Private. President Donald Trumps campaign has filed an arbitration action against former aide Omarosa Manigault newman alleging breach of a confidentiality agreement that she signed in 2016. As many have reported, she released the new book titled unhinged. Manigault newman has released three recordings so far. She made a conversation she said she had with high level white house staff and. Trump. The first was a recording of chief of staff john kelly firing her in the situation room inside the white house and then a subsequent phone call with the president. She next released a recording with top Campaign Officials discussing how to spin a release of a video of candidate trump using a racial slur, something that. Trump and his aides have denied ever happened. Manigault newman appeared on cbs this morning and was asked why she made these tapes specifically the ones involving top aides. Yes, im the kind of person that covers her own back. In trump world, everyone lies. Everyone says one thing one day and they change their story the next day. I wanted this type of documentation to show in the event i found myself in the position as where theyre questioning my credibility, saying they never discussed the accusations, the president had never heard these accusations when this tape proves that they discussed it at high levels of the trump campaign. So katrina pearson, a former spokesperson told fox today they heard rumors about an alleged tape from the apprentice. The Statement Reads as follows. Dana thanks, laura. Thanks. Dana closing arguments set for tomorrow morning the Paul Manafort trial. The defense rested earlier today without calling any onces. Catherine herridge is live outside the courtroom. Where do things stand right now, catherine . In the last half hour, the jury has come back in to the courtroom on the ninth floor of the building behind me. They heard directly from the defense that they will not be presenting witnesses or evidence and that the defense is resting its case. The judge reminded the jury that the defense is under no obligation to prevent a case to rebut the governments arguments. We have a really good sense of the tech talk of the next couple days. Theres what is called a charging conference this afternoon where the judge meets with the lawyers so jurors are absent and they talk about the instructions to the jury and whether the parties want to weighin or have any objections to what the judge is proposing. He anticipates the closing arguments from both sides. He would like them to run 90 minutes or less. Same time for his instructions to the jury. So he believes that the jury should have the case late tomorrow. Final note, dana, there was a sealed proceeding this morning and really fueled speculation that there was some kind of problem with one or more of the jurors. When we were back in the courthouse just a half hour ago and the jurors returned, it was all 12 and the four alternates. So if there was a jury problem, apparently for now has been resowed, dana. Why didnt manafort testify . In the last few minutes, dana and quite unexpectedly, we had the lead attorney for Paul Manafort, kevin downing, speak briefly to reporters. He laid out the arguments against his client testifying for the court. Lets listen. Weve rested on that. What do you say to those that have said this makes your client look guilty . Well, we live in the United States of america. Youre presumed innocent until proven guilty. We believe the government cannot meet that burden. Source close to the defense told fox news that they want to keep the focus on manaforts former business partner, rick gates. This is the governments star witness and they want the focus to be on questions about gates credibility as a star witness for the government rather than on their client and as a final note, manafort faces a second prosecution in the district of columbia. So if he took the stand here in virginia, that could complicate that proceedings, dana. Dana that makes a lot of sense. Thanks, katherine. It does. Youre welcome. Im joined by bret baier anchor of special report. Lots to cover here. Sarah sanders will brief at the bottom of the hour. So were keeping an eye on that. Lets start with Paul Manafort. The trial has been getting a lot of attention. The defense rested today, probably deciding theres nothing that they could do to improve their chances of manafort being found not guilty by the jury if he took the stand. Your thoughts. Yeah, listening to the defense attorney, they sound confident. Well see. Thats what Defense Attorneys do. They portray this confidence. If youre Paul Manafort, youre hoping theyre confident and the government didnt make the case and cross the burden for the jury to come back with a guilty plea. For the rumors there was a jury problem, seems like its moving ahead. Closing arguments tomorrow. This judge has really moved things along. It has not drug on as some people thought it might. We should have both closing arguments and statements by tomorrow afternoon. Dana during this trial, the judge did not allow anyone to bring up anything to do with the 2016 campaign. You could not say President Trump, you could not say oligarch. So that has been separate and apart from the mueller investigation. Theres new polling, a cnn poll, showing that 2 3s of americans, 66 , say mueller should try to complete his investigation before the midterm. 26 say that should not be his goal. The poll also asked how important will the investigation be in casting your vote for congress. 63 say it will be somewhat important. I wonder about the polling whether its important or not. On the five, a few colleagues say nobody cares about this. They could be right, this poll indicates that somewhat of interest to voters out there. You know, it comes from both sides. It could be republicans saying that they dont want democrats to take control to launch an impeachment proceeding. That takes a lot of the time and focus away from things that the country could be getting done. It could be the other way. Democrats are saying this president , this administration, needs to be stopped and those things should happen. That poll is a little depends how you look at it. Dana President Trump tweeting about that investigation today. His attorney general saying if we had a real attorney general, this witch hunt wouldnt have been started. Looking at the wrong people. What do you think of the fact that attorney general Jeff Sessions now for almost 20 months has been under this kind of glare from the president . It is pretty remarkable, if you think about it. President trump hired the attorney general. He, the attorney general, recused himself from the russia probe. Obviously the president didnt think that was the right thing to do. But he has stayed on and continued to act on a number of different issues outside of that. Hes still fighting for Trump Administration policies when it comes to justice but gets lambasted on twitter day after day. Weve never seen anything like it. I dont think Jeff Sessions will step down. Dana if he hasnt by now, he probably wont. Let me ask you about omarosa. Theres an ongoing feud with the white house and omarosa. The trump team saying look, you signed something, an mda in 2016 on the campaign. They will file a complaint against her. I thought about that phrase feed a cold, starve a fever. How do you think the white house is doing trying to get passed this one . Youre right. If you wanted to take the focus off of this book, off of omarosa, you wouldnt be tweeting nonstop about it and you wouldnt follow the tweets calling her a dog. However, this president is a counter puncher and weve seen it before. We saw it with the michael wolf book. The tweets and the comments about the book that was discredited in sourcing, but got a ton of attention and thereby sold a ton of books. This is how it operates. Dana i think perhaps its an interesting strategy. When i worked in that world, its not one i followed. But i think the president tweets for fire and fury, helped to discredit and thinking that nobody will be defending me against omarosa so i better do it myself. Sure. In the past that has worked over time to his supporters buck them up and say this is nonsense. But he also creates his own vortex of controversy when he ends a tweet calling a female a dog that worked for him and he hired in his white house. Im just pointing out that these are things that the news cycle could be different had one tweet not appeared this morning. Well see how the rest of the day goes. Dana i expect there will be litigation against her. That could go on for a while. If they decide to do that, it opens it up to discovery and you have testimony from both sides. I dont know if that will happen. They threaten a lot of lawsuits that dont go for toward. The threat of a lawsuit can make somebody stop talking. I think this is going to arbitration. Thats what theyre saying, to see if it can be upheld, this nondisclosure agreement, which as you know is unique as well for not only a campaign but in government service. Dana in government service, ive never heard of it. Kellyanne conway will be on special report. Well talk about a bunch things including this. Dana must mean the weather is good down there. Shepard it is. Dana thanks. 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Marshalls are in pursuit and the base is on lockdown. Primary day across the country with voters heading to the polls in minnesota. Big races there, the battle for governor and both senate seats are up for grabs this year. The incumbent fighting off challenges from three democrats. If she wins, she will face off against republicans for her seat. And al frankens set is open. Joining me now, larry sabato, always a pleasure to see you. Aside from florida, which is a bunch of races there this year this midterm, is minnesota a state that we should be paying attention to . Yes, incredibly. Minnesota was not that competitive overall. The governorship changed hands a lot. Used to be heavily democratic. Its the only state that Ronald Reagan didnt carry. Its changed. Its evolved. Its one of those states that trump came close to carrying, was within a couple points of carrying but nobody expected him to do well in. Were watching that. Yes, governor, two senate seats and four tossups in the house out of their eight seats. Its the largest proportion for any state that is a tossup of any state with more than five congressional seats. How would you recommend a candidate to break through the noise . If you have three statewide races, thats huge for any state. Then you have all the competitive house races that you mentioned. How would you break out of the noise . Well, yeah, dana, my advice, which is widely ignored, would be that candidates spend their money on voter contact and get out the vote. They have their own friends and neighbors vote and it may be different than some of their ticket mates. So instead of putting another ad on tv when people will see a glut of them, spend your money finding extra votes. Abraham lincoln said find them and vote them. That was the key to politics and still is. Theres interesting races in wisconsin. Paul ryan has decided not to run. Hes held that seat in wisconsin for many, many years. A Democratic Candidates are iron worker randy bryce and kathy myers. Among the crowded republican field, Bryant Steele is a frontrunner and also in the race, jeremy ryan, kevin adamstein and paul neyland. Thats a lot of people. That seat doesnt come open very often. Thats exactly it. A lot of bottled up ambition in that district. You often see this with a longterm incumbent retires. A lot of results in wisconsin, including that seat, will be determine with what happens with state walker running for a third term as governor. Actually, his fourth election as governor. He had the recall election that split his first term. Hes wellknown, but hes never gotten more than 52 of the vote. So this is his toughest challenge yet and it will affect all of the people below him. Dana exactly. Let me ask you about vermont. In the minute that we have left, take a listen to this young man running there. Hes got an unusual age. Watch. I mean, my campaign transcends age. I want people to think of me as pragmatic progressive that happens to be 14. Dana so that is ethan. Hes 14 years old running for governor. Thats always unusual and fun to see young people getting out there. Should we be paying attention to vermont tonight . We Pay Attention only because i encourage that young man. I like to see young people involved in politics. Obviously a 14yearold wont be governor. But the governor is a republican. That surprises a lot of people. Vermont is such a blue state. Governor phil scott. Hes likely to win reelection. One of the problems that the democrats are having in gubernatorial elections, vermont, massachusetts and maryland all have moderate republican governors and theyre all favors for reelection. Normally you think a democrat would pick up those seats in a democratic year. Doesnt seem to be happening. Dana the governors you mentioned have high approval ratings. Thanks, larry. Loved having you. Thank you. 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And in the west, winds and thunderstorms expected this weekend. Adam klotz, tell us whats going on. Just really big storms moving across the midatlantic. Eventually well talk about some of that fire, severe fire weather across the western portion of the country. Heres the rain that just continues. Every time folks have seen rain in d. C. , pennsylvania, what weve seen in those areas is rain getting up to two to four inches. It just continues time and time again. So that is an issue that they are going to be dealing with unfortunately here for a little while. Im having a few issues here with my clicker. Its a great graphic. Well have to look at it a second longer than i had intended. Dana i lived in england a year. The past several months have felt like that. Its raining all the time. And the rain continues over and over. This is our radar estimated precipitation here in the last seven days. Heavy rounds of rain over and over again. That is what weve been seeing across this region. Heres the future radar. Theres still some rain in the region and its more isolated here in the next couple days. We will be drying off by the middle of the week. Unfortunately theres flood warnings across the region. Thats something that we have to watch for. Elevated fire danger out west. Its dry and rainless here for a little while. Thats where you have the red flag warnings, the fire weather watches in some locations. That isnt going to change. Something interesting is going to be happening here the next couple days. Western rainfall, Pay Attention specifically to northern california. There are going to be thunderstorms in this region. We call them dry thunderstorms. The rain will be falling and going to be evaporating before it hits the ground. This is a worse situation. You still get lightning. You can still cause more wild fires in this region. This is happening again during thunderstorms. So the rains there, what we need, it evaporates dana growing up out west, i know the fire danger. My family in wyoming is looking for rain. That is a little rain, yeah. Dana thanks, adam. Appreciate it. The White House Briefing is minutes away. Well bring it to you as soon as Sarah Sanders steps away. A look at the shifting landscape for the midterm. Hey there people eli