Watch this. Sweet caroline never seemed so good Shannon Shannon bream and the Fox News Night Team take it from here. She is always so good. Shannon thank you so much. We begin our show with a fox news alert. The president weeds out Attorney Generals Jeff Sessions about ending the mueller pro. The left cries obstruction the white house says, calm down, nothing new to see. Well discuss it with Fox News Contributor Jason Chaffetz and the National Republican senatorial committee. A federal judge overseeing the Manafort Trial cracks down on prosecutors, once again chastising the mueller team for getting to q2. Including a warning to lawyers to stop rolling their eyes. What exactly happened in that quarter monday two . Jonathan hunt has uncovered. Later, republican congressman
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Private. Something that would make any citizen without regard to party very concerned tonight. Allegedly abusing the power of office to try to shut down a probe into his own white house. Words that apply to nixon that undid his presidency and words that are advanced tonight. Lets get into the story. You may know if you watch this news program, we dont typically tweet Donald Trumps tweets as news stories because most of them are not news. Many of them are not factual, some of them are outright lies and a great many of them are ploys designed to hijack the conversation, distract the media or troll the notion. Up front, this is why weaver doing Something Different tonight. President trump is telling the Attorney General to shut down the mueller probe. Hes stating it in public and in writing that Jeff Sessions should stop the probe now. To be clear, if donald trump made that order in a private meeting with Jeff Sessions, or on a phone call to the doj or held a Big Press Conference on
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re-elect, trump is going back to ukraine. directly asking for their help against their likely democratic opponent this year, but also making clear that, you know, as far as they re concerned is looks like manafort may have gotten a raw deal, trying to vindicate manafort s tenure in ukraine, trying to make it seem like it maybe wasn t a bunch of illegal payments and a massive corruption scandal tied to these kremlin-linked oligarchs. maybe manafort got a raw deal. maybe manafort was all right. maybe the whole scheme that was propping up manafort was not a scandal at all. meanwhile, deripaska is getting a sanctions relief. dmitry firtash is successfully fending off extradition. now he s got his trump lawyers to make sure his case gets piped right into the president s ear. it s working out for everybody. if 2016 had been a movie, you could not sell this as a sequel. you would have to sell it as a remake because apart from paul manafort being in prison this time around, it s basically all
strident with these guys. lanhee, want to ask you about gates, who made a plea deal, used to be partners, a business relationship with manafort, today, the prosecutor is saying that he may not even testify. that s pricey? it looks like the manafort defense is built around gates and attacking his credibility. he is the one who made the plea deal and in a lot of ways, focusing, served up manafort to the special counsel. he may not take the stand. is a little bit surprising, shannon. the anticipation was that gates would be the star witness for the prosecution. why do they deal otherwise? it is a little surprising. again, not surprising from the manafort side, that they are pointing the finger at gates, a classic strategy of courtroom defense. we shouldn t be surprised. it is a little surprising. i still think gates does end up on the stand before this all said and done. shannon: lanhee, jason chaffetz, i don t know about you guys come about and looking forward today. to see what judg
heaven for a gangster, number one? two, what in god s earth is donald trump doing comparing this man to al capone? and three, when you look at the legalities of this case, how does it relate to how you approached maffia? there are a lot of parallels between the cases i used to do going against the maffia and this case, but the number one similarity is you re trying to penetrate a closed, secretive, potentially criminal organization. the number one way you do that is by flipping people, getting cooperating witnesses. you hit on something. i think the president is probably scared to death that paul manafort may try to flip, if he s convicted. you read that as what s happening this week. in other words, for a long time trump dismissed manafort and avoided talking about him. lately we showed he s been talking and tweeting more about him lately, a handful more tweets up from zero. that means what? he could be trying to soften up manafort. the biggest might mare for trump