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There are fears this morning of a Widening Conflict in the Middle East after iran unleashed a barrage of 118 missiles on israel. Aerial assault swiftly prompting israel to Promise Retaliation which could push the Middle East closer to a region wide war. There is no war in the Middle East. Israel cannot reach. Theres nowhere we will not go to protect our people and protect our country. Good morning. This is fox is ongoing coverage of the Crisis And Conflict in the Middle East. Im Jonathan Hunt li...

>> great. great, stephanie. ashley, lets talk about what the administration is doing about this. theyve said theyve taken concrete steps to ease inflation. what are those steps, and are they working? >> well, its something theyre still grappling with, to be perfectly honest. one of the first things they did in this new year was come back and do an event, take tangible steps on what stephanie just mentioned, sort of meat and poultry conglomerates. thats one thing thats not going to overhaul the e...

They are among the 25 who have said theyre just not going to run again m -- again. so what do republicans do to try to capitalize on those absences? >> well, jon, you win elections with great candidates with the right messaging, with enough resources. again, im confident were going to have all three. its -- but were just not going to take anything for granted. open seats crypt a little -- create a little different measure. we may not have to spend as much money on some of these seats. but again,...

Were not the same person. the white house has to be celebrating some of this news on pfizer today. but how do they kind of handle the challenges mike was laying out here? covid is everything for this white house. meaning covid is everything on the messaging side. they wanted to talk about so many other things in august and in september. how are they viewing the salesmanship they have to do going forward. everything is the campaign trail when it comes to trying to pass big pieces of legislation. ...

>> yeah. >> their stubbornness has to be their own consequence at some point and the rest of us have to be able to live life. >> yeah. >> now, i see a repeat of messaging problems that we had with the vaccine with the booster. somebody allowed joe biden to go out and set a schedule before they had all their ducks in a row. >> yeah. >> now, theyre going to debate whether or not there is a booster. which set of data? how do they look? we have discussed this, before. scientists make lousy messenger...

Booster, which set of data, how do they look. weve discussed this before. scientists make lousy messengers. were used to people in politics holding on to a politics no matter what the facts are. the facts change and the politician never changes their position. science changes as you learn things. now were in a situation where he said september 20 rollout. now theyll debate. now theres a mix of minds as to whether or not we need it and thats all fine. but youve got to be good on the messaging sid...

I think thats going to happen here in the united states as well. so if that holds as we get sort of to the end of august into september im hopeful were going to see infection numbers turn more quickly in the vaccinated states because it has more immunity but im hoping everywhere in the country were going to see that. >> one of the more compelling things i see as im consuming news in my regular life are the horrific tragedies of deathbed pleas for people to get vaccinated. just on the messaging s...

Vaccinated states because it has more immunity but im hoping everywhere in the country were going to see that. >> one of the more compelling things i see as im consuming news in my regular life are the horrific tragedies of deathbed pleas for people to get vaccinated. just on the messaging side or anecdotally in your own life, do you hear those messages of people who were the in camp of vaccine skeptics having terrible sicknesses or losing loved ones? is that breaking through? >> i think it is b...

I think if it ultimately comes out that the president was not personally implicated in colluding or it comes out that robert mueller did not want to indict the president or could not i think this would be full vindication for the president and i think the republicans will say this has been 22 months of a political witch hunt. >> vindication on alleged russian conspiracy. >> yes. >> because he has obstruction evidence up and down the block, but lets start with that. >> sure. >> this is what ken s...

Of bernie sanders last time, the kamala harrises and cory bookers of the world, do they take this as an implicit challenge to them and that theyre the candidates going out in the field to wealthy donors. >> the reason kamala harris will have to go after those wealthy donors is they wont have enough grassroots support, at least at this stage. from a messaging side, its good for warren to do this, but there is a practical side. if she cant get enough grassroots money, can she stay competitive in a...