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they resisted it. >> david: democrats in red states have to bend to the reality -- >> harris: joe manchin met with him yesterday. >> david: as well. heidi heitkamp, et cetera. there will be a handful of democrats. but now that you have rand paul there is virtually no opposition. we don't know about mccain but there is no opposition among republicans. >> melissa: president trump calling on congress to fund the border wall or face a government shutdown. is the president going a good job of banging the drum on an issue important to his base? or could his threat backfire with less than 100 days to go before the midterms? plus, president trump could soon up the ante in the trade battle with china as we learn the white house is considering new tariffs on beijing. so will the president's plan to narrow the trade deficit work? we'll discuss that coming up. >> president trump: this has been too many years of abuse. $500 billion a year. $500 billion. we have helped rebuild china. we can't do that anymore. >> tech: at safelite autoglass, we really pride ourselves on making it easy for you to get you

and across london there was a first premier league goal in august for harry kane. joe the action. the premier league landscape is always shifting. new faces bring in new eras. but unai emery inherits an arsenal side who have long forgotten how to win titles. for all the new ideas, their defence is a familiar picture. from 2—0 down against chelsea, though, they did show some backbone. alex iwobi brought them level, but as before, arsenal's flashes of brilliance tend to be just that. over 90 minutes, they slip away. alonso, 3—2. great entertainment, but not a great start for arsenal. i think it's not a good start for us, but i think the process of the 90 minutes and the process of this team continue. across north london, the project is further down the line. spurs have the exact same squad as last season, but through a world cup summer, they have grown in stature. kieran trippier‘s free kick brought back moscow memories. his right foot‘s reputation has been honoured in his hometown. in bury, stardom comes with your own parking space. as spurs found a way through fulham's

and across london, there was first premier league goal in august for harry kane. joe the new eras. but unai emery inherits an arsenal side who have long forgotten how to win titles. for all the new ideas, their defence is a familiar picture. from 2—0 down against chelsea, though, they did show some backbone. alex iwobi brought them level, but as before, arsenal's flashes of brilliance turn out to be just that. over 90 minutes, they slip away. alonso, 3—2. great entertainment, but not a great start for arsenal. i think it's not a good start for us, but i think the process of the 90 minutes and the process of this team continue. across north london, the project is further down the line. spurs have the exact same squad as last season, but through a world cup summer, they have grown in stature. kieran trippier‘s freekick brought back moscow memories. his right foot‘s reputation has been honoured in his hometown. in bury, stardom comes with your own parking space, and as spurrs found a way through fulham's defence, his england team—mate reversed a trend. into kane, there's

independent bernie sanders has the same odds as setter to harris former vice president joe biden is just behind them president trump still has the best betting odds of being reelected as president in 2020. >>> bay area school district audited by the state the investigation into inappropriate spending of bond money and mismanagement at funds at alum rock union school district. >>> today the bart governing board will discuss a $28 million security plan. some writers have issued -- have issues over this because of privacy concerns. more on that coming up. >>> in the east bay you can see traffic will be mostly good as you drive around. we will give you a little bit more of the east bay commute and take a look at some of that south bay dr. when we come back. >>> more low clouds and fog. the sun is coming up. it gives you an idea that we still have some haze to contend with today. warming temperatures, especially inland. we will look at the numbers coming up. ♪ ♪ ♪ raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens ♪ ♪ bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens ♪ ♪ brown paper packages tied up with

independent bernie sanders has the same odds as senator harris former vice president joe biden is just behind them. president trump's still has the best betting odds of being reelected president in 2020. >>> state lawmakers voted against ordering a full audit of the dmv. the republican backed proposal was all in reaction to long lines at dmv offices across the state . the three democrats refused to vote, saying the dmv was already overburdened with legislative mandates. republicans were angry the measure didn't pass. >> we are now sensing millions of californians to long wait lines and we are basically saying trust the dmv that made promises they did not keep. >> the dmp says it hopes to easy overcrowding and a long wait lines by hiring hundreds of new employees and extending hours for some offices on saturday. >>> a growing sense of frustration in palo alto where thousands of gallons of water have been spilling out onto a road. >> neighbors noticed a leak on the road a few weeks ago. ann rubin explains why it is taking so long to get it fixed. >> reporter: this water leak has been flo

harry potter. >> reporter: mollie's aunt, billy joe calderwood, telling cnn she doesn't want mollie's memory lostngst the politics. writing on facebook, quote, please remember evil comings in every color. and joining me right now, cnn senior media reporter oliver darcy, former politics editor for business insider. good to see you, oliver. so is this message that many republicans are pushing resonating or is there pushback like from what we heard from one of mollie's own family member, don't use her name in a politicized way? >> it's actually quite striking that republicans and conservatives are using her death to push political agenda. particularly because after mash shootings and other events, you see republicans saying now is not the time to talk about politics. let's offer thoughts and prayers. let's not use someone's death to push policy. you see it right after the murder comes out and we find out that the immigration status of the alleged killer is undocumented. you see fox news programs and hospitals pushing immigration policy. you see the white house pushing immigration policy. meanwhile,

senator lindsey graham and former democratic senator joe lieberman were such close pals they were famously dubbed the three amigos. my colleague dan harrisently spoke with senator leeb nan about their unique friendship. >> to me it was a blessing to really get to know john as i have and to be able to work with him. and as i say, we worked across party lines on a lot of different areas. each party discourages them from doing too much publicly together. >> reporter: but mccain and lieberman didn't play by those rules. >> i'm glad to be joined by my friend senator joe lieberman. >> the idea of people from opposite parties coming together to try to build coalitions and make the decisive votes otn ang art. >> spent four years in ninth grade. >> yeah, my favorite grade. >> reporter: the third of the three amigos republican senator lindsey graham who senator mccain campaigned for before the new hampshire primary in 2014. >> i would respectfully ask for your consideration despite his poor grammar. >> senator john mccain! >> reporter: senator mccain the comedian. he loved a good laugh, and he touch, ahas here when he guest-starred on "saturday ni

harris. -- bearish. talk to me about that? joe: the dollar bid is for one reason, and that is the tariffs that u.s.boc has been devaluing the currency, making the dollar go bigger. that is why the dollar is going mid and euros are coming off right here. end here, starting at the of 2016 and the beginning of 2017, we started to go big all the way up into april of this year. we went up to 1.25, and then right around april of this year, we had a very sharp correction. that correction is about halfway back. it took 15 months pretty much to go up. we came back in about a month and a half. abigail: and what about that area of congestion over there? joe: that is between the slow right here. it is a natural place for a pause. you can see the rsi was oversold, so we needed to unwind a little bit. now it is just below the 50 day moving average. abigail: so your traded to the downside? joe: exactly. if we look at the high in april to the low in june, there would not be an extension from their that if you take that and add it to the end of the triangle, that gives you your target level. right here at 1.1 3 1.1

signings in gary mena undergarments and bernard lester held on to harry maguire and extended jamie bodies contract by four years while joe is a merino couldn't secure the defenders he wanted for man united of these requests were vetoed by the club's owners now is serious stuff. it's not anymore about what friendly is not anymore about. about preparation is of all points and a point can be can be crucial you don't know what is going to happen in the end of the season you have to try to best to try the best to try to get points and even the difficulties that we had with our pre-season i don't think it's time to be speaking about that as a first game i know it's a little salutatory. i don't know i don't know better but i want to tool. to see. a team a team and we so desire to visit me and said sorry deputy. former brazil coach louis philippe scolari has made a successful return to the helm at palmira laurie is back in charge for a third time at the brazilian club having already led them to one cup a limited dollars title on thursday the team put themselves in a strong position to make it into this year's quarter finals two

harris. those are the people that are getting a lot of attention. joethe game for the last several years and, yes, you're right. he has name recognition and a lot of good will for his service in the last administration. but that doesn't mean that he's first and foremost on the mind of the kind of activists that go to netroots nation, the kind of people that are the influencers as democrats start deciding who they're going to support in 2020. >> there's been some interesting reactions to different issues that are popping up in this debate inside the democratic party. it was interesting, our reporters picked up that tom steyer who had been pushing impeachment, that his impeachment message wasn't as well received as other poarts o his message. what do you make of that? why doesn't the impeachment message resonate as much as maybe tom steyer wishes it did? >> i'm glad it's not resonating, to be honest, but i don't think it's a salient or very helpful argument heading into 2018. we don't want to put donald trump on the ballot. we don't want to make 2018 a pr

a daily basis in particular in city state when joe here's a tweet we got from the barker says just today i arrived in a city of toronto and then i had harry and it was how before i could secure a modest hotel room about ten different hotels refusing accommodations citing that the security scanner can't stand. my country's passport and my reason it's an intentional strategy to frustrate us. earlier and i would say that i would say that i would say that that i mean that happens to a lot of foreigners that that is not something that only happens to africans in china or africa i think that there is a lot of media narratives nowadays about africans in china that sort of focus on certain things that happen to africans and people say ah there's a can i see african pain in china the chinese government liberman makes it very difficult for african countries to get a real u.b.s.'s but this happens also to a lot of people from many other countries and i'm not saying it is not a difficult experience from the african side but sometimes in media you see all these get all these narratives talking about the problems that africans face in china and they do

harris is number two with odds at 1200. senator bernie sanders, former vice president joe biden, and vice president mike pence round out the top five. odds shark calculated the odds for top business executives and celebrities. we found disney's ceo bob iger on the list and mark zuckerberg, leonardo, kanye best and stephen colbert. disney is the parent company of abc 7 news. >> i want to see easy on the ballot. that would be certainly entertaining. >> how about that debate. >> hasn't he said he might. he's considering running. >> he said a lot of things. >> yeah. hasn't he said. >> just to be fair. >> that's true. >> interesting watching kamala harris rise through the ranks rapidly too. very impressive move for her. >> decent odds there. >> yeah. >> let's talk about what's going on. we've got unfortunately decent odds of having poor air quality today. hi, everybody. another spare the air day as our stagnant pattern will be mendocino o poor auaty complex fire. it's also going to be hotter today, likely our hottest day this week. low clouds and fog, mild temperatures, not as cool as this morning and the heat will taper by sun

harry truman had control of both houses. lots of people still on the landscape, including joe scarborough.the -- after katrina and the iraq war, you had the democrats take over the house and snenate with nancy pelosi and 2010, you had the tea party revolution against barack obama. would you like to know the pattern i see here, mr. lemon? >> there's a method. i won't say madness. just a saying. go on. >> there's a method to my list. the method is that you see these big democratic wave elections after nixon in '74 and after the iraq war and katrina in 2006. after something bad has happened. like a natural disaster or watergate or something like that. the republican wave elections seem to come after legislation, after clinton tried to get through the -- his health care program and after obama did. they both had budget and tax increase plans. depending whether you think this coming election is about scandal or something terrible happening, which has historically fared to democrats or whether it's about legislation. that's my historical lesson for the evening. >> we are all the better for it. t

joe biden earlier this month. first time biden ever got involved in a primary. good news for harris is voter turnout will be low.y that they're having this not a tuesday and there is a history of party insurgencies scoring primary upsets in this state. who can forget christine o'donnell's shocking upset of congressman mike castle back in 2010. it was a republican wave here and the republican base was ready to oust moderates as well as democrats. now, it may only be a chance, but keep an eye on delaware thursday night. more "mtp daily" right after this. y" right after this he was a cutie! and if you go down, that's me, above him. you won best looking in your senior year of high school? somebody had to win it. my best high school moment was the day i walked across the stage. my dad...couldn't read real good, so, it was a milestone for me. ancestry now has over 300,000 yearbooks from all across the country. so go back to school with your family, and discover more of their stories. start searching for free at ancestry.com. play "connection" by onerepublic. ♪these days, my waves get lost in the ocean♪ ♪seven billion

joe mccarthy was a demagogue. we haven't heard a public syllable from robert mueller in more than a year. >> harris: that is true. we have not heard from him. what do you make of it? >> charles: we have not heard from him but we have heard about the investigation and people complain about the leaks. at this point for me -- i haven't study mccarthy enough to be an expert but it seems like a bridge too far. earlier in the show we brought up the topic of the special counsel going forward. do you put guardrails on them or do you throw them out and they bomb the blob -- become the blob? unstoppable to go where they want to go. this is what i'm concerned about. if he has nothing or he is not close to getting something how long does he keep it going? how long does he push? he understands even the silence can be politicized and we head to midterm elections it can be an issue. >> harris: it can be politicized but not misquoted. >> i don't know. >> harris: you can't. so just looking back and we have been talking about the future of the special counsels do you think there was this much concern over the kenneth starr in the

harris: why didn't they ask. >> maria: why didn't republicans sit down with merrick garland when he was nominated. >> joe bidene a rule, that's why. >> maria: i'm just saying not one republican would sit down with our nominee. let's not talk about who will sit down. i have also said, katie, i do think he will be confirmed. i don't think this is a politically advantageous fight for democrats to draw out through the mid terms because i think at the end of the day he will get confirmed and we, democrats, want to focus on other things because republicans vote on judicial nominees. i think as voters they care about that more than democratic voters. i think it's a fair question to ask about his philosophy and i think democrats are fair to oppose him. i also don't think this helps us politically the closer it gets to the midterm. >> katie: i think judges are the sleeper issue that move mountains. it's not the thing that people talk about. not exciting to watch on television or debate or all those kind of things. it's definitely one of those things for people hard core about politics it's what they vote on. i myself a

. >> harris: fox news alert two red state democrats meeting with president trump's supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh. joey met with him early while in order senator heidi heitkamp is set to sit down with the judge this afternoon. they are both facing intense pressure from their democratic party to oppose the president's choice. capitol hill senior producer chad pergram joins me now live. chad? >> well, this is all about the midterm elections. you have these two red state democrats, heidi heitkamp and joe donnelly and basically what republicans are trying to do is dare them to vote no because then they can turn it around against them in the midterm elections. voting yes, you know, that's good politics back home in in order annorth dakota and ind. put it this way it's not as though if they would vote yes on kavanaugh that this would get the republicans to call off the dogs in mid terms but yes vote would inoculate them from further attacks. heidi heitkamp put outside out a statement getting a lot of pressure to vote yes. she wants to go through all of kavanaugh's documents. she want to waited until his con

harris is the best, tied with bernie sanders, and then vice president pence, and former vice president joe biden. >> okay, so does secretary lebron james have a ring to it? happening new, thousands of people are starting a petition to make lebron james america's education secretary. this comes after last week where the basketball star opened a school in his hometown in ohio. he impressed a lot of people and someone started a push to get president trump to replace his current education secretary. not likely, but that petition has 8200 signatures this weekend. for now, lebron seems to be focused on basketball. posting new pictures online yesterday right there. that's our first look at him in his lakers gear. >>> winter is coming, and so is george r.r. martin. >> "game of thrones" fans have a chance to speak to him in the bay area. he's scheduled to be in redwood city at the fox theater. he's going to talk about his life and work. the tickets are expensive. they range from $60 for cheap seats to $280 for the good seats. money raised goes to support a science fiction and fantasy magazine. >>>

harris could be the next democratic presidential nominee. according to online betting site on shark, california senator is tied with bernie sanders as the favorite democrat to win in 2020. joeeature attack the deep-sea summary leaving the track at the bottom of the ocean with the crew inside. rob: a rescue diver works to save them from a massive 75 foot prehistoric shark. rob: is the mag worth your box office bucks? kevin mccarthy with his review, this huge shark from 1 million years ago. >> the whole concept, a shark that is 70 feet long. how seriously am i going to take this movie? the director who did national treasure finds a balance where you are watching the film, it doesn't take itself as seriously as jaws but nowhere near as campy as a filmlike sharknado. jason is so perfect for this role, when you are watching this movie you are with a big audience, everyone gasping and having fun, special-effects are fantastic, they did a good job making you believe you were underwater with this massive shark, it is terrifying, funny at times, and one of the best action stars working today. i lived him in fast and furious, great in this role in the cast including ruby rose who was

joe crowley. a rising tide of black and brown political figures demanding their space. and of course the democratic party has to take them seriously as it vets them seriously. >> again, i think i included kamela harrisnother bright star. thank you so much. michael eric dyson, the book is called what truth sounds like. >> up next, what is going to motivate republican voters more in the up coming midterm. loyalty to donald trump? your insurance rates skyrocket after a scratch so small you could fix it with a pen. how about using that pen to sign up for new insurance instead? for drivers with accident forgiveness, liberty mutual won't raise their rates because of their first accident. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ i'm 85 years old in a job where. i have to wear a giant hot dog suit. what? where's that coming from? i don't know. i started my 401k early, i diversified... i'm not a big spender. sounds like you're doing a lot. but i still feel like i'm not gonna have enough for retirement. like there's something else i should be doing. with the right conversation, you might find you're doing okay. so, no hot dog suit? not unless you want to. no. schedule a complimentary goal planning session toda

harris, the company commander in "platoon." he hired me to do a remake of a 1940s film called -- it was in 1940s called "a guy named joe." and steven did a remake of that, and he hired me to be one of the actors in it. and during setups and scenes, he began to talk to me about a world war ii film. and steven's dad was a radio operator in b-25s in the pacific. so he's got a soft spot for world war ii. he's a big video game player. and he'd been playing a bunch of world war ii video games. he said we can do better than this. we should do better than this. we want to do something. and he wasn't specific. i knew he probably wanted to do the eto, the european theater of operation, and i knew he probably wanted to do an infantry story of some sort, but i didn't really know until a year or so later what he had in mind. i didn't know for instance that he'd worked with bob rodat who wrote the script. once i read it, read the initial version of it, i realized it was kind of a play on the niland brothers stories. and i talked to him about that. but he was very specific. he was fortunate enough to have enough money and enough clout

harris, the company commander in "platoon." he hired me to do a remake of a 1940s film called -- it was in 1940s called "a guy named joe." and steven did a remake of that, and he hired me to be one of the actors in it. and during setups and scenes, he began to talk to me about a world war ii film. and steven's dad was a radio operator in b-25s in the pacific. so he's got a soft spot for world war ii. he's a big video game player. and he'd been playing a bunch of world war ii video games. he said we can do better than this. we should do better than this. we want to do something. and he wasn't specific. i knew he probably wanted to do the eto, the european theater of operation, and i knew he probably wanted to do an infa infantry story of some sort, but i didn't really know until a year or so later what he had in mind. i didn't know for instance that he'd worked with bob rodat who wrote the script. once i read it, read the initial version of it, i realized it was kind of a play on the nyland brothers stories. and i talked to him about that. but he was very specific. he was fortunate enough to have enough money and enough c

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