tonight with the capital being on lockdown so we want to make sure that you can do your job and not risk your safety what happens tomorrow when these results have been made public will you be reporting on a crippled democracy in zimbabwe. i might be and this is something that people have been telling me this morning as well as a woman was saying you know i really really believe that these election could be fair and transparent that my vote will count that i will have a say and that we will live in a democracy and monica was my hero too although i don t vote but i believed him when he told me that he is going to make my vote count and now it looks like god has a dictate to have gone but maybe this excited should have been. i think a very important point to make tonight and we ll see if it still holds true on friday our correspondent melanie ball in the capital harare tonight melanie thank bid and this is the only way to do it but laureus that that it s good mr i think a lot of people would agree with you on that but what about the time of day or the time of night that this is taking place why why do this at such a late time when many people may not be able to watch and see and see this credibility in action as you re saying. one i think the majority of zimbabweans are glued to their television set so i can tell you that i don t think they re going to get a bit until this thing is done because this is a very anxious and important time for all of us. i personally think you know this everybody and it s a mighty amount of work that s involved in this process especially if it s conducted in this way you have to ten thousand eleven thousand polling stations two thousand ward wards two hundred ten constituencies and all of those elections have the truth i m as i m aware. i ve been through this many times i can tell you very few times in the ross twenty odd years that we ve been fighting elections as an opposition and we really have any faith in is it sick is a highly compromised institution and i mean the quality of the people on this commission is really appalling and. some of them find difficulty even reading out the results that they re given to to present to the public eye i m afraid all of all zimbabweans are skeptical which is why it s sort of vital that we have transparency and participation in if every face of this relations presentation i have to ask you about what happened today the headquarters of your party being basically taken over by police we understand that there were some members of your party who were also detained i mean from the outside looking in this appears to be an act of the ruling party trying to shut you down. i lose count of how many times they raided us at the party headquarters we ve had doors mashed down they ve still been a computer is it must be twenty times to look at our hard drives and discover what he s been doing and where they ve been communicating with you know we come out of that period of time we ve had thirty eight years of harsh dictatorship under robert mugabe during which time opposition was into was simply not tolerated we ve had twenty years of simmie military giunta leadership where the military has increasingly controlled the regime and we in the opposition have been fighting to bring back democracy and i must say that i thought the november coups in zimbabwe heralded a new beginning for us i m very very disappointed to see the actions of the police and the young forces in the last couple of days and nothing a reason probably and she is my sentence well i have to say that your resilience mr cross is certainly remarkable and admirable and i think i speak for a lot of people in wishing you and everyone in your country the best outcome possible at least by tomorrow and spread across a member of zimbabwe s opposition m.d.c. and a former member of the zimbabwean parliament mr krause thank you very much we appreciate your time tonight. thank you. well google is reportedly secretly plotting its return to china a new report from the investigative web site the intercept says that the tech giant has a team secretly working on a new censored version of its search engine for china well to help you tell the story i m joined now by my steam calling helen humphrey from our business desk now china of course is renowned for its historic great wall building started on the mammoth fortification back in the third century b.c. to protect china from in later years right and these days china also has of course another wall known as its great far wall of china it s supposed to protect chinese citizens from undesired foreign influence that s right the first set up back in two thousand the great firewall it blocks access to certain websites and terms that the chinese government deems dangerous any with a criticism of the government or terms that refer for example to the student massacre in timmins where back in one thousand nine hundred nine all of that for him but in the past the tech giant google well it s spoken out against such internet censorship in fact i mean that is why they pulled out of china in twenty ten you know that s a very important point to make at the time google s co-founder said this. objection is to those forces of to tell the cheeriness of our hope is there is progress and a more open internet in china what i can say is how times have changed that s exactly right telling me times have changed but i think people watching especially investors watching are not even investors people around the world watching are going to be asking has google changed is that the story here let s put it this way google has long had its company mantra which is actually now changed it went from don t be evil. going to do the right thing so interpret that as you will but in twenty ten as we just mentioned it did pull out of china it had a google search engine there which did show results which were sensitive said that publicly it said these results you cannot bring up that they are on a blank screen and what happened was then in twenty ten that there was the moment that there were allegations that chinese dissidents had their accounts hacked this caused a diplomatic spat with washington and google said ok we re out time s up essentially it s time to get out the question is that what changes dipping its total more than its toe back in the market that is china china hasn t changed much since twenty ten so one might think that google hurts if google does reenter the chinese market what signal does that send not only to the people in china but also to the government i mean it smells like a win for she s in pain to me right i mean we did hear a quote today from the former head of free expression for google in asia this man is called last month s you he said reality is that google will be serving the chinese government amnesty international today said that giving in to censorship if google does re end to the chinese market essentially would be a dark day the truth is there when you consider that china is set to become the world s leading a column e. in around a decade s time it s a difficult question for many companies it s a difficult question actually for many countries it s a quandary that many governments are facing right now also bear in mind china is already the largest internet market seven hundred seven hundred seventy two million internet users in china i mean the question is is the temptation simply too big for google what do we know what could a censored version of google then look like in china i mean we don t know we can go on what we saw from two thousand and six which again was that google. which showed since it results and back then google said well what we re doing and do because google is this and how we can rationalize this is better to give some information the know information a tool and what google will probably do is have a search up it s thought and will be a way to try and i mean to penetrate some of the services from by do of course is big competitor that i mean bear in mind that you know china is a country that is cracking down and censorship on terms such as jenin square or so in terms like winnie the pooh of course he was. paying was famously compared to that s what childhood characters in it gives you need meaning to alternative facts you know it could be a question of geography absolutely before let s shift gears and talk about another big player here in the tech world that is apple it has become the first u.s. company to top said earlier one a trillion dollars by replaying zero zero one trillion u.s. dollars in market value now this crowns a decade longer rise fueled by of course the i phone it transformed the tech firm from a niche player in personal computers into a global powerhouse spanning entertainment and communications steve jobs as we know started the company in his garage back in one nine hundred seventy six those were the days apple has changed how we communicate with each other and how business is conduct daily commerce. investors and wall street loved this i want to take a listen to this moment so i knew a little bit about the company and i thought well if i m in this world of. covering writing about entrepreneurs model i invest money and thought i did i don t really remember how much i bought but it was not a life changing amount that i bought it and just held it. she s holding on to a lot right now i will because i would say it s a good many things stop and i think it is sitting in a very comfortable position at the moment because i mean look at the i phone for example it s a status symbol now twenty years ago ten years ago even a status symbol may have been a luxury car in the kind of economy now where we most people can t afford a luxury car maybe that even a car actually or they don t want want or what they can just about afford it and a lot of people do have is an i phone four examples of dollars for a thousand dollars. there s also the fact that you know this is something perhaps that apple couldn t even for see we are addicted to our mobile phone so to set extent they can set the price and they can keep it you know fairly high but of course you can say that there was be a competitive somebody else can come out with a small phone yes but there is some genius in apple in that we have bought into the whole ecosystem so you know apple for example the i phone the i use i choose for example so there s genius there mean look look at the end of the day and cooks ten year and one hasn t bought out any more new products they re still working on the legacy of steve jobs and yet it s reached this massive market capitalization so i would say as long as the i phone is sitting pretty so is apple you know we know what sitting right here thought were absolutely. as always good to have you here at the big table thank you thank you. summer wildfires continue to calls havoc in the northern hemisphere in the united states california is a blaze with thousands of firefighters locked in a battle against the flames emergency crews and residents say that they have never seen anything like it before and there are fears that this could be the new nor. i don t know why it s doing what it s doing it s bernie differently it s burning more aggressive. than it has in years past and i know we say that every year but it it s unprecedented. i ve been a lifelong residence resident of this community i ve never seen a fire with such destruction here in this area ever before. the wildfire aspect has intensified over the years so we didn t experience more and more damaging wildfires more fires that ignite rapidly it s like going gas in a game these type of fires they wrapped and they spread so fast. it s burning in every direction all at the same time up hill down hill even if it doesn t have a strong wind on it it s it s burning is it s got a santa ana wind or for a strong sixty mile an hour seventy mile an hour wind. and my next guest has spent the past thirty years writing and shouting about fire his extensive back catalog includes publications such as between two fires a fire history of contemporary america and it has established him as an authority on fires and how to manage them he has spent fifteen seasons as a firefighter in the grand canyon and he lives in arizona a u.s. state that is known for its uber levels of heat i m happy to welcome tonight to the day stephen pyne who joins us from queen creek in the suburbs of phoenix it s good to see you steve let me ask you the wildfires in the u.s. do we perceive them for what they really are. well yes and no there are there are many kinds of fires and the fires that get attention are the fires that burned houses kill people or involve celebrities and it could be a celebrity landscape. so california gets a lot of attention right now particularly fires outside yosemite. half a million acres burned in nevada earlier this year and nobody heard about it. so we the other thing the other aspect of that is that almost all of us live in cities or suburbs now and we only experience fire in an urban context and you really don t want free burning fire in an urban setting but in the landscape most landscapes have a depth to desire even expect fire and the inability to manage fire actively in those landscapes is is the problem so in the us we yeah we do have a serious issue with bad fires we have an equally serious issue with the absence of good fires good fire bad pliers and then of course there is global climate change to throw into the equation if we succeed in keeping the increase in temperatures this century below the two degrees celsius that s the target will that mean if you were severe wildfires or. have we lost that battle. it improves conditions but. in the us we began reforming agencies at the national level fifty years ago forty years ago for the service with the realisation that the fire was out of control and when needed to introduce more. find better ways to keep. so it is not a new issue and for the last thirty years we ve been devoting considerable resources to trying to keep communities from burning where the two collide so climate change is really acting on what was already out there it s amplifying it it s making it worse but at this point it really hasn t meant a face change. of a deeper level. i ve found a little paragraph where that says you would prefer that a poet educate us about fire in wildfires instead of the bureaucrats or the scientists to do it today i want to ask you we ve got it we ve got about forty seconds here is the what would that poets and i say what would the poet say think the poet would would point out that we are uniquely fire creatures on a uniquely fire planet and we are the chief we are the keystone species for fire now on the planet and fire has been absolutely fundamental to how we have lived even our problems with global climate change from burning fossil fuels may that s also part of our combustion story so we need to recognize that it s not just a technical issue it s a deeply cultural issue and in many ways it goes to the core of who we are all right beautifully said wildfire expert stephens pioneer with the with very insightful words about work combustion history steve thank you very much. i ve pleasure thank you. well the day is nearly done the conversation as ever continues online you ll find us on twitter in the it. t.v. don t forget to use the hash tag of the day and remember whatever happens between now and then tomorrow is another day we ll see you then. sounds to hard. stance know how to bring the risk to themselves in a metal grandmas instead of the i. am not. an easy. job. sorry joe just couldn t get this song out of his head. the college just began searching for the source of these captivating sounds. deep in the rain forest in central africa. despite their culture the state. only
Updates of the day s news. good morning, everybody, it is wednesday, august 8th. a lot to talk about this morning. let s begin with that closely watched special election in ohio in a district that has been in gop hands for three decades, republican troy balderson leads danny o connor by less than 1% of all votes cast, making it too close to call. the official outcome may not be known until all the ballots are counted in the coming weeks the race could be coming to a recount as the final results are actually certified. still despite the razor thin margin, troy balderson has claimed victory and daniel o connor has not yet conceded. listen to this. it s time to get to work. over the next three months, i will do everything i can to keep america great again so that when we come back here in november, get ready, we got to come back here in november i have earned your vote for a second time. can you believe how close this is? we, we are in a tie ball game. we went door-to-door. we went house-to-house. we made our case for case. we will make that case tomorrow. we re not stopping now. tomorrow we rest and then we keep fighting through to november. let s go out there! let s get it done! let s change this country. so we re actually going to see a rematch come november when they compete for a full term in congress. yesterday s special election was to fill the remainder of the term. there is another nail bitener kansas, where secretary of state chris kobach holds the lead over jeff colyer. colyer served seven years, trump s endorsement of kobach might have put him on time. he went from even in the race to up 7 points after president trump weighed in. in michigan, republicans nominated another trump endorsed candidate john james for u.s. senate. james faces an uphill battle against democratic debbie stabenow and republican dino rossi advances for an open republican held seat that clinton won as democrat kim election for the seat long held by excongressman john connors. joining us from capitol hill mollie huber. i love seeing you. it s been so long. i love seeing you, especially on a wonderfully squeakery morning. okay. reporter: a squeaky morning after the election results where we don t know who won. let s talk about that election, we re talking ohio, red since the 1980s last night s special election too close to call. both of them at this point think that they re winners. what does that say about what s going on in ohio? it says a lot, well, this is kind of a tough race. number one, it is a special elect. number two, these candidates both of them will face off in a general election for a full term in the house and number three, it s august, parent getting their kids ready to go back to school the turn outis unclear whether that was affected, the end of summer days. but at the same you look at it. you see a guy, if you are listening to the speech, you know, the election night speech, it s hard to tell whether the democrat was the winner. he has a lot of enthusiasm and vigor. the democrats if you look at twitter, you see quite a few coming out saying this is a big win for her to party rorls of whether or not o connor actually clinches this special election because it is so close and a seat that was held for so many years by republicans. mollie, i want to ask you about the power of the president in a couple of these race, you had the president weighing in to throw his support behind the gop candidates in those two states. what does it say to you when you look at the races and the deadlocks they re in about the power he has as an endorser, the role he is playing as we head to the mid-terms? well, it says a lot about the way lawmakers have been approaching these mid-term elections. if you look at it, president trump weighed in on a primary for the kansas governor and kris kobach seems to be taking the lead. keep in mind if he win, then he faces a democrat in the fall and he s probably you described him as say a more extreme candidate of the two and when it comes to the general elect, that s going to matter. and it s probably why you are seeing republicans on capitol hill fought condemning some of the things trump says as publicly s they would leak to, because they don t want to face them again or not in some cases a general election where they have to moderate what they ve said in the primaries. so it s a very difficult position to take. all right. on this squeakery morning. always comes up with the best words. i love it. thank you again. reporter: thank you. despite the agreement signed by president trump and north korea s kim jong-un back in june, north korea is not taking any steps to de-nuclearize. the united states has lived up to the singapore declaration. it s just north korea that has not taken the steps we feel are necessary to at the nuclearize. secretary of state mike pompeo is prepared to go back to north korea to meet with kim jong-un. we ve proposed that in our most recent letter from the president to kim jong-un. the president is prepared to meet. what we need is not rhetoric, what we need is performance from north korea on de-nuclearization. the national security adviser criticizing north korea for not fully turning over the remains of the soldiers killed during the korean war. a nation that was truly committed to turning page here would return the remains of all soldier, south korean soldier, australians in the coalition in the early 1950s as well as american soldiers. there is no point is withholding the remains from a conflict that long ago. john bolton s comments on north korea s nuclear comments echo the remarks. the senate panel that mike pompeo says they use it in making nuclear weapons. it reflects a report of the ongoing missile program and last week a leaked report shows the dprk has also continued to conduct illegal trades of oil and coal less than two months ago, president trump proclaimed there was quote no longer a nuclear threat from north korea. in the trial of president trump s former company chairman, paul manafort, star witness rick gates is back on the stand getting personal as manafort s attorneys take aim to attack his credibility. justice correspondent pete williams has more. reporter: in two days of testimony, rick gates said he never told accountants the actual amount of money paul manafort made because he told them not to let them know how many millions of dollars were paid for the political consulting work they did for ukraine s president victor yanukovych. when the work fell, he was hit with a big tax bill in 2014 he e-mailed gates, i just saw this, wtf, how could i be blindsided by this and he made up fake documents. manafort s defense attorneys went on attack when their term came to question gates. he said he used money he stole carrying on an affair in london and helped falsify financial documents. when he had trouble recalling what he told mueller s prosecutors about his past like he says, haven t they confronted with you so many lies that you can t remember any of it? after manafort left the trump campaign, gates stayed on to work on the inauguration. he says it s possible he submitted personal information there. prosecutors reveal manafort kept asking for favors from gates. manafort e-mailed a banker that helped him get a loan should be considered for secretary of the army and get tickets to the trump inaugural. our thanks to pete williams for that report. republican senator lindsey graham spent part of the weekend golling with president trump and at an event on monday night, he told the audience that the mueller probe came up in conversation several times. why don t each of you step up and stop the mueller investigation? well, did trump ask that question in he must have mentioned that about 20 times. i told the president, i know you don t like it, i know you feel put upon. you just got to ride it out. i want to win in november. if we stop the mueller probe tomorrow, you wouldn t be able talk about anything else. just got to ride it out. still ahead, everybody, we are learning new details about president trump and vladimir putin, but it s coming from russian state media. plus info wars creator alex jones putting up a fight after being banned by several tech giants those stories and a check on the weather when we come back. welcome back. i want to turn to a new story involving several former trump campaign aids, foreign lobbying and one corey lewandowski. two people that worked for the campaign in addition to the avenue stranls luset up called twin rocks global, it s first and currently only client is the alliance of social democrats a russian-backed serbian nationalist party. they lobbied for another firm turnberry solutions. according to abc news, both firms are registered to the same address at the townhouse lewandowski cities in, in washington, d.c. he says he quote has nothing to do with this company or the story. he says he has nothing to do with turnberry, one of turnberry s clients, t-mobile, said in may he was advising on a merger, he left his avenue strategies lobbying firm after accusations he was meddling his access to the white house and lobbying without properly registering. we are learning more about what was discussed during president trump s hours long meeting with vladimir putin in helsinki last month. although it comes from moscow, according to a russian do you mean obtained by politico. president putin presented president trump with a series of requests, clawing proposal to hold new talks on nuclear arms control and prohibiting weapons in space the document reportedly a page of proposed top effects for negotiation addresses rising tensions in eastern europe. the kremlin and trump have previously revealed syria was discussed in the meeting to have u.s. officials head to moscow to question russian recently indicted by robert mueller in exchange for russia being allowed to interview a senior number of diplomats the white house refused to answer most questions discussed in that private meeting and last week, director of national intelligence dan coats said he was not in a position to understand fully or talk about what happened. but no mention by the way of steven seagal. just, fyi. after multiple tech companies dropped info wars from their platform, they have a plea to their remaining follower, buy more merchandise. alex jones previously claimed the sandy hook shooting was a hoax took to his radio show to ask listeners to rise up against what he called anti-trump sociopaths. it comes after a group of companies did away with info cars and its controversial content. so far that list includes, apple, facebook, youtube, spotify, pinterest and linkedin. those assessments have cost jones millions of subscribers. let s switchgoers with nbc meteorologist bill kierans. it was quite a storm last night wmt ve our in-house storm chaser with us. louis? who now he had such talent? you captured a photo in. more from the safety of his couch. right out the window. i couldn t believe it. it looked like a scene out of ghost mabusters. ghost busters, it looks like a marshmallow man. a lot of delays period towards the end of the evening rush hour. we will do it again in the east. ground-to-ground lightning can be a problem. we have 38 million people at risk of a heat advisory from boston to hartford, providence, new york, philly. richmond, north of virginia beach are. so the cold front is trying to bring if a little less hume air mass. so instead of hot summer weather conditions with high humidity. it s summer heat there ut the galaxy. it s hot and humid along the million dollar atlantic. so let s get into the forecast. this is what you have to wait for, into thursday, we get relief in the northeast. instead of the heat index 100. it will be 93 in philadelphia. thursday is a little relief. you have to wait until closer to the fall. so boston, you go 86 on friday. the weekend does look a lot better. st. louis looks better, too, so it s a slow improvement. afternoon storms for the east coast. you ll make it. you ll do it. i just don t know if i will, though, that itself the thing. still ahead a 19-year-old breaking a parrier set by mickey mantle while this guy is not having a very good day at all. we will explain why next. oh, something is happening. hold on. in sports. we ll be back in a moment. angry, that garbage can. this is a story about mail and packages. and it s also a story about people. people who rely on us every day to deliver their dreams they re handing us more than mail they re handing us their business and while we make more e-commerce 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 until i held her. managing my type 2 diabetes wasn t my top priority. i found my tresiba® reason. now i m doing more to lower my a1c. i take tresiba® once a day. tresiba® controls blood sugar for 24 hours for powerful a1c reduction. 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(vo) ask your health care provider about tresiba®. covered by most commercial health insurance and medicare part d plans. welcome back. time now for sports. to the south side of chicago the second night in a row the outfielder took the home run away from a new york yankee reaching over the wall at left center to bring back a crucial would be solo shot in the 5th. while the yanks defeated them, last night s contest need several innings. several. this after both teams knocked in two runs in the 10th the 23-year-old yankee with a single knocking in, the go ahead run. it would prove to be the game winner. the yankees take this one 4-3, but what a game. and in toronto after the blue jays tied against the red sox in the bottom of the 9th to sunday it to extra, boston answers with a 10th inning hit by mitch moreland, earning the first place red sox a fifth straight win. they are on fire. let s go to the nation s capital last night, a 19-year-old solo launched his freeng homer of the year. a first inning that moves him past mickey mantle for the fifth most by a teenager in mlb history, ken griffey, jr. the next on the list with 16 home runs before turning the age of 20 congratulations to him. finally, for a new level of protest following a baseball ejection, we head to an independent league matchup in fargo, north dakota, one player mels down after arguing with the home plate ump. incensed, he unleashes a minute of obscenities before leaving the feld to trash the ump. the rejectled player retrieves a gar badge can, walks back on the field and drops it off behind home plate shouting go to your home before finally exiting to the clubhouse him he needs to take a cold shower and cool off. bitterly with the drag can. drag style. to be updated. very familiar with sesame street. still ahead the legal questions are continuing to mount for michael cohen. we are following new reporting that trump s former fixer is under investigation for possible tax frauld. plus a new bombshell report that claims wilbur ross can rank among the biggest grifters in american history. that and more coming up next. with my bladder leakage, the products i ve tried just didn t fit right. they were very saggy. it s getting in the way of our camping trips. but with new sizes, depend fit-flex is made for me. introducing more sizes for better comfort. new depend fit-flex underwear is guaranteed to be your best fit. welcome back, everybody. it is the bottom of the hour. let s start with the morning s top stories. this morning marking day seven of the trial of former trump campaign chair paul manafort. evidence and testimony from rick gates yesterday seems to confirm exclusive reporting from nbc news earlier this year the special counsel s team was investigating, ojob in the white house in return for $16 million in home loans. yesterday, the injury was sent e-mails manafort sent gates asking for a series of favors including calk be considered secretary of the army. calk did not get a job. he imaged to launch him into an ad advisor on the campaign. when manafort s attorney questioned gates whether any other members on the special counsel s team asked about his time on the campaign, prosecutored objected. the court then went into recess and the topible never came up again. gates also testified he had embezzled from man a for the and as a manafort and an extra marital affair kept an apartment in london and stayed in luxury hotels. a new reporting suggests the president s former fixer is being investigateled for more than possible bank fraud and possible campaign finance violations. also on that list is tax fraud. one person familiar with the matter tells the journal federal officials are looking into the income was under reported in federal tax returns. the person said the income proves hundreds of thousands received in cash and other payments over the last five years. officials are also reportedly investigating if cohen misrepresented or made false statements on loan applications. his former accountant has been subpoenaed. cohen has previously denied any wrong doing. a bombshell report, commerce secretary wilbur ross is being accused of funneling $100 million from former business partners into his own pocket. forbes magazine interviewed 21 people and accuse him of taking millions of dollars for himself on multiple occasions. that report also cites a series of lawsuit, payments and a fine by the sec. one instance involves a lawsuit filed in 2015 by a former senior managing director of ross firm w.l. ross and company. they claim he stole his interests in a private equity fund, transferred them to himself and tried to cover it up with false paperwork the attorneys representing rossing a only inned in court filings that one of ross companies re-allocated part of it to ross, adding it s possible under international business agreements. both men recently agreed to a confidential settlement. the commerce department issued a statement by forbes saying the anonymously forbes story is based on false rumors, innuendo and unverifiable claims the fact remains no regulator has made accusations against the secretary this rehash of old stories is clearly the result of a personal vendetta, baseless claims made in the story were well publicized long ago and are not news the author states even half of the accusations are legitimate, the commercing is could rank among the biggest grifters. they are suing for limg asylum bus of domestic and gang violence the suit is asking the court to declare attorney general jeff session s policies to be contrary to the law and vacate them and enter an order staying removal of the asylum seek torres allow them the ability to be given new credible fear interviews. this as the white house is expected to put steven miller s plan limiting the number who obtain legal status if there are household members who have used obamacare, children s health insurance, food stamps and other benefits. yesterday a 6-year-old boy was reunited with his mother in guatemala after being separated three months within they originally crossed the border on may 10th. his mother said it was three months of torture. even though the policy was ended several weeks ago, hundreds of children separated at the border still remain in u.s. custody. let s go to the reporter for the hill, let s talk about manafort s trial yesterday. a lot coming up with regards to the gates testimony, specifically bringing up gates affair he had about a decade or so ago talk to me about the defense s strategy here and discredited gates? reporter: well, they need to do whatever they can. it seems like it. after reading reports of what s happening in that courtroom, rick gates had some damming testimony that essentially paul manafort asked him to, you know, forge or create false loan do you means to obtain loans and you know the first two days of his testimony was just i mean it read you know for those of us who have been covering this whole story for the past year-and-a-half it feels like, it was pretty damming. now the thing is, the defense needs to do whatever they can to discredit his testimony. it s certainly one of those things when you watch law and order, do you want to put somebody on the witness stand who is proven to have lied in his past? because that could create a question in the juror s mind to believe what he is saying now. however, it seems like there is documentation to back up what rick gates is saying and aside from that, it s just been fascinating to see what s been coming out of this trial to think, oh my gosh, how can this happen here? definitely, it s got a soap opera feel to it. in august here. the hottest months on the other side of the potomac. let me ask you about that wall street journal report we brought up a few modems ago, michael cohen is up for investigation under tax fraud. the question is whether or not president trump can be linked. what are you looking for as the story continues to develop in. we are looking for that leverage, it depends on whether any of these payments had to do with trump s various assorted, you know, women that he had liaisons with. if that money can be, you know, associated with it. it s unclear at this point and really it s one of those things where if you talk to lawmakers, especially republicans on capitol hill, they justp it to go. they don t want this to be out there. the more something like this is out there the more proep president trump is to tweeting about it and keeping this story in the overall narrative, which doesn t reflect well on republicans back home. they don t want this, so from that perspective, from the folks two are up on capitol hill and are trying to get reelected to office, they don t want to see this anymore. i got to stay, instinctually, the story is to the going away. reporter: oh my go, bilking, swindlers, oh my go, what an august. thank you very much. thank you for joining us once again. reporter: thank you. and a special prosecutor has been appointed to investigate allegations of possible election fraud in a mid-term race involving republican scott taylor of virginia. aids are being accused of forging signatures to help independent shaun brown get on the ballot in the hopes of get shifting it away from his challenger. paid staff and others associated with the company forte lor, two months after brown dropped her bid following her indictment on federal corruption charges. taylor said his staff did nothing wrong and only wanted to assure brown a place on the ballot. analysts say the freshman congressman is seen as vulnerable this november. new hampshire democrats are renaming their full fundraising event after eleanor roosevelt, dropping the old name clinton-kennedy. that comes after resurfaced zrut my over allegations of sexual assault lodged against president clinton in the 90s at the urge of state republicans an uncomfortable democrats the committee says they ve chooseen roosevelt for her role as a historic trail blazer and the party s steadfast commitment dedicated to women testimony original name jefferson jackson was replaced in 2016 under criticisms of racial transgressionles. those two presidents committed while they were in office. all right, still ahead, everybody, fire crews in california are working overtime to try to get the upper hand on a number of wildfires there. climb change is playing in the growing number of blazes we are seeing each and every year. we will check in with bill kierans. he will have the latest to provide any help to those cruise on the ground in california. cal. . of getting us to our renewable energy goals. 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this is in the shade, redding, so 3, portland, oregon, 97. seattle 93 degrees. investigate agency at 108. thursday a two-day heat wave. fresno 106. so again it s really not much is going to change. although we cool it off in the northwest. redding does not, bakersfield does not, sat lake city, portland and seattle, you will catch a break. not much changing in the west yet. a lot of triple digit temperatures. china looking to make a trade move with president trump. how apple could fit into that equation. plus shares of tesla after elon musk is considering taking the company private. and the other stories on your business day coming up next. advancing public policy, and providing local support to those living with the disease and their caregivers. but we won t get there without you. join the fight with the alzheimer s association. your hair is so soft! did you use head and shoulders two in one? i did mom. wanna try it? yes. it intensely moisturizes your hair and scalp and keeps you flake free. manolo? 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whatever way this race tips tells three important things about november. all encouraging for democrats. all of them cautionary for republicans. we see that in race after race, and steve kornacki here on msnbc painted this so clearly last night. special election amp special election, republicans vastly underperformed how republicans did in these same states and districts in trump, d clinton. in the trump era, republicans are losing suburbs, a key part of the trump coalition and three, now every race is a trump race. mike, back to a question i asked a few minutes ago of another guess. what did we learn about the role president trump paid in this special election and what he might play going forward, how effective he was a campaigner for troy balderson. a key for the president. he wants to turn trump voters into republicans. turn out his people. he s doing that, but what is the route to that? these rallies, we ve seens clips morning after president loves it but they do nothing to bring the country together. they just excite his people. especially on the issue of immigration. saw that fine axios survey monkey poll. how you feel an immigration is how you feel about trump. that shows how much more we ll hear about that this fall. what about the strategy going forward looking ahead to november? republicans know that they need the president in districts where he can help. the problem is, for republicans, the president thinks he can help in a lot more districts than he can. the president, we hear, behind the scenes is antsy, wanting to get out into the states and districts. his quick victory lap we saw there in his tweet from last night show you how he s feeling about these, but there s plenty of places he s not that helpful and they need to figure how to navigate that. the president planning to be on the trail six or seven day as week. mike allen, thank you very much. you, too, can sign up for the axios newsletter at signup.axios.com. that does it for us. morning joe starts right now. it s time to get to work over the next three months i m going to do everything i can to keep america great again. so that when we when we when we come back here in
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