were taken as a group, there were no counter protesters and no press. they were taken as a group on to close pennsylvania avenue. it is a little bit tough to see from here just because there are so many counter protesters. but the unite the right rally happening about 100 yards in front of the fence line. it looks like, it is tough to get account but it is a -- they wanted to have this white civil rights event. they are only it appears, talking to each other. because again, there are very few press, there is no other outsiders who came to protest the event. but you know, there were thousands of people -- eric: we apologize for the

obscene gesture. they cover their faces as you can see. they get dressed in black and they have their helmets, they have known to be violent. not just against the white supremacist but also against the news media. and others in the past. have there been any incidents where you are, peter or that sort of thing? can you hear me? reporter: i can hear you, eric. so far we have not seen anything like that. but there are just so many people and i do see among some of the counter protesters, there is a strong smell of marijuana in the air.i can see someone lighting up a joint right here across from the white house. with hundreds if not thousands of cops all around. the signs are mostly anti-white supremacy and anti-nazi.but then there are some it seems like anyone with a cause in d.c. is here. and the numbers are enormous

compared to the unite the right white civil rights march. they were brought here by police protection. no one could really talk to them. and then they have no state basically isolated now that the event is going. arthel: out enough you can hear me, this is arthel. have you had a chance to speak to any of those from the jason kessler group and why they are so adamant to maintain white civil rights? reporter: no, arthel. they are not talking to the press and the organization that was on this website, they were specifically told that two dozen, three dozen whatever it is, people who came were told not to talk to the press. so far they haven't. eric: earlier holding the american flag backwards as they

stood in lafayette park. clearly one of the strategy is to make a huge media event with this type of confrontation. with the politics he engages in. these three dozen or so surrounded by thousands of others denouncing their cause. arthel: a few blocks away from where peter is you have a group called themselves shut it down d.c. coalition. organizing a counter protest outnumbering those white supremacist. griff jenkins is live at freedom plaza for that part of the story. what is it like over there? reporter: well, arthel, it has gotten a little more exciting. a few people in the crowd through some smoke bombs. it is next to the white house. they raise the alarm of law enforcement. they went to a stronger level as you can see. this is behind me, you can see

this is clearly aggressive language here were heading up 17th street. this is pennsylvania avenue. that is lafayette park. that is the white house over there. you can see the heavy law enforcement presence to make sure that this crowd does not go into lafayette plaza where unite the right and jason kessler is. we ducey some predictable spontaneous actions. which is to go up and down the street. the message by the way is not just going towards jason kessler and unite the right. there is an anti-police message as well. arthel: thank you very much. john is now we have the washington examiner political reporter, al weaver. as we continue to watch live pictures there in dc, i want to ask you, if in fact this guy,

jason kessler is trying to promote the propaganda of white supremacy, white nationalist and if his ideas eric said is immediate ploy to get attention, would it be more helpful against and to avoid the potential for lots of violence to have this group speak to the president directly to find out what their concerns are, have some sort of meeting at the white house if i'm not even sure if i feel they belong there. but this is not about me. i will keep it quiet. but for the sake of america and us being a united country, to have the president speak to his people directly so to avoid this sort of display. reporter: i know what you're saying.i think right now the group is getting their share of media attention right now. there are reports have surfaced that they only have a couple dozen members in d.c. but you

know you can't start a fire without a spark. right now that is the spark really causing a lot of these counter protests. also there is peaceful protest going on. mostly throughout the district but right now they are getting their share of the media attention but will have to wait and see. was really going to be interesting here is what happens, how has the president responded?last year he came under a lot of fire for what happened in charlottesville p what he says will carry a lot of weight in the next couple of weeks as we move toward obviously, throughout august and into september past labor day. arthel: we know that the president has hesitated to reply and respond to what happened last year when unite-- heather heyer was killed. and for those people who started this and held responsible for the unfortunate death of miss heather heyer.

you have the guy that was charged, james alex fields, jr. charged with second-degree murder. a kentucky native who was there in charlottesville. in virginia last year with military record saying he joined the army in 2015 only active for less than four months. but the president came out saying that they were bad people on both sides. i think a lot of people wanted to be more clear and to admonish the white supremacist who started this one year ago. so why would we think the president would react differently this year? reporter: there were a lot of implications last year. it was deemed probably the lowest part of the administration. obviously a lot of people upset about that even within the administration. and right now we are about a little less than three months from midterm elections. right now there are a lot of people who do not want the president to be talking about

this and especially the way he did last year. they would like for him to come out like this morning and said that we reject all forms of white supremacy or all forms of neo-nazi and that type of stuff. but we'll have to wait and see on that. kind of come out strong on this otherwise he will have it coming to him again. arthel: but ivanka trump is not the president. president donald trump is the president. he did tweet and lastly for hours saying he denounces all types of racism. but again, do you think that we need to see the president come before a camera and address the country? to quell the sort of racial tension that has really increased in the country. not just there that is what we are looking at right now but just across the country. people are on edge, emotions are high. do we need the president to say listen everybody, i am your

leader and i am the leader of this entire country and i speak to all of you who are out there inciting violence for whatever your reason is. we need to stop it. reporter: he can be the console in chief if he really wants to be. i think that's a big point with here. last year he came out the press conference and made comments that did not help matters one bit. if you going to come out this year and do what president obama did with situation in south carolina a couple of years ago that it would be a good idea for the president. but if he's not, you have to wonder what he will end up doing after this. it is right in front of the white house, right in lafayette park. obviously he is in bedminster so he is not on the ground and it is not a concern necessarily

for his safety or anyone at the white house. but yes, he has to figure what he's going to do on this and what he does one way or another will, the politics will be heavy. arthel: it is a sunday afternoon in august. i'm not sure if he has been able to contact any of the normal folks there in d.c. but if you did let me know if you heard anything please tell me. have you spoke to anybody? any of your normal contacts? have they made any statements to you? reporter: not at this point, no. right now the big thing is, a lot of people are pointing to there are two dozen protesters out here for unite the right right now. it is down from 250 in charlottesville laster that really made the waves and led to the counter protests and injury and death of heather heyer as you mentioned. right now i think that is the focus that it is only two dozen people. but still, it is causing a lot of the situation in washington at the moment. arthel: two dozen people causing a lot of strife and there with gasoline around a spark that is so ready to ignite. but because you point out, al weaver, that you have only 20 to 30 of these white

supremacists out there protesting with jason kessler, whose permit by the way it expires at 7:30 pm. because the group did dwindle down from last year, does that say to the president listen, these people are in the minority. people with these extreme views. that would bring the president more to speak i know he's a concern about the bases any politician would. which is not to say that all of those people who support president trump are racist. we are not saying that but we do know that a lot of the people in the group with mr. kessler are who they are and they support the president. take it away, al weaver. >> i think you have a point there. 250 mentioned last year.two or three dozen this year. even laster they were in the minority. i think that's what we have to say. laster they were the minority. no one is saying that trump supporters are racist and

whatnot. the folks obviously in swing states and whatnot. but this group right now, they have a voice right now and they are in washington making it known. even just by the mere presence obviously. obviously it will be in the next week or so. the president comes out and if he denounces us or he comes out and does whatever that will be a lasting impact but i must say without a lot of news happening it's august in washington. all the members of congress are home. congress is out of session. the president is in bedminster. it's a quietness month usually. and this is sucking up a lot of the oxygen at this point. arthel: if there someone to advise the president, who would that be and what exactly would they tell in terms of how to handle this current situation here in the middle of august? >> i think first of all you look at the family.

these are people he looks to a lot of the times. we mentioned ivanka trump, melania trump i'm sure will and also the cabin and members of congress who, if president trump does come out and do the same thing he did laster they will come out and speak out against it just like last year and just like they have in various situations over the past year. i don't think you'll hesitate to do that. arthel: listen, you're looking at signs out here. i think peter points out that you have got a lot of people out there with something to say. they're not just there because of jason kessler. and the white supremacist group that you just saw. the sign, impeach trump. everybody's taking advantage of the situation. any propaganda they have to sell, here they are on front street. should the president shut this down? >> i'm not sure if he should shut it down necessarily. there is free speech in play here. these people, they have the right to do it, up to a certain point, obviously. but i think the president right

now, he is the main figure in the whole thing. this whole thing in charlottesville, this whole thing this morning even though i shouldn't say whole thing is not that big of a thing, necessarily. his response is going to be absolutely critical here. he needs to come out and if he does not want a political problem on his hands he will come out tonight or tomorrow at some point. and make it clear that this is not welcome here. he will hold a press conference, he will hold statement from the oval office. or somewhere in the blue room or something of that kind. he will come out and say this is not welcome. we cannot have this. even to questions of the subject. so he can help quell some of the craziness around us. arthel: you are expecting something not via twitter? >> i think it will be a decent idea. arthel: al weaver, political reporter for washington

examiner, thank you very much. eric: has been one year since the tragic death of heather heyer. and the two police troopers that were killed when their chopper went down in charlottesville. today, one year later the scene there in that quaint colonial town is largely quiet except for reports of some antifa protesters attacking the news media. doug mckelway is there with the very latest. where hopefully it is largely quiet. reporter: has gotten a lot quieter since i last talked to eric. in fact, we are standing right now on heather heyer way. the exact spot that you can see from the flowers down here where she was struck by the vehicle driven by a white supremacist last year. her mother was here just about an hour ago. dropped off some flowers here surrounded by young people wearing purple t-shirts. her daughter's favorite color. this is the scene that remains. it is very quiet here as i was telling you earlier i believe, the antifa people kind of filter in and filter out from

various different areas. we are at a point in the day where the largely gone away. there are none here. maybe a few but the main pedestrian areas, this is a change since we last spoke to you as well. are still blocked off by large trucks like this one here. all of the main streets and the central downtown area have large trucks like this blocking any vehicle penetrations. the pedestrian entrances have just been reopened in the last few minutes.people are free to come and go without being subject to police checks of their belongings. that is the change and we will see how it goes. as you mentioned earlier, there has been a little bit of violence here. not a lot. i think there have been four arrests over the last two days. when we saw a little while ago. a group of demonstrators while the mother of heather heyer was here. it was what appeared to be a scuffle to get in the face of camera people to put their hands in front of the camera lens or paper in front of the camera lens to block what

people are trying to make their living doing. i think a cameraman got frustrated there was a little scuffle. unlike what we saw last year, at that point in time, the state police became very proactive. they jumped on the scene, pulled the scuff layers apart. they booted a couple of antifa people out of fear. i think there was one arrest at that time but they are very proactive. very clear signal that they intend business here and they don't want any kind of a repeat of last year. the antifa people got their morning start earlier today about 9 o'clock. in booker t. washington park where they held a rally. for which they had not been permitted. anytime you have a gathering of more than 50 people here you are required to get a permit to rally. they do not do that. police let it go. they stayed out of the park. they let the people have their rally.after the rally ended they decided to march to the downtown area. again they did not have a permit for the march but people are cooperative with them.

actually asking if they can escort them downtown. they could not find out who's in charge of the march and cannot find out from the people in the front of the marchers. who was in charge and where they were going. so they provided escort anyway. they are doing both carrot and stick here today. the stick is if they see violence they jump into it right away. the í is that they are being very cooperative with people who are obeying the law. that is the latest from charlottesville right now. arthel: it is good to see that it has been a quiet day relatively speaking there and no violence in charlottesville. eric: we can go back to his camera for just a second. while we are watching a protest in washington d.c.. behind doug are flowers in remembrance of heather heyer. along the wall where she was savagely struck by that car. one year ago. i think that is important for all of us across the country to remember. arthel: absolutely.

eric: basically, those of the flowers that were placed today now, and the memory of heather and all she represented.a sense that the country could and should come together and when we have these tensions, you have this group out there trying to ferment this type of activity we remember heather and i think that's where we all stand today. this is what it's about and is an eloquent and compelling makeshift memorial to a young woman who so tragically lost her life. arthel: a very good point to make their. at fourth and water street in charlottesville, virginia. also as a remember heather and what she stood for and her legacy which is unity. most of us as americans really are about unity. eric: doug is there at the scene. reporter: i wanted to add something else about the antifa process that we've seen here. in many respects you can argue

what they've been doing today is very disrespectful to the memory of heather heyer.they call themselves antifascist but the behavior is much more characteristic of anarchists. they are putting their hands or piece of paper in front of camera lenses or disrespecting the police in any way. shouting them down, yelling obscenities to them to the news media. they are disruptors. they try to create havoc and chaos. as i mentioned repeatedly today and yesterday, there are no white supremacists here in charlottesville today. at least none that are showing their faces anywhere. so in the absence of that, what are they protesting? the police who had been trying to cooperate with them. and it is disrespectful to this makeshift memorial that you see here. eric: and protesting the very freedoms and democracy that they are ironically enjoying by

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protest happened in the nations capital we are on the phone with a fox news contributor also former d.c. homicide detective who knows d.c. very well. ted, as the day seems to be wrapping up and quieting down, what are your thoughts at this moment?>> my thoughts are, what you have in the last segment about leadership. right now, i firmly believe that we need the president of the united states donald trump to come out and say, -- addressing the nation, if trump can go on television and call people son of a "the journal editorial report" if he can come out where you have white

supremacists within the people's house, signs that the president of the united states really needs to come out and say that this, we look for him for leadership, i'm hoping that it come out and say something. furthermore let me -- it is my understanding that a man, david duke was scheduled and it was part of the demonstration that david duke was going to be, he is not here. you have this white group doing one thing and one thing only and it was said most eloquently earlier.they are trying to get -- even as a minority there

generating and getting the attention. i just want and hope that all americans can say, this is not what we want as a country. we are bigger than this. arthel: we are bigger than this. we will leave it there, ted williams. thank you. eric: coverage will continue of these protests and there's a lot of other news going on. today through the weekend on the international front, we will have that as a fox news channel coverage of this sunday afternoon continues. we will be right back. i'm gonna regret that. with liberty mutual new car replacement we'll replace the full value of your car. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty ♪

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ask about vraylar. arthel: we are keeping an eye on protest in dc.right now we want to get to other news of the day. the trial of president trump 's former campaign chair, paul manafort reconvenes tomorrow afternoon. after a cliffhanger on friday. the judge taking a five hour recess without explaining why. this trial is the first

courtroom of the special counsel robert mueller 's russia pope. wherever he goes the white house is standing firm on his position. here is counselor to the president, kellyanne conway earlier today. >> there is no collision, paul manafort is on trial it has nothing to do with the campaign, russia collision, the judge warned everyone not to say those words. arthel: ellison barber live in washington with more. what do we expect to learn from the trial this week? reporter: despite the delay we could actually hear from the jury this week. they respect elation as could be the third and final week of the trial. prosecution is expected to bring one or two more witnesses tomorrow. to rest the case. defense will go and we will see whether or not paul manafort takes the stand. the one time trump campaign trim and is facing a number charges related to financial fraud. charges brought by special

counsel, robert mueller 's team. it began two weeks ago. russia, president trump, the 2016 campaign are not the focus of the trial but they've undoubtedly been constant elephants in the room. the former vice president of federal savings bank testified that manafort got $16 million in loans from a bank where the chairman of the bank, wanted a job with the trump administration. some say whether the prosecution likes it or not, the trial could impact the perception of the russia probe. this is the first trial, another set to take place in september. here in dc. arthel: what do we know about the contempt of court charges against roger stone associates? >> this is separate from the manafort trial. but is related to the special counsel, miller was held in contempt after refusing to testify before a grand jury. a grand jury hearing evidence related to the special counsel investigation into russian interference in the 2016 election. they push back on a subpoena from the special counsel office but miller was ordered to appear in court on friday. he didn't show up. his legal team says they asked

the judge to hold the client in contempt in order to appeal the decision. possibly to a higher court and potentially challenge the constitutionality. arthel: will have it all covered here on the fox news channel this week. i know you will be part of that courage. ellison barber, thank you. eric: you just heard her refer to mr. miller paid his attorney joins us, he is and expert. he represents miller who is a longtime aide to roger stone. welcome to the fox news channel this afternoon. first of all, why do they want to talk to your client? what does he have and what you think they will ask him and what could he potentially say or give up if anything? >> well yes, mr. miller was a media scheduling assistant to roger stone during the republican national convention. in 2016. the fbi and robert mueller want to know what mr. miller knows about wikileaks, julian

assange, d&c hacking of emails, and mr. miller only knows what he reads the newspapers about that. two fbi agents interviewed him at length and he told them everything they know. they asked for documents which he produced. then finally, the judge wanted him to appear before the grand jury. first of all on june 29. the day before we filed this major constitutional challenge after several weeks of briefing and hearing the court ruled against us. they said mr. miller had to be before the grand jury this past friday. he did not show up. he was there by the way by speakerphone. we asked the judge to hold him in contempt and they did. eric: you are saying he does not know anything. even though he was a longtime -- he does know anything about this. the second issue is the constitutionality. >> right. >> you been turned down by one court on that. what is your beef on what the

constitution says on the appointment? >> there are actually two issues. one is a statutory issue. it is not even a statute on the book that allows for the appointment of someone come a private person like robert mueller to be on there. even if there were has to be appointed on the appointments clause which has two classes of officers. principal offices which require approval by the senate. u.s. attorneys have to go through senate confirmation. robert mueller is just as powerful if not more so than the average u.s. attorney pete he is like a super u.s. attorney. a u.s. attorney at large. he can be in virginia and he could be in dc, new york. therefore, we say he is a principal officer and has to be appointed by the president and approved by the senate. the government says he is really an inferior officer. and we said fine, under the constitution or inferior offices have to be appointed by the head of the department. the head of the department is

jeff sessions, not rod rosenstein. eric: he was appointed by rod rosenstein. and he recused himself. would the government say stresses out of it sitting on the silence that's what rosenstein did it? >> no, first of all, jeff sessions recused himself from the investigation peered not from his constitutional duty to appoint a special prosecutor. he could have simply pointed mr. mueller and turned it over to rosenstein and said you handle it from there. i'm not getting involved in any aspect of the investigation. we have some case law that we cited in 1991 the attorney general he recused himself before a conflict. the deputy attorney general issued the subpoenas and the court said no. they said there has to be signed by the attorney general. he is not the attorney general and that case, the government lost and they did not appeal it. we think we have good grounds on the appointments. we think mr. mueller flunks both tests. principal officer and interior

officer. eric: it's pretty interesting when you get into the minutia of it. this is what the law is. the inferior officer clause as you say. others clearly, the ruled against you on this. here is what, let me read you what was said. in 1988 the supreme court ruled that the constitution allowed an independent counsel to be appointed by three-judge court. completely separate from the executive branch. reaching the conclusion, the supreme court held that an independent counsel is an inferior officer as you pointed out. not a principal officer for reasons that very clearly apply to robert mueller. now mueller was not appointed by a three court judge. do you think they will come back and say he is inferior? he's not this superior so it's all on the up and up. >> we did have an independent counsel and that statute

expired in 1999. so what happened after that? janet reno made up her own regulations saying here is how we are going to appoint special counsel in the future. we say there is no statutory authority to have that regulation. and number two, that even if he is an inferior officer, has to be appointed by the head of the department jeff sessions. the morrison case that you cited was where we had a specific statute called the independent counsel that says the court shall appoint so that was fine that the court whether he was inferior officer or superior officer was debated in that decision. in that case special counsel only had a limited jurisdiction, robert mueller has a widespread jurisdiction. he can go to various jurisdictions. he has got almost carte blanche. so the morrison case is not really good authority and in fact many -- the dissent in the opinion should be one carrying the day and legal experts in morrison is overruled by

constitutional -- eric: finally, you have a client that's been held in contempt as you have asked. a legal maneuver, what are you going to do? do think it will go to the supreme court and will he eventually testify or is this actual detest considering the administered ability by robert mueller? >> this is the test. i would say there is another case pending similar to ours. the other judge had an argument that the argument be made there had some compelling merit to it. so our case, we will go to the court of appeals for the district of columbia. then after that, if we lose, we will go to supreme court. if we win the government will take it to the supreme court. the supreme court will have the last word on this. eric: absolutely fascinating. the legal maneuvers and andrew miller, sits and waits to decide his fate. we will see if indeed, what

eventually happens. paul kamenar, thank you for joining us on the fox news channel this sunday afternoon. >> thank you. eric: reaction from the family of the man accused of stealing an empty plane that crashed into a sparsely populated island near seattle. an airline worker suspected of the death identified as richard russell. he is presumed dead in the crash. no one on the ground was injured. his family releasing a statement which their spokesperson read.>> on behalf of the family, we are stunned and heartbroken. they seem difficult for those at home to believe but he was a warm, compassionate man. it was impossible to encompass who he was in a press release. >> jeff paul is live with more. reporter: investigators are back out here on the scene and they are focused on an island just off into the distance,

that is where investigators believe that plane crashed after the airline ground worker stole the plane. and took it on a more than hour long joyride. if you look at the picture, this is the man who family has identified as the man responsible, 29-year-old richard russell. a ground worker with horizon air which means he loaded and unloaded bags on planes and also help guide aircraft to and from gates. he was with the company for more than three years and one of the coworkers said he could not have imagined russell doing any of this. speaking to a close friend, russell's family who he referred to him as the name of bibo they refer to him as a loving person. they are still grasping with the reality of what happened. >> he was loved by everyone because he was kind and gentle. to each person he met. this is a complete shock to us. as the voice recordings show, his intent was not to harm anyone. he was right in saying that there are so many people who have loved him.

>> we continue to reach out to the fbi in seattle but they say at the moment, no additional information will be released. there working in partnership with ntsb and the faa. they are hoping to recover the black boxes that will give them much more information around not only what happened but what led to the crash. authorities tell us that he was not a licensed pilot but he was cleared to be in the secured area and he did pass all of his background checks. the big question here that remains to be answered is how he got into the plane and was able to take off in the first place. arthel: a really sad story, jeff paul, thank you very much. we'll take a live look there in d.c. just across the nations capital. excuse me from the white house, lafayette park. police very much in control of protests there. that started earlier this afternoon marking one year since the tragic death of heather heyer happening in charlottesville, virginia. we'll continue coverage. right now we take a break.

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d.c., the police were out in force. across the white house appear trying to avoid confrontations between the counter demonstrators and the white supremacist nationalist protesters. led by jason kessler. there are only about three dozen or so, even less of those followers of kessler in lafayette park. surrounded by thousands of counter protesters and members of the group antifa. meanwhile both parties looking to hone messages for voters. president trump vowing to stay aggressively involved in republican campaigns. >> is so and that will go out

there and put currency and we want it or deny special election so far it's a great track record. >> real big elections coming up in 2018. we need to be focused on that. i support candidates that support values i believe in. prague jobs, everyone gets healthcare. it should be the message of the party. arthel: what can we expect? the deputy managing editor -- we been watching all the processes after peer what you think of the political impact of these are when people are sitting at home on a sunday weekend and they see these two groups out in force. confronting each other and some of the things we've seen today. >> i think people do get concerned and i know that i am here in dc. everyone i know decide we will stay away from the area. because we worry it is going to get violent. i have to say, i think it is very interesting, the numbers that changed from last year to this year. last year you had probably at 200 people in charlottesville. now you mentioned may be a few

dozen. i wonder if part of that is, we saw last year, people sending out photos of white supremacist protesters. people holding tiki torches, put them out on social media and said hey, help us identify who are these people and call them out. some people even lost jobs. i think that some people decided hey, you these ideas are not popular in america. people do not like them. in fact, i can lose my living if i show up and say hey, i am in support of something that basically, the rest of americans are against because it goes against america's founding ideals. i think there has been a big change in the last year. eric: is a very good point. especially because it has turned into media strategy in a way by being out there and having this. meanwhile in terms of the midterms, and republicans, the wall street journal very tough on this. saying that the so-called red tsunami may not happen. it's like 62 seats are so pointed out that will become more democratic recently. what are your predictions? >> have to say we have someone

like lindsey graham was going on saying we are going to lose house seats, hopefully we will not lose the majority but we might. usually politicians like to be optimistic and putting on a good faith because it keeps people in the fold. and some things you've seen in the last week have not been good. give democrats voting more, even if you look at the republicans and democrats, democrats are voting more pretty look at the ohio special election. early voting in that state last time was mostly republicans. this time it was mostly democrats. then you also have to look at fundraising. and republicans are really having trouble fundraising. and again the special election in ohio, the national groups had to spend millions to keep the seat republican. as it looks like it's going to be still very close and i don't think they have conceded yet. democrats finding it much easier to fund raise. they are the ones with momentum on their side. they are the ones with

enthusiasm on their side. when you have republican politicians talking publicly about losing seats, i think you know they must be scared. eric: the wall street journal editorial points out. it is pretty scathing in terms of the gop. republicans are poised in november to lose the majority in the house of representatives and a slew of governorships. the presidents persona is trumping positive policy results among voters. and the result is likely to be a national left turn. the republican voters haven't recognized how much jeopardy the parties in. so what do they do because your several policy issues you know that have been drowned out by ancillary type of issues there. >> in a way i can't figure out the republican strategy here. job numbers are great, gdp numbers are great, the economy is doing great. are they talking about that,

no! again i keep talk about the special election in ohio but is a great race to watch because it will be repeated with those exact same candidates in november. and you have them making the election about nancy pelosi. republicans barely won. there painting the democrat as a nancy pelosi puppet. it was not a strong argument. and again, the voters want to hear what are you going to do for us? what have you done and what you going to do? they do not want to know if they like someone that they don't pay attention to. eric: why are they talking about the jobs and wall street and some of the things happening along those lines? policies that have been successful and are working? >> that is an excellent question. and i hope part of it is the strategy in some ways comes from the top down.you're president trump tweeting once in a while about the great economic numbers. how often does he tweet about that compared to for example, the robert mueller investigation? he seems to be talking about it every single day. why keep bringing up and why keep putting in the minds of a

everybody? eric: you know these companies, make a list, tweet it out. people will be talking about that. >> exactly! i'll be honest, i thought democrats, last year that they would do great in the midterms. the republicans passed a tax reform bill and i thought you know what? people have money in their pockets and that could make a real difference. but i'm starting to think it is not going to because you know the tax went into law, people had the money in their pockets maybe they are starting to forget and the republicans, strangely enough, are not reminding them of that. eric: i know you want to say the president should tweet more about policy successes but i have to read you and it is so delicious. it is about nancy pelosi. democrats please do not distance yourself from nancy pelosi. she's a wonderful person whose ideas and policies may be bad but should be given 1/4 chance. she is trying very hard. and has every right to take on the democrat party if she has

veered too far left! i mean, isn't in the presidents interest for nancy to stay? >> yeah, it is. what's interesting though is people, even democratic candidates are saying it is time for some new leadership. they are focusing on her age and i'm not sure that's the problem. she is 78, yes. but look how much excitement donald trump who is now 72 and bernie sanders who is now 76 generated in the 2016 primaries. i don't think is just about age. are you seen as part of the establishment are you seen us some with fresh ideas. nancy pelosi doesn't have fresh ideas. so of course, republicans are happy to see her as the face of the democratic party. you look at who are the big names that we are always hearing about the democratic party? bernie sanders, elizabeth warren, now about the 28-year-old alexandria ocasio-cortez. her ideas are really old. they are from the 19th century marxism. so we are not seeing anyone on

the democratic side young or old with fresh ideas. i think that will hurt them if the republicans can emphasize they do have the right idea. eric: some would disagree with you but it will be fascinating to see those tweets. thank you so much. >> thank you. arthel: it says august 12, it is deftly busy as we continue to monitor the counter protest happening in the nations capital. so far and shows-- in charlottesville virginia things are going okay. jon scott continues live coverage after a short break. and when you replace one meal or snack a day with glucerna made with carbsteady to help minimize blood sugar spikes you can really feel it. glucerna. everyday progress. come hok., babe. nasty nighttime heartburn?

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dueling rallies in washington d.c. in charlottesville virginia. on the first anniversary of the night the right rally that left three people in charlottesville dead and fractured a nation. over race issues. we are continuing to watch the events in washington where a so-called tunite the right two rally is underway. we are in washington with counted imitations but first we start with peter duce