A newscast reviewing and analyzing top stories of the day as they happen. The government and for manafort to keep things moving along. They did. That is the same judge that challenged the special counsels office and accused them of just trying to use charges of financial crimes to squeeze manafort in giving them information that they could use against President Trump. The trial proceeded anyway and the former Trump Campaign manager that was a wakened by an fbi agent performing a noknock raid is being confronted with evidence that he hit 60 million from the irs which he received consulting ukrainian politicians. The charges are for falsifying income tax returns, bank fraud and failing to file reports. If convicted, manafort could face 305 years in jail. Theres Sentencing Guidelines for federal cases like that that would suggest that the judge would probably give him something less than that, shep. Shepard what is the next step in this trial, peter . Any minute, shep, we expect
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counteroffensive, you have to mask troops along an access, it s usually thin. battle of the bulge. attack along the way. you re going to have success. we can pretend that ukraine will be able to mobilize troops and get there that fast. i don t think they re gonna be able to do it with any element of surprise, which is always, usually, a factor, a factor of a successful counteroffensive. we re seeing how grueling this counteroffensive is. what stood out to me, what he also said about mike pence, former vice president who recently showed up in ukraine, which was notable in and of itself because of the split we have seen in the republican field. slinky talked about the importance of bipartisanship. courtney said, there are dangerous signals from the republican party about that support waning. how much time does he have? well, let s hope both parties recognize that it s in the united states interest to keep supporting ukraine, at this point, giving the more equipment, given them what t
it could take two minutes before the backup car knows to slow down. and so, it becomes the slinky from heck that slammed into the cars that have already stopped. of course we have eight miles trapped in the 21st century. it s called electronic controlled pneumatic brakes. they basically stop every car at once. immediately. much more efficient. and in 2014, the obama administration wanted to make that mandatory. after a bunch of derailments just like this in new jersey. and the industry and norfolk southern fought even though they had put some on their trains and were screaming about the benefits. they said if we put that on our trains, they should be exempt from all other inspections because they re so safe. but they thought it was too expensive to invest in that. do you know if these folks have gotten a response from norfolk southern yet? have they replied? i ve not heard anything on that. i read that they have set up a 1 million dollar fund for the
companies. they ve been doing cost benefit analysis in the rail companies for a long time. the thing most fascinating to me is the breakes on the train. norfolk southern in particular adopted a new kind business model which meant a lot longer trains, two miles long, a lot fewer people. they laid off tens of thousands in the industry. that train was almost two miles long and we think had conventional air brakes which brakes from the front to the back. so it can take two minutes before the back cars know to stop and they become a slinky from hell slamming into the cars in front. for years now since the early 2000s, there have been electronically controlled brakes. when norfolk southern first tried these because they brake every car all at once, they raved about it. they actually appealed to the transportation officials. you shouldn t have to inspect trains with ecp brakes. they re so effective. but then when president obama tried to make them mandatory after a bunch of derailments in
community would like to have face time with the secretary to address their concerns. jake? jason carroll, thank you so much. let s bring in cnn s bill weir. bill, norfolk southern, the railway in question, they made billions in profit last year, yet they re handing over a paltry million dollars to the citizens of east palestine to deal with this crisis. why could the brake system do you think have played a key role in what went wrong in east palestine? tell us more about that. reporter: well, the train that derailed there and caused this catastrophe is actually using brakes that were designed around the civil war time. air brakes that brake the train from the front all the way to the back one at a time. sometimes on a really long train it can take two minutes for that signal to reach the back, so it turns into this giant slinky from hell as the back cars slam into the front. of course there is an advancement on this in the 21st century. in the early 2000s they