Good morning, everyone. So glad youre with us. It is a tuesday, full of news. Victor blackwell by my side. Good morning. Good to be back. Good to have you. Here all week. Five things to know for this tuesday, august 8th. New this morning, the east coast cleaning up after deadly storms, trees are down, roads are blocked. Hundreds of thousands of people without power. Already more than 300 flights cancelled. Happening today, the police chief in montgomery, alabama, is expected to reveal more information about that brawl that broke out on the citys river front. It started after a black dock worker was attacked by a group of white people. So far no arrests. But four warrants have been issued. Right now, Los Angeles City workers are on a 24hour strike. 11,000 workers including Sanitation Workers, engineers, life guards, all headed for the picket lines. They say its a fight for fair contracts. This hour, polls open in ohio as Voters Decide whether to make it harder to amend their state const
Take responsibility for this failure, which is why i now call on the United States congress to ban Assault Rifles like the one used by the sick perpetrator of this mass killing in my hometown of lewiston, maine. For the good of my community i will work with any colleague to get this done in the time that i have left in congress. Democratic congressman jared golden of maine changing his position on gun reform following wednesdays deadly Mass Shooting in his hometown. Well bring you the latest on the manhunt for the suspect in just a moment. Plus, what the new speaker of the house had to say about potential Gun Legislation in response to that tragedy as well as his comments on preventing a Government Shutdown next month. And also ahead, Breaking News overnight. The United States military carries out air strikes in syria in retaliation for iranian backed attacks on u. S. Service members. Well go through that Major New Development in the middle east. Good morning and welcome to Way Too Ear
descrihe uainian forces if there s a chance ofaking some progress, but forhem to really make progress that would change the balance of this conflict, i think it s extremely, highly unlikely. and i was speaking to multiple officials briefed on the latest intelligence who were seeing the same picture here. a number of things, russian defensive lines, three layers, tens of thousands of mines as they ve been assaulting those lines, ukrainian forces are incurring staggering, just staggering losses. in response to that, they have often pulled back some of their forces, becoming casualty o verse understandably. and that has limited their chances for making further progress going forward, but there s also a bigger picture issue here, realizing that just a few weeks of training, eight weeks of training in some cases on some of the western supplied tanks, for instance, is not enough to instantly create new, highly capable mechanized units
defend the affordable health care act being sued by several states in court and try to let it wither on the vine. the wall street journal says well, you know, it s withering on its own. the new york times says this is going to be a big issue for democrats to use against dana: if you watch the daily briefing, we are on it every day. can hollywood help the democrats? kimberly: a big loss. that s the plaook. it did not work for hillary clinton. it s not going to work forhem. i am praying, please rely on hollywood. not going to go anywhere for them. no one relates to them. it is so ironic and hypocritica hypocritical. the democrats are going to rely on hollywood. they make a living selling sex, drugs, violence movies. wait a second. how is it going to work?
house freedom caucus wants which is eliminating title one benefits, things of that nature, you are going to lose another ten or 15 moderates. it s like you are poking a balloon, you poke it in on one side and it gets bigger on the other. i don t see how they are going to thread this needle. what is going to be interest, does donald trump learn with this? that will be an interesting dynamic as we go forward because a lot of the house freedom caucus members aren t looking to get to yes. there is skepticism. they have their position, they have their votes, they are sticking to them for the time being. when it comes to the senate, i don t see any chance. they have been the caucus of no, no, no, for the past five or eight years. it would be surprising forhem to g a yes right now.