Todd whitman is my guest. Lets if out front. Good evening. Im erin burnett. Breaking news, a shrewd leader, how President Trumps lawyers are painting Paul Manafort. A jury of six men and six women listening as hewellers team outlined its case describing manafort as a con artist who ran a global scheme to avoid paying millions in taxes. Prosecutors say manafort made 60 million in ukraine and that he didnt report to it the irs. They say he had 30 Bank Accounts in just three Foreign Countries which he used in part to store untaxed income to spend on luxury goods like range rovers, a watch costing 21,000, a 15,000 custom made ostrich jacket. Who doesnt need one of those, right . The defense hitting back saying manafort is the victim that he was taken advantage of by the man he trusted most rick gates, his right hand man in ukraine and his deputy in the trump
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One number i want to highlight is wage growth. 2. 7 . I mean, its not terrible but you have to look at the environment. You have to look at the context here. In this stage in the cycle where were at near or full employment, meaning that every american who is either willing or able to get a job has one, weve seen wage growth between 3. 5 . This is a persistent problem to the administration. This speaks to how people feel. They want a raise. Overall, a very strong relatively strong report. Missing expectations, 157,000. The market isnt loving it because its below the trend weve been seeing so thats why the market isnt liking it. But 3. 9 . Its solid for two main reasons. This goes back to my point about context. One is that at this point in the cycle you would think that hiring would slow very significantly because we are at near full employment so you would think that actually you
would expect this kind of pullback. The other thing is it doesnt seem like tariff worries until this mornin
Articles themselves and rigged process that brought them here are a rigged act brought by democrats. Now 100 u. S. Senators will zied this case. Trial rules will be the first test to whether republicans are open to breaking with their president. Sarah westwood is on capitol hill where the house managers are meeting today. Whats the latest . Reporter ana, some of those house managers have been filtering in and out of the Speakers Office over the past five hours, since this began. They havent taken our questions about how this prep session is going. Their identities just unveiled laft late last week, yet they have to be prepared to present on the floor of the snlt by tuesday when the senate trial gets under way in earnest. They are going through who will present what arguments, what is the best way to lay out what they have described as the overwhelming evidence they have against president trump. Last night we got a glimpse at what their case will look like. They did file their trial bri
Welcome, whether you are in the united states, or anywhere else around the world. Im christi paul. And im victor blackwell. It is good to be with you this saturday. This morning, states are beginning to reopen. And theyre trying to balance the data about health and the coronavirus. And the economy. Right now, according to Johns Hopkins university, at least 51949 americans have been killed by covid19. And yesterday, we got our first glimpse of what reopening looks like. There was a barrage of criticism over this. The Georgia Governor Brian Kemp moved ahead with the most farreaching attempt to reach out to the economy that weve seen. Several mayors in his state not happy about it but his plan is to models inside the white house, those models show that georgia shouldnt even begin to reopen until june 22nd. But the governor says theyre ready. Weve laid our plan out to meet the phase one criteria. I think its the right move at the right time. Im appreciative of all theyre doing for us, ive
From atlanta and the Prime Minister of israel is in the nations capital, washington d. C. For what is the most controversial visits of a head of state to our nation in quite a while. Let me bring in elise labott and traveled to washington d. C. And joins me on the line. Elise, you spent 12 hours on the plane with Benjamin Netanyahu. What was he like . What was he doing . Joo he reporter joohe was working on that speech the entire time. We were finding whether there was symbolism in the movies we were watching. We watched the imitation game which as you know is the awardwinning story of the genius that will crack that nazi code and save Hitler Europe from hitler and indeed the Prime Minister does see himself as making this kind of lastditch effort as churchill, the former british Prime Minister did in 1939 warning about the nazis. You know i talked to israeli analysts and they say he sees himself faded in that way and we were talking in the back the journalist aides came back and talked