Tariffs against china. Initially they were going to target with a 10 tariff, but sources say the president wants to increase that tax to 25 . There is a growing belief that china is a bad actor on trade and needs to be handled as such. China cannot fight titfortat trade war for very long, it will quickly run out of bullets. We also expect questions on a tweet a president sent out this morning that many people saw as him telling Attorney GeneralJeff Sessions to shut down the Robert Mueller investigation. Tweeting Attorney GeneralJeff Sessions should stop this which onto right now. Democrats started shouting about Obstruction Of Justice that the president was pretty overt and telling Jeff Sessions to shut the investigation down. Investigation, so we will see where it goes. I laugh because theres never been a natural end to a Special Counsel investigation. Harris there are very few natural ends to anything so we will see what happens. We are joined by a member of the Senate Intelligence committee which is now holding todays hearing on american cybersecurity. Great to see you to investigate whats happening. Could this be an opportunity for you and the president to cleanse our Election System of vulnerability . Can democrats work with republicans on this . This is certainly a bipartisan issue. We had a clear take away from the hearing today, the hearing was on and put misinformation. The tampering falls into two different buckets. One is a direct attack on the
Interviews with newsmakers and roundtable discussions cover the top news stories of the day. Whats out there. Sometimes its just about information in general and what i hear you saying is this misinformation campaign, they are hitting us where they know we are vulnerable, believing in each other and believing the media. Absolutely, the president s right. We know the internet is full of things that are not to be trusted and everything needs to be double checked. About the only solution that was a concrete solution, someone talked about setting up an agency that would review this stuff and determine what is and what isnt. I dont want to turn this over to the government to start making a decision as to what is to be believed and what isnt. But the take away of all of this is that people need to be very careful about what they believe when they are on the internet. Harris its frightening to think that people were showing up in places, you dont know who
might be at those organized events. Americans are vulnerable, again i bring up that word. I want to talk about tariffs. Are we any closer to confirming that you think this was russia . It doesnt have to be russia, it could be a whole host of people. It was said in the hearing today that it isnt just russia thats doing this. There are other actors, but loo look. Russia is the majorleague player in this, no one else can hold a candle to what the russians have done. Harris lets talk about the president putting some pressure, i think they call it maximum pressure now, on china. He may increase tariffs from ten to 25 on a lot of goods. What do you think will happen if that happens . Its hard to say. Look, most of us up here, our free traders. If we had a level Playing Field everything would be fine. The difficulty is the chinese have perfected using our technology to do things they want to do. Certainly there is no objection to china developing the technology they want but to take things that have been patented, we have a perfect case in idaho, micron technology, they are being sued in china for a violation of a patent they own in the United States but it was taken to china and the state Owned Enterprise is suing micron before a Chinese Court and they are having a very difficult time of it. This stuff is insidious, it is very difficult and you cant compete. Harris the president now sees economic hemorrhaging, those are my words, but it is what is happening in china right now. It is a strategy, we will see
what it yields. Great to see you, thank you. Fox news alert, day two of the trial of President Trumps former Campaign ChairmanPaul Manafort. With an fbi agent involved on the rate of manaforts home, prosecutors accused Paul Manafort of violating tax and banking laws while the defense team tried to shift blame to his exdeputy rick gates who is cooperating with the government. Houston, house intel democrat adam schiff is suggesting that the trial could cause a problem for the president. This is Donald TrumpsCampaign Manager and if he is convicted he will face substantial time if he is convicted on these charges. He may flip and that may be profoundly concerning to the president. Harris peter doocy at the courthouse for us in alexandria, virginia. Harris, the peter strzok was just rebuffed by the judge in this case when they tried to introduce photos as exhibits that will become public of Paul Manaforts closet filled with fancy suits and highend clothing as part of the mueller teams to paint manafort as someone who didnt pay taxes but paid a lot of money for designer foods. Suits. The judge that enough is enough, we dont convict people because they have a lot of money and throw it around. The president s name still has not been mentioned in either day of this trial but that does not mean he is not paying attention and he did tweet this a little while ago. Who was treated worse, al capone or Paul Manafort . The peter strzok dropped a bombshell that they may not call on their star witness to testify. His former deputy in business rick gates, the one prosecutors think has the goods on the way manafort did business, he is very important to the Special Counsel case for that reason. The prosecutor now says they may or may not call on gates because they say they evaluate every witness individually. But obviously if rick gates was not to testify it would change the landscape of the mueller teams approach and the defense approach. Harris great set up for my first guest, thank you. Stephen mulroy, or former federal prosecutor and University Of Memphis law professor, theres a lot to chew
on there. Can we start on the lecture the peter strzok got today . There are certain things they wont be able to do with this judge, what is that about . I suppose the prosecution would say they are trying to substantiate the fact that manafort got millions from ukrainian lobbying that was not reported in trying to substantiate that with all the expensive things he spent the money on. There may be a little bit of see if we can get the jury to dislike manafort because of the lavish lifestyle he lived and the judge i think said look, there is an end to this. You can put a little bit of evidence on but you cant go to the well too many times on the Paul Manafort lived a lavish lifestyle argument because thats not really against the law. Harris he went on to say, this is america, you cant look at somebody based on how their
friends and people who also have money spend money and turn them into criminals because they are friends with Paul Manafort. I was reading with the judge was saying, i just wondered what this does to the prosecution and to muellers investigation. The other thing that rick gates is not going to testify, what does that mean . That might be in no way bad news for the defense, the defenses theory all along has been to simply attack the credibility of rick gates, make it a he said he said case, saying that rick gates was making stuff up to cut a plea deal. If the prosecution is confident enough in their documentary case, that they think they got the proof that he earned millions of dollars in ukrainian lobbying or misrepresented the financial his financial situation to secure bank loans, if they can prove that with
documents without using rick gates, that Defense Argument is no longer available. A spew on the bottom line in all of this, the American People know this judge has said you cant bring up anything from the russia investigation. There is no evidence of collusion, we dont know all of what mueller has, but how does that case get impacted by what we are seeing right now . This case does not involve russian interference in the 2016 election, its a separate matte matter. Win, lose, or draw, it doesnt necessarily impact of that. The way it could impact it is if manafort is convicted and staring down the barrel of serious jail time, he may be motivated to flip on the president if he knows something because he was the Campaign Manager. On the other hand perhaps hes holding out for a pardon from the president and maybe that
explains why he hasnt been cooperating so far. Harris are you impressed by how far weve gotten dating back to the early 2000s, 2006. It has nothing to do with the president or what is gone on. What kind of jail time or prison time could he see . There are many different counts on many different charges of bank fraud and tax fraud. Plus the separate case, witness tampering, money laundering. Even if only a fraction of those counts end up in convictions we could be looking at serious jail time, potentially manafort looking at the rest of his life in prison. Its serious business, a lot of stuff over a lot of different years. Harris im curious about that, what could that look like . None of this has to do with that other case which is the why the
judge doesnt want it being brought up. Good to see you. I want to get to the Breaking News, here is what we are watching and we wont know until the split second when it happen happens. Awaiting the start of the Daily White HousePress Briefing. When it happens, a barrage of questions on a host of things. You will see it here on outnumbered overtime. President trumps Fiery Campaign style on full display. The president brought back some of his favorite messages for 2016, including brought it size against the democrats. About will this keep is party in power . Rnc chairwoman ronna mcdaniels, next. Thats a lot. If our opponent had won and the
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2020. Lets talk with the chairwoman of the rnc, great to see you today. Talk to me about where the president is with this revival of 2016 wording and promises. The one thing you know from history is that complacency is the enemy of the party that takes the white house, usually the party that pulls the white house loses in the midterms because voters are feeling great, complacency is what we are most afraid of and the antidote to that is president donald trump. When he gets in front of these crowds and talks about not only the things he promised but now the things hes delivered on and says i need help, i need you to make sure republicans come back to washington so we can keep this going, it energizes our base. We see greater engagement in the areas where he has these rallie rallies, and increase in early voting in states where he shows up, hes the antidote to
complacency and we need him on the trail to help us win in these midterms. Harris do you think at this point the president s Mojo On The Campaign Trail helps out candidates even though politics are local . Do you think he brings something into the mix when he endorses you and hes on the ground with you that is growing . Ive never seen anything like it. They had an Overflow Room last night in tampa of 8,000 people watching on the screen because they couldnt get into the main hall. I havent seen any candidate in our history excite people as much as donald trump does. Of course its translated, weve seen it in the primaries in georgia where he endorses a candidate and catapults them to victory in these primaries. All of our congressional members will need that energy. They dont always feel the same way about congress as they do this president. They need the president saying i need you to vote for this
congressperson, this senator so we can keep these majorities and keep the trump agenda going. Harris former president barack obama just endorsed 81 candidates from across the nation. A quote from him really quick, im proud to endorse such a wide and impressive array of democratic candidates. I want to get your respond and note to call people not on the list. Senator Dianne Feinstein and alexandria ocasiocortez. Theres a lot of people not on the list. I think this list is more interesting for the omissions than the people he put on it. Almost every major Senate Candidate on the country is not on this list, hes missing a lot of key house races, even house races were Hillary Clinton won. I think we look at 2016 and we recognize, it was a repudiation barack obama. I dont think a lot of candidates want his endorsement and its interesting to see how many of them are not on his list that are in contested races across this country. Harris we were previously talking about what President Trump brings to the campaign trail, sometimes president s get involved and sometimes they dont. A former president michael barack obama, what does he offe . When the base is splitting it. Its a divided party, they are going further and further left. I will be interested to see how many of these candidates to tout his endorsement. They dont have a leader of their party, they dont have a message, resist and obstruct is not a message, its a message of not getting anything done. We see Unemployment Levels at record low, we see our military being funded, our veterans
taking care of. Im going to tell you, people want President Trumps endorsement more than they want president obamas. Harris i was on the ground in kansas city, we were obviously talking about the military but thats a component that will get a lot more attention as we move toward november. Your last thoughts . Our president supports our military and not only does he say it, he has shown it through his actions. He cares about our veterans and weve seen such great legislation come out of this congress with this president , we need to support our military men and women and i know you care about that deeply. Harris that sent on the ground issue. Breaking news right now, we are awaiting the White House Pressbriefing. Sources are saying President Trump is considering bumping up tariffs on chinese goods. The fact that china is hurting economically. I will bring in republican senator john thune, and a judge temporarily blocked the release of a blueprint to make three plastic guns. A stay close. Oh oh ozempic® vo people with Type 2 Diabetes are excited about the potential of onceweekly ozempic®. In a study with ozempic®, a majority of adults lowered their blood sugar and reached an a1c of less than seven and maintained it. Oh under seven . vo and you may lose weight. In the same oneyear study, adults lost on average up to 12 pounds. Oh up to 12 pounds . vo a twoyear study showed that ozempic® does not increase
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