Updates of the days news. Good morning, everybody, it is wednesday, august 8th. A lot to talk about this morning. Lets begin with that closely watched Special Election in ohio in a district that has been in gop hands for three decades, Republican Troy Balderson leads Danny Oconnor by less than 1 of all votes cast, making it too close to call. The official outcome may not be known until all the ballots are counted in the coming weeks the race could be coming to a recount as the final results are actually certified. Still despite the razor thin margin, Troy Balderson has claimed victory and Daniel Oconnor has not yet conceded. Listen to this. Its time to get to work. Over the next three months, i will do everything i can to keep America Great again so that when we come back here in november, get ready, we got to come back here in november i have earned your vote for a second time. Can you believe how close this is . We, we are in a tie ball game. We went doortodoor. We went housetohouse. We made our case for case. We will make that case tomorrow. Were not stopping now. Tomorrow we rest and then we keep fighting through to november. Lets go out there lets get it done lets change this country. So were actually going to see a rematch come november when they compete for a full term in congress. Yesterdays Special Election was to fill the remainder of the
term. There is another nail bitener kansas, where Secretary Of State chris kobach holds the lead over jeff colyer. Colyer served seven years, trumps endorsement of kobach might have put him on time. He went from even in the race to up 7 points after President Trump weighed in. In michigan, republicans nominated another trump endorsed candidate john james for u. S. Senate. James faces an Uphill Battle against democratic Debbie Stabenow and republican dino rossi advances for an open republican held seat that clinton won as democrat kim
election for the seat long held by excongressman john connors. Joining us from capitol hill mollie huber. I love seeing you. Its been so long. I love seeing you, especially on a wonderfully squeakery morning. Okay. Reporter a squeaky morning after the Election Results where we dont know who won. Lets talk about that election, were talking ohio, red since the 1980s last nights Special Election too close to call. Both of them at this point think that theyre winners. What does that say about whats going on in ohio . It says a lot, well, this is kind of a tough race. Number one, it is a special elect. Number two, these candidates both of them will face off in a General Election for a full term in the house and number three,
its august, parent getting their kids ready to go back to school the turn outis unclear whether that was affected, the end of summer days. But at the same you look at it. You see a guy, if you are listening to the speech, you know, the Election Night speech, its hard to tell whether the democrat was the winner. He has a lot of enthusiasm and vigor. The democrats if you look at twitter, you see quite a few coming out saying this is a big win for her to party rorls of whether or not oconnor actually clinches this Special Election because it is so close and a seat that was held for so many years by republicans. Mollie, i want to ask you about the power of the president in a couple of these race, you had the president weighing in to throw his support behind the gop candidates in those two states. What does it say to you when you look at the races and the
deadlocks theyre in about the power he has as an endorser, the role he is playing as we head to the midterms . Well, it says a lot about the way lawmakers have been approaching these midterm elections. If you look at it, President Trump weighed in on a primary for the kansas governor and kris kobach seems to be taking the lead. Keep in mind if he win, then he faces a democrat in the fall and hes probably you described him as say a more extreme candidate of the two and when it comes to the general elect, thats going to matter. And its probably why you are seeing republicans on capitol hill fought condemning some of the things trump says as publiclys they would leak to, because they dont want to face them again or not in some cases a General Election where they have to moderate what theyve
said in the primaries. So its a very difficult position to take. All right. On this squeakery morning. Always comes up with the best words. I love it. Thank you again. Reporter thank you. Despite the agreement signed by President Trump and north Koreas Kim Jongun back in june, north korea is not taking any steps to denuclearize. The United States has lived up to the singapore declaration. Its just north korea that has not taken the steps we feel are necessary to at the nuclearize. Secretary of state mike pompeo is prepared to go back to north korea to meet with kim jongun. Weve proposed that in our most recent letter from the president to kim jongun. The president is prepared to meet. What we need is not rhetoric, what we need is performance from north korea on denuclearization. The National Security adviser criticizing north korea for not
fully turning over the remains of the soldiers killed during the korean war. A nation that was truly committed to turning page here would return the remains of all soldier, south korean soldier, australians in the coalition in the early 1950s as well as american soldiers. There is no point is withholding the remains from a conflict that long ago. John boltons comments on north Koreas Nuclear comments echo the remarks. The senate panel that mike pompeo says they use it in making nuclear weapons. It reflects a report of the ongoing Missile Program and last week a leaked report shows the dprk has also continued to conduct illegal trades of oil and coal less than two months ago, President Trump proclaimed there was quote no longer a Nuclear Threat from north korea. In the trial of President Trumps former company chairman, Paul Manafort, Star Witness Rick Gates is back on the stand getting personal as manaforts Attorneys Take Aim to attack his credibility. Justice correspondent Pete Williams has more. Reporter in two days of testimony, rick gates said he never told accountants the actual amount of money Paul Manafort made because he told them not to let them know how many millions of dollars were paid for the Political Consulting work they did for ukraines president victor yanukovych. When the work fell, he was hit with a big tax bill in 2014 he emailed gates, i just saw this, wtf, how could i be blindsided by this and he made up fake documents. Manaforts Defense Attorneys went on attack when their term
came to question gates. He said he used money he stole carrying on an affair in london and helped falsify financial documents. When he had trouble recalling what he told muellers prosecutors about his past like he says, havent they confronted with you so many lies that you cant remember any of it . After manafort left the Trump Campaign, gates stayed on to work on the inauguration. He says its possible he submitted personal information there. Prosecutors reveal manafort kept asking for favors from gates. Manafort emailed a banker that helped him get a loan should be considered for secretary of the army and get tickets to the trump inaugural. Our thanks to Pete Williams for that report. Republican senator Lindsey Graham spent part of the weekend golling with President Trump and at an event on monday night, he
told the audience that the Mueller Probe came up in conversation several times. Why dont each of you step up and stop the Mueller Investigation . Well, did trump ask that question in he must have mentioned that about 20 times. I told the president , i know you dont like it, i know you feel put upon. You just got to ride it out. I want to win in november. If we stop the Mueller Probe tomorrow, you wouldnt be able talk about anything else. Just got to ride it out. Still ahead, everybody, we are learning new details about President Trump and Vladimir Putin, but its coming from russian state media. Plus info wars creator alex jones putting up a fight after being banned by several tech giants those stories and a check on the weather when we come back. Welcome back. I want to turn to a new story involving several former Trump Campaign aids, foreign lobbying and one corey lewandowski. Two people that worked for the campaign in addition to the avenue Stranls Luset Up called twin rocks global, its first and currently only client is the alliance of social democrats a russianbacked serbian nationalist party. They lobbied for another Firm Turnberry solutions. According to abc news, both firms are registered to the same address at the townhouse lewandowski cities in, in washington, d. C. He says he quote has nothing to do with this company or the story. He says he has nothing to do with turnberry, one of
turnberrys clients, tmobile, said in may he was advising on a merger, he left his Avenue Strategies lobbying firm after accusations he was meddling his access to the white house and lobbying without properly registering. We are learning more about what was discussed during President Trumps hours long meeting with Vladimir Putin in helsinki last month. Although it comes from moscow, according to a russian do you mean obtained by politico. President putin presented President Trump with a series of requests, Clawing Proposal to hold new talks on Nuclear Arms Control and prohibiting weapons in space the document reportedly a page of proposed top effects for Negotiation Addresses rising tensions in eastern europe. The kremlin and trump have previously revealed syria was discussed in the meeting to have u. S. Officials head to moscow to question russian recently
indicted by Robert Mueller in exchange for russia being allowed to interview a senior number of diplomats the white house refused to answer most questions discussed in that private meeting and last week, director of National Intelligence dan coats said he was not in a position to understand fully or talk about what happened. But no mention by the way of steven seagal. Just, fyi. After multiple Tech Companies dropped info wars from their platform, they have a plea to their remaining follower, buy more merchandise. Alex jones previously claimed the Sandy Hook Shooting was a hoax took to his radio show to ask listeners to rise up against what he called antitrump sociopaths. It comes after a group of companies did away with info cars and its controversial content. So far that list includes, apple, facebook, youtube,
spotify, pinterest and linkedin. Those assessments have cost jones millions of subscribers. Lets switchgoers with nbc meteorologist bill kierans. It was quite a Storm Last Night Wmt Ve our inhouse storm chaser with us. Louis . Who now he had such talent . You captured a photo in. More from the safety of his couch. Right out the window. I couldnt believe it. It looked like a scene out of ghost mabusters. Ghost busters, it looks like a marshmallow man. A lot of delays period towards the end of the evening rush hour. We will do it again in the east. Groundtoground lightning can be a problem. We have 38 Million People at risk of a Heat Advisory from boston to hartford, providence,
new york, philly. Richmond, north of Virginia Beach are. So the cold front is trying to bring if a little less hume air mass. So instead of hot summer Weather Conditions with high humidity. Its summer heat there ut the galaxy. Its hot and humid along the Million Dollar atlantic. So lets get into the forecast. This is what you have to wait for, into thursday, we get relief in the northeast. Instead of the heat index 100. It will be 93 in philadelphia. Thursday is a little relief. You have to wait until closer to the fall. So boston, you go 86 on friday. The weekend does look a lot better. St. Louis looks better, too, so its a slow improvement. Afternoon storms for the east coast. Youll make it. Youll do it. I just dont know if i will, though, that itself the thing. Still ahead a 19yearold breaking a parrier set by Mickey Mantle while this guy is not
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would be solo shot in the 5th. While the yanks defeated them, Last Nights Contest need several innings. Several. This after both teams knocked in two runs in the 10th the 23yearold yankee with a single knocking in, the go ahead run. It would prove to be the game winner. The yankees take this one 43, but what a game. And in toronto after the blue jays tied against the red sox in the bottom of the 9th to sunday it to extra, boston answers with a 10th Inning Hit by mitch moreland, earning the first place red sox a fifth straight win. They are on fire. Lets go to the Nations Capital last night, a 19yearold solo launched his freeng homer of the year. A first inning that moves him past Mickey Mantle for the fifth most by a teenager in mlb history, ken griffey, jr. The
next on the list with 16 home runs before turning the age of 20 congratulations to him. Finally, for a new level of protest following a baseball ejection, we head to an independent League Matchup