let's see if i understand this. they would do business with the communist government of china but not with the government of the united states. that does not compute. arthel: president trump unleashing a twitter tirade hitting on hot button issues like trade tariffs, the ongoing russian investigation and his coverage in the media. and after another big night on the campaign trail. president drumming up support from ohio republican congressional candidate troy balderson in a show which could show which party has the momentum heading into the midterms. hello everyone welcome to a new hour of "america's news headquarters". >> i am mike emanuel in for eric shawn. the president at his golf club

today following the rally last night in ohio. he looks to stem a blue wave ahead of the special election on tuesday. >> of the greatest economy in history of our country. we have things that have never happened before. [cheering and applause] if the democrats get in, they will raise your taxes. you will have crime all over the place. you have people pouring across the border. so why would that be a blue wave? i think it could be a red wave. arthel: rick leventhal is live in berkeley has new jersey near the president's golf course with more on all of this. hi rick. reporter: hi, arthel. a second twitter is been quite a sunday for the president who had no public events scheduled for today. as is working vacation continues. among his more controversial tweets was one this morning targeting the media. he wrote, the fake news hates me saying that they are the enemy of the people because they know it is true.

i'm providing a great service by explaining this to the american people. they purposely cause great division and distrust. they can also cause war. they're very dangerous and sick. they were more fake news attacks the lesson is rally with the primary focus of the president on getting republican voters to the polls. >> who ever has the white house, that party tends to lose the midterms. i don't know why. maybe it's complacency, maybe you will fight so hard for the presidency and you win and you are a little complacent. >> but you have to get out and do it. you have to get out and vote. because they want to take away what we have given. reporter: the rally in the high school gym outside of clovis was the president's third in five days to support candidates

in key races and swing states. this temper troy balderson who locked in a surprisingly tight battle with danny o'connor for tuesday's special election for ohio's 12 congressional district which the president won by 10 points in 2016. mr. trump spoke for more than an hour even though the air conditioning apparently took the night off. >> is 110 degrees in this crazy room. [cheering and applause] if you can take it, i can take it! so much for my brand-new beautiful suit. reporter: despite the heat, the president has promised many more rallies in the run-up to this november election. arthel: thank you. mike: direction from the president's legal team on the russia probe. his attorney telling abcnews a team is leading toward not granting special counsel, robert mueller a sitdown interview with the president suggesting legal action if robert mueller tries to subpoena mr. trump to testify. ellison barber has more from

washington. reporter: the president according to his lawyers want to do an interview with special counsel robert mueller but his lawyer says the legal team still has a number of concerns. >> we are concerned a number of reasons. go to the heart of his authority as the president. article 2 why did you fire james comey? article 2. there's a series of those. reporter: this morning the president tweeted about the meeting in trump tower with the russian lawyer and campaign officials. he denied any prior knowledge of the meeting and the report he is worried about his son, donald junior and his potential legal exposure when it comes to the russia probe. donald trump says the reports are a complete fabrication. he went on to say the meeting in trump tower was a meeting to get information on an opponent totally legal. and done all the time in politics. and it went nowhere. here's what the lawyer said about the tweet, the meeting and don junior. >> we took a dim meeting that took place a year before two years ago, the question is what rule of regulations have been

violated? >> that has been conspiracy to defraud the united states. >> i do not represent don junior but i will tell you i have no knowledge at all of him being told he is a target of any investigation and i have no knowledge of him being interviewed by the special counsel. >> all of this is the president's one-time campaign chairman, paul manafort, prepares for second week before a federal judge in virginia. paul manafort is facing charges of fraud.they indicted him on the charges. in may the judge in the case accused the prosecution bringing the charges in an effort to get information related to president trump. an above lawmaker said it seemed to be in order and possible obstruction of justice. the white house said the tweet was a presence opinion and not an order. mike: thank you.arthel: on top of this a possibility of a trump/mueller sitdown. we have our guest with us,

judy, good to see you. >> hello arthel. arthel: when you compile comments what is your impression of top of mind or main concerns for the president regarding the mueller investigation? >> well, i think reading between the lines and reading between the tweets for donald trump, clearly, his lawyers would not like their client to sit down with robert mueller and and under oath, open ended exchange on a wide variety of subjects. and we do know, arthel, that there is fierce negotiation going on between the mueller commission and mr. trump lawyers over what kind of a meeting this would be, whether or not it would be under oath,

for how long it would be. for example, when bill clinton sat down with prosecutors it was limited to four hours. so all of these things are being negotiated but i know rudy giuliani and i know that he would, under the best circumstances, would not like his client to expose himself, a client for that matter, to an unedited, open ended investigation. and interrogation by robert mueller. hence, that is why we have the white house study, unrelenting effort to question the legitimacy of the robert mueller inquiry. arthel: as noted in a 92 page decision by a federal judge in washington, and the roger stone case, judge howell rejected an attempt to prevent roger stone from being subpoenaed to testify. the judge explains why quote - the scope of the special

counsel power falls well within the boundaries the constitution permits. what does this mean if robert mueller subpoenaed the president for an interview? and the president's attorney tried to resist the subpoena? >> i think it is an open ended question right now. i'm in the fact of the matter is, it is not clear that the president can be subpoenaed and i think that i did have a chance to talk to rudy giuliani. socially little while ago. he told me as he is told other people, that if there is a subpoena, one result of that would be to extend the inquiry for many weeks and months and that is clearly not something the president wants. he would like what he calls this rigged, fake, witchhunt to be over. and to move on with some of the good news that he thinks he is not being credited for by the

media. but if, in fact there is a subpoena, it means that the mueller inquiry will be in the news for a long time. so i'm not sure there is a clear win for the president on this either way. arthel: if the president does sit down for the interview, how much input will rudy giuliani and the other attorneys have on what questions mr. mueller can ask the president? >> once again it depends on what is negotiated. if there is no subpoena and there is a voluntary agreement to testify but by the way, i don't think giuliani wants that to happen. and i don't really think president trump wants that to happen despite what he says. because is this a limited session? to have a limited number of areas that robert mueller can ask about? will the president be under oath? this is why it is taking so long to get a determination as

to whether or not the present will or will not sit down. i'm not going to predict there was going to happen. but i would think that the president 's counsel would do everything he could to prevent such a meeting at this point. arthel: you just mention how the president is saying he is getting unfair coverage by the media. when you said that in my mind i'm thinking we should tweet about something else. but you must be reading somebody's mind because i am seeing that from the president coming in for a one pm saying presidential numbers are good, strong economy military and everything else. better numbers and obama at this point by four. we are waiting on just about every front and for that reason there will not be a blue wave. but there might be a red wave. you know, the president tweets about certain things and maybe that would help change the narrative a bit. but the mueller investigation continues.>> i don't think so at this point, arthel. arthel: but it is up to him to point out what he is doing

positive. and he needs to keep tweeting about the quote - witchhunt. >> part of the problem is that when you make 7.6 mistakes a day it is hard to take what he says about the economy at face value. if the president didn't make so many mistakes, i think you would get, and if he did not have a war with the media which he really started. i think you would get more credit for the strong economy and the things that he claims he has done that we don't give him credit for. but given the acrimonious and unpleasant relationship at this point, a lot of reporters will not give him credit for anything. that is part of the problem and part of his frustration. arthel: i think it is kind of a combination. the report is jobs are to measure the present remains factual also. so it is murky water right now. >> we should not take the bait. what we should do is keep our

heads down and report on what the president does and report on the results. and not respond to his claims of fake news because then we just play into the narrative of being defensive and self-righteous. i think we have a job to do, we ought to get on with it and let the president do his. arthel: we will leave it there judy miller, thank you very much. >> thank you. mike: national security advisor john bolton says no one at the trump administration is starry eyed about north korea giving up the nuclear stockpile. and there may come a time of the president loses patience with kim jong-un. this after secretary of state mike pompeo personally delivered a letter from the president to the north korean foreign minister with a message intended for kim jong-un. >> they are talking about in the exchange of letters, what is necessary to get performance on the commitment that north korea itself made in singapore to do look arise. that is the central issue for

us. mike: gillian turner is live in washington with the latest. reporter: bolton took to meet in and around the world tour of the presidents foreign policy this morning on "fox news sunday". he touched on everything from china to iran. kicking off with north korea. he said the whole world is waiting with baited breath for another donald trump and kim summit. and they remain laser focused on one thing. >> our party is north korean denuclearization. kim jong-un promised south korean president moon on april 27 he would do it and he would do it within a year. >> he also hit upon one of his favorite themes, that though the administrations hopeful about the ongoing negotiations, they are not nacve. >> that point may well come as i have said to you and others before, there is nobody in this administration, starry eyed about the prospects that north korea actually denuclearize in.

reporter: moving on to the election meddling, he punched back against the presidents critics with some of the most forceful language he has used to date. echoing the secretary of state mike pompeo his comments last week when he told the senate foreign relations committee the president accepts the intelligence communities findings of russian interference had been widespread. >> the host is the idea that the trump campaign was the beneficiary of a concerted effort together with the russians to affect the 2016 election. reporter: also touch on the ongoing trade war with china. when he calls the corrupt regime in venezuela and iran. when the u.s. is now on track to oppose the so-called sanctions beginning tomorrow. just 18 months in the president has a lot on his foreign policy agenda. mike: no doubt about that. gillian turner, thank you. arthel: and apparent assassination on the president of venezuela. ahead, how drones were part of attack that played out during a

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we started our people reported killed after magnitude 7.0 earthquake strikes indonesia. the quake centered on one island but also felt in bali where if damaged buildings. with a brief tsunami warning that has been lifted. this comes one week after another earthquake hit the area killing more than a dozen people. >> i withdrew the united states from the horrible iran nuclear deal. and so many things have happened since. [cheering and applause] mike: the trump administrations to reimpose a first batch of sanctions on iran since the president pulled the u.s. out of the 2015 nuclear deal in may. the rear position expected to happen tomorrow which marks the end of a 90 day wind down. for companies doing business with iran in gold, raw and precious metals and cars.

another wind down targeting iran's energy and banking sectors will end in november. with that, spring retired u.s. navy captain, chuck nash. captain nash, good to see you. outside pressure, at the time there many people are very unhappy with their government. >> i think it will because anything we can do to destabilize the iranian regime works in u.s. national interest. it is everything from president trump setting up a nato equivalent in the gulf, he has been talking to sunni arabs about that. the people as you point out, this is the fourth consecutive day of street demonstrations and in all of the major cities it is uniting the lower class in the middle class which constitutes over 70 percent of the total population there. this is a big deal, for their mercantile class, they are involved as well and they were the ones with the principal backers in society of the revolution back in the late

70s. mike: fascinated peer will wash a protest on the streets of iran. is there any chance, sir that the u.s. risks becoming the enemy filing up iranian nationalism? >> that is always out there but in listening to what the demonstrators are saying, the things are being written, they are not blaming united states. they tried to turn all the energy back and say it is the united states in particular, president trump backing out of the deal has caused all of these economic woes. the people of iran are smarter than that. a lot smarter than that peer because this is been going south for them for several years. just in the last year alone, the rial, the currency lost 80 percent of its value. so this is not something that the u.s. did but the u.s. is absolutely contributing to showing how weak and ineffective and unpopular they

are in tehran. mike: what about on the ground and in the region with iran's neighbors? >> is a touchy issue as you know. the iranians have been extremely active in syria. in fact, you can see the iranians were part and parcel with keeping the assad regime in power. they've also been very active in yemen. in the civil war there. there active on both the western flank and southeastern flank of the sunni arabs. in particular, saudi arabia. the saudis are not too happy with that. they've been citing the yemen and they have been backing u.s. forces and even have done some outreach programs with israel. so the sallies understand it. the israelis have long understood it. and that is that iran is the threat in the region. united states now, is back where it should be because during the obama administration, we changed forces. he went from a long-standing

relationship with the sunni arabs over to the iranians, cut the deal, hundreds of billions of dollars in pallets of cash and all that nonsense. now it is dialing back. we are reestablishing the relationships with our old friends in the region. mike: will this draw the regime in tehran to the negotiating table looking for a new nuclear agreement? tequesta do depends on what the rest of the world is willing to do. so far, then i states, the trump administration has pulled the export certificates to all of the western aircraft manufacturers, for example. iran air was going to buy some 110 aircraft from boeing with over $19 billion. but boeing says we are not going to do it. airbus and leonardo look like they are backing out of a deal as well. so the iranians have order tens

of billions of dollars of aircraft. if sections go forward it will hurt them. if they do not change their methodology, and they keep acting out like this and president trump comes down in november, when the 180 day wind down period is over, november 4 i believe, at that point, sanctions hit the banking industry and the energy sector. and that will cripple iran. mike: all right, captain chuck nash, thank you for your time and analysis. >> my pleasure. arthel: explosive testimony, key evidence and a headline grabbing ostrich jacket.as week one of the former trump campaign chairman, paul manafort 's trial wraps up. some of the big takeaways and what it could mean for the defense moving forward. plus the president approving a disaster declaration for california. a deadly wildfire claims another victim. a live report on the situation there coming up next.

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deadly wildfire in california. pacific gas confirming a worker was killed yesterday. bring the death toll to seven as firefighters from australia and new zealand are said to arrive tomorrow to help battle the flames. >> we've displaced nearly 40,000+ people. there has been about 1300+ homes have been destroyed. this has been the largest and most destructive fire in the history of the county and the sixth in california. mike: study. marianne rafferty is live with the latest. reporter: hi. as the massive wildfires continue to burn across the state, another victim claimed by the massive car fire which is already scorched more than hundred 50,000 acres. this latest fatality as you mentioned, the pg&e worker trying to restore gas and

electricity to residents bringing the death toll there to seven now. no word yet on exactly how the utility worker died. firefighters continue to battle the carr fire around-the-clock. which is at this hour, 41 percent contained. one of many larger wildfires currently burning including the so-called mendocino complex virus.one of the most active right now burning north of san francisco. so far, burning more than 200,000 acres and causing hundreds of evacuations. governor jerry brown pleading for federal help yesterday. >> these kind of horrible situations bring people together. regardless of the etiologies and partisan considerations. it is tragic that tragedy brings us closer together but out of that we learn to depend on each other and work together. reporter: the plea for aid answered with the present providing a much-needed disaster declaration. clearing the way for federal funding to bolster the states

firefighting resources. also the declaration making grants and loans available for temporary housing and repairs for the thousands of californians whose homes have been lost or damaged. meanwhile, a touching story amidst the devastating fires pretty little girl from california doing her part to help. opening a lemonade stand to raise money for fire victims and the crews risking their lives to protect them. the seven-year-old already raising $2000 that she plans to donate towards supplies for folks who have lost everything. mike: those images of the fires are so compelling. marianne rafferty from los angeles, thank you very much. mike: a fox news alert. venezuela bracing for possible arrest as the president gets out of and attempted

assassination attempt. reporter: is still not clear what took place at 5:30 p.m. yesterday in downtown caracas. as their president nicholas madero was delivering a speech to the national guard on live television, suddenly they had to cut the line signal when soldiers were running scrambling really, it was every man for himself. there were two loud explosions above the podium. the madero government saying it was an assassination attempt by terrorists. they say they made six arrests and nicholas madero is blaming opposition figures in the u.s. and columbia. here is nicholas madero. >> today, the attempt to assassinate me. i have no doubt that everything points to the right. the venezuelan far right. an alliance with the colombians far right. reporter: on the streets of caracas where he is deeply unpopular due to a failing economy, there is some skepticism. some local firefighters

interviewed say may have been a gas tank explosion but they have detained six people. it does underscore his shaky hold on power. this is a country with the worlds largest oil reserves and yet, there's basically famine going on inside of venezuela. current inflation rate is a million percent after 20 years of socialism. >> steve harrigan, ada venezuela thank you. arthel: the tax and bank fraud trial of one-time campaign chair, paul manafort starting be to tomorrow. week number one had information from the bookkeeper and prosecutors looking to call his former business partner, rick gates to the stand. all of this as defense gears up to prepare its case. let's bring in our legal panel. fox news legal analyst, mercedes and david bruno, defense attorney and former prosecutor. good to see both. david will start with you.

to sum up week one, how to go for paul manafort?how did go for the government and any surprises? >> it went great for the government, horrible for manafort. the start of the presentation with a number of vendors that manafort paid through accounts in cyprus that he failed to register or even declare. then he is paying for real estate, closing, all because of personal expenses. very bad. then they followed with the bookkeeper. and two accountants who essentially, just give information about his financial dealings. at one point an account of the given immunity by the government said she was complacent in the bank fraud. the government has been put in the case together it has been coming clean. not good for manafort. arthel: mercedes, your summary of week one. >> is amazing because at the very crux of the defense it is all going to be about the plea deal that have been done. the cornerstone of the prosecutors defense is

prosecution is rather, looking at one of the counties that came forward and testified against manafort. as she was she said she was complicit in making these tax forms that were illegitimate. and obviously unlawful. but at the final analysis with the defense they will come forward and say it is a plea deal. if you bring rick gates to testify against manafort, he has a plea deal also. so all that you will hear on the defense side is over and over again, they are plea deals, there is incentive for the individuals to give information that could be damaging to paul manafort. why? because that is what they were trying to do in order to make sure that they could avoid prosecution. so it is this kind of momentum and this kind of theory that will be propounded over and over again by the defense to make certain that the jury understands that these individuals all have vested interest to testify against paul manafort for their own

skin. arthel: i guess that is your forecast of what will come in week number two.based on that, which side you think is starting from a position of strength? will it be prosecution or defense? and what direction from what you said that you do -- that either will take? >> is an avalanche of information before the jury. and there are lots of documents and testimony. they are always good to feel like this is an unsteady ship for the defense. it is definitely a lot a poker face and telegraphing to the journey that you are at all concerned. starting with the defense, they have to do counterpoints. aside from what they have said so far. the theory about that these are individuals that have passed this type of and arrangement.

you have to point to counterpoints on the documents. rick gates will really know is on the record that apparently he is the individual that has told the accountant to put in false statements in those tax reports. arthel: rick gates is he was following instructions of manafort. also david bruno, they are 23 projected evidence, 23 email exchanges between manafort and rick gates. how is this looking to you? >> gates is going to be huge. there was some uncertainty whether the government was going to call them initially. a question at the judge at one point. prosecutors said they did not know then they said we will. gates is the codefendant of manafort. his former business partner. the defense open to the fact that this guy, gates, was the one that did it all. that manafort relied on him, he trusted him and gates was stealing money so that he was

hiding things from him. but the emails that you bring up, and the personal expenditures that they got from the cyprus account are problematic for manafort. because while he was the jury to believe that he had a hands-off approach, it is expenditures and emails that will rein him in right into the conspiracy that the government wants them to believe. arthel: interesting points, both of you. finally a short answer for could. david will start with you. so far, does it appear that the manafort trial correlates to the mueller russia probe and part two, does the mueller probe remain important? >> the manafort trial has nothing to do with russian interference or donald trump. right? is it going to continue the investigation? absolutely! just last we heard that andrew miller, associate of roger stone will be compelled to testify on the grand jury. and they are also looking to talk to the russian popstar who had a part in the june ninth

meeting in trump tower. this will continue, unfortunately.arthel: mercedes, final 30 seconds. >> no, exactly right. it definitely is being reported and in fact the judge in this case, in the manafort trial was very critical of the special prosecutor being part of the case. it is clear at least to the jury saying why are you prosecuting this case? it should have been referred back to the federal prosecutors, should not have stayed with the special prosecutor speed and squeezing manafort to the point that they believe there was a possibility that manafort would flip against the president. all in all, this is nothing to do with it. arthel: mercedes, david, thank you both. >> take care.>> thank you. mike: the national role-- the n association under fire. and the president promising to

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surprised. you know, they are talking about this blue wave. i don't think so. mike: president trump last night campaigning in battleground ohio for republican state senator troy balderson. ahead of tuesday's special house election. the president mocking the democrats prediction of a blue wave coming in the november midterms. last night's rally just one of many he vows to hold for candidates across the country. several of those he has endorsed have already won primaries. but how will the impact the general election? let's do some forecasting with a senior writer at the weekly standard. let's get to it, eric.

is your expectation many voters in the middle may not turn out in november just the very conservative and very liberal? >> what voters in the middle? the interesting thing about this election mike, is that usually in an election you will have about one third of one side and one third of the other side and the battle is for the people in the middle to try to persuade them to come over to your side of the aisle. in this election, it's been called a barbell election. you have a very narrow middle which is the bar. then you have a bulk of voters on one and a bulk of voters on the other end. and there's no real middle that's going to go one way or the other. was going to determine the outcome of the election is going to be which end of that barbell gets more motivated to turn out to vote. mike: have the have the president and his team processed information that we are less than 100 days from the midterms. you see the president getting out and doing rallies pays

promised to do rallies and moralis. this is going to turn on the base getting fired up. the question is, can president trump fire up the conservative base, fire up the trump base without doing so in a way that sets on edge, the voters who do not like him. the question is, will president trump be able to motivate his base without motivating the opposing base even more? diane black lost in the republican primary for the governors race in tennessee. she did not have the president endorsement so how do you measure the presidents influence at this stage? >> if you have got a president who has got 90 percent approval in his own party as you do with president trump and republicans, it is going to be very hard for republican candidates to succeed to get the enthusiasm that they need from their voters without donald trump endorsement.

and we have seen donald trump endorse a few people, make some adjustments in the primaries but i think you will see him endorsing pretty much the whole republican slate in the general election. i think he is starting to realize how important this election is to him if the republicans lose the house all the sudden you have the ability of the house to bring impeachment charges for example. >> right. >> right away. i think it is starting to become apparent to president trump. he is realizing that he needs to support not only house republican candidates but senate republican candidates if he is going to be in any kind of good shape the second two years of after the midterm. >> a bigger concern i'm hearing from folks on the building behind a theus capital lease for republicans is keeping the

house. are we heading for a blue wave? >> well, it's interesting. because of gerrymandering and other demographics, democrats actually have to beat republicans by about seven percent in the general vote. in order to get a majority in the house of representatives. right now, the generic ballot election polling has democrats up by about eight percent over republican house candidates. and so if you look at that, it means that you have dead even heat between republicans and democrats. we may not have a blue wave after all but it does not look like a red wave either. it just may be a much closer election than people have been anticipating. mike: interesting something to watch. most i've spoken to seem pretty upbeat about maintaining or even building on the majority.

the one wildcard seems to be that texas senate race, or texas voters going to make ted cruz sweat? >> well, ted cruz is coming out and saying don't be complacent. he is up against a young, very attractive, solid candidate campaigns well, overworked. but ted cruz is actually up in the real clear politics pulls about six and half percentage points. i think ted cruz recognizes as a turnout election in every way and he started to ring the alarm bells for his voters to say, don't be complacent. don't look and see i am up by 6 and a half points and think that this is a done deal. you have to turn out because the turnout may obliterate the average polling and what polling means because posters are not able to predict who is really going to turn out in this election. mike: eric from the weekly

standard, we thank you for your time. have a wonderful day. >> thank you for having me on. arthel: thank you. financial problems for the national rifle association. the gun rights group saying it may have to let go some of its operations. including nra tv. they are saying is because of the blacklisting campaign by one democratic governor.we will have the details coming up next. allergies with sinus congestion and pressure? you won't find relief here. go to the pharmacy counter for powerful claritin-d. while the leading allergy spray relieves 6 symptoms... claritin-d relieves 8, including sinus congestion and pressure. claritin-d relieves more. too hot to work? nah. this is the gator xuv835. with game-changing heat and air,

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association says it could soon be in financial trouble. they have to shut down some operations like nra tv. the group claims it is because of new york governor andrew cuomo. the nra filing a lawsuit against governor cuomo and the new york state department of financial services. bryan llenas in our new york city newsroom with details. reporter: the national rifle association claims it has lost tens of millions of dollars because of a state led quote - blacklisting campaign. that threatens the nra's very existence. the lawsuit filed against the new york governor andrew cuomo and the state department of financial services accuses them of coercing insurance companies and banks to stop doing business with the nra. the other races the governor is leading a conspiracy to kill the nra but going after its

financial partners. because without banking services, they could not retain donations from members and without insurance coverage, the nra quote - cannot maintain its physical premises, convene off-site, programs, firearms or rallies conventions and assemblies. the lawsuit comes after new york investigation in may found that the nra was selling illegal insurance policies to members called carey guard. the policy reimbursed members for legal costs incurred after firing a legal gun. as a result the company paid a $7 million fine, the holdings were paid a $1.3 million fine and both companies and the relationships with the nra. the nra now fears it is just the beginning and may want an injunction to stop the state from meddling in his business relationships. governor andrew cuomo in new york filed a motion to dismiss.

the lawsuit on friday. calling it frivolous. he tweeted, if the enemy goes bankrupt because of the state of new york, they will be in my thoughts and prayers. i will see you in court. the governor is not urgent other states to allow the nra carey guard insurance program. to go after also banks and insurance companies. arthel: we will be right back. u. a bayer aspirin regimen is one step to help prevent another stroke. so, i'm doing all i can to stay in his life. be sure to talk to your doctor before you begin an aspirin regimen. when you bundle your auto and hwith esurance, you could save with their single deductible. so if you confused the brake with the gas, or if your lamp post jumped out of nowhere, or if you forgot your bike was on the roof rack,

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spa offers jumbo friends which carry tourists on their backs. they are treated to massage comebacks and all-you-can-eat buffet. better them than me. arthel: they deserve it! i like the pedicure part. >> steaming, swamp like washington which has been drenched with the heaviest rainfall. it is wet in this town and steaming. greg: summons boxers are sticking back. [laughter] enough. you want to drive your enemies nuts? have more fun than they are. >> remember when i said when i be wild and we have a lot of f fun. he said he's not acting presidential and i would say it's a lot easier