important. reporter: never more important. they re going through the counts, and then they re associating each count obviously with the invoices and with the checks as well. and let me remind folks, by the way, i m doing this all day, so i may sound like i m repeating myself, but i do think it is important when it comes to the counts, you have 12 counts when it comes to ledgers, 11 counts, invoices, 11 counts, checks as well. and let me quickly read you this part in which they talk about the count. in order to find defendant guilt on count one, on or about february 14th, 2017, in the count of new york and elsewhere, the defendant personally or by acting in concert with another person or person made or caused the false records of the business records of an enterprise, specifically invoice to michael cohen. number two, the defendant did so with intent to defraud, intent to commit another crime, or aid in commission thereof. and he goes on to say that there are 34 counts that
versus donald j. trump. we re getting live updates from inside of the courtroom. we re going to do our best to watch them together and bring out and interrupt our conversations and bring you any and all significant moments as they re happening. over the last few hours the prosecutor has been going through the claims made by trump s lawyers in their closing argument this morning. steinglass, the prosecutor, pushed back against trump s lawyers claim from this morning that porn star stormy daniels was extorting donald trump. prosecutors saying this, quote, extortion is not a defense to falsifying business records. and if you have any questions about that, you can ask the judge. after putting on the stand, just two witnesses, one of whose credibility completely crumbled during cross-examination, donald trump s defense team today closed by arguing essentially that there was never any criminal conspiracy to conceal the hush money payments. trump s attorney todd blanche also went af
A look at the days news and headlines. The average now for 2018, 215,000 a month higher than it was a couple years ago. On the down side, again the number was slightly less than anticipated. Transportation and warehouse was interesting. The monthly was almost 19,000. Last month we lost 1,000 jobs there. It was one of the things that stood out to me. Bill economists and financial people can find something negative in anything. Unemployment is at 3. 9 percent. We havent seen a number like this in 18 years. The real Unemployment Number is more impressive called the u6. It takes into account people working parttime but dont want that. That number dropped from 7. 5. Thats a sharp decline in a long time. Bill 2. 7 higher wages. You want wages to go a bit higher than that. It was the expectation. Another great piece of news, people working parttime for economic reasons because they couldnt find a job, thats dropped by 176,000. 400,000 more people got a job. 100,000 people came into the workfo
Now word overnight the next round of tariffs could escalate dramatically. Shifting blame. Heated statements and a 15,000 coat. A fast start to Paul Manaforts trial on financial crimes. Good morning, and welcome to early start. Im Laura Jarrett in for christine romans. Good to see you, my friend. Im dave briggs, wednesday, august 1st, already, if you can believe it. 5 00 a. M. In the east. We start with a chilling story for Many Americans this morning. A federal judge flocking a Government Settlement that would allow for 3d printable guns for sale. You could print out the instructions to guns on the internet, if you can believe it or not. This is a terrifying ordeal for many parents in this country who simply know that their kid could be printing that at the moment. Now, the founder of the Gun Rights Group Defense Distributed says his companys site is going dark until he can review the judges order. Before the ruling came down, he spoke to cnns Laurie Segall
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