later we visit downtown rapid city for a look at their collection of life-size statues of our nation s past presidents . we begin our special feature with the story of calvin coolidge in the black hills. we are here in south dakota s black hills in custer state park and we are at the state game lodge which is a 1920s era building that was constructed can several years before calvin coolidge made his summer white house here in 1927 and he and the first lady stayed here for three months from june through september 1927 while they were on vacation. calvin coolidge took office in 1923 when he was vice president and warren harding died so he served as the last little bit of warren harding s term and was elected to his own term in 1924 and so he came to south dakota in 1927 when a lot of people were speculative would he or would he not run for another term in 1928 and it was widely expected that he would but he came here in 1927 because he was looking for a place to escape the
fbn:am starts right now. cheryl: and it is 5:01 a.m. in new york. monday, august 7th. good morning cheryl casone. lauren: good morning. thanks for joining us that lauren simonetti. cheryl: markets are looking good. lauren: a wrecker closes in a row. president trump in the south korean president with the intercontinental ballistic missile capable of hitting the united states. this is what lauren: did yesterday. just completed call with president minna south korea. happy and impressed with 16 to no united nations vote on north korea sanctions. sanctions approved by the u.n. security council over the make and include a ban on exports over $1 billion. train to nikki haley kelly maria bartiromo on sunday morning futures that north korea has the opportunity to do the right thing. the united states will respond based on north korea s actions. we hope they don t do anything further in they stop the reckless activity. we hope we don t have to do anything. all options have been
tom cotton and ben sasse, the times naming vice president mike pence. the vice president calling that report, offensive. he has no plans to run against president trump. more doubt being cast on the president s tax cut plan, with the president, house, senate, they re taking a break, from what, i don t know. senator orrin hatch, said it would be miraculous if the president can get it done. that is not good news. despite turmoil the rally chugs on. money and politics. varney & company starts right now. president talked about three brackets, 10%, 25%, and 35%. are these the rates that look good to sue? is this what you would like to see? what would you like to see in terms of a individual tax rate for the majority of the country? i would like to see it very, very low, if we could get to those rates that would be miraculous and very beneficial for the country. ashley: miraculous, not the kind of word we re hoping to hear. that was gop senate tax reform leader orrin ha
1832 against andrew jackson, and 1844, when he ran against james k. polk. tonight we are on location at ash land. henry clay s home in lexington, kentucky. for the next 90 minutes, we will explore the life and legacy of this man. unsuccessful in his long quest for the white house, yet having an outsized influence on american history. we are in henry clay s parlor. let me introduce you to jim klotter, 25 years now as kentucky state historian. thanks for being with us. glad to be here. why henry clay? why is he relevant to americans living in our time? think a couple of counts. first of all, his famous counts, i would rather be right than be president, still speaks to us. it s a clarion call to people across whatever we re doing. whether we re in politics or something else, is to do the right things. he also said, you know, that in a sense that the politicians need to remember the country and sacrifice for the country. i think that is still something we need to remember
calm conditions. the clouds are drifting off it will clear out early. lots of sunshine. warming up to 80 degrees. tomorrow probably mid to upper 70 s. 82 for most of us. better chance for a storm on sunday. it won t be a washout. high of 71. beautiful weather in the next few days. more details coming up. the roads are looking good. just a reminder that starting next weekend the downtown stretch of the kennedy is going to be a mess with a bridge reconstruction starting next weekend. and keep an eye out for that. we will have reminders and updates through the week. i will be handling traffic today everything is looking good a full report in the next few minutes. you are looking at live video from france, where president obama is taking part in the 70th anniversary of the d-day invasion. more than 150-thousand american and allied troops stormed the beaches of normandy, to liberate europe from nazi germany. nearly 45-hundred lost their lives that day. thousands more were kill