and the 1980 gop platform that dropped the 40 year record of support for the era also put the gop firmly on record as being a pro-life party or as they called it the party of life. , they endorsed the idea of a human life amendment and they called for a litmus test for all federal appointed judges all must have pro-life positions. of course, reagan probably nominated sandra day o'connor, which infuriated phyllis schlafly because she was not officially there. but they had been working ever since to get to that point. and now trump has promised that if he gets another appointment that it will be someone who would take a pro-life position. so, absolutely, that could happen. >> wouldn't there be a tremendous cost of that overthrowing something that , existed for 45 years, as with -- as we saw with the health care issue? prof. spruill: i think absolutely there would be a tremendous -- you saw the january 21 marches in the streets. if that happened, i think you would see about twice as many people show up. absolutely. it is absolutely something that a whole generation of people have grown up w

senate majority leader mitch mcconnell says if they have to come the gop will go it alone on tax cuts. "fbn:am" starts right now. train to a five o. his title when he appeared in europe through wednesday, august 2nd. good morning, cheryl casone. lauren: thank you for joining us. lauren simonetti. i feel like it is going to happen and this is why. great day for apple to the tech giant with blowout third-quarter earnings come in sending the stock to an all-time high of 6% right now. tracee carrasco joining us with more on the story. >> good morning, ladies. typically apple slowest was a solid earnings report. that exceeded wall street's expectation. 41 million iphone's during the quarter up 2% a year earlier. i'll save 15% increase in the number of ipads sold after several quarters of decline. all of that helped apple hit $45 billion in sales for the quarter up 7%. the from 23,125,000,000,000. the majority of the money is overseas. that could all change at the "fbn:am" is patient passes tax reform. and for those three apple plants in the united states that the president alluded to last

and the 1980 gop platform that dropped the 40 year record of support for the e.r. average also put the gop formally on record as about pro life party or as they call it, the party of life. they endorsed the idea of the human life amendment and they called for a lit nus test for all federal appointees, judges on the -- they must have pro life positions. of course reagan nominated sandra day owe conner. now trump has trumsed that if he gets another appointment that it will be someone who would take a pro life decision. so absolutely that could happen. >> wouldn't that be -- wouldn't there be a tremendous cause to that, overthrowing something that existed for 45 years? as we saw with the healthcare issue. >> i think that absolutely there would be a tremendous -- you saw the january 21st marches in the street. if that happen i think you'd see about twice that many people show up. absolutely, i believe it's something that a whole generation of people have grown up with believing that that issue was resolved. and not -- there has been a tremendous increase in support for

julia: the gop doing a dance. something tells me that the steps will get quicker and the music will be getting louder. margaret, great to chat with you. you can read timothy's article on the bloomberg. let's get a check on where markets stand. abigail doolittle has the latest. >> today has been a wishy-washy day for the markets, small gains and losses for major averages. right now we have small declines for the dow, s&p, and nasdaq. a decent amount of intraday volatility. the nasdaq had been up .4%, down .5%. some uncertainty ahead of jackson hole and janet yellen speaking tomorrow. we have another source of anxiety, oil, down 2.5%. this has to do with harvey, according to the storms in -- according to a commodity strategist here at bloomberg. with the refineries closed it means lower demand for oil and more supply, helping to explain why the price is going down. in the meantime, the demand for gasoline is going higher. we still need to use gasoline in the real world, and that is helping some of the refineries. va

i'm supposed to talk about the future of the gop. here i think my fundamental disagreement, and as much i agree with in the book and i that. sometimes i'm in violent agreement with henry but the pampas of the speed entertaining or least interesting so people in conflict. henry is making in some ways the same mistakes is criticizing so many on the right of. namely, he thinks there is this true reagan, this dashboard saint of conservatism and if we can just uncover him and reveal his true nature he will like a lamp aluminate the path forward for republicans for all time. this is argument you hear from the high priest about true reagan, and henry's version of the true reagan is that he was this new deal republican. i'm just not entirely convinced that is right. one of the things people don't really understand about ronald reagan, i've always thought of, so here's why absolutely agree with henry. i think the gop, the last few election cycles, the last couple decades has been crippled by this cult of reagan. if you go back and watch the p

because the american people are fed up with the establishment writ large, including the gop, leftandlooking at the last 20 years they say you haven't served us well, whether it is wars in iraq, afghanistan, the state of the economy, the bloated government, the fact if you get a job in government it's a job for life. the president is not from the establishment. as a result, members of the establishment gop will probably have problems with him but if you're surprised then you haven't watched his campaign and you don't know who this man is. interesting analysis but if i may suggest one of the reasons the gop, the republican party, is so concerned about donald trump's first six months is that his approval rating is at historic lows. politicians look at the polls and whatever you say about the markets, and indeed it's true, the market is high and unemployment is low, but the bottom line is even with the economy performing well, donald trump is historically one of the most unpopular presidents after six months in the entire history of the united states. stephen, are these the same polls th

. >>> the gop they're on a roll.te governments across the country, the republican party controls the governor ships and state legislature up 26 states, democratses hold complete control of government in only six states and in the district of columbia >> the question here, what does it mean for state of the democratic party and how did the republican party rise so quickly? hi, david. >> hi, thanks for having me. >> the gop, a lot of people talked about the gop is dead. this is no longer that party. now it's kind of reinvented itself and we're seeing it really happening here. >> well, you know, most of this happened in the elections of 2014 and then 2016 but with the switch of west virginia governor jim justice from the democratic party to the republicans, that ads one more state where republicans can basically make laws without any input from democrats at all. and if you add up the populations of those 26 states, that's just about 48% of the us population right there that is living under, i guess, you'd say, unified o

he is essentially your gop from central casting. when you talk 2024, that makes tote t al sense >> he is. he is very articulate . he's got washington experience, governor experience, he'll have vice-president. this guy's resume screams he's the next one in line. even if donald trump is not reelected in 2020 i still believe that a loyal vice-president mike pence is the leading candidate for the republican nomination in 2024. we're hearing rumors that there are certainly other gop hopefuls . ohio governor john caseic other names being thrown out there. if that happens what could this mean not only forth trump campaign, but also for the republican party. >> again, you look at precedent there are times when very, very popular candidates tried to take on a sitting president, donald trump reagan tried to do it against jeerld ford, teddy kennedy tried to do it against jimmy carter. there is no precedent to be able to defeat the sitting president for the nomination of your party. all you do is wind of dividing your party. when you see repor

so, what do you have to say to the gop? my boys in the gop, don't let those haters get you down! despite some minor hcu past week, and every week before that, you guys continue to slay all day! [ laughter and applause ] >> jimmy: now john, on friday, reince priebus was forced out as chief of staff, after just six months in the position. do you have a message for mr. priebus? >> keep your chin up, reince. [ light laughter ] daddy's not sorry, donald's not mad, just disappointed. take your time out to think about what you've done. [ laughter and applause ] >> jimmy: and priebus leaving just came a day after anthony scaramucci called "the new yorker" to rant about priebus and steve bannon, and now he's fired. do have any words of support for scaramucci? >> keep telling it like it is, mooch! we as a nation love that you're not pc and/or fake. enjoy that time off, babe. i hope you spend it like steve bannon would, by sucking your own -- >> jimmy: oh john. >> what? >> jimmy: john, you're on national television. >> i can't hear an

the thing that has to be remembered is that he may have formally been the gop republican candidate forut donaldj republican candidate for president but donald j trump republican candidate for president but donald] trump wasn't an establishment individual. think about the fact, the first time since 1766, the first time in american history we have a president of the united states who has never served in public office before, not even as a governor, and who has never held senior military rank like eisenhower or washington. first senior military rank like eisenhower orwashington. first time senior military rank like eisenhower or washington. first time ever. stephen, why do you think that is? because the american people are fed up because the american people are fed up with the establishment writ large, including the gop, left and right. looking at the last 20 years they say you haven't served us well, whether it is wars in iraq, afghanistan, the state of the economy, the bloated government, the fa ct if economy, the bloated government, the fact if you get a job in government it's a job fo

they went up with the gop because they want to demonstrate that they are loyal to republican voters. and that they can see them as part of the team. at leastse to endorse a republican candidates including donald trump. >> do they still exist? >> absolutely. >> has their membership and growing or shrinking over time? >> something that is interesting. a survey found that one out of five gave voters actually has conservative or very conservative views. time the late 70's every there is a surge in homophobic there is as activism influx of new members who want to push spec and rescue the gop from homophobia. over time, they tend to get frustrated with the aids crisis and then they tend to drop out. they have 26 chapters among the states. placese historically and that have sizable all jvc populations. san francisco, los angeles, dallas did they tend to do well friendly andt are have conservative politics. the biggest is in southern california. thisat led you to research? >> good question, a number of issues. the first that there has been this ongoing debate for a long time. they are lookin

thank you all so much. >>> up next, a moral reckoning for the gop. can elected republicans still publicly support president trump? before we go, after the violence in charlottesville, president obama tweeted a quote from nelson mandela. quote, no one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin or his background or his religion. that tweet, that tweet, that quote from nelson mandela that obama sent out has become the most liked tweet ever on twitter, being liked by nearly 3 million people. so know this, as much as hate is rising in this country, there are millions of people that want it to end. four seconds on the clock, down by one. championship on the line. erin "the sharpshooter" shanahan fakes left. she's outside of the key, she shoots... ...she scores! uh... yes, erin, it is great time to score a deal. we need to make room for the 2018 models. relive the thrill of beating the clock. the volkswagen model year end event. hurry in for a $1,000 apr bonus and 0% apr for 60 months on a new 2017 jetta or passat. you myour joints...thi

can the gop change? by henry's argument which he says in many ways in the process of his book and listening to his talk they have to to attain long-term political success. their current success as henry argue that it is not an unreasonable argument, is in some ways a fools gold. does not represent something to build long-term success on but rather something more episodic and has to do with the weakness of the opposition. i am sympathetic to that argument but we have to be realistic and look at the way political party look at things. they look at fools gold, and say it looks pretty golden to me, we had a lot of success we control the majority of governors, the senate, the house, the presidency, like if it ain't broke, don't fix it. that is possibly the biggest obstacle henry has to getting people to dig into his argument and take it seriously. the conservative policy intellectuals and analysts may have different ideas, what the party should do to attain long-term success and take that as a serious issue,

one senior gop aide said "it seems he is just always focused on russia." let's bring in tonight's leadoff panel, shall we? formerly of the "wall street journal," we are now so proud to call her our newly minted nbc national political reporter carroll lee is with us, former chairman confident republican party, michael steele is with you, and white house reporter for "the wall street journal," eli stokals. eli, you have described this dynamic one guy, one day, another guy the next. what happened last night specifically as his need to release steam. go into some detail. >> you showed the difference between trump and teleprompter trump and just trump. and you know, sometimes you see both in the same speech which is what we saw in phoenix last night. people around this president will talk about the need to release pressure, to open up the valve and let the compression sort of see out. and that's what happened a week ago when he came down to the lobby of trump tower and was supposed to talk about infrastructure. not take questions, instead took all these questio

i really think the gop wants to be work together. upset about a few things, kushner and that relationship but i do not think the mercer family and "breitbart" will be working to destroy trump's agenda. cheryl: maybe they can start to move on. maybe that would be better for everyone. thank you. melissa: international manhunt coming to an end. police shooting and killing the man suspected of driving the van in barcelona terror attack of the fugitive was believed to be the final member of the spanish extremist cell behind the attack which left 13 people dead and injured more than 130 others. cheryl: coming up the uncontrollable nuclear war. north korea's latest warning to the united states, how our nation, how our nation is responding to the rogue regime. melissa: plus president trump preparing to lay out his strategy for afghanistan tonight. how can we put an end to america's longest war? we'll talk to peter brookes, former deputy assistant secretary of defense. that's next. ♪ ♪ it's a highly contagious disease that can be really serio

the gop is basically a drunk guy trying every key to get into his apartment.at's my mail key. ah, i don't even think this is my building." [ light laughter ] scaramucci was asked why the process has been so difficult and used a historical analogy that didn't quite add up. >> if you read "team of rivals," it took lincoln three or four times to get what he wanted from the senate and the house of representatives, which was the full abolition of slavery. >> seth: that's right, trump's team is just like abraham lincoln's "team of rivals." who can forget lincoln's stirring words denouncing slavery. >> a house divided against itself cannot stand. i believe this government cannot endure half slave and half free. and i also believe that my election victory was the biggest election victory of all time and no one believed i could do it. [ light laughter ] the fake news, the fake polls, terrible people. terrible dishonest people but we won. oh, we won all right. isn't that right, mooch? [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] >> seth: so now -- now, with gop leaders scrambli

i think among definite gop voters 54% picked trump. under 60%, that's not a great number for him. i think there's a recognition among trump's political team he does have a problem here. you look at those quinnipiac numbers. most of the country says he's not doing a good job, he's dividing the country. i think right now practically, the bigger problem for trump is not losing his base and losing more people who are with him through thick and thin. it's losing people in washington, losing republicans in congress and sort of the people who have kind of shrugged their shoulders and said we're going to try to get through our agenda even though we have an r erratic president. now i don't ear seeing that slow burn and republicans are saying we don't really need this president to get what we want to get through. and that's a problem politically for the president as we head into 2018. >> getting nothing done and being consistently ugly on issues about -- some of the fundamental fabric of the country is going to make you unpopular. remember, the idea of being popular within the base, his par

venting his frustration to two gop senators, the first tom tillis of north carolina. what can you tell us? >> tom and chris coons are sponsoring a bill that would prevent the president from firing robert mueller. and what we hear is that the president vented his unhappiness with this bill and made clear to tillis that he didn't want it to pass. tillis' office said, hey, it was a cordial conversation. mind you, the president may have cordially informed him he doesn't want his bill going anywhere. >> we need to remind viewers when robert mueller was nut putt in place, the president said, fine, put a special prosecutor in place. i'm okay with it. bob corker was speaking last friday about the president and his ability to get anything done. >> absolutely. >> i want to share that for a minute. >> the president has not yet -- has not yet been able to demonstrate the stability nor some of the competence that he needs to demonstrate. >> i mean, this for me has been stunning. i watched it over and over. bob corker saying that the president hasn't shown the stability or the comp

rachel bra vard and gop strategist joe watkins. it's great to have all of you with me. let me start with you, carlos, about the fact it looked as if after general kelly got his job as chief of staff, he was going to do an evaluation, kind of tighten things up where they needed to be tightened up. is had this more of a general kelly move or is this bannon self imploding. >> i would give it to general kelly. is he certainly saw what happened with with scaramucci. that happened quickly. general kelly clearly seems to be trying to impose some discipline. the president, though, the president the person who won the election continues to tweet uses words like ageage tart or more. two or people to keep your eye on i'm really curious what happens with gary cohn. there's been some pressure on him from friends and former colleagues to leave given some of the things the president said regarding charlottesville. >> some of his former clients gathering up a petition -- >> very powerful. the other person i'm really interested in is general mcmaster who is the national security adviser

many gop lawmakers appear to believe deserting the president now could only harm their political fortunest others are going public, calling out the president by name. >> senator lindsey graham says his words radio dwight, not -- words are dividing, not healing saying, "many americans do not agree and will fight back with a check of the headlines the against that the party of lidge has a welcome mat out for the david dukes of the world." kasi john kasich had this to say -- >> pathetic listening to this and hearing these marchers. the president has to total ed condemn this. this is -- totally condemn this. this is not about winning an argument. now these folks will go some other places and feel they had some sort of victory. there is no moral equivalency between the kkk, neo-nazis, and anybody else. >> in a rare move by military leaders, all five u.s. joint chiefs issuing public condemnations of white supremacist groups in the wake of the racial unrest in charlottesville. perhaps most striking, the president being abandoned by the business community. >> the president forced to dissolve two

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now that support for gop congress is down 30%. these are great numbers for democrats across the board. i'm working with a number of congressional campaigns across the country competitive because of these numbers, as tammy points out with erosion of gop support for senators flake and mcconnell and others. and we're seeing those number across the board. we're getting more competitive as democrats in races -- >> tammy, with this statement, mitch mcconnell put out a similar statement, none of this makes any sense, fighting amongst themselves. >> let's not mistake fact republicans are not being well liked in congress that the american people will turn to democrats. we know what their fund raising problem. the fact they have become a weak regional club when it comes to seats -- connell: they don't get anything done at all. somebody pays some price for that. >> yes, they will, but there is also people being primaried. you have got new republican candidates. there isn't this finite bubble who will run for office and who can be in the sena

. >>> plus, president trump steps up attacks on other gop leaders. the impact it could have on some of the president's key campaign promises including his controversial border wall. >> as we head into what is expected to be a warm weekend. "today in the bay" continues right now. >>> good morning and thanks for joining us on this friday. i'm kris sanchez in for laura garcia-cannon. >> and i'm marcus washington as we head into the weekend.

top republicans less monday arizona senator jeff flake argues the gop is in denial about donald trumpriting, we created him and now we're rationalizing him. when will it stop? the broader more important question how much political capital has this president skaund erred and how much does he still hold to accomplish this agenda. many lawmakers no longer fear president trump's threats and in the wake of last week's failure to repeal and replace obamacare several republicans have indicated they're ready to move on. >>> we're joined now exclusively by senator lindsey graham. always good to see you. >> good morning. >> thanks for coming by. we have so much to talk about. i want to ask you about this "washington post" story that says that president trump may have been the one who drafted that memo released by his son donald trump jr. about that meeting with the russian lawyer

gop senator lindsey graham of south carolina had this to say. >> south carolina's economy, the number one is agriculture, number two is tourism. so my farmers, my hotel owners, my restaurant owners have a hard time finding labor. it's not that americans are lazy. these are jobs that are just hard to fill, and when you can't find an american worker, you can get a legal visa, it's a win win. half, it will destroy south carolina's economy. other than that, it's a good

gop leaders are warning about the political danger of that. some lawmakers in both parties balking about funding a wall that mr. trump promised mexico would pay for. >>> also tonight, the white house is firing back at a republican senator who's questioning mr. trump's stability and competence, calling the concerns ridiculous as tensions between the president and his own party ratchet higher. press secretary sarah huckabee sanders is trying to down play the president's feud with gop leaders, but mr. trump is pouring more fuel on the fire in new tweets. he is again slamming mitch mcconnell for failure to repeal obamacare and accuses paul ryan of making a quote, mess out of efforts to raise the debt ceiling. this hour, i talk about those stories and more with reuben guy aig a, from the armed services committee. our specialists are also standing by. first, to senior white house correspondent, jim acosta. the president isn't backing away from multiple fights with fellow republicans. >> reporter: that's right, the list keeps growing, he continues to

talks about the gop making fools of themselves. >> there's an example where he had nuthing to do withce. found out on twitter like the rest of the world did. here's the issue. let's say kelly is the new chief of staff is able to impose the kind of discipline we're talking about on the entire white house team, including ivanka trump. let's say officially. treating him as her superior in that chain of command. here's the issue. then it reverts back to what we had in the past with other families. think of the reagan white house in the 1980s. nancy reagan was not in any meetings or any policy role and not running health care -- >> that's why people disliked hillary clinton. at the end of the work day, ronald reagan went and talked in the private quarters of the white house and nancy reagan exerted tremendous influence on that administration's direction and it drove the people on the official white house staff nuts. don regan who was the chief of staff had this basically open war with nancy reagan because nancy reagan was saying after hours. so, even if you establish that chain of command,

the gop sent committee staffers to look for steele in england. hunt for trump dossier reveals tension. and it looks like they were going to discredit the dossier, and they did it without checking with anyone on your committee? do i have that correct? >> i heard the ranking member schiff on this. and mike conway said he didn't even know about it. if that's true, that would be inappropriate. when i was a prosecutor, you were always worried that witnesses would be contacted. we want to hear from christopher steele. he is certainly a relevant witness in what happened. i home they won't do anything to deter him. >> thank you. >>> ahead, dan rather joins me to talk about tweets. >>> amidst of a fleur of news, president trump tweeted this. >>> amidst of a fleur of news, president trump tweeted this. one small problem, that scoop from fox news.com was based on information coming from unnamed u.s. officials with knowledge of the latest intelligence in the region. in other words, the story was based on a leak and it just so happens about 50 minutes later o

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the gop pushing back against his call for obamacare cuts that could hurt millions. interesting press conference with a subtle pushback to the president. >> welcome to "early today." >> it's wednesday, august the 2nd. it is 4:00 a.m. in the east and we begin with a direct contradiction between president trump's personal lawyer and the white house over the president's role responding to his son's meeting with a russian lawyer. the white house now conceding the president did weigh in without getting into any further specifics. no matter how far weighed in goes, it flies in the face of what trump's lawyer said that he had no involvement. >> just the latest instance of trump aides and only after published rorltss forced them to acknowledge problems. in a lack of clarity not inspiring confidence on capitol hill. more when the white house. >> reporter: we're learning for the first time that president trump was involved in helping to shape the narrative about that meeting back at trump tower on june 9th, 2016. the white house acknowledged on tuesday for the very first time,

now there's a deep schism within the gop ranks. i surely don't envy bob michael. his problems are more severe than mine. neither he nor trent lott can make a commitment with any faith of fulfillment, the young turks" -- referring to gingrich and others, "a thirst for retribution, have now republican leaders on their side." this is 1985. "the lunatics have taken over the asylum. one mature republican told me we might as well install a sand box for them to play in." and that kind of touches on something that i think comes out of this period, but the jim wright scandal, where the distance between the republican leadership and gingrich is not nearly as great as many people remember, and the leadership, including michael, were starting more and more to use a lot of the themes that gingrich was talking about. when this was all over, many, as wright's diary suggests, were aware that the tenor of politics was changing, and that's right at the point where democrats decide to select jim wright as the speaker of the house, someone who would offer a perfect foil for gingrich'

president trump is fanning the flames in his feud with gop leaders including the one man he needs most if he's to get anything done in washington. let's begin with jim acosta, jim, another twitter barrage. >> reporter: absolutely, wolf. president trump is once again undercutting his own team, continuing to air his complaints on twitter about congressional leaders just as the white house is trying to ease tensions. tensions that may shift into overdrive with the white house openly considering can the idea of a government shutdown to force congress to pay for a wall on the border. the same wall the president promised mexico would fund. president trump is once again trolling one of his favorite twitter targets, his own party, tweeting, the only problem i have with mitch mcconnell is that after hearing repeal and replace for seven years, he failed. that should never have happened. no big deal says the white house. >> i think the relationships are fine. certainly there are going to be policy differences, but there are also a lot of shared goal. >> reporter: despite the shared goals, the pre

that doesn't happen always with the gop.a lot of the gop folks will say we don't take orders from leadership but from people at home and you have a broad spectrum of people in the republican voting caucus. how do you get to more agreement? >> shannon: that's a good point. i think you have a little more of a collectiveist socialist mind set of the democratic party. we're different. we're independent thinkers and think we have the best idea. when you bring in all those ideas and hash it out, metal on metal sharpens. that's a good thing. you look at the primary in 2016, donald trump was better because there were 16 people in the primary. democrats are worse off because they tried to anoint one person. we're better off if we go through the tension but we have to do it with love and understanding that we're all getting to the same end goal which is accomplishing big reform for the american people. meeting the promises that we made to the american people. that tension can bring a better product but you can't let it blow up and go

after the last election, not this past election, the last election of president obama, the gop had to really do a, an analysis and came out actually way report saying how much they needed to get better at connecting with and communicating with communities of color. women voters, et cetera. and marginalized communities. we've seen they've got the opposite way. zigged instead of zagging. and in addition to that you also see that the president himself is inconsistent on his messaging when it comes to this. a late response. then what some people say is a decent response. then we get the press conference on tuesday. so i -- i think we have to take americans intelligence pretty seriously, and understand that it's a little insulting to assume we can pivot back and forth on issues so fundamental to american democracy and society and racism is one of those issues. >> people have memories. right? and emotional issues, the ones that tend to stick. >> julie, i'll ask you this -- after the 2016 election there was criticism of the democratic party, of the standard bearer, hillary clinton, and other

the gop sent committee staffers to look for steele in england. hunt for trump dossier reveals tension. and it looks like they were going to discredit the dossier, and they did it without checking with anyone on your committee? do i have that correct? >> i heard the ranking member schiff on this. and mike conway said he didn't even know about it. if that's true, that would be inappropriate. when i was a prosecutor, you were always worried that witnesses would be contacted. we want to hear from christopher steele. he is certainly a relevant witness in what happened. i home they won't do anything to deter him. >> thank you. >>> ahead, dan rather joins me to talk about tweets. because i get a safe driving bonus check every six months i'm accident free. because i don't use my cellphone when i'm driving. even though my family does, and leaves me all alone. here's something else... i don't share it with mom. i don't. right, mom? i have a brand new putter you don't even know about! it's awesome. safe driving bonus checks, only from allstate. sometimes i

evan siegfried is author of "gop gps."aitlyn huey burns is a political reporter with real clear politics. her latest piece previews trump's arizona visit. my colleagues at the "today" show spoke with vice president pence. i just want to play a little part of that. >> -- that rally up in charlottesville so, when he said that you just told me you don't agree with that, did those words offend you? >> the president and i were very clear last weekend in the wake of the terribly tragic events in charlottesville that we denounce bigotry and hatred and violence in all its forms. >> he said there were fine people on both sides of that rally. >> the president specifically denounced white supremacists, neo-nazis, and the kkk repeatedly. >> caitlyn, do we overestimate the impact this has had? even though you see the majority of americans disapprove of the way he handled the aftermath of the violence, most republicans approve of it. has he hit rock bottom? is the only way for him go up? and maybe last night was the start of it. >> repu

i want to know why does his response threaten the gop? how is this one different from other controversies? >> look, i think this crystallizes his views on race and tolerance and the nature of a diversifying country more powerfully than average americans than the policy debates, whether it's how he handles undocumented immigration or what he's doing on voting rights. this is very visceral. what this has done is bring to a head what was always the gravest risk president trump has for the health of the gop. there's no doubt his polarizing position helped solidify position with the older, blue collar evangelical white america. he risks and was stamping the gop as a party of racial intolerance as the millennial generation. in 2018, they will become the largest generation of eligible voters. behind them is the post millennial, born after 2000, which is more diverse. i quote anderson who said if i were a young person today, there is no reason i would not think the gop is uncomfortable with white supremacy. that is a risky place to be in a divers

. >> an escalating war of words with north korea and a big gop family feud. the president blames the top senate republican for his stalled agenda. >> i'm very disappointed in mitch. >>> "inside politics" the biggest stories sourced by the best reporters now. >>> welcome to "inside politics." i'm john king. to our viewers in the united states and around the world, thanks for sharing your sunday. a sad morning after in charlottesville, virginia. a federal civil rights investigation is opening now and an ohio man faces a state murder charge. president trump is under fire for his response to the violence, adding to the pot slig light he faces this week. he grows frustrated that beijing won't or do more to rein in north korea's missile or nuclear programs. it's a gamble of escalating trump rhetoric at that times caught his own national security team off guard. >> north korea best not make any more threats to the united states. they will be met with fire and fury. like the world has never seen. >>> plus, no summer break for republican dysfunction. still without eve

to go in fighting continues between trump and gop leaders in congress. he slammed mitch mcconnell, paul ryan and the media. now, will this in fighting style his agenda? or will he and gop leadership be able to set differences aside when congress returns? speaker paul ryan says that congress is on the same page as the president. >> we are working to move a shared agenda and it is important to me that the president is successful. >> there are plans for the president to meet with mitch mcconnell when lawmakers return september 5th. >>> the plan to ban transgender's in the military is coming together, details will be delivered to the pentagon in the coming days. tonight we will tell you what the new guidelines will say. jennifer griffin is at the pentagon now with this story. >>> defense secretary jim matus will be given authority to decide whether or not transgender troops can continue serving. the military will be ordered to stop admitting transgender individuals into the military and consider the employability of current transgender individuals. and trans

paul ryan did a town hall in wisconsin and he thinks gop will have easier time producing taxes than they did in failed effort to overhaul the health care situation. >> the problem we have when you tax your businesses and your companies and much, much higher tax rates than foreign competitors they win, we lose. so this is among the reasons why we're pushing tax reform. >> what we want to do is make sure we get tax rates on our businesses counsel at the same kind of rates that our foreign competitors are. this is 21st century and it's a global economy. labor day and when at the get back a few weeks to face a government shutdown yet again that deadline is october 1. >> all right. so we know the president has been angry of all the leaks coming out of the white house and not thrilled are turn general either. we saw the tweets. he called jeff sessions out. he wants ag to be tougher on leaks. sessions must have cord brownie points he held a press conversation of cracking down on classified information. sessions says the justice department is looking into surprises for media outlets that publish

the insane outbreak of gop brinksmanship, next. >>> republicans have a packed agenda when they return to congress on september 5th. among their essential tasks, passing a new spending bill and raising the debt ceiling by month's end. but last night in phoenix, president trump threw a monkey wrench into those plans. >> build that wall. now the obstructionist democrats would like us not to do it. but believe me, we have to close down our government, we're building that wall. >> the president is threatening to shut down the government if congress doesn't pass a spending bill that includes money for a border wall. the same wall the president repeatedly, repeatedly promised mexico would pay for. republican leadership immediately tried to tamp down the shutdown idea. >> given the time of year it is and the rest of the appropriations we have to do, we're going to need more time to complete our appropriations process, particularly in the senate. so that's something that i think we all recognize and understand, that we're going to have to have some more time to complete our appropriations proc