Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Group. He didnt say he spoke to the Department Of Justice or the State Department. Hes not speaking to any other gun control groups, but the president took to twitter to say i have reached out to the nra. So those of you who have Chanlted Over And over, drain the swamp, walk us through why you would go to the industry group. Why would you contact the largest Lobbying Group ever, the nra, on what to do about the ghost gun. As of last week, one of the organizations videos called 3d guns freedom and innovation. Tom costello has more on the guns and why the president should be checking with his own state Department Rather than the nra. This morning, growing pushback against a new type of firearm that some people can actually build in their own home. Eight Attorneys General now asking a judge to block a Texas Company from publishing the downloadable instructions for 3d printers to manufacture guns. From handguns to sem
The latest Political Developments of the day and interviews with top newsmakers are featured. Now, the defense was deep into its opening statement. The prosecution had finished their opening statement. Look, this is a dry case about tax evasion and bank fraud. But hanging over it is this enormous pressure that you can almost feel on Paul Manafort. He must be spending millions on this case. He has a team of Defense Lawyers. Hes wearing a suit to court, but hes going sleep in jail in a green jump suit. Hes facing 10 years in this case, another 15 in d. C. The government said that they had two dozen witnesses, and 100 documents, and theyre they essentially portrayed a story of greed and lies. They say that Paul Manafort reaped some 60 million for his work for this ukrainian oligarch, had it paid to avoid 15 million in taxes. And when the spigot turned off in 2015, he started milking
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Katy Tur hosts coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Senators hit late in 2017, and now accounts are being setup, and infiltrate audiences through the social issues and create a Behavior Change and take every crack and turn it into the chasm so when it is election time, you can drive them politically towards the candidates and the same approach. When you say make every crack a chasm and by taking the groups and the ones that we are seeing the examples of right now are the groups on the left and mostly the groups from the page called are resistors, and women resisting the donald trump presidency, resisting fascism according to the page, and talking about men and how women dont need to be beholden to men and they dont need to wear pink for men and be thankful for men or have sex with men essentia y essentially, and how does that help any one Political Party in the election . They attract the followers and the interest by picking up on the wedge issues a
The days biggest political and news stories, with interviews and reporting from around the nation. Donald trump saying bob mueller has a conflict of interest. Whats he referring to . A dispute i imagine he disclosed it to rosenstein when he appointed him because it involved something last year wasnt settled to this day. Thats up to the president and mueller to describe. Whats the conflict . I cant tell you. Are you saying the business Conflict Mueller and President Trump had, is that about his golf course. Im not going to go any further. Hes not going further on that. There were some specifics when guiliani talked about other alleged meetings before the trump tower meeting. The meeting with the russians, how can you be sure that the president didnt know before. Its he said she said. Nobody can be sure of anything. In a situation like this you have two things that argue against cohen. Twoonone sorry, three
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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