steve bannon out of these primary challenges. i can t imagine he will be successful. he has chosen a side for now in this internal fight. bret: let me go for one second, the alabama primary. seems like that s a little different. roy moore had his own name recognition in alabama. may be advantage and is capitalizing on that. his fan and the threat everyone says he is? too much from alabama? local politics at play as well. bigger factors. i don t think what we ve heard today in the rose garden about the republican unity is likely to last. donald trump can go to steve bannon and try to talk them out of challenging these incumbents and steve bannon will say mr. president, thank you.
launched at dawn. heavy fighting breaking out between the two american allies come with a fragile u.s.-led coalition against isis is on the verge of imploding. still, the pentagon and the u.s.-led coalition tried to downplay today s violence, calling it a misunderstanding. and an isolated incident. while president trump expressed his unhappiness with the fighting. we don t like the fact they are clashing. we are not taking sides. the growing conflict is the potential to ignite a new round of sectarian violence in iraq, pitting iranian backed shiites against the kurds. this kurdish man yelled. the kurds have controlled kirkuk for three years after u.s. backed peshmerga fighters pushed isis militants out. tensions have been growing ever since the kurdish population overwhelmingly voted for independence. from iraq s shia dominated
bret: we are about three weeks away from major gubernatorial election just down the road from us in virginia. the governor s race is heading for election day. a referendum on the trump presidency. doug mckelway tells us organizers on both sides are bringing in the big guns. in the year were coverage of president trump has consumed much of the political oxygen, the november 7th off year election between ed gillespie and ralph northam has been gasping for attention. that may change this week as both campaigns pull out some heavy hitters. president george w. bush attending two gillespie fund-raisers. president obama campaigning for northam thursday. weekend appearances by vice president pence. i stand with ed gillespie for
marino and blackburn each received significant contributions from the pharmaceutical industry since coming to washington. that s not unusual but it complicates the president s decision to nominate marino, who has been accused of being too cozy with the industry. his nomination has to be carefully reviewed. at this point, what might ve been something routine has become very controversial. west virginia democratic senator joe manchin called on the president to withdraw the nomination, writing that the opioid crisis that no state in the nation has been harder hit than mine. more than 200,000 americans have lost their lives due to opioid since 2000 which is about three times the number of those killed in the vietnam war. also in the press conference, the president announced sometime next week he will have a major announcement about the ongoing fight to end the opioid crisis. bret: kevin corke in the briefing room. as the nfl continues to deal with the fallout from the focus
did sometimes and maybe sometimes he didn t. i don t know. that s what i was told. bret: the obama folks went to twitter and elsewhere and put out all kinds of statements. sarah sanders sang the president wasn t criticizing. sometimes they call, sometimes they send a letter. the president, like his predecessors, has done these. individuals. a lot of times the media focus on the back and forth things. that had to do with calling the families of the niger special forces soldiers. the president needs to be careful that he sticks with the facts. he went of script and caused a problem where one didn t have to exist.