Now theres a separate case against him in virginia. A lot of overlapping charges. What hes saying to the judge is that robert mule her no Legal Authority to bring these charges. Heres why. He says the special counsel regulations say that a special counsel is appointed to investigate a specific matter which in this case was Russian Election meddling. So the charges against manafort that have nothing to do with that, about his lobbying or ukraine and his efforts to hide the money according to prosecutors, thats beyond his original charge. Secondly they say when the Department Attorney general Rod Rosenstein said that mueller could investigate anything else that came that he became aware of as a result of the investigation, that was too broad because that goes beyond what the special counsel regulations allow him do. And secondly they say the Justice Department already knew about manaforts ukrainian lobbying and all those questions because he was investigated in 2014. So mueller cant say
The purpose of our action tonight is to establish a strong deterrent against the production, spread and use of chemical weapons. Establishing this deterrent is a Vital National security interest of the United States. Combined american, british, and french response to these atrocities will integrate all instruments of our military, economic, and diplomatic, we are prepared to sustain this response until the Syrian Regime stops its use of prohibited chemical agents. Kelly a were carried out by british tomato fighter jets and b1 bombers. Joseph dunford discussed the three targets that were selected. This evening we conducted strikes with two allies on multiple sites that will result in longterm degradation in syrias capability to research, and deploy chemical and biological weapons. This will result in inexcusable inflicted maximum damage without unnecessary risk to innocent civilians. Kelly lets go to Connor Powell who joined us from the jerusalem bureau. Reporter we are getting more inf
For your right to party shannon jillian i love this song. So fired up about the first pitch, have you ever thrown out of first pitch . I did, it was pretty awful, i am not going to lie but it was so much better than what we thought two minutes ago. Rob that was like the . 50 one. Jillian you are watching fox and friends first on friday morning. Rob i bet that song woke you up. Fox news alert, the stage is set for a highstakes meeting with kim jong un on june 12th in singapore. Jillian what is on the agenda and can they make a deal . Griff jenkins has new developments. Reporter the time and place set, donald trump says he hopes this will be a very special moment for world peace and there may be signs about the denuclearization pledge, from a san franciscobased firm showing significant reduction in the number of buildings around us i nuclear wars . Or and what gets you into other wars . Weakness. Reporter the pres. s party weakens american policy. There release should not be exalted, it
They very much would like to do it. Wed like to do it. We will see what happens. Melissa democrats are slamming the president s decision to cancel the summit in the first place. I think everyone understands that the only way to resolve this is through diplomacy. There is no military option without extreme risk so its puzzling that the president has now thrown the diplomacy offtrack. There is always a risk of a miscalculation. Melissa greg palkot is live in seoul, south korea, with the latest. Greg . Greg melissa, i can tell you that the folks here in this region are watching very closely the backandforth about a possible summit between kim jong un and President Trump. They have a huge stake in it all. We heard from the Chinese Foreign ministry on friday. They say they hope the u. S. And the north korea stay patient and meet each other halfway. And press ahead with denuclearization on the peninsula. Remember, President Trump feared that chinese president xi got in the ear of kim jong un
Yesterday afternoon. So the Senate Democrats have the ability right now to open the government and agree to the deal. The president just a few days ago said he was proud to author a shutdown of his own government. Sources gave mike this number. That the white house lowered their demands to 1. 4 billion nor new fencing and 400 million for other security priorities. Still Schumers Office rejected it. Spokesperson said on saturday the Vice President came in for a discussion and made an offer. Unfortunately we are still very far apart. Asked yesterday why democrats wont budge just a little bit further on the border wall, democratic senator jeff merkley of oregon had this to say on abc this week. We are absolutely willing to fund Border Security. The American People want to spend money in a smart way. 5 billion a lot of money. Thats 650,000 children attending head start. Its 2 million meals a day a year for a year for seniors. And to spend it on the fourth century strategy rather on stuff t