. >> phil rucker had a fun piece in "the washington post" this woke about bruce braley in iowa, the senatorandidate who had a dispute over chickens over a property at his vacation home. it touched on an important theme, though, democrats are actually more scared about losing this race than they were a few months ago and republicans feel really emboldled, outside republican spending on the race quintupled over the last month. outside groups are looking into going heavier because of braley's self-inflicted wounds and rand paul has another trip to iowa in september/october to help the republican nominee. race the republicans think is still on the table >> big shakeup on that campaign a month ago amazingly. so in the fight to replace john walsh in montana, which manu and i wrote about this last week, there is some concern amongst some republicans that walsh, that the hit on walsh for lack of a better way of putting it in terms of the plagiarism scandal was landed too early. it gave him enough time to get out, give democrats to find a replacement candidate. most democrats don't think this is in

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no, i'm not darius rucker. i'm just tim scott. >> reporter: these days, he's putting on his salesman's hat for the gop, trying to sell a hopeful message and soften a debate he says is too often inflammatory and shrill. do you ever feel like you would like to turn the volume down on some of those senators on both sides of the floor? >> yes, just to be blunt, yes. >> reporter: whose microphone? >> i can't be that blunt. >> reporter: scott's election in november seems almost assured. it's his next chapter that is still to be written. >> there you go. >> reporter: for "this week," jeff zeleny, abc news, charlest charleston, south carolina. >>> coming up in two minutes, "the roundtable" tackles the week's hot topics. from the crisis on the border to the battle of presidential power. is either side gaining an edge? is the country paying the price? >>> first, the big winners of the week. ry paying the price? >>> first, the big winners of the week. there's no reason we can't manufacture in the united states. here at ti

i mentioned and senator rucker, you said my full testimony about the worst neighbor is the forest service. it's not because we don't know what to do, it's the time and the amount we are getting done. we need to increase that rather than treating 3,000 to 4,000 acres of land that is overstocked that we would be treating 20,000 acres a year and get to 100,000 acres and not just doing small acres projects at a time. we don't want to skip any environmental rules. or do anything like that. we want it to be ecologically sound and economically as well. as we move on, i hope you'll also look with the fire spending was mentioned. we cannot get ahead of this or achieve our goals with those acres if we don't deal with fire borrowing that occurs every year. and as these fires get more intense and hotter, we need to look at that. senate bill 1875, i hope you endorse that bill and we get that through because it's far cheaper to treat the forestland than it is to suppress fire. and they're increasing. another thing that climate change has done in the thicker forest is that it keeps the snow from hitting

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. >> darius rucker? >> he's a genius. >> i like the song, too. like everything about it. love him.ack to "squawk box" here on cnbc. first in business worldwide i'm joe kerner along with becky quick, andrew's off today. we're going to get to jackson hole in just a moment. we're going to talk to st. louis -- there he is. st. louis fed president jim bullard. first check out this video catching our attention. an atlanta postal carrier learning the hard way that cameras are everywhere these days. we will have the full story later and talk about how companies are dealing with bad behavior caught on tape. >> oops. >> do they have any cameras around here? >> yeah -- >> i assume we do all the time. those little things -- >> you got caught. >> on the ceiling. >> what did i do? >> you moved a poster. oh, yeah, yeah >> yeah but they set that up to catch me doing that. the other ones are everywhere anyway. >> yeah. >> little things like that. yeah, i think about that, they can read lips like in 2001, too. i figure i'm being watched all the time. >> yeah. >> can't computers be looking at you, to