luther strange sides with the president on that one. just like mitch mcconnell and the leadership does. these are the weird counter veiling cross balances that take place in washington that keep president trump and mitch mcconnell and the republican established lashed together. shannon: interesting this former alabama supreme court justice moore is down there. one group the biggest political showdown. chuck norris versus donald trump. we ll see how it works out shortly. chris stirewalt. thank you very much. bill: coming up senator rob portman from the senate foreign relations committee will be here to talk about this and the rising tensions with north korea. we ll talk to the ohio republican. tax reform, healthcare is on the line and pushing a big deal on human trafficking that is very important. the news of the day coming up with the senator. shannon: in the meantime breaking news coming in on another big story out of paris. a suspect crashed his car into a group of soldiers. co
in paris. six soldiers were wounded, three seriously. their lives are not thought to be in danger. but again 240 people have been killed by terrorists in france over the last two years alone. the country remains on high alert and we haven t seen repeats of some of the big attacks of 2015 but the low-tech attacks using knives or cars just keep coming. another one happened this morning. shannon: can be very effective. benjamin hall live in london. bill: back to our top story of the day. the white house has made its position clear. secretary of state rex tillerson saying the world is uniting against north korean aggression. what are the options for the commander-in-chief. governor mike huckabee is live on that next. he is saying don t test america and don t test donald trump. we are not just a super power. we were a super power, we are now a hyper power. the message is very clear. don t test this white house pyongyang.
number of deaths. derek van dam is here with the latest conditions. yeah, authorities in the maricopa county are reporting five heat relate deaths and investigating an additional 57 which they suspect are all due to the heat. but check out the record temperatures set just yesterday alone. a record that has been standing for 131 years in los angeles, shattered yesterday. in l.a., 98 degrees was your temperature. look at the triple digits from vegas into salt lake, reno as well as helena. we have nearly 3 million americans under an extreme heat advisory or warning specifically across the central valley of california. these are not typos. actually this is a cooldown from what we experienced the past couple days. still triple digit heat though for vegas, bakersfield, fresno, death valley. you re flirting with 100 degrees. high pressure has settled over
politically good for the democrats to have anybody with a real voice speaking out. let s talk about lebron james, racial slur on the gate of his house in l.a., written i think racism has reared its ugly head and come out and said hello to people. what people once only thought and was afraid to say, with this president, making it okay to come out from underneath your hood, that s where we are going to get. you think the president made it okay? absolutely. i mean, you know, excuse me, i did not stutter when i said that. when the president of the united states sort of appeals to a white nationalist agenda, and embraces people who were fearful of the browning of america and for all practical purposes, clung with their dying fingers there was a press conferenc , today in today s white house
top investigator in the federal government until three weeks ago when he was addressing fbi employees in l.a. and noticed on the tv screens in the very back of the room there was news he had been fired. he reportedly laughed thinking it was some kind of prank. it was not. the president sent his long time bodyguard, the director of oval office operations to hand deliver the letter to comey s office of the termination. this was a shock from comey on down as well as members of congress when the president called a few of them about the decision. if jim comey was shocked, he was not unprepared. we soon learned he had been keeping meticulous notes about his interaction with the president some of which purportedly disturbed him including efforts to impede on the russia probe. you think about the categories again the memos raise a fundamental question.