supporting me. they supported me very early, far earlier than anybody thought possible. this isn t about the nra. this isn t a question of nra, republican or democrat. i will tell you, i spoke to mitch mcconnell yesterday. he s totally on board. he said i ve been waiting for your call. he s totally on board. and keeping them honest, he s not on board, not even a little. the senate majority leader said he ll take up the issue and only after the summer recess perhaps because that s when maybe anger over the killings in dayton el paso might have calmed when people might not pay such close attention. as for the president, he left town for his own summer vacation, the tahafr hamptons a president expressed optimism but couldn t stop digressing from the subject at hand to a note to
become law. frankly we need intelligent background checks. okay? this isn t a question of nra, republican or democrat. we don t want insane people, mentally ill people, bad people, dangerous people. we don t want guns in the hands of the wrong people. eric: rich edson is in new jersey, the president s golf club in bedminster where he will spend the next ten days on his working summer vacation, some golf out there as well as the issues. hi, rick. hi, eric. that s what the president is calling it here, a working vacation. the president spent his first full day here, about ten days or so he s going to spend here, then back to washington, d.c., when the president returns, congress returns next month. the president says he is confident that he can get skeptics and those opposed to what he wants on background checks to mostly support that legislation. there s been no president
korea of he s scaled back the military exercises, those joint military exercises we heard president trump refer to as testing between the u.s. military and the south korean military. they ve been scaled back in an apparent attempt to appease these concerns from north korea and just this week he demanded that seoul step up and pay more for the protection that they received through south korea and two administration officials tell cnn in private conversations president trump has started to sour on south korea and fumed that seoul isn t doing more to rein in pyongyang, the same frustration that he projected on to china thinking beijing should have done more. now he s questioning why south korea isn t doing more to try to contain the aggression of pyongyang. now we ve seen five short-range missile tests just since late july, two in the past week. president trump says his agreement, the one he struck in
she points out pete buttigieg came on to the scene because of a televised town hall. even if it s diminished, it s still something one has to do. yeah. i think about who are you trying to reach, who are you trying to connect to. so there are voting blocks that each candidate knows they need to perform very well with to win. the question becomes how do you speak to that community at the iowa state fair if that community isn t really present at the iowa state fair. so, obviously, if you re a candidatic candidate who is relying on the base, relying on people of color, how do you speak to people at the iowa state fair in a way that still makes them attracted to you while talking to those folks? so this is where the strategists are having to step in and figure out how do we connect to an
this since the news broke this morning. hi. jeffrey epstein as we know had been placed on suicide watch nearly three weeks ago now after he was found in his jail cell with marks on his neck. we re not able to confirm whether he was still on suicide watch whens with a found when he was found this morning. sources say that he hanged himself, but we have not been able to confirm that detail. we know he was found unresponsive in his cell around 6:30 this morning and despite life saving efforts both at the prison and a downtown hospital epstein was pronounced dead. the question will now become, who let this happen and how did it happen? someone in federal custody, especially someone on suicide watch should be under constant surveillance and not be allowed to have any items use today harm yourself. we spoke with an expert who says the prisons only obligated to give clothing to inmates who