>> dana: that could help in new york, we could try that. that's it for us. "special report" is up next. we will see you tomorrow. bye-bye. >> bret: good evening and welcome to washington, i'm bret baier. breaking tonight, we are coming to you from the j. edgar hoover federal building in washington. the washington headquarters for the federal bureau of investigation. we will have an exclusive interview with christopher wray, applications after the george floyd killings, talk about the investigation into the origins of the russian interference in 2016 and the trump campaign, all of it open in this interview with the directory in just a moment but first. breaking tonight as well, federal appeals court has ordered charges to be dropped against former national security

advisor michael flynn. that is considered a huge win for president trump and his justice department. details tonight outside the doj. good evening, david. >> good evening to you. former national security advisor michael flynn is one step closer to putting a three year legal saga behind him. he wants the case dropped from of the department of justice wants the case dropped, the original judge says not so fast but michael flynn is praising today's development. >> in a surprise call to the rush limbaugh show, michael flynn sounded relieved. >> it's a good thing for me, good thing for my family but it's really a great boost of confidence for the american people and our justice system. >> flynn declined to discuss specifics just hours after the d.c. circuit court of appeals ruled his case must be dropped. karen henderson and naomi rall riding in part, if evidence comes to light calling into

question, the executive branch must have the authority to decide that further prosecution is not in the interest of justice. flynn pleaded guilty twice to lying to the fbi but withdrew his latest plea earlier this year, arguing misconduct on behalf of the justice department and fbi. flynn's legal team claims these heavily redacted notes were written by former fbi agent peter strzok and the notes point to a meeting between president obama, vice president biden and fbi director james comey. according to the notes, president obama allegedly said, make sure your look over things that have the right people on it and is there anything i shouldn't be telling the transition team? director comey apparently use the word "legit." biden was asked about the flynn investigation last month.

>> i know nothing about those moves to investigate michael flynn, number one. number two, this is all about diversion. >> seconds later he changed his answer, acknowledging he was aware of the investigation. >> i'm sorry, i was aware that they asked for an investigation but that's all i know about it and i don't think anything else. >> last month attorney general bill barr personally got involved to drop the flynn case. the judge overseeing the matter refused. hiring his own attorney to argue why the case could potentially move forward to sentencing. he set a hearing for july 16th. sullivan has yet to say if that hearing will still happen. >> sullivan has hired an attorney, he can still appeal to the full circuit court if he wants to in this specific case. meanwhile, attorney general bill barr, the top brass at the doj, praising this decision today, they are happy about it. the same story down pennsylvania avenue where john roberts picked up the sto

story. >> in the oval office today, president trump praised to the order from an appellate court to drop the case against his former national security advisor michael flynn. >> very happy i about general flynn, he was treated horribly, treated very, very horribly by a very bad people. the obama administration spied on the campaign, this is just the first one, he's been exonerated. >> at a rose garden news conference, president trump weighing in on the democrats move to stop south carolina senator tim scott's police reform bill some of the justice act, from moving forward. >> the democrats don't want to do it because they want to weaken our police and take away immunity. >> protests, some of them violent and destructive continue across the country. in the response to monday's attempt president andrew jackson across the street from the white house, president trump

will sign an executive order providing stiff penalties for anyone defacing or damaging national monuments. >> we have the monuments act already which means ten years in jail but i think were going to consolidate various things and come out with a very strong executive order and i should have that by the end of the week which is fast approaching. speak of the federal government also calling in the national guard. interior secretary david bernhardt today asking the pentagon to dispatch 100 troops from the d.c. national guard to protect monuments in the nation's capital. president duda's appearance in the white house, the first foreign leader in the white house since the coronavirus crisis. the meeting meant to show close ties is tantamount to election interference. president duda says it was simply a matter of timing. >> realizing the interest of the country, we are looking for a win/win situation. >> i don't think he needs my

help. i'm honored that this is a day that's just before your election, i'm honored but he will do very well. with or without us. >> president trump confirmed, some of those troops will be redeployed to poland, asked watson signaled that to russia, it sends a strong signal. the president went on to criticize the german chancellor angela merkel for buying russian oil and gas and expecting the united states to defend germany, saying it just doesn't work that way. bret? >> bret: thanks, john. thanks for being here. there are a lot of topics we want to talk about, i want to talk about the first foreign influence. the justice department recently indicted the professor at harvard for lying about his relationship with the chinese government. there are people who don't know about china and what they're trying to do in the u.s., how

much is china doing, how much is china spying in the u.s.? >> there is no country that presents a broader, more comprehensive threat to america's innovation, to our economic security and our democratic ideas than china does, just to give you some context for that. just as we are sitting here having this conversation. the fbi has over 2,000 active investigations. that trace back to the government of china. >> bret: 2,000? >> in a little more context, that's about a 1300% increase in terms of economic espionage investigations with the chinese from about a decade ago. >> bret: how much is that economic espionage? >> that's the thing a lot of people really don't understand about the chinese government. the chinese people, chinese americans, this is about the

chinese government. they are pursuing a campaign of intellectual property theft, cyber intrusions that target businesses big and small all across the country. and our academic research institutions. and government officials which i certainly do. what we saw nontraditional collectors which could be business been, high-level scientists, high-level academics, people like that. all of whom are in different ways incentivized to steal american innovation and confidential information and take you back to china. >> bret: in the '30s and debauchery 40s, the soviet union had more than 100 spies in the state department, is espionage a real problem in the u.s.? what is china doing on that? >> traditional espionage, the old sort of spy versus spy thing is very much a phenomenon in

today's world but we are much more focused in many ways on the economic espionage which targets american businesses and hurts american jobs and american consumers and it's everything from fortune 100 companies to start-ups and agriculture, its high-tech, aviation, health care, as i said before, it's our academic research. >> bret: are they taking interest in elections? >> they certainly have an interest in influencing our political thought, our policy is to try to shift them in a more friendly, pro-china party direction. and sometimes that gets wrapped up in election issues. >> bret: is the fbi in charge of the investigation into the origins of the coronavirus? >> we certainly have a roll, in looking in the origins of the coronavirus. at this point there's nothing to add to what the intelligence community has already said publicly on that.

there is still insufficient information to really know exactly how the virus emanated. >> bret: when you say that china is active, when there is a crisis, the protests after the george floyd killing, are you seeing foreign intervention to kind of stir up chaos inside the u.s.? >> we've certainly seen in the past a variety of foreign adversaries looking to amplify controversy in this country and they use stage media, social media, some of that is through propaganda, some of that is through disinformation and some of it is through fake information. and we are looking carefully at the prospect of foreign influence, foreign interference in all the protest activities occurred over the last few weeks. >> bret: the president has talked and the administration has talked about antifa about what the justice department and

you all have moved on is this boogaloo group, right wing, trying to stir up chaos to make it look like it's left-wing. are there any antifa investigations ongoing? >> the violence that occurred during the protest is driven by a variety of different motivations and ideologies, not the work of any single ideology movement or group, we certainly have a number of active ongoing investigations into violent anarchist extremists, some of whom self-identify or otherwise linked to nt for movement but i think it's a mistake to try to put a lot of this into a neat ideological buckets. we are really about the violence, not the ideology. >> bret: the letter you sent to your fbi family after the george floyd killings and what that means internally, what have

you been doing to change the dynamic in the wake of all of this? >> i understand completely that there are a lot of people out there in this country who are hurting, who are angry and are upset, over instances of racism or where the justice system has failed people of color in particular. i would also say, though, that law enforcement family is also hurting and there are lots and lots and lots of police officers out there putting their lives on the line every day who are unfairly tarred by the misconduct of a few so what we really need is for people to come together, to listen to each other and work together to try to figure out a better way forward. >> bret: when i talk to the attorney general he said there will be some kind of federal involvement setting clear standards. for police units across the country. >> i think there's a general agreement among police agencies that we need clearer standards,

have to make sure those standards are and that there are systems are in place that hold officers accountable. >> bret: is not a federal effort? does not become a federal training effort? >> i think we are going to need a strong federal participation in this effort. >> what is that look like? >> the fbi's rule is if you different things, first in accountability, we pursue and have for some time civil rights, color of law investigations where excessive force violates federal law but we also participated in doing training and setting best practices for police department's, state and local around the country. >> bret: the president said about these monuments coming down -- >> we are looking at long-term jail sentences for these vandals and these hoodlums and these anarchists and agitators. they are bad people, they don't love our country and are not taking down our monuments.

>> equaled justin's is essential but violence and destruction of federal property is not the way to get there and if there are appropriate bases for federal investigations we will push them. >> bret: what is the biggest threat you see? for a long time it was radical islamic terrorism. what's the biggest threat you see is fbi? >> the biggest terrorist threat in the u.s., in the homeland is what we would call homegrown violent extremists. these are people who are lone actors typically, motivated by a variety of different ideologies, some jihadists, some others who go very quickly from radicalization to attack, typically radicalized online and going after soft targets, schools, shopping malls. easy to hit targets and using

easily accessible weapons and those kinds of terrorists are much harder to detect and prevent in many ways. >> bret: what's the morale here at the fbi? >> i think the morale in the fbi is quite good, our attrition rate is down to 0.4%. there are not a lot of organizations out there, public or private, that can say that. >> bret: the investigation into the pfizer abuse. there was false information provided to the fisa court. bogus information about this from a rival presidential, the steele dossier, one of your top attorneys fabricated a to suggest carter page was a secret russian asset. there are a lot of people who look at what is come out and understanding the durum report is yet to come out, likely the

summer. they wonder, will anybody be held accountable? will anything come of this? >> let me say this. i think that ig report describes conduct that i consider unacceptable and unrepresentative of who the fbi is as an institution and cannot be allowed to happen again and i've made that very clear. i've put in place an entirely new leadership team and even though i wasn't director at the time of all of this, my team and i are fiercely committed to making sure we fix the problems in the past. we accepted every finding and recommendation in that ig repo report, above and beyond 40 corrected measures that enhance our training, strengthened our processes, more oversight and accountability. and have referred current employees or discipline. having said that, the most

senior people involved in this activity in this report are long gone. either terminated, some during my tenure. or resigned. >> bret: has the fbi disclosed any evidence during the durum inquiry? >> we've cooperated fully. a lot of people don't know this, we have agents working on the durum investigation. >> bret: congress says they've had a tough time getting documents and things from you. senator grassley in particular about the michael flynn calls, are we responsible for holding back from some of that stuff? >> i think we've tried very hard to be transparent with all the relative congressional committees, all sorts of information, trying to lean forward. >> bret: why did it take so long for the material to come out?

publicly, 302 reports, seems like it took forever, why was that? if it wasn't court orders, and the ig efforts, we wouldn't know anything about it. >> we've bent over backwards to be transparent and cooperated and he and his report talks about how fully cooperative and transparent we were with him. >> bret: the flynn defense attorneys, national security advisor, they were not provided the exculpatory evidence that eventually came out. who held that back? >> decisions about producing documents in a criminal prosecution are handled by the prosecutors. i will say the flynn investigation which took place before i started and in the hands of the special counsel's office is something that has in

my view raised serious concerns and questions which is why i've ordered and an action review by our inspection division, take a look at whether or not the fbi's policies and procedures need to be changed and if there are any current employees left to may bear any responsibility for misconduct. >> bret: this interview happened before the appeals court decision on the flynn case siding with the justice department but the fbi says, no matter how it's decided, the after-action review will continue. >> bret: the president gave an interview in which he said just the other day, what is to think about this whole process as we wait for the durum report and he characterized it as treason. >> it's treason, look. when i came out a long time ago, i said they've been spying on my campaign. turned out i was right. >> bret: what are you looking at what you think this is? >> on the crossfire hurricane hurricane matter, i think it describes conduct that is

unacceptable, period. and cannot be allowed to happen and will not be allowed to happen. >> bret: but whether it's criminal or not. >> criminal decisions, charging decisions, prosecution decisions are not made by the fbi director, those are made by the justice department. >> bret: but somebody here altered that report and that would be a criminal defense. >> that would be an individual that works at the fbi. >> bret: are you worried about what the impact of that is going to be when it all comes out knowing what you know? >> i think allegations of misconduct need to be taken seriously, there are serious questions that have been raised here and whatever the impact is, the impact is. >> bret: have you ever one on one gone to the president in the oval office, this is what i know, this is what the fbi did and here's what it is. >> i have not met with the

president one-on-one. >> bret: the president has said the jury is still out about you. >> let's see what happens with him. the jury is still out. >> bret: are you worried at all? about how the president thinks about you and the job? >> i think i have a very professional relationship with the president which is i think whatever he fbi director and every president should have. i've certainly helped. >> bret: you are on senator graham's list to testi testify. >> i will see, i testified quite frequently in this role, seems to be a routine part of the job. the sheer volume of the threats that face this country is remarkable. just to give you a flavor of it,

in the past few months alone, our joint terrorism task forces have afforded potential terrorist attacks in tampa, in new york, in cleveland, in kansas city. then you had covid come in and we probably got over 400 covid covid-19 fraud investigations open. we've probably in the last year something like 1500 kids. that the fbi has recovered or rescued from child exploitation or trafficking. we talked about china before. the fbi is opening a new counterintelligence investigation that ties back to china in ten hours. that's just sort of the tip of the iceberg. the attorney general and i have an excellent working relationship, i value him as a friend, and a colleague. >> bret: we appreciate the time, thanks very much.

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>> bret: breaking tonight, just minutes ago, judge emmet sullivan has issued a stay in the july 16th hearing we told you about earlier.

it does not appear he has formally dismissed the case as he's ordered to do today by the appeals court. merely canceled the july 16 hearing but maybe the first step in formally dismissing that ca case. worries over increasing cases of coronavirus sent stocks plummeting today, the dow lost 710, s&p 500 dropped 81, nasdaq fell 222. some northeastern states will require visitors from places with high infection rates to quarantine for 14 days. andrew cuomo making that announcement today, calling the federal response of the pandemic and competent. follows sharp rise in cases in many locations around the country. casey stegall has the latest in dallas. >> new travel advisories issued by the governors of new york, new jersey, and connecticut. visitors traveling in from nine states experiencing the highest spikes of coronavirus cases must

self-quarantine for 14 days. >> for the simple reason that we worked very hard to get the transmission rate down. >> texas is on the list, greg abbott urging people to stay at home if they can although it's not a mandate. many cities like austin requiring people to wear face coverings. >> we do have a spike in places like travis county or austin, texas, where the mask requirement at the local level is important. >> texas children's hospital now accepting adult patients around houston. a 177% jump in hospitalization since last month. arizona is facing similar issues, 88% of all icu beds there are full. the grand canyon state reporting the highest test positivity rate in the whole u.s. >> increasing the rate of positivity we are seeing, hovering around 20% positive. >> another record-breaking day in florida as well, more than

5500 new cases reported in the last 24 hours alone, shattering the previous high of 4,000. data shows younger floridians are now spreading the virus at a more rapid pace. >> most of it is community transmission particularly amongst the 20 and 30-year-old group. >> cities across the country seeing the sharpest rise in new cases include phoenix, tampa, orlando, san antonio, and aust austin. the lowest, indianapolis, detroit, new haven, and hartford, connecticut. >> thanks. up next, the biden campaign's not so secret weapon plus the official plans for the democrats convention. fox 5 in atlanta as our grand jury returns, indictments of three suspects in the shooting death of ahmaud arbery.

fox 47 in madison as wisconsin governor tony evers activates the national guard after a night of violence, crowds outside the state capital tore down to blow statues there, neither of which represented any confederate figure or symbol. they attacked a state senator and threw a molotov cocktail into a government building. the city of charleston, south carolina, the city removed its statue of early u.s. vice president john calhoun, a fierce slavery advocate. a live look at denver, one of the big stories tonight, three players with the colorado rockies test positive for covid-19. that news comes as major league baseball imposes 60-game season to begin in late july. training camps scheduled to open next week. that's tonight's live look outside the beltway for a special report. we will be right back. ♪

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>> bret: in tonight's democracy 2020 report, moments ago joe biden's campaign said he will officially accept the democratic presidential nomination in milwaukee, wisconsin, during a mostly virtual dnc convention. meanwhile, biden unveils his not so secret weapon and walks away with more than $11 million in campaign cash. former president obama made his first fund-raising appearance with his former vice president last night. correspondent peter doocy shows us. >> an '08 end '12, joe biden helped barack obama win. now obama is trying to return the favor. biden has been laying low lately, managed to build a 14-point lead nationally. by trying to let his opponent to do most of the talking. >> donald trump has made it clear that this is all about h him.

>> obama lashed out at president trump on the two biggest issues of the day. the response to covid-19 and the government response to black lives matter protesters. because now they are witnessing out of our white house. a military, militarized response to peaceful demonstrators. >> biden's team is trying to be creative as he points out, during a pandemic, doorknocking is no longer the gold standard of campaigning and even the 120,000 people logged onto a grassroots fund-raiser combined with a high dollar stream to raise 11 plus million dollars, democrats know trump is tough to beat. >> we can't be complacent or smart. >> this time i obama is bettingn better luck with nominees inside the beltway as long as they come. >> joe's been around for a while. >> now that democrats are nostalgic for obama, joe biden is going to try to turn voters

attention back to obamacare. tomorrow back in lancaster, pennsylvania, he's going to meet with families helped b by the affordable care act in his first event since last week away from home here in wilmington. >> bret: peter doocy in wilmington, delaware, thanks. we are awaiting final results from some big primary election contest and there could be some big shake-ups brewing. here is senior political correspondent mike emanuel. >> a big night for progressives as jamaal bowman takes the lead over house foreign affairs chairman eliot engel. >> were going to have a democrat in the congress, that's where it's important to us. >> congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez endorsed bowman. >> we have to deal with racial and economic inequality direct directly. >> some leading republicans suggest nominating progressive candidates could be dangerous for speaker nancy pelosi.

>> nancy should be nervous because this is going to be the end of her short-lived majority. >> it was also landon usually good night for republicans who president trump did not support. in north carolina, 24-year-old n copthorne. >> we have 44% undecided voters. i think we can all coalesce. >> in kentucky, congressman thomas massie won's primary even though the president called on voters to throw him out of the g.o.p. he says voters in his district wanted someone to represent them in washington who will consistently stand on principle, defend life and support the constitution. a major race for democrats in kentucky, the senate race featuring progressive charles booker and well-funded former marine fighter pilot amy mcgrath won't likely be settled for some time. mail in balloting was encouraged in the bluegrass state and counting those votes is expected to be a slow process.

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♪ >> bret: the republican-controlled u.s. senate has confirmed its 200th judge since president trump took office, corey wilson becomes a u.s. circuit court judge for the fifth circuit, the vote was 52-48, susan collins was the only republican to vote no, senate judiciary chairman lindsey graham calls the confirmation a historic milestone. the justice department finds itself under increasing scrutiny tonight. chad pergram is on capitol hill to tell us why. good evening, chad. >> aaron zelinski was a

prosecutor in the roger stone case, he quit during the investigation during stone's recommended sentence after he was convicted of lying to congress. >> roger stone was being treated differently from every other defendant and what i heard repeatedly was that this leniency was happening because of stone's relationship to the president and i was told that the acting u.s. attorney was giving stone a break because he was afraid of the president of the united states. >> that acting u.s. attorney was timothy shea. stone was supposed to report next week, he's pushing for a delay due to covid concerns. for democrats that hearing was really about bill barr and 2020. >> mr. boris work at the department of justice has nothing to do with correcting injustice. he is the president's fixer, he shown us that there is one set of rules for the president's friends and another set of rules for the rest of us.

>> republicans turned the tables on democrats. >> the obama-biden department of justice, politics and the previous administration, bill barr is i doing the lords work trying to clean it up so it doesn't happen again. >> bill barr was not at the hearing today, he's going to testify on july 28th and just tonight jerry nadler, chair of the judiciary committee said he would not rule out an effort to try to impeach him. back to you. >> up next, the panel on my interview with the fbi director randall order to dismiss charges against michael flynn plus what's happening with police reform. first, at least six people are dead following a magnitude 7.4 earthquake that rocked southern mexico tuesday, hundreds of homes damage, almost two and a half million people lost power. pakistan's aviation ministry, the pilot of the pakistani

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i don't want to weigh in on the prevalence of it but i would say it's a real thing, it does happen and we investigate it sternly when it happens. >> the closer you get to an election for you, the less you want the fbi in the picture as a change from 2016. >> i think the fbi has a job to do and we are going to do our jobs but i think people rightly expect the fbi, we are going to be utterly apolitical, no nonsense, grind it out professionally. >> bret: fbi director chris wray there from my interview, let's bring in our abbreviated panel, a member of the editorial board of "the wall street journal." what did you take from that? >> i took that he is on a very different page from donald trump which we already knew but i think in several ways it was

reinforced in that interview. it's quite clear that christopher wray wants to suggest that the cultural problems of the fbi are a relic of an earlier time. that is not why president trump believes, that's not what people in president trump's inner circle believe. they believe there needs to be major, major changes in the fbi and they do not believe christopher wray is no man to do it. president trump has been contemplating firing him for a number of months, i don't know whether he'll pull the trigger on that but i thought your interview revealed the hesitancy and some of the divisions that clearly exist between him and the president. >> bret: one of the reasons the fbi is under focus, we wait for that but the michael flynn case which obviously had a development today with the appeals court saying you've got to drop these charges as the justice department wants. >> it's a good thing for me, it's a good thing for my family

but it's really great boost of confidence for the american people in our justice system because that's what this really comes down to. whether or not our justice system is going to have the confidence of the american people in it. >> bret: in new evidence today coming to the forefront. >> congrats on that interview because it was news breaking and in this regard the problem and the frustration of until now has not been his action which is noted all of the bad behavior people who were involved in 2016 are gone and under his watch and they've accepted every reform that's been offered at them. i think the problem is he hasn't up until now owned it and he finally kind of did that today and said, this is not behavior that is appropriate at the fbi and it shouldn't happen again, and that's an important message for americans and it's related to the flynn decision today as

well and that what we had with the federal court said yes, the department of justice might be trusted to know when it's veered off course, it clearly did here and so the judges responsibility is to accept that motion to dismiss and move on. >> bret: yeah. the other big event today is the republican police reform bill going down in flames to a democrat filibuster. here is how speaker pelosi and tim scott, senator from south carolina. >> something happened, we're going to have to face the reality of police brutality but so far they're trying to get away with murder, actually. the murder of george floyd. >> how does that work around the country when 70% of what you wanted, today and tomorrow and next week you get zero. and you're going to wait until the election to get more. okay. well, why wouldn't you take the 80% now, see if you can win the election and out on the other

20%. you've got to be kidding me. >> bret: it was quite something on the senate floor about the house speaker saying republicans are responsible for george floyd's murder. really didn't get covered today. >> a remarkable comment and even more remarkable that she declined to apologize for it. it really does look like this effort is dead before the election. overwhelming pressure from protests and other mechanisms, it looks pretty dead to me. >> kimberly, quickly? >> the question for democrats today was did they want to victory on this are a solution? they clearly wanted the issue for the election. >> bret: when we come back, the brighter side across the pond, too. ted.

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>> bret: finally tonight, a fun show of diplomacy when an american woman on tick-tock decided she wanted to show the brits how to make a cup of tea in the microwave. british ambassador to the u.s. karen pierce said she thought she would set the record straight, brought her military advisor in and here's what ensued. >> you use a cattle, and then you just add milk. there you are, a british cup of tea. >> bret: the british investor woody johnson set, decided he would get the last word showing brits how to make a cup of coffee the american way. >> how's that? perfect. ready to go, have a nice day. thanks for inviting me into your

home tonight, that's it for this "special report." "the story" posted by martha maccallum starts right now. this is "the story" from new york city. violence grows and stashes tumble. we showed you the heartbreaking reality of chicago and there's not much good to report in new york city where we have seen 125 shootings and two dozen people killed so far in three weeks. among them, 19-year-old iona johnson. police are unveiling this video. enter 3 35-year-old clothing designer kenneth singleton shown in this a surveillance video. he was shot to death when he was outside of washington.