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house energy and commerce committee. and he says that collins violated the public trust. dana? dana: all right, bryan llenas, thank you. fox news alert in a different federal courthouse. rick gates wrapping up his testimony in the paul manafort trial. gates saying he has no doubt the government would rip up his plea agreement if he doesn t tell the truth. this coming as manafort s lawyers hammered him on his credibility on cross-examination. peter doocy is live outside u.s. district court in alexandria, virginia. peter, how big a factor is rick gates personal life in his own testimony? a huge factor, dana. because rick gates admitted today that the special counsel s lawyers, the mueller team s lawyers helped him prep for his testimony here for more than 20 hours. so, the manafort team jumped in today to ask him well, did you ever tell the mueller lawyers during the prep about the extramarital affair he admitted to and gates said yes,
things have gotten to the point that wheels are coming off of this presidency. it s not clear who has authority or what authority. martha: this side of the coin rooted more on the policy side. senator joe manchin was asked that the way this president is doing things is leading to a more productive white house. i think it s the more transparency the more openness. you can see a person who is willing to engage and talk about it. he s not afraid to say hey, maybe the people who have supported me before might not like my position but i think it s where we should go as a country. that s your leadership. that s what you are supposed to do. that s what he is showing right now. martha: so which is it and can they coexist as the president fends off the russia investigation and same mull taken columbusously begins planning his re-election campaign. in moments we will talk to bill bennett. on a day of huge developments what s going on with marc thiessen who worked in the georg
differently. i actually told theresa may how to do it but she didn t agree. sparking rumors of another white house run. she is set to speak at teacher s convention today. social media going crazy over first lady melania trump. wearing off the shell low yellow ball gown. many on twitter disney princess bell. no, you re not alone because i m going to make this place your home steve: this is the biggest selling single in the history of american idol, it was done in the 11th season of by philip phillips who is going to stake the stage for summer concert series brought to you by the friends of keurig. making a breakfast to barbecue. ainsley: that s awesome. we love our summer. brian: special thanks to earth for rotating go to europe, following our president and feeling like we are here with breaking news throughout the show and today is no exception. because he is in the u.k. they insist on having daylight when we have night. and he is up and he s going to have a press
fact, happen tweeting: it had been reported that robert mueller is saying that he did not apply an interview for the job as the fbi director and get turned down. the day before he was wrongfully appointed the special counsel. i hope he doesn t say that under oath that was interesting in the light of day this evening as well. all of this as the white house is taking the fight to congress issuing a scathing letter to democrats calling the impeachment inquiry constitutionally invalid and essentially daring nancy pelosi to hold a vote to make it official. and, until she does, the trump administration says they will not cooperate. eric trump standing by with the reaction to all of these very big breaking news developments tonight, including a report that the whistleblower there s more, at the center of this whole thing according to these new reports in the washington examiner had some kind of professional relationship at some point with one of the 2020 democratic candidates. so