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beyond those who have been so outspoken to push back on that. will we see other senators come out today and take a flake or corker-like position on that? we ll find out. but right now i doubt it. a standing ovation. i want to bring my panel in. robert costa, national political reporter for the washington post and bret stephens, an op-ed columnist for the new york times and megan murphy, the editor of bloomberg business week. brett, i want to start with you. one trump critic said the ice is beginning to crack. what we re seeing with bob corker, with jeff flake, you re going to see more republicans follow suit. do you think that s the case? follow suit in denouncing the president? yes. or in renouncing their political ambitions. fair point. this is the key thing. there s a law in economics, gresham s law, bad money drives out good. in a sense what we have is bad republican politicians driving out good ones who are just removing themselves literally from circulati ....
anyway, sour grapes is to be expected. why would you praise your opponent after he wiped the mat with you and that s the problem with these politics even when there s good news country it s been used for the party and there s a lot of good news on jobs, ices, economy all good but we could do better. the democrats remains our. schumer looks like he s the penguin from batman. [laughter] trying to pass a softball sized gallstone. [laughter] and pelosi looks like that gallstones is about to hit her in the mercedes. [laughter] the rest of the democrats all look like they shared the same hemorrhoids. what is the problem? first, that speech wasn t for them. it was for you. i thought it was too long but for you it s not long enough. it s 90 minutes of positivity about this great country after eight years of moaning about america his speech was a water cooler in the desert. for democrats your good news is there bad news but also their bad news is your good news. in the future, here s a ....
translate in november? interesting. for example, don, another thing i d say about that is especially in goobvernor s race. i think the voters want a degree of independence from the white house and president. when you hug that tightly, it s hard to get that separation. i want to play this because we were talking about how much some of the candidates are hugging the president. this is the most recent campaign add in florida. everyone knows my husband ron is endorsed by president trump. but he s also an amazing dad. ron loves playing with the kids. build a wall. he reads stories. then mr. trump said you re fired. i love that part. he s teaching madison to talk. make america great again. people say ron is all trump, but he is so much more. big league. so good. i just thought you should know. ron desantis for governor. A recap of the day s news. profile losses. the there a lesson for democrats? i think democrats have to keep the attention on trump na ....
A recap of the day s news. it s the idea that in the republican coalition right now it is a cult of personalty around trump, and that ad is a perfect example of it. it s i am trump. i am trump. i am with them. and there s it is the only strategy. you cannot win a republican primary in this country right now without siding with trump. this is access is reporting tonight that trump s power over politics and republicans is growing. they say his sway often flows from fear. he is a powerful hold on supporter s minds. he s refined the social issues that animate the republican base and plucks candidates from obscurity and turns them into household names. how do you describe this president s control over understanding the understanding of his base? well, i think it s an addition and subtraction game. he s adding to the republican say that so i won t. and i m very proud to report that new core is going to build a brand new 240 million steel mill. that s a big one right here i ....
everybody loves molly, nothing like this has ever happened. jillian: it is thursday, august 2nd, fox news alert. the brand-new clue and a break in the search for the missing iowa students. todd: the russia probe must end, the message from donald trump to his own attorney general. jillian: will he sit down with robert mueller? president obama endorsed a long list of 2020 contenders but there s one name noticeably missing. todd: fox and friends first continues right now. ain t no mountain high enough ain t no mountain low enough ain t no mountain high enough keeping me from getting to you rob: that is how it happened. that is something. a very good morning to you as you watch fox and friends first thursday morning. jillian: thanks for starting your day with us. let s start with a fox news alert, a break in the search for molly tibbetts. police looking into a reported sighting in missouri. heather: stop 200 miles from where the 20-year-old went missing in brooklyn ....