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appointed director of the fbi, responds to threats against asians in the aftermath of the search. d-against agents in the aftermath of the search. good morning to all of you, welcome to "way too early", that is the show on this thursday, august 11, it is not just the time on your clock. im alex witt for jonathan lemire. we begin with the latest legal fallout from donald trumps deposition from the ags office and the former president pleaded the fitchth amendment, his right against sel...

Take one. Is it that he doesnt want to take one or doesnt have enough on the president . I think that well, it could be both. Like i said before, ive had plenty of clients who have taken plea deals that swore they werent guilty. Apparently, he hasnt come to the amount of money its taking to defend himself or to the pressure to lie or simply maybe hes just saying he doesnt have anything to do with it and hes that does it for me. Im david gura. Going to toughen up and i would ill be back on Saturd...

Tariffs against china. Initially they were going to target with a 10 tariff, but sources say the president wants to increase that tax to 25 . There is a growing belief that china is a bad actor on trade and needs to be handled as such. China cannot fight titfortat trade war for very long, it will quickly run out of bullets. We also expect questions on a tweet a president sent out this morning that many people saw as him telling Attorney General Jeff Sessions to shut down the Robert Mueller inves...

Courts been in session, julia . Reporter so court is just Getting Started behind me, hallie. They had a little bit of a delay this morning but right now were seamana for thes Defense Attorney come up to the front. Hes ready to ask rick gates more questions. On the way into court downey said they were feeling good and confident today that they are doing well in this case, especially because he is now continuing that crossexamination. It was pretty ruthless yesterday. They found gates to be someon...

Documentary case. its not going to rely on michael cohen coming in and diving out donald trump. thats just going to support what they already know from counter intelligence, law enforcement and international intelligence zbleks so lets talk about the end game. former fbi director james comey has weighed in on the progress of the mueller probe. heres what comey said last night. >> how do you read the mueller investigation, as to where it is now? >> i dont know. i know its been incredibly producti...

And either hang this jury or all 12 of you acquit him. but this was pretty foregone, paul, that this guy was not going to be able to testify, and there was no defense to the documentary case. >> and as we watched this, important to note for anybody watching who hasnt tracked it on a daily basis, these charges have to do with paul manaforts work before he joined the trump campaign, before 2016. however, there has been some suggestion he tried to use his influence in the trump campaign to get a ba...

Your legal opinion? >> if he is convicted in this case, he -- it looks like he would go -- i mean, its hard to gauge what the sentence would be, but he would likely go to jail. and im still digging through the indictment to try to figure out what the evidence is against him. but it looks like its a good documentary case. i know youve been talking a lot about the paul manafort case and how thats a lot of documentary evidence. this one has a lot of phone records, text messages, very close in time ...

Friends and people who also have money spend money and turn them into criminals because they are friends with paul manafort. i was reading with the judge was saying, i just wondered what this does to the prosecution and to muellers investigation. the other thing that rick gates is not going to testify, what does that mean? >> that might be in no way bad news for the defense, the defenses theory all along has been to simply attack the credibility of rick gates, make it a he said/he said case, say...

Cohen of tampering with the tape and we have discussed that earlier. so it makes sense for him. but for manafort, and im not an of his conversation with attorney, but the facts seem president trump. their relationship souring even very stacked against him. more now that their legal teams so i think hes a goner in this case. i mean, this is a documentary are officially servivering ties case. i think hes in trouble. and shutdown dejavu. >> its not a pr strategy. the president threatens to shut t...