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A precursor to Fox News s morning show, featuring the news and first looks at the other stories of the day. swift action by local, state and federal investigators working in iowa in apprehending and illegal immigrant charged with first-degree murder. now justice will be served. we will never forget mollie tibbetts. and offered prayers for mollie tibbetts s molly and family and friends. this as john cox slams democrats for their open border policy saying, quote, close who want to abolish ice need to consider the consequences of their proposal. the mollie tibbetts case is one more tragic example of a senseless loss that should have never happened similar to kate steinle s heartbreaking death in san francisco. kate steinle was shot and killed by an illegal immigrants on a san francisco year in 2015. the gunman was acquitted of murder and manslaughter. rob: this has been a 5-week story with mollie tibbetts, 5 weeks of torture for the family firm in this area not far away fro ....
that s different than his, perhaps, more gran yu that s different than his, perhaps, more gran ylar daily gripes on twitter where he s talking about former fbi employees, lisa page and peter strzok or bruce ohr, someone who s currently at the justice department who he s threatened w withdraw his security clearance. those are individual cases. the justice department doesn t comment on those. today it was digit becaufferent it was about the attorney general s control over the justice department and felt like it was time to push back and this, oching of courf course, i. he rarely does this. he always, as every single event, sessions goes out of his way to praise the president. to talk about furtherering his agenda. but the one time that he did push back was back in february where, again, the president questioned his integrity. he said what the attorney general had been doing at the justice department surrounding carter page, and surveillance and fisa, those issues that have become al ....
The latest news from around the world with hosts John Berman and Poppy Harlow. to it s the same thing as an indictment. the prosecutors just didn t have to go through getting a grand jury to sit. the information doesn t have this language about the president. michael cohen, of course, in his allocution to his guilty plea stood up and stated he did these campaign finance law violations at the best of the president. but you think it s notable it s not included on paper? i do. there s the buzzword unindicted co-conspirator. the president is not technically an unindicted co-conspirator. he s not mentioned in the information so i think that was a real move on the part of the prosecutors not to go one step deeper. it would have been different if they named him in the information. what do you think they didn t, paul? it s an interesting set of charges against cohen. the charge essentially is that the payment to stormy daniels and karen mcdougal were campaign contributio ....
A roundup of the day s events. justice will not be improperly influenced by political considerations. but president trump telling fox he thinks politics matters in prosecutions. if you look at president obama, he had a massive campaign violation, but he had a different attorney general, and they viewed it a lot differently. you know, we have somebody, they seem to like to go after a lot of republicans. reporter: one top republican, now a convicted felon, paul manafort, president trump s former campaign chairman, found guilty by a jury this week of tax crimes and bank fraud. i have great respect for what he s done in terms of what he s gone through. some of the charges they threw against him, every consultant, every lobbyist in washington probably does. reporter: the question now, will the president pardon manafort? his press secretary says he s never discussed it. that s not something that has been up for discussion. i don t have anything for you on that. reporter ....
unlock all doors and i see the pride when they say i am an american. to see how florence s program unlocks the doors of the american dream, go to cnnheroes.com. thanks for watching. our coverage continues. happening now. hurricane lane battering hawaii with strong winds and deluge rain. another ally appears to have broken with the president. the executive who helped kill stories about the president s affairs before the election cooperating with investigators. and a predominately black georgia county could close most of the polling places before midterms. critics say it is doing to muzzle the majority vote. good morning. i m christine romans. i m dave briggs. happy friday. august 24th. 4:00 a.m. in the east and 10:00 p.m. in hawaii. we start with hurricane lane on final approach to hawaii. it is now category three. officials are warning the storm is a significant rainmaker. more than 19 inches fell on the big island. governor david ige says some parts of the island ....