here to respond this morning world exclusive, double huck, two for one special, mike huckabee, fox news contributor former arkansas governor and his daughter, sarah sanders, former white house secretary of. normally on this program it is ladies first, but this day, one day only, father's day, governor you're up, your reactionary to him last night and specifically talking about the flag. welcome to the show. >> well, thank you very much, and happy father's day to all. i think the president is half right. i certainly detest when people burn a flag. i just am revolted by it. however, i think people have a first amendment right to do stupid, even insane and disrespectful things. here would be my line. if you buy your own flag and it's yours and you purchased it and you want to burn it, that may be your first amendment right. i think you're an idiot, but it you have a right to be an idiot in america.

what do you think, mike huckabee? n: well, the president of the united states need to work with state governments and local governments and need to get more national guard troops in these areas to stop it. maria: mike. mike: well, i think it is important to say that there's a line drawn in the sand and you cannot go and loot stores. i thought that the previous guest of the bookstore and made a comment online that i thought was powerful. people weren't stealing his books because looters aren't there to steal books. i think we need more footage of the people in minneapolis that came out with shovels and brooms and rakes and helped clean stuff up. there's a lot of god people left in america. they are not all in the streets, breaking windows, rioting and stealing other people's things pretending they are entitled to it. keeping balance and sometimes we fail to do and there's extraordinary level of anger and frustration among all people in the country about the riots. maria: yeah. all -- all of this while the country is try

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governor mike huckabee on what he thinks has to be done, next. ♪ ta-da!ou know liberty mutual customizes your car insurance so you only pay for what you need? i should get a quote. do it. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> this is where three levels of government come into play. we have seen failure on an ongoing basis at the local level. actually, it isn't failure, it is a surrender. it is that they are an accomplice of sorts. working through that is very challenging. >> harris: strong words from acting deputy homeland security secretary, ken cuccinelli, for the city officials in seattle protesters continue to occupy a six block cop free zone of the city, as they call it, which they have now rebranded. capitol hill occupied protest, or c.h.o.p., is the acronym. and they also warned that the trump administration will not stand by and let lawlessness rule. this, as seattle's police chief says she wants a negotiated way out. >> i wish i had the answer to how long it might last. i can tell you that we want to move it

joining is now the, fox news contributor mike huckabee, ari fleischer. of this is happening, you know, unfolding before the eyes of americans. governor, we have nearly 900 offices, the president keeps asking all of these liberal mayors and governors, can i help you come i want to help you, we are here to help you restore law and order, safety and security. the president can go in. very rightly i think hesitant not to -- at the ready of one there willing to do it, summer of love, this is not turning out well in seattle tonight. >> no, it isn't. and i think people need to understand that the contrast between what president trump offers in reelection and joe biden -- we make jokes about it because there are certain things about joe biden and his gaps that are funny but there's nothing funny but the fundamental 180-degree difference between these two people when it comes to the policies that will shape america. that's what i hope people will focus on. not the personalities. not the gaps, not the things that people say, but a fundamental difference between w

most of them, ted cruz but also mike huckabee, marco rubio, many great candidates.e was not their first choice. choice reached a binary between haney -- between him and hillary clinton and he pledged life, tot unborn appoint originalist judges to defend the state of israel and to be the best friend that israel has ever had, moving the u.s. embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem and recognizing jerusalem as the capital of israel, and defend our first amendment rights different -- religious freedom and our ability to express our faith free from persecution, he said for all of those things and does today and hillary clinton and joe biden stand on the opposite of every one of those issues, and i think that he is advancing -- does he occasionally say or tweet something i wish he wouldn't? sure he does, but he is advancing those moral issues and the common good, hand i think the other side is advancing grave moral evils by standing for the opposite. it wasn't just a politically right thing to do, to support him then and now, it was the morally right thing to do. they were ear

we were with mike huckabee a little while ago. know, given the fact. >> did i lose you guys. steve: issue of police brutality remains. did you lose your audio? hello, lawrence? i think we lost lawrence. but, brian and ainsley, i was saying that going forward, you know, and we were talking to mike huckabee a little while ago, there needs to be a national dialogue about where we go from here and we need to hear from the leaders. i know that it wouldn't be surprising if the white house had some sort of a summit because they do things like that just to bring this all the leaders from show business and entertainment and sports and business to try to figure out how to fix. this. brian: steve, you are right. the problem is we have not been able to talk about george floyd for seven days. we talked and with the issues that led up to it. because we were sitting there trying to hold on to some sense of security in almost every major city in the country. steve: that's right. brian: that's what i found so disheartening about it. your witness.

mike huckabee joins us. fox news contributor. chief doesn't know when it's going to end, how are we supposed to know? >> we are never going to know because the officials who are supposed to stay with the sense of order have allowed this to degenerate in other chaos. it will last as long as they. turn off the electricity, the water, and gas and jam all of the communication signals coming in and out of there. when these people can't go on social media. when they can't call in for things by way of iphones things come to a grind pretty quick when no supplies can come in and out. what the police and mayor and governor ought to do. if they had any brains at all. any, they would make it so that people who want to get the heck out of there, the law-abiding citizens that are stuck in this incredible hell hole would be allowed to get the heck out. but they are not allowed to. and these people have taken over. this is a hostage situation. and i don't understand why they somehow think that it's the summer of love. no, this is a summer of cri

we had bill clinton and then we had way over to terms with mike huckabee. we havewe sarah huckabee sanders who is supportive of asa hutchinson. he has a balanced budget. our policeman, the risk their lives every day. in fact, we have lost many policemen, and it's so sad. as far as david doran, he was black. he was attacked by seven black people, and that was on video. dott you think they're going to show that? it's awful. they are not showing that side, while you're on with our guest, what would you like to ask him? >> caller: t i think that people that destroy the st. john's church, they need to pay for it. people that are offended by our wonderful president holding up a bible, oh, that's awful. the only thing i have asa hutchinson, he supports president trump. i support asa hutchinson. >> host: thanks,ho call or tragedy let's just talk about the proper aspect of that, and no one who believes in the rule of law can take any comfort in whenever we see property being destroyed, windows being smashed in my businesses, and we put a a stop to that in arkansas.

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governor mike huckabee, what should the president's message be? >> i agree with you.s to be a balanced message that we need to have real reform. reform that takes into account that if there are bad police officers we deal with them. also that is realistic and is not stupid which means that you don't defund the police. you don't dismantle a police force. that's like dismantling the fire department in the middle of wildfires. that's insane. we have riots going on. people are the victim of predators on the streets of major cities. it doesn't matter what color they are. black people are being robbed and murdered and they need a police force too. but we have to have one that is accountable and responsible. i find it interesting in minneapolis the whole city is run by democrats and leftists and hasn't had a republican mayor since 1931. who owns that problem of minneapolis and the police force? it isn't the republicans. they have not been there in years. >> harris: interesting. i will bring up now the d.c. mayor. this points to a rift and the political playbook is writing ab

mike huckabee kicking it off with you ahead of father's day.ppy father's day. >> thank you very much maria. i think the big story of the day is actually the big tech story of the day. what will these tech companies do and how are they going to protect individual freedom. right now they're not. they've got to. i hope they will soon. maria: good point. allie? >> we are reopening. i like what our first guest said this morning. it's a first step. level of volatility and risk in the market very high. be vigilant think long-term, midcap health care, cyclicals. maria: i like long-term for sure. dagen? >> nbc news teamed up with google a monopoly to de-platform, de-monetize and ultimately shut down two news organizations, conservative. it's unethical, likely illegal and it's election interference. maria: there you go. bottom line. that does it for us. "varney & company" begins right now. stu, take it away. stuart: you're dead right. good morning, maria. good morning, everyone. actually real estate starts our show today. we will get to the market in a m

we have at the rattly we have the co-chair for trump 2020, gina loudon, corey lewandowski, and mike huckabee. do you expect a lot of score settling and going off script tonight? i have got to think the president has a lot to get off his chest. >> i hope so. we know that president trump is the best when he's talking directly to the american people when he's not following the script. we saw that success in 2016 during the entire campaign, when he ridiculed all his opponents for using teleprompters. i know that will cause consternation across the country with people saying we want him to be presidential. i want him fighting for america and he will show it tonight. jesse: we heard all week from the media that this was a dangerous rally, and it will cause lives. but they never said a thing about the actual danger from the police riots we have seen the last weeks. do you think this is covid shaming? >> i think we learned that the covid virus is cured by riots and looting. the president should have said we are not going to have a rally, we are going to have a riot and it would have been okay. jesse

mike huckabee will be here live in miranda divine will be here from the new york post talking about howl diblasio has been an epic failure in every way. new york city begins to reopen in manufacturing, curbside retail. one local business owner says can we open up everything, you want us to bend the curve, we have to we need restaurants open, gems open, we need the city open. we are down to 13 to statewide and you still have a shutdown. we are dying on the fine. i cannot wait to hear what they have to say and hopefully the government officially governor cuomo who is happy to be in the subway will be listening. who doesn't talk to armenia but for the rest of their show, here is rob and jillian. >> no time left after that. always good to see you, thanks so much. >> minnesota at the center of the nationwide push to defund police with the judge overnight ordering the minneapolis police department to make immediate changes as city council vows to dismantle the entire agency. >> those who think we need to think about this a little longer have certainly not been paying attention and if you need

mike huckabee former governor of arkansas, a fox news contributor as well . being in the great state of florida, as you are, florida took a completely different approach. and when people return from florida right now come they think this is like normal life down there . nobody is wearing a mask, the going to restaurants print going about life. looking at the stats from today. it seems like that number of patients who are hospitalized as it doubled. this is in the past month or so since that reopening their pretty those new cases with the hospitalizations is more relevant step. also i noticed on the website, your at about 26 percent of capacity open for hospital beds. anything florida is doing so far. >> i think they have handled it differently and also i think they have handled it better. nothing is perfect because this is uncharted territory for everybody. the governor did the smart thing, he said he didn't say plus throw a blanket over the whole state and everybody do the same thing. he highly populated urban areas, and i would be very different than parts

. >> melissa: let's bring in former arkansas governor and fox news contributor mike huckabee. thank you so much for joining us. at a time when we have so many things going on in this country, whether it is the coronavirus pandemic, the riots, trying to get kids back to school in the fall, all of these different things, do we focus on statues right now? >> i don't think we focus on them in the sense that it's the most important thing, but when people are trying to tear down public property, that is a mark of anarchy. this is not peaceful protests. we are all for that. that's an american right and i think we all support people being able to protest. that's not what this is. this is a total violation of everything simple about us and it's also people deciding that they are their own government. you can't have that in a society where we have the social contract of law. they don't like the law and they don't like the statue, they can go to their legislators and maybe get it taken down but where does it stop? i'm expecting a few years ago, we joked about things like the washington m

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news contributor maria and joining us today former arkansas governor and fox news contributor mike huckabee and he's outnumbered. governor, i would like to start with you. i was heartened by the press conferences that i heard earlier today on television. lindsey graham stood up and said, you know, there is about 70% overlap between these two bills, and rather than making a lot of where they don't agree, that he's harkened by the idea there is a lot of common ground at the beginning of this conversation. what are your thoughts on that? mike: you never get everything you want in a piece of legislation, especially in a political year. it's a political year. nobody is going to get everything. so what they ought to do is sit down and look at the areas that are common ground and work on that and recognize they aren't going to get a hundred percent either side. i was a little taken by the congresswoman's attitude, karen bass, when she said the president's proposal didn't go very far. it shouldn't. it's an executive order. he can't legislate. that's congress's job. it's not his job to legislate. it

we'll ask former presidential candidate mike huckabee the other side.stream weather. tropical storm cristobal heading towards the u.s. it's expected to make landfall in louisiana today. alex hogan joins us lives from new orleans with storm preps. good morning, alex. >> hi, guys. we're seeing those first outer bands of the storm finally touchdown here in louisiana. as you can see bourbon street right now a very different site from what you would usually see in the french quarter. a lot of these businesses are boarding up but not just because of the storm. we've seen this because of covid-19 and possible looters during protests. but this is helping all of the storms and the storm prep. cristobal is already breaking records as we're seeing the the first named storm, the fastest named storm of the season, the earliest on record was the august 13th average. but, again, this is the third. it's really surprising for right now, but people who live here, work here, say that they are ready for this. >> the good thing about hurricanes, you have preparation prepara

let's bring in mike huckabee, the governor himself. you got a smile on your face.i hear this nonsense. what about you? >> only thing you can do is laugh at these loons. first of all what an idiotic thing we're seeing all over the world with people tearing down every kind of statue, stu. in austin, texas, they defaced a statue of stevie ray vaughan a guitar player. blues player this is gone beyond anything we could have imagined. here is the real challenge, it is often said, it is true, a culture that doesn't understand its history is like an individual who loses his memory. if you or i woke up tomorrow and had not clue what our names were, where we had been to school, who our friends and family were, we would be lost and living in a world of chaos. when a culture doesn't know its history, it is living in chaos. we don't know our history. we're living in chaos. and these crazy people on the left are now becoming like islamic terrorists destroying every last vestige of art and culture and trying to erase history, even the part of it that we ought to embrace. some of

here is what you heard about that from mike huckabee.at tape. >> only thing you can do to laugh at these loons. first of all what an idiotic thing we're seeing around the world with people tearing down every statue. when a culture doesn't know it history it is living in chaos. we don't know our history. we're living in chaos. stuart: jonathan morris, formerly known as father jonathan morris is coming up today. i'm sure he has something to say about all of this too. and we'll be back that's why td ameritrade designed a first-of-its-kind, personalized education center. oh. their award-winning content is tailored to fit your investing goals and interests. and it learns with you, so as you become smarter, so do its recommendations. so it's like my streaming service. well except now you're binge learning. see how you can become a smarter investor with a personalized education from td ameritrade. visit tdameritrade.com/learn ♪ stuart: this has become a fairly sharp sell move off now, we're off 400 points for the dow. we're off in the nasdaq. n

let's bring in mike huckabee, fox news contributor and former governor of arkansas. to you, governor. >> good morning, great to be with you. >> great to be with you, too. i'm sure if you live in one of these states it's heart-breaking because you -- we went through all of this and now they are pausing the reopenings and businesses need get-to-get back to business but at the same time we don't want spikes. how can governors respond propghtsdly? >> well, i will tell what you they are not going to do. they are not going to completely close their economies again. that's not on the table, i don't think, for anyone because the negative effects of that not only financially and economically, but the negative effects of that to the mental health of the people, and the devastation to people whose jobs disappear, they are not going to do it. i think dr. saphier was exactly right. you need to be very specific in localizing where the problems are. then you need to be prudent in making sure people have good information. rather than just a joan blanket we are going to close every b

most of them, ted cruz but also mike huckabee, marco rubio, many great candidates.e was not their first choice. choice reached a binary between haney -- between him and hillary clinton and he pledged life, tot unborn appoint originalist judges to defend the state of israel and to be the best friend that israel has ever had, moving the u.s. embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem and recognizing jerusalem as the capital of israel, and defend our first amendment rights different -- religious freedom and our ability to express our faith free from persecution, he said for all of those things and does today and hillary clinton and joe biden stand on the opposite of every one of those issues, and i think that he is advancing -- does he occasionally say or tweet something i wish he wouldn't? sure he does, but he is advancing those moral issues and the common good, hand i think the other side is advancing grave moral evils by standing for the opposite. it wasn't just a politically right thing to do, to support him then and now, it was the morally right thing to do. they were ear

and we had clinton way over two terms with mike huckabee.ve sarah huckabee sanders who is supportive of asa hutchinson. we have a balanced budget. our police risk their lives every day. we have lost so many police. it is so sad. black andn, he was was attacked by seven black people. that was on video. it is awful they are not showing that side. host: what would you like to ask him? guest: i think that people who destroy like the st. john's church, they need to pay for it. people who are offended by our wonderful president holding up a bible, oh, that's awful. that is the only thing i have for asa hutchinson. he supports president trump. i support asa hutchinson. host: thanks. guest: let's just talk about the property aspect of that no one that.that no one -- no one who believes in the rule inlaw can take pleasure people smashing windows. lawid bring out more enforcement resources to support our local police, and realized weekly that the protesters, 90 -- quickly that the protesters, 99% of them wanted to protest peacefully. we had a journali