Straight night of unrest in the city. Arsonists starting several fires around the federal courthouse despite federal Law Enforcement officers presence. Rioters threw flares, fireworks, molotov cocktails at those Law Enforcement officers. The leftwing mob injured at least three federal officers, protecting the federal courthouse. One of them t burned by an unidentified chemical. Portlands radical dem mayor, ted wheeler, showed up at the riot. Apparently he thought he would receive something of a heros welcome because he has made this violence possible. He was there to support the mob, who then turned on him, jeering and mocking wheeler. The mayor, thinking he was safe, taking part in a listening session with members of antifa and black lives matter, near that federal courthouse. The lawless activists tearing his city apart made it very clear, they dont like him either. [booting] [shouting] quit your job lou loud calls for wheelers resignation. Demanding wheeler withdraw more money from the Police Departments budget. Federal officers in portland later using flash bang grenades and tear gas on the mayor as he watched the anarchists he supports so vigorously try to burn down the federal courthouse, instead of chastising destructive and malicious acts of mob, the mayor chose instead to try to blame President Trump and federal Law Enforcement officers there to protect the courthouse. To be here and we have asking, demanding that they leave. We demand that the [inaudible] lou you have to wonder what his level of training is for the job that he has. The radical dems high level of contempt and animosity for any kind of Governmental Authority and all citizens is playing out across the country. The city council in minn american unanimously voted to get rid of the citys police department, Public Information officer. The city council muzzled the department theyre trying to get rid of. A judge in seattle, ruled Seattles City Council may go ahead with their plan to take away riot gear from the citys police department. Apparently, under the assumption that theyre wont be anymore rioting. What else could be the explanation . The city ofe chicago where President Trump has already deployed federal agents is bracing for another night of protestem demonstrations and yes violence. Radical dem mayor, Lori Lightfoot only asking for more trouble, asking chicago residents to snitch on those federal officers, whatever that means. Im calling on all chicago wants, that if you see something, thatee doesnt look right, please dont hesitate to report it. If we see any steps out of line, particularly with dhs, or border patrol, were not going to hesitate to take the press to court to stop any unconstitutional actions. Lou my guess she will get a lot of. Calls for people who dont think it looks right for dozens of dozens of her citizens to be gunned down every weekend. For children to be murdered in the streets. Perhaps she will get a few calls about that. Congresswoman Maxine Waters also proving to be a, well, a tool for thed are call dems. She says been suggested this is trial run of the president of the United States t who may be organizing to not accept what happens when we have the election if he is not elected. Is he going to pull out his military . Is he going to engage us . Oh, man. The left is a beautiful, beautiful bunch. The congresswoman failing to acknowledge her own partys organization and support over the past four years to try to overthrow and subvert the president of the United States is very clearly at the forefront of t most americans minds. A new poll finds 55 of americans say federal Law Enforcement should be used to stop the rising violence in these highcrime democratleft cities. 55 . The radical lefts politics of chaos and division and personal destruction is nothing more than a tool to try to silence those who disagree with them. What are the consequences of the efforts of the radical items did to try to overthrow authority in this country at every level. The politics of personal destruction. A new poll from the Cato Institute provides some of the answers. 62 of all americans in the cato poll say the current Political Climate prevents them from sharing their opinions. 77 of conservatives and staunch conservatives say they are prevented from speaking their political beliefs. Theli only group that apparently feels safe according to this poll, arehi the furthest to the left, 58 of socalled staunch liberals or what some would call extreme left said they dont believe they are prevented from sharing their political opinions, i would suggest to you theyre probably right. The lefts political intolerance is also costing people their jobs. High School Baseball coach and eosocial studies teacher justin casera, fired by the walton Lake School District in michigan. He says it is because of his support for President Trumps plan to reopen schools. In a tweet he wrote that read, donald trump is our president. What a thing to say. Ken is a Police Sergeant and High School Football coach in tlrtland, oregon. Or he was. He was fired as coach after Unidentified Group put pressure on the school to remove him of some incident during his time on the police force. We contacted officials from both schools. We have fce yet to receive a response. Nsthe fbi says chinas consulate in San Francisco is harboring a fugitive, a chinese researcher, who lied on his visa application about being part of the Peoples Liberation army. The Justice Department says he is one of four chinese researchers who were recently charged with visa fraud about their involvement and being enrolled in the Peoples Liberation army. All four have been in the United States on f1 or j1 visas to work at the university of california in San Francisco and ucdavis. Sanford university, and indiana university. Meanwhile the Chinese Communist party will close a u. S. Consulate in china retaliation for shutting down the consulate in houston but the head of the chinese consulate in houston defiantly telling politico that con sue lant will remain open until further notice despite order by u. S. Government to shut it down by saturday. Turning to wall street. Stocks finished lower. The dow down 353 points. The s p lost 40. Nasdaq down 245. Volume on the big board, 4. 3 billion shares. Equities under pressure as a result of for the first time in fourmonth a higher level of jobless claims for benefits. Crude oil finishing at 41. 21 a barrel. Reminder to listen to my reports three times a day coast to coast on the salem radio network. Up next President Trump is set to hold a News Conference on the White House Briefing room at any moment. Well take you there live. Also, chinese propaganda, making it clear who the Chinese Communist party wants to win the presidency. This looks like, well, it is something other than russian meddling, thats for sure. China wants to try it out. Congressman matt gaetz here to take that up and much more. I would like to remind you about my new book, the trump century. How the president changed the course of history forever. Please preorder your copy or copies, upset a liberal or several liberals. Do so at thetrumpcentury. Com, amazon. Com, barnesandnoble. Com. Rueorder your copy of the trump century. Well be right back. [ thunder rumbles ] [ engine rumbling ] [ beeping ] [ engine revs ] uh, you know theres a 30minute limit, right . Tell that to the rain. [ beeping ] for those who were born to ride, theres progressive. 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The abscam scandal didnt apparently teach him anything. Also breaking tonight, Chinese State television, blaming populism for the spread of the china virus. China Global TelevisionNetwork Airing this video. The title . Can covid19 beat populism . A straightforward attack on President Trumps candidacy for reelection. It claims the china virus is quote, another straw on the camels back against populist leaders like President Trump. How is that for meddling . How is it for interfering in u. S. Domestic politics . Joining us tonight, one of the president s strongest defenders of both the president obviously and his populist movement. He is congressman matt gaetz, member of the house judiciary committee, Armed Services committees. His new book is called, firebrand. Dispatches from the front lines of the maga revolution. It is available for preorder now. We are delighted to have its distinguished author, that is, congressman matt gaetz. Great to have you with us. Youve just in a meeting i understand with John Ratcliffe, the director of national intelligence. Is there anything you can share with us, with the audience . Breaking news, lou. John ratcliffe here in the last few hours just declassified the memo that describes the august 17th briefing the fbi gave President Trump back in the 2016 election. Now the fbi had been telling us this was a defensive briefing, but the evidence that we have today proves that this was a setup of the president and of michael flynn. Here is how. You will remember at the end of july, in 2016, the fbi opened the trump russia investigation. On august 8th, peter strzok and lisa page were saying no, well stop him. On august 15, the insurance policy august 1th is the first defensive briefing the Trump Campaign gets. Who does the fbi send . Peter strzok, kevin klein schmidt, the lawyer that literally changed evidence in the fisa court and joe prianka ho shouldnt have been there in the first place. They were not trying to warn the Trump Campaign. They were literally trying to ensnare michael flynn. On the documents, they are labeling the meeting as part of the crossfire razor investigation, which is the flynn investigation. They should have been there to protect the president from any russian interference. Instead they were there to frame the president , to try to put pressure on michael flynn. This is what weve been talking about for years now. Even more evidence that it is the case. Lou congratulations to John Ratcliffe for declassifying the documents and pushing this information in the public arena because we are, everyone, is anticipating that there will be charges against those who conspired to overthrow this president. This is outrageous. This is of a historic level, it boggles the mind to think that academia, our scholars, are not involved in this at all. There is not a word of protest from those professional academic historians who should be all over this but think about biden too. Lou they are quiet as church mice. This is was during the Obamabiden Administration and joe bide imhimself was trying to manufacture some basis to go after general flynn. The reason this is important, it just didnt occur during the trump administration. This defensive briefing was part of the plan to try to delegitimatize President Trump, to go after his allies even back during the obama biden administration. Lou it is, without question, we now know that this was a fullon effort by the obama era intelligence people, not just the National Security division of the fbi and the top officials of that agency and the Justice Department. This was a widespread effort under the auspice of the, of the obama white house, without question. I want to turn to what is going on right now. That is, looks like, according to the polls, that President Trump is a lot more popular than most of these polls are detecting. Who would have ever suspected that there was something called a silent majority. We look at the Cato Institute poll that shows 55 of americans are afraid to express their political viewpoints but almost 80 of conservatives and republicans are afraid to express their views because of the violence of the left. And the Extraordinary Campaign by, by the left, to silence that majority out there. It is incredible. President trump is leading the most powerful Political Movement certainly in my lifetime and the lefts strategy is to try to demoralize us, demean us, stop us from expressing our patriotism and love of our president and our country. While it is no surprise that folks on the left are going after the president i am deeply disappointed that liz cheney, the chair of the House Republican caucus is also working against President Trump. I think republicans deserve a house conference chair who will stand with our president and wont oppose him on everything from germany to afghanistan, to syria, to the coronavirus. Liz cheney picking up hashtag of nancy pelosi using them to chide our president. I asked her to step aside in the runup to the election we have leaders and conference chairs who will campaign with the president and help reelect him to save this great country. Lou you republicans on capitol hill are a courageous bunch. I have ad admire your sportsmanship. You find ways to put leaders in opposition to nearly everything the Republican Party stands for. You made one of them speaker of the house back in 2018. You have cheney now, how does this happen to you . Rinos are almost extinct in africa but they seem to role free in republican leadership. Youre absolutely right, liz cheney taken the bat ton of antitrumpism from paul ryan. She was working against him behind the scenes for some time. She is active live chiding the president. I think republicans in our conference who support the president need to step up for him, need to insure liz cheney has the impramatur of republican system as she attacks our leader. Lou that is a sage council from you, congressman mat matt gaetz. We appreciate it. Follow me on twitter loudobbs, like me on facebook, follow me on instagram loudobbstonight. Up next, yo joe bidens latest blunder. We dont number them there are too many. What he said the difference between south korea and tada did you know Liberty Mutual customizes your Car Insurance so you only pay for what you need . Given my unique lifestyle, thatd be perfect let me grab a pen and some paper. Know what . Im gonna switch now. Just need my desk. My chair. And my phone. Only pay for what you need. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. I wondered. Could another come around the corner . Or could it play out differently . I wanted to help protect myself. My doctor recommended eliquis. 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Lou im delighted to tell you that tammy bruce, Washington Times columnist, fox business contributor, host ofof fox nations get tammy bruce, is with us, as is charlie hurt, Washington Times opinion editor, fox business contributor. Great to have you both here. And, as i say this, youre not going to believe it. The president is walking out. Say something quickly, tammy. It is too late. Sorry. President trump thank you. Lou president of the United States. Uniting theump country in our fight against against the china virus, ive reminded people of the importance of masks when you cant socially distance in particular. A strong message has been sent out to young people to stop going to crowded bars and other crowded places. Yesterday we made the amazing announcement for our plans to protect nursing home residents. Were working very hard on that. Were doing very well all over the country. And also the, contracting with pfizer, we made a big, big beautiful contract with pfizer. We think theyre very close but we have a lot of companies that are very close to produce a vaccine and i wanted to come out again today to share some additional news with you. This afternoon my Political Team came to me and laid out our plans for the convention in jacksonville, florida. It is a place i love. I love that state. L. E drawings looked absolutely beautiful. I never thought we could have something look so good so fast but with everything going on and everything was going well. A tremendous list of speakers. Thousands of people wanting to be there and i mean, in some cases desperately be there. They wanted to attend. People making travel arrangements all over the country. They wanted to be the pageantry the signs are topoftheline. But i looked at my team and said the timing for this event is notus right. Is just not right with what has happened recently but the flareup in florida. To have a Big Convention is not the right time. Something that for me i have to protect the American People thats what i have always done thats what i always will do thats what i am about they said we can make this work easily we have great enthusiasm with incredible enthusiasm even in the polls say thats the most enthusiasm they have seen we can do this safely and responsibly i said theres nothing t more important than keeping our people safe whether from the china virus or the radical left mob you see in portland where i want to thank Homeland Security and others are doing a fantastic job people were out of control 51 days and Homeland Security and other Law Enforcement went in and have done a great job. And most importantly protecting our people or the senseless violence you see in chicago or new york or detroit orory other cities so i told my team its time to cancel the Jacksonville Florida component of the gopop convention the delegates are going to get together theyre going to North Carolina and we will do some other things i will do a Convention Speech in a different form not a big hearted convention per se. Is not the right time for that i care deeply about the people of florida frankly everywhere else in this country and around the world coming into the state i dont want to upset it. l put the maps up of the country and the area we are talking about is a hotspot also a lot of the country has no problem whatsoever. Most of the country actually. I will always take care of you. Thats we were going to do it. I talked to Governor Desantis and other political leaders and thank the jacksonville communit community. And all of the other political representatives in jacksonville and florida. A very special group they were there 100 percent. Today i want to provide an update on the actions to support the safe reopening of americas schools. And with a greater appreciation from the fact that teachers are essentialal workers and essential to the childrens future the goal is to protect from the china virus and that they can continue to participate from home. The American Academy of pediatrics has released guidance recommending schools reopen. The link the time away from school the associated interruption of Supportive Services results in social isolation making it difficult for schools to identify and address learning deficits as well as child and adolescent and sexual abuse and substance abuse, depression, and Suicidal Ideation this in turn places children at considerable risk of morbidity and in some cases mortality beyond the educational and social impact of closures there have been an impact on Food Security for children and families. There is a high way it goes both ways the National Education association recently stated despite the momentous efforts of educators during the pandemic, Online Learning is never a replacement for inperson learning and support. Being on campus is very important due to School Closures last spring the average student will be in the school year roughly 35 percent behind in reading compared to the typical year and more than 50 percent behind ineh math. According to mckinsey and company learning loss will probably be greatest among low income black and hispanic students. 30million American Students rely on schools for free and reduced meals, 70 percent receive Mental Health services do so through their schools. One out of five reports allegedly having to do with child abuse in these neglected cases are by personnel. So people in the Education World on the premises will be the ones that report and other problems when they see the children they will know if they have been neglected or hurt or harmed. You see this at school you dont see that have on if youre not at school you dont see that. Data shows they are lower risk from the china virus substantially when children do contact the virus, they have only very mild symptoms or none at all. Medical complications are exceedingly rare. Those that do face complications haveav underlying medical conditions. 99 percent of all china virus hospitalizations are 99. 96 percent that children are a tiny percentage they had more results of more deaths under 18 in the United States than lost thus far to the coronavirus. Many different names. The life of every child is sacred and must be protected. The sole focus is the health and wellbeingb of americas children i have a very special person who loves children who i think is one of the greatest athletes of all time and is the greatest reliever of all time and in fact he got the president ial medal of freedom recently and reading off the statistics the new he was great but i didnt know it was almost double but a man who loves children and has children, works hard and we will go outside to be with some little leaguers mario the sandman my wife said darlin darling, why do they call him the sandman . They say they played the song he just puts the batters to sleep and thats exactly what happened. Talking about children in schools given these considerations School Districts can reopen in safely providing they implement mitigation measures and protocols to protectct families and teachers and students. Remember that all family should be empowered to make the decision that is right for their own circumstance. This is especially important if the child has Underlying Health conditions or lives with a parent or grandparentho who was at higher risk. In cities or states that our current hotspots, districts may need to delay reopening for a few weeks. That is up to governors. The decision should be made based on the data and the facts on the ground for each community that every district should be actively making preparations to open. Again the children have a very strong immune system may be as strong as yours. They could fight it off and on have a problem. Its Pretty Amazing actually. Great great credit. The strategy to safely reopenpe schools mirrors our approach nationwide as we raced toward thene completion of the vaccine the responsible path for those of a higher risk while allowing those at lower risk much lower to resume work as long as everyone practices vigilant hygiene and social distancing we want that. A permanent shutdown was never the strategy to ultimately lead to greater mortality and irreversible harm. We dont want to do that at the same time we have to get our economy going we have tremendous numbers yesterday were issued housingng pricing up 21 percent. The highest in history. The highest number in history with Real Estate Housing it went up 21 percent. The cdc will provide guidance with how schools can reopenn safely. I hope local leaders but the full health and wellbeing of their students first and make the right decision for children, parents and teachers and not make political decision decisions. Its about something very important. This is not politics i think its bad politics with the wrong decision. Very bad politics are asking congress to provide 105 billion to schools as part of the next Coronavirus Relief bill. This will support mitigation measures such as smaller class sizes, more teachers and teacher aides repurpose things basis to practice social distancing and crucial mask wearing this is in addition to the 30 billion we secured for schools and universities earlier this year the money is distributed in some is not. If schools are not reopened the funding should go to parents to send their child to publicprivate charter religious or the homeschool of theirho choice. If the school is closed the money should follow the student so parent and families are in control of their own decisions to go to the parents of the student this way its a decision is best for them. We cannot indefinitely stop 50 million American Children from going to school to harm their mental and emotional development. Reopening schools is critical to ensure parents can go to work and provide for their families. The council of economic advisors estimates five. 6 million parents will be available to return to work on cannot return if schools do not open. Its a tremendous problem. Schools have to open safely. They have to open. More than one dozen European Countries as well as south korea, taiwan and others have already reopened to schools and cases have not risen. We can achieve the same goal if we you need unite together follow best medical practices and apply common sense. We will continue to support states and cities in the hotspots in the south and the west i know all the governors they are very capable of doing a very good job and working so hard. With nearly 30000 and federal personnel deployed that need assistance with the doctors and nurses. As the ppe update we have supplies come everything we could possibly need. Place to say the cupboards were bare but its now the opposite. Due to our historic efforts with the National Stockpile the vast majority of the states have 60 days worth of supplies on hand and most importantly with the ventilators because those are very hard to come by in the past now making thousand per month and supplying them to other countries. The states making request we a rapid the delivering the last 24 hours fema has seen more than one. 5 Million Masks upon request one. 7 million gallons and 600,000, let me change that, we created 600,000 different supplies was 600 ventilators arizona North Carolina pennsylvania, colorado, idaho, d washington. We will check that they give that number to you. But we have a stockpile of thousands of ventilators. I think we said 600 just recently. The United States has conducted more than 51 million more than any other country in the world by far. Roughly half of the tests are either rapid point of test on rapid pointofcare test that five or 15 minutes instead of waiting for service both ways in both directions that roughly half now or between a five and 15 minute test a test done in the hospital with the results back in less than a day and in some cases immediately. From miami and phoenix to protect those top step from spreading further. Here is a copy of the map very much indicating its in great shape. Lots of it. The northeast the country is in very good shape other than if you look south or west there are some problems. Therapies we are working with florida to ensure over 40000 files are arriving this week. Thats a lot. Really thats a lot. They are working around the clock to make a tremendousad impact. We have shipped thousands of vials to arizona, california, texas over the last two weeks. Arizona is doing very well. The numbers are heading down. There governor has done a great job. They have all done a great job. Working hard. We will continue to monitor the areas raising withh respect to those cases we ask all americans to exercise vigilance and practice social distancing, wear a mask, do whatever is necessary to get rid of this horrible situation and the sent to us by china should not have sent it they could have stopped it they didnt. Now the entire world is infected and a lot of countries are going through a lot right now. This morning i spoke with president putin fromnd russia they are going through a very hard time in moscow in particular. I spoke to the crown prince of saudi arabia. They are doing well. Everybody is going through a lot. I spoke to the heads of four Different Countries yesterday. All four are going through a lot. This could have been stopped quickly and easily. But it wasnt. Will figure out that reason. If you have questions . Please. Are you simply not convince to keep people safe regarding the convention . I just felt that its wrong, steve, to have people what turns out to be a hotspot. When we chose that it was not a hotspot now all of a sudden it happened quickly. It happens quickly it goes away quickly but the key is we wanted to go away without a lot of death or problems. We are learning so much about the disease thats why we are very cognizant of nursinghe homes and people over a certain age especially with diabetes or Heart Disease in particular. We dont want to take any chances. We have a lot of people, delegates you want to bebe there, we will do a fairly reasonably quick me on meeting in South Carolina and then we will announce how we are doing it i guess you could call that online. So the last convention was great and a great place. We had a great time a great time in cleveland. But its a different world and will be for a little while. We want to get the worldhinkll k to what it was in the think we will have that with great job numbers including whats happening so positive. The stock market is close to records and the nasdaq is a record. Is already past the highest numbers. We want to get our country back to where it was. What about the white house . We havent announce that yet. We have done a great job building the greatest economy in the world. Nobody close not china ornomy anybody. We had to close that we saved millions of lives and opened it but we have the best numbers inav history for africanamericans, hispanic americans, Asian American americans, every group you want to name, young people with out a diploma with a High School Diploma or College Diploma or anything we had the best numbers. Women are doing incredible. Never been a time like that. Umbn and then we had to turn it off because of a china dead. We had to turn it off now all of a n sudden were turning it back on and we are doing very well but it was very bad. The trade deal with china means less to me now than it did when i made it. When i made it it was a great deal. But said on setting a record yesterday they purchased more w corn than they ever had ever and soybeans and it just means much less to me. Can you understand that . What is the one thing that changed your mind about that convention . And florida officials asked youic to cancel it . No. We are dealing with them but they didnt. D safety. Just safety. I can see the media to say this is unsafe. I dont want to be in that position. Not because of the media but that is what they would say. We will have a very nice something we will figure it out. Maybe online in some form maybe a little bit different. We have t time we are talking about the end of august. Butxc it will be something exciting that there is nothing like having 25000 people. We had a tremendous convention planned in North Carolina. It would have been very good but a much smaller version of florida then we saw what was happening pretty quickly that the virus was coming up the coast. With the severity of the situation in florida quick. It will come and go. Look at these locations that are heavily infected. To the point where we were talking if you look at what happened in new york and new jersey and other places. And now its gone. I hope it w stays gone. I think it will. But we have to be vigilant and be careful and we also have to set an example. Thats very important. Its hard for us to say we have a lot of people packed in a room and then dont forget we are talkingt about schools. We want them to be vigilant to stay open and then here we say you have a big room but if you noticed i also said bars are crowded and other things are crowded nothing is more crowded than a convention. Even you try to keep people away from each other its not that kind of a thing and they probablyth cant. It doesnt work for them so i think were setting an example by doing that and its very important. Back to opening Schools Congress is looking at schools that want to reopen. The school wants to reopen but is concerned about testing would you consider directing some of that money toward f testingg for School Districts are individual schools of thats what it took to open schools . I think so. A lot of people feel differently about testing. If we have 50 million test plus second in the world is india with one. 4 billion people may have 12 million test and other countries have 2 million and others only test if you are sick and walk into a hospital or Doctors Office or really sick come essentially they dont do tests. And i understand that. We have done 50 million test. Theres nobody even close look at the mortality rate and the death rate with different statistics, we are doing very well but one that is too many. This never should have been allowed to happen. Just to put out a statement a moment ago to say its tailored precisely for this phase of the crisis. I would like to see a payroll tax cut. The democrats never would have gone for it. And based on that i told them last night, i told the republicans who have been working very hard on this and hopefully the democrats ultimately will but i told them appear tax would be get good be on get it from the democrats. We have a majority but its not enough. Thats why we have an election you still need democratic votes and you will not get those on that. I would like to see it. I think it would be good for the workers but if we wont get thereha votes and we have to go to the next thing that payroll tax would have been very good. May be something happens. Talking about jacksonville some people take away from this it seems like the numbers are going up in jacksonville. So for the schools to reopen and then Major League Baseball season. Baseball as an example to be an empty stadium and a great friend of mine from the yankees and asked me to throw out the first pitch august 15 at yankee stadium. How will the crowd be . You dont have a crowd. There is no such thing. It will be interesting. I walk in to many games mariano walks in and the place goes crazy. He will be just as good without the crowd. Some people are born with it. Im never seen a picture throw ball as many bats broken. He has the alltime record. How do you do that . Great parents. But just to finish, we all have to set examples Major League Baseball is setting an example with the empty stadiums and so are other sports. And then they will allow a certain number now golf will allow people to come in with percentages and now we want to get back to normal. The key is to get back to b norma normal. Nobody wants to see this but i think its really good baseball is opening. It looks like football is opening, looks like sports are opening. It is tremendous psychologically for our country. Right now we will cease and beautiful little little leaguers outside with a great future ahead of them practicing on the front line of the white house. We will go out and say hello. One more. President , earlier today it was proposed with the gop is the white house asking that includes language for Downtown Washington dc is that true . I dont know they are putting that in this bill but i do know they want a new fbi bill. This is very i oldas nev and wat built to a High Standard as you have heard with a lot of danger involved in panels falling off and pieces of the concrete falling off the building. They want to build it at the site that they have it. Options are very far away from washington and i said frankly you have to be near the Justice Department. The site they have now is better but they are looking at sites in maryland and virginia and different places but they would have been too far away. I have been encouraging them toto build it they could went to the existing building but is not a Good Building or take it down and build a great building for the next 100 years and havee incredible even with tracks on top because the fbi people like to work out a lot with quartermile tracks on top. A very wide site the best idea is to build a new building then you have it for a long time. I know they are talking about it i dont know where the bill they put in but the fbi needs a new building. We will get it done. Thank you very much. President trump wrapping up the News Conference from the White House Briefing room. More than 4 million cases of the china virus in this countr country, 144,000 americans have died the president has said hes canceling the Jacksonville Florida14 portion of the Republican ConventionNorth Carolina still maintains the right to nominate the president. We will now turn too charlie from the Washington Times opinion editor. Great to have you with us. Your thoughts on the president s comments and where we are . Its a smart thing the president has gone back to doing these press conferences and the shortened version are probably wiser than the previous ones even though i personally enjoy the longer ones. That these are unprecedented times and what we saw there was a president who is not politicizing the issue but actually trying to tackle a very difficult issue. There are a lot of politicians in washington doing something very different need to politicize this issue and meet with great retribution from voters in november if thats what they believe they aremb to. The president is sending federal Law Enforcement officers into portland and chicago and albuquerque. The mayor said she would never allow those terroristic forces of the government in her city but we understand she just agreed to have federal Law Enforcement as they are roaming wildly beyond anything conscionable even by chicago standards. Your reaction . There is no issue with the democrats in washington and at the helm of the cities. No issue they will not n politicize for their own political benefit. And looking around washington whatever the views are President Trump is doing everything he can without politicizing these issues to get a hold of the riots and mayhem to get us trying to hold on the worst pandemic in 100 years. And confronting the president for the first time and no president has ever seen this many critical crises. Always good to have you with us thank you so much i appreciate it. Thats it for us tonight. My new book is the trump century its available for preorder now where we encourage you to take that opportunity to upset aer libera. Noble. Com. On. Com or barnes thank you for being with us. Good night. Elizabeth breaking news the president just wrapping up the press conference at the white house moments ago saying some schools may have to reopen later due to the covid19 pandemic also noting that Jacksonville Florida convention they will dial back on that safety first there also revealing he has been for the first pitch at the yankees baseball game in august and then those underway and to stop rioting. But joe biden now says the trump administration