The latest news from around the world with hosts John Berman and Poppy Harlow. Manafort and its clear in the attempt by the defense to establish reasonable doubt. In The Big Picture its important to say that prosecutors putting on their case now are trying to delve into what they called the extravagant lifestyle of paul manafo manafort. They say he parked money in Offshore Banks and evaded taxes. Evade it had Internal Revenue service so today we expect to hear more of the deep dive into how u. S. Political consultants of both parties were hired to work for ukraine. We expect on the stand today among others daniel rayban. The first witness was another Democratic Political consultant, tad devine, the chief strategist for the democratic president ial candidate bernie sanders. Also on the stand, an fbi agent who is expected to go through the nuts and bolts of what the fbi learned. The rocket docket. Another big day. Joining me now, Crime And Justice reporter Shimon Prokupecz and former fed
Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. Considered official white house statements . Well, the president is the president of the United States. So theyre considered official statements by the president of the United States. At least one republican was willing to speak candidly about the reaction among many lawmakers in the capital. Every morning we wake up, he tweets something, and were supposed to respond to his tweet. Mueller is going to finish his investigation and the truth will come out. Our leadopen panel, peter baker, chief White House Correspondent for the New York Times. Jill colvin, White House Reporter for the associated press. John heilemann, coauthor of game change. And harry litman, former u. S. Attorney, former Deputy Assistant Attorney General under president clinton. Good evening, all. Peter, i would like to read you what sally y
One number i want to highlight is wage growth. 2. 7 . I mean, its not terrible but you have to look at the environment. You have to look at the context here. In this stage in the cycle where were at near or full employment, meaning that every american who is either willing or able to get a job has one, weve seen wage growth between 3. 5 . This is a persistent problem to the administration. This speaks to how people feel. They want a raise. Overall, a very strong relatively strong report. Missing expectations, 157,000. The market isnt loving it because its below the trend weve been seeing so thats why the market isnt liking it. But 3. 9 . Its solid for two main reasons. This goes back to my point about context. One is that at this point in the cycle you would think that hiring would slow very significantly because we are at near full employment so you would think that actually you
would expect this kind of pullback. The other thing is it doesnt seem like tariff worries until this mornin
I dont think so. I dont think so. I sit here and say i dont think so. I dont know. Im being serious. If someone tried to recruit lebron to run for president , they said listen, theyve got no one. If you dont run, trumps going win, would you run . Well, in that case, i may. If they have no one, there i believe are some people out there. I hope. But lets see first. Lets see first. We also talked about living while black and how even money and fame Dont Insulate you from racism. Much more on that interview in just a moment. But lets start with the president s week, shall we . I want to bring in cnn Global Affairs analyst max boot and molly ball. Good evening. Good evening. Max, President Trump was on the attack this week, lashing out at everyone, saying that sessions should shut down the mueller investigation, contradicting his National Security team on russia, trying to distance himself from Paul Manafort. What does this tell you about his frame of mind . Well, first, don, let me just sa
Thank you very much. Have a good day. Bill good morning. Fox news alert. The first round of trumpordered sanctions against iran set to be imposed at midnight putting the ball in tehrans course. He is willing to meet with its leaders only months after pulling out of the iran deal. First, a crackdown in caracas. They make it clear the u. S. Had nothing to do with a public Assassination Attempt. Something else here. Bill hemmer, hope you had an awesome weekend live inside Americas Newsroom. Sandra always too short. Good morning, everybody. Im sandra smith. Chaos in venezuelas capital. Invest Gators Raiding hotels and seizing drones. Two drones exploded as president maduro spoke at a public involvement. John bolton denying any american involvement. There is no u. S. Government involvement in this at all. If the government of venezuela has hard information that they want to present to us that would show a potential violation of u. S. Criminal law well take a serious look at it. In the meant