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harris: john roberts now on the north lawn. great to see you and healthy, sir. let s start off with the last hour of television with rudy guliani and we can catch everybody up quickly. he said some things twice in interviews on this network today that seemed to show a shift. i want to get your terminology for what we first heard and now what we just heard. good to be back, by the way, harris. good to see you. we ve been talking to guliani and his outside team for weeks. i developed some information that while there s discussions going on between the president s outside attorneys and robert mueller, that those talks don t seem to be going anywhere and the greater likelihood is that very soon, because a decision is about to be made, i m told maybe within the next week or two weeks that the president and his legal team will tell robert mueller no, we re not going to sit down for an interview. there seems to be a growing consensus among the president s legal team on that ultim ....
manafort. the defense is going to go on offense to attack gates credibility. all of that is part of the drama today. the nuts and bolts of this case are still in the numbers, in the tax fraud, bank fraud, alleged deals for these clients allied with the putin regime. now, paul manafort faces 18 fraud charges from a time before he ever joined the trump campaign. this was all the ukrainian consulting work, which means there s a ton of paper and prosecutors are arguing to this jury whatever happens with mr. gates, the paper doesn t lie. for example, also new, we can tell you, they showed an e-mail today that manafort sent to gates with gates testifying that trump s former campaign chair wrote this is a disaster in april 2015 in that e-mail, about a higher than expected tax bill, throwing in a wtf as well. the full quote is he told the jury he s not happy, i just saw this, wtf, how could i be blind The day s biggest political and news stories, with interviews and reporting from ar ....
rights, people should be allowed to do this. i would say that by banning jones and by shadow banning many others, facebook and others are now effectively becoming a publisher, and that means because they are taking editorial decisions come they should be open to being sued as other media organizations are. tammy: now i would argue, we are all trying to find some balance here because we clearly see it s unfair and it ranges from congressman being shadow band, we are trying to find a free market, especially with the mainstream media being 85% liberal. we see that push. but we are the content and social media which gives us an edge. we would suggest though that some of the argument by twitter, they are saying that some of these comments violate standards. if we open it up to lawsuits for libel, wouldn t that make it even more difficult to have speech? wouldn t more people be banned and more people be suspended? no. if you are a platform for all ideas, you are not a part profe ....
touches several other serving republican members of congress and disgraced health secretary, tom price, the first trump cabinet secretary to resign in scandal. we have had our fair share of political scandals and public corruption indictments as a country. that is a history that includes today s date on the calendar in 1974, when president richard nixon resigned the presidency in the wake of the watergate scandal, this day, 1974. but even so, even with that rich history under our belts, it really is something when you wake up to the news of a sitting member of congress being indicted by federal prosecutors and the sight of a sitting member of congress being hauled before a federal judge for criminal arraignment. so, we will have more ahead tonight on trump ally republican congressman chris collins turning himself in and being indicted and arraigned on federal criminal charges today including talking to the intrepid local reporter at the buffalo news, who first broke the story ....
you know, if you wanted to hold a pageant to decide the president aes favorite member of congress, i don t think any of us knows who the final winner might be. might be whether the president insisted on a swimsuit contest or something scarier. without any argument at all, i think almost all of us who paid any attention to the news in this era, we could all name a couple of the pageant finalists were this contest to happen. one of the finalists would undoubtedly be the member of congress who started off today being taken into custody at the offices of the fbi in lower manhattan. chris collins a republican congressman from new york, he s from buffalo, he was the first member of congress to endorse donald trump s presidential campaign all the way back in february, 2016. we know that is the kind of thing that really matters to this president. congressman collins has since been among the most faithful visible trump loyalists in washington. but now he s been arrested in an alleged ....