the left hand on the bible and the right hand in the air as the 47th president of the united states. no excuses, we have to get this done. todd: detailed image of ron desantis. you re watching fox and friends first, i m todd piro. ashley: i m ashley strohmier in for carley shimkus. todd: doug luzader live in washington with more. doug: this was supposed to be an innovative campaign launch on the twitter space platform, but it quickly went south. the platform got overwhelmed before it got underway. i m pleased to introduce two individuals who have done more sorry about that, we ve got so many people here that i think we are kind of melting the servers, which is a good sign. let s see, are we on? i think so. doug: okay, elon musk having to vamp there, as well. desantis tried to make light of the situation and turned focus back to his campaign on fox news last night. we know the country is on the wrong track and we have a listless vessel, not energetic and no
university poll find 10% of americans think the country is on the right track and 42% say they are struggling financially. doug luzader has more, good morning. doug: the president will be talking about a huge bail out for pension plans today while traveling to ohio. we re seeing administration targeting all levels of gas and oil industry for high gas prices, going after small gas station owners. the putin price hike message, just last week, he claimed russia, russia, russia. how does the president go from blaming putin to small business owners now? when you look at crude oil and wholesale oil prices, as well, they have declined about 15%. retail gas prices have only declined 3% over the same time period. doug: secretary of transportation took it a step further saying oil companies are happy about high prices. when it comes to high gas prices, i m mad about it, the president is mad, oil company executives are thrilled, we ve seen them saying they will not increase pr
Anderson Cooper takes viewers beyond the headlines with indepth reporting and investigations. His plea agreement, including that he stole some hundreds of thousands of dollars from Paul Manafort, rick gates did, by filing false expense claims. So really, just a long list. It was remarkable to be there in the courtroom as rick gates over the course of 80 minutes detailing that long list of alleged crimes. So allegedly, theyre both Stealing Money through not paying taxes and other means, and then gates is also Stealing Money from manafort . Thats exactly right. So you have listen, this is one of those cases when i was inside there, anderson, having followed a mob priel or two, it struck me as you had the case of the bob boss there with his capo testifying against him. Of course in many cases like this, the person who is gates witness doesnt have the cleanest record himself. And that certainly holds true for rick gates. I should mention he also pleaded guilty to lying to federal prosecuto
Anderson Cooper takes viewers beyond the headlines with indepth reporting and investigations. Knowing that was illegal. Cnn chief National Security correspondent jim sciutto is covering the trial. He joins us. Now what more did gates say on the stand . Anderson, you had the deputy there sitting within ten feet of his former his longtime boss, documenting by his accounts numerous crimes, alleged crimes by his boss, Paul Manafort. And the list started with them setting up 15 Foreign Bank Accounts which they did not report to the government for the purposes of hiding taxes. He said that they filed false income tax returns. He said they failed to file as foreign agents even though they were working as agents for a Foreign Government, in this case the prorussian Government Of Ukraine at the time. And rick gates said he did all of this, his words, all of this at the direction of Paul Manafort, saying these are crimes we did together, in
and that certainly holds true for rick gates. I should
The latest news from around the world with hosts John Berman and Poppy Harlow. The latest news from around the world with hosts John Berman and Poppy Harlow. The 2016 election including some of President Trumps primary opponents. This does spook to trumps own administration. Speak to trumps own administration. The only person who doesnt see this is the president himself. This morning a series of tweets from the president but none condemning this. I was reminded instantly reading this of marco rubio. Marco rubio, the republican running for president in 2016 warned when the john Podesta Emails were coming out through wikileaks i want to warn my fellow republicans who may want to capitalize politically on these leaks, today its the
intelligence agencies and in term of being able to stop this . I dont know that its u. S. Intelligence agencies or the president himself. There are two ways you can deter this conduct. One is to make it impossible for the adversary to succeed. You impose such a