it has an impact on people s lives. hear, hear. i want to get your thoughts and you had the events and the trump baby balloon and phil cott wrote, and it s not idolizing the war itself and it s idolizing those in it and that was not subject to the individuals on display and it was about the planes and the tanks and the armored personnel carrier. it s amazing how this desperate narcissist has made jingoism all about him anyway, right? look, i m not your fourth of july guy? 1776 didn t do a whole lot for me, all right? so i don t really go in, and any time i see fireworks and flag waving white people and it s dangerous and so i sort of step back and as i was sitting in my backyard drinking white russians to honor america and listening to hamilton as one does, what we
i am really here for the fireworks. i love america and it seems like it s going to be the biggest fourth of july celebration in history. i saw a tiny bit of military stuff. what did you think of the military stuff? i thought it was cool, but there s nobody inside of them. further down the mall, protesters gathered. a trump baby balloon, that kind made famous when people protested president trump s visit to the united kingdom last july. they say the questions, the controversies, the criticisms are all warranted. they believe that the president is militarizing the fourth of july and turning a day that is meant for all americans into a partisan political event. mike. mike: ellison barber live with the folks on the national mall. thanks a lot. many of the democrats vying for a chance to replace president trump or in the first caucus state of iowa tonight. correspondent peter doocy shows us what they ve been up to toda today.
a divided country but it s definitely a different atmosphere here on the mall many of the families i ve spoken to are delighted to be out on this holiday spending time with their family and seeing revamped celebrations are even when i spoke to one man a veteran of the vietnam war he was shot when he was 19 and he says that this is the 1st time that he feels that the u.s. for celebrations of the president has sufficiently paid tribute to the military that said of course protests are expected at the washington monument the antiwar group code pink will fly the child baby blue will also about baby balloon in london of course although it will not be flying a little way into the sky just the flyover restrictions in preparation of the air force one the fly over the democrats have come out saying that whilst this is a day of course of patriotism it should not be punished as size but i ve seen many
celebration. he wasn t actually there, he was out in california. but he sent in a video and it was put on by his allies. the whole thing, there were a ton of protests. tended with teargas, it was a mess. i don t know that there s anything quite that big planned in terms of the protests for this. but the trump baby balloon has gotten a permit to be here if the does not have a per night fly so it will be cold air inflated. it will be tethered to the ground. nancy, what are your sources talking with you about? one thing i ve been watching is what the administration does on healthcare. the white house has really been mulg f mulling for several weeks the democrats talking points or protecting preexisting conditions and they ve been debating internally whether or not they should release some sort of proposal like a skeletal proposal. but what i m hearing moist recentmost recently is that the president is giving a speech this summer which would be a rebuttal to
so there will certainly be a gathering around the lincoln memorial. i m sure there s a gathering around the baby balloon as well. we re talking about whether the president will stay on script. this is just the kind of thing that would bait him to go off script if it is somewhere in his eye shot even if it s not launched up into the air. that would be something that would tick him up. there s any number of variables here. we were talking about whether it s going to rain or he s going to have a small crowd size. any number of these things could touch him the wrong way and cause him to go off script. i want to know if there s more than one of those things. do they transport those from across the ocean? when you go through tsa do they check your bag and say, you re good. i don t have a great deal to say about this but i m curious about how the logistics of the baby trump work. a reminder the president will be speaking in the evening and later in the evening there s the fireworks