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to the kids. i know. to your girlfriend if you re young and in love, but not us old married folks, right? i don t know. we re exempt. roses are so expensive on this day. there s romance. i m financially responsible. 32 minutes past the hour. let s begin, though, with paul manafort s plea deal now voided. a federal judge ruling the former trump campaign chairman intentionally lied to the fbi, special counsel and grand jury making multiple false statements about several material matters, including his interactions with a long time russian associate kons steen kilimnick. we get more from cnn s evan perez. christine and dave, a judge here in washington voided paul manafort s plea deal with federal prosecutors. judge jackson said there s enough evidence to show that manafort the former trump campaign chairman intentionally lied in three instances during the time that he was supposed to be cooperating with investigators from special counsel robert mueller s office. ....
American people should find any testimony that you give today to be truthful. if i can respond to that it wasn t a question. i on that was not that was not a question. omar asked about abrams 1982 testimony seeming to downplay a massacre in el salvador by u.s. backed forces. she asked if abrams would support armed rebels today trying to overthrow maduro s government even if those rebels committed war crimes. i don t think this entire line of questioning is meant to be real questions and so i will not reply. omar pressed again asking if u.s. interests include protecting human rights and preventing genocide. abrams replied, quote, that is always the position of the united states. president trump and california governor gavin newsom sparring over california s scaled back high speed rail project, trump saying he wants ....
Overall, dave, i think there s a lot more geopolitical issues that have have to be worked out between china and the u.s. overtime, at least according to the senator, but when it comes to trade it does appear there has been some progress between both sides, steve mnuchin leading the u.s. delegation here telling reporters very briefly so far so good when asked about any progress. we saw a photo shoot between the top chinese negotiator and the top two american negotiators, everyone was smiling. if you are just looking at the tea leaves here it does appear that things are going well. the request he is how well and is there enough progress that s going to be made during these talks here this week in beijing to satisfy president trump? what he said is that if enough progress is made during these talks, that he would be open to moving that deadline where tariffs go up on march 1st. of course, it accomplishes two things, one, it puts tariffs back, it doesn t make them go any higher on march 1s ....
To take the state out of the economy in a very substantive way. in addition to doing all that other stuff like protecting intellectual property theft, stopping forced technology transfers and, by the way, making that trade deficit that president trump talks about go down. there is a huge list of asks. if you are looking at optimism you re going to say there s progress being made but if you are more of a pessimist or a real list the odds of a substantive trade deal being worked out this fast they are not great. matt rivers, keep us posted. a former air force intelligence officer has been charged with spying for iran. an indictment unsealed yesterday charges 39-year-old monica witt with revealing a highly classified intelligence collection program and risking the lives of u.s. assets in iran. monica witt provided the iranian government with the identities of employees in the u.s. intelligence community who were operating covertly. the justice department says witt also helped iran ....
Group of people who seem to be pretty close to the president who were, you know, getting themselves into very hot water. it s remarkable. thank you so much for joining us this morning. have a great day. thank you. happy valentine s day. to you as well. shoe. dave, see, people do care about valentines. i know, i m such a crusty old man. ahead it s the end of an era, airbus giving up on its super jumbo jet. cnn business is next. only tylenol® rapid release gels have laser drilled holes. they release medicine fast, for fast pain relief. tylenol® ....