71% of americans say he tweets too much. 71% call him unpresidential. even his tv ratings are failing. in june he did a prime time interview on abc, and got only 3.9 million viewers, a sharp drop from celebrity family feud which got 6.1 million in the same time slot the week before. sad. sad. well, i mean, celebrity family feud is a great show, right? fun. it s going to get good ratings. senator michael bennet may have watched bill maher last night, yesterday the democratic presidential hopeful offered a make america boring again message. i like the cut of this guys, if you elect me, i promise you you won t have to think about me for two weeks at a time, i ll do my job watching out for north korea and ending this trade war, so you can go raise your kids
debates that effectively become the drivers in these polls. and the drivers frankly in online fund-raising too. guess what the standard is to make the fall debate, john? fund-raising and polls. so therein lies the challenge for these candidates. if they re not raising money from donors, which happens online, which happens from big debate moments, they re probably not moving in the polls either. so the field will start to shrink after the next round. that s the short way of saying it. beto o rourke gained national prominence for how much he was able to raise for his national senate race. in the first 24 hours he raised 6.1 million. in the first quarter $9.4 million and in the second quarter 3.6 million. i think he really has a lot to prove now because that kind of drop is really alarming because it seems to indicate a
faith it agreed to payback the $16.1 million but a government watchdog group calls the pricing alarming. what is unusual in the case is just how aggressively they were pursuing these kinds of excessive profits. they introduced an amendment on the house floor aimed at making the cost analysis by private companies more transparent to members of congress and that is currently sitting in committee. in washington, fox news. police in hong kong getting a major show of support today. thousands packing a park for a pro-police rally. it comes after previous rallies against the city s government and the bill that would allow expedition of criminal suspects to mainland china. officers faced sharp criticism after they used tear gas and rubber bullets to break up those demonstrations. today s pro-police rally didn t have numbers like we ve seen but there were reports of smaller counter protests nearby. major headlines from president trump after his third meeting
place. its been almost two weeks since iran carried out an attack in the persian gulf. this lull in military action mesa lou for diplomatic channels to find a solution in the near future. john? thank you, trey. lawmakers on both sides of the aisle accuse a manufacturing company of ripping off the u.s. government. they say it overcharged the department of defense by $16 million. david spunt has that story. reporter: ripping off the american taxpayer, ripping off our military. inside a building where it s hard to find much agreement republicans and democrats have joined forces, against the company with questionable billing practices. california democrat congressman says transdygm, a company that owns military aircraft parts supplier over charged the department of defense by $16.1 million. you had a company that was buying up smaller companies and then they were jacking up the prices 1,000%, 5,000%.
and democrats are accusing this company of gouging the taxpayer to the tune of tens of millions of dollars. this is a rare story of real bipartisan outrage of the overcharging of the federal government. ripping off the american taxpayer, ripping off our military. inside a building where it s hard to find much agreement, republicans and democrats have joined forces against a company with questionable billing practices. california democrat congressman rowe, says the company overcharged the department of defense by $16.1 million. you had a company buying up smaller companies and jacking up the prices of a thousand%, 5000%. he told fox news he alerted the dnd inspector general.