Plus, why is facebook reportedly asking banks for your Financial Information . Good morning. Welcome to early start. Im Phil Mattingly in for dave briggs. Im christine romans. It is tuesday, august7th. 4 00 a. M. In the east. Lets start with 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 from the federal court in alexandra, virginia. Reporter rick gates took the stand in the showdown we have been waiting for as gates
Get a jump on the days news with Christine Romans and Dave Briggs. Every time he weighs in. It complicates the previous explanations for it. We are hearing from the president s aides that in the next coming days, the president s legal team will have an answer or response to Robert Muellers team. Will he sit for the interview and what conditions will he sit for an interview . They hope to have that accomplished by the end of the Working Vacation. He will meet with the ceos on tuesday night tonight for dinner at his Bedminster Golf Club doing fundraisers. So far, nothing else on the schedule. It is clear the Working Vacation still has russia hanging over it. Christine and phil. Jeff, thank you. A few hours ago, shortly after midnight, u. S. Sanctions against iran went back into effect by order of President Trump. Renewed sanctions targeting gold, steel, aluminum and
currency had been ususpended as part of the iran nuclear deal. Some have pledged to keep up trade and cooperation with iran. So, is america actually going alone . We have Senior International correspondent Nick Paton Walsh live from london. Reporter because of the size of the Global Economy and reach, the u. S. Will try to put sanctions back in. That does have a more far reaching impact and does impact european allies who signed on the nuclear deal. This is all with the decision to pull out of the nuclear pact by President Trump. We had a strange moment as the sanction as peer s appear to co in. Hassan rouhani has said that he could talk right now with donald trump were that offered. There is a caveat here. He would like sanctions lifted first. He said you cannot talk to somebody who has a knife stuck in your arm or back. There are many who dont want them to sit down soon. You may see internal problems. The local currency is collapsing quite quickly over the past year. You may see irans government looking for an opportunity. They may see how negotiations with north korea and russia have ended up, perhaps a little less than what was agreed. Vladimir putin and kim jongun respectively and maybe they are trying to buy some time if they were to get in the same room. I think that idea is far fetched idea right now because both camps have ideas of what the two countries should be doing in terms of each other. We slowly see the economic
pressure ratcheted up with eira. Iran is calling it psychological warfare. It makes the people feel the government is not looking out for them. The American Dream of putting a more moderate government in play in iran is far fetched. Nick, internal and external implications. Really across the globe. Fascinating to watch. Nick paton walsh, thank you. Firefighters struggling to contain the 16 major wildfires devastating the state. One exploded and nearly doubling in size. Mendocino complex fire is the largest in state history. Flaming scorched 248,000 acres. The fire is actually two wildfires burning around clear lake across several Northern California counties. As of last night, the fire was 30 contained. More than 100 residences have been destroyed. Eight minutes past the hour. Facebook wants your Financial Information. Facebook asked several large u. S. Banks for detailed Financial Information about their customers. Think account balances and credit card activity. Facebook wants to offer services on the app. It is not actively seeking data, but declined to comment if it has been talking to banks. It wants to keep users on the platform longer. The issue is privacy. Facebook is facing criticism over handling data after exposing User Information without content. None of the banks would confirm they were if talks with facebook. Stressed the importance of
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character is very important and i dont believe our president currently has my best interests at heart and i watched some of the things that have happened in the past few months and its a little scary. You are defining decision wasnt about candidates, but the president . More about getting democratic back intoes office and really for the people into office and really for the people. Im like millions of americans it is not if you like the candidate of choice, but who you dislike less. I think during the president ial election, i believe that is how trump ended up in office. I dont think the world thought he was the perfect candidate nor has he proven to be, but this race with balderson is the same way. Reporter trump was here over the weekend to rally the base and try to shore up support for balderson. It should be noticed that President Trump carried this s district by 11 points two years
ago. Right now as voters head to the polls this morning, the race is too close to call. Christine, phil. Jason in ohio. Thank you. Info wars and alex jones removed from youtube, apple and facebook. The site violated the content policies. The move shutdown channels that gave jones access to millions of internet users. Youtube removed his main channel which had 2. 4 million s subscribe subscribers. The site is notorious for false conspiracy theories. It claimed the Sandy Hook Massacre was a hoax and called 9 11 an orchestrated job created by the government. And three People Killed by a blast in italy. The man caught this on his video during his commute. The gas tanker hit another
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athletes in the culture and political environment through the lens of the nba. It is set to premiere in october. The series got the same from this comment from fox news host Laura Ingraham on her show in february. Lebron and kevin, you are great players, but no one voted for you. Millions elected trump to be their coach. Keep the political commentary to yourself or as someone once said Shut Up And Dribble. He publicly voiced support for the warriors and the decision not to visit the white house. Serena williams sharing her struggles. She has been battling Postpartum Depression and not doing enough for her baby. The grand slam winner returned to the circuit five months ago after giving birth. In the message, she described
being in a funk after suffering from a lopsided loss. Good for her for being public about it. A lot of women dont like to talk about that. The more women who do, the better for everybody. A very real thing. With his former boss looking on, the Prosecution Star Witness tells all the. And don juniors bait and switch claims of the famous Trump Tower Meeting. More early start after this. 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. Why does the largest an aluminum maker want an exemption from its business . 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 from the federal court in alexandra, virginia. Reporter rick gates took the stand in the showdown we have been waiting for as gates testified for 45 minutes. During that time, manafort stared him down sitting seats away from him. He averted manaforts gaze. He was asked by prosecutors if he committed crimes. Gates said he had. He explained he helped manafort file false tax returns and fed 15 overseas accounts used as part of the alleged crime. Gates offered a twist. Saying he defrauded manafort, his mentor and longtime boss. He had stolen several hundred thousands dollars from him by inflating his expense accounts. Gates testimony is expected today. Prosecutors intend to question him for another three hours. Christine and phil. Kara in virginia. Thank you. Don junior is dismissing the Trump Tower Meeting and accusing the russian of bait and swift. Switch. Don junior claiming that russians wanted to give dirt on hillary clinton, but when they got there, it was about adoptions. It was a 20minute meeting. It was nothing relevant to any of these things. That is all it is. Thats all they got. Thats not the premise that got them in the room. It was a bait and switch to talk about that. Everyone has said that in testimony already. So this is nothing new. The president s son said all of the Media Scrutiny of the
meeting with the russians is an attempt to divert attention away from his fathers accomplishments. This week, President Trump is he on what the white house calls a Working Vacation in new jersey. He tweeted over the weekend about the Trump Tower Meeting and Robert Muellers investigation. Advisers are urging the president to cool it with the trump tower tweets. Since they only give oxygen to the topic. We have jeff zeleny with more. Reporter christine and phil, President Trump is continuing the Working Vacation in new jersey, one thing is clear he is staying out of public view, but we know one of the things on his mind. That russia investigation. We saw the tweets over the weekend when he was talking trying to explain what happened in the Trump Tower Meeting in june of 2016. The president , of course, saying nothing was wrong. It was trying to get opposition
research on hillary clinton. Of course, that is not the original explanation from a year ago. We know a couple of things since that tweet over the weekend. We know as we head into the week, the president s aides and lawyers are asking him not to tweet specifically about that Trump Tower Meeting. This is why. It is adding more complication every time he weighs in. It complicates the previous explanations for it. We are hearing from the president s aides that in the next coming days, the president s legal team will have an answer or response to Robert Muellers team. Will he sit for the interview and what conditions will he sit for an interview . They hope to have that