trump: just like i backed huntsville. if you look at huntsville, billions and billions of dollars and to the army missile defense. [applause] pres. trump: how important -- by the way, by the way, how important are those words when you hear missile defense? thank you very much, huntsville. thank you. [applause] when you hear those two words, last week we just approved the $700 billion budget, much higher than originally anticipated. if the other candidate had won against me, that would have gone way down. it was going way down. you do not know what we're doing. we are rebuilding the military, at a level to which has never been before. we are rebuilding. [applause] pres. trump: but that would have gone way, way down. and then you look at, as an example, new fbi facility being built. great. great. you look at nasa. how about nasa? billions of dollars. richard shelby, by the way, has been a big help with this, i have to tell you. a big help. [applause] pres. trump: he has been a big help. but i will say this. we are spending

i want to thank you, huntsville, because you are a big part of it. [cheers and applause] we have just brought back the national space council to restore america's legacy of leadership and space. the council will be chaired by vice president pence, who is visiting your nasa facility in huntsville on monday to get you out to vote. get you out to vote. we're making our communities safe again by going after violent criminals and putting dangerous offenders behind bars. [cheers and applause] we have the backs of our police officers, our ice officers, and our border control officers. we have their backs 100% just like they take care of us. [cheers and applause] one by one, we are finding -- and i mean in large numbers, and our guys are much tougher than their guys -- we're finding the drug dealers and criminals who prey on our people. we are throwing them out of our country and they will not come back in. they do not come back in anymore area different age. they do not come back in. we also understand immigration security is a national -- that is really a

i want to thank you, huntsville, because you are a big part of it. [cheers and applause] we have just brought back the national space council to restore america's legacy of leadership and space. council will be chaired by vice president pence, who is visiting your nasa facility in huntsville on monday to get you out to vote. get you out to vote. we're making our communities safe again by going after violent criminals and putting dangerous offenders behind bars. [cheers and applause] we have the backs of our police andcers, our ice officers, our border control officers. we have their backs 100% just like they take care of us. [cheers and applause] one by one, we are finding -- and i mean in large numbers, and our guys are much tougher than their guys -- we're finding the drug dealers and criminals who prey on our people. we are throwing them out of our country and they will not come back in. they do not come back in anymore area different age. they do not come back in. we also understand immigration security is a national -- that is really a national

and just like i backed huntsville, because if you look at huntsville, billions and billions of dollars from the -- and to the army, missile defense, what you're going, how important -- by the way, by the way, how important are those words now, when you hear missile defense? thank you very much huntsville. thank you. [ cheers ] . >> president trump: missile defense. missile-defense you know when you hear those two words, last week as you saw, you know we just approved a $700 billion budget much higher than anticipated. again if the other candidate had won against me that would have gone way down. it was going way down. we're rebuilding the military at a level to which it's never been before. we're rebuilding. been before. we are rebuildi but that would have gone way, way down. and then you look at, as an example, the new fbi facility that's being built. great. great. you look at nasa, how about nasa? billions of dollars. [ cheers ] >> president trump: richard shelby by the way has been a big help on this, i have to tell you, a big help. -- anne richard shelby has been a big help in this

thank you very much, huntsville thank you. missile-defense you know, when you hear those two words, last week, as you saw. just a proved a $700 billion budget, much higher than originally anticipated. if the other candidate had win against me, that would have gone way down. it was going way down. we are rebuilding the military at a level to which it has never been before. we are rebuilding. but that would have gone way, way down. you look at it as an example, the new fbi facility that's being built. you look at nasa, how about nasa, billions of dollars. -- anne richard shelby has been a big help in this, i have to tell you. big help. he has been a big help. but i will say this. we're spending a tremendous amount of money in alabama, and you are doing great, and as long as i'm president, you are going to have so much money spent here. lots of other states also. we are bringing back jobs. we bring about companies. companies are not building and other areas. in some cases they have already started the plant. i am renegotiating na

thank you, huntsville. [applause] [ cheers ] the. >> president trump: it's amaze angelsing the way all of a sudden missile defense system sounds so good. by the way, these systems, i watch them and i see what's being developed, i mean they're taking out rockets that are going so fast, it's -- and the percentage of success is so high, it's so brilliant what we can do, so that we can do what we have to do to have a safe country t so i want to thank you huntsville because you're a big part of it [ cheers [ cheers ] . >> president trump: we've just brought back the national space counsel to restore america's legacy of leadership in space. leads to so many things. the counsel will be chaired by vice-president pence who is visiting your nasa facility in huntsville on monday to get you ought to vote. that's why! get you ought to vote!t, and we're making our community safe again by going after violent criminals and putting dangerous offender's behind bars. they' they're going in fast. they're going in fast. fast. w

huntsville, alabama. thank you. thank you, huntsville. [applause] it's amazing the way all of a sudden missile defense system sound so good. by the way, these systems, i watch them and i see with being developed. i mean, they are taking out rockets that are going so fast, the percentage of success is so high, so brilliant what we can do. so that we can do what we have to do to have a safe country. i want to thank you, huntsville, because you are a big part of it. we just brought back the national space council to restore america's legacy of leadership in space. it leads to so many things. the council will be chaired by vice president pentz who is visiting your nasa facility in huntsville on monday to get you out, that's right -- to get you out to vote. and we are making our community safe again by going after violent criminals and putting dangerous offenders behind bars, they are going in fast. they are going in fast. we have the backs of our police officers. our i.c.e. officers, and our border patrol officers and we have their backs 100%

huntsville, alabama, as my mom's hometown. i was pleased to see him. i was surprised got involved in this race. if he doesn't win, he loses prestige. people will think, it's okay to defy trump. if you pulls this out and luther strange is the underdog -- it suggests that the president has a lot more clout than people think. look, his poll numbers are up. he comes off his united nations speech, he has not back down from all of his promises. including the wall. this gave him an extraordinary, opportunity to restate hisns presidency and to talk about what he wants to do in the future. this is not a guy who's afraid of getting impeached, i will tell you that. >> jeanine: when we talk about him as an establishment candidate, mitch mcconnell's pac gave him $9 million.. >> yeah, this is becoming an increasing problem becauseec its one of the b reasons why luther strange has struggled so badly. judge, it will come as no surprise to you that if you are a candidate in america and you are tied to g.o.p. washington establishment? it's not a positive. i'm surprised

[applause] like i backed huntsville. you know, if you look at huntsville, billions and billions of dollars from the and defense,my missile what you are going -- how , howtant -- by the way important are those words now? when you hear "missile defense?" thank you very much, huntsville. thank you. [applause] president trump: when you hear the seat of words -- last week, we just approved a $700 billion budget, much higher than anticipated. wonhe other candidate had against me, that would have gone way down. it was going way down. we are rebuilding the military at a level to which it has never been before. [cheers and applause] president trump: but that would have gone way, way down. and you look at as an example the new fbi facility being built, right? right. you look at nasa. how about nasa? billions of dollars. and richard shelby, by the way, has been a big help in this, i have to tell you. a big help. been a big help, but i will say this -- we are spending a tremendous amount of money in alabama, and you are doing great,

huntsville, alabama. guess where that is? that's mo brooks' congressional district. no coincidence there at all. that is probably going to be the area in alabama that decides this race. luther stlapg, he is running from behind. moor is the insurgent candidate, the anti-establishment candidate. trump is trying to make a case to the grassroots that it's okay to go with an establishment kanld. if there is somebody, though, who can pull that off, it probably is donald trump. look at this. nationalel we talk all the time his approval rating, it is nothing to write home about these days. in alabama it's stronger, but still 55%. that's not great. but alabama republicans, and they're the only ones who are going to be voting on tuesday, he's sitting at almost 90% with them. he won that primary in alabama by almost two to one last year. this is the heart of trump country higher. so it's an interesting test on tuesday, can donald trump get those voters, some of the most loyal trump voters there are out there anywhere in the country, can he get them to resist the lure of the ant

host: jerry in huntsville talking about the flag. on the floor of the house yesterday, especially after what you heard and saw about n.f.l. protest was sheila jackson lee, representative of texas, highlighting what was going on and making her own demonstration of sorts yesterday. here is what she had to say. >> there is no regulation that says these young men cannot stand against the dishonoring of their mothers by you calling them fire the son of a b. you tell me which of those children's mothers are a son of a b. that is racism. you cannot deny it. you cannot run for it. and i kneel in honor of them. i kneel. in front of the flag and on this floor. i kneel in honor of the first amendment. i kneel because the flag is symbol for freedom. i kneel because i'm going to stand against racism. i kneel because i will stand with those young men and i will stand with our soldiers and i will stand with america because i kneel. >> expired. >> i yield back. host: wisconsin, republican line. james, hello. caller: yes. i would like to say that in

looking life there in huntsville. we will talk about >> bret: president trump will appear as soon in a rally for alabama senator luther strange. the senator is in a tough as nails primary runoff down there with a republican who says he represents the trump base much more than strange does. correspondent peter doocy is in huntsville, alabama, tonight. >> the swamp can't win here -- >> if sarah palin things -- luther strange wins. she came to alabama to rally for his challenger judge roy moore, because she thinks she thinks moore is most aligned with the platform that made trump popular. >> the president needs support to keep the promise is that elected him. so we are sending trump someone who has our backs, not mitch mcconnell's. >> elise two former trump white house advisors agree with palin, the president is picking the wrong side in this place. steve bannon is picking roy moore, and so is sebastian gorka. >> when judge moore wins, it will given an opportunity to say, hey, guys, let trump be trump. >> last night, in

huntsville, alabama, as my mom's hometown. i was pleased to see him. i was surprised got involved in this race. if he doesn't win, he loses prestige. people will think it's okay to defy trump. if you pulls this out and luther strange is the underdog -- it suggests that the president has a lot more clout than people think. look, his poll numbers are up. he comes office united nations speech, he has not back down from all of his promises. this gave him an extraordinary opportunity to restate his presidency and to talk about what he wants to do in the future. this is not a guy who's afraid of getting impeached, i will tell you that. >> jeanine: when we talk about him as an establishment can demonic candidate, mitch mcconnell's pac gave him $9 million. >> yeah, this is becoming an increasing problem because it's one of the reasons why luther strange has struggled so badly. judge, it will come as no surprise to you that if you are a candidate in america and you are tied to g.o.p. washington establishment? it's not a positive. i'm surprised that that pac spe

huntsville huntsville alabama. other people like to say oh we want peace you know they've been saying for now twenty five years we want peace we want peace and then he goes and just keeps going going going well maybe something gets worked out and maybe it doesn't but i can tell you one thing you are protected ok you are protected nobody's going to mess with our people nobody is going to play games nobody is going to put our people in that kind of danger nobody sure. and japan and south korea are right up there with us and by the way many other countries many many other countries they're right up there with us and i have to tell you i made a friend in china president xi and yesterday he basically took the banking industry away from north korea never been done before the jury never been worse that's based on relationship relationship is very good but we're dealing with somebody that will figure out he may be smart he may be strategic and he may be totally crazy but you know what no matter what he is we're going to ha

he knew what he was doing in huntsville, alabama. he has a tremendous ability to speak to the worst instincts of his audience. i'm sure in his lizard brain he looked to that audience of senior citizens -- white senior citizens council in alabama and said to himself, you know what? i think that going after young black men will be a big win. that is what he does. he goes after people of color, women, people that his face will celebrate their destruction. what he did not understand, maybe because he never played football, he did not understand football locker rooms, that what michael bennett calls a brotherhood. brotherhood could be seen as another word for solidarity. it is kind of like a spartacus in, like an injury to one is an injury to all kind of thing. you think about what donald trump said that rally and what nfl players and owners heard. yet the taken all of what he said. sob'sls the players [captioning made possible by democracy now!] . he went after their mothers for stuff you would have to their livelihoods, their freedom, t

right here in huntsville, alabama. obviously we are in store for a huge day, it will be interesting to see. >> what matters is people that are there doing the voting. any feeling which way they are leaning? >> reporter: the folks we are going to interview have lined up outside ready to go, rarely do we get bodies in here this early, people are raring to go. in the next three hours we will have a lot of opinions but the people we spoke to seem right down the middle. we are going to see. rob: strange on "fox and friends" coming up. we will see you wheat some good breakfast so thanks so much. >> reporter: there is some biscuits that i needed. rob: we will be right back. witness katy perry. witness katy perry become a legal witness. witness katy perry and left shark. or a card shark. grandma? witness katy perry work. witness katy perry firework. witness katy perry swish. witness katy perry... aaaaaaw look at that dog! katy perry: with music videos and behind the scenes footage, xfinity lets you witness all things me. >> fe

it looks like a healthy crowd size in huntsville, alabama tonight. we'll be interested to see what he has to say. you heard in the debate last night with both of these candidates, both of them were trying to tell the audience how much they love donald trump. and that's a big part of this. who can get the donald trump vote there in alabama. right now it looks like senator strange has the upper hand. they played rocketman earlier tonight. the sweet home alabama they are playing for the crowd as the president takes to that stage. let's listen in. [♪] he's enjoying the crowd. he's wave together crowd. gregg: he won this state with 60% of the vote. but among republicans 83%. so trump's endorsement here could shift the momentum. trish: the president of the united states. >> i love this place. we set every record in alabama. i love alabama, it's special, great, great. thanks. [crowd chants "usa! "] >> i'm thrilled to be here with the great person i have gotten to know, luther strange, with the hard working patriotic citizens of this great state. there is

>> bret: peter doocy live in huntsville. peter, thank you. let's hear from sebastian gorka, former deputy assistant to the president and a supporter, as you heard, of roy moore. he's in washington tonight. we should point out that we invited the strange campaign to participate in this segment. they did not accept this offer. dr. gorka, thank you for being here. >> it's my pleasure, bret. >> bret: i want to ask you about this breaking news, the department of homeland security notifying 21 states, russian hackers attempted to breach their systems before the 2016 elections. just wondering on your thoughts on that, why it almost take a year to tell us those things? >> i don't have inside knowledge on why it took so long for the dhs to make that decision. all kinds of forensics computing matters that have to be run to ground. my reaction is it's very good that this information is out there. it shouldn't surprise anybody. the idea that russia trying to undermine democratic elections is a new thing. somebody should crack open a history book. they've

president trump said those words in huntsville, alabama. he also broke a 38-day twitter silence just on this topic, denying that any of it is real. he said this morning, the russia hoax continues. now it it's ads on facebook. what about the totally dishonest media coverage in favor of crooked hillary? following with the greatest influence over our election was the fake news media screaming for crooked hillary clinton. next, she was a bad candidate. facebook has acknowledged that it did inadvertently sell $100,000 ads to russian interests. they've promised to turn it over to the special counsel and the founder mark zuckerberg gave a personal statement about efforts facebook will take to keep it from happening again. also today, the department of homeland security notified the 21 states targeted by russian hackers. officials stay kremlin tried but failed to hack voter data bases. tonight we welcome to the broadcast, a former criminal defense attorney. the legal analyst. also joining us, a national political reporter for bloopberg. gentlemen,

alexander marquardt from huntsville, alabama. so while the president was campaigning for luther strange, he spoke about everything from north korea to even colin kaepernick. listen. >> wouldn't you love to see one of these nfl owners when somebody disrespects our flag to say get that son of a [ bleep ] off the field right now? out. he's fired. he's fired! what i do best, i build. so you have a concrete wall and you have mexico, wonderful, wonderful place, mexico. and you have over here the united states. but you can't see anything, right? so now they take drugs literally and they throw it, 100 pounds of drugs, they throw it over the wall, they have catapults. but they throw it over the wall and it lands and it hits somebody on the head. you don't even know they're there. believe it or not this is the kind of stuff that happens. so you need to have a great wall, but it has to be see-through. little rocket man. we're going to do it because we really have no choice. we really have no choice. now he's talking about a massive weapon e

todd is having breakfast with friends in huntsville. that's coming up ♪ scenari ♪ southern nights ♪ ♪ ♪ ainsley: all eyes are on alabama today as voters are getting ready to head to the polls for the run-off election to fill jeff sessions vacant senate see seat. brian: some people are on the ballot besides these two luther strange and judge roy moore. is this really trump and bannon they are going head to head in this contest. steve: todd piro is they blue plate cafe are in huntsville, alabama. >> good morning. todd: brian hit the nail on the head is this a bannon vs. trump? is this a sarah palin vs. trump? is this trump and mcconnell vs. the nonestablishment? so many questions. so we are here asking the voters what they think. i am going to start out what we call the strange table not because of these people but because they are voting for luther strange. your name, man? >> christie. todd: you said you are voting for luther strange because you like the president. >> yes, that's right. you are obviously a huge trump voter. you

listen to what he had to say about him in huntsville... >> we can't have madmen out there shooting rockets all over the place. and by the way, rocketman should have been handled a long time ago. this shouldn't be handled now. you but i'm going to handle it because we have to handle it. >> now, those fiery comments come shortly after the president authorized new economic sanctions on north korea and after he spent the week at the united nations rallying the international community to confront north korea. kaitlin collins, cnn. >> let's get some context now with leslie. good to have you with us. let's start with health care, the president's comments about john mccain effectively, was he covering his own bases here, trying to excuse another failed attempt to dismantle obamacare? >>. >> well, i think it wasn't clear which way senator mccain is going to go with this despite his earlier and significant no vote. if you listen to what he said, i think he's exactly right. senator mccain wants us to by bipartisan.. and remember that 56% of americans, if we look at the recent polls, support the affor

president trump brought his campaign rally roadshow to huntsville, alabama tonight. surrounded by a group of supporters, trump sang the praises of luther strange who replaced jeff sessions is involved in a runoff with chief justice roy moore. trump said strange has been wrongly branded as an insider. he went off on kim jung un, who is threatening a hydrogen bomb test. >> rocket man should have been handled a long time ago. hhe may be smart, strategic and totally crazy. no matter what he is, we are going to handle it, folks, believe me. >> the rally came on the heels of development in health care. senator john mccain did it again, revealing he wouldn't vote for the graham-cassidy bill. if one more republican goes against the bill, that would be it. maine senator susan collins has given every indication she won't support theville. lisa murkowski of alaska is also a no. 56-33 americans say they prefer existing obama care to the latest republican alternative. >> still to come on "action news" tonight, success in the survivors of the mexico earthquake. also, nearly a year

the president of the united states will take time out from his schedule to come to huntsville. >> and turks and caicos is hurricane maria's target as it stun and flattened puerto rico begins a long path to recovery. >> today is the most important day when it comes to the response. today is about life saving and establishing emergency power for the infrastructure such as hospitals and we will be doing life flights. >> let's begin the hour with the breaking news on the so-called travel ban as the white house unveils restrictions on who can and who can't come into the united states. the travel ban was one of the most controversial endeavors of the presidency. that barred people from six majority muslim countries from entering and that expires sunday. with the deadline approaching, the president considering new recontradiction strikzs to make some measures indefinite. the source reported, they may expand the number of countries impacted by the i had bigzs on travel. something he said he wanted last week on twitter. the travel ban should be far larger, tougher and more specific. he went on

here's what trump had to say about it, during yet another mast ur ba tore rally in huntsville, alabama on friday. >> john mccain came in and went thumb's down at 3:00 in the morning. i know so much, folks, i could tell you. it was sad. and we had a couple of other senators, but, you know, at least we knew where we stood. that was like really a horrible thing. honestly, that was a ho the republican party. >> said the horrible horrible thing that happened to the republican party. [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: he's not even right. the truth is john mccain probably saved the republican party by doing this. because if you think graham/cassidy is unpopular now, wait until people have to live with it, or not live with it. then who gets blamed? the republican party. this is one of the rare moments when we actually needed congress to do nothing. which is what they're really good at, by the way. anyway, i tweeted my thanks to senator mccain over the weekend, and that apparently caught the attention of the folks at fox & friends. >> talking about praising, it's playing out everywhere, jimmy k

here's what trump had to say about it, during yet another mast ur ba tore rally in huntsville, alabama on friday. >> john mccain came in and went thumb's down at 3:00 in the morning. i know so much, folks, i could tell you. it was sad. and we had a couple of other senators, but, you know, at least we knew where we stood. that was like really a horrible thing. honestly, that was a horrible, horrible thing that happened to the republican party. >> said the horrible horrible thing that happened to the republican party. [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: he's not even right. the truth is john mccain probably saved the republican party by doing this. because if you think graham/cassidy is unpopular now, wait until people have to live with it, or not live with it. then who gets blamed? the republican party. this is one of the rare moments when we actually needed congress to do nothing. which is what they're really good at, by the way. anyway, i tweeted my thanks to senator mccain over the weekend, and that apparently caught the attention of the folks at fox & friends. >> talking about praisin

from virginia in huntsville, alabama. , forr: i commend her, hill speaking truth to power. donald trump gets on the tweet, we are talking about the president of the united states of america, and say and annihilate everybody. starting with mcconnell on down. even mccain, a hero. and she can't speak her opinion? why would they want to silence the truth. he is a white supremacist. going check the record. what is wrong with america that they cannot face the truth? we have a white supremacist president of the united states of america. he doesn't give a darn about us. he cares about his business. he is about his family and, to build up his business. there should be more investigations. trump knows nothing about government and it is not so much that he does not know anything about it, he doesn't want to learn anything about it. host: thanks, from alabama to georgia. what would you like to say? caller: i agree that she should be fired. all the comments seem to be one-sided against our president trump. host: anything else, robert? caller: that is it. host: a couple of tweets mention

he spoke at a campaign rally in huntsville, alabama.

the president's remarks at that huntsville, alabama rally getting a lot of negative blow back on twitter and off twitter. not just from black athletes and black people, but from people across the racial spectrum. people who are saying or wondering why he is criticizing these mostly black nfl players, using vulgar terms that insult not only the players, but also their mothers. now we have gotten new reaction from team owner, the latest owner to respond, the owner of the san francisco 49ers, jed york. i'm going to read to you his whole statement. it is a strong statement. here is what he had to say. the callous and offensive comments made by the president are contradictory to what this great country stands for. our players have exercised their rights as united states citizens in order to spark conversation and action to address social injustice. we will continue to support them in their peaceful pursuit of positive change in our country and around the world. the san francisco 49ers will continue to work toward bringing communities and those who serve them closer together. >>> we also got a

overnight the president taking the stage in huntsville, alabama. >> i love this state and i love the people of this state. >> reporter: rallying for embattled senate candidate luther strange. trump going after everything from north korea, even the nfl, to the president still vowing to get rid of obamacare. >> we're going to win. it's going to be gone. >> reporter: this morning the gop health care bill is one vote away from failing, with senator john mccain shooting it down again, saying in a statement friday, he cannot in good conscience vote for the latest republican plan. he says a bill of this impact requires a bipartisan approach. it was just a couple of months ago when mccain walked on the senate floor and gave a thumbs down during a vote to repeal obamacare. the president telling the alabama crowd he was shocked. >> totally unexpected thing, terrible. >> reporter: and trump again using a nickname to call out north korea's leader, kim jong-un. ramping up insults toward the dictator. >> rocket man should have been handled a long time ago. >> reporter: north korea's leader kim jon

trump is returning from huntsville, alabama. now we know that his candidate has lost. it seems like trump will take over for the republican party -- that his takeover of the republican party, does not mean he can drag of -- dragon incumbent across the finish line. steve bannon's candidate one. he's isolated, angry, dare i say, low energy in this fight. >> it's an interesting moment in this trump presidency. we are about 150 days into his term and he is struggling to navigate washington, and especially to navigate the party for two years. he is searching for wins, and it is intriguing to cover him. he is not driven by ideology or the same values that have shaped the republican party since ronald reagan's presidency. he is searching for victory. he has been able to confirm the supreme court justice, but a major legislative win is out of his grasp. you see him trying in the alabama race where he endorsed luther strange to get the establishment of the republican party to get him -- to work with him, make some progress and that on stalled objectives like health care and tax

that's tropical storm strength and it weakens and continues to move west of huntsville as we go through the next couple days. the threat, a good band through atlanta and birmingham and through south carolina. a bit of a storm surge along the georgia and south carolina coast. anywhere from a 4 to 6-foot storm surge with flood warnings in effect through georgia and charleston. charleston getting hit hard with severe weather and heavy rain. the rainfall potential will take you into tuesday and then wednesday, and another 2" in atlanta before it's over and 2" in charleston and 3 to 4 in columbia, and in birmingham, a couple of inches are possible, the main threat in the next 24 to 36 hours. we will come back and talk about why irma is not as been and look at hurricane jose. >>> many of you may have questions about irma in the coming days, so we want to help. thewusa9 help desk will be here until 8:00, 202-895-5560 or you can reach out to us on facebook and on twitter. >>> today marks the 16th anniversary of the september 11th terrorist attack. more than 2700 people were killed when two pass

birmingham, huntsville, where moore has to run you up the score? >> yes. moore extremely strong in the rural part, southeastern part of the state. strange's base, geographically jefferson, shelby county, suburban birmingham. the candidates, the campaigns, are looking at the huntsville area, which was the only place won in the primary by congressman mo brooks. they think there are votes to be gotten there. and i talked to others who think, maybe these folks should have looked more in the rural areas to turn out some republican voters. >> what is the roy moore vulnerability? >> in this race? >> yeah. >> the vulnerability i think is going to be the business turnout. you know? look at turnout in the first round of the primary. around 400,000. less than one-third of republicans who voted for trump in to 16. a tiny turnout election. when i was there, not an election everybody's talking about. >> what i wondered. didn't feel buzzy. >> even at events i went to for mohr, not a lot of people. not at the strange events either. it isn't an election gripping the state

overnight the president taking the stage in huntsville, alabama. >> i love this state and i love the people of this state. >> reporter: rallying for embattled senate candidate luther strange. trump going after everything from north korea, even the nfl, to health care. the president still vowing to get rid of obamacare. >> we're going to win. it's going to be gone. >> reporter: this morning the gop health care bill is one vote away from failing, with senator john mccain shooting it down again, saying in a statement friday, he cannot in good conscience vote for the latest republican plan. he says a bill of this impact requires a bipartisan approach. it was just a couple of months ago when mccain walked on the senate floor and gave a thumbs down during a vote to repeal obamacare. the president telling the alabama crowd he was shocked. >> totally unexpected thing, terrible. >> reporter: and trump again using a nickname to call out north korea's leader, kim jong-un. ramping up insults toward the dictator. >> rocket man should have been handled a long time ago. >> reporter: north korea's l

now the latest from peter doocy, who is in huntsville. a little bit of party intrigue building? >> a lot of party intrigue, neil. remember, president ray dan used to say there was an 11ed commandment, it was not to speak ill of fellow republicans. well that is fitting when applied to this runoff race. because supporters soeft-called ten commandments judge are out in full force across the state attacking the incumbent, senator luther strange, who has president trump's endorsement and going to get president trump stump speech tonight for being too tight with mitch mcconnell. sarah palin came to alabama last night to rally for his opponent, the challenger, roy moore, the 10 commandment judge, defied orders to remove a 10 commandment statue and got removed from the bench. the palin argument, moore is the most closely aligned candidate to the principles that made candidate trump popular last year. >> the president needs support to keep the promises that elected him. so we're sending trump some one who has our back, not mitch mcconnell's. >> but trump won alabama with 62% of the vote

but listen to what he had to say about him in huntsville. >> and we can't have madmen out there shooting rockets all over the place. and by the way -- rocket man should have been handled a long time ago. he shouldn't be handled now. but i'm going to handle it. because we have to handle it. >> now those fiery comments come shortly after the president authorized new economic sanctions on north korea and after he spent the week at the united nations rallying the international community to confront north korea. kaitlin collins, cnn. >> joining me is cnn political commentator john thomas. thanks for being with us. >> great to be here. >> let's talk about president trump at his alabama rally. he talked about a multitude of things and he certainly talked about health care, calling out john mccain for once again standing against this new health care bill that the republicans tried to push through. but john mccain has said in good conscience he can't do that, so what's your response? >> well, look, i understand president trump's frustration. i also understand republicans' frustration. this is obv

he has said worse things than what he said today or friday night in huntsville. but it also showed immediately the players' response right away. current player, former players, everyone. and then you had lebron jump in, steph curry. we felt like this was an attack on just just nfl players, but on the whole professional sports as a whole. and everyone who was always speaking out in the community, speaking out on these issues that we really need to keep in the forefront and not allow donald trump to hijack this whole issue. >> you know, heidi, it's so fascinating. you and i talk all the time about everything. i was reading a wonderful speech delivered i think in australia over the weekend by bret stephens who is our new commentator here, previously of "the wall street journal." and he says we got to be for free speech. we got to be for agreeing to disagree. we got to learn how to sit next to somebody and disagree with him. the conservatives have been using that against the college protesters that won't let a right wing alt-right type person come to campus. but here

she joins us live from huntsville. back to the health care anyone. anyone in the administration say anything about senator mccain's announcement yet? >> well, there have been no official statements yet, john, but we have seen the white house saying they're going to continue that effort. they're not ready to give up yet, but they said it's no doubt that what mccain said today undeniably hurts the administration's efforts to repeal and replace the affordable care act and it will surely get brought up tonight. the president is taking the stage right now here in alabama and he does not forget when someone skorns him. so let's go to the president right now, john, and see what he has to ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> thank you very much. wow. thank you. thank you. thank you, everybody. i love this place. you know, we set every record in alabama. i love alabama. it's special. thank you very much. >> usa, usa, usa, usa, usa, usa, usa. >> well, i am. i'm thrilled to be here with the really great person that i've gotten to know, luther strange and with a hardworking patri

caitlyn collins is traveling with the president, and joining u live from huntsville, and back to the health care issue, and anybody said anything about senator mccain's announcement yet? >> well, there have been no official statements yet, john, but we have seen the white house say they will continue that effort, and they are not ready to give up yet, but they say it is no doubt that what mccain said today undeniably hurts the administration's effort to repeal and replace the affordable care act. it is surely going to be brought up tonight, and the president is taking the stage here in alabama, and he does not forget when somebody scorns him, and we will go to the president right now, john, and see what he has to say. ♪ singing the songs about the south ♪ ♪ and i'll play it again ♪ ♪ well i heard mr. young sing about it ♪ ♪ well i heard old neil put her down ♪ ♪ well, i hope that neil young will remember ♪ ♪ a south man don't need him around anyhow ♪ ♪ sweet home alabama ♪ where the skies are so blue ♪ sweet home alabama ♪ lord i'm coming home to you >

peter doocy is in huntsville for us with the latest. what's going on? >> tucker, right this second, there is a "build that wall" chant going on, because they came out and put the presidential seal on the field, which means they are here at the arena in

. >> let's get right to cnn's kaitlyn collins in huntsville, alabama, for us tonight. good evening to you. he covered a lot of ground in his rally, and we're going to get to a lot of that in this show tonight. but what did the president say about senator john mccain's announcement? >> well, we were expecting the president to take several swipes at john mccain after he announced today that he would not be supporting the graham/cassidy bill. the president said that it actually came as a surprise to him because he was given a list of people to be worried about and that john mccain was not on that list. listen to what the president said. >> they gave me a list of ten people that were absolutely nos. these are ten republican senators. now, john mccain's list -- [ crowd booing ] john mccain's name was not on the list. so that was unexpected. terrible. honestly, terrible. repeal and replace, because john mccain, if you look at his last campaign was all about repeal and replace, repeal and replace. >> reporter: so although the president -- what john mccain did today potentiall