A newscast reviewing and analyzing top stories of the day as they happen. The government and for manafort to keep things moving along. They did. That is the same judge that challenged the special counsels office and accused them of just trying to use charges of financial crimes to squeeze manafort in giving them information that they could use against President Trump. The trial proceeded anyway and the former Trump Campaign manager that was a wakened by an fbi agent performing a noknock raid is being confronted with evidence that he hit 60 million from the irs which he received consulting ukrainian politicians. The charges are for falsifying income tax returns, bank fraud and failing to file reports. If convicted, manafort could face 305 years in jail. Theres Sentencing Guidelines for federal cases like that that would suggest that the judge would probably give him something less than that, shep. Shepard what is the next step in this trial, peter . Any minute, shep, we expect
the jury, six men and six women to be given instructions about how to proceed and then possible that sometime late this afternoon we could start to hear Opening Statements. Once those Opening Statements start, dont expect to get a lot of information out there or dont expect the attorneys and prosecutors to be talking about manaforts role with the Trump Campaign. Seems like the government is laser focused in their case on manaforts work as a lobbyist and a consultant for those ukrainian politicians that had russian ties. We do not expect to hear them casting hims as a gop operative to help the gop candidate for back in 2016. Shepard peter doocy, thanks. Wellstaffed inside as well. Should there be developments, well give them to you. First, the fight on ghost guns. Untraceable numbers that you can
create from scratch at home. A company releasing blueprints that will let you use a 3d printer to build handgun or an ar15. Attorneys general from more than a half a dozen states have been racing to keep this from happening. Those the tooth taste may be out of the tube. The Company Already posted blueprints that people have downloaded thousands of times. If you havent been following this, the Texas Company defense distributed has spent five years in a court fight pushing for the right to release digital gun blueprints. The feds had argued the blueprint violated export laws since people outside the United States could not use them or could use them. Defense distributor claims this as a First Amendment issue. In june, the company reached a
settlement with the State Department. One that would let them post the blueprints beginning tomorrow. It appears some of the blueprints have gotten out early. The Attorneys General are suing the Trump Administration in an effort to keep the instructions off line. They argue its a National Security risk. Since terrorists, criminals and others that wouldnt typically pass a Background Check can get we pops. The headline here, untrackable, untraceable, homemade guns available to everybody. Anita vogel with the rest of the story. Shes live with us this afternoon. Anita . Hi, shepard. This is causing a lot of fear, anger around concern for those reasons that you stated. Nowadays, you can make almost anything with a 3d printer. Theyre used in the medical industry and manufacturing. Starting tomorrow, you can download blueprints to make a gun out of plastic a gun nobody can keep track of or identify. Eight states plus the District Of Columbia are suing the State Department for settling with the
company, defense distributed, that just kept pushing to publish the plans. You know, honestly for gods sakes, when it comes to something as basic as public safety, our State Department is saying hey, this is a giveaway for terrorists. This didnt happen by accident. The Trump Administration pushed by The Gun Activists did this. Because the State Department is charged with regulating sale of firearms outside the u. S. , it was the agency that blocked defense distributed when they wanted to publish the gun drawings in 2013. Then in 2015, the company sued the State Department. The owner, cody wilson, claiming his Free Speech Rights were being violated. Just last month, the State Department settled the suit saying certain firearms are already widely available for commercial use. Lawyers for cody wilson say the
law is on his side. The government doesnt have the power to tell people that they cant post information on the internet. Also stay law is trumped by federal law. The u. S. State Department Gave a license to file online. This is an unconstitutional act in every respect. Defense distributing vowed as of august 1, team, the age of downloadable guns formally begins. The reality is, shepard, a lot of the plans are already out there. If you knew where to look online, you can find them. The cost of a basic 3d printer is a few hundred dollars for a basic one. In some cases, of course, thats cheaper than a gun. Shepard, back to you. Thanks, anita. I want to show you the pictures that we showed during that live shot. This is video of one of these plastic guns not operating as its supposed to. They did a number of tests on
its almost as if this has already happened. Its happened to a small degree. About 2,500, my understanding, files have been out there. As was indicated before, if you knew where to look, you could find it. The argument from the attorney general, is lets not make it easy for people. Its going to get widely disseminated tomorrow if nothing happens. Shepard and the argument for keeping them from the internet is being the person doing the suing is saying, this is freedom of speech. You cant restrict my speech in this way. Is there precedent for such a thing . You know, its not a bad argument. The problem is the implications from that. Shepard i know. What about precedent . Theres two cases in the past. One in the late 70s where a gentleman was publishing information how to make a hydrogen bomb. Turns out that information was already out there and he just
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the 2016 campaign. Were 14 weeks out from the 2018 midterms. A lot of concern about those upcoming elections, shep. Shepard are people on capitol hill, elected representatives of the impression here that its believed these are russians . Sounds like theres a lot of ties, whether they say the word or not. Thats correct. Weve heard a number of lawmakers say russia, some the kremlin. Richard burr saying the goal of these operations is to sow discord, distrust and a division and an tempt to undermine our political system. The russians want a weak america. That is from the Senate Intelligence chairman. The top democrat is blaming the Trump Administration and giving the company some credit. I salute facebook for doing what they did and finding the 31 attempts by what looks like a russian, not certain, but what looks like a russian agency
trying to manipulate our elections. Second, the administration is not doing close to enough. Facebook describes this like an arms race with the security trying to keep up with the manipulators. Some here on capitol hill are saying bottom line, washington and Silicon Valley must do more, shep. Shepard mike emanuel on capitol hill. Thank you. The Supreme CourtJustice Anthony kennedy officially retires today leaving our nations highest court with eight justices split between liberals and conservatives. Justice kennedy has served since 1988. President reagan nominated him and was a crucial swing vote. Justice kennedy sided with the liberals on Marriage Equality and sided with Conservatives On Gun Rights and limiting campaign funds. His vote was key in settling the 2008 president ial race siding with president bush. And senate gop leaders say they
hope to confirm Brett Kavanaugh before the new term starts in october. Judge kavanaugh has been meeting with senators but not officially locked in enough votes for confirmation. Police in iowa speaking just a few minutes ago about the search for a missing College Students now missing almost two weeks. Cops say the last time anybody saw her, she was out for a run. The latest on the search after this break. Capital one and hotels. Com are giving Venture Cardholders 10 miles on every dollar they spend at thousands of hotels. Brrrr i have the chills. Because of all those miles . And because ice. Is cold. Whats in your wallet . We really pride ourselves on making it easy for you and because ice. Tech at safelite autoglass, to get your windshield fixed. With safelite, you can see exactly when well be there. Saving you time for what you love most. Kids whoa kids vo safelite repair, safelite replace
heres what we do know. Police say tibbets was staying at her boyfriends house in brooklyn, iowa. They say she was dogsitting while he was working at a Construction Job about 100 miles away. While they say somebody spotted her while she was out for a run, theres word that she might have actually gone back to the house. Relatives say theres evidence on a laptop that she was doing homework that night. Tibbets boyfriend, who you see here, claims she sent him a picture over snap chat that made her seem like she was at the house. The boyfriend got worried when she didnt show up for work. He texted her good morning but she didnt look at it. He says thats when he called her family and friends. Her father told fax news that people should think up even if they think what they know is insignificant. Theres somebody out there that knows something and
reluctant to Say Something about someone that they know. They need to have the courage to come forward. If nobody has anything to hide, that i have nothing to fear. Let Law Enforcement sort out what is right and what is wrong. Have the courage to come forward and find molly. Shepard the dad also said you cant go anywhere in iowa without seeing pictures or posters of his daughter. Matt finn is left in the midwest newsroom. Matt . This Afternoons Press Conference was anticipated. We thought it might answer some of the obvious questions remaining in this mystery. Investigators revealing theyre not revealing any information to the public because it could compromise the integrity of the investigation. Theres not been no suspects and no timeline. Investigators tell fox news that theyre a timeline that theyre confident with but not releasing
to it the public. This afternoon some of the questions remaining are who Molly Tibbets had a cell phone on her the day she went missing. Shes described as an avid runner that had her fit bit on her, the Health Tracking device that could give Police Critical information. We wonder if police have extracted any information from that fit bit. Police have not indicated if she ever made it back to her boyfriends husband, which is a big question here. Did she return to the house . If she did, were there signs for a struggle or forced entry . We wonder about the scope and direction of the investigation. Has it sped from this small town of brooklyn, iowa. Shepard most of what weve heard is the family and mollys boyfriend . Pretty much. A member of mollys family told a local news station that investigators believe her laptop
indicated that she made to it her boyfriends house and she used it for homework. The boyfriend said he received a Snap Chat Message on his phone from molly the night she went missing. He believes that that snapshot message was taken inside of his house. One of the questions is whether the investigation is entirely focused on the house where she was abducted or was she taken out on the streets during the run july 18. Shepard ahead, new information about President Trumps Chief Of Staff, john kelly and how long he may be sticking around. And the search for a guy caught on camera apparently trying to set fire to a gas station. Thats next. Youre turning onto the street when you barely clip a passing car. Minor accident no big deal, right . Wrong. Your Insurance Company is gonna raise your rate after the other car got a scratch so small you coulda fixed it with a pen. Maybe you should take that pen and use it to sign up with a different Insurance Company. For drivers with Accident ForgivenessLiberty Mutual wont raise their rates because of their first accident. Liberty mutual insurance. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty
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