A spokesman for manafort says its 100 false to suggest this meeting including any discussion of contributions to the Trump Campaign or the Republican Party. When donald trump jr. Talked about the meeting he called it nothing and manafort said he was on his phone most of the time. The whole contact took how long . 20 minutes or so. 20 minutes. And jared left after five or ten. Yes. Like she said and paul manafort. On his phone. The whole time. Like i said it was pretty apparent this is not what we were in there talking about. It does appear manafort was on his phone to take notes. Nbcs reporting says manafortses notes typed on a smartphone described by one source as cryptic were turned over to the house and senate
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steve: he is the art of the deal president, he wrote that book, remember, going against fellow republicans striking a legislative deal with democrats. the u.s. senate passing a more than $15 billion harvey aid package. and that also increases the debt ceiling and prevents a government shutdown. they will revisit this in 90 days. so is this a deal and a sign of things to come? here with debate we have steve cortez is he a former trump hispanic advisory and fox news contributor. and also joining us pablo rodriguez a former dnc staff and he joins us from our nation s capital. good morning to both of you. good morning. steve: this is something new for me to say on this show you pablo the democrat think this president did a good thing. i do, i mean, he did a
still on the agenda. and while it s likely that this harvey aid package will pass the senate and the house, it essentially pushes off many of these big decisions on the budget and the debt ceiling to december. in fact, it will be right around the time that congress is ready to go home for the christmas holiday. dave and christine? all right. ryan nobles, thanks. south korea now says it expects north korea to launch another intercontinental ballistic missile on saturday. the south korean prime minister told a meeting of defense ministers the situation is grave, and he expects another launch marking this weekend s anniversary of the day north korea was founded. also overnight, russian president vladimir putin with some harsh words for president trump on the north korea crisis. putin said inflating military hysteria is counterproductive and asked why are you playing along with it? he says pyongyang is counting on a specific reaction, and they re getting it. let s check cnn mone
when you see it coming, we re providing you transportation, helping you get out of here. it s just no need to risk it with such a big powerful storm. roman, listen, if there s information you discover as the process continues, and you want to get it out, see us as a resource. be well, be safe. thank you. well, as hurricane irma barrels towards florida, fema is running out of money. as of tuesday, a spokes woman says the agency s disaster relief fund has been depleted from nor than $2 billion down to $1 billion. that s being used to for hurricane harvey. and another $7 million is now included in the harvey aid package passed by the house awaiting senate approval. an emotion start to the federal corruption trial of bob
primarily with the democrats who essentially said that the senate and the house will pass a package that will provide the much-needed aid to the hurricane-ravaged sections of texas and louisiana. at the same time, pass a continuing resolution that will keep the budget funded and take care of the debt ceiling. a short-term fix that will only take three months. while majority leader mitch mcconnell said that he and his caucus will go along with the plan, there are several republicans who are leery. so far, it is just a small group of senate republicans who said they will not support the package, likely not enough to keep it from passing. it does show that there are some cracks in the republican congress as they try and push forward on some of the big-ticket issue items that are still on the agenda. and while it is likely that this harvey aid package will pass both the senate and the house, it essentially just pushes off many of these big decisions on the budget and the debt ceiling to de