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A stimulus check to go to americans. Lets put it with enhanced unemployment extension. Trying to make history. Elliott three road course wins in a row. He is going to win at daytona. You know im here for the party will and i aint leaving until they throw me out. Steve we have a camera and as you can see its actually pointing west toward milwaukee where today at the Wisconsin Center none of the principles are there for the start of the dnc. The only important people there at the Convention Center are the people in the control room in the basement because everybody else is appearing virtually. Welcome to hour one of fox friends for this monday august 17th and we are all much we are inching closer and closer. Not quite yet on the couch. But nonetheless were on the mezzanine level. Ainsley happy monday. Dnc kicking off today. Rnc next week. Two big exciting weeks for our country. President trump is going to join us at 8 00 a. M. He lost his brother the other day and is he going to come on to talk about that and, of course, the news of the day. Brian brother a great guy. Have you seen him around. He kept a lower profile. But, obviously, a huge locals for the family. And you forget that these politicians are people. They have families. They have other concerns besides winning elections. Meanwhile the Democratic National Convention Kicks off today. It will be all virtual for the First Time Ever. Steve joe biden set to appear from his basement in delaware. Thats nothing new, as President Trump hits the road with a Campaign Blitz in two Battle Ground states that normally doesnt happen during the oppositions convention. Ainsley things have changed this year. Griff jenkins is live in wilmington, delaware with a preview. Hey, griff. Griff hey, ainsley, brian, and steve, good morning. Talk about change it was only four years ago all in philadelphia 25 north of where im standing thousands of backing of Convention Hall now out in miami no one there except gaveling in and ho out. Joe biden will accept at the chase center his partys nomination. So theyre essentially going to do the Worlds Largest zoom call but they have quite a lineup of people that will be kicking the things off. Tonight same as we the people let me show you the list. Starting with senator Bernie Sanders. Have you new yorks governor andrew cuomo. Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer who near liver was a running mate. One Republican Former Ohio Governor john kasich critic of President Trump Amy Klobuchar and michelle usama bin laden. Senator sanders giving us a preview of where he thinks his party is headed and its one thats more progressive. Listen. We have got to do everything that we can to defeat donald trump. He was the most dangerous president until american history. Were going to do all that we can to mobilize people for progressive agenda. Griff neither biden or harris made any public appearances over the weekend. They have none planned for today. Did speak to a website. Here is a little bit of what she had to say. I would encourage everybody, look, you may not fall in love with who you are voting for, but if you just look in on a piece of paper at the issues that are impacting you every day there is so much on the line in this election. Meanwhile President Trump not sitting still, heading to several Battle Ground states. Today he starts off in minnesota. Then he will travel to oshkosh, wisconsin. Tomorrow will go to arizona and thurelsz he will go to pennsylvania. But, before all that, he will call in to you guys and a few hours we will see what he has to say. Brian great move of the president of the United States to not sit on the sideline along with his team and go to the Battle Ground states. Even though you cant have the big rallies. Want to stay on the grassroots level. Knock responsibly on doors in neighborhoods, with 80something days left. With everything pushed back you cannot go dark an entire week. I think thats smart. Im a little shocked by the agenda with the democrats. They are bringing up religion. They have a lot of religious leaders speaking. Guns, they want to talk about guns two, areas in which the rubber hit the road on a lot of independents and undecideds. How low the Approval Rating of governor kasich speaking at this event. Under 50 of people want to hear from the conservative republican who just doesnt like donald trump. Lastly, only 8 when asked, what you wants to hear at the convention, 84 percent said they wanted to hear positive things about what the democrats will do and only 14 wanted to see hits on donald trump. Heres Governor Phil Murphy on the biggest story of the day, and that is the nominee. The Vice President who wants to be president and how few appearances he makes from friendly interviews to unfriendly interviews challenging interviews. He is mia. Listen. Balancing Public Health with the sacred right of voting as was discussed with democracy. Im sure the Vice President will be between now and election day up to his eyeballs in interviews and debates. Im sure he will get out there. But we have got to get that balance. We have got to balance right. Thats a message that i think is being sent to america by the Vice President that this is a moment in time unlike any other. And balancing Public Health with democracy is something that we have to get right and i believe he has gotten it right so far and im sure he will continue to. Brian governor murphy goes out of his way not to bash the president. Maybe bringing up wishful thinking. The only thing to get the Vice President out of the basement is for this race to tighten up. And if you look at the cnn poll a National Poll it has tightened up. Its now a 4 point difference nationally. Steve right. Cnn poll 50 of registered voters say that they would vote for that guy right there, joe biden. 46 for the president. Thats 4 point difference in early june it was 14 points. So, you know what, until now, the staying in the basement approach has actually worked for joe biden. No wonder why he is smiling right there. As karl rove reminds us now, now is when people start paying attention and now is when they have got to get the message out that he is different than the current president. Heres karl. This is a critical moment for the last roughly six months months since securing the democratic nomination. Biden has been content to stay in the basement in wilmington and prevent defense in football or basketball throw it around the edges, run out the clock, whatever it has been. His message has been im not donald trump. The Convention Acceptance Speech is the pointed where he will have to say this is why you audited to vote for me because of what i stand for and what i intend to do. It will be a big important moment. See how many people tune in. Steve lets see what joe bidens message is other than im not donald trump or he messed up the response to the pandemic because what we have heard from joe biden aside of from the National Mask mandate is that he would do everything that the current government is doing. So, tonight, they are going to kick things off. Michelle obama is going to be speaking. Bernie sanders is going to be speaking. Its interesting. The principles get a little longer. The average speech tonight, ainsley, will be two minutes of all the people aoc gets 60 seconds. Bernie will be live. Hillary clinton will be live eventually. Bernie gets 8 minutes, which is good. But the reason they are slimming it down is because and its a tv show. Because there is no applause. And if somebody is speaking for 8 minutes and its like whats going on there during the big traditional conventions when there is a big flourish of applause, its oh that must have been good listen how those people are going crazy. Nobody is going to be clapping. Nobody is going to be screaming. Nobody is going to be going joe, joe, joe. Ainsley the establishment democrats dont want to push these progressives. They are trying to say that Kamala Harris is a moderate. We saw that last week in the press. But, if you look at her voting record in the senate, she walls considered the most liberal senator last year if you look at the bills that she was voting for. The Nation Reporter, ken kidnappen stein. He tweeted this out. He said a liberal republican, john kasich is going to get more speaking time at dnc than every member of the squad combined. Now, democrats are also worried about the postal system with all these mail in voting is our postal system able to handle all of these mailin ballots. Nancy pelosi sent a letter to her colleagues to focus on this post office crisis. She is asking for everyone to come back from recess because they are not supposed to be back at the hill until the middle of september. She is asking them to come back. Some are saying this saturday to talk about this. She had an emergency call on saturday. This is what a portion of her letter says. Alarmingly across the nation we see the develops stating evenings of the president s campaign to sabotage the election by manipulating the Postal Service to disenfranchise voters. Mark meadows is on one of the sunday shows he is the white house chief of staff. Former congressman who worked with nancy pelosi. This was his reaction. Is he a republican. Im saying tha say sorting ms between now and the election will not be taken off line. When you look at it the normal process of doing all of this, jake. I had the postal system under i had the only bipartisan bill to actually deal with the 146 billiondollar loss that the Postal Service has been will see over the next 10 years. And so when you are looking at this, these postal machines and the drawdown, that was a 2006 bill that has been implemented that i dont necessarily agree with. But thats not this postmaster general that did that. That was the previous postmaster general under obama. Ainsley republicans are saying that the post office has been a disaster for decades as you most know. And they are pretending to pin this on donald trump; therefore, if he wins they can say he rigged the election. Mark meadows goes on to say democrats should return to washington. Begin negotiating again. Lets get stimulus check to the americans, protect small businesses. Lets get more ppp and put postal founding in there and he says the president will vote for it. Brian be stunned why the stats will will how critical president obama has been on the past in the same thing he went on a podcast and criticized this president about. You would think that president obama is running for president. Jillian meally is poised to give us the rest of the news and back to debate more on the post office, i cant believe it, and what it means for this election. Jillian good morning, guys. So were following a number of stories and we start with this. Six correction he is officers hospitalized overnight after being ambushed by inmates. The officers were attacked in a yard at donovan state prison in san diego. Another guard fired a warning shot to stop the attack. The officers injuries stab wounds to possible broken bones. Two inmates were also hospitalized. Fall classes begin today at Oklahoma State university where an entire sorority is under quarantine. 23 members of pie beta thy testing positive for covid19. U. N. C. Capito chapel hill aftera fourth cluster of coronavirus is found on campus in three days. Cases linked to several dorms and a fraternity. All students being isolated. The school start the classes last week. Senator ron johnson startled by information uncovered by the russia probes origins. What we have found out in just the last week, you know, the prehead at a timed lie on the part of fbi briefers to the Senate Intelligence committee, now the fact that the fbi knew that carter page was an operational contact back in august of 2016, these revelations are stunning and we should have known about this years ago. Jillian his committee is issuing a subpoena to fbi director Christopher Ray last week. The agency must provide documents to the committee by thursday. Thats a look at your headlines. I will send it back to you. Steve all right, jillian. Thank you very much. Because today the dnc does kick off in earnest virtually across the planet for the most part. Its supposed to be in milwaukee but nothing is really in milwaukee. Lets start todays program with a political panel. We have got joining us New York Post columnist Miranda Devine along with white house hispanic commissioner recall fernando or tease in the Center Square and tezlyn figaro. Ladies and gentlemen and gentlemen, good morning to all of you. Miranda, lets start with you, Bernie Sanders is going to be one of the keynote speakers tonight. He gets 8 minutes. He is a democratic socialist and he is being given 8 minutes at the dnc. You know, a lot of people never would have imagined Something Like that that goes to show you how far left the dnc has gone in the last four years. Good morning, steve, well, it really does. And it also tells you something very interesting. That the dnc is trying to paper over. That is that they are in the stills of the civil war and establishment. And this entire convention is going to be about trying to convince the voters how moderate they are going into the loins den. Pretending that joe biden and will joe biden and Kamala Harris are somehow going to prevent that tidal wave of entitled leftism engulf the party. The fact that Bernie Sanders gets a prime speaking spot tonight with Michelle Obama tells you everything. I pity the person who had to balance the schedule of speakers because if you look at it, its balanced perfectly by identity politics. By gender. By race. By ideology. I wouldnt say necessarily what i would want to see. Im just one personal. What i would wants to say for those trying to unite the party they want to see Bernie Sanders but really see Bernie Sanders as the nominee. Bernie sanders will be there to talk about how the party is united. Obviously this virtual scweangs benefit to him because if it was in person rest assured the benchers would be there screaming and yelling and Holding Signs in their hand as they did in 2016. I cant say personally what it will be like this is all new for everyone. Without having the crowds cheering and energy. We will watch and see how it pans out. The bought line is joe biden is a moderate. We can say the party is moving left. Thats not the reality within his policies. So tonight will be about trying to get some type of unity and we will see if that happens. Brian its going to be kind of interesting. Alfredo, they are looking to get the whole Party Together because they know it happened under Hillary Clinton and the Bernie Sanders people went crazy on the floor and caused a lot of uproar. They want to stop that this time. Here is a member of the squad congresswoman tlaib said yesterday. Excuse me, on saturday. Said today i cast my dnc ballot and voted no on the proposed platform. I constantly hear from constituents demanding we push for single payer system and for profit systemming that is leaving people to suffer and die just because they cannot afford healthcare. Future where everybody can thrive. Rid our platform of oppression and greed. Thats called unfortunately in my view this platform does not do enough. Bernie sanders told her not to say anything but he believes the exact same thing. Whats going on here. Thats right, brian. I mean, look, at the end of the day, they are the Democrat Party overall, they are still shooting for that single payer option overall. They like trying to call it public option so it sounds more moderate. A year ago secretary tom price and i actually wrote a oped on this saying this is exactly what they were going to try to do. America should not be fooled. They are still shooting for for single payer government control Healthcare System. Its the difference of taking the express train versus the local train there joe biden is kind of the local train there Bernie Sanders was the express train. Again, they like calling it this public option but its still about single payer. America cant be fooled. They are still looking for government control of our Healthcare System which will completely disseminate where we are as a country today. Steve miranda, i dont think if you asked anybody a year ago politically what the issue would be on the day of the dnc as they commence that it would be the post office but here we are. You know, over the last number of years, the post office has seen declining revenues, even though the congress is propping it up and the treasury gave him 10 billion last month. But, nonetheless, they sent out a note over the last couple of weeks that warned they could not promise to deliver all the ballots in time to be counted beca