we have andrew weissman here. should be interesting. also late they are hour, new clues on where covid really came from and what it means for safety and geopolitics. we do the facts here with an open mind, and we ll try to bring that perspective to a very important story. even if we re talking about some aspects of safety policy, we re going to get into where this virus came from. that s later tonight. the top story now is a once in a year moment. comics raising the curtain on this cpac conference in today s real news. stays coachella were team who post on facebook in all caps. clowns periodically in ash centers. there will be a quan session sorry, q&a. qanon/q&a, you get it. this conference has become in more ways bizarre than conservative. while many political gathers have all kinds of characters i have been to conferences across the spectrum. you see all kinds of stuff. we ll show you what the proramming is and you can see for yourself. they have sessions on
Now word overnight the next round of tariffs could escalate dramatically. Shifting blame. Heated statements and a 15,000 coat. A fast start to Paul Manaforts trial on financial crimes. Good morning, and welcome to early start. Im Laura Jarrett in for christine romans. Good to see you, my friend. Im dave briggs, wednesday, august 1st, already, if you can believe it. 5 00 a. M. In the east. We start with a chilling story for Many Americans this morning. A federal judge flocking a Government Settlement that would allow for 3d printable guns for sale. You could print out the instructions to guns on the internet, if you can believe it or not. This is a terrifying ordeal for many parents in this country who simply know that their kid could be printing that at the moment. Now, the founder of the Gun Rights Group Defense Distributed says his companys site is going dark until he can review the judges order. Before the ruling came down, he spoke to cnns Laurie Segall
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of the legal reasoning, in your considerable legal finding you do fact finding. when you see facts like this emerge, do you think writ large over time, whatever the resolution in this case, they can affect the standing and the sense of how we categorize fox news as a society? does that matter? that is a great question. the way i think about this is i think about disinformation outside of a courtroom where we re all infected by politicians and, unfortunately, significant media outlets where there doesn t seem to be any repercussio for that. and what is going on in a court of law where, as a judge said amy berman jackson, the judge over the manafort case. she said, this is a place where
an assassination. he praised the crown prince with good control of the country. the explanation of the saudis is less warm on capitol hill. it called for severe repercussio repercussions. including several senators typically in the president s corner. i think the cover stories from the saudis is a mess. you don t bring a bone saw to a fist fight to a consulate in turkey. the saudis have said a bunch of crap which is not accurate or true. they lost all credibility as it relates to explaining what happened. i can understand the president wanting to keep open channels, but those of us who want to speak directly, knows it is not credible. if the crown prince loved his country, he would not put the country in this position. if he truly respected the relationship with the united states and saudi arabia, he would not have thought of this. i want to work with the