competitive primaries. speaker paul ryan saying, quote, the president is strong in these states, he s an asset whether i run in southern wisconsin or america, nobody is talking about stormy daniels, nobody is talking about russia, they are talk about lives and problems, end quote. let s bring axios reporter, caitlin, let s jump right in, in what spay specifically will the president be an asset in the midterms and how can he maintain his assets status, if you will, between now and november? you know, there s a couple of ways to answer your first question, one way we saw in the past week that the president was an asset to republicans was in the west virginia primary where, you know, the establishment republicans here in dc, majority leader mitch mcconnell, they were afraid that don blankenship was going to win the primary. they thought he was unelectable in the general election and you saw the president get on twitter and encouraged voters in west
are now questioning a friend of the attacker and his parents who live in northern paris. the stabbing rampage took place in a popular tourist spot near the main opera house. witnesses described the chaos. then i went to the swimming tc. they were [inaudible] they were pushing. she was awake. she had eyes open. she spoke in some words i did not catch. reporter: the islamic state has taken responsibility for the
attack. fox news sunday from the secretary of date might pay up reiterated its till to send to know because isis off to often falsely claims. we don t know much more. we know the caliphate is claiming responsibility. he was one of the soldiers we can t verify that. french authorities with the intelligence the united states can provide will do our best to unpack this in the coming hours. reporter: last night the french president emmanuel macron treated all my thoughts with the victims of the wounded knife attacks perpetrated in paris as well as to their relatives. i salute on behalf of all the french and then we ll have neutralized. paris once again pay the price of blood but did not give an inch to the enemies of freedom. france is on high alert after assuring a jihadist attack that claimed the lives of over 245 people across the country in the past three years. eric: thank you so much beard arthel appeared arthel: joining me now is while