joining us is mike holland, chairman of holland & company.for joining us. >> happy friday. >> before we begin, seema, we had lunch last week before the french election, he would never do this on air, he predicted the election and predicted the polls would be right and the market reaction and he was right. if you were wrong, i would have told you, too. >> you were kind to say that. it was very easy, the polls got it. let's talk about the latest news of the date. interestingly this new trade deal with china being talked about late last night. how significant is that and the progress which the united states seems to have made with china. >> as donald trump would say, it's a big deal. comes in the face of his campaigning against almost the opposite. now we have good things going on with china as a result of this morning's announcement. his ambassador is someone who has been a friend of my xi for 30 years, former governor of iowa, biggest trade representative, if you will, for the u.s. to china. so we have good things going on with china. china is

. >> we were trying to get them for this trip to, my god, speak, mike, the netherland, holland, and,y needed a lot of money to get all of the kid over here. here they are. >> ♪ >> they were so good, and, it does not tell you how good they are. so bob, this is, creative arts , morgan village academy in camden. >> you got that right, michael come on, everybody. let's get back to that music we were doing one second ago let's jazz this puppy up. do it, hit it. >> ♪ >> stop the music. perfect. we are over here in camden, new jersey, jamal, the band director, how many students do you have all together here at the school. >> oh, 450 or so, 500 in the school. >> how many here in the jazz band in this jazz band we have about 25. >> so goal, it is that you were invited the first jazz band, in the you had, to be among the group's selected to go over to the netherland. >> correct, bob. >> true honor, yes, for to us represent ourselves, represent america in the netherland, awesome. >> $4,000 sort. >> $4,000 short. >> that is correct. >> we have a go fund me page, we will try to get our viewers to

holland. and her family opened up to mike a little while ago. here's what her mother had to say to the killer. >> what i say is if you only knew sherain, she was incredible. she has two children. she lived her life for. >> the crime scene is right in the middle of downtown richmond. virginia state police say the young mother's friends got into some kind of an argument at a graduation party. sometime later someone involved in that argument fired in car. state troopers are looking at cameras to try to track down the gunman's car. >>> bill cosby is speaking out about his sexual assault trial scheduled to start next month. he does not plan to testify. he says racism might play a role in the sexual assault accusations against him. cosby spoke to radio host who agreed to include statements from cosby's daughter. >> i believe that racism has played a big role in all aspects of this. >> do you believe in that? >> could be. nefarious is a greek word and i just truly believe that some of it may very well be that. >> bill cosby is accused of drugging and m

mike rounds, thank you. >> thank you. >> shepard: next up, chris van holland from maryland.special prosecutor to take over for the russian investigation. senator holland said "firing fbi director comey has a foul stench in an attempt to stop the russian investigation." he added "while i long had concerns about james comey, it's shocking that the white how old would enter fire in an investigation by firing him." thanks for being here, mr. van hollen. a short time against, sarah huckabee sanders said this investigation will continue, the leadership change means nothing. your thoughts. >> well, as you know, the timing of this does stink. so the burden is now on the president and the justice department to help restore faith and confidence in this investigation and the entire process. the way to do that is to appoint a special prosecutor, somebody that cannot be fired by the president as sally yates was, as comey was. if we're all interested in getting to the truth, which we should be, the best way to do it is to set up that independent prosecutor.'t mean we don't continue with t

just in case you didn't recognize him out of costume that was tom holland swinging into this july in >>> good morning. i'm meteorologist mikeh and a hotter afternoon with record highs possible. we'll do it oh, it is a beautiful morning out here, michael. >> all right, ginger. and i'm here to talk about the ballroom. a subject close to your heart, ginger, the ballroom bombshell. both nick viall and nancy kerrigan eliminated on last night's "dancing with the stars." nancy and her partner artem are here in studio with us and nick and peta are joining us from l.a. and thank you all for joining us. i always say, it's great to see you but i hate to see you at this time of the year when "dancing with the stars" and, nancy, were you surprised to be sent home after one of your best dances of the season? >> i guess i was a little surprised just because i really wanted to get to the end and i wanted to keep going and learn more. but i knew every week there's always that chance so i don't know. it's just part of the game? look at how good it is. what happened? what happened? >> we got to talk to those judges. nick, i have a question fo