Headquarters in washington. Im leland vittert. Ebony kay williams joining us. Welcome to d. C. Absolutely. And israel is carrying out a large scale attack on israel targets and live with much more on what led to the attack. David. Israel says that iran is playing with fire after an iranian, unmanned drone, they say, infiltrated israeli air space. Israel retaliated which led to one of its aircraft being downed. Now, all of this began in the predawn hours when israel says an iranian surveillance drone crossed the northern border with syria. Israel accuses establishing military in syria to support the regime of assad. The drone was up for about a minute when they say it was shot down by a helicopter. The Syrian Military claims the drone was being used to gather intelligence on isis. Hours later, israel struck back, israelis Officials Say during a series of air raids targeting the mobile launcher and other iranian and Syrian Defense batteries, it encounted massive fire. And it landed on th
look, what manafort is charged with, he s charged with money laundering and tax fraud. none of these charges pertain to communications, collusion, any sort of relationship with russia. now, it is interesting to look at the contacts that he had with russian oligarchs, with the ukrainian president leland: but, congressman, typically in these cases they go after the lowest hanging fruit first. if mueller can t even get a conviction on what is conceivably his lowest hanging fruit, they haven t brought any charges about collusion. so far there isn t any evidence of collusion, if that is a crime which it s not, but there hasn t been any evidence of crimes committed between the trump campaign and russia. you re telling me an acquittal in their first trial isn t a big deal? i don t think it is, and i completely disagree with you that there isn t evidence of collusion. there was a meeting in trump tower where the president s son said we re getting good stuff from the russians. the president
favors your client? i do, and he does. and a handful of media outlets wanted to unseal the juror s name and he can t and now he has to travel with a armed detail from the u.s. marshal. garrett tenney, thank you so much. here to weigh in, john, i want to start with breaking news. what do you make of the fact that the special counsel is now seeking jail time for pa papadopoulos? they re looking for anybody who have kind of contact with the president and squeezing them. that s why manafort is , but he has been squeezed. it s significant, they re only asking for six months and going to sentencing in september, which suggests that his cooperation is done and what have they found?
for that special counsel mueller is now recommending the former trump campaign adviser be sentenced to up to six months in prison along with a fine of $9500. according to the sentencing memorandum that mueller s team filed last night, papadopoulos, quote, lied repeatedly about his contacts with russians and russian intermediaries to minimize both his own role as a witness and the extent of the campaign s knowledge of his contacts. papadopoulos is scheduled to be sentenced on september 7th. next week though former trump campaign chairman paul manafort is expected to learn his fate in the first of two cases the special counsel has brought against him. after 14 hours of deliberation, the jury has not reached a verdict, and they won t be at it again until monday morning since the judge gave them the weekend off. manafort s attorneys are feeling pretty confident about their chances given the fact that the jury is still in deliberations. how are you feeling going into this weekend? very
robert mueller s team recommended that the judge sentence him up to six months in prison along with a fine of $9500. in according to mueller s recommend dumb, popadopolous lied in order to make false statements to investigators on january 27th, 2017 early in the investigation when he investigated decisions, including who to interview and when, were being made. now, papadopoulos is expected to be sentence pd. and paul manafort is expected to learn his fate in two trials that mueller last brought against him. the jury will be back on monday morning. and manafort s attorneys are feeling confident. how are you feeling? deliberating longer, it