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backdrop he is going to step in front of the american people tonight and try to make the case that he has the right path forward when it comes to afghanistan and that they should trust him. it s a very big decision for me. i took over a mess. and we re going to make it a lot less messy. reporter: president trump set to outline his strategy for america s path forward in afghanistan. a major test for the new commander in chief, one that could put more american troops in harm s way. after meeting with top administration officials at camp david on friday, the president announcing saturday he had made a decision after months of deliberation and delays. he has made a decision, as he said. he wants to be the one to announce it to the american people. it is a south asia strategy, not just an afghanistan strategy. reporter: the president has been presented with a wide range of options. everything from a full withdrawal to the deployment of up to 4,000 more soldiers, amid questi ....
watch their body language. in the press conference, which is the first time we assumed questions about don junior will come up. what, errol, are you expecting? i m expecting in addition to all the things we ll end up talking about, there will be interesting stuff around trade and tourism and all the normal things that go on when two nations of this kind are together. when the questions begin, though, i m very interested to hear what the french press is going to ask. we ve got this narrative and it s going to probably continue here for a long time where the president says all of american media is against him except for the conservative press. it s all fake news. we re making things up, getting paid more to say things damaging to him and so forth. the french press who are a pretty sharp bunch, they have nothing to do with any of that. they ll answer very straightforwa straightforward questions whabt what did you dorks when did you do it, what s going on with your son? are you ....
interesting. solid conservative, excellent legislator. i think es he s one of these people you want in congress. a person of tremendous integrity whether you agree with him or disagree. he knows full well he s going to face a primary opponent and trump will campaign against him but in the land of barry gold water, we re going to see now a defiant and maverick mccain and someone in flake with this book and his campaign is going to elevate conservativism again. the ultimately they need to find a way to govern. the to go to voters to say give us your trust to move the country in a new direction. that s not just about the economy and the government s intervention in the economy. so you have the republicans making a move towards conscience or so they say and chris, you have this other blow to the president in the form of a lawsuit, former d.c. cop accusing fox news of manufacturing a story, using the death of a dnc staffer to distract from the russia investigation. we talked to t ....
ukrainian government which have links to russian politicians and operatives. the memo says the link compels investigators to examine russian efforts of interference in the 2016 election. the payments from ukraine to manafort is the basis for financial crimes charges he faces. manafort wants the charges dismissed claiming beyond mueller s scope because ukraine is unrelated to the campaign. the declassified memo was written in august by deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. it shows rosenstein s strong backing for the special counsel despite attacks from the president. let s discuss this with julian selzer. good morning. good morning. the constant attacks against the word collusion. the word he said the most in the first 14 or 15 months. how significant is this development? it doesn t seem there are any new findings here, but it shows there is legitimacy to looking at the financial ties with officials in the trump orbit and russia. this just provides credibility for mu ....
Get a jump on the day s 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 mueller s investigation. don t 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 government s accusations that manafort used secret foreign bank accounts to hide millions of dollars he earned working for the ukrainian government and fail ....