Charlottesville and the Police Department in charlottesville and the Mayors Office of charlottesville before saturday mornings riot happened that they were not to make arrests without the explicit approval of the mayor, of the city of charlottesville. Were going to ask that question of the police chief. I know that other people will want to ask of the police chief, whether he intends to resign. Thats one of the rumors ive heard of it from reporters that told me that they would ask that question of the police chief. Theyre under a lot of fire for the way they handled this. There is certainly an easy and benign explanation for the way they handled it. Theyre a small police force and a small city. Weve heard from the police chief, for example, in philadelphia, pennsylvania who said the way major cities handle this kind of thing is with a demonstration of overwhelming force and proactive policing. And once people that are demonstrating see that and understand what the outcome will be, they can contained the session. That was not the case here. So well see. Well see how they handle that. Theres going to be a lot of tough questions coming forward. A lot of criticism for them. Well see how the police chief responds. Thanks, doug. Stocks up 134 today as fears of an imminent showdown with north korea ease up. The white house ratchets up pressure on china to do more. Is it work something im trish regan in for neil cavuto and this is your world. Kevin corke is at the white house with the latest. Kevin . Trish, nice to be with you. The president is talking tough on china and this time talking about intellectual property. As i take you to the pictures from the white house, the u. S. Has long suspected and for good reason that china has been guilty of intellectual property, lets just say, acquisition. Were talking about reverse engineering, replication and in some cases flatout theft. So the president today said his administration would do what is frankly long overdue. We will enforce the rules of fair and recipciprocal trade t force fair commerce and protect americans that have been left behind by a global trade system that has failed to look. And i mean look out for their interests. They have not been looking out at all. This is what i promise to do as a candidate for this office, and this is what i am doing right now as president. The president addressing ovenly chinas laws, policies and practices and actions related to the theft. Meanwhile, concerns over north korea. The crisis appears to be easing a little bit. Thats in part to suggestions over the weekends by nsas h. R. Mcmaster, the National Security adviser, that the u. S. Is looking to exhaust all options before taking a military one. But i want to caution you with this, trish. If you look at the calendar, you know tomorrow is august 15. Technically in korea is august 15. Its National Liberation day that is celebrated in the north and the south. Its been suggested that that might be prime time for kim jongun to once again fire off a Ballistic Missile. Well see if it happens. For now, there appears to be calm and that calm appears to be positively affecting the markets especially as traders and those that might be interested in figuring out just what the u. S. Might get involved with appear to be taking the words of h. R. Mcmaster very seriously and hoping things are cooling off. Lets all hope. China says they will implement sanctions against north korea in early september. They include blocking a billion dollars worth of goods. That includes coal and iron or and more. Are we going for enough . Claudia, good to see you and thanks for joining us. In your view, isnt there more we can do . Theres a lot more we can do. China is agreeing to go along with sanctions is not enough. China has approved every u. N. Sanctions resolution on north korea, seven of them in the past 11 years since 2006. China has not enforced them. I dont think were going to see a great deal more from china this time. They may enforce them briefly. But these sanctions tend to erode. The instrument is blunt. Its going to take more. I think what its going to take is the legitimizing of the north korean regime, trying to bring it down without a hot war but we need china in helping to do that. Isnt that the reality . Were talking about a billion dollars of sanctions. Estimated 28 billion economy. I dont know what good a billion dollars of sanctions is going to do, especially if its not enforced. Yeah, look, north korea is not a place where the ruler is concerned about the welfare of his people. All he needs is the materials to keep himself going and his Missile Program and his military. The problem is even if china helps to bring north korea to the bargaining table, north korea cheats on its deals and china has a history of letting it do that. We have to actually ask the question, is china fine with north korea having Nuclear Weapons . They let them develop them. They may in fact be fine. But heres the reality. We also have allowed china to effectively cheat as well. You look at the trade scenario, look at the fact that theyre stealing 600 billion of intellectual property every year from companies. The fact that they jail foreign executives, many american, on drummed up charges. All of these things, claudia, are issues that we looked the other way on for years. Yeah, its called kicking the can down the road. As a number of people have said, certainly with north korea, we have run out of time. They have abilities now that are very dangerous, this is a country practicing nuclear extortion. They sell their wares. We should be worried about iran having to same technology, if they dont have it already from the north koreans. Again, we go round and round in this merry go round. Sanctions, bargains, neither of those unfortunately is going to stop this. Nobody wants a hot war. The question is, urgent question is, how can we take down the north korean regime preferably without a hot war. Id say attack the vulnerabilities of its brittle totalitarian system. So distrust between kim and his lieutenants. Things we could be doing that were clearly not doing enough of. Clearly. And by the way, youre talking about sanctions and economic ways to go about this. Talking about ways to get china to influence north korea. All of this to me, claudia, looks like lowhanging fruit that nobody has touched. Now youre seeing a change in tone. President trump coming out this afternoon and saying enough is enough with china. We need to start actually enforcing our free trade rules. Because we havent seen free trade from china and it has cost americans. North koreans aside, its cost americans their lively hoods. Sure. Intellectual property does matter a great deal. Enforcing it makes great sense. Again, in part, this may be a lever to try to get china to cooperate and help china with north korea. This may help unintellectual property. As further lever to help with north korea, its a lever like a bridge too far. Might make a difference for a short time, this north Korean Nuclear threat has been simmering for 25 years and we have been over and over, politicians dont want to deal with it. They find a way to muddle through and back away. Theres a lot of corporate interest in that. China represents a very powerful, very Dynamic Market and a lot of businesses want to be there, even if its going to cost them of losing intellectual property. Theyre making that gamble and making that decision to be there. They dont necessarily want the u. S. Government interfering in all of this and putting these restrictions on china. Its so good to see you. Thank you, claudia, for being here. I want to turn to the market right now which had a terrific day. Up 135 points, powering through 22,000 at one point but ending the day at 21,993. Im here with market watcher, scott martin. Scott, as investors look at the north korea situation and continue to bid this market up, what is it that you are learning from that . Just goes to show you, trish, the market these days shoots first and asks questions later. Yes, last week felt terrible. If you look at the s p earnings, you look at the fundamentals of the market and the fact that the economy has not fallen off a cliff yet, yes, its slow but still growing, shows you the s p can rebound. When cooler heads prevail like today, they wont stay this way obviously, the market does go up again. Thats why youre seeing prices rise. Do you think things are fundamentally good, all things are better despite the concerns abroad . Theyre okay. Luke warm, you know. 75 degrees outside in chicago today. Thats about where id put the economy. Not really that hot. Trish, President Trump needs help. He needs help from congress to govern and get these policies through that are pro business, pro your 401 k sitting on the sidelines and getting delayed by the senate and getting delayed by the house and senate with regards to finally getting a tax plan out there that we can all get behind and see help economies grow and companies in the United States grow. Its pretty critical. In other words, this market is dependent on this idea of getting the tax cuts. Americans want to see a Corporate Tax cut, those invested, i should say, in the s p and the dow, they want that Corporate Tax cut. It will mean a lot to earnings. If it doesnt happen, what happens next . The markets are in trouble, trish. I mentioned how great the earnings have been. Theres another side of the coin. In a couple quarters, the companies will have to report earnings a year ago. You fast forward to that period of time, youll see them come out and possibly disappoint if they dont get the Corporate Tax cut. We have the highest Corporate Tax rate in the world and you have trillions over seas that will not come back to the United States because of the tax treatment that mean needs to come back. Well take the good day today. Thanks so much, scott martin. See ya. Were waiting on the press conference that will be happening in charlottesville, virginia with the chief of police there that will be speaking for the First Time Since saturday. The Police Department has taken a lot of criticism. There was concerns that they didnt move quickly enough. The president today specifically called out white superintendent premises, neonazis and the kkk. I want to go to Kristin Fisher there as we await this press conference. Hi, kristin. Hi, trish. This is a very strong statement from President Trump and should go a long way to quell his critics. He named hand condemned in no Uncertain Terms the White Supremacists responsible for much of this weekends violence. Racism is evil and those that cause violence in its name a criminal and thugs including kkk, neonazis and white supremacist groups. Shortly before making those comments, President Trump landed in d. C. To sign an executive order about trade and china. For 30 minutes, he met with his attorney general and the fbi director that briefed him about their ongoing civil rights investigation into the car crash in charlottesville that left one dead, about 20 injured. Attorney general Jeff Sessions described it today as a domestic an act of domestic terrorism. It does meet the definition of domestic terrorism in our statute. Were pursuing it in every way that we can make it, make a case. You can be sure we will charge and advance the investigation toward the most serious charges that can be brought because this is an unequivocal unacceptable and evil attack that cannot be accepted in america. The man believed to be behind the wheel, james alex field was denied ball today in his first court appearance. Hex been charged with Second Degree murder in the death of Heather Heyer. In his statement today, President Trump promised her family that justice will be delivered. Trish . Thanks so much, Kristin Fisher. So will the president s comments today quiet his critics over the remarks he made on saturday . Here with me now, Rasmussen Reports amy holmes and washington examiners jason russell. Good to see you both. Starting with you, amy. Some are saying he should have said this earlier. Why didnt he . I understand the criticism of the president and he should. He should have led from the front instead of behind when it comes to what happened in charlottesville, virginia. I appreciate the remarks he said today. I dont think twit quiet his critics. Something id like to add about this, trish, the reason it was important for his to speak about about these kkk members, white nationalis nationalists, the neonazis, tribalism, violent and bigotry is all too close to the surface of most civilized societies. We need to be vigilant to try to, you know, live up to our national ideals. We need leadership from the white house. Jason, how much does identity politics play into this . In other words, were seeing this eruption of this division. People say oh, its donald trump. I just wonder if its actually identity politics at the core of this, when you think about all the redistricting that has happened over the last decade plus in various municipalities and counties. You have politicses playing to very specific particular groups. Does that create an environment that makes it more likely for this horrible tragedy to happen . Yeah, i dont know if it contributes to it. I think that your analysis is correct. Were absolutely more, you know, tribalized than we have been in the past, especially when it comes to politics and who our politics are trying to get votes from. In the past, it was try to get votes from conservatives and independents that were democrats. Now its theres the white working class, theres a black middle class, a black lower class, theres, you know, those kinds of groups a spread across so many different ways. So youre absolutely right. Theres so much more polarization in that sense that its much more specific how politicians are attracting voters. Its interesting Justice Clarence thomas mentioned this in his opinion of holder versus hall. Lets share it with you all. As a practical political matter, we can only deepen racial tensions by destroying any need for voters. So in other words, this has been lingering out there, if you would, amy, for a while. Now were seeing it erupt in a way that is clearly unhealthy and detrimental. The president coming out today in specifically addressing that. Yeah, it was important that he did. Of course, theres political structural issues. Injury mentioning gerrymandering. You have evermore politically concentrated districts where those politicians dont have to build governing coalition with the end reach out the other side. Weve seen that in the house where gerrymandering is a supplied. But theres also American History and dealing with that history in order to move forward. As i mentioned, with these neonazis marching around with the flag, my first reaction is who are these moronic half wits think think is a sign of patriotism . Its like waving a sign of the devil. We need to confront this head on and it can grow if were not clamping down on it very hard. I was pleased to see Jeff Sessions say theyre going after that young man that killed the woman ramming the crowd. Theyre going after him as they should. We cannot allow that to stand in this country. Jason, did the police do enough . Should they have intervened to prevent this situation from erupting the way it did . Despite the tensions with police and protesters of all races in the past few years, its absolutely a failure of the police in this situation. You had a clearly hostile tense protest and when violence broke out, they werent prepared to stop. Everyone has the right to peaceably assemble, but that right ends when that Assembly Turns violent. And they knew this would be a problem, amy. They tried to not allow this protest to take place. I believe they rerouted it. It was going to be somewhere else originally. They knew it could be problematic. I dont know if anybody knew what could be come on. Look at the organization and look at the groups. My understanding is that the way it was routed was straight through the counter protesters without adequate were seeing it on the screen here without adequate sort of buffers between the counter protesters and the protesters. The protesters, that i have a right to express views and values. We also have a right to keep it from turning into this. And from expressing our opposition to this. I do want to add one more thing though. Most americans hated what they saw this weekend. When they looked at the videos, they thought it was disgraceful and ashame of people pretending they were being a patriot when they know we were against everything we value. Were 99. 99 of all americans saw this watched with sadness for sure. This is not who we are, its not who we represent. President trump today again, maybe he could have said more earlier on, perhaps that was a mistake on his part. Perhaps i wasnt as clear initially. But today he came out very forcefully to denounce this. He did. He needed to. Unfortunately we understand that these groups are planning future rallies. I hope the police are better prepared for what could be erupting in their city streets. And i hope that President Trump will take that opportunity to remind those people that they dont speak, they dont speak for their rights and they dont speak for america or the president of the United States. Absolutely. Thanks, amy. Good to have you here. Jason as well. Were waiting right now on the chief of police there in charlottesville, virginia who will be addressing reporters momentarily. Well have that live as soon as it happens. Weve been explaining, theres been a ton of criticism how the police handled this situation and per our own Doug Mckelway, theres some chatter amongst reporter theres that he may be stepping down. Well see whether or not that comes to fruition. I want to remind you, were wa