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>> bill: 9:15 in new york. fox news confirming paul manafort and rick gates are indicted with 12 counts. conspiracy against the u.s. laundering money. false statements, seven counts of failure to file reports of foreign bank and financial accounts. bring in davey hopee former chief of staff for paul ryan and marianne march former advisor to john kerry. what do you make of what we've learned so far on this? >> this is an indictment that was predicted more than a month ago by people. it is for things that happened well before paul manafort was ever involved with the trump campaign. they center a...

Be. certainly manafort is now under pressure, having been indicted and prosecutors can come to him and say listen, you probably should tell us everything you know. >> bill: what do you know about rick gates? who is he, what is his collection? >> long-time business associate with manafort and was working in that with the ukraine and came to the trump campaign with manafort. manafort was brought in in early 2016 as a delegate counter to prepare for the republican convention. after manafort left, gates went to a pro trump super pac and kept some connections with trump world although not in the wh...

Adoption. >> funny to think about that as opposition research being legal a few days ago? there are a lot of issues she has brought up. mueller didn't look at those right now. now is he trying to leverage those? i don't know. presumably there is some idea here he wants to go toward. but the important thing right now is whether or not there was any collusion. has been said by those who have seen it, there has been no collusion whatsoever that they've seen in any of the things they've heard in the intelligence committee on the hill. >> bill: let me advance the conversation here. i guess paul man...

District. in fairness kevin brady and others are working to get rid of that. my concern is there would be a tax increase for my district. i haven't seen the final package yet. when i do i'll go through it myself. i'll submit it to experts because i can't vote for anything which is going to increase taxes on my constituents. i'm a ronald reagan, jack kemp disciple. i believe in growth economics and across the board tax cuts but i don't think we should take away deductions that would allow taxpayers along long island and new york to subsidize tax breaks for the rest of the country. >> bill: do y...

>> the biggest question, whether the president is going to travel to the dmz. the demilitarized zone in between north and south. over the weekend i talked to gordon chang. he was saying one of the real risks here is to the president's personal safety. but on -- the people who want him to do this say it's fine. that's in the bag. he won't actually face any risks to his person. he should go to the demilitarized zone to really show the regime there that we're willing to take this on head on and the american president is prioritizing it. >> bill: thank you, stay close. we'll rely on you for a lot ...