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be pushback here. he spoke very favorably of exxonmobil ceo rex tillerson. rex will will be a fierce ade for america s interests around the world and has insights and talents necessary to help reverse years of foreign policy blunders and disasters. [cheering] you re winning with health care. we re winning on the border. we re winning with isis. because we are going to get isis out. we re going to win so much, you will go to paul ryan, you will go, mr. speaker, please, please, we can t stand winning this much. we can t take it. and he is going to come to see me and he will mr. president, the people in wisconsin are tired of winning so much. more on that today. start with team fox coverage, david lee miller at trump tower in new york. begin with fox news digital much, right. gnaw nah. donald trump won 306 electoral votes. you need 270 to win. is it conceivably possible that 37 electors would be what we call faithless? it has happened in the past, that one or two or her ....
you d actually expect all the candidates to be pretty aggressively hawkish on russia, particularly after russia had just invaded one of their neighbors. but it was interesting. in that senate primary, that republican senate primary in 2014, this one primary candidate, the local talk radio host, he really went the other way. he called himself a former pentagon expert on russia and he told radio iowa that, quote, pushing the russians out of crimea is not a realistic option. he said, quote, i think a lot of people, i m not sure they understand the history of russia. you go back, you know, 1,500 years to the foundation of the russian empire. it actually started in ukraine and was evolved out of that. this whole issue is about as russian as it gets, meaning russia should be allowed to take parts of ukraine. that s russia s business, not anybody else s. and this candidate apparently felt pretty passionately about it. he went on in some detail, carter page also turns up in the indict ....
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 ....
A look at the day s news and headlines. at low containment. bill: it s a big job. probably something we deal with all week. thank you live in redding, california. sandra: president trump raising the stakes in the battle over the border wall threatening to shut down the government if he doesn t get the funding he has been demanding. the president firing off this warning a short time ago tweeting quote, i would be willing to shut down government if the democrats do not give us the votes for border security. which includes the wall. must get rid of lottery, catch and release, etc. and go to system of immigration based on merit. we need great people coming into our country. doug mcelway live at the white house this morning. doug, an interesting tactic to see a republican president embracing the prospects of a government shutdown. it sure is. history has shown that whenever there has been a government shutdown in the past it is the republican party that takes the blame for it ....
that s the combining of the denial with the collusion is not a crime narrative. the president was focusing on just the straight up no collusion point. you see it in all the tweets. now it is roaring back because of the thursday night bombshell that the president s own former lawyer and fixer cohen is claiming despite all the denials, the president did know about the russia trump tower meeting in advance. when that report drop, you know what happens next, they picked it up and whipped it around and began running with it again. it s hard to see the point of all of this hysteria. what would the crime be? it is not illegal to talk to foreigners. nobody is claiming that any information changed hands. even if did it, so what? i don t think it is bad if campaigns are turning to foreign governments for dirt. it s not collusion. it is not something that s impeachable. as they today? hacking. donald trump famously doesn t pay his own contractors and his own long time lawyers? even ....