Trumps wife melania thats getting much of the attention this hour. Donald trump making his First Official comments about the plagiarism scandal as the full story behind melanias mistake, which turned out to be not her mistake is revealed. Plus will cruz control . Well be watching to see if mr. Trumps main rival during the primaries fully endorses the partys nominee or not. Senator cruz expected to take the big stage tonight and some of cruzs fellow senators hoping trump at the top of the ticket will be a winning one. Senator rodger is in charge of ensuring that the senate days in republican control. He is joining us live along with the cleveland attorney who works ten full years to put together the rock bid that finally brought the grand ol party to cleveland. On wall street, what do i tell you . Were exactly one week away from a Federal Reserve announcement on interest rates, but the market doesnt mind at all. Day seven of record highs for the dow, as the s p and the nasdaq hit new hi
So they sent the case back to the lower courts to explore a compromise. Some republicans owe posed to donald trump are trying to recruit someone to run against him as an independent. Here is Major Garrett on how that is going. I just think running third party, doesnt feel right. The long shot effort to mount independent campaign fizzled further today when john kasich one of the last on the list of potential candidates ruled it out. A Third Party Candidacy would be viewed as, kind of a silly thing. I dont think it is appropriate. 2012 nominee, mitt romney asked kasich to kid a run. Part of a recruitment effort led by bill crystal and Eric Eriksson to stop donald trump. Republican chairman ryan preibus dismissed the idea. A suicide mission. You are changing throwing out eight years of the white house and throwing out potentially generations on the supreme court. Reporter obstacles for a run are daunting. Organizers would need to acquire 880,000 valid signatures to place a candidate on th
Inact inaccurate. Nobody respects women more than donald trump. Nobody, i will tell you. Reporter as the nominee heads into a likely match up against Hillary Clinton in the general election his Approval Ratings with women are getting worse and his remarks that have alienated women are among the reasons gop leaders like paul ryan are not ready to endorse him. It is an issue. Trumps Senior Adviser Paul Manifort said he will make up the gap. Hillary clinton has high negatives bigger disparity, her support with men than trump has with women. The real gender gap is a male gender gap on the part of clinton. These are things. Rnc chairman its when people live in glass houses and throw stones is when people get in trouble. Reporter this warning to 2012, mitt romney and other republicans who are set to be trying to draft a third party candidate. This is a suicide mission. It is, it is not right. And i think what people should do is take the paul ryan approach which is to work with donald trump
About a third of fallujah is secure. Charlie dagata has been covering the battle. Reporter iraqi gunners fired towards isis machine gun positions near the heart of the city. The militants retaliated with mortars as a column of iraqi humvees inched forwards as residents still trapped inside fallujah scrambled to get out. Tank commander, abdullah al shambra told us the isis tactic of hiding among civilians slowed his progress. It is hard to thread the needle with a tank. I cant kill the children. I cant kill the old womens. You know, all of them, like my father, my grandfather, my sisters. Reporter advancing soldiers face what one commander called a spiders web of home made bombs. And nests of snipers. One bullet tore through the leg of soldier hider mowein abbas who seemed more anid noyed he h to stop fighting. The soldier walked into a boobytrapped house, a bomb went off. He didnt make it. Reporter these Iraqi Special forces just finished 17 days of intense urban warfare. What was the
We are going win so big. Thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen, we are going to win so big. Thank you. Day two of the Republican National convention in cleveland, ohio, donald trump breaking with tradition, appearing on the stage of the convention before being officially nominated. He only made a short appearance, though, to introduce his wife and its Melania Trumps speech that is being talked about and dissected this morning. Coming up in just a few minutes we will have a live report from cleveland with the accusations that some passages from Melania Trumps speech were plagiarized from a speech by michelle obama. Good morning. Welcome to mornings on 2. Its tuesday, july 19th, im brian flores. Im pam cook. Thank you for waking up with us. Going to get a look at traffic and weather starting with steve. Its very nice. Good sleeping weather. We do have our fog is back, a little mist out there, a teeny bit, not a lot. A little drizzle maybe, not as bad as yesterday. Low clouds, i think