A newscast reviewing and analyzing top stories of the day as they happen. Levelling at Robert Mueller. Its much more personal than it has been in the past. The president used to sort of question the genesis of the Mueller Investigation, suggested there were a lot of conflicts of interest among his team. Now hes really going after mueller. This is of a piece with a decision that were told will be coming very soon in which the president and his legal team are likely to say and theres always a chance it could be different but were told they are likely to say that there will be no interview with Robert Mueller. The president has got the final say, but theres pretty much unaminomt. There was question that i was going to ask at the Press Conference had i been called on. The two people that were called on did not bring it up. Theres reasons why, a multitude of reasons why the president s attorneys believe that he should not sit down with him. First and foremost, they believe that Robert Mueller has not made the case that he needs to get information from the president that he can only get from the president , that he doesnt already have through all of these thousands of documents that the white house and the transition has provided to the special counsel. The other thing, of course, shep, all of this news that has been out here for weeks now about the genesis of the Mueller Investigation, the people that were involved. So it looks at this point like theyre going down the road of saying no to Robert Mueller. Theyre still in talks. The talks do not seem to be going anywhere. So i would pretty surprised after hearing what i heard from many sources today, shep, that they would go against that and say yes, he will do a sit down. Looks like the answer at this point is going to be a big no. Shepard so a voluntary sit down is another but a subpoena is a whole other thing. The subpoena is a whole other thing. Robert mueller could seek a subpoena. Ken starr sought a subpoena against president clinton in the late 90s. And then clinton agreed to an interview in the app was gone. Many dont believe that Robert Mueller would go the subpoena route. Then again, this is washington, shep. Anything can happen. Shepard the president reiterating that hes willing to shut down the government for border wall funding and other matters of immigration. This would be to believe that the president could alter what has been the established course of history. Every time the government is shut down, its republicans that take the brunt of the blame for it. The president is putting forward a case where hes saying look, this is about national security. We need to have immigration reform. We need a border wall built. I need the money to do that. If i dont do it, i will shut down the government and he believes that that is an argument a fight that he can win. Listen here. As far as the border is shepard do we know hes serious about meeting with irans leaders as no preconditions as i remember a previous president saying . Yeah. Dont forget barack obama said that and he would meet with the leader of syria. The president says hes serious about it when it comes to this particular issue. Dont forget, just a few days ago, the president tweeting in all caps that iran would suffer the consequences the likes of which few have ever suffered if they threatened the United States again. Then he holds out this idea for the president of iran to say look, ill meet with you. Id be happy to sit down. Talking is good. Listen here. If we could work something out, thats meaningful, not the waste of paper that the other deal was, i would certainly be willing. No preconditions. If they want to meet, ill meet. So the president is using the north korean model to say nobody wanted to sit down with kim jongun. I did. Looks like were getting something from it. He also cited russia saying the news about that russian meeting was incorrect. He did make a lot of progress with vladimir putin. The president does believe, shep, that its better to sit down and talk than it is to fire missiles at each other. On that point, he may have a point. Shepard he may. Those arent the only two options. That hes well aware. John, thank you. In addition to his comments on collusion, the president s lawyer, rudy guliani, continued his attacks on the president s former lawyer and fixer, Michael Cohen. Rudy guliani Accused Cohen of doctoring one of the recordings. Rick leventhal is here with more. I had Michael Cohen on the phone. I wish we had a chance to talk about all of these topics. But instead he thanked me and referred me to his lawyer and hung up. But the president says cohen cant be trusted anymore. This morning on cnn, rudy guliani would have called Benedict Arnold an honest before before finding out hes a traitor. He called Michael Cohen a pathological lawyer. He told Fox And Friends that its cohens lack of credibility. Theres numerous recordings of other people having nothing to do with the trump organization, which will give you an idea of what a scoundrel he was. And rudy guliani said the recordings themselves cant be trusted. If he taped everything else, why didnt he tape this . Hes capable i think of doctoring tapes. Hes not done it. Hard to do it now since we have an expert all over it. Its flat out untrue. The tape hes referring to that we heard was a recorded conversation with the president and karen mcdougal, a playboy playmate. Rudy guliani said about a dozen of recordings are of any substance and all of them There Exonerate President Trump. Shepard well find out. New other response to Michael Cohen . We heard that rudy guliani would waive Attorney Client privilege to release the tapes. The Statement Reads from lanny davis, mr. Guliani waived Attorney Client privilege last week and repeatedly and accurately as proven by the time forfeited all confidentiality. We also heard from michael avenatti, the attorney for Stormy Daniels who got a 130,000 payment from cohen and signed a Nondisclosure Agreement about her affair with trump. Avenatti posting on twitter at rudy guliani, are you denying there were other hush payment . Asking for some friends. Buckle up, buttercup. The president s stupidity and loyalty is shepard you better buckle up, buttercup . Thats what he said. Reading his words. Shepard i wasnt sure. You better buckle up buttercup. That got a laugh from the stage crew that rarely paying attention. That was to the president. Shepard i get it. Two things happening. Only two things . Shepard two important ones. A Mueller Investigation. Its a legal investigation and there are no leaks. And then theres a political thing happening. Thats a zoo. It is. Shepard i like the zoo. I wish i didnt spend all my time at the zoo. We all do, safe to say . Love, love. Thanks, rick. Youre welcome. Shepard ahead, more on the latest attacks on the president s former lawyer and Robert Mueller. Well talk about the trump teams strategy. Lions and tigers and bears. Oh, my so you have, your headphones, chair, the latest comments on the president s lawyer on the Russian Investigation. Lets bring there chad day for the a. P. None of this chatter makes any matter in all matters mueller. But since theyre saying its and leading us down this road, today we got well talk to iran. The president said without preconditions, rouhani he would meet with, the ayatollah ho holemani would have to sign off on it. With the meeting with iran, could be shepard the suggestion of such. Obama suggested the same. Right. The suggestion is not unprecedented. President obama shared a phone call with president rouhani in 2013. What is interesting about this is trump saying that the meeting would come with no preconditions. As you know, this administration has been tape a very hard line on iran. President tearing up the jcpoa and new sanctions are coming in next week. So you know, its an interesting view in trump diplomacy at this point where he kind of is harkening back to how he approached the north korea meeting as well. Shepard you wonder if he found out obama did the same thing he will take the same stance. Time will tell. Whats up at stake for the Paul Manafort trial . What is at stake, Paul Manafort is facing a serious amount of time in jail if he was convicted. On a larger ramification for this, this is all coming none of this is happening in a vacuum. Mueller is still continuing his investigation in other parts of Russian Election interference. As we have seen today, the president ratcheted up his attacks on mueller trying to continue to undermine his witch hunt or hoax. So what its setting up to be, well be having a week or two or three weeks for News Coverage that the president will be seeing where mueller and a trial is going on, so its going to be at t at the forefront of his mind. Theres going to be a lot of attention on mueller. Shepard how does this trial fit into the Bigger Picture Mueller Investigation . Right, this trial is actually what its handling is tax evasion and Bank Fraud Charges against Paul Manafort. The way it fits in. Manafort is facing two trials. One, this trial is more of a financial trail and one in september where he will face charges of being an unregistered agent for the ukrainian interests. Neither of these cases have anything to do or any charges that are directly connected to Russian Election interference, which is something that manaforts team has seized on. What it fits in the larger perspective of, theres going to be some discussion of the campaign. Prosecutors have said there was a bank loan that was extended to Paul Manafort in which the banker actual live was extended a fraudulent loan to Paul Manafort where he was promised a job on the campaign and later floated the idea of a possible job in the administration. So as this fits into the larger context, well see as the evidence comes out of trial. But what we do know is that this is a serious trial nor Paul Manafort. Shepard chad day for the a. P. Thank you. Thank you. Shepard president Trumps Supreme Court nominee is meeting with a democrat for the first time. What were learning about that meeting as a key republican announces which way he plans to vote. Thats next. Hey there people eligible for medicare. Gimme one minute. And ill tell you some important things to know about medicare. First, it doesnt pay for everything. Say this pizza is your part b medical expenses. This much about 80 medicare will pay for. Whats left is on you. 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It gives you super fast speeds for all your devices, provides the most Wifi Coverage for your home, and lets you control your network with the xfi app. Its the ultimate wifi experience. Xfinity xfi, simple, easy, awesome. Shepard president Trumps Supreme Court pick, judge Brett Kavanaugh meeting with a democratic lawmaker for the First Time Since the president announced his nomination. Senator joe manchin of West Virginia was one of three that confirmed neil gorsuch. Now hes meeting with judge kavanaugh. Chuck schumer promising to fight kavanaughs confirmation. Hes demanding to see documents from kavanaughs past work in the bush white house. Many other democrats following his lead. Earlier this month, joe manchin said that schumer could kiss his, you know, if he tried to pressure him. Our chief Congressional Correspondent mike emanuel is live on capitol hill. Hi, mike. This is judge kavanaughs 39th meeting with a senator according to senate sources. First with a democrat. We saw judge kavanaugh arrive with joe manchin within the past hour or so. Theres no doubt that judge kavanaugh would love some democrat support. Manchin is seen as a possibility. Manchin has held meters with constituents to get their take on the Supreme Court nominee to make sure he has their input. Meanwhile, Senate Democratic leadership continues to push for more documentation, particularly from when kavanaugh worked in the bush white house. Namely in these documents, if we get them, there may be bomb shells and smoking guns and other revealing evidence that goes to his views on these critical issues. Not just president ial power but roe v. Wade. Democrats say there could be critical information there in his past employment history. Some republicans suggest that could be a stall tactic, shep. Shepard weve been waiting to hear from rand paul on this matter. You knew what was going to happen. Theres a pattern here. Hes true to pattern. Senator rand paul says hes a yes on judge kavanaughs con fir makes. He said he was evaluating the nomination and had some concerns about privacy issues. He issued a Statement Saying that he was reassured that judge kavanaugh would execute the law faithfully in a Statement Saying after meeting judge kavanaugh and reviewing his record, i have decided to support his nomination. My conversation with judge kavanaugh reinforces my belief that he will evaluate cases before the Supreme Court from a text youll and originalist point of view. I believe he will carefully adhere to the contusion and protect individual liberties seriously. Another keep republican sounds very upbeat. As youll see in the poll numbers in these states that are red states where you have a democratic senator. Hes very popular. People want to see him confirmed. In the end, he will do well. If rand paul was a no, this could have fallen apart. Republicans think its a matter of time. Shepard thanks, mike emanuel. The first trial in the special investigation of russian meddling will start today. In this case, Paul Manafort is facing charges including tax evasion and bank fraud. Prosecutors accused manafort of making 60 million and failing to report a significant portion on his tax returns. Manafort has denied all of the charges against him. Hes the only american charged in the Russian Investigation who has not cut a deal to cooperate with prosecutors. This is the first Courtroom Test for Robert Mueller and his team. Lets bring in caroline, federal and white collar criminal defense lawyer. Good to see you. You too. As a reminder of what it was that was happening here, the russian government was propping up victor janakovich, the sponsor in the ukraine and wanted you cane to be more with russia and nato at a time when ukrainians were moving towards the west. It was Paul Manafort that was working for the russian propup and Didnt Report Tens Of Millions of dollars and didnt report that he was working for the Ukrainian Government sort of but really working for the russians in support of the ukraine. Thats right. Theres two trials. Hes indicted in two different districts. So the failing to register as a Foreign Agent of the ukrainian government, that trial is next. This trial has only to do with tax fraud and banking fraud. Ones janakovich fled the ukraine, the money dried up. Shepard thats the point when he went to work for donald trump. When the russian money dried up and there was no more job for victor janakovich, the guy supporting him because the guy is supporting him, whoops, hes heading to russia, when that money ran out, he started working for future President Trump. Thats right. He had been making millions on millions of dollars and the allegation of which is that he funneled those assets to Foreign Bank Accounts and used it to fuel his lavish lifestyle. You have to see the exhibit list that the government put out. It lays out to the extend that he led the high life. He spent over a Million Dollars on suits. Watches. He had multiple homes in different areas. Rugs. A lot of landscaping bills. He would use these foreign entities to pay for that lavish lifestyle and never reporting it as income, defrauding the United States. Shepard his connections with russia would have been a quick google. Thats right. Youre point being what . Shepard anybody that didnt know that he was working for russian interests didnt use the google machine. Thats right. Thats a Big Point Of Contention here in this trial. The question of whether or not the prosecutors can bring in evidence of russian collusion in the election of his work for donald trump on the campaign. Thats been hotly contested. We know the judge has laid this smackdown on the prosecutors in this case saying the only reason that theyre bringing this case is to get to trump. He ultimately did not dismiss the case. Hes had an eye on it. Prosecutors have been taken to task saying theyre not going to introduce prejudicial information. Shepard since when of Tens Of Millions in irs fraud be overlooked . Sounds outside the scope. Initially manafort made a motion to get this case dismissed saying that. Thats where we got the bomb shell Rod Rosenstein memo which laid out in perfect order the mandate of the special counsel, which the word collusion appeared for the first time in any federal document. That was really a Turning Point in this investigation. The public say the extend to which, you know, Robert Mueller was mandated to investigate these things. Shepard caroline, good to talk to you. Thank you. Shepard all right. Weeks after slamming our nato allies, President Trump is hosting the leader of one of those countries at the white house. This leader is actually a man with whom he has some things in common, at least politically. So he patching things up with our friends or is this Something Else . The bottom of the hour, top of the news. Headlines from the Fox News Deck in moments. No matter who rides point, there are over 10,000 allstate agents riding sweep. Call one today. Are you in good hands . We really pride ourselves on making it easy for you tech at safelite autoglass, to get your windshield fixed. With safelite, you can see exactly when well be there. Saving you time for what you love most. Kids whoa kids vo safelite repair, safelite replace or if youve had angioedema with an ace or arb. The most serious side effects are angioedema, low blood pressure, kidney problems, or high blood potassium. Ask your doctor about entresto for heart failure. Yeah entrust your heart to entresto. The beat goes on. It began under the obama administration. Weeks ago President Trump slammed our allies including italy and demanded that each spend more on their own militaries. The italian Prime Minister pushed back saying italy had not made any promises to boost Defense Spending. Blake burman live at the white house with more. Hi, blake. Seems like a lifetime ago. We were in brussels 2 1 2 weeks after. One of the criticisms, why was tough on our allies . The president said the coverage about nato was unfair and he said he had a good nato meeting and he talked about Defense Spending this year compared to last in a stronger tone. The president appears to have a new ally on the world stage. That being the italian Prime Minister, guiseppe conte. Conte described the discussion at nato as a Fruitful Exchange and he said the American People are wellserved when it comes to negotiations by this president. As a lawyer, you have a president that is strong, supporter and advocate of the interests of the American People and the american country. Hes a great negotiator. Shepard, one of the coincidences there of that comment is that italy is not one of the countries that has lived up to the moment to its spending goals, 2 of gdp to military spending. The president said he wants to see it get to 4 . Italy right now is 1 . They have a handful of years to get there. Shepard he talked, blake, about trade with the European Union as a whole. He did. Were still asking questions about a comment that he made at the tale end. Last week he made a statement with jeanclaude joncker made an agreement to lower tariffs. The two sticking points Going Forward is that the eu will buy more soy beans from the u. S. And import more liquid natural gas, lng. The president appeared to drop one detail at the very end of that Press Conference. Watch here. Were already talking to the European Union about building anywhere from nine to 11 ports, which they will pay for so we can ship our lng over to various parts of europe. That will be more competition. The sanctions on russia will remain as is. 9 to 11 more ports in the European Union. We dont know exactly where these would be, if its been agreed to. The president says the e. U. Will pay for it, but which countries might pay for it . Bottom line, shepard, lots of questions involving that. By the way, Natural Gas Prices dropped on that news. They were dropping before. But dropped as the president made those comments as well. More supply inevitably mean price goes down. Shepard thank you, blake. Lets go to john bussey, fox news contributor. Associate editor at the wall street journal. John is working in madrid right now in spain. Spain is a member of the European Union. John, good to see you. Good to see you. Shepard The Port Thing was all kinds of new to me and i guess to the markets. Yeah, im not sure what to make of this. The president is looking for successes to give to congress. Hes got a lot of criticism from the gop for his tariffs on china and the e. U. The European Union is mad about it. He came out of that meeting last week and said look, theyre going to buy more lng and soy beans from us. Theyre not huge on soy beans in europe and the reason that they may be buying more is that the prices are down and the reason for that is that china put tariffs on our soy beans, were not selling as much to china, having to prop up farmers with special subsidies now. The u. S. Put the tariffs on chinese goods and the chinese retaliated against. We have a good story on line right now. The people close to the european trade negotiators said what came out of last weeks meeting, yeah, well buy more soy beans i guess because the prices are down and lng is cheaper than oil. Well leave to it the market. We have not going to step in like the soviet union did and buy because the leaders have agreed to that . And lng is liquefied natural gas. Didnt know if you knew that. Meeting with the iranian leader. I remember distinctly when President Obama brought this sort of thing up. So i know exactly how republicans will react to this because ive seen it. The president can out in, shall not, may not meet with any iranian leader without preconditions without no chance no way. I heard them because i heard them say it largely here. So i know thats their reaction this time, too. Right. That was the reaction to kim jongun as well. The president met with the leader of north korea. This is something that hes offered in the past. He says look, it works. Youve got to sit down and talk to people. Thats what hes saying here. Whether or not it happens, well see. Not surprising for this president to say hes going to do this, go the extra mile. Whether or not he will be allowed to, we dont know. One thing, shep, i wanted to say about conte from italy. He may be problem for trump. It looks like theyre allies because conte is also tough on immigration. They turned away some boats trying to dock in italy carrying immigrants. It sounds like border security, antiestablishment, antie. U. Is keeping them together. The truth of the matter is, italy may get in the way of a deal between the e. U. And canada right now. Theyre threatening to veto it. If President Trump actually does ended striking some deal with the European Union, you may see italy doing the same thing there. You have to have all of the European Union countries voting for any deal. In a way, the trump of italy may get in the way of the trump of the United States. Shepard John Bussey Life with us from spain. Thanks very much. Special Safety Precautions at a funeral for a british woman poisoned with a sovietmade nerve gas. Dawn sturgis is her name. She died earlier this month in Southern England after she and her partner were exposed to a chemical nerve agent. Funeral organizers say they followed the advice of Public Health officials to make the service as safe as possible. Sturgiss partner, Charlie Rowley survived. He told a British Tv Network what he thought Perfume Bottle who gave to It Sturgis Who sprayed it on her rest. Police have not confirmed that was the source of the nerve agent. It came four months after a former russian spy and his daughter with poisoned with the same substance a few miles away. The kremlin has denied any involvement. Air marshalls monitoring and reporting on passengers with absolutely no ties to terrorists as part of a Security Program that was a secret until now. Details on how that behavior could put you on their radar and how the tsa and Transportation Security Administration is defending the program. Thats next. Since my stroke, he hasnt left my side. Shepard if you have flown on a jet in the past several years Undercover Air marshalls could have been sitting next to you keeping tabs on how often you or someone else goes to the bathroom or how often you sweat. Its part of the tsas quiet skies program. The boston globe first revealed details about it over the weekend. We learned the goal is to prevent threats from terrorists. Air marshalls say its a time consuming and expensive way to track people that are not a threat. Jonathan hunt has more. Jonathan . Shep, this is an Undercover Program that bottles down to this. The monitoring of passengers inflight behavior that is considered to be suspicious even if the passenger in question has no known links to terrorism. The Computer Program identifies passengers that raise any red flags and whose activities might match current threat intelligence. Air marshals may monitor the passenger in flight noticing changes of clothes, Technology Use and heavy sweating and rest room use. American citizens and travelers from overseas may be the targets, which is a behavioral profiling program. The tsa says they do not single anyone out on the basis of race or religion. They wont say whether the quiet skies surveillance led to any arrests or breaking up of terror plots . Shepard what are critics saying about this . The aclu not at all happy about it, a senior staff attorney with the Organization Says its essentially a waste of taxpayer money and raises constitutional concerns. They said tsa has a track record of using rereliable and unscientific techniques to screen and monitor travelers that have done nothing wrong. The tsa says the program is simply an additional line of defense and we are no different to the cop on the corner that was placed there because theres an increased possibility that something might happen. When youre in a tube at 30,000 feet, it makes sense to put someone there. So this add one more lay tore the debate of whether security and privacy can coexist in a post 911 world. Shepard thank you. Coming up what were learning about a 20yearold College Student that disappeared. The walk with custom ink. The shirts were so easy to design on the site. The custom ink team was super helpful and they just came out perfect. Seeing my family wearing my shirts was such an amazing reminder of all the love and support that everyone has for my dad. [narrator] check out our huge selection of custom tshirts and more, for teams, businesses, and every occasion. Youll even get free shipping. Get started today at customink. Com. Molly. Theres a strong chance that she disappeared while out on her job. But a Family Member says she might have made her back to her boyfriends night the night she vanished. A relative told investigators that tibbets lab top might show that she was doing homework at her boyfriends house into the night after her job. Tibbets boyfriend claim she sent him a Snap Chat Picture from inside his house after her job. Police have not named any suspects. Investigators have not indicated if theres any signs of forced entry at her boyfriends home where she was staying and as of this afternoon, authorities have not released a new time line or new leads based on the informatio information. Tibbets father is pleading for information. We just need people to think. Does somebody know something . They dont know its important. Tibbets suit to start after the University Of Iowa in a couple weeks. Shep . Shepard its my understanding she was wearing a fit bit or Something Like that. Yes. Shes described as an avid runner. Investigators could get a lot of information from her fit bit and including her gps location and her heart rate on the day she wept missing. Shep . Shepard thanks, matt. After this news cast, you can catch our fox news update on Facebook Watch. 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