and that man is, of course, mike pence. >> a republican shadow campaign is taking shape with mike pence maybe ready to step in should the president decide not to run in 2020. >> mr. pence outside pac has actually raised more in donations than the president's pac has. >> the donors are worried that donald trump with his approval rating so low, that it will be very difficult for him to get reelected. >> there are a number of republicans now who feel totally free to block him, speak out against him. they don't fear him at all. >> referring to our colleagues across the aisle as losers or clowns is just not the direction to go. i'll stand up every time to the president when he's doing things that i don't think he should be doing. >> the republicans are trying to stave off the civil war that's going to come in their party. >> he's the most selfish president who has ever occupied the oval office. >> hell, yes. a lot of republicans would much rather be doing business with mike pence. >>> the president of the united states attacked "the new york times" today, a, because it's monday and, b, becau

mike pence was being groomed, pain not mike pence himself moving this forward, but people were gng and saying we're going to build you up for 2020 for a run. while he denied that, what do you think the possibility is that we're going to see some robust challenge to him in his own party in 2020? a. i think there are pretty high chances of there being a primary challenge, jim, partly because of the reasons we were just talk ing about, these declining poll numbers. also president trump the established wing of the republican party have never really reconciled after his win in the republican primary. i think that's quite like limit basically people look at the president and they do see weak ness and that invites ambition people to give it a go what about the folks out there in million dollars america, the folks who were not inside the beltway, the folks who the president is talking to and send ing the messages to on twitter, are we seeing support decline as well. >> it depends on how you look at it. the president has sought to draw attention at the big crowds that we see at his there's very

you heard mike pence slamming the fake news. "the fake news, border military, isis, and ms 13, et cetera" -- >> we have stories on this all of the time. >> i would like to say every day i talk about the economy, every day i talk about jobs. interestingly, the president's job record at 1.24 million jobs is slightly below the last six months of last year when president obama had slightly more jobs created than that. >> true. >> that's the real numbers. you hear kelly mcnerney, used to be a contributor here, posting on the president's facebook page. her version of news, like the good news stuff the president would like to see. the real news, she says. this is the president trying to control the message again. >> absolutely. and i think what he risks is having someone who i think was so effective at communicating the trump agenda to people who already aren't are on team trump. you take that voice away and put them in a space where people who you need to get on board just aren't likely going to watch. >> interesting. >> i think anoth

report from "the new york times," the article out today saying that some republican insider favor mike pence over trump in 2020 and that pence has done little, if anything, to dissuade his would-be supporters and is even making the types of moves a v.p. candidate would make. the v.p. shot back on twit tote with response, calling it absurd, and saying it was the media's attempt to divide the administration. a shadow campaign for the 2020 nomination, ohio governor and longtime thorn in the side of howard trump, john kasich, preseefing prominent mentions perhaps too prominent for corey lewandowski. >> we beat him by 19 points and not exactly a close race in the state of new hampshire. in ohio we beat him by ten, 11 points. john didn't support president trump and if he thinks he'll run against president trump i'll take the opportunity to destroy john kasich's career. >> jeff sessions, the attorney general had been taking a presidential pounding from trump out of frustration over the russian investigation affair. you know, the a.g. having to recuse himself on this matter. on saturday, however, th

because whether the president wants to recognize it or not, there is a chance of a mike pence presidency before 2020. there's a lot that could happen between now and then. pence's aides have to think about this stuff. >> we're living in a permanent campaign. this isn't something that trump started, this has been happening for a while, but it's beinging more and more extreme in this age of really divided country. >> go ahead, jamie. >> let's put it in the context of the first 200 days. >> everything has to be an eye towards -- >> doesn't he want president trump top succeed in his wagon is hitched to president trump, is it not? may be, but if these don't go well -- i think, by the way, one of the reasons he put out this statement also was because we had the russia investigation going on. that makes it even more sen tiff. what is going to happen with that investigation? whether it's mike pence or any of these other republicans who are raising money and visiting iowa, or new hampshire, if you're an ambitious politics and you have to run for president some day, you're running. >> they see som

mike pence 2020, the year he won't be running for president. >>> this morning vice president mike pence's office is trying to tafrp down rumors of a 2020 shadow campaign as president trump's poll numbers continue to slip. plus, north korea is vowing 1,000 fold retaliation against american response to new sanctions passed by the u.n. security council, and president trump spending a vacation day targeting senator richard bloomenthal on twitter where, what the senator says he is unphased. >>> good morning. it is tuesday, august 8th. we begin with the latest out of north korea and pyongyang is once again responding to a new wave of u.n. sanctions calling them "villainous illegal actions that will be reciprocated by thousands fold." it comes as north korea's foreign minister appeared to reject peace talks proposed by his south korean counterpart. reportedly calling it "insincere." rex tillerson has recently said he is open to dialogue with pyongyang. a position also held by the russian and chinese foreign ministers. the country with the most to lose from the new sanctions besides north korea,

also firing back, vp mike pence. the details and the tweets. the president hitting the 200 day mark with some of his biggest agenda items in limbo. after the health care failure, will tax cuts be any easier? we will talk with analysts from both sides of the aisle. north korea is threatening to make the u.s. pay a price thousand times bigger than what is called the crime of new u.n. sanctions. scientists who study earthquakes are on the front lines of the nuclear showdown. that is all ahead this hour. ♪ i am jon scott and for shepard smith. president come kicking off his 200 day in office praising his record and supporters. this money, the president tweeted, at the trump base is far bigger and stronger than ever before despite phony fake news polling. look at rallies and pennsylvania, ohio, and west virginia. the rallies in russian conversion story record stock market, border security, military strength, jobs, supreme court pick, economic enthusiasm, deregulation, and so much more have driven the trump base even closer together. it will never ch

>> that's essentially what they've got by selling their soul in this presidency and that's what mike pencepointing to. >> we are getting nothing done, my friends. we are getting nothing done. republicans recognize that. it's not just pence that has to deal with these rumors. it's senator tom cotton and nikki haley. look to john mccain for the truth in these times and john mccain says republicans recognize president trump is weak. >> are there others possibly leading mike pence, possibly, eyeing a run. those in the white house have said to me, mike pence while the state department might have a skeletal staff mike pence has a huge staff, a firing squad and in the last few months i heard that he's been inside the white house or in the presence of president trump less and less. >> i mean, this is very dangerous terrain for mike pence because unlike those senators or john kasich who don't owe their jobs to the president. mike pence is there because the president chose him. and that there's one thing this president does not like it is being upstaged. that's why there is all this effort to say, a

us vice president mike pence made the announcement.et's take a look at some of the other stories making the news. the un security council will vote on a new draft resolution on saturday proposing tougher sanctions on north korea. it follows pyongyang's two intercontinental ballistic missile tests in july. the resolution, drafted by the united states, aims to impact the country's exports. to pass it needs support from all nine members of the security council, including russia and china. the electoral commission in rwanda has announced that president paul kagame has won a third term in office with a landslide. the commission said partial results of friday's election gave mr kagame ninety—eight % of the votes. supporters say he's brought stability after the horrors of the 1994 genocide, but his critics say he has ruled through fear. rescuers at one of russia's largest diamond mines have been searching for nine miners still unaccounted for after water leaked into an underground shaft. it happened at the mir mine in the sakha region. two mi

you mentioned mike pence was active in playing that out. how active? mike pence in that pecking order? matt: he was right in the middle of it. what the reporting indicated was that he was playing an intermediary role and making sure that all the options that were being presented by the generals were cleanly presented to the president. we weren't necessarily in the room on some of the room on some of these situations but he played a vital role in the two hour meeting at camp david. before the monday announcement of the strategy that trump unveiled. it seems like his role in afghanistan was to be a liaison to the generals, to collect information, to parse it, and to presented to the president and to be almost someone who could mediate back-and-forth between a volatile president who has no problem saying what he thinks is a bad idea when he thinks it is a bad idea and the generals who are very vested in this. we have been in this war for 15 years. these are options we have seen before. it was pence's job to relate this to the president. carol: you mention

. >>> first, the white house and mike pence pushing back against reports the vice president is prepping for a 2020 presidential run. a "new york times" article reporting the vp is part of what appears to be a republican shadow campaign. pence released a statement saying, "whatever fake news may come our way, my entire team will continue to focus all our efforts to advance the president's agenda and see him re-elected in 2020. any suggestion otherwise is both laughable and absurd." i want to go straight to nbc's kelly o'donnell in bridgewater, new jersey, near the president's resort, where he is spending the next two weeks. kelly, the president's team is pushing back on this pence report, as well. >> reporter: very much so, jacob. as two former road warriors, all i can say is, too soon, too soon. the 2020 race is alive when you talk about the political atmosphere. because the president is in a weakened position with his poll ratings and with the sort of unknowns of the russia investigation, there is a bit of a vacuum where some other republicans who have big ambitions may be wanting to f

gentlemen, welcome to texas, the vice president of the united states of america, mike pence. [applause] you president pence: thank to the inspiring team here at first baptist church. thank you for coming out. difficult days here in southeast texas, president trump sent us here to say we are with you. the american people are with you. we are here today, we will be here tomorrow, and we will be until the city and the state and this region rebuild bigger and better than ever before. [applause] vice president pence: i also want to pay a debt of gratitude to all of those who have stepped forward and shown their word in this dark hour in the life of the community and the life of this state. as the president said yesterday in missouri, the governor and his team have done an incredible of texas.e people we commend you, governor, we commend the state officials, the extraordinary first responders who at thisour, are pulling thes out of harms way. would you join me in thanking this great governor and the state of texas. grateful to be joined by many members of the cabinet. president trum

carol: turning now to politics, mike pence radiates calm professionalism.t is why many say he was put on the ticket to begin with. but he might be more than a political prop. phillips.tor matt matt: he has been to a dozen countries overseas. speaking professionally, acting the part, reassuring our allies who are nervous about some of the things trump is it saying on trade and north korea. he is taken a big role in afghanistan military strategy reevaluation that we saw the other night. he is a crucial conduit to congress for the white house. his staff has relationships and so does he with republicans in congress that no one else in the west wing has. that will be very important as we get into september and start having to talk about budget showdown and debt ceiling. carol: let's break down some of those parts in those areas where mike pence is actively doing work for the president. let's talk about the news we got from the president this week about military strategy in afghanistan. you mentioned my pants was -- you mentioned mike pence was active in playing

vice president mike pence tweeting out that the u.s. will not relent until venezuela is restored to a full democratic state. >> we have watched continuing deterioration and asserting more power and inflicting more pain on the people of venezuela. you can see these fissures among the various groups, and i think what the president wanted to accomplish was to give the venice way had -- venezuela people hope and opportunity that democracy can be restored. >> in addition to the stop in columbia mike pence is expected to make a trip to argentina, chile and panama, delivering a number of speeches and talking about increasing economic ties between the u.s. and its partners. >>> the welcome home at his church and the pastor got a standing ovation yesterday at the life presbyterian church in toronto after being released last wednesday and arriving on saturday after two years in the north korean prison. the pastor was providing humanitarian aid and doing humanitarian work when he was arrested and accused of participating in antistate activities. >

i think if i were mike pence with that kind of statement, i'd get out of the way of the bus. >> i have as much as i would love the machiavellian imagery of pence measuring the curtains in the white house and getting caught by trump -- >> i thought you were gone. i you were in bedminster. >> we thought you were in vacation. most of the guys have demonstrated themselves to be spineless when it comes to this president. and i think these moves now -- i think they're less about actually preparing for 2020 and possibly certainly when its comes to flake and the other members of congress, preparing themselves to say i'm somewhat independent during these midterm elections in 2018. 2020 is far off. the likelihood that this president is going to be gone is very slim. >> doug? >> nicolle, i think there are two different things going on here. one is with regard to the president, you cannot run a gu rill what campaign for re-election. the best example of that is john mccain. once he became a member of the establishment it was an uncomfortable fit. he can't do that again. he has to run with the accom

and it wasn't just about mike pence, although they have successfully made it about mike pence by theirincredibly strenuous response and you also wrote about kasich and senator cotton and ben sasse. none of them have commented. >> no, they haven't. this story was describing this larger mood in the republican party of uncertainty about the president's strength and his intentions for 2020 and the kinds of precautions that a number of people in the party are taking. some of them -- like john kasich, are lookin at 2020 and campaigning in 2020 even if president trump does run again, which is a good deal more brazen than anything we reported about the vice president. but we are talking about mike pence now. >> and the bottom line is, it seems, looking at this, that that statement that mike pence put out is for the eyes of one person, that he didn't need a statement for. he wanted the president to see him slam that down because we know what happens when that happens. >> nobody knows better than mike pence what happens. and the president values more than loyalty maybe not even winning. >> thank

how irresistible does mike pence think he is?itting there like, "there's no way "we can be in this room and not have sex. "how do you think my hair got so white? i [bleep] the color out of it." [hip-hop] for more on jeff sessions, let's go live to trump tower where senior transition correspondent jordan klepper is standing by, everybody. - thank you, trevor. [applause] thank you. trevor, jeff sessions is a great pick for attorney general. i'm proud of trump for making such a bold choice. - okay, hold on, jordan, before we move on, what the hell are you wearing? - oh. you know, trump doesn't trust the media, so the only way i can get close enough to trump tower without getting noticed is to dress up as a hot dog vendor. - i don't think you're blending in, jordan. you look like you're selling hot dogs in the 1950s. - well, that's where most of trump's policies come from, so i thought i'd fit right in. - let's talk about this. a lot of people are worried about jeff sessions. he's so anti-immigration, you know, between him and trump,

mike pence 2020.he won't be running for president. >> i'm mike pence and i approve this message. >> this ad paid for by the committee to elect mike pence for president. >> how about that. we have to take a break. when we come back from the break this is very exciting the premier of our new bachelor spin off shot starring toddlers, the world premier of baby bachelor in paradise when we return. be right back. we don't just want to watch games cable gives us. paradise when we return. be right back. /.;0' . we want falcons in new york. jets in la. bears in new orleans. or buccaneers in a quaint, little new england bed an breakfast. can you please pass the marmalade, charlie? i sure can, crazy pirate. switch to directv and get every game, every sunday with nfl sunday ticket. call 1-800-directv. ♪ ♪ having mplaque psoriasise is not always easy. it's a long-distance run. and you have the determination to keep going. humira has a proven track record of being prescribed for nearly 10 years. humira works inside

why would mike pence want to be president in 2020? o be president much, much sooner than that. [ laughter ] [ applause ] maybe a re-election. not only did the pence team put out a statement denying he's starting some kind of a shadow campaign for 2020, they also >> mike pence is a dedicated public servant with the vision and passion it takes to lead this country. not that he wants to. from our cities to our corn fields, from the heartland to the coast, mike pence has no interest in overseeing any of those places. mike pence has the kind of foreign policy experience to keep america safe. if he wanted to do that. which he doesn't. president mike pence would always fight for you. but he's not president and has no plans to be one. mike pence, 2020. the year he won't be running for president. >> i'm mike pence, and i approve this message. or do i? >> this ad paid for by the committee to definitely elect mike pence president. >> jimmy: oh, how about that? [ cheers and applause ] we have to take a break. when we come back from the break, oh,

the story doesn't say that mike pence is going to challenge trump.it was a story without facts. he did start a political committee. he is raising money. he hired a chief of staff that is known to be a campaign guy. his actions show he may be getting ready for 2020. it makes sense that he's upset because maybe it's the truth. howie: let me quote from the story. mr. pence has made no efforts to separate himself from the beleaguered president. and even in private he's careful to bow to the president. i'm told mike pence was truly offended. gina: going with the presumption this president is weak. a lot of conservatives will see that as a media bias in and of itself. some are saying it would be irresponsible for the vice president not to be prepared to be president. he is the next in line. some people would say that it would be irresponsible for him not to be. then when the media tries to make a story out of this other than just reporting it, but reporting it with a little jab. is there a problem there? that's what the consumers of media may have a proble

. >>> vice president mike pence touring the texas damage first-hand today. he will give us an update on relief efforts. we'll take you there live when he begins to speak, ash. ashley: back to the markets. the dow climbing into the close. lori rothman at new york stock exchange. lori, doesn't matter what is happening, north korea, hurricane hair very, these markets are resilient. >> you said it ashley. dow and record highs. five consecutive months of gains for the dow and s&p. nasdaq chalking up two consecutive months of gains. we had good economic news. obviously the data print taken before the devastation of hurricane harvey and gulf coast. gdp print of 3% was awesome of course. then today we had a couple of data points on initial jobless claims. that helped keep markets in the green today. let's look back at the month though. here are binners on the dow jones industrial average. apple better than 10% gains for the month of august. visa up there as well, better than 3%. on the downside, disney down almost 8%. disney saying today its abc television unit will

for mike pence would probably do.to whether donald trump will make it through the four years without being pushed out of office or without resigning. his numbers are historically low. but mike pence can't be shocked and stunned and deeply saddened that people write these stories when he is acting like a presidential candidate in waiting. >> well, he is, he's the vice president. all vice presidents are presidential candidates in waiting. in defense of the vice president, running for reelection in 2020 looks remarkably similar to running for president in 2020. again, we don't have any of these discussions if president trump didn't create this vacuum, his void because johnson rated by low poll numbers. so now you've got ben sass and tom cotton going to iowa and you have john kasich looking like he might going to new hampshire. there's a poll in new hampshire where john kasich actually beats the president. all of these are legitimate stories. why? because the president has failed to expand beyond his base and is actually

that raised some questions, and certainly there is fundraising that goes on and mike pence has a good network of fundraising that far surpasses what the president has, because he has not been a politician. those factors brought pence into the conversation. you see republican senators, governors, some of whom have challenged the president on different issues, who also appear to be making those visits to iowa, new hampshire, that raise some eyebrows. we don't know if the president will run for re-election. he has told us he expects to, and it's awfully early. the next big election is 2018. answering all of this today was counselor kellyanne conway, who defended pence's loyalty. >> i worked with him for ten years as his senior adviser and certainly worked with him daily in the white house. it is absolutely true that the vice president is getting ready for 2020, for re-election as vice president. >> and one of the things you see now, even when a story like this, which might be part of the parlor games and musings about people interested in politics run, the white house and the pence side

for a lot of republicans, they would like to see, you know, mike pence, frankly, replacing donald trumpbut most of all they see pence, dough spite the lack of legislative accomplishments, like was referenced, they see pence as a stabilizing force in a chaotic white house. >> i wonder what a challenge it is for the vice president to continue his loyalty come, you know, cross with his unified front, but at the same time there is a distinction between him and the president. he has to continue to embrace that if not showcase that distinction. doesn't he? >> absolutely. many vice-presidents have been in this kind of position where either they have ambitions about what comes next, or more common, they're frustrated with what's going on in the white house, but they have to remain silent. famously, vice president hubert humphrey, the vice president for lyndon johnson in the 1960s, you know, didn't say much about vietnam, even though he really had strong feelings that a lot of what the administration was doing was wrong and ultimately, in 1968, humphrey loses in part because of the baggage of ly

elise, first to you, why the allout offense from mike pence's team about the report in the times? his was really incredible reporting from the "new york times," they interviewed over 75 top republican operatives and strategists and i do think that pence has a fairly strong defense, that this is a lot of -- what a lot of republicans are projects on him, just because clearly the party is uneasy about the instability of this presidency. and it would be political malpractice not to think about what is -- what are the other options if trump eventually implodes. >> and jen, this is in mike pence's defense, just to play devil's advocate here, this would what you would do if you were running for re-election in 2020 as vice president, and if you were preparing for the 2018 midterms. >> and the thing for mike pence is both of them are probably true, he is probably preparing for re-election and his reaction is that he and his family were offended but i think the audience for that was donald trump and he needed trump to feel that he was being loyal. but you can't fire the vice president. >> ac

vice president mike pence emphatically denying a "new york times" report that he is laying groundwork for a run for president if president trump doesn't seek a second term. all this with the president beginning what he calls a working vacation at his golf club in new jersey. that's where we find cnn white house correspondent athena jones with the latest. >> reporter: good morning. vice president mike pence is pushing back hard on this "new york times" story, as are other white house officials. the vice president taking the unusual step of putting out an official statement on white house letterhead to respond to this story. in the statement, the vice president called the story disgraceful, offensive, categorically false, laughable, and absurd. two pence aides, a spokesperson, and his chief of staff, his chief of staff was mentioned in "the new york times" story, also taking to twitter to refute the story calling it fake news. and white house conselor kellyanne conway appearing on abc's "this week" called the story complete fiction. watch -- >>. >> it is absolutely true that the vice pr

designed to save you money. >>> the white house is reprimandsing the new york times today suggesting mike pence may be launching a 2020 presidential bid, should trump not seek a second term. the times reported pence's aggressive schedule and an official statement in the white house, pence called the story disgraceful and offensive to me, my family and our entire team. the allegations are categorically false and are just the latest attempt by the media to divide this administration. athena, any word on how president trump himself has felt about this report? >> no word on the president's own reaction to this. we know the president and vice president speak on a regular basis. today they won't say if the two have talked about this particular story. but it's important to note that multiple officials have been pushing back hard on this piece in the new york times on twitter and on television, listen to what white house counselor kelly ann conway had to say about it this morning on abc's this week. >> it is absolutely true the vice president is getting ready for 2020 for re-election as vice president.

meanwhile, these are live images after the vice president mike pence and his wife karen pence are on the ground in texas. landed in corpus christi. they then went to rockport texas by their motorcade and are meeting with survivors of this horrific event. that is a live image of one of the areas really hard hit where the vice president has decided to visit. all of this coming on the heels of president trump's recent visit on the ground there and then the president planning to return there this weekend. the vice president on the ground in texas. meanwhile, let's bring in casey steegle. casey? >> reporter: sandra, all of the action not happening far from here. the vice president and second lady touched down here at the corpus christi airport about two hours ago where they were greeted by the governor of texas, greg abbott, and his wife. in addition to some u.s. coast guard officers who are assisting with some of the operations here on the ground. the motorcade then headed about 40 miles north right up the coast to rock port texas, as you said. that is right around where hurricane harvey

having said that, mike pence was right.t should be on the group, carrying nazi's flags in charlottesville. but it wasn't. we have to focus on the communications office and why the presidents listen to the communications office. they know that if you put out a statement like he did, that there is difficulty as tragedy on both sides, that will not be sufficient. then it sets in motion all these political forces, the reaction that judy just described. we had the event this morning for the ceo merck resigned, and then the president tweeted in the attack on him about high drug prices. this is moving the emphasis entirely off of the event and onto the president himself in a way that he does not need. >> jon: you think that the coms director position should be filled? >> it should be filled. but will he listen? >> jon: "the wall street journal" ran this, and i thought it was an interesting line. its rights, so often with mr. trump, his official statement missed an opportunity to speak like a unifying leader, but the focus on mr. t

mike pence gets wounded in an impeachment proceeding it doesn't help republicans in twenty eighteen so if anything republicans want to ride it out and hopefully get someone to replace i'll bring this in and paul ryan as his v.p. and paul ryan becomes the spokesperson for the you know i think it's so great to see you guys want to overturn d'amato democratically elected president by using impeachment to get somebody out not because they did anything illegal on board with what is well beyond that of brian impeachment is part of the democratic process it's in their constitution it's there for a reason sam i mean you have not this is not anti-democratic i mean i would point out and i asked this of my friends on the left who are afraid of mike pence and say oh we should impeach him then what would trump have to do that would make him worthy of impeachment i mean if anybody a lot of people can answer that question they can't come up with something he's already done plenty you know that's worth impeachment in my book. the koch brothers are all in on donald trump's push for so-called tax ref

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the story doesn't say that mike pence is going to challenge trump.as a story without facts. he did start a political committee. he is raising money. he hired a chief of staff that is known to be a campaign guy. his actions show he may be getting ready for 2020. it makes sense that he's upset because maybe it's the truth. howie: let me quote from the story. mr. pence has made no efforts to separate himself from the beleaguered president. and even in private he's careful to bow to the president. i'm told mike pence was truly offended. gina: going with the presumption this president is weak. a lot of conservatives will see that as a media bias in and of itself. some are saying it would be irresponsible for the vice president not to be prepared to be president. he is the next in line. some people would say that it would be irresponsible for him not to be. then when the media tries to make a story out of this other than just reporting it, but reporting it with a little jab. is there a problem there? that's what the consumers of media may have a problem wi

it was pence's job to relate this to the president. mikecementioned does not have a problem mentioning that this might be a bad idea, expressing his views. is that true in the case of president trump? >> that is a great question. especially after the rally in phoenix which mike pence was present for and he stood up and gave a very polite, benign introduction/ . it gave us the impressione haves and when us areas, mike pence aires, buenos reporting indicates that day, he was giving policy speeches and meeting with the argentine president and business leaders and acting and looking very presidential and afterwar he watched the president give this unhinged combative press conference. he took it in stride and moved on. that is his style. he is pretty unemotional. he is a professional politician and all the ways donald trump is not. he is very able to take whatever moral or ethical or personal quibbles he has with what the president says and think about the politics of it. think about how he will answer questions when he is asked about it and mov

oh to be a fly on the wall at this lunch with mike pence.out north korea and also mitch mcconnell. >> the question we've been asking and i guess already getting answers by the minute, and the answer to this is, i'm about to pose is, no, but can john kelly, former homeland security secretary, now his new chief of staff, try to manage this at all? and he's now adorning a magazine cover that the president's loves. "time" magazine. we have it. show it on the screen. there you go. which is not always -- a -- a good sign for the person who is on that magazine kov whcover wh comes to the president. only one room in the administration, face on the cover, that's the president himself. >> i was going to say, "time," are you trying to mess this up? he can govern a little, but you saw the first whispering of trump getting upset there was talk of that. that's not the path you want to go down. with trump it's difficult not to go down it, which is what pence is doing right now. that rocky marriage is not -- not always going well for them. i think for pence

there's vice president mike pence. he has made his way to the lone star state. you see him and his wife there as well. he met with the governor, governor abbott a short time ago. governor abbott is also on the ground we're told there in rockport. the vice president is getting a firsthand look at the devastation, talking to first responders. also we're told he is going to be spending time with folks who have been directly effected, directly impacted by the storm. vice president pence set to be there in texas in various parts of the state for the next four or five hours or so. meanwhile, neederland, city of 17,000 people, southeast of beaumont, between port arthur and beaumont, but it is experiencing some serious flooding as well. dick nugent is the mayor, he is on the phone with me. mayor, how bad are things there? >> there are problems, nothing compared to beaumont and port arthur. biggest problem now is waiting for runoff to take place with the tides where the water can get out of port austin. it is unfortunate that port arthur is submerged. our water goes thro

issues a stern rebuke to the "new york times" today after the paper proposed that vice president mike pence might launch a 2020 presidential bid should trump not seek a second term. noting pence's aggressive political schedule and fund-raising operation and in an official statement from the white house, the vice president called the story "disgraceful and offensive to me. my family and our entire team. the allegations in this article are categorically false and represent just the latest attempt by the media to divide this administration." the statement went on to say "whatever fake news may come our way, my entire team will continue to focus all our efforts to advance the president's agenda and see him re-elected in 2020. any suggestion otherwise is both laughable and absurd." so cnn's athena jones joins me had now from bridgewater, new jersey, near where the president is vacationing. athena, word on how president trump feels about this report and this statement? >> reporter: hi, fred. well, i've reached out to a couple white house sources to find out more about the president's thinking on

. >> vice president mike pence firmly denouncing white supremacist groups following violent weekend rallies in virginia. lawmakers asking why won't the president do the same. >>> plus, the 20-year-old suspect in court today, accused of ramming his car into anti-nazi protesters in charlottesville, killing one person. new details on the federal investigation into that crash. >>> good morning and welcome to "early start." i'm christine romans. >> i'm dave briggs, back from a little break. monday, august 14th. 4:00 a.m. in the east. we begin with president trump's deafening silence, if you will. the fallout from his failure to clearly and explicitly denounce the white nationalyists, neo-nazis behind the weekend rally in charlottesville. the violence left three people dead. vice president mike pence traveling in latin america sunday, speaking out, saying what the president did not. >> we have no tolerance for hate and violence from white supremacists, neo-nazis or the kkk. these dangerous fringe groups have no place in american public life and in the american debate, and we condemn them from the

i mean, if you look at the images of mike pence's visit so far today, he's helping to clear debris in some storm-ravaged neighborhoods. he was talking to volunteers. he was talking to local officials. he and his wife, the second lady, karen pence, they prayed over a number of people there. and sent their prayers out to the storm victims. and we also know that they did an aerial tour today to get a better expense as you were showing the aerial pictures there of just how enormous the scope of this damage is. how high the waters are in some of these areas. and look what mike pence is seeing there on the ground today really is matching with the rhetoric we're hearing from officials in washington. we heard from homeland security advisor tom bossert earlier today said their early statement is 100,000 homes have been damaged or destroyed so far as a result of this storm. they said they expect that there will be further deaths, the death toll will rise as the clone-up efforts ensue. and they're urging people to be careful in the efforts a and saying there are other instances that can occur as

that crowd, center left, or people around mike pence? >> yes. nt. >> mark short, white house legislative reaweson, a little bigger in reality and the new chief of staff for pence. pence himself. all traditional conservatives. >> just want to state for the record. cnn confirmed according to two administration officials steve bannon is out as the chief strategist. came to the president during the general election. not a big figure during the primary campaign. a big figure as the president shook up his campaign. came in in the shake jurps. one year ago today, jonathan. reminds me, america first, tough trade, go after china. not an interventionist on military policy. criticizing the president's rhetoric on north korea. not true. we don't have a military strategy. steve bannon out. the trump white house in crisis. the question, where do we go from here? >> jonathan makes a really smart point. mike pence, vice president of the united states yet on the sidelines for -- >> is he more than that? i talk to people close to the president who have relayed com

vice president mike pence about to speak in corpus cristi international airport.er he met with storm survivors, surveyed damage in rockport texas. let's take a listen. oh, so sorry, we did have a sound bite queued up so sorry for that. this is an ongoing story of what's going on in texas, the vice president is on the ground and we reported to you earlier that president trump will come back on saturday. the president also donating out of his own pocket a million dollars to the what is going on in texas, so that's the story we're going to be staying on it for you. now the telethon to help harvey victims is on. local rapper and coordinator bun b tells you president trump is not invited but first anti-fascist rioters as terrorists and goes so far to say they may kill someone just for applause from their fellow members, we've got that sound after this. ron! something's going on at schwab. oh really? thank you clients? well jd power did just rank them highest in investor satisfaction with full service brokerage firms... again. and online equity trades are only $4.95...

an aerial shot here of the damage in that area, just a few moments ago, we saw vice president mike penceis wife, karen pence, land on the ground there and corpus christi. the motorcade then took off to rockport texas where they will be meeting with victims and surveying the damage from on the flooding that is happening right now. the rescue efforts still underway and people, condiments got taylor on the cutlass today, people are still in imminent danger. some levels are receding, summarizing. >> representative taylor: no question about what bruising and beaumont. one of the things we are about in break, use on the black hawk that's helping to airlift some folks, but the military has and capabilities, the national guard, the navy, it's important that we have leaders from washington that are down there, we're seeing what needs to be, what resources potentially needs to be brought to help our neighbors and i can't say enough of how i'm impressed by local, state, and federal cooperation coronation and every day americans. >> kennedy: e want to maintain life is much as possible appeared as a

mike pence, though, is definitely not the villain here.ting that through rumors, and it's probably coming from the fact that a lot of traditional republicans and conservatives in dc secretly wish that mike pence was president because he's someone who they feel like they could deal with more effectively than donald trump. but he's a loyal, loyal, soldier. he rose to the entire campaign, some conservators or critics of trump attacked him over and over again to say how could you be so loyal to trump. and he has never shown at any point in his career that he would stab his boss in the back. >> what's interesting about that is going back to 1980 to jimmy carter while the republicans had ronald reagan waiting to run in that race, and he's obviously a strong candidate and became president. served two terms. i don't know that the democrats have somebody waiting in the wings this time because that's the other part of the story that doesn't get talked about. i know this is all hypotheticallies. we're all waiting on this. >> yeah. i don't think there

and i want to thank our great vice president, mike pence, for the introduction. a very very special man, reverend franklin graham and anita king of the great martin luther king. it shows you that america is indeed a nation of faith. we know that. well, i'm thrilled to be back in phoenix in the great state of arizona. so many thousand of hard-working american patriots. i'd love if the cameras can show this crowd because it is rather incredible. as everybody remembers, this was the scene of my first rally speech, right? the crowds were so big, almost as big as tonight, people said at the beginning there's something special happening here and we went to center stage almost from day one in the debates and went to center stage and we never left. all of us, we did it together. you've been there at the start and you've been there every single day since and i will never forget -- believe me, arizona, i will never forget. we are fully and totally committed to fighting for our agenda and we will not stop until the job is done. this evening joined together with friends we r

mike pence is an incredibly loyal, incredibly effective vice president.ns. he went on to say, my entirety will focus all our efforts to advance the president's agenda and see him re—elected in 2020. adding, any suggestion otherwise is both laughable and absurd. political manoeuvres played out in the white house with members of the top team being hired and fired. but top team being hired and fired. but to won has stood back from the fray and remained relatively quiet. representing the us on various foreign trips and that the president's site for various announcements. a spokeswoman stood by the article, saying that we are confident in the accuracy of our reporting and will let the story speakfor reporting and will let the story speak for itself. the president left washington pro working vacation at the end of last week and perhaps, on the end of last week and perhaps, on the golf course, he will have thoughts about these latest stirrings. three young children are being cared for by relatives after their mother was found dead at the family home in the black

"the nut job 2" putting up $8 million for its debut. >>> an important trip for vice president mike penceuth america coming up. >>> there's new violence in burkina faso and gunfire could be heard hours after the attack started. security forces arrived with armored vehicles we two attackers killed. the government says they have not yet identified all of the victims but one victim was from france. the attack brings back painful memories at at attack in a different cafi in january of last year that left 30 dead. no one has claimed responsibility for the reason attack. >>> voting overwhelmingly to increase the spending and fronting more cash to the foreign military operation of the paramilitary revolutionary guard. this move comes after anger over the president trump trick to renegotiate the nuclear deal struck with the world powers and 2015 and it imposes limits and visa restrictions with those groups working with the opposition exiled groups. >>> vice president mike pence with the journey dominated on the crackdown in venezuela.>>> president trump already declaring he is considering a milit