i'm blake berman in for elizabeth macdonald. "the evening edit" starts right now. [♪] we begin with president trump on the road. he's pitching his signature trade deal, the usmca. but before he boarded air force one he had to deal with the resignation of his labor secretary. we begin with jeff flock in wisconsin. reporter: much better news from wisconsin for the president. this is one of his signature campaign promises to get rid of nafta that he called the stupid years and he says usmca is the really, really smart years. president trump: i don't want people leaving this country, meaning companies. i don't want to incentivize companies to leave, fire their people, build products, sell the product in our country with no tax whatsoever. so we end up with no jobs, no taxes, no nothing. it's not going to happen anymore. >> the president build this as a bipartisan bill if it's to pass because he'll need help from democrats in the house, members of his administration have said yes they are getting cooperation from nancy pelosi. he h

blake burman in for neil. blake: i'm blake burman in for neil. this is cavuto "coast to coast." we expect him any moment. we'll bring it to you as this happens. the dow and s&p hit all-time highs for a second straight session but boeing did drag on the dow after "the wall street journal" reports that 737 max 8 groundings could extend for the rest of the year all the way into 2020. but first back out to that made in america event down there in washington. things, even though they are running smoothly here at home, they're looking much rockier overseas for china. for example, china seeing its slowest growth since 1992. huawei is reportedly planning big layoffs here in the u.s. while more u.s. companies are ditching operations in china. we begin here with edward lawrence. he is live at the white house with how both sides are responding on this monday. hello, edward. reporter: good day, blake. we'll keep an eye on when president trump comes out. the president woke up this morning with the economy on his mind. the president it touting in tweets, china's economy in the second quarter,

melissa: blake, thank you. connell: let's go to tim murtagh, director of communications for the 2020 trump campaign. he is waiting for the president at the north carolina rally. talk to you about what blake was reporting on, comment and in the context of the campaign. this is a campaign rally tonight. some suggested president's use of racist language on twitter is on purpose from a political pure speculative. he sees some sort of an advantage in 2020 by bringing race into the conversation. what do you say to that? >> well i would say that donald trump is who he is. donald trump loves this country. he makes no apologies for that. he works hard every day to try to improve lives of all americans through his policies, the great economy and so on. when he sees people who do nothing really every day except run down this country, denigrate this country it bothers him. he went public with it. it is not first time he is critical of statements like that other people made. the effect of this is that "the squad" as they ca

liz: blake, thank you. blake burman at the white house. when we come back, with 45 minutes before the closing bell rings and the dow down about 20 points, we need to look at what's going to happen tonight and tomorrow night in detroit. whom should you watch tonight and tomorrow night specifically when it comes to the democra? we will take you to robert wolf. actually, he's here. he's the guy who knows. stay tuned. ♪ all right brad, once again i have revolutionized the songwriting process. oh, here we go. i know i can't play an instrument, but this... this is my forte. obviously, for auto insurance, we've got the wheel route. obviously. retirement, we're going with a long-term play. makes sense. pet insurance, wait, let me guess... flea flicker. yes! how'd you know? studying my playbook? yeah, actually. dprevagen is the number onemild memopharmacist-recommendedng? memory support brand. you can find it in the vitamin aisle in stores everywhere. prevagen. healthier brain. better life. liz: trying to trump president trump on trade? senator e

i want to start with you, aaron blake. your colleague who accompanied the vice president to the board friday rocked my world, ruined my friday night with that gut-wrenching, searing description of what he saw and to the last conversation we were having, and i banned this expression here but we will use it one last time, the cruelty is the point of these policies. in this case it's another example though of what would appear to be either an incompetently executed publicized raid or some defiance within the department of homeland security. aaron, i think we lost your mic. we will fix it. let me start with you, lemire. >> it's a few things. yes, by all accounts the raids were not as widespread or significant as the president promised. but we don't want to forget the impact they have on people here in the communities. there were images around this weekend, very immigrant heavy neighborhoods in new york city, jackson heights, queens, brooklyn, so on. ball fields usually teaming with people, empty. no soccer being played. not ma

we can't call you sleepy blake burman. >> i am up too early for that. white house plate? >> neil: we will work on it. not going to do something. >> they call me business blake every now and again around here. >> neil: you're too young. thank you very much. getting reaction. james carr final joins us. if you'll indulge me on this china issue the president is taking the maybe china would prefer to deal with another president, not this one, and we'll just drag its feet until it has one. >> i have a slightly different read because i do agree china, north korea, iran, in many ways they're trying to run this out to see the results of the election but i see signs that they increasingly think trump is going to get reelected. what this means for the chinese is having to cut a deal and then trump is gone, it's no big deal but if they cut a deal and trump is still there, he's going to pressure them. he's been tough in the negotiations. they need to do a real deal and so they've got to fight hard for the deal because they will have to deal with it after the election. i think that is

quentin blake was the first. child has just left. it low it. quentin blake was the first. child hasjust left. it is low it. quentin blake was the first. child has just left. it is a two—year term, and you come in with an idea of how you want to change things or shake things up. what do you want to put on the agenda? she has come in with a giant to—do list, she says. one of the things she wa nts to she says. one of the things she wants to see is all primary schools having a library and a librarian and a good choice of books, classic and new. then the right child can have a right book at the right time. it is a worthy thing, but quite expensive. the other thing she wants to do which is not expensive at all is to encourage creativity in children, the joy of writing. i spoke to her about it and she put it very well. 15 minutes every friday for a kid to have a special book where they can write whatever they want. no rules, no marking, just fun, and getting lots of parents, grandparents and ca re rs lots of parents, grandparents and carers writing to me saying my kid used to

thank you, blake. we'll get back to the social media question but on the census question will it as blake suggests lead to another court fight? almost definitely seems to be consensus. judge andrew napolitano is here, host host of "the liberty file" on "fox nation," among many other things he does good to see you, judge. >> thank you. connell: blake in his reporting as he should be is very careful to not say the president will necessarily sign an executive order because there are other options but what options are available to the president here? >> we don't know exactly what the president is going to do. connell: yeah. >> without getting into the weeds, inactive order to the president, direction to somebody that works for him in the department of commerce, for example, which runs the census telling them what to do. executive action is more of an amorphous phrase which expresses goals, aspirations wishes of the government, doesn't carry the force of law. if the president signs or purports to sign or sa

let's get to blake burman standing by at the white house with the late breaking details. blake? >> hi there, susan, larry kudlow told us on the north lawn earlier today at the white house that if there is one main expectation for these trade talks next week, it is that china were to live up to its promise, to have a large scale ag buy but for lack of a better term there's not much hype, i guess you could say, going into these trade talks as the expectations are somewhat low. the treasury secretary santa monica, the top trade representative robert lighthizer will be going over to shanghai next week the discussions tuesday and wednesday to talk with their counterparts. the treasury secretary did tell me earlier this week though that he believes they are still a few meetings away from any sort of potential deals, so it gives you an idea of what the timeline here might be at this point. kudlow said today that hopefully china will return to the point of where the deal was at least in football terms of getting back to inside the 10-yard line. listen. >> i know sometimes you don't get

let's get to fox business's blake burman live at the white house with the very latest. blake? reporter: the backdrop was fascinating as the treasury secretary steve mnuchin and trade representative robert lighthizer were in shanghai to redo you mean talks with their counterpart first time since may, president trump took to twitter to tell china not to wait him out until the 2020 election. the president saying he will win the election. the deal at that point, will only be much tougher. the president recently started to float the idea maybe china is trying to stall until the election. so i asked him, if we should expect a trade deal at any point between now and november 2020? this was his response. >> china would love to wait and just hope, they hope. it is not going to happen. i hope. but they would just love, if i got defeated. so they could deal with somebody like elizabeth warren or "sleepy" joe biden. china is dying to make a deal with me. but whether or not i'll do it, it is up to me. it is not up to them. reporter: in advance of tomorrow's looming rate cut the president s

fox business's blake burman live on the scene. blake? reporter: president trump is expected to meet at this hour at the white house with republican senators to discuss potentially leveling sanctions against turkey. this stems from turkey who is of course a nato ally, buying a missile defense system, the s-400 missile defense system recently from russia. those same group of republican senators earlier up on capitol hill were joined by treasury secretary steve mnuchin who was trying to pitch them on the budget caps deal and the debt ceiling deal that he cut just yesterday with democratic leadership. as part of that deal defense spending will jump $22 billion next year while non-defense spending will rise $27 billion but many republicans are already expressing reservation about more spending. keep in mind the deficit this year is expected to hit $1 trillion. the white house is predicting trillion dollar deficits for years to come. earlier today i asked larry kudlow how that equate to fiscal conservativism. listen. >> the spending increases

blake burman there at the white house. blake. reporter: the white house held this event to celebrate the one-year anniversary for the pledge to american workers this is the campaign the white house has been pushing to get companies, organizations to provide opportunities for their employees in the name of retraining and education. the national association of manufacturers today, for example, pledging nearly 1.2 million opportunities. the white house says that brings the total to 12 million pledges over the next five years as a whole. here was president trump earlier today. >> companies stepped up to the plate and so many companies have done thousands and thousands of jobs and the training for these jobs. it is not like the old days where you go in, you do something much simpler. today with new technologies, computers, different things you have to know. this is not something you can easily step into. reporter: meantime the white house is throwing its support behind the prescription drug pricing reduction act which advanced out of

start with you, blake. reporter: escalating tensions in the strait of hormuz, the waters off the coast of iran, has continued today as iran seized two more oil tankers. one of them british based, another one operated by a british company. a senior u.s. official telling fox this apartments in their estimation to piracy. the president left the white house in the last half hour for a weekend getaway in bedminster, new jersey. he was asked about the ongoing situation there related to iran and the president suggested if need be, the u.s. would come to the backing of the uk, watch. >> we'll talk to the uk. we have no written agreement but we have an agreement. they have been a very great ally of ours. so we heard about it. we heard it was one. we heard it was two. reporter: there is an issue of the u.s. shooting out of the sky an iranian drone. u.s. officials say it was shot down by an electronic jamming device. iran is denying that the u.s. did so. its deputy foreign minister tweeting out following earlier today

connell: we'll check back, blake on the immigration story. blake, thank you. we have jack hough and the veronica daguerre. if you look on the gdp figure, if you go half glass full, pretty good numbers on the american consumer reported this morning, but to blake's point, larry kudlow out, hey, fed we need rate cuts sooner rather than later. what is going on in your view? >> i am going glass half-full, maybe 2/3 full. i like what is going on consumer. the manufacturing is weak. the reason we need to cut rates, not to stimulate the economy. look at europe. $13 trillion with bonds of negative yield. our bonds are flirty compared to what is going on in europe. that brings capital into the u.s. making the dollar strong. making it that much more difficult for our manufacturers. so we have to respond. the way to respond with a rate cut. connell: interest rate cut or cuts maybe to larry kudlow's point, do it all at once, veronica, 75 basis points,' opposed quarter at a time. i don't know. glass half empty view of the economic report, business investment was down. howe

jonathan blake, bbc news. a bbc investigation has found evidence of police forces in some european union countries detaining refugees and migrants who've reached the continent, then expelling them to prevent asylum claims. an officer in the croatian police says the expulsions are being carried out under official orders. the bbc has also seen evidence that police forces, particularly in croatia, are subjecting refugees to violence and stealing money from them. damian grammaticas has travelled to both sides of the border. they've fled wars, bloodshed and oppression in their own lands. now, just beyond the eu's frontiers, they're forced to camp out amid bosnia's war graves. asylum seekers who've become victims of new violence, this time meted out by the eu countries they thought would protect them. who did this? "croatian police," they tell me, "using batons, fists, boots." they catch refugees who cross the eu's frontier... assault them while in custody, then illegally expel them from eu territory. mustafa is jus

blake burman at the white house with more. hi, blake. >> hi, neil. you think that would be the case. we hope it would be the case as we expect to hear from the president shortly. as relates to the mueller hearings, the trump campaign, the rnc have called it a disaster for democrats. the press secretary said it was a quote embarrassment. a little while ago, since both hearings have wrapped up, we got the first take from the president in which he just took to twitter and wrote the following saying "truth is a force of nature." after the first hearing earlier today, the president seemed gleanful at what he had heard or seen writing i'd like to thank the democrats for holding this morning's hearing. that was a 180 from earlier in the day where the president started with twitter and being critical of robert mueller saying he's highly conflicted and saying of the investigation, it was the biggest witch hunt in u.s. history. after that first hearing before the house judicialry committee, the president's personal attorney jay sekulow said the case is closed

. >> blake berman is at the white house we've got more. blake good morning. >> commander in chief say it is that they destroyed iranian drone president trump saying that incident took place in straight of hormuz as that drone was flying about a thousand yards away from the uss boxer and ignored multiple calls to stand down. >> this is the latest of many provocative and hostile actions by iran against vessels operating in international waters. the united states reserves the right to defend our personnel our facilities, about and interests and calls upon all nations to condemn iran's attempts to disrupt freedom of navigation. and global commerce. >> the president also expressing his reservation thursday about a only 10 billion cloud computing contract that will be handed out by the pentagon. amazon is seen as the leader to win that contract but the president says he's been presented with many concerns. >> we're getting tremendous , really complaint from other companies and from great companies some of the greatest companies in world to compl

jonathan blake, thank you. let's look at some of the day's other top stories now. 12 israelis arrested and accused of raping a british teenager in cyprus have been released from custody. it comes after their accuser was herself arrested by police, on suspicion of making a "false rape claim". in moscow police using batons have arrested more than a thousand people at a rally, in one of the biggest crackdowns on opposition activists in years. and the country's most prominent opposition figure, alexei navalny, has been taken from jail to hospital, after allegedly suffering an allergic reaction. however his spokesperson says he's never suffered allergic reactions before. police in northern ireland have confirmed that a loud bang heard in craigavon on friday night was meant to lure officers into the path of a booby trap. an explosive device was found next to a bus stop, set up to look like a mortar, which had already been fired. democrats in the united states have again accused president trump of racism, after he cri

that's where we find blake burman with more. blake. reporter: charles, the lead-up to robert mueller going up to capitol hill today, president trump took to twitter for a preview, much of what he said over last couple years, personally attacking robert mueller and the mueller investigation as a whole. mueller sat down for a few hours before the house judiciary committee, it appears as if the president likes what he heard or at least likes what he saw from that hearing because this was his initial tweet after that first hearing. he said, quote, i would like to thank the democrats for holding this morning's hearing. now in a subsequent tweet since then the president has highlighted this exchange right here between the top republican on the house judiciary committee, and robert mueller. much watch. >> at anytime during your investigation was your investigation curtailed or stopped or hindered? >> no. reporter: so that is part of the argument charles, that the president and some close to him, republicans all across washington are starting

to blake burman in d.c. blake, some think the president needs to deliver a trade deal with china before the elections in a way that soothes his base, some of whom are suffering due to the tariffs. reporter: there's the political equation of the president potentially needing a trade deal before the election, but president trump made it seem on friday that might not be the case, and that's why there's not very many expectations or at least a part of the reason why there are low expectations going into this meeting in shanghai. let's just take a look at what happened last week because the treasury secretary steve mnuchin said that he expects there are at least a few more meetings away before a potential deal. then larry kudlow came out friday morning and said he doesn't expect there to be any sort of grand deal resulting from these meetings on tuesday and wednesday in shanghai, and then friday afternoon, we got the comments from president trump in which he said at this point, he believes that maybe china is try

charles: blake burman live at the white house with more. blake. reporter: charles, today, the white house is defending customs and border patrol and agents in that division from comments made yesterday by democratic congresswoman from new york, alexandria ocasio-cortez. for example, kellyanne conway today essentially suggested that the congresswoman was lying. here was the principle press secretary hogan gidley. >> i don't know what alexandria ocasio-cortez is talking about but then again that is nothing new. i never know what she is talking about. in this particular instance i'm glad she is saying it is horrible down at the border. we've been saying that for two years. she and other democrats called us liars. some republicans said we weren't telling truth on matter. the fact we have a terrible situation, humanitarian crisis on the southern border. reporter: the congresswoman took to twitter to defend herself against a report that she was screaming and yelling at agents during her visit down there to the cpb facility. she tweeted out the following

all the top stories with blake burman at the white house. kristina partsinevelos on the floor of the new york stock exchange and phil flynn watching oil and iran out at the cme. blake as usual, a lot going on at the white house. we'll start with you. reporter: we'll start with a pretty remarkable headline came to us from "the washington post" which is that huawei helped north korea buildout its wireless network at one point in time. the post even cited internal documents in that report today which said back in 2018 a chinese state-owned company helped huawei buildout north korea's three g network at the time. meeting with the prime minister of pakistan earlier today president trump was asked about that report. in general he touted the 5g capabilities being developed back here in the u.s. and silicon valley and the current of a fairs between the u.s. and north korea. >> we'll have to find out. our relationship with north korea has been very good. we've really established a good relationship with kim jong-un. i have personally. we have a very,

blake burman is live at the white house and as the president gives his thank yous, blake, why do you feel the president right now, why he's focusing this moment on his environmental record and what else is going on? reporter: it's a good question, because we are not expecting any sort of news or any sort of announcements to be revealed here. at least that's what senior administration officials said in the leadup to this. we are expecting to hear from the president, him sort of touting environmental achievements from the u.s. over the last years, even into decades and also really how his administration views this, and being able to balance it with the economy and with jobs. we have often heard the president talk about that, saying that in his estimation, in his opinion, his administration has been a steward of the economy, but he also views things as it relates to the economy and making sure that the environment and jobs are all sort of balanced out and go hand in hand. you laid out some of what the president and his administration has done, which is what leads many critics to say how

blake, this certainly turned into a big story the blake. reporter: alex acosta made it clear he will not be resigning as labor secretary. instead at encouragement of president trump, acosta went before the cameras to defend 2008 nonuplescution he cut against jeffrey epstein. he was a very bad man who needed to be put away, as the 2008 plea deal he said facts are being overlooked. acosta contends the state was willing to let epstein walk. his office jumped in to assure jail time. he says career prosecutors took a guaranteed sentence. >> what is the ral value -- value after secured guilty plea with registration versus rolling the dice? i know in 2019, looking back on 2008, things may look different, but this was the judgment of prosecutors with dozens of years of experience. reporter: now that sentence was only for 18 months of which epstein served 13 month and was allowed to leave jail during the day. democrat are calling for acosta to resign or for the president to fire him of the despite being asked several times, acosta did not apologize

jonathan blake, bbc news. as we just heard, the chancellor is expected to announce more funding for a possible no—deal brexit. katy austin is at the treasury for us tonight. any idea how much is being set aside? well, the government had already allocated more than £4 billion towards brexit planning. now we expect the chancellor, sajid javid, to announce a further billion, specifically towards no deal plans. the cbi, a large business group, has long been warning that it thinks are no deal would be a disasterfor warning that it thinks are no deal would be a disaster for its warning that it thinks are no deal would be a disasterfor its members. tonight it has published a very long list of plans that it thinks could help ease some potential problems. it is trying to be constructive here, suggesting things that the government, the eu and businesses could do. they range from a large—scale awareness could do. they range from a la rge—scale awareness campaign could do. they range from a large—scale awareness

with the president speaking as we speak, blake, let's start with you. reporter: connell, president trump is in the east room giving a speech on the environment touting gains made in the u.s., not only the last couple years during his administration but years and decades past. the president also talking about how he sees protecting the environment, balancing that out with a thriving economy though there are questions you who much credit the trump administration should take with this with the environment. the p personally withdrew the united states from, for example, the paris climate accord. another agreement the president withdrew us from the iran nuclear deal came to the forefront. iran moved past the 3.6% level which rain july can be enriched. that is a cornerstone of that deal. earlier today vice president mike pence delivered the first reaction from the administration. watch. >> iran should not confuse american restraint with a lack of american resolve. [applause] we hope for the best but the united states of america and our military are prepared, t

our front four starting us off on a monday night, donna edwards, juana summers, stephanie rawlings blake, thank you. >>> dan coats is out as director of national intelligence. we'll take a look at the man trump wants in and how a texas congressman's grilling of mueller last week just might have done the trick. >>> later, the democrats gathering in detroit for the next round of debates as a new poll has some bad news for one of the breakouts stars of the last debate. "the 11th hour" just getting started on this momentous monday night. >>> people came to me, dan coats came to me and some others. they said they think it's russia. i have president putin, he just said it's not russia. i will say this. i don't see any reason why it would be. i have great confidence in my intelligence people, but i will tell you that president putin was extremely strong and powerful in his denial today. >> just over a year after that moment in helsinki, indelible as it was, president trump announced the director of national intelligentsia dan coats is indeed stepping down. the president said he intends to unemp

susan: blake, thank you so much. as the summit continues, twitter is back up for most users, i wouldn't call it a freak outage, 25 minutes plus. but what do you think happened? they said, they were testing something, that i guess screwed up the wires. >> felt like they kicked the wire out of the wall. i haven't seen twitter go down like this ages, literally not working at all. i'm sure it was a code update or something like that. twitter has been working very hard on the platform, introducing new changes. the interface changed a lot in the last three month. this is kind of thing you can expect when you make big changes. but timing could not have been, i don't know better or worse. it was like, just at a moment we all want to talk about how no social media companies are at the white house social media summit, we can't use a social media platform to do so. susan: vince, great to have you, "the daily caller" editorial editor. can you call it a social media summit if you don't have facebook, twitter or google there? >> t

blake: gotta stop it there because lou dobbs is next. going to -- good to be with you tonight. have a great weekend. ♪ >> good evening, everyone, i'm gregg jarrett, sitting in for lou dobbs. a week of winning on the trump economy. it's soaring to unprecedented levels. the dow, is s&p and nasdaq all closing the week at an all-time high. plus, the american gulf bracing for another major storm. tropical storm barry expected to make landfall tomorrow morning, bringing with it a deluge of rain. the national hurricane center calling it a life-threatening situation. and president trump traveling to wisconsin today where he touted the usmca trade deal,

jonathan blake. police in hong kong have fired tear gas at an unauthorised protest involving thousands of demonstrators. the march was in response to attacks on pro—democracy activists by armed masked men last week. protests began seven weeks ago against a planned extradition law. 0ur china correspondent stephen mcdonnell was there. this violent day of street clashes has finally come to an end. the protesters were here in their thousands, tens of thousands, at the height, they have finally been pushed by riot police, block by block towards the train station and they have left. behind me, i am sure you can see that the riot police are resting, sitting down, after a full day of battles with hardline protesters, throwing bricks and other projectiles at them. they have responded by firing rubber bullets, tear gas, pepper spray, and itjust shows yet again that these protests are escalating in terms of the level of violence. a few weeks ago, we saw the odd projectile being thrown at the police, but today

political reporter for "the washington post," moderator of washington week pbs, and stephanie rawlings blake. former democratic mayor of baltimore. good evening and welcome to you all. mayor, i'd like to begin with you. let's not over-gauzy this up. it is true, as you know better than most people on the planet today, the crisis they have dealt with from crime to drugs to public education to vacant buildings. however, it is bracing to look up at the television and see the headline that the president attacks baltimore. how has it been on your end on this day? >> the way i was raised, it's not what people call you to, it's what you answer to. so when the president made those remarks about baltimore, i know that not to be true. do we have blight? yes, we do. do we have areas where there's rat infestation? yes, we do. is it the entire city? the entire 7th congressional district? it's not. i knew he wasn't speaking my truth. that being said, it's disappointing as a person who dedicated their adult life to public service for someone who in the highest post in the world, who could do any number of t

that was jonathan blake. democrats in the united states have renewed accusations of racism against president trump, after he criticised an african—american congressman. the president accused elijah cummings, who's the head of a powerful committee —— of trying to hurt innocent people while doing nothing for his baltimore district —— which mr trump branded a "rodent—infested mess". mr cummings recently criticised the trump administration over conditions in migrant detention centres. speaking a little earlier our washington correspondent chris buckler said president trump rarely lets criticism of him go unanswered. president trump had clearly been fuming by some of the recent comments by elisha cummings, at a congressional hearing, he attacked the secretary from homeland security at one stage about the facilities at the us border, asking kevin at one stage, that would he be prepared to have his child sit in faeces, and not be able to take a shower? and president trump has hit back with a stream of tw

blake burman at the white house with more. blake. reporter: charles, trying to figure out exactly what the executive actions will be from the president as it relates to trying to get the citizenship question on to the 2020 census. as of yet the white house still hasn't laid out any details ahead of this likely 5:00 announcement later today. we're being told that attorney general bill barr will be by the president's side, at least at the event when the president lace it all out. here is where things stand at this very moment. right now the census is being printed. the supreme court kicked the administration's case to a lower court couple weeks ago. the trump has been trying to get that censorship question, the citizenship question on to the census. it remains unclear if he will try to go the route via executive action this afternoon. already ahead of this the aclu is threatening legal action if the president were to go down that route. democrats say whatever path the president goes down it won't hold up in court. >> we're printing the

melissa: just the beginning, blake, thank you. stocks closing in negative territory today over renewed concerns that the federal reserve will be lessing a agressive about lowering interest rates as the economy remains strong. on top of all of that, the cbo is issuing a warning saying raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2025 will end up costing 1.23 million jobs. here is liz peek, columnist for foxnews.com. gary kaltbaum from kaltbaum capital management. they're both fox news contributors. liz, what do you make of the analysis from the non-partisan cbo? >> it kind of segues into the conversation about raising the minimum wage as a arbitrary determinant of raising the cost of labor. when you raise the price of labor you will get less of it. the cbo basically said not only could you lose 1.3 million jobs, the number was, it could be as much as 3.7 billion for admittedly a modest boost to low income worker pay. so it's a real tradeoff. my problem, melissa is with the whole thing, when you raise the price of labor you will encou

to blake burman at the white house. blake? reporter: i am told that president trump is the one who encouraged alex acosta, the current labor secretary, to go before the cameras and talk about this now, 11, 12, 13-year-old case like he is doing, and laying out before the american public, because one of the backdrops that you have here in light of the new charges that have been levied against jeffrey epstein in new york is that here in washington, d.c., the top democrats all across this city, nancy pelosi, chuck schumer, just to name a couple, are saying that the labor secretary needs to resign for his handling of the case and if he does not resign, then the president needs to fire him. one of the outstanding questions in all of this with acosta going before the cameras right now is how this is being received currently inside of the white house, most especially how this is being received with president trump and whether or not he feels that he has to make a decision as it relates to new leadership potentially at the labor depart

blake burman at the white house with the latest, blake? reporter: ashley, another busy day at the white house, president trump reminded once again as it relates to china, the potential of a trade deal with china, all good feelings coming out of that the g20 meeting in osaka japan at the end of last month between him and president xi very much in the rear view mirror. earlier in a cabinet meeting with his cabinet team at the white house, the president reiterated he has the ability to go forward with the biggest batch of tariffs to date. this comment moved the market. >> we have a long way to go with china is concerned with tariffs. we have another $325 billion worth of tariffs if we want. we're talking to china about a deal, i wish they didn't break the deal we had. we had a deal where china opened up. reporter: the president also echoed concerns from peter thiel, the billionaire tech investor said over the weekend, that the fbi and the cia should investigate google to see if it is infiltrated by chinese intelligence. >> i would like to rec

to the white house, where blake burman is standing by. this is not the only story involving the u.s. and china right now. you've got the president's cabinet meeting earlier and just a quick mention, google's stock is holding on to gains. reporter: it is not the only mention with china, you're right. if there were any questions about all those good feelings that were emanating from that meeting between president trump and president xi at the g20 in japan just a few weeks ago, today was a good reminder that that meeting is now in the rear view mirror, because before his cabinet earlier today here at the white house, president trump reminded that he has the ability to go forward with the biggest batch of tariffs to date against china. it was this comment right here that caught the attention of the markets. listen. >> we have a long way to go as far as tariffs with china is concerned, if we want. we have another $325 billion that we can put a tariff on if we want. so we're talking to china about a deal, but i wish they didn't break the deal t

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and with us now as well is john blake, he's a senior writer for cnn digital. with a piece that discusses the fallout from the president's remarks. first, i want to speak with you. i want to ask you, if you would share your experiences of when people have told you to go back to where you came from. nadal, i'll let you start. >> serving as the first vice chair of the democratic party, i get to a lot of these comments regularly, i go out and start organizing. telling me things like go back to the desert you support car bombings and comments that are very similar to what the president is putting up now, it just shows, something he's emboldening to say to other people. >> what do you respond to people when they make those types of remarks? >> a lot of times, when they send me private messages, i try to ignore them as best i can. and at the same time, i know when they send me these messages, they are just behind the keyboard, sometimes there are people that will actually feel embolden by these actions actually, in north carolina, three of my closest friends were mur

going to be an ability to exclude people if they say it is a it is you can't come at all because you blake wouldn't be racist is that he is i mean i'm trying to figure out yes or no i would iraqis definition is so you say yes ok that would be raised. now if a black person did it to a white person how would it be would it be races well if it were white people and the shoe was on the other foot then it doesn't really make sense because we know in our house that if you spend your energy minutes later when black people actually have that type of control again it's discriminatory it's a it's a practice where you are setting a bear a boundary a barrier but is it preventing someone from receiving an economic benefit now but if it were the other way around if it were a white only eventually it was a coach music festival and they say anybody does not why you go to pay double to take your price what would the reaction be oh you're a c s u neo nazi you k.k.k. obvious a name what we're looking at right now is a young lady looking through the lens of history and deciding that it's important for us as a

nancy cook and aaron blake are here with us. one source of all of us, president trump, tweeting today about puerto rico. he is out now with his first comments on twitter about the crisis there and the bad things happening, the governor sunday siege. clearly now after a couple of days of unrest this has reached the president's radar. what are you guys working on? what's your sources telling you? >> you asked governor inslee how long he was going to stay in the race. >> not because we have any dogs -- the next debate you have to be at 2%. >> exactly. you know, we got fundraising reports this week, second quarter fund raising reports so we got a chance to see not where they are as far as polling, but where they are as far as finances. people drop out not because their polling is bad but because of money. two of the worst reports were from beto o'rourke whose fundraising fell off a cliff and hiccan looper who raids less than some senate candidates in his home state of colorado. there's going to be some talk of more of an overt every

jillian: blake, richard, thank you. >> good to see you. >> thank you. leland: one of the things we heard about during the last debates and we're certain to hear about in this one is how these democratic presidential hopefuls look to take on president trump in 2020. new fox polling showing how voters think the economy would do under a second trump presidency. pretty interesting. 33% of voters say they think economic conditions will get better if trump is reelected, 39% say it's going to get worse, 26% say it will stay the same. another fox poll has voters sounding off on capitalism and socialism. 34% of all voter saying a shift towards socialism, get this works be a good thing. 53% of democratic primary voters say they think shift would be a good thing. tells you a lot about where the democratic party is right now as they try to look for a candidate. jillian: yes, it does. a that is for sure. leland: all right. iran is releasing nine of the 12 crew members aboard an pan mainan flagged ship sized earlier this month -- seized earlier this month while conti

blake burman, this is slow-going but keep going plan, right, blake? port tort that is a food way to put it. remember there was a frenetic pace before the talks broke down in early may. one week after the next where the trade team would go to china. then the chinese team would come to d.c. suddenly everything broke apart in may. now the talks are back on. one of the main headlines out of this is the next set of discussions will be in september. you can look at the calendar. you can see that is a full month away. things have absolutely slowed down. you can pair that with the comments president trump made in the lead-up to all of this, he thinks china might be trying to wait him out until november 2020. so the place absolutely slowed down. that is one headline out of this. the next talks coming in september. the other, that china committed to a large-scale a gbuy. this is something president talked about leading up to the meetings. both sides say china will go forward. we don't have many details related to size, scope, when, what, et cetera on down the l

blake burman at the white house with more on these developments. hey, blake. reporter: it was a two-fold attack from president trump today as he continuing to talk about the city of baltimore and congressman elijah cummings, democratic chairman of house oversight committee. in a tweet talking about cummings and baltimore, the president said, quote, 25 years of all talk, no action. so tired of listening to the same old bull. now the president also pushed back on the critics who called him racist for calling baltimore, a quote, rat and rodent-infested mess by citing these comments from bernie sanders back in 2015. watch. >> america is the wealthiest country in the history of the world but anyone who took the walk that we took, we took around this neighborhood would not think you're in a wealthy nation. you would think you were in a third world country. reporter: that is part of the defense for president trump today. he is also focusing as well on the reverend al sharpton who finds himself in baltimore. the president called sharpton a troublemaker and a con man.

neil: blake, thank you my friend. blake burman at the white house. former assistant secretary of state under bush 43 robert charles, what he makes of all this. robert, now what? >> what is the president is trying to do is compel diplomacy with graduated sanctions. he has a lot of tools at his fingerprints. some are economic. some are cyber, some are kinetic or military. i think you have to keep in mind what the stakes are here. this is an irresponsible leadership. this is a country frankly can't manage conventional weapons and promotes terrorist activity around the region and around the world. obviously we don't want them to have nuclear weapons. the president made it, the vice president, made it clear we'll not let that happen. there are a number of ways to manage that. one thing people need to remember, percentages are deceptive. the 3.67% uranium 235 enrichment that was permitted that they have now broken actually, it is a little bit deceptive because it takes 60% of the overall effort just to get to 5%. then if you get to 5% enrichment, it is not

blake, great job. thank you very much. blake burman at the white house. again, sometimes you can blur the lines of the debt ceiling and not coming to a budget accord and all of that, but again, that kind of thing does threaten if you don't raise it or push it back or do something to avoid, you have a government shutdown and then of course you have to worry in that event how far you push it and what do you risk, what bills do you pay or not pay if you're hitting that level. but this president has been embroiled in that just as almost every president before him. i do want to stipulate here, without playing politics when it comes to this issue, they all play politics, including donald trump. >>> let's get the read on all this. moody's capital market chief economist john lonski, fox news anchor brett larson and mary, i want your take on where this debt ceiling goes. the market isn't panicking because they think they will come to some sort of agreement. we play fast and loose with this stuff. >> we sure do. i think the markets remember in 2011 how it came so c

maria: blake thanks so much blake burman the latest interest joining me right now tennessee senator member of the judiciary armed services committee mar marshall blackburn. >> absolutely. >> we are talking about this white house summit you are urging bike tech to protect young children what do you want out of big technology? >> well what i would like to see, out of big tech is some responsibility and accountability. and maria, they go in and subjectively manipulate algorithms opens doors to children like senate senate letters i sent this week deals with the way pornography is made public, on their site. and this is made available ratings are wrong on these apps, children are seeing this they need to adjust those ratings, and also, parents need to be aware, you need to give parents the tools, to block this. these videos, that are deleted, this becomes a child predator's dream, for contacting children, and there are several cases, where pedophiles have used snapchat to contact and to coerce these children. >> unbelievable. maria: it is unbelievable. maria: feels like this is one issue big te