award-winning journalist author and broadcaster so please welcome david barron. thank you for coming out on this rainy night i have been on a book tour now for -- over a month. and i'm just thrilled to be here at cover a real highlight, i mean, i live in colorado. i live in boulder and as you all know this is a real jam in colorado. there's eclipse coming up many our near future august 21st. for the first time in in 99 years total solar eclipse will cross the country coast to coast this is a big deal so how many of you have plans to go see the total eclipse? all right. hopefully by the end of this evening you will all have plans. and of those who have been planning how long how many of you have beenen playing to see it for let's say at least a month? for at least a year? at least a decade how many year have you been forward to in? >> about six. >> six years not six decades well not that this is a competition but i've been planning for this eclipse for 19 years. indeed -- i have been planning this book for 19 years. so it's surreal to see it as an call book so i w

barron. it's amazing. i think david and teach his entire class at the institute of politics at the university of chicago just what happened in those 77 minutes. >> rebecca, it was also clear that he was trying to defend his remarks following the charlottesville tragedy, what occurred there, but he never mentioned that he had said that there are very fine people on both sides. he said -- he condemned all the bad people but he pointed out there are many sides. he never really explained that last night. he never referred to that, and that's why he's continuing to get hammered. >> no, and it's amazing we're still having this conversation, wolf, days later from the president's first statement to a second statement, third, and i don't even know what number statement we're on at this point, there have been so many. the fact of the matter is the president should have been clear the first time and we still wouldn't need to have this conversation, but donald trump cannot let things go. he cannot just let it lay. as preston said,

david in nearby maryland. you can see the president with the first lady, there's barron and a couple of the grandkids, going to be a family affair, with regard to the storm heading towards texas. he tweeted i encourage everyone in the path of hurricane harvey to heed the advice and orders of the local and state officials. cute little grandchild waving to the camera, heading onto marine one, they'll go down to camp david. a 30-minute trip from the front lawn of the white house. what a way to travel, huh? and he's talking away and i think he is encouraging people with regard to the storm heading towards texas, and telling everyone, of course, to be safe, as possible. >>> joining us from both sides of the aisle, former u.s. congressman representative joel walsh and democratic strategist christy setzer. start with the storm, this is the first major test for this administration. chuck grassley tweeting something out earlier, hey, you remember what happened with president bush and katrina, let's not make the same mistakes. representative walsh, is this administration ready to handle it's first natural disaster as it

david: you see north korea playing into the market. stocks breaking a three-day losing streak amid heightened tensions with north korea. let's bring in today's panel, jack hough from barron's and carol roth. investment banker. traders like to sell off what they have or safe they can sell to make a profit on. didn't seem to happen today. >> it is an interesting dynamic. we have seen the market be able, overall to digest a lot of bad news. that shows how much cash is still on the sidelines. every time the market comes off of a new benchmark, there is capital being, able to be deployed, i think one of the big things we've seen today too, is that inflation remains very low and that could mean that the fed holds off on raising rates. i think that is a big part of story today on why we saw things go up a little bit. david: some fed officials talked about that but, jack, what is holding the market up? >> i am glad we got stabilization today. i got nervous as we weakened into the close. the stocks that got killed out there, deserved to get killed. jcpenney the world doesn't need it anymore. snap is facebook road kill, but broadly the market was pretty stable. david: facebook road