Live in New York. The Israeli Army now confirming that hezbollahs leader, Hassan Nasrallah, is dead. The news comes hours after the israeli military struck hezbollahs headquarters in beirut, where it was believed he was holding meetings. It was the biggest blast to hit the lebanese capital in the past year and could potentially push the escalating conflict closer to full fledged war. Joining us now, of course, Fox News chief foreign Correspondent Trey Yingst there on the ground in israel. Lets start with the possible escalations at this point with this massive Breaking News. Trey yeah. Chandler good morning. Significant Breaking News out of The Middle East as the israeli military confirms that the leader of hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, is dead following israeli strikes targeting the lebanese capital of Beirut Yesterday. Ali karaki, the Southern Command of hezbollah, was also killed in the strike at what the Israelis Say was a Command Center underneath a residential area in dhaka, a nei
piece noting a private secret plan here to effectively dilute obama restrictions on a key gas, methane, which can drive global warming. and this comes while the u.n. secretary-general is calling on world leaders to do the opposite, to take the threat of climate change more seriously. climate change is the defining issue of our time. and we are at a defining moment. the leaders of the world need to step up. julian, i wonder if you could put that in context for us, what the times has unearthed, what s going on in the administration sort of behind the scenes as we brace for this hurricane. well, trump s saying that the houston experience and the puerto rico experience of the hurricanes last year is the b , baghdad bob moment. baghdad bob being the iraqi general who claimed during the american invasion in 2003 that the americans were committing suicide and surrendering. this is the baghdad moment. when we talk about the
congresswoman donna edwards, political pollster cornell belcher, democratic strategist julian epstein. julian, when you look at these numbers, sometimes we have to focus on the facts in front of our face. does it show people are listening, and even those who, as i mentioned with independents last month, were in the 40s, are dropping in response to what they ve learned just in the last three weeks? i think the obvious answer to that question is yes. august was kind of a scorched month, a scorched earth month for this white house. i don t think any white house has ever had an august that was as bad as the last month was, save for maybe august of 1973 and the nixon white house. the numbers are going down not just with independents but with college-educated women, with noncollege educated white men. so this is a situation that is just getting worse and worse. what s most remarkable to me about this white house is not
from the rooftops? that they are trying to sneak it? i m going to let a big political secret out of the bag here, ari. it is, if you want to be popular, you should do things that are popular, right? hm! is that why they pay you the big bucks? shh! but if you want to be popular, you ve got to do things that are popular, and this separatio administration, his behavior aside what have they been working on? rolling back aca. there s not a majority mandate for rolling back aca, trying to destroy health care. that s not popular. giving a big tax cut to really rich people? that s not popular. if you want to be popular you should do things the majority of americans actually want you to do. cornell belcher, congresswoman donna edwards, julian epstein, thank you for digging into these new numbers with us. coming up, why donald trump s own company is now the focus of these probes into hush money payments and campaign crimes. our exclusive reporting at
three days out from this operation, we re seeing some of the difference between supporting tactics and what the larger strategy is. political support for the tankt cal side is high. the conflicting answers though and the vaguingness about the next steps also leaves a lot of political questions. let s get right to it. hillary clinton s former campaign manager robby mook is here, democratic strategist julian epstein, and usa today congressional reporter eliza collins and as well as jonathan allen who is the co-author of the new book shattered, inside hillary clinton s doomed campaign which comes out next week. we can begin with the lighthearted point that we wanted to put you on with somee who describes your campaign in those dark and shattered rms. but let s get right to what i call the politics of it. we did a lot of the policy in our first block and next block we will look at the law. on the politics, your former boss hillary clinton seems inclined to give the president