Against him crazy. And one year to rio. The Opening Ceremony of the 2016 Olympic Games 12 months away. Natalie has the preparations. We are throwing an olympicsized celebration on the plaza. Today, wednesday, august 5, 2015. [ cheers and applause ] good morning. Welcome to today on a wednesday morning. One year from today well be saying [ speaking in a Foreign Language ] thats how you pronounce it . Two years of college portuguese. It will go by in a flash. On this wednesday morning lets start with the top story. The field of ten set for tomorrow nights highly anticipated republican debate. This morning at least one candidate who will not be on the big stage is slamming the process. Nbc National Correspondent Peter Alexander is in cleveland. Good morning. Reporter hey, matt. Good morning to you. The republican contenders are converging on cleveland. We have the main event in primetime tomorrow. The undercard hours earlier. One candidate is already calling the process preposterous. John
North korea has made the jump. They add leader kim jongun may in fact be close. We have fox team coverage. Kevin corke is at the white house with new questions about the president s approach to Foreign Policy. We begin with Senior Foreign Affairs correspondent greg palkot in london. Brett, even if it does prove to be untrue, as one insider told us, the fact that north korea is claiming that they detonated a Hydrogen Bomb has got much of the world watching. Including the u. S. North korea state tv show young leader kim jongun signing off on an alleged test of a hydrogen number bomb. Ich pyongyang calls of justice. A tv anchor declared the bombs success as wellprogrammed crowds responded. Translator as long as the United States maintains its policy i have a depression against north korea i think developing a Hydrogen Bomb is inevitable. Translator a successful testing of the hbomb would be a dangerous step forward for the rogue Nations Nuclear program. It would be more powerful than devi
52 billion in france. Nearly 26 billion in italy and close to 19 billion in spain so far. These nations are all falling short of their commitments to defense. Now President Trump wants them to make good and then some. John roberts is in brussels this afternoon where its all going down. John, good afternoon. President trump suggested why stop at 2 of gdp for nato and defense. Lets all go to 4 . That would put the United States in a box because the United States in 2018 projected to spend 3. 5 of gdp on defense. So President Trump would have to bump it up a little bit. By the time that todays meetings of the summit were over, any differences that existed between President Trump and Angela Merkel appeared to have dissipated. At an art reception following the summit meetings, the president and Angela Merkel on the patio smiling, chatting with each other. Melania trump there as well. Didnt seem to be the same ranker as earlier in the day. The president chided germany for signing a deal with
Arthel neville, rachel camposduffy, Fox News Contributor at dr. Nicole saphier, joining us on the couch today, cohost of fox friends, steve doocy. Also, coauthor of a fabulous cookbook with his wife kathy, happy cookbook. You, sir, are outnumbered steve you think im outnumbered because this is the busy shopping day of the by the end of this program i will have convinced you all to buy the happy cookbook as a Christmas Gift for everybody on your list [laughter] dagen no problem, ive been already. [laughter] youre going to make us pay for it thats good p. R. [laughter] steve you know what . Ive got a 10 off coupon. Does that help . Only because its black friday. [laughter] dagen weve got a lot to cover. Lets get right to it. Present from speaking to reporters while in south florida for the holiday. Describing an increasingly chaotic situation in the southern part of mexico. Just days after a federal judge put the administrations new asylum policy on hold. Now, the president is stepping u
Hates. None of these, though, are new tricks of mr. Trumps trade. But today, there was a new attempted d eed diversion and aw novel way of attacking his highly credentialed critics, all former officials in law enforcement, National Security, or the Intelligence Community. Now he wants to punish them for speaking out by stripping them of their security clearances. It began with republican senator rand paul lobbying the president to do it of former cia director john brennan, who has become a vocal critic of the president. So rand paul may have started the idea, but by the time todays White House Press beefing was over, the list also included james clapper, former fbi director james comey, former National Security adviser susan rice, former dev if i fbi director Andrew Mccabe and former cia National Security agent michael hayden. Comey and mccabe no longer have clearances, but that small, important detail didnt stop the white house from attacking them. In any case, here is what the white