Updates of the days news. Directly intersects with the news of the day about there being potentially a second premeeting for the russia trump tower meeting. Rick gates is one of the names that Rudy Guilliani slipped and revealed in the series of interviews yesterday. What is the significance of Paul Manafort dropping his case against robert mueller. He was trying to have this case dismissed in court, saying that Robert Muellers jurisdiction did not extend to what he is actually charging Paul Manafort with . As i understand, he dropped those charges yesterday. It just seems he is increasingly finding himself to be more cornered and he doesnt have a lot of options to fight back at this point, and this is all getting back to that original goal of trying to squeeze manafort and get as. Information as possible out of him as they move closer hopefully to doing an interview of the president himself. That is still very much on the table. Also, heidi, why is it that Paul Manafort you think hasnt
literally, quote, consequences the likes of which few throughout history have ever suffered before. One week to the day of saying that he says he is now willing to meet with president rouhani, no conditions. Im going to ask you the Million Dollar question, try to make sense of that for us. Yeah, i dont know. Thanks, cal perry, for joining us. Moving on. See you guys later. Part of it is trumpian, part is this showman, part of it we have seen before, part is that he loves the media, he loves the cameras, the flash of the cameras, he loves to sign things. The problem here is what was buried in what he said there, which is iran is in trouble. Iran is in trouble. The real has lost its currency has lost half of its value since april. Iran is facing these devastating sanctions that the u. S. Is likely to reimpose in just over a week. So the question is, one, is donald trump doing the Good Cop Bad Cop himself again . The Second Question then is did he catch pompeo off guard. Does the State Department now advocate a policy of Regime Change in how do change . How does it make sense with what he said . None of it makes sense, i guess. The thing is iran has been in trouble before and they havent come to the table. It worked with kim jongun and the fire comments online and twitter. Iran is a very different country. The leaders of iran are veritive than kim jongun and north korea. Right. So thats the headline here, two completely divinations. One is a rogue nation that has been sort of totally isolated from the world. It has a gdp of almost 13 billion thats north korea. Iran has a gdp of almost 430 billion. This is a country that has recently sort of come into its own with the nuclear agreement. It will be interesting to see if they dont just try to go their own way with europe, but these are two very different countries, two very different situation goes. When you look again at the sanctions, were talking about sanctioning irans ability to
find u. S. Dollars, to trade in gold, to find semi metals, to trade in coal. We are talking about a country normally would sort of make its living, make its economy on oil exports. They could fall as much as twothirds by the end of the year because of u. S. Sankss. So a very different situation and a country thats going to likely become quite desperate. I can only imagine what the israeli Prime Minister thats what im waiting for. His phone board must have blown up with people telling him what the president said. What does bolton think about this, right . This is a man that wanted to go to war with north korea and iran. I dont know. Thanks, cal. Well touch base with you in a little bit. Stick around for us. Theres new reporting north korea may be up to old tricks. The u. S. Spy agency says theres new evidence including recent Satellite Photos showing that kims regime is once again
constructing new missiles at the factories that produced the first icbms capable of reaching the continental United States. Officials familiar with the intelligence tell the Washington Post the new evidence reportedly indicates work is under way on at least and possibly two liquidfuelled icbms, according to an official able to describe the classified evidence. Mike pompeo told a Senate Hearing last week that north korea continues to produce fis ill material used in making nuclear weapons. Switching gears to the deadly fires in california where firefighters are continuing to work to try to control the carr fire in northern california, the fire which has charred more than 103,000 acres at and around the city of redding. It was reported last night to be 23 contained. However, the temperature in redding has reached 105 degrees yesterday in a heat wave that could threaten to make conditions on the ground worse for those firefighters. Cal fire said the blaze has
destroyed more than 800 homes and more than 300 other structures. The carr fire has been blamed for the deaths of six people, including two firefighters, making it one of the worst in the states history. Still ahead, the fallout over Sexual Misconduct allegations by les moonves and his fate as the Company Calls for new investigation. Later, reporting that the Trump Administration is eyeing new tax cuts for the wealthy. What treasury secretary Steve Mnuchen has to say about that. Those stories and a check on your weather when we come back. This is a story about mail and packages. And its also a story about people. People who rely on us every day to deliver their dreams theyre handing us more than mail theyre handing us their business and while we make more ecommerce deliveries to homes than anyone else in the country, we never forget. That your business is our business the United States postal service. Priority you ive been Making Blades here at gillette for 20 years. Theres a lot of innovation that goes into making americas 1 shave. Precision machinery and highquality materials from around the world. Nobody else even comes close. Now starting at 7. 99. Gillette. The best a man can get. Are you ready to take your then you need xfinity xfi. . A more powerful way to stay connected. It gives you super fast speeds for all your devices, provides the most Wifi Coverage for your home, and lets you control your network with the xfi app. Its the ultimate wifi experience. Xfinity xfi, simple, easy, awesome. Welcome back, everybody. There is new fallout for one of the most powerful men in hollywood, cbs chief les moonves after Bombshell Allegations of Sexual Misconduct and harassment. Nbc news correspondent Morgan Radford has more on this. Reporter cbss Board Of Directors taking no immediate action against ceo les moonves. The Media Company at a previously scheduled meeting now calling for an independent investigation, seeking outside counsel, following the bombshell new yorker report accusing moonves of Sexual Misconduct. The article details six womens account, four on the record, that include accusations ranging from forcible touching or kissing to physical intimidation between the 1980s and 2000s. Moonvess wife longtime tv host julie chen reiterating her support for her husband on cbss the talk. I issued The One And Only station i will make on this topic on twitter, and i will stand by that statement today, tomorrow, forever. Reporter moonves saying in part, i recognize that there were times decades ago when i may have made some women uncomfortable by making add advances. Those were mistakes and i regret them immensely and i have never misused my position to harm or hinder anyones career. Moonvess position now in question. It seems like theyre afraid to name the ceo in any of the communications. Why . Because i think they want to leave Lesley Moonves to decide for himself whether hes going to step town. Reporter in a Statement Last friday cbs said, we to not believe however that the picture of our Company Created in The New Yorker represents a Larger Organization that does its best to treat its tens of thousands of employees with dignity and respect. That was Morgan Radford reporting. The Company Announced it was investigating its Corporate Culture after longtime anchor charlie rose was fired. Meanwhile, The New Yorker report contains explosive allegations against the current Executive Producer of 60 minutes. Several anonymous employees say he allowed harassment in the
news division, which he denies. Lets get a check on the weather with bill karins. Flood watches have been issued and the wet Weather Pattern is setting up. It doesnt look as bad as last week with flooding, but the heaviest rain day will be wednesday. Here is the set up. We have the storm system with the dip in the jet stream over missouri and kansas. All of the winds from the south from florida north ward. That is increasing our flood risk. As of this morning theres not a lot of areas of heavy rain. Cincinnati has been in it for a good portion of the overnight hours and southern portions of illinois, and some Thorls Rolling Through Central Louisiana near alexandria. Thats about it. Hit and miss showers in other areas. Timing out the mess going throughout the day, this is 10 00 a. M. , still dealing with rain in areas of the southern ohio valley. As you would expect in stumper time, we get hitandmiss dotted
showers. Looks like areas north of raleigh could get into it. Heavier rainfall areas, louisiana, central mississippi, scattered around d. C. And pittsburgh. From philadelphia north wards you remain dry today. That wont be the case on wednesday. The tropical connection feeds further to the north. Wednesday afternoon, hit and miss showers and storms along the appalachians, near New York City possibly, even boston, and the heaviest rains will be south, especially near atlanta. It adds up to a four or five day period with two to four inches of rain. The greatest flood threat, north georgia, and thats where we could see upwards of five inches of rain. Of course, the other issue is all of the fire problems out west. For sure. Incredible heat. I will talk more about that next half hour. Im sure they could use some of the rain happening on the east coast. It seems like it is always like this, feast or famine. Yeah. Still ahead, as Baseball Trade Deadline approaches one of the
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astros acquired suspended reliever Roberto Osuna from the Blue James Giving Up Ken Giles and a top ten prospect in return. Osuna is serving a sentence for a domestic conviction in may. Lance lynne was acquired in exchange for tyler austin and pitcher rio. To the action on the field in minnesota where the indians Jose Romero Slugged a pair of solo homers in last nights game against the twins. The all star Third Baseman snapped an 0 for 16 slump with the first inning hit into right field. He repeats at the next at bat, and Matching Martinez for the leagueleading 32nd Home Run of the season. As for the game, the twins beat the indians 54 in that one. Some power there. To boston where a miscue in the
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