President obama. Were expected to learn more short by about what is in president obamas speech. Well bring you more when we get it. And donald trump causing controversy for his comments on russian hacking. Dana bash is joining us with more. Dana, at the convention tonight, several democratic heavy hitters, being the current president , president obama. What can we expect from that tonight. Their basic message is that there should be a third democratic term. Which we have not seen, certainly on the democratic side, since a post world war ii when truman was elected after fdr. We will hear that them as well as personalizing Hillary Clinton, from the Vice President , the president , and tim kaine who will give his big debut speech. Another thing we should be looking for is a speech from michael bloomberg. The former new york city mayor, an independent who endorsed Hillary Clinton. He made his name, he made his billions as a business person, watch for him to talk about the republican nomine
A better choice, someone in the middle who can speak to their values, they would vote for someone like me. Paul lets bring in wall street journal columnist and deputy editor, Dan Henninger, Mary Anastasia ogrady and James Freeman. James, Howard Schultz is a lifetime democrat. Yes. Paul are you surprised that he is suggesting he might run as an independent . Why do that . I think hes seeing an opportunity here where poyou ha a democratic nomination process that seems currently built to anoint a progressive extreme left as he is wondering if maybe, there is still a place for liberals in the american political system. We dont want to go all the way to venezuela type paul you mean kennedy liberals and even bill clinton . Right. Not long ago there was ideological diversity within the party. And maybe it is an independent run but who knows maybe he does well as an independent. He ultimately gets democrats to start thinking maybe they ought to move to the center too. Paul interesting. Dan, in
Counter trumps intelligence. The nations most Senior Intelligence officials testifying to Congress Today contradicting trumps claim about mayor National Security threats to america again and again and again and again. Take isis. Isis is intent on resurging and still commands thousands of fighters in iraq and syria. We have beaten them and beaten them badly. Theyre all coming back and theyre coming back now. Talking about the troops. On top of this, the president s top intelligence add viviser released this report about threats facing the United States. On page 11 he continued on isis. It maintains eight branches. Icy will continue to pursue external attacks against add ver sa adversaries including the United States. Theres that. Couldnt be more opposed to each other. Take north korea. We assess that north korea will seek to retain its wmd capabilities and unlikely to completely give up its Nuclear Weapon and production capabilities. They have a process for getting rid of nukes. They wi
Up . Right there. When we talk about the swamp, were referring to that mur cue aky and mysterious natu our politics. Were only seeing part of it. We dont know the full extent of what money was spent and we certainly dont know who spent it. During the 2018 midterms we saw firsthand how Campaign Spending records were shattered. With a total of 5. 7 billion spent. You can go through all of this and name every Single Person who works in that building and show how much money is spent on them by outside groups. It makes you wonder whose interests do they have in mind . The voters who put them into that office . It is time to put strict limits across the political spectrum, everyone says there is too much money in politics. Billionaires are buying elections. Ive got a lot of questions about where all that money came from and how it benefitted the people it was spent on. The obvious first step is to see if i can set up a meeting with any senators to talk to me about it. Jacob calling from msnb