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Get a jump on the day s news with Christine Romans and Dave Briggs. close associate to paul manafort for 12 years, but now he s flipped, he pleaded guilty, and he s telling all he knows to prosecutors. so, it will be interesting when he is back on the stand for more cross examination this morning. christine and phil? jessica, thank you for that. legal woes multiplying for michael cohen. the wall street journal reporting president trump s former lawyer and fixer is now under investigation for tax fraud. sources tell the journal the federal prosecutor in manhattan is looking into whether cohen underreported income from his taxi medallion business. the taxi licenses yielded hundreds of thousands of dollars over the last five years. the wall street journal also reporting federal investigators are looking into possible fraud against the bank that financed cohen s taxi medallion business. cohen has not been charged with a crime, and the journal reports he previously deni ....
We have a photo mposted by a russian blogger. cnn s barbara starr is at the pentagon. and barbara, this comes as the state department confirms a third american is missing in action in ukraine. what more do you know? all three of the men have served in the past in the u.s. military. let s go back to that photo of the two men in particular. and take a deeper look at it. on the left, you have a former u.s. army soldier alexander druki. you see his hands behind his back. on the right, hands behind his back. if you can get a close look at that photo, you would say food cans with paper labels on them with russian writing. now, neither of the men have been heard from by their families in some days. so and they were in fighting north of kharkiv by all accounts ....
It seems there s a conspiracy of some sort going on. the pred said there was nothing going on. he must have known clearly that there were a lot of contacts with the russians going on. conspiracy is a good word. trump s main defense, one of his defenses to collusion was, look, the treasury department, my treasury department, imposed these harsh sanctions on russia. that shows how tough we are. those sanctions were imposted last april. he wasn t tough very long. if you want to talk about an arc of sinister connections, this same russian oligarch helped today by the lifting of these sanctions, he s paul manafort s former client, vladimir putin s ally, and he s also the guy who reportedly paul manafort gave the polling data about the trump ....
On another $16 billion in chinese goods, bringing the total value to $50 billion. the trump administration released its list of 279 products yesterday, targeting things like chemicals, motorcycles, and antennas. the 25% tariff will take effect august 23rd. chinese state media slammed the move overnight, warning that wantingly raising tariffs will only hurt the u.s. beijing already said it would strike back in equal measure, just like last month when the u.s. imposted tariffs on chinese goods worth $34 billion. wall street shrugged off the first round, but u.s. business warned they will raise prices for consumers, especially as the trade spat escalates. the white house is threatening an additional $200 billion in tariffs on chinese goods. china plans to hit back with its own tariffs worth $60 billion. the trump administration says the tariffs are punishment for china s unfair trade practices, like stealing u.s. technology, stealing u.s. trade secrets. beijing denies those allegations. ....