Fantastic. Im alicia acuna in denver. The president discussing several other key issues, talking at length about then coronavirus pandemic and touting his response so far. David spunt is at the white house with more. Reporter good afternoon. Some medical experts would disagree, but President Trump said the reason the covid testing numbers are up is because more tests are being done, thats why the infection rates are up, because there are many more tests that took place now than we saw just a few months ago in march. Listen. Testing is up 37 well, thats good. I understand. Cases are up 194 . It isnt just the testing has gone up, its that the virus has spread. The Positivity Rate has increased of those cases, many of those cases are young people that would heal in a day. Reporter and, alicia, those young people will go to school in about a month. Millions of kids and parents are anxious about how they will handle that return to the classroom. The president wants to open schools despite c
He is tempermentally unfit to hold an office that requires knowledge, stability, and immense responsibility. I will leave it to the psychiatrists to explain his affection for tyrants. Donald trumps ideas arent just different, they are dangerously incoherent. Martha donald trump wasted no time firing back in his classic fashion. Watch this. I watched hillary today. It was pathetic. It was pathetic. Supposed to be a Foreign Policy speech. It was a political speech. Had nothing to do with Foreign Policy crooked hillary said, oh, donald trump, his finger on the button. Im the one that didnt want to go into iraq, folks and she is the one that stupidly raised her hand to go into iraq and destablize the entire middle east martha that is trailer, folks. Wait until you see the whole feature. Chris stirewalt, join us fox news digital politics editor. Good morning to you. Good morning. Martha start with eggs, bottles unbelievable behavior we saw yesterday. If they believe hurting Donald Trumps ch
Lets go first to doug mcelway covering on the partial shutdown. s live from the rotunda on capitol hill. Whats the latest. Good afternoon, molly. Both houses of congress convened two minutes ago, and dont expect anything to get done because theres nothing to do here. Whatever is done is behind the president s chief negotiationing people, vicepresident mike pence, soninlaw Jared Kushner, and Chuck Schumer. Nancy pelosi im told is not in town. And the whip steny hoyer told me. If theres progress, its probably along the line of verba verbage, the word of the wall. Hoyer is of the belief if they could replace it with a term like virtual wall. He doesnt have the votes for a wall. He has votes for strengthsening Border Security through technological means, personnel means, and a number of other ways, and thats not going to change between now and whenever, so it would, i think, be in the best interest of the country and i think the best interest of the president and congress if we would come
Reporter we have new details of that incident about the u. S. Reaper drone that was fired on by the iranians on thursday. A senior u. S. Official tells me just minutes after the first distress call went out from the tanker at 6 12 a. M. Local time, the u. S. Military moved an unmanned mq9 reaper drone over the tanker. The drone alived at 6 20 a. M arrived at 6 20 a. M. Local time. At i 6 45 a. M. Local time, prior to the Second Attack on the second tanker, a missile was fired at the u. S. Drone on station over the au pair. Thats a norwegian flagship. It missed. U. S. Officials have assessed it was a modified sa7 surface to air missile fired from irans mainland. It was fired after the u. S. Drone arrived on station to assist the norwegian tanker. Separately, weve learned from u. S. Officials that an american mq9 drone was also shot down over yemen by Iranianbacked Houthi rebels in recent days. The British Government has issued a statement blaming irans revolutionary guard corps for the