A look at the days news and headlines. Lot of legal experts say he wins one in the district of columbia. Keep in mind in the last election in 2016 only 4 of district of columbia voters voted for donald trump. Not good odds in the district of columbia. Bill something were watching. Kellyanne conway Senior Counsel to the president from the white house. Good morning to you. I have a long list. Another slow news day here. Bill i have a long list. Paul manafort, how closely is the president watching this trial that begins today . We havent discussed that in quite a while. I would note for your audience, bill, that the judge has very strictly instructed no mention of Paul Manaforts role in the Trump Campaign, no mention trump, russia or collusion. This trial obviously centers on matters that have nothing to do with the campaign. I think that even mr. Manafort as i read it had requested that there be no mention of his brief tenure at the Trump Campaign several years ago. I believe there is one witness that there may be one matter of somebody whom he has gotten a loan from in exchange for a job on the campaign. Thats just what i read. I was the Campaign Manager for the winning part of the campaign. I wont be brought up on federal criminal charges of any type. I certainly Wasnt Making Money in ukraine or talking to anyone in moscow. Thats very clear. This has nothing to do with collusion, russia, nothing to do with the Trump Campaign. Bill iran. If the president were to meet with irans president , what would he get out of that . The president has made clear he is open to conversation and negotiation. He has done that with chairman kim, mr. Putin. And he has also said if its not a good deal for the United States and our interests and our workers and our security he will walk away any time. He is always open to negotiation and conversation. Both the president and Secretary Pompeo made clear iran would have to change its behavior, including to its own people. Its maligned behavior to its own people will have to stop. If it is willing to do bet you are erectically for its own people. This is a better approach than forking over lots of dollars to the Iranian Regime for a nuclear deal that this president has taken our country out of because he said from the beginning in a winning way was a bad deal overseen by the last administration which his political opponent was a member. Bill see if it happens on iran. You mentioned chairman kim. We get confirmation theyre still testing missiles in north korea. What does it suggest about the success or not that came out of singapore, kellyanne . It suggests its a process. You are talking about 68 years of sustained war and conflict in korea. And were ahead of the game in this way. We have this several months success on that. Very close on the midterms. Big rally for ron desantis in florida. Maybe on the west coast of florida as well in tight elections. Barack obama lost 63 seats in his first midterm of 2010. This week he had a message about a possible shutdown over the lack of fund funding for a wall on the southern border. How does it help the case, a Government Shutdown for a Midterm Election that you know will be closely watched . The president is focused on the other part of that, immigration. It is completely concerning to us, frustration at this point as to why Congress Wont do its job and pass meaningful immigration reform. This president couldnt be more clear for the last three plus years on what he thinks about a broken Immigration System. He repeated it again yesterday and catch and release, releasing people into the interior of this country. Ending chain migration, going to a meritbased system of immigration and having the wall and Border Security. It is a stark contrast to the Democratic Party running to abolish ice. That keeps us all safe. Which is on the front lines of stopping child smuggling and Drug Trafficking and other activity. Seized enough fentanyl to kill every man, woman and child in this country and there would be no loss of 63 seats. President trump didnt try to do a government takeover of healthcare. Instead he has cut taxes and major deregulation bringing peace and prosperity. It was a huge contrast but i have to say also what the president is doing today in tampa. He is going to Tampa Bay Tech after he signs the perkins reauthorization. Perkins is going to benefit about 11 Million High School students across this country who want to go towards vocational, Technical Education like many of my fellow students at the high school i went to in south jersey. They graduated from high school, graduate the technical vocational certificate they support themselves as mechanics, carpenters, hairdressers. We need to get folks ready for the economy of today and tomorrow. We have 6. 6 million available jobs looking for workers. Now instead of workers and employers looking past each other theyre looking for each other under the Trump Economy which is exciting. Bill well follow the event and watch the rally in tampa. One of the tweets from earlier today. Here is one of them. One of the reasons we need great Border Security, mexicos murder rate in 2017 increased by 27 . A record, he writes. The democrats want to open borders. I want maximum borders security, respect for ice. He laid out the case. You know the districts well about the contrast in this election. Today what is the percentage you give of Holding Congress for republicans . I think its better than 50 . I know with the Historical Trends. This is a president who defies trends and makes his own and defies history and makes his own history. As the president said he and the Vice President will be very active on the Campaign Trail. You mentioned today again on thursday well be in pennsylvania, the Vice President was in ohio yesterday. So the president says he will be very active. We know he is not afraid of several stops a day on a Campaign Trail. All the while his First Priority being president of the United States. Remember, those Historical Trends, clinton losing 54 seats and republicans taking over in 94. Obama losing because of obamacare mostly and he didnt have a massive tax cut and he didnt deregulate and he didnt try to broker negotiation, denuclearization around the world like this president is, all the while this president i think is going to be much more active. He is not telling these folks bill no question about that. We know what the Historical Trends are but i dont think youll see those losses. 42 republicans have retired. Not something we can control. Bill a lot of these places where congressional districts are tossups. Thank you, i hope you come back. Kellyanne conway from the north lawn today. Sandra much more on one of the big stories of the day. The Paul Manafort trial and the test it will be for the Mueller Investigation. Former u. S. Attorney Andrew Mccarthy is here and join us later this hour. Our headliner today. Former attorney general Alberto Gonzalez, the latest on the Mueller Investigation, confirmation for judge kavanaugh. Busy morning. Bill we need four hours. Kellyanne conway made the case the president is working hard to get republicans elected in the midterms. Todays trip is all about florida campaigning for ron desantis running for governor. Rnc chairwoman Ronna Mcdaniel coming up with that in moments. Plus this. Sandra police in iowa asking anyone with any information about Mollie Tibbetts to please come forward. What investigators are now saying about the case. Bill the trump team not giving up the fight to bring home an american being held in turkey on charges of spying and terror. Turkish officials have the authority to release Andrew Brunson. 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You know your family we know Senior Living. Together well make the right choice. The search for Mollie Tibbetts. Investigators have conducted more than 200 interviews in connection with this case. The 20yearold student was last seen on july 18th while dog sitting at her boyfriends home in central iowa. Her disappearance has gained National Attention as the search for her ramps up. Bill Prime Time Tonight President Trump in florida to give a boost to a political ally. A big year for representative desantis who will be a great governor for florida. A good race going on. Strong on crime, borders and second amendment. Big help on tax an regulation cuts. Loves our military and vets and has my total endorsement. Ronna mcdaniel is here to talk about this. He is going up against adam putnam. Seems the race has changed. Putnam had a lead in the polling. A lot of undecided but it broken in desantiss favor. How do you see it right now . Youre seeing where the energy of the Republican Party is right now. It is solidly behind the president. And as he has endorsed in the races youve seen a shift for the candidates he supported. You saw it last week in georgia with kemp. Youve seen it with mcmaster in South Carolina and kate airington. His base goes to the candidates and gives them a boost. You see it if florida. Bill you heard Kellyanne Conway put the odds on republicans keeping the control of congress. 50 . A lot of people might feel that way but we came across a few headlines today that gave us a question. Byron york writes this. After 30 days of blank, gop Midterm Elections fear rises. We have another one wall street journal. Trump might not mind Speaker Pelosi as a political foil for 2020. Have you seen those pieces . What do you think . The president is all in on keeping the majority in the house. We know nancy pelosi would be a disaster for our country. She called the tax cuts that have increased paychecks for millions of americans crumbs. She is completely out of touch. She will bring impeachment proceedings. These arent things we want. We know the history. There are 23 districts where Hillary Clinton won where we have republicans that either held those seats or currently in those seats. We know that typically the president in the first midterm loses seats in the first election. Were working to defy history and why weve raised record money. We just completed our National Week of action where we had 4,000 people knocking on doors contacting two million voters. We know what were up against and have a record to run on with record unemployment with isis on the run. Military being funded, deregulation. Economy booming, a great gdp number. There are things we can take to the American People as deliverables and say this is what weve accomplished in a year and a half. Lets not turn back the clock and send it back to the pelosi schumer dark ages. Bill the tweet from the white house. The Koch Brothers who have become a joke are against strong borders and powerful trade. I dont need their money or bad ideas. They love my tax and regulation cuts, judicial picks and more. I made them richer. They are net im for America First and the american worker, a puppet for no one. Two nice guys with bad ideas, make America Great again. They give a lot of money to republicans on the senate side. How do arguments like that help . It was disappointing to see yesterday they arent going to support kevin kramer in this all too important north Dakota Senate race. Heidi heitkamp has not been a supporter of the policies the president pushed forward for this economy and kramer has. Theyre ideologues not just supporting republicans. Theyre also supporting democrats. Thats why the president has been so supportive of the rnc. The party is where the data is and where were building our infrastructure. We do the ground game. We continue were supporting republicans and majorities to pass his agenda. Bill thank you for your time. A little later in the show congressman ron desantis is live here at 11 30 a. M. Eastern time ahead of the rally in tampa, florida. Stay tuned for that. Sandra Breaking News out of the west coast as the Northern California wildfires are not letting up. Get out and get out fast. Thats the new warnings from fire crews on the ground there. Well be speaking to them right after the break. Bill this shark was stolen and now it went back home. How did it get there . Youre about to find out. [cheering and applause] h type 2s are excited about the potential of onceweekly ozempic®. In a study with ozempic®, a majority of adults lowered their blood sugar and reached an a1c of less than seven and maintained it. Oh under seven . vo and you may lose weight. 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We want folks in this area to still be ready to evacuate on a moments notice if needed. Sandra fire crews putting folks in Northern California on notice be ready to get out now. The wildfires in Northern California raging on. The biggest are over 20 contained. Six people have now died. Joining me now by phone is deputy chief of communications for California Fire scott mclean. Thank you for jumping on the phone and giving us an update this morning. What can you tell us about the status of these fires and about a fifth of them contained at this point . As of yesterday evening were looking at 17 significant fires throughout the state of california. As we progress each day, were getting better. Were fighting those different types of fires. Right now other fires are taking their place. The Carr Fire Grew to 110,000 acres over the night. There is a lot of Fire Activity and we hope to see some weather changes the latter part of this week into next. Sandra that is the big wild card right now, the weather. What is in the forecast as you look out into the week, scott . Thursday were looking at the temps starting to drop. Not dramatically but the humidities will start to rise as well. Hopefully that will calm down some of these fires where we can get into a direct fire fight mode in certain areas of the fires instead of the indirect. Sandra give us an idea of the efforts underway. We are looking at images of the brave firefighters on the ground trying to contain these what you are saying 17 significant wildfires still burning across the state. What are these efforts like on the ground . Lets go with the Carr Fire Out of redding. Driving up the highway that went through that Fire Highway 299 you could see the remnants of the fire fight. It is the Men And Women Go in and start climbing the hills dragging hose and making lines and making the effort and theyll get push backed by the erratic fire behavior and take another stand and go back in trying to do the same thing over and over and over again. Aircraft are involved, dozers, all our tools are involved in these fire fights. Weve got 12,000 firefighters on the line. Statewide right now. More resources continue to come into the state from all over the nation. Sandra you just referenced the carr fire, one of the 17 burning throughout the state. So far the update weve had it scorched over 100,000 acres of land. This particular fire was started by a vehicle. What can you tell us about that . And is this the worst of the fires that were seeing . For yeartodate yes. It was caused by sparks due to a mechanical situation off of a vehicle. This is the proof it only takes a spark to start the process. The fuel and vegetation is receptive to fire because its so dry in california. Sandra the message to residents there . Be prepared. The public comes to the base camps. We want to bring you food, water, clothing, whatever it may be. Their hearts are pouring. I ask that you, the public, help us. The biggest thing you can do is be prepared in case you have to evacuate. If you live in the rural areas or on the outskirts of those, be prepared. Have a go kit ready to go and know how youll get out. Make sure your family knows. Evacuate when the time comes. Sandra incredible effort underway. 3600 firefighters battling the carr fire alone. Those fires continue to burn across the state. Thank you very much, scott mclean, for the update this morning. Bill 9 30 in new york. Fox news alert. Searching for new evidence north korea is getting rid of its nukes fox news confirming a report the regime is still building missiles. A live report on that developing story moments away here. Sandra plus police arresting seven men in the country illegally for the Armed Robbery at a Jewelry Store. What were learning about where the Illegal Immigrants were from and how they ended up there. T bed. It intelligently senses your movement and automatically adjusts on each side to keep you both comfortable. And snoring . How smart is that . Smarter sleep. To help you lose your dad bod, train for that marathon, and wake up with the patience of a saint. The new sleep number 360 smart bed, from 999. Smarter sleep will change your life. Sandra trump attorney jay sekulow who represents a family who is under arrest in turkey. Were threatening large sanctions against the nato ally. Lets bring in North Carolina senator. Were glad he has been released to house arrest. That was a good first step. I will tell you the president of the United States has been incredibly engaged directly securing his release. The president is not resting until our client, Andrew Brunson, pastor for 23 years in turkey is returned to the United States. Sandra senator tillis joins us now. Where does it go next . First, i appreciate the president s commitment. He and i have spoken about this. Secretary pompeo, the administration has real owe done great work to get us to a point where he is released on house arrest but we need to continue the pressure until he is back in the United States and reunited with his family. Sandra president erdogan making it clear. They cant make turkey back down with sanctions. We wont step back. Is the threat of sanctions going to work and bring this pastor home . Well, i think that we have to apply its a very complex scenario in that we need turkey as a strong nato ally. Theyre in a complex part of the world. We understand some of the internal and external challenges that president erdogan is dealing with. This man is illegally imprisoned. He is charged with things that wouldnt keep you in jail overnight in the United States. We want just treatment for pastor brunson and talk about all the very positive things that we should be doing with turkey. Sandra what does it say more broadly when you look at u. S. turkey relations, senator . It could have longterm consequences. Im the cochair of the Senate Nato Observer Group and i was trying to determine if turkeys behavior was the turkey before they were admitted into nato in 1952 if they would even be qualified to be a nato ally. We want to get back to a normal relations where we Work Together on military and economic issues. But this is something thats really going to harm any positive progress with turkey until this is resolved. Sandra i heard you start off by commending the president and his involvement in this. Do you see this as an effort the president will not let back down from . I dont think so. The president and i spoke. I believe him when he says nobody wants pastor brunson out more than him. He has worked on this personally and had discussions with the president. He has asked members of his cabinet to work on th. I want to applaud the president for being so helpful and we need that level of engagement to insure his release. I spoke with Pastor Brunson On Friday and he was in good spirits being released even under house arrest. He is very much aware that could change any day. He could be back in prison. We want him out of the country and we want to also focus our attention on others who are detained that i feel like are after pastor brunson we have to have a discussion with the turkish government over. Sandra the threat of sanctions. How far should the u. S. Be willing to go with turkey in demanding that this pastor be returned . I for one hope that we dont have to move forward with sanctions but i think we do have to express how committed we are to pastor brunsons release and i applaud the president for being willing to take that step. Im sure he didnt do that lightly. This could will be resolved with the release of pastor brunson. Get back to more normal relations with turkey and get back to the positive things economically and mill taerl that i would like to talk about but i cant until pastor brunson is released. Sandra mike pence saying its a welcome first step when referencing the pastors house arrest but he has warned erdogan several times in recent days that turkey will face consequences if they refuse to release this pastor. How ultimately do you expect turkey to respond to this sort of pressure from the United States, senator . Im guardedly optimistic well get to a positive outcome. We need to keep him out of the prison, under house arrest. Let them go through whatever legal processes they need to go through and get him home soon. Sandra the president has been engaged with this and we have seen that fight. As far as you, senator thom tillis, you recently spoke to the pastor. How is his communication with his family at this point . They are a huge part of this effort to bring home their family member. Noreen, his wife, has been the foundation that helped Pastor Brunson Go through almost two years of incarceration. His daughter, jacquelin and i met last week or the week before last with his soninlaw. He has been in contact with Family Members under the terms of the house arrest. He is able to reach out and speak with members of the family. Was able to speak with me and suspect he will speak with other members of congress. Its a great first step. He was really in prison for almost 17 months in a cell designed for eight that had 21 people in it. He is at least around the familiar environment of his home and now i want him to be in the very familiar environment of his home in North Carolina. Sandra the president said he will not rest to quote jay sekulow, the president will not rest until Andrew Brunson is returned home to the United States. Good to have you on the program this morning. Bill lets get him home. Fox news alert on the korean peninsula. New Satellite Images reportedly show the Nuclear Regime is building new missiles. Greg palkot live now. What more do we know about the missile site, greg . Fox confirming the reports that north korea is now busy once again building more missiles. U. S. Officials telling fox news it is Business As Usual at a Factory Near Pyongyang that builds Intercontinental Ballistic Missile capable of reaching the United States showing there is no evidence of a halt of work. Were talking about the long range missiles used three times last year in test firings that could potentially reach the east coast of the United States. Recent Work Activity visible. That comes after, of course, The Summit Last Month involving President Trump and north Korean Leader kim jongun in which there was a commitment for denuclearization and comes amid a meeting today at the dmz between north and south korean generals trying to calm things down at the tense border. No commitment made at that meeting. Bill what does it mean for the efforts. There was no promise to denuclearize from kim last month. Last week we heard from Secretary Pompeo saying north korea is still making fissile material used in bombs. Uranium enrichment plant, another Missile Plant revealed but theyve taken measures, in fact, to bring down the temperature a little bit, dismantling a site and the return of the remains of those u. S. Service members. Repatriation happening tomorrow. Its a mixed bag. I think we need to be careful. Back to you. Bill greg palkot in london on that. Sandra Paul Manafort appearing in court today as Jury Selection kicks off for his trial. Why it is considered the first real test in Robert Muellers investigation. Bill new reaction from the president on Special Counsels probe. Andrew mccarthy joins us next. You dont just get to interview the president. You have to show there is a serious crime and he is the only one that can give you the information you need. Thats why rudy keeps saying there is no crime. If there is no crime whats the point of having the conversation . Tell your doctor if you have an infection or symptoms of an infection. Or if you have received a vaccine, or plan to. If you have Inflammatory Bowel Disease tell your doctor if symptoms develop or worsen. Serious allergic reactions may occur. Mitzi with less joint pain, watch me. For less joint pain and clearer skin, ask your rheumatologist about cosentyx. Bill fox news alert now. Paul manafort appears in court today. In a few moments he will be there on trial for charges of bank fraud and tax evasion. Its the first trial of charges uncovered by the Special Counsel bob muellers 14month investigation into Russian Election meddling. That trial expected to take about three weeks. Andrew mccarthy, former u. S. Attorney and Fox News Contributor. Welcome back here. I didnt realize it, but apparently these charges came up a few years ago and the Department Of Justice passed on a prosecution of him. What were the circumstances . The conduct has been out there. What happened here is this involves Political Consulting work that manafort and other people his partner, Richard Gates Who pled guilty in muellers investigation, this is conduct they were involved in going back to around 2004 and forward to about 2014 and a little bit beyond. So what the Justice Department has apparently this comes out of manaforts camp, what they have looked at is the question whether he ought to be prosecuted for failing to register as a Foreign Agent for the work he did for this ukrainian political faction and what they claim is they looked at that conduct, that is the Justice Department did and opted not to prosecute him. When mueller came in he revived that investigation. Bill whats different now . Paul manafort worked for Trumps Campaign and his lawyers would come in and argue that you are just trying to get the president. And the judge referred to that in may. So how does that factor into this trial . That has the virtue of being both true and something that you are allowed to do if youre a prosecutor. It is a common thing even though its not a pretty thing that prosecutors like to talk about but it is a common thing for them to squeeze people for information to try to make a case on other people. Bill the prosecutors have said in court already there is no mention of russia in this trial. How is that possible . He was working for a prorussian politician in ukraine and made a lot of money doing it. It doesnt have anything to do with the 2016 election. The rationale for muellers investigation is russia interfered with the 2016 election and the suspicion that the Trump Campaign, which supposedly benefited from that, may have had some participation in it. But this case, while it has been called the first test of muellers investigation, to my mind really isnt. Its a test of whether he can get manafort convicted of something but it really tells us very little about the thing he is here to investigate and it is a fair question to ask, bill, what do we need a Special Counsel for . This really does not go to the reason the Special Counsel was appointed in the first place, which was a Justice Department conflict of interest with respect to russias interference in the election and any Trump Campaign participation. Bill and on that point in day one of this case thats what manaforts attorneys were in court arguing. This is outside the bounds of what the Special Counsel was appointed to do. Can you win on that . They cant because the Justice Department has the power to grant the jurisdiction to the Special Counsel to bring the case and they opted to do that. The regulations that the manafort people cite i think theyre correct when they say the Justice Department didnt comply with all the Special Counsel regulations but those regulations also say they dont create any rights that are enforceable against the Justice Department. Bill two days Rudy Giuliani has been talking a lot. Collusion is not a crime. There was no collusion accepted by Crooked Hillary and the democrats and we learned by john roberts there will be no interview with bob mueller. Thats gone back and forth. You made the case to sandra last night working for martha, you dont get the right to interview a president. You have to show that there is a crime or the possibility of something involved that would involve him. Right. Bill this is not a free pass. Think about it this way. There are hundreds, thousands of federal prosecutors in the country. What if every one of them who thought the president might have information to bring into his investigation got to subpoena the president and bring him in. The president wouldnt be able to do his very important job which is much more important, by the way, than a prosecutors job, right . So the president has Executive Privilege and generally speaking in the justice department, in order to get that kind of access to the president , to get an interview, to even ask for an interview you would have to show there was a serious crime at issue that the president was somehow implicated in and that the president was the source of information that you, the prosecutor, could not get from any other source. Bill thats why giuliani says right write a report and show us what youve got. Thats a reasonable request because forget about investigative secrecy, it is more important for the public to know if the president is a suspect. If he is lets hear what its about. Job well done. Thank you for being back with us. Sandra President Trump getting some big praise this morning from j. P. Morgan chase ceo Jamie Diamond and why he says President Trump should get all the credit for the booming economy. Bill Massive Jewelry Heist leads to seven arrests. 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The seven mexicans you see here, the mug shots snuck over the border in texas two weeks ago to rob a Jewelry Store in mcallen. Customers thought they heard gunshots when the gang broke display cases to steal watches and diamond rings. That prompted the 911 call of an active shooter. Police rolled out the swat team. Take a look at the Surveillance Video from inside the store. You will see a Security Guard top left a family on the right stunned as these seven masked thieves rush in, one holding a gun, orders the Security Guard to lay down. Moments later a local Police Officer Working Mall Security will storm in, gun drawn. He gets unexpected backup from the guy in the red shirt, an armed citizen with a conceal carry permit. They secured the scene. The seven are between 17 and 43 years old. All were apprehended for entering the United States illegally. Charges with aggravated robbery, bond set at 200,000 each. They want u. S. Taxpayers to pay their lawyer because they claim to be broke. Local news reports say the men paid 4500 to get smuggled over the border. A felony. They could be deported before or after their sentencing. Sandra thank you. Bill the trial for former Paul Manafort about to get underway. How this could effect the Special Counsels russia matter. Well talk with former a. G. Judge Alberto Gonzalez is our guest in a matter of moments inside of americas newsroom. Hour two, come on back. Hold grudges. For drivers with Accident Forgiveness Liberty Mutual wont raise their rates because of their first accident. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty but its also great for finding the perfect used car. Youll see what a fair price is and you can connect with a truecar certified dealer. Now youre even smarter. This is truecar. Sandra this is a fox news alert. As the first test of the Mueller Investigation in a court of law officially gets underway. Welcometoto a new hour of americas newsroom. Im sandra smith. Bill im bill hemmer. Paul manafort in court at this hour. Kellyanne conway saying it is about Paul Manafort, not the president. I certainly Wasnt Making Money in ukraine or talking to anyone in moscow. Thats very clear. This has nothing to do with collusion, russia, nothing to do with the Trump Campaign. Bill peter doocy live from District Court in alexandria, virginia. The governments case against Paul Manafort is expected to focus less on allegations of wrongdoing while he was the Trump Campaign chairman and more on allegations that he cheated on his taxes years before. Manafort this morning was taken from jail to the albert v. Bryan courthouse in a van for the highprofile proceedings where Special Counsel Robert Muellers team alleges there are 60 million he earned over the years lobbying or consulting for politicians in ukraine that never popped up on a pay stub. The judge in this case, t. S. Ellis, has said in the course of these proceedings it is his opinion the mueller team is using the financial charges that have nothing to do with the 2016 election to get manafort to dish dirt on the Trump Campaign but he thought about it and allowed the trial to continue anyway. The mueller team in the courtroom is led by Andrew Wiseman whose specialties are organized Crime Services in the d. O. J. Manaforts lawyers made a big stir when they arrived this morning led by Kevin Downing who worked for years on the other side as the Justice Department tax case prosecutor and the manafort teams job is to get the jury, being selected this morning, to think like President Trump who has said recently that he feels badly for Paul Manafort, somebody who only worked for his campaign a few months but wound of having years and years of his financial records scrutinized by the Special Counsel all leading to today. Bill peter doocy starting our coverage there. Sandra a major test for mueller and the russia investigation. Lets go to the ateam, John Mccormack Senior Writer at the weekly standard, Morgan Ortagus from the Treasury Department and richard fowler. This is a big test. Having worked in the Treasury Department and Financial Intelligence it comes back to the money. You can always follow the money. Thats what this case is about. The president and his team will go at length to show that this isnt about russian collusion, it is about manaforts shady activity for many years that people knew about. So the democrats are clearly going to try to use this and keep the russia investigation in the press but i think well see what happens with the lawyers. When it comes to the money, when it comes to following the money and the finances, i did this for many years as it relates to terrorism and its typically where you tend to get people. For this to advance the whole russia investigation as it affects the president ial campaign we need new information that we dont have yet. The thing everyone is waiting for is to see is manafort going to provide new information about the trump tower meeting with don junior, man fort and the russians. Thats speculations. Bill will it come up in the trial . I dont think so. As Andy Mccarthy pointed out mueller could squeeze him and offer him a deal. That assumes manafort has information to give. This is all speculation. Kind of speculation outpacing the known facts. I think john makes a good point. This first test for the mueller team. Will they get a prosecution and will mueller go to jail. Will he be sentenced. Will he give information about what happened in that trump tower meeting between don junior, himself, and a couple of other individuals part of the Trump Campaign and will the mueller team sort of stand the test of time . That will be the big question as we begin the first day of this trial and Jury Selection, whether or not the mueller team is tough enough. Sandra kellyanne said the judge instructed no mention of his role in the Trump Campaign or russia or collusion. This is just the democrat fantasy well get a huge russia revelation from manafort in this campaign. This is a classic Money Laundering financial scam case that the prosecutors are pursuing and thats what will come out of it. Everyone would love theatrics before november but i dont think youll get that. I dont think democrats are wishing for some major russia bombshell. Richard. I dont think theyre waiting for a major bombshell from the manafort investigation. What were pointing to is trump has paraded himself is a great businessman who picks great people and manafort isnt a good person and head of the campaign for four months. He ran this campaign and for some he got trump to the convention. Thats a big deal. Bill were all guessing right now. Lets leave it as a guess as it gets underway. Iran, what a bombshell this was yesterday. The president sends out a threatening message a week ago and yesterday at the News Conference with the italian Prime Minister he says the following at the white house. President trump i believe in meeting. I would certainly meet with iran if they wanted to meet. I dont know theyre ready yet. Theyre having a hard time right now. I ended the iran deal. It was a ridiculous deal. I do believe theyll end up wanting to meet and im ready to meet any time they want to. I dont do that from strength or weakness. I think its an appropriate thing to do. If we could work something out thats meaningful, not the waste of paper that the other deal was, i would certainly be willing to meet. Bill take that invitation, john. This is the continuation of president Barack Obamas diplomacy. He got roasted by republicans and Hillary Clinton in 20072008 saying he would meet without preconditions with leaders of rogue regimes. Talking for the sake of talking is a mistake. If you dont go in there with a strategic goal you go off script and say things like kim jongun is a leader who loves his people and they love him with great fervor. You give legitimacy to the most brutal dictator in the world and entertain ideas that Vladimir Putin throws out there, russia is investigating and interrogating americas. Talking for the sake of talking is a bad idea but an idea that has bipartisan support. Sandra it is not stopping critics from questioning the move by the president. My question is who would he talk to . Would he talk to rohany or the ayatollah. Its the ayatollah running the government, not rouhani. Bill iran is being squeezed. Im like i was incredibly critical of the iran deal and people talk about the president s rhetoric and policy actions relating to russia or north korea. When you look at pompeo, mattis, bolton, all his Top Administration officials are pushing his policy and testifying on the hill. They caught a moment of vulnerability for this regime and wise to continue to push back against iran and i hope thats the policy they continue with. Meeting with them is not the answer. It comes down to the straits of if there is any messing around the movement of oil out of The Middle East and we dont find a way to keep that strait open thats going to change world trade. I agree with richard why the straits are so important. You saw the iranians captured the american sailors and embarrassed us nationally. The iranians will never do that to President Trump i will predict. Bill everybody is talking about the midterms. Can you go anywhere . Its why i stay out of the politics. Bill Ronna Mcdaniel, a big rally tonight in tampa. The president is trying to drive turnout. Ron desantis gets the support tonight. Youre seeing where the energy of the Republican Party is right now and it is solidly behind the president. And as he has endorsed in the races youve seen a shift for the candidates he supported. You saw it with kemp, mcmaster in South Carolina and Kate Arrington in South Carolina. As he endorses the candidates his base goes to the candidates. Sandra how important is the president when it comes to these endorsements in the midterms . Its very important in the republican primaries. What is more interesting about florida is the senate race. Confounding expectations with rick scott running for senate. Expect a purple state like florida if there is a blue wave florida wouldnt be on the map. This is a tossup. Rick scott is up a few points in some polls, down in other. Bill a good governor. Very popular with the Hispanic Community in florida. Running above what some other republicans have done. So thats a real race to watch in a way that tennessee surprising the democrats are pulling ahead there and surprising that republicans are in the fight. I couldnt agree more. As a Fifth Generation Floridian and a miss citrus. Bill nelson has been incredibly weak for many years. Its surprising we havent been able to beat him before now. That senate race is one ill watch. I expect rick scott to pull out. I would say in the florida race the governors race clearly the president is giving a big advantage to ron desantis. Dont count adam putnam out. Pam bondi has endorsed him. When it comes to local politics on the ground the sheriffs are all behind putnam. That will be a real race. The problem with the president weighing in on the primaries he will pick those farther to the right. Florida is a purple state and have 60,000 new residents from puerto rico and they have an axe to grind with the president and change the Voter Registration and likely vote democrats. This is going to be a big race to watch for the democratic party and the big race to watch for the republicans. I think you cant look at florida in a vacuum. You need to look at all the races. The president threatening a Government Shutdown, a lot of races to watch. The Koch Brothers saying were willing to play with republicans and democrats like Heidi Heitkamp in the dakotas. An interesting midterm to say the least. Well be in tampa tonight. A big year for desantis. Strong of crime, borders, big help on tax and regulations. He has my full and total endorsement. Here is whats going on. With exception of the pennsylvania race, when the president inserts himself into the election he moves the meter. Adam putnam was ahead in the polls two months ago. It has changed entirely and desantis would give credit to trump. The president owns the party. 88 to 90 Approval Ratings among the gop. Republican president fantasize over that. The key will be, i think, vulnerable House Districts around the country can the president s magic come out in those districts and help republicans keep the house. He moves the primary but not the general election. We saw in alabama he engaged in the primary, got more out of the primary and lost the general election bigly in his words. He weighs in on the primary but he cannot pull it out in the general which will be the biggest problem for republicans in the Midterm Elections. In the primaries his endorsement matters when both candidates arent wellknown. In alabama he went for Luther Strange and he lost. When he goes in somewhere like georgia both candidates are wellknown his endorsement matters a lot. Sandra ateam will be back for more. Bill the president wants to talk to bob mueller. Seems like his legal team are saying aint going to happen. Judge Alberto Gonzales is here on that. Did you see this from last night . Roll it. President has a lot of blame for things he didnt do but the president has done things that accelerated growth. Sandra if you dont know that face it was Jamie Diamond, ceo of j. P. Morgan chase. He feels like the president deserves praise for this economy. Bill this is the cost of Bernie Sanders medicare for all plan, 32 trillion according to a new study. Well dig into the study and let you know about the dollars and cents. Hotel. With expedias addon advantage, booking a Flight Unlocks discounts on select hotels until the day you leave for your trip. Addon advantage. Only when you book with expedia. Its so hard to believe but its all coming back me. Baby, baby, baby. All you can eat is back, baby. Applebees. The nations largest seniorliving referral service. For the past five years, ive spoken with hundreds of families and visited seniorcare communities around the country. And ive got to tell you, todays seniorliving communities are better than ever. 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The day after he was elected all the indicators, whether it was from housing confidence, Small Business confidence, even Consumer Confidence went through the roof. Thats what you need first. And then what were seeing now is a manifestation of all that and creates a cycle. The more people that get hired the more money they spend, the more money they spend the more people you have to hire. Were in the midst of that right nou. Sandra Jamie Diamond, to be clear, is a democrat, right . He is a democrat and also a globalist and he does things like with the business round table. He is the kind of guy these people benefit from the status quo big time. They typically dont want anyone rocking the boat. Sandra to be clear, he has been critical of the president in the past and even at one point predicted he would be a oneterm president. Watch this clip. If i had to bet i would bet 3 1 2 but the democrats have to come with a reasonable candidate. If they have a complete leftist Candidate Trump will win again. Sandra he will ask how long with the president last. 3 1 2 years he suggested. He has come around on this president. I think a lot of people will ultimately given time and when reality overtakes the hype and the news feeds and the opinion pages, when reality is an individual sandra hard economic numbers. You wake up and you are making more money and you have a job and a relative who thought they would never get back into the workforce because they add Criminal Record or Something Like that and theyre working. Things start to ignore the headlines that have swayed your opinion until then. Bill its all about your pocket and my pocket, right, about sandra . Sandra always about me, hemmer. We want everyone to do well around us. It starts at home. Bill lets talk about the markets. We talk about it every commercial. True story. We saw some high flyers take pretty big hits this past week, facebook, netflix, a bit of amazon and google. They have been responsible for a lot of the runup weve seen. Almost all of it. Six or seven names have been responsible for the gains. Amazon was responsible for 36 of the overall move. What were seeing now is these companies they grow fast but the expectations get higher and higher and higher and what were seeing now is a couple of them will have some trouble right now getting the benefit of the doubt. Facebook under a tremendous amount of pressure. In the last five days its down 19 down for the year. Netflix for a little while. Netflix did pretty good. The ceo overhyped what they were going to do and didnt deliver on it. Sandra whats happening today. Triple digit gain, the dow up 107 points as we speak. Whats leading it . We were going to open flat and we came up big. Big report out that the United States and china have restarted trade negotiations. What i find interesting about this, before that report in china this morning, they came out with some key manufacturing data. One of their most important manufacturing pieces of manufacturing data had a 23month low. Theyre feeling the pain. It would behoove them to come to the table and cut a deal very quickly. And i think thats why you saw the news this morning. Bill you think we have leverage on that . We have so much more leverage than anyone would expect. They talked about soybeans being a Midterm Election issue and they tried to write off fridays gdp report as a the gains are enormous and we cant underscore how much power america has. This is our last chance to fix this. This is the last chance, folks. If you like it the way it is now thats fine. It is not going to get better unless we make it better. Sandra Charles Payne bringing the pain. Great seeing you. Sandra fox news alert. The father of a missing Iowa College Student making a desperate plea for help. She is a very special person and we all feel that. But we need her back. She needs to be back in school, she needs to finish her degree. Sandra what investigators are now saying as the search intensifies for Mollie Tibbetts. Bill Paul Manafort becoming muellers first target facing trial this hour. Alberto gonzales is our headliner coming up next. Mitzi Psoriatic Arthritis tries to get in my way . Watch me. mike ive tried lots of things for my joint pain. Now . Watch me. joni think id give up showing these guys how its done . Please. Real people with active Psoriatic Arthritis are changing the way they fight it. Theyre moving forward with cosentyx. Its a different kind of targeted biologic. Its proven to help people find less joint pain and clearer skin. Dont use if you are allergic to cosentyx. Before starting cosentyx you should be checked for tuberculosis. An increased risk of infections and lowered ability to fight them may occur. 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So this highlyanticipated Press Conference might finally reveal critical details in this investigation including whether Mollie Tibbetts had her cell phone on her when she went missing on july 18th and if police were able to extract information from it. Mollie is described as an avid runner known to wear her fit bit to give authorities critical information including her exact gps location and heart rate. Have investigators pull information from that. She was staying at her boyfriends house in brooklyn, iowa, when she went missing. Her boyfriend was working 100 miles away and not named as a suspect. Mollies father is pleading to the public. If nobody has anything to hide they have nothing to fear. Let Law Enforcement sort out whats right and wrong and have the courage to come forward and find mollie. She needs to be back in school, she needs to finish her degree. Get her masters, ph. D. , get married, buy a house, have kids. These are things we talked about. She has her whole life planned out. She needs to get on with her life so we have to find her. Mollies laptop and social media might reveal she made it back inside her boyfriends house the day she went missing. Well bring you the latest in this case. Sandra that family desperate for any tips or leads that may still come in. Bill 10 30 in new york. A dramatic showdown in virginia. The trial for trumps former Campaign Manager Paul Manafort is underway. It will be the first test for the Special Counsel bob mueller and his investigation. Want to bring in our headliner on that note judge Alberto Gonzales. Former a. G. Under george w. Bush and author of a book. Congratulations on the book and thanks for being our headliner. Always good to be on your show. Bill what do you think is important to watch in the manafort matter now . Well, i think bob mueller and his team by all accounts has really i think established a strong predicate for successful prosecution here. I think were on the eve i think the chances of Paul Manafort trying to reach some kind of deal has passed us and i think the trial is going to proceed and we have to see the case be laid out by the prosecution. By all accounts Paul Manafort believes he is innocent and will be able to be successful in this trial. That remains to be seen. I had a lot of confidence in bob mueller when he was my f. B. I. Director. I suspect he has done his homework and worked with the team and has a strong case. Well have to see what happens. I dont know whether Paul Manafort believes he is innocent. I assume he does. There is a lot of risk for him and his liberty. Perhaps he is also hoping or anticipating that if unsuccessful the president may pardon him. Well have to wait and see. Thats a long shot. I dont think you go into this thinking even if i get convicted i still may get a pardon. Thats a big risk. He obviously has a lot on the table. Sandra based on everything you just said is it fair to say this is the first big test of the Mueller Probe . Well, i wouldnt call it part of the Mueller Probe. I think this is a case that probably would have been brought irrespective of the appointment of a Special Counsel. Wrongdoing the alleged wrongdoing was discovered in connection with the Mueller Probe but it is quite possible that this would have come to light in any event. And so i dont really consider this part of the russia probe. I think this is simply a case where bob mueller has found evidence that an american citizen has engaged in bank fraud and tax evasion and so because it does come out of his investigation of russian meddling, the mandate given to him by rod rosenstein, allows him to go forward with this prosecution and thats what he is doing. Bill i think Kellyanne Conway agrees with you. She was with us last hour and characterized it the same way. Listen to what she said. The judge has very strictly instructed no mention of Paul Manaforts role in the Trump Campaign. This trial obviously centers on matters that have nothing to do with the campaign. I think that even mr. Manafort, as i read it, had requested that there be no mention of his brief tenure at the Trump Campaign. Bill Andrew Mccarthy chipped in last hour. He called in a bigger question about the fundamentals what are happeninginlaw. This case, while it has been called the first test of muellers investigation, to my mind really isnt. Its a test of whether he can get manafort convicted of something but it really tells us very little about the thing he is here to investigate. Its a fair question to ask, bill, what do we need a Special Counsel for . Bill can you answer that . I agree that a normal prosecutor outside the authority of a Special Counsel could have prosecuted this case. But that would have been a waste of resources in my judgment given the fact that the Special Counsels office in connection with the Mueller Probe has discovered all this information and does have the authority to the Broad Authority under the Rosenstein Grant of authority to move forward with this prosecution. So i think it would be a waste of resources and time to simply have allocated this to another office and so, you know, but i totally agree. Bill has a prosecutor that didnt have a Special Counsel designation could have brought this. The Special Counsel law, has it gone too broad . Well, i think its a question of who you ask. If youre on the Law Enforcement side probably say maybe not. If youre someone that is subject to possible investigation unrelated to the initial charge for the Special Counsel you might say that it has gone overboard. If you ask bill clinton he would say it is too broad quite frankly. But again the question here is whether or not a federal crime has been committed irrespective of who will prosecute it and who is investigating it. Has a federal crime been committed and if so it should be investigate i had and prosecuted. People who engage in wrongdoing should be held to account. Sandra based on that its still a question because Robert Mueller wont tell us to be asked. Shouldnt the president be asked to sit down with a oneonone with mueller. Thats a question for the Special Counsel to ask and there are stories reporting that request has been made and, of course, the key question is whether or not will the president sit down for an interview. Most Defense Lawyers would say and advise their client not to sit down for an interview. I think there is a legitimate question whether or not a president could even be prosecuted for perjury. There is i think a legitimate question as to how far a prosecutor can go in trying to force a president to produce evidence such as documents orrall testimony. These are all questions that could be teed up depending on the way bob mueller decides to move forward with the investigation and future prosecution. Bill Brett Kavanaugh will move forward. Rand paul says he is a yes. That probably clears the path for his ascension to the supreme court. You are talking about the outrageous excuse given opposed to his service because he served in the bush administration. What should we know about comments from people like Chuck Schumer on the floor of the senate who said the following. Senate republicans are only requesting documents from two of the five years that judge kavanaugh was in the white house. Only documents from his time in the white house counsels office, not as Staff Secretary. Bill you have that. Some are suggesting it could be a million pages or more from his time at the white house. What do you think of that, sir . I think its unfair to paint brett with responsibility or authority with respect to every piece of paper that goes to the Staff Secretarys office and finds its way to the president of the United States. The job of the Staff Secretary is to make sure the appropriate people with responsibility and expertise weigh in on policy matters so that when documents go to the president , everyone who has information with respect to that particular issue has commented on that policy issue. And again, bretts role as Staff Secretary was not in any way to shape policy but make sure appropriate people have looked at the issue at hand. I think to paint brett with responsibility for everything that went through that Staff Secretarys office quite frankly is unfair. Sandra should he be confirmed . No question in my mind he should be confirmed unless there is something in his background that im unaware of. He has been vetted before. Brett was one of my lawyers when i was white house counsel. Very bright and hard working, a person of great integrity from my perspective. Not arrogant. People liked working with brett and i think his service on the d. C. Circuit has been outstanding. I think he would make a fine justice on the u. S. Supreme court. Bill i hope you come back soon. Thank you for your time, Alberto Gonzales. Our headliner today. Thank you, sir. Sandra the tsa firing back against a new report that claims they are spying on Everyday Americans while traveling through u. S. Airports and in the air. Is their Surveillance Program protecting against 9 11 style attacks or big brother going too far . Our ateam is here. Bill President Trump back on the Campaign Trail today heading to florida to give one candidate a boost in the governors race. Ron desantis is a member of congress and wants the governors office. Well talk to him next hour ahead of the big rally tonight. When did you see the sign . When i needed to create a better visitor experience. Improve our workflow. Attract new customers. Thats when fastsigns recommended fleet graphics. Yeah now business is rolling in. Get started at fastsigns. Com. To give you the protein you need with less of the sugar you dont. Ill take that. [cheers] 30 grams of protein and 1 gram of sugar. New ensure max protein. In two great flavors. Next flight to monitor the person seems a little creepy to me. Its a new program. I think you need to know if you are actually stopping anything. The previous behavior of Federal Air Marshals was to go on highrisk flights not track specific people. These are public locations, but a lot of questions need to be answered here. Sandra what theyre doing with the information they seem to be gathering. They are reporting Federal Air Marshals are tracking everyday u. S. Citizens that are going about their daily behavior, whether traveling through the airports or on the airplane itself. Transparency and accountability. Making sure the tsa is accountable and transparent to the American People coming on the heels of The Big Story from the tsa a couple weeks ago of their packon procedures. Intrusive at best. Tsa has a bad track record and now tracking how you stare at them and understanding a lot of americans who have travel anxiety, who dont like to fly. Giving somebody a cold stare in tsa isnt necessarily a reason to get tracked. Bill were no different to the cop on the corner placed this because there is an increased possibility that something might happen. When youre in a tube at 30,000 feet it makes sense to put someone there. End quote. As a frequent flier i cant believe im about to defend the tsa but this is the debate weve been having for 17 years about privacy versus security since 9 11. If we look, the tsas mission is to prevent an attack by using an airline or at an airport. Think about what happened and you know this well from your business background, after 9 11 and the stock market. We saw several airlines that went bankrupt following those attacks. It is not only the safety and security of the airways, it is that we have to have confidence in the security of our air travel around the country. Very important to business as well. Sandra john, the tsa in their Defense Talks about observing behavioral detection and thats where the gray line lies, right . The globe shows the checklist for armed Undercover Air marshals that ask if the passenger in question is gripping or white knuckling their bags, have a jump in their adams apple or cold, penetrating stare. You are worried that theyre checking the box. He was gripping his bag tightly and now he is on a list. My boss was on a terror watch list. There are mistakes in the bureaucracies. It is a good thing focusing on behavior. You go overseas and people observe your behavior. If someone is competent and qualified to observe behavior you want to look for things that are unusual. Thats what people should be doing. You are worried that sandra the story fascinates people. Its a computer algorithm. Then it goes to a human team and they look for red flags in actual background. This is a seesaw weve been dealing with for 17 years. I land on the side the terrorists win we give up our civil liberties. How much you grip a bag or have a stare. Bill i signed up for clear. Its not just the cold stare. It is also a pattern of flying behavior. The human team and algorithm. If you get off a flight from saudi arabia. Someone flies from dubuque in albuquerque. Gripping a bag, cold stare. Bill this Malaysian Air flight mystery will never be solved. Not pilot air. It is like the Amelia Earhart story of our day. We will never return. Maybe the messiah returned and we all got left but that plane. Bill that would make a story. Sandra thank you ateam. Bill lebron james is calling out the white house, whats new on that . Well tell you why. A new survey says people drinking and shopping are a bad combo. Have you ever done it . The 24 7 crew apparently has. Bringing up a point lebron says we can all agree with as sports fan. Sports was always the saving grace. We have sports to keep us from talking about politics. But the two now have intersected and leah gabriel brought up a good point. Who started this . Who kneeled first . Colin kaepernick kneeled first and the president responded to this because i believe the commissioner of the nfl did not do so in a Strong Enough, effective matter. What started as a one or two alarm fire is like five or six alarms and no one has a clue how to put it out. Sandra how are fans responding to lebrons remarks here . People who are protrump will bash what he says and vice versa. Lebron james is a powerful figure. Bill a lot of people listen to him. Moving to l. A. Will give him a bigger voice. Do you think he has a future in politics . If he wanted to he could. He opened up a public school for atrisk third and fourth graders. He has much bigger dreams than just the basketball court. You wonder if lebron james he is not running for president. If he said i want to become the president , he would get some votes. He was asked that question last night. If nobody else is going to run for office and President Trump was going to win and you were the only saving grace for the Democratic Party would you run . He said yeah, maybe i would. I dont know if politics is really in his future but he was asked that question. Bill will he be 46 . No, no. 23 times two. I dont think so. He was asked last night also if he was sitting across the table from the president , what would he say to the president . He said i would never sit across the table from President Trump. And my question here is how are people supposed to come together if you cant even talk to the people that you disagree with . I also think that president trump missed a major opportunity when he disinvited the Golden State Warriors and eagles to the white house as well. It could have been a cool moment that he missed. I think people need to come together and Start Talking about it in a serious way. Sandra so many ask themselves is it a good idea to drink and shop . I will say its not a good idea. Ill get to why later. But there was a new study that found out that people spend 30 billion a year shopping while drinking. Essentially drunk shopping. The interesting thing here how much you spend depends on what you drink. Gin drinkers spend the most. Also the shopping late friday night. People are buying lingerie big time on friday nights. An interesting one. Kids know what their parents, they see mom or dad has had a few and the perfect time to ask for the toy or something and kids do it. They know their parents. Have we ever made a purchase that our inhibitions were down . Its so easy to shop online now. A click of a button and you have your perfect toy. Sandra if you do it, save it to the cart and maybe push the Purchase Button on the cart the next day when you put thought into it. Ive never done that before. Outside of a pizza . Pizza for sure and why its a bad idea. 50 of people returning the things that they purchased when they do this. Maybe not so good for the retailers. Eating choices. You are more likely to say ill get that. There is a reason why in nevada its against the law for casinos to allow visibly drunk customers to gamble. There is a reason why. What a story. Thanks to both of you. Bill trump and lebron would get along very well for the record. Im with you. Sandra were watching the images coming out of california this morning. Monster wildfires sweeping across the west as firefighters from across the country run in to help crews stretched to the limit. Were live on the ground there in moments. Plus another big story were watching today. President trump saying he is willing to meet with irans president without any preconditions. Congressman lee zeldin is on go deck and the push for stronger Border Security from the Trump Administration. All this is our third hour of americas newsroom. Come right back. Sleep cycle. So you can seize the morning. New zzzquil pure zzzs. New laptop with 24 7 tech support. Yep, thanks guys. I think he might need some support. Yes start them off right. With the School Supplies they need at low prices all summer long. Save 200 on this dell laptop at office depot officemax. A Place For Mom. You know your family we know Senior Living. Together well make the right choice. Sandra fox news alert on new reaction to the president s offer to the leader of iran, a sitdown with no strings attached. Welcome to a brandnew hour of americas newsroom. Good tuesday morning. Im sandra smith. Bill im bill hemmer. Good morning. President trump says he is ready to meet any time anywhere where the iranian president as he has had two other highprofile sitdowns with adversaries. Kellyanne conway making that point on americas newsroom. The president has made clear he is open to conversation and negotiation. He has done that with chairman kim and mr. Putin. He has always said if its not a good deal for the United States and our interest and workers and security he will walk away any time. He is always open to negotiation and conversation. Bill john roberts on the north lawn with us today. John, good morning. Starting a new hour, how are you . Good morning. Im doing fine, thanks. The president again playing his bad cop good cop routine this time with iran. Yesterday at a Press Conference with the italian Prime Minister surprising the nation by saying that he would be willing to meet with irans leader rouhani without precondition. Listen here. President trump i believe in meeting. I would certainly meet with iran if they wanted to meet. I dont know if theyre ready net. Theyre having a hard time now. I dont do it from strength or weakness. It is an appropriate thing to do. If we could work something out thats meaningful. Not the waste of paper that the other deal was, i would certainly be willing to meet. The offer follows a stern warning from the president on twitter two weeks ago when he threatened iran with consequences the likes of which through throughout history have ever suffered. The Immediate Reaction was to reject talks unless the u. S. Goes back to the iran deal. They said the United States is not trustworthy. How could we trust this country when it withdraws from the nuclear deal . The president is following the script that he followed with north korea, harsh sanctions, punishing rhetoric against the leadership eventually ending up in a meeting which may or may not lead anywhere in the long term. The president also taking aim at the powerful Koch Brothers who pledged 400 million to support policy and candidates the president tweeting out this morning, quote, the globalist Koch Brothers who have become a joke in real republican i dont need their money or bad ideas. They love my tax and regulation cuts, judicial picks and more. I made them richer. Their network is highly overrated. They want to protect their companies outside the u. S. From being taxed. Im for the american worker. Two nice guys with bad ideas, make America Great again. The tweet comes after the Koch Brothers announced yesterday that they were not going to throw their support behind kevin kramer, the republican candidate for the senate seat in north dakota locked in a tight race with the democrat Heidi Heitkamp. Here is what the rnc chairwoman said earlier this morning. It was very disappointing to see they wont support kevin kramer in this alltoo important north Dakota Senate race. Heitkamp hasnt been a supporters of the policies of the president and kevin kramer has. The race is an important one. The gop thinks they may be able to pick up a seat increasing margins in the senate. The real clear politics average has the race within a single point. Kramer leads by a half point. The Koch Brothers oppose the president s plan on tariffs. There is at least a couple of areas there where they are clearly in disagreement. Bill thank you, john. Nice to see you. Thank you, sir. Sandra President Trump heading to florida a bit later today for another big Midterm Campaign rally. This one for ron desantis who is running for governor in that allimportant swing state. Minutes from now we will be speaking with desantis live but first rnc chair Ronna Mcdaniel earlier on americas newsroom. Youre seeing where the emergency of the Republican Party is now, solidly behind the president. As he endorses these candidates his base goes to these candidate and gives them a big boost and you are seeing it in florida right now. Sandra mike warren with us now. Are you seeing the energy of the Republican Party as ronna mcdaniel just said solidly behind this president . Certainly among primary voters. We saw that recently in georgia where the Georgia Republican nominee brian kemp got a big boost in the runoff because of an endorsement from President Trump. It seems to me the most important issue in any contested republican primary is donald trump and whether or not you are behind donald trump or not. Or whether or not you are Strong Enough supporter of donald trump. Ron desantis running against adam putnam. Putnam a longtime florida politician. Young but in congress and the state legislature and agriculture commissioner and checked all the right boxes, ron desantis has supported the president and an ad showing him reading to his infant son the art of the deal. So grab onto donald trump. Sandra building the wall, right . Yes. You have to grab onto donald trump if you want to succeed and really thats the most and maybe the only important thing in a primary. Sandra speaking of ads. Adam putnam got the endorsement of pam bondi. She was a staunch trump supporter and went to bat for the president. She is now in putnams camp. What a difference a debate and endorsement by the president makes when you look at that particular race with ron desantis and adam putnam. I think the momentum has gone in desantiss direction. A couple of recent polls showing him ahead of putnam and i think the writing is on the wall. You have President Trump going down there, very popular among florida republicans. And i think that you are likely to see what happened to brian kemp happen to ron desantis. It is really the only issue. I havent seen or heard anything in the debates or in these ads that really distinguishes the two candidates on any issues. Really the only important issue here is donald trump. Sandra meanwhile the president s next move as far as his policies are concerned in the potential he is saying no preconditions necessary with a potential meeting with the iranian president. A lot of reaction pouring into that this morning. Any time, anywhere, says the president. This seems like something that was an off the cuff remark from the president. Im told there is nothing really being discussed at the white house about any kind of meeting. Again, last week there was this blowup over twitter and i think there is a big question here that supporters of the president need to be asking, which is could the president be willing to go and renegotiate a nuclear deal that essentially recasts the sanctions relief the Obama Nuclear deal did . These sanctions that are coming that have got the iranians really upset are having a big effect. Even the sanctions arent there yet and having a big effect on the economy. But i think there is a fear among some iran hawks the president might be willing to renegotiate and pull those sanctions off again if he is in some kind of oneonone meeting with rouhani or anybody in the Iranian Regime. Sandra mike warren, Senior Writer at the weekly standard. You set it up for us. That big rally will be happening tonight down in florida with the president and 7 00 hour. Its expected. Bill well be watching it. Fox news alert on the raging wildfires in california. Crews are battling more than a dozen fires. Triple digit temperatures. The winds are gusty. Thousands of buildings are burned or destroyed and countless residents forced from their homes. Jeff paul live in redding, california by the carr fire, the biggest of those burning now. How are things today . Good morning. Good morning, bill. The carr fire continues to grow in size but containment levels are up now at 27 . Firefighters tell us that they feel like they have a better hold on this fire and as a result theyre starting to allow the first round of evacuees to return home. Unfortunately many of them are pulling into their driveways to find a scene like this. As you take a look over here you can see house after house in this redding neighborhood destroyed. Many residents coming home will have to face that reality that they have lost everything. The fire right now is at 110,000 acres. The number of dead remains at six people. Two children and their great grandmother, two firefighters and one other person who has yet to be identified. Close to 1,000 structures destroyed. That number could rise as the fire continues to threaten a few additional thousand homes with the fire still burning. I lost it all. Every bit of it. Im sorry. Its just been devastating, period. It is so hard. I just cant get my mind around it. I lost everything. They gave you five minutes to get out. What do you grab in five minutes . Along the california coast, some fires have grown in size. But containments are getting better. Two fires have burned more than 75,000 acres and theyre threatening 12,000 structures. To complicate matters while it is a little cooler here, bill, were calling out here forecasts are calling for another dry and hot day throughout those areas where the wildfires are burning, bill. Bill jeff paul in redding, california on that. Sandra fox news alert new reaction coming in from President Trump as the company is one day now away from making untraceable 3d printed guns available to the public. How several states and washington are responding. Bill as we mentioned President Trump heading to florida today rallying for his preferred candidate for governor. Hotly contested primary. Congressman ron desantis wants to be the next governor in florida and make his case for us live coming up today. Sandra President Trump repeating his threat to shut down the government over his immigration demands. Can a shutdown be avoided . Representative joni ernst is here and she joins us next. President trump if we dont get Border Security after many, many years of talk within the United States, i would have no problem doing a shutdown. Whoooo. You rely on tripadvisor so you dont miss out on the Perfect Hotel. But did you know you can also use tripadvisor so you dont miss out on the best price . Tripadvisor searches over 200 Booking Sites to find the hotel you want for the lowest price. Saving you up to 30 so you can spend less time missing out. And more time paddling out tripadvisor. Visit tripadvisor. Com or download the app at the allnew carfax. Com. Bill washington, d. C. , fox news alert getting a few tidbits inside the Jury Selection thats underway in the trial of Paul Manafort. 75 potential jurors are being interviewed right now. The judge t. S. Ellis is saying that nothing is more important than jury duty as an american. Also apparently jurors have heard all the charges against manafort are financial in nature. This is underway. Well see how it goes. Alexandria, virginia, 11 15 in new york. Sandra President Trump doubling down on his threat to shut down the government over funding for his border wall. Mcconnell says he is Optimistic Congress will work out a deal. Well finish up the set of appropriation measures. Weve been considering for several days and take four more big steps toward our goal of completing a regular appropriations process and funding the government in a timely and orderly manner. Sandra Iowa Republican senator joni ernst joins us now. Thank you for joining us on the program this morning. Are you as optimistic as the majority leader . I am. I do think we can get our appropriations bill done. Weve been working very hard at them. We would rather not see a Government Shutdown. I do think the president needs to be heard when he talks about making sure our borders are secure, building the wall and reforming our immigration process. I think we all can Work Together on that. Sandra Kellyanne Conway joined us from the white house earlier this morning and really set up what this debate looks like as we head toward the Midterm Elections. Less than 100 days away. Watch this. This president could not be more clear for the last three plus years now on what he thinks about a broken Immigration System and repeated it yesterday and catch and release, releasing people into the interior of this country. Ending chain migration. Going to a meritbased system of immigration and of course having that wall. Having Border Security. It is a stark contrast to the Democratic Party running to abolish ice. Sandra how do things play out this fall . Well, i think we can continue working on our appropriations bills. I think that is really important. And at some point we do need to have a vigorous debate on immigration. We cant avoid this. We do have to protect our nation. We have to make sure our borders are strong. And of course we need immigration. We have an Unemployment Rate of 2. 7 in iowa and we know that we need workers both skilled and unskilled. And we certainly arent growing our own so we know that we need help with that. But we have to debate these items and we have to be very thoughtful about it. We cant get emotional about the issue. We have to do what is right for our country. Sandra as far as your concerns in your state, senator, about the president s policy on trade and tariffs, i say this as were a couple hours into the trading day. U. S. Stock market, dow is up triple digits right now. Some of those concerns have been eased. This is on the mind of those that live in your state every single day. What do you tell them . Well, i had the opportunity to visit with them over the weekend because i was out doing county tours and town halls. So many of our farmers and those engaged in the Agricultural Industry are very concerned about trade and tariffs. But we know the economy is doing well. It just happens to be our ag secretary the markets are down. We want to see trade and we saw a little bit of hope there with the e. U. And the fact theyll be purchasing more soybeans. So if the president can get good deals for us, seal up the deal with mexico and canada and move to other free trade agreements well be doing just fine. But again we want to see that trade. We want to see open markets. We would rather have that than, of course, the aid that is being proposed by the federal government. Sandra the numbers coming out of the chamber of commerce showing that bailing out all sectors hit by the president s tariffs would cost 39 billion, senator. Yeah. Thats way too much. The farmers that i have spoken with have said we dont want aid, we dont need the subsidies. What we want to see the fa the fact that we can grow our goods and get them to new and developing markets. I encourage to president to keep pushing. Lets get good deals and done soon so we dont lose great opportunity and a great economy here in the United States. Sandra we hear your message. Senator joni ernst, good to have you on the program. Bill new images out of north korea. What they may some about the countrys Nuclear Program and intent. How concerned should the u. S. And our allies be . Whats the real price tag for the medicare for all plan being pushed by Bernie Sanders. The number is in and its a doozy. Dr. Marc siegel is here next. 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. I never thought id say this but i found bladder leak underwear thats actually pretty. Always discreet boutique. Hidden inside is a super absorbent core that quickly turns liquid to gel. So i feel protected and pretty. Always discreet boutique. Would boost healthcare spending by more than 32 trillion over 10 years. That would mean a lot of taxes. Dr. Marc siegel Fox News Contributor and professor of medicine. 32 trillion. Do you believe that number . Came out of a reputable study out of george mason in virginia. Thats more than double the amount of taxes individuals and corporations pay over 10 years. We would have to somehow raise money double what were already paying in taxes to fund this. Thats a lot of money. I dont know there are ways it would save money. Decreases administrative costs. Medicare and medicaid are less in cost than private insurance. They would use the block to negotiate drug prices. Two savings. Cost, no copays or deductibles. If you have a copay or deductible you might think twist before spending it. With medicare for all, single payer, you dont have that. Second problem is rationing. In canada which is single payer you cant get a hip replacement when you need one or the stent when you need one. Wait three or four weeks to get a cardiac stent with chest pain. Its not the first time the 32 trillion has been floated out there. I believe this number. This is a huge, huge expense. Bill well hear a lot about it. Many democrats are talking about it. As we get into this campaign youll hear more about it. Do you see this as ever possible in america . Two reasons its not going to happen in america. You point out in america. Australia has a system of single payer that works with medicare for all but thats for basic catastrophic needs. It wont work in america for two reasons. One, we talked about the price tag. Two, its a direct attack on the Employer Healthcare system. 170 Million People are already insured through their employer. It works for employer and employee. Employer doesnt have to pay taxes on the amount that they are giving and for the employee its an incentive. Ill take that job. I get my Health Coverage through that. That is a system under direct attack. Bill well hear more about this as a political issue. You say its a pipe dream. The Insurance Companies will never let this happen. They are a lobby in the United States and why a democrat talking point. Our Insurance Industry i think, youve heard me say this many times, is too strong. I think the insurer is in the Doctors Office interfering with doctor and patient but theyre powerful. Lets replace them with the government . Also should not be interfering. Bill high taxes a lot. I dont know what you have to pay. Is it 80 or 90 , whatever the number is. The reason people like sanders like this. They argue administrative costs are lower and you would be able to negotiate drug prices better and more competitively. Do you believe that . Yes, i believe that but i also think that the Trump Administration is on the right track with getting more generics approved and more competition and more choice. Thats on the right track. I like Free Market Solutions to this. I think medicare for all would be hugely expensive and not deliver what it is promising. Look, bill, were coming into a time of innovation. Were talking about chemotherapy, immunotherapy and genetic therapies that only work for one person, not the other person. How do you propose single payer covers that . It wont. The treatments of the future wont be covered. Bill very good, thank you, sir. 32 trillion over 10 years. Never going to happen. Thank you. Sandra the first trial sparked by the Mueller Investigation currently underway, the jury being selected in the case involving Paul Manafort. New details on what is happening inside of that courthouse. Were live on the scene next. Bill he wants to be the governor in the state of florida. Tonight he will get a big push from the president. Congressman ron desantis is here live as he gets ready for the big rally in tampa tonight. Homework and worked with his team and has a very strong case here. Sandra peter doocy live from outside the federal courthouse in alexandria, virginia. Whats happening there . I was just inside where Paul Manafort is sitting up on the ninth floor in a courtroom wearing a suit unlike the last time he was here where they brought him in a prison jumpsuit. He is quietly observing Jury Selection which just began. He is sitting in a courtroom he was driven to from jail in the back of a nondescript gray van and the judge in this case t. S. Ellis just told a pool of 75 potential jurors he thinks there is nothing more important than jury duty as an american. The 18 charges are for filing false tax returns, bank fraud and conspiracy to commit bank fraud. Just yesterday the feds, who months ago car aide out a raid on one of his houses allege he has been hiding 60 million from the i. R. S. He got consulting or lobbying from ukrainian politicians including some backed by russia but none are from the five Months Associated with the Trump Campaign and the white house isnt sweating todays proceedings. I would note for your audience, bill, that the judge has very strictly instructed no mention of Paul Manaforts role in the Trump Campaign, dont mention trump, russia or collusion. This trial obviously centers on matters that have nothing to do with the campaign. Back in may the judge in this case accused the Special Counsels office of using financial charges to pressure Paul Manafort into giving Robert Mueller damaging information about the president. One of the Special Counsels prosecutors fired back at the time that he doesnt expect any of the governments witnesses testifying against manafort to mention russia ever. And we certainly have not heard that here during the Jury Selection so far. Sandra peter doocy, thank you. Bill President Trump heads to florida, Campaign Stop another big Campaign Rally trying to give congressman ron desantis the bump as he looks to become the next governor of florida. Ron desantis is my guest now. How are you doing and good day to you . Big rally in tampa tonight . What do you think the president has done for your campaign in this primary . Well, obviously he is the 800 pound gorilla in republican politics. A lot of our voters at the Grassroots Level are frustrated when they see some republicans not trying to support him. Thats something that they look for. Are you supporting the president . Well, in my case people are seeing that the president is supporting me. Thats a great thing to have and especially in a primary when all the candidates try to say a lot of the same things, say theyre so conservative. The record doesnt always bear that out. But i think trumps support separates the wheat from the chaff and i think it has been a big boost for me. Bill adam putnam is your primary opponent and has a lot of support in florida. Pam bondi and others. What is going to give in this primary . I think there are a couple of things. One, bill, we have a different biography. Im an iraq veteran. Served in the navy. He has been in leadership since he was 22. Im a proven conservative leader and my actions back up the reality. Adam is somebody even some of his highprofile supporters have called him amnesty adam putnam for being weak on illegal immigration. He is trying to reinvent himself and it isnt working. You have the president and that factor. There are a number of factors. Fox doing a debate early on in the primary was a big differentiator and i think that really reset the race and set the tone and we basically just built momentum from that point on. Bill i have heard you mention that before. The tweet from today. The white house west wing ill be in tampa later tonight. Desantis will be a great governor for florida. Big help on tax and regulation cuts, loves our military and vets and has my total endorsement. You will take that into the primary. Those who argue the president has been effective supporting primary candidates but not general election candidates. What would you argue on that . I think well have a lot of success in the general election across the country. Here in florida, bill, our state is going in the right direction. Weve done a lot of good things under governor scotts leadership. Unemployment rate is under 4. An historic opportunity to expand our economic base and really create highpaying jobs because of the trump tax cuts. And i think that florida voters will want to continue with the success and so weve got a good story to tell as republicans down here and i think it will carry the day here. But i also think the president s support in other key senate races like missouri and north dakota and montana will be critical in bringing more republicans to the u. S. Senate starting in 2019. Bill you are drawing your campaign tight with the white house. The latest ad you have put out, a little shot of that right now. Watch. Ron loves reading to kids. He reads stories. Then mr. Trump said youre fired. I love that part. He is teaching madison to talk. Make America Great again. People say ron is all trump but he is so much more. That is pretty obvious, sir. Bill, you know, sometimes in this process you have to be able to take a step back and laugh at yourself a little bit. Have a little fun with it. My wife is my best supporter and best friend. I wanted to introduce voters to her and to my family which is number one for me. We also wanted to do it in a way that people could get a little laugh out of and we could have a lighter touch. For people that are getting upset about it shows they have no sense of humor and they just totally dont get what we were trying to convey. Bill ron desantis. Thank you for your time. Well see the rally tonight and watch it live at 7 00 eastern. Well talk to the other side tomorrow. Adam putnam is our guest in americas newsroom. Well get his take as the primary battle heats up three weeks away. Sandra watching the battle over homemade guns. Eight states suing the Trump Administration over its decision to let a Texas Company public online instructions for 3d printed guns. President trump is still on the fence. President trump responded by tweeting this. Im looking into the 3d plastic guns being sold to the public. Spoke to nra. Doesnt seem to make much sense. A senator firing back this morning. It doesnt make any sense that your Justice Department and your state department agreed to make 3d guns available to the public. As of tomorrow, anyone, including criminals and terrorists, can have access to blueprints for making Deadly Weapons with the click of a mouse. Sandra anita vogel is live in los angeles. A lot of people watching this story, anita. Yes, definitely. Its the big concern. For anyone not familiar with what this is. A 3d downloadable gun is known as a ghost gun and can be printed at home with a specialized 3d printer and turned into a weapon thats not traceable. Thats because you can make it with plastic. The company that makes the designs out of texas is planning to make the drawings Available Online tomorrow for virtually anyone to see and download. Now eight states plus the district of columbia are suing the state department for recently settling with the company allowing them to publish the blueprints. For god sakes, when it comes to something as basic as public safety, our state department saying hey, this is a giveaway for terrorists. It undermines all the hard work everybody here behind me has dedicated much of their professional lives to of keeping us safe. Because the state department is charged with regulating the sale of firearms outside of the u. S. , it was the agency which blocked defense distributed when it wanted to publish the gun blueprints in 2013. Two years later the company sued the state department. The owner claiming his free speech rights were being violated by not allowing him to publish. Just this past june last month the state department settled the suit saying certain firearms and related items are already widely available for commercial sale but just last week secretary of state mike pompeo said he had reservations about making this Information Available to just anybody. I asked the state department to please reconsider this decision. I think it has Long Term National security and domestic security considerations for our country. You have my commitment ill take a look at it. Defense distributed vowed as of august 1, tomorrow, the age of the downloadable gun begins. The reality is a lot of plans are already online. The issue will likely fall under the purview of the departments of justice and commerce. Look for more lawsuits to come. Sandra we will indeed. Thank you. Bill a major headline from yesterday. President trump saying he is willing to meet with the leaders of iran with no strings attached. How is that playing in congress . Lee zeldin on the House Foreign Relations Committee is our guest in a moment. First here is senator lindsey graham. I would like to listen to what the president has to say in terms of his thinking but beforehand i thought it was a bad idea. I will give the president a lot of credit in terms of being tough on iran. Held her. I found my tresiba® reason. Now im doing more to lower my a1c. I take tresiba® once a day. Tresiba® controls blood sugar for 24 hours for powerful a1c reduction. woman wed been counting down to his retirement. It was our tresiba® reason. He needs insulin to control his high blood sugar and, at his age, hes at greater risk for low blood sugar. 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Speaking to other people, especially when you are talking about potentials of war and death and famine and lots of other things, you meet. There is nothing wrong with meeting. No preconditions, no. They want to meet, ill meet. Any time they want. Any time they want. Sandra President Trump saying he is open to meeting with the leader of iran no strings attached. This change of heart comes after ramped up rhetoric between the two leaders in the wake of the u. S. Withdrawal from the iran deal. Lee zeldin joins us now back home. Thank you for joining us this morning. Good to have you. Is that a good idea, meet with irans leader no preconditions . The president has made a lot of great play calls as relates to iran since coming into office. Pulling out of the Iran Nuclear Deal was the right move and pushing back an iranian aggression in iraq and syria. Working with allies in that region forming a coalition to push back against iranian aggression in that region. I would love the opportunity to talk to the president why i believe it isnt the right decision to sit down with rouhani at this time. I could see rouhani as he is walking into the meeting talking about how israel is a little satan, america the great satan. Chanting death to america. The guy has blood all over his hands as far as dead u. S. Service members and this iranian leadership, this regime, i dont want us to prop up and i dont want the imagery in any way, shape or form looking like our nations are equal. The largest state sponsor of terror. I could see them walking into a meeting with President Trump and walking out chanting death to america. There are certain basics in order to earn the ability to sit down with President Trump, because iran is desperate for keeping the Iran Nuclear Deal. Theyre desperate for it, not us. They need to sanctions relief. If they need the meeting, i dont want to see them in any way trying to embarrass our president and country and thats what im concerned about is protecting our president and our country in not trusting these iranians in particular that are in charge of their nation. Sandra out of the break we showed your colleague in the Senate Lindsey Graham giving the president credit for being tougher on iran. Is the president could the president even go stronger on iran than he already is in your view . Of course. The fact is the military option is on the table and real but it is the last possible option. Not the one that we want. We want to see effective multilateral diplomacy. We want to see ramping up economic pressure. The information campaign. There are millions of iranians that want a different direction for their nation. When we talk about when we hear people in the United States talk about how the most moderate candidates get elected in iran. Thats ignoring the fact that 12,000 most moderate candidates dont get allowed access to the ballot. The military option is real so you can get tougher. However, thats not something that i believe that he wants, that our nation wants. But yes, its on the table. Sandra yesterday the president met with the italian Prime Minister and spent time heaping praise on the country for its tough immigration policies. Watch this. President trump the Prime Minister frankly is with us today because of illegal immigration. Italy got tired of it. They didnt want it any longer. I applaud the Prime Minister for his bold leadership, truly bold. And i hope more leaders will follow this example, including leaders in europe. Sandra all of this is coming, congressman, has the president doubles down on the rhetoric he will shut down the government if he doesnt get funding for his border wall. Is this a good play by the president . As far as the leverage that he has in the appropriations battle it is good to put that marker down right now to let Congress Know that Congress Needs to do its job in insuring our borders are more secured. We have an immigration policy in our nation that is flawed. Every nations backbone is its rule of law, whether its italy, other nations within europe or the United States of america. This president knows that there are many people and things illegal substances coming across our borders as well that we need to do a better job funding the effort against. Where the president wants to combat the heroin and opioid abuse epidemic across our country or combating illegal immigration, the president is making a play call now which is correct in letting him know sending a message to congress dont come to me at the end of september and try to explain why you didnt do anything at all. Thats not an option. Sandra congressman lee zeldin in new york. Thank you very much, sir. 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