pump supports the heart function, the pumping of your blood while doctors are operating on you effectively. they are essentially the leader in the space and no competition. >> dan, love your ideas on modernizing. thank you so much. dan chung of the alger funds. it's a record for the nasdaq. david: struggling to break a six day slump. the dow ending the day down well 41 points, off session lows, but the s&p 500 is in the green and a tech rally is boosting the nasdaq to a new record close. the russell 2000 posting a new record close. it's a third in the row. i'm david asman. melissa: i'm melissa francis. this is "after the bell." more on the big market movers. here's what we are covering in the busy hour ahead. taking action. president trump on his way to a rally in minnesota after signing executive order that halts the family separations at the border as congress gets set

to vote on two big immigration bills tomorrow. house judiciary chairman bob goodlatte is whose name bears on the bill. and he joins us hour. celebrating success of landmark legislation. u.s. manufacturers now seeing record optimism. we'll speak to the head of the largest manufacturing group in the u.s. we've also got former reagan budget director david stockman, new york post columnist michael goodwin and the weekly standard executive editor fred barnes is with us as well. david: you don't have to watch a show for the rest of the day. we've got it here. the markets ending in the red for the seventh day in a row. who cares about the dow, it's all about the rally at the nasdaq with tech making a record high. nicole petallides at the new york stock exchange, what a day for tech, nicole? reporter: intel and microsoft were the two best performers on the dow jones industrial average in terms of percentage.

break down the major indices, the tech-heavy nasdaq, new high there. the russell at a new high as well. the dow jones industrial average didn't pull it out. down 42 points, but had it been up 19, we would be positive for 2018. a little more to go and yesterday we lost 287 points. bouncing back in many, many areas ashgsz we get to tech, take a look. amazon, google, facebook, netflix hit record highs and see amazon right now at $1750 and at $1184 google is not a closing high but a record for the day. general electric, $18.9 -- 1896, the very start of the dow jones industrials component. it will be walgreens booths alliance, ge struggling, it was the worst performer in 2017. it was down 45% while the dow

is up 25%. ge shareholders, nostalgic, fed up with the stock losing money? probably so. the stock at $12.88, wba gains. and the parent of fox business network, twenty-first century fox up 7.5%. disney comes in as anticipated with a sweetened bid with the fox entertainment international assets. disney gains 1%. comcast 1.7%. the deal 52.4 from disney and comcast with a cash bill. and fox saying this is the better deal. it was a superior proposal and will create one of the greatest most innovative compaes in the world. keep it right here. more on the bidding war. david: this is the most alive market i've seen in quite sometime. nicole, thank you very much, melissa? melissa: turning up the heat, the white house growing confident that the u.s. has the

upper hand in the trade talk, despite rising fierce of retaliation. fox business' edward lawrence is live on capitol hill with the latest. edward? reporter: the president throwing out the economic weight of the united states here. now he is on the heels of the european union announcing retaliatory tariffs with the united states going into effect on friday. 25% on a variety of items, including agriculture. well, now this is also matched with the fact that german automakers. the head of the automaker companies want zero tariffs on cars coming into the united states and the european union. we are seeing a little bit of the concern about trade ease into the market, however, the president is saying don't give up yet. >> we're doing very well on trade. i will say. we've been really hurt as a country on trade for many years, despite bad trade deals, we're doing very well. now making very good trade deals. you'll be seeing that. they'll be announced rapidly.

we already have a couple that are made. we're making great trade deals. reporter: and china is specifically not opening markets. it has not taken steps to protect intellectual property of american companies doing business there. instd,e're getting retaliatory tariffs from china, mexico, canada and the european union obviously, but the president and paul ryan are saying look at the economy. the reason it's not being massively affected by these tariffs in the trade dispute that's going on is because the tax cuts were such a success. >> there were predictions of actual apocalyptical doom by people on the other side of the aisle. well, that didn't happen. great things are happening. reporter: and the six-month anniversary of the tax cuts being passed by congress is today, and i can tell you, melissa, they talked about the post card where you could write taxes on. treasury secretary steve

mnuchin said next week it's going to be unveiled. new 1040 form, it is the size of a post card. melissa: i can't wait for that. you know how tax stuff excites us. david: here's jonathan hoenig, capitalist pig hedge fund founder and todd horowitz, the bubba trading show host. todd, start with you and the proposal, it's coming from our ambassador from germany, ric grenell who's done a fantastic job working with car manufacturers in germany, they're among the biggest in all of europe. they want to get rid of all tariffs, the absolute opposite of a trade war, zero tariffs on both u.s. cars coming into europe and european cars coming into the u.s. is this trump's deal-making paying off? >> i think so, i think this is what we're trying to get to, david. we want to get to a point where there's no tariffs anywhere, we have total free trade without government help, without manipulation, without anything

else. let the free markets trade. send them cars without tariffs, us cars without tariffs. do it on all products and we're much better off. david: jonathan, and you todd are at loggerheads, wouldn't we be better off with zero tariffs? >> indeed, why won't the president enact zero tariffs. david: it's called deal making and that's on the table. you start playing hardball and you end up making a deal. in this case, it looks like a deal with zero tariffs. that's good deal-making. >> he hasn't made any deals, he's had more tariffs, that's pushing prices up for the poor, innocent forgotten men that the president talk about, paying 19% more than washing machines than just a number of months ago. david: todd, if we get rid of all tariffs on u.s. cars -- >> that's not a benefit. david: we benefit for every consumer in the u.s. but consumers in europe. >> that's where jonathan and i

are on the opposite side. i see improvement. i see things are getting better. if it's a little tough in the beginning, no problem. i think it will work its way out in the long run and that's what we're looking for. david: jonathan, owned that note of agreement. we would all love zero tariffs and that's what ric grenell is bringing to the table. let's do it. melissa? melissa: they did it. david stockman is calling for a cover on trade, the former reagan budget director and trump author joins me now. i don't know if you had a chance to see the breaking news we were talking about. this is the deal that ric grenell has been negotiating with germany. the idea of no tariffs on either side back and forth on autos. we heard when president trump went to the g7 and played hard ball, there was the one point where he said why don't we drop our tariffs on everything? everybody looked around and didn't bite. now germany is biting. what do you think? >> wishful thinking.

tariffs on cars are irrelevant. our tariff is 2.5%, you could get rid of it, get rid of the european tariff on passenger cars, they wouldn't import anything from the u.s. anyway because ford, gm and fiat chrysler are already there. that's a sideshow. real issue is the demolition derby that trump is touching off with trade war on china. in one breath he said 50 billion of tariffs, which is beyond anything we've seen before anyway, and then when they countered, which is obviously what they're going to do, he said, we'll see your 50, another 200, and in kind of clint eastwood fashion, he dared them to make his day, he would do another 200. melissa: and shortly after that, germany dropped all tariffs on automobiles. >> what does it have to do? melissa: i'll tell you. critics said what would be a more effective way to get your point across is if you had one

on one bilateral trade deal with anyone and everything where you both dropped tariffs, and once you established that base point, you invite everybody else to join you. he turned and did that, now you say it's worthless? >> irrelevant. melissa: really? >> germany has a 40 billion surplus with the u.s., they're not going to buy -- melissa: that was the exact advice he got. >> let me finish my point. they're not going to buy any cars from the united states. but in one breath, he's threatened to put tariffs of 10 to 25% on 450 billion worth of imports of china, everything we use in the aisles of walmart day in and day out is 50 to 60 billion of higher prices, a smack right in the face of american consumers, and it will start a dynamic that will only get worse from there. donald trump is an ignoramus on trade, he has no idea what he's doing. if you think he's playing 3-d chess, you are wronged, he's

being advised by absolute fruit cakes. this navarro guy is an economic -- melissa: let's play the fruitcake as david stockman calls it. cue the cake. >> what the president is doing here, firmly, is saying you can't take our crown jewels. the tariffs are designed to defend our industries against the predatory practices which have been used to take other industries from us like solar, steel, appliances and things like that and the president is considering investment restrictions which would prevent the chinese from buying up silicon valley. melissa: the president said we had recently never bought or sold anything for themselves. they're not people that went out and bought cars and houses and learned "the art of the deal." they just paid sticker price for stuff. and we've had people running this country that paid sticker price on trade, and somebody wants to redo the deals, what's wrong with that?

>> this isn't a problem of bad trade deals. reason we have a 375 billion deficit with china is bad money. we've inflated our economy so it's no longer competitive in the world market. they produce 500,000 iphones a day at one factory in china where they pay $4 an hour. our wages are 20. melissa: the symmetric is completely wrong, you are absolutely right about that. the fact remains there are huge tariffs on our goods and he wants to get rid of them. there's a trump denier, a point of phrase. if there's anything good around it can't possibly have anything to do with president trump, or if he touched something, it can't possibly be the right answer. >> i praised him what he did in singapore. we need to make peace with north korea, but on trade, the guy is so wrong that, you know, you can't use strong enough words to warn about the danger that he's up to. there is 16 trillion of trade

in the world, and he is throwing, you know, rocks right into the gears of a very delicate mechanism. melissa: he is throwing rocks into the gears, that's for sure. when you sit across the table, the other guy's got to know you're willing to take the crazy step, willing to walk away or go far or else they don't take you seriously. you say it's a poker hand, i agree with you on that. david stockman, brilliant, thank you for coming on. david: if i could afford a mercedes-benz with no tariffs. that's good news, maybe a little bit of good news but good news. melissa: maybe a one-on-one deal with no tariffs, set the standard. david: looking to turn a blue state red? president trump heading to minnesota for a campaign rally tonight. we're live in duluth with a review. melissa: the president will no doubt speak about the executive order he just signed preventing the separation of families at the border as congress gets ready to vote on two big

immigration votes. chairman bob goodlatte is behind both of the bills, he's joining us coming up. david: republican leaders celebrating the six-month anniversary of tax reform. american manufacturers reporting record optimism for growth. jay timmons is the president of national association of manufacturers was at today's big event. he's joining us in a fox business exclusive. that's next. >> we have gone from a nation that's asking where are the jobs? the nation asking where are the workers? main street is roaring back. how do you win at business?

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. david: we're into six months of tax cuts now, speaker ryan, treasury second steve mnuchin and ways and means chairman kevin brady wrapping up a

celebration on this anniversary, take a look. >> what a great six months this has been. more than one million jobs have been created in the last six months since tax reform. unemployment at lowest level at half a century. wage are picking up. today there is a record optimism among nation's manufacturers. tax reform, to be blunt is the game-changer our economy needed. david: according to the survey, over 95% of manufacturers have a positive outlook for companies. our next guest knows this firsthand. here now in a fox business exclusive, jay timmons, the national association of manufacturers, president and ceo. jay, how much of that optimism, 95% optimism by manufacturers is specifically because of the tax cuts. >> well, a large part of that is because of the tax cuts, that's what we hear from manufacturers. we've been waiting for 30 years. we've been working for 30 years

to enact comprehensive tax reform and regulatory relief. we got that done and now seeing the results from it. so as you said, a 20-year high in our quarterly survey. david: when you think back, jay, to nancy pelosi, complaining that these tax cuts would cause an economic armageddon. what do you think? i mean, and can anybody take her comments on the economy anyway seriously after being so wrong about that? >> well, plain and simple she was wrong. let me say this, david, because i think it's a very important message that the american people need to know. as i said we've been working 30 years to get this done and in exchange we promised we would hire new workers, we would invest in plants and equipment here in the united states and raise wages and benefits. we're seeing the results of that. 86% of members will invest in new plants and equipment. 70% are hiring new employees and 72% say they're raising

wages and benefits. we have to keep our word to the american people or else this exercise was for not. david: but the naysayers are still at it, jay, despite all of the positive economic signals and they're saying all the money is just going to stock buybacks. there's a lot of money going to stock buybacks, you better believe it, but what they don't tell you about is the investment. can you be specific how companies are reinvesting and expanding in reaction to the tax cuts? >> so at that press conference that you talked about, we had a small manufacturer that was on-hand talking about the millions of dollars of equipment that he just bought to upskill and upgrade his facilities, and we're seeing that all across country. but you know, i get that there are skeptics out there, and i think it's healthy in a democracy to question the policies that are enacted. but i can tell you this, manufacturers are going to deliver. in the last six months, we created 115,000 new months,

that is double what it was over the course of the last year. all i can say is watch us work. david: okay, finally, we only have about 30 seconds. the repatriation of capitol hill, the president suggesting that trillions of dollars coming back, have you seen any signs of that? >> we are hearing anecdotes. i don't have specific numbers, we are hearing anecdotes they are bringing the money to the united states and investing it here in plants, equipment, jobs and wages, that's exactly what we wanted to accomplish with tax reform. david: jay timmons, congratulations, great day for manufacturers. who would have thought we would be hearing about the rusting of the manufacturing belt that we'd be so optimistic. >> what we, did as long as we got the right policy, we would be. david: jay timmons, thanks. melissa: did the fbi edit witness reports on two separate investigations, that's coming

up. plus president trump signing executive order on immigration amid outcry from both sides of the aisle. chairman bob goodlatte responds to this and the immigration bills on the hill tomorrow, next. >> really, really pathetcally weak. the country is going to be overrun with millions of people, and if you're strong, then you don't have any heart. it's a tough dilemma. perhaps i'd rathering strong. d . . . i've always been about what's next.

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david, had been this, they said that parents who were trying to bring their children across the border or get caught the the border were breaking the law. what happened at any city, county across the country, the parents have to go to jail and thus separated from children. now the policy of the administration is this, the parents are breaking the law, they say, however, once the court proceedings take place and go through the process, the kids will be allowed to stay with the parents. the executive order and one part cuts to the chase and reads as follows: it is the policy of the administration to maintain family unity by detaining alien families together, where appropriate, and consistent with law and available resources. the president signed the executive order with the vice president and the head of the department of homeland security by his side. >> we're keeping families together, and this will solve that problem. at the same time, we are keeping a very powerful border,

and it continues to be a zero tolerance. we have zero tolerance for people that enter our country illegally. reporter: very likely this is going to face legal scrutiny am the federal courts as recently as a few years ago said children could not stay more than 20 days in a detention facility yet alone the possibility of indefinitely. aclu put out a statement in advance of this that reads the following: children do not belong in jail at all even with parents under circumstances. if the president thinks placing people in jail indefinitely is what people are asking for, he is grossly mistaken. president reiterated today even though this is executive order he wants congress to tang the bigger issues, this one and others and act. david? david: good luck on that and on that judge. see what happens. blake, thank you very much. melissa: the house is set to vote on two immigration bills tomorrow proposed by house

judiciary committee chairman bob goodlatte. i spoke with the chairman on the support he's gaining on these bills. >> i think there's a lot of support for both piece of legislation. one they introduce along with chairman mccall early this year that has not succeeded in getting the 218 votes. the second one is chairman goodlatte number two, that bill is something we put together with members from all the corners of our conference working closely together, and i think it has the prospect of getting to 218. there's a lot of questions that we're having to answer. some concerns that need be addressed, but we should have a good vote tomorrow. melissa: what is different about the second one that makes it more likely, how did you get more people from corners of the party and what did you change? >> well, we did more in terms of addressing the daca population, not in terms of expanding that population but the original folks entitled to

apply under the obama administration. they will all get on apply, not just the ones who actually signed up and create a merit-based category that people who are here lawfully in the united states can apply for and people in daca will be able to qualify as well. melissa: the criticism from the left is the plan and the president's plan included is to limit the amount, lower the number of immigrants that can come here illegally. how do you respond to that? >> in the new consensus bill, there is no net reduction in green cards because the savings from the visa lottery, for example, that goes into the new merit-based immigration system and the savings from eliminating some of the extended family chain migration categories, that goes into working down the waiting list for the employment based categories that we have. as you know, people from india can wait 20 years or more even though they've legally

qualified for a green card. we're going to drastically shorten shows waiting lists. once that is taken care of, numbers could go down. this is a stop payment moving toward a merit-based system overall. melissa: the visuals going on at border right now. when you look at the numbers and see 10,000 kids in custody who were sent here, not with their parents or parents who think that's the best option for their child to hand them to a stranger and get them into another country, have to be in a desperate situation. how do you address that problem, both the idea they don't feel they can legally immigrate and they're in that kind of jeopardy or danger and the idea we have the 10,000 kids here now without families. >> parents who do that are totally irresponsible. parents who bring child with them and come across the desert or across the rio grande river subjecting themselves to human smugglers traveling a thousand

miles across mexico are irresponsible, too. but we agree that if the charge against the parent is simply illegal entry into the united states, which is a misdemeanor, we thinkldren should be kept with them while waiting for that charge to be heard. melissa: what about they don't feel they have the opportunity to migrate legally because it takes too long, no one is listening. how do you solve that part of the equation or is that not your responsibility? >> the united states is the most generous for legal immigration, we give over 1.1 million green cards for people to come and live permanently. doesn't surprise me that tens of millions of more people want to come, they just can't all come. got to be a two-way street. people need to know they need to stay in their own country. we need to provide help to resolve the problems we have there. asylum system is being accused, the catch-and-release problem is addressed in the legislation as well, and unaccompanied

minors like you referred to, they come, if they're coming from mexico, they can be returned safely home immediately where if they're coming from central america, we have to go through a much longer process, that's why they're detained. we need to change that law as well. that's included in this bill. melissa: back to work. thank you, sir. appreciate your time. >> thank you. david: we have some breaking news -- defense secretary james mattis telling reporters he's going to be traveling to china and south korea next week. this following president trump's decision to suspend military exercise between the u.s. and south korean forces. we, of course will be following this next week and bring you all the details and headlines. melissa: heading to the land of 10,000 lakes. president trump holding a rally in minnesota tonight. his first visit to the state since taking office. can the success of the steel and aluminum tariffs help republicans take the state in november? we are live from minnesota coming up. david: new fallout from those

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i take the view, if people have done something wrong and they aren't fired, iffed hads don't roll, nothing changes. david: that's midwestern wisdom, ladies and gentlemen. senator chuck grassley reacting to news that fbi investigator peter strzok was escorted out of fbi headquarters i believe friday after more revelations came to light to prevent his threats from donald trump getting elected. it happened friday, but we just heard about it yesterday. >> right. >> the key is here that it wasn't just peter strzok, and it wasn't just peter strzok and lisa page. there were other people that horowitz referred to and we can say their names because it was said in public testimony. kevin klinesmith and sally moyer, both fbi investigators, one was an actual agent, the other a lawyer. it's looking more and more like there was a real conspiracy

among people at the fbi who did not want donald trump to enter the white house? >> right, david, and i think both of those two, if i'm correct worked on the clinton investigation. david: right. >> and i think at least kleinsmith worked on the trump investigation or perhaps mueller. i think you have a lot of people there whose behavior was absolutely disgraceful, but i have to say the part of this that shocks me where, is christopher wray? the fbi director seems to be looking at this as just another day at the office. i mean, he is not outraged over this. david: no, the contrast -- melissa and i were talking about this, during the testimony itself, the contrast between horowitz and christopher wray was so apparent that horowitz was horrified by what was going on, and wray said yeah, there were problems but we'll deal with it. >> right, he said it's a small group of people involving one

incident in 2016. that happens to be the director, deputy director, top count counterintelligence investigator and involves the investigation of two presidential candidates. other than that, as i say in the column, how did you enjoy the play, mr. lincoln? david: i was going to say that exact line. there is the question of rod rosenstein, of course a lot of the information that horowitz came out with, the names of the other two fbi agents or investigators could have been given to congress by rodronen stein, the man in charge of the -- who essentially empowered the mueller investigation, and he was withholding this information. bill mcgurn of the "wall street journal" went so far to suggest in a column that perhaps we should impeach rod rosenstein as a result of this. what do you think? >> i think that congress has again set a deadline for this

week. we haven't heard tucker was supposed to be monday, that they were to get these documents, and i think that's what mcgurn, this friend of mine, i respect him a lot. that's what he's talking about. if they don't turn over the documents, slow walking everything. they drag their feet. there is absolutely the sense that rosenstein and wray combined are there to protect the fbi from official scrutiny, whether it be the congress or just the public at large. they are sitting there, hiding these documents as though they have no legitimate oversight in congress, and rosenstein even threatened members of congress that he would investigate them if they tried to impeach him. this is extraordinary. david: trying not to use the term deep state but getting harder and harder to avoid using that. there's the question of comey, we heard from horowitz apparently he's being investigated now. former fbi director, that's something we didn't hear from

rosenstein. >> that's right. there's no passion for this. they seem not to appreciate the significance of what has happened here and the impact it is having on public trust in the fbi. i mean, this is supposedly the nation's premiere law enforcement. the world's premiere law enforcement agency. it has been caught red-handed. in giving hillary clinton a pass. though, there are clearly arguments about that, but the people involved express their opinion, some of them, that we shouldn't go too hard on her, and the same people involved, some of them said we'll stop donald trump from becoming president. that is a very significant, i mean unique, unique to the history of the fbi and yet the director sits there as though it's just another day at the office. david: and despite its historic significance, so does the media itself with the exception of you and us and a few other media outlets. media is basically ignoring the story. that's for another day.

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. melissa: disney is sweetening the deal for twenty-first century fox, but comcast isn't throwing in the towel. susan li has the latest from fox's executive board meeting today. susan? reporter: yep, so as expected, we started this morning with a higher bid from disney. sweetening offer to $38 a share, that comes to $71 billion in total for fox assets including tv and movie studio. this is a combination bid of cash and stock. twenty-first century fox endorsing it as a superior bid to comcast's $65 billion all-cash bid. market was anticipating comcast comeback with a higher bid. apparently, they are going to.

it's imminent. we have reliable sources telling us at fox business that comcast will come back counterbidding at $41 a share. one source says it could be a combination of cash and stock. another source says they have bank letters, comcast has bank letters that will allow them to go all cash in this transaction. analyst consensus is the bidding war will go up to $50 a share. what about approval. bloomberg reporting this afternoon that the department of justice says they are nearing possible antitrust approval of a disney-fox deal. our sources when we called the department of justice says it's a little early and preliminary to say that this might be the case. now as for shareholders, a, we're supposed to vote on july 10th on this disney offer, which is less than what they offered today. they're putting us off, we have the new bid at $38 apiece, they don't have a date in terms of when the shareholders will

vote, but they're going to give them time to sift through this, and during that time might get another comcast offer, back to you guys. >> the commander in chief is in the air as we speak. president trump making his way to minnesota. live on the ground with the latest from the scene and the importance of tonight's rally in duluth. ♪

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. david: president trump headed to minnesota, a blue state he's hoping to flip to red by november's primaries. with the success of steel and aluminum tariffs, connell mcshane in duluth awaiting details on tonight's rally. i would say, connell, if he gets this deal on cars from europe going to zero tariffs, that's another thing that could be a success. we'll see what he talks about.

reporter: it could be, and i would think a lot of trade issues come up tonight. we've been talking about it all day with business leaders and residents here in this area because it's very, very important to them. president is focused on immigration in washington before flying out. trade in the city of duluth, not far from canada and there is support for the president's tariffs. you mentioned this is a blue state, has been for years in presidential elections but has a streak of purple and republicans, before we get on presidential re-election are hoping to take it back in the fall. i have karen housley with me, i know and david was saying this, tougher republican traditionally to win statewide. what's the key for you in minnesota? >> the key is to get our message out there. if the state is turning red and president trump came so close by losing to 14,000 votes, the

whole state is ready to turn red, it's exciting the president is here to let the people of minnesota know the issues of minnesotans are important to them in d.c. reporter: trade is a big issue, what's your position on the president's tariffs? >> so lucky to live in a diverse state. we have the steel miners which support the tariffs and i understand because it's all about jobs and the economy up here but we have to take into consideration the farmers. i met with the corn growers yesterday and they have concerns. reporter: let me stop you, what are concerns? they started to get nervous about the fall, the harvest and what have you? >> absolutely. they are nervous about fall and the harvest. they trust the president and know how he makes deals, they are on board but hoping something can get done and issues are heard by the president. reporter: in case anybody can't tell, this is a campaign-style ral eechl the campaign is paid for. you're going to get a chance to speak. we saw that in the campaign,

the president had speakers speak before he speaks. >> this is in a hockey arena, i'm going differentiate myself fweent candidate. i'm running for the al franken seat, i'm a small business owner as opposed to my opponent who is a career politician and just our message of the economy and growing more jobs is what i'm focusing on. reporter: that seat, al franken, the senator, is no longer there. tina smith was appointed to the seat. there are two democratic senators. that one logically would be the easier one to take on, what do you think your chances are in the fall? >> i think we're in a dead heat and really getting our message out there and tina smith has never run on her own, she's got the wrong message. obstructionists in d.c. voting against everything the president is trying do. reporter: one more question, the president signing an executive order to allow families to stay together after a parent or guardian crosses the border illegally, what's

your thought on the controversy as it unfolded this week? >> i came out yesterday and breaking my heart to break the families up and hear the cries of the kids. i'm glad the president did sign the executive order to keep the families together, while we still secure our borders. reporter: running for the senate. that's the type of state, david that it is here, a little purple through minnesota even though statewide it's been blue. the republicans have high hopes in the fall. see whether trade is the issue that is concerning for them. david: it should be very interesting. thank you very much. you know what's interesting, melissa, whenever he feels he needs to get his batteries recharged, he goes to one of the rallies. there's an old expression, negative can make positive people sick. he wanted to get out and get his batteries recharged. melissa: it's true, he love tos go to the events and as we saw him on the campaign trail.

it was interesting the issue she's talking about there, that's a slice, they have the diverse economy in the state. looking at those in the steel industry, the north are pumped up and the farmers are like wait a second, trying export my product but she said they trust him as a deal maker. people outside washington and outside new york and california don't realize that most of america, i think, thinks he's a deal maker and understand when he's negotiating like with the tariffs. david: look what happened with germany. right now, we have the possibility of getting rid of all tariffs on all cars between europe and the united states, and that will be a big plus for our economy and their economy as well. melissa: make a one-on-one deal, a bilateral deal with the tariffs, sets the standard are. >> not on our planes, major airlines issuing a stern warning to the trump administration. six in the morning.

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melissa: taking a stand against the white house american, southwest, frontier and united airlines are all asking the trump adminitration to not put migrant children who have been separated from their parents on their flight. david: department of homeland security releasing the following statement in reaction saying " these airlines clearly do not understand our immigration laws and the long-standing devastating loopholes that have caused the crisis at our southern border. buckling to a false media narrative only exacerbates the problems at our border and puts more children at risk from traffickers" and that's the problem with doing something at this point. i'm glad the president came out with an executive action but if you do something on the basis of raw emotion rather than really thinking things through a lot of bad decisions could be made. melissa: how about they fix the problem? david: yeah. melissa: and come up with a solution. david: well there's a reason

they haven't through at least a dozen years and that's because it's a very hard problem to fix. what do you do? melissa: the whole immigration system. the whole immigration system. all right that does it for us. david: evening edit starts right now. liz: president trump signing an executive order this afternoon stopping the separation of families at the border saying anybody with a heart would feel strongly about it so tomorrow the vote to fix the entire border mess we've got that debate and the controversy coming up and you will not believe who is fighting over hillary clinton's e-mails it's james comey versus hillary we've got the sound and the fight. plus, we are waiting president trump's arrival in duluth, minnesota, he will be attending a rally in a solid blue collar democrat district that trump won in 2016 it is a district hit rdy