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Get a jump on the day s news with Christine Romans and Dave Briggs. primary, cnn projects state attorney general bill schuette will be the republican candidate in november. former state legislative leader gretchen whitmer will be the democratic candidate. and cnn projects john james has captured the gop nomination for u.s. senate in michigan. james, an african-american iraq war vet endorsed by president trump. he will face off with democrat debbie stabenow in november. former trump campaign chairman paul manafort s longtime right-hand man back on the witness stand today. manafort s defense lawyers expected to pick up where they left off yesterday, trying to undermine rick gates credibility in the eyes of the jury. gates admitted to a host of transgressions. so far, manafort s defense team has not done much to pin the bank and tax fraud their client is charged with on gates alone. that part of their cross examination may come later today. more now from cnn s jessica schneide ....
Get a jump on the day s news with Christine Romans and Dave Briggs. close associate to paul manafort for 12 years, but now he s flipped, he pleaded guilty, and he s telling all he knows to prosecutors. so, it will be interesting when he is back on the stand for more cross examination this morning. christine and phil? jessica, thank you for that. legal woes multiplying for michael cohen. the wall street journal reporting president trump s former lawyer and fixer is now under investigation for tax fraud. sources tell the journal the federal prosecutor in manhattan is looking into whether cohen underreported income from his taxi medallion business. the taxi licenses yielded hundreds of thousands of dollars over the last five years. the wall street journal also reporting federal investigators are looking into possible fraud against the bank that financed cohen s taxi medallion business. cohen has not been charged with a crime, and the journal reports he previously deni ....
Former GOP representative Joe Scarborough and Mika Brezinski interview newsmakers, politicians and pundits about the issues of the day. that s 1,754 votes ahead in a sdlact h district that has been in gop hands for three decades. the official outcome way not be known until other ballots are tallied and the race could be headed to a recount if the k candidates end up within 1% of each other once the votes are certified. this morning, balderson is claiming victory. o connor has not conceded. regardless, we ll see a rematch when they compete for full term in congress. welcome to morning joe. it is wednesday, august 8th. with joe, willie and me, we have associate editor of commentary magazine noah raufman. former treasury official and morning joe economic analyst steve rattner and national political correspondent for nbc news and msnbc news, is he still away, steve kornacki. but you see this same thing happening. they re bleeding. republicans are bleeding so badly right no ....
Kate Bolduan gives a fresh take on today s top stories. zeldin. this is a very serious allegation. he misunderstands, i think, that his failure to directly sell his own shares is what s at issue. what s at issue is his provision of non-public information to his son and another so that they could cut their losses in their sales. that violates the mail fraud statutes, securities fraud statutes, and there is not really much of a defense if in fact the facts in the allegation are true. michael, this is sdny indicting a sitting member of congress months before an election. we know prosecutors are confident but i mean how air-tight does this case need to be? well, two things. first, we know from the from that which happened during the last 2016 election that you re not supposed to bring indictments against congressman and other political people within 60 days. so they just sort of snuck under the 60-day donor election statute. just. yeah. but the fact is that, you tr ....
the prosecutors say the information collins provided saved 8 men over $768,000 in a lawsuit. in a statement collins lawyer says it s notable that even the government does not allege that he traded a share of the stock. we are confident he will be exonerated. also a statement here by paul ryan. while his guilt and innocence is a question for the court to settle the allegations demand a prompt and thorough investigation by house ethics committee. insider trading is violation of the public trust. until the matter is settled, representative colins will not serve on the house eenergy and commerce committee. they are saying it s true he lost millions in stock but the only reason he didn t make trades himself because it was held up in the australian stock market. technically, he just could not. he was also under investigation by the ethics committee at the time for the similar accusations. mr. collins is considered the 13th wealthiest member of congress worth $44 million according t ....