How things can change in about two minutes. Good Tuesday Morning and welcome to news channel 8 today. Im gayle guyardo. And im gene ramirez. Its been a busy morning for leslee lacey keeping up with the construction going on on 275 while you were sleeping. So leslee, how good news. Yeah, looks much better than 4 00 a. M. All the lanes have been reopened northbound 2705. It was shut down 275. And now the only thing that remains closeed is the dale mabry offramp. So take lois or howard armenia if you want to exit 275. And now wondering about the construction and all the new traffic patterns happening over the last several week, its part of the widening project where they are putting in another lane from the Howard Franklin. The offramp is close sod howard armenia is what you want to take. And the wind, very, very brisk on the skyway bridge. Use caution moving from pinellas. Yeah, any elevated ready roads or any of the bridges. We had video overnight from meliek on the street. And this is
And weve been looking into why that might be. Because manaforts spokesman has been forthcoming about the fact that his that his client, that Paul Manafort has been having overt discussions with federal authorities about his foreign work, about his Political Consulting in foreign countries. Now that as far as we can tell would be the department of justice. Because thats who has jurisdiction over the Foreign Agent registration act. He is saying that within having this consultation with these federal authorities, he is taking appropriate steps around this matter. Leading everybody to believe he would register, and he never did. The interesting thing there is twofold. Number one we have seen other people involved in this. Namely, mike flynn register retroactively as a Foreign Agent, apparently after consulting with the Justice Department. Raising interesting questions about whether or not he is being pressured to become a cooperating witness because of the threat of prosecuting him for his
With lawrence odonnell. Good evening, lawrence. Rachel, i was watching your ho opening with the extraordinary reporting on Paul Manafort. I promise youd i would give you one, two, three, or as many minutes as you need to summarize that story once again. We need to hear it a second time. Stunning reporting that Paul Manafort has not registered as a Foreign Agent, which everyone assume head did. You discovered he hasnt. And that tells us go ahead. So he made public statements that never said i am registering as a Foreign Agent, but really made everybody believe that he was going to. Headlines coasttocoast, all over the country never corrected saying that he was about to register. And he didnt. And weve been looking into why that might be. Because manaforts spokesman has been forthcoming about the fact that his that his client, that Paul Manafort has been having overt discussions with federal authorities about his foreign work, about his Political Consulting in foreign countries. Now that
Reporter this is always one of those annual fight wheres it pits the president against the congress which prefers particularly to hold the purse strings. As a statement of priorities this budget says that President Trump is not done with his border wall fight. He is going to ask congress for more money. This funding comes at a time when he is also trying to cut spending, as well. He is cutting all discretionary funding in the federal government by five percent with the exception of the defense department. A small sliver of that increase in the budget is going to go toward this wall. About 5 billion of it will go toward the department of homeland security. 3. 6 billion will go toward military defense spending. Now, one of the reasons you have probably heard that before is because when the president said he was going to sign an Emergency Declaration, one of the sources of the funding that he was going to pull from was this military construction budget. This budget asks for more money fro