collusion he s starting to lay down those dots. we re not quite sure how he s going to connect them. but two pieces that were interesting in the particularly mueller documents yesterday regarding cohen was that number one, early on in the campaign he said we have interactions with russian national early on in the campaign, who was providing as they said to offer political synergy with trump campaign, and number two mueller is really starting to zero in on trump s business dealings and particularly, the per sued of a trump moscow deal, of course, fell through but raises questions why were people like cohen lying it be and conflict of interest we ll have to way to see how mueller exactly puts these pieces together. a shakeup at the white house today president announced that his chief staff gate keeper to oval office is leaving that job. that s right it wasn t entirely surprising there s been rumors for month swirling around that his departure was eminent, of course, white house wante
mueller claims in this court filing that manafort repeated contact with senior administration officials, as recently as this past spring. the dts don t name the administration officials that manafort was allegedly in contact with or what those conversations were about. but the special counsel says it has proof to back up all of its claiming staying in court filing, quote, these were not instances of mere memory lapses if defendant contend government has not angted in good faith the government is available to prove the false statement it is at what hearing. now manafort legal team continues to deny those client ever knowingly lied to investigators and they now have two weeks to respond to these latest accusations. john. stewart penny thanks. many migrant are still in tijuana mexico hoping to begin asylum into the u.s.. this as president trump demands five billion dollars for his border wall or we might see a partial government shutdown. in the latest on all of that
state rex tillerson speaking out against president trump recusing forminger boss as being undisciplined oppose to readings and worse. we did not have a common value system president said here s what i want to do and here s how i want to do it and i would have are to say mr. president i understand what you want to do but you can t do it that way. it violates the law. it violates treaty. president trump shot back at tillerson tweeting he was dumb as a rock and i couldn t get rid of him fast enough he was lazy as hell. the risk between those two men now on display for the u.s. and the entire world to see. the president also announcing yesterday that army general mark will replace marine general joe as chairman of the joint chief of staff. john are. jillian turner reporting on fireworks in washington. jillian, thank you. one with automaker is ready to rev up the motor city as other automakers are cutting jobs in detroit. we ll tell you about that.
stick around until 2020 but trump suggested that was no longer a sure thing. here s the president this afternoon. john kelly will be leaving at the end of the year, we ll be announcing who will be taking john s place it might be on interim basis, i ll be announcing that over next day or two. but john will be leaving at the end of the year. he s been with me almost two years now as you know. between the two positions so we ll probably get to see him in a little while. special counsel robert are mueller team reportedly interviewed mr. kelly source here in administration is telling me that any suggestions that kelly departure had anything to do with special counsel are incorrect. john. those most recent mueller court filings is the white house concerned about them, allison? they don t seem to be in the president reiterated that today. i think it is all turning
both automakers could be on the horizon. as president trump agrees to hold off on raising tariffs on china for at least three months. and speaking of that trade truce concern about an a escalation into the dispute between washington and beijing. led to a brutal week on wall street and pun leashed another round of heavy selling on friday and chinese tech firm executive also adding to investors jitters. jeff paul joins us from los angeles with more. jeff. yeah, jon on friday the dow jones industrial fell by 500 point, bringing the weekly drop to more than 1,000. this makes for wall street s worst weekly drop since march, and analysts say there s a lot of anxiety in market right now with growing fears of a u.s. china trade war, and slowing economic growth. texas congressman kevin brady says sometimes there s a disconnect between stock market and the economy. i know there are some of these uncertainty issues. but i think back home, and again