just moments prior. live in bridgewater new jersey near the president s golf club where he is expected sometime now. brian? reporter: hi, sandra. look. a rashable development just an hour ago with the president deciding to disban entirely two of his key economic councils. the manufacturing council, which was built entirely to help him keep american jobs here with 12 big time ceo s on that council. as well as disbanning the strategic and policy council really meant to help him forge a new economic policy. well, the president under pressure really sending out that tweet saying that he s essentially relieving pressure for all of these ceo s who are now forced to make a decision as to whether to stand by the president or not, given his comments on charlottesville. remember, nine ceo s out of the 12 in that manufacturing forum had resigned as of this afternoon. in fact, 20 minutes after the president sent that tweet in
resigned. yesterday in a press conference, the president struck a m
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the nation outline the trump interference in upcoming mid terms voicing concerns about threats and saying our democracy is in the crosshairs. election infrastructure is not a destination. it requires aggressive and ongoing vigilance. everyone must play their role to ensure that every vote is counted. dana: unprecedented briefing from all of those intelligence officials at the highest level coming to the briefing room, making a show of united support and coordination at the highest levels of our government with sarah sanders explaining that the goal of this is to protect the 2018 elections, the 2020 elections and those in the future. they have their work cut out for them. we are less than 100 days away from the 2018 election. and joining me now is chief white house correspondent john roberts live with more. i m just going to turn it over to you, john there was a lot there. i have a couple of questions that i want to talk about aside fro
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what the government is saying is that that is not really true. rights, and there is a lot of shuffling. so together, sort of shuffling the numbers, and when it was convenient, they reported income, and it didn t when it wasn t, he said he was making rental income on some of his properties. that was good because it could lessen his taxes, but when he wanted to get along, that wasn t the case anymore because he was able to get more money in loans with a private property instead of a rental. so he just short sort of shuffe numbers around a little bit. but it is a dense trial. there is a lot of paperwork. dana: another thing that was very intriguing that you tweeted earlier today. something regarding the russians or the oligarchs that you are not allowed to use. the oligarchs and manafort, what is that? i think it is very interesting. at two elements that will not be
trial. dana: you were on yesterday, right after the administration p
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with the track history of lying to his face. dana: with the account at that particular time that peter doocy was reporting on. she testified on friday. she said she felt like it was wrong but she did it anyway. is she in any sort of trouble? well, sounds like not. i mean, one the tactics you can do as a prosecutor is saying basically look, i m viewing you as a witness. i m not making you any promises. you get up on the stand and tell the truth. the person gets up on the witness stand and kind of hard to impeach by cross-examination because they say i could still be charged. and they are kind of twisting in the wind a little bit. it gives them some credibility. i know there is a number that were immunized. she might have been one of them. dana: how awkward is it for the defendant to be there paul manafort and rick gates, colleagues for a long time, partners and now obviously on opposite sides of this very high stakes trial. how awkwar
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house energy and commerce committee. and he says that collins violated the public trust. dana? dana: all right, bryan llenas, thank you. fox news alert in a different federal courthouse. rick gates wrapping up his testimony in the paul manafort trial. gates saying he has no doubt the government would rip up his plea agreement if he doesn t tell the truth. this coming as manafort s lawyers hammered him on his credibility on cross-examination. peter doocy is live outside u.s. district court in alexandria, virginia. peter, how big a factor is rick gates personal life in his own testimony? a huge factor, dana. because rick gates admitted today that the special counsel s lawyers, the mueller team s lawyers helped him prep for his testimony here for more than 20 hours. so, the manafort team jumped in today to ask him well, did you ever tell the mueller lawyers during the prep about the extramarital affair he admitted to and gates said yes,