Updates of the days news. Event. Facebook says they dont know who is behind these accounts. Everyday includes russia may be behind some of the activity. Sthaf received a private briefing earlier this week from facebook officials. The committee is holding an open hearing on social media later today. Listen, this is going to be a process of companies beginning to identify areas of concern. Its important this is the start of a collaboration between government and these companies to address concerns that they have and we have about the use of their platforms. I want people that do this to have a priechls i will be introducing thursday a sanctions bill against russia, everything but the Kitchen Kichg i sings in it. It will be the sanctions bill from hell. Every other Country Sharing in
our election can share the same fate. You can only do so much on defense, it is now time to go on offense. They are setting up banks, Electric Companies and critic infrastructure from a cyber attack. Our National Political reporter is joining us. Thank you for joining us so early. We anticipate Something Like this happening with regard to the midterm election. It is now actually happening. Exactly. What more are we learning . I would say yesterday i was on capitol hill and some of those Skrums You Sa you with those lawmakers. This had a big impact. At the same time, lawmakers saying we have not surprised. We have been saying this is coming for some time. If you look back at the special counsel dime, it specified the degree to which the Research Agency, the sophistication with which they were able use social
advocates are focusing on cyber space . What kind of damage could these ads that are popping up in facebook actually cause . Now, we know facebook is not identifying russia behind these specific ads. What we did see in that mueller die. It appears to be the case now. Russians are showing great understanding of our political system and latching on to immigration, like The Charlottesville last year and the White Supremacist Movement growing in the u. S. The most hotly contested issues, amplifying those messages to keep that dialogue going in a way to influence our election here. 98 days out, you see how important this is. Stick around, we will touch base with you in a bit. Ken carolinaly will be on morning joe later in the morning. All right, special counsel
bob muellers first milestone as the first part of his Jury Selection gets under way. Foreman trump manager Paul Manafort faces charges over his work for the russian backed government of ukraine, justice correspondent Pete Williams has more often day one of the proceedings. Reporter yasmin, this trial is under way very quickly. Jury selected six men, six women, Opening Statements from the lawyers and were now getting our first redayold look at Paul Manaforts defense. Though, Paul Manafort was the trump chairman for three months, for nearly a decade Robert Muellers prosecutors told the jury manafort made millions a a putin allie, stashed at least 15 million of it in overseas banks to avoid paying taxes. Prosecutors say he lied to banks to get 25 million in loans on
after a revel by special Counsel Robert Mueller according to individuals tony podesta, former republican congressman vin weber, now a partner at Mercury Public Affairs and greg craig a washington lawyer who was white House Counsel during Barack Obamas first year as president. They work for the then Victor Yanukovych and whether they registered their work at foreign agents is reportedly in question none have been channelled with a crime. The. A perform reported that rick gates personally directed mercury and the Podesta Group to set up meetings between senators and congressmen involving the countrys interests, later detailed in the manafort indictment. Craig, on the other hand, oversaw a report produced by his law firm about the prosecution
of a yanukovych rival. Mercury said it welcomes any inquiry and has acted appropriate appropriately. Its get to the rally last night, President Trump in florida, he was touching for rick scott, running for senate. Scott did not attend the rally. Rally goers screamed at the pen wheel they let loose a stream of false and flawed claims. Watch this. Fake news, fake news. They are fake. Every night is the same thing, wouldnt you think they get tired of these speeches . Wouldnt you think . Only american citizens should vote in american elections. Which is why the time has come for voter i. D. Like etching else. Voter i. D. You know, if you go out and you want to buy groceries, you need a pick or a card. You need i. D. And few see some of that haunting video, i have to say, it is unbelievable. No matter what side of the aisle you stand on, you need to say that is not okay to treat that reporters and media that way. I want to bring in White House Reporter for politico. Welcome to the program, andrew, thank you for getting up early morning, appreciate it. Besides from the Medica Opportunitying Which was a good deal i have to say. What were the take aways from the Florida Rally Last Night . Smr we will much more from the president in the coming months. This is the president. When hes in washington, hes
feeling attacked from all sides, all the criticisms lobbed against him all day. He gets to tampa and gets inunadulterated crimes. He riles up his base and will continue doing that, including with the media, saw brutal criticisms and attacks and slurs thrown at jim acosta of cnn. Which is the president s favorite punching bag, obviously, its pretty outrageous insults you seen hurled at him. But the president s supporters and advisers, themselves this is really a good thing. They want to have this fight. They want to punch the media as much as they k. You will see more of that going into the midterms. Lets talk about the Mueller InvestigationInteresting Development with bob mueller
you with us. Turning overseas now, north korea appears to be back to etc. Old tricks, in this case news confirmed both satellite no as tos show the program is ongoing and continuing to produce Ballistic Missiles according to arms control experts. Specifically this annotated photo taken one month of the summit in singapore shows missile production. It follows a Washington Post report stating kim jonguns regime is producing new missiles capable of reaching the continental United States. In june, they indicated north korea was working to deceive the United States ability the stock piles. The State Department was asked about those reports yesterday. What queer goiwere going on commitment he made to our
president. That is the commitment to denuclearize. We certainly anticipate he will hold up his end of the bargain and commitment on that. In terms of that specific report. Ive seen it. We are well aware of that report. That will follow under an intelligence matter. Its something i will not be able to get into. When was the last time you seen progress on discussions of denuclearization. We continue to work on that and keep pushing ahead. Is there a progress . Im not giving you a readout. Off conversations continue at the working level and into the government. Important to emphasize there a verbal agreement. Versus the intelligence from agencies. Its an actual report. Still ahead, the next chapter in the gun debate is under way . Were talking undetectable firearms made with 3d printers. They have been jammed up. We will explain that next. burke at farmers, weve seen almost everything
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files until a full hearing takes place in december. A little frightening. All right. Lets get a look at your weather with bill kierans. You are tracking the weather in Northern California where the wildfires are still continuing to burn. Last report 103,000 acres. Were still trying to get the Confinement Numbers up. Were below 30 . Right now, currently across the west, there are 95 large blazes burning. You know, we hear focus mostly on california. They have seven large fires in oregon. They have 12. It shows you, its not just in california the Car Fire Today 192. We bring it down to 99 thursday and friday. The Ferguson Fire is in the low 80s. So summer heat. There is still plenty of dry air. During the day, it will burn
good. The august heat doesnt continue of areas of the west. 103 in redding today. Fresno 103. Palm springs 109. We have many areas report the warmest julys in redding, fresno, seattle and portland, into thursday, this continues here. If you are on the east coast, we will talk about this its an umbrella day. Its in the forecast from florida to the gulf all the way through the northeast. The humidity, new york city, boston, its a different atmosphere to walk out the door. Still ahead, did john kelly commit to becoming the longest serving Chief Of Staff in history . We will have that. On the diamond the mets pulled off something truly amazing last night. They lost by three touchdowns. Believe it or not. Details next in sports. Alar and Kevin Gausman and darren oday to the brafbs for four more prospects there. The dodgers have a trade with the twins for brian dozier. In a Conclugd Move for one of the busiest teams before this years deadline, the rays send all Star Catcher Wilson Ramos for a player named later on. In st. Petersburg, the 7th Run 4th Inning they beat the angels 4678 willie mays joined in the 7k9 as the only player in history to hit 30 home runs and steal 20 bases three times before turning 26yearsold. Thats a pretty nice club to be in. From glory, we go to doom. The New York Mets lost to the washington nationals. 254. This really hurts. They score offend the infielder who came in as an emergency relieve, the most runs the National Versus ever scored in a game. Also the worst loss in the mets 57year franchise history. Ouch, guys. It will not be happy this mornin morning. I would sigh that was the scoring you saw in my Little League days. Yasmin was saying, that an nfl game . They could have certain will you done better. They are waking up as a happy catcher. Still ahead, day two of the trial for Paul Manafort. We will tell you where his defense laying the blame in there plus facebook wastes no
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paul deserves a fair triechlal. I tried to assist in that. President trump will decide whether he will shut down of the midterm elections for money for the border wall the president privately told aides, he was committed to keeping the government opened, telling them he recognizes the political cost of the showdown before elections. Yesterday, trump es ka late his public threat of a shutdown to warn, i dont care what the political ramifications are, your Immigration Laws and Border Security have been a complete and total disaster for check canadian and there is no way that the democrats will allow it to be fexd without a government shut down. Eighth small price to pay for a
safe and prosperous america. The president replicated that threat during a rally in florida last night. Were going to have tremendous voter security. That will include the wall. That will include the wall. Now, a lot of people dont know it, but weve already started the wall. We got 1. Billion. Weve started large portions of the wall. We will need the way we negotiate. We will need more. We will get more. We may have to do some pretty drastic things, but were going to get it. The white house Chief Of Staff john kelly is seeking out his position until 2020 according to sources that spoke to the wall street journal. Kelly accepted the ongoing role at President Trumps personal request. He let staff know on monday which marked his oneyear i was in in the role, white house officials caution kellys claims saying unforeseen circumstances could uproot those plans. The four star general has had a tumultuous position at times, most notably Getened Flatt ge flattened in the trial and going without a Chief Of Staff if he were to leave. John kellys tenure as Chief Of Staff would be among the longest in history if he stays on the board through 2020, guys. Interesting, that is a long time away, especially in this white house. Joining us again, White House Reporter for political reporter andrew restucian, lets talk about chief kelly. This is a man bounced around for a few weeks as being checked out, so to speak. What can we see in terms of Staffing Personnel at the white house as this die nam wick john kelly unfolds . Reporter its a notable
development one note of caution, everybody is staying until theyre not. We seen repeatedly people say they are staying only to be summarily dismissed by the president. 2020 is an eternity in this white house with the staff changeover. The white house wanted the story out there. They have been struggling for months, will he, wont he . The reporting about trump pulling advisers who should Polling Advisers who should replace kelly. Lets talk about this border wall fight that it seems like it is ramping up a bit. President trump reportedly agreeing to delay the fight. We heard Mitch Mcconnell on monday saying the Government Shutdown will not happen in september. That would be really bad politics. We will talk about it in the midterm elections. Now have you the president turning up the heat on twitter with regards to imgach