have the capability and as the general rightly points ow. out. look at a way tory drau the capability. another thing worth exploring as well. you think? i agree. hope this current crisis now can be diffused? last week the north koreans said by mid-august, that s this week, they don t get the right words coming out of the united states, they will launch four intermediate range ballistic missiles towards guam? it s being diffused now. the fact the united states has not moved assets into the border, not ramped up rhetoric. i think they realize that at this point they have got what they want. they re now going to focus on continued nuclear development, not striking the united states. you know they re supposed to be joint u.s./south korean intensive exercises this month, which the north koreans hate. they always do, but these exercises, you heard general dunford say in seoul today, they re important not just about message sending but real readiness and deterrent
of his entire life with polls opening in just a few hours, the fallout for gianforte has been swift, three of state s biggest newspapers have rescinded their endorsements, and democrats have already ruled out facebook ads attacking gianforte for the alleged body slam. the democratic candidate rob quist so far he s declined to comment about all of this. the other thing worth noting here, the sheriff is confirmed he gave gianforte s campaign $250, but he says it will have no bearing on his investigation. early vote has been under way for weeks and hundreds of thousands of absentee ballots have already been returned. so you got more than a quarter of a million ballots already in, you got this craziness going on, will it bring more people to the polls? some suggest that s two-thirds of the votes already cast, but will this end even if gianforte wins? questions remain. today the president s first foreign trip, though, takes him to brussels where events are just now getting under way. th
the american public and, you know, i think the other thing worth noting here, stephanie, i m in a congressional district. the 17th district of illinois that donald trump won. i m one of those few democrats that while i won by 20 points, donald trump also won this congressional district, and so you might think because donald trump won that people in my region are just kind of dismissing this. well, i track all of the issues that we are contacted about from people in the industrial heartland. my congressional district, which is, you know, the epitome of rural america. for the first time this week one of the top issues that people i represent said they want is to make sure that we get to the bottom of this involvement with the trump administration and russia. we ll continue to call for an investigation anan indepennt one at that. meanwhile, congresswoman, president trump is saying that democrats are overplaying their hand, that this is a witch hunt. how do you respond to that? i would
behind him on stage several medal of honor recipients and veterans of the armed services. but other thing worth noting is untrump-like message discipline we ve been seeing over the last several days. hitting hillary clinton hard, going after the president of the united states somewhat but avoided incendiary rhetoric that s thrown the campaign off from time to time. also melania trump, talk about her message to voters. reporter: yeah. it was a message about her immigrant roots. but also spent part of the speech in pennsylvania earlier today talking about social media and how she feels like people on social media need to set the right example for young people. here s more. i do worry about all of our children. as we know, now social media is the centerpiece of our lives.
other things fox could decide to have 11 or 12 republicans on the stage instead of 10. they never set a hard cap even though they decided to use the top ten for the criteria for entry into the first debate. interesting, you have people like perry who have been running for some time making headlines by confronting donald trump directly, and then kasich who was the second to last to join this race out of the 200 people running. and he s already making it possibly into this debate. timing is everything and john kasich just announced his presidential bid a few weeks ago, jose. i think with the idea that getting a little bump being the last republican or major republican to get into the race was going to allow them to be able to get in. one other thing worth noting, john kasich and his organization has been airing almost $2 million, $3 million in tv ads in new hampshire to boost his numbers. that s very important. jose, you mentioned one other