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it is tuesday, july 31st, fox news alert, a chilling threat on the other side of the southern border as mexico s murder rate skyrockets. donald trump double down on a shutdown over the border wall. jillian: lemonade stand standoff. a 7-year-old boy was ordered to close up shot. jillian: sobering numbers about drinking and shopping. fox and friends first continues right now. our producer has new music. jillian: who was it? i m not sure. i don t keep up with them. nicely done. you keep up with them. good morning. you are watching fox and friends first tuesday morning. jillian: thanks for starting your day with us. donald trump doubling down on his threat to shut down the government over border security. kim jong un 7 the clock is ticking toward the funding deadline. the clock is ticking, the october 1st deadline, mitch mcconnell talking about avoiding a messy fight over immigration. appeared we were all in agreement but yesterday he reiterated a rever ....
reporter: you were talking about tests up at the top. i can tell you there s one other test right now for the courts, that is to find a fair and impartial jury. 65 perspective jurors were ushered into the court on the ninth floor of the courthouse in virginia. the judge first describing the charges against paul manafort to them, including bank fraud, conspiracy and failure to report offshore bank accounts. of course, that s where they re going to fight this case out over the next two or three weeks. after doing that, he began what is traditional for any judge, and that is to question the jurors about whether they know any of the attorneys in the case, introducing all the attorneys and the defendant paul manafort to them. then essentially trying to get at a question of whether any associations these jurors might have would affect their ability to reach a fair and impartial verdict in this case. of course, no one responded affirmatively. they have moved on to private and perso ....
A morning show that highlights the latest headlines in news, weather, sports and entertainment, and is known for the cohosts casual and spontaneous. A morning show that highlights the latest headlines in news, weather, sports and entertainment, and is known for the cohosts casual and spontaneous. base supports president trump. pete: absolute fact. ainsley: do you want to know why the president is so strict about immigration and wanting that wall? if you look at the murder rate in mexico, it went up dramatically in 2017 last year it went up 27%. 31,174 people were murdered. pete: that s higher than the height of the drug wars that happened in early 2011, 2012 over there mexico has 200 million less people in america. yet the number of people murdered in that country is roughly twice ours. serious crime drug problem run by cartels just on our southern border and we are wondering whether we should secure it or not? steve: no kidding. one of the agencies inside the united sta ....
not russia, though russia looms large in the background as it seems to in everything else these days. manafort s being tried in federal court in alexandria, virginia. he was, of course, trump s campaign chairman, ran the rnc convention. it s the first of two trials for him, and this one he s looking at 18 counts of bank fraud, tax evasion, conspiracy charges in relation to his work for a pro-russian party in ukraine before he went to work for the trump campaign. he has pleaded not guilty to all charges. this trial is off to a lightning start. so far a jury has been seated. opening statements have been delivered, and a witness has testified, all on day one. manafort was a march to august chairman back in 2016. he helped trump secure the nomination, make no mistake, and trump said so at the time. i have fantastic people. paul manafort just came on. he s great. he didn t need to do this, but he wanted to. paul manafort has done an amazing job. he is here some place where. is ....
tonight, day one of the manafort trial. the first of the mueller era. the government argues paul manafort thought he was above the law, while his defense team plans to attack the star government witness against him. the president started his day declaring collusion is not a crime, ending his day with red meat for the crowd in tampa, and no talk of russia. he did declare himself the most popular republican ever. and with 98 days until the midterms, facebook announces it s found fake accounts designed to further tear us apart, and we ll show you if they have a familiar look to them. the 11th hour begins right now. good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. day 558 of the trump administration, and day one of the paul manafort trial, the first big test for robert mueller. it is a trial about taxes and not russia, though russia looms large in the background as it seems to in everything else these days. manafort s being tried in federal court in a ....