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at low containment. bill: it s a big job. probably something we deal with all week. thank you live in redding, california. sandra: president trump raising the stakes in the battle over the border wall threatening to shut down the government if he doesn t get the funding he has been demanding. the president firing off this warning a short time ago tweeting quote, i would be willing to shut down government if the democrats do not give us the votes for border security. which includes the wall. must get rid of lottery, catch and release, etc. and go to system of immigration based on merit. we need great people coming into our country. doug mcelway live at the white house this morning. doug, an interesting tactic to see a republican president embracing the prospects of a government shutdown. it sure is. history has shown that whenever there has been a government shutdown in the past it is the republican party that takes the blame for it and i
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authorities and facilitating them. it seems right now they re trying to raise as much money and awareness to recover mollie tibbetts. bill: her boyfriend spoke to fox news.com at length yesterday. he is back in the house where she was staying when she disappeared on the 18th of july, matt. he is back in that house where mollie went missing. he hasn t gone inside the bedroom where she has gone missing. we asked him if he noticed signs of a struggle or forced entry. he said he would not comment because investigators asked him not to jeopardize the investigation. he tells us the doors to this home were probably not locked on the day that mollie went missing. he said people don t lock their doors in small-town iowa. regarding what he thinks happened, he says he has no idea. never body has their own theories. i m leaving it up to the law enforcement to try to figure that one out.
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the average now for 2018, 215,000 a month higher than it was a couple years ago. on the down side, again the number was slightly less than anticipated. transportation and warehouse was interesting. the monthly was almost 19,000. last month we lost 1,000 jobs there. it was one of the things that stood out to me. bill: economists and financial people can find something negative in anything. unemployment is at 3.9 percent. we haven t seen a number like this in 18 years. the real unemployment number is more impressive called the u6. it takes into account people working part-time but don t want that. that number dropped from 7.5. that s a sharp decline in a long time. bill: 2.7% higher wages. you want wages to go a bit higher than that. it was the expectation. another great piece of news, people working part-time for economic reasons because they couldn t find a job, that s dropped by 176,000. 400,000 more people got a job. 100,000 people
The latest news from around the world with hosts John Berman and Poppy Harlow. mark, on top of that, radio silence from the president on that statement and on the hack overall. why? well, because he doesn t necessarily know what to say. what he has done at this point is that he has put his intelligence chiefs in a very awkward position because they are not go you to have to come out and answer for what president trump said less than 24 hours ago, where he said that this probe the mueller probe, quote, from the from the reuters article played right into the russians, if it was russia, they played into the russian hands. the idea the president of the united states continues to cast doubt on his own intelligence agencies findings that russia is trying to infiltrate our electoral system is amazing. the fact that he continues to get away with it just really is astounding. it s shocking. how dangerous is it that this happened? that it was clearly targeted.
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you can see it weeknights 6:25 p.m. eastern at facebook.com/anderson cooper full circle. right now the news continues. i want to hand it over to chris cuomo for cuomo prime time. chris? all right. thank you, anderson. i am chris cuomo. plm to prime time. we have new information about what may be next for michael cohen. if he s going to deal with any more authorities. and the president s latest legal misstep. trump has twisted his story once again about the payments made by his lawyer to help his campaign. and this latest one has him tied up in knots. we have trump s former lawyer, whom he called for advice about how to handle the cohen situation. what he thought then and now. and you know the president is on his heels with what just happened because he whipped out his what about defense. what about obama? he did it too. no, he didn t. we have the facts ahead. and a convicted felon gets some
very high praise from the president, raising a question. will paul manafort soon be get