Republican convention. As chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, congressman ben lujan is in charge of democrats efforts to win back a majority in the house of representatives. He spoke about the dcccs history and the effect that donald trump is having on house races. From the National Press club in washington, this is an hour. Good morning. Good morning, everyone. My name is thomas burr. Im the washington correspondent for the Salt Lake Tribune and the 109th president of the National Press club. Id like to welcome our guest today, congressman Ben Ray Lujan, chairman of the Democratic Campaign committee. The National Press club has hosted nearly every president since our founding in 1908. I should note weve had a lot more visit in modern times from our friends in the legislative branch, including a good couple dozen house and Senate Members in the last couple of years. Congressman, thank you for joining us. Im going to turn the microphone over to bob wiener from our
Radar with cloud overhead. Yes, thank goodness, lauren is wearing something bright like a little easter egg from yesterday, because the radar is not looking too bright at all. We have got rain in the area right now. Looking at the big picture here much more streaming from the south and the west so get used to it and stay used to it through the rest of the morning. The light showers moving in the philadelphia a area, down around jersey shore and cape may it is heavier. Pockets of heavier showers in southern delaware, northeastern maryland as well. The visibility not great out there as it is reduced we will say to 4 miles an hour in wilmington, 3 miles in dover. Seven at philly international. Very foggy in mount pocono. So we have got rain around and later on we will have the wind, 47 degrees right now with 11 miles an hour wind and sunrise at 6 51 this morning. We are not going to start the day with sunshine but we may end it the up that way but temperatures are chilly. So make sure tha
Stayed up. You stayed up. I stayed up for first play. I am not losing sleep over this. But we have some good news this morning so stick around in the 9 00 oclock hour. Well, Jeremy Maclin will come in today. And something else. And something else. Oh, and something else. Ill stick around. We want to know what the weather will be today. You are paid to be here. All right, listen. You will like my numbers. I love the number nine. I thought that would cheer you up a little bit today because we will have sunshine returning finally after a very cloudy weekend. Sunshine returns and we will have ease nal temperatures and maybe warmer than average. Clouds though to start the day, sunshine emerging eventually. Partly cloudy and chill which bus stop buddy, hat scarves, warm coat, check, check, check he is all set for the school day, satellite and radar picture there are your clouds and heres our next system out in the midwest. We will have more details coming up but a breeze makes for 43 degrees
A look at the days top news and headlines. That he was copied on, blank copied on that he had during his time at the Bush Administration and the senators on the republican side saying, he you have already said that you are going to void against them, so why do we have to go through this . I think that they are going to run into a brick wall as far as logistics of getting those requests answered, Mitch Mcconnell has said that this is going to go forward october 1st. Chuck grassley has said that youre going to see 1 million plus documents. Not only all of the writings that deal with the 300 plus different decisions that were made, so there is plenty of reams of information to look at how this judge could potentially be a justice, and i do not think that the democratic efforts will go far. Dana all right, bret baier, thank you so much. We will see you, dana. Dana fox news alert, Facebook Says it has suspended 32 swiss suspicious pages, dana what is the reaction on capitol hill . The news
A look at the days top news and headlines. House energy and commerce committee. And he says that collins violated the public trust. Dana . Dana all right, bryan llenas, thank you. Fox news alert in a different Federal Courthouse. Rick gates wrapping up his testimony in the Paul Manafort trial. Gates saying he has no doubt the government would rip up his Plea Agreement if he doesnt tell the truth. This coming as manaforts lawyers hammered him on his credibility on crossexamination. Peter doocy is live outside u. S. District court in alexandria, virginia. Peter, how big a factor is rick gates personal life in his own testimony . A huge factor, dana. Because rick gates admitted today that the Special Counsels lawyers, the mueller teams lawyers helped him prep for his testimony here for more than 20 hours. So, the Manafort Team jumped in today to ask him well, did you ever tell the mueller lawyers during the prep about the extramarital affair he admitted to and gates said yes, he did. Then