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Get a jump on the day s news with Christine Romans and Dave Briggs. sources tell cnn he is concerned that his son don junior may be caught up in the mueller investigation. the white house ready to put sanctions back on iran. that country s leader is set to speak out as the deadline approaches. breaking overnight. a second meeting between north korea us kim jong-un and president trump could take place some time later this year. we have reports from tehran and hong kong. good morning. welcome to early start. i m christine romans. nice to see you. i m phil mattingly. she is putting up with me all week. it is monday, august 6th. 5:00 a.m. in the east. president trump admitting during the 2016 presidential race his son don junior met to get information on an opponent. on sunday, the president called the trump tower meeting totally legal and done in politics all the time. adding i did not know about it. that tweet directly contradicting the earlier statements. the presid ....
Get a jump on the day s news with Christine Romans and Dave Briggs. primary, cnn projects state attorney general bill schuette will be the republican candidate in november. former state legislative leader gretchen whitmer will be the democratic candidate. and cnn projects john james has captured the gop nomination for u.s. senate in michigan. james, an african-american iraq war vet endorsed by president trump. he will face off with democrat debbie stabenow in november. former trump campaign chairman paul manafort s longtime right-hand man back on the witness stand today. manafort s defense lawyers expected to pick up where they left off yesterday, trying to undermine rick gates credibility in the eyes of the jury. gates admitted to a host of transgressions. so far, manafort s defense team has not done much to pin the bank and tax fraud their client is charged with on gates alone. that part of their cross examination may come later today. more now from cnn s jessica schneide ....
rick gates says he broke the law for paul manafort and also stole money from him. we are going to put all of the sanctions back in as they were before and more. economic sanctions on iran now back in effect as of midnight. will the pressure on tehran force a further split? two fast moving fires merging into one inferno becoming the largest ever wildfire in california history. plus, why is facebook reportedly asking banks for your financial information? good morning. welcome to early start. i m christine romans. i m phil mattingly. coffee straight to the veins. paul manafort s right hand man rick gates. back on the witness stand in the one-time trump campaign chairman trial on tax and fraud charges. the stakes are high for the white house. manafort and his deputy know a great deal of what went on behind closed doors during key months of the 2016 campaign. yesterday, gates admitted under a grant of immunity he committed crimes alongside his former boss and against hi ....
Get a jump on the day s news with Christine Romans and Dave Briggs. close associate to paul manafort for 12 years, but now he s flipped, he pleaded guilty, and he s telling all he knows to prosecutors. so, it will be interesting when he is back on the stand for more cross examination this morning. christine and phil? jessica, thank you for that. legal woes multiplying for michael cohen. the wall street journal reporting president trump s former lawyer and fixer is now under investigation for tax fraud. sources tell the journal the federal prosecutor in manhattan is looking into whether cohen underreported income from his taxi medallion business. the taxi licenses yielded hundreds of thousands of dollars over the last five years. the wall street journal also reporting federal investigators are looking into possible fraud against the bank that financed cohen s taxi medallion business. cohen has not been charged with a crime, and the journal reports he previously deni ....
Kate Bolduan gives a fresh take on today s top stories. zeldin. this is a very serious allegation. he misunderstands, i think, that his failure to directly sell his own shares is what s at issue. what s at issue is his provision of non-public information to his son and another so that they could cut their losses in their sales. that violates the mail fraud statutes, securities fraud statutes, and there is not really much of a defense if in fact the facts in the allegation are true. michael, this is sdny indicting a sitting member of congress months before an election. we know prosecutors are confident but i mean how air-tight does this case need to be? well, two things. first, we know from the from that which happened during the last 2016 election that you re not supposed to bring indictments against congressman and other political people within 60 days. so they just sort of snuck under the 60-day donor election statute. just. yeah. but the fact is that, you tr ....