Protesters blocking of officers and cursing at them as they answered the scene of saturdays video shooting. Washingtons governors that he has saddened to hear of saturdays incident. We have to have a way to provide Police Services under Fire Services in that area. We have to be able to respond when there are injuries. That is not the case right now and we need to explore some other option in that regard. Nearly 40 hours after the fatal shooting, seattle mayor released in the statement saying the city will give you new to make changes on capitol hill in partnership with the black Cloud Community organization, demonstrators, small businesses, residences and trusted messengers who will center deescalation. Meanwhile President Trump and his campaign reality blaming democrats for the seattle standoff. In seattle the democratic mayor and the Democrat City Council have surrendered control of six city blocks to anarchists. These are not a protesters. Governor inslee to get his act together. I will do whatever you want, im waiting for a call. I would love to do it. It will take less than an hour. It will all be over within you will have your city back. Melissa michael of phelan is the president of the Seattle Police officers killed. Thank you so much for joining us. Its hard to make an argument that this is a block party when you have people inside it being shot and killed and First Responders cannot respond. People are dying. What are your thoughts . People are dying. So they have predicted this and im not proud of part admit that but this is what happens when our elected officials dont have a political will to enforce the rule of law. The greater Seattle Community are seeing what is unfolding here. I want people to be able to understand this clearly. This is a very serious situation not just for seattle but for our entire country. This is the sole responsibility of our elected officials here locally that of allow this to occur. Its absolutely unbelievable in the United States of america and a major urban area that plays cannot go into assist victims of extreme violence. This will continue until leadership takes over here. When you speak of leadership i want to read you a statement from Seattle City Council member that said if this killing turns out to be which have been by completely misrepresenting the nature of the peaceful protesting up pupation. Her office to clarify that on sunday she had been what in the world is she talking about. If it turns out to be from the right wing it is the fault of President Trump and conservative Media Outlets and corporations . What is she talking about . Not surprising that she is passing the buck of responsibility. This is her district. This is her issue. This is what happens when her decision to remove tools necessary for the police to clear an area of less lethal options. This is coordinated and planned. The fact that she is now passing the buck is not surprising. This is her district and she needs to take responsibility because its her issue. Its the summer of chaos and lawlessness and that councilmember should be ashamed of herself. The entire city of seattle, the reason a population needs to understand that what is occurred under her leadership and that has metastasized across the political spectrum in our city into the now we are unable to get into a six block area. Weve lost a precinct, and we cant get inside to rescue victims, which we are obligated to do. Per the local service under the law. This is unbelievable. You know you make the point that this is coming to a city near you. Meanwhile violence is tearing up chicago over the weekend. A total of all hundred and two people shot, 14 killed. Including a 3yearold girl in new york city. Shootings are skyrocketed. Two people are dead with 24 shootings on saturday alone. Chicagos Police Superintendent says more needs to be done to stop the carnage. Listen to this. Let a split of violent offenders in jail. Lets revamp the home monitoring program. Its not working. You are clearly distressed about what is going on in seattle and to make the warning that its coming to these other cities like new york, where i am. What we just showed you, it is already begun. How are these situations similar . It is just sad. It is sad that the police are now the targets of what has occurred here politically that is now nationwide. The fact that we have surrendered a precinct voluntarily to unreasonable activists and now we can see violence play out because there is no rule of law. This is now transcending across the country, where i said earlier this violence will sadly continue. So where is the voice for reasonable people in this city and across our country to stand up and say our elected officials need to be held accountable and enforce the rule of law to get order . As a Community Member that lives in this city, i am ashamed at our elected officials. Because this is their fault. The police just want to be able to do our jobs. We are being prevented from doing that. Weve lost the ability based upon that Council Members decision for a vetoproof majority that allows us to use less lethal tools to protect the people that i represent and to protect the citizens of the city. In particular, police facilities. If we cannot hold an unruly mob from taking over another precinct, and if cities across this country take away those less lethal tools that the police used to effectively do their jobs safely, we are in serious trouble. How are we going to how can we reclaim six blocks and reclaim our precinct without there being violence . I dont know how our members are going to be able to do this. We are prevented from even going into an area to rescue gunshot victims now. How can we be used to take over those blocks again . An established rule of law. Its a very serious situation. Melissa i would say it is a terrifying and demoralizing thing to live in one of these cities and watch all of this happen around you and your family. I would say for myself thank you so much for coming on a chair our thoughts. I really appreciated. Thank you for your service. Mike thank you, melissa. Melissa we are moments away from the start of the White House Press briefing. We will take you there live as it gets underway. In the meantime democrats going after President Trump over his tulsa rally. As the Trump Campaign says is supporters are as enthusiastic as ever. I will talk to a top Trump Campaign aide nxt. I hope that this is a preview for november, that are finally people are recognizing that this man is a danger to our country. Just over a year ago, i was drowning in credit card debt. Sofi helped me pay off twentythree thousand dollars of credit card debt. They helped me consolidate all of that into one low monthly payment. 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Instead he does what he always does. He continues to try and divide us and really inflame the worst in people. Keisha ripping Trumps Campaign rally in tulsa. To bite and also criticizing event saying the president but his supporters health how to rest but the Trump Campaign is defending the rally claiming folk protesters as well as the media were scaring people away. In the meantime President Trump is still willing to host a fourth of july event at the white house this year despite pleas from lawmakers to cancel over coronavirus concerns. President fisher is live from the north lawn. Listen, there is no question the Trump Campaign seriously overestimated the amount of people that will show up at saturdays rally. The Campaign Said that more than a Million People had rsvped and yet only about 6,000 people actually showed up and that is according to the fire department. The event the campaign had to scrap plans for President Trump to speak to what was supposed to be an overflow crowd on an outdoor stage here then when he took the stage inside the box under you faced a sea of empty blue seats. The White House Press secretary insisted this morning that President Trump was pleased with this first rally in nearly four months turned out. Spec of the president was not angry at all. The president was quite energized. I was with them after the rally. It was a huge success. The speech got rave reviews. He was in good spirits on marine one. Democrats are saying the campaign simply fell for a prank, that teenage activists registered for the rally to artificially inflate the numbers but then never showed up. The president s Campaign Manager says that is flatout false. He explained the low turnout in a statement by saying the fact is that a weeks worth of the Fake News Media warning people away from the rally because of covid19 and protesters coupled with the recent images of American Cities on the fire had an impact on people bringing their families and children to the rally. Whatever the reason the president s Campaign Manager in 2016 said that the campaign made a mistake. I think that a fundamental mistake was made. Overpromising and under delivering is their biggest mistake you can make in politics. Even if you receive a million or 1,200,000 rsvps, its always about the turnout. What that means is we have to go back and reevaluate the system in which people are getting those tickets and determining if they werent real, they were robots, or putting additional protocols in place of this does not happen again. Its unclear what this means for future rally but expect White House Press secretary to get quite a few questions about this when she stepped up to a podium for the briefing any minute now. Melissa. Melissa kris dunn bishop, thank you for that. Christian murtaugh, the communication director for trumps Reelection Campaign joins us now. Let me ask you that basic question. How do you explain more than a hundred more than a Million People requested tickets that you only had 6200 people that showed up and came in. First you have to understand that the people were making this tiktok claim dont know what they are talking about and dont know how the president s rallys work. There are no reservations needed and people register for these rallies but it is always entry on a firstcome firstserved basis. Melissa if i could just stop here because i dont want to run out of time i just wonder directly back to the question which is im not talking about tiktok, im just saying how can you half a Million People rsvped that they are going to come as the camp inside, and only 6200 show up. How do you explain that disparity in numbers pair the campaign is the one that put out those numbers. First we know how many people went through the set up combat was 12,000. The fire marshal is wrong. Secondly, Brad Parscales statement is accurate, we went through more than a weeks worth of constant negative Media Coverage from cable news networks, mostly offensive like cnn and msnbc telling people that the most dangerous place in the world that they could appeal would it be on a trump or ali. First because of the coronavirus and second because of the threat of dangerous protesters outside. Normally a trump rally is filled with a lot of families. A lot of kids come back trump rallies. There are always children in attendance. Intel so there were not any children at all and it is because we believed they were frightened away by more than a f 24hour a day a negative coverae telling people that the trump rally was a dangerous place to be. The fact that 12,000 people still showed up i think shows a tremendous amount of enthusiasm for the president. The first thing you thought when he got on stages he called everybody in the arena warriors. Im told the lower bowl of the arena holds 9,000 people and it was full. They reported that it was there were no that it was full. There are some people in the upper deck as well. The fire marshal estimate its wrong. Against this deluge of negative scare tactics by the media because they dont want President Trump back on the campaign trail. They dont want him holding rallies. They did everything melissa ive got a jump in before we run out of time here. Okay, how many people do you think it is that go to a trump rally who watch msnbc or cnn . I dont think those are a lot of people that watch those . Every cable news outlet, it was all over the news media websites. Its undeniable that a for more than a week awake the entire National News media was dead set on discouraging people to go from going to President Trumps rallies because democrats out of the Mainstream Media dont want to President Trump on the campaign trail. Let me tell you, we had 12,000 people in the be okay center that is approximately 11,990 more people that attended joe bidens last event. There is a gigantic Enthusiasm Gap between took by demand President Trump. It is real and it is wide. Melissa you brought up joe biden, his Senior Campaign advisor, simone sanders, over the weekend dismissing calls for the Trump Campaign for more president ial debates while also stressing data biden is ready to go headtohead with the president. Listen to this. Speak of the fact that folks are parroting this unfounded salacious live from the president and his campaign that a president by the doesnto the challenge. Its up to lately up to it. It is absolutely up to it. If Vice President biden would tell you if he was sitting right here that he cannot wait to see donald trump on the debate stage and he cannot wait to campaign with him. T also defended the former Vice President for criticism for not holding a News Conference in nearly three months. Do you think that there is a debate on should there be more of them . Yes, theyre sure to be more. People need to see the comparison between vibrant President Trump in the sleepiness of joe biden. Its funny that my counterpart said that if the Vice President were here he would tell you thats the problem. Hes not there. Is not answering reported questions. He hasnt got a press conference and 81 days and he desperately does not want to appear in public. Every time he does he gave a speech in philadelphia and it was in the middle of the afternoon about 2 00 in the afternoon and he could barely function. Its not a question as we heard in the last election cycle. Its not a question of who do you trust to enter the phone if it rings into in the morning, its joe biden can he answer the phone into a clock in the afternoon . They dont want him out to meeting americans and having american see how he carries himself on the campaign trail. Its not a very well. Is not taking reported questions and he doesnt want to debate. The fact that they would just dismiss it and said that stage you want to debate President Trump, their actions belie that. Its quite clear that there are strategies to keep joe biden out of sight and away from questions that he cant control. Everything is scripted for him. Hes got his answer in some Television Interviews already scripted off of a teleprompter. We have to wonder whats he going to do in a setting where he doesnt know the questions in advance and cant have his answer is prewritten for him on the teleprompter. Its crazy. Melissa they would say its working right now because his poll numbers are up. I understand your dog agrees with you for sure because we heard that cute dog in the background. Thank you for coming ups, sir, we appreciate it. The White House Press briefing is set to begin any moment. We will go there live as soon as plus democrats slamming President Trump after he give member of the inner circle is fired. Congressman trey gowdy weighs in. William barr is confused or intentionally doing the political bidding of President Trump on issue after issue. For people with Heart Failure taking entresto, it may lead to a world of possibilities. Entresto helps improve your hearts ability to pump blood to the body. Dont take entresto if pregnant; it can cause harm or death to an unborn baby. Dont take entresto with an ace inhibitor or aliskiren, or if youve had angioedema with an ace or arb. The most serious side effects are angioedema, low blood pressure, kidney problems, or high blood potassium. Ask your doctor about entresto. This is one more example of why william barr has demonstrated hes more interested in being donald trump small personal lot lawyer than he is in being the attorney for the United States of america. Melissa democrats demanding an investigation into the firing of a top federal prosecutor come investigating key members of trumps inner circle. This follows their dramatic showdown over the weekend when Geoffrey Berman, the u. S. Attorney for the Southern District of new york, refused to stop down amid a public spot with william barr. He later relented when barr informed him that the president had a fire at him beer the president denies being involved. I dont get involved. I just dont get involved. The president has the send a document or i guess give it the okay and he wants to run his operation, and that is okay with me. We spend very little time talking about it but i have a lot of respect for attorney general william barr and i think you will have more success over the next couple of months. Melissa we are going to pause right here and go into the briefing right now appear the president ial briefing. Lets listen to Kayleigh Mcenany. Including a 3yearold among the victims. One local news outlet reported that multiple teenagers were killed in chicago this weekend as well. In minneapolis, 11 people were shot and one person killed. One individual was a father of two who worked as a barber and our hearts break for the family. Also a democrat run new york city we saw the New York Post reported that there was one shooting per hour this saturday, absolutely inexcusable with 24 people shot on saturday alone. And then in democrat around seattle we have seen the anonymous zone, otherwise known as chop. One person was shot and killed in this autonomous zone run by radical anarchists. We also saw another shooting there yesterday. Democrats called chop the summer of love. It has been nothing of the sort. Two individuals shot, one person shot and killed. It is the responsibility of governors to protect their estates on the police their straights. The police power rest of the state level and we expect mayors to step up and do their jobs and governors to step up and do their job in the mold of President Trump, who secured d. C. After a night of lawlessness two weeks ago. Finally bd fonda Police Movement is misguided. It will only hope tell mike hurt them vulnerable citizens the most. It is sad and shameful. With that i will take questions. Is the president directed officials to slow down the rate of coronavirus testing . Know he is not direct at that. I would note that first we continue to test about 500,000 per day, a half million per day. 1. 8 billion is invested in new testing capabilities. Any suggestion that testing has been curtailed is not rooted in fact. I would note the extraordinary effort of this administration at this. 26. 7 million tests and we should be north of that. He said saturday he told his people to slow down whatd he mean by that . The president was trying to expose what the media often does as they ignore the fact that the United States has more cases because we have more testing. We are leading the world in testing and he was pointing that out that its a fact that the media regularly ignores. Hes saying he ordered people to slow down testing is not true . Melissa it was a comedy made and just. A comment he made in passing. Specifically with regard to the Media Coverage and pointing out the fact that the media never acknowledges that we have more cases because when you test more people come you find more cases. Is it appropriate to joke about coronavirus 120,000 people have died . He has not talked about coronavirus he was joking about the media and the fact that when you test more you also find more cases. Has the president ever delayed the allocation of federal funding that is already been dedicated to National Testing . No come on the contrary the president has led the wide to be the leading country in the world on testing. In fact, the fda has authorized a hundred and 44 tests under uas emergency authorization. These include a hundred and 22 molecular tests, 21 antibody tests, one androgen test command the president has led the way in making us the worlds leader in regards to is the administration sitting on 14. 1 billion debt of an approved but not yet allocated to. The 1. 8 billion on nih we are exploring new testing and we are leading the world and dusting. We continue to do so. Last july President Trump declared himself the least recent person there is anywhere in the world. Why does he use racist phrases like tone police. Kayleigh the president appoints to the fact that the origin of the virus hits china. Its a fair thing to point out as china tries to ridiculously rewrite history. To ridiculously blame the coronavirus on american soldiers. This is what china is trying to do. President trump is trying to say no, china, iowa he is leading us to his place of origin. About asianamericans were deeply offended and worried that his views will be leading to further attacks or discrimination. Speed of the president has said it is important that we protect our Asian Community in the u. S. And around the world. They are amazing people and the spreading of the virus is not their fault in any shape or form. They are working closely with us to get rid of it and we will prevail together and it is very important. If not a asianamericans, the president values and prizes as citizens of this great country. Its an indictment of china for letting this virus get here. I would also point out that the media blames President Trump for using the term china virus and wuhan virus when they themselves are viewed these very terms. The New York Times called it the chinese coronavirus. On january 20th. Washington post on january 21st, chinese coronavirus. More than a dozen other exampl examples. The common flow is extremel extremely to be clear, or using the white house does not believe it is race at . Kayleigh to be clear i think the media is trying to play games with the terminology of this virus with focus should be on the fact that china left us out of our country. The same price that the media round fleet now condemns has been used by the media. I can go more examples. Wuhan virus to see and then set on july 22nd. We can go on and on and on. Will the media wants done focus on nomenclature, the president is going to focus on action. Yes. The president and attorney general over the weekend offered different explanations on the firing of Geoffrey Berman, the attorney general of new york. Can you clarify why berman was dismissed and whether it was at the presence or request . Speed i think there were very much in sync this weekend. The attorney general and the president. Heres what happened, the president held mr. Clayton in high regard and wanted to nominate him to this position. As he returns to new york but barr was working on a smooth transition and when berman chose to respond in a way that he did, he came to the president on the president agreed and fired this individual come up mr. Berman, as mr. Clayton now will in time get to that position. Why was mr. Berman being dismissed . Kayleigh mr. Clayton wanted to go back to new york city. We wanted to keep them in government and therefore he was given the position at se ny. Speak about a why did the president say he wasnt involved in the firing of Geoffrey Berman when the attorney generals side the president was the one who fired him . Kayleigh of the attorney general was taking the lead on this matter. He did come to the president that report them when mr. Berman decided not to leave. At that point whats when the president agreed with the decision to fire mr. Berman and to promote mr. Clayton. So he was involved. He was involved in the signoff capacity. My second question on testing with use of the president made that question tell mike comment in just. The Vice President said it was made in passing. On the president himself was just by a reporter an hour ago he did not say he was just joking when he said that he told officials to slow down the testing. Kayleigh the president used that opportunity to extol the fact that we have done more than 25 million tests, we are finding more people because we are doing more testing. Why is that funny . You dont have to answer this, the media has never called at ung flu. Kayleigh the media and your network specifically have repeatedly used the term china virus add wuhan virus. Gone on to derive the president is somehow using a term that they themselves have never used. We can go through cnns history. I would be more than happy to go through cnns history. On february 9th you guys talked about the wuhan coronavirus. I january 2030 got talked about the wuhan coronavirus. Thats a difference between calling it the kungflu. Its not the same thing as calling it kungflu. I first wanted to followup on what we are talking about with berman. When the president made the decision to nominate clayton for the job there is the decision to remove berman before clayton was nominated. I think the question is why did he take the acting attorney out of his job before there was a confirmed replacement . There was no tend to put clayton there and there will be an interim individual, and acting attorney as we work to get a mr. Clayton and that position. The question is why didnt we vacate that position until he was ready. Kayleigh the hope is clayton will be confirmed. I wanted to ask about the president over the week and said he did not impose sanctions on china. Since the trade deal was signed in january china not act only has acted in ways that have frustrated you with coronavirus, but the president announce annod their behavior in hong kong and they failed to live up to the tenants of the trade yelled itself. At the same time, the president signed an executive order on National Religious authority. On what i went trump will sanction chinese officials . Kayleigh i will get an update for you on that. What i will say so far is you noted in your question that he signed legislation to hold china accountable for the treatment of the minorities in china. He also previously has imposed visa restrictions on chinese officials for roles in chinas treatment of leaders and other minorities. He has blacklisted companies that were complicit in chinas treatment. He has taken strong action but i will get back to you will not. The president was pleased with the rally. These media reports that he is furious on the plane, there is no grounding in fact it out. I was with them on marine one of the there come on marine one after. He was very pleased without the rally went. The media reporting on this opted to me to go around and ask my colleagues if they saw something different. I spoke with dans give you know who its with the president right up the rally, he said he was very energized having been around the American People. A political pundit wrote to them that it was one of the alltime greatest speeches he ever heard. We saw him make his message so clear and compelling that nobody could possibly have missed it and it was so great to be out of the swamp and in the country. Those comments are how the president feels. On the coronavirus who is the most senior person at this time was focused fulltime on coronavirus with no other duties . Simply coronavirus . Would that person be and what type of authority does this person have just been to u. S. Resources . Speedo and the administration we are what i doing at once. We are expected to do many things at one time. A president that is continuing to leave the task force. Dr. Fauci is there, dr. Burks as they are, they regularly talking the governors. The president is regularly briefed about the state of coronavirus and is regularly involved in decisionmaking is removed sort forward. Is there a specific person focused fulltime with all the duties . Kayleigh a lot of people are focused on it. Dr. Redfield, dr. Birx, dr. Fauci, Vice President leads the task force everyday. But we do many things at once in this administration and the way done quite a good job with coronavirus. We are pleased to see the tragedy anytime a life is lost to coronavirus we are pleased to see that yesterday for the first time there were under 300 fatalities. We are trending in the right direction, we are aware when there are rises here and there. We are quick to go in and put out and save as many lives as possible. We lost far fewer because President Trump took action early. First i wanted to followup very closely on lisas question and caitlins followup, does the president regret using the term kungflu, regardless of the fact that many pundits have described it as wuhan coronavirus. Thats a different thing than kungflu. Does he regress using that term question xp to the president never regrets putting the onus on china and in venice while the, who does the president considered to be the legitimate leader of venezuela . Is he interested in any form of meeting with Nicolas Maduro . Im very glad you asked this question. The president tweeted today that unlike the radical left, he will always stand against socialism and with the people of venezuela. My administration note has always stood on the side of freedom and opportunity and against oppression. Nothings changed. He continues to recognize juan as the leader of venezuela. Does he regret tell mike reject the character is a station in john boltons book that he wanted to invade venezuela . Kayleigh john bolton as discredit himself. Multiple senior officials have been on the record exposing his lies and even the media seems to have taken out of john bolton and how ridiculous some of the things he said. The reviews that his books have been rightly in the media. The media so this book is exceedingly tedious and slightly unhinged. Bloated with selfimportance. You new yorker said he takes an inflated view of himself and a willingness to blame others for just about everything. The federalist talks about the numerous factual flaws who have been underlined as being founded by pompeo, and others who have all come out and said that this book is full of myths truth about himself and others in this administration entirely by the president appeared to does he claim that wasnt true . Kayleigh yes. I want to go back to the se ny and berman. Was Geoffrey Berman fired because of investigations he had overseen . Kayleigh no he was not. As i noted earlier at ag barr noted, this will not disrupt the cases handled by the district which will proceed as normal. Is the president not concerned about the appearance of impropriety in the firings . Kayleigh the administration is clearly outline the reason that he is leaving. It is because mr. Clayton will be moved into that role. Is the white house concerned about the fact that coronavirus cases are now rising . Does that require any new federal action . Kayleigh its a very important question you are asking. What i would know it is the fatality numbers, we are pleased to see that number coming down. I would also point out that dr. Birx set a higher number of these cases are less severe cases per positive. At the beginning of this pandemic. Because of our extraordinary work with testing we are able to identify the cases in the community before they develop symptoms and are in a hospital. Instead of developin identifyinn the hospital weird identifying them in the community and we are equipped to handle when we hear these numbers that have occurr occurred. Speak up two quick questions. The first is on the president and the move to remove stretches across the country. He said it was an assault on our heritage. What is the president tsai but its offensive to glorify americans who owned other americans . Kayleigh on statues what we are seeing across the country is quite confusing because you are seeing statues defaced like gandhis statue defaced and ulysses s. Grant statues defaced and abolitionist. Matthias baldwin statues defaced. Of the same time were being told that the George Washington statue needs to come down, the Thomas Jeffersons doctor needs to come down. Where do you draw the line from gandhi all the way the George Washington . It seems the American People very much agree with the president on this, on not down the statues. A third of those polled were thinking this statue should be taken down pit 61 a posted. 62 according to marist. I will point out out and i will say that when people watch these data to defacement in the beheading of some of these statues, like Christopher Columbus where do you draw the line . Apparently the line goes all the way to gandhi. My second question is going back to the issue of kungflu, she said they were highly offensive and wrong to use that term. Does the president agree with Kellyanne Conway or does he now say that term was highly offensive and wrong question when data was Kellyanne Conways own words. Kayleigh the president does not believe that it is offensive to note that this virus came from china. Its not the same. Kayleigh the u. S. Believes it is unacceptable i will go back to Kellyanne Conway. She said that it was wrong and offensive. Was she wrong to do that . Does the administration fear that this will set a dangerous precedent . Kayleigh the information in john boltons book was classified information as confirmed by the most Senior NationalSecurity Intelligence officials. You have nsa directories saying this could cause permanent loss of a valuable source and damage to the u. S. Intelligence system. Dni redcliff sing virtually the same. You have another governor government officials sang unauthorized the closure of this information could reasonably be expected to enable foreign threat actors. This is the seriousness with which we look at this book. And the nsc looks of this book is a classified information. This real damage that can be done and for what . Selfpromotion and publicity of a failed nsa director. Speak on vanessa oil kayleigh is not lost confidence in all. In the speech i read heredia said clearly the president put up this morning we stand with the venezuelan people and their fight for freedom. I would also not out of the president has been on maduro by recognizing one white out. When you compare that to the Biden Administration you had the former Vice President joe biden you actually met with the venice were alien dictator and complemented his hair. According to yahoo news if i had your hero to be to be president of the United States the former Vice President said. When you compare the actions of this president weve stood against socialism and on the side of freedom. Im finally one thing that i just want to put out that was handed to me, a whopping 7. 7 million total viewers change into fox news to watch the rally on saturday night. Big numbers. Thanks much, guys. Kayleigh is so you heard their questions over the president s firing of u. S. Attorney, jeffrey berman. You heard Kayleigh Mcenany saying bill barr took the lead on it and berman was not a fired because he wouldnt is investigating the president s allies. The wall street journal reported that before the announced intention to replace berman he refused to sign a letter to block religious gathering but not a recent street. He strongly rejected the letter. Lets bring in our panel. We also have matt gorman camilles former Communications Director for the National Republican congressional committee. They get to much for joining us. Matt, let me start with you. What do you think about all this . We also heard kayleigh say it was about the fight they were looking for a place for jay clayton and thats how it was. They needed a slot for him come a place to go work. Thats why they were firing thats why berman got fired. What you think . While i think tate clayton is a capable choice for this. No matter who the president is, they have every prerogative to nominate or replace anyone for this position at any time, for any reason. This is a highprofile position. Rudy giuliani left the number three spot in the Justice Department to become the u. S. Attorney for the Southern District of new york. It doesnt really raise any flags that clayton would go from the sec to this position. Look, i think we will figure out exactly why trump felt he needed to make a change. I think tate clayton is a very competent choice. Jason, what do you think . I dont think it is a matter of whether clayton is confident or anything like that appear the fact that trump is trying to distance himself from the firing raises more red flags . These people serve at the pleasure of the president. He is trying to distance himself from the firing. The fact that bill barr actually called said he was doing an excellent job then all this and decides to fire him. This seems fishy. I know kayleigh, i think shes great. She was spinning and it really starts to spiral when you cant get a straight answer. No ones taking responsibility for bermans firing. This is what attorney general barr had to sit her confirmation hearings january of last year. Lets listen to that. I would not stand by and allow a u. S. Attorney to be fired for the purpose of stopping in investigation. By the president can fire a u. S. Attorney. The president should have a cause beyond simply stopping in investigation for firing a United States attorney, even if he or she like i said, i would not stand by and allow an investigation to be stopped if i thought it was a lawful investigation. I would not stand by for that. Melissa how about that question mike its not a very effective way of stopping the investigation. Somebody stepped right into the bath and a few feel like thats the reason you were fired you can go ahead and write a book and really shout from the lattice tower and youll get a lot of press time. What are your thoughts . Yes, john bolton is showing us in some respects look, you are absolutely right. What are you fire Geoffrey Berman, his deputy is picking up those same cases. You are not ending anything. Thats why it also doesnt make a lot of sense that he was looking to stop in investigation. This isnt the same thing as james comey, where there was lead letters and investigation. Its different in that regard. I think youre right. If this was an attempt to stop and investigation i dont believe it was that would be worth looking into. It would not seem to be appropriate. And i wish we had more time but we had that breaking news and the press conference. Gentlemen, thanks to both of you for joining us. We appreciate it. We will be right back. Make banking easier. Deposit checks, check balances, pay bills, and more. Explore all you can do with our Digital Tools from almost anywhere. Pnc bank. Because the tempurbreeze transfers heat away from your body. So you feel cool. Night after night. During the tempurpedic summer of sleep, save 500 on all tempurbreeze mattresses. During the tempurpedic summer of sleep, Mortgage Rates are now at all time lows. By refinancing, you can save 2000 a year with one call to newday usa. Our team is standing by right now to take your call. And from start to finish, you can do it all without ever leaving the house. 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Because the press secretary just fielded a lot of questions about comments that President Trump made during