staffers barely set a word over past times opinion pieces from american enemies and adversaries from vladmir putin to nicolas maduro to the taliban. thanks for joining us. i'm elizabeth macdonald. "the evening edit" joins us right now. ♪. elizabeth: welcome to the show. you're watching the fox business network. president trump today finishing a roundtable with law enforcement officers as top congressional democrats held a press conference to unveil federal police reform legislation and for. democrat candidate joe biden says he does not support defunding police budgets. hillary vaughn with more. hillary. reporter: liz, mayors around america are weighing a decision to slash funding for their own city's police department, president making it clear he does not support defunding or disbanding any police departments around the country. >> there won't be defunding. there won't be dismantling of our police and, they're not going to be any disbanding of our police. our police have been letting us live in peace. we want to make sure we don't have any bad actors in there and sometimes you will see some horri

he is quoting president trump it was clear that russia's leader vladmir putin wanted out of syria.hu that bolton seemed not to care much way or the other about leaving iran nuclear deal although he would say russia would stay in. what is your reaction when you saw that out of bolton's book? >> ultimately, liz, we can't take any of this seriously. a lot of what bolton is saying probably isn't true. i also think it is quite telling by the way for years the media despised bolton. there is so much pushback against him becoming the ambassador to the u.n. in 2005. now they want us to take hum as being totally credible. they're going to make him into this big hero. the real story here is the priorities of the democrats and the media and frankly the priorities of bolton. voters can see right through it and trump voters they have had enough of this. we can see exactly what's going on. elizabeth: the democrats are undercutting it now. they're taking shots at bolton's credibility too though they want to subpoena him. final word, democrats want to subpoena bolton and have him for testimony. yo

. >>> the spokesman for russian president vladmir putin is defending his kun trcountry's re to the coronavirussively with cnn. >> it's accused of hiding the true extent of russia's coronavirus pandemic. abandoning, exhausted doctor to its ravages. using the lockdown to crackdown on dissent. the kremlin's chief spokesman is now defending his kcountry's coronavirus response. >> back in march, president putin said the situation in russia was under control. better than in other countries. within a few weeks it suffered the second highest number of coronavirus infections in the world. what went wrong? >> actually, nothing has went wrong except the coronavirus itself. our country uses the maximum possible amount of tests for coronavirus. the more you test, the more you detect. >> that's not just the number of infections. it's the fact that the more tolltol -- mortality rate is remarkably low. it added to this suspicion that russia is somehow been manipulating the facts, manipulating the figures. perhaps in order to prevent the kremlin from being criticized. >> no, i don't agree with that assessment.

the they have a important referendum starting tomorrow whether vladmir putin can remain president forrom the nato and united states. elizabeth: that is interesting. the russian foreign minister said the trump administration approach is wrong. the u.s. grown less interested in diplomacy, resolving disputes through negotiations. instead comprised of demand is put forth unless the demand is met with total capitulation, sanctions threatened. there is it no capitulation u.s. lasts away with sanctions s that true? is that the way this russian leader, foreign official is seeing isn't is that what the u.s. is doing? is that the way to go? >> no. listen the russians deserve every bit of those sanctions for all of their horrifically-bad behavior. let's add to the list support of syrian dictator bashar al-assad and chemical weapons attacks on innocent civilians and their support for iran and their support for dictatorship, maduro dictatorship in venezuela among other things. russia is deserving of every bit of that. it certainly suits them to portray the united states as essentially the aggresso

very real fact that russia continues to flex its muscles on the world stage, even as president vladmir putin

donald trump has continued his embarrassing campaign of deference and debasing himself before vladmir putin. he had this information according to "the times," yet he offeredded to host putin in the united states and sought to invite russia to rejoin the g7. reporter: now the president has suggested he would like to see russia come to the g7 meeting later on this year. that meeting was supposed to happen at end of this month. it was pushed back because of the pandemic. looks like it will happen in the fall. a lot can change. we'll watch the fallout a little later on today. griff, jed,. pete: pete uncle joe toll me more about your failing political history. no surprise russians meddling n afghanistan they had occupation for years ultimately expelled. if they want to take over afghanistan, part of the president's rationale of foreign policy is we shouldn't be spending trillions of american dollars and american lives there. doesn't dismiss the fact that russia is our enemy which we know but to point this at the white house say, they're complicit with putin i think to miss the whole story. griff

during the obama years "times" ran a piece by vladmir putin. you're not endorsing cotton's view.e for public debate. irony about the whole thing and editorial page editor losing his job, cotton's argument got 500,000 times more attention than it would have been if "the times" just left the thing up. ashley: by the way, markets, someone, switched gears a little bit, howie, markets rallying during president trump's news conference on friday about a much better than expected jobs report and a faster recovery but you know what? cnn, mean, and cnbc all cut out early. is that politics or was it the fact that it was a, donald trump, and b, he had something positive to report? >> i'm going with a because everybody reported on the fact that despite all the news organizations saying unemployment could reach 20% it was just over 13%. now fox news carried the whole thing. msnbc dumped out after 11 minutes. cnn didn't carry it at all. president spoke for 40 minutes. made news on market. made news on the the death of ge floyd. made news talking about protests and his law and order approach. i

very real fact that russia continues to flex its muscles on the world stage, even as president vladmir putins to secure yet more time in office. america meanwhile is distracted by a pandemic that gets worse by the day, and deep—seated political tensions. the president denies he ever saw intelligence on the russian bounty payments. democrats left their white house briefing saying, whether it's caveated or not, this is something you ought to know. if you are inviting russia back into the gs, this j sanctioned hundreds of targets, withdrew from the imf treaty,