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Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. going on here. the president tweeted over the weekend he s willing to shut down the government if he doesn t get the money for the wall and some big-time immigration reforms. in the process, he may force republican leaders, that s his own party, and candidates into a fight they don t want to have, particularly with these midterm looming. but we know it is an issue that has been at the top of the president s agenda since he launched his campaign. something he made clear again during his weekly address. we must enforce the rules against visa fraud, illegal overstay, illegal entry and other immigration violations and crimes, and crimes they are, believe me, crimes they are. the president is calling for several things. he wants at least billions more in funding for a border wall. he wants to end the policy of catch and release, which lets asylum seekers live in the united states until their cases are hear ....
David Gura hosts coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. wide-ranging conversation the two of them had. let me play a tape here from senator lindsey graham, senior senator from south carolina, responding to all of this. when it comes to michael cohen, you should be very suspicious of anything he says. he s on the hot seat. mr. cohen, if you ve got something new to say, you need to come to congress and say it under oath. everyone is a lawyer. i should say, lindsey graham is actually a lawyer. so he has some justification there weighing in, i guess, on what happens on the hot seat. sara, give me your perspective on this. we have seen teases here from michael cohen, lanny davis releasing that tape, memobly on tuesday night. we listened to it in real-time as it was played out on cable news. we ve heard it subsequently. what s your sense here of what michael cohen s thinking, his frame of mind here as we approach a new week? well, it s true th ....
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 ....
cry of the campaign. we are going to build a great bo border wall. we will build a great, great wall. we will build a wall. don t worry about it. we are building it. i promise that we will build the wall. and who is going to pay for the wall? mexico. this new shutdown threat happening as the government s deadline to separate united families with their children has come and gone and more than 700 children have not been reunited and boris sanchez is joining us live from new jersey near where the president is spending the weekend on his golf resort there in bedminster and tell us more about trump s point of view and strategy here. hey, there, fred. some say that the time is a flat circle, and we are right back to where we were a few months ago and really starting a year ago around september when congress had to begin passing the continuing resolutions, because they could not agree on the budget. the government was shutdown for a brief period earlier in the year, and a ....
Get a jump on the day s news with Christine Romans and Dave Briggs. the boston globe was the first to expose a program called quiet skies. involving marshals tracking american citizens to gather data on their travel behaviors. the goal is to thwart any aviation threats. marshals are looking for abnormal awareness of surroundings, excessive fidgeting and rubbing or if you slept during your flight. something i always do. i m a sweater who sleeps a lot on the plane. they are keeping their eye on dave briggs. the fast spreading carr fire in northern california has now claimed six lives. the wildfire doubling in size to over 95,000 acres this weekend. more than 1,000 structures have been damaged or destroyed. a broken hearted ed bledsoe lost his wife and two great grandchildren in the fire. he was on the phone with them as the flames closed in. i talked to junior on the phone until he died. he just kept saying grandpa, come and get me. the fire is coming in the back doo ....