Exclusive. Then, President Trump changes tactics as the white house tries to get a handle on the virus. It will probably, unfortunately, get worse before it gets better. As states reimpose restrictions and hospitals fill to capacity, well discuss the latest with former cdc director dr. Tom frieden. Plus im announcing a surge in federal Law Enforcement into American Communities plagued by Violent Crime. Chris violence spikes in major cities, and the add beefs up the federal presence on the ground the administration beefs up the federal for presenn the ground. Well talk with kansas citys mayor about what his city needs from washington. And the president cancels his Convention Acceptance Speech in florida over virus concerns. Well ask our sunday panel how both campaigns can generate momentum in the home stretch. All right now on fox news sunday. Chris and hello again from fox news in washington. In 100 days, americans head to the polls amid a pandemic and economic uncertainty. The numbers tell a grim story. This week the u. S. Surpassed 4 million cases and nears 150,000 dead. And 1. 4 million americans filed for firsttime Unemployment Benefits. In a moment well talk with treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin about when the white house and congress will agree on a new relief plan to keep the u. S. Economy afloat. But first, david spunt traveling with President Trump in bridge water, new jersey, with the latest on those negotiations. David. Reporter hi, chris. The president spent his weekend here in new jersey meeting with friends and supporters, but his Economic Team stayed in washington working to make a deal. This weekend a gut punch for millions of outofwork americans as their last 600 weekly pandemic unemployment benefit checks went out. Pass the bill and get the checks out there to the people who really need it. Reporter white house chief of staff mark meadows and treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin spent saturday in talks. Senate republicans reportedly want unemployment checks to drop to 200 a week along with 16 billion for covid testing and 105 billion for schools. Democrats want checks to stay at 600 a week while including rentallal and mortgage assistance rental and mortgage assistance. What are we doing here if we are not addressing the needs of people who have lost their jobs through no fault of their own . The president pushed for a payroll tax cut, but democrats and some republicans nixed it. The deadline comes as the president canceled his rnc acceptance speech planned for next month in florida, a reversal from six weeks ago when the speech was moved to florida because North Carolina officials said no to a big crowd. Ill still do a Convention Speech in a different form. Reporter and overnight more unrest in cities. In seattle authorities arrested more than two dozen people. In neighboring portland, oregon, theyre preparing to mark 60 straight the nights of unrest. As for the covid relief money, the chock is ticking as clock is ticking as millions of americans grow anxious and the august recess looms. Chris . Chris david spunt reporting from bridgewater, new jersey. David, thank you. Joining us now, treasury secretary, steve mnuchin. Welcome back to fox news sunday. Thank you. Its good to be with you. Chris House Democrats passed their bill fully two months ago, but here we are the last week in july, and the white house and Senate Republicans still cant agree on just a gop package. Meanwhile, a federal ban on i instructions ran out yesterday evictions ran out yesterday, federal Unemployment Benefits ran out on friday, and the last checks have already gone out, expect Payroll Protection Program for businesses is running out early next month. Heres Senate Democratic leader chuck schumer. They have been so divided, so discuss organized, so unprepared that they have struggled to even draft a partisan proposal within their own conference, they cant come together. Chris wont millions of americans and millions of businesses pay the price because the white house and Senate Republicans cant get your act together . Well, chris, first let me say i think thats an unfair characterization. The administration and the Senate Republicans are completely on the same page. Mark meadows and i were up yesterday just working on teg call issues in the technical issues in the drafts. We had previously agreed on all these issues earlier in the week. We want to move forward quickly. The bill will be introduced monday x were prepared to act quickly. This is all about kids and jobs. This is our focus, and we want to make sure something gets passed quickly so that we deal with the i unemployment and all the other issues, paycheck Protection Plan if, tax credits to rehire people and money for schools. Chris but, but mr. Secretary, the plan was supposed to be announced on wednesday, then thursday, now its next week. And its two months after the democrats came up with their plan, and now youre going to have to start negotiating with democrats now that you have a republican plan. Senate Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell said friday hopefully we can come together behind some package we can agree on in the next few weeks. And heres white house chief of staff mark meadows. Were trying to make sure that we hit the immediate needs first and then continue to negotiate perhaps throughout most of august until we get something finished. Chris so do you have a gop plan that will be announced tomorrow, and then what are laidoff workers and what are struggling businesses supposed to do while you spend, as the white house chief of staff just said, until sometime in august negotiating with democrats . Well, let me first say we do have an entire plan. Its a trillion dollars. And let me just remind everybody that of the 3 trillion weve already passed, we have about a trillion to trillion and a half still left to put into the economy. So these are very, very large amounts of money working with congress toport this. To support this. And what mark meadows was saying is that within the trillion dollar package there are certain things that have time frames that are a bigger priority. So we could look at doing an entire deal, we could also look at doing parts. So, obviously, the most pressing issues are the fact that we have Unemployment Insurance running out. We need to make sure that we dont have frivolous lawsuits for schools and universities. We want to make sure with the expiring Unemployment Insurance we have the technical fix so people dont get paid more to stay home than they do to work. And we can move very quickly with the democrats on these issues. Weve moved quickly before, and i see no reason why we cant move quickly again. And if there are issues that take long, well deal with those as well. Chris but, mr. Secretary, you know because nancy pelosi has made it very clear shes not going to agree to a piecemeal plan because the things that you want immediately are the things that you want, and there are things they want, and theyre not going to agree to some things until everything agreed to. Lets focus, if we can, specifically on the Unemployment Benefits because that seem to be the big holdup certainly among republicans. Finish the plan that is just running out now provided a federal unemployment benefit on top of state Unemployment Benefits. A federal benefit of 600 a week. Youre saying thats too much. How much do you plan to reduce it and why . Well, chris, just remember when we did the last plan and let me say, you know, when you talk about piecemeal, this will be the fifth set of legislation. So theres no reason why we cant have number five, six and seven as we need to deal with issues. And, obviously, anything we do we need bipartisan support. But as it relates to Unemployment Insurance, we knew there was going to be large unemployment. We had a tech the call issue with the technical issue with the states in the how they were going to be able to do this, so we picked a number that on the average looked okay. But what weve seen is now that we want to have the technical correction, and we want to have something which pays people about 70 wage replacement which i think is a very fair level. Its not a fixed number. Its something that pays you a percentage of your wages that are lost. And let me just say, people thought wed have 40 or 50 Million People unemployed. The good news is we never got anything like that. Matter of fact, weve created and brought back an enormous number of jobs. So all these different pieces have to Work Together whether its the paycheck Protection Program or whether its the direct payments we send on whether its the money to school. All this works together. So ui is just a component of the Overall Economic package which everybody wants the same thing which is lets get kids back to school where its safe, and lets get workers back to their jobs. Chris when i did my interview with President Trump last week, he said that he might veto a bill that did not include a payroll tax cut. That now is gone from all the discussions. Finish why did the administration cave on that so quickly . Well, in our conversations with pelosi and schumer, it was very clear that the democrats were not going to give us a payroll tax cut. So thats something the president will come back and look at later in the year. Chris but, but, sir, if i may, if i may just briefly, it wasnt just democrats. There were a number of republicans who rejected this. I want to put them up on the screen. Some of the Top Republican leaders in the senate, john thune, john cornyn, chuck grassley, the head of finance, they all said they had no interest in that as well. You got blowback not just from democrats, but some Top Republicans as well. There were other republicans that supported it. And let me just say again, we know we need bipartisan support. We have tax credits we put in here to incentivize people to get back to work and Small Businesses to hire people. We have the direct payments. And as you know, the direct payments are a much quicker way of effectively giving everybody a tax cut. And its much quicker than the payroll tax cut. Chris meanwhile, 32 you say we dont have 40 million unemployed, we do have 32 Million People up employed, and more people applied for jobless benefits last week, 1 is. 4 million 1. 4 million, than had applied the week before. Meanwhile, were seeing this surge in the virus and more and more states are either delaying or actually rolling back some of their reopenings. Isnt this going to have an effect on the recovery . And is there a possibility of a doubledip recession . Well, chris, let me just point out as you said, you know, we got to 30, we never got to 40 or 50. Thats a huge difference, and weve created almost 10 million jobs since then. So we are in a very different situation. There are parts of the economy that are doing very well. There are parts of the economy that arent. There are places like new york and new jersey which were very big problems at the time, have recovered significantly, and theres other areas where theres an issue. So, yes, we are going to put more money in the economy. We want to support workers, small business, kids going back to school. And those are our priorities. Chris gdp numbers will be released from the Second Quarter on thursday, and the atlanta fed is projecting that the gdp number for the Second Quarter nationally will not be the 1 or 2 or 3 that we normally see, but instead for the Second Quarter will be Something Like 33 . One, is that what we should expect to see, a contraction of the economy by a third in the Second Quarter . And secondly, if its anything like that, why would you want to cut back on the 600 stimulus payments, the Unemployment Benefits . Because there are projections that even if you cut it to around 200 which is, basically, what i think youre talking about with a 70,. 75 of wages there are estimates that thats going to cost millions of jobs. Well, chris, we always said the Second Quarter was going to be a very bad quarter. Again, thats not for economic reasons, thats for health reasons. We literally shut down the entire economy. And i think as weve said we expect the third quarter, the consensus is 17 gdp. I might just also comment on june retail sales were 1 higher than june of last year. So all that money we pumped into the economy, it worked. People went out and spent. And on the, you know, as it relates to the Unemployment Insurance, again, i think workers and americans understand the concept that you shouldnt be paid more to stay home than to work, that the fair thing is to replace wages. And it just wouldnt be fair to use taxpayer dollars to pay more people to sutt home than to sit home than they would get working and get a job. Chris secretary mnuchin, thanks for your time. Always good to talk with you, sir. Thank you, chris. Chris up next, the u. S. Continues to see near record numbers of new coronavirus cases every day. Well talk with the former head of the cdc about the continued spread and new guidance for reopening schools. Still fresh. Unstopables inwash scent booster. Downy unstopables. When you start with a better thats no way to treat a dog. You can do no wrong. Where did you learn that . The internet. Yeah . Mmm with no artificial preservatives or added nitrates or nitrites, its all for the love of hot dogs. Maria had to do everything for me. [maria] she had these awful blisters on her back. I dont want shingles when im your age. [camera man] actually, if youre 50 or older, youre at increased risk. [maria] thats life, nothing you can do. 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Chris, its really a question of leveling with people, being straight about what we know and what we dont know. One thing we know is that kids are way, way less likely to get seriously ill from covid, about a thousand times less likely than older adults x. In and n addition, the severe i think of covid is fairly similar to the severity of a seasonal influential a for kids. But thats just one part of the equation. What about the staff, what about the teacher, what about people in the homes of kids, grandparents and others, that those kids could infect. So one thing the guideline says is if the risk in the community is low, you may be able to operate the schools safely. But the bottom line is any community can open schools. The hard part opening them and keeping them open. And only a community that both controls can covid and opens schools carefully is going to be able to do that. Chris i want to pick up though on the second part which we didnt, you didnt quite touch on. How clear, you talk about that the science seems to be pretty clear about the risk to children of getting the virus and what the effects will be. How clear is the science about the risk of children, particularly older children over 10, transmitting the virus . So here theres more uncertainty. Kids appear to be somewhat less likely to get with infected than adults, so theres different ed on that from different evidence on that from different parts of the world, and kids may be less likely to spread the virus to others, but theres very little evidence about that. And some of the science, some of the virus studies suggest that older kids, 10, 12 and up, behave a lot like adults in their ability to spread the disease. We dont know for sure. What we do know is that if you have a lot of covid in the community, youre going to have a lot of covid in the school. Chris i want to put up two charts and get you to comment on them. Lets put up the first chart. First, a huge spike in new cases. As you can see from the yellow line, they are almost double where they were during the earlier spike in april, that big increase over there on the right side of the screen. And then lets look at deaths from the virus virus. Thats now the yellow line. As you can see from this yellow line, they went down dramatically from the peak in april, but now theyre back up to more than 1,000 deaths a day. Dr. Frieden, where are we at this point with this virus, and why do you say as you did, i think, this week that this pandemic is going to be with us, quote, for years . Well, the virus clearly has the upper hand in the u. S. , and what were learning around the world is it doesnt go away. Unless youre an island and able to keep it out entirely, the best Case Scenario is a