the bridge crossing when he was on the edge of the mexican border but it was very brief. then as you saw, once the questions started to get specific, trump was reluctant to go there. even as he wanted to entertain media appearance after media appearance, take the opportunity to be in front of all the camera cameras that came down to watch him tonight. obviously everybody in the country is both participating in and gawking at the fact that he is getting all of the attention for the in terms of the republican nominating process right now. and actually in terms of the nominating process overall. neither candidate no other candidate from either party is really able to break through right now. simply for the fact that he s dominating so much of the coverage and so much of the attention. as that continues to wear on day after day, that can t last forever. but as it continues to wear on, is he changing as a candidate? is he handling things differently than he was? is he maturing as a ca
for donald trump the fight against illegal immigration will take him to texas where he will take a tour of the u.s./mexico border later this afternoon. trump making the trip after being invited by the border agency union, that union however, announcing today it s actually pulling out of the visit citing what it says is careful consideration of all the factors involved in the event. this comes as trump threatened a third party run if the republican party isn t fair to him during the primaries. dana bash joins me from laredo. what does donald trump mean by fair? reporter: well what he means is a couple of things. first, most recently on sunday and into monday the republican national committee put out a statement pretty unusual for a party to do this during a primary process criticizing
process, how switching lane was no signal turned into all of this. i don t even know. but i m still here so i guess call me back when you can. reporter: so carol, you know we re also expecting the bland family has issued and ordered its own independent autopsy of sandra bland. those results have not been released and we re trying to figure out if and when that will happen. ed lavandera reporting live this morning from hempstead, texas. a new warning from a top u.s. military commander about russia s nuclear arsenal calling it a, quote existential threat against the united states just days after russian bombers were intercepted off the coast of california. brian todd has more from washington. reporter: we re getting new information about a frightening incident on the fourth of july. a confrontation in the skies between u.s. fighter jets and nuclear capable russian bombers not far from american shores. we had reported that on that day
nomination but he s also been very up front about the fact that he s given to democrats in the past. he gave to hillary clinton in the past. so that s why, you know, kind of going through this process as trump has skyrocketed in the polls and really, you know taken over the conversation in the republican nominating process so far, a lot of republicans who i talk to privately say that they are concerned about kind of what that line is carol, whether or not you push him to make clear that the republican party doesn t stand for some of the things that he said that has been controversial, or you have to be careful you don t push him too tarfar that you push him out of the party and he does run as an independent and as i said to you before history shows wh enthat happens, you hand the keys to the white house to the democrat. okay. so let s talk about his visit to texas today. he s going to be along the mexican border right? and this border patrol agent union invited him and then pulled ou
republican nominating process. those rules are going to basically knock out from contention at least seven of the major candidates running for president on the republican side. but today fox news changed those rules. a really specific and hard to understand way tonight. a pope related mystery solved. a lot going on. on a day when a lot is going on in the news, that sometimes makes our news meeting at the show, where we lay out the show for the night, sometimes makes our news meetings more difficult than on your typical day. today our news meeting, the whole thing in the middle of this difficult decision-making process, what to cover, what to research, who come cover, this big intense meeting today, the whole thing had to come to a halt because congress went nuts.