shepard: 23 minutes past the hour now. paul manafort could be behind bars before he goes to trial. the special counsel, robert mueller s team, is accusing him of trying to tamper with witnesses in his own criminal case. one witness says he felt manafort was trying to get him to commit perjury. that s according to court documents. prosecutors write that paul manafort and one of his associates repeatedly contacted two witnesses, sometimes using encrypted messaging to try to influence their testimony. if true, that s a violation of his conditions for house arres and a crime in and of itself. so the feds are asking a judge to transfer manafort to jail. he s pleaded not guilty of conspiracy against the united states. he s not been charged with witness tampering. he s accused of funneling payments through foreign companies and bank accounts as part of political work for the pro russia president of ukraine.
There is criticism of his shep, look, yes, he speaks to his base and riles up his base. there s a lot of voters in the united states. he has to be careful of antagonizing the voters. shepard: generally speaking, we say base but we re talking about 30, 35% of the population. are they being misled about what the justice department and what the media are doing? we ve talked with the president about the president not always being on speaking terms with the truth. you decide whether or not that s being misled. he at least is putting a big, big spin on ball for them. the broader public has to evaluate that. the broader public may not be part of his base and he may be alienating them. the eagles are in philadelphia, pennsylvania he won but not by a
Threatened to quit after thousands of google employees petitioned the company to stop working with the pentagon on a separate a.i. contract known as project maven, which would develop artial intelligence that wou quickly sort through data and images sent back from drone in the hunt forterrorists. google pulled out of the contract succumbing to engineers that warned about using science to take ofhe kill chain. shep? shepard: thanks, jennifer. using science to take humans out of the kill change. artificial intelligence far from perfect. for example, in one case last year, students at mit said they tricked a computer to report that it spotted a rifle. it was actually a turtle. the venue is set for president trump s meeting with kim jong-un and here it is. the white house announced the two leaders will meet at this luxury hotel on a resort island off of singapore s southern
Smith. he said if you re going to tweet, tweet facts. nobody took a knee last year. some players stood with their fists in the air in protest of plys violent. the nfl said they were disappointed in the cancellation saying this decision by the white house has led to the cancellation of several player-led community service events for young people in the washington d.c. area. not clear what was cancelled since two or three players were planning on being in attendance. no question that relations between the white house and at least the nfl franchise, the philadelphia eagles are at a oric low as of this moment. shep? shepard: thanks, john. back to you in a moment. first, for context and perspective. trace gallagher is live now. trace? a couple things that we should remember, shep, a couple players that raised their hands during the games. not a single player note down
Me. i guess it s not. it s fascinating, shepard. the pentagon has ramped up it s investment in artificial intelligence. now we re learning about a secret program that could help the u.s. defend against mobile missile launchers and hidden launch sites like the ones in north korea. the pilot program focuses on north korea,o the reuter s report. in fact, using technology that can see through clouds and foliage. the intelligence would use computers to scour through data, geo spatial data. they would use diplomacy to stop the launch other than retaliatory launches, which is what the u.s. has reliedon. the pentagon would not comment about the program but issued the