Information he needs to wrap up the case within weeks. We do not want to run into the november elections. Back up from that. This should be over with september 1st. We have now given him an answer. He obviously should take a few days to consider it. We should get this resolved. Giuliani says the Trump Legal Team says this should wrap up before the november election. He believes republicans will benefit if the probe drags into november. Prosecutors in the bank and Tax Fraud Trial of Paul Manafort expect to rest the case against the former Campaign Boss on friday. The defense will present its case. 18 witnesses have testified. Notably rick gates. A former adviser to the trump campaign. Also taking the stand is a former irs agent on how manafort avoided paying taxes on millions
phil. Matthew, it wasnt just democrats, but republican chairman in the house asking to impose sanctions. Another round could come in a couple of months. Matthew chance, thank you. China vows to fight back against tariffs accusing the white house of having a mobster mentality. 16 billion of u. S. Goods is direct response to the u. S. In the exact amount. If the Trump AdministrationQuote Cannot Marshal its mobster mentali mentality, china has no choice but to fight back. So far, china has threatened up to 110 billion in u. S. Goods. President trump has also threatened to target everything the u. S. Buys or 500 billion in chinese goods. Tariffs on either side would hurt consumers and businesses. U. S. Companies pay to import goods and higher costs would mean they raise prices or cut jobs. Tariffs are causing a South Carolina company to nearly layoff all of the workers. It imports parts from china to build tvs. It blames the closure on u. S. Tariffs. Firefighters in california starting to make head way in the fight against the mendocino complex fire. The largest fire in state history. The fire scorched 302,000 acres. The inferno is now 47 contained. We have Stephanie Elam with more. Reporter that blaze there is part of the firefighters starting here. The controlled burn. They doing this to burn out the fuel here because as the winds pick up in the afternoon and humidity drops, that fire on the other side of the ridge behind
that fire could spread. They are trying to make a stand here to stop this fire from growing any further. This fire is huge, but why has it been able to grow so big . The First Priority is protecting the communities and homes. We have to use a naturally occurring feature to help us control the fire. A Bulldozer Line coming through or along a creek or ridge . These are things you look for to be your wall of defense to stop the fire . Correct. We use existing roads or ridgelines or other features. Reporter adding fuel to the fire season, the National OceanicAtmospheric Administration says july was the hottest month on record in california history. Those dry and warm conditions creating the perfect storm. Stephanie elam, cnn. Thank you. The flames inch closer to residential areas. 20,000 people have been ordered to leave as the wildfire explodes in riverside county. Officials are fighting the fire from land and air. In the meantime, a 51yearold accused of setting the wildfire is scheduled to appear in court today. Forrest gordon clark. He was talking to a cameraman two days before his arrest. I have no idea. I was asleep. I just woke up, dude. I got burned. Clark faces a number of charges. Including suspicion of felony arson. You would not think it is possible. More disturbing details are emerging from the new mexico compound raided by the fbi. What the suspects had in store for the kids found there. And chilling confession from Parkland School shooter nikolas cruz. Disturbing details emerging in new mexico where 11 he mas emaciated children were found the compound. Five suspects accused of the kids were training them to commit school shootings. The compound appeared to have an improvised Shooting Range and firear firearms. One suspect denies the allegations. All five pleaded not guilty to child abuse on wednesday. They are scheduled for another hearing next week. Authorities are Industristill T determine if the remains they found belong to a missing 4yearold georgia boy. That search led authorities to the complex. Newly released Chilling Individu video of the Parkland School
shooters confession. The 19yearold accused of shooting the teachers and students. Cnns rosa flores has the story. Reporter released video of the School Shooter nikolas cruz interrogated hours after he shoot and killed people and injured others. Shows him barefoot in a Hospital Gown and answering questions for hours. How you got to the school. Reporter the video shows him at times acting erratically Murmeri Murmur Murmuring to himself. [ bleep ]. [ bleep ]. I want to die. Reporter at one point, cruz breaks down and sobs after the investigators grant the request to speak to his younger brother. Then he appears to laugh. Why did do you this . Dont laugh. Reporter cruz said he carried out the Mass Shooting at the direction of the demonic voice in his head. The narrative did not seem to sit well with the Broward County detective. I dont believe there is a voice. Reporter growing agitated, cruz demanded an attorney ending the fivehour interrogation. The claim he was directed to carry out mass murder on Valentines Day at Parkland High School by demonic voices in his head is in contrast to the videos he made before the shooting. Videos in way i talked about his s sin sinister plans. Now that he has introduced a possible line of defense, we believe the videos provide a fuller context to his mind set and motivation. Location is stoneman douglas. Reporter rosa flores, cnn, miami. Thank you. In virginia, the city of charlottesville declaring a State Of Emergency on the oneyear anniversary of the right to unite rally. That is if there is violence that breaks out this weekend in washington, d. C. Authorities took a lot of heat for under estimating the unrest at the rally last year where
heather heyer was run over and killed by a neonazi sympathizer. I cant believe it has been a year. Feels like it has been six. Coming up, the late night comedian comedians led to a federal investigation. Apple responds to a siri spy. Thats just ahead. They have passions pursue. How to they avoid trips to the post office . Stamps. Com mail letters. Ship packages. All the Amazing Services of the post office, right on your computer. Get a 4 week trial plus 100 in extras including postage and a digital scale go to stamps. Com now and never go to the post office again. Im a small business, but i have. Big dreams. And big plans. So how do i make the efforts of 8 employees. Feel like 50 . How can i share new plans virtually . How can i download an efile . Virtual tours . Zipfile . Really big files . In seconds, not minutes. Just like that. Like everything. The answer is simple. Ill do what ive always done. Dream more, dream faster, and above all. Now, ill dream gig. Now more businesses, in more places, can afford to dream gig. Comcast, building americas largest gigspeed network. The Government Investigation reveals there was no cyber attack against the fcc web site last year. Blame it on john oliver fans. In may of 2017, the Comments System was crippled by an overwhelming surge of traffic. It turns out that surge took place right after the host of hbos Last Week Tonight called on viewers to express views on net neutrality. Im calling upon all of you, the internet, time wasters, and troublemakers to join me once more in five to ten minutes of effort. I need you to do this. Once more, my friends. Go to this url and tell the fcc to speak out on net neutrality. Within minutes, the traffic spiked to cause a Service Disruption from sunday night into monday morning. The chief Information Officer at the time described the incident as a deny of attacks. That triggers called to the
administration. He has not responded to cnns request for comment. Siri, are you spying on me . In a letter to lawmakers, apple says the phones do not listen to what you are saying. Third Party App Developers do not have access. It is responding to a committee request. It is about the smartphone Data Collection practices. Google received a similar letter. Just anecdotally, no one believes apple on this. Everyone think s iphone. It knows too much. Everybody still buys the phone and siri. For the record, it is not listening to you. Allegedly. The Motion Picture academy announcing changes to the oscars. The Ceremony Making Room for the biggest blockbuster by adding a
new category for achievement in popular film. Im sure Exttraditionalists Lov that. Other changes are planned as well. Stricter adherence to the threehour time limit on the telecast and earlier air date. Good luck with that. Another gop Congressional Seat in jeopardy after lawmakers stunning indictment. And the president s lawyers respond to the request for a Robert Muellers sitdown interview. Details ahead. With targest selection of audiobooks. Audible lets you follow plot twists off the beaten track. Or discover magic when you hit the open road. With the free audible app, your stories go wherever you do. And for just 14. 95 a month you get a credit, good for any audiobook. If you dont like it exchange it any time. No questions asked. You can also roll your credits to the next month
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accused the new York Congress member, his son and another man of securities and wire fraud. Collins vowed last night he will continue his run for reelection in november. The charges that have been levied against me are meritless. I will mount a vigorous defense in court to clear my name. I look forward to being fully vindicated and exonerated ending any and all questions. That is where collins was on the board of directors. He was the first sitting Congress Member to endorse donald trump. Collins indictment turns another safe republican seat into a battleground. The White House Legal Team says it is sent a counteroffer to special Counsel Robert Mueller on a possible interview with the president. The president s lawyers are
rejecting the terms for the narrow scope for questioning. They do not want the president facing questions of obstruction. Here is giuliani talking to sean hannity. Stop the nonsense. You are trying to trap him into perjury because you dont have a case. Giuliani called the first offer a good attempt faith to reach an agreement. Mueller has all of the information he needs to wrap up the case within weeks. We do not want to run into the november elections. Back up from that. This should be over with september 1st. We have now given him an answer. He obviously should take a few days to consider it. We should get this resolved. Giuliani says the Trump Legal Team says this should wrap up before the november election. He believes republicans will benefit if the probe drags into november. Wrap it up. Go through november. Here is reality. Nobody knows the timing. We will see. Prosecutors in the bank and Tax Fraud Trial of Paul Manafort expect to rest the case against the former Campaign Boss on friday. The defense will present its case. 18 witnesses have testified. Notably rick gates. Manaforts exdeputy and former adviser to the trump campaign. Also taking the stand is a former irs agent on how manafort avoided paying taxes on millions of income. We have more from cnns kara scannell. Reporter follow the money. Witnesses from the fbi and irs walked the jury through documents, emails and Bank Accounts from the ukraine to manaforts accounts. They showed Bank Account Statements manafort signed. His Passport Photo included in
the Bank Accounts. And showing funds which flew to u. S. Vendors. The jury heard from those early in the week and last week detailing he paid for a mercedesbenz and ostrich jacket. The jury heard from prosecutors in total that meant manafort did not pay tax on 15 million. That is a key part of the case. Prosecutors told the judge they have eight more witnesses to call. Christine, phil. Kara, thank you. The Trump Administration set to slap a new around of sanctions on russia as the punishment for the poisoning of former russian spy and his daughter. The state Department Says the sanctions are required under international law. The first round of sanctions set to go in effect in two weeks. How is the kremlin responding . Lets bring in correspondent matthew chance. Live in moscow. Matthew, what are they saying . Reporter theyre not happy about it. To some extent, these came out
of the blue. There would be sanctions against russia from the United States, but in punishment for the alleged meddling in the 2016 election. The fact that antichemical Weapons Legislation was used is unexpected. It doesnt mean they have not criticized the sanctions. Saying they were absurd and based on no proof or logic or clues. Restating the russian position they had nothing to do with the skripal poisoning. They characterized it as antirussian witch hunt. They would not poison their own people on the streets of the british town of salisbury. It comes out of the political atmosphere in the United States where the pressure is building, particularly in the aftermath of the putin Trump Summit In Helsinki where he was seen as weak to the u. S. President. It comes out of the idea that pressure is building on the
Trump Administration and others in the u. S. To take a tougher and firmer line against russia. So the expectation here is that we will see more sanctions in the weeks and months ahead. What will the russian response be . Not much, but in the past they imposed counter sanctions. Measures like that may be considered. Christine. Matthew chance for us in moscow. Thank you. Firefighters in california starting to make head way in the fight against the mendocino complex fire. The largest fire in state history. The fire scorched 302,000 acres. More than 100 homes have been destroyed. The inferno is now 47 contained. We have Stephanie Elam with more. Reporter were on the front edge of the mendocino fire. The front edge. That blaze there is part of the firefighters starting here. The controlled burn. They doing this to burn out the fuel here because as the winds pick up in the afternoon and humidity drops, that fire on the other side of the ridge behind that fire could spread. They are trying to make a stand here to stop this fire from growing any further. This fire is huge, but why has it been able to grow so big . The First Priority is protecting the communities and homes. We have to use a naturally occurring feature to help us control the fire. A Bulldozer Line coming through or along a creek or ridge . These are things you look for to be your wall of defense to stop the fire . Correct. We use existing roads or ridge lines or other features. Reporter adding fuel to the fire season, the National OceanicAtmospheric Administration says july was the hottest month on record in california history. Those dry and warm conditions creating the perfect storm. Stephanie elam, cnn. Thank you. Now to another fire. Holy fire triggering a new evacuation overnight. 20,000 people have been ordered to leave as the fire explodes in riverside county. Officials are battling the blaze from land and air. At this point, the fire is 5 contained. A 51yearold man is accused of setting the destructive wildfire and scheduled to appear in court today. You want to watch this. Here is the man. Forrest gordon clark talking to a Freelance Cameraman before his arrest. I have no idea. I was asleep. I just woke up, dude. I got burned. Clark faces a number of charges. Including suspicion of felony arson. The first u. S. City is trieng to rei trying to rein
in ride sharing. The goal is to produce traffic by freezing new Vehicle Licenses for one year. Ride sharing has revolutionized transportati transportation, but increased traffic in large cities. Now there are 80,000 Ride Share Companies in new york city. This could provide a model for other cities. This could mean higher fares particularly for neighborhoods of color. And this move to hurt its growth. Taxi drivers welcome the measure, of course, which sets a minimum wage for taxi drivers. The rise has cut into drivers paychecks. The Taxi Workers Alliance blames six suicides on the drop in income. The raging uber and taxi battle across the country. Disturbing details emerge
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found belong to a missing 4yearold georgia boy. That search led authorities to the complex. Newly released chilling video of the Parkland School shooters confession. An Interrogation Video released by prosecutors showing the 19yearold accused of shooting the teachers and students. Cnns rosa flores has the story. Reporter released video of the School Shooter nikolas cruz interrogated hours after he shot and killed people and injured others. Shows him barefoot in a Hospital Gown and answering questions for hours. How you got to the school. Reporter the video shows him at times acting erratically murmuring to himself. About wanting to die. Forming his hand into the shape of a gun and putting to his
head. [ bleep ]. [ bleep ]. I want to die. Reporter at one point, cruz breaks down and sobs after the investigators grant the request to speak to his younger brother. Then he appears to laugh. Why did do you this . Dont laugh. Reporter cruz said he carried out the Mass Shooting at the direction of the demonic voice in his head. Telling him to do evil things. Burn, kill, destroy. Reporter the narrative did not seem to sit well with the Broward County detective. I dont believe there is a voice. Reporter growing agitated, cruz demanded an attorney ending the fivehour interrogation. The claim he was directed to
carry out mass murder on Valentines Day at Parkland High School by demonic voices in his head is in contrast to the boastful videos he made days before the shooting. Videos in way he talked about his sinister plans. Now that he has introduced a possible line of defense, we believe the videos provide a fuller context to his mind set and motivation. Location is stoneman douglas. Reporter rosa flores, cnn, miami. Tragedy there. To california, the Appeals Court rejected the appeal of the stanford swimmer convicted of sexual assault. Brock turners attorney claims that turner was ordered to serve six months in jail although a push for sixyear sentence. In the end, turner served three months behind bars because the jail was overcrowded. This resulted in a Recall Election that removed the trial judge, aaron persky. The judge who sentenced him to six months. The backlash there very real. There has been a sudden escalation of violence along the israeli gaza border. Launching a series of air strikes leaving three palestinians dead. Including an 18 month old baby. The attack comes after 150 rockets fired from gaza tired israel. Lets go live to the israeli gaza border and bring in oren liebermann. Oren, why now . Reporter phil, this region has been sentence with israel and gaza for months now. If that Tension Hadnt Bled into this escalation, it created an environment where this escalation can happen. That is what we saw last night when a number of rockets at this point starting from last night with more than 150 rockets and mortars fired, most landed in open areas. Some two dozen intercepted by israel iron dome. Some landed along gaza and sending israelis to the hospital. A furious response. A widespread air strike carried out against hamas military targets in gaza. They hit 140 targets which include Weapon Depots and tunnels and more across some 20 different sites. It is worth noting 12 hours or more after the escalation, it still has not ended. We hear israeli fighter jets
above us. We know red alerts are going off. The rocket alarms in gaza city south of us. The question is what brings about a deescalation to have both sides step back . We have seen the u. N. Step in and egypt to step in to bring the deescalation. This is an issue with the longerterm ceasefire. Oren liebermann, it seems like it is on a knifes edge. 51 minutes after the hour. Elon musk stunnis people with a tweet that he could take tesla private. That is bringing a probe about with the sec. Cnn money is next. Oh
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