David Gura hosts coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Much. I want to dig into this more. Josh and lynn is joining me. Lynn, let me start with you. Geoff bennett mentioning the 27 district in new york and this is a district that sort of hugs buffalo, it is in upstate new york. And donald trump won that district by almost 25 points back in 2016. You look at the electoral record for the congressman who has announced he is suspending his campaign. Chris collins won that district 67 of the vote back in 2016. Let me put the same question to you as i put to jeff, what is the import of this as you look ahead to the midterms . It depends if he gets his name off the ballot. That is the next question we have to ask. Local authority determine the rules for elections. If his name stays on the ballot, then it might make it improbable that a democrat would be elected. After all, a long time ago when
release of the book. What do you make of the white house approach
Bennett, Betsy Woodruff and also charlie savage. Geoff, ill start with you. What was going on when the president made that comment about omarosa . The president was in the middle of a photoop there at his private estate in bedminster, new jersey. He was surrounded by Trump Supporters known as bikers for trump. And the voice you heard was that of Maggie Haberman part of the press pool and she asked if the president felt betrayed by omarosa. That is when he leveled that scorcher calling her a low life. But look, this is what the president tends to do to people whom he views as being disloyal. I think it is worth pointing out that the relationship between the president and omarosa has always really been mutually beneficial if not entirely transactional. She was able to use him to increase her public standing with that high profile white house job. And he was at times able to use her for a certain amount of
political cover when it came to some testy issues involving race. You bring up a re
of gunfire coming from the building. some of the police officers are two detectives who ran into the building in plain clothes. they weren t in uniforms, they grabbed their bulletproof vests and ran 300 yards into the gun fire. one of those detectives was shot, but he was saved thankfully by his but el proof vest. obviously, investigators pouring through a lot of the evidence. interviewing co-workers, family members, trying to learn the motive. shimon prokupez, thank you so much. the president shattered diplomatic norms, commenting on who he thinks would be a good replacement for theresa may and even the brexit stalemate. what can we expect when the president gets to the u.k. we ll discuss straight ahead. and healthy-looking every time you color powered by 60% oils
determined a motive. i have dozens of personnel out at the crash site right now. i had 30 to 40 folks involved overnight out interviewing co-workers and family members. and i just want everybody to understand this is going to take a little bit of time. so please be patient with the fbi. and at this point no word that anyone else was injured in that incident. still ahead, president trump is attacking attorney general jeff sessions. is it an attempt to distract the public from robert mueller s sfl? and now that chris collins has dropped his bid for re-election, republicans are scrambling to have his name removed from the ballot. i ll spell with the democratic contender. - i love my grandma. - anncr: as you grow older, your brain naturally begins to change which may cause trouble with recall. - learning from him is great. when i can keep up! - anncr: thankfully, prevagen helps your brain and improves memory. - dad s got all the answers.
at the crash site right now. i had 30 to 40 folks involved overnight out interviewing co-workers and family members. and i want everybody to understand this is going to take a little bit of time. so please be patient with the fbi. we re not prepared today to discuss a lot of details regarding this incident. just because it is so nacent. with that, we ll turn it over to q and a. we ll now take some questions. brate operator, could you please open the call. and i want to apologize to everybody calling in. i know that we are having a few technical difficulties. so speakers may have to repeat yourself. we apologize for that. let s take our first question in the room. alan.