>> i would say phil bredesen is a sleeper to actually win this seat.t think it's a guarantee that the republicans hold on to it, even though tennessee has gotten much more republican since bredesen was in the governor's office. he's a moderate. he sort of fits the state in a way that i think not a lot of democrats in the trump era have been able to do. maybe in some of these house districts in california where they're trying to beat off republicans who won in hillary districts. bredesen, i think, fits the mold for what democrats in trump states ought to be doing. this is a race i would be watching. >> and what isn't fitting the mold in some of these states are people who are house members, not able to sort of get the ticket to the bigger job. we saw that of course with diane black. she's the fifth house gop member to run for statewide office to lose in 2018. >> right. you see people making these bids and trying to -- the traditional path. you start in the house, try to make a bid for the senate, as we're seeing. it's kind of a crap shoot sometimes as t

>> you know, phil bredesen is a character. a twice elected governor in that state.rtially about phil bred seese being a good politician, but the environment where president trump is unpopular. >> first daughter and presidential adviser ivanka trump is breaking from her father's rhetoric against the media. ivanka said she does not agree with the characterization of the press as the enemy of the peo e people. >> i certainly received my fair share of reporting on me personally that i know not to be fully accurate. so i had some sensitivity around why people have concerns and gripe especially when they feel targeted. no, i do not feel the media is the enemy of the people. >> oliver darcy joining us now. do you think we're the enemy of the people. her reaction was, sorry, as if she didn't hear the question. then once he repeated, she gave that answer. what did you make of that exchange? >> remarkable. almost like suggesting the assertion that the press is the enemy of the people she has never heard of it or looked at her father's twitter account or watched the press brie

>> dana: phil bredesen, trying to run away or distance himself from the democratic party?eally doesn't have much of a democratic party to lean on here. in the state of tennessee. it's been 28 years since the democrats have been able to elect a senator. and bredesen has been really careful not to attack president trump directly. instead, he said he is really going to pick his battles. here is bredesen. >> i intend to be a senator who is not up here to work for or against the president. i'm not here to work for or against any political party. but to try to figure out in this state what's best for the people of tennessee. >> >> when it comes to democratic calls to abolish ice, for example, bret sen has called that, quote, a stupid idea. dana, back to you. >> dana: all right, thank you. karl rove is up next with his take on what happened today at the white house. about russian meddling and our efforts to combat it. ♪ ♪ (man) managing my type 2 diabetes wasn't my top priority. until i held her. i found my tresiba® reason. now i'm doing more to lower my a1c. i take tresiba® once

tennessee, republican congresswoman marsha blackburn and the state's former democratic governor phil bredesenn the senate seat vacated by bob corker. congressman diane black lost her bid for the gop nomination for governor. she was endorsed by vice president pence but not by president trump. >>> an iowa family raising $172,000 as a reward to find their missing daughter. the parents of university of iowa student molly tibets say they believe she is still alive. their daughter disappeared on july 18 in brooklyn, iowa, a small community an hour east of des moines. molly's brother dropped her off at her boyfriend's house so she could dog sit. she was last seen jogging around 7:30 that evening. >>> the trump administration unveiling plans to roll back a signature obama-era environmental regulation. they want to freeze a rule mandating auto makers build more fuel efficient cars. that i also opposed an end to california's clean air act waiver which allowed other states to opt in to using california's higher standards. california's former republican governor arnold schwarzenegger laying into the pres

republican congresswoman marsha blackburn and former democratic governor phil bredesen won thursday'smaries. blackburn campaigned as an ally of president trump. bredesen said he'll chart an independent course, in a state that went heavily for mr. trump in 2016. and on wall stre, stocks ended the week on a high note. the dow jones industrial average gained 136 points to close at 25,462. the nasdaq rosepo nints, and the s&p 500 added 13. still to come onhe newshour, the way after the historic presidential election in zimbabwe. reuniting separated migrant families who is responsible the government or a.c.l.u. >> woodruff: in zimbabwe today, the man who was declared the winner of the presidential election lasnight, emmerson angagwa, urged zimbabweans to unite. he said th the declared the loser, nelson chamisa, had a crucial role to play in the country's present and future. six peoplesiere kill. opon people nelson chamisa said he did not accept the outcome and said he however, nelson chamisa said he did not accept the outcome of the election and would explore all legal means to allenge it.

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former governor phil bredesen ridding the democratic nomination.itant to attack trump. president trump rallying in pennsylvania in support of congressman lou barletta's campaign to unseat democrat senator bob casey. the president tackling democrats talking points head on. >> when bernie tells how wonderful things are, think about it, he wants to raise your taxes, he wants to create massive amounts of crime, he wants to open your borders. think about it. think about it. when he goes out, and says one thing, african-american, hispanic, asian, you have the lowest level of unemployment and history of our country. how does somebody fight that? right? >> shannon: as the president is doing more to energize the democrat base, fox news contributor, karl rove joins us from texas. good evening, karl braids pick a good evening. >> shannon: let's talk about this. i want to read something from an article in "the hill," democrats are near gleeful with the idea of trump commanding the spotlight. they nod his approval ratings are mediocre even if they ticked up mod

but i, and i will tell you, i do think that phil bredesen, he didn't call out steve cohen, he didn'tnd, that is completely inappropriate. ainsley: congressman, this is the same guy, the same congressman said peter strzok should get the purple heart. he sent us a statement. it was obviously humor, saying you wants you to jump off of a bridge. i wish her no harm. i hope she doesn't get the senate and wish she wasn't a lackey for trump but i don't wish her physical harm. are you okay with that? >> he kind of doubles up on not wishing me well. of course we want to see tennesseans, tennesseans want to see our nation successful, they want to see tennessee families successful, that is where their focus is. and people talk a lot about civility in the political process and they would wish, and as you said, congressman cohen had had other comments that tennesseans did not view favorably. ainsley: can't we just agree to disagree and still get along and not say these types of comments? the house sergeant of arms office, the number of threats against members of congress are rising. this year alon

she will face tennessee's former governor democrat phil bredesen who also won by a land slide. u.s. remains from north korea. jewels look, can you see hell melts, canteens, buttons, boots, gloves, and socks all from the korean war. dog tag will be given to the fallen shoulders. in arlington, virginia. that's a look at your headline. too think that all all these years we have them now. steve: certainty. brian: sincerity. you didn't know what they were going to get. on the transfer they were sincere they were going to preserve the remains as best they could and information exchanged. the next thing is would you allow our people to scour the countryside because we know where these people were last seen. where the battles took place. where the planes crashed. where the people were shot. if you don't want us to do it, have the u.n. do it. steve: they are not going to do it. brian: no one thought we would see this. steve: no. absolutely. we do not know the identity of the name on the dog tag but that family has been notified and as jillian jewels said they are going to be at arlington ver

jon meacham, the senate race between marcia blackburn, republican and former tennessee governor phil bredesenar in the state for a long time. how does it look like it will shake out in tennessee? >> the primary was last night. and it's bredesen versus blackburn. i think bredesen is up unusually. i think a little bit in most of the polling that i've seen. as you say, very business friendly. very moderate democrat, very high-ranking republicans will say privately is, this is exactly the kind of democratic nominee they fear the most. because suburban women, millennials, african-americans are going to come out driven by an anti-trump fervor, but establishment republicans who had to put their principles to some extent in a blind trust in 2016 will be able to vote across the aisle in a race like this. vote for a democrat, and it matters n s nationally, not jus because i hope some day you'll be doing the weather on channel 5 one day. >> that's a promise. >> we have the helicopter chopper for you, the traffic thing. in a -- in a senate that's so narrowly divided, this is a republican pickup, because

marsha blackburn easily winning the gop -- she will face democrat phil brett is an --b d --bredesen.anted them could break at any moment. heavy rain in lynchburg, virginia could collapse the structure and flood the city with 17 feet of water. >> cleanup is underway after a tornado damaged a high school and uprooted trees. todd: we are tracking the storms on the east coast. >> reporter: a chance of rain and severe weather, tomorrow things will get a little better on sunday. let's look at the maps. a plume of tropical moisture up and down the east coast, you see potential for more rain from florida to portions of the mid-atlantic and northeast. flood advisories are in place as we head and the weekend. we have college associates graduating today. anthony is one of them. where are you from? >> new york. >> reporter: what school you go to? >> st. john's university. >> are you ready for your last day? anthony will take it away and he will be spectacular. go ahead. >> the east coast will see the threat for more rain and possible flooding. the west coast is hot and dry heading into the weeke