and ivanka trumps. that was something we hadn t seen before carried live across all the major networks. it wasn t just an anonymous source, but unnamed sources. it was here bill saying it in his own words. here s jason miller saying it in his own words. let s bring in jonathan allen. jonathan allen is senior national politics reporter and he is at ground zero of president trump s pushback against this committee, because he is in wyoming, where billstep yan is helping to manage a campaign to challenge try to defeat the republican primary. right now, if you zoom out from where i am in jackson hole, this is a really tough race for reelection that liz cheney has. the only polling we have seen put out has cheney down about 30
points. when you talk to chay niece points they are unwilling to share their polling. here in jackson hole, you hear a lot of what you d hear in big cities across the country, which is seeing liz cheney as a hero, someone doing her duty. this is a blue island in the middle of a red sea in wyoming. joe biden got 67% of the vote in the county where jackson hole is. he got 27% of the vote statewide. it would require her to dpet a lot of vote switchers. the democrats can switch to republican and vote in the republican primaries. we re hearing some folks are doing to do that. but it has to be a lot of them to help cheney win. john allen live for us there in wyoming. thank you very much. i want to bring in senior report er who is familiar to our viewers as covering all things
when requesting a change of venue before the first trial in virginia, but the judge refused to move the trial. cnn crime and justice report er are on this. why would they ask this if request number one was denied? reporter: good question, brooke. just yesterday they were all in court that they raised this issue to ask for the trial to be moved to another location. and then this morning, obviously, they filed that request. you know, it is pure strategy here. they are arguing in the court papers that there s bias here against paul manafort in washington, d.c. and that they can t get a fair jury here. the judge seemingly seemed to indicate she didn t buy that argument. obviously, she hasn t ruled yet, but it s strategy here on the part of the manafort defense team trying to get moving into a place like roanoke, virginia. and perhaps to be more sympathetic to paul manafort. and it could be really here, the
wow, he said please. he said please. must be fake. trump saying please to the help. that s my president. he has president always been complimentary about his favorite beverage tweeting i have never seen a thin person drinking diet coke and i ll still keep drinking that garbage. jimmy fallon once chronicled the president s behavior as he downed his daily dozen. the american dream is dead. hello and god bless the united states. reporter: now he has a red button on his oval office desk to push when he wants a coke. when he was a candidate, he actually had to speak. get me a coke, please. reporter: as one commenter noted things including hush money go better with coke. things go better with coca-cola. reporter: jeanne moos. get me a coke, please. reporter: cnn, new york.
we will keep you posted on the fires. president trump is returning to washington after meeting with the prime minister of italy tomorrow. the president has been pretty much quiet throughout this weekend. surprisingly so. but not necessarily stopped his lawyer, rudy giuliani from firing back at trump s former lawyer, michael cohen. giuliani says that cohen tampered with his tape of present candidate trump talking about a payment to a playboy model. i used to hear rumors about michael cohen s character and what he did. now i find he does things like records his client, doesn t even tell them. president trump is staying at his golf resort in bedminister, new jersey. cnn white house report er, sarah westwood is standing