mr. duncan: there are a few of them. we say we value education, b we don't hold politicians at the local level and the state level and national level accountable for increasing accs to pre-k or raising high- rhool graduaties for making college more accessible for -- or affordable. we say we value teachers, we don't pay teachers as professionals can we don't train them as professionals, we don't give them the support they need. maybe the toughest one is i honestly think we inca don't value our children. we value our guns more than our children. we don't keep te m safe. we hised a generation of teenagers on mass shootings, gun violence. thankfully, teenagers are challenging that very vociferously themselves. rajini: you mentiod about frustration and teachers not being valued. we saw in the state of oklahoma teachers were going on strike, saying they don't have enough resources or support. you cannot lay the blame squarely at the current administration because it is a long-tm thing. did your administration do things wrong t

mr. duncan i would like him to respond to. first off let me say i have great faith in public schools. one thing i do want to say, i think nowadays parents abdicate too much responsibility to teachers and i don't think that's fair. i don't think take -- i think teachers are supposed to teach or doot discipline them anything that parents are supposed to be doing. i think parents expect teachers to do what families are supposed to do and that does not leave too much time to teach. the other thing i want to say, i don't think schools are teaching kids to think critically too much anymore. i think that's having a great effect on society. i graduated high school in 1976. i'm old. in high school we touched on controversy all subjects. we talked about the vietnam war and women's rights and civil rights. .e disagreed with each other we learned how to listen to each other respectfully. we learned how to voice our opinions respectfully. we learn how to think critically . nowadays schools don't want talk about anything that's controversial or might hurt someone's feelings. i think that's too bad.

mrs. hunter, duncan hunter's wife. tion, when they entered their not guilty pleas, the color we got, mr. and mrs. hunter came in separated by three attorneys, we all wondered, they have separate, something may be up. >> this became the defense. it's similar to what we saw in the bob mcdonald case in virginia. >> you want to blame the wife. >> it's this idea of separating yourself from your spouse. the attorneys very quickly skid onto that message from the beginning. but it's a hard one to sell because, as you've pointed out, that is what marriage is when you've combined bank accounts and you have something like power of attorney it's hard to turn around and blame. we've seen other times, like paul manafort who did stay with his wife, they jointly signed a lot of things. she has been left out of all this. it's a harder and harder sell especially when there are things which a benefitted him, they weren't just to benefit her. >> it didn't strike me as a sympathetic figure running for reelection for congress, shane. >> no.

mr. duncan smith, how difficult will the next 12 months be? iain: it is impossible to predict.are in a unique event. we are leaving the european union. so every single thing you do is done for the first time. that is why you get all this volatility, so nobody knows how it will impact. that was always the case with brexit. i am of the view that the positives are enormous. it gives us a great ability to enhance our trade. not just with the european union, but the world. the issue of no deal, the language used, there is no such thing as a no deal. there's just a different deal. it may not be the deal on the table, but it will be an arrangement. but don't wto rules make the country worse off for a limited number a fierce? iain: -- number of years. francine: that may be the case. iain: but people voted to leave the european union. the europeanut union as if it was all about trade and finance, it is not. , and a political project where we are now is not where we will be in five years. the european union is ever tighter. francine: but that is backward looking. iain: no, it is forward-

mr. duncan i would like him to respond to. first off let me say i have great faith in public schools.ne thing i do want to say, i think nowadays parents abdicate too much responsibility to teachers and i don't think that's fair. i don't think take -- i think teachers are supposed to teach or doot discipline them anything that parents are supposed to be doing. i think parents expect teachers to do what families are supposed to do and that does not leave too much time to teach. the other thing i want to say, i don't think schools are teaching kids to think critically too much anymore. i think that's having a great effect on society. i graduated high school in 1976. i'm old. in high school we touched on controversy all subjects. we talked about the vietnam war and women's rights and civil rights. .e disagreed with each other we learned how to listen to each other respectfully. we learned how to voice our opinions respectfully. we learn how to think critically . nowadays schools don't want talk about anything that's controversial or might hurt someone's feelings. i think that's too bad. g

founding member of the trump caucus in the house in the 2016 campaign -- >> duncan hunter, mr.he marks the second early trump backer along with republican congressman chris collins facing criminal charges heading into november's election. congressman hunter's democratic opponent has already seized on these charges. in a new ad saying this just shows he was all in it for himself and he said he did nothing wrong and the doj is an arm of the democrats. making a first appearance tomorrow in court in san diego. >> thank you so much. let's talk about this. department of justice is an arm of the democrats? a department of justice of sessions and trump? >> they're so devious. even a republican administration they get their people in there. here's the good news part of this. it is the system working part of the story. this is the second member of congress who endorsed donald trump at a time when that kind of legitimacy was badly needed and he is facing the law dispassionately applied so that's the good news. the bad news you mentioned before. all of the really tawdry examples of incredi

. >> i think he just likes duncan probably as much as he dislikes mr. trump. think they look at duncan as part of the trump team. they're hoping the cloud of the indictment itself takes his republican seat and puts it in the democrat column. no matter if he's found innocent after the election is over. this was football season. this is a late hit. >> i got stuck in traffic today. is it rod rosenstein's fault? i'm sorry. i guess, why not. if it works for the president, it might work for you. so any time something bad happens to a republican, it's because of the deep state, not because they went to italy and used campaign funds. not because they lied about golf balls for wounded c eed warrior instead spent it on themselves. >> it's the most disturbing thing i've read in a long time. i read this indictment from top to bottom. it's truly, you could not write this if you were scripting a movie. more greedy and corrupt politician. the things he and his wife did that they spent their campaign funds. constituents' hard-earned money on tequila shots, video games, family

mr. trump's lack of judgment. you know, zach you get the duncan hunter indictment last night as well, chris collins, insider trainingou look at the inner circle of donald trump, the early supporters of drunk, it does not leak like drain the swatch. >> you ha-- swamp. >> you have to remember, trump had won a large number of primaries. he had very few supporters in congress. people still didn't believe he was going to win the primary. those were two of the first people to sign on with him. you know the same with his staffers, he was unable to find the cream of the walk crop, partially because he was promising to drain the swamp. that's who ended up in his administration. >> michael, it's hard to find good news yesterday for the president. but if this had nothing to do with russia the collusion the paul manafort aspect of it. what object the notion of this as a witch hunt and that there is again no sign of collusion as we move forward? what does this mean for bob mueller? . >> i think that bob mueller was sort of acting as the composer of a great opera. he basically played the first song for us. and he told us who the

duncan golestani. the president of zimbabwe, emmerson mnangagwa of the governing zanu—pf party, has been declared the victor in monday's presidential elections. mragwa won just under 51% of the vote, against 44% for nelson chamisa of the opposition movement for democratic change alliance, the mdc. they rejected the results and said it would be challenged in court. fergal keane sent this report from harare. after a wait in which the country was plunged into crisis, at last, the moment of decision. the votes received by mnangagwa emmerson of zanu—pf party are more than half the number of votes cast in the presidential election. therefore, mnangagwa emmerson of zanu—pf party is therefore duly declared elected president of the republic of zimbabwe, with effect from the 3rd august 2018. cheering the newly elected president is the man who overthrew robert mugabe last november. today we are witnessing the beginning of a new and unfolding democracy. his victory is the culmination of 50 years of activism and political manoeuvring. for the man named the crocodile — patient and ruthless. do those characteristics describe you? i am as soft as wool. i am a v

mr. president, did you know about the $130,000 payment to stormy daniels? >> no. >> that was not the truth. other news. congressman duncanand his wife will be in court today facing charges they redirected a quarter million dollars ipcampaign funds to pay for their own lifestyle. hunter is the second sitting u.s. congressman indicted this month alone. >>> of course, as we cover what is turning out to be nonstop scandal in washington, there is a danger we will simply miss other stories out of the white house that we should be doing and you should know about. case in point, this week, the president of our republic recognizing the sacrifice of an air force sergeant in afghanistan. president trump handing out our nation's highest honor, the congressional medal of honor, to the widow of sergeant john chapman who charged up a mountain to take on an enemy bunker saving 20 american lives. while we continue to watch what is happening in washington, i invitia to follow me on twitter. i'm @scottmcgrew. >> thank you very much, scott. >> well, new this morning, a robot may replace your barista when you go for that morning cup of joe.

duncan was a juror 0302 filling a pair of notebooks with detailed arguments. she voted for mecca trump in 2016 and she also voted to convict his former campaign chairman paul manafort. >> finding mrmanafort guilty was hard for me, i wanted him to be innocent but he wasn't. >> this week, manafort was convicted on eight counts of tax and bank fraud and a judge declared a mistrial's on ten other counts for the jury couldn't come to a consensus. now we know they came really close. >> it would have been guilty on all 18 counts if not for the one female that said she had reasonable doubt. >> this jurors doubts appeared to be geared more toward the motives of the daca. >> it's a witch hunt. >> she had a head-on view from the jury box and said sometimes the prosecutors had heavy eyelids. >> a lot of times they look forward and a lot of times they cap napped. >> she sympathized with the defense team's argument that all of these allegations could have been settled with an audit but she contends he was charged because she once worked for the president. >> he wouldn't have gotten caught if they want after president trump. >> the special counsel prosecutors overwhelmed her and the other juror

duncan of kentucky to be a governor. david williams of illinois to be a governor. mr. mcconnell: i ask unanimous consent that the senate vote on the nominations en bloc with no intervening action or debate, that if confirmed, the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table, en bloc, the president be immediately notified of the senate's actions, and that any statements related to the nominations be printed in the record. the presiding officer: without objection, the question is on the nomination. all those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. the ayes appear to have it. the ayes do have it. the nominations are confirmed en bloc. mr. mcconnell: i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to the en bloc consideration of the following nominations, executive calendar 270, 1039, and 1040. the presiding officer: without objection. the senate will proceed to the nominations en bloc. the clerk will report. the clerk: nominations commodity futures trading commission, dawn deberry stump to be a commissioner. dan burke wits to be commissioner, james e. hubbard