>> happy monday, everybody, tonight still more questions after that deadly attack in niger and commandner chief phone call to widow of of fallen solder is still not over and that's one of the issues the white house is dealing with. >> the rundown on the sigh of the screen tonight at 6:0. president trump continuing to take heat from lawmakers on capitol hill since death of four service members in any he gear. >> and growing concerns and questions about the united states mission there. fox's jennifer griffin starts us off from the pent gop. >> reporter: four u.s. troops killed by isis linked islamic militant in nir earlier

month the the circumstances behind the ambush are unclear and law lakers from both parties are calling on the white house to provide more answers. >> we get different stories of what actually happened. some stories said our soldiers actually engaged in battle and per sued them and others said no they actually attacked us. we have to find out what happened. >> ambush began after a meeting between an american special ops team and tribal elders went longer than sxked and pentagon investigation remains classified and we have learned that troops under fire could not communicate with french air support overhead who did not fire because they couldn't determine friend from foe and the white house is calling on critics to back off and let investigation fun its course. >> we owe you more information and more importantly we owe families of fallen more information and that's what the investigation is dined identify. >> calls are growing on capitol hill for a separate cop gretional investigation and some experts say lawmakers

u.s. involvement in niger and surrounding area. >> this attitude we dent know we had troops in niger is larger u.s. government attitude towards africa of we don't know and we don't care. >> fox news learned there was no drone over the attack. they have long complained of short am of drones for after scan anti-terror operations. at the pentagon jennifer griffin fox news. today the widow of sergeant la david johnson spoke out publicly for the first time about her phone call with president trump. during an interview she confirmed the account of the phone call. she said it made me cry i was angry at the top of his voice and how he said it he can could not remember my husband's name. >> the president responded interview on twitter saying i had a respectful conversation with a widow of sergeant la david johnson and spoke his name from beginning without hesitation. >> of course we've soon a lot of back and forth. what baffles

set, ten days after this and it's still in headlines. >> as i said before, when we started with the accounts from congress woman anybody who would say politically motivated you could make that argument. but then when you have the family speaking out at what point do you say, >> you know what if be offended you at all we didn't mean to the concern should be on that. >> not on who said what and it should be condolences for sergeant johnson because we all thank him for his service to country and obviously paying that sacrifice. >> absolutely. >> this story gand a lot of attention nationwide and people inside the beltway are perceiving it differently. >> they perceive the president differently. a democracy fund found 88% of voters approve how the president is doing job and number troops to 37% when it comes to overall voters. er win thanks for joining us from the weekly standard. >> pleasure

>> you wrote an article in weekly standard and talked about view from inside trump country from outside trump country. you break it down and explain how people see this differently? >> well the people who voted for trump, 88% happy with their vote elected him to stick it to the washington establishment and tell north korea's to back-off and to kill free trait trade agreements and tell iranians enough is enough and he's doing that and things he's not doing healthcare reform, for example, they blame on congress. they are perfectly happy. they're not owe fented by vulgarity of presentations or positions he's taken. outside of there i spent time in washington talking to people and foreign policy types are scared to death we get into nuclear show down and if

from now wol be a mar marginalizeed country. >>er win -- >> go ahead. >> you mentioned how that 88% look at president trump and say blame is on congress is not on president but we have government controlled all three branches by the republicans or rather at least congress and white house. so how does president trump avoid being lumped in with own party in congress. >> well, very simply remember he ran against his own party. it's not rally his own party. he was a democrat most of his life. and he ran on assumption that people like mitch mcconnell and so on had not licensed to the voices of the people who ended up voting for trump and they were not wrong. so for them there's a democratic party and republican party lumped together and that's establishment ignoring them and then there's

savior who will stick to establishment and drain swamp and make sure that their interests are represented which they have not been for a long time. >> every time we hear the president go out to speak like when he was in alabama at that rally he seems to know exactly what you're talking about and who his base is. how do you this this plays come the next presidential election. >> well if he continues to get 88% approval rating from the roughly 30% of people, 40% of people who voted for him that's not going to be enough. and what i just don't understand his fail aarr to expand his base. but he may know something we don't. fact is that with skeping of foxing news there wasn't a media out them that gave him a snowball chance in hell to get dominated

and he seems to have some antenna that elude us pundits about where voters are going. we know for sure a lot of people for trump don't say so in private parties and so on. that's our own experience has been that a lot of people don't welcome us to dinner as much as they used to since they think i'm trying to be fair to trump. >> irwin stelzer from the "the weekly standard." >> thank you for having me. >> let's turn to healthcare. we heard irwin mention that. lawmakers from both parties have reached a deal and fear the president will not sign off on the plan. the bipartisan plan would restore payments to insurance companies. law makers in worried about premiums rising if the payments are not respord. we saw state exchanges saying premiums on eave of open enrollment are going up, up, up, and they're supporting subsidy

mitch mcconnell is waiting for his cue on how to succeed. he'll put it up for vote if president says he'll sign the bill. that's what the hang-up is right now. >> we'll see what happens. >> meanwhile house republicans are set to vote on major tax overall this week. senate passed 4 billion budget proposal friday and president trump warned if the house does not follow suit it will be a failure for the gop. and analysts say the white house is looking for legislative whip and they are willing to negotiate as long as final bill helps mitdle class. administration says tax plan promises the highest tax cuts in 34er7 history and critics say not exactly true and we'll wait for those final words there. >> one of the reasons because the plan as it stands eliminates state and local deductions and federal kaxs would drop and then you would not have decushion the other end. >> kind of like shell date. >> they continue talking about that. which poll you believe these days race for virer governor is dead heat. democrats ralph norm

ed ed gillespie. there's been a lot made of what effect the president will have on the race in virginia. >> that's right or is it just too much being made of what they call the trulp effect here. david wagle "washington post" reporter joins us via skype. >> thanks for having us. thanks for having me. >> we see polls all over the place. one ralph northham 14 point ahead and other one point difference. why are democrats concerned about this particular race. >> average poll northham up by 6 and he's been up by anything from four to seven through whole campaign. they're not papicing about the race. they're more nervous. the democratic national committee out fundraiseed a lot by the national republican commit tee up investigated in july and it's been early that they'll try a bunch of new things in terms of data and vote he's and invests heavily in the race because they needed win by end of year and

one. >> and we've soon a lot of those local state house races elsewhere across the country and smaller victories for democrats. when you look at the big picture and talk about special eye legislations from congress it was republican, republican, republican, win. let's go back to alleged trump effect. as irwin stelzer mentioned president trump is not republican in the sense of rep trump and ed gillespie are different here as they approach the republican party. >> gillespie is not cozying up to trum more than he needs to. on web site he listed endorsements and did not list the president unless recently. but what worries democrats is that part is after 2016 they don't trust any poll and what worries them ralph northham has what you dream about but they don't think

somebody whose resume is politics and don't see gillespie cozying to trump they sea him running ads in the summer focusing on jobs and economics not really getting traction and focusing on gangs and voter restoration and hot button topics they think scrambles coalition they scrambled. they're less worried in new jersey and watching to see if that's that'stive for people who do not have donald trump 25 years of fame and charisma and like trump in hillary race gillespie is less popular in northham. they want to stave off more civil war of parties. as of this primaries ralph northham defeats john perielo there's waiting in the bushes to come out if north

the race once again you vosed it on a candidate that didn't excite anyone. they want it put it all away by winning this thing. >> we have two weeks. david wiingle thanks for joining us. >> as we talk about the race ralph northham will be on fox tomorrow morning. up i havetation is on to m mr. ed gillespie and his campaign. >> future of travel on fast track now. >> you know what this is called. >> bank tube you. >> put money in tube. >> or you could hop in y yourself called hyper loop. it's prototype or something like that. anyway breaking it down on the other side

ralph northam: i'm ralph northam and as a doctor, nobody ever asked if i'm a democrat or republican. they just want my help. so if donald trump is helping virginia i'll work with him. but donald trump proposed cutting virginia's school funding, rolling back our clean air and water protections, and taking away health care from thousands of virginians. as a candidate for governor, i sponsored this ad because i've stood up to donald trump on all of it. ed gillespie refuses to stand up to him at all.

>> welcome back some call it transportation of the foot tour. >> tom fitzgerald joins us with update on progress of super speedy hyper loop. hey, fits. >> sounds like something out of "star trek" or "star wars"

it's called hyper loop because it literally moves you faster than you have ever moved probably on any ground base public mass transit system before. how this would work is they basically put you in a little tube like this water bottle not a water bottle but a large tube and they shoot you through a vacuum magnetized track underground about maybe 75 feet and they would be able to propel people possibly up to 450 miles an hour. they think they can get between washington and new york city in 2 4 minutes. they think they can initially get between d.c. and baltimore in 15. now state of maryland and department of transportation is green lit a section just a section of about 10 miles of tunneling that will go on between area ever 95 and for the immediate. we talked to governor hogan about this. he says this is vital and it's coming to some part of the united states and he wants to make sure that part is through maryland.

first leg to go from washington to baltimore or baltimore to washington and they're start in the middle and going in both directions. and the eventual plan is to go to new york from washington to new york and 24 minutes sounds like an exciting proposition. >> pretty exciting and amazing. these are concept now of the hyper loop project being run by elon musk and space x company. he is working on that section in for the immediate and that's an area the state of maryland actually controls. eventually they would have to expand to link that bridge between d.c. and baltimore. and you don't have to go far to find out where they're working on it. the reason we're in college park tonight they have a team that's been operating and competing from the university of maryland. they call themselves umd loop and it's about 75 students that actually conducted

scale working model of high hyper loop train. we talked to one student. he says this is not science firks it's real life right now. >> you take a vehicle and stick it inside a vacuum tube and because of that you can go really fast without a lot of air drags slowing you down and because of that we can connect cities 30 minute apart to hour apart in minute. and really connect people from downtown to downtown. >> a lot of of reaction of this has been kind of skeptical and you know at some point somebody was skeptical about the airplane jim and shawn. so, it's not a big stretch of imagination to think this actually could happen. >> it's awesome. very cool. i can't wait to see other people try it first. >> that's true. >> thank you, fits. >> first lady melania trump making sure no kid feels left-out

but there are so many survivors that live knowing that their attacker is still out there. ♪♪ thank you mark herring, for taking this seriously, and for making this a priority, for all of the victims out there. mark: i'm mark herring, candidate for attorney general, and i sponsored this ad.

>> senator john mccain took a swipe as president trump over the weekend. he said it was wrong wealthy he americans are able to get out of being drafted in war. he didn't mention the president's name. he received draft referments for bone spurs. later this afternoon senator mccain was in the capitol and asked by reporters and told reporters he was not referencing president trump though take it for what you will. >> absolutely [ applause ]. >> president awarded retired army medic with medal of honor today. 70-year-old gary rose of alabama received award for risking his life during the vietnam war to help wounded comrades. rose is second person to receive medal of honor from president trump. >> she has not talked about the topic much since the campaign. but, today the first lady rolled out her plan to put an

>> they're skeptical about the first lady efforts and many believe the president has been be a bit of bully. ronica cleary wept out to get the pulse of the people on this one. high ronica. >> reporter: hi, jim, shawn, this since i saw it this will have people talking. it definitely did wide variety of thoughts out there. i'll tell you that. to take it back for a minute she made the stop the today at a middle school in michigan. a part part of stop she went to lunch roop and said when you see someone sit ago loan invite them to sit you withen and choose kindness and compassion all messages you can get behind no matter how you feel but there's a dynamic of her president and the role he plays and what some call bullying whether it's on social media or how he has chosen to name his opponents whether or not you agree with that as bullying it's certainly bringing up the question. so

of the people. >> yeah i think there's a lot of bullying in this country and i don't believe donald trump is a bully i believe he's doing what he said when he campaigned to become president. but i do agree with anti-bullying. >> if i had an opinion it would be ironic. >> i don't think trump is a bully. i think trump is standing up for people who have been bullied. i think it's a good message. it's probably not most effective use of her time. >> it's general. >> i feel like she don't have a voice. she is drying to do right but if it's not his way it's not right for nobody. >> i think she has a right to speak out and do what she thinks is right and maybe if the first lady does a really good job and convincing job it may rub off on her h

you in the 5:00 hour i heard the store why you reported on about young girls and how social media affects them. and how it leads to bullying and i thought to myself this is a good message. there's a lot surrounding it that we can talk about. but it is a nice reminder that there are kids out there who really need support and who really have a tough time of it. >> absolutely. >> to say nothing but the political ram if i cans. that's something that is worthy of having a conference. >> and if we can give it national voice. >> i'm glad i did not go to school -- i'm glad i did not go to school when facebook was around i'll tell you that. >> brutal. >> oh, my gosh. >> thank you ronica. >> back to you guys. >> on the way he was king of late night laughs and last night in d.c. all jokes on him in a good way of course. >> david letterman. more at 5@630 when we

who is who of comedy gathered at the den i can sent to honor this year's winner of mark twain prize for american hu humor, david let'ser man. >> they made a surprising big for congress. >> yes, i do mace dave. dave has a unique specific take on things because he's utter original. he's the one i would wants to hear. >> we need more comedians in the senate. he would be a great senator. he calls plays part of the common man but he's very, very he knows a lot. >> he doesn't let on. >> senator what do you say. >> i'm in. >> you would be a great senator what about a run. >> i tell you al franken has created in me a again un interest in

consult tu of the united states. >> well the one thing about letter man running for office he already has sex standle out of the way that happened a couple years ago so. >> i miss david letterman his laugh took me back. i sort of miss not sort of but i miss his humor. it was refreshing. >> well it was good night last night and i do believe it was i'm trying to republican this i mentioned to you guys over there it was steve martin that said letter man has always been about topical humor what a better time to look like confederate war general with the beard. that was at the kennedy center and they'll tell vice it later in the year. >> i think they put it on pbs. >> hot ticket last night. >> we have hot tickets continuing tonight. much more on all of the days big stories tonight at 8:00 on "fox5plus". >> is and on "the final 5" tonight 11:30 talk about 401ks and capping that. we'll talk about what dow 2

you worry about your 401k. >> join us tonight here on "fox5". >> we'll see you tonight.

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