Fox on top of storms that are barreling down as we speak from the legal storm in a New York City courtroom where donald trump and jurors just heard from stormy daniel, now set Ecoto Hear From Star WitnessMichael Cohen on monday, prosecutors hoping hell help take down his boys boss, but could he end up derailing their case . Meanwhile, at least 30 arrested at the University Of Pennsylvania last night, more demonstrations expected today. All around the world, actually. Plus, several states cleaning up after dead tornadoes yet again tearing across the south and the midwest multiple times this week. A Powerful Solar Storm brings the Northern Lights to many of the lower states, First Time Ever weve seen that. But could it also create havoc for cell phones and power grids across the globe . So many storm, so little time. Neil welcome, everybody, im neil cavuto. So good to have you. We have a jampacked show. We always do, but this one we waned the kick off in wildwood, new jersey. Its a fantastic, i call it a carnivallike destination. S at the very tippy, south end of the garden state, its going to9 get some notoriety all the more today because the former president of the United States plans to visit for a big event. And her, were told, it will be a packed event. Bryan llenas is there, the latest from wildwood. Hey, bryan. Reporter neil, good morning being. It is a carnivallike atmosphere here on the beach in wildwood with, new jersey, where people are already lined up. More than 20,000 people are expected for tonights rally at 5 p. M. [cheers and applause] this area is a republican stronghold in an otherwise deep blue democratic state. Its close to allimportant pennsylvania, battleground state. Its just a few hours drive south of New York City where trump has been preoccupied for the last month with the criminal hush money trial case. Now, the focus tonight will be whether or not former President Trump will risk potentially violating his gag order again to attack Michael Cohen, his former personal attorney and fixer whos set to testify on monday as the prosecutions star witness. Cohen, over the course of this trial, has been almost baiting trump, posting hours of live stream video on tiktok, commenting on the case and attacking the former president , even wearing a tshirt on wednesday in one of the videos with a picture of trump behind bars. Yesterday judge juan merchan told prosecutors to directly warn cohen to stop commenting on the case and trump. Prosecutors say they have repeatedly asked cohen to stop and he hasnt listened. Merchan says he cant Subject Witnesses like cohen to a gag order. Trump, on the other hand, has been fined 10,000 for violating the gag order multiple times. Yesterday this is what trump had to say out of frustration. What the judge did was amazing, actually. Was amazing. Everybody can say whatever they want, they can say whatever they want, but im not allowed to say anything about anybody. Its a december grace. If disgrace. Reporter trumps attorneys have told the jury they cannot make a serious decision about mr. Trump based on cohens testimony, saying the he has based his entire financial future on trying to destroy trump. Prosecutors claim trump falsified those Business Records or to cover up reimbursementments to cohen who paid 130,000 to porn star Stormy Daniels to keep this information from going public ahead of the 20216 election. And back out here on the beach, neil, cohen, remember, he pleaded guilty to that Hush Money Payment back in 2018. Hes convicted of lying to banks and the congress. And just this past week a federal judge suggested he highed under oath at a civil case in october in new york against the president. So well see how all of this happens can how all this plays out beginning on monday. Neil in. Neil all right, bryan. In the meantime, do do try the sausage and Pepper Grinders while youre there, probably among the worlds best the. [laughter] you seem like a healthy eater, so that might be difficult, but if you could pick a few up for me, great reporting, and thats a great assignment there in wildwood, new jersey. Want to go to tom dupree. I do know hes into legal stuff, and hes a Walking Encyclopedia with it. One of the things i learned from the prosecution is they hope the wrap this up maybe as early as next week after theyre done with Michael Cohen. Thats it for them. What do you make for of that . Well, what i make of it, neil, is their entire case is now coming to rest on Michael Cohen. As this trial getting going, the prosecution was signaling they were going of to have a lot of other evidence, a lot of other key witnesses beyond michael can coen hen precisely because they recognize hes a terrible witness, and the prosecutors were going to the make their case in other ways. They havent really done i. So i think the fact theyre saying, look, all weve got left is basically Michael Cohen shows how much is riding on what happens monday. The prosecutors have put all their chips on Michael Cohen being a persuasive, credible witness which to say the least is an enormous risk for the d. A. s team. Neil if they do wrap with it up here, i dont know what the estimates were on how long its going to last. A lot depends on crossexamination and what the the defense does, but is this keeping to the time you thought it would last . Its gone faster than i would have expected. I thought that the prosecutors would have had more witnesses to put on. I thought there might have been objections or other things that would slow things down, so it has moved along much more quickly than i would have anticipated. I am surprised though that the prosecutor spent so much time with Stormy Daniels. She was, you know, a witness who testified to things that were largely irrelevant to the charges being brought. So i think the prosecutors have made an interesting strategic decision that may backfire where they put on witnesses like Stormy Daniels, like david pecker who had very salacious testimony, but that wasnt really directly relevant. And the prosecutors gave short shrift to the witnesses who might actually have been relevant like the Account Accountants and people who actually know something about the alleged fraudulent Business Dealings at the heart of this case. Neil those jurors probably wont recall whatever, you know, Stormy Daniels was saying than any of those accountants, right in. I think thats right. And, look, i think the prosecutors had a big job to do in making sure the jurors were focused on the boring accounting testimony. Im not sure they succeeded in that a because, to your point, i suspect the jurors were rivetted by a lot of the things that they heard about tabloids and lake tahoe and that sort of thing, and they probably zoned out when those accountants were coming on and testifying. But when it comes time to render a verdict, its that accountants testimony that the jurys going to need to focus on, and i i think the prosecution made a strategic error in focusing so much on the Stormy Daniels of the world at the expense of the people who really matter to what theyre trying to prove. Neil im sure you didnt mean this as an insult, but are you saying accountants are people who like numbers, i dont know, maybe like myself are boring . I love account. About thes, neil, dont get me wrong here neil there you go. I personally found their testimony interesting, but im not sure the jurors did, you know . And whether or not they can sort out the boring from the important when it comes time to deliberate, well see what happens. Neil got it. Remember, i built a careeren on boring, tom. Youre the best, my friend if, and you open this whole legal world to us of. Bob cusack has been following this closely, the hill editorinchief, good read of the political fallout on this. Im just wondering how you find this hearing going especially if it wraps up early. And i always see life maybe on two Television Screens owing to maybe the world as we see it now. You have on one screen, lets say, donald trump and this hearing back and forth, back and forth and the statements he makes before and after each trial day, and on the other side, all these college protests. Which rivet americans more . Thats a good question with. I think at first the trial, and i think prosecutors got off to a good start, but since then i think certainly the College Campuses have been newsier, there have been cancellations for commencements, and, you know, listen, neil, i just think a lot of people expect polls show most people expect trump to be convicted in this case. But what if hes not . So expectations and politics are all about expectationses. If theres one holdout juror, and i agree with what tom said, the Stormy Daniels, the case has gotten a little bit off the rails now, and theyre really hoping to land this next week. Its a bit shaky right now, i think. Neil you know, you mentioned all bets potentially could be off if we get a conviction. I dare say even if you get a conviction or several convictions, Donald Trumps popularity remains sort of rock solid. I only say that in the context of this other stuff were seeing and a lot of people who no matter what they say or feel about the former president , theyre a lot more alarmed and worried about whats going on on these College Campuses setting up for some of a certain age who can remember 1968. Now, Law And Order has been a big theme of Donald Trumps. Its no accident that he has visited Law And Order types if you consider police policemen, hes taken time to shake hands with or even Fire Fighters in new york. Thats by design. And it reminded me of Richard Nixons posture in 68 with all the protests going on then. How do you think that plays out . Is this going to be a repeat year . Listen, i think when you turn on your t and you see a lot of your tv and you see a lot of chaos whether in the middle east or at the border or on College Campuses, that is not good for the incumbent. Listen, joe biden had a good run, and he was starting to close in on donald trump in the polls, and thats basically stalled now. I agree with you that the i think a lot of this is already baked in. Remember, neil, this is probably the only trial that were going to see before the election. So this is going to be over relatively soon, and most people really, honestly, start paying attention after labor day. Neil you know, bob, theres an interesting report in axios that the Trump Campaign is trying to mistake overtures to nikki haley and her folks and vice versa. There was even talk that maybe they are considering or the former president s considering her as a running mate p. Now, that might be a bridge too far, but this has been raised with nikki haley a number of times including when i had a chance to talk with her. I want you the react the this. A lot of people say it would be perfect if because you could get him the independents expect kind of support he and the kind of support he would need in a general election. He seems to rule you out, you seem to have ruled that out, but if he were to ask, what would you do . I am not interested, i am not interested in being vice president. I am running to be president. Neil all right. I know a lot of folks always say theyre not interested in the number two job. Invariably, they always a take the job if offered. [laughter] this looks like a different one because of the bad blood. But i look back at history, jfk and lbj had a lot of bad blood, so Stranger Things have end happened. Joe biden and Kamala Harris come to mind in recent history. What do you think . Listen, they all say that, and i dont think its going to be offered. I do think it would be a good move and, certainly, democrats would not like that. Remember, nikki haley did not run as a third party. I thought that was going to be an opportunity, so as far as the her future in the party, im very fascinated to see what her next move is. She hasnt endorsed trump yet, but with i do think that if in the off chance he asks nikki haley to be his vp, i think that would help trump in the pollings. Remember, trump thinks he can win this by himself. Neil you know, of course, theyll replay all those tapes, right in all the conversations that nikki haley had and what donald trump had said about her, and theyre going to keep plague them on a loop. Now, americans are kind of used to that, and they see politicians who do 180s. You just dont see it happening. I dont. I think trump is going to pick someone whos been extremely loyal. And trump was offended that anyone ran against him being a former president in the primary, and he won wire to wire. So i dont with see it. I think tim scotts stock is rising at the moment. Neil oh, thats interesting. All right. Well watch closely, bob. 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Neil it has been a devastating week for tornadoes not only in the south and the midwest, but spreading into areas that certainly wouldnt be seeing them at least this early this year. Tallahassee, florida, center point of that in the latest batch with. Brandy campbell is there with more. Reporter hey, neil. Just across the u. S. Theres been at least 109 confirmed tornadoes and now florida getting its share, unfortunately. So far we know of at least four ray to have radarconfirmed tornadoes, and were awaiting official confirmation from the local National Weather service. This is the damage that were seeing here in tallahassee. A lot of large trees have been taken undown. This city known for its tree canopy but also coming down with it power lines. Now with us we have the mayor of tallahassee, john daly. Thank you so much for joining us here. First, whats your initial reaction to the damage here . I know you said its been maybe 10 years since youve seen anything like this . No doubt this has been the worst with storm weve seen in 10 years, and the damage is excessive. Were working really hard to put the city back together. Reporter i know theres just under 1000,000 Power Outages across the panhandle, majority of those here in leon county. What should people know as far as restoration goes . So over the course of the past 24 hours weve brought in an additional 2000 crews from all across 200 crews from across the United States, we have tripled our work force, were expecting another 100 personnel today. Look, we are tallahassee strong, or we are going to put this city back together, but its going to take some time. Weve suffered a lot of damage. Reporter thank you so much for joining us live. I do want to also note outside of the neighborhoods were also seeing some of the damage to College Campuses, three universities. But also the local schools, they had classes that were canceled yesterday. So kids impacted. Well have to wait and see when those schools do reopen, hope any on monday. Again, a lot to clean up here as those storms roll through this week, and well have to stand by to see what weather looks like this upcoming week as may known for severe weather. Neil . If. Neil brandy, thank you for that. Brandy campbell in florida on on all of thatful in the meantime, there have been storms on the sup, and you might say, all right, thats good to know, but in this case, they have been record solar storm, the likes of which some of the flares are eight times the diameter of the earth itself. So these are big, these are massive, and theyre causing all types of disruptions not only to Cell Phone Service and a lot of generators that are affected by this and grids, but it goes on and on from there. The flip is that you get something beautiful like the Northern Lights, something that you normally dont see except in far northern points. Some people were seeing as far south as florida and alabama. If lets get the latest from no ark as noaas weather prediction center. Sean, what is causing all of this massive disruption here . Good morning, neil. Thanks for having us on the show. Its great that youre helping keep the public informed about space weather. Thats what we have going on here. A blast of solar material left the sun several days ago. Theyve continued to do so. Even again last night we a had another one depart the sun, and when they arrive at a earth, they interact with our protective magnetic barrier and, boom, thats when you get these light to shows of the aurora a in the sky, and you begin to have impacts in the form of the technologies that that we rely on. Neil and that can be disrupted, right in its okay with the Northern Lights because theyre beautiful to watch. Some of these disruptions to our grids and cell service, you begin to wonder whether, you know, were prepared for that. Are we . Yes, sir, we are prepared for that. The governments been involved in this for the last 10 years now, and they continue to do so. And its great that theyre doing that because nowre even better were even better prepared for these storms. Even now were still reaching g5, the top of our 115 scale 15 scale, and we are aware of impacts and effects, but most of them have been able to be mitigated because we kept them informed, and they were able to make the prop if e adjustments, changes or corrections. Neil how long will people be able to catch this Northern Lights effect in obviously, it was beautiful for a lot of states i see for missouri, alabama a, its mississippi, some of these locales that are coming in. Of london, virtually all of europe has seen it. For how long, do you think . Were expecting this type of activity through the weekend and perhaps even into monday now with this latest departure from the sun. Whether or not we get to the extreme levels again after these, this particular set of cm if es widens winds down, i think currently were forecasting a g3 which is still significant which means people can still see the aurora a in the night sky, especially over the northern half of our country. Right now its lit up over the far western pacific, and it looks like its going to continue to do so over asia and europe, and well see if we get to see the show again tonight so, everybody, stay tuned. Neil yeah. Hope you dont have clouds, right . That was a big bummer in new york, i know, at least in the new york area. Beautiful weather today, is well see what happens. Sean, thanks yeah, absolutely. Neil for explaining all of that, the good and the bad that comes with it. In the meantime, the controversy around joe bidens decision to withhold some arms to riles. To israel. A lot of republicans are very angry about that. But theyre not all republicans. A top democrat after this. 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Lucas tomlinson at the white house with how all of that is going down marley when it comes to weapons he will or will not give them. To you, my friend. Reporter thats right, neil. Many were with critical of President Biden for not talking, announcing the the decision to withhold weapons until after he gave that holocaust speech on tuesday. Here he is on cnn. Hay go into rafah, im not supplying the weapons that have been used historically to deal with rafah, to deal with the cities, to deal with that problem. Were going to continue to make sure israel is secure in terms of iron dome and their ability to respond to attacks. Reporter and heres democratic senator John Fetterman from pennsylvania. When you have the kind of enemy that has no conditions or, you know, morals or decency or any copied of a bottom kind of a bottom, i dont think we should have any if kind of conditions. Reporter yesterday democratic congressman jared moskowitz, who is one of the 26 democrats who wrote a letter to Bidens National security adviser to protest the president s decision to withhold the weapons, you spoke with him yesterday, neil. Heres what he said. If youre hamas and youre watching american television, youre seeing whats going on on College Campuses, right, and now youre seeing, obviously, the messaging in the United States start to change, theres not more pressure on you to release the hostages, theres less. The only pressure we see is pressure on israel. Reporter many republicans are agree and say President Bidens decision to withhold those weapons only favors hamas. Heres senator tom cotton posting on x, quote, President Bidens attack on israel has encouraged hamas to keep the host. Ages including americans. His de facto position is a hamas victory. 133 hostages remain in gaza today, neil, under hamas captivity and, of course, that includes, as the senator mentioned, some americans. Neil . Neil lucas tomlinson, thank you very much. If we want to go to Washington State democratic congressman adam smith, sits on the House Armed Services committee, ranking member, in fact. Congressman, this is more of a general question, but do you think the president is threading the needle a bit too much if i can sort of mix nose metaphors those metaphors, that hes being too careful, and hes not really winning over those who support pal. Stipjanuarys or those who support israel . And hes losing on both ends . One important point here, i dont think hes trying to win over necessarily any particular electoral bloc. Hes trying to come up with the right policy. So lets neil its a good thing, because hes not winning them over, right . Understood. But the policy here is too important to be bogged down in politics. Look, the biggest problem here is the lack of clarity on what the policy is. I mean, even in your report you mentioned precisionguided weapon. I have spoken with a number of different officials at the white house, and their claim is that they are only slowing down the delivery of 2,000pound dumb bombs, all right . Why isnt that message clear . And i dont think the president made it clear during his interview on cnn. So i think they need to clarify that policy. But at the same time, theyre clearly supporting israel. Were till Shipping Arms to israel. Were still supporting them. But i think the message is a problem, and i cant disagree with Congressman Moskowitz who said hamas right now is the block to the ceasefire. The pressure, some pressure needs to be on hamas to agree to that, and this reduces that. And i, you know, i cant argue that thats not a problem right now. Neil i just wonder9 if the president gets that. And you raise a very good point, congressman, you know . This is often times in the eyes of the of bee holder or. Other president s have tone the exact same thing done the exact same thing. The difference, as far as i understand, i looked into the history of this, is they dont do it in realtime, and you dont know about it live with everything thats going on. You find out about it later. This almost seemed to be designed to let the world and israel know it in realtime. And humiliate them. Maybe that was not the intention, but clearly humiliate them in the process. Yeah, i think humiliate is way too strong a word. But neil thats how they feel. I read the Jerusalem Post every day, and that sums up pretty much how they feel. That doesnt mean theyre right, or okay . At the same time that a were shipping them all of the weapons is and supporting them overwhelmingly, i dont agree with that word. If thats how they feel, they were recheck where our relationship is at. Its much, much stronger than that neil so when you hear sorry, sorry, ive got to neil alone, congressman, that reflects not only humiliation, but just complete im done with this. Sure. Let me answer your question though because i think thats important. Look, you know, originally it wasnt supposed to be public. There, and these sales go back, like, two, three years now as theyre working their way through the process. And the decision that was made and was communicated to israel privately was to slow them up. And that was only for the 22,000pound, non 2,000pound, nonprecisionguided weapons. That story was leaked reportedly by israel, and then i it became protect. And thats fine, but the president s Public Statement was, obviously, a very Public Statement. Let me say i dont have a problem with telling israel you shouldnt drop 22,000pound 2,000pound dumb bombs on rafah. But there are ways to do that without going through the difficulties that we have right now. And while i dont agree with the humiliation comment, as we discussed earlier, certainly it is the wrong signal to be sending the hamas right now to make this public. Originally, it wasnt supposed to be public. It wound up being public, and i think that has caused problems, without question. Neil do you think, congressman, that President Biden needs a bill clinton sister soulya moment to take on this group that has been sort of dominating the headlines and say you went too far here . To advocate for the destruction of israel is a privilege if a too far . Hes not doing that. You call that threading the needle, you can call that trying to cautiously move to the next level, whatever you want. But bill clinton took on the wing of the party that had dominated the party. He did okay doing that. Yeah. I have communicated similar thoughts to senior white house people. This is the policy. The policy is that were supporting israel because they have a right to defend themselves, because the threat that hamas presents. We should be stronger in supporting that policy. Now, and i would say that, yeah, hes not threading the needle as well as he should right now because you have to communicate strength behind that policy. You cant look like youre not sure about it, all right . At the same time, you have to communicate sympathy for the humanitarian crisis in gaza. And i think what the president is doing, continuing to supply massive amount as of arms toes israel so they can defend themselves and advocating for more humanitarian assistance to gaza, is appropriate. But that does need to be communicated more clearly. I, you know, i cant disagree with you on that point. Neil all right. Well see what happens. Congressman, always good having you. Have a safe weekend. Thanks, neil, appreciate it. Neil all right. Want to take a looked at wildwood, new jersey. Of course, the former president , donald trump, will be campaigning there. This is in the south part of new jersey. Its not all that the far from pennsylvania, so youve not sort of a Double Bamming for your political buck bang for your political buck. But a lot of people have been attack tacking me on the protests on Italian Sausage grinders. My fond ifness for them out of wild shows that im not honoring my diet or remembering the fact that i had open heart surgery. One viewer told me, neil, think less about italian grinders and more about a salad. Ive already how about it, and ive moved on to the grinders. After this. Were talking about cashbackin. Not a game. Not a game were talking about cashbackin. Were talking about cashbackin. Were not talking about practice . No. Were talking about cashbackin. Were talking about cashbackin. Were talking about cashbackin. Not a game weve been talking about practice for too long. Word. No practice. Were talking about cashbackin. 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Shots fired from the mexico side of the el saws poe, texas el paso, texas, side of the border. Griff Griff Jenkins joins us from washington. Hey, griff. Reporter good morning, neil. Officials are concerned that the cartels are getting more brazen. This is two actually the second time in two weeks agents have come under fire in that that area. Let me show you. In el paso, South Of The Border station, agents were fired upon from the mexican side. Cbp calling it a use of force incident. No injuries were reported, forchew admitly, but the fbi said this in a statement the Violent Crime task force is working closely with the u. S. Customs and and Border Protections Office of professional responsibility on this assault on a federal officer investigation. Now, this is, as the Biden Administration proposes a new rule to allow Immigration Officials to deny asylum claims at the initial Screening Stage at the border rather than during the Interview Stage later and to quickly deport any migrants deemed a National Security or Public Safety risk. Republicans who have pushed biden to invoke Executive Orders already dismissing it. Meanwhile, House Republicans held a Field Hearing out in arizona yesterday with, neil. They heard from ranchers, a former Border Patrol agent and a grieving mother who lost two sons to fentanyl last year. They made their choices, and our family has to live with them, but this vir virtual flood allowed my boys the make choices they may not have without the current open border crisis. Reporter and a Reality Check just this week, neil, Border Patrol said they seized more than 1 is 70 pounds of fentanyl, enough to kill the entire population of arizona five times over. Neil . Neil incredible. Griff, thank you very much for that report. Seeing you right after this show. Im a mere warmup act a, my friend. I want to go to chris cabrera, national Border Patrol council vice president. Youve warned about this, you said its getting danger. Now we have the proof, but we tonight have much of a reaction. What grow make of it . You know, i think its par for the course, you know . Its unfortunate, but these incidents happen a lot more than actually get reported in the news. We, as a government, tend to do nothing about a it, so it just emboldens them to keep taking those steps forward. And eventually one of us is going to get hurt, which is completely unacceptable. Neil you know whats scary about all that, chris, you know this far better than i, the shots from coming from the mexican side of the border. Whether thats cartels which have gotten pretty bold or others, tells you what youre dealing with, doesnt it . Yeah. It people speaks volumes. You know, i think everybody when theyre dealing with anything border related is getting extremely bold because whether its them shooting at us, them running from us in a car chase or them coming in droves, assaulting us, whatever may happen we lack teeth to do anything about it. So its becoming an open season on Border Patrol agents because they know that the federal governments not going to stand up and Do The Right Thing by the border or the Border Patrol agents. Neil you know, im just wondering theres all sorts of talk if donald trump were to get back in the white house, hes talked about a virtual lockdown there at the border, how would Something Like that work . Yeah. As far as locking everything down, i think its pretty simple. Its mandatory detention, mandatory removal. Once you start sending everybody back, they know the gravy trains over, they stop coming. It happened in 2005, 20042005 with the expedited removal. They found a deferent loop hole. We have yet to close that loophole thats been open for quite a while. Once you close that and get serious about it, people will stop coming because they know theyre not getting release into the country. Neil well, i do know the Biden Administration has these new rules in effect or introducing them for asylum seekers. I dont know if thats effective who, once they hear it, they think twice about coming. That doesnt seem to be happening, or maybe they just havent heard the news whats going on. Yeah, you know, i think part of it is the news, but the big part of it is, is it going to be enforced. We can tell people til were blue in the force, hey, dont come. If you come, were going to send you back. If we dont send them back, theyre still going to come. So the rule is meaningless unless its enforced. Neil so where do you see this going . I mean were having this summer, its going to get god awful hot, very dangerous. These cartels are involved the likes of which and the degree do which weve never seen in the past. Many more coming from many more cups. Play if it out. Yeah, you know, its going to get you talk about getting hot, two days ago it was 108 here in the rio grande valley. Its already hot down here. It seems like texas is already preheating. Neil yeah. But its going to get worse. More people are going to come, and more people are going to die, and its unfortunate. Unfortunately, i dont think this administration cares. They say they care about a people coming into this cup, about migration as they call it, but if they cared, theyd put a stop to it. Hundreds of people are going to die in the summer just from heat alone. Neil well, it is now among the biggest issues for americans of all types in all regions, in all parts of this country. So obviously, its fairly important to voters. Well watch it closely, chris. Thank you very much. Good seeing you. All right, in the meantime, want to update you whats going on in political races. You know, of course, about the president whos going to be busy on the west coast fund raising, you know, obviously, whats going on right now with donald trump appearing in wildwood, new jersey, later today. But youre probably not paying as much attention to senate races including the distinct possibility that a blue seat could turn redding very red e, in maryland. Were on that after this. She. But who passed them to her . Ancestrydna can show her who and where her genes came from. Best of all, its on sale for mothers day. Get it now, before she has to remind you. Life with afib can mean a lifetime of Blood Thinners. And if youre troubled by falls and bleeds, worry follows you everywhere. Over 400,000 people have left Blood Thinners behind with watchman. Watchman is a safe, minimally invasive, one time implant that reduces stroke risk and bleeding worry, for life. Watchman. Its one time, for a lifetime. If. Neil as you know, its a 50a 50 senate right now, but because dem can cats control the white house and Kamala Harris can be that tiebreaking vote, its essentially democratic control. But that could be changing, and one state could be evidence that it could be changing. Mark never is in annapolis, maryland, with more. Reporter neil, good morning to you. Maryland is not considered a competitive state in the president ial race, but following tuesdays primary, we could see one of the most consequential, costly and most Interesting Senate Races to take place right here in the state. Republicans are coalescing behind larry hogan who was the twiceelected above of this state. He left office in early 2023, and after he announced his bid, that made Senate Republicans in washington very happy. The people of maryland know march rehogan, they trust hem. Theyve seen him govern over the course of eight years in maryland. Reporter 40 taliban is running to replace democratic senator ben cardin. The 80yearold with is not seeking another term. Still, democrats are determined to keep that seat blue. There are 10 democrats running, but 2 candidates who are considered the Top Con The Tender contenders. Trone, who cofounded the retail chain total wine, has spent 60 million of his own money on this primary. He is one of the wealthier members of congress, but his campaign has had a few stumbles in the last couple of weeks including accusations by his opponent and some other prominent democrats that he was making raciallyinsensitive comments. Hes also been getting some attention for a tweet he issued, it was a multipart tweet, but but one part stuck out. We also have to be honest about the fact that a lot of americans do not feel safer when they see Law Enforcement in their communities. And trone seemed quite irritatea reporter followed up. Feel free to but thats all ive got to say. Go back and read the whole section of tweets. It was very supportive finish. We did. No, you didnt. You didnt i did read all lee finish. And you just making it up. So thank you. Reporter you could tell the candidate did not like facing questions about that tweet. As i mentioned, his opponent has got some of the major support here in the state, the governor, some of the other congressional delegation here in maryland backing her. But, neil, this race is very close, and either way were going to see a competitive race between now and november. Neil . Neil mark, i know its a serious story when youre not wearing a tie, is so thank you for that. Its always a subliminal if thing, but i get it now reporter just in case theres something needed here on the docks. Neil absolutely. Mark meredith on that. In the meantime, apple just might have a budweiser moment on its hands. Sometimes a controversial commercial can get in the way from people if thinking about buying beer and maybe some hot new products from apple. Were on it after this. 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Budweiser is trying to recover still from that, apple, too soon to tell. Dave dotson, stanford if graduate, Business School professor. Oregon if he uses apple products, might use budweiser products, but just the very smart, the same. Apples humbly saying, all right, we made a mistake. You know, i think their apology was fine, it was the unequivocal. They said they blew it, they pulled the ad, but i think the problem is this, apple said we missed the mark and, in fact, they actually hit the mark perfectly. Because what that ad is doing and why its touching people in the way it is, it is describing what many people feel which is big tech is coming after you. We dont need you. Youre replaceable. Just like the trumpet if as the possess tons on the trumpet pittstons or the pianos being crushed. We just dont really need you. And people are worried right now about that. And end when you see an ad and it seems counter to everything you know about the company, you just sort of dismiss if it. But when you see an ad and you go, yeah, thats kind of what i was thinking all along, its not hard to imagine a room full of 23yearolds in cupertino going, yeah, thats right, lets slowly crush people. And thats whats touching people. Neil yeah, but they had to know in doing that, right . This is apple doing that. The touchyfeely company with all the cool products and the easy to use products and the artful, elegant products. This is something, i know this has been message mentioned, i cant imagine steve jobs writing off on this, but i do know this kind of stuff goes through various e channels and lot of people, just like the bud with wiser ad did. Budweiser ad did. What happens with that . That the tease the issue, is it went through all of these layers, and everybody cheered it on including, of course, tim cook, the ceo, whos a fantastic ceo and done Amazing Things to apple. Everybody signed off on it, and it didnt occur to anybody what bob with dylan or picasso would think of an ad like this. Because the mentality right now in Silicon Valley does line up with this, and its fine in. Cupertino, okay . But i if youre in ohio or michigan or alabama and youre worried about a i might be replaced by a. I. Or offshoring or people coming across the border, that ad taps right into that. Now, i truly e believe that this will pass, and if apples e pad is everything that they say it is, theyll sell plenty of ipads. But i think the real message ises this is not just about ap. This is tech tapping into something thats really important and happening in our country right now. And i realize its sort of, like, maybe sort of crazy to elevate an ad up to something thats an important social issue here but the slow crushing, almost like the torturing of all those instruments and books and stuff is how a lot of people are feeling right now, neil. Neil yeah, no, i think youre right. But to do it with a cher song the finish. And i do like that. I have to give them that. Neil professor, thank you very much. Were following on that, again, apple has discontinued the ads, you can only see it on youtube, some of these other places, but it stands in the iconic lexicons of ads that just went wrong. In the meantime, could it it go wrong when we take a look at various efforts to try, for democrats at least, to present an image that theyre in charge, things are going okay, and enthen all of these protests juxtaposed against an election less than six months ago. Does it remind you you of a certain year . Ill give you a hint, 1968. Do wn ill be okay. Does this look ok . ugh. How do i protect myself . With the new Scotts Healthy Plus lawn food. Its the only product that prevents 27 diseases while feeding your grass to help keep your lawn healthy this season. Want me to show you how to put it on . No, i think i know how to use a spreader. 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