Big stories of the day. I want to start with Kelly Odonnell at the white house, garrett haque, leighann caldwell on capitol hill, and contributor adrienne el rod for Hillary Clintons 2016 campaign. Kelly, i want to start with you. The president waking up back at the white house today. Hes going to be talking a lot of different topics when we see him this afternoon yes. He will do some of the things that a president can only do using what is referred to as a rose garden strategy, the powers of the presidency. He is doing counter programming of the democrats going after some of those potential candidates, trying to size up the democratic field as he rallies his own base. We saw how the president used cincinnati as his back drop to criticize some of their strategies and techniques as candidates. As well as looking at how we can see how the president is stacking up in the state of ohio. One of those mustwin states for not only republicans but democrats believe they can regain there as well. First, lets take a listen to how the president looked at his competitors in a very trumpian fashion. Sleepy joe biden, who has no clue what the hell he is doing. Great pocahontas. Bob mueller. That was a beauty. He was sharp, wasnt he . Reporter of course Robert Mueller not a competitor, but the Mueller Investigation is a back drop for so many of the democratic counties who believe that is one of many reasons they think that the president is vulnerable for reelection in 2020. Lets take a look at a recent poll in the state of ohio where there are vulnerabilities for President Trump when you stack him up against some of the Democratic Candidates. Joe biden in particular showing strong against a slice of voters in ohio. Some of the other democrats not faring as well or going neck and neck with the president. We will see President Trump definitely putting focus on ohio. One of those midwest beltway states that certainly democrats believe they have work to do. They need to reach those who voted for barack obama. But then turn to President Trump in 2016. So thats part of what well be watching. The president wasnt getting all the chanting in that got him in trouble a week or so ago. He did not shy away from drawing contrast with some of the democrats and making fun of some of the democratic style and format itself. Hallie . Kelly odonnell at the white house. While President Trump was out in the midwest, a lot of Democratic Candidates heading all the way out west getting ready for the next debate already, right . Reporter a big labor forum today. A lot are descending, campaigning in early states that often gets overlooked. Of course they are all looking ahead to the next primary calendar, the debate in midseptember in houston, texas. We learned Amy Klobuchar is the 8th to qualify. The next two closest candidates are probably andrew yang and julian castro. They are getting close, trying to close the gap on fundraising. It is now august. This is historically, notoriously the slowest month for campaigning and for fundraising. It is hard to generate interest for the candidates in politics when folks are on vacation, when kids are not in school. Most of the country is not paying as close attention. Thats part of the reason i am still in detroit. Cory booker held a bigger than usual, more higher than produced than usual rally last night, trying to squeeze every drop possible out of the post debate bunk. Amping up their television appearances, prying to get everything they could out of all the eyeballs ws we enter the long, hot, slow campaign. You sound super psyched about it. Leighann caldwell, you have Democratic Candidates trying to show their faces. Elijah cummings in the waeug of these attacks over the last, what, six or seven days now. He is now out talking about an attempted breakin at his house that happened hours before the president first started tweeting about him. This is new just coming in just a couple of minutes ago. What can you tell us . From hallie, thats right. Elijah cummings has not been very vocal. But the president , once again, tweeted this morning, and this is what he said. He broke his silence saying really bad news. The baltimore house of Elijah Cummings was robbed. Too bad. Well, hallie, that is in fact, true. Elijah cummingss house, there was an attempted burglary early saturday morning. Elijah cummingss Office Confirms that and puts out this statement this morning giving a little bit of details. They say an individual attempted to gain entry into my residence at 3 40 a. M. On saturday. It says he was notified of the intrusion by a security system, and he scared the intruder away by yelling before the person gained entry into the residential portion of the house. And so, hallie, whats important to note is that this attempted burglary actually happened before the president started tweeting about Elijah Cummings early sunday morning. These are all the details we had. We were just notified. We will give you any more update we have once we do have it, hallie. We appreciate that. Thanks to the both of you as well. Aid generadrienn adrienne, let me start with you. What we are hearing from allies of former president obama about the strategy of democrats. President trump seizing on that. Are the 2020 candidates giving donald trump ammo here . I think they are had he, hallie. This was a missed opportunity for a lot of democrats on the debate stage this week. Look, theres a lot to draw contrast with in the democratic primary. Of course if you are running to seek a democratic nomination, you have to draw contrastpponen. The real competitor here is donald trump. I wish, especially on the health care debate, that more democrats had gone onto that debate stage and said lets make it clear, donald trump is the person who wants to take away the health care. We may disagree on policy differences. Some of us want to build on obamacare. We want to protect health care as we know it. Instead it turned into an inter party fight. Thats how democrats came out of that debate looking like they were had more disagreements on health care than not. We saw President Trump go after some of the frontrunners, people who got a lot of buzz like joe biden, kamala harris, Elizabeth Warren who seemed to have good nights this week. Amy klobuchar now announced she will make it on stage. Castro might be close to getting on stage as well. There is a slew of other candidates who may not make the cut. Now is the time to win or not . I covered the republicans this time in 2015, 2016. Boy, people thought they would start dropping off quick. It didnt happen for a while. The Second Quarter of the off year is the hardest to raise money. People are on vacation in august. People are not paying that much attention. Not only have they not qualified, they have a difficult time qualifying but they have a difficult time raising money. I have to tell you, hallie, if a candidate has not qualified or has not qualified for the third debate, it will be that much harder to stay in the race. Not because you didnt qualify but you cant raise the money to stay in or build infrastructure. Of course you have to spend money to get on the ballot in some states. Ballot access is everything when youre running in a primary. So there may be a few exceptions. But if you cannot get on the third debate stage, i dont know how you can justify going on. Adrienne, always great to have your perspective here with us. Thank you so much. Thanks, hallie. Other news developing, new concerns the u. S. Is eubarrelin toward a new arms race. The u. S. Is officially withdrawing from the decades old treaty with russia that stopped both sides from developing missiles. Courtney, let me start with you. This is not altogether unexpected. The Trump Administration has been signaling for a while they wanted to make this move. Put into this context for us here. What does it mean . Youre absolutely right. They intended to withdrawal from this decades old inf treaty which bans groundbased Ballistic Missiles that fly a shorter distance, intermediate range ballistic missil missiles. Ons over the last six months that russia was moving back into compliance. It is not just that they were not allowed to develop missiles but they were not allowed to deploy them. Russia has been in violation of this treaty for years now. It is not a surprise they wouldnt be willing to not only stop developing but pull back hundreds, if not more, missiles they have deployed around the world, hallie. What are the implications here . Do you see a jump start in a new arms race . We are officially in a new arms race. Today donald trump killed Ronald Reagans treaty and gave a gift to vladimir putin. When somebody breaks the law, you dont repeal the law. Thats what donald trump just did. He removed any limitations on putins ability to build hundreds and deploy hundreds of these missiles. This is a gift to vladimir putin. And a stab in the back to european allies. This was a corner stone of their security. And it opens 77up a new front wh china. This administration wants to build new Nuclear Weapons to counter china. Were about to test them later this month. China is going to counter that. Were off to the nuclear races. The u. S. Is planning a test flight of a weapon that would have been prohibited in the next couple weeks. He was berating the soviets for violating a treaty. He didnt work for six months. He worked six years to bring the soviets back into compliance and eventually succeeded. As john bolton said, we are using these violations as an excuse to get rid of a treaty. Do you think putin is happy today . He is happy. He gets to do whatever he wants and the u. S. Takes the blame. He widened the rift in the u. S. Nato alliance. They just conducted a third missile test in north korea. Something i asked the president about yesterday. Watch. Can you still negotiate sure. These are shortrange missiles. We never discussed that. We discussed nuclear. What we talked about is nuclear. Those are shortrange missiles. So is it small potatoes . That was your question. That was a good question. That was a terrible answer. Because what he just gave is a green light to north korea to continue these tests. The president is confused. They are Nuclear Capable shortrange missiles. Its true, they cant hit us. They can hit troops in south korea, cities in south korea. He is like the glenn close character in fatality attraction. He will not be ignored. His agreement with the u. 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And when you look into sectors like manufacturing, transportation, and particularly retail, youre seeing a real defined slowdown. Actually a loss of jobs in some of the sectors. When you talk about what else is affecting the economy, dion, there is a back and forth of a trade war. China is out promising Counter Measures in opposition to President Trumps tariffs. He is putting into effect september 1st. Put this in laymans terms of someone who is going back to school shopping. You should probably go now, sooner than later. The idea of these tariffs is basically its just a tax. Imagine adding 10 tax to all these new things. The big thing about these new tariffs is that these are going to hit consumer goods. The things you actually go out and buy. Everyday afternoon things. Most of the tariffs so far have been on inputs. Things that go into making things. For example, the lead that goes into your pencil, the graphite, rather than the pencil itself. The tariffs are going to the pencil. And not the textile. Exactly. President trump on the south lawn yesterday seemed to indicate, hey, theres still a little time after the tariffs go in. Maybe we will get negotiations done. Are you optimistic this can get resolved in the next few weeks or now . Thats the thing. Wall street is getting significantly less certain that this is going to be resolved. Thats why you are seeing the selloff today. The other worrisome thing is people are starting to look at this as, oh, is this a negotiating tactic. Whereas last year that thought was a good thing. This year people are saying, okay, a business owner, im trying to invest, start a new business. I need to buy new manufacturing equipment, new plant, invest and higher this many new workers. They are putting all the things on hold. They dont know when he will take the plans and institute the tariffs or if he is talking trash. Texas instruments had blowout earnings last week. 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