abby: so you are a moderate midwestern republican. you hope he gives you the reason to vote for him in four years. give us a sense of your family and friends and how you are with president trump and how things are going. well, a lot of people were trump supporters. i had never seen that before. my county has always been a democratic strong hold. but this year driving around, people felt the government was out of touch with what they wanted. they wanted something different. they will didn t want the typical insider politics that they have been see for who knows how long. i saw a lot of trump signs. i saw my son s middle school voting for trump kids tend to vote like parents do. if they took my county they would take ohio. if they take ohio they will take the white house. jon: if you read the coverage, you generally get the impression that this is a white house in chaos that is just spinning its wheels. how do you see it from your vantage point in ohio?
built for business. a clayton: welcome back. quick headlines for you. five years after the costa concordia disaster. the captain heads to jail. the former captain of the italian cruise liner turns himself in to police. 16 year sentence for the accident that killed 32 people. chelsea manning, the former army intelligence analyst accused of leaking information locked up. demanding a sex change and being freed early by president obama will finally walk out of prison this week. manning already making plans for the big day told the guardian she can t wait to smell the fresh air and go swimming. john? jon? jon: immanuels are heart breaking. 6-year-old california boy seriously hurt after a drunk
russia spends as much as those three countries combined on defense. president trump has promised to boost the budget by another 54 billion. democrats are in hysterics over the firing of fbi director james comey. the dismissal of director comey establishes a very troubling pattern. comey was not fired because of hillary. comey was fired because of the russians. the whole echo of watergate is very strong here. this is unprecedented. this is very dangerous stuff. this is the kind of thing that undermines people s confidence in our rule of law. what we have now is a looming constitutional crisis that is deadly serious. clayton: by casting doubt on our democracy are democrats serving russia s interests? that s what the new york post is floating this morning. here is fox news contributor
this morning. clayton: we wouldn t be talking about, this mercedes, if this was a clean firing. do you agree? i do agree with that to a certain extent. i do believe once comey was fired, it gave the democrats an opening to attack. i think the democrats are the ones bullying president trump because you have this hypocrisy coming from the left where you ve had, for example, maxine waters basically saying that comey had lost all credibility. you had senator chuck schumer basically saying that we have lost confidence in comey. so what does trump do? trump fires comey and then all of a sudden schumer and all of these other democrats are saying this is a constitutional crisis, we need a special prosecutor, and, let me tell you something, andrew mccape, the act be fbi director, the testimony this week, he made it very clear that even with comey departing the fbi, that the investigation will continue, which means that for the democrats, they are excited because their end goal for the preside
catch up for the way is he jumping on twitter and making comments. he, in his head, knows better than his communication team what he is thinking. abby: maybe that s how he wants it to be. he always wants to be one step ahead of everybody. that s a tough job to have. if you are a specs person or the communications director for president trump. you guys do the press briefings every day on your show on happening now. that s not a job i think many people would want to do because you are dialing with the press but also dealing with president trump and wanting to represent him the best that you can you also can t keep up with so much going on. jon: words get dissected each day on the the washington post. the new york times all of the networks. et cetera. abby: did i a behind the scenes with sean spicer. he is a very good man. you could tell when i was in there with him he cares deeply about the job that he does. he wants to do a good job. it s a tough one. president trump wants to contin