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official traveling with mike pompeo in indonesia said they heard the reports and are following the situation closely. venezuela is in the middle of a deep financial crisis. the international monetary fund said inflation will reach 1 million percent this year. blackouts and shortages of basic items are common place. cnn atlanta. what does this apparent attack tell us about the political and economic turmoil effecting venezuela? we posed that question to jennifer mccoy. a professor at georgia state university and the co-author of the book international mediation in venezuela. there s a great deal of unrest in venezuela and a lot of dissatisfaction apparently among military ranks. the government has been arresting and removing military personnel from the ranks
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yet. there were funerals of those killed. the president elect said he welcomes the opposition taking their dispute to the courts here in zimbabwe
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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
plus, why is facebook reportedly asking banks for your financial information? good morning. welcome to early start. i m phil mattingly in for dave briggs. i m christine romans. it is tuesday, august7th. 4:00 a.m. in the east. let s start with paul manafort s right hand man rick gates. back on the witness stand in the one-time trump campaign chairman trial on tax and fraud charges. the stakes are high for the white house. manafort and his deputy know a great deal of what went on behind closed doors during key months of the 2016 campaign. yesterday, gates admitted under a grant of immunity he committed crimes alongside his former boss and against him as well. cnn has more from the federal court in alexandra, virginia. reporter: rick gates took the stand in the showdown we have been waiting for as gates
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every time he weighs in. it complicates the previous explanations for it. we are hearing from the president s
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get on with building an economy that is fair to everybody. that s the message that is going to be sent 90 days from now. congressman, the house minority leader, nancy pelosi, one way republicans attacked the democrat in ohio s race in the ohio race. is she a drag in districts that democrats are trying to flip? i don t know where the evidence is that would suggest that. the fact is that that s what they used against conor lamb in the special election in western pennsylvania which trump won by 20 points and conor lamb won. they used it over and over again with danny o connor in ohio 12 who, by the way, is still running in november against mr. balderson and danny managed to collapse the trump margin from 11 down to less than 1%. i m not sure where the evidence that that is the case, that that is an effective appeal. it s certainly their standard playbook move in each and every instance. it s not what americans want to
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information he needs to wrap up the case within weeks. we do not want to run into the november elections. back up from that. this should be over with september 1st. we have now given him an answer. he obviously should take a few days to consider it. we should get this resolved. giuliani says the trump legal team says this should wrap up before the november election. he believes republicans will benefit if the probe drags into november. prosecutors in the bank and tax fraud trial of paul manafort expect to rest the case against the former campaign boss on friday. the defense will present its case. 18 witnesses have testified. notably rick gates. a former adviser to the trump campaign. also taking the stand is a former irs agent on how manafort avoided paying taxes on millions
phil. matthew, it wasn t just democrats, but republican chairman in the house asking to impose sanctions. another round could come in a couple of months. matthew chance, thank you. china vows to fight