Rick gates says he broke the law for Paul Manafort and also stole money from him. We are going to put all of the sanctions back in as they were before and more. Economic sanctions on iran now back in effect as of midnight. Will the pressure on tehran force a further split . Two fast moving fires merging into one inferno becoming the largest ever wildfire in california history. Plus, why is facebook reportedly asking banks for your Financial Information . Good morning. Welcome to early start. Im christine romans. Im phil mattingly. Coffee straight to the veins. Paul manaforts right hand man rick gates. Back on the Witness Stand in the onetime Trump Campaign chairman trial on tax and fraud charges. The stakes are high for the white house. Manafort and his deputy know a great deal of what went on Behind Closed Doors during key months of the 2016 campaign. Yesterday, gates admitted under a grant of immunity he committed crimes alongside his former boss and against him as well. Cnn has more
A successful outcome is dependent upon involvement from russia, india, iran and pakistan. It has to decide how much to involve india that would shift the strategic landscape all tolg together. This is the difficult work of diplomacy that the trump a administratiad administration has decided to ignore. For more go to cnn. Com fareed and read my Washington Post column this week. Lets get started. Another day, another Head Scratching Tweet from donald trump. This time its about
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issues and the problem here is the issues this is causing for prime minister netanyahu s very very fragile coalition, as ben-gvir, and other far right politicians are threatening to leave the government in netanyahu agrees to the cease fire that president biden has put forward, that is risking the potential collapse of netanyahu s government. so that is believed to be one reason that netanyahu has been kind of equivocating on that israeli cease fire proposal that president biden laid out, putting new conditions or reaffirming previous pre-conditions about that, before a deal can be struck by that. it s one of the reasons, tension in gaza, as well as in the old city of jerusalem are so high right now, chris. well, monica, president biden is sending the cia director and the top middle east adviser to the region, trying to advance the cease fire deal and hoping to bring down the temperature. tell us what we know about where the talks stand right now? reporter: and we ve seen this
trump have his say, engoron said he ultimately denied the request because trump and his attorneys would not agree to the pre-conditions, which included limiting his argument to, quote, commentary on the relevant material facts that are in evidence and application of the relevant law to those facts. in other words, trump s closing argument could not be testimony, no new evidence, no campaign speech, no impugning the judge, his staff, the ag and her office, or the new york state court system. nbc s vaughn hillyard joins us now from des moines, iowa. the e-mail exchange, which has now been put into the record is a doozy to read in full. judge engoron says he s asking donald trump and the team to do what is required of any counsel. you got to stick to what is relevant, and not wander from that, and he didn t want donald trump to do what he did on the stand, which was try to give a campaign speech. what was the goal here for donald trump? what do we know about his desire
trump held meetings with kim and then he stopped engaging with the united states. biden administration said it is ready to resume talks. we re prepared to sit down and talk without pre-conditions about their nuclear program and we have made clear to china that it is the united states who is ready for diplomacy and north korea who is not. north korea, like other authoritarian regime eagerly takes americans into custody to try to extract concessions from the u.s. it is illegal for americans to travel there right now. bill: rich edson from the white house. thank you. for rich, thank you on that. smitty. sandra: joining us now former u.n. ambassador and republican candidate nikki haley. we are learning more. not a whole lot of detail on what happened here. a u.s. soldier confirmed detained by north korea. what is your reaction to that? you know, unfortunately here