welcome-to-to a new hour of america s newsroom. i m sandra smith. bill: i m bill hemmer. paul manafort in court at this hour. kellyanne conway saying it is about paul manafort, not the president. i certainly wasn t making money in ukraine or talking to anyone in moscow. that s very clear. this has nothing to do with collusion, russia, nothing to do with the trump campaign. bill: peter doocy live from district court in alexandria, virginia. the government s case against paul manafort is expected to focus less on allegations of wrongdoing while he was the trump campaign chairman and more on allegations that he cheated on his taxes years before. manafort this morning was taken from jail to the albert v. bryan courthouse in a van for
if you re someone that is subject to possible investigation unrelated to the initial charge for the special counsel you might say that it has gone overboard. if you ask bill clinton he would say it is too broad quite frankly. but again the question here is whether or not a federal crime has been committed irrespective of who will prosecute it and who is investigating it. has a federal crime been committed and if so it should be investigate i had and prosecuted. people who engage in wrongdoing should be held to account. sandra: based on that it s still a question because robert mueller won t tell us to be asked. shouldn t the president be asked to sit down with a one-on-one with mueller. that s a question for the special counsel to ask and there are stories reporting that request has been made and, of course, the key question is whether or not will the president sit down for an interview. most defense lawyers would say
has really i think established a strong predicate for successful prosecution here. i think we re on the eve i think the chances of paul manafort trying to reach some kind of deal has passed us and i think the trial is going to proceed and we have to see the case be laid out by the prosecution. by all accounts paul manafort believes he is innocent and will be able to be successful in this trial. that remains to be seen. i had a lot of confidence in bob mueller when he was my f.b.i. director. i suspect he has done his homework and worked with the team and has a strong case. we ll have to see what happens. i don t know whether paul manafort believes he is innocent. i assume he does. there is a lot of risk for him and his liberty. perhaps he is also hoping or anticipating that if unsuccessful the president may pardon him. we ll have to wait and see. that s a long shot. i don t think you go into this
show the nuclear regime is building new missiles. greg palkot live now. what more do we know about the missile site, greg? fox confirming the reports that north korea is now busy once again building more missiles. u.s. officials telling fox news it is business as usual at a factory near pyongyang that builds intercontinental ballistic missile capable of reaching the united states showing there is no evidence of a halt of work. we re talking about the long range missiles used three times last year in test firings that could potentially reach the east coast of the united states. recent work activity visible. that comes after, of course, the summit last month involving president trump and north korean leader kim jong-un in which there was a commitment for denuclearization and comes amid a meeting today at the dmz between north and south korean generals trying to calm things down at the tense border.
administration has real owe done great work to get us to a point where he is released on house arrest but we need to continue the pressure until he is back in the united states and reunited with his family. sandra: president erdogan making it clear. they can t make turkey back down with sanctions. we won t step back. is the threat of sanctions going to work and bring this pastor home? well, i think that we have to apply it s a very complex scenario in that we need turkey as a strong nato ally. they re in a complex part of the world. we understand some of the internal and external challenges that president erdogan is dealing with. this man is illegally imprisoned. he is charged with things that wouldn t keep you in jail overnight in the united states. we want just treatment for pastor brunson and talk about all the very positive things that we should be doing with turkey. sandra: what does it say more broadly when you look at