Get a jump on the days news with Christine Romans and Dave Briggs. We will watch the situation very closely. Paula, thank you for the report. Jury selection begins later this morning in the federal trial of the former Trump Campaign Paul Manafort for alleged financial crimes. The first test for special Counsel Robert Mueller and his prosecutors although russia is not the center of the trial. We have more from evan perez from washington. Reporter dave and laura, Paul Manafort, the former campaign chairman, is going on trial in Virginia On Federal Tax and bank fraud charges. This is the first trial to come from Robert Muellers investigation. Dont expect the trial to be about russia or collusion or President Trump. Prosecutors and attorneys plan to stick closely to the issues in the charges which have to do with the governments accusations that manafort used secret Foreign Bank Accounts to hide millions of dollars he earned working for the Ukrainian Government and failed to report it to t
Get a jump on the days news with Christine Romans and Dave Briggs. Chinese goods could be raised from 10 to 25 . They would cover things like fruits and vegetables, handbags, refrigerators, rain jackets, even baseball gloves. Chinas Foreign Ministry moments ago saying blackmailing and pressure by the u. S. Will never work and promising to take countermeasures, if needed. The u. S. Has already imposed 25 tariffs on chinese goods worth 34 billion. China quickly retaliated with tariffs on 34 billion in american goods. The president addressed the trade war at a rally in tampa last night. China and others, remember this, have targeted our farmers. Not good. Not nice. And you know what our farmers are saying . Its okay. We can take it. These are incredible people. We can take it. Now were going to open up markets. Were going to do it the way it should be. And all of this stuff, youre going to make it back and its going to be made back faster than anybody would know, but we
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Post is they are quoting officials with information on this matter. One or two icbms are currently being built. The liquid fuel Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles which means they take longer to set up because the liquid fuel is not easily stored inside the missile. What it does mean, according to the u. S. Official, it gives the United States a heads up when one is being mantled. A u. S. Official telling cnn that this report from the Washington Post is consistent with what they believe. The u. S. And Intel Community and Around The World has been saying that kim jongun is continuing his proper duduction activity. He did not fully agree to denuclearization. He said he would work toward denuclearization. Those were the words in the singapore summit. This is not much of a surprise. The big challenge for the United States at this point is to try
the president s press team is not coordinating with Rudy Giuliani concerning his comments on behalf of mr. Trumps legal team. That was apparent m
team and mueller s office claims that some of that evidence showed up on a twitter account with a russian ip address. the twinklinged to thousands of documents to make the mueller investigation look like a nothing burger. here is more from washington. reporter: dave and laura, good morning. a pro-russia twitter account to use information from a criminal case robert mueller s team has brought against a russian social media company as part of a disinformation campaign. this time amted at discrediting mueller s investigation. now, federal prosecutors wrote in the filing that certain nonsense difference discovery materials in the defense s possession appears to have been altered and disseminated as part of an information campaign aimed at discrediting ongoing investigations into russian interference and now the
documents that were released, that were put out by these russians, were not sensitive information that could harm american national security. the concern here from the mueller team and from the fbi is that if the russians did have access to some of the sensitive information, that could certainly hurt national security and the mueller team is fighting in court to try to prevent russians who are fighting these charges against them from having access to these documents. dave and laura. thank you for that report. well, president trump claims that he will leave all decisions involving the mueller report to the justice department. ler he has been bashing prothe probe as a hoax. he says i could have ended everything he, but i ve chosen to stay out of it. but i had the right if i wanted to to end everything. i could have said that is nothing. many people thought that is what i should do. the president insists he has not