Center around three major points. The use of military tanks, the president s speech which critics say by nature makes the entire event partisan, and that unknown price tag. According to a new report in the Washington Post the National Park services is diverting nearly 2. 5 Million Dollars primarily intended to improve parks to cover some of the associated cost but the white house has said very little about the overall cost. We have reached out to a number of federal agencies involved in the planning but requests for cost estimates have remained unanswered. The department of interior says the fireworks, 750,000 dollars worth are all donated. The president tweeting the cost of our great salute to america will be very little compared to what it is worth. Congressman tim ryan sent a letter to three Department Heads demanding they Tell Congress what it will cost taxpayers. President trump said it will be one of the biggest celebrations in the history of our country. Tankers were spotted on trains and two fighting vehicles were moved to the mall in the middle of night and they were moved to the front of the Lincoln Memorial as other crews worked to assembly bulletproof glass in preparation for the president s speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial. The parade is set to begin at 11 45 this morning. The big question, of course, is the weather and whether or not rain, expected later today, could impact some of those military flyovers. President trump doesnt seem particularly worried about it, though. He tweeted that people should come early and perhaps even aircraft one will do a low and loud sprint over the crowd. That part whats happening at the Lincoln Memorial, the fly overs are set to begin at 6 00 this evening. Thank you, ellison. The 2020 race is heating up in the heartland. Several top tier Democratic Candidates are descending on iowa today weighing in on President Trumps salute to america event. Peter doocy is live in des moines, iowa, with the latest. The Democratic Partys present frontrunner is getting ready to walk in a parade here in iowa. Joe biden doesnt like that President Trump is speaking at all at an event with that kind of a show of force back in washington, d. C. Everybody knows were the most powerful country in the world physically. Were losing our standing in the world and i just think we should celebrate freedom. We should celebrate why were the people we are. Doesnt surprise me. Kamala harris here in iowa made a splash by once again referring to President Trump at an event as a predator and like the Vice President , joe biden, who she dressed down during the first debate, she doesnt think much of the salute to america back in d. C. Instead of that i dont think he understands this is americas birthday is not his birthday. This president is prepared to send our troops to various places around the world. Most recently iran. What i would ask is he think about he wants to have a military parade, what about military families . Mayor Pete Buttigieg will be part of a parade at storm lake, iowas event and he is drawing upon his experience now as a veteran to inform his opinion about the big parade President Trump is hosting. Not a show of strength, its a show of insecurity. Think about this, think about the strongest, toughest person that you know. Picture that person. I bet you its not the kind of person that goes around talking about how strong and tough they are. Every time the president has our country looking like the chest thumping loudmouth at the end of the bar it makes us all look smaller. The festivities for these 2020 democratic hopefuls are just a fraction of President Trumps but theyre here in iowa arguing they dont think thats the point. Peter doocy in iowa. Thank you so much. Lets bring in a commentary writer for the washington examiner. A lot of outraej about the president making a speech. What do you think about the outrage . There is something to be made about the overall criticism being overblown here. As soon as july 4th ends a lot of it will fizzle out and the department of interior sort of its poor optics but with respect to celebrating americans independents its a nonpartisan holiday. President trump, whatever he does will be a partisan action and he will certainly always get criticism for it by the resistance. But to many resistance figures here who are very outraged about these tanks and the flyovers, you know, there is one thing to be said about how much it will cost and that being valid criticism but it is another thing to be literally shaking and saying these are the days in which were bringing in tiananmen square, completely blowing past the point and insult to those who suffered at the hand of the chinese government. Those tanks were being used to crush demonstrator. These are static. A big difference there. We can parse the difference were celebrating america. Sometimes this is this flex by trump is minuscule compared to at least what in d. C. In 1991 after the victory over iraq and the persian gulf war we displayed. We had a huge military parade back then. Is it mostly jealously on the part of the democratic contenders . When you occupy the oval office you have a huge bully pulpit and you get a lot of free publicity. Is that whats stirring so much of the resentment here . Its possible. I think there are Many Democrats who still feel this bit of resentment that trump is in the white house to begin with. No matter what he does there is going to be people out there who are decrying what he does even if previous president s did something similar. Lets take a look at some of the democratic competition and specifically when it comes to fundraising. Joe biden the former Vice President has reported a Huge Campaign hall 21. 5 million since his campaign launch. The campaign is saying that 97 of that money is coming from grassroots donors and that the average donation amounts to 49. Biden continues to lead in the democratic polling. Do those numbers make him the almost assured candidate . Not at all. Look at jeb bush. He spent 130 million in the 2016 republican primary and had little to show for it. He didnt finish in the top three with trump, kasich and ted cruz. Jeb bush was not a formidable candidate. A bad candidate. A lot of people are making the same case that joe biden isnt a good candidate given his history of opposing busing and association with senators who made the reputation off of prosegregation sentiments. In 2019 for the Democratic Party it doesnt gel very well. Also his third time around. He didnt do particularly well in his two previous runs for president. But he also, you know, hadnt served as Vice President. Doesnt that help him especially with name i. D. Going in . Absolutely. Vice President Joe Biden serving alongside barack obama might have been the best thing that happened to him between 1988, 2008 when he first ran those first two times and now. Many black voters specifically in South Carolina are very practical and dont forget that his service alongside obama was probably made up for a lot of the things that he did when he was a United States senator from delaware. Thanks for joining us on this holiday. Enjoy the rest of the fourth. Thank you. Happy Independence Day. The Justice Department reversing course saying it will try to find a legal path to adding the Citizenship Question to the census on orders from President Trump after the Supreme Court blocked the question last week. A former u. S. Attorney will weigh in. Also President Trump issuing a new warning to iran after the regime vowed to step up its uranium enrichment if a new nuclear deal isnt reached. So how should the u. S. Respond now . As we celebrate our nations independence, police in washington and new york city are working to make sure todays festivities are safe ahead. A live report on security preparations. America, sweet america, god done his grace on thee not again. Limu thats your reflection. Only pay for what you need. Liberty, liberty, liberty, liberty thats ensure max protein, with high protein and 1 gram sugar. Its a situp, banana bend at the waist im tryin keep it up. Youll get there. Whoahoahoa 30 grams of protein, and one gram of sugar. Ensure max protein. Jon a fox news alert from wall street where records were shattered yesterday. Markets are closed today for the holiday. The closing at a new record. The s p also hit a new alltime high. President trump reacting to the news tweeting todays stock market is the highest in the history of our great country. The 104th time since election day since we reached a record high. Congratulations, usa. Alicia President Trump issuing a new warning to iran after the regime threatened to begin enriching uranium at weaponsgrade levels in a new deal is not reached. Rouhani says it will enrich uranium to any amount we want if there is no nuclear deal. Be careful with the threats, iran. They can come back to bite you like nobody has bitten before. Joining us now is nile gardiner, director of the Martha Thatcher center for freedom. Thank you for joining us. I want to read to you following up on what the president was tweeting there what iran president rouhani said in his Cabinet Meeting yesterday. It reads our advice to europe and the United States is to go back to logic and to the negotiating table. Go back to understanding, to respecting the law and resolutions of the u. N. Security council. Under those conditions all of us can abide by the nuclear deal. Now, we have that and then just yesterday on special report representative Michael Mccaul said this. Take a listen. I must say the president exercised great caution in trying to deescalate this conflict, not escalate it. One thing he made clear in the room was that he will not stand for a nuclear iran. And that is his red line. If iran chooses to cross that red line and get Nuclear Weapons, he will respond in full force. Alicia respond in full force. Exactly how do you see that . Well, firstly i would say that iran is resorting to blackmail here and lets not forget we are dealing with one of the most barbaric regimes on the face of the earth. Theyre hell bent on developing a Nuclear Weapons program. It is not interested in abiding by the Iran Nuclear Deal and why the United States withdrew from this disastrous agreement. And President Trump is sending exactly the right message to the Iranian Regime that the United States and the free world will stand up to evil and the u. S. Is applying a policy of maximum pressure against iran which is working. The u. S. Sanctions that are in place now are bringing this brutal regime to its knees economically which is why the regime is now lashing out. And the United States is calling upon all of its allies across the world to stand with america in confronting the iranian threat through the use of sanctions. But also sending a very clear message that irans attempts to develop a Nuclear Weapons program will not be tolerated. And the United States certainly is putting in place everything necessary in order to prevent iran from becoming a Nuclear Weapons regime. And the United States is standing with its allies including israel and only this week the Iranian Regime repeated its threat to wipe out israel and the threat issued by an Iranian National security official saying they would destroy israel within 30 minutes if the United States launched any kind of attack on iran. This kind of very ugly, menacing rhetoric is coming from iran. Were dealing with President Trump is doing what he can to stand up to the threat. Alicia a regime showing signs of desperation. Can you explain the other allies positions . Unfortunately as is often the case, some of americas european allies, especially the french and germans and the European Union as a whole are still in an appeasement mindset with regard to iran. Theyre still clinging to this iran Nuclear Agreement, which is dead in the water. And we need to see all of americas allies in europe standing with the United States in terms of enforcing sanctions against iran. The e. U. Is trying to bypass u. S. Sanctions on iran sending completely the wrong signal. And so we need to see a change in this very weakkneed approach. They need to stand together with the u. S. And confront an extremely grave threat that the entire free world is facing today. Alicia quickly i just wanted to hit on north korea. We dont have a lot of time here, reuters is reporting that north koreas mission to the u. N. Is accusing the United States of being hell bent on hostile acts despite saying that they want to talk. We know the secretary of state mike pompeo has said this meeting that happened on sunday has opened up possible talks for denuclearization. Where are we on this . A further illustration of the fact that the north korean regime cannot be trusted at all and this is a further reason why the United States needs to maintain this approach of maximum pressure against north korea. We need to see the full enforcement of u. S. And u. N. Security Council Sanctions that are in place against the north korean regime. We also need to see the return of u. S. south koreaian military exercises to send a clear signal to pyongyang. In addition to that i think the United States and the entire free world have to focus upon the appalling human rights record of north korea. 120,000 Political Prisoners are held in prisons across north korea. We do need to confront north korea in the same way we are confronting the Iranian Regime as well with strength and resolve in the face of sheer barberism. Alicia so many on the president s plate. Jon australian man detained for days in north korea is released now. 29yearold alex sigly arrived at a beijing airport today. They reported the College Student missing last month after they didnt hear from him for a couple of days. His father giving an update on his condition after speaking with his son. I just spoke to alec, he is in good spirits. He is looking forward to seeing his wife as soon as possible. He is well, physically and mentally fine, well, yes. Jon australias Prime Minister is thanking sweden for its help in securing his release. 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