Get a jump on the days news with Christine Romans and Dave Briggs. Washington in the russia probe of special counsel Robert Mueller. It is not clear what prosecutors want to ask her. She volunteered with members of muellers team for an interview. One possible line is the connection to roger stone. The veteran political consultant and trump adviser who is a subject in the russia investigation. The prosecution is expected to rest in the trial of paul manafort. Over the last week, the jury heard about his wardrobe and offshore Bank Accounts and lifestyle and doctored loan documents. His long time deputy Rick Gates Flipping in the case. As the defense prepares to offer its case, a court filing from Robert Mueller is sending a signal gates is a key in the russia probe. We have more from kara scannell. Reporter a new detail in the special counsels investigation was not revealed in court, but in a filing. Kansas Secretary Of State chris kobach says he will recuse himself from the still undeci
kansas secretary of state chris kobach says he will recuse himself from the still undecided gubernatorial race. between himself and jeff collier. kobach leads by a razor thin 91 votes after discrepancies were found from two counties. he is expected to recuse himself officially today after collier made the demanded last night. the county did the counting of ballots. there is no point to it, but i said if my opponent wishes, i would be happy. i don t think he understands the process. thousands of provisional ballots have to be counted. officials are blaming a clerical error where collier was short changed votes. sinclair s acquisition of tribune media is dead. this would have created a power house. this is the biggest deal for sincla sinclair. it is criticized for the must-run segments of
know, survive the way fox news does on the basis of advertising revenue. there are a lot of different models these days, a lot of different types of media and bannon and breitbart with a lot of money from the mercers will be able to explore different things, maybe combine with sincla sinclair. there are a lot of great possibilities out there for them. to me, the sort of overarching political question here is, what is the audience for media that tries to target trump aides and people around trump while still promoting donald trump, and can you do that without undermining the trump presidency, drawing trump s anger, and creating a civil war within the republican party and the conservative movement, which certainly won t help trump get elected in 2020. so to me, that s the heart of the challenge here is steve bannon can try to say i m for trump. i just hate what his presidency is and i m going to go to war against it and the trump presidency is over, but trump