russian influence in the u.s. not, vetting his nominee for presidential primaries? director of national how one moment from this week s intelligence, and tonight, that debates might h nomination has been pulled. plus, it is now over half the disinformation campaign. is vladimir putin most afraid of democrats in the house favoring impeachment, but the speaker makes clear half is a long way president kamala harris? from her impeachment threshold. but first red flags for republicans. and as the president makes a growing number of republican clear, that short-range missiles from north korea just aren t a trigger for him, a look tonight congressional retire mts stoking concerns particularly the at how the democratic party s latest. a surprise announcement from rising star congressman will circular firing squad debate hurd who said that he would not night has affected the race. as the 11th hour gets under seek re-election in his highly way on this summer friday competitive texas district
republican president was calling black people monkeys and everybody laughed. it s been part of the for decades. and donald trump embraced it. and now people feel emboldened in the country to talk about it freely. there are people in the republican party fighting back against the idea that losing will hurd in congress is an actual loss for the party, david. texas precinct chair says good ridens to will hurd. let s listen to what she says. i am he can static and happy that will hurd will no longer be seeking re-election for his congressional district. he is not a republican values. he is a rino. texas needs to start standing with true conservatives. rino republican in name only. that s the accusation if you are a republican these days who doesn t agree with president trump. he was the one black republican and he is not even a
divide remains with the democrats choosing basically telling joe biden that he has to abandon 20 years, 30 years of a policy position on no public funding of abortion you must accept it, joe. he acquiesces, he hands the white house back to donald trump because you can t win the south or texas with that position. interesting though because ted cruz of texas daniela has warned that there is trouble for republicans in texas. he told the washington post , the president s re-election campaign needs to take texas seriously adding while he remains apartment minsk about the gop chances it s by no means a given that trump will carry texas. if it s no means a given that trump carries texas it s by no means a given that trump carries the popular vote or the election aurl college. that s absolutely right. you know, he will probably again have a lot of help from his friends in russia. but ted cruz is onto something. he saw what happened in the
texas needs to start standing with true conservatives. rino republican in name only. that s the accusation if you are a republican these days who doesn t agree with president trump. he was the one black republican and he is not even a republican. i don t know what that means. but i oem expand this out one bit to will hurd not only was the one african-american in the house on the republican side also one of the- maybe the only republican member of congress who seemed to give a damn about russia s attack on the 2016 election instead of the guys on the intelligence committee who ran around trying tos distract and say it didn t happen or that a fisa warrant is more important than the attack on an american presidential election and donald trump s involvement with that. he was out there saying this is bad. we need to investigate this. we need to be honest and was a counterpoint to devin nunes and now the republican party is fr on the side of hey nothing happened. and that again is bad fo
presidential primaries? how one moment from this week s debates might have started a disinformation campaign. is vladimir putin most afraid of president kamala harris? but first red flags for republicans. a growing number of republican congressional retire mts stoking concerns particularly the latest. a surprise announcement from rising star congressman will hurd who said that he would not seek re-election in his highly competitive texas district. congressman hurd who had long been considered part of the future of the republican party is the lone black republican in the house. the congressman represents a new swing district in texas. hillary clinton won the district in 2016. hurd was burrly re-elected in 2018. his seat might be hard for republicans to hang onto. hurd is just one of six house republicans who announced imminent departure from capitol