staff to senator mitch mcconnell. the man on the spot today. did he use knife fight? he loves knife metaphors. usually a phone booth. bill: what he is referring to is texas and tennessee. places that you probably six months ago did not think there would be competition. what s going on? in a cycle like this. the party in power. the first mid-term after you win a presidential election is dicey. over the last 100 years there were only two occasions where the party in power hasn t lost a significant number of seats. 23 seat majority in the house you can see where it becomes a problem. what has gotten less focus is the senate. he rattled off all the states starting with north dakota, montana, indiana, new jersey, florida, they are all in play.
is regarding democrats taking over the senate. we will take over the house. it will be lovely as a democrat if we do. speaker to numbers up. so are numbers of distrust and people who believe mueller and who believe the media over the president. at the end of the day it comes to numbers. not necessarily the economy. a plastic knife fight. more like a crocodile dundee knife fight. fork and spoon. democrats are learning to go low in other words. at the end of the day it does just come to numbers. all i hear from democrats is trump stinks. that s an incentive. bill: is that enough of a message? you know what my party does? it s great at marches and protests. we re great at tweeting and complaining. we need to be great at voting. in the mid-terms historically we haven t been. especially young people. sandra: it sounds like a warning for your party but what
live with team fox coverage. we begin to adam klats and what we re getting at this hour. you talked about the big story with the system. it is slowing down. that will be a problem. winds strong 130 miles per hour. it is inching closer and closer to the u.s. coast. staying a category 4 storm before pumping the brakes going to a category 3. this is friday morning. the next spot saturday morning. suddenly you are just crawling there. yes, storm surge, heavier rains, it means a lot of problems for folks in this area if it slows down to the degree currently the models are suggesting it will do. this is one of our tropical models to give you an idea with an hour by hour forecast. by getting close to land there on friday hovering all the way through the weekend. this is now sunday morning inland a little bit. rain still falling. that could be a lot of heavy rain just a long period of time
american people know that whether you are in california or in a national ticket come 2020. when it comes to speaker, though, i do think you are going to see a bit of fragmentation because we re hearing in those more red states or states that trump won democrats who are more moderate or sentist democrats saying and opposed to nancy pelosi remaining speaker. democrats basically did go through the period where it s not going to be nancy pelosi. now what the heck, it will be nancy again. it depends what democrat you talk to. bill: thank you leslie and james. sandra: as we continue to bring you the latest on hurricane florence, president trump making it clear to millions of residents along the coast that the federal government has your back. but some of his comments on the response to puerto rico is facing some criticism. the latest on that. bill: explosive new
you are on your own. back to you. sandra: jonathan serrie on the ground in north carolina. bill: right near there is wilmington, north carolina. the mayor is on the phone. can you hear me okay? i can, good morning. bill: what are you telling the folks that leave in your town? heed the information that the emergency management folks are telling you. this is a massive storm. this is a big storm. erratic storm. we don t know exactly when it will come ashore or exactly where it might make landfall. you have to be prepared. this may be the last day you can get out of town. i m telling people if you are going to do it, this is the time to do it. once this storm is upon us, our emergency operations and personnel are not going to be able to come out and save you until after the storm passes. please make preparations now if you haven t already done so. i think most people have heeded