Analysis and discussion of the day s top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence O Donnell. jeopardy for the president. we re learning more about the trump-mueller relationship. the day after he interviewed robert mueller to be the director of the fbi, trump was in an oval office meeting when an aid announced that mueller had been appointed the special counsel to investigate the trump campaign. trump and attorney general jeff session, who attended both meetings were blind sided according to a person familiar with both meetings. the president immediately blasted sessions for not knowing the announcement was coming and challenged how the person he just interviewed for the fbi job and who trump had said he had a past dispute with over golf club fees could now be investigating him, the person said. now, we don t know if trump had turned down mueller for the fbi job at this point. but we do know that christopher wrey wasn t named until a month after. read on the man, he knew he would also be in trouble. we look back the last summer and the number of times we were on sessions watch and the people i talked to at the justice department said he will hang on by his fingernails for this job. he thought this was his last role in politics. it is one he wanted to get to for a long time. his former law enforcement days are some of the days he holds most dearly. and he saw this as his last big role and really his place to be able to push through a lot of the decisions, a lot of these policies on immigration and the like. he was going to hold on to it for as long as he could. he did see this would be the thing that would fracture the relationship. it has for some time. we saw the president attack jeff sessions just this week. harry, the president obviously doesn t like robert let s talk about manafort for a second and go back to julia one more time. julia, manafort s trial has just now ended its first week. it focussed a lot around what we heard from the accountant today talking about how she knew she was filing incorrect taxes. but also there was that $15,000 ostrich coat, that bomber jacket. the prosecution is very clearly trying to paint manafort as a big spender that didn t care about cheating the government and the american people in order to furnish his very lavish lifestyle. how is the defense doing? not as well, katie. right now we re seeing a list of prosecution witnesses. they lay out a pattern of who paul manafort is. he spent a will the of money on his lifestyle and is so desperate to hang on to that lifestyle that he was willing to exaggerate his income in order to get bank loans and then deflate his income in order to get a deal on taxes. he didn t care who he took down in the process and he didn t care what kind of dirty characters he had to work with in order to get there. we will see now going forward is the defense is going to try again and again to discredit witnesses, particularly gates. we now know he will testify. the prosecution said yesterday they have ever reason to bring him forward. they want to paint him as the lynch pin in the prosecution s argument and they want to show he is not someone that can be trusted. for those reasons we actually believe that the prosecution won t wait until the end to bring up rick gates. may bring him up early next week so he isn t the last thing in jurors minds when they go to deliberate. another thing that i don t think went over very well judging by how brief their questions were is they wanted to show that paul manafort had left plenty of bread crumbs for anyone that might want to look into this. that with his first accountant who has not gotten immunity because he didn t do anything wrong. he refused to lie for paul manafort. he was basically able to say, yes, i knew they were working with foreign people, but i didn t know he had foreign bank accounts. the defense wants to say there were plenty of bread crumbs if his accountant didn t know it, and this is important, and if the irs didn t want to do an audit and bring a civil case against paul manafort, why all these years later is a justice department bringing a serious criminal case? but it doesn t seem to be holding up as well as they would like, particularly because bread crumbs don t leave you directly to 30 foreign bank accounts around the world. it s harder to get there. even a pardon from president trump to paul manafort might not be enough to keep him out of jail. even a pardon may not entirely be a get owl of jail free card. there are a host of complications involved. the president cannot pardon state charges. glen, there is a lot of talk. we talked about this earlier today, about why in the world manafort hasn t made a plea deal. you posture that maybe a plea deal wasn t offered. i have to say, katie, it wouldn t surprise me if bob mueller never extended a plea offer to paul manafort. why would that be? for two reasons. first of all, rick gates is already a cooperating witness. we know that rick gates information is somewhat duplicative of the information that paul manafort could provide to the prosecutors. and then the other factor that i think weighs into the calculus when we look at whether we want to actually do business with a defendant and bring him into our stable of cooperators, who is that person and how long has he been engaged in illegality. as we all came to learn in the run-up to these trials, he actually reached out and touched, so to speak, some witnesses and tried to tamper with their testimony. now, if you play that out, if we as prosecutors decided to bring manafort into the cooperator s stable and then we put him on the stand, he would be cross examined up and down on things like, well, wait a minute, mr. manafort, you tried to get witnesses to lie for you to get you out of trouble. you tried to pervert and subvert the criminal justice system. and now you want the jury to believe you are not going to sit up there and lie to try to save your own skin? you know, the cooperator s stink tends to rub off on the prosecutors when you bring somebody on board that has engaged in that kind of conduct that really strikes at the very heart of the criminal justice system. and then the other reason, katie, that i would suggest might impact paul manafort s thinking about whether he wants to flip and provide information to bob mueller, he would also be providing information about russian oligarchs. we know the judge doesn t like that word. but what have we seen russia do when somebody crosses them? we have seen poisoning in the u.k. and i think paul manafort could legit have concerns for his safety. so manafort s trial is about financial crimes, but it is part of a larger russia investigation. one of the more ridiculous seeming tentacles we have news on today, the manhattan madam, kristin davis, the woman charged in the elliot spitzer scandal many years ago has spoken to mueller s team. this is a long-time friend and associate of mine. i am the god father to her two-year-old son. she knows nothing about alleged russian collusion or any other impropriety related to the 2016 election, which i thought was the subject of this probe. i understand she appeared voluntarily. i am highly confident she will testify truthfully if called upon to do so. another stone aid has been ordered to speak with robert mueller. this man was trying to not speak with him. one of his aids was trying to say that the special counsel s probe was too wide and he shouldn t have to follow a subpoena. well, a court has testified or has ruled that he should have to talk to robert mueller and he should do so quickly. harry, what are these two people how do they have anything to do with this? and what does this mean for roger stone? yeah. it is all about stone. look, the madam is a they re a colorful couple. but it is because of their long-standing friendship they are zeroing in on stone. miller is kind of two-stone as gates was to manafort. he s the real right-hand man. he offered this constitutional argument, which is a real loser, basically saying mueller has no authority to do anything, the same thing manafort tried in edva. he will have some real information to provide. but the main thing it shows is that the sights are really locked in on stone, which should come as no surprise because this recent indictment of the gru folks in russia actually didn t name him because doj policy but identified him in paragraph 44 as someone who had consorted with him. so mueller is obviously in trying to stitch up russia and the u.s. looking very hard at stone. and whether or not stone was a potential back channel. julia, i know from reporting have i done with others here that the witnesses that robert mueller is so far spoken to, they have been asked by mueller s team pretty pointed questions about roger stone. and what did roger stone know? what was he doing? did he really leave the campaign in 2015? stone says he quit. the trump team said he was fired. but did he really leave or was there some sort of unofficial role that he was playing behind the scenes? was he potential in contact with russia or wikileaks and feeding that material to donald trump? why did donald trump say, russia, if you are listening, find hillary clinton s e-mails. it seems like and sam nunberg will tell you this, it seems like they are targeting stone and he could potentially be a lynch pin. is that making too broad an assumption? this is why i love your reporting on this. but it doesn t seem that hard to connect that we know from indictments that have already been brought forward by the special counsel that robert mueller is interested in and honing in on this network of russians that wanted to influence our campaign through social media. they wanted to hack into the dnc, hillary clinton e-mails and use that information to also influence our election. and a huge piece of this is social media and the work they did through cambridge, as well as the leaks of those hacks they just talked about through wikileaks. roger stone has a lot of tentacles in those different worlds. he was very closely tied to the trump campaign. we have to look across the way they re painting these characters, the same way they are talking about paul manafort and trial. these are people who have been in republican politics for some time. but they haven t been carrying the moral backbone of the party. they believe that the ends justify the means. i think just by the pointed questions that you have reported on, the interviews you have done, it is so obvious that mueller isn t just beating around the bush and seeing what might come out here, he is really targeting those essential questions. roger stone was not in mainstream politics. neither was paul manafort for that matter. yet, they somehow all managed to find donald trump s team. thanks for starting us off tonight, guys. thanks, katie. coming up, the washington post is reporting tonight that the alleged russian agent cozied up to a trump adviser the final weeks of the 2016 campaign. the reporter who broke that story will join us right after this. and later, a federal judge says he will order the trump administration to take a drastic step to reunite those children with their parents. that s coming up. because you ve made sure this sensor and this machine are integrated. & she can talk to him, & yes. atta, boy. some people assign genders to machines. and you can be sure you won t have any problems. except for the daily theft of your danish. not cool! at&t provides edge to edge intelligence. it can do so much for your business, the list goes on and on. that s the power of &. & this shipment will be delivered. alleged russian agent was in closer contact with president trump s orbit than previously known. she was in jail awaiting trial after she was charged with illegally trying to influence u.s. politics for the kremlin. tonight the washington post reports that she sought out interactions with j.d. gordon who served for six months as the trump campaign s director of national security before leaving in august 2016 and being offered a role in the trump transition effort. the two exchanged several e-mails in september and october 2016 culminating in an invitation from gordon to attend a concert by the rock band styx in washington. i can t make that up. gordon also invited butima to attend his birthday party. joining us is the reporter that broke this story. i m sorry i am laughing but inviting her to a styx concert and his birthday party is a funny story. here is what j.d. gordon told you tonight. from everything i have seen or read, everything i have read since her arrest last month, it seems that this is basically a sensationized bait click story trying to scheme republicans and nra members she reportedly encounters over the past few years. i wonder which prominent republican political figures she has not come across. i got to tell you from the photos i have seen, she has been standing next to some prominent political figures, including former presidential candidates long before donald trump got the nomination and prominent nra members. what makes the interaction with j.d. gordon so significant? well, i think part of it is his connection to the trump campaign and it s clear from e-mails that were described to us that that was a key part of why she sort of sought out this interaction. she apparently met j.d. gordon at an event at the swiss embassy. she was with the republican operative she was apparently dating. and paul then sent an e-mail both to j.d. and to ms. butina after the event, reconnecting them and describing them to one another. and the way he described j.d. was to say this is a person who is very important in the trump transition. he s the kind of person that all the right people listen to his advice on international policy. so it did seem that the trump connection was part of why she was making contact with him. let me ask you more about the trump campaign foreign policy advisers. they were not visible on the campaign, not really. people like george pop, these names seem to come out of not come out of nowhere. the trump campaign was pressured to release a list of who was advising him. and at the time, considering that nobody was answering the phone and nobody made appearances, it felt like these people were just ran don people they put on a list and sent to reporters. now it looks like there is something more there. given that carter was somebody that the intelligence community had their eye on because of the interactions he was having with russians. the one who it s reported started this whole investigation because he was bragging to an australian diplomat in a london bar that russia had dirt on hillary clinton and now j.d. gordon linking these two seemingly separate investigations on a russian influence campaign. yeah. i have done quite a bit of reporting on carter page and george p. in particular. one of the things that struck me about the two of them is they aggressively sought out the connection with the trump campaign at a time when, as you mentioned, the campaign was having a devil of a time finding figures they could taut as foreign policy advisers. we did a story once quoting trump adviser at the time saying, basically, anybody with a pulse was what they were looking for. yeah. and people like carter were people with a pulse that stepped forward and said choose us. the day i saw george s picture, i was taken aback. i did not expect to see somebody so young. harry, what stands out to you about this. speaking of so young, she s 29. he s 50. so we have again the sort of vanity of older man. for historians of political scandals, this is the exact ages of monkey business time and the whole kind of younger woman, you know, using older guys to get political influence. but what stands out to me is you said it, you know, what is the defense of j.d. gordon? i don t know if there is a prominent republican political official she hasn t met with. she s penetrating anywhere and everybody she can with the help of this republican operative and, as you say, a lover of keith erickson. this is not just one week little story and episode. but she really got around. harry, just really quickly, could this new information, they know about most things, but say they didn t know about it, is this the sort of thing that could prompt them to call her in for questioning? well, she s arrested, so yeah. obviously. she will have enormous pressure on her. they ll talk to her. but there is some figures in the campaign in her wide circle, and they will zero in like gordon. we already knew of a couple others. that s what will interest them, the couple people from the campaign, the maskerade party afterwards. a federal judge gave a reminder about the separation of the children from their parents and who is to blame for it. not so cute when they re angry. and we covered it. talk to farmers. we know a thing or two because we ve seen a thing or two. we are farmers. bum-pa-dum, bum-bum-bum-bum now i m gonna tell my momma that i m a traveller i m gonna follow the sun now i m gonna tell my momma that i m a traveller i m gonna follow the sun transitions™ light under control™ transitions™ hawaii is in the middle of the pacific ocean. we re the most isolated population on the planet. hawaii is the first state in the u.s. to have 100% renewable energy goal. we re a very small electric utility. but, if we don t make this move we re going to have changes in our environment, and have a negative impact to hawaii s economy. verizon provided us a solution using smart sensors on their network that lets us collect near real time data on our power grid. 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ordering the white house to designate a person or team within the administration to take control of the reunification process. joining us now is maria kumar and president of the center for american progress. she was also hillary clinton s policy director during the 2008 presidential campaign. there still isn t somebody in charge of this. the court is ordering them to get somebody in charge of the reuniting. yes. i mean, we have been going through this saga for months. more importantly, these children have been going through this pain and misery at the hands of the trump administration for months. and every night that these children do not know where their parents are is an unaccepted atrocity. and the reality is ivanka trump said yesterday the family separation policy was a true low point for her. she is a senior adviser to the president of the united states. she works in the white house. i suggest if this is a low point for her and she actually cares about this she figures out, along with the white house chief of staff and everybody in the white house, how to address this problem. i mean, the reality that the government did not track the parents along with their children and have no simple way of identifying the parents even though they may have already been deported is an outrage and needs to be addressed not next week, not tomorrow. it needs to be addressed now. consider this. there is no analysis of immigration data that finds parents were targeted. parents were targeted under this zero tolerance policy. this is from the transactional records access clearinghouse at syracuse university. they found that u.s. border authorities chose to prosecute adults with kids coming across the border by themselves. that same analysis found that only 32% of all immigrants caught crossing the border were charged with entering the u.s. illegally that month, an indication that it was not a blanket policy, but a targeted effort directed at parents with kids. let me repeat that, that they re finding from this analysis that the adults coming over alone were treated differently and better, it seems, than the adults coming over with kids. okay. this demonstrates that the trump administration was trying to exact maximum pain to the people most vulnerable. the families traversed three to four countries to get here to give their children a better shot. and the trump administration, when they said they were going to do zero tolerance, it wasn t blanketed, it was phony. it was targeted at children. there was targeted at families. what they did is they turned around and put these children and babies in cages. there is not going to be a remedy in the near future to make sure these children are not only unified with their families but also receiving the medical attention because the trauma we re starting to hear is happening to these children. some of the children don t want to speak outloud. some of them follows their parents from room to room. some are so afraid they are not going to see their parents. and there are others that are plain angry. but the fact that the attorney general jeff sessions staired into the camera to the american people and said he was going to establish a zero tolerance deterrence policy now only to find that it wasn t zero tolerance, that it was only aimed at the most vulnerable, at parents and children, should be a reminder to the american people of the cruelty of this administration. when ivanka trump looks at the american people and says this is something that he is painfully aware and believes that we should not be doing family separation, i agree 100% with her. she should be looking into the president s sites and see if they are going to do something. hold on, though. and this nonses that they re telling you, shame on them because the federal government s responsibility. hold on. i want to zero in on one point. the jeff sessions announced this policy in the spring. that s right. and then when the policy was backfiring and they were getting all of the negative headlines and the pictures looked bad but the lives were actually much worse. right. they said over and over again this administration, others in the administration said this was not a policy. this was not a policy. this was not a policy. now to see this analysis not only was it a policy, but it was a policy that was aimed at parents, not just at anybody crossing the border but parents specifically. cruel intentioned. that s right. what s really curious is that one of the largest security companies that basically provided security guards in afghanistan for the different government detentions they had in that country under u.s. control, they received a government contract two weeks before this policy of family separation were announced. they were the ones that were basically housing children not in accommodating facilities. basically, they have discovered they were in the middle of phoenix. they were housing them in just regular office buildings that didn t have kitchens, that only had one bathroom that held these toddlers for three and a half weeks without having them go outside. these individuals ended up getting over $200 million contract two weeks prior to this family separation policy. it is outrageous. remarkable. you are going to stay with us. hold on. thank you very much. thank you. coming up, if you don t fully understand what happened in the meeting between donald trump and vladimir putin, you re not alone. neither does the director of national intelligence. stay with us. your mornings were made for better things than psoriatic arthritis. as you and your rheumatologist consider treatments, ask if xeljanz xr is right for you. xeljanz xr is a once-daily pill for psoriatic arthritis. taken with methotrexate or similar medicines, it can reduce joint pain, swelling, and significantly improve physical function. xeljanz xr can lower your ability to fight infections, including tuberculosis. serious, sometimes fatal 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i think it s time for us to start thinking about some of the base being brainwashed. there s this qanon, this conspiracy theory. the conspiracy theories on the far right are growing and spreading and becoming less part of the fringe discourse and working their way into the main stream. it s becoming more of the case. and in my mind that s a piece of brainwashing. i mean we re talking about people existing in alternative information environments that have no bearing on fact or reason. and that s where some of his base is. it is almost like there are two administration. one led by grown ups like those national security advisers you just saw, and the other one led by donald trump, a man who wants to bear hug the guy who attacked our democracy. yeah, i mean, just think about the fact that we had all those leaders of our intelligence community, a leader of the fbi, the dni, all walk out and make the statements they did. and of course, it s not just their work. they are basing this on the work of hundreds if not thousands of intelligence people, you know, working under the cia, the fbi, et cetera, gathering intelligence about the threat our country faces right now. and then hours later donald trump continues with the language of a russian hoax. just weeks after vladimir putin said that he wanted trump to win and donald trump said that he basically believed vladimir putin over the people arrayed at the white house podium yesterday. and i think the reality of this is if you are concerned about the threat that exists from russia, not just what they ve done in the past but what they are doing today and what they will do in the future, you cannot count on the president of the united states. we have an extraordinary moment when there s really two administrations. there s the president trump himself and then the intelligence community, and they have really leaned up just as opposed to him on this fundamental issue. so the question needs to be asked. is the administration concerned about sending mixed messages to russia? here s what one of the strategic communications director told kristen walker. president trump last night at his rally said the russian investigation is a hoax. doesn t that undercut thought at all. i think we made it very clear the president last may in 2017 directed the administration to be tough and strengthen cyber security measures. are you concerned, though, it sends a mixed message to russia? no, not at all. the only one sending mixed messages are the media. it s only the media. i mean, this is the talking point every single day which is we re all supposed to just basically ignore what donald trump says. sarah huckabee sanders says this on occasion, the white house strategy communications strategy is to just actually the broad public except for their base is supposed to ignore what the president says, but his base is supposed to take everything he says literally. i mean, it s ridiculous and outrageous that we have this kind of thingae about, you know, not a partisan battle or just two sides of a debate on taxes or something. this is about america s national security. this is about our elections and democracy. and the fact that the white house, the president of the united states just cannot make the statement about the threat that exists from russia is ridiculous and shows that he s got it makes people think they have something on him. let me ask this question of you, evan. can our intelligence community, can our agencies effectively push back against russian interference, the cyber warfare if the president s not onboard? they can do a lot, but they can t do enough. what really needs to happen here is deterrence. because we re never going to be able to block every cyber intrusion and disinformation campaign. you just can t do it, so you ve to deter. and deterrence the best vehicle for that is through sanctions. that has to be done by congress, which is why the mid-terms are so critical. evan mcmullen, good to see get lost in the ocean seven billion swimmers man i m going through the motions sent up a flare need love and devotion trade it for some faces that i ll never know notion can i get a connection? can i get can i get a connection? can i get a connection? can i get can i get a connection? panera. food as it should be. a hotel can make or break a trip. and at expedia, we don t think you should be rushed into booking one. that s why we created expedia s add-on advantage. now after booking your flight, you unlock discounts on select hotels right until the day you leave. add-on advantage. discounted hotel rates when you add on to your trip. only when you book with expedia.
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Analysis and discussion of the day s top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence O Donnell. will decide if the president is likely to sit with robert mueller for an interview while at bedminster. but it might not be donald trump s decision to make, admitting that trump might be, quote, forced to testify on matters that occurred before he took office and that might mean real legal jeopardy for the president. that admission comes as we are learning new details about the trump mayor relationship. bloomberg reports that the day after he interviewed robert mueller to be the deputy director of the fbi trump was in an office meeting when it was announced that mueller was announced to be the lead investigator of the campaign. trump and attorney general jeff session were blind sided according to a person familiar with both meetings. trump blasted session for not knowing the announcement was coming and how he didn t know the person he just interviewed and who the president said he had a past dispute with over golf club fees could be now investigating him, he said. we don t know if trump turned down mueller for the fbi job at this point, but christopher wray wasn t named to be director until a month after mueller s appointment on counsel. it s likely mueller was in the running when he was named to investigate the trump team. bloomberg notes, from that moment on, trump campaigned to aides about a perceived grudge. of course, that grudge has likely been exacerbated by a criminal trial of the former campaign chairman, paul manafort. today we heard from the first five witnesses who were granted immunity by prosecutors. an accountant described how manafort s partner rick gates asked accountants to modify the amount of loans so manafort it would have pay less in taxes. he was trying to reduce income. it was inappropriate. la porta took la porta testified that manafort asked her as late as august 2016, his last month as chair of the campaign to falsify numbers related to his company s profits. rick gates, mueller s star witness is set to testify any day now. he has already pleaded guilty and is cooperating with prosecutors. kristen davis, the infamous manhattan madam met with a member of mueller s team. it s believed she met with mueller because of her close ties to another trump confidant roger stone. only time will tell what if anything will happen in this trump trip to bedminster, we should be in for an unexpectedly evidentful supper vacation. joining us now, julia ansly. he was not courtroom today. deputy assistant attorney general under president clinton and glen kurshne rerkr. jeff sessions in the room with the president when he was told robert mueller was going to be special counsel. according to bloomberg news, jeff session offered his resignation in that moment. that s right. it for jeff sessions the idea that robert mueller had been aopponented was obvious right there, that it was because he recused himself from this investigation that third down been allowed to happen, that rod rosenstein was able to appoint the special counsel. of course the way we see it, the logical way to see it was the appointment of robert mueller was because of the firing of jim comey. the fs the president s decision, not jeff sessions decision to recuse himself that triggers this. he knew he would also be in trouble. we look back at last summer it can number of times we were on sessions watch, thinking he was about to lose his job. the people i spoke to at the justice department said he will hang on by his fingernails to have this job. he thinks this is his last roll in politics. he s wanted it for a long time. we know his last law enforcement days are something he holds deerly, more than his time in the senate. he saw this a the chance to push through decisions, policies on immigration and the like and he was going to hold on to it for as long as he can, but he did say this was going to be the thing to fracture the relationship. it has for some time. we saw the president attack jeff sessions just this week. harry, the president obviously doesn t like robert mueller. we have known that for some time. he tweets about him. he does bring up what he perceives as a bias, that he almost offered him the fbi job. he had a dispute over fees at one of his clubs. could either of those things be considered bias? so no, we already know they re not considered because the doj gave him a clean bill of health, but it s interesting because as julia says, it s the second mueller is appointed that sessions realizes, uh-oh, and that s before the make-way charges of 13 angry democrats et cetera. who is bob mueller in that second you have the revelation he s aopponented? he s the best, most dogged, methodical, honest prosecutor of his generation. that s who he is then and right away the problem with him is not bias, it s effectiveness, which has turned out, in fact, on the problem. let s look at manafort and go back to julia one more time. julia, manafort s trial ended its first week. folked a lot on what we heard from the accountant, knew she was filing incorrect taxes. but also manafort s spending. there was the $15,000 ostrich coat, the bomber jacket. the prosecution is very clearly trying to paint manafort as a big spender who didn t care about cheating the government and the american people in order to furnish his very lavish lifestyle. how is the defense doing? not as well. right now we are seeing a list of prosecution witnesses who have all been picked for a particular reason. they lay out a pattern and a narrative of who paul manafort is. he s someone who spent a lot of money on his lifestyle and was so desperate to hang on to that lifestyle that he was willing to exaggerate his lifestyle to get bang loans and then deflate it to get taxes. he didn t care who he took down in the process or what dirty characters head to work with to get there. what we ll see going forward is the defense is going to try again and again to discredit witnesses, particularly rick gates. we now know he will testify. the prosecution said yesterday they have every reason to bring him forward and intend on doing sophomore they want to paint rick gates as the lynch pin in the prosecution s argument and show he s not someone who can be trusted. for those reasons we want to believe the prosecution won t wait until the end to bring up rick gates so he s not the last thing in jurors mind. another thing today that i don t think went over well, judging by how brief their questions for in the prosecution was they wanted to show paul manafort left plenty of bread crumbs for anyone that wanted to look into this. his first accountant was able to say, yes, i knew they were working with foreign people, but i didn t know he had foreign bank accounts. the defense wants to say there were plenty of bread crumbs and if his accountant didn t know it this is important because i think it will come up later in the irs didn t want to do a civil suit why is the court bringing up a serious case? doesn t seem to be holding up as well as they like, simply because bread crumbs don t lead you to 34 bank accounts across the world. it s a little harder to get there. vox reports that even a pardon from president trump to paul manafort might not be enough to keep him out of jail. even a pardon may not entirely be a get off jail free card. there are a host of complications involve, including potential state charges for manafort. the president cannot pardon state charges. glen, there is a lot of talk and we talked about this earlier today about why in the world manafort hasn t made a plea deal you posture that one wasn t offered. it wouldn t surprise me if bob mueller never extended a plea offer to paul manafort. why would that be? two reasons. first of all, rick gates is already a cooperating witness nl we know his information the dup duply kative of the information paul manafort provided to the prosecutors. the other factor that weighs into the calculus of believe it or not we want to do business who is that person and how long as he been engage in the illegality. paul manafort seems to have lived a long life of at least financial illegality. as we learned, in the run-up to these trials he reached out and touched, so to speak, some witnesses and tried to tamper with their testimony. if you play that out, if we as prosecutors try to bring manafort in the prosecutors stable and put him on the stand, he would be cross examined up and down about, wait a minute, you tried to get witnesses to lie for you to get you out of trouble. you tried to pervert and subvert the criminal justice system and now you want to jury to believe you re not going to sit up there and and lie to try to save your own skin? the cooperator stink tends to rub off on the prosecutors when you bring somebody on board that has engaged in that kind of conduct that strikes at the heart of criminal justice system. the other reason, katy, i would suggest might impact paul manafort s decision to flip and provide information to bob mueller, he would also be providing information about russian oligarchs. we know judge ellis doesn t like that word. what have we seen russia do when somebody crosses them? we have seen poisonings in the uk. i think paul manafort could have concern for his safety or the safety of his family members if he decided to flip against russia. manafort s trial is really just about financial crimes but it is part of the larger russian investigation. there s an of tentacles. in one of the more ridiculous seeming tentacles we found today, the manhattan madam, kristen davis, the woman charged in the elliot spitzer scandal years ago was subpoenaed by mueller s team. we have now learned today that she has spoken toe mueller s team. roger stone issued a statement about this. kristin davis is a long friend of mine. i m the godfather to her 2-year-old son. she knows nothing about russian collusion or wikileaks or any other thing. also this news washington post reports that another stone aide has been ordered to speak with robert mueller. this man was trying to not speak with him. one of his aides, was trying to say the special counsel as probe was too wide and he shouldn t have to follow a subpoena. the court ruled he should have to talk to robert mueller and should do so quickly. harry, these two people, what do they have anything to do with this and what does it have anything to do with roger stone? it s all about roger stone. they re a colorful could be, aren t they? they re zeroing in on stone and she s one of many people they want to talk to, the others haven t been madams. miller is to stone as gates was to manafort. he s the right hand man. he offered the constitutional argument, which was a loser saying mueller has no ability to did anything. the same thing manafort tried. he lost. he s going to have some real information to provide. the main thing it shows is that the sights are really locked in on stone, which should come as know surprise because this recent indictment of the gru folks in russia actually didn t name him because of doj policy but identified him in paragraph 44 as someone who had consorted with him. so mueller is obviously trying to stitch up russia and the u.s. looking very hard at stone. and whether or not stone was a potential back channel. julia, i know from reporting i did with carol lee and others here that the witnesses that robert mueller so far has spoken to they have been asked by mueller s team pretty pointed questions about roger stone. what did roger stone any? what was he doing? did he really leave the campaign in 2015? stone says he quit. the trump team said he was fired. did he really leave or was there some unofficial role he was playing behind the scenes? was he potentially in contact with russia or wikileaks and feeding that material to donald trump? why did donald trump say on july 27, 2016, russia, if you re listening find hillary clinton s e-mails? it seems like sam nunberg will tell you this. he sat in front of the special counsel. seem like they re targeting roger stone and he could potentially be a lynch pin. is that saying too much? is that making too broad an assumption? katy, this why i love reporting with you. doesn t seem that hard to connect that by indictments that have been brought forward by the special counsel that robert mueller is honing in on this network of russians that wanted to influence our campaign through social media, that they wanted to hack into the dnc, hillary clinton e-mails and also use that information to influence our election. a huge piece of this is social media and the work they did through cambridge analytica and the leaks of those facts through wikileaks. we know roger stone has a lot of tentacles in those worlds. he s done a hot of work in england. he s tied to the trump campaign. we have to look carefully at the way they re painting these characters. these are people who have been in republican politics for a long time. these aren t the people who were carrying the moral backbone of the party. they were really in it. he believe the ends justify the means. i think by the pointed questions you have reported on, the interviews you have done with sam nunberg it s so obvious mueller is really targeting those essential questions. roger stone was not in mainstream politics, neither was sam nunberg, neither was paul manafort yet they managed to find donald trump s team. was it because there was no one else available? thanks for starting us off tonight, guys. coming up, the washington post is alleging mariia butina cozies up to a trump adviser weeks after the campaign. later, a federal judge says he will order the trump administration to take a drastic step to reunite those children with their parents. that s coming up. friends, colleagues, gathered here are the world s finest insurance experts. rodney mastermind of discounts like safe driver, paperless. the list goes on. how about a discount for long lists? gold. mara, you save our customers hundreds for switching almost effortlessly. it s a gift. and jamie. -present. -together we are unstoppable. so, what are we gonna do? insurance. that s kind of what we do here. then you might have a dcondition called dry mouth.? biotène is clinically proven to soothe and moisturize a dry mouth. plus, it freshens breath. biotène. immediate and long lasting dry mouth symptom relief. keep it comin love. if you keep on eating, we ll keep it comin . all you can eat riblets and tenders at applebee s. now that s eatin good in the neighborhood. 2016, culminating in gordon attending a rock concert by the band styx. gordon also invited butina to attend his birthday party. roz lynn, i m sorry i m laughing but inviting her to an styx party his birthday party is funny. here s what j.d. gordon told you. from everything i ve read since her arrest last month, it seems that mariia butina s saga is a sensationalized click bait story meant to smear a steady stream of republicans and nra members she reportedly encountered over the past few years. since she networked so often i wonder which prominent republican figures she has not come across. i got to tell you from the photos of butina, she has beenened staing next to prominent figures, including presidential candidates long before donald trump got the nomination and prominent nra members. what makes the interaction with j.d. gordon so important? part of it is his connection to the trump campaign, and it s clear from e-mails that are described to us that was a key part of why she sort of sought out this interaction. she apparently med j.d. gordon at an event at the swiss embassy. he was with paul eriksen the russian operative she was dating. paul then sebt nt an e-mail to . and miss butina after the event. paul described j.d. by saying he s an important person in the trump administration. he s an important voice that people listen to on national policy. that seems to be an important part of why she was making contact with him. let me ask you more about the trump campaign foreign policy advisers. they were not visible opt campaign, not really. people like george papadopoulos, not around. i never saw him on the campaign. j.d. gordon was named. didn t see him on the campaign. these names seem to come not out of nowhere. but the trump organization was asked to release a list. it kind of felt like these people were just random people they put on a list and sent to reporters. now it look like there s something more there. given that carter was somebody that the intelligence community had their eye on because of the interactions he was having with russians. george papadopoulos, who it s reported started this whole investigation because he was bragging to an australian diplomat in a london bar that russia had dirt on hillary clinton and now j.d. gordon linking these two seemingly separate investigations on a russian influence campaign. yeah, i ve done quite a bit of reporting on carter page and george papadopoulos in particular and one of the things that struck me about them was they aggressively sought out the connection with the trump campaign at a time when, as you mentioned, the campaign was having a devil of a time finding sort of figures who they could tout at foreign policy advisers. we did a story once quoting a trump adviser at the time saying anybody with a pulse was what they were looking for. and people like george and carter were people with a pulse who stepped forward and said, choose us. i got to tell you the day i saw george papadopoulos s picture i was taken aback. i didn t expect somebody so young. harry, what stands out to you about this. she s 29. he s 50. we have the vanity of older men. this is the exact agency it occurred, to me, of garry heart and donna rice in monkey business time. and the whole kind of younger woman, you know, using older guys to get political influence. but what stand out the me is you said it what s the defense of j.d. gordon? i don t know if there s a prominent republican political official she hasn t met with. she s penetrating everywhere and anywhere she can with the help of this republican operative. and as you say, lover, keith eriksen. it just seems like this is not a sort of one week little story and episode. but she really got around. harry, just really quickly could this new what rozlynn uncovered say they didn t know about it could this prompt them to call her in for questioning? well, she s arrested. obviously. talk to her. she s going to have enormous pressure on her. they ll talk to her, but there s some members in the campaign many her wide circle and they re zero in like gordon. we already know of a couple of others. that s what will really interest them. the people from the campaign. the masquerade party after the election. got it. guys thank you very much. coming up, a federal judge gave the trump administration a sharp reminder about the suffering of the children separated from their parents and who is to blame with it. 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unacceptable. all of this is the result of the government s separation and then inability and failure to track and reunite. and the reality is that for every parent who is not located, there will be a permanently orphaned child, ands that 100% the responsibility of the administration. that same judge is now ordering the white house to designate a person or team within the administration to take control of the reunification process. joining us now is maria three a kumar and amir standen. she was hillary clinton s policy director during the 2008 presidential campaign. there still isn t somebody in charge of this. the court is ordering them to get somebody in charge of the reuniting. yes. i mean, we have been going through this saga for months and more importantly, these children have been going through this pain and misery at the hand of the trump administration for months. and every night that these children do not know where their parents are is an unacceptable atrocity. and the reality is ivanka trump said yesterday, the family separation policy was a true low point for her. she is a senior adviser to the president of the united states. she works in the white house. i suggest, if this is a low point for her and she actually cares about this, she figures out along with the white house chief of staff and everybody in the white house how to address this problem. i mean, the reality that the government did not track the parents along with their children and have no simple way of identifying the parents even though they may have already been deport second down an outrage and needs to be addressed not next week, not tomorrow. it need to be addressed now. consider this maria there s now analysis of immigration data that find parents were targeted. parents were targeted under this zero tolerance policy. this is from the transactional records clearinghouse at syracuse university. they found that they prosecutored parents with kids coming across the border. only 32% of those caught crossing the border were charged. an indication it was in the a blanket policy but a targeted effort directed at parents with kid. let me repeat that. their finding from this analysis the adults coming over alone were treated differently and better it seems than the dulls coming over with kid. this demonstrates that the trump administration was trying to exact maximum pain to the most vulnerable. the people that are three fleeing the families fleeing traversed three to four countries to come here mostly with the clothes on their back to give their children a shot. the trump administration when they said they were going to do zero tolerance it wasn t blanketed. it was targeted at children, targeted at families. they turned around and put the children and babies in cages. there s not going to be a remedy in the near future to make sure these children are not unified but they re receiving the medical attention because the trauma we are starting to hear is happening to these children some don t want to speak out loud. some follow their apparents room to room. some curl up because they re so afraid they are not going see their parents. then others are just plain angry. then the fact that attorney general jeff sessions stared in the camera to the american people and said he was going establish a zero tolerance policy and now to find it one zero tolerance it was aimed at the most vulnerable, the parents and children should be a heart wrenching reminder of the american people to the cruelty of this administration. when ivanka trump look at the american people and says this is something she s painfully aware and she something we shouldn t be doing, i agree with mira she should say she s going do immigrant to stop it. i encourage her to visit the border. hold on, though. this nonsense they re telling the aclu that they should be reunifying the parents is a shame though. it s the federal government s responsibility. i want to zero in on one point. jeff sessions announced this policy in the spring. then when the policy was backfiring and they were getting the negative headlines and the pictures looked bad, but, you know, lives were actually much worse, they said over and over again, this administration kear kirstjen nielsen said this is not a policy. not only was it a policy, but it was aimed at parents. no not just anybody crossing the border but parents specifically. cruel intentioned. that s right. what s interesting is one of their largest security that provided security for pakistan in that country under u.s. control, they received a government contract two weeks before the policy of family separation was announced. they were the ones housing children not in accommodating facilities. they discovered they were in phoenix in regular office buildings that didn t have kitchens. one bathroom. held the toddlers were weeks without having them go outside. these neighbors broke the story. these individuals got a contract two weeks before the 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values. russia is very unhappy that trump won. that i can tell you. but i got along great with putin. as i have said consistently, russia attempted to entire fear with the last election and continues to engage in maligned influence op addressings to this day. nower we are being hindered by the russian hoax. it s a hoax. we acknowledge the threat. it is real. it is continuing and we are doing everything we can to have a legitimate election that the american people can have trust in. it s almost as if there are two administrations, one led by grownups who are trying to protect our democracy be the other what wonts to butt no matter how they try to sidestep, trump never fails to wears them and communicate his real feel g feelings. he never accepted he got elected with russian help and is not about to make an all-out push to stop it in 2018. there are only 118 days until 2018 elections. can they work together without the help of the commander in chief? without the help of the president? we 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transitions™ light under control™ raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens brown paper packages tied up with strings these are a few of my favorite things come briefing room and address not just reporters but the general public? you have national security leaders who understand this kind of thing need to be communicated to the support our leaders as they hopefully do the right thing or elect leaders in congress specifically who will do the right thing, who will support sanctions that are strong enough to deter russia. but i think what s also happening, my read of it anyway, as we get closer to the mid-terms and as it becomes clear to the american people that the russians did attack our election and did use the republican party especially through its candidate, donald trump, to make the attack and now the republican party is sort of lying down on the job or its elected leaders, i think there s got to be increasing pressure to show the american people that the administration on some level is trying to do the right thing. that s why i think those national security leaders end up on the podium in the pressroom, even though six hours later the president gets up and says it s a hoax. he s keeping them in the dark and brainwashed whereas the republicans who are concerned by donald trump s open betrayal of the country in helsinki are seeing, okay, part of the administration is doing the right thing. maybe i can still vote republican. do you think they re in the dark and brainwashed? i think it s time for us to start thinking about some of the base being brainwashed. there s this qanon, this conspiracy theory. the conspiracy theories on the far right are growing and spreading and becoming less part of the fringe discourse and working their way into the main stream. it s becoming more of the case. and in my mind that s a piece of brainwashing. i mean we re talking about people existing in alternative information environments that have no bearing on fact or reason. and that s where some of his base is. it is almost like there are two administration. one led by grown ups like those national security advisers you just saw, and the other one led by donald trump, a man who wants to bear hug the guy who attacked our democracy. yeah, i mean, just think about the fact that we had all those leaders of our intelligence community, a leader of the fbi, the dni, all walk out and make the statements they did. and of course, it s not just their work. they are basing this on the work of hundreds if not thousands of intelligence people, you know, working under the cia, the fbi, et cetera, gathering intelligence about the threat our country faces right now. and then hours later donald trump continues with the language of a russian hoax. just weeks after vladimir putin said that he wanted trump to win and donald trump said that he basically believed vladimir putin over the people arrayed at the white house podium yesterday. and i think the reality of this is if you are concerned about the threat that exists from russia, not just what they ve done in the past but what they are doing today and what they will do in the future, you cannot count on the president of the united states. we have an extraordinary moment when there s really two administrations. there s the president trump himself and then the intelligence community, and they have really leaned up just as opposed to him on this fundamental issue. so the question needs to be asked. is the administration concerned about sending mixed messages to russia? here s what one of the strategic communications director told kristen walker. president trump last night at his rally said the russian investigation is a hoax. doesn t that undercut thought at all. i think we made it very clear the president last may in 2017 directed the administration to be tough and strengthen cyber security measures. are you concerned, though, it sends a mixed message to russia? no, not at all. the only one sending mixed messages are the media. it s only the media. i mean, this is the talking point every single day which is we re all supposed to just basically ignore what donald trump says. sarah huckabee sanders says this on occasion, the white house strategy communications strategy is to just actually the broad public except for their base is supposed to ignore what the president says, but his base is supposed to take everything he says literally. i mean, it s ridiculous and outrageous that we have this kind of thing about, you know, not a partisan battle or just two sides of a debate on taxes or something. this is about america s national security. this is about our elections and democracy. and the fact that the white house, the president of the united states just cannot make the statement about the threat that exists from russia is ridiculous and shows that he s got it makes people think they have something on him. let me ask this question of you, evan. can our intelligence community, can our agencies effectively push back against russian interference, the cyber warfare if the president s not onboard? they can do a lot, but they can t do enough. what really needs to happen here is deterrence. because we re never going to be able to block every cyber intrusion and disinformation campaign. you just can t do it, so you ve to deter. and deterrence the best vehicle for that is through sanctions. that has to be done by congress, which is why the mid-terms are so critical. evan mcmullin, good to see you. tonight s last word is next. i didn t believe it. again. ooh, baby, do you know what that s worth? i want to believe it. 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that statement read, we primarily discussed a program about the adoption of russian children. president trump s lawyers admit that the president did dictate that misleading statement. but they did say this. i do want to be clear that the president was not involved in making a statement or issuinging a statement. it came from donald trump jr. that s what we know. why the changing stories, why did the president say that he had nothing to do with meeting with the russian lawyers when he did. i said that in my statement, i have talked about that before, that happens when you have cases like this. i think it s very important to point out, that in a situation like this, you have over time facts develop. that s what investigations do. cnn white house correspondent boris sanchez is in new jersey where the president is spending his summer break. why is the legal team bringing up that meeting this weekend? skb reporter: because that meeting at trump tower in 2016 could present legal issues for the president and his son and son-in-law jared kushner. i think that trump is concerned about the source of and that concern is part of the reason that the president has had these agitated aggressive acts against robert mueller recently. part of that tweet that you mentioned dismissed these reports, but he essentially made clear that the nature of that meeting in trump tower was not what the administration initially signaled back when we heard from donald trump junior suggesting that it was about adoptions. look, we have heard president donald trump going from saying that to the best of his knowledge, no one on his campaign, no one he knew had anything to do with russia, to today hearing from him and his legal team, suggesting that that meeting was not illegal, not improper and that loose is not a crime. here s more from jay sekulow, one of the president s attorneys. he said totally legal done in politics all the time. but the information that robert mueller has said that this was a meeting to get information about hillary clinton s campaign, how would that be legal? the ultimate question is how would it be illegal? the question is here would the meeting itself constitute a violation of the law? reporter: now anna, we learned last week, that robert mueller is really focussing on trying to secure an interview with one of the key figures involved in that 20167, and that The latest news and information from around the world with host Ana Cabrera. difficult to deal with. and so, especially when you have staked out a position that may have looked good at the time but now is completely contradicted by the facts. sources close to the white house say the president has been in that public frenzy over the russian investigation because he s worried about what mueller may have on his son, don trump jr., should he be worried? yes, he should, because it s been my obserbservatioobservati have any inside information, but my observation as somebody who s done this for quite a while is they clearly are honed in on this meeting, they clearly, the two people who are in the most jeopardy or would seem to be in the most jeopardy are jared kushner and don jr. and i always, from a personal standpoint, see a direct correlation between his witch hunt tweets and his tweets about the nfl national anthem, whenever he feels like they re closing in on his family. i mean there s a direct correlation. all right, mark geragos, as investigation, he has under mined the intelligence agencies, 19 intelligence agencies that said that russia interfered with our election. so all of this is in that context. and if you look at the fact that he is now, it s not clear whether he s going to sit down with robert mueller or not, you have to ask what is he afraid of. and if he refuses to sit down with robert mueller, and he does get subpoenaed, then obviously this case goes all the way to the supreme court. this is, you know, this is a very, very serious challenge to our democracy, frankly, and to the truthfulness of this administration. let me ask you about the fact that in this case, jay sekulow corrected the record. might that give you some hope that they re being truthful with the special counsel team? the problem is they re only correcting the record because something else has been said that has contradicted what he said to start with. so it doesn t really help if someone lies or misleads, and then the truth comes out and they re put in a position where the only thing they can say is well i didn t know. i thought that was true. i made a mistake. that also poses challenges for the president himself for his legal counsel to essentially be admitting to whatever it is he s admitting to. so on every level it doesn t help at all and i m not sure that jay sekulow had another option other than to say that, but he looks absolutely uncredible, as does sarah sanders, and donald trump jr. i think is in big trouble. donald trump jr. testified under oath before the senate judiciary committee. a lot of things about this meeting that are now coming out to be untrue and i do think that your previous speaker who said when he sees a correlation between the president s details about the nfl and what is happening around the mueller investigation closing in and donald trump jr., you know, that is true, i mean the other area that he does that with is immigration. i mean the minute something starts to get hot for the president, he turns his ire to immigrants and tries to use other divisive images to try to sway the public s view and perspective than on the actual crisis. his base likes the issue of immigration as far as the policy itself. before i move on to immigration, i do want to ask you about this phrase we re hearing from rudy giuliani and others, collusion is not a crime. technically you eethey re righ. you can t be charged with a quote, unquote collusion charge. do you think that s a strong defense? no, and again, this is, you know, they are trying to mislead, because that may be technically correct, but what they re not saying is that forei foreign essentially if donald trump jr. met with the russians in order to get opposition research from the russians on a hillary clinton, then that is a foreign government providing information, that is a crime. there are all sorts of crimes tied with what they are saying is happening. it may pull the wool over people s eyes just for a little bit until it comes out that there are lots of crimes tied into this meeting and what is now being uncovered about what happened in that meeting. so they can continue to say that, honestly they keep saying things they then have to go back and change later, the president s tweets, which i can t imagine any attorney that is actually has any influence over the president would have told them that was a good idea to tweet that. but we know this president doesn t listen to advisers or attorneys. based on what rudy giuliani is saying the president has control over the public relations part and attacking the lawyer. let me move on to this immigration issue. there are close to 500 parents who were separated from their children who still have not even been located. a federal journal sludge slamme trump administration for the reality is that for every parent who is not located, there will be a permanent orphaned child. that is 100% the responsibility of the administration. congresswoman, what kind of a wakeup call has this situation been for the administration and their zero tolerance policy, has it moved the needle at all? it really has not moved the needle. the reality is the administration has missed every court ordered deadline. the judge is absolutely right that there are almost actually 600 children who have not been reunited and it s outrageous, prepostero preposterous, i can t even find the words for how outrageous it makes me for saying now it s the aclu s fault, or not fault but responsibility, but they said responsibility for reuniting them. this administration instituted the zero tolerance policy. and as a result there are hundreds and hundreds of children who may be orphaned and whose parents have been deported to other countries and the trump administration has done nothing to respond to that situation. and as you know, ana, i was the first to go and meet with some of these parents just south of seattle, so this has shaunt hau. their stories, what has happened to them. and now we have to acknowledge the stories of those that are coming out of these detention centers and the stories of being told that they were abang d baby their parents, by their mothers, i heard that directly from a child. and stories about children who were abused in these facilit fa sand a 6-year-old child who was asked to sign a paper that said it was her responsibility to stay away from the person who abused her in that facility. this is kidnapping of children, and frankly it is state sponsorsponsor ed violence. these families and these children deserve to be paroled in. it because frankly they are victims of the state sponsored violence. congresswoman, thank you for your time, i appreciate it. thank you, anna. still more questions than answers about what the president knew and when he knew it regarding that meeting at trump tower with russians. and then questions surround that russian spy who s been getting invited to family holidays with prominent conservatives, that story is next. keep it comin love. if you keep on eating, we ll keep it comin . all you can eat riblets and tenders at applebee s. now that s eatin good in the neighborhood. stop fearing your alarm clock. with new ! zzzquil pure zzzs. a drug-free blend of botanicals with melatonin .that supports your natural sleep cycle. .so you can seize the morning. new! zzzquil pure zzzs. just for a shot. with neulasta onpro patients get their dayr back to be with family, or just to sleep in. strong chemo can put you at risk of serious infection. in a key study neulasta reduced the risk of infection from 17% to 1%, a 94% decrease. neulasta onpro is designed to deliver neulasta the day after chemo and is used by most patients today. neulasta is for certain cancer patients receiving strong chemotherapy. do not take neulasta if you re allergic to it or neupogen (filgrastim). an incomplete dose could increase infection risk. ruptured spleen, sometimes fatal as well as serious lung problems allergic reactions, kidney injuries and capillary leak syndrome have occurred. report abdominal or shoulder tip pain, trouble breathing or allergic reactions to your doctor right away. in patients with sickle cell disorders, serious, sometimes fatal crises can occur. the most common side effect is bone and muscle ache. ask your doctor about neulasta onpro. pay no more than $25 per dose with copay card. 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i think we have to understand that she had two americans she was very close with. one was her boyfriend, who is a 50-something republican operative from south dakota, who had long served on the american assertive union. she also had become close to george rockefeller, who kind of wants to pull america out of its wars and thinks we should have better ties with russia. what was she actually doing? it s hard to say. if she was a russian agent, she wasn t very good under cover. facebook, instagram, she s checking in from russia house, not exactly a subtle place. she was riding shirtless on a horse. so it s a very confusing case, and the evidence the government s presented so far, is if not unconvincing, it s not, doesn t quite say oh, yeah, obviously she s working for the russian government. her lawyer says she was never paid by any russian government official, she never took any money from russian government officials. as you point out, her facebook as a picture of a shirtless vladimir putin. she would brag about her contacts with the russian government. so she was open about her russian connections. but i know you got a hold of some of her emails, do they give a himpnt on what her intentions were. no, but it really gives a hint on what these men s intentions were. from mark stafford as you pointed out. so many others, to the point where she has pictures, a picture of her with don jr., donald trump jr., in 2016 in louisville at an nra dinner. and there was a man she worked closely with, he tried to set up a meeting. you really get the sense of somebody who net worked really well, and kind of worked her way quickly up to the very top of the republican party. just how close was she to the trump campaign, because i know she had some interactions with j.d. gordon because she was an aid on his national security team. she went to a stix concert with him a few days before the election. her boyfriend, hapaul erickson his name, he kind of formally helped a vised on people who could fit into a trump presidency, but wasn t really at the center of it. the question is why would she want to get close to all these people. your piece was quite descriptive about what she was doing and what she was up to. the carr fire in arizona has left seven people dead. we ll tell you the cause to one of the most destructive fires in that state s history. the digital divide is splitting this country. we have parents who are trying to get their kids off of too much social media and computers, and then we have parents who would only hope their children have access. middle school is a really key transition point, right. the stakes start changing. students begin to really start thinking about their futures. what i like about verizon s approach is that it s not limited to just giving kids new tools, it s really about empowering educators to teach in different ways, and exposing kids to more active forms of learning. giving technology is not a total solution. teaching technology, now that is. don t reuse needles. the most common side effect is low blood sugar, which may cause dizziness, sweating, confusion, and headache. check your blood sugar. low blood sugar can be serious and may be life-threatening. injection site reactions may occur. tell your prescriber about all medicines you take and all your medical conditions. taking tzds with insulins like tresiba® may cause serious side effects like heart failure. your insulin dose shouldn t be changed without asking your prescriber. get medical help right away if you have trouble breathing, fast heartbeat, extreme drowsiness, swelling of your face, tongue or throat, dizziness or confusion. 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reach out to your neighbors, friends, family, comfort each other, reassure each other. reporter: what really helped, he says said is his neighbors formed a support group called coffee strong to discuss all aspects of the ruining of their homes and their lives. if you want to cry, go ahead and cry, but group together with your friends and neighbors, and you might be able to pull some strings from them. set out meaningful advice from someone who has been there. dan simon, cnn, redding, california. the reward for information about a missing university of iowa student is growing. $260,000. up next we ll talk to her family and bring you an update on the search. bundle and save big, but now it s time to find my dream abode. -right away, i could tell his priorities were a little unorthodox. -keep going. stop. a little bit down. stop. back up again. is this adequate sunlight for a komodo dragon? -yeah. -sure, i want that discount on car insurance just for owning a home, but i m not compromising. -you re taking a shower? 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we ll discuss, next. but it s all coming back me. baby, baby, baby. all you can eat is back, baby. applebee s. no matter how much you clean, does your house still smell stuffy? that s because your home is filled with soft surfaces that trap odors and release them back into the room. so, try febreze fabric refresher. febreze finds odors trapped in fabrics and cleans them away as it dries. use febreze every time you tidy up to keep your whole house smelling fresh air clean. fabric refresher even works for clothes you want to wear another day. make febreze part of your clean routine for whole home freshness. trump called lebron james and maxine waters dumb. one is from cleveland, one s on tv, one is in congress, oh, wait. then you have added this brown hand. so you clearly felt this was the trump dog whistle on race. explain. if you don t see this as racist, i would ask you to please go get your vision checked. it s also remember, we re not talking this, you know, in a vacuum. it s not the one instance when donald trump has said something that is a dog whistle, a racist dog whistle. let s not forget the shithole comment about countries with predominantly black populations. let s not forget saying about football players, get that son of a bitch off the field. he went after lebron james and don lemon because of an interview about an s.t.e.m. school that lebron james has founded in a community in need, an at-risk community in his hometown of cleveland. neither lebron james nor don lemon started life with a million bucks from their daddy. neither don lemon nor lebron james started life because their daddy got them dressed. these are guys that came out of poverty, that did it on their own, that worked hard as hell, that are smart, that don t lie to the american people on a daily basis and are finding ways to make america great today and do things to contribute to the community they re a part of. i have seen don lemon, who is a friend of mine, do so much for charity work, for philanthropy. lebron james is another one. no doubt they are successful people. you bring up so many good points about the character of don, of lebron james, who i admire, i don t know him personally, but trump supporters i ve seen on twitter arguing that this isn t about race, he s an equal opportunity attacker, he doesn t just attack people of color. he called steve bannon sloppy steve, he attacks his attorney general. do you think this is different? yeah, i do. it seems to me that when it comes to african-americans, when it comes to black people, he seems to go to the low iq dumbest person in the world attack quite often. it is his go-to when it comes to african-americans, that they are dumb. that is certainly not the case. don lemon and lebron james have got far better vocabulary and grammar skills than donald trump does. look, forget whether they are what they are, and everything they ve done. donald trump is the president of the united states. and he s going on twitter, this platform with 50-some million people that follow him, to attack a man like lebron james and don lemon who are examples of what makes america great, who are examples of americans that give back, who are examples of americans that persevere, who embody american values and the american dream. how dare he. how dare he. you think about it and you realize, look, there s only one thing that donald trump cares about, and that is his base. pandering to his base, energizing his base. because you are a long-time republican, but one that has broken with trump. so i know you re not surprised to see these comments by this president. but are you surprised by how many in your party, 87% still support this president and have stood behind this president despite his divisive approach to race? i am surprised. and frankly, less about the divisive approach to race and more about the fact that they look the other way when it comes out that he s having an affair with a playboy bunny and a stripper at the same time just after his wife gave birth. and they look the other way. certainly if they look the other way about something that is such a pillar for the republican party, the idea of family values and religious beliefs, it s not surprising that they would look the other way on something like race division. i have been heartbroken time and time and time again at just the kind of things that the republican party base will look the other way about, will pretend did not happen, will say it s not what we are seeing, do not believe your lying eyes. whether it s charlottesville, whether it s tweets like this, whether it s his personal values, whether it s his slobbering over russia, whether it s his calling the european union foes, whether it s his attacks on the free press. and yes, the republican base, it seems to me there is no bar. there is no bar high enough. there is nothing that he can do that at this point will turn off that base. i think they are emotionally invested in him. they see him as their ugly baby but it s their baby so nobody better tell them he s an ugly baby. they see it as a tribal fight, us versus them. are you going to vote democrat in the coming midterms? i think so. certainly in some districts. i think it s going to be a cost. here in florida where i am, it seems to be practically every race, whether republican or democrat, hinges on donald trump right now. the republican primaries are about who is more trump-like, who is more liked by trump. in the democratic primary, it is about who will confront trump the most. i m talking for even things like governor. there s dead fish washing up on the shores of florida by the thousan thousands. there s a contest about who is closest to trump. ana navarro, thank you so much, i always appreciate your points on the show, thank you for joining me. we re getting new revelations from the president himself about why the trump tower meeting took place. coming up, we ll talk about this new development and what the white house is saying about it. we re the most isolated population on the planet. hawaii is the first state in the u.s. to have 100% renewable energy goal. we re a very small electric utility. but, if we don t make this move we re going to have changes in our environment, and have a negative impact to hawaii s economy. verizon provided us a solution using smart sensors on their network that lets us collect near real time data on our power grid. 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cotton can whic candy, which wet there as well. do we have cheese curds. we do. how about fried o oreos. i once ate a deep fried scorpion on a stick at the arizona county fair. yeah, on live television. greta was doing her show. was it nice and crispy? good morning, we don t want to ruin your appetite. they also had a deep fried maggot. send us your favorite fried foods and what you love most about your state fairs. boy, is there a lot to talk about. i don t know if you were watching last night. we will play back a bunch of highlights from the rally in yow where the president was in A morning news show that includes interviews, features and banter among hosts. the court, we re out of that crazy iran deal, the em ba embas gone from jerusalem and the hostages have been returned from north korea. that s what happened under his leadership. we discussed the significance of bringing jim jordan up on the stage. he announced his run for speaker many he s been a powerful voice in support of the president and a full embrace, saying take the podium, that s a shot across the bow of the establishment in washington, mitch mcconnell and paul ryan, who don t want the freedom caucus to run the house of representatives. the balance of thousand is at stake. but a big statement there. a likely fight could be coming over the wall, remember, build, the wall, that s a big thing at these rallies. the house freedom caucus and many people in the audience believe we should engage in this fight over border security very soon, rather than later. the other side isn t so happy about that. eric swalwell is one of them who . the midterms are so important. he s telling people to get out there and vote. you can only do so much as president. if immigration is the top of your list, you have to get people on your side to help you get things through. if you have democrats that take over, imagine how complicated that s going to be. we ve seen a tough two years of getting enough done with republicans he would say are working on his behalf. >. everything will stop if the democrats were to win the house of representatives. if the republicans hold l hold onto the majority, you could be looking at the next speaker of the house, jim jordan, really a big development. we have just one other story i wanted to get to. we re going to tease a little bit. it s what the children at rallies and how let s say the failing new york times has a different view of the children being at the rallies than maybe the rest of us do. here s the headline from it in the new york times by an op ed, damian winter. he wrote the children at trump rallies, he s a photographer and he talks about it. he says it s been a long journey covering the campaign and i remember being exhausted by the anger i experienced. i remember being heart-broken that children were exposed to this anger or learning from it and participating in it. of course, i wonder if they would say about the same thing about the kits brough kids broue women s march. is it a chance to learn about the democracy. and to see the president. you got to see the president of the united states and listen to his speech. i talked to, a father brought his daughter in tampa and we talked to some of the children at the rallies, take a listen to this. why are you here today. >. i wanted to see trump for y politics. a lot of times children don t agree with their parents. this is part of growing up. it s about learning about the country, learning what the role of the president is. it s history. e-mail us if you would take your children to a rally. the one thing i would say is sometimes with the insults, when the president gives insults, that s when i am concerned about kids being there. it s not a way to learn how to talk to people. i don t think we should say that this is okay for a president to say these things. i know you disagree with me on that. that s where parents come into play. parents can say, hey, he s the president, he s fighting different battles, that s why he talks that way. don t talk to your teacher that way. right? that s a pretty easy send us your thoughts on that. another big document dumped by the fbi revealing new bomb shells about the fbi s relationship with the controversial author of the anti-trump, the dirty dossier. tom fiten is here with details. and police officers facing off with a group of kids for an opeepic dance-off. just dance. traveling lighter. taking a shortcut. 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the documents are supporting him, as they are dribbled out, a lot of them are heavily redacted. all the meetings he was having with the fbi, almost completely redacted. who was he meeting with at the fbi. you can probably bet a dollar it was peter strzok or people like him that he was reporting to, top levels. james comey, peter strzok, top officials at the fbi like andrew mccabe who was fired for misconduct need to be questioned very carefully about their communications with steele and their knowledge and coordination with the clinton dnc operation that was also funding his operation as well. the idea that the fbi was using this campaign funded source to target the trump team is something that ought to be troubling to most americans. tom, i don t want you to give away what you re working on, but obviously you have been leading on this from the beginning. can you give us a preview of what else you re hoping to get, what you re hoping to expose, really, in the coming week? there s always something big coming from documents. we ve got information about james comey that s going to raise additional questions about his conduct at the fbi and whether the fbi again was bending the rules to allow james in the way james comey was following ethics at the fbi, really incredible stuff coming up. tom, the president tweeted this past week that it s time to end this investigation. is it your opinion now, based on all of these things we know, that this investigation is not fair? i ve long believed the super structure, the entire basis of the mueller investigation was corrupted and it s been long past time for at least a pause in the investigation so that we have a full airing of they illicit spying, the targeting of trump, the leaking, and the misuse of the fisa court process to target him. given all that corruption, it s hard to believe the doj is allowing that operation to continue without any check. all right. tom fiten of judicial watch, thank you for the work you re doing and have a great sunday. you re welcome. thank you. she lost her father in the korean war when she was 4 years old and was there as the remains from north korea returned home. she is with us to talk about the meaning to have the remains back on u.s. soil, that s next. and tom pyro is having breakfast with friends in ohio where they re still excited about the president s rally. he s straight ahead and he s serving up breakfast. motorcycle revving motorcycle revving motorcycle revving motorcycle revving no matter who rides point, there are over 10,000 allstate agents riding sweep. and just like tyrone taylor, they know what it takes to help keep you protected. are you in good hands? 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well, it felt like my country was following through on its commitment to bring our fallen home and my father is one of those fallen. to actually see the flag-draped cases really made it real to me that my father might be in one of those cases. it was a more hopeful feeling that i ve probably ever had. were you told anything about your dad growing up? tell us about the man that he was. obviously you were only 4 years old. but an american hero, he was. yes. growing up i really did not know hardly anything about him until i was about 16, because my mother just really had a hard time dealing with it, at least that s what i think, anyway, because she didn t want to talk about it. she didn t have any pictures of him out for my brother, younger brother and i to see, and if i ever asked about him, she would get mad at me. so i kind of both my brother and i learned not to ask about him. so i really didn t learn hardly anything growing up, until i was a teenager, about 16, and then i i needed to know more at that age. so i would press it until she finally brought out a couple pictures and so i didn t remember as a young child that he was a pilot and so to see his picture was so impressive to me. it kind of reconnected my memory to him, taking him to i grew up as a military child, so i was used to going to air bases. you had a chance, diane, to be there, as those came in, speak with the vice president. if you had a message for the president today and his in this process in north korea, what would it be? first of all, thank you, mr. president, for taking that request as part of the negotiations and i m grateful that korea followed through with that and so from here on, i really would hope that we continue to pursue recovering more remains with whatever that takes to get back into north korea, to do search and recovery efforts. what a powerful moment it was. diana brown, good to have you with us. thank your family for your service. your father, absolutely. next a new threat from isis. the target? san francisco. >. and what did voters thinkf president trump s rally last night. tom pyro is having breakfast with friends in ohio. i hear the bill s on you. i pay every time. that s just the kind of guy i am. most importantly, these folks were so happy the president visited their community last night. we re talking to them about the issues that are important to them this morning, when fox & friends on a sunday morning in america returns. to me, he s, well, dad. so when his joint pain from psoriatic arthritis got really bad, it scared me. and what could that pain mean? 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it s to help the country, to save the country from the illegals, the education factor for our children and the border control. reporter: you saiyou said you recently took a visit to california and you were so upset by what you saw there. explain what you mean by that. the total poverty that you see throughout the city, the homelessness, the trash on the freeway, the streets, just total lack of concern for our country, from the illegals, i would assume. reporter: as somebody who worked in finance, you say you look at the trump economy or the economy under the president and you say wow. why do you say that? i say that because of the job situation. the highest job employment since 25 years now he said. the black employment, the mexican employment, all the lowest ever in our history. reporter: all right. enough said. thank you for your service and thank you for your time. alice, alice is a veteran as well. thank you for your service. also works in finance. and as somebody who works in finance, you too look at the economy under the president and say we re doing very well. why do you say that? my 401-k has increased exponentially since he took office. i see an increase in what people are investing in. people are investing and that s a huge thing right now because they re preparing for their future, they re preparing for their children s future and grandchildren s future. all of these things are positive keys to looking at the economy. when it comes to immigration, you say you don t mind the fact that the president is threatening to shut down the government over the border wall. why do you say that? we need to make america great again. i think the president is trying to do that and he s trying to get our leaders on-board with him and go with him and when they re dragging their feet, not wanting to do so, it s time for him to step up and say if we re not going to do it, we re going to shut it down. socialism has been in the news a lot lately. you say millennials don t get it. why do you say that? they haven t experienced what america has gone through, from before the attack on the twin yotowers,from there going back. people from my generation, a couple generations below me, they were there when the twin towers were attacked, they were there when we had we had people that were here in the vietnam war, in korea, world war ii, stuff like that, so those older people, they understand what the country has been through and how important it is to make america great again. reporter: alice, thank you for your time. joy, thank you for yours. we ve got a busy morning ahead of us, a lot more opinions to get to when we check back in with you guys in about an hour. for now, back to new york. the biscuits and gravy get eating for us. thank you so much. keep it up. it s always a plus when you go to a diner and the food is that good. there s always something good. i feel bad keeping people from their food. they re eating right now. we want to bring you other headlines, starting on a serious note with a fox news alert. we will make you fear the air that you breathe, isis posting that chilling threat online, calling for biological attacks right here in the u.s. the terror group s new video shows the san francisco skyline, you can see it there, with a man holding a gas canister. it also gives instructions on how to build undetectable homemade dirty bombs. yikes. today the fbi will question a man for a third time about missing college student molly tibbits. wayne cheney said agents are entitled to search his entire property. last week, he refused to take a polygraph test. molly disappeared more than two weeks ago after going for a run in brooklyn, iowa. it looked like something out of a james bond movie. police getting into a high speed chase with four jet skis in london. the riders were racing on the river but unlike in the bond movies, the bad guys got away. police were forced to give up the chase for safety reasons. and there s this, police officers face off with a group of kids for an epic dance-off. you ve got to see this. you got it. don t mess with that one, the cop showing off to a boys and girls club in lake county, south carolina. the adorable moment is now going viral. i wish i could dance like that. was that a leg up into a split? i don t even know. that was intense. they re going i hope they don t throw with a do dance moves talk. have you seen that before? i give all credit to the adults. but that kid - what s going on out there. there s a category 4 hurricane, hector, moving close to hawaii. tuesday into wednesday, likely best chances, it will go just to the south of the big island. the big island has been in the news. they have an erupting volcano out there. they will have rain and swells out there. it s 97 this morning in phoenix. the heat is still on. everybody across the east still kind of hot and humid but not as much precipitation as we ve seen over the last, say, two to three weeks. we ve had a lot of spots see their wettest july ever. we ll have a pretty nice week. there will be a few scattered showers in the tennessee valley. in florida, you ll be looking at a nice day, carolinas well. we ll be watching severe weather moving across parts of minnesota. your high temperatures look like this for the day today, we re going to be very warm, especially across parts of the southwest. the hundreds that we ve seen across parts of the plains, those are gone. big swells heading to hawaii, that s music to surfers ear. camilla harris is taking offense. i have a problem with the phrase, identity politics. that phrase is used to divide and it is used to distract. charlie kirk is here to react live, that s next. he s going to have a different opinion. a giant herd of goats causing chaos in one neighborhood. the owners of those goats join us live, just ahead. still nervous about finding a new apartment? 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without a doubt. look, i experienced this sort of identity politics narrative on college campuses. you look at the black lives matter protests and you look at the kind of d divisive culture. it s graduated up to the high ranks of the democratic party. if you listen to the president, he talks about all americans, he doesn t talk about little different groups. the democrats lose on policy. they re trying to win on identity. we need to get back to the idea that the idea of america is you can come with nothing and create anything. that the free enterprise system is the greatest wealth creating engine ever. you re not the identity of your background but the identity of your future. that s why this president has succeeded over the last such he l couple years. it s not just race, it s sexual orientation, it s gender, immigration status, any category they can identify. precisely right. you look at it, they also try to identify a particular piece of identity that you can t control, by the way. you can t control your skin color. they try to create uproar around that. america is the only country where even those who hate it refuse to leave. and we have defied history where people can flea marxism and create the america they see fit. people are in different victim identity buckets and groups. we as conservatives are a champion of the identity of ideas. it will be interesting to see. she may be the democratic nominee for president. we ll find out. charlie kirk, thank you very much. good to see you. trevor noah tells republicans socialism is all in their minds. many republicans will say they hate socialism. really, they hate labels. it s all in your mind. didn t he interview a socialist? 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you re the elite. you are the elite. the president was out there, campaigning in ohio, getting people motivated to get out and vote. more americans are now employed than ever recorded before. oh, and we re going to get the wall passed, don t worry about that. you ve got to love the fact that it s a saturday night, he could be in bedminister relaxing but he s in an 110-degree auditorium giving that kind of rousing speech. new bombshells about the fbi s relation with the author of the anti-trump, dirty dossier. the relationship between the comey fbi and christopher steele, really disturbing news. why are you here today? i wanted to see trump for my first time. what are you hoping to see? i want to see that he s the president of america. we will make america great again. there is like an entire, i don t know if it s a city fair we might have to call it, it s replicating a county or state fair out on our plaza this morning. does that mean we re getting old? we re getting old. we re feeling it. we have a fair on the plaza. we have a trump rally. we have goats that need a name. it s time to get up on sunday. we lost our shot. we have a lot going on and a lot of good food, cotton candy and popcorn. we were talking about our favorite fried foods. i forgot that one of the best thing that i ve eaten that was fried, it was fried rattlesnake. it sounds kaye. >crazy but it wasactually very . tastes like chicken. it wasn t a maggot. it wasn t a scorpion. why can t we see good fried things, like snickers, cheese. you ve had a fried snickers? it s a great thing at the minnesota state fair. twinkies as well. send us your favorite fair things to do, the rides, the food, being with family, it reminds you of summer and being with people you love. the president was loving life last night. he loves these rallies more than anything else on the job. it s the greatest political phenomenon of our time, are trump rallies and his ability to connect with the people that voted him in office. because they re not political speeches. it s a performance. it really is. there s comedy. there s critique. there s media critique. there s laughter. there s chants. it s like nothing else. you study history. i m sure there have been similar phenomenons like this but nothing like this in my lifetime. the president was in ohio supporting troy bolder pson whos up on special election on tuesday. the president spoke for over an hour. we re going to bring you a minute and 32 minutes of it if you missed it. listen to the president. our economy is soaring. we re creating opportunity for everyone. more americans are now employed than ever recorded before in our nation s history. the new platform of the democrat party is to abolish i.c.e. and let s not worry about crime. we want our country to be a sanctuary for law-abiding americans, not criminal aliens. build that wall! billed thabuild thatwall. we re building the wall, don t worry. the laws are so bad, catch and release, visa lottery. let s pick somebody out. i wonder who that might be. oh, here he is. oh, he s convicted of five murders. oh, i see, we ll let him run through the country. they talk about the elite. do you ever see the elite? they re not elite. you re the elite. you are the elite. they re more elite than me? i have better everything than they have, including this. [ cheering and applause ] and i became president and they didn t, meaning you became president. even though it s 110 degrees in this crazy room, if you can take it, i can take it. [ cheering and applause ] so much for my brand-new beautiful suit. it was like over 100 degrees, no air conditioning in that arena. the moment where he talks about elites, though, that s one of the first times i ve heard him change that topic and turn it to the audience, to say you re actually the elite. basically saying fine your voice is finally your voice is being heard. when we re at the diners, that s one of the biggest reasons they voted for him. they felt like someone was fighting for us, finally someone was pushing back and not letting our country be taken advantage of. in that moment last night i was thinking this is a brilliant strategy by the president. that s why he s successful at the polls. he reminds them of why he s the person fighting for them. not only he s the person fighting, but he s telling them in that statement that you are now in control in washington, d.c. where elites have lectured to you what you should do with your life, how you should lead your life. you re now in charge. you matter. he s reminding them at every stop that we re going to continue to do it. these midterms matter. he s there of course for that race, the race is very close, within 1 point, i believe 44-43. and this is a significant vote, perhaps a brilliant strategy at this time. we re just a few months away from the midterms. we ll see. he brought him on the stage last night. if you don t have the trump name on the ballot, will you get enough people motivated to get out an vote. that s the question a lot of people are wondering. that s what candidates, in this race, when bolderson got up there, he said if you want what president trump is doing, i m a voice, i m a vote for that, my opponent is a vote for nancy pelosi. this is do you support this president or do you want to impeach the president. it s a very stark choice in a lot of these places. i think this will be a bell weather too. if you want a bellweather of where the american people s minds are, on tuesday i was in tampa, talking to the supporters. a lot of the mainstream media criticizes them. listen to what some of the supporters said last night. here you go. he knows what america wants. he s here for the people. he s here for all of us, not just the richi rich y elit. immigration, are you in favor of the president threatening to shut down the government if he doesn t get the border wall. absolutely. this is the american dream, to be strong, to be prosperous and to improve on that each and every day and that s what president trump does. what you hear there is he is us, he is my voice, he speaks for me, he s got these folks, folks i served with, they re your neighbor, the folks you go to school with, regular folks with jobs who feel like they have been forgotten, illegals have been prioritized over citizens, the folks they send to washington forget about them. he hasn t forgotten about them. he s still coming out to rallies, still packing halls. oftentimes on the other side trump supporters are criticized, painted with a broad brush, that the basket of deplorables, right, if you voted for trump, you re not a smart person. they hear different critiques of them. it s a good reminder, i always say to people that ask me what i think about politics, i say do you know someone that voted for trump. sit down with them, get to know these people. they are your neighbors, they re people that are just like you. you may not agree with them politically, but it s so important for us to understand who they are and that s what he s doing. he s getting out there and speaking to these people. you know what we didn t hear from those supporters was a desire for medicare for all. you didn t hear them asking to abolish i.c.e. you didn t hear them using the word socialism which is what the democrats are offering on the other side. we ve seep with alexandria cortez, we ve seen bernie sanders. i don t know if you know who trevor noah is, late night comedian. he took over for that other guy. took over for the other guy, host of the daily show. trevor noah is basically saying that socialism, that s all in just republicans minds. take a listen. many republicans will say they hate socialism but really they had labels. it s all in your minds. i am proud to be one of a small but growing number of candidates who identify as a democratic socialist. [ cheering and applause ] the establishment is terrified of that word. socialism. but if we learned one thing from the obama years, it s that republicans are going to call us socialists no matter what we do. so we might as well give them the real thing. it s all in your mind. these are not the droids you re looking for. nothing to see here. we almost elected a democratic socialist in 2016. bernie sanders had socialism in the label of what he stood for. now you ve got the socialist from the bronx, tom terrac pereg she s the future of the party. you re going to have apologists in the media. they re saying don t use the label. it s all made up. i thought he interviewed ocasio-cortez. trevor noah had a one on one. he asked her about socialist policies. maybe we can pull some of that. here s the abcs of politics, define your opponent, define your strategy, define the opponent s strategy. what we re seeing today is we are just a few months from the midterms, we re seeing the prosperity of the administration s policies 4.1, gdp, it s the economy stupid and the whole thing, now on the left, socialism. you re seeing this resistance and trevor noah is opening up what s going to be a huge fight in the democrat house, whether we re socialists or not. the left used to be the party of the wor worker. the workers are seeing trump bring the manufacturer manufacturing jobs back. they re like why don t we go for what we were for in the beginning, socialism. trump won a lot of the rust belt states, the blue color jobs. today, there are many people in the country to mark a d when they go to vote but there s not a message that s attracting them right now. they have to figure out what direction they re going to go in. good point. we talked so much that now we re not allowed to do headlines. i ll bring you headlines coming up. more headlines with abby later. in the meantime, president trump taking aim at the democrats so-called blue wave ahead of the midterms. if the democrats get in, they re going to raise your taxes. you re going to have crime all over the place. why would that be a blue wave. i think it could be a red wave. jason ch chaffetz joins us n. they re no longer selling fake news t-shirts, but hats are still selling like hot cakes and it s driving the media crazy. motorcycle revving motorcycle revving motorcycle revving motorcycle revving no matter who rides point, there are over 10,000 allstate agents riding sweep. and just like tyrone taylor, they know what it takes to help keep you protected. are you in good hands? 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it s an important thing. jim jordan is a long-time representative from ohio. he s wildly popular many he s popular because he has a simple message, let s as republicans do what we said we were going to do and he also wanted to hold people accountable, he wants there to be justice. it s a good, positive message. the people of ohio, he has so much support in ohio and across the country. i spoke the night before last in california. they were asking me about jim jordan. they were excited about him. it s a showdown over a shutdown, the president casting in with the true believers. look, the president is very loyal and to those that have supported the president, mark my words, the people that are wishy washy about donald trump and this next election, they are the ones that are going to lose their races. if they don t embrace the trump agenda, the republican agenda, which is a positive message that they ran on last year, if they don t run on that this year, they are going to pay the price in november, they will be the one that s lose. it happened in 2016. you re probably right, the same will happen in 2018. thanks for your time and congrats on the book. thanks, pete. he s rescued a cruise ship and even a train on the big screen. now russia is hoping steven segall rescues something else. i don t know what that is about. i look forward to learning. todd pyro is having breakfast with friends in ohio where they re still excited about the president s rally. there he is, taking orders it looks like. he s coming up next. do you think he s going to stay? back now with headlines starting with a fox news alert. venezuela s president is blaming far right groups for what he says was an assassination attempt. the government says that explosion was an attempted drone attack but some firefighters say it was a gas explosion. maduro blames the attack on venezuelans who live in florida. he wants president trump to step in. today, the fbi will question a man for the third time about missing college student molly tibbetts. wayne cheney says agents are welcome to search his property. he claims he doesn t know molly and he suspects, quote, some guy has her. molly disappeared more than two weeks ago in brooklyn, iowa. those are your headlines. never heard headlines read like that. no, abby reads them better every day. i was like i shouldn t say that. president trump rallying thousands of supporters in ohio last night. what did voters think? todd pyro is live at a diner in columbus with some good-looking pancakes. reporter: everything here is good-looking. we re going to dig into the politics of the day. the president was in this area yesterday, rallying for troy bolderson. we re going to begin with cliff. cliff, huge fan of troy bolderson. he says he s going to enact the president s agenda when he gets to congress. specifically with regard to the economy. why do you say that? because we need people that will vote for drum, trump, with him i should say. we don t control the senate or the house right now and so without votes, we ve got to have it. that s why we voted for him. reporter: you run an rv company and a campground. what have you seen in your business while trump has been in the white house. our campground has been here since 1966, 53 years, more than a half a century, family owned and operated. prior to trump coming on-board, it was tough going. now rv sales have picked up. people are spending money. it s back to the good old days. reporter: you said you sold six rvs last week alone. is that normal? no, it s not normal. i ll probably do three or four this week. reporter: you say when it comes to immigration, you say you don t understand why anyone would want sanctuary cities or would want to abolish i.c.e. why do you say that? we ve got crime coming across the borders, drugs coming across the borders. when you look at the sanctuary cities we re it s pretty decent. i don t understand why anybody would want that kind of thing. reporter: cliff, thank you very much for your time. let s go over to linda. linda is a business woman. she is voting for troy bolderson. for her, it s all about the economy. why? absolutely. i see kids in low positions, making more on minimum wage now. corporations are spreading money around for these kids. i see girls, men, young men, getting huge increases in their positions. and they aren t at top level positions. reporter: you say that s a great sign for us going forward. it s absolutely a great sign and the economy is so good, it s giving a chance for the young kids in the construction industry to get into the field. they don t go to collage. college. they aren t college material. but they now have an opportunity to get back into the trades again. reporter: do you think we are better off now under president trump than we were under president obama for eight years? [ laughter ] absolutely. reporter: linda, thank you very much for your time. now we re going to go to ken, ken, a marine, thank you for your service, thank you for all you ve done for your country. when it comes to socialism, you get so upset when you see the rise of socialism near the u.s. why? we have a number of friends that come from previous socialist they re socialists now, have i m greate i m greate- imigratesd from other countries. they ve said socialism does not work. it destroys individual incentive. eventually they end up like venezuela, absolute chaos? quickly, as a veteran, why was the repatriation of u.s. remains from the korean war so important? that hits the heart and soul of our country. yes, we need them back for closure. it s unthinkable that we have so many that have been missing for so long and thank you, president trump, for bringing them home. reporter: thank you all for your opinions on a beautiful sunday morning here in the columbus, ohio area. sending it back to new york city. todd, that s great. what a great point from that marine, thank him for his service from us. i don t have to tell you, pete and abby, the most powerful words you can hear is they re coming home. exactly. these are the stories you don t hear anyone else. a family owned business, he runs a campground, rvs, people are buying stuff. how often do you hear from a guy like that? nowhere else. that s why we do these diners. we ll have more of it. california s governor is usually trading insults with president trump. now he s asking for his help. we ll explain what we mean. we are having our own fox & friends fair out on the plaza this morning. we ve got rides. we ve got games. we ve got classic fair food, everything is fried. that s up next. don t miss it. today s fluctuating interest rates can increase your anxiety when buying a new home. that s why quicken loans created our new, exclusive rateshield approval. first, we lock your interest rate for up to 90 days while you find your new home. then, if rates have gone up, your rate stays locked. but, if rates have gone down, your rate drops. either way, you win! it s the kind of thinking you d expect from america s largest mortgage lender. if you re thinking about buying a home, call quicken loans or go to rocketmortgage.com today. and your current treatment hasn t worked well enough, it may be time for a change. ask your doctor about entyvio, the only biologic developed and approved just for uc and crohn s. entyvio works at the site of inflammation in the gi tract and is clinically proven to help many patients achieve both symptom relief and remission. infusion and serious allergic reactions can happen during or after treatment. entyvio may increase risk of infection, which can be serious. pml, a rare, serious, potentially fatal brain infection caused by a virus may be possible. this condition has not been reported with entyvio. tell your doctor if you have an infection, experience frequent infections or have flu-like symptoms or sores. liver problems can occur with entyvio. if your uc or crohn s treatment isn t working for you, ask your gastroenterologist about entyvio. entyvio. relief and remission within reach. it is your your shot of the morning, we re off to the races, the lawnmower races, that is. lawnmower races. that s right. crowds clearing at the small track at the andover down home days in maine. they are competing for the chance to take home bragging rights. those are slightly modified, though. i feel like they ve added power to those. it s awesome. it s the kind of thing you might see at a state fair. state and county fairs are happening all across the country. we don t have to travel. our own fox & friends fair is right here on the plaza this morning. here to tell us more, brooks grady and doug wahl. thanks for bringing the fair to us. our pleasure. it s our fourth year with you guys. we operate all over the east coast, from maine to florida. we work for corporations, colleges, schools, churches. we did 26 events at the white house. we deliver, set up and operate for colleges, schools, churches and military. you said you do this you did this at mar-a-lago. what is the president s favorite? the tea cups are brand-new here today, the first time. we are debuting it. you re debuting it. we have large inflatables, obstacle courses, we were in the ballroom at mar-a-lago. it was a fundraiser for children s diabetes that they put on. was there a favorite event? there were a lot of favorites. what do people love about these fairs? why do people want to set these up? for family events, for get-togethers with friends. can i get on a ride? yeah, sure. >.pick your ride. we actually delivered to your venue, so we re not a fair or traveling carnival. we re actually contracted to come out to you and deliver, set up and operate with our staff. tell us what we have here. we ve got the tea cup ride. we have pete over here in this car. a little inflatable obstacle course, a fun park for children. good for all ages? yes, good for all ages. good for adults, teenagers, good for kids. 3 years old like mine who i hope are watching right now, got up early, and all the way up to college kids, adults. look at rick over there. he s going to be so dizzy after this. why the tea cups? it s a brand-new piece. we were putting it together literally two days ago and the manufacturer is here with us too. i don t see him right now. is he on the tea cup? we re waiting for the car to move. pete said his favorite ride is the pirate ship road, the one that goes back and pirate ship ride, the one that goes back and forth. how does that popcorn feel? it feels great. i didn t know it spun. i m really regretting this now. the spinning part is a surprise. i thought it was going to go like this. we keep you on 24/7 in my office. thank you. if you re not out on rides or right. i don t do them like i used to. i let the young guys do it. we have about 120 employees. business is good right now? oh, yeah, we re having a great year. we ll have you here all morning long. thank you for bringing it to the plaza. turning now to some of the headlines that we re following this morning, on a very serious note, seven people are now dead in the raging california wildfires. the latest victim was a power company lineman killed by the carr fire north of sacramento. governor jerry brown is asking the president for a disaster declaration, it would give california money and resource as 17 large fires burn throughout the state. now to some more extreme weather, tornadoes touched down in new england as powerful storms move up the east coast. in mass you chew sets massachusetts, one woman is hurt and dozens of buildings are damaged from a twister with 110-mile-an-hour winds. another tornado toppled trees in connecticut. in pennsylvania, roads are washed out by heavy rain. several people had to be rescued. luckily, no one was hurt. and there s this, you do not expect to see this fake news t-shirt at the museum gift shot. it was pulled from store shelves following intense crits civi inm online. the museum is apologizing, saying they made a mistake. they will continue to carry some trump related merchandise, including the make america great again hats. russia turns to an american action star in hopes of strej strengthening humanitarian ties. russia wanting steven seagal as a special envoy to the u.s. they said it will help promote cultural, public and youth relations. seagal is a friend of vladimir putin and was granted russian citizenship in 2016. those are some of your headlines. back out here to the fair and, rick, it s beautiful this morning. i don t know how it is in the rest of the country. it is beautiful. get ready for a heat wave across parts of the east. we had all of the wet weather. now we have a heat wave that is about to come on in. take a look at the weather maps. we ll show you what s going to go on, starting off across areas of the northeast today, put the map in motion. you can see for the most part it s a lot drier than we were yesterday. a few scattered showers will move through parts of the ohio ovally ohio valley. there will be pop-up storms, nothing to wash your day out. northern plains, we had showers this morning moving across parts of minnesota. we ll have a new line of storms that builds later on this afternoon, cutting across parts of south dakota, no bras nebras, minnesota later on in the evening. in the west it s hot, dry and windy. big fire threat today north of l.a., as well as up across northern utah. send it over somewhere. i don t know where we re going from here. over to the tea cups. we re just tea-cupping it. coming up on the show, we have mike huckabee, anthony scaramucci and maria bartiromo. maybe we ll get one of them to ride the tea cups with us. we ll see. you re turning onto the street when you barely clip a passing car. minor accident - no big deal, right? 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being jewish and disabled. that was their crime. i.c.e. is deporting people for committing a crime, being here illegally and they re going after people that have committed more serious crimes and simply deporting them. the day that i.c.e. starts wantoning murdering random people, maybe i ll is this a winning message for democrats? some in the party feel like this is what they re going to take to the midterms and to 2020, this is what will drive team to come out to the l polls, abolishing i.c.e., we need less security at the border, is that a better message? i cannot recommend a better message for the democrats, it s a horrendous message. trump will talk about how the democrats want more crime. i don t understand why people can t see it from the perspective of hispanics in more hispanic communities. i.c.e., there s they re the good guys. you re a hispanic living in a hispanic community, ms-13 moves in, i.c.e. is here to protect you. they break up child sex tasking rings. this is what i.c.e. does. you re in the ground zero of the resistance, the resistance against trump administration but you are pushing back on joining the administration with the fight against sanctuary city laws. is it your sense that as goes california will go the rest of the country? we have strong leadership in southern california against what s going on because we re on the border. the rest of california, led by jerry brown and gavin newsome, they re out of control with sanctuary city stuff. hopefully we continue to push back and the american people are speaking loud and clear. this is a winning message from the president. this is the number one issue for voters, number one. we still have people in california talking about global warming which doesn t poll at all. in california, are you allowed to use a straw? we re not allowed. last time i was here, i brought a crazy straw. you have to bring your own. you have it in your pocket? everywhere i go. it s good to have you on the couch. awesome to be here. when you see this production in los angeles with the nazis being portrayed by i.c.e. agents, is that shock value or is this really how the people in california think? there s a great quote from t.s. elliott, talking about how liberals value cleverness over wisdom. there s no wisdom in this play. there s not even clevers in to it. it s a lazy cleverness to it. it s a lazy analogy to begin with. first time t.s. elliott has been quoted on our show. it s the power of the curvey couch. you can stay the rest of the show if you want. a new york times writer says he s heart-broken because he says there are kids at president trump s rallies. mike huckabee is here to react to that, next hour. eric swellwell threatening republicans over trump. we re going to have more years of this wrecking ball. it s time for us to push that big red button that will make it stop. anthony scaramucci here to react to that and much more, next hour. it looks like emily cooking dinner for ten. the beat goes on. it looks like jonathan on a date with his wife. la-di-la-di. entresto is a heart failure medicine that helps your heart. so you can keep on doing what you love. in the largest heart failure study ever, entresto was proven superior at helping people stay alive and out of the hospital. it helps improve your heart s ability to pump blood to the body. don t take entresto if pregnant; it can cause harm or death to an unborn baby. don t take entresto with an ace inhibitor or aliskiren, or if you ve had angioedema with an ace or arb. the most serious side effects are angioedema, low blood pressure, kidney problems, or high blood potassium. ask your doctor about entresto for heart failure. yeah! entrust your heart to entresto. the beat goes on. testimontemplatefrom the craft . it uses post-its that are color coded. in my book, the mom makes a similar calendar. it s very important for small kids that can t understand the passage of time yet. this makes it fun and colorful. you can put it in the kitchen. where s the best place? we got a physical calendar and it s so true, there s something that s so different to have it in the kitchen. perfect place for it. that s a great idea. what do we have next? flex, we have a mow next, we have a mobile homework station. there s a caddie with plastic cups to hold the school supplies your child needs to do homework. they can carry it around and work wherever they need to in the home. versus running around and saying where s the glue sticks. exactly. if your house is like mine, your kids may be working together at the same tabl. table. you can make them a privacy screen, justin justing just d screen. your child with decorate it. it gives them a personal space to work and keep them focused. all right, backpacks. yes, backpacks. it s when the bus is waiting that your kid can t find the backpack. you can use a regular storage bin and turn it into a backpack bin. put a little name tag on the front that your child can decorate. it s like what they have in the classroom. this is a hack from the teachers, bring it home. you can put this by the front door. the backpack goes in the bin, there it is. what you put in the backpack is often school forms. school forms and books and things that go back in the backpack that you can put in there as well. the class pet. show and tell, permission slips. fundraisers. use the clear plastic folders, you can color code them, label them with your child s name and leave them on the kitchen counter. because they re clear, it keeps all of these action items top of mind so you can stay organized, go through it once or twice a week. finally, what do we have here? 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[cheers and applause] the president was out there campaigning in ohio getting people motivated to get out and vote. donald trump stands for optimism, excitement, success, and the democrats are for a scorched earth. i don t think middle america s buying it. new bombshells about the fbi s relationship with the controversial author of the anti-trump, the dirty dossier. they document the shady cash-based relationship between the comey fbi and christopher steele. it s really disturbing news. trevor noah is now, basically, saying socialism? well, that s all in just republicans minds. many republicans will say they hate socialism, but really they hate labels. it s all in your mind. why are you here today? i wanted to see trump for my first time. what are you hoping to see? i want to see that he is the president of america. we will make america great again. abby: oh, yeah. that you will only see on fox & friends. we brought our own carnival to fox & friends plaza, the first time we ve ever done the teacup ride. pete: yeah. abby: how was it? pete: as you all know, you get older, and spinning, no bueno. griff: no. [laughter] those teacups are for real! it s fun for like a minute. abby: do you know how hard it was to read headlines with all that going on in the background? i don t recommend it. that s true, that is a perfect example of what this show does. we cover it all at the same time, and we have fun while we do it. pete: there is a reason why we do it. it s august which means there s state fairs and county fairs, and we asked you what do you eat at the fair. what are yours? abby: bratwurst and cream puffs. great one. griff: angie e-mails, turkey leg. pete: and this picture from katie of her favorite fair snack be, fried cookie dough. abby: ooh. pete: at the strawberry festival in plant city. abby: that is we were talking earlier about our favorite fried food. cookie dough, i haven t heard of that. we should get that on the show. keep sending us your thoughts, friends@foxnews.com. the first real fair i ever went to was with governor mike huckabee. we want to bring him in now pete: i think he remembers this. abby: i don t know if you remember this, but you were in charge of the governors association, and it was the first time i met you and your family. i believe it was in arkansas, and you hosted a mini state fair, do you remember this? yes, i do, abby. [laughter] and i remember that your dad and i in iowa played with r exo speedwagon, because your dad is an amazing keyboard mare, and i m a mediocre bass player. i remember, the best state food fair is pork chop on a stick at the iowa state fair. normally you go to these things and you just take a bite for the cameras and you kind of pass it on, and that s it, one bite. i took one bite of that, it was so good, and they started to take it away there me. i say touch me and i kill you. [laughter] it was that good. griff: it is really good. i can attest to that. the governor is telling the truth. and people line up just to get that iowa state fair pork chop. it is a serious thing. abby: and people also line up, governor, for these big rallies that we are seeing the president do. he is really getting the gear, getting us all in gear for the midterms. he was in tampa earlier, in pennsylvania, last night in ohio, and he really a takes the time, governor, to remind his base why they voted for him, why he is the person that is fighting for the things that they care most about, and that is this country. he also talked about predicting a red wave. he said we hear so much about a blue wave coming, and this is why i think we re going to see a red wave. here s a bit of what he said last night. oh, i guess we don t have that. but you were watching, we were all watching it, governor. what were the highlights for you? you know, i think what donald trump is doing and he s doing it so effectively is reminding people that if you want to give up your crumbs, your bonuses, your pay increases, if you want to go back to an economy that no longer is chugging along with 4.1% gdp growth and go back to an anemic, just struggling economy, vote for the democrats. if you want a government that moves us more towards socialism, more toward the idea of you working hard and giving it to somebody who didn t work as hard as you do, vote for the democrats. because that s what we re looking at. if you want a nation and a world that s not as safe, that hates cops, that wants to surrender and bow down to foreign leaders, vote for the democrats. and i don t know of anything that the president could do more effectively than what he s doiing and that s going out there. and it drives the media people nuts, it drives the elitists living in the bubbles of new york, hollywood and d.c. nuts. but it s rallying the people and reminding them why he won overwhelmingly in november of 2016. griff: and, governor, the president s out there rally aring for, also, troy balderson, do you feel like he s going to have an impact there? i i think he has an impact everywhere he puppets his endorsement he puts his endorsement because it calls attention. it doesn t mean it automatically causes people to vote for somebody, but maybe a person that just wasn t on the radar of a lot of voters, suddenly they say if donald trump is for this person, maybe i should be too. and we ve seen the influence in key races. martha roby in alabama comes to mind, there are some other races where i think he s played a significant role in boosting the candidate and giving them the push over the finish line. pete: absolutely. well, one of the things the president spoke about last night was the fake news media, and part of the reason he talks about it is they fail to tell the whole story, or they tell one side of the story and pretend it s unbiased. one example of that is the new york times, which the president calls the failing new york times. there was an op-ed that caught our eye, it talked about the children at trump rallies. it said what is it like to see young people exposed to so much anger? heartbreaking, says a times photographer. so these positing that these kids at the rally that go with their parents, they re being they re in a bad spot. you ve had kids go to plenty of rallies. what does it do how does it affect kids? donald trump rallies are incredibly patriotic, they re uplift aring. have you ever been to an arkansas/lsu game? you want to see some tension, something you might want to keep your kids away from, that ought to do it. why don t we take our kids to something more calm like a maxine waters speech. that ought to be something that puts you in a soothing mood. i mean, good hens. the new york times good heavens, the new york time the is embarrassing itself. they just hired a cop-hating person to be on their editorial board, and they even have the audacity to defend it. for them to come out and try to say anything negative about the tone of donald trump is absolutely laughable. they are making a joke of themselves, and i didn t think they could do a better job of doing that than they already have done. abby: governor, the battle between the president and media, it seems to only get hotter and hotter. he slams them every time. he points back because he knows they re standing right there, and they can t respond, obviously, but he continues to call them the enemy of the people, disgusting, calls them out by name. do you think this is helpful in the long run, or is he making them the story? well, they should never be the story. i mean, personally, i would prefer that he spends more time ignoring them because i don t think they matter that much to the average american voter. and i think he s got to distinguish the fact that not all the press are the enemy of the people. a free, responsible press is the best thing we have in a democracy. of it s critical to our survival. but the other side of that coin, the press needs to act with some level of responsibility. and when you have showboaters like the guy on cnn who enjoys becoming the story, let me tell you something, whenever a journalist becomes part of the story, it s no longer a news story. now it is an editorial story. because the best journalists are the ones who simply dui you the give you the facts, and they really are not part of the story at all, their views, their opinions, their biases are subjugated to the facts themselves and let the reader or the viewer make the decision. that s not happening very much anywhere in journalism today. and that kind of journalism is the enemy of real freedom and liberty and for people to think for themselves. pete: yeah. and that s what he s pointing out. it s been a double standard for a long time, and i m able to expose it to you. another hallmark of the left has been the use of identity politics and the use of race and gender and sexual orientation as the way of classifying someone. well, kamala harris, we all know is on the 2020 list, senator from california. she took that head on, and we want you to react. listen. that phrase, identity politics. that phrase is used to divide, and it is used to distract. it is used to try and shut us up. these issues that they re trying to diminish and demean are the very issues that will define our identity as americans. pete: so those issues are what define our identity as americans. in kamala harris world, in the world of most of the leftist democrats, we have the clearest example of the difference between a conservative and a liberal, and here it is: conservatives believe that our basic form as a nation is built around individual liberty, that i m personally free and i m personally responsible for my freedom. liberals believe that my freedom is tied to whatever group i m in, whether it s my gender, whether it s my race, whether it s my socioeconomic standard, and that i ve got to stay in my group. if my whole group doesn t advance, i can t advance because it s about the group, not the individual. if you want to know the difference between the left and the right, there it is. do you believe in individual liberty, individual responsibility, or do you believe that we re part of group think. and if you think that it s all about the groups and you stay in your corral and don t leave until the whole herd of sheep go out, well, first of all, you re a liberal. secondly, i hope you like where your herd is, because you re not getting out. i m grateful to live in a country that let me get out of some of the corrals that i was put in as a child, you know, in term the of poverty, in terms of never thinking i d go 50 miles from my home. i grew up believing that in america you can do anything, be anything if you are willing to work hard, get an education and not go around calling yourself a victim. thank god i live in america, and i ll be grateful every day for the extraordinary privilege of being individually free. abby: that is very well said, governor. griff: thank you, governor, because now i m hungry for that pork chop on a stick. abby: governor, i m having flashbacks to the fair we went to with reo speedwagon. i was a back-up singer singing go, johnny go. do you remember that? i wish we had video to prove it. tom vilsack playing the spoons, governor of iowa and a great friend of ours. he was the host governor, so they got him up on the stage, and he didn t play an instrument, but he played the spoons. i felt bad for him because the des moines paper excoriated him for saying he had huckabee on bass, huntsman on keyboard and our governor playing the spoon spoons. abby: governor, great to have you on this morning. have a great sunday. great to be with you guys. abby: all right. a lot going on this morning. other headlines we re following starting with a fox news alert. president nicolas maduro is now blaming far-right groups for what he says was an assassination attempt. [speaking spanish] abby: the government saying that explosion was an a attempted drone attack the, but some firefighters say it was a gas explosion at a nearby apartment. seven people are now hurt. maduro blames the attack on venezuelans who live in florida. he wants president trump now to step in. and there s this, two children are among the dead after a small plane crashes into an open field. the oklahoma highway patrol says that the aircraft had a pilot and four passengers onboard when it went down shortly after takeoff. no one survived. local media reporting that the victims include three adults and two children. the cause of that crash, it is still under investigation. pete: that s sad. all right. well, the war against confederate monuments once again ramping up. this time a statue of robert e. lee. griff: and president trump praising the booming economy but warning it could be in trouble if democratic socialists have their way. stuart varney is a refugee of socialism. he s here to explain why capitalism will always win. [laughter] abby: come on in, institute. come on in, stuart. [burke] at farmers, we ve seen almost everything our economy is soaring, and we re creating opportunity for everyone. if the democrats get in, they re going to raise your taxes, they will destroy so many things that we ve given. pete: that was president trump last night in ohio touting the state of the economy but warning it could be in jeopardy if democrats have their way, especially with democratic socialist bernie sanders and the socialist from the bronx pushing their style of socialism on the left. our next guest is a refugee from socialism and is here to the explain why capitalism will always win. stuart varney is the host of varney & company on the fox business network. doesn t surprise me you would go all in for capitalism winning. well, look, it s winning now. pete: yeah. it s very hard to argue against 4% growth, 3.9% unemployment, 155 million people have a job. now, that s a remarkable performance in such a short time of this presidency. i think we re in at a crossroads. here we re on the left the on one side you ve got trump s version of capitalism and the economy, which is growth. are we going to stay on the growth path, or are we going to the other side of the fence which is, essentially, socialism? social isism now dominates the democrat party. there are calls across the board within the democrats for free college, free community college pete: yep. government-run health care as in medicare for all, and which is really intriguing is guaranteed minimum income for everybody. you know, there s a technical word for pete: universal basic income. thanks very much, indeed. $1,000 a month or whatever it is to everybody, just here you go. that s the choice. it s a very stark choice. pete: it sounds so good, stuart. socialism sounds great especially if you don t understand the effects. why doesn t it work? i walked away from it. i left england in the 1970s. in the 1970s england had a socialist economy. would you believe that the government ran the coal industry, the steel industry, the railroads, car manufacturing, all the airlines, power supply. they just ran industry. government owned it and ran it and ran it into the ground. when i left, there were strikes, power outages, inflation, chaos economically. it was the result of socialism. so to me, be we re at a crossroads now which with trump s growth agenda and socialism, it s an absolute no-brainer. pete: so this is a pretty important time to educate, because our colleges and universities haven t done that well. they re not teaching free market economics the way they should, so young people, even average voters, they need to be reminded the power of capitalism. yes. but they re also being, their votes, i think, are being bought. if you re a youngster, it would sound very promising, wouldn t it, to be given a monthly income, to be given forget your student debt, we ll forget about that. pete: it s gone, yeah. to be given health care, to be supposedly given community college for free. that s buying votes. and it is attractive to some people. but the other side of the coin is the vigor and dynamism of american capitalism. scope, opportunity, dynamism, prosperity. pete: great jobs, the ability to earn more, do more, and the sky is actually the limit. there s nowhere else i could have gone to do what i ve managed to do in america because we believe in individual liberty and freedom and capitalism. pete: and you do it well. stuart varney, thank you. hundreds of homeowners sent into foreclosure, but it may have been a mistake. we ll explain. plus, police officers jumping into action to save a baby choking on a chicken nugget. those hero officers reuniting with that girl there they are and her mom. right here on fox live. i m a migraine sufferer and i m an emt. when i get a migraine at work, it s debilitating. if i call out with a migraine, that s one less ambulance to serve a community. i just don t want to let these people down. excedrin migraine. relief that works as hard as you do. oscar mayer deli fresh ham has no added nitrates, nitrites or artificial preservatives. now deli fresh flavor is for everyone. like those who like. sweet. those who prefer heat. and those who just love meat. oscar mayer deli fresh. a fresh way to deli. i m goin up the country, baby don t you wanna go? 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police officers jumping into action to help. the officers who anna now calls her angels performed the heimlich maneuver, saving that baby s life. griff: and they all join us now, anna graham with baby lucia, crying. glad to be up early. [laughter] she s doing fine, and palm beach gardens officers robert ayala and rafael guadalupe pay. thank you for being here. this is truly a mother s worst nightmare. anna, tell us what happened. so we were at the mall at a a kids event, and we just went to have lunch, my kids favorite is chick-fil-a. they had the grilled chicken. and i was cutting it up, and on the second bite i just noticed that her eyes got wide open, and she opened her mouth, but she wasn t coughing, and i just knew that something wasn t right. and so i unbuckled her, i take a look at her again, and she s still not coughing, so i took her out. all i could remember was my pediatrician teaching me what i was supposed to do. so i flipped her upside down and hit her as hard as i could on her back and, obviously, i panicked and i started calling for help. thankfully, the officers just came right away and took control of everything and saved her really. that s what they did. abby: first of all, lucia is absolutely adorableing but the three of you look like best friends now. to think you didn t know each other. maybe for the rest of her life she ll always have them in her life in some way. officer ayala, tell us your side of it. you weren t even supposed to be in the food court at this time, right? it was just it all happened. officer guadalupe came for lunch, i was there all day. you were tired a little bit, so i went and started talking to him while he was eating, making sure he didn t choke. [laughter] so, you know, it was just being at the right time at the right place, you know? i saw her, i saw anna get up, and when she turned around, i saw lucia in her arms. i knew she was choking, so i got up, told officer guadalupe, hey, i think she s choking. all the training kicked in. i didn t say nothing to anna, i just went and grabbed her and looked at her quick. one thing i knew, whatever was in her mouth was coming out. griff: wow. officer guadalupe, i think you have a new best friend there. tell us what that day was like for you. well, i just went to the mall to try to relax and have a little bit of lunch and sitting there with the officer eye ayal. he says to me, i think that a girl is that that girl choking? and as i m turning around to look, he s already walking that way. i immediately follow him. i got on my news and looked down, and as soon as i saw lucia s face, i knew she was in some kind of distress. so my first thing was to get rescue already enroute to the mall just in case it got out of hand or it got worse. i just wanted more professional, more advanced medical help on the way. so immediately i got on the radio, and i asked for rescue at the food court at the mall. abby: anna, you call these men that you re sitting next to, you say that they are your angels. they saved your daughter s life. i mean, this is every mom s nightmare. i ve got a daughter just will a little younger than her, and she s just starting to eat solids, and it gets through my mind every time she eats. i can t imagine the emotion you go through. tell us and these men what they mean to you. you know, i, i ve always said that you meet people in this journey of parenthood, and you said it in the beginning, they re like family, like we re best friends. i really feel like they re going to be in our lives forever. they saved our daughter, and they re our angels truly. i mean, there s not enough words to say. thank you for what they did for us and our family. griff: well, anna, thank you for coming on. and officers ayala, guadalupe, thank you for your service, doing exactly what law enforcement should and do in this country. it s a remarkable story. i applaud you to the highest degree. thank you. thank you, sir. a. ann: lucia s got some great uncles, i feel, the rest of her life that will be protecting her and watching her. it s an incredible story, we re just so grateful she s doing well. thank you guys for being with us. thank you. thank you. griff: all right. abby: it s a great story. moving on to this one though, a giant herd of goats causing chaos in one neighborhood. the owners asked for help to name the newest member of that herd, and your e-mails are pouring in on this. we ll read them coming up. griff: i ve already named it abby, but we ll see what we go. plus, when did voters think of president trump s rally last night? having breakfast with friends in ohio. hey, todd. reporter: hey, griff, hey, abby. no goats here, but we re going to have some amazing opinions coming up at the end of this race, including on the media from the one person at this table who used to be in the media. you don t want to miss what she used to do when fox & friends returns. keep it comin love. if you keep on eating, we ll keep it comin . all you can eat riblets and tenders at applebee s. now that s eatin good in the neighborhood. reporter: i am here. hi there, pete. what s so interesting about columbus, ohio, right now is there are two main issues that even s talking about. one, obviously, the urban meyer situation there at the ohio state university. but, two, this special election between troy balderson and danny o connor. it s the reason the president came here, so we re asking the voters about it. we re going to begin with emmett. thank you, sir, for your service. actually played in a military band which is really cool. you re voting for troy balderson because you say he supports the president s agenda specifically on immigration. you say we need a wall. why? well, because we have too many illegal immigrants. i m not against people coming to this country. my ancestors, about three generations back, came from ireland. but we came, we tried to be a benefit to the country and fit in rather than make the country into what we left. so i think that we need to, you know, be in control of who comes into our country. of. reporter: you say the president s getting stabbed in the back by the media. why do you say that? because i can read and i watch tv news, and that s just the way it is. everything that he tries to do, it seems to me, they re twisting around and making it look like something that it s not. reporter: emmett, thank you for your time. really do the appreciate it. barbara, good to see you. barbara is voting for troy balderson, and she was a background actor including on the west with wing. knows a little something about the presidency. you were in the media, but you say the media treats the president terribly. why do you say that? oh, they re so unfair. they don t give the poor man a chance. if this was obama, they would be all over him. but i am so glad at this point that our president is calling the media out. it s about time. reporter: okay. barbara, thank you very much. you re welcome. reporter: now we re going to go to steve, steve runs an hvac company, as the president said multiple times last night, it was really hot in that rally. you re voting for troy balderson because you say you need somebody that supports the president s economic agenda which you love. why do you love it? i love it because he s getting rid of a lot of goofy regulations that we don t need. reporter: okay. and you said the tax cuts have really helped you and the people that are involved with your business. what do you mean by that? the people that are involved with my business, my son working for me and the people that i buy equipment from and the customers that i deal with. the tax breaks have helped us all. reporter: would you say your bottom line is better now under the trump administration than it was during the obama administration? absolutely. there s no doubt. i ve got the books to show it. reporter: all right. steve, thank you very much. going to send it on back to new york. next time you re watching west wing reruns, look for barbara. [laughter] pete: you have found some good ones. abby: one of my favorite shows of all time. thank you, todd. pete: we re going to check with him again later on next hour. abby: there s a lot going on, some of those headlines starting with a fox news alert and brand new video coming in showing the aftermath of a taliban attack on nato soldiers. a suicide bomber killed three service members from the czech republic, an american soldier and two afghan troops were also hurt. their conditions and identities are still unknown. the terrorist attacking the soldiers as they patrolled outside an american air base in afghanistan. and there s this, wild protests shut down the streets of portland. police in riot gear forced to fire tear gas and flash grenades into the crowd. [background sounds] abby: the chaos unfolding after antithat protesters interrupted a peaceful rally held by patriot prayer. and never [inaudible] go home, nazis! abby: that is the right-wing group, to be clear there. demonstrators seen throwing rocks and bottles at officers. at least four people were arrested. well, police are on the lookout for vandals who spray painted a confederate monument. the robert e. lee statue left covered in red paint. richmond is currently debating what to do with confederate monuments in that city. and dozens of goats, they break loose at a suburban iowa neighborhood, 118 of them eating everything in sight after walking off the job. they were eventually rounded up by their owners who rent the animals to help clear weeds. earlier on the show they explained how the goats got free. they were standing up on their back feet leaning up against a wood fence, and they knocked some boards off. you saw the hours of video, the goats having a heyday, a buffet in someone s yard. abby: and the owners also introduce canned us to just a week-old goat. pete: so we asked you for name suggestions. many of you suggested this one, foxy. of course. i like that. griff: l are es tweeted us: miss chief. pete: and marie writes: sugar, she is so sweet. abby: and john writes goaty mcgoat face. i m not sure which one i like the best. take a poll. griff: there are goat names. friends as fox news friends@fox news. abby: what do you think, rick? rick: pedro. it is a girl goat. oh, it s a a girl goat. i missed that part. pete: i forgot that detail as well. all right, rick. rick: hey, there s a hurricane that is going to be going very close to hawaii this week. take a look at the maps, let me show you what s going on. it s hector, it s a category three hurricane. likely going to move just south of the big island but maybe tuesday into wednesday we ll watch for big swells there and some rain. i don t think we re looking at a direct hit, fortunately, from that. temps as you re waking up this morning, it is hot and humid across the eastern seaboard, and get ready, it s drying out a lott which is great news thiess for a few days at least for a few days. we ll have some scattered showers because of the heat and humidity, the rain rumoring across the tennessee valley by tuesday or so. overall, starting out clear, and we ll continue to see rain showers form across parts of the far northern plains, some of them severe later on into today. all right. hey, what s going on? what are you doing? she s just wandering in. [laughter] i m sorry, you want to play this game. you re going to get in here. you need to play this game. [laughter] all right, guys. abby: reduction, you are just rick, you are just a natural with children. of. pete: she clearly loves you. griff: thanks, rick. abby: that poor girl s frightened for life. griff: congressman eric swalwell calling president trump a wrecking ball. we re going to have two more years of this wrecking ball, and it s time for all of us to put our hands together and push that big red button that will make it stop. pete: plus, you ve seen him on man v. food. casey webb is here to show us how to recreate your favorite fair food, just ahead. abby: doughnut burgers. pete: oh, my goodness. this is gonna be hot. motorcycle revving motorcycle revving motorcycle revving no matter who rides point, there are over 10,000 allstate agents riding sweep. and just like tyrone taylor, they know what it takes to help keep you protected. are you in good hands? pete: welcome back. well, a democratic congressman has a dire warning to republicans ahead of the november midterms. what is the president doing to the rule of law and to our democracy, and who is willing to stand up to him as he is a wrecking ball? and i think the republicans are going to pay a price this november. i hope many january when it s a democratic majority, they realize it s time to do the right thing, because we re going to have two more years of this wrecking ball, and it s time for all of us to put our hands together and just push that big red button that will make it stop. abby: here to react, anthony scaramucci. always good to see you, anthony. hey, good morning, guys. i actually think he is a wrecking ball, but i just think he s wrecking something that he doesn t fully understand, okay? he s knocking himself into the democratic party, and he s taking them out like they re little bowling pins. and and so the weird thing about what he s saying is he s not following the president s strategy. and if you just look at what he was doing last night as an example, the president is embracing working class people. and what the president would probably call non-elites, although he would say they re more elitish in terms of being special than the, quote-unquote, elites. i find this stuff interesting because it s a really bad strategy in terms of going after president trump and his long-term agenda. so i do agree with him, he s a wrecking ball, and he s wrecking the democratic party. and he s actually pushing the democratic party so far to the left, guys, that they re probably going to extinguish their chance to win what could be some winnable districts in 2018. it ll be very interesting to see what happens. pete: part of the premise of his statement which you hear democrats say all the time in the media, look, he s tearing down our democracy and the rule of law. what is he tearing down that s got them so spun out? well, i think it s his rhetoric. i think they don t like his aggressive rhetoric. i think they don t like his combative style when they re criticizing him, they don t like the fact that he s criticizing them back. it s his decorum. i think, you know, when you re with the president, what you recognize about him is that he looks at things that are not right whether they re overregulation or bad legislation are, and he has that builders anxiety of, okay, i ve got to get this back on track, back on schedule, i ve got to get it under budget. and so, you know, he s a riled-up guy. but look at his life. look at all the things that he s been able to do in his life from being a television star, building developer, business executive, brand exemplar. and in 17 short months from his declaration of the presidency, he s now in the presidency. and he s working. he s 72 years old. he s on the campaign trail last night in 110-degree weather. and i don t know, i don t know that congressman that well, but i don t think he could hold that crowd for an hour in the spellbinding way that the president did. it ll be interesting to see what happens over the next four months. griff: exactly. last night the president said he predicts a red wave. what do you see? well, listen, it s definitely not a blue wave, you know? i want to try to be balanced. i ve looked through the different districts. i think the republicans can actually still keep the house. but the president is correct, he s going to have to get out there. i think he s talking about campaigning five to seven times a week. that s an aggressive schedule for him given all the other things that he needs to do. but it s definitely not a blue wave, guys. could we keep the house? i m a republican, i do believe that that s possible. if we keep the house, boy, that will be a monumental thing against history if you look at trends over 120 years of first-term presidents. and so he s defied the odds before. you can t really see a blue wave. now, what you have to always worry about and just trying to be balanced is voter participation on the republican side. the president said it last night, sometimes people get very complacent because they ve won the presidency, and they don t turn out at the mid temples. and so midterms. so the republicans need to do a good job of energizing people beyond just the president s base. abby: well, those democrats will have that big red button ready for whatever happens. always good to have you with us. pete: thanks, anthony. great to be here, guys. happy sunday. pete: nba star lebron james making headlines for criticizing the president. what i ve noticed over the last few months, that he s kind of used sport to kind of divide us. and that s something that i can t relate to because pete: and president trump is firing back. does the president have a point? we will debate it next hour. abby: plus, we ve all seen him on man v. food, now casey webb is here to show us how to recreate your favorite food from the fair. he would give you a run for your money. pete: he would demolish me. buffalo style chicken in a pouch bold choice, charlie! just tear, eat. mmmmm. and go! try all of my chicken creations! chicken! classics myself. so what we have in front of us, we have our grilled doughnut burger. this is with a tea glaze. we also have, this is our candied bacon-wrapped hot dog abby: hey, that s you on a stick. griff: that s so good. you re enjoying it, right? and this is my take on boardwalk fries with a twisted tea cheese. and lastly we have a caramel tea-infused popcorn. abby: so this is, like, the new trend, this glazed doughnut burger. totally. abby: how do you make it? quickly, you cook your burger to perfection, the way you want it, right? add your little tomato, lettuce, onion. put your doughnut on top, and then you add your glaze. griff: and, casey, we re watching your show, you would have to eat, like, all six of these in, like, 45 seconds. typically, that would be my job. this is for you. pete: oh, my goodness. abby: get a close-up. griff: i always just want to take a picture of this process. i ll put down my phone. well, this, this is twisted tea. this is a candy-glazed hot dog, by far my favorite. not so crazy hot dog. abby: oh, my gosh! griff: look at that. so, casey webb, thank you so much for being here. man v. food on the travel channel. he s crazy! stay with us. abby: the burgers are coming. griff: we ve is still got david bossie, maria bartiromo, plus, neighbors calling cops on this girl for selling cookies. her story coming up. abby: who wants a hot dog? 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they are not. you are the elite. the president was out there campaigning in ohio. getting people motivated to get out and vote. donald trump stands for optimism, excitement, success. there was an op ed they talked about the children at trump rallies. this is what is it like to see young people exposed to so much anger? when we take our kids to something more, like a maxine waters speech? good heavens the new york times is embarrassing itself. more americans are now employed in ever recorded before. it is very hard to argue against four percent growth, 3.9 percent unemployment. it is a remarkable performance. residence in boise idaho waking up to a shocking scene, hundred and 18 goats swarming their suburban yards. they escape to a nine inch wide hole. [music] there it is! it is the fox & friends county fair. it is not the swamp. it is midtown manhattan county fair. it is like a piece of middle america. because if you go to a fair, that is where you have the rides, you have family, it s good reminder of what everything is about. doughnut burgers, peacocks, what else could you want? it is a gorgeous sunday morning. i wish everyone could be here to enjoy this with us and eat the food, go on the rides. the connection bring this to your hometown or your yard. we will have more on that. fantasy world entertainment. we will talk about it where you are. or just set up your county fair. it s a lot of fun! we asked you earlier what was your favorite food i said cheese kurds. wisconsin does them better i don t know about that. fried scorpions. one person says their favorite thing is deep-fried pecan pie. anything deep-fried! and my favorite fair fruit is the corndog. have you seen the fry on the corndog it s like this thick! it is really good. and dance is my favorite fair food is deep-fried reese s peanut butter cups. is like a fried snickers. that is some good stuff! you can fry a milky way auto, skittles? you can fry up anything. people wait in line to go to these carnal goals and fairs because it s worth it but you also in line for these trump rallies. he has his third one earlier in tampa than he was in ohio getting support for the midterms. there is a special election in ohio. then on tuesday it will be an important election but he also uses the time as we know to talk about the issues he is passionate about. fighting for the people.he says i m the one speaking for you. i m fighting for the country, fighting for the economy. he is a bit of a recap of last night. our economy is soaring. and we are creating opportunities for everyone. more americans are now employed than ever recorded before in our nations history. the new platform of the democrat party is to abolish i.c.e. and let s not worry about crime. we want our country to be for law-abiding americans not criminal aliens. we are building the wall. we are building the wall, don t worry. they are so pathetic, catch and release. visa lottery. lottery. let s kick someone out let s see who that might be. oh, here he is! he is convicted of five murders. let s let him run to the country. what we are doing is crazy. they talk about the elite, the elite. do you ever see the elite? they are not the elite. you are the elite! you are the elite. they are more elite than me, i have better everything than they have. including this. [applause] and i became president and they didn t. meaning even though it is 110 degrees in this crazy room if you can take it, i can take it! so much my brand-new beautiful suit. we are feeling a little bit like that this morning to it is warm out here. we can t complain it was so much hotter in that arena everyone looks miserable. we don t have to speak for an hour or more with just off the top of your cuff. the point there though in that montage, i pointed out before, the line of the night. i would argue, is you are the elite.he did that in 2016. he put this swath of americans in the driver seat. he told them what they should do, how they should live their lives and he reminds them, you are the elite.just ahead of the midterm elections. he also says i became president, they didn t. which means you became president. i think that is the premise of all of the resistance he got. it was supposed to be hillary clinton, it was supposed to be a member of the club. even on the republican side. the 17 running it was supposed to one of those groomed in politics. the businessman crushes on the screen and people relate to him. and they have frustration. and he says that any tweets and he fights. they love that he fights and the energy will be needed in this midterm. 2020. he is already thinking well ahead. he is but if they lose the house there is an impeachment hearing the next two years at the very least. and he knows that. so we have to put his name on the ballot, you will see more of these rallies. you also see a lot of kids, the parents bring the young kids. they teach them about politics. i grew up in politics per the new york times has their own take on kids going to trump rallies for the headlines read the children at trump rallies. they say it has been a long journey covering the campaign and i remember being exhausted by the anger i experienced in the final weeks. i remember being heartbroken that children were exposed to this anger. they were learning for me and participating in it. that was from a photographer, i believe.a court that a photographer had been to a number of the trump rallies and what he saw from his perspective. i like what governor huckabee said. go to a major sporting event and see if you hear adults being a little bit to adult. in this case, you re taking the kids to go see the president. you get to be in the middle of history. you can stay home and say hey, in our house we might talk a little differently and do things different, that s fine is called parenting. but when you go to a rally in these elites that the president i can t understand that. we spoke to some of the kids at the rally last night. take a listen to this. why are you here today? i wanted to see trump for the first time. what are you hoping to see? i want to see that he is the best president of america. i have been supporting him since the 2016 election and i came to support and came out here. building the wall the stop illegal immigrants.he let us keep our guns and defend ourselves. even better. i ve never seen a president before. cool! and i want to. that is another person i would adopt him. look, i think it is all about getting kids and experience. there are moments where insults are thrown and personal attacks. i think some people concerned about with kids hearing, there is a certain level you shouldn t go but you see it on every side. he seat on the republican side but you go to maxine waters rally and it can get pretty nasty and pretty ugly and dangerous. we had mike huckabee on earlier and he compared it to that. listen. donald trump rallies are patriotic and uplifting. let me ask you this. when we take our kiss is something more, like a maxine waters speech. that ought to really be something that puts you in a soothing mood. i mean good heavens, the new york times is embarrassing itself. for them to come out and try to say anything negative about the tone of donald trump is absolutely laughable. absolutely, great point, double standard always. i have a 12-year-old daughter i ve gone a couple times to participate and they still want to know where the malaysian airline me what a better experience to go to because kids are talking about this they know who donald trump is. at some point you just want to feed your children one narrative or you want them to see respective children and giving experiences. it reminds me because we re transitioning to another story. it s like a bake sale, girl scout cookies. in this case there was a young girl, savannah waters just 10 years old. she was selling cookies in her neighborhood and as we all would, you would want to buy some cookies for a good cause and everyone wants a cookie. a neighbor called the cops on this 10-year-old girl because apparently, it was causing a bunch of traffic. this is how she responded. i just wish that we could have no first because we didn t know anything and it was just hard to believe that did not come talk to my mom first. didn t talk to her mom first. i don t know griff, we would talk about this earlier. these are homemade cookies, these are good cookies, right? right. pete, what do you think? is the kind of cookies i was stopped by. homemade, it is not store-bought. this morning were talk about where a 10-year-old girl apparently lost audio. this is what happens not only on live television but when you re outside. you lose the sound. we will get back to that. beat on the street is coming back. wasn t that far away. someone called the cops on us. [laughter] clearly! welcome back. i don t know if you can see this on t.v. i said as a neighbor would you call the cops? and they said no. maybe there is extenuating circumstances. but this thing about lemonade stands and cookie stands. people say is it clean, is a contaminated, could it be poison in it? we are your neighbors, we are selling cookies. we should have them on. something has to be going on. maybe theparents don t like each other or the traffic . i don t know. there is a lot going on.on a serious note the venezuelan president nicholas maduro is now blaming the far right groups for what he says was an assassination attempt. listen. the government said the explosion was an attempted drone attack here but some firefighters say was a gas explosion at a nearby apartment. seven people know her. nicholas maduro is blaming the attack onvenezuelans that live in florida he says . he wants president trump not to step in. stay tuned for that one. today the fbi will question one third time about missing college student molly tibbets. a story we are watching so closely. a hog farmer says agents are welcome to search his entire property. he says he does not know molly and suspects quote - some guy has her. last week he refused a polygraph test. molly disappeared more than two weeks ago after going for a run in brooklyn, iowa. and this morning president trump approving a major disaster declaration. wildfires tear through the state of california. the move will give the state money and resources to fight 17 large fires burning throughout the state. seven people have now been killed in the carr fire north of sentimental. the latest victim was a power company line man. we now know the fire was sparked by a car with a flat tire. three little girls are providing sweet relief to a firefighter injured in the line of duty. the girls are raising money with a lemonade stand near st. louis, missouri. captain burlingame was hurt last month. fumes from the truck exploded severely burning his face and hands. he is going to be okay. luckily the girls raised about $500 to help him. such a great story! love it. speaking of young kids helping people. dino country time lemonade has started a legal defense fund for lemonade stands? next, we have david bossie live with his reaction to the presence rally last night. and officers jump to save a choking baby. the emotional reunion is just ahead. you do not want to miss this. [music] which most pills don t. and all from a gentle mist you can barely feel. flonase sensimist. this is where president trump is at his best. out there on the road, talking directly to the american people, bypassing the fake news divisions across the country. and speaking directly to the american voter. this is part of the strategy. these rallies. they are part of this tragedy that got him victory in november 2016 and he knows it. his team is putting together a september and october, it will look a lot like 2016. the president s talk about a red wave coming instead of a blue wave. the president is successful in alabama, georgia and republican primaries but he hasn t really been tested in a republican versus democrat. you think it will be a red wave? i m excited about the november election because this president is going to be able to run over the next 95 or so days on his accomplishments. on this tremendous list of promises made, promises kept. 4.1 percent gdp. something obama said was never going to be seen again. 3.9 percent unemployment. the lowest in 18 years. when economic indicator after the other than our economy is on fire. this president has a record to run on. the american people are better off today than they were in november 2016 and that is where we are going to be educating the american people. because the opposite will be true. increased taxes, open borders. the abolishment of i.c.e., if you can believe it. it is going to be an incredible agenda going the opposite direction if the democrats are able to take over the house. the american people need to know that this is not a joke. on election day, the difference between continuing with this forward agenda of america first or going back to the old ways that were of yesterday. all right we will be watching the special election on tuesday. troy balderson in ohio against o connor. how much should be read into this? as a statement of the poles i think are within a point of each other. this is a district that has been red for decades now. if a republican loses, should the alarm bells be blaring across the country that republicans should be concerned about what could happen in the midterms? this is a very important race. we need to win. the present only won this congressional district by a two or three points in november of 2016. it is about this candidate. really, troy balderson. he needs to perform on election day. this is not just on the president s shoulders. it is on the people who chose balderson and the voters choosing balderston in the primary now need to get him across the finish line. we will see what happens. david bossie, thank you. he has been on the big screen now they re hoping that stephen stegall rescues something else. and lebron james making headlines for criticizing the president. what i noticed over the last few months, he is kind of used sports to kind of divide and that is something that i cannot relate to. donald trump firing back. does the president have a point? we will tell you coming up next. [music] motorcycle revving motorcycle revving no matter who rides point, there are over 10,000 allstate agents riding sweep. and just like tyrone taylor, they know what it takes to help keep you protected. are you in good hands? we re back with quick allegedly trying to help the turkish government his no one house arrest for last week the u.s. sanction to turkish officials. thank you. now lebron james making news this week for criticizing the president. take a listen. what i ve noticed over the last few months, he has used sports to kind of divide us. and that is something i can t relate to because i know that sports, the first time i was ever around someone white. president trump firing back on twitter readiness. lebron james is just interviewed by the dumbest man on television. dom lemmon.he may lebron james look smart which is an easy to do. i like mike! referring to michael jordan. we have a fox news contributor, jessica, good morning good to have you with us. it heats up with the president and lebron james. listen to what the president says he says it is the players are dividing. and lebron james is the present peer. you know it is the players. colin kaepernick began before president trump was president. a lot of people had a problem with it. and i would make the argument that the nfl in the nba in particular, have become more like hollywood. a help for left in politics for quite some time. i remember tim tebow being relentlessly attacked by sportswriters for his views. some say it was cultish for follow him. in the nfl in particular only one viewpoint is welcome. look at the message and coming from the white house. just within 24 hours a tweet i just read from the president. but the melania trump, give out a statement supporting lebron james and the work he is doing in building schools. in areas in ohio. what is your reaction to this? i think it s a good step in the right direction. no one can deny the good work that lebron james is doing in ohio. he has done certainly more for underserved children the country than the president has. if you take the i promise school versus trump university i know where all of us on this panel would rather attend. melania trump, is too little too late. her husband, she went along with him and if you look at the contact of lebron james criticism he was polite and thoughtful. the president then calling him and don lemon dom it is part of a dangerous precedent of racist remarks the president has made beginning in the 1980s when he had housing project that had discriminatory policies against black americans.to the point about the athletes, i think the president is divisive when it calls them kneeling the best way to move forward is we all know here, to sit down and actually have a productive conversation. i think lebron james would be the one, i know he doesn t want to go sit in the white house. and i don t blame them for that. he was asked about that by don lemon if he would sit down with the president or it was brought up. here was his reaction. what would you say to the president if he was sitting right here? i would never sit across from him. he wouldn t talk to him? no. how does that move us forward and bring the country together if you say not even willing to sit down and have a conversation? it doesn t move us forward at all. what moves us forward is doing things like what jones did we set a course in the president and jared kushner, worked with the demonstration to push forward prison reform. talking in dialogue, move us forward. i want to quickly address because jessica talked about racism. this president is nothing of the sort. in fact mar-a-lago was the first club ever to open to african-americans. the president was praised by african-american pastors when they said this is the best present for black men and women in the country and he s right. there is historic low for black individuals, the president is being rewarded. lester hit a 15 percent approval rating in the african-american community. it has doubled 29 percent. the president is creating opportunities and should be praised for it. an opportunity for underserved communities across the nation. we will see how the black committee ends up voting. as i said before, a long history of racial discrimination. he still thinks central park nfl players, very fine people on both sides. would you go to the white house and spit across the table from president trump? i have not gotten an invitation. would you go if you invited? if he wanted to have a bipartisan conversation about what he is doing to divide as i would go to that. i also met a black athlete in this country like lebron james who has done so much to move us forward to advance underrepresented children and minorities. we will leave it right there. ladies. have a feeling the debate will continue. good to see you both! thank you. coming up, trevor noah telling this socialism is all in your mind. there are a lot of democrats who say they are socialist. maria bartiromo is here to react to that live next. looks like something out of a james bond movie. but it is actually very real. the wild chase that you cannot miss. that is just ahead on sunday morning fox and friends. and do these moves look familiar? then you might have a condition called dry mouth. biotène is clinically proven to soothe and moisturize a dry mouth. plus, it freshens breath. biotène. immediate and long lasting dry mouth symptom relief. identifying as socialists? republicans are going to call us socialists no matter what we do. so we might as well give them the real thing! healthcare is a human right and not a privilege. my campaign on hard commitments of medicare for all, tuition free public college and ensuring a new deal for our future. interactive sentiment in here to react, sunday morning futures host, maria bartiromo. we are trying to relive last night. you got a shout out. yes i did! thank you. i think the rally is really poor for the president. he gets empowered by all of the crowds. he really gets energized. but if he does not communicate his record no one will. i mean we talk about obviously all the time on fox. but when you look at some of the compliment, weight is up 2.8 percent year over year. unemployment rate 3.9 percent, economic growth 4.1 percent. that is just economic things. let s not just forget the judge s he put on the federal bench as well as now, the supreme court as well as north korea coming to the table. there are 70 compliments he can actually tout. but it is getting muddy because of the constant drumbeat of michael cohen this and russia that and all of these things that mean nothing to the american people. you heard we played a minute ago that trevor noah, late-night comedian saint socialist is on the republicans minds, they re making it up. and yet it is coming from somewhere. it is coming from a number of folks are now being called leaders of the democratic party, the ideas they are putting forward. i don t know he described other than being socialist. no doubt right now we are debating that. you have to be honest it s what we are doing. and we re doing it all the time as a medicare for all, precollege, free this, free that. now is actually asking the question, how are we going to pay for all of this? we were to have a debt of $20 trillion. how do you pay for medicare for all and education for everybody and make a government bigger and bigger, giving individuals fewer and fewer rights? young people have to understand the difference between socialism and capitalism. it s a very important moment in our time. not to mention welfare in a country is not brought by socialism. it is a reminder to every generation, it is a free market. opportunity for all. if there is dignity in a job which is different than receiving a paycheck from the government. is absolutely right. the private sector is created some opportunities. i think it s important for similes academics saying, you know what? let s teach socialism and let s keep going on socialism. maybe they should try working for free. because no one has the money to pay for it. how about using that for socialism as well? okay. free work! who do you have coming up? a big show. why is it so many former intelligence directors still have security clearance? most americans do not understand we have a policy of keeping them with their security clearance and they are using it to enrich themselves by becoming regular commentators on cnn, etc. and trashing the present. i talkedand talking with manny this and i have a big show coming up. will be an interesting show. thank you so much. i want to bring you some other headlines. starting here, it looks like something right out of a james bond movie. watch this. [video] police getting to high-speed chase with four jet skis in london. the writers were racing among the river but unlike in the james bond movie the bad guys got away. police gave up the chase for safety reasons. and an american action star, the hopes of strengthening humanitarian ties. i have something in my pocket right now. steven seagal, the russian foreign minister says he will help promote cultural public and youth relations. he is a friend of vladimir putin and was granted russian citizenship back in 2016. that is interesting. i did not know that. wells fargo admits they foreclosed 400 homes accidentally. they blame a software glitch that miscalculated customers eligibility to modify mortgages. in total, around 625 people either got their loan denied or were not offered one even if they were qualified. wells fargo promises to satisfy $8 million to compensate customers. police officers jumping into action to save a baby choking on a chicken nugget. surveillance video shows in performing the heimlich maneuver at a florida mall. the baby, her mother and the heroic officers joined us on the show for an epic reunion. watch this. is like were best friends. i really like there will be in our lives forever. they saved our daughter and they are our angels. truly amazing. there s not enough words to say, thank you for what they did for us. an amazing story. as you see the baby is doing just fine and she was crawling all over the officers. they are already best friends and i m sure they will be in her life forever. super cool! thank you for what all of our police officers do for us. rick, what are you up to over there? scolding kids again? is it hot and humid out here for you? take a look at this guy.this is cooper. cooper, you need a haircut! he is going slow right now. because this summer is not being good to you, cooper. not at all. beautiful though. let s take a look here. we are all going to need some ac. every city on the map here, everyone in the 90s. it is hot and humid, the moisture is gone but precipitation is gone but we will just deal with humidity. the same across the south because of the humidity and heat will see a pop-up thunderstorm or two. nothing to wash your day out across the southeast. not the case in the northern plains. big storms moved across minnesota this morning. we will see that we fire this afternoon. big storms move across nebraska, south dakota iowa. out across the west monsoon moisture is dying down a little bit. heat building back in and heat returns, in california for much of this upcoming week unfortunately. back to you. thank you. no matter what time of year when i see the map the san diego area is always between 75 and 85. all year round! there is a reason people go there. good winter. coming up! what do they think of presidents rally last night? we are having breakfast with friends in ohio and we will check in next. plus, we have been very very own fox & friends county fair on the plaza. just ahead, we will be facing off in the shoot and score game. you do not want to miss it! 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A look at the latest news and headlines of the day features discussions of politics and culture, analysis of political correctness in Campus Craziness and. will portray the gang is a bunch of cute teenagers who ride bike bikes, listen to music and work after-school jobs. when you think of the street gang ms-13 what do youme see? may be something like this. or this. i told you that typical ms-13 gang member in the u.s. actually looks like one of these young men on facebook. they re working after-school jobs, their living with their parents, they get around long island onon bicycles. there is no indication that we are seeing a bigger surge of ms-13 then we have seen in the past. mark: ms-13 they are like high school valedictorians. he joins us, tim these guys are all over your neck of the woods. are they just like kids doing A look at the latest news and headlines of the day features discussions of politics and culture, analysis of political correctness in Campus Craziness and. it minimizes the situation that these communities find themselves in. ms-13 targets young, hispanic boys in neighborhoods that are underserved. it s incredibly important that we target these gang members with aggressive law enforcement tactics and that we also invest in gang prevention and intervention strategies so we prevent them from recruiting more members. mark: good luck with that. they have done some terrible things out in your part of long island, tim. thanks very much for joining us tonight. thank you. mark: america remains in the grips of an immigration crisis and other aspects, too. in one of the two major parties, increasingly promoting policies indistinguishable from global open borders. any effort to enforce theis country s border invites accusations of racism, even though mexico is actually deporting more people who come from honduras than the united states does. earlier this week, we saw the border patrol capture a man attempting to smuggle three brazilians into the country using a fake ems vehicle. enrique acevedo is an anchor at univision and he joins us now. enrique, this is interesting to me that mexico is allowed to deport hondurans without being accused of racism, while the u.s. isn t. why does one country get to enforce its borders, but another doesn t? you just got to look at news reports in mexico and around central america to know thatt mexico s immigration policy is highly criticized, the way they violate human rights for the central americans is also highly criticized. it has been pointed out by, i would say, hundreds of news reports and human rights reports, too.ew i don t think they are being able to get away with anything. i would just say that, despite what many people say on this network and at the white house, in terms of mexico not doing anything to help the u.s. with undocumented immigration, you just stated the fact that mexicn is importing hondurans and other central americans at a very fast pace, over 200,000 centralth american migrants have been deported. that s a lot. mark: mexico is notha deporting 200,000 hondurans to kiss up to president trump. it is doing it in its own national interest. so this is the thing, mark. they are doing it in the program and agreement between the u.s. and mexico to have mexico guard its south borders with u.s.en dollars. some of that comes from the u.s., so it is doing it in part to honor agreements with the u.s. in the u.s. government. mark: that is not why we all know the truth, or most people should know the truth about mexico, which is that it is ruled by a corrupt elite who are essentially european mexicans, mexicans of white european descent, who treat everybody else, whether they are mexican or not, appallingly. mark: it s predicted that 30% of the world s jobs are going to be outmoded by automation and robots, no developed countries needed mass immigration. as you say, we ll have that one day. thank you, enrique. thanks a lot. house minority leader nancy pelosi says that voters should back democrats in november because it will help illegal immigrants, so vote for your democrat candidate and they will let lots of people in the country to take your jobs. we are not going to be able to get it done under the republican leadership in congress. we believe that we all have leverage when we win in november. mark: leverage in november. that is intended to appeal to hispanic voters but it may not be working. polls have shown president trump s approval with hispanics to be above 30%. that is better than the vote share he got in 2016.e gave us were crumbs called the daca executive order.he and i want i think that we should really point out, and these are facts, this is notou analysis, that in 1996, president clinton signed something called the immigration reform law, which gave the legal framework for president trump to be separating families. so let me just start with those two facts, that is why president obama and nancy pelosi are traitors to hispanics. now why are hispanics now giving approval ratings? because hispanics share many of the core values that are dear to the republicans. we are god-fearing, law-abiding, we like small government, we are self-reliant, we do not want government in our lives, we fear god and we want we love this country. and mark: let me just ask you a question on that, though, elvira. because the people can have but also, the economy.tr look at what is happening with the economy right now. that is benefiting more hispanic businesses.od mark: that is certainly true. we have to leave it there, elvira. thanks very much. good luck in your race. friction between the mueller team and president trump s legal team is heating up. professor alan dershowitz will address the president s position next on tucker carlson tonight. coming, flo! why aren t we taking roads?! flo. 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it won t happen. i think what s going to happen is giuliani will make mueller an offer he can t accept, to paraphrase the godfather, and that way trump will be able to say, look, i wanted to testify but it was mueller who turned down a reasonable request by our attorney. look, no lawyer would ever allow a client to testify under these circumstances. all they have to do is ask him one question, did you know about the meeting in the trump tower with your son, if he answers that question truthfully, that he didn t known if that in fact is the truth, he could still be charged with perjury, lying to a government official because we have michael cohen who says he did know. you you never allow your client to see something that can be contradicted by another witness because the prosecution can choose to believe that other witness. mark: if you had i president trump as a client, though, he s a very gregarious guy who was quite happy to sit w down and talk and to chit-chat to anybody and thinks that as long as he is just, like, straight forward and says what he thinks, everything will be fine. often, from a lawyer s point of view, that is the worst kind of client to have, isn t it? yes. and i would certainly i m not his lawyer, obviously but i would advise him to speak to the public on television, say what he wants to say, write his tweets, although i don t think he helps himself by some of his tweets. but under no circumstances put yourself in a position where you can be charged with perjury or lying to a federal official. and if he doesn t believe me, he should make two phone calls, one to martha stewart, who went to jail because of what she said after prosecutors, and the other to bill clinton, who was impeached because of what he said in an interview under oath. and so i think every responsible lawyer would say to him, youvi should not either testify or be interviewed. look, i once gave him advice on television, i said, i have four pieces of advice, don t fire, don t pardon, don t tweet, and don t testify. mark: i want to ask you about rudy s other point, the hyperpartisan nature of what has been happening. with reference to this bruce ohr guy in the justice department, and his 60 contacts at least with christopher steele, the mi6 agent who was basically the dirty tricks operative for the democratic party. you know as well as i do that impartiality is the essence of justice, a county court judge can t have a bunch of communications with the plaintiff and not with the defendant. that is a big no-no. how come bruce ohr at the department of justice doesn t know you can t talk to one political party continuously through the height of a campaign? of course, there is a difference between a judge in a prosecutor.rece prosecutors are allowed to talk to people, and so i don t believe that mueller and his team care about whether the democrats win or the republicans win. they are not partisan in that sense. i think they are zealous, some would say overzealous prosecutors. because he is special counsel, he has a target on the back of the president and others. c if this case were handled by ordinary u.s. attorneys, and they came back after a year or two years without indicting anybody, it wouldn t be a story, no one would know. but when a special counsel is given a target and he fails to indict, he has been a failure, and that is why i am so strongly opposed to a special counsel, except of the most extraordinary circumstances, which weren t met in this case. mark: you re absolutely right about that, professor, in terms of the special counsel s office. i hope we get rid of them. thanks a lot. as a young self identified socialist, alexandria ocasio-cortez supposedly represents the future of the p democratic party. it s a strange future to behold. we need to occupy every airport, we need to occupy every border, we need to occupy everyw i.c.e. office. we look at figures and say, unemployment is low, everything is fine, right? well, unemployment is low because everyone has two jobs. why aren t we incorporating the cost of the funeral expenses of those who die because they can t afford access to health care? this, like, upper-middle-class is probably more moderate but that upper-middle-class doesn t exist anymore. their heyday was in the 90s when, like, kids had furbies ana parents, soccer moms with two vans. that is not america anymore. mark: soccer moms with two vans and funeral expenses crippling the economy. is this the sort of thing the democrats can run on, win on, and, god help us, govern on? christy setzer is the president of new heights communications and she joins us. this is the future of the party? look, i like ocasio-cortez. i think she speaks clearly, i think she speaks with moral conviction, and i think a lot of people were inspired by her and that is why she won her primary. that said, she won a primary a month ago in a congressional contest that represents the bronx and queens. this is not necessarily america. that said, i will say thaton people like her because she is this young latina woman who seemingly came out of nowhere, nobody gave her a chance, she had no endorsements, nobody in the party really got behind her, the new york times never even wrote a piece about her until after she won, and then it was, where did this lady come from? the reasons she did so well, and was able to topple somebody like joe crowley, is because of the way that she talked about issues that people cared about in her district. mark: isn t it more basic than that? you said because she is a young latina. and the democrats now, it s all about identity politics. she is a young latina, he s an old white male. he s the past, she is the future, and the fact that she talks about the 1990s like ith talk about the 1890s, and that she seriously thinks that if 50% of the workforce are doing two jobs, you have full employment, that is irrelevant. it is all identity. young latina trumps dead white male. no, i don t think so.wh but i do think for women in particular, also people of color are the ones who are furious right now, they are furious at c donald trump, they are furious at the i ll be honest the old white men who are running the republican party right now and frankly, who have a pretty big grip on the democratic party, as well. so that is why you have seen so many women across the country who have said, you know what, it is my turn, i m going to run for office now, too. and they are winning in record numbers. s so particularly so particularly in the democratic side, mark, if you see a race in which there is not an incumbent, there is a man, a woman running, women on the democratic side are winning 70% of the time. that is amazing. what that says, america wants to see more women in office, and i mark: good luck telling that to bernie and chuck schumer and nancy pelosi, because you ve got your old white issues in that party, too.hu we sure do. it s a big tent. mark: nancy pelosi is happy to take a tire iron to anyone who argues with that. thank you, christy. what on earth was going on in the new mexico compound where muslim extremists were allegedly performing exorcisms and training school shooters? 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tucker carlson tonight investigates. ryan mauro is director of the intelligence network at the clarion project.an a nonprofit that educates the public on radical islam. he has assisted authorities in this investigation and he joins us now. ryan, if you watch certain other networks, you ll find it very hard to pick up on the muslim angle to this. they are being rather coy about it, as is their wont. but the father of the principal guy here, for example, is a big shot imam who was an unindicted coconspirator in the original world trade center bombing a quarter century ago. so this has deep roots in the most extreme islamic circles here in america. right, so what is really scary about this, when someonecl from al qaeda or isis get r arrested, you know they are almost certainly a fringe player, they are not a famous imam. he is different. as soon as i started studying radical islam, he was the firsto one on my radar, because he is one of the leaders of the muslim american community, i m sorry to say. he s very radical, the type of things he has been connected to come in terms of a coalition with other groups are the typess of things that this group, this compound in new mexico, were preparing to do, were learning how to do, that type of ideology. we haven t connected the imam to that specific operation in new mexico but you don t have to. what you re talking about is the extremist infrastructure that is the hard work, the easy work iss the violent part. mark: in that sense, it seems more organized than some guy from chechnya or wherever riding his car up onto the sidewalk and mowing down half a dozen people, in other words, that sort of freelance jihadism we have become used to. did this seem something slightly more institutional? that s right. t there s really two ways that yo create this type of problem if you are a radical. first, you say, how do i create the person that holds the weapon? it s harder. you do that by pushing the ideology, the imam for example01 in 2001 spoke at an event that was literally called jihad caml for young muslims. that is public plates. when they are not shy about this, are they? they ve gotten a little better since 9/11. mark: let me ask you something because normally with school shootings, you ll see things on twitter, the las vegas thing for example, where there will be a little i m sure this will put be terrorist, his name will be ahmed, and it turns out to be the usual alienated loner. but things don t stay separate. so if school shootings are effective, at some point, jihadists will have caught onto that and want to get a piece to the action. look at how we all reacted to it. right? even if you can get the small number of casualties, doesn t matter because it s a school shooting, so they achieve the objective, and one of the ways that these groups operate aboved that ideological infrastructure, in terms of operations, they set up security companies and some of the information i have provided, i broke the story today, what i provided to the authorities, does link people from the compound to a security company.mp that is how you get weapons, that is how you get law enforcement-type training, that is how you do this type of thing. mark: that is fascinating, ryan. when you look at the compound with a piled up rubber tires, nothing to it, a lot of stuff sitting out in the desert, but it s got important connection when it comes to getting the stuff they need. thanks very much, ryan. tucker is going to come back after the break because americans are an increasingly lonely people. how did that happen and can it be fixed? 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(duracell mnemonic) mark: america is an increasingly crowded country with 325 million people concentrating more and more into a few major cities. despite that, or maybe because of it, america is also becoming a lonelier country, people havee fewer friends, fewer confidantes, and feel less connected to their communities, and that is having a big effect on the nation. vivek murthy is a former surgeon general of the united states, and tucker recently spoke to him. tucker: not making an argument against psychiatric s medication, obviously, but it s hard not to notice that the incidence of americans, number of americans on psychiatric medication is rising. but so is the suicide rate. what do you make of that? well, i think that antidepressants have a role, they have a place when it comess to addressing depression. there are a lot of folks who have benefited from them. but there is a big but here, which is that i think that we have been over time, probably overprescribing these medicines, and not looking carefully for alternatives, and for other ways to address people s depression, not looking at the causes. tucker: that s it right there. you would think when the suicide rate spikes, and it hashi measurably, we would have a national conversation about why. what do you think the cause is? i don t think there is one single cause but i think there d is one particular cause that it is contributing to depression,n, that i don t think we talk about enough, and that is social disconnection, that is loneliness, and when i began my tenure as surgeon general, if you would have told me that i would be thinking about andd talking about loneliness as much as i have, i would have told you you are absolutely wrong. but i was really educated by people all across america who i met during office, in my travels, and what i came to learn is that many of them are struggling with isolation and loneliness. they didn t always say that at the beginning of the conversation it but it became very clear that it was part of their experience in their story, that it was contributing in fact to anxiety and to depression in their lives. when i delved more deeply into the science about loneliness, or became very clear is that loneliness is not just about feelings that we may have from time to time. but when it s experienced for long periods of time, it can increase our risk for heart disease, for dementia, for anxiety and depression, and is associated with the shortening of our life span. so it turns out that people are struggling with chronic loneliness not only live shorter lives, but the mortality impact is as great as smoking 15 cigarettes a day. tucker: well, sure. there is no pleasure in it. it s a living hell being lonely. what would you prescribe for someone who was lonely? how do you fix that? the first thing, it s important to address with somebody who struggling with loneliness is getting them to talk about it, to recognize that because you are lonely does not mean that you are broken areof fundamentally flawed. tucker: do you see that technology is making us lonelier?d i think that technology is a tool that can be used to address loneliness and increase loneliness. what makes a difference is how we use technology. i think the way we are usingwh technology right now, i worry we are increasing our loneliness. one, you look at social media, and you look at the data that is increasingly coming out on social media usage and its impact on the mental health of people, you see that increased social media usage is often o associated with increased feelings of anxiety and depression. what has happened unfortunately with social media is that many people have substituted their online relationships for their off-line, in person relationships. but there s another way in which technology is playing a rolele here, which is that nearly all of us walk around with phones, with smartphones, that give us immediate access to email, text messaging, and that can be incredibly convenient. i have a smartphone and it s very, very helpful. but that phone, and our devicesi can also creep into other parts of our lives. they can come to the dinner table with us and impact the quality of the conversations we have with our family, they canth show up on the table at a restaurant when we are trying to catch up with a friend and instead they are being distracted by the messages that are popping up on our screen. t we have found that our phones and work more broadly has crept into our evening, weekends, andp vacation time, that has actually taken away from our time with family and with close friends. mark: and you can see tucker s full interview with the former surgeon general on the tucker carlson tonight facebook page. up next, it is final exam time. can you do better than two fox news pros? remembering this week s news, the contest, the battle, is coming up next. motorcycle revving motorcycle revving motorcycle revving no matter who rides point, there are over 10,000 allstate agents riding sweep. and just like tyrone taylor, they know what it takes to help keep you protected. are you in good hands? mark: you know what that music means. it is time for tucker s final exam where we test news professionals to see who is the news hero and who is the news zero. this week s contestant from fox business, and from my hometown of toronto, susan li. susan was on fox business earlier today launching the new smartphone. samsung. mark: but is she smart without the phone? few people are these days. we also have us with fox news correspondent at large geraldo rivera. he s done everything in show business except tucker s final exam. and that was intentional. he planned it that way.ss but we blocked the door so he can t get out. contestants, hands on buzzers. i will ask the question in the first one to buzz gets to answer. but you must wait until i finish asking the question. you can answer once and i ll acknowledge by saying your name and each correct answer is worth one point. but you get it wrong, you lose a point. best-of-five wins. let s get started. question one: on monday, which hollywood trump hater spent the night outside the white house singing broadway s show tunes in protest? susan? rosie o donnell. mark: let s roll that tape. the more people that show up here eventually will take over all of d.c. and he ll have no choice but to resign. [singing] mark: actually the president was in fact not in the white house but in new jersey. but he could still hear rosie from there. a wild story out of boise, idaho, folks there were shocked to look at other windows and find more than 100 of what farm animal running loose through ths city? and we go to susan again. ducks. mark: let s roll that tape. goats on the loose. residents in boise, idaho, waking up to a shocking scene. 118 goats swarming their suburban yards, completely unsupervised. what happens if you get it wrong? mark: we are back to 0-0. over 100 goats there. i believe they were fleeing rosie s medley. [laughter] let s go to question three. this is multiple-choice. an amish man in michigan is giving ridesharing apps a run for their money by launching his own business using just his horse and buggy. people in his town can secure a ride for just five bucks. what is this amish entrepreneur calling the service? is it a: rent a buggy? b: ye bid and driver? or c: amish uber? and we go to geraldo. amish uber, c. mark: let s roll that tape. meet the amish guy in southern michigan, who has dubbed himself the amish uber. very good. he drives folks around for five bucks a pop in his horse and buggy, doesn t have a cell phone, obviously, so you have to flag him down. and he is not officially associated with uber but he gets people where they are going for an abe lincoln note. mark: yeah, we could use that in new york. i hate it when you come out of a quilting bee and you are late for the barn raising and you can t find a yellow cab anywhere. so we really need that in new york. question that means that, by the way, susan, canada s reputation is now riding onan this. n geraldo takes the lead, 1-0. question four: a man wasra arrested this past week after a video went viral of him harassing a very large animal in yellowstone national park.al the man nearly got himself killed when the beast charged him. what type of animal was he harassing? susan, susan buzzed too early. she s being deported. i.c.e. are outside of the studio right now. geraldo, your turn to answer? a bison. mark: let s see that tape? taunting a bison. no, no, no. oh, no. oh, no. oh, god. oh, god. police say that raymond is beating his chest at the animal in yellowstone national park. he s had several run-ins apparently with the law atws national parks over just the last few weeks. mark: it got worse from there, afterwards, he played that bison rosie s selections from bye bye birdie . it s horrible. you don t want to see that. h final question, another multiple-choice question, a new disney movie has been banned in china because president xi is angry that people compare him to a character in the film. who is the animated character? is it a: dumbo? b: pinocchio? or c: winnie the pooh? susan? c, winnie the pooh. mark: let s see. chinese movie fans will not be able to see the winnie the pooh movie,ie christopher robin. chinese censors have banned the movie because people in the country were using pooh memes to mock president xi jingping. mark: president trump would love it if the worst thing rosie o donnell s would say about him was that he looked like winnie the pooh.ru unfortunately, despite a plucky showing by our canadian gal here, geraldo has come through for the united states of america, total humiliation. final score, america, two,er canada, one. oh, canada. 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