The days top stories from around the world, from politics and money, to sports and pop culture. The days top stories from around the world, from politics and money, to sports and pop culture. A voluntary interview suggests theres more to the interview. When you want that you want it written down so you can use it in the future maybe for perjury. In terms of that, if you are roger stone and youre watching how this is playing out, you and your attorneys as youre huddling, whats the thinking there. Well trks ha, its hard to k. Hes under scrutiny. If you were going to make a list three years ago of the Trump Associates who were most likely to be in trouble, it would be Paul Manafort, roger stone beneath him. So i think that the major jeopardy were seeing in this case, you have one shady lobbying case. Paul manafort. Russians indicted who will never see the inside of a u. S. Courtroom and then you have perjury. You have people not telling the truth. So any lawyer working for any of these pe
has into a new low, he is at 43.6% approval compared to past presidents at this point, donald trump is at 37.5, president obama was at 52.5, president biden s loan numbers come as his parties stuck without a deal in congress. there is increasing optimism senator manchin is warming to a deal. i think we have a good understanding of each other better than we ever had. reporter: president biden will help a democrat in a razor close race, terry mcauliffe, education is set the stage, glenn youngchin who believe in parent choices mcauliffe criticized parents who have at times violently protests against school board mandates. when virginia stand up and take a state that has been blue, a republican governor make a
they ve just never have gotten there. is it normal for real estate investors or real estate owners to have two sets of books like this? is this a normal practice? there s two sets of numbers. but in the loan numbers, there are some assumptions that we cannot see and i don t know how aggressive those assumptions are. how optimistic they are. but michael cohen was on to something. michael cohen was on to something and the fact of the matter is the tax numbers have never gotten there. they ve been 10% lower and the loan hasn t has since been put on what they call a watch list. yeah. because the cash flow s never got there. interesting. but i will say the loan is being paid and the bond investors are being paid. so nobody s being financially hurt. but to get the loan, to get under those initial conditions, there might have been puffery. kevin, thank you so much for coming and explaining it to us. we appreciate it. you re welcome. and that will wrap things up for me
paul manafort controlled. we also heard from the first witness, the first witness that s been given immunity in this case. cindy is one of the two that was testifying today and she was testifying about how her company and people who work with her fudged loan numbers essentially faked loan numbers in particular, one $900,000 loan in the tax year for 2015. and she says quote, i very much regret it. this was done she says at the request of rick gates who was working alongside paul manafort. and really, the reason why she said she did it in order to help paul manafort reduce his taxes in 2015 was because paul manafort was a very important customer. very important customer. meantime of course, the anticipation is building as e wait for rick gates to take the stand. questions about what he might say. of course how d testifies may grill him. what are we expeg p ekting?
trump is not expected to get much of a honeymoon. coming in washington with poll ratings below his predecessors. a new a new survey finds that 42% have a favorable opinion of trump compared to 76% for barack obama , and 58% for george w. bush at the beginning of their presidencies. we are join now from washington with ed. so you look at these polls and it s extraordinary for new president, have you ever seen presidents with this loan numbers at the start of office? we haven t. at the same time we just finished a campaign that we re looking at numbers we had never seen before. we talked several times on the show about the 18% that dislikes both candidates. at the end of the day that ended up in the key factor in who won most of though those voters and who won the election. one of things we as pollsters will have to ask ourselves, while his