the russians. it will be interesting for me to see whether or not they try to defend him certainly, politically. publicly, he s taken a lot of heat for this. the president s campaign has taken a lot of heat for this. i want to see if there was any way that troowill try to find a to defend this. for manafort s lawyers, will you expect to defend the president? could the russians have used their polling in their internet operation or will they be explicit in saying no, he was trying to do this guy a favor or an old business friend? they ll focus manafort and they ll try to push back, but it is really an unfair fight here. the prosecutor has the full discretion and they have all of the evidence and one of the biggest questions is whether they ve gotten better at doing the redakctions this time aroun and they ll see the confidential information, but it is so hard for the judge to make these determinations and there is just mountains and mountains of
aide describe several months ago that it wasn t necessarily the damage inside the inner office but maybe just outside, maybe a business friend of the president s who he s sort of looking for advice from that he feels he isn t getting from the oval office. in that sense it doesn t change. the stabilizing forces, as you called them, within the white house sort of tamp down what he may be hearing from outside voices who don t always have the information that the white house does. i agree with what mike said. i think the difference is that at this point the president has more people he relies on outside the white house and trusts more than inside the white house because he s lost so many people inside the white house, and that makes him more unpredictable to his advisers inside the white house which has serious costs. i think you re seeing that in the firing the way that the firing of the veterans affair secretary david shulkin went down which came at an unexpected
and it looked like bribery. bribery is a strong word, julie, and that s romney s opinion. the perception problem, look, this campaign says there is zero evidence and there is no evidence that as of secretary of state she was involved in the decision, and she said the decisions were made down below her and never got to her and there is no evidence of quid pro quo. but why would you introduce your business friend, why would you go to russia and take $500,000 for a speaking fee from a bank that has a stake in the deal when she is the secretary of state? well, of course we will never know. i do think that we have to kind of look back at history here and see that the clintons have a lot of connections, and they have a lot of political power, and they have been able to do things like this and not get not have a lot of consequences for themselves. you know, letter of the law, we don t know because we have not seen the e-mails or written
gregg: inside this florida courtroom in the murder trial of george zimmerman, a coworker of his just left the witness stand, and she said there was no doubt in her mind it s the voice of george zimmerman crying out for help that is heard in the background of the 911 telephone call. of we have a new witness on the stand, this is a business friend who may well say the same thing. we re monitoring the developments inside this courtroom, and the trial is streaming in full on foxnews.com. ec check it out. you can check it out. patti ann: chaos and bloodshed on the streets of egypt as islamist supporters of the ousted president morsi clash with government troops. key lawmakers on capitol hill blasting the president s handling of the crisis saying he bet on the wrong side and that the president is sending the wrong signals. let s go now to senator john mccain who s calling for the u.s. to suspend the over billion and a half dollars in aid that it sends to egypt every year.
american economy is now created in the private sector jobs for the past 21 months in a row. neil: are the numbers improving the president s chance s? professor, what do sa ue answer. the economy morean half of the presidential vote. it really is. as y try to figure out what will happen, you look at all factors, it is pore than half of the whole situation. association of course, if this continues and i think that is the key, neil, will this continue? is it a blip? is it a trend? we will only know if time. neil: we know the trend, the business friend, we have had nominal upticks for a number of months, nothing great at this stage they should be triple that, but if he can go back to the american people even if we don t get the rate back to what it was when he assumed office,