President ial primary, whether or not the Republican Party was going to have a hard time accepting donald trump as their partys new leader and as their partys president ial nominee. There has been a lot of opinion expressed, a lot of speculation about it. On this show we tried to stay focused on the data rather than just the opinion on this matter. I think most of the data suggests that the Republican Party is not having that hard a time accepting donald trump as their nominee. After all mr. Trump received more votes in the republican primary this year than any republican president ial candidate has ever received before. Weve also been reporting that for all of the beltway ink thats spilled over this idea that republican elected officials and Party Leaders are having a hard time with mr. Trump there isnt that much evidence of anybody saying no to him. We reported last night we could find so few republican members of congress who were explicitly opposed to donald trump we thought as of
Have begun for neil gorsuch. I say hearings because he did very little talking. He had some brief comments saying that he felt humbled and honored to be chosen for this job. Affording many of the Committee Members on the judiciary. Theres 11 republicans, 9 democrats each to make tenminute statements that often time went over. Again, he really starts the grilling or they start the grilling for him tomorrow. The Washington Examiner reporter, susan crabtree. Whose going on . Its obvious the fireworks will go tomorrow. This is a pro forma session of Opening Statements. You get a feeling for what democrats will emphasize. Dianne feinstein, the ranking member, was talking about how she still is recenting the fact that Merrick Garland never got a vote and how democrats are harboring those issues. She took issue with Neil Gorsuchs pledge that he considers himself an originalist, of the constitution. Thats the same view that Justice Antonin Scalia had. Its curious that she took issue with that,
Hurricane relief bill, but Top Republicans are still stung. Is it a sign of things to come . Zbleerjts good morning. Its friday, september 8th. In a moment were going to get to the news breaking over the massive earthquake just off the coast of mexico on the pesk side. Registering an 8. 2 in magnitude. It happened off the coast, and there have been a number of after shocks in at least four people dead this morning. Were going to get to that story in just a minute. First, were following irma. Of course, this morning millions of people across florida and george goshlg and the carolinas are under a state of emergency bracing for Hurricane Irma. The monster category five storm has already been blamed for at least 12 deaths across the caribbean overnight. Hurricane irma pullermmelled th turks and caicos, and the storm is on track to make a potentially catastrophic strike on florida over the weekend. More than 650,000 residents of Miami Dade County were ordered to evacuate jamming highways u
Came charging, do they have any semblance of guilt. You had a group on one side that was bad and the group on the other side that was also very violent and nobody wants to say that but i will say it right now. You had a group on the other side that came charging in without a permit and they were very violent. The president defended his initial statement that some attending saturdays rally were only protesting the removal of confederate symbols. Those people i have condemned neonazis, i have condemned many different groups but not all of those people were neonazis blues not all of those people were White Supremacists by any stretch. Those people were also there because they wanted to protest the taking down of a statue of robert e lee. The president made his comments to a lot of criticism from both democrats and republicans including marco rubio who tweeted 6 but response including organizes of events and by the charlottesville terrorist attack are 100 to blame for a number of reasons.
Response to President Trumps blistering condemnation of players who refuse to stand during the anthem. Even the Jacksonville Jaguars team owner, shahid chan dchld k donated money to President Trumps campaign. In chicago, all but one of the Pittsburgh Steelers choosing to remain in the locker room while the anthem played. This morning, the president reigniting his feud with the nfl, tweeting nfl attendance and ratings are way down, boring games, many stay away because they love our country, league should back u. S. If nfl fans refuse to go to games until players stop disrespecting our flag and country you will see change take place fast, fire or suspend. Remember, this all started after what the president said friday night. You might find the words youre about to hear from the president of the United States offensive. Wouldnt you love to see one of these nfl owners, when somebody disrespects our flag, to say get that son of a bitch off the field right now, hes fired, hes fired. So we ha