row. we've got fox business team coverage. blake burman at the white house. hillary vaughn and edward lawrence in washington. we'll start with blake. the latest on reaching a deal for covid-19 relief. blake. reporter: hi, jackie. every afternoon around this time we say there is another big meeting up on capitol hill. let me start by saying there is another big meeting up on capitol hill. treasury secretary steve mnuchin, white house chief of staff mark meadows are negotiating with the top two democrats chuck schumer and nancy pelosi. walking into the meeting mnuchin and meadows were quote, unquote, hopeful. according to sources i'm told during yesterday's meeting, those two, mnuchin and meadows impressed upon schumer and pelosi if there is not significant progress in the upcoming days, that could increase the possibility that president trump would go ahead and use executive action. that is why one source described the meeting that is taking place up on the hill right now as quote, unquote, big inflection point. president trump this morning said one of those executive actions could potentially be directing the irs to suspend collecting payroll taxes. watch. >> well i may do it myself. we're negotiating right now. i have the right to suspend it and i may do it myself. i have the absolute right to suspend the payroll, to do the payroll tax. we call it a payroll tax suspension. that is to beef up small businesses to hire back workers. reporter: big four meeting but a part of that meeting is newly installed postmaster general as well. here is the reason why. the postal service has been a key part of the negotiations as democrats want additional money for the post office as they view mail-in balloting needed during the covid-19 pandemic. however we heard from the president in the last several days and really even weeks he views mail-in balloting as potential source of widespread fraud. they're is a big gulf between the two sides there. part of the meeting this afternoon, the postmaster general. back to you. jackie: blake burman thank you so much. connell? connell: jackie, let's talk to steve moore about all of this, freedom works economist. i believe he has the ear with the president on some of these issues. let me start with one near and dear to you, the payroll tax suspension as blake described it. the end-run around congress, with executive action, something you suggested. critics of the move said it would be an end are up around the constitution which gives the congress the power of the purse. so can this happen, rather than will it happen? what do you say? >> there is no question it can happen. in fact the media has been all over this the last week trying to find some constitutional scholar who will say it is not constitutional but it is. statutes are very clear about this, connell, basically says in the case of an economic emergency everyone agrees we're in an economic emergency right now the president has the authority under the irs code to postpone the payment of taxes. remember, connell, president trump did this at the beginning of the year when he postponed the april 15th date for paying federal income taxes. he can do the same thing with the payroll tax and suspend that through the rest of the year or even through 2021. let me be very clear about this, a lot of reporters have gotten this wrong. there is zero question, donald trump has 100% authority to do it. the question is, will he do it. david: connell: should he do it also. >> connell -- connell: you think payroll tax should be suspended. i know you will answer your own question. maybe there is a deal to be had on capitol hill that doesn't include that but does include stimulus that can get the economy up and running. should the white house maybe be open to that? >> well, first of all, i'm tired of this idea that government spending is a stimulus. let's be very clear about on this idea government spending is not a stimulus. i don't think giving money to states and cities is a stimulus. not giving money to schools is not a stimulus. not saying it shouldn't be done. maybe it should, maybe it shouldn't. it will not make the economy healthy. the only thing that makes the economy healthy, get our business up and running and get our people back to work and help those businesses to do so. only thing i see on the table is actually a stimulus to hiring workers, getting businesses up and run something the payroll tax. i like the idea mitch mcconnell is pushing, we are going to need a liability shield for businesses so that, you know the trial lawyers can't sue them every time somebody gets sick. look, nancy pelosi's bill, connell is a 3 trillion-dollar spending bill, $3 trillion. that is, that will bankrupt our country. we can't allow that. even $2 trillion is too much. even 2 trillion is a lot of money. we're spending trillions of dollars like it is candy. i never seen anything like this. when i first came to washington the budget in 1984, the entire federal budget, connell was a trillion. now we'll spend $3 trillion spending bill. it is unbelievable. david: no, like something we never seen before. you're right about the fact we've grown to accept it. it's a trillion there, a trillion there. something talking about real money. that is where we are, right? one other thing i heard brought up is timing. bang for the buck timing. we finish this, on the payroll tax cut, some in the republican party, you know what? that doesn't help us as quickly as direct payment would. doesn't help us as quickly as extension of enhanced unemployment benefits 600 bucks a week. what do you say to that? maybe we could help quicker in that type of a fashion? >> i certainly hope there is no republican out there that says paying people $600 a week, twice as much as they make for working is stimulus. that is the ultimate destimulus. we estimate if the president were agree to 600-dollar a week, this continuation of this project through the end of the year as pelosi wants. that will cost the economy 8 million jobs. that is not a stimulus. that is the ultimate destimulus. connell: maybe republicans are open to 200, 300, 400. >> look that is on top of additional benefits. my bottom line we should all agree it makes no sense to pay somebody more for not working. they have to keep the price tag below a trillion dollars. payroll tax cut gets money into the economy instantly. you could have 7 1/2% in our paycheck. connell what is wrong with that? connell: real quick. we're lucky we have a paycheck. if you're not working that is another issue, right. >> that is the other thing. the way you get, the most important way to help people who are unemployed, duh, get them a job. i mean, pelosi thinks the best way to help unemployed people is give them money. no, we want to get them into the workforce to get them a paycheck. connell: got to run. always food to have your perspective. steve more out of washington. jackie. jackie: another economic lifeline could be taken away for millions of americans. the ppp program, sending government loans and grants to small businesses affected by the pandemic, it is expiring this saturday. unless congress and the white house agree to an extension. our own edward lawrence is live in washington with details. edward? reporter: those talks are going on right now in the house speaker's office. there is $138 billion left in the payroll protection program pot. businesses have to saturday, as you said because congress extended that deadline through august 8th. now the discussions going on in that meeting right now as to what should happen to that money. administration, democrats on that front, senate majority leader mitch mcconnell frustrated at the pace negotiations which includes the ppp money are taking place. >> while americans are struggling the democratic leaders moved about one inch, one inch in eight days, for the sake of the millions and millions who need more help, let's hope they decide to get serious soon. reporter: two republican senators have different ideas on what to do with the left over money in the ppp pot. senator john kennedy wants to redirect it to business hit by both the covid shutdown and looting and burning from protests across the u.s. senator marco rubio wants to give it to companies who already received forgivable loans so they have another chance at a second loan. now even the head of the federal reserve last week points to that program as a success. >> as the ppp program showed, you can save a lot of businesses and a lot of jobs with those. in a case where lending a company money might not be the right answer. reporter: already, $522 billion has been given out to businesses and more than five million loans. back to you. jackie: edward, thank you so much. connell? connell: missing parts. major suppliers are having major problems with their supply chains of course because the of the pandemic. hillary vaughn has been looking into this. joins us more from washington with more on the story. reporter: hi, connell, as families get ready for back to school shopping spending is expected to hit a record high. combined k-12 and college student spending is expected to break $100 billion this season for the first time ever. as some families are making their way into brick-and-mortar stores, some spotters are spotting empty shelves. wondering why. some back to school suppliers say there is backup from big name vendors like crayola, it will take weeks to get some inventory. >> anything that they're importing from china is going to be six to eight weeks from now. and that is, that is very unlike cray ol'la. we are very much worried about missing the season for us. i think what we'll do, we will go to our second and third supply vendors. we have some good backups. reporter: new data from the global port tracker shows that u.s. imports are slowly rebounding after taking a big drop during february and march but retailers are being conservative with the amount of merchandise they're importing this year. imports from june are still down 10% compared to last year. daniel hackett who tracks imports lighten inventory in stories not because they can't get supply but they don't want to overbuy when consumer behavior is unpredictable. >> in what is in stores an on the shelves, consumers should have plenty what they're looking for. at this point it has been a cautious approach by everyone involved. the retailers are bringing cargo in. they're trying to make you are sure they don't end up with oversupply. likewise the big question, how much are the shoppers going to be spending? reporter: connell, the national retail foundation says 43% of shoppers will do some of that online for back to school. connell? connell: hillary vaughn there from the streets of washington. thank you, hillary. jackie. jackie: a path of destruction. cleanup efforts are underway after a deadly tropical storm took a direct hit at the east coast leaving millions 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of programing fed into her ear. we'll get her hooked back up to get a report on the storm. it really was something yesterday. it knocked out the power in my studio, i can tell you, number of suburbs of new york were hit very, very hard. that includes long island and queens where ish shaw was and new jersey hit very hard by the storm. after it left us on the east coast, it started moving up to other parts. we'll get back to aishah if we can. meantime, jackie, back over to you. jackie: devastation in beirut. 100 people killed, thousands more wounded after an explosion rocked lebanon's capital. today investigators are searching the wreckage at the city's port for clues what might have caused that massive explosion. trey yingst with the latest developments there. reporter: hi, there. the scenes out of beirut today truly horrific. what we've seen according to the red cross, more than 100 people who have lost their lives and there are dozens missing at this hour, with thousands of injuries overnight. we saw rescue crews searching through the rubble. a lot of video showing people actually trapped under buildings. they had to be dug out through splintered wood and broken glass. one team found a man trapped more than 16 hours. he was given oxygen as they work to pull him out of the collapse building. beirut has two week state of emergency as hospitals were completely overwhelmed. you saw patients treated in the parking lot of some medical facilities. you saw with the video how strong the explosion was. a priest was streaming the mass whenever the blast occurred. the ceiling fell down on him. the blast was felt in cyprus, 100 miles away. it is difficult situation for entire population. to give you an understanding, interview with governor of beirut hit home he compared the to blast in hiroshima as as he choked back tears. adversaries are pitching in with aid. prime minister benjamin netanyahu was willing to give supplies and help whatever is necessary for the lebanese people. it is related to a stockpile of ammonium nitrate. there is no evidence that it was a bomb that president trump alluded to yesterday. an investigation is continuing and multiple port authority leaders are under house arrest. if you go 30 miles north of where we are, dealing with the city of beirut. they have rolling blackouts. people are protesting for months. they are hung rip. the economy is collapsing in the wake of covid-19. this blast is only making the situation worse. back to you. jackie: trey yingst, thank you so much. connell. connell: we'll get you reports on clean up efforts from yesterday's tropical storm. life to queens, new york, to folks's aishah hasnie. reporter: sorry about that earlier. having audio issues after we do with after the storms. unfortunately got some late-breaking news. two more deaths have been added to the death count in the northeast because of isaias. we'll get to that in just a second. i want to show you what is happening behind me. we're seeing scenes like this all over queens. there is a giant tree ripped up from the sidewalk. concrete sidewalk. you have can see that pulled right apart. the tree, if you walk over this way with me, the tree landed on top of not only one, two, three, four, five, there is a 6th car you can't see because of all the leaves on top of it. this is again the scene we're seeing here in queens. nearly 2000 trees came down across the city. including one killed a 60-year-old man. he was sitting inside of a van when a massive oak snapped at its base and crushed the vehicle. in new jersey no one died when at least two tornadoes touched down there. this morning unfortunately a 60-year-old man was killed, possibly electrocuted by downed wires doing yard work. a 60-year-old woman in new hampshire killed last night when a tree fell on her apartment building. new york city mayor de blasio today talked about the daneers left behind by isaias. listen. >> this is turning out to be one of the most serious 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china has done big number on us for many, many years. i've taken in billions and billions of dollars from china. nobody else has ever done it. if you look at tiktok we said it is okay if it is bought, bought by a secure american company. they can buy the whole thing instead of 30% which is the american component, but if you buy it the united states, which is making it possible to buy, because without us they can't do anything, should be compensated properly compensated with a very big payment. so that money would go into the treasury of the united states. and -- jackie: here now, james carafano, heritage foundation vice president for national security and foreign policy. great to see you, james. a couple of things the president said there i want to follow up with you on, questions that i have. his first suggestion is that microsoft should go after more than just the 30% portion, the u.s. portion of tiktok. i'm wondering if you think that is actually feasible when it comes to buying and taking ownership of this chinese company? >> well, that is a great question. i don't have a good answer for that. certainly it makes sense for microsoft to go after the american component. microsoft is not a player in the social networking space. it has a huge platform, 14 million users would make it a big player this is challenge they're more than up to making it secure and for use of all americans. i don't know if the business case there is for microsoft to even want to go global to deal with all of that. certainly for the american piece of that, there is, i think a solid business case for microsoft. jackie: but isn't there a security case, even if they take the american piece of it, the chinese still have a portion of the company, even if it is operating elsewhere, that it is all interconnected? do you really stem potential security problems by only buying the 30%? >> probably, because this is going to be kind of a wholly owned subsidiary. [inaudible]. they were going to be controlling which isps it moves through. they will scrub who owns any data going forward. so our tech guys have looked at this, feel pretty confident that microsoft has both the capability and the financial incentive to want to take over the company from a u.s. perspective and to make it work for american consumers. jackie: it is interesting because if you looked at microsoft's stock, you can see when the news initially broke, it popped. the last couple days it ticked down slightly. investors are less excited about it. i wonder if that piece we potentially discussed or potentially the last thing the president said he or treasury wants a brokerage fee, if you will for putting this deal together? >> well, i know under the cfius process, if this indeed went through some kind of cfius activity, there is a transaction fee u.s. government is paid. the big payoff for americans comes in jobs, taxes and profit and productivity inside of the united states. so there is going to be a big payoff for the united states and the u.s. government but i think it would come mostly through productivity, but again, this would actually be, for the u.s., kind of a good news story. it would add major competitors to the social networking space. that adds healthy competition. it gives microsoft a new line of product. you know what? this is awesome deal for china. we're not stealing the company or as the chinese company alleged. they would have to buy the company. they pay fair market value, guys that sell it will make a nice profit. jackie: let me ask you this, if you step back from the deal, the specifics of it, the president has taken unprecedented stance against china, against intellectual property threats that it posed and stealing our information here in the united states, this is sort of a piece of that storyline. how do you see this playing out with other companies? china retaliating potentially? they're not going to stand back. they said this is discrimination and take it lying down, right? >> that is a super important question. it starts with [inaudible] really up until 2015 the cyber espionage for economic purposes, that was the main deal and it was run by a very decentralized hacking army. 2015 the chinese rejiggered the model. they changed the focus of their hacking. they're still doing economic espionage but less in this kind of covert way and really the purpose of their cyber activity inside of the united states right now is acting like a giant vacuum cleaner. sucking up all the information they can publicly get. storing that information to use artificial intelligence, machine learning to go into the information and use it for their activity. the question how do you keep them from getting the vacuum cleaner? 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what do we need to do that we're not doing in this country? >> connell, we're getting more opportunities to use con convalescent plasma and unfortunately in the u.s. we have a lot of people that can donate their lastma. it would potentially be helpful for treatment. what we haven't done yet is the clinical studies to show whether this convalescent plasma really makes a difference for patients or not. you randomize people to get it, not get it, look for comparison of results. it won't take very long to do that kind of study. they're starting them in places like england but the u.s. is a great place to do it with all the cases we have here and all the plasma we have collected. connell: as long as you have the antibodies even if you're not symptomatic it is a good idea to donate the convalescent plasma or would be more effective if you were more symptomatic or rougher case of the virus for people watching? >> that is a good question. we don't fully understand how people respond, whether there are different levels of response associated with how symptomatic a person was and out long that lasts. that is another good reason for research purposes, if you can, why it is important to donate, but it does look like, connell that if you have the antibodies they do help. there are a number of treatments under development. you mentioned vaccines. that is about inducing your body to make these antibodies create other defenses to the virus. there are synthetic antibodies being made now going into clinical testing as well. this version that comes directly from people who have recovered is available now. we just need to do the clinical tests quickly to figure out how well it works. connell: is this the most encouraging treatment out there? you said there are other drug-related treatments. the president famously championed. hydroxychloroquine for a time. to be clear that is not something experts like you are recommending, right? so what other treatments besides convalescent plasma make sense and might make us able to navigate our way through the next few months better than we navigated the way through the early stages of the pandemic? >> i hope we can do better. the problem with hydroxychloroquine a lot of people thought it might work and some patients did well with it. because nobody got around to doing the randomized clinical study more recently, we didn't know for sure. it turns out as you said, it doesn't work. it doesn't have benefits t causes complications according to some of these clinical trials. what we would like to do for convalescent plasma, get the trials underway sooner. there are some in england, maybe some starting in the u.s. so we can learn quickly. it will probably not be the best treatment, connell, but it will be one of the soonest treatments that is available. the other treatments coming like the monoclonal antibodies that could help at larger scale, those will hopefully be available in the fall. if they turn out to work in clinical tests, vaccines after that. available now, remdesivir, which is an anti-viral. some other drugs that are in testing that may help in other severely ill patients. steroids work in severely ill patients. we're trying to learn more about others but the clinical testing is so important to get done. it's a really important component of pandemic response. connell: right. we get a headline on almost every day, with something to do with vaccines, right? , you know, johnson & johnson was in the news. should point out you're on the board of that company. >> that's right. connell: billion dollar deal with the government. moderna, there is question about the pricing. novavax neil had the ceo on earlier talking about their work. when do you think, what is a reasonable date to assume that you know, people watching the show, you and i, normal people can expect to have a covid vaccine available? what's reasonable? >> as you said there are a lot of vaccines that are in incredibly rapid development with investment in manufacturing the vaccine at the same time. one reason that the vaccines will be available sooner is that the government and the companies are not waiting to make large-scale supplies of the vaccine until after they figure out whether it works or not. that is happening at the same time as the clinical studies. the clinical studies for the earliest vaccines, including moderna, including oxford, including the pfizer vaccine, those should be done within the next several months or so, depending how long it takes to show whether or not the vaccine really works and that means, as people have projected there could be vaccines available before the end of the year. beyond that, the j&j vaccine, others should be available in early 2021 at large-scale if they really do work. that's why these purchase agreements like the ones for j&j announced today are so important. it really shaves a lot of time off before you can get the vaccine without compromising safety. connell: all right. good to talk to you again, dr. mark mcclellan has been very helpful throughout owl of that. we thank you for coming on. jackie. jackie: there is a shift in southwest's cleaning policy the airline will no longer disinfect arm rests or seatbelts between flights as it returns to a more normal schedule. the move to prioritize high touch areas like tray tables and lava tories while minimizing the turn around time. the airline adds deep cleaning of the carriers will be done overnight so you only pay for what you need? 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connell: all right. peter, i was going to say at the end of this report see you in milwaukee, i was planning to see you. i guess not. we'll see you sometime. i guess the way 2020 is going. reporter: see you in delaware. connell: yeah, why not. jackie. jackie: all aboard for the perfect pandemic getaway. rented house beats give vacationers away to get away maintaining social scans. from the houseboats international false, minnesota. tom dougherty. great to have you. i want to ask you with house beat demand. this seems like a great way to socially distance and have some fun. have you seen a spike in rentals? >> absolutely, we sure have. a long time ago in 1959 houseboating got its start here on rainy lake. it has been a social distance experience for everybody. we like to say it was actually invented up here. jackie: let me ask you this. i don't know what the average stay on a houseboat would be, i imagine couple weeks, if family has vacation. has anybody come and said we'll rent the houseboat for a year? >> we haven't had that yet. you never know. this year as we all know is a little bit different. we've seen numerous family units coming from, primarily minnesota and the midwest but we've seen folks coming from throughout the country as well. recently we had a father-daughter trip with a two individuals from new orleans that went out. had a great time. i even helped them tie up at one of their first spots. the gentleman was just elated i happened to be there to offer a hand at that time. we've experienced an uptick in business. people want to get away. they want to social distance. get out, be amongst the family members. enjoy the solitude and wilderness area that rainy lake and the national park has to offer. jackie: we are looking at the pictures t it is beautiful and very serene and wonderful way to spend vacation time. in the rentals, how difficult is it to up keep the boats, making sure you can advertise them, that the next user has a completely fresh space to be in? how is that working? >> it is working really good. it is a minnesota nice story. early on my mother and i, this is family-run operation, we started discussing what we night need to do. we reached out to some folks that worked in the airline industry and they directed us to a company called victory innovations which is right here in minnesota and, you know, at the time, just like trying to find hand sanitizer or toilet paper for that matter, during the pandemic it, was very difficult to find this equipment. through kind of some backdoor channels on linkedin and a couple other avenues i was able to get in touch with the owner of that company, kyle wheaton and we had a, you know, a mutual connection on linkedin. i told him our story. he went to work and found us equipment. jackie: that's great. >> so we sanitize them before the guests get on. we sanitize them right after the guests get off, before our help goes on to clean the boats and get them ready for the next group. then they're sanitized again before they go out. jackie: this was uplifting talking to you. we've been talking to a lot of business owners that are struggling. sounds like you've seen a boost in business. that is always a good thing. we'll make sure to check in with you again. thanks so much. >> thanks so much for having us. jackie: okay. connell? connell: thanks, jackie. we have another industry seeing a boost in business with more americans looking for alternate means of transportation amid this pandemic. electric bike sales have been booming and leading to some major changes in cities across the u.s. we'll have it next. ♪ce ccess to every platform. mhm, yeah, that too. i don't want any trade minimums. yeah, i totally agree, they don't have any of those. i want to know what i'm paying upfront. yes, absolutely. do you just say yes to everything? hm. well i say no to kale. mm. yeah, they say if you blanch it it's better, but that seems like a lot of work. now offering zero commissions on online trades. we charge you less so you have more to invest. ♪ honey, did you hear about these new geico savings? mom? you'll get an extra 15% on top of what geico could already save you. can i call you back? your father's been researching our geneology. we're vikings! there's never been a better time to save with geico. switch by october seventh for an extra 15% on car and motorcycle insurance. hey, we lost the wifi password. do you remember what that is? connell: so e-bite sales have really been revving up. people shying away from -- e-bike. and electric bike sales have take i off. they're booming really across the entire country. we're focused on chicago today because that's where grady trimble is with more on the story. >> reporter: hey,com, yeah. you don't have to buy any bike to use one. i want to make sure i look where i'm going before if peeling out here. a ride-share company here in chicago that's owned by lyft, they just rolled out e-bikes all over the city. they're introducing 1500 in portland as well in just a few weeks. and you don't have to have thousands of dollars to buy one of these. you can use it when you want it and put it back and somebody else will use it. but if you did want to buy one, they're around $1,000 for the lower option, $7,000, $10,000 for the higher options. so i'm going to stick to these bikes. but sales have been big lately. 17,000 only in 2016, sales have dwrowb to 124,000 in 2019, and they're expecting that to grow even more because people want to avoid public transit, and they want to control their environment, connell, so it's a good way to do it. by the way, you gave me a hard time a few weeks ago for not riding a bike, so today i am doing that for you, sir. connell: i knew it! i was thinking that the whole time. that was grady, all his numbers, he didn't hit that dog on the side of the road. [laughter] very impressive. good job, grady. thanks for joining us, everybody. "lou dobbs tonight" starts right now. ♪ ♪ lou: good evening, everybody. a big hearing on capitol hill today as the senate judiciary committee continued its investigation into the origins of obamagame. committee chairman lindsey graham called sally yates to testify before the committee today. yates is another smug member of the deep state. she carried on with her best efforts at playing cute and clever at times and all the while doing what she could to shield her cohorts in the obama justice department. senator graham blessed the hearing and all in attendance with a shower of parliamentary

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