Crisis back in march. Lets hope its not simply due to being a lagging indicator. Maybe this is a positive trend. Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced his state will be pausing its reopening plan due to a recent spike in cases. He also asked texas residents to wear masks and practice social distancing. Its important not to lose track of the economic crisis unfolding alongside the pandemic. Frankly due to the pandemic. The Labor Department says an additional 1. 5 million americans filed for unemployment last week. Feels like the Third Straight week when thats the number. Joining me is my coanchor katy tur. What else are we going to be looking at this hour . Well, chuck, right now the house is debating its Police Reform bill. The George Floyd Justice in policing act. The house will vote on the bill this evening. Exactly one month after floyd was killed by Minneapolis Police. The proposal would likely be a nonstarter in the Republicancontrolled Senate but could offer a road map for democra
New yorks finest. We have the heartfelt tribute. Fox friends begins right now. Well, good morning. We want to get right to the breaking news. The executionstyle shooting of the two Police Officers here in new york city happened just five minutes after the new York Police Department got a warning from police in baltimore that a gunman was on the way to the city to determine to assassinate Police Officers. Jackie is live in our studio with details. Reporter guys, the two Police Officers were on overtime in their marked car having lunch. The Police Commissioner bill bratton says they never had a chance. He walked up and took a shooting stance on the passenger side and fired his weapon several times. Police say the 28yearold suspect Ishmael Brinsley was already a suspect. He shot his girlfriend and he survived. His Instagram Post said, im putting wings on pigs today. They took one of ours, well take two of theirs. Ripericgarner. Moments later he was dead as he shot himself in the head. The
State. Then, its one year and one week until the election. But all eyes already on the polls. What do they really tell us and will todays frontrunners be tomorrows nominees. Also from one child to two. China changes decades of policy. Its hoping to grow its economy by growing its family. Will it work . And one of the worlds most famous scientists on dr. Ben carsons rejection of the theory of evolution. This is not something you believe in or not. This is a fact. It is a fact. Its just as much a fact as the earth goes around the sun. First, heres my take. I had an interesting visitor drop by my office last week, and he said something that stuck with me. The most important contest in the world right now, he said, is between isis and us. He is rasheed, the intellectual leader. Despite winning the countrys first free elections compromised with its political foes and helped make tunisia the arab springs only success. As he sees it, the real struggle is not between islam and the west but bet
It was a staggering night for his elections, he won 60 of the vote. Four years, several life times in politics. Right now it is tough for new jersey republicans. Ive heard people mejs they think its going to be tough for several years if part because chris kristy ending his term as popular as he is. The person who is his Lieutenant Governor was the one running. The two of them werent exactly thick as thieves but she still had to additionally with the fact that the governor, chris kristy was an albatross around her neck. What new jersey has done was gone back to the natural way of things, because it is a blue state. What were going to see now is a democratic governor who is a Goldman Sachs executive, when he is a former ambassador under a democratic president , under obama to germany. And he is somebody who is going to follow in the footsteps of another Goldman Sachs executive who didnt end his term and career as a new jersey governor rerl. So the question is if hes going to have a diff
Delegates joins us live later in the show. Weve also got our team of reporters and analyst all over the top stories of the day. I want to start with Geoff Bennett and Peter Alexander over at the white house. Weve got a couple of developments, not just david hale who has shown up for the closeddoor deposition, but also an accusation from fiona hills attorney against Gordon Sondland. Reporter let me explain that. Because Gordon Sondland in his testimony which we got yesterday, the transcript of that was shared by house investigators. He describes a meeting in which he says he met with fiona hill and he says that hill, when he encountered her, was railing against trump, bolton and the disorder. He also says that her anger resonated with him because he had never seen anyone so upset. Well, today fiona hills attorney put out a tweet and he said sondland has fabricated communications with dr. Hill, none of which were over coffee. Dr. Hill told sondland what she told lawmakers, the lack of co