Melissa peter doocy i live in del mar, california. Always the tough assignments, peter. Melissa, republican lawmakers in california have been trying to do something to keep voters interested in them come november. Now they have another way to do it. There will be a republican on the governors ballot who the democratic candidate gavin newsom is already trying to tie to trump. It look like voters will have a real choice this november between a governor who is going to stand up to donald trump and a foot soldier in his war on california. Mark my words. Ive never backed down from a fight. And neith you. Reporter but the trump endorsed john cox is already trying factcheck newsom by clarifying the origin of certain california policies. It wasnt donald trump that passed the sanctuary state. Gavin, you did that. You are the one that is protecting ms13. Youre the one that is making our communities less safe. Reporter this morning President Trump tweeted this. Great night for republicans. Congratulations to john cox on a really big number in california. He can win. Even fake news cnn said the really big, much bigger than they thought possible. So much for the big blue wave. Maybe a big red wave. Working hard. There was a primary printing problem that kept some voters ty and there were concernles about the impact that it had on close contestsre, particularly if people walked away from the 1,500 precincts affected without casting provisional ballot. It was a long night for the l. A. County registrar but a night of relief in Orange County for democrats who believed they were danger of finishing too low to qualify for the november midterm in places like the republican congressman rorabach district where it appears that the second and the third place are democrats. The parodied not get the party did not get locked out of any house races anywhere in california so they dont have to take stop off the roadmap as they attempt to retake the house in november. Melissa . Melissa peter doocy, thank you so much. Jon the fired Deputy Director of the f. B. I. Andrew mccabe is seeking an immunity deal in exchange for his congressional testimony on the handle og of the clinton handling of the clinton email allegation and he could face charges over allegation he leaked information to media and lied about it. Chief White House Correspondent john roberts joins us live with that. John . John jon, good morning. Specifically the former Deputy Director of the f. B. I. Andrew mccabe is asking for something use immunity in exchange for his testimony before the Senate Judiciary committee. He has been called to testify on the clinton email probe but he is facing criminal fer fro Department Justice inspector and anything he says in the committee could be used against him if there is a criminal case. Use immunity does not protect him from prosecution. But what it does do is prohibit the prosecutors from using anything that he tells the committee in a future criminal case. Basically its like whatever he tells the committee, he never said anything under use immunity. In a letter to chuck grassley, mccabes attorney writes, this is a textbook case for granting use immunity. He has a legitimate fear of criminal prosecution based on the criminal referral that has already been made, the irregularities in the process by which he was terminated and the proper command influence that continues to be exercised by the president of the united states. But grassley, himself, is looking for some assurances that granting usemmunity wi worth it. In response writing, before even beginning to consider whether to initiate that process, the committee wld need to know a lot more about the anticipated scope, nature and extent of the testimony. The committee could thenformalle department to solicit its views before deciding whether to proceed formally. Mccabe attorney responding to that saying, mr. Mccabe is in no position to describ the scope, nature and extent of his testimony. That depends entirely on the questions you and other members of the committee choose to ask him. So a lot of back and forth there. But the threat, jon, is if mccabe does not receive use immunity the Senate Judiciary committee he may just when he goes up to capitol hill to to them. Jon what a development. Keep an eye on that, obviously. The president also is coming out against the media in defense of his wife, john . John yeah. There has been speculation about the whereabouts and the status of melaniamp after she went to Walter Reed Medical Center for the kidney embolization procedure. She was out of public view for more than two weeks but she di attend a gold star families event with the president on monday. She is accompanying him up fema for his annual hurricane briefing later on this afternoon. The president taking a shot at the news media for what he terms rank tweeting this morning that the Fake News Media has been so unfair and vicious to my wife and our great first lady melania in her recovery from surgery. They reported everything from near death to facelift to left the white house and me for new york or virginia to abuse. All fake. She is doing really well. It will be as far as we know, though, the first time has left the white house complex since returning from walter reed. We will bring you pictures later today. Jon john roberts, chief White House Correspondent. Thank you. Melissa turn back to the Andrew Mccabe story now. Bring in John Mccormick for weekly standard. You for joining u the fact that mccabe wants immunity seems to indicate that he is very nervous about something embarrassing or possibly illegal coming out. Is there another explanation . That is possible. The other possibility as his lawyers say they are just covering their bases. He is just protecting his clients. They say that there is nothing tohis, the allegations and that they want to protect their client. There is something to the allegations. It comes out of an Inspector Generals report. This is Inspector General appointed by barack obama. So whatever allegations here that President Trump has been hostile to mccabe, that is true. But these allegations here, the criminal referral, it comes from an Inspector Generals report. The Inspector General was appointed by president obama. They are rightly worried that something he says here in congressional testimony could be used in a criminal proceeding. There is also a secondary issue here about a nondisclosure agreement mccabe signed with the f. B. I. His lawyer says hey, you need to settle this with the f. B. I. Whets nisclosure agreement is binding or not. Chairman grassley says that these are legal nondisclosure agreements because the federal carveout for congressional oversight. Melissa yeah. I mean grassley goes on to say that, you know, its against federal law for the f. B. I. To muzzle its employees in terms of speaking to congress. Not only that, using funds in order to draft or enf n. D. A. Is also illegal. Its not the first time he said that, though. Does that get traction . You know that will be something that will be resolved in the next couple of days. One of interesting questions that could be resolved by the testimony is the fact that mccabe continues to assert there are emails that show former director comey was he leaks before they took place. Comey has said he was not aware and its interesting to get to the bottom of tha able to do that or not is a big outstanding question. Melissa comey was under oath when he said he not aware, right . I believe so. I know he said it in interviews. I dont recall whether that was also said under oath. Melissa i think he said it to congress as well. What would the implication of that be if, in fact i mean i know on one hand he will say this guy, the inspector her things. He is lying about this, too. On the other hand, you know, that would be of mccabe. On the other hand, comey himself has changed his story on things in a lot of peoples eyes. Who do you think would win no, hes lying between the two . There are emai thill eventually come out. Either mccabe or comey will come out looking not very good unless there is a vague reference to something where there was an honest misunderstanding. I dont know. That seems hard to believe. But you need to get to the documents at the end of the day. Whether or not this committee will be able to uncover them. That is unclear. Grassley said the committee is open to granting immunity. I would take twothirds vote among the members of the committee. They just want, as john roberts thoroughly explained there is back and forth about what exactly the scope and the nature of the hearing would entail. Melissa interesting. We will stay on top of it. Thank you. K you. Jon right now in washington, d. C. , they are commemorating 74 years since nearly 160,000 allied troops stormed the beaches at normdy. And really a 50mile stretch of the french coast. It is the largest amphibious invasion in world history. We are marking 74 years since the dday invasion today. More events comin up. We will have them for you h onppening now. Melissa voters just had their say about the judge behind a highly controversial sentence that is also seen as an electores ofhe metoo movement. What they decided to do. Plus, capitol hill will be crowded this august after a Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell canceled most of the summer recess. What w behind that move . High protein to help get us moving. In just 2 weeks. Ill take that. Ensure high protein, with 16 grams of protein and 4 grams of sugar. Ensure® with 16 grams of protein im your phone,istle text alert. 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Jon that Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnells explanation for his decision to call off most of the august to tackle key bills before the f the fiscal year. But the move a will keep vulnerable democrats off the campaign trail right before the november midterms. Lets talk about the reasoning here with jim kessler, former legislative director for Chuck Schumer the cofounder of third. And mark lauder former press cretary to mike pence. Most americans want the elective represents to elected representatives to work as hard as they do and most people dont get to take the month of august off. Pplaud t senate will lose most of the august recess . Well, you work when you go home. Not all of it is washington. But i want to say the senate has cast 116 roll call votes thus far this year. That is less than o day that has nothing to do with democratic obstructionism. That is because this is professional thumbtwiddling going on in washington. This is politics. Senator mcconnell doesnt want democrats home campaigning which is hard work, important work because there are a lot of democrats in states that donald trump has won. This is a political move. This isnt about getting things done. If it was, the house wouldnt be taking its fiveweek recess. Jon mark, you heard senator mcconnell there saying that this isll about obstruction, that he feels democrats have obstructed important legislation. And he is going to basically hold them in town, hold their feet to the fire and try to get stuff on capitol hill. He is absolutely right. The Senate Democrats slowwalke for governm that the mitted. There are hundreds of people waiting to go through the confirmation process. Also, lets not forget we are nearing the end of the fiscal year by that point. The senate will have to take up the approach ration bills. Unlike in the past this president says i am not going to sign any more of the massive omnibus bills with reckless outofcontrol spending, which means the senate will have to do its work passing the 13 individual Appropriations Bills. That will keep them busy in august. Jon to your point that the democrats wont on the campaign trail, republicans wont be on the campaign trail either. Dot leave them on equal footing . It doesnt in the senate because there are ten democrat senators running in the states that donald trump won and only one republican senator running in the state that Hillary Clinton won. In the house it the reverse. A lot of the hou republicans are running in districts that Hillary Clinton has won and that is why in the house they are going home. I want to sayomething about the judges nomination. I saw a tweet from donald trump saying they have confirmed more judges than any president in history so somebody is doi some work o judges there. Jon jim, your point is that you think that if they do political move. Jon im sorry. Mark, this is for mark. If they do keep the senate in session through the month of august, they will be able to fix some of the fiscal ills that this country is notorious for, for decades . I think they will get a good start on it. But lets face the reality. Good policy leads to good politics. Every day the democrats are back here in washington havingay they are showing how out of touch they are with the president s agenda and with the agenda of the people that they represent back home. So when it comes to appropriation bills you know Chuck Schumer and the democrats in the senate want more spending, which is not going to jivet the voters want back home. If they block more and more confirmations or play games th it, it just shows how out ome. Ouch they are with the jon mark, as a even ra, you like keeping as a republican, you like to keep the senate in session . I do. We need to keep moving forward with the president s agenda and i know how the democrats are going to react. They will show how out of touch they are to make it easier in november for republicans. Jon jim, isnt it a chance for the democrats if in fact the American People love the democrat agenda . Isnt this a chance for them to show what they want to get done . In august, maybe the republicans will the repeal and replace and maybe the democrats will try to do fixes to obamacare. But on the budget appropriation bills it would be great if they got them done but we already have an agreement on t overall spending on the Appropriations Bills so there is n wiggle room on how much is going to spent. So that was settled long ago. They already have an agreement on that. Mitch mcconnell has the right to do this. He has a right to keep people there. He knows it helps them because democrats want to be back home. Lets not pretend, lets not spin it as anything other than that. Its a political move. Its his right to do it but not his right to win the spin on this. Jon all right, jim and mark, good discussion. Thankou. Elissa a gro senators cautioning president trum not to russian into easing sanctions on north korea ahead of the summit with kim jong un. Why they are doubtful the kim regime is serious about getting rid of the Nuclear Program. Plus a wild scene after the Police Caught one a runaway armored vehicle. Wow how did it end up there . Next. Hi im joan lunden. Todays Senior Living communities have never been better, with amazing amenities like movie theaters, exercise rooms and swimming pools, public cafes, bars and bistros even pet care services. And theres never been an easier way to get great advice. A place for mom is aerce that pairs you with a local advisor to help you sort through your options and find a perfect place. A place for mom. You know your family we know Senior Living. Together well make the right choice. Jon a suspect accused of stealing an armored military vehicle is arrested after chase. Han a doz police cars chased the vehicle through the streets of richmond yesterday at speeds of about 45 miles per hour. Authorities say the driver stole it from a Virginia National guard base. He was taken into custody when the chase finally ended near nd city hall. The police have not yet identified therir. Melissa a Bipartisan Group of senators warning President Trump not to appease kim jong un just to get him to the negotiating table. This comes less than one week before the president much anticipated meeting with the north korean leader. Lawmakers questioning whether the u. S. Is already conceding too much to the kim rege. Colorado senator Corey Gardner saying he is not sure that kim is serious about giving up his nukes. Our goal in this meeting and the sgapore summit must the complete complete, verifiable and irreversible dismantlement of the nuclear of the korean peninsula. We hope that this will result in peace on the peninsula. The singapore summit, all the eyes of the world are on it. Melissa joining us now. The former state Department Senior adviser and both the trump and the george w. Bush administrations. Thank you for joining us. What do you think of the response you just heard . Well, i think this stems from a hearing yesterday on capitol hill. Senator gardner i think