Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. attorney for the southern district of new york elly honing. julia, start with you. did somebody tell the president he could take over this investigation? where is it coming from? seems to just be coming out of his ad-lib interview as he frequently does. sort of spins from the cuff here. seems that this is coming from a place of increased rhetoric from president trump. he wants to show that he has control over the situation. in fact a lot of times likes bringing up the russia investigation. perhaps that plays to his base who thinks this is part of the witch-hunt he describes treating him and others like paul manafort unfairly. it could be that he s watching what the coverage of the manafort trial, that s getting to him. could be he sees people like don mcgahn, his white house special counsel speaking to robert mueller and heard a lot about the fact robert mueller could be preparing a slew of indictments to give himself space before midterms possible coming before labor day. all of those things could trigger him, amping up the temperature for him to be coming out saying this. you laid it ow perfectly. no way he could run this. the justice department is the arm of the executive branch that can criminally prosecute. the white house cannot. end there. you pointed out, doesn t have the power to fire mueller. he has to then do that through an access like firing rod rosenstein or sessions and having someone else not recused come in and take over this. the problem is, what you say, ends there, couldn t actually happen. the point, when we saw the brennan security clearance issue a lot of things shouldn t actually happen. until somebody actually does something about it, that s the issue. look, julie s laid it out. i ve laid it out. it s not possible that the president could be getting advice from anybody hoop a lawyer probably spent more than a day in law school to understand that this is possible. is this like the polling of john brennan s clearance? the president is testing waters, putting it out there as a p.r. move? feels he can do whav he wants. a simplistic notion of the presidency. i m the president. i m the boss. i m in charge. this is all mine. almost a kindergarten-like level of understanding of what the president can do. i can tell you, something who worked for the department of justice eight years, the notion of donald trump taking over this investigation or any investigation makes me shutter. he s obviously wildly incompetent to do so and already gotten himself in trouble overstepping that line of independence with the department of justice. where the obstruction of justice charges or investigation springs from. he, julia, the president also tweeted about taking somebody else s security clearance away. the danger many fear from what the president is doing these days, floats an idea, does something about it. everybody s outraged about it. but it s not clear one would assume because these rules exist the president can t do it. is anybody from justice or have we had comments from anybody saying, no, you can t do it sthis is what we d do if you did? interesting. first ali, i have to say i just got a note the jury in the manafort trial submit add note. ken delanian where pick that up. breaking at this moment. wanted to get that to you. we don t know what has means. thank you. the just it department in a lot of ways, yes harks to run politics here. they don t want to get out in front of the president. you know, the president berated sessions and rod rosenstein as deputy. in a lot of ways they don t want to get ahead of them. yes, go to people at the justice department they will willingly walk us through that process. often on background to show, no. it is rod rosenstein who s in charge of this investigation. julia, on that point of the manafort jury, let s go to ken delanian as you said covering this now. in front of the courthouse. what do we know? reporter: very little, ali. a knock on the jury door and our analyst dan goldman told me he was told there was a note. not a verdict. we wait to see what information this note reveals to us. we have not had a note other than the one that asked whether they could go home at 5:00 since thursday, which, we re all juror experts now. we all speck lace whulate what on. why not know these other days if going through all of this documentation? again, you ve talked to more than i have about this. no one actually knows what it means? reporter: right. the lack of a note could suggest that there is no disagreement. no questions about the law. plowing through the evidence, or have disagreements they don t need to ask the judge about. we don t know. all we ve done, watch them take breaks. a couple smokers. seen cigarette breaks every once in a while. hard to read body language. no idea what s happening. tell you soon as we learn. and friday excited about a note that said, can we go home at 5:00? elly honing is with me. asked every lawyer around us what three days of deliberations mean. 7 and 10 and 12 days of deliberation and we don t know what it means. fun to watch the entire american public go through what we as prosecutors go through. how did they look? someone shoot a long glance? what does the note say? how is it written? kiffin inks? one person writing? obsession and the ultimate futile exercise. but for perspective, day four is not long. for a trial like this. they could come back today. because it s a highly detailed trial. as much as the prosecution tried to make it just about lying there are documents. yes. 18 counts. hundreds of documents. remember, the judge cut the prosecution short a little and didn t let the prosecution do in-depth descriptions of the documents. the jury may be having to do that now. i ve had cases, nowhere near this level of complexity with a jury two full weeks. i ve had, a one-count case against one indictment that went a full week. we re not at a full week yet. this jury could be, and the prior note, first note, suggesting they may be going through the counts very deliberately, one at a time. something i ve learned i wasn t familiar with is that in a case with heavy documentation, there are different ways to present that documentation to the jury s inthis case the judge wae wasn t amenable having the document presented at the time of testimony as evidence. they are, since they got into the jury room thursday have been going through the documents the first time. that alone would be a lot of work. yes. that was a serious handicap i think that the judge put on the prosecution. when putting in, financial documents are complex. sure. and what you want to be able to do as a prosecutor, have your agent, typically an fbi agent explain. put it on the screen. what does this clem mean? this column? how did we arrive at figures at the end? the judge cut short the prosecutors ability to do that. the thought of the jury figure that that out would you mid-term elections. almost deidentical to the one i 2016. we ll get the details next. supp. yep, thanks guys. i think he might need some support. yes. start them off right, with the school supplies they need at low prices all summer long. like these for only $2 or less at office depot officemax. mom: okay we need to get all your school supplies today. school. grade. done. done. hit the snooze button and get low prices on school supplies all summer long. like these for only $2 or less at office depot officemax. out to me when the jury has a verdict they don t necessarily send a note that says verdict. my note to the judge could be they have a verdict. we don t know categorically this isn t a verdict bud don t know it is either. soon as we have that we ll get that to you. you know they ve sent prior notes to the judge. one had four specific questions that made sense given the type of trial it was. one was that they would like to go home at 5:00 on friday. we don t know what type of note it is but will stay on top of it for you. however, russia is denying a new accusation it s trying to hack the upcoming midterm elections. it in a report out this morning microsoft says it shut down six fake websites created by russian hackers designed to trick users into giving up personal and sensitive information. the attack mirrors the ones ahead of the 2017 election but this time hackers are targeting conservatives group which disagree with president trump on russia and seeking sanctions or pushing for human rights improvements in russia. the targets include the hudson institute, a washington conservative think tank and the international republican institute. nonprofit pro-democracy group board includes senator john mccain pap short time ago testimony from state department officials at the senate foreign relations committee hearing punctuated where the attacks are coming from and who they support. the threat from russia evolved beyond being simply an external or military one. it includes influence operations, orchestrated by the kremlin in the very heart of the western world. as the recent facebook purging reveal the russian state promoted fringe voices on the political left and right including group whose advocate violence, storming of federal buildings and overthrow of the u.s. government. joining me now, the new york times reporter who has been covering this story. good to see you. thank you for being with us. first, how did microsoft detect the hack and do you have confidence they re good at this? these types of hiacks can be easily be detected? basically caught the fake websites as they were created and good at this thing. doing it a few years. know what to look for and used the legal system to their advantage to take them down as soon as being put up. they can say with a high degree what they ve found and why it needs to come down. actually i read in your article microsoft, i don t know whether they ve been given authority by the justice department or what it is, but they have the ability to act ton this faster than traditionally they would have by getting court orders? right. they have. they ve gone through a special judge in virginia and ordered to do so. what happens here these websites are set up by ma slishs aliciou. setting it up like a real one. instead of hudson institute with a capital i, it will be the letter one and look identical toal averato al to the average citizen. we need these to go down soon as they come up. one person triscked is one too many. and spear-phishing, click, think you re going to the hudson institute or republican site or in the past the council on foreign relations, eurasia group and now are on their site and they re asking to you submit information. sort of how it works? exactly. spear-phishing that looks innocent but that moolicious content or link, pdf file attached. sometimes as simple as getting you to go a website, open up a report pup think they re on their page, opening up an average report they would publish month by month and you re downloading malware. might ask for a password or log-in and use it to go into your own account. they use these to their advantage and trick a lot of people. a tried and true method. what s the news in here? given they re doing things like what was done in 2016? given it could be groups like fancy bear behind it. the news here is that these are conservative groups that are typically not what we think were being hacked? the conservative groups who have broken with president trump or not supporting president trump and supportive of sanctions against russia? yeah. exactly. we re seeing shifting the tactics who they target. really what this tells us about the people behind this, they think on their feet. seen it with facebook, twitter. with the websites set up. they look and survey american society, say where are the weak points? 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i think, you know, what you just read is clearly different than what trump tweeted. you know, the point of the piece is that trump at that point in time in the spring of 2017 was aggressively attacking obama, and officials around the president were, thought this would be a good way to retaliate, and mcmaster obviously disagreed and presented a compelling case to trump not to pull the trigger and single out obama and deny him access to the briefings that all of his living predecessors were entitled to receive. so effectively, cooler heads prevailed back then. mcmaster, of course, left the job in april. you see that trump in more recent months has been more willing to act in ways he wa apparently unprepared to act back in 2017. explore that a little. that may apply to the security clearances, may apply to comments about the federal reserve yesterday. may apply to his comment that he can take over the mueller investigation. what do you mean by that? are you saying because the president has gotten rid of his sort of legacy, more establishment advisers and now is surrounded by loyalists and some might say sycophants nobody is holding him back? yeah. i think the, what we saw in 2017 was the president came to office, and thought he was going to maybe be able to do things more quickly than in reality. for example, he was going to declare the u.s. embassy in israel, he was going to move it to jerusalem on the first day. was go to include it initially in his state of the union address, but the intelligence community prevailed on him and presented arguments to him that doing so so quickly without laying the groundwork first was risky. similar case, the iran deal. he had promised during the campaign to get rid of the iran deal and again delayed pulling the trigger because people who were inside including his national security adviser at the time, his defense secretary, his secretary of state made the case that the timing was not right. and trump listened to them. now you have a team that either has less influence in trying to talk trump out of doing these things, or the president feels like, listening to his own gut rather than listening to people that have concerns about these steps he wants to take will pay off for him and will benefit him. so he s more willing, it seems, toic that these chances in some cases and to act on his promises. adam, thanks for your reporting. from the new yorker. president trump is not happy with rising interest rates and in a move that will affect your money, money, money says he ll keep complaining publically about the fed if it continues. we re yauwatches markets at this hour. up a quarter percent. steady all morning. you re watching al shi and ruhle live on msnbc. to help you sort through your options and find a perfect place. a place for mom. you know your family we know senior living. together we ll make the right choice. gimme two minutes. and i ll tell you some important things to know about medicare. first, it doesn t pay for everything. say this pizza. 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woman 7: ask your rheumatologist about humira. man 1: what s your body of proof? hi. welcome back to velshi and rhule. nbc news learns this hour the jury submitted a question to the judge as day four of final deliberations in the paul manafort trial are under way. former campaign chairman charged with 18 counts of tax evasion, bank fraud and hiding foreign bank accounts and he s pled guilty to all charges. outside of the courthouse, elly honing with me in studio, and ken what do we know? reporter: the question is a rather dramatic one. jury is asking the judge what do we do if we can t come to consensus on one count? obviously, that suggests they may have come to consensus on the other 17 counts. we don t know whether that consensus is guilty or not guilty, but that s the question as it stands and the judge called a brief recess to determine how he wants to answer that question, and also asked the jury to work on a jury form. it s not clear where that form fits in to the question, if at all. that s what we know from here. okay. so elly, if we cannot come to a consensus on one count, i heard that the way ken did, meaning maybe we ve come to a consensus on 17 counts. you might hear that differently? reporter: a very imbigus jury note. your honor, if we can t come to a consensus for a single count, completely ambiguous. one count? reporter: on 17 of 18 and held up on one or could me anyone count. right. what follows, how fill in the jury form alarms me as a prosecutor from a prosecutor s point if you want to see a hung ambiguous. what do you mean? can t come to a verd on 17 or on any? how does the judge work it out jp call them in? send in the bay iliff? judges like to reduce everything to writing. a clean record. the right move, for the judge respond in writing say, are you saying this or are you saying that? and the jury like passing notes in high school. the most reliable way. the jury responds with a note. in terms how this plays out down either road. if it s 17 out of 18 counts they have a verdict and don t know what to do with the last one because they can t, the judge gives them a partial verdict instruction. tells the jury, you can come back and give us the verdict on the 17 you have, and keep working on the 18th, once do you that, you can t take back the first 17. or you can keep working until you have all 18. a jury does not necessarily have to return verdicts on every count and indictment. a verd on one count. that s the judge, they can take that. what happens to whatever is unsettled? the jury will continue to deliberating. ultimate can t get unanimous it will be a mistrial as to that count. enough counts of conviction, the government, prosecution, will throw it out. say we re good. got enough. got it. if it s the other, route. what the jury saying we cannot come to agreement on any count, a potential hung jury territory. now we re in what s called, the territory what s called an allen charge. that is when a judge tells a jury, stick with your convictions but keep an open mind. keep working. keep negotiating. keep discussing the evidence. it s important that you try to reach a verdict because if you can t we have to re-do this. that can be effective. can shake loose a hung jury or it can fall on deaf ears. the defense lawyers, if that s the case, defense lawyers will want an allen charge right away. once given, if the jury comes back again, still can t decide, you re done. you have a mistrial. the prosecution would say, don t give the allen charge quite yet. tell them to work hard. it s your second last bullet in the chamber. is it common that a judge is, a jury is unclear as to how they get the technical parts of the verdict done in this case? have you heard this type of a question before? all too common. we re not professional jurors. nobody is. so often you get jury notes what does this mean? does it mean this is the most perfect example i ve seen of a completely ambiguous note. could be read as, fantastically pro-prosecution, if they have a verd on 17 of 18 counts. good for the prosecution. but if it s none of them, that s potentially disastrous for the prosecution. all right. so the let s just go back to the way i initially thought i read this. we cannot come to a consensus op one count. given what you said, the judge can say, that s okay. or he can say, keep going until you do? yes. if it s just one count. 1 out of 18? right. if the way it s interpreted or clarified is we have a verd on 17 of the 18 counts, the judge will say, okay, jury. you can come out and deliver your 17 verdicts anytime you want and keepingi on that 18th one. long as you once. once you come out outten first 17, can t take it back, it s on the books written in stone. or keep working until you have a verdict on all 18. up to you. okay. unfortunately, we can t do what we normally do as reporters. ask ken delanian, go in, ask what they meant exactly. interesting to examine the fact a simple note like that, one-sentence note can mean two things. what if we can t come to consensus on one jount mean 1 of 18 or any one of the 18 counts? we ll continue to try to get more information. and following other breaking news. we learned mike the cohen is in talks about possible plea deal. chief investigative reporter jonathan dooenjoins me with mor the deal may be finalized as early as day prosecutors. what have we heard, jonathan dien dienst? there may be a court hearing this afternoon with mostly cloudy you mick with a potentially guilty plea reached. the talks are fluid and it could all fall apart and this could all be delayed for a few days. as of now, talks are heated up between his defense lawyer and federal prosecutors in lower manhattan and that there is a chance that an agreement can be reached between prosecutors and the defense sometime today and that we may learn more about this late this afternoon. michael cohen has been dropping these sort of clues for a while. he had a few conversations, one with george stephanopoulos, one with reverend al, in which he proclaimed his fealty to the country. what s interesting to our viewers is this would be a deal made with the southern district of new york, which is investigating him, which has charged him. this is not the mueller probe. but there s been discussion that in this deal there may be some cooperation with the mueller probe involved. that is unclear. you would expect that to happen. no one has been charged yet. the talks are ongoing that, you know, later this afternoon we may learn more about where things stand, and then there would be an open court hearing in federal court and perhaps a press conference by the u.s. attorney. what s happening here in new york is unrelated to the russia-gate and trump. it deals with mr. cohen, bank fraud, his taxi medallion business. but prosecutors could use that to put pressure on him to cooperate and that is what is ongoing in terms of these talks. while we re careful because we don t know what it is, the thinking is this isn t about stormy daniels money, it s not about the $130,000, it s about something else. this case is about something else. but what s really newsworthy is that something else could all be coming to a head this afternoon. interesting timing, ellie honing, on this. what do you make of it, in particular the relationship between the southern district of new york and the mueller investigation. the question is is this a straight plea? we have two different forms in the forms library. one of them is your standard, we have a deal, you re going to plead to these charges and get a little reduction and go our separate ways. you save us the trial. yeah, you re typical plea deal. then we have a cooperator deal, which is you will come in and provide us everything you know and inform us of all the bad things you did and get a letter if you succeed. that s a million dollar question. even if it s a straight plea deal, that can turn by a cooperator deal in time. this can be a placeholder, if there is going to be a plea, as jonathan discussed. with respect to the mueller investigation, i don t have any doubt in my mind that any information that cohen has that would be relevant with the mueller investigation will be shared with the mueller investigators. we ve seen a lot of permeability here. friedman, the taxi king guy, was charged by the state, and then that information appears to have been used by the southern district in order to get to cohen. then if they are ready and able to flip up to the next level to mueller, i don t see any reason that couldn t or shouldn t happen. in the cases of all these cooperation deals, the judge never has to accept the deal, correct? correct. the judge can reject a plea deal but it s incredibly rare for the judge to say i don t accept this. the judge will have to put cohen through his paces. if he enters a guilty plea what we ll see is the judge going through a whole bunch of questions, do you understand the deal you re getting here, are you entering into this deal voluntarily, tell us what you did, that s important. the judge will say tell you what you did that made you guilty and michael cohen will have to in his own words say, i committed the offense of whatever. and sometimes judges like to really go deep on that. that will be interesting, if we did have a court appearance later as jonathan says is possible. reporting this out with sarah fitzpatrick and tom winter, it s clear this is fluid, it s on again/off again but preparations are under way for the potential. but given what ellie is saying, he s going to have to say what he did that made him guilty, that s something someone has to think over many, many times. that s how it works in every guilty plea that s arranged, they dot every i and cross every t, there s an a allocut in court. we now know the jury is back in the courtroom. ken dilanian is outside the court. ken, what do we know now? to put some clarity own what elie was saying before, there is some ambiguity in this note as to whether the jury is unable to reach consensus on a single count or on any of the counts, meaning we haven t reached on any single count. it seems as if it s that they haven t reached a consensus on one single count. the judge called a five-minute recess and instructed them to look at their jury form which tells them how to some of the problem of being deadlocked on a single count. if that s the case, that s great news for the prosecutors. if what the jury is trying to say is we ve got it on 17 of the 18, then who cares about the 18th? there s almost no way there s 17 counts of acquittal. even if it s ten convictions and seven acquittals, that s a straight win for the prosecution. if that s what it means, then the prosecutors are very pleased right now. while we re in the business of squeezing all the juice out of our legal experts, what does a short coming into the courtroom mean? it could mean anything, but i agree with ken, if it we re into potential hung jury no counts of agreement territory, there would be a longer conference, there would be a lot of debate between the parties, do we go to the allen charge now or later. if the judge tells them, as ken suggests, look at your instructions and it will tell you how to deal with a deadlock on a charge, this jury has questions about that. is the information they get clear? do they have a form that tells them what they re supposed to do? i m not sure. the jury instructions i ve seen don t even contemplate the possibility of a hung charge because nobody wants a hung charge. i haven t seen a channel thrge says, if you can t reach a decision, do x. that s why it s torturous for jurors, you never told us what to do. unanimity means one way or another you need 12 to acquit for not guilty, 12 to convict for guilty. 11-1 is not good enough. so the jury is struggling with we can t come to agreement on one of the 18. the judge can say you can give us the other 17 and keep working on the 18th, or keep working on all of them. can the judge say to the prosecution, are you good with the fact that we don t have one charge? absolutely, the judge can turn to the prosecution and say if i m the prosecutor and i read that note, we have a conviction on 17, i m assuming it s a conviction, i would say, judge, tell them they can come out and give us the 17 and if they re stuck on the last one, we ll drop it. i want to recap this for the viewers. we have a note from the jury that indicates they re struggling on a charge. there is some interpretation that it could be on all charges. but we might be narrowing down to the idea paubecause of sometg the judge has just done that it s just one charge they re struggling with, in which case we may end up hearing from the jury very soon with a verdict, number one. number two, it s possible we may get a plea deal from michael cohen along with the southern district of new york this afternoon having to do with his taxi business. but it may involve cooperation with the southern district of new york and the mueller investigation. again, that is fluid, and that is information that we are getting in that may or not and we have just heard now that the jury has now reentered deliberations. so whatever instruction they ve gotten, the judge has sent them back into the room to deliberate on one charge. so we now have this clear, that it is about one remaining charge, not about 17 or 18 charges, that would lead us to believe that the jury has come to a consensus or an agreement or a verdict on 17 of the 18 charges. there is one on which they are having trouble getting agreement on. the judge has now sent them back. we do not know if he s given them the so-called allen charge, it doesn t sound like it, given the amount of time the judge spent with the jury, because he seemed to spend about five minutes with the jury and instructed him to resume deliberations on the single charge. we ll be staying with the story and keeping you up to date on what that actually means through the course of the day. i ll be back here at 3:00 eastern and 6:00 p.m. eastern. right now here s andrea mitchell with andrea mitchell reports. right now, the manafort jury asking the judge what to do if they cannot all agree on one of
A newscast reviewing and analyzing top stories of the day as they happen. interesting part of the president s answer to ainslie earhart s question, that hasn t played in that portion that you aired there, shep, where the president said this was not a campaign contribution, because it wasn t the campaign that paid it, it was me. and i have tweeted about that in the past. now, you remember, the president put an awful lot of his own money into the campaign. so i asked sarajevo hah huckabee sanders how did the president dlinity what was going to the campaign and what might have gone to other people for campaign purposeles. listen in here. how do you draw the line between what was a campaign contribution and what might have been a payment to somebody for other purps. secretary sanders: i m not going to get into the back and forth of the legal part of. this i would refer to you the president s outside counsel 678 as i told cecilia, what i can tell you is what the president has stated a number of times, he did nothing wrong, there are no charges against him, just because michael cohen has made a deal doesn t mean anything with regards to the president. so, again, the president says americans. even if the president were to be impeached by a dem xwratly led congress we see a replay of 1999 per the republican controlled house voted on articles of impeachment for president clinton but the senate did not convict. takes two-thirds of the senate. unlikely according to everyone i talk to that that could happen. michael cohen s attorney told me that this is just the beginning of the process for davis that he s willing to talk to investigators about the true nature of his relationship with donald trump, things that might have transpired during that relationship. cohen has set up a go fund me page which is so far attracted $54,000. that s about one-tends of what they re looking for 1/10 of what they look for. shepard: cohen implicated the president directly in a crime. is there a noticeable sense of change in demeanor there, or was this expected? i think it really was expected. here s a guy who famously and it s been reported many, many times said that he would take a bullet for the president. then that interview with george step no loss suggested that his main goal was to protect his family and his country. i talked to lanny davis about the evolution that cohen went through. it seems as though he just decided that a world of hurt was going to come down on him and it was time that he needed to say something about president trump to save his own hide. but lanny davis said something very interesting, he said when he saw president trump sort of defer to vladimir putin on this issue of russian meddling in the campaign, that was the last straw and he said to lanny davis, let s go forward with all of this. shepard: fascinating point in history. john roberts at the white house writing the first draft. the president s former fixer michael cohen has more secrets to spill about his ex-boss according to cohen s attorney, the aforementioned lanny davis. will cohen cooperate with the special counsel, bob mueller? the answer is he will cooperate with everyone because he s committed to telling the truth. but i know that when he retained me, as recently as yesterday, he s committed to telling the truth. shepard: dramatic evolution from last summer when michael cohen said he was so loyal to the president he d take a bullet for him. no more. rick lefb that will has the latest. michael cohen could have spent the rest of his life in federal prison. with this plea deal he s looking at three to five years. nothing in the deal excel him to cooperate with the mueller compels him to cooperate with the mueller investigation but doesn t preclude it. lanny davis said cohen appears ready to cooperate. he s free on $500,000 bond, admitted under oath to hiding $4 million in income from the irs, hiding a debt to secure a home equity loan, paying off two women to protect his boss and help win the white house. as you heard john roberts report, cohen told the judge in the summer of 2016 he arranged a reimburse a tabloid for buying and then burying a story about former playboy model karen mccuingal who claimed an affair with mr. trump and said he paid $130 no steffi clifford, stormy daniels, she was ready to go public with the claimed affair. both cases cohen said he did so in coordination and direction for candidate for federal office, protect from information that would be harmful to the candidate for the principle purpose of influencing the election. cohen s attorney admits he lied for years but now says he s committed to telling the truth. shepard: at the same time cohen s attorney says the president of the united states should be prosecuted. he does. he said that the president committed a crime and should be indicted. listen. mr. trump wasn t willing to sign those checks himself. he directed mr. cohen to make those hush money payments. is a federal crime. if michael cohen, with the prosecutors in new york, agreeing admitted to that, then certainly donald trump is guilty of the same crime. we heard from attorney allen dershowitz, saying the president is far from an impeachable offense and far from a criminal offense. if mr. trump, the candidate, contributed several hundred thousand dollars to his own campaign to pay hush money to women who were truthfully or falsely alleging against him that s not a crime. a candidate can contribute as much as he wants. if he directed somebody to do it intending to pay it back. cohen will be sentenced on december 12. his lawyer says he doesn t want anything from the president including a pardon. shepard: rick, thank you. breaking news now, on fox news channel and this is just in to us here at the network. from our station, fox 29 in philadelphia. which has just reported that new york state investigators have just issued a subpoena to michael cohen as part of the trump foundation probe. again, fox 29 in philly reports new york state investigators have issued a subpoena to michael cohen as part of the trump foundation probe. it s brand new to us, just always it s brand new to you. we will have further reporting and analysis throughout the hour. the fallout from yesterday s bombshell legal developments now creeping on to capitol hill, some lawmakers are refusing to meet with president trump s pick for supreme court. so is that pick and confirmation process in real jeopardy? 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(vo) ask your healthcare provider if ozempic® is right for you. has information that would be interesting to prosecutors at the state and federal level. as a close confidant, they seiko hen could be a significant source of information looking into whether trump or his charity broke state law or lied about their tax liability. anybody charged with a state crime could not be pardoned by the president. messages left with attorneys for cohen and trump were not immediately returned. all of that from the associated press. michael cohen works with president trump for more than a decade. he rose through the ranks of the trump organization, eventually became executive vice president. lauraingle in new york city with more. hi, shep. michael cohen has a long history here in new york professionally and personally. the son of a holocaust survive or, grew up on long island, became a lawyer and taxi medallion owner, purchased several trump apartments. that s where the connection to the president began. a big week as we ve reported for the married father of two who will be by the way celebrating his 52nd birthday this saturday with a new title to add on-to-his roster, admitted felon. cohen earned his law degree from the thomas m. coolly law school in michigan but could be disbarred if he is convicted. that s one part of it. according to published reports he met the president in 2004 hiel he was looking to buy an apartment at trump park avenue. after siding with mr. trump in a dispute with the condo board at trump s world tower, he publicly promoted trump tower apartments as a sound investment. something that led mr. trump to offer him a job. cohen quit his law partnership and went to work for the trump organization in 2007. cohen has a resume in politics, named deputy finance chair of the republican national committee finance committee in 2017. a post he resigned this year citing the ongoing special counsel investigation. he also had democratic ties, posting a picture of himself with hillary clinton in 2014, on his twitter page with the #hillary clinton fan. cohen has also donated money to candidates on both sides of the aisle including democrat senator chuck schumer of new york and republican senator john mccain of arizona. cohen recently became a registered republican, too, he was reg staersd democrat in january of 2017. in march of that year, he tweet heed was making the official move to join the republican party adding that it, quote, took a great man at poe tuesday to get me to make the switch. shepard: thanks, laura engle. all of the news on president trump s former campaign chairman and former fixer overshadowed, charges gains popular republican lawmaker from southern california. the feds are using the california congressman duncan hunter, and his wife, of spending hundreds of thousands of campaign dollars on themselves. paying for everything from lavish trips to fast food. again, this was the man, the second in all of congress, to endorse president trump. the first to endorse president trump has found his own trouble. details on all of this, just ahead. if you have psoriasis, . and may stop treatment. upper respiratory tract infection and headache may occur. tell your doctor about your medicines and if you re pregnant or planning to be. otezla. show more of you. this wi-fi is fast. i know! i know! i know! i know! when did brian move back in? brian s back? he doesn t get my room. he s only going to be here for like a week. like a month, tops. oh boy. wi-fi fast enough for the whole family is simple, easy, awesome. in many cultures, young men would stay with their families until their 40 s. shepard: more on the new subpoena issued in new york state today. accord together associated press. for michael cohen. the president s former fixer and lawyer in connection with a probe of the trump foundation. more on this and the rest of the day s legal news, vinu is here, criminal defense attorney, former prosecutor, his specialties include federal white collar crime, financial crimes, and national security issues. nice to have you. thank you. thank you. shepard: what is your take on the issuing of this subpoena for michael cohen in new york state? well, the first thing to understand is that his plea agreement actually says that it does not bind any other agency or law enforcement agency. so this isn t surprising that the new york state tax division is looking at this. also, his plea agreement calls for him to file amended tax returns. new york state officials look at those amended tax returns as evidence of criminal action. if he didn t pay the federal taxes he didn t pay the state taxes. shepard: if he was, for instance, making payments for services rendered or anything else, from the foundation, which you re not really allowed to do, and should have had a tax liability on such things, then this might expose that. well, the charity you remember, is not taxable. so that s a tax exempt organization. shepard: that s kind of the point. and i think some of the issues are what they use, the charity to do. the attorney general s office under barbara underwood, actually had imposed punitive measures on members of trump s family, jared kushner, ivanka trump. it s a question whether this was not acting a as nonprofit. if it was acting in a for-profit way there be would be tax liability. shepard: that probe is under way, renew of the civil probe, now moving on to that. as for yesterday, michael cohen has known donald trump for a long time. under oath, implicated the. of the united states a melanie. what do you do with for a felony. what do you do with that? for mr. trump? shepard: how does the system react to that in challenging times? . under normal circumstances the person that he implicated would also be charged. obviously, there is a, it appear das shepard: if the president weren t the president under these circumstances he would be channelled. correct, correct. it would lead to a the indictment would be sealed so that mr. cohen could cooperate so that the person that he s cooperating against knows. this is a public indictment public plea agreement. the president knows obviously it s all over the news that he s the person that michael cohen is referring to, then-candidate. what it means is that this is more ammunition, more fuel for the mueller investigation. a question of which route mr. mueller takes, whether he goes against the sitting standing d.o.j. policies, indict the sitting president, or use it for the president for impeachment purposes. shepard: not as if the president and his team couldn t mount a vigorous defense, they certainly could. sure, if it gets to that point. shepard: the point is just because he says it doesn t mean the president, you know, has committed any crime. he gets a chance to defend himself under any circumstance. of course. but understand what goes into a plea agreement here, it was federal prosecutors, they would vet this is a proper plea, a judge, article three j.j., appointed by president judge pauley, respected judge, makes sure this was a crime. and allow this plea to go forward. and they did view that. and i think southern district of new york feels confident in making this plea. naming without naming president trump, naming president trump. shepard: nice to see you, thank you. some democrats on capitol hill want to dli the confirmation process for the supreme court nominee, now that the president s former attorney and campaign chair are facing prison time. cohen pleaded guilty, the jury convicted fan manafort in an extraordinary five-minute period yesterday. judge brett kavanaugh has been meeting with the senators on capitol hill ahead of his confirmation hearing as is custom. chuck schumer says the manafort and cohen cases are a game changer. peter doocy live on capitol hill. peter? shep, one of the democratic senators who had been planning to hear the president s nominee out crossed their meeting off her calendar today. i will be cancelling my appointment with judge kavanaugh, because i choose not to extend a courtesy to this president who is an unindicted co-conspirator to this president, the corte sieve meeting with his nominee for the supreme court, a lifetime appointment. as far as we know president trump has not been identified as an unnamed co-conspirator in any indictment. like the senator said. that doesn t mean the democrats aren t trying to stop the kavanaugh proceedings, something that the senate minority whip, dick durbin, was pushing for. he told news the hallway seems to me at the minimum we should be withholding this decision about a supreme court nominee until the air is cleared. but there is one thing the democrats don t have right now, to hold up the proceedings. that is enough votes. shep? shepard: no, they don t, they couldn t do it without republicans. what are you hearing from republicans? they don t want to change the schedule. the judiciary commit any the senate put out a statement saying justice breyer s confirmation occurred when. clinton s records had been subpoenaed by a grand jury. we re nowhere close to that situation. . calls to delay the hearing are the latest tactic from opponents who decided to vote no weeks ago, franticly looking for anything that sticks. the hearing will begin as planned on september 4. senator marco rubio, republican from florida, is pushing his colleagues to stick to their agenda. they will continue to do so, judge kavanaugh, is extremely qualified, i look forward to voting for him. there are no republicans who are reaching across the is a toll the democrats saying we will help you hold up kavanaugh. shep? shepard: peter doocy, live on capitol hill, thank you. a republican lawmaker and his wife now accused of dropping a quarter million in campaign cash on personal expenses. a federal grand jury has now charged the california congressman duncan hunter and his wife, margaret, for using the campaign money for vacations, theater tickets, their kids tuition, even fast food. one example, prosecutors say the couple used the money to take a vacation to it aly in 2015. to italy. they say the congressman tried to set up a tour of a naval facility to justify the trip. but when the timing didn t work out, he reportedly told his chief of staff to, quote, tell the navy to go blank themselves. congressman duncan hunter says the feds are carrying out a political agenda. he was the second member of congress to support president trump openly and says that s a big factor. the congressman also says he and his wife are excited to go to trial and prove their innocence. william is live in the west coast news hub, that might be another first. using campaign money for personal items is elly, why prosecutors claim the couple tried on conceal how they spent the money. including trips as you said to italy and hah we wi relatives, children s private school tuition, theater tickets they claimed as gift baskets for supporters, ski trips, tequila shots, dental work claimed as charitable donation to smiles to life, even buying a pair of shorts. at a golf shop to claim golf because for wounded warriors. last night hunter s father, a former congressman, defended his son. it s politically motivated by hardcore democrats who want to get duncan hunter out of congress. now, hunter claims the indictment is a political hit job, two prosecutors once attended a hillary clinton fundraiser. yet u.s. attorneys office in southern california is run by a trump appointed republican who refused to hold this indictment until after the election. republicans considered east san diego a safe seat. now democrats who need just 23 seats to flip the house may have a chance to win. hunter earns $174,000 a year, his wife contributes $36,000 as a campaign manager, yet according to the indictment the hunters spent substantially more than they earned, overdrawing their bank account more than 1,100 times over 7 years, resulting in $37,000 in overdraft fees. speaker ryan has stripped hunter of his committee assignments. this morning the san diego union trib called on hunter to resign. the two face arraignment tomorrow. shepard: william live in los angeles. we re waiting nor president trump to honor a fallen airman who died saving his fellow service members. we expect the medal of honor ceremony to begin in a few minutes, we ll bring it to you live as soon as it starts. , here s something you should know. there s a serious virus out there that 1 in 30 boomers has, yet most don t even know it. a virus that s been almost forgotten. it s hepatitis c. hep c can hide in the body for years without symptoms. left untreated it can lead to liver damage, even liver cancer. the only way to know if you have hep c is to ask your healthcare provider for the simple blood test. if you have hep c, it can be cured. for us, it s time to get tested. it s the only way to know for sure. miramar north of miami. you can see the manpowering something on the roof of the car before setting it on fire. the owner says they have no idea who the man is or why he did it. meantime, time lapse video from saudi arabia showing thousands of people on the pilgrimage to mecca, muslims taking part in the annual trip went on to participate in the stoning of the devil where they throw pebbles at three walls. millions of muslims make that trip every year. one man is definitely marking some bogeys on his round of golf, a massachusetts man noticed his golf ball kept disappearing at the country club. it turns out some foxes were stealing the ball before he had a chance to get on the green. the news continues with shepard. so you have, your headphones, chair, new laptop, 24/7 tech support. yep, thanks guys. i think he might need some support. yes. start them off right, with the school supplies they need at low prices all summer long. like these for only $2 or less at office depot officemax. like these for only $2 or less experience the 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his teammates lives. the president honors him on behalf of america. now here s president trump. . mau you join me in prayer for those who desire. holy father, we thank you for this day. for this national recognition and for technical sergeant john chapman. lord, we enter this esteemed ceremony with hearts filed with grief and pride. our dpreef stems from the pain of than jo s sacrifice along with six other courageous americans that lost their lives in noble service to our nation in the cause of human freedom and dignity. our pride stems on this day focused upon the man you createed, gifted, and empowered with an unconventional resolve to operate selflessly in protecting his family, his teammates, and the world from the evil of terrorism. we thank you, lord, for the opportunity to honor john chapman with america s highest decoration for his heroic valor. to honor the enduring sacrifice his family carries deeply within their hearts. and to honor the legacy, inspiration that john has infused into the mission, the leadership, and the operations of air force special tactics. lord, your just intent of overcoming evil with good in this world through human agency found fearless expression in john. even in the face of death so others may live. we thank you for john, we thank you for his family, we thank you for his unforgettable life and love shaped by your very spirit. father, as we move forward this day may your presence be tangbly known to than jo s appreciates family. as we move forward may john s sacrifice motivate selflessly duty to you, to country, and to humanity. as we move forward may we give thanks for our great nation, our great military, and our great liberties that rest upon the bravery and blood of selfless patriots like technical sergeant john chapman. to this end we pray, amen. amen. president trump: thank you very much. please be seated, thank you. thank you, chaplain, very well done, beautiful. we re honored to be joined by members of congress, military leaders, distinguished guests from across our nation. i want to recognize secretary of the air force heather wilson, thank you heather. air force chief of staff david goldhein, thank you, it s been 19 years, i think, right? with the air force, to deal with the congressional medal of honor. congratulations. a long time. very dwee serving. deserving. air force undersecretary matthew done on sdran, air force vice chief of staff steven wilson, and chief master sergeant of the air force kathleen wright. i also want to thank v.a. secretary robert wilke for joining us and you are doing a great job. the vets are very happy, hearing a lot of great reports. along with senators john bozeman, richard blumenthal, bob casey, chris murphy, and toomey and representative john gates and john larson. thank you for being here, thank you all very much, appreciate it. we re gathered together this afternoon to pay tribute to a fallen warrior, a great warrior, technical sergeant john chapman, and to award him our nation s highest and most revered military honor. would you all please join me in welcoming a wonderful family that i just met in the oval office, the chapman family, thank you, please stand up. [applause] president trump: and to his beautiful wife, valerie, who agrees he was a brave man, right from the beginning. you knew. that i know this day is truly brought special meaning. exactly 26 years ago you married john. today is our great honor to share his incredible story with the world. so thank you very much, valerie, we appreciate it. and your daughters mad i sonl and brianna madison and brianne, a we award your dad the congressional medal of honor. and i know he s looking down on you, right now, from heaven, proud of this day. but even more proud of the incredible young women that you have both become. it s great to know you. great to have met you, thank you. we re also grateful to be joined by john s wonderful mom, terri. his sister, laurie. his brother, kevin. and valerie s parents rita and jim novak, thank you all for being here. very great honor. [applause] though she could not be here today, somebody that john loved very much, his sister, tammy, please give our regards, thank you. i also want to recognize jack souza, john s friend and combat control teammate, who is still recovering from a recent severe injury. jack, thank you for your noble service, thank you very much. we appreciate it. thank you, thank you jack. [applause] looks like you re doing well. doing well? good, thank you, jack. finally, we salute the five congressional medal of honor recipients who join us, woody williams, harvey barnham, eld ward buyers, brian thacker and brent slobinske. please stand. [applause]buyers, brian thacker slobinske. please stand. [applause]yers, brian thacker a slobinske. please stand. [applause] brave people. three months ago i awarded the medal of honor to brit for his heroic actions in the battle we are talking about today. john chapman grew up in connecticut from a very young age, john was determined to protect those in need. in kindergarten, john noticed that his classmate, bill brooks, was being bullied. as bill says, john stepped in and saved me. in his high school yearbook, john quoted these words, give yourself before taking of some one else. very far-sighted. john lived by that motto, every single day. everybody that knew him said that s the way he lived. two years after he graduated high school, john enlisted in the united states air force. he was among the elite few to complete air force special tactics training, one of the most rigorous training programs in all of the military. john became an expert in deploying undetected on to the battlefield to set up air fields, and direct fire support. now, john will become the first special tactics airman to receive the congressional medal of honor. john met valerie in pennsylvania while he was training with the army. it was a big day. good day, right? they married in 1992 and soon their love grew into a beautiful family. whenever john was home he immediately took on dad duty, reading to the girls, playing with them, and even building an amazing swing set. do you remember that? a long time ago. a swing set. soon after the terror attacks of september 11, john volunteered to deploy to afghanistan. he walked into his superior s office and said i need to go. in one of the most harrowing engagements of operation enduring freedom, john was part of a highly-trained team on a combat mission to establish a secure position on the peak of tarkurgar mountain. in the early morning of march 4, 2002, john and his teammates were preparing to land on to the mountain when their helicopter was struck by heavy machine gunfire and a rocket-propelled grenade. they were under serious attack. as the helicopter lurched away, petty officer first class neil roberts was flung out of the aircraft and on to the top of the mountain. as the helicopter crash landed into the valley below. horrific crash. the team survived the crash and without hesitation they volunteered to return to the mountain. they wanted to get neil. they landed into a deep snow and heavy machine gunfire coming from three different directions. couldn t even see, so many bullets. over 10,000 feet, they fought the enemy at the highest altitude of any battle in the history of the american military. john chapman was the first to charge up the mountain toward the enemy. he killed two terrorists and cleared out the first bunker. john left the safety of the first bunker to fire a second enemy grenade at another bunker. as john fired on the second bunker, he was shot and fell to the ground and lost consciousness. even though he was mortally wounded, john regained consciousness and continued to fight on. and he really fought. we have proof of that fight. he really fought. good genes. you have good genes. he immediately began firing at the enemy who was bombarding him with machine gunfire and rocket-pro pild grenades. despite facing overwhelming force, john bravely and fiercely battled on for over an hour as another american quick reaction force helicopter approached. john engaged the enemy and provided covering fire in an attempt to prevent the enemy from shooting down our soldiers, our airmen, and that helicopter. in this final act of supreme courage, john gave his life for his fellow warriors. through his extraordinary sacrifice, john helped save more than 20 american service members, some of whom are here today. and i d like to introduce them. sergeant major matthew lefriends, please stand up. thank you, sir. [applause] thank you sergeant major. sergeant major raymond depauley, thank you, raymond. [applause] special tactics major gabriel brown. [applause] thank you. along with his team leader master chief brit slobinski. [applause] thank you, thank you all. and we also remember the six others who along with john gave their lives on that snowy, really, really cold afghan night. petty officer first class neil roberts, specialist mark anderson, sergeant bradley crows, senior airman jason cunningham, technical sergeant phillip svitak, corporal matthew cummings. the greatestblingsings of our country are patriots like john and all of you that just stood and frankly many of the people in this room. i exclude myself and a few of the politicians. [laughing] who, like john, carry our freedom on their shoulders, march into the face of evil, and fight to their very last breath so that we can live in freedom and safety and peace. it is my privilege to ask valerie to join me on stage to accept the congressional medal of honor on behalf of the hero she loved and the hero our nation will forever remember, technical sergeant john chapman. thank you. please, please valerie, thank you. [applause] would the military aid meese come forward and read the citation. thank you. the president of the united states of america has awarded in the name of congress the medal of honor posthumously to technical sergeant john a. chapman, united states air force conspicuous gallantry at the risk of life above and beyond the call of duty. technical sergeant john a. chapman twished himself by extraordinary heroism as an air force special tactic combat controller attached to a navy sea, air and land seal team conducting reconnaissance operations in afghanistan on march 4, 2002. during insertion the team s helicopter was ambushed, causing a teammate to fall into an entrenched group of combatants below. sergeant chapman and the team voluntarily reinserted on to the snow capped mountain into the heart of a known enemy stronghold to rescue con of their own. without regard for his own safety, sergeant chapman immediately engaged, moving in the direction of the closest enemy position despite coming under heavy fire from multiple directions. he fearlessly charged an enemy bunker up a steep incline in thigh-deep snow and into hostile fire directly even gaujing the enemy. upon reaching the bunker, sergeant chapman assaulted and cleared the position killing all enemy occupants. with complete disregard for his own life, sergeant chapman deliberately moved from cover only 12 meeters from the enemy and exposed himself once again to attack a second bunker from which an implaced machine gun was firing on his team. during this assault from an assault position directory in the line of intense fire, sergeant chapman was struck and injured by enemy fire. despite severe mortal wounds he continued to fight relentless any, sustaining a violent engagement with multiple enemy personnel before making the ultimate sacrifice. by his heroic aks and extraordinary valor, sacrificing his life for the lives of his teammates, technical sergeant chapman upheld the highest traditions of military service and reflected great credit upon himself and the united states air force. [ applause ] [cheers and applause] [cheers and applause] [ applause ] for those of you who desire to join me in prayer once more. oh lord we thank you again for this honorable ceremony, for it is right to exalt integrity, courage, and valor. we thank you, again, for john s life and love that look beyond self preservation, to the preservation of others, to the preservation of human worth and dig nilt, to the preservation of righteous governance around the world. we thank you again for building this man s heart, his mind, and his fearless resolve that equally matched his war fighting skills. so others may live. as we conclude may john s family be covered with your lavish love and peace. may the uniform sons of daughters of america know your empowerment and protection and may you hasten the day, oh, lord, where war will be no more. for your glory we pray, amen. amen. for. and to give their family such an understanding moment. it is a wonderful tradition and a fantastic thing to watch. it is so unique. it is the first one for the air force since vietnam. that is 44 years. it is a long time or something so overdue. for john chapman, it was new drone technology that he survived on the mountaintop and fought for 70 minutes alone. this is an upgrade of a previous metal. the former secretary, deborah james pushed hard for this. this was a great day for his family. shepard: what a great day and a privilege for us to watch on behalf of a grateful nation, as the president put it. and certainly on behalf of those of us here. aside from that, we were glad to bring you that from start to finish without any interruption. aside from that, it get lots
i m jon scott in for shepard smith. we begin with a fox urgent. trump is kicking off a up to hall event at this hour. a live look from columbus, ohio, where the republican nominee is set to answer questions from voters. we ll bring it to you live. trump is coming off a rough weekend as he took another hit today. a new poll from cbs news shows hillary clinton got a bump after the democratic convention. she is now leading trump 46 to 39%. trump s got a smaller bounce in same poll the week before the week after the run convention. ed had the two candidates tied. trump slam clinton yesterday, he said she is weak and has a bad temperment while he has, quote, one of the great temperments, and listen to what donald trump said about ukraine and russian president vladimir putin. he s not going into ukraine. just so you understand. you can mark it town, put it down, you can he s already there, isn t he? well in a certain way, but i m not there yet. frankly that whole part of the world is a mess under obama. trump tweeted today, quote, when i said that put put is not going into ukraine, you can mark it down, i m saying if i am president, already in crimea. in that interview, donald trump also said the nfl sent him a letter complaining the two presidential debates are set to air at the same time as its football games. a spokesperson for the league responded on twitter, quote, while we d obviously wish the debate commission could fine another night we did not send a letter to mr. trump. john roberts is live in mechanic sesburg, pennsylvania. trump is hitting some key battle ground states. reporter: he is in ohio this your, columbus, big good atleground state. two polls in ohio show the race is a dead hereto. the average shows that hillary clinton has a little bit of an advantage. here in pennsylvania, where he will appear in men mechanic mechanicsburg. a little more work to do hillary clinton is up four points and pennsylvania has not voted for a republican since 1988. so, donald trump does want to turn this state from the way it was, since 1988. ohio, from the way it was in 2012 and add in florida. that could be his path to victory. what he is going to do today is talk a lot about the economy. hillary clinton just went through the states a. while ago. donald trump wants to compare and contrast his plan for the economy with what the obama administration and hillary clinton when she was in the obama administration were doing in terms of jobs it appears we have lost our connection to john roberts. he is in ohio, and just to note, the weather there is bad. sometimes the satellites have a little trouble punching how to the severe downpours that can occur. we ll take you back to ohio, when donald trump takes to the microphones there. he is having a town hall meeting. we ll get you there when it begins. tam where bruise is a political columnist for the washington times and a fox muskrattor. you saul the news coverage over the weekend. both of these candidates got caught up in some stretches, shall we say, or at least some controversial statements. the media seemed to be piling on donald trump. why? we ll see that from now until election day and then through the first four years of his presidency, they ll pile on. i think this is what is interesting when you have a candidate like hillary who doesn t have press conferences and doesn t speak generally, and mr. trump, who has many. i think, though, when you re talk about especially his comments about russia, this is interesting because the next president, who i think will be mr. trump, is going to have to clean up what is clearly an emerging new cold war, and this is something i think that he wants to stop. don t think any of us want a new cold war. and in order to do that you have to engage, and this is what he is saying. he made it clear when he is president, things will be different. we learn last year that obama s administration told crimea to stand down when russia was moving in. so that s already been given away. we have a disaster because of the obama-hillary theory about how to approach this. so the next president does have to address it and i believe he is trying to do that. the story, the obama administration decided if crimea put up a big fuss it could potentially well, anger vladimir putin and things might be even worse. the theory was that if you play indicate placate a tyrant, he ll do less. what we found with mr. putin he ll keep poking and prodding and move further along. this is why we have the problem now. it has nothing to do with what mr. trump is signature and everything to with what hillary and obama have didn t doing. then the question about the presidential debate. two of the three presidential debates are on the night of nfl football games. trump is now saying i didn t exactly get a letter from the nfl. i was made aware of the nfl s concerns. who scheduled debates on sunday and monday night? the commission for the presidential dedates bills itself as nonpartisan. they re actually bipartisan. it s a series of individuals associated with the establishment. republicans and democrats who have an investment in the status quo. the two men who are the co-chairs, one with the rnc, one was bill clinton s press secretary, are now both lobbyists. the lobbyist framework of the interests of everyone on the board is extensive, it s exclusively an investment in the establishment. now, for the establish and the mood of the country we have now, sunlight is not their friend and this is a situation where the fewer people that hear someone like hillary clinton, who is the establishment candidate, does not do well when people hear her and lots of people hear her. mr. trump represents the reformation, and he benefits when more people hear hat he has to say. particularly donald trump is doing very well among blue collar white males. exactly. those are the guys who love to turn on their football game on a sunday night. americans in general love football. we love our sports. i do. this is a target, though. you re absolutely right. this is not just a happenstance. these states are going dates are going to have to change. mr. trump made that clear. it s importance for the american people to realize that the commission for presidential debates is not some kind of anonymous, nonpartisan, fair group dropped in from the plan net venus. they re people from the establishment and have hand interest in this and the american people are going to have to look at both parties, as are private clubs, the commission for debates is a private club to facilitate those interests and whether or not we want the situation to continue once this particular election is done. they have already said, we are not moving the debates. saying it s impossible to do it. of course, because somebody else is coming their ability. they can do whatever they want and they can change them. the american public should demand they do so. it s in all of our interests and democracy no matter who you stand for. if you re a supporter of hillary clinton of course you want people to hear her. it s not governor know democracy, not good for the volter and not good for the country. of course, prince charles was able to move his wedding to well, camilla parker-bowls because of the death of the pope. if you can do that something like that you should be able to move a presidential debate i- when william and kate were married they were going on a vacation right when we were going to strike bin laden. they changed their plans. everyone necessary the world realizes things can change and must change. and we should not buy the arguments that there s nothing people can do. that s i think we re going to prove that wrong and mr. trump is going to prove them wrong as well. interesting perspective. thank you. thank you, jon. just about anybody can get stuck in an elevator, even the billionaire republican nominee for president. rally at the university of colorado started late on 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things they do to keep riders riding. the pollsters say this election is going to come down to a handful of states. ohio is one of them. so you ll be seeing hillary clinton and donald trump making a lot of appearances in ohio. that s what we re waiting for right now. donald trump appearing at a town hall meeting in columbus. he ll be answering questions from voters assembled in the room. when mr. trump takes the microphones we ll take you there live. hillary clinton says she has work to do to win voters trust. she talked to fox news sunday for her first tv interview since becoming the democratic nominee. he told chris wallace she, quote, made a mistake for having a private e-mail server but disagreed with fbi director james comey said she the director said my answers were truthful and what i ve said is consistent with what i have told the american people. there were decisions discussed and made to classify retroactively certain of the e-mails. a fact checker at the washington post gives her four pinocchios for the answer. writing that while comey did say there was no evidence she lied to the fbi, that s not the same as saying the told the truth to the american public. mike emanuale is in nebraska where clinton is set to hold a campaign event. what did clinton say about her tryings with the american public in some polls? reporter: john, hillary clinton blamed her political opponents for damaging her with the american people. she said people should not look at the caricature of herut look at what she has done. every time i run for an office, my goodness, all of there s caricatures come out of nowhere and people begin to undermine me because when i left office as secretary of state, 66% of americans approved you don t reporter: another poll to look at, just last week the cnn poll says 68% of those surveyed do not find her honest and trustworthy. hillary clinton tries to turn that around by saying that donald trump doesn t poll very well on that issue, either. what is shing too in nebraska today? reporter: it s interesting. it s a very conservative state but this state is also not winner take all in terms of terf elector to vote. there s a possibility some key win an electoral vote. she will be entry doused by warren buffet. clinton has had big business names come out for her in the last few days. how many of you watched the convention? i was so proud to see democrats standing up and speaking about what we can do together to make sure the economy works for everyone. not just those at the top. reporter: this event in omaha has clearly excited nebraska democrats who do not typically get to see a democratic presidential nominee during the general election. hillary clinton here in omaha later this afternoon. mike, thank you. an urgent warning about the zika virus now. the feds are telling people who visit part of south florida to take action, even long after they return home. tired of re-dosing antacids? try duo fusion! new, two in one heartburn 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different to children. i m just shocked. i m sorry. she just loved them. she adored them. the parents see her as a mother. also not only a mother, a grandma, too. investigators are still trying to figure out what caused the crash. casey stiegel is in maxwell. investigators finishing up? they are. not long ago we saw a giant wrecker bull in and go down the gravel road to the crash site, to remove all of the wreckage and the evidence from out there. it will be preserved and then it will be re-examined in a controlled environment. this is only phase one, we should point out, of the investigation according to the ntsb. many, many, many more phases to go but they have photographed the scene, collected the evidence which will be sent to the ntsb lab in washington, dc. also been conducting interviews on the ground here in texas with all of the key players, including eye witnesses who saw the bloop before the accident. some even pulling out their phones to shoot pictures and video like this person did, moments before the balloon went down. the ntsb says that balloon that the industry itselfed ins more oversight and tougher safety standards and say they ve been warning the faa about this for at least two years. all together in the past five years, i can say, that including this accident, there have been 60 accidents since august of 2011. and out of those accidents, five resulted in seven fatilities. as we know, 16 people died in this single incident. over the weekend. so sad. we are hearing from a woman oh had a close call with this company in the past? reporter: right. some people are starting to come forward after news of this all started to spread. including this woman: her name is tiffani gillman, she says in december of 2014 she snapped this happy picture just before boarding the exact same balloon, run by the exact same company, and the exact same pilot. gillman s boyfriend was to propose to her on that ride. however, look what happened next. gillman says the started drifting straight toward what she believed are the exact same power lines that this balloon came in contact with. so, the pilot brought the balloon down quickly, for a hard landing. she says it was clearly terrifying but no real serious injuries. it s unknown if this incident was ever officially reported to the feds. of course, the feds now digging into this company s record. the maintenance paper, and the pilot s brown. as you well know, all very standard in an investigation like this. thank you, casey. a fox urgent. donald trump speaking at that town hall in event in columbus, ohio. let listen in. what is shing too? here s the letter from president obama to these two gentlemen that have worked so hard and are having a hard time, and maybe in just a little while you can just say exactly what is going on. my name is jeff, i m from portmouth, ohio. we have a plant just north of here in piketon that enriched uranium, and for seven years we have been going to washington and talking to politicians about saving the plant that enriched uranium. there were hundreds of jobs there. and it s the only it was the only plant in the united states that enriched uranium. i also have the hotel holiday inn in the town, and then senator probe barack obama stayed at my hotel and he said i m going to get up at 5:00 in the morning, and i need breakfast but you re not open yet. i said, all right. two things. you have to promise me something and you have to get your picture taken with me. so, i fixed him six eggs, six strips of bacon, a big pile of home fried potatoes, four whole wheat toast and a big bowl of oatmeal. asked him, how do you eat all of this? only meal i ll get today. she had his picture taken with me. lived up to that promise. i said we have this plant in piketon that we want to continue enriching uranium. lots of employees we need the government help and need the old site cleaned up. how do you feel about that project in pike ton? and man looked me in the eye and says, i support the piketop project. so, i want to thank donald trump i feel like he s the man that if he says, i m going to do something, i m going to do it. so let all support donald trump. evan, go ahead. the only thing i ve got to say is when these politicians make promises, which has been promised to us, that somebody holds then accountable. that s it. [applause] thank you both very much. same old stuff, politicians. all talk, no action. won t happen. and hillary would be nothing more than four more years of obama. four more years of isis. four more years of military that is being depleted and not taking care of our vets. she said a few months ago our vets are being taken care of just fine. she said, no, no, it s overexaggerated. know the vets. i think i have tremendous support with the vets. raised a lot of money and gave a lot of money to the vets. i will tell you something, the vets are not being taken care of well at all. the suicide rate is hard to believe even when you hear the numbers, and you know the numbers i m talking about. they wait in line for two, three, four, five days. think of going to a doctor and waiting for five days. longer than that. and people are dying waiting in line. so we ll take care of our vets. we re going to again secure and very important, we re going to secure our borders. we re going to secure our borders. [chanting] we ll build that wall. we re going to build the wall and mexico is going to pay for the wall, and the reason some of the politicians have said you know they re not going to pay for it. no, no you don t understand. they they re making so much money, mexico, they re taking our businesses. a friend of mine builds plants. the what he does, plants. if he had to build an apartment he wouldn t know where to begin but he builds macesive plants. ed said howl are you doing? he said, unbelievable. he is from this country and would like to do well in this country. said, how are you doing? he said unbelievable. said that s good. so you re doing a lot of work in the united states? not so much. i said how are you doing unbelievably? you wouldn t believe what is happening in mexico. it s the eighth wonder in the world. that s what he told me. i said what does that mean? he said they re building among the biggest plants we ve ever built. it s unbelievable. companies are moving out of the united states, columbus, by the way. they re moving out of the united states, they re moving out of ohio. i asked him. they re moving out of michigan. big leagues, the cars. he builds car plants, he builds computer plants. builds them all. and they re moving out of the united states, i said how is the united states doing in she said not so good. but mexico is the eighth wonder of the world. that s going to end, folks. we want mexico to do fine. but we re not going to let them take or jobs anymore. we re not going to let it happen. you look at this area. i have statisticians, good statisticians. they love to do this. can t imagine doing it. being too much fun. to me it s a little boring to do. but i tell you the numbers are horrendous. first of all, i don t know if you just saw the numbers for growth for the country. did you see that? 1.2%. 1.2%. we re sinking. we re sinking. that one of the lowest numbers ever, i think the lowest number ever in terms of trying to make a comeback. 1.2%. but in columbus and i looked at this. this is bad. this is bad. ohio has lost one in three manufacturing jobs. since bill clinton signed nafta. bill clinton signed it. and hillary clinton wants it. think of that. hillary clinton s disastrous trade policies are responsible for the manufacturing job losses in ohio and throughout the other states of this country. donald trump kicking off a town hall meeting in ohio. columbus to be specific. we ll continue to monitor his remarks. if he makes news we ll get back there life. if you want to continue watching it is streaming for you on foxnews.com. the presidential candidates focusing on battleground states that could decide the election. trump in ohio, and pennsylvania today. hillary clinton just wrapped up a tour of those same two states. we ll look at how the fight for the rust belt is shaping up ahead on the fox news deck. blue the dog here for propane. you know, i m just a humble dog. i didn t attend the elite boarding kennels, but i do know that nothing beats the freedom of living out here with propane, people can live where they want, and just as cozy as they want. whether it s a hot bath (no thank you), a warm bedroom, or a perfectly grilled steak. drop it, drop it, drop it proudly independent. proudly american. proudly propane create your own seafood trios you can try something new with every bite. pick 3 of 9 all-new creations for $15.99. like baked lobster alfredo chimichurri shrimp and crab cakes bursting with crab meat. just hurry in before it ends. a fox report now. more headlines from the fox news deck. a wildfire in california has destroyed dozens of houses and continues to grow. officials say it s forced hundreds from their homes and is threatening thousands of others. happening near big sur, 130 miles south of san francisco. officials say one person died during the firefight. new trouble for flint, michigan. nobody is picking up the trash. the city council voted to extend the contract with the current collection company but the mayor vetoed that, saying there s a cheaper option. until they work it out, people have to figure out what to do with their trash, this comps after the cities is still trying to teal with toxic lead in their water. divers take a plunge in kosovo. hundreds watched at 22 people competed. it ended in a tie. the news continues right after this. before taking his team to state for the first time. gilman: go get it, marcus. go get it. .coach gilman used his cash rewards credit card from bank of america to earn 1% cash back everywhere, every time. at places like the batting cages. [ crowd cheers ] 2% back at grocery stores and now at wholesale clubs. and 3% back on gas. which helped him give his players something extra. the cash rewards credit card from bank of america. more cash back for the things you buy most. seems independent voters split in their support for hillary clinton and donald trump. the latest cbs news poll has trump ahead 33% to 31% among independent independents. a statistical tie in third, the libertarian candidate, gary johnson, with 15%. with the conventions out of the way, both hillary clinton and donald trump making campaign stops in two key swing states. pennsylvania and ohio. the fox business network s blake berman is live in washington. so, tell us more about the trump campaign s plans. reporter: hi there. jon. there s certainly a focus on the rust belt today for donald trump. he is in columbus, ohio. then heads to mechanicsburg, pennsylvania two hours west of philly. in this part of the country, he hammers home how he feels trade deals have left american workers searching for new jobs and often brings us back to nafta, signed into law by then-president bill clinton. as hillary clinton was campaigning in region this weekend, trump continued with the theme, tweeting, quote, the rust belt was created by politicians like the clintons who allowed or jobs to be stolen by other countries like mexico. and trump just said, he feels or at least what he sees is manufacturing going from this country to mexico and just called it the eighth wonder of the world. how important is the rust belt to the clinton camp? reporter: have to see where clinton went immediately after her convention, ohio and pennsylvania. the first two stops for her. tim kaine was alongside her for a three-day bus tour as both of them crisscross the states. there they tried to portray trump as a businessman who has already pulled money off the table from the region. we re dealing with some somebody oh has a history of stiffing people, making things somewhere else besides america. and whenever possible, hiring foreign workers. reporter: it will be a battle throughout the rust belt. the polling averages show a dead heat in ohio. with clinton up four points for the moment in pennsylvania. thank you, blake. let s bring in paul singer, washington correspondent for usa today. sew the conventions are over. the bumps are sized up. appears hillary got a bigger bump. any explanation? not really. i think hillary got a big are bump in part because the second convention attracted some attention because she had a very robust convention list of speaker with a very positive message. and now preparing for the summer, donald trump still has these controversies that lag him, even tweeting out about this the khan family. those kind of things drag his momentum down. i suppose katy perry didn t hurt either. which constituency is she trying to capture. donald trump seems to do best among blue collar white males. who she is going after. she d like to do well in that group as well, but keep in mind that for her purposes she expects to do very well amongst african-americans, very well amongst latinos, and particularly focusing on getting sub-under suburban women, which have been swings in states like pennsylvania. if she can capture those she doesn t need to worry about getting the majority of the white working class males but you can see from the trips this week she is not giving up on that demographic either. that explains the trips both candidates are making to ohio and pennsylvania. right. and pennsylvania is an interesting challenge. there are more democrats registered in pennsylvania than republicans, four million democrats, three million republicans. but the growth in republican voter registration has been about double the growth in democratic registration in pennsylvania over the past year, which shows the momentum is towards the republicans. something they have to be concern about for hillary clinton. can you ascribe that to donald trump or is it just some kind of rebirth of the republican brand? it s partly the republican brand. it s not just the trade issues. these folks have had a lot of frustration with the epa, with clean air regulations, coal regulation and the effort the war on coal, as it s been called. a lot of issues in this industrial rust belt that the voters really do blame the government and the democrats particularly for their job loss. we started out by saying that hillary clinton got the bigger bump from her convention. but bumps ten to fade. so, let s look ahead a couple of weeks. what do you see happening as this campaign goes on? well, we re about to run into the olympics. traditionally the olympics have gone through august and then the conventions were afterwards, and so the convention bumps mattered because you re in september and right there in the election high swing season. i m really curious to see what happens with the olympics taking center stage the next couple of weeks. keep in mind that the olympics drown out political coverage, except trump is good about break through the noise, better than hillary clinton is. we ll see if she can maintain a lead, over the next couple of weeks, through the olympics and come out september ahead of donald trump. you said there s an interesting nugget in google searches. the google search results during the convention indicated that the top search terms for hillary clinton did not include the word indicted which for the two months before the conventions was one of the five top searched things associated with hillary clinton. so, it means the convention worked in a sense of changing attention of the search interest party from just hillary clinton s legal problems to more hillary clinton s personal issues, like how tall is hillary clinton becomes a top search term. how old is hillary clinton. that s fine with the clintons. if people are looking for that information, that s fine. they d much have them looking for that rather than is hillary clinton going to be indicted. for a week it worked. paul singer, thank you. usa today. thank you for having me. the u.s. military has begun carrying out air strikes in libya, to stop the spread of isis terrorists. the word from the pentagon. it marks a new phase in the fight against the islamic state. a pentagon spokesman says the military today bombed an isis stronghold on the country s north coast. he says air strikes in libya will help prevent the terrorists from setting up a safe haven from which they can launch attacks on the united states and its allies. well, somebody shot down a russian helicopter in syria, killing all five people onboard. that from russia s defense ministry. the deadliest incident for the country s military since september when russia started airstrikes in syria in support of dictator bash shall al-assad. nobody has claimed responsibility for the attack. it happened in northwestern syria, near the border with turkey. analysts say it s a hot spot for terrorists, including a group with ties to al qaeda. russian official says the helicopter just dropped off humanitarian aid in aleppo. rushing flood waters in maryland coming without warning. washing away cars and tearing buildings to the ground. we re live in the hardest hit area with some amazing video coming up. pregnant women some not travel to a specific neighborhood in miami because mosquitoes there have been spreading the zika virus. that s the recommendation today from the centers for disease control. some other new recommendations from the agency. all pregnant women who live in the winwood area of miami or traveled there after june 15th june 15th should get tested for the virus. pregnant women and they re partners who live in the area or travel there should also take steps to prevent mosquito bites and all people coming back from zika-affected areas should use bug repellent for three weeks so mosquitoes don t bite thems spread the virus to other people. the for announced ten more people have the virus and likely got it from mosquitoes in that area of miami. that brings the total number of people infected locally in miami to 14. the governor says he has requested the centers for disease control and prevention activate they re emergency response team. for most people zika causes mild illness but if a woman is pregnant it can lead to severe birthday effects. witnesses using words like, war zone, and tsunami, to describe this weekend s deadly flashflooding in maryland. in elly elly cot ellicott ci, folks were enjoying a saturday night mountain but flooding cop assumed the downtown area. the flood waters swept away hundreds of cars. tore up sidewalks and destroyed or damaged dozens of buildings two people died. others barely made it out alive. [shouting] here you can see a group of people risking their open lives, forming a human chain to rescue a woman trapped in a car. she escaped through a window and they carried her to safety. doug mckelway is love. this is not the first time this has happened there. right? reporter: not at all. in fact, this city has experienced seven major floods since its founding in 1772. so, they re not unaccustomed to this kind of thing. this main street right here behind me explains why that happens so often here. main street heads sharply downhill flooding strict right here and either side of main street, have very steep hills. one of. the is right behind me here, where this bulldozer is shoring up the eroded hillside next to the church so the church itself does not thank you. bell down the hillside tumble down the hillside. when you get six inches of rain here in just two hours, it all funnels into this main street and heads right downhill, cause thing kind of damage we saw on saturday night. it ripped up the streets and the sidewalks. it undermined the foundation of all those businesses downtown, one business owner told me she owns a coffee shop here and is fearful of going back she may have lost her $30,000 coffee roaster, her $10,000 capuccino machine, her $800 blender, and so much more. i was told the counters were float so i have a lot of fear about all my equipment being gone. all the freezers and refrigerators and everything. it s a lot. reporter: insurance adjustors are on site. we ll get a better idea of the extent of financial damage when their work is done. right now the estimates are runs of million millions of dollars and month before the city is back up and operating. so sad. thank you. it took a team effort to rescue a teenager who had fallen deep between rocks while hiking. it happened in northern maryland, close to the pennsylvania border. rescuers hiked more than two miles in rugged terrain to get the critically injured teen. they flew the patient to children s national medical center? d.c. for treatment. police in new york city getting an eerie threat over their radios. somebody claiming to be an ex-con who is out for revenge against the officer who locked him up. we have a recording on the mysterious threat next. you stay up. you listen. you laugh. you worry. you do whatever it takes to take care of your family. and when it s time to plan for your family s future, we re here for you. we re legalzoom, and for over 10 years we ve helped families just like yours with wills and living trusts. so when you re ready, start with us. doing the right thing has never been easier. legalzoom. legal help is here. you grab your 10-gallon jug of coffee and back out of the garage. right into your wife s car. with your wife watching. she forgives you. eventually. your insurance company, not so much. they say you only have their basic policy. don t basic policies cover basic accidents? of course, they say. as long as you pay extra for it. with a liberty mutual base policy, new car replacement™ comes standard. and for drivers with accident forgiveness, liberty mutual won t raise your rates due to your first accident. learn more by calling at liberty mutual, every policy is personal, with coverage and deductibles customized just for you, which is why we don t offer any off-the-shelf policies. switch to liberty mutual and you could save up to $509. call liberty mutual for a free quote today at liberty stands with you™. liberty mutual insurance. cops in new york city say they re searching for a suspect who used a police radio to make threats to an nypd captain. the suspect is probably using a lost or stolen radio. wreck leventhal is live in new york city. what are you hearing from the nypd. reporter: i m told it s not the first time this happened. it was described as more of an annoyance and the nypd are confident this guy will be caught. it s not clear how hi got the radio or if he has one. i m told it s possible to access police frequencies without the equipment if you have technical expertise, but whoever the guy is he has a beef with one of new york s violence. i m out now and coming to put a bullet in your head. i m coming for you. reporter: chilling and the department has to treat it seriously but the prevailing opinion seems to be this is nothing more than a hoax. the nypd is stepping up security? reporter: officers and tactical gear were posted outside the presink where this captain, who was threatened, works. today was back to business as usual there. officially the nypd says security patrols will post outside every command citywide on a rotating basis while dispatchers are warning officers to use caution when responding to calls because of the broadcast threats. cops were sent to times square an the man claim he was standing next to a strategic response vehicle, and later inside a walgreens but searchers turn up nothing. the department says it will work the case and will find this man. let s hope somebody recognizes the voice. thank you. we ll be right back with the birth of one over the branches of the u.s. military and i happened on this day in history. ] whoa. [ gears stopping ] when your pain reliever stops working, your whole day stops. try this. but just one aleve has the strength to stop pain for 12 hours. tylenol and advil can quit after 6. so live your whole day, not part. with 12 hour aleve. the cat and the fiddle, the cow jumped over the moon. then quickly fell back to earth landing on the roof of a dutch colonial. luckily geico recently helped the residents with homeowners insurance. they were able to get the roof repaired like new. they later sold the cow because they had all become lactose intolerant. call geico and see how much you could save on homeowners insurance. good news out of brazil. the police say they kidnapped the mother-in-law of bernie ecclestone. the kidnappers demanded a ransom equal to 36 million u.s. dollars but nobody paid. the investigators learned the woman s location by monitoring phone calls between the kidnappers and her family. when they found her she was tied up and had no injuries. police realitied two suspects. on this day in 1907 the u.s. military set up a new branch, which became the air force. the army ordered the division to take charge of, quote, ballooning, air machines and more. with the help of the wright brothers the military began testing its first airplane at fort meyer, virginia, out d.c. today hundreds of thousands of men and women make up the u.s. air force. i m jon scott in for shepard smith. your world is next. trish regan is in for neil cavuto. have a great monday. ten new case of see zika virus reported in anymore today. bringing the total to 14 now. now the centers for disease control issuing a new warning for pregnant women who may have traveled to the area. the head of the cdc is here. but first, hillary clinton facing more e-mail questions today after speaking to our very own chris wallace. what she said that is sparking a whole new controversy. welcome, this is your world. hillary clinton saying the fbi director found her e-mail answers to be truthful. that statement alone got got her four pinocchios
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