The latest news from around the world with hosts John Berman and Poppy Harlow. Joe johns is outside. Were half an hour from this trial getting under way. What are we expecting today . I think at first were expecting more of the game. Gates was on the stand for about 45 minutes before they wrapped up late last night. Hell continue on direct testimony answer questions of the prosecution about what the government alleges is a whole pattern of illegal conduct that stretched out over years and years and years. Rick gates became his Deputy Campaign manager. Its important to remind people who this guy is. Gates was a long time personal confidante, if you will, of paul
manafort and is believed to know basically all of the Inner Workings of the manafort organization. I think its extremely important to point out that the allegations against mr. Manafort include dealings in ukraine with hidden Bank Accounts and gates is alleged to know everything about that, poppy. And i mean i was reading that i
That statement read, we primarily discussed a program about the adoption of russian children. President trumps lawyers admit that the president did dictate that misleading statement. But they did say this. I do want to be clear that the president was not involved in making a statement or issuinging a statement. It came from donald trump jr. Thats what we know. Why the changing stories, why did the president say that he had nothing to do with meeting with the russian lawyers when he did. I said that in my statement, i have talked about that before, that happens when you have cases like this. I think its very important to point out, that in a situation like this, you have over time facts develop. Thats what investigations do. Cnn White House Correspondent Boris Sanchez is in new jersey where the president is spending
his summer break. Why is the legal team bringing up that meeting this weekend . Skb reporter because that meeting at trump tower in 2016 could present legal issues for the p
Commentary, newsmaker interviews and panel discussions. Trump tower meeting for over a year. It ended up being a meeting about adoption. We know donald trump jr. Was told they might have information on hillary. President trump tweeted as much way back over a year ago, july july 2017, if any of these sheep in the media would ever do any work, they are lazy, they are overpaid. Most politicians, he tweeted over a year ago, would have gone to a meeting like the one don jr. Attended in order to get info on an opponent. Thats politics. And in September Of 2017 the New York Times reporting donald trump jr. Told Senate Investigators that he set up a june 2016 meeting with a russian lawyer because he was intrigued that she might have damaging information about Hillary Clinton. Sadly in an effort to malign President Trump, your friends not really in the mainstream media, they forgot even their own reporting. Their own reporting. Thats how bad they are. Thats how desperate they are to get the dem
The latest news from around the world. This is a concern for so many people. Its a concern because a week ago when they saw the 6. 4 fore shock, we thought that was a major earthquake. That was just, as will put it, a precursor to the major earthquake. But buildings that were compromised or unstabilized or destabilized from that particular shot, are worried about their homes and the potential for collapse. Thats why this picture, of what looks to be a family, or people gathered in the streets, who are trying to sleep, are staying away from their shelters or their homes. Theyre worried that there could be more collapse. We are seeing aftershocks to the tune of dozens of them. Want to point out this particular feature. The earthquake, a primary focus across the island. Lots of people go there to trek. Indeed, in the fore shock that happened a week ago, there were trekkers. It took them days to bring them down. Little, by, l lby little. It is an active volcano. We see that the seismic act
The latest Political Developments of the day and interviews with top newsmakers are featured. About it. Something directly has him spooked. But its caused him to make a tactical error, which is to come out and essentially throw his son and his soninlaw under the bus and say, yes, they were there to get dirt on hillary clinton. Okay. Joining jared and his son under the bus was jay sekulow, one of his last remaining tv lawyers other than Rudy Giuliani who may just have the tv part of that job. Lets look at his statements now rendered as someone who has been on both sides of the question about what the president knew about the Trump Tower Meeting. When you look at a meeting when you look at a meeting, george, that took place a year before, now two years ago, the question is what law, statute, rule or regulation has been violated. No one has pointed to one. They pointed to olympic zone spir si to dee frautd the United States. That would be one possible charge. Aiding and abetting a conspir