russia and unfortunately serves their interest. since before president trump assumed office, damaging and often times erroneous leak seeking to undermine or delegitimize the duly elected president have been published. according to the doj classified leaks surged in this administration. there were under president obama just 39 on average criminal leak referrals. this administration we have seen 100 referrals for the doj and 2017, 88 and 2018, and 104 on average per year. we have seen targeted leaks as classified information against his presence anthis president. reports of alleged intelligence. make no mistake. this damage is our ability as a nation to collect intelligence. as the national security council noted, to those officials who betrayed the

>> secretary mcenany: we are

hello, y mcenany: everyone. so i'm going to start with a few housekeeping announcements. first of

>> the president doesn't. >> i don't know how much they paid kayleigh mcenany. but it's probably not enough, because when the reporter says the president called himself the least racist person of anyone in the world. kayleigh mcenany was like, uh-huh, yeah, yeah. that's right. that's what he is. keepi keeping them honest. let's just give the gaslight a moment and play again what kayleigh mcenany said the president did not say. >> by the way, it's a disease, without question. has more names than any disease in history. i can name kung flu. i can name 19 different versions of name. >> woo, yeah. clearly, the president didn't think twice about saying it. what's so predictable about this -- and again, i mean, this is -- how many times have we seen this? his senior counselor, kellyanne conway herself called it wrong when asked back in march by reporters about allegations that white house staffers were using the exact same phrase. >> i'm not dealing in hypotheticals. of course, it's wrong. but you can't just make an accusation, and not tell us who it is. who is it? an

his team do it all over again, and you have gassed pummeled protesters so the could -- secretary mcenany: no tear gas bullets.or rubber eporter: chemical agents were used. she was gassed. others say they were tear gassed in that area. well, no one any: was tear gassed. that's been confirmed by d.o.d.

all over again, would you have gassed and pummeled protesters so the president could -- secretary mcenany: no tear gas was used or rubber bullets. reporter: chemical agents were used. she was gassed.

let's talk about what kayleigh mcenany just talked about regarding coronavirus.she was quick to make mention that the numbers have decrease, but the positive cases are going up. she said half that have tested are under the age of 35. if you look back, that's quite a turnaround. what did you make of that? >> absolutely. the number of cases have gone up. we saw over the weekend 45,000 new cases, but the number of fatalities has gone down and this is because most of the cases that are diagnosed are under the age of 45. most of these people are in pretty good health. even though they have complications, most of them do not end up on ventilators in the icu. it's important to point out that we have so much more tools and knowledge now than we did three months ago. fortunately we have therapeuti therapeutics, we have medications and therapeutics under investigation. we have the tools and the resources. it's just a matter of combating this via compliance and adherence to the cdc guidelines of wearing facial coverings and practicing physical distancing. that is where we n

maybe kayleigh mcenany knows what these secrets are.ow what they are. john says there's nothing secret in the book and the book was approved, the government's people say that's not the case. neil: should there be a different standard, held to a former top national security official versus say a former chief of staff? >> well, the law is the same for all people who have the same security clearance. john bolton had the highest security clearance there is which is top secret and there's a bunch of initials after it, five different levels of top secret. john had the absolute top. john had the same clearance that the secretary of state has and the director of the cia has. so whatever the government, the doj says john did, it was at the highest level in their view of wrongness. john says your presentdecessorsd me i could publish this. neil: wow. really weird. judge, always good having you, my friend. thank you. >>> all right. you have heard a lot about what the markets are clinging to when it comes to a cure, something to deal with either as

this afternoon kayleigh mcenany tried to defend the president's use of the term by first denying that he had used it. >> hello, everyone. >> why is he using racist phrases like kung flu? >> he points to the fact that the origin of the virus is china. it's a fair thing to point out as china tries to ridiculously rewrite history. it's not a discussion about asian-americans who the president values and prizes as citizens of this great country. it is an indictment of china for letting this virus get here. >> kayleigh mcenany's claim that the president doesn't use the term is of course a lie. we all heard it for ourselves. back in march, we should note, when a cbs they wills correspondent, pointed out, kayleigh mcenany was both skeptical and also furious. conway called the use of the term among. and she noted her family's racial heritage because, of course, such a term could especially offend asian-americans. >> that's highly offensive to american-asian-americans. my kids are 25% filipino. >> finding the term "highly offensive" remains a reasonable position. the only difference is today wi

john, listen to kayleigh mcenany defend the president's use of that racial slur.isten to this. >> why does he use racist phrases like kung flu? >> he doesn't. he points to the fact that the origin of the virus is china. to be clear, i think the media is trying to play games with the terminology of this virus where the focus should be on the fact that china let this out of their country. >> so, john, what's your reaction to that spin coming from the white house? >> reporter: well, obviously it's embarrassing, which is what we've come to expect from people who speak for president trump. because they've got to defend things that are indefensible. people would find it offensive -- many people do find it offensive if you refer to it as the china virus or the chinese virus as if you're suggesting it has something to do with being chinese as opposed to the geographic origin of the virus. but at least that has some basis and reality. any school child could tell you that calling it the kung flu is a racial slur. and unfortunately for kayleigh mcenany, her job description r

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kayleigh mcenany's going to the rally. will she wear a mask? >> it's a personal choice. i won't be wearing a mask. i can't speak for my colleagues. >> and why won't you wear a mask? is it sort of a personal, political statement? is it because the president would be disappointed in you if you don't wear a mask? >> it's -- it's a personal decision. i am tested regularly. i feel that it's safe for me not to be wearing a mask. and i'm in compliance with cdc guidelines, which are rec mep d recommended but not required. >> so trump and his top aides just refuse to take a leadership role in trying to battle this pandemic. wearing a mask, and encouraging all americans to do so, would help get rid of the coronavirus. right? but, i want you to take a look at this tweet. it's from the hill and arnold schwarzenegger. the governator, remember, the governator isn't afraid to wear a mask. anyone making masks a political issue is an absolute moron, he says. indeed. dr. anthony fauci, still, trying to get americans to wear masks. no doubt, a message to the tulsa rallygoers. >> the best w

>> secretary mcenany: it is possible. if that is the case, it is absolutely despicable. >> are they taken any action on the audit of the ic? what steps are you taking? >> secretary mcenany: the doj has done several credible referrals. 88 in 2018, 104 on average per year under president trump. we do take those steps. we do have a president who ultimately when it comes down to the safety of our troops, he hasn't taken impulsive actions, he takes deliberate action. we saw that in a protecting of our troops. at the same time, when you had iran who shot down a drone, he chose not to shoot back in that instance. it was a measured response. ultimately the ultimate way to protect american troops is to not get into needless foreign wars. this president is on record for decades of opposing foreign wars. iraq is a great example appeared nearly a 2 decade war. when washington was unanimous saying we are going into iraq, this president said no, that's not the right decision. he has ultimately protected american troops and kept this co

when asked about it, mcenany said they are looking at every tool in the federal tool kit. back to you. connell: connell: blake burman in washington for us. melissa? melissa: for reaction let's bring in dan henninger from the "wall street journal." he is a fox news contributor. dan, we're a finance show. we focus on the economics of the situation. we were just seeing relief rally, relief of stores, opening their doors and getting going again. and then you see this destruction. how much does this set us back from an economic point of view? >> well i think the biggest setback, melissa, is going to be primarily psychological rather than explicitly economic. but psychological in a very big way. i think most of the american, i mean you have virtually the entire country watching this in real time for two or three straight nights. i think the reaction for many people is that they are simply stunned. that they have gone numb looking at the reality of something like this happening all over the country. now, the recovery needed eventually be led by the northeast, new york city, huge

white house press secretary kayleigh mcenany called the president. kushner, his son-in-law, spoke with him, and they all conveyed their concerns about the tweet. the president, they said, claimed that he watched the video but did not hear the shout of "white power." but that the thing that swayed was when aides showed him when republican senator tim scott had said on the sunday shows, which was basically that the tweet was unacceptable and the best thing to do was delete it and take it down quickly. the final thing i will add is when the white house did delete the tweet, the president and his team never actually condemned that language. kayleigh mcenany in the briefing today was not specifically asked about it. it was kind of shouted after her, but i was told that she came equipped with a bullet-pointed list where had she been asked, she was prepared to condemn it in the briefing room and was also going to try to turn it back on democrats and cite what she believed was racially problematic behavior and associations with some of the democrats, includi

finding was briefed to president trump and the white house's national securi security, but kayleigh mcenany reads the statement in part, while the white house does not routinely comment on deliberations but the cia national security adviser and the chief of staff can all confirm neither the president nor the vice president were briefed on the alleged russian bounty intelligence. you worked at the nfc. why wouldn't the president of the united states be briefed on something so sensitive, so critically important as this and if the president wasn't briefed, samantha, wouldn't that even be worse? >> malpractice on any front but kayleigh mcenany is hardly lly go-to source for honest president intelligence. it's high lly plausible that th president wasn't briefed as european officials confirmed the intelligence. european officials would not have been briefed on this kind of intelligence if the president hadn't been and typically gets intelligence briefings multiple times a day and the meetings for example, the drawdown in germany and he gets called memos, for example, before the calls with preside

also tonight john bolton joins us followed by kayleigh mcenany from the white house. but we begin as i mentioned with fox news ahead of black lives matter for greater new york. good to have you with us sir, thanks for being here. >> thank you for having me. >> martha: obviously people watch what you say in that video, that you want to shove legislation on people's throats. now that you have everyone's attention and devotional so that violence is sometimes necessary in these situations, what exactly is it that you hope to achieve through violence? >> well, it's interesting that you would pose that question like that because this country is built upon violence. what was the american revoluti revolution. what is our diplomacy across the globe, we go in and blow up countries and we replaced their leaders with leaders who would like. so for any american to accuse us of being violent, it's extremely hypocritical. now when we talk about us using self defense, we use -- why are you screaming and not allowing me to talk, ma'am? you asked me a question, allow me to answer, i'm

today a white house press secretary kayleigh mcenany said there was no consensus among u.s.city of the report. kaitlan collins joins me now. and you pushed her about the intelligence today and what the president was going to do about it. >> reporter: yeah, jake. what has been clear as the white house is saying that the president was not briefed on this in person about what was going on. but the question, of course, is now the president is aware of this intelligence as most of us are now and several outlets have confirmed this. so the question is what is his response going to be. the white house today said they don't believe there is an agreement among the intelligence community about what actually is in that intelligence assessment. >> so intelligence is verified before it reaches the president of the united states. and in this case it was not verified. i won't speculate on whether this intelligence is verified or not verified. i have no further notifications for you other to tell you there is no consensus and there are dissenting opinions -- >> you don't think this report i

official has told cnn that it was indeed in the president's briefing book, and mcenany said that the president was the most informed person. listen. >> this president, i will tell you that he is the most informed person on planet earth when it comes to the threats that we face. we have ambassador o'brien who sees him -- >> so, there is the press secretary there saying that the president is the most informed person on earth and at the same staying that he was not briefed on the threat that apparently the intelligence had been apparently shared with the u.s. allies before it was at least or rally briefed to the president of the united states. jake, one more note is that we did hear the press secretary there suggest at one point or accept the notion that members of the intelligence community could have been going after the president by leaking this information. there is of course no corroboration for that, and it is interesting that the white house secretary is more interested in entertaining that notion than the notion that the intelligence about russia could be true. >> well, jeremy,

we heard from kayleigh mcenany. >> inspecting the bombing damage sent a tremendous message. george bush throwing out the first pitch after 9/11. >> this is absurd. all of this imagery. >> it really is quite ridiculous. interesting how miss kayleigh mcenany swifted from winston churchill to throwing out a pitch at a baseball game. that was not a well thought out photo op. confusion, tdysfunction and no message. when the mooept are hurting that is not the kind of thing you want to -- president barak obama held a virtual town hall. the foundation founded by obama after the death of travyon martin in 2012. >> this country was founded on protests. it is called the american revolution. every step of progress in the country and every expansion of freedom and expression of our deepest ideals. >> mr. bairchl -- there have bes of violence and police at times. more on that in a moment. ♪ pampers the #1 pediatrician recommended brand, ♪ we all need someone to lean on ♪ pampers. the #1 pediatrician recommended brand hey allergy muddlers... achoo! ...do your sneezes turn heads? try zyrtec

there with reaction, white house press secretary kayleigh mcenany.l, i don't know what you getho paid. you are way underpaid. number two, i could never do your job. number three, you're doing a great job considering the conditions with the mob. those two tweets, within an hour? i think it speaks volumes. >> less than an hour and a half. cbs had a rendition of the same tweets and this is so inherently contradictory. this is how much they have from derangement syndrome. they see a million people registering for a rally so they are so contradictory, praising the crowd of protesters, criticizing the million people who signed up for a trump rally. we saw this with the churches when president trump opened the churches, socially distance. they criticize that but then in the same breath laude the protests a week later. it's so wrong.ruch people see directly through it and it's all because president trump is succeeding. >> sean: let's go to all the issues, now the president, we didn't have any reforms after ferguson, after baltimore, after cambridge. that was

so we hear it from kayleigh mcenany. melissa. melissa: disbanding the anticrime unit. new york city police commissioner announcing elimination of the program, leaving 600 plain clothes officers to be reassigned. here to discuss it, oscar odom, retired nypd detective and first deputy sheriff commissioner. what do you make of that change? what is the material impact of people of new york will see? >> first of all i would like to thank the women and men of the nypd for the great job they're doing keeping our city safe. one of the things i'm hoping this is not knee-jerk decision or politically motivated and moreover it should be data-based, right? look at data, make sure it is evidence-based so we make sure we're looking at all the angles and not just a knee-jerk position and one of the reasons why we impact not only lives but businesses so that people can go out there and carry out their duty and make money for their businesses and so people can walk around freely. that is one of the key things about the anti-crime unit. they're plain clothes. you don't need everybody goi

kayleigh mcenany can't actually defend what the president said. so she claims the media said the same thing. which is a lie. and kaitlan collins, of cnn, called her on that. >> the media has never called it the kung flu. calling the chinese coronavirus and calling it the kung flu are very different things. >> the media and your network specifically, have repeatedly used the term china virus and wuhan virus. and then, gone on to deride the president as somehow using a term that they, themselves, have never used. so we can go through cnn's history. i'd be more than happy to go through cnn's history. on february 9th, you guys talked about the wuhan coronavirus. on january 23rd, you guys talked about the wuhan coronavirus. on january 22nd, the wuhan virus. >> that's different than calling it the kung flu, though, kayleigh. you have got to admit that. it is not the same thing as calling it the kung flu. >> again, didn't answer. listen to kellyanne conway's reaction to reports that a senior official had used the phrase kung flu, back in march. >> that's

press secretary kayleigh mcenany was asked about it today. listen. >> does the president regret tweeting out a baseless conspiracy theory about a 75-year-old protestor on the morning of george floyd's funeral? >> the president was asking questions about interaction in a video clip he saw. and the president has the right to ask those questions. >> but does he regret tweeting out this protestorwise was assaulted? >> the president does not regret standing up for law enforcement men and women across this country. and let me say this and just give you a little bit about the mindset behind the president's tweet. look, we are living in a moment that seems to be reflexively anti-police officer. and it's unacceptable to the president. and this tweet that he sent out, he was, in no way, condoning violence. he was not passing judgment on these two officers in particular. but what he is saying is this, when we see a snippet of a video, it's incumbent upon reporters and those who are surveying the situation, to ask questions. >> the president to have fact

and that, what kayleigh mcenany said there, there you have the president wasn't pushing a conspiracy theory, wasn't speaking without the facts and wasn't speaking badly about a man bleeding from the ears after falling and last night he said he doesn't bear any ill will toward the officers that pushed him. that is what mr. gugino said. he got out of the icu thankfully but still in the hospital. he was only asking questions. just asking. calling on us to do the same. here is a question. what kind of person is so impulse-driven, so lacking in empathy that he attacks an elderly man in a hospital bed who is simply protesting peacefully. what kind of person does that. i'm just asking. who is too vain and cowardly to ever admit a mistake? just asking. what kind of person hires someone who promises never to lie to us as kayleigh mcenany did on her first day on the job and then breaks that promise repeatedly. just asking. and what kind of person is so in need of making a name for themselves in the public arena that they betray the convictions they once expressed openly on mexican immigrants r

the white house press secretary kayleigh mcenany at the briefing earlier today said the president's already touched on these things, already talked about these issues. that is indication he's perhaps not going to do this but there's no doubt, anderson. at this point, the president has left a lot unsaid, at this point, that he could say to the american people to try to bring this country together, in some way, shape, or form. obviously, he's not the great uniter. and -- in a lot of ways, the great divider. but he does seem to have an opportunity to try to, at least, talk to those -- those grand themes that presidents, prior to the trump administration, have tried to express to the american people. republican and democrat. but at this point, anderson, he seems more interested in taking these political potshots than doing anything close to uniting the country right now. >> of course. i mean, first thing, couple problems. one, if the president speaks extemporaneously on this, that would likely be a disaster because we have seen what he does when he speaks extemporaneously. number two, i'm not c

>>> kayleigh mcenany says she will not wear a mask at trump's rally. why is this issue dividing america? let's go "out front." >>> and good evening. i'm erin burnett. "out front" tonight full speed ahead. a last ditch effort to stop president trump from holding an indoor campaign rally in tulsa, oklahoma, for tens of thousands of people fails. the state supreme court just rejected an appeal to stop the rally over coronavirus concerns. as tulsa braces for tens of thousands of people to come to downtown, the president is threatening anyone who is planning to come to protest his rally tomorrow, any looters or low lives who are going to oklahoma, please understand you will not be treated like you have in new york, seattle, or minneapolis. it will be a much different scene. that is the president's message even as the country is obviously still reeling over the death of george floyd and rayshard brooks which have set off the protests that he's talking about. that is the president's message on juneteenth as people across the country marched to commemorate the

i asked kayleigh mcenany whether or not she is going to wear a mask. she is going to be at the rally tomorrow night. she says she will not. she says it's a personal choice for people who work at the white house. but, anderson, as you and i know, i mean, essentially, the president has politicized, the white house has politicized, this issue evof wearing masks b given all that, campaign manager brad parscale says he may wear a mask tonight. and economic advisor said if he were going, he would wear a mask. so they are all over the place on this issue but listen to what dr. anthony fauci said earlier today. he said in an interview with cbs radio, that you should avoid large gatherings. and if you can't do that, always wear a mask. and, here, you have the white house press secretary essentially saying she is not going to listen to dr. fauci's advice. >> and there was supposedly a coronavirus task force meeting today. you know, we don't get to -- to hear from them anymore. they don't do the daily briefings. do we know if concerns about the rally were raised

the scene right now at the white house, we are waiting for kayleigh mcenany's briefing.m we will of course go to her. this on the same day we are learning the supreme court has struck down a louisiana law that sharply limits abortions in the state. what was surprising about the decision is that the balance was tipped by the conservative chief justice, john roberts. not the first time we have seen a conservative justice go the other way. there have been examples before and that raised a question as to whether we got what we thought we would get on this court. it does seem to be a heated exchange among liberals and conservatives interpreting and following every tea leaf reading we get out of the highest court in the land. judge andrew napolitano joining us right now. on this abortion case, judge, your thoughts, because there are other issues i want to get into as well. but what did you think? >> well, i would start from the perspective of someone who is pro-life and who believes roe versus wade is not mandated by the constitution, and ought to be reversed. but that's not w

what the president has been saying over the last several days has been very helpful but kayleigh mcenany, the press conference just a few moments ago asked about the speech and a speech doesn't stop anarchy and the president has made some comments about all of this over the last couple of days, for example, at the space launch in florida. doesn't sound like they're leaning in the direction of the speech but it's 2:00 in the afternoon, we can hear the protests on the streets of washington, the day is young, brianna. >> it's hard to imagine, and i wonder what their consideration is here, and this actually speaks, you know, as the president talks about strength, maybe this speaks to a weakness he has in this situation, it's hard to imagine his having an address, doing anything other than either not doing anything to the situation or making it worse, jim. >> reporter: that's right. what we've seen so far is the president throwing gasoline on the fire, referring to the protesters last week as thugs talking about when the looting starts, the shooting starts. i've been out there on the streets

but kayleigh mcenany said she thought it was funny.his. >> i think the president was making a satirical point that was quite funny if you go ahead and watch the video. >> so the president, she thought it was funny. the president used a beautiful video of your children to further his political agenda. did you think it was funny? >> not at all, no. i thought it was propaganda, to a base that we really -- i was real really aghast immediately when i saw it. i saw the press conference earlier, and i was kind of -- i couldn't understand why someone would share something like that, to think it was funny. i'm not sure who they were calling, if they were calling my son racist, or what it was. but it's -- it made me very upset. >> michael, you wanted to weigh in. but did you think the same way that dan did, that they were calling his son racist by how the president was portraying a toddler? >> absolutely. that's exactly what i think. it was intentional, and it was just disgusting to watch. for her to say it was funny, that seems to be their go-t

. >> kayleigh mcenany, white house press secretary, will give an update on the protests in u.s. cities after the death of george floyd. we will have live coverage. a portion of this morning's "washington journal" while we wait. host: we are joined by armstrong williams, longtime tv host, author and commentator. thank you for being with us. guest: thank you for having me. host: we started our segment with michael hopkins. we asked both of you on to talk about the reaction last week to the death of george floyd at the hands of the minneapolis police. as the protests have grown, the civil unrest and rioting has grown. i want to get your reaction overall to what we have seen, particularly over the last three days. of america isuty our right to protest in a peaceful way. the majority of the protesters are very peaceful. happenedent than what when you had a terrorist attack on the church in charleston. members of that community, even though they thought they were being looted and burning and vandalism, the community capped -- moral high ground and kept the moral high ground and galvan

kayleigh mcenany said he has the right to ask those questions. of course he does.ut not providing any specific evidence of it is i think what is fueling a lot of the media outrage. ray: the press secretary's answer was clearly disingenuous and an attempt to deflect. i doubt in their war-gaming the president's messaging in the media shop, they rubbed their hands together in glee on him blasting out conspiracy theory reporting that has no basis in fact, that makes him look callous and dismissive of a man that was clearly injured. it was not a win for the president. presidential prestige and credibility are a real thing. you don't want to i fritter it away on something like this. some days i can't believe it. howard: the president gets savagely attacked by the media. he has the right to punch back. he often does it effectively. why he would go after this protester is something i have trouble understanding. great to see you all this sunday. next on media buzz, today's newsrooms are torn between traditional editors and staffers demanding social justice. who is winning t

secondly, in response to kayleigh mcenany, he wasn't just asking questions in that tweet.hat he was doing was saying that the protester could be a provocateur. so he wasn't raising questions. he was making outrageous, conspiratororal statements. those were not questions in that tweet. >> john, i'll be anxious to get your thoughts because a lot of people think it's simply dangerous for the president of the united states to amplify a conspiracy theory like that with no basis in fact. >> well, of course it's dangerous, and not only is it a baseless conspiracy theory. it was one advocated by a kremlin propagandist. the first person who gave this information also worked for sputnik, which is a kremlin propaganda outless. yes, it is dangerous. now, what makes it less dangerous is that people are used to this from president trump. people don't believe president trump. a majority of americans at every point in his presidency have said they believe donald trump is dishonest. so you have to discount for the fact that most americans don't pay attention to what he says. there is a min

>> look, kayleigh mcenany seems to want to top herself in ridiculous comments one after the other. the problem is not the people donald trump has hired. because all of them walk away, even if they walk in with sterling reputations, they walk out with a common judgment of donald trump. at some point you have to accept the reality, i don't expect mcenany to do it, but the american people have come to accept it, and people that have had close contact with donald trump have come to accept it. the problem is with donald trump, he's the president. as i said, from his 2016 republican rivals, democratic rivals, now his seniormost aides, they all agree, he's not fit for the presidency. you can't talk your way out of that, no matter what you try to conjure up in terms of a comparison to abraham lincoln. >> john harwood, technical difficulties, you got the whole segment to yourself. our apologies about ryan lizza. thank you. and i want to bring in evan perez, prit bharara, and others, good evening. prit, i want to start with you. another friday night firing. this time, of one of the most impo

white house press secretary kayleigh mcenany gave a different impression. here's what she said. >> it was a comment he made in jest. it was a comment he made in passing. specifically with regard to the media coverage, pointing out the fact that the media never acknowledging we have more cases because when you test more people, you find more cases. >> is it appropriate to joke about coronavirus when 120,000 people have died? >> he was not joking about coronavirus. i said he was joking about media and their failure to understand that when you test more, you also find more cases. >> and finding more cases is often a good thing so then you can do contact tracing. so increased testing is a good thing in order to stop the spread of the virus some of you can tell, differing presentations from the presid t president. >>> two more people from the campaign rally have tested posted. on saturday it was announced six campaign staff who were in oklahoma to set up for the rally were tested positive. they were immediately quarantined. the two additional staffers were teste

yesterday we heard kayleigh mcenany speak. despite that esper was speaking. mcenany wouldn't give a vote of confidence saying that secretary esper is still secretary esper. saying that if the president loses confidence, we'll hear about it first together. >> we'll read about it on twitter, no doubt. jeremy diamond thank you for that reporting. keep us posted, please. why did general mattis say what he said? why did he choose the words that he chose? we're going to speak with a former top aide to general james mattis next. inary memory supplements neuriva has clinically proven ingredients that fuel 5 indicators of brain performance. memory, focus, accuracy, learning, and concentration. try neuriva for 30 days and see the difference. yeah. this moving thing never gets any easier. well, xfinity makes moving super easy. i can transfer my internet and tv service in about a minute. wow, that is easy. almost as easy as having those guys help you move. we are those guys. that's you? the truck adds 10 pounds. in the arms. -okay... transfer your service online in a few

this afternoon the white house press secretary kayleigh mcenany would not say if president trump has confidence in the secretary of defense. >> with regard to whether the president has confidence i would say if he loses confidence in secretary esper i'm sure you all will be the first to know. reporter: as of now he is still there. >> secretary esper is secretary pester. if the president loses faith we will learn about that in the future. reporter: mcenany says the president is making sure that governors quote-unquote, surge the streets with national guard. melissa, back to you. reporter: blake burman on the white house north lawn for us this afternoon. melissa. melissa: all right the lockdown riots. economist steve more calling for end to the shutdown, saying quote, they're making america an unhappy, unsafe place, and he joins us now. steve, how do you think it is that the lockdowns have contributed to these riots? i mean we said all along that there are bunch of factors and we're not discounting what went on in minneapolis in the video people is saw that images they will never be ab

. >> secretary mcenany: what we have seen the lines overwhelmed by massive protests that have turnednto riots. the peaceful protests distinguished from the protest that we've seen. let the president has said is that he wants to dominate the streets with the national guard. >> one of the other questions that that press secretary was asked is, where is president trump? why has he not delivering some address to the nation? she noted that the president spoke on saturday and has been very active on twitter. as to that question, she had a response and here's what it is. >> secretary mcenany: delivered in multiple statements on this. the president as greatly as 48 hours ago is out talking about what a tragedy the death of george floyd was. how it has weighed on his heart. continual statements that he is made day, and a day, and day, again, they don't stop anarchy. what stops anarchy is action. >> 88 protesters arrested, 44 charged with felony rioting. attorney bill barr is directing the bureau of prisons to send in riot teams. president trump says he's putting his top military advisor in ch

and today, don, the white house press secretary, kayleigh mcenany, she was asked whether or not president trump would assume responsibility for the potential of an outbreak tied to his campaign rally. and, instead, she said that people are assuming personal risk, just like when they would be going out to a baseball game, they would also be assuming personal risk. but, of course, don, what we know, baseball games aren't happening. the mlb is closed for business right now. and instead, what president trump is doing here, is hosting this rally. he is the one creating this risk, of course, for these rally goers who will make their own choice about whether or not it is wise to attend. but what we do know, don, is this all comes as president trump is personally trying to move on from this pandemic. not wanting to talk about it, even behind the scenes, in meetings. instead, don, the president is laser focused on the economy. nothing is going to stop this reopening that the president has encouraged, and that is currently underway. and so that is where the president's focus is and why, don? becaus

trump's comment that he does not kid, kayleigh mcenany told reporters on air force one he was making a serious point but he was using car sazm to do that. and dr. anthony fauci said the administration is not dialing back testing. >> i know for sure, but to my knowledge none of us have ever been told to slow down on testing. that just is a fact. in fact, we will be doing more testing. >> reporter: but the president's "no kidding claim" runs counter to the past when he suggested to americans that they inject themselves with disinfectant. >> i was asking a question sarcastically to reporters like you just to see what would happen. >> reporter: or when he claimed to be chosen by god. >> i am the chosen one. >> reporter: mr. trump tweeted the media knew i was kidding, being sarcastic. fauci says the coronavirus is surging in some parts of the u.s. >> we are now seeing a disturbing surge of infections. right now the next couple of weeks are going to be critical in our ability to address those surgings that we're seeing in florida, in texas, in arizona, and in other states. >> reporter: tha