hey, have a good rest of the day. outnumbered starts right now. let s begin with a fox news alert, the stakes are high today as voters are headed to the polls for primaries in several states. ohio s special election is getting some special attention. the house race for a seat the gop has held for decades is viewed as a big test for president trump s kingmaking abilities. or queenmaking. and may give us a preview of how the mid-term elections will shape up. you re watching outnumbered on a tuesday. i m harris faulkner, melissa francis, senior fellow for the independent women s voice, syndicated radio talk show host and fox news contributor and opinionist, leslie markel. joining us, fox & friends weekend co-host pete hegseth
with a military salute here on outnumbered . i like the matching socks and tie. did you catch that? shoelaces, too, coordinates with the socks it s a little too much. i like it. perfect for a summer tuesday. i like how you color coordinate
Races. there s a concern and lack of desire to have to spend additional resources on a race that maybe wouldn t be as xitive as these other ones. the same concerns from before, don t back marco rubio, don t back ted cruz, that the grassroots want. establishment republicans months ago, told the president don t endorse this guy. chris kobach was early shu porter of the president, the president says screw you guys, i m going with my guy. he ll probably win. trump won kansas by 21 points on election night in 2016. if chris kobach cannot win this race then he s a terrible candidate. go with the moderate, go with the moderate. no, stop it. there was frustration when the president didn t get out there and didn t go and support and didn t spend their time working hard for these other candidates given how much they
In some form? yes. i do. and i think it will be a combination of oral questioning and written questioning. tom is such a supreme legal mind, let s talk politics, we ll leave the legalities to him. thank you. this is great for the president. this back and forth reinforces his desire to sit down. but what he said before, you know, let the legal minds work it out then i ll do what they tell me. the desire is there. this proves it. they are really having a strong, real conversation, go back and forth. he said he wants, to he clearly does, he can exor rate himself better than anybody else. every lawyer says don t do it. but this is about politics. this is about politics, you answer a few questions about collusion, never happened, let the rest be written down and it s done. i totally disagree. i think the strong real conversation back and forth is total b.s. you think he won t do it or will. i think it s all for show, it s for the media.
special counsel robert mueller s star with it, rick fates, is back on the stand today in the rick gapts in the fraud trial of paul manafort. gates calmly described how he and manafort committed crimes together, concealing accounts from the irs and falsifying bank documents. he confused to embuzz ling hundreds of thousands of dollars from manafort filing false expense reports. gates is expected to face cross-examination by paul manafort s defense attorneys keen on damaging his credibility. all of this having, right now, so far, nothing to do with the president. paul manafort, a lot of information, by rick gates. the paul manafort avoidance trial, paid for my taxpayers, nothing to do with russian collusion. most people you go around that don t live in the media bubbles could absolutely care less. all about rolling manafort, all about rolling manafort to get to
we re going to keep coming back until he s out. let the president know, in no uncertain terms, we are alive, awake, and we are woke. we are not going away. good silent people are the wind behind evil. i think it s safe to say rosie o donnell and donald trump have a history. but you told me that your response to this would surprise me. surprise me. all right, are you listening? rosie, my fellow democrat, we are woke. we march. we protest. we sing. and i m not going to do it today but i kid did consider it. you have to vote f you don t vote it doesn t matter. historically democrats don t show up in the mid terms. they want trump to be a one-term president, they want to vote them out, #votethemout. as great as we are at marching and protesting we aren t as great voting. we saw it happen in the general