Get a jump on the days news with Christine Romans and Dave Briggs. Washington in the russia probe of special counsel Robert Mueller. It is not clear what prosecutors want to ask her. She volunteered with members of muellers team for an interview. One possible line is the connection to roger stone. The veteran political consultant and trump adviser who is a subject in the russia investigation. The prosecution is expected to rest in the trial of paul manafort. Over the last week, the jury heard about his wardrobe and offshore Bank Accounts and lifestyle and doctored loan documents. His long time deputy Rick Gates Flipping in the case. As the defense prepares to offer its case, a court filing from Robert Mueller is sending a signal gates is a key in the russia probe. We have more from kara scannell. Reporter a new detail in the special counsels investigation was not revealed in court, but in a filing. Kansas Secretary Of State chris kobach says he will recuse himself from the still undecided gubernatorial race. Between himself and jeff collier. Kobach leads by a razor thin 91 votes after discrepancies were found from two counties. He is expected to recuse himself officially today after collier made the demanded last night. The county did the counting of ballots. There is no point to it, but i said if my opponent wishes, i would be happy. I dont think he understands the process. Thousands of provisional ballots have to be counted. Officials are blaming a clerical error where collier was short changed votes. Sinclairs acquisition of Tribune Media is dead. This would have created a power house. This is the biggest deal for sincla sinclair. It is criticized for the mustrun segments of
conservative commentary for reading a promo of antitrump rhetoric. Push their own personal alliance and agenda into what people think. This is extremely dangerous. Tribune terminated the agreement after the fcc chair expressed serious concerns putting the deal in doubt. The merger would have given sinclair 72 of the u. S. Households. Tribune pulled out after sinclair did not sell off stations as requested. Tribune is now suing for breach of contract. Sinclair says it is disappointed the deal failed, but intends to fight the lawsuit. A lot of lawyers going to make a lot of money. The u. S. And north korea in a new standoff over nuclear weapons. A little report just ahead. And nasas next mission to explore this space hot spot. vo this is not a video game. This is not a screensaver. This is the destruction of a cancer cell by the bodys own immune system, thanks to medicine that didnt exist until now. And today can save your life. Take prilosec otc and take control of heartburn. So you dont have to stash antacids here. Here. Or, here. Kick your Antacid Habit with prilosec otc. One pill a day, 24 hours, zero heartburn. My wifes little bundle of joy. Who i just adore. Open to the armed forces, the dod, veterans and their families. Navy federal credit union. The first person to survive alzis out there. Ase and the Alzheimers Association is going to make it happen by funding scientific breakthroughs, advancing public policy, and providing local support to those living with the disease and their caregivers. But we wont get there without you. Join the fight with the Alzheimers Association. But i am a simple farmer. Bas my life is here. [telephone ring] ahoyhoy. Alexander graham bell here. No, no, my number is one, you must want two two, i say like my father before. [telephone ring] like my father before. Ahoyhoy as long as people talk too loudly on the phone, you can count on geico saving folks money. Fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. The u. S. And north korea in a verbal standoff this morning. Pyongyang insisting high level officials in the administration are thwarting President Trumps will by Amping Up Pressure on the kim regime to denuclearization. On the other side, diplomatic sources tell cnn that the u. S. Has made proposals for a verified denuclearization. All of them have been rejected by the kim regime as gangster like. For the latest on the impasse, lets bring in cnns will ripley live in hong kong. Reporter phil, this is really getting increasingly frustrated for all sides involved. From what we are hearing, the meeting in july when Secretary Of State mike pompeo went to pyongyang, they made a proposal for north korea to make a bold move to denuclearization and give up nuclear weapons. We could not verify. The United States made a request
and north korea rejected it. United states makes the request again and it was rejected. Both sides became frustrated and the meeting that was supposed to has been with kim jongun did not happen. It was widely seen as a snub. Now we have this kind of war of words. Back and forth publicly. Pompeo and nikki haley at the u. N. National security adviser John Bolton On Cable News making the case that north korea is not living up to the deal with denuclearization and being difficult. Now the north koreans firing back. Saying they blew up the Nuclear Test Site and not launched anything since november. Why is the United States not fulfilling its promise to work toward korean war peace treaty . Whether or not the United States agreed to that we dont know. What we know is they dont feel they with work at the lower
they can work with the lower level. And a strong possibility that will happen is a summit with kim jongun and President Trump. They feel they will get a more favorable deal if they sit down. President trump has been nice to kim on twitter. They have been attacking the people that make up his government. They are questioning u. S. Intelligence saying that u. S. Intelligence has been ordered to fabricate information about north Koreas Nuclear program. They were developing missiles and enriching nuclear fuel. North korea is saying that is a result to undermine this. They are putting their faith in President Trump. We will see what happens. Familiar Hearing Somebody question the intelligence. We will keep a close eye on it. Will, thank you. Vice president mike pence calling for the establishment of the space force by 2020. The president s sentiments that Military Conflict in space is a
real threat. Previous administrations all but Necessity Glesglected the G Security Threats emerging in space. President trump stated that space is in his words a War Fighting Domain just like land and air and sea. Cnns Barbara Starr has the latest from the pentagon. Reporter christine, phil, Vice President mike pence coming to the pentagon to unveil President Trumps plan to radically change one element of war fighting. The president long wanting to see a United States space force. A new branch of the u. S. Military to focus on war fighting in space. Outside the earths atmosphere. What he is talking about is taking all the elements of u. S. Military Service Capabilities and putting them under a new branch of the military. Whether that is needed or not is
a subject to debate. Congress would have to approve it. People do in tnot dispute therea space threat. Chinese and north koreans and iranians working on capabilities in space. Chinese in 2007, in fact, Non Straighted a missile demonstrated a missile that could smohoot down a satellitesn space. That was a game changer. If you can shoot down a satellites in space and shoot down an american satellites, it would affect life. Gps. Internet. Weather forecasting. It would fundamentally change American Life forever if american satellites were put at risk. The president believes having a new United States space force is the way to go. Congress still would have to approve the final elements of the plan. Christine. Phil. Barbara, thank you. Nasa is set to launch a solar probe in the next two weeks. The Parker Solar Probe will come within 3. 8 million miles of the suns surface trying to unlock mysteries why The Suns Corona is hotter than the surface. It will encounter temperatures of 2,500 degreess fahrenheit. The mission expected to take about seven years. I appreciate your cliffs notes. Walking me through. That was good. Thank you. Its early. I appreciate that. The nfl is back and so is the National Anthem kneeling controversy. Andy scholes has more in the Bleacher Report coming up next. R its a series of smart choices. And when you replace one meal or snack a day with glucerna made with carbsteady to help minimize blood sugar spikes
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seasons. He spoke about continuing to do it after the game. This hasnt been easy. I thought i was going to be by myself out there. Tonight i had an angel with me with albert out there and im grateful that he sees what is happening and he wants to stand up and do something about it. Colin kaepernick who started the Movement Tweeting about stills saying my brother continued his protest of systematic oppression by taking a knee. Albert wilson joined him in protest. Stay strong. Four players raised their fists during the anthem and several remained in the locker room during the anthem before taking the field. Last night was our first look at the rookie class in the nfl. Heisman trophy winner Baker Mayfield threw for 212 yards and 2 touchdowns. The second pick in the draft
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madame testifies in front of the grand jury. The time has come for the United States space force. And the Trump Administration shoots for the stars. But what would this branch of the military do . Im christine romans. Im phil mattingly. We are in the home stretch. It is friday. That is what matters. Breaking overnight. Californias governor declaring a State Of Emergency as the raging holy fire inches closer to homes in the southern part of the state. Here is what we know. The inferno is 5 contained. More than 21,000 people under mandatory evacuation and so far, more than 10,000 acres have burned. Look at these images emerging overnight from The Holy Fire bearing down on this neighborhood in lake elsinore. Firefighters asking a man to leave as he was using a garden
hose to put flames out on his roof. This man capturing flames in his backyard. This man eventually left and told cnn he is not sure he will have a home when we returns. Cnns Stephanie Elam brings us the latest from lake elsinore. Reporter christine and phil, this is the concern. We are here at The Holy Fire. Look at how this hillside is going up right now. If you look downhill, if you slowly look down here, you will see that firefighters are taking a stand here. These blazes going up right behind the homes. It is casting so much dark smoke in the sky, you cannot tell how bright it is here. They are fighting this and the huge problem is the winds. The winds are not expected to let up anytime soon. With that in mind, firefighters are saying they are nowhere near containing the fire here. Phil and christine. Stephanie, thank you. Stay safe. The National Anthem kneeling controversy is alive and well in the nfl. A full schedule of week one games last night. Look at Miami Dolphins Wide Receivers kenny stills and Albert Wilson taking a knee before taking on the bucs. In cleveland, members kneeled in the end zone before the anthem was played. Three players with the Seahawks Made Statements by waiting in the tunnel before taking the field. The nfl says no punishment will be handed out while it continues to work with the Players Union on the agreeable policy. Later today, the Manhattan Madame Kristin Davis appears before a grand jury in washington in the russia probe of Robert Mueller. It is not clear what prosecutors want to ask her. She interviewed voluntarily last week with muellers team. One possible line is the connection to roger stone. The veteran political consultant
and trump adviser who is a subject in the russia investigation. The prosecution is expected to rest in the trial of paul manafort. Over the last week, the jury heard about his wardrobe and offshore Bank Accounts and lifestyle and doctored loan documents. His long time deputy rick gates has flipped. As the defense prepares to offer its case, a court filing from Robert Mueller is sending a signal gates is a key in the russia probe. We have more from kara scannell. Reporter a new detail in the special counsels investigation was not revealed in court, but in a filing. Prosecutors asked the judge to seal a portion of the side bar that took place when rick gates was on the stand. Paul manaforts attorney asked gates about the interviews he had with the special counsels office concerning his time on the trump campaign. Gates worked as the deputy on the campaign and continued to work with the inauguration. The judge agreed to seal it after it had evidence of the ongoing investigation. Inside court, the jury heard a lot of details about bank fraud, specifically 3. 4 million loan. Paul manafort had taken out from the bank. He told the bank it was a second home. Prosecutors say that was a lie and provided the bank false information when it was rental property. They showed airbnb records. They indicated that manafort rented the property and one of the Mortgage Bankers testified. If it was a rental, he would not get as much money. He exceeded the bank policy by 2. 4 million. Prosecutors have four more witnesses to call and two have immunity deals. Prosecutors say they intend to wrap the case today. Christine, phil. Thank you. Kansas Secretary Of State chris kobach will recuse himself
from the race for governor. Kobach leads by razor thin 91 votes. He is expected to recuse himself today after collier made the demand in a letter last night. The counties do the counting of ballots. There is no point to it, but if my opponent wishes to, i would be happy. It is symbolic. I dont think he understands the process. Thousands of provisional and mailin ballots need to be counted. A clerical error is to blame where collier was shorted 100 votes. Lets bring in greg valliere. One of the smartest guys in town. I wanted to bring up kansas. I want to bring up Something Else on tuesday. Ohio 12 which is a close race. It still hasnt been called. One of the most interesting elements of the race is mr. Balderson was not talking about an economy that was growing over 4 last quarter. Not talking about the tax cuts. Things are good economically, greg. Why arent they talking about this . It say is a remarkable story phil. Republicans are running away from the tax cuts. Polls are showing a lot of voters feel that only big business and the very wealthy benefitted. They are not talking it up. They are not bragging about the economy that is growing by 4 . Instead focusing on the nfl protests. The president at least. The things we keep saying why does he pivot away from the Strong Economy. Why doesnt he talk about the Strong Economy . The other issues that he thinks will play better. It will be interesting. A lot of issues. Big piece this morning about nancy pelosi. A liability. Exactly right. Obviously immigration is a strong issue for donald trump. Another one in that part of the country will resonate is tariffs. I think whether it is in the Foreign Community or small manufacturing, these tariffs have the potential to soften the Economic Growth by the end of the year. I have been in iowa this summer. I was surprised how much Breathing Space many iowa farmers and voters are giving the president. Saying wait and see. He is the first one with the courage that to take on trade and china. We have to see how much Breathing Space they give him. Especially when you look at defic deficits. Cbo showed the federal deficit up 20 after the tax cuts and the huge spending bill. If the president is going to be running or candidates running on the economy, they have to be careful. The traditional orthodox is you
dont blow up deficits to give tax cuts to companies. All discipline has gone. In both parties in washington on spending will give billions to farmers because of the soybean tariffs. We will spend more money on space. What pence said yesterday will eventually get enacted. Nobody is talking about fiscal restraint. One other quick point which is e ironic, Interest Rates have been falling overnight. Maybe because of the turkish lira. Investors will look for a safe haven. The safest of all is treasury. I think rates could surprise people and head lower rather than go higher. Interesting. You bring up the lira and its crash. If you look at what happened to the russian ruble and what continues to happen to the russian ruble. An offshoot of sanctions announced a couple days ago. Down 3 already. The question i have is you have
the administration i mplementin policies. Then the president on the other side of things saying what he said in helsinki. What is your sense of what the administrations actual policy is toward russia right now . It has become more aggressive. The threat of more sanctions down the road in the fall. My sense is that for the Financial Markets that like predictability and markets dont like surprises. All of a sudden, we have spector of currencies collapsing. When that happens, the markets could get jittery. For now, The Big Story is lower Interest Rates. Okay. Interesting. We will watch. Greg, nice to see you. Two reporters on one set on the economy. China warns a u. S. Plane on a mission over hotly disputed islands. A report just ahead. And a teenager pushed off
the bridge by her friend. Tense moments in the skies over the South China Sea. Chinese military warning the u. S. Surveillance plane six times as it flew over the hotly contested area where china built up manmade bases on the islands in the South China Sea. We have more now from ivan watson. Reporter we got rare and exclusive access into the catandmouse game that the u. S. Military and Chinese Military are playing in the South China Sea. Weap we went on the Reconnaissance Plane with the u. S. Military of the South China Sea islands
which are manmade. The area is contested by other countries in the area and china has constructed the Manmade Islands and while flying past, the Chinese Military challenged the u. S. Navy plane six times. Take a listen. U. S. Military aircraft, leave immediately to avoid a misunderstanding. U. S. Aircraft conducting lawful activities beyond the air space and exercising these rights is guaranteed by international law. Reporter now what this comes down to is china claims virtually all of the South China Sea for itself. The u. S. Government, many other countries in the region, refuse those claims and insist this is International Water and International Air space. Thats where you have the standoff. Going one step further, the
pentagon accused china of militarizing the Manmade Islands arming with surfacetoair missiles and landing watr plane on them. China insists it has a right to defend its own territory. You have a standoff with two powers and this was what the u. S. Navy describes as routine flight where they monitor the immense construction that has happened building these virtual cities in the middle of the ocean. Christine. Buildings and ports and military installations. Thanks for that inchifantsighin and Vice President pence laying out a space force by 2020. He gave the remarks at the pentagon thursday. He wants to establish the Military Branch to oversee war fighting in space. Pence echoed the president s sentiments saying the move would ensure american dominance on the final frontier. Previous administrations all but necessiglected the growinG Security Threats in space. President Trump Straigated clea that space in his words is a War Fighting Domain just like land and air and sea. And the new Military Branch would require congressional approval, but the Trump Reelection Campaign is allin on this launching the efforts calling supporters to help select the Space Force Official logo. It will be displayed on merchandise on the president s Reelection Campaign site. Lets get a check on cnn money. Global stocks lower weighed down by trade fears. A mixed day on wall street. Dow and s p closed lower. A drop in energy and financial stocks. S p is still 1 shy of the
record high. It wouldnt take much to make a record. Nasdaq closed higher for the eighth session in a row after amazon which is up 62 this year. Tech is the best Performing Sector so far this year. Tech Companies Make huge profits and largely immune to trade wars. Invest ors have doubts over tesla going private. Tesla stock fell 5 . Wiping out gains of the musk announceme announcement. On tuesday, musk secured funding above the current stock price, but revealed no further dead. Investor details. The fcc is looking into whether the Musk Statement was true that he secured the funding and looking into why he announced it on twitter. Buffalo wild wings wants to add to the menu. Sports betting. Will you wager with your wings . In may, the Sports Betting was legalized legalized. In new jersey and delaware have done so already. Buffalo wild wings has 1,200 restaurants nationwide. 50 minutes past the hour. Firefighters in the west facing another day of hot and dry conditions. Meteorologist ivan cabrera has the latest. Good morning. The western u. S. Tracking fires. California here with the heat and low relative humidity will continue. Scattered showers and thunderstorms will pop up. Across the northeast, a front will come in and a cooler weekend ahead for saturday and sunday in new york. Look at that. 89 for later this afternoon. We have some rainfall coming in as well on that front. Behind it, watch what happens. Temperatures coming down a good 10 plus degrees. By saturday and sunday, we will be in the upper 70s for boston
and new england. Chicago in the mid80s. We continue to see the trend here staying below 80 until tuesday and we get back into more summery weather wednesday and thursday in new york. There are the red flag warnings. That is highfire danger. That will continue through the weekend. Pacific northwest will see a front coming in and that will cool things off. We have the fires here and we will continue with hot temperatures and gusty winds. Guys. A terrible combination. Thank you. A guess who is thinking about run guess who is thinking about running for president against donald trump . Serious about considering it. More from Stormy Daniels lawyer Michael Avenatti coming up. And with friends like these, who needs enemies if enemies . vo when bandits stole the lockbox from the wells fargo stagecoach,
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fainted, but when i hit the water, i was awake and aware. I was trying to push myself forward so i could be straight up and down so my feet hit first. That didnt really work. She broke a number of ribs and damaged a lung and will take weeks to recover. Local media reports the friend that pushed her may face charges. Michael avenatti for president in 2020 . The attorney for Stormy Daniels says he is considering it. He just traveled to iowa, the first in the nation caucus state, to test the waters. He said his ultimate goal is to get President Trump out of office. Im worried about the Democratic Party nominating somebody who cannot be competitive and beat donald trump in 2020. That is the number one question the party has to ask is can this nominee, potential nominee, beat donald trump. Avenatti says he will make up his mind in the coming weeks. Space force. The name sounds funny. Especially if you ask stephen colbert. Tonight, big news about Space Force Long time viewers of the Trump Administration will remember that space force is the president s boldest idea that he got from a Buzz Lightyear happy meal toy. A boost from Vice President pence. He is a huge fan of space. The farthest you can get from being alone with a human woman. There were 666 does not seem like enough options to us. We made a few of our own. Space force. Mars has cleaner water than flint. In space, no one can hear you collude. One small step for man, really small hands for a man. Just in case you missed stephen colbert. Thanks for joining us
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