Slated to begin in the next hour. Facing an enormous deficit in electoral polling, the president has just four months to turn back time. And standing before mt. Rushmore friday night in the shadow of four white men who embodied the nations virtues and its worst vices. The president narrowed his election pitch to an even more simplistic message than make America Great again. Our nation is witnessing a merciless campaign to wipe out our history, defame our heros, erase our values and indoctrinate our children. Angry mobs are trying to tear down statues of our founders, deface our most sacred memorials and unleash a wave of Violent Crime in our cities. A simple message, america be afraid. Of course far less was mentioned of the nations rising pandemic numbers, breaking records in state after state. As for the legitimate concern of protesters, including those of indigenous americans offended by trumps presence at one of their sacred sites, they were all just ammunition for the president s
10,000 cases. Texas Governor Greg Abbott man dictating some exceptions like after exercising starting tomorrow. Welcome to fox news night, i mike emanuel in washington inverse shannon bream. As we get ready to celebrate Independence Day, fireworks are already flying over washington. But spring and White House Correspondent kevin corke. Good evening, kevin. First it was statues and monuments that were in the sites of activists who critics argued appear determined to erase part of American History without a vote, without a debate and without consensus. Now its Mount Rushmore and fireworks on the latest targets in the countrys growing cancel culture that is absolutely not stopping the president from celebrating. We are going to have a tremendous evening. Its going to be a fireworks display like few people have seen. Its going to be very exciting. Its going to be beautiful. A beautiful evening at Mount Rushmore. Thats what President Trump says he has in store for all americans to enjoy thi
Repeating this lie, that the increase in cases is due only to an increase in testing. His own task force contradicts that. There is no question that the more testing you get, the more you will uncover, but we do believe this is a real increase in cases because the percent positivities are going up. Percent positivities. Thats the percent of people whose tests are coming back positive that means the infection is spreading. Its in the data. Today, the president goes to a celebration at mt. Rushmore. Thousands are expected to attend. No masks required and crucially, no social distancing required. That disconnect and his push to reopen, theyre not new, but he isnt pushing to reopen too early. But isnt pushing to reopen too early, how we got here. It would be nice to be able to open with a big bang and open up our country. I want to get it open as soon as we can. We have to get or country opened. We cant the country wont take it. The people want to get back. They want our country opened. I
Confederacy. This comes as the New York Times reports u. S. Intelligence identified an afghan contractor believed to be a key middleman in handling those Cash Payments from the russian gru to the terrorists targeting u. S. Service members. Cnns Jeremy Diamond joins us from the white house. Clarify when this russian bounty scheme or allegations of it came to the white houses attention and what did they do about it . Reporter jake, one source familiar with the matter tells cnn intelligence about this scheme came to the white house as early as the first months of 2019. Now, the source says the details at that time about this intelligence were fuzzy, werent as flushed out as they are today. Nonetheless, jake, it shows the white house has been monitoring this intelligence for at least a year, and one source also saying that then National Security adviser john bolton was aware of these reports at the time when the white house received those first reports in early 2019. A u. S. Official tells
Jed, todd, how are you doing . Jedediah fourth of july. Heard a lot of noise, were doing good today. Good to see you, todd . Todd great to be here. Talking about fireworks well have a lot more, it was like never before here in washington. Well talk about it more. First a fox news alert overnight. Violent protests, shootings erupting across the country just after President Trumps july 4th street. Ashley strohmier joins us about the nationwide chaos. Reporter good morning, griff. After President Trumps message, violence rocked the nation. Tumbling a Christopher Columbus statue in baltimore. [shouting] they pulled it down with ropes before doing this. [cheering] toppling the monument into the city heart for. Demonstrators burned the American Flag. Shouting america was never great. That was burned in the area known as black lives matter plaza. Portland police declaring a riot, marking 38 Straight Days of unrest in the city as rioters burned American Flags. In South Carolina gunfire erupted