comes as the administration touts a code, but not great, july jobs report. chief white house correspondent john roberts joins us with the numbers. good evening, john. of the president s chief economic advisor, larry kudlow, said today they traded talks with china are going nowhere, in fact, he says the white house says that even heard from china about it for weeks. there were some promising signs of a continued strong economy today, though, even if those numbers were somewhat tempered. the jobs numbers for july came in lower than expected. 157,000, versus a projected 195,000. but the white house one reason to celebrate. pointing out may and june s numbers were revised upwards, and the outlook for economic growth is good for you to speak strong. professional services, an appointment with don, very nice report. but to the gdp model, preliminaries, predicted 5%. i mean, i would be happy with three. they are predicting five. we are off to a good start.
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god father. it s time to go to the mattresses. really? the godfather? it s been a while since i saw the godfather. but last i recall it meant one family was going to wipe out another. but you are not surprised. you already knew this, didn t you. i m tired of being told not to believe our lying eyes when the truth is obvious whether it s peter strzok saying he hated and despised trump and would stop him becoming president, but it did not affect his work when he s the one who began counter-intelligence investigation against trump that we are still living with. or jeong s defenders saying there is no evidence her tweets had any bearing on her work. it appears the old gray lady has
finally flipped her wig. time to go to the mattresses on a supreme court justice? really? here is my favorite quote from the godfather. we are going to make you an offer you can t refuse. stop your resistance. s
psychological warfare and demanded talks with donald trump. todd: a response from the white house. reporter: 4 hours ago, when those sanctions hit, it exited from the iran nuclear deal, sanctions are designed to put up revenue, the regime with terrorist dictators and militias, but the door open for talks, president rouhani had this reaction. what is the meaning of negotiations when you impose sanctions at the same time? like someone pulling a knife to stab an enemy in the arm while at the same time claiming you should be talking and negotiating. the white house issuing a statement encouraging allies to join the maximum pressure campaign urging all nations to take steps to make clear the iranian regime faces a choice, a change is threatening to stabilize behavior with the global economy are continuing that could hurt, appreciate it. sanctions were in place before the 2015 iran nuclear deal was signed. rob: the obama era deal was not just ineffective but helps to embolden th
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all tried to convince her to look at the paper trail, we laid it out in front of her again and again and she still said she had reasonable doubt and that is the way the jury worked. we didn t want it to be hung so we tried for an extended period of time to convince her that in the end she held out and that is why we have 10 counts. is that where the note did not come from, performance in the note and said can you explain reasonable doubt? wasn t connected to that? it was. most of us did not want that question out there but one of the jurors did. we felt a little foolish sending it but that is the way the jury works.
deliberation requires we submit that question to the judge. judge ellis said this about the situation. i received criticism and threats. i can imagine they would too meaning of your names were released. if you told jurors their names would be public at the outset of this trial i might see s
he has the inside scoop coming up. first, chief national correspondent ed henry kicks off the coverage with breaking news. good evening. great to see you. the district attorney s office here in manhattan is thinking about bringing criminal charges against president trump s business, the trump organization, in connection with how officials they are reimbursed attorney cohen for his payments to that adult film performer. according to the new york times tonight. the president said months ago of the special counsel started probing his business dealings, that would be what he called a redline that could spark robert mueller s firing. this is more complicated because it would be state charges against the trump organization, not federal charges brought by mueller. it would be harder to justify a meal or firing perhaps. plus the president has the power to pardon paul manafort or anyone else for federal charges but he does not have clear authority to pardon people or corporations for crim
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cohen, the manafort ruling, and the president s reaction. a lot happening tonight. democrats pushing talk of impeachment, but president trump is fighting back. tweeting that the only thing he did wrong was when an election that hillary clinton was supposed to emerge victorious i in. in an exclusive interview with fox & friends ainsley earhardt, the president lashing out at michael cohen. the president had said publicly paid stormy daniels because he wanted to go straight it was false in the waning days of the campaign and the president is getting backup from liberal law professor alan dershowitz who told bret baier that the pundits claiming the president is an unindicted coconspirator are wrong as a matter of basic criminal law. it would not be a crime for the president to contribute money to his own campaign in the form of money to stormy daniels or anyone else. even as democrats about their attacks on t
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lawyer would have done what jeff sessions did. he was part of the campaign, you can t oversee an investigation of a campaign you were part of so he had to recuse himself. shannon: why does the president get that? i don t know. is that a lawyer, he is frustrated, he thinks this is a witchhunt, jeff did the right thing legally but mueller is now very deep into his investigation. this conflict is far beyond mueller and recusal. this is not a good working relationship from what i can tell. for the good of the nation we need an attorney general that has the confidence of the president and i m not blaming jeff sessions. there is no finer man but at the end of the day there are plenty of conservative judges and lawyers that i think could do this job, the we can get somebody confirmed but if he does replace jeff sessions the burden will be on the president to pick somebody highly qualified, give mueller the space h
happening in southern california here for the next couple hours. there s still reports of damage coming in. julie banderas has that and all of the day s news as we take a live look at washington d.c. ahead of the big celebration. we begin with breaking news. an earthquake rattling southern california and parts of nevada this afternoon. i m julie banderas in for shepard smith. happy fourth to you. emergency crews saying they re getting dozens of calls ranging from reports of injuries to fires. officials with the national gee logic survey say it lasted about 60 seconds. listen. i can feel it shaking. it was intense. take a look at this video
from a liquor store in ridge crest. this is the first of many videos you ll see pouring in today. this is near the epicenter. you can see the broken bottles on the floor. the shelves there rattled inten intensely. anita vogel is reporting live with more. julie, that s right, the earthquake struck at 10:33 local time in los angeles near the
fight over ground rules. anticipated all day tomorrow. john roberts is in switzerland to a night ahead of the president s trip. good evening. good morning to you from linzer heim. we got a glimpse into the defense of the president s legal team. he is going to start presenting tomorrow and a lengthy outline of their case described in the articles of impeachment as a dangerous perversion of the constitution that should be swiftly and roundly condemned. on the eve of his impeachment trial, president trump is headed for the world economic forum in dumbo switzerland. taking a swipe at his nemesis tweeting, crying chuck schumer is asking for fairness when he and the democratic house members work together to make sure i got zero fairness. what else is new? the president will be talking up american prosperity, meeting with world leaders . in austin, texas, rally with farmers last night, he contrasted what he is doing with what democrats are trying to do. i m going to europe
calling for an investigation into president trump s handling of the coronavirus and the mob are calling for the coronavirus press briefings, important information in a national emergency. they want it to be censored and more people that have a lot to answer for in terms of the question of possible insider trading, we will investigate. a lot of detail senate, new information, all of it coming up. first, a lot to cover, we call facts without fear, the good, the bad, the ugly and what you need to be concerned about, and some of the good news even, hopeful news. here s what we learn from today s briefing, the u.s. is now conducting more than 100,000 tests a day and keep in mind the u.s. conducts more tests and has conducted more tests than any of the country by far. that s the good news. meanwhile, big news from the fda today, just authorized the very first antibody test which could soon determine who has immunity to covid-19, convalescent plasma may have a factor in this in the