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Run for seats in the house of representatives. 309 in total by the a.p.'s count. surpassing the previous high in 2012. but there is another growing demographic of americans who are also running, veterans. lieutenant colonel maimy mcgrath checks both of those boxes. she was, in fact, the first female marine to fly an f-18 fighter jet on a combat mission. and she went on to fly 89 of them in both iraq and afghanistan. now she's running for a seat in kentucky's 6th congressional district against republican incumbent andy barr and fellow democrat and mayor of lexington, jim gray. amy mcgrath joins...

Failed. the jet rolled over as both of the aviators were ejected killing the pilot james johnson and his weapon system officer caleb king who played football at the naval academy and graduated in 2012. the jet came from a squadron that deployed last year aboard uss george wh bush carrying out air strikes against isis. the pentagon would not say whether the crash resulted from years of combat and budget cuts. >> readiness is at the center of what we are doing right now. i think that pilots are going to be flying more in training is going to pick up. >> today only half of the navy super hornet f...

Otherwise we are going to buy them from somebody else. >> a $4 billion agreement for two new air force one planes, the president touted tax reform and phase 2 of his historic plan. rob: and f-18 navy fighter jet crashing off key west, florida and two pilots are dead. jillian: what do we know? >> another training tragedy. the super hornet jet caught fire midair and crashed according to witnesses. two naval aviators eject it but did not survive lose this happened off the coast of key west, florida, the jet was on final approach, a source telling fox news the jet was flying on one engine when it ...

>> interesting way to talk about being the national economic adviser to the president. god's will. >> we're going to talk to you all about this guy, larry kudlow, president trump's new pick to be the new economic adviser, and his interesting views on donald trump's new trade tariffs when we come back. the dow dipped yesterday as boeing stock fell over worries of a potential trade war because of the tariffs. here's a look at the markets now, in the green. remember, we have been on quite a run. when things get volatile, you wonder why. could it be the trade tariffs? speaking of boeing, at an...

Shutting down. we've got it going again. i think probably going maybe like it's never gone before, right? doing better than it's ever done before. i'm proud to say we kept it open, keeping thousands of americans employed right here in st. louis, missouri. great place. place that was very good to me. the state of missouri was very good to me. i'll tell you. i think josh is doing a fantastic job. he's working hard. just met him at the plane. we're going out of our way. we asked congress to fund 24 brand new f-18s. that's going to be the latest and the greatest stealth. a lot of things on the pla...