A look at the days top news and headlines. Plausible, innocent explanation although i cant see one here for building all these offshore accounts and funneling money there to escape reporting it to the irs. On the other hand, i dont think the manafort defense is working. His defense is essentially this he is batman, hes blaming robin for all the problems. And thats just not going to work. Dana like the jury is not going to buy that let me ask you a few things that other possible, you know, big shot lobbyists in washington, d. C. Are rethinking some of their own practices at this point. That is a great question, dana. I think one of the things people overlooking is that manafort is not the unusual one in a way. He is unusual in that he tried to hide the money and not report it to the irs. Its not unusual in the way that he is making the money. He, like a lot i think this is partially why trump campaigned against quote, unquote, the swamp. There are lobbyists. A lot of people who just rec
cooperate with the government. i think the president is not just a private citizen. he is the hid under the constitution of all law enforcement. he should comply with his own prosecutors. if he thinks mueller is doing a terrible job, he can fire mueller and replace him with somebody else. but he still should comply. the last thing he wants is for mueller to go to the supreme court and ask for a subpoena to force the president to testify which would trigger a constitutional crisis. dana: and then we would have to have you back because you teach constitutional law at berkeley. i m sure there is more than five or six students. there is seven of them and i am one of them. congressman chris collins fighting back indictment insider trading. he is proclaiming his innocence and vowing to fight them. the charges against me are meritless and i will mount a vigorous defense in court to clear my name. i look forward to being fully vindicated and
republicans are about w. what voter care about in washington state. dana: collin, i will give you the last word. do you think it s good if you get the president to come and campaign in your district, should you want him? you should if you are in a red part of the state and talk about the senate map which we can do a different time. plenty of parts of the country where president trump is a huge asset places like indiana and north dakota and west virginia where they are really in danger democratic senators. but if i were running for house in the blue part of the country, i think i would advise him to stick to those races rather than by backyard. dana: thank you. thank you. dana: venezuela in crisis with sick and starving refugees crossing into neighboring colombia. fox news got exclusive access to the border. rich edson is live in colombia s capital city. rick, what did you see yesterday? dana, thousands of people, many of them were lined up waiting for food, waiting for medi
to call a win until we have actually won come november dana. the data is certainly in our favor. can you look at ohio 12 and the fact that a district that republicans have held since 1983 and that donald trump carried by 11 points is now within 1%. between the republican and democrat. and the fact the republicans spent $5 million in that district. a district they should never have to defend. also taking a step back, if you look at how democrats have performed in special elections over the past year and in 2017, we have consistently outperformed. and what s really striking to me, you know, ohio 12, a competitive district now, there are over 60, in fact i think it s 69 districts in which president trump carried by a smaller margin than he did in ohio 12. so those districts are competitive for democrats and the math is really in our favor right now. dana: collin, although the democrats are outperforming in terms of their turning out more voters, they actually don t have a lot of wins on
pledged tens of millions of dollars to help those venezuelans. there is also publicly pressuring the madeira regime. we were there with the u.s. ambassador to the united nations. spoke to her in an exclusive tv interview. we traveled there and she pledged $9 million additional to what the u.s. has already said and she said it s time for madeira to leave. i think the power of our voice is going to continue to be annoying to madeira. we are going to continue to let him know that what he is doing is wrong for the venezuelan people and we are going to continue to fight for the freedoms and democracy that the venezuelan people deserve. hopefully more sanctions and more pressure until we finally get madeira to step down. though, despite assassination attempt this past weekend, madeira is still in power in venezuela. a number of the venezuelans we spoke to the situation there the political oppression there has only gotten worse since that assassination attempt. dana? dana: all right, ri