A look at the days top news and headlines. 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, im viewing you as a witness. Im 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 crossexamination 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 awkward is that for
A look at the days top news and headlines. Plausible, innocent explanation although i cant see one here for building all these offshore accounts and funneling money there to escape reporting it to the irs. On the other hand, i dont think the manafort defense is working. His defense is essentially this he is batman, hes blaming robin for all the problems. And thats just not going to work. Dana like the jury is not going to buy that let me ask you a few things that other possible, you know, big shot lobbyists in washington, d. C. Are rethinking some of their own practices at this point. That is a great question, dana. I think one of the things people overlooking is that manafort is not the unusual one in a way. He is unusual in that he tried to hide the money and not report it to the irs. Its not unusual in the way that he is making the money. He, like a lot i think this is partially why trump campaigned against quote, unquote, the swamp. There are lobbyists. A lot of people who just rec
A newscast reviewing and analyzing top stories of the day as they happen. Acknowledged that the police have asked him questions about mollie. He told me does not know the results of that Lie Detector Test and he insists he has nothing to do with her disappearance. Shep . Shepard matt finn on scene brooklyn, iowa. The judge in Paul Manaforts trial has apologized now to the special counsel Robert Muellers team for being too harsh on them in font front of the jury. Yesterday the judge criticized prosecutors from allowing an Expert Witness from the irs to stay in the courtroom while other witnesses were testifying. Prosecutors pointed out he had already okayed. This now the judge says he was wrong. More on that ahead. The feds say President Trumps former Campaign Chairman was the master mind of a multimilliondollar scheme to evade u. S. Taxes and banking laws. He faces more than a dozen charges connected to lobbying he did for a prorussia Political Group in ukraine. Paul manafort pleaded n
A look at the days latest news and headlines. Manafort to try to get evidence on President Trump that could result in impeachment. This judge who later ruled the trial could proceed has been very critical of the Governments Team throughout and they are now filing motions complaining that he is prejudicing or misleading or confusing the jury with his quips. Theyve gotten him to admit he was wrong once in open court, but today he ignored their complaints. He constantly asked them how long the individual segments of the trial they are going to take he wants them to go as fast as possible. It was the judge today who delayed the start time by five hours. The jury was reminded very quickly how important it is they dont talk to anybody including each other about the details of this case. We have no idea why a 9 45 00 a. M. Starting time got pushed back to 2 30 p. M. And we arent going to find out immediately. The transcripts have now been
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Mcdonalds for life. Lets get to it now, Shepard Smith reporting, live from the Fox News Deck. Shepard first from the Fox News Deck this friday afternoon, the teenaged girl who you may have heard about surviving, getting pushed off a bridge and falling 50 feet into a river is now talking about what happened. She says she could have easily drowned but a group of people nearby helped her, including an offduty emt. Cell phone video of the push has gone viral. 3, 2. No i wont. Ready . [screams] shepard 50 feet. The girl who fell into the water is 16yearold jordan holderson. Doctors say that she has five cracked ribs and a collapsed lung. Jordan says the person who pushed her was a friend. She says the two of them climbed up to the Molten Falls Bridge near vancouver
not ready and then she pushed me. Watch again. Know wont go. 3, 2. Once you say no. No. Ready . [screams] yeah, you could hear the teen say she no longer wanted to jump. Holderson says she doesnt remember much of the fall except