joining me are bush 43 senior staffer brad blakeman and busse-l politics editor emily shire. is trump hitting her on public service saying she is "crooked hillary." and based on private work. worked for a lawyer and worked for a crooked s&l company. who wins in this debate? >> i think donald trump wins. david: why? >> because donald trump hasn't been feeding from the public trough over 30 years. donald trump risked his capital and he got rewarded. sometimes he lost. no successful businessman or woman has ever been successful without failure. failure is component of success. david: that is certainly true. emily, there was a time when he was, kept talking on the campaign stuff about trump university and bringing up the -- that didn't go over well with public. i think the public just wants to keep his personal business away from everything, doesn't he? >> i don't think it helps him. i don't think this is clinton's strongest line of attack, actually on the economy, trump is beating her in terms of american's faith who will do a better job. may be one area where trump is winning ag

final thoughts on tonight's main events with jessica tarlove, brad blakeman and judith miller.e. your final thoughts. we have about four minutes for everybody. >> oh for everybody. i was gonna say, let me tell you -- -- let me talk about intersectional identity. >> it is a big day for national security. if we are hearing from the vice president and the president it is time to talk about their record and the challenges we face and why hillary clinton is uniquely qualified to take on those challenges. i hope that the dnc and the democrats have corrected from the flag issue and the pen issue and we can have the symbols up there. it is a real shame we talk about the republicans as the patriotic party. >> i don't know if you could say it was self-corrected though. they got a lot of push back. >> if there was not a tweet storm that's why it would stay down and that's a shame. democrats love america. that's my final thought. >> monday was a disaster with the disappearance of the dnc chair. tuesday was a missed opportunity by not having the police families included with the, quote, unq

brad blakeman and chris kofinis are back with us.answer, this locker had up chanting, it seemed trump was trying to steer the crowd away from lock her up to defeat her but does she answer that at all? >> i was advising her i would say no. the reality, these conventions end up being, you're kind of like serving red meat to the base. there is i think one perspective, this will be a base collection. that is i think to large extent true but there is a significant block of voters that have serious concerns about both these candidates. to me if i was advising secretary clinton, that is the folks you want to speak to. donald trump's negatives are at 65, 67%. you will not get him to 100. focus on, focus on getting a positive message out, issues you will make the country for. make the contrast but don't get into petty games. david: brad, at the sail time as chris himself said you want to feed your delegates meat. face it, that is what happens at conventions. like cries christie said, guilty, some said was kind of like a a kangaroo cut. what d

heather: let's talk with brad blakeman, deputy assistant to president george w.and a former advisor to bill clinton and also a fox news contributor. okay, so a lot of talk about mike pence, the governor of indiana. some conservatives are so crazy about him because he changed position on religious freedom loss. it's not a big state so brad, why would he potentially pick mike pence? >> if you look at his job application that trump put out, he said he needs somebody to help them govern and mike pence is a guy that has great relationships on the hill having served in congress and he is an executive, the popular governor of indiana so if you look at trumps application, i think mike pence checks all the boxes. talking about new, i happen to believe new was a contemporary of donald trump in age who is in his 70s, he is going to be a great candidate for chief of staff which i would argue is more powerful than vice president area having newt who knows the inner workings of the white house, knows how to work with congress and yet mike pence as vp, that's the perfect trifec

democratic national convention. >> let's rejoin the bureau chief of talk media news, ellen ratner and brad blakeman george w. bush and fox news contributor judith miller. brad, final thoughts. >> today it was build as united together, but it didn't start off united and as we saw the program progress, the only oasis was michelle obama who did by all accounts very, very well. it started off with the dnc chairwoman, she is in, she is out. she is out for the entire program. the democrats made fun of us on monday night. we were fighting about politics and you guys were dealing with corruption. i don't think it was a good night for democrats. >> ellen, respond. >> i think the problem is these conventions have become very scripted over the years. they are always the same monday through thursday. the party in the white house goes second. maybe as we are changing politics in this country, we sought to change the conventions. then it won't look the same every four years. >> this didn't start off the same by any means. >> as we pointed out, not a lot of brotherly love. will rogers said famously i am not a mem

brad blakeman, gentlemen, thank you both.heather: saying that no evidence, they found no evidence that hillary clinton's server was hacked successfully but given the sophistication level involved that it may not have been discoverable by investigators if in factthat happened. let's talk with one of our national security experts up next, katie mcfarland . he will bring us a little more insight right after the break. >> i talked to my doctor and found a missing piece in my asthma treatment with breo. once-daily breo prevents asthma symptoms. breo is for adults with asthma not well controlled on a long-term asthma control medicine, like an inhaled corticosteroid. breo won't replace a rescue inhaler for sudden breathing problems. breo opens up airways to help improve breathing for a full 24 hours. breo contains a type of medicine that increases the risk of death from asthma problems and may increase the risk of hospitalization in children and adolescents. breo is not for people whose asthma is well controlled on a long-term asthm

trish: joining me right now is fox news contributor leslie marshall and brad blakeman. some are thinking that this may disqualify him. >> i think that a lot of republicans will go awol. donald trump is pro-life. in his running mate, completely at odds with that. the other thing is, i think a general is more apt to be the secretary of defense. donald trump needs help legislating. >> a lot of people say. just look at where he stands on the abortion issue. >> there is no doubt about it. there is a rough election. number one and number two. it is not complementary at all to donald trump. >> one of the things that we talked about is so remarkable. the accountability to crossover. some may be previously been democrats. >> it complements him with regard to the military. desperately lacking foreign policy against hillary. he needs bernie sanders reporters. the independence. he also needs the republicans thato nolikeim a do t li hilry tstic around. this does not prove that he has the unity of this party or that he has the republicans back. >> the radical jihad is him for what it

let's ask our political insiders, tamara holder, attorney and host of sports court and brad blakeman d judith miller. brad, we'll start with you this time. what we were just discussing about the other people that came forward to talk about hillary clinton, how well did they do in terms of maybe pulling over some of those dissatisfied voters? >> look, i think tonight was all about the main event. when you go see a concert, very few people, if any, can remember the opening acts. this was all on hillary clinton tonight. the question is, how good will these surrogates be from labor day to election day? how good will these surrogates be in spin alley at the debates? that's where i think they can really make a difference. tonight was an opening, but it was really hillary's debut for the fall. and i have to believe that tonight we didn't hear what independents want to hear. they didn't hear about fiscal responsibility. they didn't hear about personal safety. not only our own but our troops. they didn't hear about a leader who is going to solve the problems that they created. remember, they'v

in washington, republican strategist and fox news contributor brad blakeman as well as former adviser to hillary clinton's 2008 campaign and with me, independent radio talk show host fox news contributor tami bruce. all right. i'm going to start with the democrat. richard, are you ready? she said it was a chance meeting, and i hosted a show last night, and the local reporter said that she, as a matter of fact, has land on time, that he and his entourage waited 30 minutes before they actually were able to get onto her plane. so it sounds like it wasn't a chance meeting, richard. how do you explain that? >> judge, you'll pardon me if i'm humored by the coverage i'm hearing on this show of this matter and here's why. if it was my candidate who was being accused by party leaders of mine of being a racist and bigot and zone oh phone and con man, i'd want to change it too. >> cut, cut, cut, richard. there has never in the history of this country been a personen to be nominated, a presidential candidate usual under a year-long federal fbi investigation. it's not funny. go ahead, richard. you

david: brad blakeman and tammy david: the trump campaign, house speaker newt gingrich and new jerseyovernor chris christie reportedly at the top of the vp list. the campaign announcing running-mate before the convention, a little later this month. tammy bruce, i'm wondering if all this stuff with loretta lynch and hillary and bill is playing into trump's vp decision. maybe somebody, an old prosecutor like chris christy may stand a better chance because the legal center is so front and center. >> there is a points where chris christie began to deliver in the debates. i would love to see that debate between chris christie and hillary clinton. but you are looking at a dynamic where trump needs somebody who has served nation, who is uniform. rick perry couples. newt begin grave, i'm a great admirer of in gingrich, but he's older than mr. trump. i expect president trump to want somebody who is younger who then can appeal to a different kinds of crowd. i think both begin grim and christie will be in the -- i think both gingrich and christie will be in the cabinet. david: this plays into do

so let's talk about it now with republican strategist brad blakeman, former member of george w. s senior staff. happy independence day to you, brad. good to see you. >> happy fourth. >> let's talk about joni ernst. that's the newest name that we have been hearing. trump does not do well with women, and there are some with a military background who are concerned about having him as commander in chief. would her has his running mate help him? >> sure. she has a lot to offer. comes from iowa, a u.s. senator. she is a veteran of the armed forces. she has had state experience, and now she has federal experience, bag u.s. senator, although a first termer. that would probably be her only drawback. if she didn't have the breath of experience but neither does donald trump and he will be our president. so a fresh faced, jony i ernst being a woman adds to the ticket and something quite frank live that donald trump needs desperately. needed women both married and single. >> let me throw two people together. newt gingrich, chris christie, whose ratings have plumb -- plummeted. talk about thes

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hadley heath manning, independent women's forum and brad blakeman joins us as well. brad, former bush 43 guy. pick with any other candidate, hadley, start with you this time around we would be confidentially reporting we know the pick but with trump as charlie rightly point out i think we do have to wait for the new york hilton tomorrow and announcement see who is with him and he says is his pick but what do you think of pence as possibility. >> if it is pence we'll know by noon tomorrow because this is the deadline for governor pence to decide whether or not he is running for re-election as governor of indiana. the bottom line strategywise for trump, all along making decision, will he choose someone that fits the trump brand, another big personality, or choose someone like mike pence, provides contrast, public policy experience, more of an insider, less of an outsider in this big cycle. connell: speaking of contrast, brad, tweet got a lot of attention going back sometime from the muslim ban, called for a ban muslims entering the u.s. and offensive and unconstitutiona

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but listen to what brad blakeman said. what did secretary clinton know. you didn't hear him say, take to the streets. you didn't hear him say, let me withhold my endorsement until we get answers to these questions. unless he raises those questions or someone raises them in a significant way, i don't think the impact will be all that great, notwithstanding the fact that what the dynamic did, and brandt's absolutely right, was completely outrageous and wrong. and donald trump is right, this has clear this nomination fight was rigged or they did everything they possibly could to, in fact, rig it. >> let's turn to the overall theme and feeling of the convention party. your party's convention has been branded the darth vader party. it was dark and a lot of anxiety was brought forward. how do we feel about that >> i think we're living in dark times. donald trump told us the way it was. this is the problem the american people have. no one's telling them the way things are. how do we get out of the rut we're in? the fact is, this is the year of the outsider and h

we have brad blakeman, former chief of staff to president george w.i think it is great news for trump. it dispels notions of democrats, somehow the rnc convention was dark or angry. it wasn't either. it was truthful. the american people heard what is the ma earth with the country. they liked what donald trump said. can he keep the bounce going next couple weeks? that is hard to do. melissa: especially, he comes out today, there may have been disarray in the dnc this morning getting into it, but they lined up the two best speakers tonight. they will put bernie sanders out there and elizabeth warren, rock stars of the left. to come out and give rousing speeches. they will do their best on the first night out to step on donald trump's bounce. they have a good lineup for it. >> they do but i don't think it is going so work and here's why. the news for today, and news going into tomorrow will be all about debbie wasserman schultz. also about hillary clinton. what did she know, when did she know it and who were the people within her campaign that may have b

a few final thoughts from our political insiders, jessica tarlov and brad blakeman, assistant to georgejudy we will start with you. >> if they are looking to increase the democratic base, today was a -- an out reach to the middle class whites who are threatening to leave the party and people undecided in terms of national security. we heard from panetta and we heard of that finger, that uncertain, uneducated finger on the nuclear button. i think it was an effective night sm. the picture is hillary and obama, two former foe. the unity has eluded and continues to elude it. >> what has to happen is hillary has to be likable. she has a like ability deficit and trust deficit. if she can be likable it is a challenge for her. the challenge is not to be asville as the campaign trail. she has to be more states woman like. >> that's what i was thinking of when i was watching the have been biden. he is incredibly likable and he could have run for president. >> there were a lot of joe signs is how many bernie sanders supporters wanted joe biden and they are lock save. they voted the seal 39-- 93% o