judge jackson said she struggled with the decision. she said she couldn t turn a blind eye to the allegations if these allegations prove true she said it shows obvious intent toward witness tampering when he was ordered not to do so. she chastised manafort s filings in court on friday. he was treating this whole thing as just another marketing exercise as she said. that s basically what led to his being revoked having his bond revoked at this point. a stunning, stunning development. shannon, back to you. shannon: all right, doug, so can you tell us more about the details of charges of alleged witness tampering? that certainly seems to be the biggest problem for him now that likely led up to today. reporter: yeah, yeah, sure. here s the gist of what that s all about. for a five-week period beginning in february of 2018, manafort is alleged to have called or texted or made some sort of communications through encrypted devices with two members of what s called the hatsburg
sandra: former trump campaign manager paul manafort arriving at the courthouse earlier this hour. he will face a judge on new charges of obstruction of justice and witness tampering. doug is outside the courthouse and joins us live. doug, looks like another sign of hard ball against manafort, so is it? it sure does, sandra. mueller s team, as you well know, has already secured five plea deals, but the biggest fish, paul manafort has yet to flip. with this new indictment, mueller hopes to change that. manafort and an associate of his, a russian national, are accused of a new charge in witness tampering. accused of calling, texting and using encrypted messaging last february to contact two people, two potential witnesses, from a group called the hatsburg group, a european lobbying group, that
anecdotally as you think it would be. if you have this many jobs out there, this would be a bidding war for workers, and that gets back to things like the skills gap and things like that, but all in all, we are really in the midst of a major economic renaissance, and it s got a lot of room to grow. sandra: you hear from democrats a lot because obviously, it s going to be a fair for democrats, this economy will be a success for republicans coming into the midterms. you hear democrats talking a lot about only sectors of this economy are benefitting from the president s policies or only certain groups of people or classes are benefitting. what are you seeing as far as who benefits from this group? the irony, and with that type of a statement, is that the most optimistic part of our economy are the lower-income brackets. those are the folks who actually are the most enthusiastic about what s happening in this country right now. democrats like to make the equivalency of someone, you kno
according to the atlanta fed, they model this stuff and trying to guess this current quarter we re in now, they think we re going at 4.8%. sandra: that s huge. it s mind boggling and only been up that number once since 2006, only one quarter has beaten that since 2006. it s been a long time. sandra: the president is taking a lot of credit for this. should he? i think so and it s unleashing what the economy could be, i think. the regulatory thing is great on the business side, because you re going to see businesses invest. that s a component we don t talk enough about, but it makes a difference and, of course,, we have record near all-time-record low unemployment, a record of job openings, we have more jobs than people. you sort of get that momentum going. the only thing that s been lagging is wages and according to the survey that came out this morning, that could be changing as well. sandra: not lagging, they re not going down. they re coming up slowly but not keeping pace
shores. we are going to do a similar policy with iran, and when donald trump came in, and sometimes it takes an outside voice who doesn t give a lick about the european consensus or all those other things that a lot of us are tired of because they are broken and not working, he simply said, how do we fix this? i don t want them to have a nuclear weapon. i ve got to end it. if it takes a couple of photos to get to the process where they are denuclearized, i m all for it, i think the american people are for it and mark is completely right. he has given up nothing. donald trump is not going to do anything that risks our national security and i guarantee you that if he gets a scent that they are playing him for a fool, we re going right back to the maximum pressure. sandra: i don t want to see nuclear weapons destroy you and your family. a very determined president told a group of reporters this morning, judith. yes, i m not sure he would apply that to the reporters. he might want a ne