Get a jump on the days news with Christine Romans and Dave Briggs. We will watch the situation very closely. Paula, thank you for the report. Jury selection begins later this morning in the federal trial of the former Trump Campaign Paul Manafort for alleged financial crimes. The first test for special Counsel Robert Mueller and his prosecutors although russia is not the center of the trial. We have more from evan perez from washington. Reporter dave and laura, Paul Manafort, the former campaign chairman, is going on trial in Virginia On Federal Tax and bank fraud charges. This is the first trial to come from Robert Muellers investigation. Dont expect the trial to be about russia or collusion or President Trump. Prosecutors and attorneys plan to stick closely to the issues in the charges which have to do with the governments accusations that manafort used secret Foreign Bank Accounts to hide millions of dollars he earned working for the Ukrainian Government and failed to report it to t
sentiment especially with the foreign powers who may be interested in running a similar play in 2018 or 2020. my take away is this tap of the head apparend hit on the ta did not come up with good strategy for giuliani. president trump reiterated the claim along side the prime minister of italy saying if he doesn t get that big beautiful wall, he is prepared to do a shutdown. listen. after many, many years of talk within the united states, i would have no problem doing a shutdown. it s time we had proper border security. when republican leadership was asked about this, they collectively said meh. john thune said i hope it is a negotiating tactic. i recognize the look of the republican leadership. it is one my kids give me when i make a completely hollow threat. what do you make of the reaction