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We are going to walk down to the capital. Donald trump indicted all over again. This time for the same crime, using the same charges. Conspiring to defraud the united states. Conspiring to disenfranchise voters. And conspiring and attempting to obstruct an official proceeding. Tonight, what special counsel jack smith presented to a new grand jury and what it means for the prosecution of donald trump. I did everything right and they indicted me. Plus, with a fresh indictment for the republican no...

Now word overnight the next round of tariffs could escalate dramatically. Shifting blame. Heated statements and a 15,000 coat. A fast start to Paul Manaforts trial on financial crimes. Good morning, and welcome to early start. Im Laura Jarrett in for christine romans. Good to see you, my friend. Im dave briggs, wednesday, august 1st, already, if you can believe it. 5 00 a. M. In the east. We start with a chilling story for Many Americans this morning. A federal judge flocking a Government Settle...

Cooperative from talking. it would gag prosecutors but they dont speak so much anyway. the president is talking in an oval office interview denying that he directed stone to get the hacked democratic e-mails from wiki leaks in 2016. he is claiming that the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein told his lawyers he is not a target nor a subject of the special counsels investigation. that brings me to shan wu. good to have your wisdom on this. i want to start with the news first broken by cnn abou...

The access to the diplomats here in moscow has yet been granted. there is lots of speculation being bounded around about the timing of this detention. it comes a couple of weeks after maria butina, a national held in the united states, gun enthusiast, pleaded guilty to conspiracy after u.s. prosecutors said she tried to infiltrate conservative groups in the nra and republican party to influence americans. shes going to be sentenced shortly. the russians are absolutely outraged about that. and th...

Generation, a domineering lbj looming over a senator back in his way. i did recall that. those are two of the key players here. a lot of people in washington do believe that this vote now rests on senator lisa murkowskis shoulders in a lot of ways, the speculation being, at least from folks i talked to, that senator flake will look to what senator murkowski does and may join her if she does oppose brett kavanaugh. again, were at the point of much speculation. nobody has a great sense of what wil...

Cooperation and plea agreement, because the charges here are so straight forward -- failure to file tax returns, failure to file the foreign bank account reports, bank fraud -- that there was no real defense for manafort, especially with gates testimony. but lo and behold, manafort is holding firm, hes going to go to trial. but as we just mentioned a moment ago, if hes convicted, then he may think about whether or not its better to work out a cooperation agreement now than face a second trial in...

We can do these things in parallel. you see the president and the republicans in congress are both for significant reductions in our long-term deficit problem. theyre relatively close on the numbers. we just have different views of what the focus should be and that that is really a parallel but separate track than the debt ceiling negotiations. and you saw people on both parties agreeing to that, alan greenspan and others. >> i want to go to the issue of gas prices. they continue to go up. were ...