Deciding to pull out of a reagan Era Nuclear Arms Treaty with russia and the pentagon will withdraw thousands of troops from afghanistan as a potential deal with the taliban hangs in the balance. Bill kevin corke begins all of that from the north lawn. Good morning. The u. S. Has long contended that that treaty tied its hands with respect to china. For that matter the russians were not in compliance. I want to share part of a statement from the secretary of state mike pompeo. It reads in part dating back to the mid 2000s. Russia developed and tested and fielded multiple battalions of its noncompliant missile. The u. S. Will not remain a party to a treaty deliberately violated by russians. It dates to the cold war. Reagan and gorbachev signed that treaty in an effort to deescalate Nuclear Tensions but it has changed says u. S. And nato allies with the russians consistently violating the terms of the deal. This decision is supported by all nato allies because no International Agreement is effective if its only respected by one side. Russia bears the sole responsibility for the demise of the inf treaty. You see the nato secretary general weighing in. U. S. And taliban could reduce its military footprint in afghanistan, the longest war in American History under a deal. U. S. Force strength could drop to 8,000 an for a bit of perspective consider in 2011 it was over 110,000. Reduced all the way down to 8550 right before the end of the obama administration, down to around 14,000 here under President Trump. A tweet from Lindsey Graham saying this, mr. President , keep your foot on the throat. Meaningful Counter Terrorism force is an insurance policy against another 9 11. Fight them there so they dont ever come here again. Dont to get. We expect an announcement from the president today as he talks a bit about an au trade deal. Something that will make agribusiness leaders in america very happy. Thats coming up later this afternoon. Bill thank you, sir. Kevin corke from the white house. Sandra north korea firing what appears to be more short range Ballistic Missiles today. It marks the third round of weapons tests in just over a week. Greg palkot is live with more on that. Another provocation from north korea. In fact, the third missile test in eight days and it does seem to be similar to the other two tests described by south korean authorities this morning as shortrange Ballistic Missiles being involved. Distance traveled only 130 miles into the sea of japan off the east coast of north korea. Still the speed of the missiles described as super fast and could do a lot of damage to Population Centers in south korea, including u. S. Military bases. A big reason for this latest north korean activity seems to be u. S. south Korean Military exercises set to start on monday. While much more low key than the past drills that we have witnessed firsthand, they are seen as a challenge by pyongyang and President Trump called them off last summer as an act of goodwill. Regardless north koreas action continues to fly in the face in the words and actions from the summit at the dmz. Resumption of denuclearization talks were supposed to happen in mid july. Secretary of state pompeo defended the Trump Administration make nice approach dealing with kim. Having a meeting with chairman kim didnt give him a darn thing. It was an attempt that is ongoing to engage diplomatically, to achieve an outcome that for decades has not been achieved. Reacting to these latest round of tests President Trump, too, has weighed in and said he doesnt have any problem with them. No agreement between the United States and north korea regarding this type of missile. There has been a ban on this kind of testing, however, of these kind of missiles, by the u. N. Sanctions against north korea since 2006. Back to you. Sandra greg palkot on the breaking news overnight. Thank you. President trump republicans are working every day to build up our country, the ragefilled Democrat Party is trying to tear america apart. A vote for any democrat in 2020 is a vote for the rise of radical socialism and the destruction of our great, our beautiful, our wonder full american dream. On issue after issue democrats have forgotten who it is that theyre supposed to represent. Our shared republican agenda is pro worker, pro jobs, pro family, pro growth and 100 proam can. I was watching the socalled debate last night. The democrats spent more time attacking barack obama than they did attacking me practically. Bill big line. Pointed out one of the recurring mentions from the second night of debates, former president barack obama and hits he was taking on stage. Newt gingrich former speaker of the house. Sign up for his free newsletter. Thanks for your time. You have a Cottage Industry going there. Go ahead and frame the argument that the president is making there from last night, sir. Look, i think kim strassel did a great job with the column where she said the choice is between the left and crazy left. The crazy left is winning. I watched the first night. It was amazing the level of anger that you got out of Bernie Sanders and senator warren. These are really angry people. And it was kind of amazing to watch them. Its the opposite of how people normally win the rack obama with a big smile. You watch Ronald Reagan with a big smile. I dont remember us electing an angry president in my lifetime. Yet you have these people who were almost in a rage. You also had the fact that they are all drifting towards cloud cuckoo land. When you have a number of moderate democrats on the stage. Theyll all be gone soon because they arent getting enough support to survive. One said if we go down this road of taking away everybodys Health Insurance well be lucky to carry two states. That was a democrat in the debate warning his follow democrats that they could be throwing away the presidency. We have to take that seriously. The president is watching all this and he is exactly right and he wants to stoke the fire a little bit obama. President obama is no longer radical enough for the left wing of the Democratic Party. You will have biden defending obama while the rest of the party attacks him. On things like deportation president obama deported more Illegal Immigrants than any other president in American History in terms of the Affordable Care act which was not affordable, but it didnt cover everybody that left wingers want to cover. So you go down a list and realize there is a real fault line in the Democratic Party and were watching it play out in these debates. Bill to that point a little bit you mention the strassel oped. The title for our viewers here, the left versus the crazy left. If you look for a moderate president you wont find one in the democratic field. From ohio in 2016 here is how won by eight points. This is a battleground that weve been going back for decades in ohio. It takes it almost out of the margin of error from 2016. See where they are now. Mr. Speaker, you had 17,500 in that arena last night. Then you ask yourself whats the appeal and whats going on in Middle America . Limbaugh framed it this way with hannity last night. Everybody wants to improve that your life for their family and themselves. He has a bond with his voters that nobody can break. There is not one person, sean, on that democrat stage the last two nights that can even be on stage with trump and not be overshadowed simply by his presence before he opens his mouth. Bill what about that . That presence, that personality. Look, he walks out on that stage and the joint goes crazy. You cant ignore that. First of all, this is one of the amazing charismatic leaders in American History and only the hatred of the left and hatred of the elite media blocks them from seeing and realizing that. He is both a very, very smart guy but also turned out to be very charismatic. Whats part of that charisma . Wages are going up. If you are a regular blue Collar Worker you had the best pay raises in the last two years youve seen in 20 years. Jobs are getting better. If youre africanamerican you have the highest employment rate in history for africanamericans. If youre proud of america the president says he is proud to be an american. You have your choice a bunch of democrats who seem confused what country they want to be president of. A guy in a place like ohio, i was born in pennsylvania, my wife from wisconsin. You get into classic america, get out of new york city, get out of los angeles, and to some extent get out of washington and the rest of the country people are still very proud of america and they actually want a president who is proud of america. They are also watching and saying look what he is doing to the chinese on tariffs. He might like president xi but tougher than any president in modern times in dealing with the chinese. He just put sanctions on the russians. Every time you turn around it turns out this guy is real and the stuff he is doing is real. With Mitch Mcconnells amazing leadership in the senate they have done the most from a conservative standpoint the most extraordinary job of filling up conservative judges way beyond anything i would have thought possible two years ago. So i think there is a reason. This is a charisma based on results, not just a charisma based on froth. Bill thank you, mr. Speaker. Sounds like a campaign and the American People will make a decision in about a year and a half. Newt gingrich. Thank you for your time today. Much more on all the big stories coming up. Next hour our headliner Deputy Press Secretary hogan gidley will rejoin us at 10 30 eastern time. What is going on with china, economy. Sandra afghanistan, a lot going on. Minutes away now from the opening bell on wall street. Markets reacting to yet another solid jobs report. Unemployment Holding Steady at 3. 7 plus there is this. President trump china has been taking money out by the hundreds of billions of dollars a year. We have rebuilt china. So now its time that we change things around. If they dont want to trade us with anymore, that would be fine with me. We would save a lot of money. Bill beijing is vowing to retaliate. What happens next in the trade war. Breaking news on this for the worlds two largest economies. Well bring it to you. Maria bartiromo will break it down for us in a matter of moments right here. Sandra the Justice Department deciding not to charge james comey for leaking those memos to the press. But does that mean he is in the clear . Former assistant u. S. Attorney Andy Mccarthy is on deck and will join us next. You cannot take classified documents out of any controlled space and put them somewhere and store them in an uncontrolled space. It is no different than the Hillary Clinton issue. Look, this is bigger than just these memos. You may have gingivitis. And the clock could be ticking towards bad breath, receding gums, and possibly. Tooth loss. Help turn back the clock on gingivitis with parodontax. Leave bleeding gums behind. Parodontax. A cockroach can survive heresubmerged ttle guy. Underwater for 30 minutes. Wow. Yeah. Not getting in today. Terminix. Defenders of home. Summers not the time for making bucket lists. 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Its a piece of it i guess. I havent spoken to them about that. I would frankly be surprised because what james comey did was illegal. So i would be surprised but i dont know anything about that. Bill the president from the white house yesterday sounding off on reports the Justice Department will not prosecute james comey for leaking memos to the media. Andy mccarthy, how are you doing . Good morning to you. I think there is real confusion on this. Want you to clear it up. Hillary clinton was under the gun for classified material on her computers. James comey you pretty much admitted that he had this material at his house which is a violation of f. B. I. Procedure. Leaked it to a friend and professor at columbia. Wound up on the front page of the New York Times. Why do you not take action in either case . What is classified . Bill, first of all we dont know everybody ought to take a deep breath until we see the i. G. s actual report that lays out the fact. At the time director comey said he tried not to put classified information in his memos and what we later learned was that the f. B. I. , after looking at them, up classified two of them at the lowest level. That doesnt mean everything that was in the memos was classified. That means in two of them, two things were classified or some information was classified that was at the lowest level. We dont know that those are the memos or the memo that was leaked to the New York Times. We dont know that. I think my advice to my friends here is that one of the big complaints that weve had for a long time is we need to stop politicizing the criminal Justice System and get to a place where we can remember that you can i just think that ive said this a million times and ill say it again. If your price tag on trying to get accountability and find out what happened in connection with the investigation that are attendant to 2016. If the price tag is you want to indict everybody who made an error of judgment youre never going to find out what happened. Bill this is bill barrs department of justice. What they said late yesterday is that they could not prosecute the case because they could not determine james comeys intent. So i have a lot of faith in attorney general barr in terms of his judgment on what ought to be prosecuted. I happen to know jim comey for 30 years. It is hard for me to believe he would willfully leak classified information. I just until somebody shows me that happened im not going to believe it. And i just think people ought to remember number one, we dont know all the facts yet. Number two, its a much broader investigation that involves a lot more than this one aspect of classified information. Bill on that point in the next 30 seconds youre saying this one slides but maybe the next one does not. Is that what youre saying . Im saying that everybody ought to take a deep breath and the objective ought to be to find out what happened. Then if it turns out there is wayward behavior thats prosecutable we can deal with it then. I think well find people who made errors in judgment doesnt mean they committed felonies. Bill thank you. Good to get your analysis and explanation. Appreciate that. Have a good friday. Sandra the nypd catching one of the suspects responsible for dousing a Police Officer with water last week. The charges he is now facing. Bill big labor with a warning for democrats ahead of the election of 2020. Do not take Union Support for granted. Details on what theyre saying. Plus this from last night cincinnati. President trump they are a party, frankly, of socialism. The Republican Party is the party of freedom. Were the party of the american worker, the american family. 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