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that mass shooting in philadelphia last night. at least five people are dead, two injured after a gunman wearing body armor opened fire in a southwest philly neighborhood. the two injured victims are 2 and 13 years old according to police. police say they believe they have the suspect in custody, but are trying to establish a motive. whats the latest? >> reporter: details still emerging this morning. initially, police had said four people were shot and killed. all of them dead. we are ...

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John im john roberts. The story with martha starts rights now. Martha that will be on our minds for a while. Good afternoon, everybody. Im martha maccallum. New things happening in several big stories as we get started here at 3 00 eastern. Senator bob menendez in court with his wife, nadine. If convicted on the counts that they face, the couple could face 45 years in prison. Many of his fellow democrats say he needs to go now. They dont want to wait for a trial. Hes not budging for now at this ...

Participate, but trump, yet again, is skipping the debate stage. instead, hell appear on town hall on fox news. now, haley, even though were deep into the debate cycle, says that shes had enough, writing in part, its time for donald trump to show up. for more i want to bring in republican strategist jason osborn along with the host of the very serious podcast josh barrow. jason, what do you make of nikki haley saying show up, donald trump? >> well, i think theres two things at play here. if you ...

It felt like we went month to month to month in the 2020 democratic primary each new turn of the debate cycle. thats what it could have been for republicans. if trump chooses to just take himself out of the process, that gums up the entire gears of the process. at that point, you have to see what the rnc does and the rest of the field does. everyone is debating without the main guy in the room. i dont know how that helps anybody get ahead. >> ali, matthew, basil, thank you. coming up, moscow t...

All, thank you. defense attorneys in the trial of former obama white house counsel greg craig say they plan to call the defendant to testify. prosecution is expected to rest its case tomorrow. craig is charged with one count of lying to federal investigators about his work on a report paid for in part by the ukrainian government. politics 2020 style, the democrats battling each other for the right to take on president trump next year, are either preparing for the next debate cycle in september o...

Conversations. i think one of the lessons we learned in 2016 was how difficult it was. no matter how much hillary clinton talked about policy to have that breakthrough the media narrative as part of that -- >> thats whats really interesting. you bring that up. talking policy didnt work in 2016 for hillary clinton. it didnt work for the challenges in the republican primary going up against donald trump in 2016. what makes democrats think its going to be different this time around? >> maybe its be...

Whole things, everything that came out of this was a self-inflicted wound. if he had not made the mistake last week, he wouldnt have had to answer it. last night, he did days of debate prep with some of the best in the business, ron klain, anita dunn. people who have done debate cycle after cycle. there was nervousness coming out of the debate prep sessions. yet this had to be something he was prepped for, and whether it was in the moment because he didnt anticipate it coming from harris or what...

Testifying publicly before congress. its going to happen next month. ill talk about how he will likely handle lawmakers questions with someone who has worked with him closely. also, a new flash point in the immigration debate. a disturbing image of a father and daughter drowned trying to cross the u.s./mexico border. its sparking new outrage. and we will of course have much more ahead as we count down to tonights big showdown. something to ponder as we head to break as we take a live look at t...

Im like why you? right off the bat were stumped. >> he said two things i wanted your take on. one is theres too many people and what president obama once said about the republicans is their firing squad is going to turn into a circular one and thats no good for the democrats. the other one is they have to be careful about political correctness because they wind up punishing their friends. they wind up punishing people with them. the right doesnt give a damn and it works to your disadvantage. too...