Kristin fisher has the news this hour. For the second day in a row President Trump is put a tremendous pressure on schools to get back open this fall. Back opened with and purchasing classes if they dont be threatened in a tweet this morning that he may cut off federal funding if not open. The Vice President backed up that statement during a briefing this morning, but he phrased it differently. We will look for ways, getting states a strong incentive to get kids back to school. Andrew cuomo says he wants schools to reopen in the fall but says the decision is up to him, not the president. He wants the schools reopened. Its not up to him. Its not up to him. Its not his Legal Authority. Just like it wasnt his Legal Authority to say hes going to decide when the economy reopens. In addition to this push to hold classes, President Trump is pushing the cdc to change its guidelines for reopening grade guidelines the president called this morning expensive and impractical. Todays Task Force Briefing at the department of education, the Vice President announced the cdc will be putting out new guidelines next week. The head of the cdc said the agencys guidance should not be used to justify keeping schools closed. I want to make it very clear that was not the intent of cdcs guidelines. Its to be used as a rationale to keep schools closed. The thing that many schools are still struggling with and this is something that was asked about repeatedly at the briefing is how do schools reopen while still keeping students at least 6 feet apart . A lot of questions to be answered in there. Right now he is meeting with the president of mexico who arrived at the white house about an hour ago. Theyll be holding a briefing. Maybe not a briefing, but making statements in the rose garden and 30 minutes and then there is a dinner tonight. Not officially a state dinner, but about as close as you can get to a state enter in the middle of a pandemic. Bill really interesting. He flew commercial to get there. Ten Business Leaders from the u. S. And mexico. See you later. In texas officials apparently requiring schools to have in person classes. Thin order toreceive state fund. How to get students and teachers back and safely. The superintendent michael. Welcome to our coverage here. Whats the plan in dallas . Thanks for having me. We do know its important to have our students become back to school and we want them to go back to school but they have to be safe. We have gone to Great Lengths to have shields, plexiglass, to separate the students. We are starting School August 17th. We have had pivot from our parents. We started this journey, 20 said they would do on line learning and that has pivoted to 50 because of the recent spike. We are having to pivot as things change in texas, but we do expect we can open safely if the parents choose to bring their students to our schools. Bill you are leaving that decision to mom and dad, but when the plan goes forward as of today . Thats correct. We will have those opportunities and we think we can execute. Ive been there for 26 years and have never faced anything like it, but we have to be prepared. Our parents need to go back to work. We have to find a way to make this work. Bill a few things from the education agency. Option to choose remote learning. What do you think about the others to say we are not going to do it, not so fast. I dont think we have a choice. We need to put every effort forward and we owe it to our families, our communities and of the students are falling further behind. We will try to execute it, all the expectations that are hoisted upon us. Bill hoisted. Heres the Vice President mike pence from earlier today. What we have convey to governors is whatever support they need to get kids back to school, we will make sure they have it. Whether its testing, equipment or other resources. We stand ready to provide those resources to the state. Bill i know you pride yourself and being independent, but will you need the governments help . No doubt about it. We know there been several bills. One of the big challenges we have is connectivity. We started the issue of that, we connect our families to the broadband so they can have access. This is not possible. Texas is losing money on revenue, so it will be important for the federal government. Bill what about the order to offer the and person classes to receive state money . I think theyre trying to incentivize the behavior. I get it. I would love to be able to delay it. We will have to deliver on the promise. Its important to students to get back to learning. This has been quite an ordeal since midmarch. We need to have some kind of learning going on. I would prefer to have an 100 virtual, but thats not an option. We have two problems solved. Bill the Vice President said time to get our kids back to school and talked about in Person Learning being essential. Its where they receive services for Mental Health and poverty. He is not wrong about that. Hes not wrong. We worry about our students. Many of our students when we have issues with child abuse, our teachers are the ones who are poor at that and we havent seen our student since early march. We need to see them under the right conditions and safety is the most important thing. If the parents to want to send them then they wont send them. Bill very interesting. It seemed to have a pretty good handle. What if things go the opposite way . Whats the plan there . I need to communicate with my school board and if we have to delay the start of school for a few weeks we will do that. I dont think were ready at this point. We have to delay till after labor day, thats an option we will need to consider. Right now we are trying to open up on time. Bill what do you do . Say that again . Bill have you tested the front door for the school, where does that begin . We will have to do temperature checks, everybody has to go through that temperature check. Thats the first test. We have to pay a bit depending on what issues we get at that point. Testing is not wildly available and it certainly couldnt happen for 103,000 students. Bill very interesting to talk to. August 17th is the date. We will bring you back before then to see how its going. Thank you. Good luck. New york city mayor bill de blasio talking about the citys plan along with other issues. Taking a lot of heat over his handling of the virus and tensions with the Police Department. You know, we heard calls for the mayors recognition, resignation from blm protesters and now we are hearing it againe from elected officials. Of course as the violence as a crime spike across new york city. I want to talk about that now. Gun violence up 130 compared to last june. When you look at the whole year, police say they havent seen crime numbers like this since 1996. Bill de blasio has blamed coronavirus, specifically that the courts are not fully functioning. It was under his watch that the nypd disbanded its crime unit and the city defunded the Police Department by close to a billion dollars. Last night ray kelly was on hannity warning that the city could return to the bad days of the 70s and 80s if something doesnt give. They say its at a record level of the future is quite frankly very bleak in new york, certainly for the next 18 mont months. Lee zeldin and going a step further and calling for the mayors resignation. Listen to this. I believe he has to be removed and the city wont survive him staying in the remainder of his term. Now his term ends at the end of 2021, if you were to resign Giovanni Williams would be next in line to succeed until a new mayor is elected. He wants even more cuts made to police. We have reached out to his press secretary and we have reached out to the Mayors Office to comment. Bill thank you. We will follow it. New reality meanwhile from hong kong. The Chinese CommunistParty Opening a new security office. That was supposed to have a high degree of autonomy. They say beijing has made empty promises and threatens National Security. We will talk to Morgan Ortagus in a moment. The u. S. Supreme court giving conservatives a win by a lopsided margin. By the ruling of religious liberty today . Also, reaction about cancel culture. They are on deck to tackle that. Standby. Guys safe drivers save 40 safe drivers save 40 safe drivers save 40 thats safe drivers save 40 . It is, thats safe drivers save 40 . Hes right there. Its him safe drivers do save 40 . Click or call for a quote today. Little things can become your big moment. Thats why theres otezla. Otezla is not a cream. Its a pill that treats plaque psoriasis differently. 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He said hes evaluating any instance where the Chinese Communist party could access americans private data. State department mistakes woman, welcome. Several topics to rifle through. China, what are we as a government trying to do here . Thats an excellent question. What were trying to do is to look at the Chinese Communist party and chairman xi for who they really are. I think we are guilty on both sides of the aisle, for decades, almost 40 years of not seeing the Chinese Communist party for who they really are. When we look at social Media Companies that are based in china. When we look at technologies like wildlife, wildlife, and he think that this administration has been talking about, this is because we have some animus towards these companies, but rather we have American National security in the forefront of our minds. We are also very concerned about the american peoples private data. When we download one of these apps, when i review you some other infrastructure, we are concerned that american citizens private data gets into the hands of the Chinese Communist party. They hacked into our information and the second term of the Obama Administration and we lost many People Security clearance information. We know they have the ability to do it. Bill two questions. If i download one of these apps, do they have all the access they want and my phone . That is something our officials are looking at. In the United Kingdom with their taking a more aggressive approach. Mike pompeo has been talking about this for the past two years, warning western companies that those values, especially as it relates to National Security and privacy are not shared by these companies that are controlled by the Chinese Communist party. When Companies Like facebook and google, twitter say were not going to allow the Chinese Communist party to have access to our data, thats great. If other Companies Want to follow suit we would welcome them. Bill big tech seems to be on board. When it comes to hong kong, anything you have done for the state department doesnt seem to change any of the behavior. The chinese have certainly been increasingly more aggressive in the past year. The big difference is that the American Media is now covering it. They were incredibly aggressive during the Obama Administration stealing our intellectual property, the provocations, stealing our private security information. The list goes on and on. Theyve been doing this for quite some time. The big difference is that this administration is not ignoring it. We are shining a light on it. They continue to erode the freedom and autonomy of hong kong and were standing up to that. Bill whats the effect of pulling the u. S. Out, and he west dollars significantly as the president plans for next july, and joe biden says if he wins in november he will get back into the world health organization. Im sure he did. If you look at what secretary pompeo did, we notified the congress that we are beginning that process. Listen, there is no one more generous than the american taxpayer. 200 billion for the Global Health infrastructure. We will continue to do it, but what we wont do is find an organization that screwed up on covid19, screwed up on a bullock, and hiv aids. We have to create a u. S. Government new entity because of the massive screwup the w. H. O. Had done on aids. We will still be generous and fond Global Health. We are by far the most generous country on the face of this planet and we will continue to be, but were going to be good stewards. Bill this question came up repeatedly, there was a big fire over the weekend and i know a lot of questions came. Those questions were not answered. What is the extent of the fire . What did it do ultimately, no matter who was to blame here, to the Nuclear Program . Im not at the point where i can answer those questions all the fire youre talking about, but i would say the threat from the Iranian Regime remains. Secretary pompeo announced that we interdicted another shipment of weapons. This violates the Security Council resolution embargo against iran. There in nefarious, and will continue to go after them. Bill would you say that fire is months or more than th that . I cant go there. Thanks for trying. Bill come back soon. In a moment here the u. S. Supreme court giving a wind to conservatives what todays decision on obamacare is Birth Control mandate means going forward. Children suing for moving classes online. Do they have a case. Andy mccarthy weighs in on both. Next. But did you know that your va benefit lets you easily refinance to a lower rate . One call to newday can save you 3000 a year. With newdays va streamline refi theres no income verification, no home appraisal, and no out of pocket costs. 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They didnt reach the more basic religious liberty question which is whether the contraceptive mandate violates the religious freedom restoration act. That is why you have the decision and set about being Something Like the 54 cliffhanger. Bill shameful decision, but it does not grant a license to discriminate. 72 does not mean much, is that what you said . The reason it 72 is because its going to end up being a very temporary and narrow decision and the case is going to continue. It wouldve been nice if they decided the core religious liberty question which could put an end to the case. Instead its going to go back to the lower courts and they will have a litigation that lasts, who knows how long about whether this is all proper under the act. This is why i think the justice in his concurrence was right. The court should have breached the question of whether the mandate violates the act if the court had decided it did, t