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the battle to save lives as president trump sends a tweet about the fire that baffles even his own staff about the cause of it all. good afternoon, everyone. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. in the politics lead, rick gates, former number two on the trump campaign grilled right now about the plea deal by defense attorneys for former trump campaign chair paul manafort. gates describing today in vivid detail of he says manafort engineered an elaborate scheme to avoid taxes. prosecutors say manafort s own e-mails show him directing the money to multiple offshore accounts. now, although conspireing with russia on the 2016 election is not officially on the docket, the sub text of it is looming over the trial. gates says that manafort gave some control over a bank account in cyprus of a man of a
up until 2012 for consulting work for a ukrainian billionaire. gates went into detail abo
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A recap of the day s news. you have gone to a district trump won by 11 points. that romney won by 10 points. and now, it is a squeaker. mo, what for frz. john. you lost, we won. you have to thing about it this way. if they needed the president to get him over the hump in supremely red district that should tell you that the district was in jeopardy. the best read you could give. what that means is there is a surge of momentum at least in this area. we can t necessarily transpose that sort of rest of the nation. but it does suggest that, that the president is not as popular, because that was a plus 11 district. you are right. except, i want-up to have more momentum. because you are going to keep losing. peck pick up the senate and keep the house. the plan for the republicans. more momentum. campaign on the strength of the economy. as well as trump tax cuts. for, for the, the november mid terms. that its the hope they believe.
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remind folks what that means? yeah. there s a question about the status of the ballot. maybe a question about the status of the voter. they tend to be, i keep saying, they tend to be democratic ballots. they tend to be voters, especially in franklin county, from delaware county. oftentimes, you find that sometimes in nonwhite areas. you start having i.d., voter i.d. requirements. maybe it is folks who won t have i.d. so you end up getting a situation. when you look at the provisionals, they tend on come more from provisional counties. i think the number was something like 1,400. came out of franklin. i think it may have been in the
democratic part. a lot of them end up being counted. they re cast provisionally and then they re reviewed afterwards. all right. we ll be back. thank you so much. le
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able to sell the shares. they have telephone logs, who called whom and when. it appears they have people helping the government out with the testimony. as mimi said, andrea, it s kind of overwhelming evidence that s difficult for federal prosecutors to ignore. and chuck todd, we ve not yet seen to my knowledge a tweet from the president or any suggestion that this is witch hunt, mueller related. but this is really separate, this is an investigation that started, there was an ethics investigation that we heard about some months back, last year sometime. and so this does not come from the mueller operation at all. right. and that s the thing, it has zero to do this is just bad timing, bad coincidence. and it looks bad, right? here is yet another person close to the president who seems to be taking advantage of access,
special access, or a pay to play issue. the president s a
we have really serious and growing problems and it s the job of my agency to get the data about those problems out there in the public domain the actual experience of muslims in europe the actual experience of jews in europe put that in front of the policymakers the decision makers and then challenge them but deliver only human rights from it is the problem not the solution in some countries it s not that simple and there s an enormous diversity of of willingness to make for better societies but it s not just the policy makers the politicians who make our societies it s also about civil society it s also about the faith groups it s the citizens themselves and a large part of our work is to engage with them and to convince them that this is something worth fighting for i will repeat my question in some countries are the governments the problem or the solution like poland for example. i just wouldn t put it that simply in some countries we ve got far more serious
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house energy and commerce committee. and he says that collins violated the public trust. dana? dana: all right, bryan llenas, thank you. fox news alert in a different federal courthouse. rick gates wrapping up his testimony in the paul manafort trial. gates saying he has no doubt the government would rip up his plea agreement if he doesn t tell the truth. this coming as manafort s lawyers hammered him on his credibility on cross-examination. peter doocy is live outside u.s. district court in alexandria, virginia. peter, how big a factor is rick gates personal life in his own testimony? a huge factor, dana. because rick gates admitted today that the special counsel s lawyers, the mueller team s lawyers helped him prep for his testimony here for more than 20 hours. so, the manafort team jumped in today to ask him well, did you ever tell the mueller lawyers during the prep about the extramarital affair he admitted to and gates said yes,
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manafort would send me a list of wire requests. gates admit that had he used information provided by manafort to create invoices for fake amounts of money but the money never went to the vendors, instead it went to the banks. the purpose of this, according to gates, so that the wire transfers would not be recorded on u.s. business records. nonetheless, prosecutors elicited testimony from mr. gates and from one of mr. manafort s accountants that tied manafort more closely to russia. the accountant testified that in 2006 mr. manafort received a $10 million loan from a russian oligarch close to president vladimir putin. she said she saw no evidence the loan was ever repaid. the cross-examination today getting very personal at times. gates forced to admit that more than a decade ago he had an
affair, that he financed this affair first class travel to london and an apartment in london but he insisted he did not use sto
been reliably red for three decades. but balderson s team says he was able to hold his own and do well enough to eke out a win. and he s paid special thanks to president trump. i d like to thank president trump. america is on the right path, and we re going to keep it going that way. reporter: again, this was a race that too close to comfort for many republicans, and it s a race that s soon to be repeated. both candidates will face each other again come november. jason carol reporting there. well, democrat danny o connor was up beat when he spoke to his supporters late tuesday, and he took a swipe at president trump. we made our case for change. we re going to make that case tomorrow. we re not stopping now. tomorrow we rest, and then we keep fighting through to
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gets checked. 8,500 votes roughly still to be counted and sorted out. the secretary of state says 5,048 outstanding absentee ballots, 3,500 provisional ballots. the question is does it cha
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or a personal statement? this comes from his team. again this is about a pharmaceutical company out of australia that he sat on the board of while he was a u.s. congressman until just april. that s an interesting statement from the u.s. attorney. the government allegation he was passing non-public information to his son, cameron collins, who is also dieted. then the son was passing the information to other people, and they were trading on that information. look, he was the guy who knew what was going on here. he knew that there were some negative results according to this indictment on his drug trial. and he then took that information, the government says, and passed it along. the other thing i think that s interesting here is that they are using in this indictment they talk about how he tried to conceal the trading and issues surrounding the drug stock. one point in this indictment they mention how h