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Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Election again this november. Over the next three months im going to do everything i can to keep America Great again. To keep America Great again. That sentence doesnt even make sense. Sex, lies and betrayal. Manaforts defense team goes after rick gates painting him as the ringleader who stole millions from manafort to support a lending. Had a great day. A great day. And turn signal, teslas ceo elon musk comes Out Of Nowher...

Next move? >> after they come back from the holidays, the president is going to reengage with democrats to figure out a path forward. he struck an optimistic tone this week telling the press he thinks he and joe manchin and other democrat senators can get done, a dramatic departure from the sunday night statement we saw from press secretary jen psaki, that was blistering to manchin for walking away from the deal. so theyre going to figure out what they need to cut to ultimately get his vote. whe...

News broke on "the halftime report" there were four other traders on the desk and it was wait a minute, can you actually do this? if youre pursuing strategic alternatives you would actually issue a press alert. ask them to halt your stock for spending. something like we might go private at 420. its shocking but its not out of character. >> its not out of character for musk. >> right. from the fcc perspective, from social media could that be? >> you are actually able to with social media if all r...

Happening is that mike pence if they can shoulder their response about it and blame of this thing if it goes back, he ends up carrying it, we will see what trump does and how committed he is spirit he has to remember that no matter how unpopular the legislation is, if it feels, so will the rest of his agenda. his success or failure as president is in substantial part dependent on whether this thing can get through. >> leland: the stakes are very high as they are and "the halftime report" nerd br...