gearing up for an historic trip to europe meant to strengthen american leadership overseas. after a week spend touting the administration s command of the economic situation here at home. yesterday the labor department announced 209,000 jobs were added in july. the white house touted he number as a sign of bidenomics inaction. alongside consumer-focused efforts to reduce jump fees and health care costs. and democrats and their allies are mobilizing in the wake of last week s rulings from the conservative dominated supreme court. with race based affirmative action band, legislators and lawyers are taking aim at so-called legacy admissions. we talk to one group suing harvard university for what some call affirmative action for the rich. in the meantime, it was a bloody-long independence weekend, as mass shootings rocked cities from coast to coast. kansas city mayor quentin once better law enforcement, but also tighter gun restrictions. he will join us shortly. and later you a
Jon day five anti israel protests at Columbia University in New York City burned a rabbi at the Schools Organization for jewish students is warning them to leave campus immediately for their own safety. Good evening i am jon scott and this is the fox report. More that 100 protesters have been arrested over the past few days of demonstrations but one jewish professor on campus is called for the nypd National Guard to help drive the protesters off the campus. Cb cotton is alive in Columbia University with the latest. The chance from droves of protesters here behind me are encouraging students on the campus of Columbia University who have pitched another round of tense and pledging to stay in them until Columbia University cuts ties with israel and calls for a permanent ceasefire in gaza. The white house is now weighing in. Lucas tomlinson will have more later in the hour. The white house Statement Reads in part quote while every american has the right for peacefully protest calls for vio
Restore to a new generation of lawyers and citizens the understanding of the american founders about the First Principles of our law and the moral grounds of their own rights, natural law. We offer programs for attorneys, law students, judges, and the public to advance the ideas of natural law or natural rights and the constitution. One mention of note about the house we are in today the was built in 1825 during the first year of John Quincy Adams administration. He had just if he did jackson in a vote in the house of representatives that was a controversial election. The builder of the house happened to be here in washington at the time in charge of the reconstruction of the white house and the capital building, which had been burnt by the british in the war of 1812. He happened to also be a friend of John Marshall and justice story, and because the court only met three months in cheer, he rented rooms in this house to them because the court only met three months each year. Later on,
Wall. There was that much space between them. The walls were not conserved until later, but the house was rebuilt and it looked about what it did. It was more like a public building, maybe. It did notloors, have that saggy fielding that president roosevelt loved. But truman built it for all time so that the main thing would happen, the president would stay in the president s house. He was very emphatic about that. In fact, as the sub cellars were being dug, he came by and they were about to widen the door with air hammers, and he said stop. So they had to take the bulldozer and a truck all down, back, and, build them that is how they built the basement. There is enough space for a driveway to take them out. He saved these walls. He saved the mystique of the white house, president truman did. Susan you mentioned he did not conserve and thats probably where we will end. When of the properties you write about is that sandstone is very course and also subject to deterioration. So how was t
High pressure will want to reload here and come back for the weekend. Does not look crazy or anything like that, but warmer inland. Today 60s, 70s, 80s. Fog on the coast dancing around. Westsouthwest at 18. Most locations dont have much of a breeze. 60s for some. 50s for others. I dont think these are going to cool off any more. Usually, by about this time we are done. That low spinning up in the Pacific Northwest impressive. Its bumped the high out of here, allowed us to cool down a little bit. Patchy fog. Sunny. Nice for some. Warm. If you are far inland, 90s. 60s, 70s, and mainly 80s. Sal, 7 01. Anything new on the screen . More slow traffic, steve. More people are on the road. Its not unusual for the traffic to be just a little bit slower on eastshore freeway. We can start there and take a look at interstate 80. 31 minutes, which is not bad, especially for this commute. In berkeley and emeryville not too bad as you get to the bay bridge toll plaza. We can see the toll plaza better