A newscast reviewing and analyzing top stories of the day as they happen. The government and for manafort to keep things moving along. They did. That is the same judge that challenged the special counsels office and accused them of just trying to use charges of financial crimes to squeeze manafort in giving them information that they could use against President Trump. The trial proceeded anyway and the former Trump Campaign manager that was a wakened by an fbi agent performing a noknock raid is being confronted with evidence that he hit 60 million from the irs which he received consulting ukrainian politicians. The charges are for falsifying income tax returns, bank fraud and failing to file reports. If convicted, manafort could face 305 years in jail. Theres Sentencing Guidelines for federal cases like that that would suggest that the judge would probably give him something less than that, shep. Shepard what is the next step in this trial, peter . Any minute, shep, we expect
the jury,
the media. refusing to take any responsibility for stirring up any rage in america. is it fair to ascribe the president any role in tearing apart the nation? welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we begin with the politics lead. minutes ago, the white house press secretary defended president trump s response to a series of major traumatic events gripping and in some cases terrifying the nation. sarah sanders claiming that president trump has brought the nation together. she says he bears no responsibility for tensions, and despite the president directly blaming the media for tensions, sarah sanders claimed he had not blamed anyone. she said a lot of things that were difficult to believe, and in some cases, some things that were just plain false. as just an example of how upside down this afternoon s press conference was, at times, she made the assertion that president trump was elected by, quote, an overwhelming majority of 63 million americans. now, obviously, the president
reluctant to say something about someone that they know. they need to have the courage to come forward. if nobody has anything to hide, that i have nothing to fear. let law enforcement sort out what is right and what is wrong. have the courage to come forward and find molly. shepard: the dad also said you can t go anywhere in iowa without seeing pictures or posters of his daughter. matt finn is left in the midwest newsroom. matt? this afternoon s press conference was anticipated. we thought it might answer some of the obvious questions remaining in this mystery. investigators revealing they re not revealing any information to the public because it could compromise the integrity of the investigation. there s not been no suspects and no timeline. investigators tell fox news that they re a timeline that they re confident with but not releasing
are starting to piece together a profile of the suspect amid loud recalls for something to be gone about gun violence at our schools. incoming president of the national rifle association oliver north. you aren t going to fix it by taking away the rights of law abiding citizens. you have to fix it in a way that hardens the place sufficiently that those kids are safe inside the door. if that means metal detectors getting out of the high school, you get them. eric: doug mcelway is live with the latest. they re planning for new security measures at the schools? we hope to find out more about that at this afternoon s press conference at 5:00 p.m. eastern time at the sante fe independent school district headquarters later today. the debate is beginning to royle here even in this state. governor abbott came back to the school and placed flowers here and indicated the shooting needs to be a real changing point. it s time to go to work to
question but we also got an official response from malaysian airlines and what malaysian officials have told us is this. they have said quote we regret the sense at this afternoon s press conference involving some of the relatives of passengers on board 370. one can only imagine the anquish they are going. malaysia is doing everything it can to find mh370. it s the sheer amount of conflicting information that has come out. we have seen the timeline change not once but a number of times. and it s going back and forth, exactly when did the plane turns was it did it have a pre-programmed plan to divert away from its original flight path. what more do we know about the pilot and co-pilot. this is information the families want to know. they are getting conflicting