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and now gearing up for his acceptance speech scheduled for tomorrow night. the trump campaign quickly seized on the moment, saying joe biden supervisors from the radical left are now formally in charge. kellyanne conway, counselor to the president ripped the optics of the democratic convention. you know, when i hear some of the messaging, it does not surprise me, but i also do not understand why joe biden who has been in washington for 47 years has so many people from the swamp sort of trying to lift him up and show him how easy an outsider is that he is the guy that you need to run. i hear the name donald trump more than i hear the name joe biden at joe biden s convention, which tells you all you need to know. harris: tonight speaker lineup will include hillary clinton, former president obama, and joe biden s vice president selection kamala harris. the california senator facing a big test tonight and what is being called the biggest speech of her career as she acce ....
of the right wing patriot prayer group during a confrontation with black lives matter protesters. the fbi and atf are not helping portland law enforcement in that investigation. yesterday, the mayor of portland, oregon, rejected help from the feds to contain the unrest and accused president trump of inflaming tensions. the president responding this morning tweeting portland is a mess. and it has been for many years. if the stroke of a mayor doesn t clean it up we will go in and do it for them. florida congressman val demings say president trump created the crisis. this is exactly what happens when homeland security, the intelligence community, the military, and others who were charged with protecting our homeland are politicized. melissa: matt is life in portland with more. right now, portland police are actively investigating this weekend s shooting death. police are asking for any eyewitness accounts or video which they say can greatly help them. this is the i ....
we are putting them on notice. new york governor andrew cuomo calling the president s plan illegal and not stopping there. you can come back to new york. he can t, he s going to walk on the street in new york? forget body guards, he better have an army. if he thinks he s going to walk on the street in new york. no, new yorkers don t want anything to do with them, and he knows it. melissa: he appeared to walk back those remarks later, saying the plan would make the president persona non grata in his hometown. white house press secretary kayleigh mcenany said this. it s not often you hear a governor described in vivid detail how he lost control of his state, but there you have governor cuomo saying you can t come to new york without an army. i guess that is the case when you have more than a thousand shootings before labor day. it s very rare you hear a mccright governor nakedly admit to failure and that s what he has just done. melissa: new numbers from the nypd ....
the president also included new york on that list, governor andrew cuomo with this today. the president has been tweeting up a storm, as is his way. i believe the president is fundamentally a bully you can t bully new yorkers! we just don t get bullied. we don t respond well to it. the president says a lot of things, but fact still matter. even in this political environment. melissa: fox coverage on all of this, peter doocy is in kenosha, wisconsin, where joe biden plans to meet with the family of jacob blake two days after the president s visit there. but first, let s go live to white house correspondent john roberts. john. good afternoon, it s unclear exactly which authority the president will be able to do but the president threatening to withhold federal funds from certain cities, targeting seattle, new york city, washington, d.c., and portland. directing federal agencies to look at what funds might be withheld if the cities don t do more to combat the lawless ....
the police responding to a domestic disturbance call shot 29-year-old jacob blake several times from behind as he tried to get in the car. he is in the hospital reportedly in serious condition. the shooting also sparking protests in other major cities including new york, chicago, minneapolis. chief correspondent jonathan hunt is live in kenosha with more. jonathan? melissa, a second night that began as a protest turning in to a riot here in kenosha. as many in the crowd of several hundred that initially gathered here at the county courthouse moved on and set fire to local businesses burning several of them to the ground. they were defying an 8:00 p.m. curfew imposed by the kenosha police department. the protesters simply would not obey that curfew. they started throwing fireworks at the police lines. the police then responded with volleys of tear gas. all of this, of course, resulting from sunday s shooting of 29-year-old jacob blake. on the video that we have seen he ....