>> award-winning burgers. congratulations. >> you know about bringing joy to people with food. random applause. >> learn how to make these burgers on fox nation. >> sandra: iran now backpedaling on possible talks with the u.s., and china calling for calm in the trade battle is president trump continues to play offense with both nations. good morning, everyone. i'm sandra smith. >> jon: and i am jon scott in for bill hemmer. wrapping up three days of meetings of the world's major economies. a china signaling it is ready to come back to the negotiating table but iran's president is demanding the u.s. lift sanctions first. >> sandra: moments ago, senator lindsey graham responding to tehran. >> i really don't care if they meet, i care what president trump has done to crush the iranian economy. there is no good deal that will

allow iran to keep enriching and processing uranium and plutoniu plutonium. it's for them to have a nuclear power program but they got their fuel from other sources. they don't make their own free will, that's you make a bomb. >> jon: rich edson is live at the white house with more. >> when it comes to china, they have escalated their trade fight significantly over the past week. so much of this relationship is defined by that between president trump and chinese president xi jinping. when the president was at the g7 in france yesterday, he was asked about that relationship seven how he can go from one day praising the relationship in the next day questioning if he is an enemy. >> the way i negotiate has done very well for me over the years and it will be even better for the country. >> the u.s. is gotten to very good calls from china and says they are ready to do a deal though china's foreign ministry spokesman says he has not heard of calls between the two sides.

it hundreds of billions and negotiated for months with no resolution. last week, the president says he was ordering american companies to move operations out of china. it's also at the g7, french president emmanuel macron tried to improve the relationships between the u.s. and iran and said iranian president was able to meet any leader in the political interest of his country. trump says he thinks he will want to meet perhaps in the next few weeks because he says american sanctions are really hurting the iranian economy. if the president added he would only meet if the circumstances were right. this morning, he added "without the u.s. is withdrawal from sanctions, we will not witness any positive development. if you someone intends to make it just a photo op, that is not possible." the trump administration over the past year and a half has gone and the other direction removing itself from the iran nuclear deal, restoring

sanctions against iran's economy and top exports like oil and in recent weeks, u.s. officials say they are intensifying the pressure campaign against iran. >> jon: rich edson at the white house, thank you. >> sandra: meanwhile, joe biden's campaign defending his front runner status and attacking the latest poll after it showed the former vice president dropping 13 points since last month putting him behind bernie sanders and elizabeth warren. let's bring in guy benson, political editor for townhall.com, and host of the guy benson show. good morning. so what should this latest polling tell us? >> i think the biden campaign probably has a little bit of anxiety over this poll but at the same time, i think they have some legitimate beef as well. if if you look at the internals a little bit on this single pole that has him just behind bernie and warren, they have surveyed

under 300 democrats nationally. if so let's just hold her horses and see if this is actually a trend or if it is in fact an aberration. if i would point out there's a new poll published that has biden up 13 points nationally among democrats. 33% the closest competitor was elizabeth warren. so there are some numbers within the poll that exploded on twitter yesterday and all the political folks, if some of those internal trends pan out, then he's in real trouble but it's too early to say that. >> sandra: his team explained it like this, democratic primary voters are the most energized about a nominee that can take on and defeat donald trump and the atrocious values he represents it and we are in a battle for the soul of this nation. joe biden by all accounts is the candidate to make that happen. they would rather point everyone to the real clear politics

average which still shows him as the clear front runner at 27.5% on the latest average, bernie sanders more than ten points behind him at 16 and seven and elizabeth warren at 16.2, pretty much even in that polling. if but electability is the issue. they want to beat donald trump. does joe biden have an electability problem? >> that remains to be seen. he mentioned the average and it's better to look at the averages that any particular exciting poll, but he is way down even at 27, that is more than ten points down from his peak shortly after he announced so that's to be expected, going to get a bounce when you're the former vice president, a lot of good feelings among democrats about the obama administration but it has been a steady glide, kind of even. he came down and spin even for a bit. i think all the head-to-head polls that they are touting

saying he couldn't beat trump by ten points or 12 points, it is so early that those are almost irrelevant at this stage of the campaign and i understand them, they desperately want to to bee president so they're saying the guy in the strongest position to do that, vote for us but again, building an entire campaign on the idea of electability is a risk because if it starts to crumble, if that foundation starts to fall to a little bit and you're not looking quite as electable either in the primary or in the general, then what's left? that's the risk that biden has been running especially while he's out there gapping everywhere. if she was sort of unsteady than usual. if there were democratic voters that want to be in his camp but are looking anxiously over that and saying is this guy up for a general election of against a

very tough opponent who is going to pull zero punches? >> sandra: his message is i'm okay, he put that out there. >> he said i'm not going nuts, that's reassuring. >> sandra: nothing new for joe biden to make a gaffe here and there but there were reports there was internal concerns within his own party about those. want to point out that that monmouth university poll that did show joe biden slipping double digits, there was a margin of ever of 5.7% in that poll, important to point that out. want to show you this other monmouth university poll on his favorability rating because it is dropping when you look at it month over month now at 66%, his favorable rating. that is down from 4% just in may, and then 76 in march when it was at its high. so that number is coming down, who was going to make the next

move here? elizabeth warren has had the wind at her back, she has had some momentum here but bernie sanders in recent days showing the same. make the next move over the next month or so. >> something i'm really looking forward to is the next series of debates. if one, may be too depending on how many people qualify. i am so hopeful that at long last, you will have all three of those front runners, biden, bernie, and warren on the same stage together. if warren has never been on the same stage as biden in this cycle so far over the course of four debates, two rounds of them and i think a lot of democratic voters are very curious to see what that dynamic looks like. how hard you should go after joe biden? does she have the wherewithal to come back at her? she seems pretty well-equipped in these debates. it will bernie sanders at some point get concerned that warrants eating his lunch over there on the left has owing some round houses on her rep policy or do they remain socialist

allies for a while longer? there were a lot of interesting story lines ahead of the story lines on "abc news" and if you are warring in particular, you have to feel relatively good about the trajectory of where things are headed. >> sandra: very interesting as we move closer to 2020. guy benson, appreciated. thank you very much. and for more on joe biden's later showing in the polls, donna brazile will be joining us with her take at the 11:00 hour. if those polls very telling in some cases at monmouth university poll making big news but joe biden's team pointing back at that average which shows him as the clear front runner. >> jon: that can't be happy with that 10% slide in his favorability rating. breaking news now on the deadliest anti-semitic attack in u.s. history. the department of justice saying it will seek the death penalty

for the suspect in last year's shooting at a pittsburgh synagogue. 11 worshipers murdered their last october, laura ingle joins us with more details. >> federal prosecutors in pittsburgh made the move to seek the death penalty by filing a notice of intent in u.s. district court yesterday. this is a case that has been in motion for months. laying out a list of factors justifying a sentence of death for 46-year-old robert bauer who has been accused of gunning down 11 people at the tree of life synagogue last october. bauer has pleaded not guilty to more than 50 criminal charges filed against him which includes federal hate crime charges. investigators say that he targeted men and women taking part in jewish religious worship at the synagogue which is well known in the squirrel hill neighborhood of pittsburgh, one of the largest and oldest urban jewish neighborhoods in the country. according to these documents filed, they say he qualifies for the death penalty because he allegedly targeted vulnerable

people out of religious hatred, killing multiple victims and trying to kill others and chose the location in order to maximize the impact and devastation. if the decision to seek the death penalty comes with controversy on this after a request by leaders of two of the jewish congregation targeted in the shooting despair mr. bauer's life. setting a leader to attorney general william barr citing religious and personal objections to capital punishment. one rabbi who penned a letter said he was shocked and disappointed with yesterday's decision. no trial date has been set, we continue to monitor the situation. >> jon: laura ingle, thank you thank you. >> johnson & johnson will finally be held accountable for thousands of deaths and addiction caused by their activities. >> sandra: johnson & johnson ordered to pay more than half a billion dollars to oklahoma and a historic opioid trial. going to tell you what the drugmaker is planning next. >> jon: plus, you will

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>> not only does it meet the force settlement agreement parameters, it exceeds them for they care that they provide in these residential centers for the children. it will make sure the families are held together. this is not about indefinite detention. if anybody says that, that's an absolute live. >> jon: that is the acting cbp commissioner mark morgan defending the trump administration, washington, d.c., sue over this new rule that allows migrant families to be kept in detention long term. if these states argue that prolonged detention would cause irreparable harm to children. if the white house as it will keep families together and keep children safe from smugglers. let's get the reaction of former acting ice director, also of fox news contributor. so the flores settlement requires families be released after 20 days.

no more than 20 days detention. the trip administration wants to keep these people in custody for indefinite periods of time. your reaction? >> that's a stone cold lawyer. we have done this before, we did this back in 2015 when we first built family detention centers and held about 40 to 50 days, most of them lost their cases are sent home and the border numbers went down. the second false narrative they push is that they're going to be held in detention. they're not going to be held in border patrol stations, they're going to be held at a residential center that was built for families. child psychologists, pediatricians, recreation, not behind wires are not locked up in jail cells. these facilities were built for families. >> jon: you are saying that a

20-day period of detention as mandated by the flores settlement is simply not enough to let these people get their cases adjudicated? >> it took them about 40, 45 days for them to see a judge. but when that decision came out a couple of years ago, only been held for 20 days. we warned the court if you do this, if you make us release them before they see a judge, you're going to see a search that you've never seen before. i was called a fearmongering look what happened. so holding them and a family residential center for 40 or 45 days is not that bad, it's a facility built for families. it is not a jail cell and if they are we escaping persecution and death in their homeland, i don't see the downside and detaining them for a couple of weeks longer to see a judge and will be well taken care of. >> jon: the rest of the argument is if they are released after 20 days, where do they go and are they going to get better

care out there somewhere in america if they have no support system, going to be getting under custody of the federal government. >> here's what they're not talking about, they know it would work, it worked before, they don't want the president to succeed in securing this border. they want that warfare for 2020. they have the right to claim asylum, they have the right to see a judge but we are not -- look at a couple of weeks ago when they're doing a national operation. you can have it both ways, you can't demand due process and because you don't like the decision tell them not to execute the orders because they don't mean anything. there's no integrity in that system, you might as well just open the border up. there is no other alternative than to have due process and uphold those borders and the only way to guarantee that is to

detain them long enough to see a judge. we can put them on a plane and send them home so once i get out, there's a couple hundred thousand out there, over 800,000 fugitives that have not left. this is the only way we can guarantee there is due process from the beginning to the end. >> jon: what do you say to the governors of those 19 states that are suing the trump administration? >> i'll ask them if they really care about these people because when you entice people to come to this country by guaranteeing they won't be detained, when you vilify ice trying to carry out judge's orders, you entice more people to come to this country. 31% of women are being sexually assaulted making that journey, children are dying, the same cartels. at what point do the laws of this country that were enacted by congress need to be enforced? we have to stop ignoring it. so this isn't just about enforcing the law in securing

the border, it's about saving lives. there is no downside to securing our border, there is no downside in less moving drugs into this country. that is our job as a nation. >> jon: that is not what the top two leaders in california see it. listen to gavin newsom. i am told we are out of time, i am so sorry. appreciate you coming on with us today, thank you. >> sandra: still to come, to children killed, others injured after a stabbing suspect tries to run from police. how this all unfolded. we will have that next. >> jon: johnson & johnson planning to appeal the big-money ruling in the landmark opioid trial. will they succeed? >> johnson & johnson did not cause the opioid abuse crisis here in oklahoma or anywhere in

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>> jon: supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg making her first public appearance after undergoing radiation treatment for pancreatic cancer. receiving an honorary degree from the university of buffalo school of law. if she talked about her newfound celebrity status. >> it was beyond my wildest imagination that i would one day become the notorious rbg. i am now 86 years old, and people of all ages want to take their picture with me. amazing. >> jon: this was her second treatment for cancer. she has said she will continue to serve on the supreme court as long as she feels up to the job. >> sandra: i think she's

owning that celebrity status, the notorious rbg. >> jon: she makes a cameo appearance at the end of that film. >> sandra: meanwhile, johnson & johnson saying it will appeal the ruling in a landmark opioid trial, ordering the company to pay more than a half billion dollars in oklahoma. far less than the 17 billion the state was looking for. casey stegall live in our bureau with more on that. >> this is significant on many levels, not only did that oklahoma judge yesterday rule against pharmaceutical giant johnson & johnson, he further went on to say that he found evidence to support that the drugmaker did indeed help fuel the states opioid epidemic. the oklahoma attorney general says this verdict means his team was successful in proving how johnson & johnson used

"pseudoscience and deceptive marketing practices to downplay how addictive prescription painkillers were and then pushing doctors to prescribe more just to boost profits, leaving a deadly and destructive path of addiction in its wake." >> what we showed during our seven week trial and what the judge confirmed today is what we know now for certain, johnson & johnson was the kingpin behind the nation's ongoing opioid crisis. >> the drugmaker immediately said it would appeal that ruling. lawyers representing johnson & johnson all along argued their company did not cause the opioid crisis saying it follows the u.s. food and drug administration and the drug enforcement agency's own guidelines. back in 2009 when it came to the marketing of drugs like opioids. >> the decision is fundamentally unfair and that it finds

johnson & johnson responsible for the entirety of the opioid abuse crisis and the greater drug problems in the state. while there is no evidence at trial to support that finding. >> their's was the nation's first civil case holding a pharmaceutical company partially responsible for contributing to the opioid addictions in this country and of course, legal analysts say it now sets of legal precedent for thousands of other pending lawsuits against other pharmaceutical companies, opioid manufacturers and distributors. >> sandra: huge story, thank you. be sure to stay with us during the 11:00 eastern hour today of "america's newsroom" when we will be speaking with oklahoma's attorney general, mike hunter will be our guest on this landmark ruling. >> jon: more fallout following the suicide of jeffrey epstein, why prosecutors are now filing a

motion to dismiss his criminal indictment. a live report on that. >> sandra: plus the justice department getting ready to make a decision on whether to indict former acting fbi director andrew mccabe. jason chaffetz is here with his reaction to all of that next. >> he did something that most other federal employees never do. he got fired for cause. it is so fishy that he got fired and if hillary clinton had won, this guy would be the number two guy at the department of justice for the fbi, pretty scary. medications seem to be the number one cause for dry mouth. dry mouth can cause increased cavities, bad breath, oral irritation. i like to recommend biotene. biotene has a full array of products that replenishes the moisture in your mouth. biotene definitely works. it makes patients so much happier.

>> sandra: the department of justice nearing a decision on whether to bring charges against former acting fbi director andrew mccabe. the inspector general fired him two days before his planned retirement for lacking candor in violating fbi policy when he authorized the disclosure of sensitive investigative information to a reporter.

let's bring in former utah congressmen and fox news contributor jason chaffetz. we know you have been on this. first remind everybody who andrew mccabe is. i >> you is not only the deputy director of the fbi but he was the acting director of the fbi when mr. comey left. he has had a long story career at the fbi but i need to make one small correction to what you said, the inspector general made a recommendation to have him prosecuted and fired but ultimately, that's a review board of mr. mccabe's peers who then made a recommendation, another person looked at it and ultimately he was fired for cause. some of the times under oath and for somebody so senior within the department of justice, they know better. this happened on multiple occasions. that's why he was fired and

there were a lot of us who believe you should be prosecute prosecuted. >> jon: now they are nearing this decision on whether or not to indict him. what are they weighing in this decision? >> the department of justice has indicted people for far less. the people are losing confidence in our justice system because when it somebody else, they go ahead and fire them loosely dealing with classified information, lying, certainly in the mueller situation, when after a number of people in the trump organization for doing the same types of things. when it comes the department of justice holding themselves accountable, they are horrific. the deputy assistant director was recommended for criminal prosecution by the inspector general and the doj said we are not going to prosecute. not going to prosecute or go after mr. comey. if so here they have the deputy director, former acting director

recommended for prosecution and now they have a decision to make. are they going to hold the department of justice people accountable to the same degree they do the rest of the world? and so far, they have shown no backbone to be able to do so. >> sandra: now enter testimony from the former fbi lawyer lisa page because for "the new york times" writes that that hangs over the doj decision on mccabe. she told the grand jury that mr. mccabe had no motive to lie because he was authorized as the deputy fbi director to share the information with the newspaper. her research and could be damaging for prosecutors who would have to prove that he knowingly and intentionally lied to investigators. so how could her testimony change everything here? >> a lot of it does swing on intent, even though the statute says that is the case but when you're going for a jury, you have to prove that. what the inspector general is

saying is that he did have intent, he was trying to make himself look better. the crux of his case that he makes and is already made a big part of it in public is that he did have the intent because he was trying to ingratiate himself and make himself look better. >> sandra: the horowitz report is going to be very revealing in all of this. mccabe's lawyers responded to the inspector general's report calling it deeply flawed. it ultimately based on everything we just discussed, where do you think this ends up and how do you think this goes? >> i want to see it prosecuted. if a jury comes back and says he's not guilty, he's not guilty. but if people are going to have faith in the system even though you are the former acting director, you need to take that to court because they've done it time and time and time again and they have prosecuted people for far less. so lady justice come up with

that blindfold back on. if this is a case that should be prosecuted. >> sandra: you very much. >> jon: it is the new reality in california's biggest cities, homeless encampments clogging many of the streets of los angeles bringing about a health crisis that we've been covering here for some time. now the mayor's outlining new initiatives aimed at turning things around. william la jeunesse live in our los angeles bureau with more on that. >> the situation is going to get worse before it gets better according to this, adding 17 more homeless people a day to the roughly 40,000 already here. it's a health and safety risk for those who lived and worked near skid row and a major liability for the mayor. three years after improving a million-dollar housing bond, still no new homeless units. yesterday, the mayor assured voters he's making progress. >> hall determined to make a

better community and a better life for themselves. improve their community through a program that is just to much about cleaning the streets as it is about lifting up the people who live on them. >> our country today in communities like las vegas we saw a lot of people that were hurting. saw a lot of people out on the street. we have a legal right to camp on public sidewalks but those who are mentally ill don't often stay on their meds. yesterday, honolulu lecture program providing legal guardians to help patients. >> if any of you wonder why they rid of the streets yelling and screaming at people at the top of their lungs or even were, they are left alone to sleep for weeks on end. it's because they have the right to make their own decisions about treatment. how can somebody can be considered to have the capacity to make a decision about this when they have.

>> so in hawaii, guardians can now ask the court to force people to undergo psychiatric treatment. in l.a., some want to ban the home was from sleeping within a 500 feet of a school or park but advocates say that will make the situation worse since those are the only public bathroom is available. >> jon: william la jeunesse from los angeles, thank you. >> sandra: soccer superstar carly lloyd has the chance to make history as she has been offered a chance to play in an nfl preseason game. after that video of her drilling 55-yard field goals, the philadelphia eagles practice goes viral. remember that one? this is all according to her trainer, approached by multiple nfl teams and while she reportedly had interest, the schedule conflicts with her women's national team game against portugal. can we make this happen? >> jon: so many nfl fans would love to see her.

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>> sandra: a tragic scene on dayton, ohio, a stabbing suspect

in a police cruiser and speeds off in reverse. the suspect would soon crash that cruiser, hitting at least two parked cars with people inside. two children were killed. officers say 12 other people were injured, three are in life-threatening condition at this time. five of them are children. the suspect is now in police custody. >> i think iran wants to get this situation straightened out. based on fact or based on the gut, that is based on gut. their inflation is through the roof, they were economy has tanked entirely. the sanctions are absolutely hurting them horribly. we can't let them have a nuclear weapon, can't let it happen. so i think there's a really good chance. >> jon: iran's president is now backtracking on possible talks with president trump saying a meeting between the two simply would be a photo op unless the u.s. first lifted

sanctions. let's bring in form and national security advisor to vice president dick cheney and senior counselor at the foundation for defense of democracy. there was kind of a turnabout from hassan . he seemed to signal he was willing earlier in the day and then changed his tune later on, why? >> this is a very in iran, so determining anything is hard. i think what's happening here is that the bizarre is open, the iranians know they probably need a negotiation with the united states. on the one hand, they want to signal we are prepared to talking on the other hand, they have had a pretty consistent position that in order to talk to us, you've got to lift sanctions. sanctions. the president yesterday took up

macron's idea that there could be a line of credit to the iranians so i think they now want to push that envelope and see how badly does the united states want these talks? i hope the president says we are not going to pay a single dime for the privilege of having the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism come to the table. >> jon: because your place sanctions on a country to get them to modify their behavior, they are saying you lift the sanctions and then we will start talking about modifying our behavior. the dog is chasing its tail on this one. >> that's what president obama did and he paid a heavy price for it. he made concessions upfront to get to the iranians to the table, to get them to make minor reversible concessions on their nuclear program, and that's why we are where we are now. it doesn't fall for that iranian

trick. >> jon: this is a full-screen, he said without the u.s.'s withdrawal from sanctions, we will not witness any positive development but, if someone intends to make it a photo op with them, that is not possible. the photo hopped with him, i don't think that's what president trump is looking for. >> one thing people have to remember is that he may be the president of iran but he is very much just a pure functionary in that system like their foreign minister is, the real counterpart for president trump, the person who can make life or death decisions about iranian national security policy. if the supreme leader of iran. that is president trump's real counterpart here, not president rouhani. >> jon: there is a headline

and axios that his radio officials are worried about possible u.s.-iran talks. it does israel have anything to worry about here? >> i was taken back by the idea of president macron to preemptively but grants the iranians of some kind of lifeline for this line of credit that would be backed up by their oil sales. i think that would be a terrible mistake if we do it only to get the iranians to the table. i imagine that's what the israelis are worried about that if you get into a negotiation to early with the iranians and you were too eager and make too many concessions, the iranians have shown time and time again that they will take you to the cleaners. if i don't think president trump is going to make that mistake. he is too good a negotiator and he knows it is this crippling economic pressure that is forcing the iranians to really think about having to make a

deal with trump. >> jon: john hannah, thank you thank you. >> sandra: still ahead on "america's newsroom," tech giant google facing harsh criticism for warning against blocking cookies, by the turnaround after promising users tools to restrict them. >> jon: plus an airline leasing company is the first customer to sue boeing over its safety issues. with the suit could do to that embattled company. if money man charles payne will join us during the next hour. and we switched to geico; saved money on our boat insurance. how could it get any better than this? dad, i just caught a goldfish! there's no goldfish in this lake. whoa! it's pure gold. we're gonna be rich... we're gonna be rich! it only gets better when you switch and save with geico.

>> sandra: google facing backlash for warning users against blocking of those cookies, the tech giant making a proposal after having promised to offer tools to limit the

files that allow advertisers to track users. let's bring in brent larson, i said those cookies because talking about the delicious food item, there are these tiny internet files in your all the time, do you want to accept these cookies, it helps these companies track what you do on your phone or your computer. >> we should point out, google is the most used web browser among all the web browsers so where google goes, everyone else tends to follow and sometimes not so much. google has been talking about their privacy sandbox, a framework for software developers so you can block these cookies, and they also want a privacy budget so there is a cap on how much data they can collect about you as you go from site to site. the cookies do everything from remember your username when you go to your bank and it knows

your username, when you check that little box, remembering, it's creating a cookie file. if the concern is it's everywhere you go online, dozens of companies can be leaving cookies on your web browser. if they it sounds comical, but they are basically dredged old breadcrumbs of everything you are doing on my head is there is software that will show you. i've got it on my web browser at home, in some instances when you go to some sites, there were 81 different companies that are watching where you're going and it's everything from ad targeting to facebook and googl google. >> sandra: they originally said we're going to help limit these cookies and block leaves from tracking everything you're doing and now they're saying that is counterproductive because they were much worse tiny internet files and if you block the cookies, those are going to come in and they are worse. >> google has been working on replacing cookies altogether. they want us to have a digital

fingerprint which is known wherever you go and apple is working on this as well in safari where it would be something that would identify you, but it wouldn't identify you as sandra. it would know who you are based on where you're going but it doesn't know who you are in real life. >> sandra: this scares me. google's promising a privacy sandbox. new privacy technologies, it says it will enable personal ads without compromising privacy so somehow, they are indicating this is going to be a safe environment for them to still share that data. >> google and apple both working on this. how can we provide customized advertising without that following you around everywhere you go? if there is an ad revenue draw for publishers who can't see cookies. other places say it's an academic study and you only use about 4% of your ad revenue. these sites that are working for the ad revenue can lose out on ad revenue if you don't have the cookies enabled.

i >> sandra: you talk about this so much that we just have to assume they know everything, watching everything. just don't enter the data. >> or have fun and search for random things, watch the ads pop up. >> jon: still coming up, a new poll raising questions about joe biden's front runner status, the former vp trailing both bernie sanders and liz warren but his campaign says the poll is just an outlier. donna brazile here to respond. plus, the president returns from the g7 touting a potential into the trade war with. right he says they will soon come back to the negotiating table. we present limu emu & doug with this key to the city. [ applause ] it's an honor to tell you that liberty mutual customizes your car insurance so you only pay for what you need. and now we need to get back to work.

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>> sandra: brand-new reaction from the biden regime after showing a new poll showing his electability taking a hit. welcome to a brand-new hour of "america's newsroom." i am sandra smith. >> jon: and i am jon scott in for bill hemmer. if falling from first to third in a new monmouth university poll trailing by razor-thin marn behind bernie sanders and elizabeth warren. the poll of nearly 300 democratic or democratic leaning voters. before, leading by double digits. peter doocy live from washington with more on that. >> the front runner doesn't just have fewer people saying they'll vote for him, there are fewer

people sing live him favorably. his mistakes and campaign events, monmouth found that joe biden had a 71% favorability rating which dropped 15 points by april and now down 30 percentage points from where you started the year, 41% favorability. as biden has been dropping, warren has been rising to starting the year at 40% of favorable and has added 12 points to her total. if bernie sanders has been steady year but declining slightly, 40% now. the biden campaign is calling this monmouth poll an outlier arguing the real clear politics average of polls is the real show of support, showing him up by ten on the field instead of trailing standards and mooring. the biden campaign continued explaining themselves in an email last night. poll after poll confirms that democratic primary voters of the most energized about a nominee

that can take on and defeat donald trump and the atrocious values he represents and win the battle we are in for the soul of this nation. joe biden is by all accounts the candidate's position to make that happen. today, heading down to richmond, virginia, for closed-door fund-raiser. virginia the commonwealth is one of the most complicated states for democrats to campaign in because democrats are in charge, but not necessarily the kind of democrats that candidates passing through what their photos with like the governor ralph northam who apologized for appearing in a photo showing a person in blackface and a person in the klansman before backtracking and saying he wasn't in that photo, an issue that has never been fully resolved. >> jon: peter doocy, thank you. >> sandra: let's bring in the a team. democratic strategist, radio host, and fox news contributor.

trump 2020 advisory board member and constitutional law attorney, and cofounder and publisher of real clear politics. we should probably start with you first. they would certainly like to look at that rcp national average which still has him clearly the front runner at 27.5%. a lot different than that latest monmouth reading which has him falling 13 points. >> it's always a mistake to read into any single poll. you should rely on the average because it will tell you whether this is a trend. if more polls confirm joe biden's lead is slipping, we will show that in a real clear politics average. >> sandra: what is the trend when you look at that national average? >> it has dropped off a little bit. he recovered some ground and he is holding steady in the mid-20s. if this is a trend, it is confirmed to be a trend, going to be disturbing because electability is his core issue so if that does away, he is

going to be in trouble. >> you have to look at the average, quinnipiac and cnn still has them with a double-digit lead. if i were working on this campaign i would hurt this is an outlier. here are the two concerns when you look at biden's drop, it is across the board in the poll. it's not just the number, it is where are those drops, also with african-americans. elizabeth warren, however even though you see her numbers rise when you don't see them rise, or swing state voters, independence, and with minorities, that also was a concern if i were working on her campaign despite the numbers going up. >> to leslie's point, there was no clear front runner here. everyone agreed biden was the one but across all demographics, democrats are not cohesive on what they want but let's remember that all three of the front runners, biden, warren,

and bernie sanders are all previously failed candidates. democrats never collectively got behind them so this is going to be very difficult for any of them to pull ahead especially when biden and his remarks coming out that were against african-americans and specific communities, not just mistakes but his actual intentional track record that really showed what he is thinking. this isn't going to be good for him but i don't think it bodes well for any of the candidates just because they are not actually going to the voters and everyone is saying in the party we really like this individual. >> i don't know if i'd characterize elizabeth warren as a failed candidate. she hasn't run before. the national polls we have to take that with a grain of salt as well because we have seen it before that democrats can win the national vote and actually lose the electoral college. so one of his hidden strength as he is really strong in the swing states more so than these other candidates so he has to continue to rely on those state-level polling to boost the idea that

he's the most electable candidate. >> jon: take a listen to what reince priebus told sean hannity, said there's going to be a lot of bleeding going on in the joe biden campaign. here it is. >> front runners have to own their own brand and his brand is supposed to be electability and he is a safe choice and look at what's going on. he's not answering the questions, he is stopping himself, not falling through. the fundamentals are suffering because he is not living up to his own brand. doesn't fit the modern democrat party's going to have a continual problem in slow bleed. >> jon: is he out of step with the democrats of today? >> he is out of step with a portion, the more progressive democrats. that's why they share a very progressive voter base. joe biden is in step with the

majority of democrats and quite frankly in a general election with a majority of americans which is they don't want to get rid of their insurance and just have medicare for all but they do want government insurance if their employer doesn't provide it or they can't afford it. that they did bring back forth in 2016 and thought was radical at the time and at the same time, they don't want things like decriminalization of the board in which joe biden does not support and other things. >> jon: what about guaranteed income for all americans? >> i think most americans like the idea but in practice, no. >> sandra: don't forget this message from joe biden. >> here candidate might be better run health care and joe is, but you've got a look at who is going to win this election. maybe you have to swallow a little bit and say it's been i

may like this candidate better but your bottom line has to be we have to beat trump. >> sandra: maybe have to swallow a little bit with her message. >> saying you have to hold your nose and vote for my husband. to leslie's point, you take the support for bernie and the support for elizabeth warren, one of the things is both of those candidates had tons of money and support across the country. going to drop out of this race anytime soon. he couldn't sneak into the nomination with 30% of the vote. >> sandra: interesting analysis, a team standby. >> jon: fox news is confirming federal prosecutors are nearing a decision on whether to look for an indictment against former acting fbi director andrew mccabe. doug mckelway has more on that from washington. >> a justice department decision

on whether to charge former fbi director andrew mccabe may come any day now according to a source who spoke to fox news is catherine herridge. prosecutors are said to be examining the leak during the clinton email case. he was fired from the fbi last year after the justice department suspected general michael horowitz found that he had been less than truthful during an interview on the clinton email matter. he sued them for wrongful termination. he works as a cnn contributor now and has told the network the allegations against him are false. >> what i can say about that ig report, i deeply disputed, i never lied and i never deliberately misled anyone. not in the ig's office, not in the fbi and certainly never under any circumstances at any time. >> separately, u.s. attorney who was close to the white house

told media outlets yesterday that horwitz's investigation will conclude that all four fisa application sought to investigate the trump campaign were obtained illegally. the republican chairman of the senate judiciary committee told fox news that he recently met with attorney general william barr about the soon to be released ig report. both are pushing for maximum disclosure. >> i want as much of that out as possible. i think the attorney general shares that view. they want transparency and that would serve the american people well. i want to know the good, the bad, and the ugly so this never happens again. >> graham added that he and barr are not out for revenge. they are after accountability. >> jon: doug mckelway from washington. >> sandra: tom, to you first on this one, the ig report, see woodlake at that that but meanwhile, andrew mccabe, a possible indictment. where do you see this going?

>> the inspector general already concluded that he was less than truthful in his dealings with investigators. obviously he disputes that but it's his word against michael horowitz's word, very well respected inspector general. so i think he is probably on the short end of that. i don't know if he's going to get invited or not for the next report and what john durham is doing, there's a lot of story that remains to be told and hopefully as lindsey graham said, we are going to get as much as we can. >> jon: listen to what jason chaffetz told us last hour. he is as americans are losing confidence in the system. >> the department of justice has indicted people for far less. the people are losing confidence in our justice system because when it somebody else, they go ahead and fire them, loosely

dealing with classified information, lying when it comes to the department of justice holding themselves accountable, they are horrific. >> jon: it does seem if you get high enough in the political pecking order, you don't face any consequences. >> someone that has been less than truthful, that was a good consequence. but when you're looking at whether or not ten knife someone come it has to be a fair and unbiased process so if you have all of this evidence and an indictment doesn't come down, the american people are really frustrated and there are certain individuals who are insulated from having the rule of law applied to them. if it's a very low in terms of indictment and then it goes through due process of andrew mccabe just like every other american has every right to full due process but here if an indictment doesn't come down with the evidence that we know. >> sandra: that's what we are

discussing with the former congressman and lisa page question, her testimony and knowledge that applies, certainly can be a turning point. >> people at the top are being held accountable. this guy lost everything he would've had hours, days beforet package, health care benefits all gone so he has already been punished in a sense. certainly we know this isn't the end of the road of this investigation because they sat down with the doj but the doj is at risk here too because if they bring charges against him. certainly going to say this is politically motivated. trumps justice department, related to him and not the constitution but if they don't bring charges, the people on the right are going to say the exact opposite. so i just want to say one more thing, regarding when you have the inspector general's report

coming out, whenever it comes out, it never seems to be enough for the people who don't like what it says whether it is left or right so i would agree with you that let's look at the next findings come out with and let stand by those. >> sandra: lindsey graham says get as much possible from that ig report, the good the bad and the ugly. >> this is a topic that's been going on for years and that every single term battling and coming out in anonymous leaks and finally we are getting the sum full accountability and we should have as much transparency as possible. they need to know. >> sandra: we will see. >> jon: meantime, moorehead on the possible charges against the former deputy fbi director andrew mccabe. ari fleischer joins us in the next hour. >> sandra: plus, president trump returning from the g-7 summit in france, thinking about a potential deal with china. beijing saying it is already to

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>> sandra: fox news alert, for people facing charges in the deaths of a dozen nursing home patients after hurricane irma struck florida two years ago. police announcing the details in a press conference right now saying this was a terrible tragedy that never should have happened and the workers failed their patients. right now, the center's administrator in three nurses are facing charges. police expect more arrests will be made. from a hit on september 10th of 2017 knocking out power at the hollywood hills rehab center. staff waited three days before evacuating them even with a functioning hospital across the street. >> how do you explain or help yourself know that they're gonna? one that we will have more from

this news conference underway right now. >> this has to be a deal that's better for us and if not better, let's not do business together. i have people say just make a deal. they don't have the guts and they don't have the wisdom to know that you can't continue to go one when a country is taking 500 billion, not million. 500 billion within be out every single year. >> sandra: president trump back in washington after returning from the g-7 summit in france last night saying he is open to resuming trade talks with china and that a high-level chinese official did reach out to the white house to say beijing is ready to get back to the table. charles payne as host of making money on the fox business network. good morning. the president was clearly trying to put out an optimistic tone when it came to trade when we heard from him at that news

conference. is it working? our negotiations back on the table? >> it's working if you use the market as a proxy, up 100 points right now. what's remarkable about this session is the thing that crushed our markets in the last four weeks are still in play even worse, inverted yield curve throughout more inverted and the chinese currency is actually weaker. >> sandra: what does it tell you this market is moving on? >> those two news items have the dow up 1600 points together. 1600 points. august 14th was the two and 10-year yield. and now we are up 120 points. just got consumer confidence numbers out better-than-expected. it tells me when the smoke is clear, when there is a sense of calm, the market will react to what's really going on in our economy and in the hope that

eventually, i don't think anyone actively invested in the stock market thinks it deals going to happen anytime soon but if we start to move toward that. i think friday the big mistake the president made was using the word order, going to order u.s. companies and that's what sent shock waves going back and forth with the tariffs we've been living with for a year and a half. he talked about it over the weekend and at one point, going to be down a thousand points so i think the calm as they are, chinese economic data every single day comes in worse and worse and everyone saying they can play the long game, it's tough. they lost a couple million jobs, got $2 trillion in debt denominated in u.s. dollars. so they've got a lot of incentive to get something done. >> jon: that consumer confidence number you referred to is huge because that is the pillar of our economy. >> that is the absolute pillar in you could say we import so

many goods from china so the american consumer is really robust, really strong holding us up despite the headlines that from time to time have set the confidence number lower. >> sandra: while the president did put out an optimistic tone when it came to ongoing negotiations with china, 2020 presidential candidates see the uncertainty there, the wild ride we saw on wall street last week and to each leading up to it as a reason to target the president and his policies on china. >> it is trade war with china blowing up in his face. >> donald trump has no plan. to trade war by tweet is harmful to the u.s. economy, hard harmo the u.s. farmer. >> sandra: at the end taking her shot at the president as well. >> you're going to have to come up until the american public and it's ironic for democrats to use the stock market as a proxy because they normally say the

stock market -- they have to get themselves into a serious bind. they rooting for china, they have no plan, no alternative plan of their own because i think the american public all the grief of the most part even the people who don't like the idea of the way trump is going about this, they still like the idea that we are finally taking the challenge on. >> jon: the chinese are said to express an interest of president trump in negotiating some kind of a deal to make this go away. if the numbers you are quoting about what's happening to be economy is true, they've got more to lose than we do. >> the numbers i like to use of the ones that come from their media so they've lost 5 million jobs in the last year, they attribute at least 2 million to the trade war and the economic data that comes out every single day is getting worse and worse. there's the issue of saving face for both sides, there's an issue of china's grand ambitions.

and it's okay for them to have grand ambitions. they can't get there on the back of stolen intellectual property and subsidizing industries to the point where they put ours out of business. >> sandra: while you've been talking, the dow just chopped its gains in half. it's only an hour into trading. we will see how this goes. see you at 2:00 on fbn. >> jon: a highly charged hearing in the jeffrey epstein case, dozens expected to testify today as prosecutors vowed to go after coconspirators after the jailhouse death of the disgraced financier. a live update from the courthouse. >> sandra: plus a judge bringing the hammer down on johnson & johnson ordering the company to pay over half a billion dollars for its role in the opioid crisis. our headline this morning, dr. bill bennett on how this could affect dozens of similar cases countrywide. >> johnson & johnson did not

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>> jon: a court hearing in the jeffrey epstein case is set to happen any minute now. dozens and visit accusers had to speak after they moved to dismiss charges against the disgraced financier following his apparent suicide in jail. fox news confirming that new accusers will appear in a courtroom today. live at the u.s. district court in lower manhattan with more details. >> good morning, at least 20 of jeffrey epstein's alleged sexual abuse victims are expected in court today. it said they they are calling his direct. a chance for these women to share their stories on the record in a courtroom before this case is officially dismissed against epstein because of his suicide.

attorneys arriving this morning alongside some of the alleged victims they represent. in any farmer. today won't be like how they imagined it since his death robbed them of an opportunity to speak in front of him. they filed dropped charges against him last week, did not have to hold his hearing today but chose to allow prosecutors to explain why they are dismissing this case. epstein's lawyers to air out their grievances and epstein's alleged victims to feel as though they are part of the judicial process. many of these women feel like they were left out of that judicial process back in 2008 when epstein's lawyers and prosecutors for the state of florida negotiated a secret plea deal, a deal a judge ruled violated victims rights. one lawyer telling fox news the department of justice failed these victims miserably in allowing mr. epstein to initially avoid justice in 2006

and subsequently to take his life while in custody. at the very least, the federal court system is now allowing these victims to publicly speak on the record about the atrocities committed by mr. epstein. prosecutors promise to continue to go after his coconspirators. expect his lawyers if not the judge himself for denying him bail and for failing to keep their client safe while in custody. >> jon: that is going to be an emotional day in court today. thank you. >> sandra: meanwhile, a judge ordering pharmaceutical giant to pay $572 million to the state of oklahoma. for fueling an opioid epidemic by deceptively marketing addictive painkillers. the ruling seems likely to impact negotiations over some 1500 similar cases that have been consolidated before a federal judge in ohio. yesterday's ruling and two other

oklahoma deals with purdue pharma now totaling nearly a billion dollars in settlements. let's bring in our headliner, dr. bill bennett, former education secretary and host of the wise guys on fox nation. good morning to you, i want to get there and a lot to dig into their because a lot of lives at stake, a lot of money at stake when it comes to these companies. how does this ruling paves the way for other lawsuits that are already out there across the country? >> it certainly will, it will certainly encourage more lawsuits. the question of the justice of it is something else. if i could add to my title for the purposes of this discussion, i was the nation's first and worked on this problem. i know you're going to have the attorney general want to talk about the case in oklahoma but let me just say something in

mitigation for johnson & johnson and let me disclose i am not on the payroll for anyone else interested in justice. the analogy to back these painkillers is really not accurate, not fair. these painkillers were developed and marketed to help people, 25 million americans suffer from severe pain. tobacco was not invented to help anybody's health problems. second, again in mitigation of this judgment and that was only 3% of what the state sued for. so it was a lot less. the fda approved these drugs so that was the government's action here. the other thing is when they make these the way it is

intended, very few casualties develop, most people died when they use these drugs from a diversion of these drugs, overdosing or using them with what we call things like xanax or valium and things like that. i think those factors need to be put into play as well. >> jon: mike hunter will be talking but here's what he had to say about the verdict thus far. >> what we showed during our seven week trial and what they confirm today is what we know now for certain, johnson & johnson was a kingpin behind the nations ongoing opioid crisis. if >> my question is, it wasn't just johnson & johnson, you have doctors prescribing in patients who are taking them reading the labels as to how you're supposed to use these painkillers.

>> is a great point. nobody deals with johnson & johnson or one of the other companies dealing with their doctors. people perhaps and understand this. i'm not saying these companies get off scot-free. they were other factors to be considered that i think a very important before we stampede into a rush of judgments. the concern that some people have legitimately is that it's going to be very hard for those people who are suffering in severe pain to get relief. the problem today is not what prescription medications, the problem today and why people are dying in large numbers is because of fentanyl and mask on that is the major cause of death today. and when you see these prescription drugs involved, it's almost always because they've been diverted.

use them again with these other drugs, so that's got to be part of the discussion here. >> sandra: put that went on for us because we are looking at the student loan debt problem in this country. >> had a lot of jobs. >> sandra: that's why we have you here. looking at the student loan debt, it is astronomical. it is hard to believe the situation we are looking at, total outstanding student loans as of the second quarter of this year. $1.6 trillion we've talked and the average student loan balance today, 26,000 in public, 32,000 private. typically monthly payment for those paying these off. writing about that soaring student loan debt opening the door to relief scams, so they

are targeting these students, carrying these burdens and harming them even more. what do we do about this problem in this country? >> short answer is reform the whole thing. the whole thing is a mess. the government made a big mistake when it ended private sector lending for radically decreased private sector lending. if you're looking at a crisis now similar to the housing crisis that brought down the markets to the degree we saw cause this crisis i now talking about 1.6 trillion. of course these scammers are going to get down and people are taking advantage of the taxpayer, people are taking advantage of the students in this regard and i'm not surprised people want to get in and make money. we need serious reforms rated this administration is looking at serious reforms and i think you will see some people come forward from the president down with ideas that will help address this problem. the colleges don't have any skin

in the game. when students default, and sometimes is not entirely their fault because things have been misrepresented to them, colleges don't have any skin in the game i don't have to ante up anything in one way is they share some of the risk. if they advertise it's a great place, everything will be wonderful and i think they have to pay up a little bit. >> jon: some have said let's just forget all student loan debt, what do you think about that? >> that's crazy. this is similar to the immigration system, what about the people who play by the rule rules? the first thing will happen is if you forgive all student debt, it will decrease because the colleges will raise tuitions. if it's free, who's not going to take it? that's not the answer. >> sandra: that "wall street journal" article this morning, $89 billion in student loans were in default at the end of june.

had a side note, the actress and her husband set to appear in court today over their role in the college admissions scandal. a few seconds left before we let you go on that. >> you've got a corrupt system and people sense it's corrupt in some ways, so they joined in the folly and $500,000 to represent their daughters as member of the crew team and never been in the water so this is a big problem needing fixing them. if people don't associate the numbers here with education but it's there and needs to addressed. >> sandra: dr. bill bennett, we appreciate it, thank you. make sure to catch dr. bennett on wise guys now available exclusively on fox nation. >> jon: meantime, is joe biden's front runner status in trouble? that's the question today after brand-new polling shows him taking a hit in just one month.

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>> jon: federal prosecutors say they will seek the death penalty in the murders of 11 people at a pittsburgh synagogue last october. it's believed to be the deadliest anti-semitic attack in u.s. history. let's bring in former federal prosecutor. if the guy does get sentenced to death, the question is how long will it take him that sentence is carried off, sometimes never. >> only put three people to death in modern history, one of

them being a guy who waived his objections to a sentence so it could take a long time and he is entitled to a bunch of appeals and it won't happen overnight. it can't be dictated by whether or not it's expedient. >> sandra: it is going to take some time. >> he is guilty so the question is what's the appropriate penalty? sometimes it's there has a manifestation of society's outrage at this type of a crime. it is rife with hatred. sometimes they demand that be the penalty. the wife of the rabbi who was attacked in the shooting, his congregation that was shot up and writes the evil of the shooter who took their lives is beyond human reckoning and i hope the prosecutors do not pursue the death penalty. i hope the u.s. attorney general and the department of justice

seek a penalty that would imprison the pittsburgh shooter for life without parole. the best vengeance rather than seeking the shooter's death his strengthening other jewish life in pittsburgh and around the world. doing so will mean not the forces of evil. >> 's crime was driven by hatred and the misunderstanding of the jewish faith and they are the antithesis of the hate that led to this. so the fact that this jewish faith in these people's dedication might ultimately save this guy's life is an irony not lost on me. >> does it have an effect on the court? >> it does, it's a mitigating factor. the bottom line is they will be mitigating factors and aggregating factors. and her comments are not to be

ignored. they are very compelling. suffer the ultimate price and now know there is the 100 day extension in this case. >> they move at a glacial pace and at some what i feel is they want to throw the switch. again, there is reasons for mercy and the victims are calling for it. i do something to be considered. >> jon: form a federal, thank you. >> sandra: the video music awards last night as one of pop music's biggest stars called out the president. going to have that for you next.

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>> sandra: pop star tae swift calling out, one of her several politically charged moments and last night's gala. they are here with fox news headline 24/7 on sirius xm. so why can't we just have the

music and the dancing. >> it was less political than were chosen the past so if you don't like it, that this was the one for you i guess so let's watch. >> at the end of this video, there is a petition and still is a petition for the equality act which now has half a million signatures which is five times the amount they would need to warrant a response from the white house. >> so that was the big political moment of the night and that should come as no surprise considering at the end of her music video for the song you need to calm down, she encouraged her fans to sign a petition supporting the equality act which would make it illegal for people to discriminate against others based on their sexual orientation.

500,000 people signed that petition and she wants the white house to respond. the only thing about that is when a petition receives 100,000 signatures on the white house's web site, he receives an official response but her petition is on change.org so the same rules don't apply. in >> sandra: whether it's been in years past or decades past. >> mtv is psychotically political because there's a bunch of celebrities but i do think it's a problem how political these have gotten. >> we have met over ten, guy who used to play for the indianapolis colts and now plays for the jacksonville jaguars. saw them on twitter saying they want refunds on their season tickets because the star quarterback abruptly retired this weekend so he goes on twitter and says i will buy your season tickets and with the money that we take from it, it's all going to go to the riley children's hospital.

to make any angry quotes for season ticket holder seeking a refund, i'd be more happy to buy them off of you and donate themo riley children's hospital patients and their families. i am serious. all love. >> unbelievable story that the criticism for interlocutors time that we have the lowest participation in high school football since 1999's of the supply chain is getting cut off him people try to tell andrew luck week you should do with his life, a big outpouring of support and they want to expose themselves were taking shots and tell him how he should live his life, whatever. >> jon: he is hurting and has missed one season. >> you miss the 2017 season and it was just too much of a cycle of an injury, pain, and then rehab over and over and carly lloyd. we said this last week when we

saw the video, one team asked her according to her trainer said you can come in the kick for us in the final nfl preview game. she has her day job playing soccer for team usa against portugal but she said she and her trainer have had half a dozen conversations in the last week. could carly lloyd become the first woman ever to play in the nfl? >> jon: we are going to be watching. this fox news alert, expecting to hear from prosecutors and accusers in the jeffrey epstein case, big day in court, that's ahead. our members shop a little differently. so we reward every purchase . let's see what kate sent. for you. for all of us. that's for me.

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>> sandra: fox news alert, i ran making an about-face just a day after president trump said he was willing to sit down for negotiations under the right circumstances. welcome to a brand-new hour of "america's newsroom" ." >> jon: our number three, i am jon scott in for bill hemmer. now saying he will not negotiate with the u.s. until all sanctions are lifted despite having shown willingness yesterday to hold talks. already president trump has said lifting of sanctions as a no-go. trey yingst joins us live from our jerusalem bureau with more on that. >> a political stalemate as he said he is open to talks but iranian president says they would first have to be lifted.

scaling back commitments in the 2015 nuclear agreement that is not used on this country. earlier, surpassed the iranian enrichment and stockpile limits laid out in the agreement. >> it is not for them to say whether we should or shouldn't make atom bombs. whether you say so or not. regardless, saying it's necessary to make an atom bomb, we are saying it's forbidden. if there no influence on us. >> the foreign minister is meeting today in japan in a unique position to mediate between the west since it has close relationships with both tehran and washington. the statements,'s rhetoric is exchanged between iranian proxies and u.s. allies. a strike in syria killed two of its fighters.

benjamin netanyahu said the leader of hezbollah should come down because israel knows how to protect itself. now while just this morning they saw multiple word around the fire from into israel, showed a contentions containing the rise in the middle east. >> jon: trey yingst from jerusalem. >> sandra: the future of the trade war between u.s. and china. saying they want to return to the negotiating table after escalating tariffs from both sides. watching the dow this morning up slightly after going up earlier much more than that, rich edson's life at the white house. the up and down continues on wall street this morning as we watch what happens next. >> good morning. president trump maintains his escalating trade fight hurts

china more than it does the united states. the president also said the chinese government reached out to his administration and said they are interested in cutting the trade deal. >> they want to make a deal and they should make a deal and if they don't make a deal, it's going to be very bad for china and i very much appreciate the fact that they came out last night and said they want to make a deal and be under common circumstances. i thought it was a beautiful statement. >> the chinese foreign ministry said i have not heard of the situation regarding the two calls the u.s. mentioned in the weekend. they can return to rationality and stop wrong practices and create consultations. chinese president xi jinping, the last week questioned whether he was an enemy of the united states. the president acknowledged yesterday the conflicting statements are just as

negotiating style. they have had hundreds of billions of dollars of each other's imports of tariffs on last week, the president even ordered american companies to explore moving their operations out of china. negotiations have dragged on for months on the trip administration says china has backtracked on its commitments. they want china to agree to give american companies more access to chinese markets and to keep them from stealing intellectual property and trade secrets. >> sandra: we will see what happens next, rich edson from the white house, thank you. >> jon: "washington examiner" commentary writer. you've written an interesting piece about what's in it for the chinese in this trade battle with the united states. it sort of under threat by what president trump has done here. >> thank you for referencing my peace. the basic point i'm trying to make is that china's ambition is not simply to get a trade deal

with united states that allows them to benefit economically. it's to get that trade deal so they can continue to have space to do ultimately on a generational part what they are trying to do, replace the american led international order predicated on the rule of law, democracy, respect for contract law and looks like a feudalism of past eras which in return for chinese investments every other foreign nation and economy effectively bounced of their political decisions and also transfers whatever international capital for whatever beijing wants. it would take this systemic change that china seeks and by putting this pressure on the chinese economy and to chinese foreign policy more broadly, president trump is creating

problems. >> jon: we have seen them building those artificial islands in the military bases in the south china sea. that has essentially gone unchallenged by the rest of the although they did get a world court ruling and said is in that part of the way they see they are standing the world here? >> 100% pith the economic problems but unfortunately president trump, the pentagon under his presidency has been much more robust in terms of the number and tactics of u.s. navy and particular forces that have traveled past those and it has to be said that with australian particular increasing the indians, vietnamese even, there is more momentum towards building a coalition of concern against that. and the chinese are upset about it because they want to present the line that we are acting like

any other nation, just american lies and we have vietnam saying the american position much more than the chinese position, that is a striking change in tone so there are positives and the diplomatic front. >> jon: looking at a handshake between president trump and president xi. he spoke very warmly of xi yesterday but there's also a velvet fist here. listen to what the president had to say. >> has a lot of freezing for president xi. but i told him very plainly, you are starting up here and making 500 billion a year and stealing our intellectual property. lower than the floor, can't make a 50/50 deal. this has to be a deal that is better for us and if it's not

better, let's not do business together. >> jon: pretty interesting characterization of the way they coming to these negotiations. >> i have some disagreements on his focus on intellectual property as the keystone for a trade deal. that should be the keystone for the american protection point of view, a trade deal in which they stop stealing the intellectual capital. that competitive advantage they need to steal that. they should use other tools which i reference in my peace. also, the cost calculation. the focus with president trump has also put the line down is greater american market access to china and when american

companies deal in china, there is a contract law bases for them to address their grievances. the intellectual capital thing is going to be a cold war type scenario where we have to be more aggressive and nasty with the chinese than simply viewing it through the premise of an economic issue. >> jon: interesting piece, thank you. >> sandra: fox news alert now on a key hearing underway in the jeffrey epstein case, a move to dismiss all charges against the alleged sex trafficker. the judge opening the hearing to not only lawmakers -- ofbu alsos to speak if they judge said he was shocked to hear about epstein's death, the attorneys are still doubting that this was even a suicide saying it seemed more consistent with assault and recent really

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believe that he is a frontier candidate come up with the real news here that elizabeth warren has been able to go from 4% in the march fox news poll to almost 20%, i think this is a real race, mr. biden knows he has competition whether it is mr. sanders, ms. warren, ms. harris, i can go down the list as you all know. it is the problem is the race is still very volatile, some fluidity in early states but by and large, he remains the front runner. it? we know your party's biggest concern is beating donald trump so every time you hear it, i ask you which candidate has the best chances of beating donald trump at this point? >> the party is focused not just on the presidential race but taking back the senate and retaining the house but there's no question that three or four of these candidates can go head-to-head with president trump not just in the battleground states but what we have seen over the last couple of weeks.

several of the candidates can take them on nationally in a national poll, still under water up so right now, we still have a race on our hands and it's a couple of months before they know the true front runner is. >> sandra: we will see if that starts to show up in others. meanwhile, biden's camp is responding to that with a statement saying the poll is an outlier that is contradicted by every measure of the national average. democratic primary voters of the most energized about a nominee who can take on and defeat donald trump. joe biden is by all accounts the candidate best positioned to make that happen. so they want everyone to focus their attention on the national averages, the clear politics average. it does still have joe biden the clear front runner at 27.5% in the most recent polling.

almost a tie at 16.2%. if i hear you talking about elizabeth warren and the momentum behind her. will it be elizabeth warren who makes the next move here? >> if i could predict the future, i would go ahead and say the saints will win the super bowl but the truth is we are going have a big race on our hands and how i was out in california last week, had a chance to see all of the candidates who attended and i'm still quite excited about the lineup we have and are chances last year but it is still too early to predictable to win. she has great principles but this race can change next month. next month, we could be talking about kamala harris, cory booker, or beto o'rourke. >> sandra: the conversation and your party about joe biden's electability. in the hill this morning,

democratic strategist who worked on hillary clinton's 2008 campaign said it's a slippery slip and slide in the one argument he is basing his candidacy on falls apart. reince priebus, former chairman of the rnc took on a similar argument. >> front runners have to own their own brand and his friend is supposed to be electability and he is a safe choice. look at the debates. not answering the questions, stopping himself, second thing, they're not going to iowa, not going to the convention in california. he pointed it out last week, look at his online donations. over half of all of his reported online donations came in the first week. >> sandra: would you like to respond to that? >> i have a lot of respect for the chairman but i have to tell you, democratic primary voters want a winner but somebody that

can pull together the obama-biden coalition, that is the winning formula as well. so he has some competition, there's no question about that, he remains a very strong candidate. >> sandra: meanwhile, the debate qualifiers, there are some in your party fuming at the dnc over the debate criteria in the crack down on it. here is a list of those who have qualified for the third debate, and among the qualifications that are being criticized, contributions from 130,000 individual donors and reaching 2% for qualifying poles. why is your party so upset about this? >> i was at the meeting in a couple of the candidates come on michael bennet for example and others complained. when the dnc made these rules, they made them before any of these candidates announced. they knew the criteria, they

knew what the party standard, i'm sorry that some of them will not make the debate stage and a few of them i like personally, i know them but the truth is, once you make the rules, you shouldn't try to break them in the middle of the game. we try to do that in 2016 and a lot of us got in trouble for trying to change the rules in the middle of the game by opening it up to my debates and more forums and trying to get people to come in. truth is, they know the rules, they know this is the bar they had to meet and they fail to meet it. it's not the dnc's fault. >> sandra: this criticism isn't new but michael bennet of colorado said i am at a time when we need it most, he is all but certain not to qualify for the third round. we will be watching it all and it's great to have you on for your thoughts, thank you. >> jon: authorities in florida now charging for former ute nursing home employees with

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protect voter registration databases. it says those databases are attractive targets for hackers who might try to tamper with the systems that verify who was allowed to vote. >> jon: this fox news alert, for employees appearing in court today on manslaughter charges. i'll forward to the center in hollywood hills where hurricane irma knocked out power in september of 2017. live with more. >> almost exactly two years ago, hurricane irma slammed into the rural florida keys is a monster category four storm but east of the eye, the intensity was still a category one storm. the air conditioning went out for days. that included the now infamous hollywood hills nursing home where the stifling heat and side reach temperatures of nearly 10r

the storm. 12 elderly residents of that facility died. people who were bedridden and suffer dementia and whose families had trusted hollywood hills would take care of them he went in a hurricane. today, and asked for employees of the nursing home have now been criminally charged with multiple manslaughter counts as well as tampering with evidence. >> they should not have lost their loved ones in this way. they place their faith and trust in the rehabilitation center of hollywood hills. as medical and administrative staff and that trust was betrayed. it may have been living an absolute nightmare. >> three of the workers turn themselves in together last night and was set for them this morning. and they are stunned they've been arrested.

>> they were calling the emergency operations center from los angeles and calling them themselves who was hosting the cell phone number on television saying for people to call if there was an emergency. most people never responded and never came. >> still, they reiterated again today there was a functioning hospital which had a generator right across from the street from the nursing home which has since been shuttered and close down. the first of the 12 elderly people to die, the body temperature was 108 degrees. one baptist awful story. >> sandra: fox news alert, the justice department hearing a decision on whether to charge andrew mccabe, why one sources saying the former fbi deputy director has a target on his back. plus, this.

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>> sandra: the justice department appearing to reach a decision about whether to bring charges against andrew mccabe. catherine herridge has new details from washington on that. >> sandra: tells fox news that federal prosecutors appear close to a decision over whether to charge the former fbi deputy and acting director for lying to investigators. if they first reported that the legal team met last week with the deputy attorney general and u.s. attorney for the district of columbia.

the justice department declined to comment but typically these meetings are used by the defense in a last-ditch effort to argue against their client's. the -- was fired last year after horwitz found his role in a media leak of the clinton foundation investigation. turns out a key witness is the former fbi director james comey who told the leak was problematic. to confirm the existence of the fbi investigation into the clinton foundation, something he hoped to avoid. he felt a 48 page for wrongful termination. earlier this year, he told they are false and they blame the white house for politicizing the inspector general for ids investigation.

>> i think he had an indelible impact on the process. i know it's one that left out multiple pieces of relevant information and testimony of witnesses who were never even referenced in the reports. >> there was no immediate response. what's important to note here is when it comes to federal investigators or what the fbi calls lack of candor, former agents told them they are held to a higher standard because they are the ones enforcing the laws. >> sandra: catherine herridge, thank you. and >> jon: for more on this, let's bring in former white house press secretary ari fleischer. this is a fascinating and even a stunning case. a guy who was the top guy at the nation's premier law enforcement agency potentially facing indictment here. >> is a sad day for the fbi when it's an ethical cloud overhead.

a personal run in with him professionally, question his judgment and it's unfair for anybody to speculate or guess what they would do when it comes to actual indictments. let's wait and see what the facts say and make judgments about the allegations. >> jon: i think this is something you can talk about because you are a presidential spokesman and you know how things work in washington. it was about to be pretrade and being pretrade, made some comments feeding some information and even if the boss didn't like the information that got out, that's where all of this started. >> once he did as ones that came out, he yelled at people throughout the fbi and the different offices about the league.

one that perhaps where he was getting heat. that's pretty sloppy, pretty unethical for someone to do. a speaker at a counterterrorism training event for senior fbi leadership. a that morning of the trading, as it's a mildly critical things about james comey on fox and mccabe pulled the plug on the way to the training event and told me not to show up because he didn't like what i said about him. he is a very thin-skinned man and before he reached his conclusion that there was no collusion, andrew mccabe was on cnn and asked if i thought trim could be an agent of russia and he said i can't roll that out. one week before mueller said he's not. >> jon: no surprise he's been

hired by cnn as a contributor. here's what former congressman jason chaffetz at about the situation earlier on "america's newsroom" ." >> he made a recommendation to have him prosecuted and fired but ultimately, you go before a review board and at the review board of his peers. it wasn't one mistake, it happened on multiple occasions. there were a lot of us that believe that he should be prosecuted. >> jon: the attorney inspector general's investigation. >> the just as fbi under andrew mccabe was incredibly political, incredibly anti-trump and some a little ironic for him to say that about donald trump. >> jon: 's wife was running for office for a state senate seat in virginia and very close to the clintons. >> all of that is true. i'm not sure i hold that against him. that may or may not be a

reflection of what you do as an individual but i think it's his own conduct raising questions about his honesty and how unusual is it for inspector general to do just what the congressman said, make a referral for criminal recommendation. >> jon: we will see if another shoe drops and is intriguing case. ari fleischer. >> sandra: fox news alert now, trying to stop the devastating fires and amazon. in the meantime, brazil's president said he will except $20 million in aid from the g-7 under one condition. amy kellogg following the story live from london for us. >> the brazilian president is saying that he wants the french president to apologize for comments and he just may take that aid. the rhetoric between france and brazil really heating up as these fires continue to burn. paris perilously the arguments

are both political and personal but the brazilian side taking a jab yesterday at emmanuel macron's wife. and the brazilians accusing the french of treating brazil like a colony, the g-7 nations who have pledged over $40 million to help fight these fires are somehow out to control or get something out of brazil. the number of fires in that country has risen 85% to more than 77,000 in the last year. most of those set by farmers who want to use the land for agricultural purpose or to access minerals. many people say it is thanks to president bolsonaro president bolsonaro's relaxation of environmental laws. macron says something needs to be done urgently. in the forest spanning several countries has been called a carbon sink for soaking up carbon dioxide. he has snapped back that european countries should look after their own land and has questioned the motivation of the

donors. >> macron offers aid from rich countries to the amazon. does anyone help anyone if it is not a poor person without something in return? why do they have an eye on the amazon? what have they wanted there for so long? >> trump has just weeded out his support for president bolsonaro saying he is working very hard on the fires and doing a great job for the people of brazil. a lot of work still ahead, thank you. >> jon: johnson & johnson said it will appeal the half billion dollar verdict against it in connection with the opioid crisis. just moments from now, we will talk with the state attorney general who want this landmark case, joins us live next. >> i feel like it's a pretty tough deal. i think they are celebrating today. we have to get help.

these other kids. i'm very grateful for the court for what he did.

>> the opioid crisis is in imminent danger and a menace. specifically, it is evidenced by increased raised of addiction, overdose deaths, and neonatal syndrome in oklahoma. to maxing it will appeal after a judge ordered it to pay half a billion dollars for helping you will the opioid epidemic in the state of oklahoma. there are now thousands of similar lawsuits out there, but oklahoma is the first state to pursue a case against the drug manufacturer in the public health crisis. states attorney general mike hunter joins us now.

we met we are pleased with the judge's ruling. the findings of fact present in his order establish and arguably the culpability of this defendant johnson & johnson for the opioid crisis in our state. the clear import of the order again directs folks the fact that they bought a poppy farm down in australia 20 years ago, they've been supplying 60% of the pharmaceutical ingredient for the rest of the industry. they along with their coconspirators in the industry misrepresented the addictive effects. they could begin to take responsibility for the mess in oklahoma and i'm asking the ceo of that company to get his checkbook out and write this

check and start addressing the problems they created in our state. >> sandra: you were seeking $17 billion in this judgment, 572 million is what the judge decided on. they heard the reaction, here is the reaction to the rule. >> public nuisance law has been limited to property disputes where one misuses her property and causes harm to another. the decision is fundamentally unfair. it finds johnson & johnson responsible for the entirety of the opioid abuse crisis in the greater drug problems in this state. >> sandra: even "the wall street journal" in their editorial board piece said this ruling will be cheered by everyone who wants a scapegoat for the scourge of addiction, wes could have far larger and

more dangerous consequences by opening a vast new arena for product liability suits. it's an interesting response when we know how big this problem is in this country, so the number up on the screen, average number of deaths per day from the opioid overdose, 130. so what sort of precedent does this ruling set for all the other cases that are out there? >> this precedent doesn't constitute some kind of open-door to a flood of lawsuits using this theory but at the end of the day, you have to have causation and show harm. we showed the court and arguably that johnson & johnson was responsible, they were part of the cause for the epidemic and when you've got thousands of people dying, hundreds of thousands of people addicted, you've got to resort to your states laws to address the problem, to address the mess of

this company created. so applying this to some theoretical universe of cases is unfair, not consistent with how we apply the law on this case and i understand the concern but it is very much misplaced. >> jon: the lawyer there, said we have many strong grounds for appeal and we intend to pursue those vigorously. i want to finish with that same editorial piece this morning, in oklahoma opioid stickup in which the editorial board writes the oxycontin maker agreed, which included $200 million for a new national for addiction studies in treatment at oklahoma state university. mr. hunter's son, your son is employed by the center for health services revenue center will be housed. is there any connection to the settlement with purdue pharma,

important to ask since that is included in their piece. >> is there any connection with trying to create a center, something that can be the center for addiction science. i think the rationale speaks for itself. i regret the fact that my son is a lawyer for the health sciences center has anything to do with this. >> sandra: just a fair question based on that piece. as a settlement has anything to do with his employment there? >> rubbish. >> sandra: got it. attorney general of oklahoma, we appreciate you coming on the program this morning, we will see how this all goes considering they do plan to appeal and thank you for coming on to react to the ruling here on "america's newsroom," appreciate it. did you have a final thought there? >> all good. >> sandra: thank you. >> jon: actress lori loughlin and her husband appearing in federal court this afternoon facing charges in the college admissions scandal. new details on the legal fallout

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>> jon: actress lori lori lougn and her husband are due back in court for charges related to the college admissions scam, accused of paying a college prep expert half a million dollars to get their daughters into usc. both have pleaded not guilty. live outside the u.s. district court in boston. >> good morning. as you mention, the fashion designer and actress expected to be here this afternoon as they continue to fight the fight against them and they inched closer to trial. this hearing is all about conflict of interest. dubbed a rule 44 hearing diving into the potential pitfalls that

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>> jon: this fox news alert, millions in puerto rico under hurricane watch as tropical storm dorian turns in the caribbean. the national hurricane center saying dorian is packing heavy rain and winds of 50 miles an hour, but it could get stronger

as it nears the island. the storm expected to take a turn toward florida in the coming days. officials there are urging residents to take precautions. >> sandra: fox news alert, growing concerns over north korea's missile program. new reports say the kim regime is developing warheads designed to penetrate japan's ballistic missile shield. lucas tomlinson is live at the pentagon with that. lucas? >> sandra, these might be short-range missiles, but they concern japan and south korea, both within the range. they would have just minutes to react. north korea could fire them from mobile launchers headed in the woods. while president trump is largely downplayed north korean leader kim jong un's seven short-range missile tests in the last month, japan's defense minister has no not. >> [speaking japanese] >> translator: this poses a great problem for the international community, including our country. firing ballistic missiles is a clear violation of the u.n. security council resolutions.

no matter the distance or type, it is not something that can be overlooked. >> unlike traditional ballistic missiles, which follow a predictable path like throwing a ball in the air, missile experts say these new north korean missiles are more erratic and harder to predict. it's one of the reasons the pentagon wants to put ground the launch missiles in asia. during the cold war, the u.s. deployed these types of missiles to europe and were essentially pointing a gun to soviet leader at mikhail gorbachev's head. sandra? >> sandra: lucas tomlinson live at the pentagon for us this morning. lucas, thank you. but does it for us here on "america's newsroom" this morning. >> jon: very concerning, those missiles in north korea. president trump seems to have a good relationship with chairman kim jong un over there. the >> sandra: all that uncertainty playing out, by the way. that on the growing trade war with china. we've been watching the dow. it was up for most of this program, throughout the morning. it has since turned negative, down 46 points. something we will certainly watch as the day progresses. we will see you back tomorrow morning. >> jon: we will be back in the

morning! >> sandra: "outnumbered" starts now. >> jon: thanks. >> shannon: we begin with a fox news alert. joe biden's 2020 campaign suddenly on the defensive. a new national poll shows the former vice president's lead cracking amid what looks like now a three-way race. at the top, among biden and senators bernie sanders, and elizabeth worden. this is "outnumbered," and shannon bream. here today, fox business network anchor dagen mcdowell. town hall editor and fox news contributor, katie pavlich. host of "kennedy" on the fox business network, kennedy. it would be weird if it was called anything else. joining us on the couch, robert wolf, former economic advisor to president obama and fox news contributor. he is "outnumbered." welcome, good debbie to a! >> robert: good to be here. wolf and the fox dan, i heard. [laughter] >> shannon: i don't know! >> robert: blog post. >> shannon: we are only 14 months out and there's a new poll shaking