Todd country music, apple pie and baseball. In the next hour, a pie magically appears in studio, in city field the mets will play the Atlanta Braves at 4 00 at 4 00 pm. Carley shimkus is out there all morning previewing the big games, going over the big game and looking at saturday a huge day of baseball on fox. Jillian a short season but we are seeing a season. We will see how everything plays out and keep you updated. Todd very good friday morning, you are watching fox and friends first. Jillian thank you for starting your day with us. We begin with a fox news alert. Into chicagos grant part, the city tears down the Christopher Columbus statue. Todd protests erupt outside mayor Lori Lightfoots home. Griff jenkins joins us with the overnight developments. Reporter a lot of developments, the Christopher Columbus statue in grant park has come down. That is show you this video, you see it coming down with the crane, professionally, the city is doing it, they put it on this truck and drove it away. Unclear where they will take it but it was at the mayors direction. It was not torn down by protesters, it comes, as you mentioned, hundreds of protesters gathered outside mayor lightfoots home after she told demonstrators to monitor Law Enforcements actions. If you see something that doesnt look right, please dont hesitate to report it. We will remain diligent and if we see any steps out of line, to take president to court. The president for not taking action on guncontrol. Donald trump doubling down on his willingness to hurt the violence there. We want to help all of them. 50,000, 60,000 people who know what they are doing, they are strong, tough. Protesters taking to streets for the 50 seventh straight night. Confrontations with federal Law Enforcement trying to protect the federal courthouse as nancy pelosi continues to blast the federal deployment. The use of Storm Troopers under the guise of law and order is a tactic that is not appropriate to our country in any way. Todd the doj inspector general, the Administration Deployment in portland at the request of oregons congressional delegation, horowitz says he will review roles and responsibilities for use of force. Reporter donald trump taking selfproclaimed role as law and order seriously. Slamming nancy pelosi for Storm Trooper remarks. Can you imagine if somebody like me is the nazi illusion like Storm Troopers the way nancy pelosi so brightly blithely did. The sky would come falling down. These are Law Enforcement officers that work for her federal government and been operating within their Legal Authority on a constitutional basis to preserve peace and protect a federal courthouse, seat of justice, chicago didnt vote for donald trump but he wants piece there any way. Americans deserve it. It is that simple. Jillian donald trump cancels the Republican National convention in jacksonville, florida as the state sees a spike in coronavirus cases. Todd donald trump talks about his decision. Many republicans say they were shocked to hear the convention was canceled. Donald trump telling fox news the move is out of caution because of covid19. We are setting an example, we dont want to have people so close together, such enthusiasm, wont be your typical convention. It will be very safe. I thought i had an obligation not to have large numbers, massive numbers of people crowded into a room. Donald trump blasting joe biden and barack obama after biden released a new ad slamming the president s record. I wouldnt be there if not for those two. If they did a good job iran against what they did. I won. Biden and obama, i am here in the white house because of them. Ed charlemagne slamming biden after the presented democratic nominee calling donald trump the first racist president. I wish joe biden would shut the f up forever and continue to act like he is starring in the movie of quiet place because as soon as he opens his mouth and makes noisy get us all killed. Jillian donald from will, quote, and direct the steel the election by arguing mail in ballots dont work. Donald trump responding on fox news. When we talk about biden, he has a manifesto he agreed to. I thought the manifesto was Bernie Sanders for open borders, these are leftwing, at a level i dont think bernie ever talked about to the same extent. Jillian several states are expected to use mail in ballots to avoid the spread of covid19. The decision to cancel the convention is a complete turnaround from what the president previously said. Liz harrington joined us last hour into the president is showing leadership. The American People and what is best for the country and that is what donald trump will always do and we are not worried about the enthusiasm level. It is off the chart. A lot of people were disappointed, they reached out to me when donald trump made this announcement but our supporters are so committed to voting for donald trump, getting out and organizing and reelecting. The convention was moved from charlotte to jacksonville after the president and governor of North Carolina got into quite a back and forth over safety. New overnight the family of john lewis releasing plans for his memorial, celebration start tomorrow in troy, alabama, across the bridge in selma for the last time. In the Capitol Rotunda from monday to wednesday. He will be laid to rest in atlanta during a private funeral thursday. He died from pancreatic cancer at 80 years old. Todd executive orders aimed at lowering drug prices. Some republican lawmakers at the event at the white house this afternoon. Reports say one order is likely to include a proposal to cut costs by tying them to lower prices paid in other countries. We will see. Are you ready . Our favorite story of the day, Carley Shimkus live at city field. Jillian one thing that is going to be missing in addition to many things, dog night. Carley what is going to be missing . Todd one dollar hotdogs. Carley i didnt know that was a thing. That needs to happen. Day 2 of the much delay Major League Baseball season, National Take on the braves later today. If you thought this season was going to be boring you thought wrong. The president and fox sports tripped a sleeve. 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Probably hurts china more than the united states, the Chinese Government, in western countries to develop that part of china. There will be much more riskaverse by doing that. And the end china could be hurt for this. And the Economic Disaster in china could be shaky days ahead. Todd people can read this for themselves. Exactly what we said was going to happen. Where does this diplomatic back and forth go from here . You can argue china started this. A consulate in wuhan, the us officials left the consulate because of the outbreak of the pandemic the Chinese Government has been making it difficult to return. They are ready shutdown the consulate. From the us perspective the us isnt looking for escalation here. Where do we let the Chinese Government do things they never let the us do in china. When it comes to the Chinese Communist party it is distressed and verify. What point do we move beyond that and make some changes . Will it be like this forever . Reporter the focus isnt on china. It is the rest of the free world. If you look at all these senior officials from the fbi director, the attorney general, secretary of defense, they are out there delivering dense speeches laying out the case of why china is a malicious actor destabilizing the world, the world is ready to listen in response to covid19 and other activities, people are concerned about china. In us policy rightly focused on talking to the rest of the free world, time to come together and stand together and that will get chinas attention more than swapping back and forth on consulates. Todd are other countries getting wise to what china is doing . Do they slow roll this until something serious happens . Australia flipped their policy on china. India just became tough on china, japan, look at the uk planning huawei, france phasing out huawei. Italy being more restrictive. I think the tide is turning and thats why the government is doing this. Its not about politics, 10 extra votes in the election because the reality is people will vote on domestic issues. This is about the Us Government being smart making a case to the rest of the world. Now is the time for all of us to stand together because we believe in freely elected governments, human rights, free enterprise, the chinese dont. If we stand there and let them do what they want they will take that away from us. Jillian thank you for your time and insight. It is 17 after the hour. A korean war veteran who dropped out of high school to serve our country finally graduates. Todd he is not the only person in his family walking the stage. He will meet this hero next. Its pretty inspiring the way families redefined the word school this year. Its why, at xfinity, were committed to helping kids keep learning through the summer. And help College Students studying at home stay connected through our university program. Were providing affordable Internet Access to low income families through our internet essentials program. And this summer, xfinity is creating a Virtual Summer camp for kids at home all on xfinity x1. Were committed to helping all families stay connected. Learn more at xfinity. Com education. Jillian welcome back. Baseball is finally back, the keys beating the nationals, kicking off the shortened season. Todd a good stroke by aaron judge. A live shot by Carley Shimkus at city field in new york for a full day of baseball. Nobody knows what it means but she will take it. Carley at your finest, especially because it is day 2 of Major League Baseball, back here at city field the mets will take on the braves at 10 00 pm eastern time. I wish i could say this area was going to be packed with cars and fans and all that good stuff but that is not the case this year. Big opening day at the nations capital, the yankees beat the Washington Nationals for the one. Doctor Anthony Fauci throughout the first pitch, it went wide. Someone who is good at baseball, Carlos Stanton made his presence known at the beginning of the game. Watch this. Stanton with a drive to leftcenter field, the yankees are just in front, 20 new york. Carley meantime at the white house donald trump celebrated opening day with Mariano Rivera and a bunch of Little League or his. A really cool scene at the white house. He revealed exciting news, he is going to possibly throw out the first pitch, invited to do that on august 15th any yankees game and later on during the discussion with Mariano Rivera he talked about how important baseball is to the american psyche. Get back to normal because nobody wants to see this but i think it is really good that baseball is opening, looks like football is opening, looks like sports are opening. It is a tremendous things psychologically for our country. I am out here, the mets take on the braves at 4 10, tomorrow, four games on fox, on fox sports one. You wont look at cardboard if you are watching fox sports, virtual fans in the stand, the virtual fans, pretty amazing, they can show their mood and do the wave, total wash of the game they get up and leave, make it seem as normal as possible thanks to the power of technology. I wonder if you can do baby shark. Carley so many questions. Carley a lot of buses. Tons of buses. Todd one little slugger may be ready for the major leagues already. Watch this. Jillian i cant get enough of this. Calvin with help from mom showing off his aggressive swing quotes, calvins dad sharing the video. Heather janice dean with the weather. Janice that is awesome. Very good, very nice. I love being called adorable. I might not be adorable after i tell you what is happening in the tropics because things are really active. Hannah just became a Tropical Storm in the last couple hours expecting landfall within the next 12 to 24 hours on the texas coast. There is the track as we go through time. We expect 60 mileperhour storm, not going to be a hurricane, it will bring several inches of rain on the lower texas coastline and in some cases we could see 8 inches of rainfall. That is no joke and that will cause some flash flooding. The Tropical Storm force windss, a little storm surge with this but we will monitor. It will not be the worstcase scenario. Kind of a good way to have a reminder of what is yet to come this season. Hurricane douglas is a dangerous storm making a beeline toward the hawaiian islands. The big island possibly being affected tomorrow. The good news is look at the forecast precipitation is well north of the island. Hopefully that track will continue and trend that we. We are watching Tropical Storm gonzalo which is expected to move into the caribbean, the good news is the conditions are a little harsh for strengthening once it gets closer to the us so we will keep an eye on that. Back to you, happy friday. Jillian said in unison. Todd 26 after the hour. The republicans dealing roll out of the next coronavirus package until next week. What should we expect . Jillian is worth taking time to get this right, he joins us next. Since youre heading off to school, i got you this brita. Dad. I just got a zerowater. But weve always used brita. Its two stagefilter. Doesnt compare to zerowaters 5stage. This meter shows how much stuff, or dissolved solids, gets left behind. Our tap water is 220. Brita . 110. Seriously . But zerowater let me guess. Zero . Yup, thats how i know it is the puresttasting water. I need to find the receipt for that. Oh yeah, you do. Todd of fox news alert, creams moving into grant park as the city tears, Christopher Columbus statute, crews placing a massive monument on a truck and driving it away. Jillian protests erupting outside mayor Lori Lightfoots home, thousands of demonstrators blocking city streets. Meantime in portland, protesters hit city streets for the 50 second straight night with no end insight. Heather or gas telling the air as police try to get massive crowds under control, donald trump sending hundreds of agents across the nation as riots are expected. Jillian what did leaders in tennessee do that is not been done elsewhere . Todd for those that dont know, what did nashville do to deal with the unrest . It is tennessee. We respect and review Law Enforcement and have traditional values. In tennessee you have a different class of person. Tennessee take a lot of knocks but we fight the countrys wars, the economy is good, balance our budgets, not like the rest of the country. Jillian what needs to be done to turn the corner . A lot of peaceful protests are peaceful. Overnight things turn violent and a lot of places. Some folks on the left say these are organic, these are paid protesters. A bunch of soccer moms dont show up with batons and shields at a riot. That just doesnt happen. These big city mayors are learning, their class on conflict resolution at harvard doesnt work, the economy was going good, they are spending our money like crazy and then turn around and have a little problem and then go out and listen to some grateful dead with the protesters and get all woke, they are not. These are anarchists. I was the mayor of the Third Largest county in the state of tennessee, you have to make decisions and these folks are not prepared to do it. Pass taxes, increase government, keep people happy, move on to the next level and it doesnt work that way anymore. Todd you mentioned democrats, Congressional Colleagues from across the aisle had this to say about the president s response. Crime in portland and across oregon was down before donald trump sent in his secret police. A disaster of the administrations making. Todd what is your response . The mayor of portland, ted wheeler is the second one. They are appealing to their woken us and their little communities but the rest of the country sees what is going on, riots are out of control, organized, they know what is coming on, it is proper for the president to send in federal agents to protect federal property. That is the bottom line. They dont like it, they lost control, they think you can appease the mob. These people are anarchists. That is why it doesnt happen in tennessee. We dont put up with anarchists in tennessee. Jillian Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell says that agreement has been reached on the coronavirus stimulus bill, what do you know about this . What do we expect to be in it . There has to be protection for the workers, kids going back to school. There has to be Liability Protection for the businesses, Small Businesses because driveby trial lawyers will be suing leader mcconnell told me 1000 lawsuits have been filed, most are frivolous lawsuits but that is what they want, trial lawyers filed a lawsuit in court, they walk in and settle out of court. The big corporations will die but the small mom and pop businesses some could lose their businesses because of it but the legislation i proposed and believe leader mcconnell has and i am pretty sure Speaker Mccarthy has deals with the fact that if locals provide the resources and the businesses provide a safe environment they should be free of liability in that case. Todd so many in our country needs that money. We appreciate your time this morning. Over to you. Jillian dropped out of school to serve our country during the korean war is now a High School Graduate at 87 years old, Edward Sanders will finally walk across the stage to receive his diploma. The milestone even more special because he is joined by his greatniece and her mom, all of them, good to see you. Edward, congratulations, you had three dreams in life, what were they . One was to learn to fly and they did at 15 and another was to serve in the air force and i did and my dream is complete and i owe it all to jackson, wonderful principle she made it all happen for me and im grateful. Jillian you didnt realize right away that you were going to be graduating with alex. Tell me how this came about. Must be so special. I happen to be at home, my niece came over. I was telling her about it. Just so grateful i was getting a chance to graduate. For her to walk across the stage with me made it awesome. Jillian lets hear from alex. What does this moment mean to you . I was happy to share this moment, glad i am fighting for it. Jillian in your wildest dreams you never imagined this would be the situation. Know. It came as a surprise but a good surprise. Jillian a hard time figuring out how to graduate, a lot of your records were burned in a fire. Yes they were. I think it was in the 53, i tried and tried to get something and couldnt. He says lets go talk to him and see what we can do. And she said lets do some research and see what we can do and they will not allow it and i am so grateful that i am able to graduate and walk across the stage with my great greatniece. I can hear the excitement in your voice, you dropped out of high school in 1952 to join the air force, you are the allamerican story of perseverance and accomplishing your goals. What does your grandfather mean to you . Your greatgreatgrandfather i should say . Congratulations to all. What a fantastic family moment. With covid19 things are different. 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Todd new weekly declassified document reveal the agent to deliver the briefing actively listens for remarks on russia made by donald trump, a source telling fox news the agent used those comments as a cover to monitor the president and michael flynn. Jim jordan has been all over the spying issues as the beginning, he weighs in on what the fbi did and did not do. The fbi went to then candidate trump targeting you and your campaign. What they didnt tell him his we are targeting you. What they didnt tell him is we are spying on you based on documents, just 17 days into the investigation, they were investigating the president for no reason. Jillian the durham probe investigating the fbi investigation is still underway. Todd world Champ Mike Tyson returning to the ring after 15 years. The 54yearold boxer and actor will face off with roy jones junior at a World Division champ, jake part, fighting on the other card, this is getting better, payperview match is set for september 12th, mike tyson will be the best fighter we have ever seen. Jillian a fox news alert, hundreds of protesters forming overnight as portland sees its 57 straight nights of unrest. How do we restore peace in major cities . Todd we will ask ben carson when he joins us live next. Just vacuum, spray mop, and toss. The shark vacmop, a complete clean all in one pad. Book two separate qualifying stays and earn a free night. The open road is open again. And wherever youre headed, Choice Hotels is there. Book direct at choicehotels. Com. And reinventing. Its what, chwith comcast business, your Small Business can work faster, with powerful internet from the nations largest gigspeed network. Work safer, with all your connected devices automatically protected by securityedge. 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The nation wrestles with getting kids back to the classroom, suing the governor of california about the school. He doesnt want schools to open but they do. A busy 3 hours kicks off a dozen minutes from now on the channel you trust for morning news. Todd we continue with fox news alert, hundreds of protesters filling the streets of chicago outside mayor Lori Lightfoots home demanding she kicks federal agents out of the city. Christopher columbus statue overnight, dozens of officers hurt last week. Thank you for joining us this morning. People protest that the message is not being heard. Do you think that is what is happening . That is part of it. People feel helpless and hopeless they become very vulnerable. That is what is going on in society right now and what we have to do is go back to what is going on before the virus came along. We have low unemployment rates among minorities and an economy that was booming in a rising tide lifts all votes. This is not a permanent situation, to make people believe they are victims, we need people to start remembering what they learned as children and what they learned in church. You love your neighbor, treat people the right way, have respect for other people, dont listen to these forces of hatred and division that popped up all over the place. We need to recognize there is something we can each do, people who believe it must be willing to stand up for what they believe in, you cant stand in the corner and just let the radicals speak all the time because people start to believe that is the mainstream. It is not a mainstream by any stretch of the imagination. How do you restore these once Great American cities going back to where it was a few short months ago in some of these areas. How do we restore these once Great American cities . We have to do it neighborhood by neighborhood. In jacksonville earlier this week they had a Community Center where a lot of the Services Available to people were amalgamated under one roof so that that younger mother who has 3 or 4 children, never got her ged, get child care, further training and support and all of a sudden you have a pathway to success. It makes a difference in peoples lives. We need to understand that it will make a big difference in our country. Jillian some people argue the reason people are fighting and protesting is because some people dont want things to go back to how they are because in their eyes it wasnt how they think they should be living in america. What would your message be to those people this morning . It is not those people. There have been people in our country for many decades, going back to fabian who wanted to fundamentally change our system, they dont believe in the way we do things, think there should be a system where people dont have to worry from cradletograve, give the government all power but they need to fundamentally change our society. What do you do to change society . First you have to destroy their history because then they wont have any identity, they dont have any identity, no beliefs, then they become easy to manipulate. It is not just people who are being manipulated, the ones who are doing the manipulating and the only way to stand up against that is for the people who believe in our system and the opportunities, who recognize we are not perfect but need to improve, those people have to be willing to stand up and fight this, they cant sit in the corner and be afraid someone will call the name. Todd you and the president are tearing down an obama era housing period, why is the white house getting rid of this rule . It is overly burdensome, cumbersome, put the government in charge of how communities and neighborhoods who operated. That is antifederalism. That is not how our system was worked. Those who claim this administration is racist, we are rolling back civil rights, when we came in, there were thousands on thousands of backlogs of civil rights cases, housing rights cases, we obliterated 22,933 cases that were backlogged from the 4 and we have taken actions against cities like los angeles that were not accommodating disabled individuals. Facebook, all these places so we are very active, just look at the record but we want to do things that make sense, not things that impose bureaucratic control over the people of the united states. Jillian thank you for joining us, we appreciate it. Always a pleasure. Jillian 6 minutes until the top of the hour, play ball, Major League Baseball underway. Todd the highlighted a preview of what is to come on fox sports this weekend coming up next. Jillian good morning, welcome back. Basic is back. ThCarley Shimkus looking ahead o a full day and full weekend of baseball action. Carley, take it away. Carley yeah. Thats right. I was just thinking it feels appropriate from a patriotic standpoint for opening day to have taken place in washington, d. C. Equally notable that day two of Major League Baseball starts right here in new york city because it was once the epicenter of the coronavirus which is why i am here outside in citifield where the mets will take on the braves later today 4 10 p. M. Eastern time. Big opening day though yesterday. Unfortunately Mother Nature did not cooperate. It rained, it poured of the dugout got flooded. They ended up calling the game early. Rain shortened game. Meantime President Trump celebrated opening day at the white house with marion that rivera and Little Leaguers. He also made a big scheduling announcement. Take a listen. He asked me to throw out the first pitch and i think im doing that on august 15th at yankee stadium. Carley how about that . He is going to possibly throw out the first pitch. A lot has been made about no fans in the stands. Fox virtual fans in the stands to make the experience as normal as possible. And this hit, of course, has to end with another bug going by. Jillian of course. You will have more fox friends. Todd fox friends starts right now. Steve live from studio f. Hey, welcome aboard, folks. We are in the big room for the friday telecast of fox friends on this july 24th. And, anxiously and brian, i dont know but, but didnt it seem like this was not only the longest week of the year but there were like three wednesdays in a row . [laughter] brian kind of weird for me because i have only been here thursday, friday this week. Steve thursday was your monday and today is your friday. Ainsley i dont care what the day of the week is. Its friday