Strong gop primary opponents and howell tonights when a impact republican chances of holding onto that senate seat from kansas, results are coming in fast and furious for control of the u. S. Senate. Stunning images out of beirut, the president says this may have been an attack or a bomb, different theories on the scene were tonight dozens are dead and thousands injured. The official line is this was a potentially unintended warehouse mishap that ignited tons of explosive material. Doctor wally ferris is a former advisor to donald trump joins us live. Is the media democrats pound red states over recent covid19 spikes the new york commissioner, talks about the big apples management of the crisis were 32,000 have died in that state, the highest death toll in the us and we are investigating tonight. Welcome to fox news at night. We have the result of tonights primaries as they are coming in. We begin with a set of primary races in kansas where gop fever, representative Roger Marshall has
Has underscored just now incapable he really is when dealing with a crisis. Among the many truly insane parts of this interview, trump still insists with a straight face that the virus is under control. It would be bad enough if this were just a one off but its a fa fantasy that we heard from trump many, many times before. Have you been briefed by the cdc . I have. We have it so well under control. We have done a good job. Everything is under control. Its a very contagious virus. But its something that we have tremendous control over. Many of them have a little bit and they have it under control. Theyre going to have it under control really quickly. Its going to be under control. Its under control as much as you can control it. The Washington Post is now reporting that more than 5 months into the pandemic, trump has grown exhausted and wants the issue to be behind him. The crisis is deadly serious. As we speak the number of americans infected by the virus is fast approaching 5 million
The Trump Administration is suing a state that just made it easier. Welcome to our viewers in the u. P. S. And around the world. This is early start. Im christine romans. Im Boris Sanchez in for laura jarrett. Its wednesday, august 5th, 5 00 a. M. In new york. Were 90 days to november 3rd and the election. Three months out. President trump says it is what is it approach to the pandemic is divorced from reality as the country struggles with any Real Progress containing the virus. You are more likely as an northeastern die from covid than you are than any other country. There are more cases, new cases of covid today in paris, texas than in paris, france. Covid in the smallest state in the country than the entire country of spain. The president attended a White House Coronavirus Task Force Meeting for the First Time Since april. Cnn learned other members of the task force agree with the assessment of its coordinator that covid19 has become quote extraordinarily widespread and the level of
Subpoenaed eight years of tax returns and financial records from the president s accounting firm. Vances office had opened a criminal investigation into the role that the president and his business played in that hush money scheme payments that were made in the runup to the 2016 election. The hush money, if you remember, went to women who claimed they had had affairs with donald trump. Karen mcdougal and porn star Stormy Daniels. The president tried to block the manhattan d. A. s subpoena, taking his case all the way to the Supreme Court, arguing that he as president had total and complete immunity from criminal investigation. But last month the Supreme Court ruled against the president , saying that the president does not have immunity from cy vances subpoena. And in making their ruling, the justices were clear. The president is not above the law. Their ruling made the Manhattan District Attorney basically the only entity in the country with a clear path toward finally prying loose th
Considering taking executive action with congress in a stalemate. The white house blaming democrats for the delay. Chief of staff mark meadows, secretary of treasury Steve Mnuchin have been on the hill many, many days now trying to get this deal worked out but it is democrats, nancy pelosi, Chuck Schumer making an absolute mockery of this process. Rather than coming towards us into a clean extension of Unemployment Insurance, they are moving beyond what their initial request was. John we are waiting from a possible update from both sides. In the meantime, Kristin Fisher live from the north lot of the white house, good afternoon. Good afternoon, john. This is becoming an almost daily occurrence for the top negotiators. Mark meadows in the treasury secretary, Steve Mnuchin, but today President Trump stayed over here at the white house, hosted a big bill signing ceremony in the east room for the Great American outdoors act, while the Top Republican and democrat in the senate traded barbs