something like this will making people entitlement issues worse. todd pyro having breakfast with friends at butter crisp diner in louisiana. reporter: an amazing name, butter crisp diner, you know it has got to be good. we have so many huge topics to get to. it has been another of these crazy newsweek s, we are asking what folks think of the economy, the result of donald trump s economic move in their lives and what they think of his rhetoric with regard to iran, north korea and the vladimir putin summit. for those who don t know i m trying to go on the rob schmidt diet and i have been successful 0 out of the last three months. today we have a donut burger, donut grilled cheese, just learned what scattered is.
of families with relation to immigration and the vladimir putin summit. there needs to be something else in the economy. to your point the news cycles change so rapidly. it is possible helsinki might be a distant memory by november. democrats could play this better if they have a better message about the economy. they don t have a good argument what they are running for other than to be a check on donald trump which will be effective for some people but ultimately might not be enough. they are moving hard to the left. there establishment is devoid of any real argument so basically adopted this identity politics and the socialist emerging where all the energy is in the party. neither of those options are particularly appealing for voters and i don t think they are playing this as well as they could. a somewhat unpopular president
not this will happen but do we have the right people in place to do this? we have the right people in place, donald trump has filled out a roster that is unparalleled in terms of realism, they understand the threat. secretary pompeo, ambassador bolton, sec. mattis, these are not naïve people looking through rose covered glasses and overly optimistic, they understand what they are dealing with and because you have this particular roster in place and the president so goal oriented in the final outcome, he is willing to try some unconventional tactics so we will see if it works, the ball is in kim jong un s court. rob: once this is over the vladimir putin summit in a few weeks. time is 17 after the hour, donald trump taking aim at the new anthem policy, this is worse
border, the children to the border, they get there and they have relatives that they then join and then they join the workforce and while nobody says it s easy for the jobs that they take in the united states, we hear from parents here whose children are going, it s not irresponsible to let our children go alone. it s the responsible thing for them to leave because they will never get anything here. andrea? it s extraordinary and of course, lester holt will be anchoring nightly news there in guatemala tonight and interviewing kamala harris, the vice president, of course, airing tomorrow. now to mike menially, of course. nato s secretary-general will be at the white house this afternoon after a welcome from the pentagon today. there s no shortage of challenges for the president to be addressing when he goes on nato and first to the g7 and of course, the vladimir putin summit, as well. this, mike, as you know very well, after four years when
midtown manhattan. rob: i think the music is broken. good morning. you are watching fox and friends first on thursday morning. rob: donald trump stripping cia director john brennan of security clearance and there may be more to come. several heavy hitters put on notice, griff jenkins live in washington with new information overnight. reporter: big news coming in an interview with the wall street journal, the special counsel investigation, i call it a rigged witchhunts, it is a sham and these people led it. it is something that had to be done. brennan has been a harsh critic accusing him of treason after the vladimir putin summit and accusing him of failing to live up to minimum standards of decency and civility. it was brennan s reaction after