bill mcgurn, fox news contributor and former speechwriter for george w. bush, and victor davis hanson, hoover institution senior fellow. thank you all for being here. with you, sara, as we await president trump'sco arrival here at mount rushmore, what does the president have to accomplish here tonight in your opinion?s >> unity. he needs to really bring the nation together, and he needs to deliver this fiery speech so that people understand that we are a nation built on fundamental principles, not of division, not of s divisiveness, but of unity. a republic that is built on freedom, independence, and liberty. i mean, and equality. when we talk about this, raymond, when we think about what's happened over the last month, when we think about the protests, when we think about the division, when we think about the angst of that so many people feel, all we have to do is look back at our history and say yes, of course, nobody is perfect. no nation is perfect. every nation, every person is mired with something, but those fundamental principles, those fundamental

of the year they might be capable of delivering hundreds of millions of doses they as you mention mcgurn and novak's as far as i know neither has brought a vaccine to market before is that concerning. well i mean 1st of all it is overall the big question how many people will actually take the receipt even if it's available when i talk to people here in the u.s. a lot of people are still quite i'm hesitant about specially if you mention those 2 companies and it's a smallish firm and yes you're right they have not developed so far actually not that long ago it looked like the company might have to be delisted from a nest egg but obviously they have pretty good connections and that probably has helped so that they got this $1600000000.00 that's actually part of a peroration of warp speed where the u.s. government is giving billions of dollars to companies to speed up the development of a deceit or a u.s. court of their force in new york thank you and let's take a look now at some of the other global business stories making headlines u.s. republicans have announced a fresh push for an for an

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of the operation warp speed program merck was awarded just $38000000.00 from the government while mcgurn and noble backs neither of which have ever successfully brought a product to market have received 500000000 and one point $6000000000.00 respectively astra zeneca and johnson and johnson which both testified they would price any potential vaccine at no profit while the pandemic is ongoing have received $1200000000.00 board point or 456000000 respectively and of course that list goes on and on so with all of this in my let's go ahead and take a global look at the spread of. the virus with our 2 correspondents so where are things around the u.s. is really heading in the wrong direction with new cases now just in the last 24 hours or 1500 people have died from the virus here in the u.s. which is now surpassed confirmed cases to over 4000000 now globally there's been over 862-2000 deaths about 8600 of the deaths have been in the last 24 hours which brings the total confirmed cases out of over $15000000.00 globally and the top $500.00 with the most cases are in order u.s. followed by brazi

as we talked to bill mcgurn about it.d coming in we want to talk about the potential second term agenda on the economic side. for the president, one of criticisms of president trump over the last few weeks he has not effectively articulate what he would do if he won a second term and for all the focus on his overall poll numbers going down or the struggles he is having in the polls maybe the focus should be on the fact he is actually starting to struggle on the economic side which he never had. that was always issue he was way above water on. he was beating joe biden head-to-head. latest fox poll, it was basically dead-even, biden is up a point who would handle the economy. president set out second term agenda that would be effective. if not, where do you think the focus should be? >> i think it is clear that the trump campaign wants this to be a choice between the president and former vice president biden on the economy. that is how they want to frame the debate for the remainder of the year. the president has really not

government and the private company mcgurn or other vaccine candidates will be tested in coming months we've been sitting on the sidelines passively attempting to wear a mask and social distance and not go out when it's not necessary this is the 1st step of becoming active against this the covert death toll in the us is greater than 100 in 47000 more than 4200000 americans have been infected that now includes robert o'bryant national security advisor the white house says o'brien has mild symptoms and did not expose the president on july 10th the 2 were together in florida the state that's now the u.s. epicenter with more than 10000 infections a day. 14 members of the marlins have tested positive throwing the u.s. professional baseball season into disarray meanwhile unemployed americans have stopped receiving federal checks of $600.00 a week a republican plan in congress would resume those checks but slashed the payment by 2 thirds democrats say they won't agree and a partisan battle is expected how does your castro al-jazeera maryland. still ahead an al-jazeera accusations of cease fir

todd: bill mcgurn says legally delaying the election will never happen but argues the president has validoncerns about voter fraud. >> delays we had, primary results, election results, this is not a good thing. it seems he takes a bone and throws it in an area that everyone goes running after. there are legitimate complaints about possible fraud, what happens across the country with competing versions of results. that is not a good thing for democracy. todd: the president of the american postal workers union saying budget cutbacks, worried about the impact of mail in ballots come november. jillian: oregon state police moving to portland as the city transitions federal agents out of the city. this includes the sledgehammer, leaf blower and leg armor, protesters gathered downtown overnight with some lining the courthouse fence. a superintendent wants officer friendly ground on the courthouse hoping it sets a more peaceful tone. the police chief echoing that message. >> everything in our power to de-escalate these likely events, a better track, more safe than in the recent past. jillian: 494

know a couple things you did a great job of breaking down here how this all works and the reality is mcgurn is not the only one doing this pfizer is very close they say they're conducting their own 30000 person trial that's a lot of people to be testing these vaccines i do want to say something about mcdermott though when you look at mcdiarmid they obviously have a relationship with the national institutes of health that is different than other indices and the reason for that is because the in i signed the contract back in december that contract was to begin studying coronaviruses not this particular strain but coronaviruses in general and developing essentially. artificial. or in a sequences that could be used to create vaccines it's somewhat questionable it's never really been done before but dern is the 1st to do this so they're doing it in partnership with the in the h. and i think you know when you laid out right now those 3 phases of vaccine trials there's actually a phase before all of that that happens before you get to human trials and that's animal testing will do and actually ski

a french firm mcgurn a ad from astra zeneca if you've got a couple of extra bucks and you want to put it in the stock market look at those companies because those are the companies that right now have the edge when it comes to the vaccine right and one of them the french company sanofi already has tested starting in april something like 300 people in other words they've already injected people with this particular vaccine and they're making 100000000 doses of it hoping that it works the question is does it work nobody knows at best we might know sometime at the beginning of next year most likely will start seeing vaccines rollout if they roll out some time in the summer of next year so we still got a long ways to go will they work will this particular virus 1 mutates so if it works it doesn't work on everybody and it may not work in the ranger and there's just a lot of uncertainty out there which is why the market is going to remain somewhat unstable for some time and a lot of uncertainty even as the that we're putting billions and billions of dollars a buying doses of these acting th

government in partnership with a private company mcgurn and those volunteers will be testing whether of course this is effective against preventing the infection of covert and whether or not these vaccines are safe and right on the heels of this are at least 2 other vaccine candidates that will be approaching the same milestone in months if not just weeks so certainly that is the last hurdle before government approval and we heard from the vice president mike pence who is saying that even though the government has not approved of a vaccine yet the manufacturing process the distribution network those are all red also simultaneously being worked on so that if one of these vaccine candidates or perhaps more than one does receive final approval it will rapidly according to the thinking of a government will be rapidly deployable to many americans right to hide your caster there in maryland heidi thank you now the world health organization is warning that imposing bans on international travel due to cope with 19 is unsustainable and that government should be doing more to reduce the spread

the largest trial for a potential kobe 1000 vaccine began on monday well mcgurn a started its trial 130008 plan volunteers helping to touch shots under the partnership with the u.s. national institutes of health volunteers will either receive a real shot or a placebo after 2 doses scientists will evaluate the results to see if it can prevent symptomatic cove at 19 for the 1st test site to begin vaccinating is in savannah georgia and a total of more than 70 testing sites will be used across the country well phase one results published earlier this month showed the vaccine was generally safe and had only mild side effects this included fatigue and even muscle pain well the center for disease control and prevention says it typically a phase one study consists of a small number of people to see if a vaccine is safe and elicit an immune response well phase 2 is an expanded and a vaccine is given to people who have characteristics such as a. physical health and similar to those for whom the new vaccine is intended and in phase 3 the vaccine is then tested for efficacy and safety while normally i

good question. >>> "wall street journal" guy is with us right now, bill mcgurn.oint here, turmoil fatigue? >> you do and you even underestimated it. i think it would be a disaster. vice president biden says, admits he is campaigning on a far more radical agenda than either hillary clinton or barack obama. he is a good chance of retaining the house and perhaps democrats capturing the senate. so this could just unleash torrents of this. i think he is doing it because he is so old and there are questions about his age and fitness. i think he thinks this kind of agenda makes him look more young and vigorous. i'm not sure that is true. he won the nomination by being the moderate but now it looks like bernie sanders has written the platform that you're alluding to. i'm not sure over the campaign, that this is a good strategy. i think people that don't want president trump, they have kind of want calm so forth. i don't think this is going to provide -- i don't think offering a radical disruptive agenda is the way to do it. i also think, you know, the biden is making a m

bringing in the panel, matthew continetti, susan page, bill mcgurn, columnist for "the wall street journal think about the whole dustup in the president's explanation that the news conference? >> i think he's right about in terms of the delays that we had it in primary results in the election results. it's not a good thing and it's amazing gods of the more advanced we are in technology the less capable we seem to be of getting results tonight. as he pointed out, he does not have the legal authority to postpone the election on part of me wonders if this is it like his thing on covid federalism to say one thing and get all the democrats to agree we don't want any delay in election. i mean, sometimes it just seems to be he takes a big meaty bone and throws it off in an area and everyone goes running after it. you know, as you say it's not going to happen because of the law but i think that there are some legitimate complaints about possible fraud about what happens if all across the country week at competing versions of results and that's not a good thing for democracy. >> bret: i'll play som

here now, bill mcgurn, solomon, editorial board member and good to see you tonight.e sound bites on this from president trump. let's watch. >> if schools aren't reopened, the fun things should to parents to send their child to public, private, charter, religious, or homeschool of their choice. >> martha: he suggesting that this moment has the potential to be huge for the school choice issue and is there any chance parents will have that kind of affordability with their tax dollar money for education anytime soon? >> i don't know about any time soon and i'd like to see that and i think there's a renewed interest in the catholic schools for two reasons. one, we are seeing the consequences of the woke curriculum in the public schools and a lot of parents don't like it. then we see the crisis i think that the catholic schools are more likely to open because as you point out and i think you are quoting the natural review, there is no teachers unions. and los angeles, the teachers unions saying that we want to reopen unless he defund the police or kind of making it harder

proposal guide how city schools could open using a blended model in the fall, here to discuss is bill mcgurntreet journal columnist and fox news contributor. we got our blended schedule, i posted on twitter, kids go to school for two days and then they take four days off. so if you do that math, every fourth week in child only goes to school one day a week, meanwhile in the exact same ci city, the private schools who know parents will paint the kids are in school have figured out a way to have kids go every day by staggering them through the day, the younger the earlier they start and they go through the whole entire day, still achieving the same thing in the same distancing, why do you think it is that bill de blasio in the chancellor of schools can figure out how to use the clock the way the private schools have? >> i think the answer is united federation of teachers, and looks to me like they're spending more time coming up with a proposal that will be opposed by the teachers union when a proposal that will do for the kids in new york. the mixture, as you know, whether you go online or in

meanwhile, bill mcgurn, former chief speechwriter for president george w. bush and fox news contributor. good morning to you. to the violence that we again saw overnight in seattle and happening there, the same time the conversation continues about defunding the police and reallocating funds. i want to go to the police. in lawful, washington, i wanted to talk about the shooting and this puts them in uncharted territory. >> this will be a troubling time for our department and our profession. i've worked here for over 25 years and we've never had an officer shot. so this will be some uncharted territory for us, again, it will be a rough couple days. >> sandra: what is going on, where you see a spike in crime and violence, bill, but at the same time, you see the city council still willing to take funds away from the police? >> right. you think there's a connection between that? look, police respond to incentives, too, and when the bad guys know that the police are sort of on the defensive and likely not to get involved, you know, to stay in their cars, they wi

. >> bill: for more on that, bill mcgurn. good morning to you. portland's pottery bill, that was used by a colin powell to warn george bush of the consequences of invading iraq. basically, you break it and you own it. i think my argument is that when donald trump intervenes it becomes a convenient excuse for these failed mayors. he is right and all his criticism, they will immediately dump the blame on him for the problem and that will shift the attention away from him and any accountability for them back to the president. look. the president sort of adheres to the pottery barn rule when it comes to overseas. he doesn't want u.s. troops -- he tries to get them out whenever he can but he doesn't think he could do it but if you can't do it in afghanistan, but the government that is not fully cooperative and supportive, it's going to be even harder in the cities where you have democratic cities, where you have people undermining you at every opportunity which is what we are seeing in portland. >> he was asked about it yesterday, is the president tal

bill mcgurn made a strong point, of "the wall street journal," on our air this morning. he cited the pottery barn rule. "you break it, you buy it." why would he have to risk paying the political price for this violence when he can sit back, send in law enforcement behind the scenes, and allow things to play out? >> harris: as a woman who spends an inordinate amount of time shopping online at pottery barn, i should be able to answer that question. [laughter] i'm being facetious. let's go to mayor ted wheeler, who is continuing in portland. watch this. >> we didn't ask for these troops in these cities, we don't want this trip in our cities the tactics they are using are very un-american. everyone should pay punched in the, they are coming to our city, they are in unmarked vans, they pull people off the streets, they don't necessarily have probable cause, and they don't actually identify who they are to the people they are pulling into the vans. there are some really serious constitutional issues here. >> harris: wow, it sounds like jessica tarlov may have been watching som

government and the private company mcgurn or other vaccine candidates will be tested in coming months we've been sitting on the sidelines passively attempting to wear masks and social distancing not go out when it's not necessary this is the 1st step of becoming active against this the covert death toll in the us is greater than 100 in 47000 more than 4200000 americans have been infected that now includes robert o'brian trumps national security advisor the white house says o'brien has mild symptoms and did not expose the president on july 10th the 2 were together in florida the state that's now the u.s. epicenter with more than 10000 and factions a day. courting members of the marlins have tested positive throwing the u.s. professional baseball season into disarray. meanwhile unemployed americans have stopped receiving federal checks of $600.00 a week a republican plan in congress would resume those checks but slashed the payment by $2.00 thirds democrats say they won't agree and a partisan battle is expected how does your castro al-jazeera maryland. china is suspending hong kong's ex

. >> trace: with us now, bill mcgurn, washington main street colonists and fox news contributor.t now it is tit-for-tat, we close one of theirs, they close one of ours. i want to tell you what the chinese foreign minister said about this and then get your response. quoting "the measure taken by china is a legitimate and necessary response to the unjustified act by the united states. the current situation in chinese/u.s. relations is now in china wants to see. to the united states is responsible for all of this. we once again urged the u.s. to retract its nondecision and creates necessary decisions for bring in the bilateral relationship back on track." putting in the feet of the united states. do you see it escalating, bill? >> yes, i do see it escalating, because china is escalating. to the first thing i say is the chinese ministry of foreign affairs should more properly be called the ministry of truth. it's a joke now. people look to it, look to it to see what outrageous things people are going to say. and this is part, the important part. this is not a story about conflict. th

let's bring in bill mcgurn, former chief chief speechwriter. an 8-year-old girl shot and killed it, sitting in the car next to her mother and the mary dare, keisha lance bottoms, this is enough. >> it's been an f for a while. these are regular occurrences in chicago every weekend with all these people being killed. and you know, surely commit their lives matter, to but it doesn't seem so. this poor child will be forgotten in a week. >> sandra: it's tragic and sad. chief of staff mark meadows appeared on fox & friends a short time ago talking about possible federal intervention overall. let's listen. >> the president is not only standing ready but has been ready. about eight days ago he instructed a number of federal support teams to make sure that across the country that they stand ready, not just in those cities in seattle, portland, st. louis and other areas where, literally we have doj and federal protective services they are standing ready. it's time to make sure that our cities are safe and if the local police need help we will stand ready

bill mcgurn, john yoo, thank you so much. and let's take a listen to the briefing.nother hot topic is the reopening of the schools. 12 states including texas with a major spike in coronavirus cases in the past two weeks. texas governor just minutes ago called for elective surgery and 11 were counties to free up some beds to treat covid patients. this comes as school districts across the country scramble to finalize the plans for the fall. in new york city, the nation's largest district, students will see a hybrid schedule in class and virtual learning. let's see how that works, laura ingle has more, laura. >> hey, dana. new york city bill de blasio said school simply cannot hold all students in any one given time with the social distancing. so this is really going to be the best plan for the city as he sees it. the plan unveiled by the mayor will have students going back to school two to three days a week wearing a mask. the other days, students will continue to remote learn. it is an idea that needs work, according to the president of the united states or his feder

i read an op-ed in "the wall street journal" by bill mcgurn, i like his work, he said, trump needs to be careful because of the pottery barn theory, you break it, you own it. i can't disagree more. trump didn't break any thing. he's walking into a pottery barn where everything is broken through the cities have volunteered what the alderman is saying, that's confirmed the 17 shootings. if you read the breaking news chyron, 17 people shot in kabul, afghanistan, it would be a big story. this is chicago! this is one of the major american cities -- it's chicago! 17 people shot? you are worried about president from going in and breaking? what is left to break? he is in their sweeping and cleaning the place up! i applaud the president with a big round of applause and open arms, send those federal agents in there and give the people of those cities the right to public safety. they are american citizens too. they deserve it. >> sean -- >> sean: alderman, let me go to you. >> if i could be clear, first and foremost let me say i am a democrat who also cares about the safety of my residence and t

i read an op-ed in "the wall street journal" by bill mcgurn and i like his work but he said trump has to be careful sending federal agents and they are to clean these places up because of the pottery barn theory. you break it, you own it. i can't disagree more. trump didn't break anything. he is walking into a pottery barn or everything is already broken. these cities have fallen. think about what the alderman said today. 17 shootings. you had just ran a story, breaking news that 17 people shot in afghanistan, it would be a big story. this is chicago. this is one of the major american cities. it's chicago. 17 people shot, and you're worried about president trump going in and breaking something, what is left to break? he's in there cleaning the place up. i applaud the president was a big round of applause and open arms, send those federal agents in there and give the people of those cities the right to public safety. they are american citizens, they deserve it. >> sean: let me go to you, go ahead, sir. >> i was going to say, if i could be clear, first and foremost let me say that i am

let's bring in "wall street journal's" bill mcgurn.en downloaded 165 million times in the united states. it is a huge number. the question is, should it be banned? >> yeah. look i have a teenage daughter so i'm familiar with at least one of those 165 million downloads. look, what the larger issue with secretary pompeo was getting at in china, we have two distinctions have been erased. one is the distinction between hong kong and china. they're now the same in terms of the law, the national security law. and the other is between private companies and chinese state government companies. they're erasing, the distinction. people keep pointing to tiktok has been moved by this new national security law in hong kong but there was also a law passed in 2017 requiring all chinese companies to turn over information and basically help the chinese government in any espionage efforts. that is putting a lot of strain on private companies. tiktok is really in a difficult place. lou: talking of which, here is how the company is responding to all of thi

bill mcgurn, "wall street journal" editorial board member, former bush 43 speechwriter, bill, on thisesident is quite right. they are miles apart. he has been saying that if you like what you have been seeing out of your 401(k), if you like the comeback in today's markets, it all goes if he goes. what do you think? >> right. well, look, i think as you said, president trump's right on this about the differences. it's a little exaggerated to say we have never been this divided. i mean, i think there were a lot of differences in the election of 1860 between lincoln and the three other candidates running against him, or fdr and so forth. so we have had some very contentious elections and contentious times. i think joe biden would agree the choice is very stark between the two, on taxes, on deregulation, on the iran deal, on judges. i think they offer the voters two clear choices about two different paths forward. neil: you know, it's inescapable and biden admitted when he talked to well-heeled actors a lot of you won't like what i'm planning with high taxes and all that. he already talked

phil mcgurn as a columnist, and good morning to you.re many who said that those were softball questions and many thought that they were completely appropriate. to the point of that, there was no questions on the defund the police movement. obviously with a billion dollars in funding, no questions on the sea at situation so what did you think of that? >> yes. mine is the same as yours. it seemed to be an event to describe how fantastic the biden administration would be and to avoid any real questions about what was going on in the united states. fundamental questions about violence that we seen in our cities and so forth. so clearly, we saw this with a former senate staffer which alleged that mr. biden had sexually assaulted her in the press basically ignored this for a couple of weeks. you know that if it had been a republican, joe biden, it's not going to make it tough for them. >> what president trump wasn't having it. biden tweeted questions for the so-called press conference yesterday where he read the answers from a teleprompter. h