brad blakeman, capri cafaro are back with us.d, i mean he says, saving lives and helping kids is wrong, then i'm wrong, but, at same time, charity watch says it is not actually a charity. they can't even look at the clinton foundation and grade it, because the business model isn't a charity. they only give away 10% comes in, and seems like chickens are coming home to roost. are people paying attention this time? >> yes, and they get it. long before the clinton foundation was email scandal. american people have this baked in. it will only add to the distrust and unlikability, that they have towards hillary clinton. look, bill clinton, basically gave a, aloecution when he said to the american people, if hillary clinton is elected president we'll not have anything to do with the foundation. hillary clinton was secretary of state. melissa: yeah. >> if you can't do it as president, you can't do it as secretary of state. while it is true they may not have gotten a salary, they got a benefit. what was the benefit? power they had and spe

brad blakeman and julie roginsky are back with us. the regulations that have come along. there was one on changing the rules on residential refrigerators, which totaled about $27.3 billion. another on fluorescent lights, very exciting. $19.9 billion. you see the numbers, they look huge. people at home don't realize they are the ones paying this bill. when you buy the fridge and buy the light bulb, the cost of regulation is in there. where am i going wrong, brad? >> no, you're absolutely right. pass along hidden costs. it's a tax. face it, president obama does not like going to congress. his attitude is if you don't like what i'm doing, sue me. we sued him on regulation. supreme court slapped him down several times own his overreach. he tells us, he picks up his cell phone or his pen. executive order or regulation, not legislation. that there in lies the problem, the next president if it is donald trump will have a huge job to do, not openly repeal but replace a lot of this regulation that is embedded now in industry. melissa: let juli

with more, brad blakeman, former deputy assistant to george w. bush. lmes radio show." gent gentlemen, good morning. brad, you heard it there from harry s. donald trump. he is noll apologizing. he says it is good for me. >> it is no good when you have to explain yourself. no doubt the remarks were off-the-cuff. stream of consciousness that didn't work out too well. trump has to realize next 80 plus days he has to stay on message. the more he is explaining himself he is not advancing his message. he didn't mean what he left intends by the remarks but open to interpretation. my advice to donald trump, please, please, stay on message. you have so much fodder against hillary clinton, don't waste it. abby: staying on message, alan, two days ago he rolled out economic plan for the country. this is what his campaign and supporters wanting him to stick to, two days later this is dominating the headlines. >> i guess he needs a teleprompter. hillary clinton has never said anything about repealing the second amendment. he continues to lie about that saying she wan

and will he take brad blakeman's advice? he's trying to get the campaign back on patch and as he commands so much media attention, is the coverage making a rebound that much harder. and we'll discuss it with howard kurtz coming up. and donald trump said repeatedly that the main stream media is in the tank for hillary clinton. is that fair and upon go to foxnews.com/happeningnow, to join the conversation. plus, accusations fly between russia and the ukraine and now moscow may be moving forward military action and what does it mean for the united states and nato, coming up. ♪ i don't want to lie down. i refuse to lie down. why suffer? stand up to chronic migraine... with botox®. botox® is the only treatment for chronic migraine shown to actually prevent headaches and migraines before they even start. botox® is for adults with chronic migraine, 15 or more headache days a month each lasting 4 hours or more. it's injected by a doctor once every 12 weeks. and is covered by most insurance. effects of botox® may spread hours to week

bush's senior staff brad blakeman.were talking to pastor davis and he said something interesting which anecdotally i'm i'm hearing a lot of that's a people are afraid because there's there is so much pressure in part coming from the last and -- the left and also the media they are afraid to say i plan to vote for donald trump. my question to you is do you think that is having an effect on the polls like. >> i do and i think there's a huge silent majority out there of people who refuse to be identified at this time and that's why i think donald trump's greatest strength as we see in the primaries is the fact that he's always up been underestimated and i think the polling is underestimating the breadth, scope and gap of his support nationwide. trish: and i would say hillary clinton is underestimating him too because liz and if you think about donald trump handing out supplies, speaking to them in talking to ipads alongside him and that seems like a very presidential moments. on the other hand our president was off in mar

joining me the executive direct offer new york state democratic party basil michael and brad blakeman. you know how the campaign things work. >> i do. trish: generally someone from the community that is a supporter of that candidate will go out and solicit friends, people they know and trust to get up on stage to create a diverse picture, this, that and the other. but they are people that are vetted that would not do anything that would embarrass you. how did this guy wind up there? >> he was either invited or the advanced people in conjunction with the secret service did not scrutinize the people not only within the camera shot but within close proximity to the protectee. this reminds me, remember in south africa for the mandela funeral, when you had the interpreter, the bogus interpreter get so close to the president. that was a breakdown of advanced and secret service. same thing here. this is unconscionable that this guy was well-known not only in the community but certainly to our security services. he should have not been within close proximity of the protectee. he could have be

let's bring in brad blakeman and democratic strategist craig beroga. when we are eight years beyond the financial crisis, isn't this issue number one to quote the great john mclaughlin, rest in peace, john mclaughlin. isn't this what we should be discussing? craig? >> absolutely, i think we should be discussing the economy, and talking about donald trump's bankruptcies which would indicate that the way he ran his businesses was about as successful as running his campaign. we should be talking about the economy, and should be an issue because the voters care about it in both parties and certainly among persuadables and independents, absolutely. liz: brad, i vote to eliminate the talk about his bankruptcies and eliminate the talk about the clinton foundation and force these people to solely talk about the u.s. economy now because we can get into bitter battles that really make both these candidates extremely unlikable. none of that helps the u.s.? >> right, let's talk about the record of eight years of obama which hillary clinton is going to inherit if s

greg: for more on this i'm joined by alan combs, host of the alan combs show contributor, brad blakemans, assistant to george w. bush bush. brad, if trump's original promise which is or supporters have relied on that all 11 million illegal immigrants will be deported by president trump. over the last 10 days he seems to have backed off from that. if he doesn't make it absolutely clear where he stands on deporting people here illegally , he doesn't make it clear tonight, will that have been a failure of the speech? >> yes it will. he's got to be specific and lay out a plan in how he's going to accomplish what he sets out to do. certainly we got a preview, sanctuary cities must end. under hillary clinton they will continue. we have to have a fair and balanced approach to our immigration policies with regard to the 11 million that are here. we don't have the assets, we don't have the personnel and will to round up 11 million people. we have crossed borders and we have worked for them so we have to have a pathway to legalization and i think donald trump will set that out. greg: first is goi

former deputy assistant to president bush 43, brad blakeman is with us. we put up a few. is up over donald trump. say what you want about the national polls where he is also struggling, this is real big trouble for trump. how does he turn it around? >> the way he turns it around, start focusing on economy. that jobs report you just talked about, the people who are underemployed, the people who left the job force, look at the polls that suggest that more than 3/4 of the american people feel that america is going down the wrong track. if trump is successful businessman outside concentrate on economy and our national security, immigration, he has got winning arguments everywhere. we must win florida, we must win ohio,. connell: pennsylvania. >> don't win the two states we'll not win at all. we have to pick up pennsylvania if it can be done. i think it can be done because of trump's resonating with the rust belt. that brings in the important state of ohio. these are important things that hillary clinton has told them, especially to coal miners. you're out of business. donald