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manafort into paying his american express bill and may have fraudulently submitted personal expenses to be paid by the trump inaugural committee. the defense team says they exposed him as unreliable. after all the laws you ve told you expect this jury to believe you? gates said i m here to tell the truth and take responsibility for my actions. mr. manafort had the same path. i am trying to change. he says if there are charges of financial funny businessman fort always knew where the money was. the judge jumped in to say manafort wasn t that great knowing where his money was if gates was able to steal as much as he was admitted to stealing. gates was told that the manafort defense team will have at least another hour s worth of questioning for him this morning starting at 9:30 local
time. we don t know who the mueller team s next witness would be that they might call. we know they plan to wrap up their case, rest their case sometime this week.
though. that s it for special report. i m shannon bream in washington. i hope you join us for fox news tonight. we will have the results later today. the story . breaking tonight, putting his hot streak to the test with key races in several states across the country. including that crucial special election in ohio or polls are closing moments from now. tonight s results can election in ohio or polls are tell us a lot about what to expect in those movember midterms when president trump s report card comes in. good evening, everybody, i m sandra smith in for martha maccallum. we ll bring you those results live as we get them. he reports that a chinese spy infiltrated the offices of one of our nation s top democrats being swept under the rug.
president trump trying to find some evidence of collusion with russia. senator dianne feinstein s former aide and driver allegedly committed espionage delaying political information to china s top intelligence agencies while she was chair
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close associate to paul manafort for 12 years, but now he s flipped, he pleaded guilty, and he s telling all he knows to prosecutors. so, it will be interesting when he is back on the stand for more cross examination this morning. christine and phil? jessica, thank you for that. legal woes multiplying for michael cohen. the wall street journal reporting president trump s former lawyer and fixer is now under investigation for tax fraud. sources tell the journal the federal prosecutor in manhattan is looking into whether cohen underreported income from his taxi medallion business. the taxi licenses yielded hundreds of thousands of dollars over the last five years. the wall street journal also reporting federal investigators are looking into possible fraud against the bank that financed cohen s taxi medallion business. cohen has not been charged with a crime, and the journal reports he previously denied wro
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the hollywood walk of fame citing his disturbing treatment of women. meanwhile bill cosby s star is there, kevin spacey s star is there, totally intact. we will show you all the updates from day six in the trial of the century, the 2005 tax case of paul manafort. by the way, an incrediblen exchange between team mueller and judge ellis. apparently, mueller s guy was in tears. sit tight, it s time for tonight s important breaking news, opening monologue. for over a year we have been reporting accurately, and now we know more about bruce ohr s suspicious ties to fusion gps. remember, his wife nellie actually worked with christopher steele for fusion gps, and the ones that putme together the clinton bought and paid for russian dirty dossier. as you know, the dossier was a
dollars, in this case as a weapon. and then later the president of the united states, president trump himself. they use clinton campaign material, never verified
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that s 1,754 votes ahead in a sdlact h district that has been in gop hands for three decades. the official outcome way not be known until other ballots are tallied and the race could be headed to a recount if the k candidates end up within 1% of each other once the votes are certified. this morning, balderson is claiming victory. o connor has not conceded. regardless, we ll see a rematch when they compete for full term in congress. welcome to morning joe. it is wednesday, august 8th. with joe, willie and me, we have associate editor of commentary magazine noah raufman. former treasury official and morning joe economic analyst steve rattner and national political correspondent for nbc news and msnbc news, is he still away, steve kornacki.
but you see this same thing happening. they re bleeding. republicans are bleeding so badly right now in subu
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zeldin. this is a very serious allegation. he misunderstands, i think, that his failure to directly sell his own shares is what s at issue. what s at issue is his provision of non-public information to his son and another so that they could cut their losses in their sales. that violates the mail fraud statutes, securities fraud statutes, and there is not really much of a defense if in fact the facts in the allegation are true. michael, this is sdny indicting a sitting member of congress months before an election. we know prosecutors are confident but i mean how air-tight does this case need to be? well, two things. first, we know from the from that which happened during the last 2016 election that you re
not supposed to bring indictments against congressman and other political people within 60 days. so they just sort of snuck under the 60-day donor election statute. just. yeah. but the fact is that, you treat publi
starts now. shannon: this song brings you up. we know how much you love it. rob: we played it last night. right here on fox and friends first . good morning on wednesday morning. jillian: thanks for starting the day with us. fox news alert, special election in ohio too close to call. rob: resulting four other primaries pouring in. griff jenkins live to break it down. reporter: ohio always delivers election drama and last
leave the us when they were supposed to when people overstayed their visas they become illegal immigrants and could be deported. securing the mexican border has been one of donald trump s top priorities since he launched his bid for the white house but there is growing concern over lack of security at the northern border. reporter: donald trump has taken a hardline stance on illegal immigration focusing efforts on reducing crossings at the us-mexico border but up north america s border with canada, 3000 miles from ocean to ocean remains largely unmonitored an
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will not be counted. if it is received tomorrow, lost in the mail, if that ballot gets in, it will be counted. so some are going to be counted terms of absentee ballots favored o connor. you would expect that whatever comes out of this would give him a little boost. and there are going to be a couple hundred, we would think, a small number of military ballots. it may be a bigger wedge the provisions and all of that math i m talking about does have the potential. i don t think to etrace 1750 for. but to get it inside half a percent. to cut it in half. it seems to have potential. so we have to wait. and again, state law saying they
have to wait ten days before they can even look at counting these provisional ballots. just a terminology question. our viewers have heard us talk about provisional ballots all night. remind folks what that means? yeah. there s a question about the status of th
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but i had said earlier today that if it s 2% or less, republicans are going to be talking in a back room and they re worried. byron said they re worried. they know this is a tough midterm coming up, and i agree with him. and it absolutely is for the president in power. there s no question about that. very few acceptation. as we wait to see balderson take the stage, i want to ask you quickly, todd, about this, the rnc said it would have made a big difference to have a president on the ballot. they say the special elections are different. here s rnc chair. i think these special elections are called special elections for a reason. there s only two candidates on the ballot. turnout is a huge issue in august in ohio, the week before school starts. turning out that vote is going to be critical. and i will tell you, president trump would win this district today and he would win it in november. what do you thin
A recap of the day s headlines and a look at what s in store for tomorrow. fair to say both sides are going to claim victory in was went down tonight in ohio 12? yes but your speaking facts. this is a numbers game and these should not be the numbers. the winner is the winner but we will see what happens again in november in the real election, some would say. when we look what this would do to those in my party it will encourage more to come out. when you look at numbers, how many people republicans had in this constituency, this district, so many more republicans here and not just because of the republican candidate but the number of people who voted that way in the past, you have a lot of democrats, interesting to see the exit polls, it is a victory to have such a tight margin for democrats but i didn t think this would be one of the seats that would make it 22 but i said
donald trump pulling a republican candidate s fat out of the fire, the president won this race for mister