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The house and senate as well dating back to 2018 . Also tonight this growing debate and controversy, will u. S. Elections get trapped in court fights, protracted legal battles, decided by judges as the democrats now push hard for nationwide mailin balloting. That postal Union Workers now warn the post office is not ready for. The top democrat now admits there is potential for fraud in mailin ballots. Trump administration threatens to take this fight to the courts. Well put it all to fox news contributor, charles hurt. Also tonight protesters crossing a new and dangerous line, now showing up at the homes of both police and government officials, threatening them and their neighbors. From Seattle Police chief to the nypd commissioner, to minnesota elected officials, even to the home of acting head of Homeland Security, chad wolf. Trump Advisory Board members, cincinnati mayor Ken Blackwell is fired up. He is ready to go. Football legend Herschel Walker with us tonight fox business exclusive on potential cultural shift. Backlash picking up against National Anthem protests by athletes. Athletes dont like it. Guy reschenthaler from house judiciary, pressure ratcheting up on joe and hunter biden. Senate Homeland Security chair ron johnson reportedly hinting he may release interim on his committees probe of biden paytoplay conflicts of interest own september 15. Democrats try to battle that. Try to get the media to pick up their new narrative to counter this. That narrative is falling flat. Thanks for joining us. Im elisabeth mcdonald. The evening edit starts right now. Elizabeth welcome to the show. Youre watching the fox business network. To the battle for 2020. Vice president pence now says the Trump Administration will take democrats to court to stop nationwide automatic mailin balloting, democrats demand for the 2020 race because of covid19. The Vice President says it is ripe for fraud as the president said last night, quote you could have election where it is delayed by two months. As house oversight, democrats scheduled a new hearing in september to make sure that the u. S. Postal service can handle the massive influx from nationwide mailin ballots. Postal Union Workers warning yes, there could be delays. That word is coming in, the postmaster general will meet with senator chuck schumer, House Speaker nancy pelosi and treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin and chief of staff mark meadows about all of this. Charles hurt, an opinion editor at the washington times. Charles, your take on this . Will u. S. Elections be decided by judges . Will they be trapped in court . I think without a doubt there is real risk of that. You know all of this is a legitimate conversation to be having, talking about trying to expand voting over the, in the mail. Obviously a lot of states already do absentee ballots without terrible problems but the problem here is, the idea that were going to sort of dump this entire thing into mass voting through the Postal Service at a time where the Postal Service struggles to do, to keep its mandate in the first place and the second place half the people in this argument have been, on the record of for not, you know, they dont even want require people to show valid i. D. When they vote at the polls. So the whole idea of how, you know, the ballot custody from a person, the moment that he fills out the ballot to when she mails it in, when it gets counted, all of those are very serious questions that threaten the integrity of the entire election. So these are very, very complex and important questions. But, man, trying to jam them all together in a couple of months before the elizabeth yeah, before the election. I dont know how they do it. The postal Union Workers are saying there are already delays theyre seeing. Charles, i would like your reaction to this. House majority whip james clyburn. He is calling on congress to pass a law to extend time for america to vote. He calling for election week. Representative clyburn, charles admits this about mailin voting. You will have fraud in almost anything. Watch this. The president of the United States expressing his opinion about mailin voting. It is not the facts. The state of washington has been doing this forever and they have found that it is almost no fraud. You will have fraud in almost anything. You dont get rid of an election when you find fraud. You find fraud up in north carolina. The president s own party, the guy committed fraud and he never took office. Both parties may be subjected to fraud but we should not develop our entire approach to this election based upon the possibility of fraud. Elizabeth okay. So charles, your reaction to representative clyburn likely will be fraud but we should do it. What do you think . These are the same democrats who for the past four years have been talking about the importance of integrity of elections and yet at every decision they make when it comes to the integrity of elections, they go, they side against integrity of elections, whether it is requiring people to show identification at the polls or the ballot harvesting in places like california where there is no chain of custody whatsoever. Activists, lobbyists go out in the field to collect these ballots and bring them in, they get counted. It is lunacy. If you care about elections then you care about the integrity of them. You want to make sure that there are no ballots that you know, disenfranchising somebody from voting is just as bad as putting a ballot in that doesnt count. It, all of it destroys the integrity of an election. Right. It is not the same as absentee ballots. You have to apply to the state. They have to verify your signature. Then you get approved by the state. Then you get the absentee ballot this is flooding the zone with mailin ballots. We understand a number of states allow for people other than family members to get ballots that is the issue with nevada, who will collect the ballots to turn it in . It doesnt have to be a family member. Could be a Political Group doing it . Absolutely. That is what is so terrifying about it. As you just pointed out, absentee voting has been around for a long time, what you have to go through to get an absentee ballot and how you have to mail it in. Elizabeth got to cut away. Thank you. Thank you, charles. Here is President Trump. President trump americas deepest sympathies to the people of lebanon where reports indicate that many, many people were killed. Hundreds more were very badly wounded in a large explosion in beirut. Our prayers go out to all the victims and their families. The United States stands ready to assist lebanon. Very Good Relationship with the people of lebanon and we will be there to help. It looks like a terrible attack. I also want to provide the latest on Tropical Storm isaias. Approximately 600,000 are without power along the east coast and Utility Companies are working roundtheclock to restore service as quickly as possible. I spoke to governor cooper. I spoke to governor desantis. I spoke to all of the people at fema. And theyre working very hard. Coastal areas in the storms path can expect to see the storm surge and rip currents, while inland areas could see flooding and very, very high winds, fema is responding to states that have requested the assistance. We have a list of those states. We can give them to you in a little while and my administration is monitoring the situation very closely. We have the military on guard but we have fema is there in all cases. Corporation of engineers is ready if needed, the army corps of engineers, very talented people. I urge everyone in the storms path to remain alert and follow the guidance of your state and local authorities. I now want to update you on the path forward, having to do with the china virus. Before i do that i want to give you some numbers which are rather spectacular that just came out. The Manufacturing Index of institute for supply management. That is ism, most of you know it by ism, increased for the third month in a row, rising nearly two points in july to 54. 2. That is fantastic, the highest reading since march of 2019. This is remarkable considering the survey was conducted throughout july and showed significant improvement despite the southwest in particular, virus hot spots. The ism measures and, its a very strong measure, of new orders rose five points in july to 61. 5. At its highest reading that would be since september of 2018. That is a big number. Since the april low, new orders are up over 34 points, which is the largest increase in the history of the independent sm dating all the way back to 1948. 34 points, that is the largest since 1948. Similarly the ism measure of production is up 35 points from the april low to a reading of 62. 1, which is the largest threemonth gain in over 70 years. That is some number. These were, somewhat surprising but ive been saying were doing well. Those numbers are really spectacular. Automobile sales likewise are a key factor in the resurgence of manufacturing. Since the march low of 8. 8 million units, with, sales and all of the numbers that are going up, stunningly, it is 65 increase since then, so 14. 5 million units, which is a, a massive number. The great strength and great news is really for states like in particular michigan and ohio, south carolina, pennsylvania, very good. Florida, a little bit. These are great numbers. Recordsetting numbers. The strength in new car sales is also evident in the used car market where soaring demand, literally soaring demand is putting upward pressure on the used car prices. This is a leading indicator of the Motor Vehicle industry. The need to restock, depleted shelves will further galvanize the factory sector. We think very substantially based on the numbers. Were very happy with these numbers. And i think most people are anywhere from surprised to shocked by these numbers in a very positive way. Economywide inventories crashed at a near 320 billiondollar annualized rate last quarter. Crashed in that case mean as good thing, not a bad thing. That is the largest drop ever on record, ever. Homebuilders sentiment likewise is soaring as are home sales. Sentiment is now higher than last year and new homes recently made a 13year high. So we have a 13year high in new home, new home construction. New Business Applications are very strong. That just came out. The widely followed atlanta fed gdp and it is something that they have just come out with now, forecasts new data point and incorporates it into quarterly estimates. It looks like it is showing a 20 annualized growth in the current quarter. So 20 in the current quart. Well take that all day long. Well see if that is right. That is a projection. Well see if that is right. The atlanta fed, very respected. The virus, back to that, we are continuing to monitor and monitor particular hot spots across the south, southwest and the west. And were seeing indications that our strong mitigation efforts are working very well actually especially to protect those who are most at risk which is really been our primary focus forever since weve gotten to understand this horrible, horrible plague that has been unleashed on our country by china. As of yesterday cases are declining in 70 of the jurisdictions compared to 36 last monday. That is a big, big number. 11 out of 13 states with the positive rate above 10 have seen it a decline in daily cases since midjuly. In other states the data suggests that the need for continuing vigilance is strong even though the numbers are getting very good. State has have a test Positivity Rate between five and 10 and states with the lowest Positivity Rates we also see slight increases in daily cases in a couple of them. We must insure that these states do not become new flareups. So were watching them very, very closely. Fortunately thanks to substantial improvements in treatment and the knowledge we have gained about the disease itself the recent rise in cases has not been accompanied by a significant increase in deaths. Fatalities nationwide are at roughly half the level of the april peak. So the death, number of deaths or fatalities are at half the level. One is too much. One death because this should never happened to us. It should have been stopped very easily by china wuhan. Thanks to our major advances in treatment, weve seen vast improvements in recovery rates across all age groups, compared to april, mortality rates are 85 lower among individuals aged 18 to 69 and 70 lower among individuals over 70 years old. Weve also made significant strides in sheltering those at highest risk, especially the elderly. Approximately 85 of all current cases are individuals under the age of 65. Just getting some very accurate numbers on this. And these are people are generally at much lower risk of complications. Since the pandemic began, nearly half of alpha tallets have been at Nursing Homes or assisted living centers. That is incredible statistic when you hear that number. This data underscores the best path forward is an aggressive strategy focused on protecting americans at highest risk. As we race towards the development of a vaccine, we must continue to take extraordinary precautions to shield the elderly. Were doing that at a level never even dreamt possible. Both with testing and with common sense and those with underlining conditions, especially, the elderly, with the underlying whether heart or diabetes, they seem to be the two most predominant conditions that cause tremendous problems. While allowing those at lowest risk to carefully return to work and to school where embers flair up we must engage immediately. That is what were doing. This is the sciencebased approach. That is good with us. Working very hard on that. An extended lockdown would fail to target resources at the highest risk populations while inflicting massive economic pain, longlasting damage, on society and Public Health as a whole. So there wont be lockdowns but we watch specific areas. Were very careful. Were putting out embers. Were putting out flames. When you look at whats happening with miami and it is going, the numbers are going down but florida is going down very significantly. Texas and california are going down, rather significantly. On telemedicine as we discussed the last time, and as i said numerous times during this day it is an incredible thing that is happening, a central part of our effort to protect the elderly to greatly expand access to telehealth so seniors can be treated from the safety of their homes. That is what is happening. Number of Medicare Beneficiaries using telehealth increased roughly 14,000 a week, to nearly 1. 7 million. From 14,000 to 1. 7 million peer week in total. 10 million Medicare Beneficiaries have accessed Telehealth Services since the pandemic began. That is a tremendous thing that has happened with telehealth. As we shelter those at highrisk were also pouring every resource at our disposal into the developing into therapies and vaccines. Two vaccine candidates are currently in the final stage of Clinical Trials with several more vaccine candidates entering phase three in the coming weeks and you read and scene whats happened today. Todays news was very exciting. Through operation warp speed, were also mass producing all of the most promising vaccine candidates and were determined to have a vaccine very quickly. We think we will have something very soon. We have great companies. These are among the greatest companies in the world but right now they dont like me so much because im forcing them to drop drug prices, Prescription Drug prices very massively. Some of these companies are involved in that. Some of them arent. Were having a tremendous, you will see a tremendous drop in price. Were using favored nations. Were using rebates. Were using everything. So long ive heard about how wealthy the middlemen are, they call them the middlemen and they are very wealthy. Nobody even knows who they are but theyre very wealthy people. Were doing the rebates. Were doing purchases from other countries like canada, which buys drugs for much less money than the United States is allowed to under a very bad system. I dont call it archaic, i call it bad because it is meant really for Drug Companies to get higher prices but under, under the system of matching that we have, if germany has a pill for 10 cents and our is 2 doll lars, were allowed to say, we want favored nations and we want the pill for the same. The same is the lowest country in the world f they sell to one country lower than anybody else that is the price were going to get. Doug companies are not too happy about that big pharma. We also dramatically accelerated the availability of plasma therapies, steroid treatments, antivirals and other therapies to treat the illness. Today the nih, very exciting, announced they are beginning the trial of two new antibody treatments with which will take place in 40 cities across the country. Were going to move very quickly. Results look very good already, incredible results. More than 230 Clinical Trials or potential treatments are underway and weve secured 500,000 courses of treatment for remdesivir. Remdesivir, were really doing a job with it and it is helping a lot of people. That is why you see the fatalities and mortality numbers looking very good, relatively speaking that is. But that is for american hospitals through the month of september. So we have remdesivir at a very high level for hospitals through the month of september. Thats big news. The United States also is far and away the most robust Testing Capacity in the world. Testing has been incredible what weve been able to do. Nobody is even close. Since march 12th weve increased daily testing by 32,000 percent. How is that . 32,000 . Somebody would say that must be a typo. That is not a typo. 32,000 . We have now conducted over 61 million tests nationwide, averaging over 820,000 tests per day and nearly five million tests per week. Now that were understanding the virus, were understanding very much what were doing with respect to who it affects, who it is destroying and who gets away with it like young people, very young people, well be having some interesting statements having to do with testing and focus testing, i call it focus testing. By comparison, mexico, so were doing numbers that are incredible but by comparison, mexico, as you know the president is a great guy but their numbers are much different. They do about one million tests. France has done 2. 9 million tests. Canada is around the four million mark. Australia is around the four million mark. The United States is testing more people in a single week, in many cases large segments or large wellknown countries all put together. It has been amazing achievement the testing, the quality of the testing also. Now were doing testing where you can have results in five minutes and seven minutes and 15 minutes as opposed to waiting to come back from labs, for it to come back from labs. Over the last several weeks hhs has opened surging testing sites in baton rouge, new orleans, phoenix, miami, jacksonville, florida, mcallen, texas, bakersfield, california. This week were opening new surge sights in houston, texas, atlanta. To date more than 130,000 tests have been conducted at these sites. The fda also authorized first two tests that display quantity of antibodies present in the individuals blood which is a big deal, allowing us to learn more about the immune response. Fema and hhs worked with the private sector to deliver more, we have new numbers, more than 200 million n95 masks, 855 million surgical masks, 36 million goggles and face shields, 364 million gowns and cover ales, 21 billion, can you believe that, billion gloves. We distributed that to the governors, different states. When we get on the phone with them theyre very happy, that i can tell you. No complaints from any of them. Theyre very, very happy. What they say to you separately maybe will change for political reasons but they are very happy with the job weve done. In our National Stockpile weve tripled the number of n95 masks on hand to more than 40 million, triple the number of gowns to 15 million, and quadrupled the number of ventilators to nearly 70,000. These numbers are growing every day. Were now making thousands of ventilators, many thousands of ventilators a month. Were getting them to other countries who are desperately in need of ventilators. Theyre very hard to produce, theyre very complicated machines. So were fully stocked here and weve made sure that every state is fully stocked. But were getting them to a lot of countries that need help. Well continue to work with the governors and local authorities to help them insure significant hospital capacity, protective equipment, supplies and medicine. Im more confident than ever we will get a vaccine very soon and we will defeat the virus and i want to thank you all for being here. Well take a few questions. Yeah, please. Reporter i wanted to ask you about kodak. You had a big announcement the other day about getting kodak into the pharmaceutical business but the sec is now investigating what happened. Can you say a word or two of what you think there might have been some kind of a problem in terms of how those arrangements were made . Is there any grounds for concern from your perspective . President trump i dont know. I wasnt involved in the deal. The concept of the deal is good. I will let you know. Well do a little study. Well find out. If there is any problem well let you know about it very quickly. I wasnt involved in it. It is a big deal. Its a way of bringing back a great area too in addition to pharmaceuticals. Kodak has been a great name but obviously pretty much in a difficult business. So well see what thats all about. Well let you know very quickly. Yeah, please. Reporter i want to follow up before i ask the coronavirus question on lebanon. You called this an attack. Are you confident that this was an attack and not an accident . President trump would seem like it based on the explosion. I met with some of our great generals they seem to feel it was. This was not some kind of a manufacturing explosion type of event. This was a, seems to be according to them, they would know better than i would but they seemed to think it was an attack a bomb of some kind. Yes. Reporter on coronavirus you talked, when you talk about the mortality rate, the death as proportion of cases i understand it is significant when you look at how deadly the virus is or how good a country does keeping people alive that have been infected but when youre talking about the scope of this virus, when you look at percentage of the population that has died, only three countries have more deaths than the u. S. How do you explain that, that why the percent of the population has died is so much higher than in the u. S. . President trump actually numbers are lower, i will get back to you on that, but were proportionally lower than all countries. Were at the bottom of the list. Relative to cases were at the bottom of the list, a good thing at the bottom of list. I have can get back to you. We have four or five different lists on that, were generally speaking at very bottom of the list. Reporter when i look at Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Research center, their website, most affected countries, deaths per 100,000 people, populations of how many people the population have died, you have uk, through chile, then the u. S. Canada has 8,000, 9,000 deaths. Obviously theyre smaller than us. That is only 6 of the population. You know, of 6 of our total cases. Why arent the deaths much higher . A lot of our numbers were based on new york had a very tough time, new york, new jersey, that area. When you take them out justs an example, look at florida relative to new york, that is not to say anything wrong with new york. It was a very tough place. People are close together. It is crowded. It is not easy. But when you take that out, our numbers are among the lowest and even with it in, i will get back to you, we have among the lowest numbers. They have done a fantastic job on it. Yeah. Reporter mr. President , i would like to ask a question about the election but one thing on unemployment first, are you considering taking executive action to send or rather reinstate the Unemployment Benefits that expired last week if congress cant get a deal by end of the week . As a general point, what rate then would you want in there . A percentage or flat rate . We are looking at it. Were also looking at various other things that im allowed to do under the system and, such as the payroll taxus pension. And taxus pension. Were talking with the democrats, they seem to solving problems of democrat run states and cities that have suffered greatly through bad management. I mean really bad management. So that seems to be theyre look forge a trillion dollars to help out with cities that are run by democrats. In some case radical left democrats that have not done a good job. I appreciate today the wall street journal said very good things that we did a great job in portland by having our people go in, Homeland Security, chad wolf and folks, we went into portland and weve done a great job and they had that in an editorial that we really won that situation but we want the whole, we did save the courthouse. The courthouse was going to be burned down or knocked down. It was in tremendous danger. We went in. We took care of it. We appreciated what the wall street journal said. As far as the various things that i may or may not sign, i may not have to sign. I have mean progress is being made as you know very well on the hill. Well see what happens. But i have the right, including the payroll taxsuspension. People are being evicted unfairly. It is not their fault, it is chinas fault. People are being evicted we can do that with a executive order. We can do that, do it relatively quickly. Even from the standpoint of covid, people get evicted. Then they go into shelters and there are thousands of people in the shelters this is not a time. You never want to be in a shelter. This is not a time to be in a shelter with the covid. They catch it, they get it. It is no good. So i may have have to do something on evictions too. The democrats amazingly dont want to do it. We offered them short term deals. We offered them loots of alternatives. So far the only thing they want to do bail out states poorly managed by democrats. Okay. Reporter if i could, sir reporter on sale of tiktok youre basically arguing that the u. S. Government is going to collect part of a transaction include two companies to which it doesnt hold a stake in. That is precedent never happened in u. S. History before. Administration offered very little explanation how that is going to work. Can you back your statement up and provide specifics about how did you say that is impressive . Did you actually use that that term. Or the. Reporter almost unprecedented. Almost same thing. I like impressive. Not quite. Close. Tiktok, tiktok is very successful. It does tremendous business in the United States. People are riveted by it. I have many friends when they saw that announcement theyre calling, i think their kids love it. They dont because they dont get to see their kids anymore but they are, it is an amazing thing whatever it may be, and i told microsoft and frankly others if they want to do it, if they make a deal for tiktok, whether it is the 30 in the United States or the whole company, i say its okay but if you do that, were really making it possible because were letting you operate here. So the United States treasury would have to benefit also, not just the, not just the sellers. And i said reporter how . President trump very simple. We have all the cards because without us you cant come into the United States f youre a landlord, you have a tenant, the tenants business need as rent, it needs a lease. So what i said to them is, whatever the price is, a very big proportion of that price could have to go to the treasury of United States. They understood that. They agreed with me. They agreed with me very much. Please in the back. President trump so that deal may or may not happen. We given them to september 15th. If we can have it, great security, obvious security. Microsoft would be a company good in that respect or improved in that respect at many levels. Including working with the department of defense. Theyre very high level approvals. So it could be good but there are other companies also. Yes. Reporter you or any others in the administration besides microsoft to see President Trump other companies called us. Microsoft called me directly. Weve had other companies call. I dont know where they are. Sounds like microsoft is along the way of doing something. I dont blame them. It would be, Great Company. It is really a Great Company but we cannot take the security risks of any of those companies, including huawei which as you know we put a halt to but we cant take the security risk. I think our attitude on china has changed greatly since the china virus hit us. I think it changed greatly. It hit the world and it shouldnt have. They should have been able to stop it. So we feel differently. I just dont know, when you lose, when you lose so many thousands of people, you know, ultimately it will be millions of people around the world. Its a terrible thing that happened to the United States and europe and the entire world. Really a terrible thing. Yes, please. Reporter mr. President , ask you a question about the coronavirus and one on policing. On the virus, you said recently there will be too much testing. Can you explain what downside would be from testing too Many Americans to the virus and why you havent provided a date by which all americans might have the same kind of testing that we have here at the white house . President trump we do more testing than anybody in the world as i explained. I dont mean a little bit. You look at india, were at 11 million. Were at 61 million. There comes a point where you want to focus your testing in a different way. Well be announcing some. What weve done is incredible with the testing. Not only the testing, not only number of tests but also very important the quality of the test and machinery itself to do the testing. Nobody thought it would be possible to get a five minute and a 15 minute result that is very accurate result. We do with abbott. Abbott laboratories has done a great job. Many of these companies have done an incredible job. Were looking at it very strongly. Were looking at doing something that if we do, if we do it, look, right now, what the testing is doing is helpful but were spending massive amounts of money and we want to have it, we want to have it channeled very accurately. We want to help the most people we can but we are testing at a level that no country in the world, ive spoken to the leaders of the world and they will ask me about it, no country in the world thought it would be even believable were able to test so much. 61 million versus, you know, most countries dont even test. You know when they test . When somebodys feeling badly. If somebody is feeling badly, theyre symptomatic, that is when they test. That is a big difference. With us we go around looking. If we find, we find spots, we fine hot spots. One problem is from the standpoint of media, we end up with far more cases than we would normally show. As i called it the other day, statement, i said it is called media gold. For the media it is gold. For the truth weve done an incredible job in testing. Nobody in the world has done the job. Other leaders told me the same thing. They cant believe were able to do it. And we will continue but we want to really be able to test very specifically the people that are in most danger, most in need. Please. Reporter thank you, mr. President. I wanted to ask you, first about what you tweeted out earlier today in regards to florida and youre comfortableness as it relates to mailin balloting for florida. President trump im glad youre asking. Reporter why does it apply to florida and doesnt apply to mailin balloting across the country . Florida has a great republican governor. It had a great republican governor. It has got ron desantis, rick scott, two great governors, over a long period of time they have been able to get the absentee ballots done extremely professionally. Florida is different from other states. I mean in nevada, where you have a governor, he said lets just send out millions of ballots and post office cannot be prepared. I havent spoken to the post office about it but i dont know how they could be possibly be prepared. Florida has been working on this for years. And they have a very good system of mailin. That would absentee or even beyond absentee. So in the case of florida there arent too many people would qualify. Theyre so wellrun, florida is a very wellrun state, low taxes, low everything. They have done a great job, really a great job. The two governors between the both of them they have got a great system of absentee ballots and even, in the case of mailin ballots the Postal Services are built up there. Take as long time. When you look at the Carolyn Maloney election, i will give you the story, i think you have to do that election over. That election is no good. You have to take a look in new york, they have thousands of ballots. They dont know what happened to them. Is there fraud . Its a disaster. That is only for a relatively small number of ballots but i think they have to do the election in new york over. The times wrote a big story about it yesterday, front page story. It is a disaster. Its a mess. They have to do that, i think they have to do that election over. Nobody can know what the election result is. So in the case of florida they have done a great job. They have had tremendous success with it. But they have been doing this over many years and they made it really terrific. So for florida, you can mail in your ballots. You dont have to go in, maybe a couple other states they worked out a system but this took years to do. This doesnt take weeks or months n the case of nevada, they will be voting in a matter of weeks. You cant do that. I cant imagine the post office could do it. All of sudden theyre supposed to be dealing in millions of ballots. Florida has done a great job. We have total confidence in florida, if you mail in your ballot it is going to matter. Thank you very much. Reporter what about other states . Would you encourage voters in other states to request ballots . Elizabeth that was President Trump wrapping up his press conference just now. He talked about a wide range of issues. He talked about the bombing in lebanon. His officials believe it was an attack t wasnt an explosion. Dozens of people killed, thousands injured there. Mitigation efforts are working ahead working with covid19, policies of Administration Working there. Talking about a payroll tax cut. Basically that is still on the table, to deal with the emergency relief under covid19 and just wrapping up now, saying mailin ballots are rife with problems pointing to new york democrat Carolyn Maloneys case that race is still undecided. Thousands of ballots are basically being invalidated. They came in past the deadline. A federal judge is weighing in on that race as well. Lets bring in Ken Blackwell. He is a top advisor to the trump campaign. Thanks for sticking around here. Your reaction to what the president was talking about with mailin ballots, saying also, wait for this. He is saying our federal presence in portland did mitigate the rioting there. Your reaction . That was a great report by the president. He is on the job and just demonstrated that he is ready to deal with the Public Health challenge, the Public Safety challenge and the economic, economic recovery challenge. Look, as it relates to mailin voting en masse as theyre proposing in nevada, the challenge there is to the chain of custody. In florida and in states where they have been doing this for a long time, they have the chain of custody issues where the voter has to request the ballot. In nevada theyre talking about mass distribution of ballots. In some cases two ballots in one envelope and anybody return it. So there are real challenges to the chain of custody in what is being proposed in nevada and what would happen if you just dumped this new system on the nation as a whole. What the president is talking about is making sure that we mitigate the opportunity for, for fraud. As it relates to the Public Safety strategy the president has proven once again through operation legend and other initiatives that he stands ready to coordinate with local and state officials to make sure neighborhoods are safe. You would have to have the imagination of walt disney or the [inaudible]. Speaking of jerry nadler to think that what is happening in portland and seattle and chicago with this rash of crime is not actually happening and lives are not being lost, property is not being destroyed. This president once again showed that he is not hiding in his basement. He is on the job and he understands his first obligation. Then showed the breadth of his competency by speaking to what he is doing on the International Level from the standpoint of economic and national, and national security. Whether it is dealing with tiktok or whether it is dealing with china. Elizabeth right. Ken, i just want to return back to the, you know, the protests because this will be an election issue. The president just now saying that the federal forces did help mitigate what was going on with violent rioting. A local seattle newspaper, your reaction to this, ken, 200 protesters showed up at the home of the police chief, carmen best there the newspaper, the times saying in seattle, mostly white men and women in their 20s. They shouted vulgarities and insult of neighbors. They took down license plate numbers of neighbors cars. They took pictures of cars. They asked little kids what schools they attended. Ken and you and i talked about dozens of cops, private home information was revealed by protesters on social media. The lynn wood times, sate pell newspaper reporting neighbors stopped protesters carrying large duffle bags to the home of police chief, but neighbors stopped them. We know these duffle bags have had weapons and possible explosives in them. That is scaring a lot of people. Weve seen protesters showing up at homes of nypd commissioner, Homeland Security, acting chief chad wolf. The mayor of seattle. Minute Society State elected official. Your reaction to what youre sorrying now . That is what these public, local, state leaders understand when they acquiesce or cower from sort of anarchy and violence being perpetrated by these thugs and these criminals. When you undermine Public Confidence and safety you invite this sort of intimidation of the very Safety Forces that the public depends on, helping them to maintain safe streets and safe neighborhoods. There has been dereliction of duty. There has been an assault on our, on the integrity of our Safety Forces by these mayors and [inaudible]. Turn a blind eye to this sort of thuggish, violence and anarchy. The old rule, if you reward bad behavior, what youre going to get is more bad behavior. That applies to criminal activity and disruption of the fabric of our communities. There should be to invite Economic Opportunity and job creation and people working period. That is what were up against when we have cowards in leadership positions. Elizabeth ken, thank you so much for joining us. Ken blackwell, come back soon. We love having you on. Always good to be with you. Elizabeth okay. Coming up, former Top Obama Administration officials now set to begin testifying in the badly bungled trump russia and Michael Flynn probes. Well talk to flynn attorney sidney powell, would what they knew and when they knew it and would they have done differently manipulating the members of the Intelligence Community and fbi abuses as well. 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Welcome back to the show the attorney for general flynn, sidney powell. Great to have you back on, sidney. What do you think will come out of this hearing and what would you ask sally yates . I would have a lot of questions for sally yates, liz. Not least of which get details how she was briefed by the fbi immediately after her interview of Michael Flynn because we know now from the records that they told her they believed general flynn. That he was forthcoming. That he answered their questions as best he could to his recollection at the time. Showed no indication of any sort of deception and believed he was telling the truth and they believed he thought he was telling the truth. Which completely eviscerates any sort of crime. Yet the very next day she runs to the white house not once, but two times, on day after that also to try to get general flynn fired. It is absolutely inexplicable. There is of course the extense sieve conversation in the oval office on january 5th. We now have Peter Strzoks notes that appear to be another conversation which she participated about the recordings of flynns conversations with ambassador kislyak. They all knew that those conversations were perfectly legitimate and part of flynns job. There was no logan act violation. They knew that. She in particular said that there was none. It wouldnt fly. So she has a lot of questions to answer. Elizabeth joe biden, rather the government declassified documents show joe biden talking about going after flynn using the logan act. There is this key question as well. The debate sally yates still sign off approve the fbi fisa wiretaps on carter page, given what she knows about the fbi abuses fisa court, misleading the fisa court. Not disclosing to the fisa court, seeking taps on discredited opposition research, steele dossier. Democrats paid for that. Used to be contest the 2016 election if hillary lost. That is what ended up in the fbi. What would you ask sally yates about that . First i would ask her if she read the application before she signed it because its a verified document. Any good lawyer reading that document would not put her name asserting probable cause. It would include a firsthand statement of personal knowledge of any wrongdoing whatsoever. There was no probable cause for anything in those applications. It is appalling that search warrants, fisa warrants were granted on them at all. Elizabeth sidney, lets get back to unmasking. What are your thought on the second investigation led by u. S. Attorney john bash . He is investigating obama officials unmasking trump team members like general flynn. There is reports that the unmasking may have got ban to 2015 under barack obama. Getting nsa date own u. S. Citizens and. Your reaction to that . We can tell it was very serious and widespread from the decision of judge Rosemary Collier head of the fisa court previously, a decision released in 2017 talking about hundreds if not thousands of illegal unmaskings. Essentially comey gave the fbi and private contractors unfettered access to the fbi database to mine it whatever they want to mine it for, people were doing queries about information whoever they wanted to get it about as it was their own private encyclopedia britannica. There are scads of the violations. They go back to 2014 with flynn not long after he left dia. Elizabeth this is massive abuses of power under the Obama Administration, deeper and more widespread than people may realize. Sidney there is this story a nonprofit Watchdog Group on privacy surveillance, former house judiciary chair, bob goodlatte, republican out of virginia. He is a Senior Advisor now advising them, he they are hitting the office of of the dn, with foia requests. They want to know if the Obama Administration did surveillance and unmasking of 48 members of congress. Members of congress from january 2018, to january 152020. Senator rand paul tweeted about that three years ago, he thought he was being spied on an unmaskerred. Your reaction to that . Dont forget john brennan was spying on members of congress with cia assets and nsa tools of electronic surveillance. They were spying on anybody they wanted to spy on. And then brennan also formed this thing called the fusion cell or the hammer or whatever people want to call it, that was used to just explode surveillance information and activity over all kinds of americans. Particularly congress and in fact ive been told even i was surveiled several years ago. Elizabeth so thats danger senator grassley and Senate Republicans are talking about. The republicans are saying we dont want to turn into east germany where were spying and snitching on each other. If they could do it to general flynn they could do it to all of us. Your word on that . Exactly. And they have been doing it on all of us, liz. That is what all needs to be uncovered and explored and exposed from the American Public to know how bad the surveillance state has been and is. And it is only gotten worries, and this covid mess is only going to make it worse. That is part of the Contact Tracing i find extremely objectionable, all of it. It is way too much government intrusion in what is supposed to be a free society. Elizabeth you know, i would like to switch gears, you know, senator ron johnson is pushing forward with his probe into the paytoplay conflicts of interest involving joe biden and his son hunter involving Hunter Bidens work in ukraine while joe biden was Vice President overseeing ukraine for the Obama Administration. There is word that senator johnson could come out with that biden report in midseptember. There is also subpoenas being involved here. Were seeing democrats like nancy pelosi going on cnn saying, well there is effectively republicans meddling in the upcoming election when these probes into the bidens started last year in 2019. Your reaction to that . American voters need all the legitimate information and truth they can get on the president ial candidates. Biden has been engaging in paytoplay for a long time, particularly the to benefit hunter and other members of his family. He and obama and the whole clinton crime cabal have been doing this, lining their own pockets in their globalist deals for years. This is the corruption that President Trump was sent to washington to get rid of and it is all just starting to come to light. I think were going to find it is far worse than we ever realized. Elizabeth sidney, im so sorry, i wish we had more time with you. We are running out of time. Can you give us an update what is going on what is going on with your client general flynns case . Senator graham was talking about it last night with Shannon Bream of fox news. Saying it is out outrageous with delays in court. Your reaction. Judge sullivan hijacked general flynns case because he refissed to grant the government motion to dismiss which general flynn agreed. It is only case in the country im aware of this ever happened in like this. It is going to be reargued on tuesday to the entire d. C. Circuit Appellate Court. The federal Appellate Court for the district of columbia. Elizabeth sidney powell, thanks for joining us. Appreciate you have coming back on. Thank you, liz. Im elizabeth macdonald. Youve been watching the evening edit on fox business. That does it for us. Thanks so much for watching. Well stay on all sort of headlines for you. We hope you have a good evening. Indian drawings 1,000 years old. We never even took time to look at them. What they discover rocks their world. Theres one there, one there, one there. And look at that panel over there. 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