A newscast reviewing and analyzing top stories of the day as they happen. Did you find him to be credible . No. I think he would have done anything that he could to preserve himself. Thats just obvious in the fact that he flipped on manafort. Shepard but that juror went on to convict Paul Manafort. Peter doocy will have more on that in just a moment and john roberts will have a detailed wrapup on a renewed throw down between the Attorney GeneralJeff Sessions and the president. First, lets get to Rick Leventhal with more on the reported immunity deal for the publisher of the National Inquirer and now former trump friend david pecker. Former friend. Sources are confirming this Wall Street Journal report that the u. S. Attorneys office offered immunity to david pecker so that he would talk about what he knew about Michael Cohens handling of those payments to those women, david pecker, longtime friend of the president and runs the National Inquirer. The journal reports the details include mr. Trumps knowledge of these deals. We dont know is what the extent
is of the knowledge. Pecker is a chairman of american media. Hes a longtime friend of the president. Offered to help him win the white house and burying stories that might harm his reputation. Company executives involved in the sixfigure payouts with Karen Mcdougal and stormy daniels. Michael cohen was on the streets of new york today. He didnt answer questions about his case or his new troubles, including a subpoena from the new York State Tax Department and a demand that he give up his yellow cab business. Last month we learned that cohen reported hundreds of conversations and phone calls including one released between him and the president discussing one of the hush payments. We need to open up a company for the transfer of all of that info regarding our friend, david, so that ive spoken to
the inquirer was hands off the candidate because he and donald trump and pecker have been friends for decades. In a profile piece, The New Yorker Magazine said there was a Conference Call with editors discussing that next weeks issue someone brought up the president and melania on their first overseas trip. The president reached for melanias hand on the red carpet. She sort of slapped it away. Somebody brought it up. Pecker said i didnt see that. Someone said, well, its all over the news. Pecker said i didnt see that. The matter was dropped. So the implication is that he was killing stories that might be negative about the president and promoting stories that were harsh of his opponent. Shepard now hes flipped and cooperating. We dont know what he said or his knowledge or the president s knowledge. He did apparently cooperate. Shepard david pecker, the porn star and the playmate. A lot of ps. Shepard it is. The war between the Attorney General of the United States and
weak leader. Listen here. The dems are very strong in the Justice Department. I put an Attorney General that never took control of the Justice Department, Jeff Sessions. He never took control of the Justice Department. Its an incredible thing. I put justice with quotes. Jeff sessions recused himself, she shouldnt have done. In a preemptive strike before heading over to the white house, the Attorney General released a statement saying he wont be bullied by the president. He said while im Attorney General, the actions of the Department Of Justice will not be improperly influenced by political considerations. I demand the highest standards and where theyre not met, i take action. No nation has a more talented or more dead greated group of Law Enforcement and prosecutors than the United States. Sources tell fox news that sessions wanted to get that statement out before coming over here to the white house because its well known around here in washington that hes the
president s favorite pinata. He wanted to wield his own stick. Shepard cant really fire him. That would put Rod Rosenstein in charge of everything. Thats not this is not a means to the end he wants. No. Theres a large belief here in washington that sessions will remain the Attorney General at least through the midterm elections. After that, its anybodys belt to what happens. Shepard in that interview, the president talked about impeachme impeachment. He did. A lot of talk about washington as to whether or not the president might face criminal charges. The more likely case people believe is the potential for the president to face Impeachment Charges if democrats were to take control of congress after the november election. For his part this morning, the president thought that impeachment would be a terrible idea. That it would reverse all of the economic gains that the United States has made since he was elected. Listen to what the president said. I dont know how you can impeach somebody who has done a great job. Ill tell you what, if i ever
got impeached, i think the market would crash. Everybody would be very poor because without this thinking, you would see numbers that you wouldnt believe in reverse. A lot of democrats already on board the idea of impeachment. Most people say it wont happen even if democrats were to take control of congress and vote out articles of impeachment to the senate because you need a 2 3 of likely to not convict. The same thing happened with bill clinton. There was political blow back against the republicans. An rudy guliani said that if this president were to be impeached, guliani expects there would be a peoples revolt here in the United States. Shep . Shepard john roberts, live at the white house. Thank you. Coming up, more from the juror that says shes a bug trump supporter and that didnt stop her from convicting the former
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manafort was guilty. Finding mr. Manafort guilty was hard for me. I wanted him to be innocent. I really wanted him to be innocent but he wasnt. Thats the part of a juror. You have to have Due Diligence and deliberate and look at the evidence and come up with an informed and intelligent decision, which i did. Shepard she said there was so much of a paper trail, most juror was convicted that he was guilty on all counts of bank fraud. Peter doocy talked to that juror. Hes live outside the district. Peter, one holdout. Yeah, shep. One hold out. 11 out of 12 jurors here in alexandria were redid it to convict him on all 18 counts after two days of deliberations. Remember, it took four days. The reason is they were moved by the mountain of exhibits by the mueller team. There was so much paperwork. Four full boxes of papers to go through. The emails, the false documents. Emails that Paul Manafort sent to other people. It was just it was there in the paper. It was there. The exhibits of tax and bank records were apparently more compelling than the prosecutions star witness, rick gates. What did you think of rick gates, the star witness . I think he deserves a special place in hell. He was just as guilty as Paul Manafort. Maybe even more. He embezzled from his employer. A lot of us said after gates didnt testify, the paper trail pretty much led us to what we decided. Duncan does not think a lot of the Mueller Probe but she said she thinks their side made
the winning argument here, shep. Shepard we know why there was a Mystery Delay in the trial. Both sides were fighting against potentially dismissing a juror because the judge found out she made it very clear that she didnt feel the defense had anything to offer up coming and for the rest of the trial. Manaforts Defense Attorney argued that we would not agree. Its a small thing when a juror makes a comment on the weakness of the defense. They pushed for a mistrial. The judge said no. I will deny your motion for a mistrial. I have no earthly reason for a mistrial. Duncan is a bigtime trump supporter and will vote for him in 2020. Shep . Shepard peter doocy live at the courthouse. Weather alert. Folks in hawaii are getting ready for the first hurricane in two decades. Right now its a massive category four. Well head to the Fox Extreme Weather Center next. Started moving ships and submarines from pearl harbor and will be stationed and ready to help with the storm response. He says navy planes will be kept in hangers or flown away from the storm. Hurricane lane right now packing 130 miles an hour winds. Emergency officials are telling folks to take shelter. The government shelters are built to withstand winds 40 miles an hour. Might not be that helpful. Rick that sounds dangerous. Yeah. You need stronger buildings for this kind of a storm. Category four. Likely about to change as it pulls off to the north. Some shear that will rip it apart, which is great news. Every one of the Hawaiian Islands getting in on the storm. This will pill off to the north
and almost all indications are that its going to take a lefthand turn. Does this happen a little bit earlier and not impact land as much . Or does it happen later and make a direct landfall between maui, up around oahu. Because its going to make the turn, its going to slow it down and a longerterm impact across the island. Theres the wind shear as it pulls to the north. That will rip it apart, which is the good news. The rain, you get the idea. The big idea, up towards kawhi. Rain totals will be most extreme on the eastern side of the islands here. The way this happens, theres a lot of mountains here across hawaiis big island. Along with that, the moisture comes in and rises and rings out the moisture. The other side of the island is not going to get nearly as much
rain. Well see some spots, maybe 20 to 30 inches of rain. Other sides of the island, maybe one or two. Take a look at the wind field. Sustained winds. The yellow, Tropical Storm force as this moves through time, we have Tropical Storm conditions tonight, tomorrow across the big island and oahu and maui. Its a very wet weekend and a dangerous one. Some spots over 20 years and will cause significant flooding, shep. Shepard thanks, rick. As you gave out this report, the president gave out a tweet. He said i am providing hawaii the necessary support ahead of hurricane lane. He said our teams are cooperating with the state and local authorities. Youre in our thoughts. He retweeted a Fox News Story as well. Theres your president ial update. Updating foxs top story next. What were learning about the president s former fixer, Michael Cohen, his closed door testimony to congressman. And the Duncan Hunter saying hes involved in a witch hunt. A Delivery Driver caught turning a Ground Shipment to air mall. What says summer like a watermelon served steaming hot. The trend that has foodies all fired up coming up. I am totally blind. And non24 can make me show up too early. Or too late. Or make me feel like im not really there. Talk to your doctor, and call 8442342424. You might be missing something. Y healthy. Your eyes. Thats why theres ocuvite. Ocuvite helps replenish nutrients your eyes can lose as you age. It has lutein, zeaxanthin and omega3. Ocuvite. Be good to your eyes. Im hoping these Nature Sounds will help me relax a bit. At least we dont have to worry about Homeowners Insurance. Just call geico. Geico helps with Homeowners Insurance . Good to know. Feeling better . I love you, pookie bear. [parrot 1] i love you, pookie bear. [parrot 2] i love you, pookie bear [parrots] i love you, pookie bear get to know geico and see how easy homeowners and renters insurance can be. The tunnel turning up in a traffic stop in yuma, arizona. They say it stretched for the length of six football fields all the way into mexico. The buildings owner under arrest. Surveillance cameras catching a fed ex Working Chucking packages from his truck. You can see him tossing box after boss on the door step. The homeowner said the boxes had Expensive Electronics inside. We asked for a comment and have not heard back. Canadian soldiers killed in the First World War had their remains returned home today. The relatives paying respect today. News continues with shep after this. With uncontrolled moderatetosevere eczema,
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