David Gura hosts coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Much. I want to dig into this more. Josh and lynn is joining me. Lynn, let me start with you. Geoff bennett mentioning the 27 district in new york and this is a district that sort of hugs buffalo, it is in upstate new york. And donald trump won that district by almost 25 points back in 2016. You look at the electoral record for the congressman who has announced he is suspending his campaign. Chris collins won that district 67 of the vote back in 2016. Let me put the same question to you as i put to jeff, what is the import of this as you look ahead to the midterms . It depends if he gets his name off the ballot. That is the next question we have to ask. Local authority determine the rules for elections. If his name stays on the ballot, then it might make it improbable that a democrat would be elected. After all, a long time ago when
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Whatever it takes to protect herself from the president. This as cnn has learned about a threatening letter a Trump Campaign lawyer sent the publisher of her scathing white house memoir. Also former cia director john brennan is declaring that mr. Trumps claim that there was no collusion is hogwash. The president now openly admitting that his fury over the russia investigation drove him to revoke brennans security the clearance. First caitlyn collins, what are you learning about this letter to omarosas publisher . Reporter weve got this letter and in it omarosas publisher is responding to a letter they received from the attorney for the president s Election Campaign charles harder. They got a letter from him saying the nondisclosure agreement that omarosa signed, the Campaign Said she violated that and they filed an arbitration action against her earlier this week. Now in this letter in response from the publisher, they are saying that the president s counsel for the reElection Campaign
With President Trump backfire for democrats in the midterms. Stepping up their game, how potential 2020 Democratic Candidates are using Brett Kavanaughs hearings to play up their opposition to trump. We begin with a live picture of the white house and new reaction from Vice President pence standing by his fierce denial he was behind the New York Times oped and answering one of the burning questions at the heart of it. Heres a clip airing later this morning. One of the claims made in the oped is that there have been discussion of invoking the 25th amendment to remove the president from office. Have you ever been part of a conversation about that . No, never. And why would we be . As President Trump caps off a week of campaigning, one of his top officials is trying to reassure republican donors the partys control of the house is not in jeopardy. An audio obtained by the washington post, Nick Mulvaney told a group that theyll be able to stave off a blue wave despite President Trump he is
Turkey has rejected an appeal to free pastor brunson as they ramp up pressure on one another. The state department saying pressure wont stop until all the americans being held in that nation are sent home. Weve been very clear with turkey about our expectations and desire to have our people brought home. Pastor brunson gets the bulk of the attention in the news and from a lot of folks. But it is just as important to us to have the nasa scientist brought home as well as our three locally employed staff who were working at our mission in turkey and have been detained for quite some time as well. Julie David Lee Miller joins us with more. Julie, the political as well as the economic dispute between turkey and the United States has continued to escalate this morning. Relations between the two countries have gone from bad to worse. Turkeys trade minister announcing a short time ago his country is increasing tariffs on 22 different items that are imported from the u. S. For example, tariffs