A newscast reviewing and analyzing top stories of the day as they happen. The government and for manafort to keep things moving along. They did. That is the same judge that challenged the special counsels office and accused them of just trying to use charges of financial crimes to squeeze manafort in giving them information that they could use against President Trump. The trial proceeded anyway and the former Trump Campaign manager that was a wakened by an fbi agent performing a noknock raid is being confronted with evidence that he hit 60 million from the irs which he received consulting ukrainian politicians. The charges are for falsifying income tax returns, bank fraud and failing to file reports. If convicted, manafort could face 305 years in jail. Theres Sentencing Guidelines for federal cases like that that would suggest that the judge would probably give him something less than that, shep. Shepard what is the next step in this trial, peter . Any minute, shep, we expect
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He is not rallying donald trump the way we would see him at this keep america great rallies. where he is yelling to the ground, engaged, this is a back and forth with reporters. at times in the past, the president clearly doesn t feel like he has to be willing to move here. he feels like here, we have our position, and democrats felt luke they were in the reaction. the question is who blinks first. let me ask you about that point. who is driving the process on that side. you have mitch mcconnell talking a couple days ago on foxx news saying they re in line step by step with the white house coordinating this with the white house, do you get a sense that it is the white house telling
Force one. the president is on board and he s holding one of his signature make america great rallies in macon just moments from now and we will have that for you live. we will also be previewing an appearance as our sunday election special continues.
So i think you ll see that ramping up, up until the election. you ll see four, five, six make america great rallies every single week. he s going to be going into these senate states where he is a huge draw. the part that s a little trickier is getting him into these senate states. as paul was saying, keeping him away from some of these house seats where suburban women may not love him standing there mocking a victim of sexual assault. yeah. so i want to talk for a second particularly about heidi heitkamp. i m heidi heitkamp and i thought you should hear exactly why i voted against judge kavanaugh. first off, honestly, i don t think he told the truth. and even if he did, he showed himself to be too biased. i voted for neil gorsuch, so i know there aother conservative judges who can fill this job without tearing our country apart. i approve this message because i believe a senator has to put politics aside and do what s right for our country. so, paul, she s still fighting. is t
Time in something like 45 years, an election in which one party wins more house seats and the other party wins more senate seats. it usually never works that way. the momentum always goes in one direction, but this year, right now, it s going in the opposite direction. ashley, what s the white house s thinking about how to best deploy the president, especially after kavanaugh? so first of all, the white house was incredibly happy at these tough votes that red state democrats had to take. i guess senator manchin is the one exception but they sort of say it only helps the map. i think what you re seeing is, first of all, the president you went through the schedule. he actually he s mixed. i was going to say he loves to travel but that s not quite true. he loves the comforts of home but he loves being on the campaign trail at these huge rallies, feeding off the energy. getting the feedback from the crowd. knowing which way to move. so i think you ll see that ramping up, up until the