we have many things happening that we hope we hope i ll go a step further. we hope to god we never have to use. bill: that from overseas earlier today. president trump in south korea today speaking in blunt terms to kim jong-un saying come to the table, make a deal. john bolton former u.s. ambassador for the u.n. and fox news contributor. good morning to you. just react to some of the comments from the president. come to the table and make a deal. we re making good progress. what does that sound like to you? not much frankly. he is in south korea. he has a delicate political task. the president takes a very soft line on how to handle north korea. but south korea itself is very divided. the leader of the opposition a few weeks ago called for the united states to redeploy tactical nuclear weapons there. a pretty tough stance.
actions from that neighbor the carnage could have been much worse. president trump: i can only say this. if he didn t have a gun instead of having 26 dead, you would have had hundreds more dead. sandra: as we continue to learn more about the gunman behind the attack, mike huckabee is here on what can be done in the wake of yet another mass shooting. bill: meanwhile, does 2020 have its first presidential candidate? how the former v.p. is mulling that idea. sandra: uh-huh. bombshell claims from donna brazile spurring calls from a former clinton advisor, a very special prosecutor. steve hilton joins us later this hour with all of that. the entire democratic party stinks from the head down. the whole process, everyone has really stain on their hands.
gillespie. president trump tweeted support from overseas. gillespie will turn around the high crime and poor economic performance of the virginia. ms-13 and crime will be gone. vote today asap. byron york is with me. simply break it down. what does this race mean for democrats, start there? it s a big deal for them because it will show whether they have momentum going into the 2018 mid-terms. remember, we have had a number of special election races across the country to fill open house seats left by republicans who joined the trump administration. democrats did not do very well in those and the test here is to see whether unhappiness with president trump is sufficient to put another democrat in office in virginia. bill: if gillespie wins today what would that mean for republicans? it would be a very big deal for them because it would show that democrats don t have that
more troops being sent into afghanistan. nato doubling down on their bet on dealing with the country, 1500 of that 3,000 will be americans. the trump administration has already said they re sending thousands more service members to afghanistan. back to you. sandra: greg palkot from our london bureau. thank you. bill: we re moments away from the start of a news conference. house republican leadership. paul ryan will be there and hear more comments where we are today on that tax bill. stand by on that. polls are open in virginia. what does a democratic loss mean to the dnc? governor s race widely seen also as a test of president trump s clout. will his support of ed gillespie bring voters in? that s coming up next. if you re going to be governor of the commonwealth of virginia you better be able to work with the president of the united states and the vice president and the cabinet. 20 cents of every dollar in our economy in virginia is a direct federal delay.
anti-second amendment and horrible on the virginia economy. vote ed gillespie today. how much is the president s attention stirring things up, peter? the tweet is getting attention on both sides of the race here in virginia. one of the democratic senators here in the commonwealth, once a governor himself tim kaine is defending the democratic candidate with this. he says actually, ralph northam is a great vet and understands service and sacrifice. need another reason to vote ralph, this phony attack is it. ed gillespie never called president trump to campaign for him just talked about the last-minute long distance endorsement as he was voting in alexandria. appreciate his support and any governor of virginia has to work with the president of the