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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 ....
A newscast reviewing and analyzing top stories of the day as they happen. the government and for manafort to keep things moving along. they did. that is the same judge that challenged the special counsel s office and accused them of just trying to use charges of financial crimes to squeeze manafort in giving them information that they could use against president trump. the trial proceeded anyway and the former trump campaign manager that was a wakened by an fbi agent performing a no-knock raid is being confronted with evidence that he hit $60 million from the irs which he received consulting ukrainian politicians. the charges are for falsifying income tax returns, bank fraud and failing to file reports. if convicted, manafort could face 305 years in jail. there s sentencing guidelines for federal cases like that that would suggest that the judge would probably give him something less than that, shep. shepard: what is the next step in this trial, peter? any minute, shep, we ....
Rachel Maddow takes a look at the day s top political news stories. many months later, that s after the inauguration, after the election, when fbi director james comey went down to the hill, where he was testifying and said, yes, there was an open probe. by that time, the fbi had also initiated a separate but related investigation and that has now been broken much into public view, much more, because the break came with this very curious indictment of a woman named maria butina. now, she was suspected as an unregistered agent of the russian government. that she was trying to mount this covert influence operation through a conservative group, a gun rights group in the u.s. tonight, the same reporter who had the breakthrough scoop about the steele dossier has a new and obviously provocative question. did alleged russian spy, maria butina, cause a leadership shake up at the nra? the backstory here is an fbi dive, prior to the fact of trump becoming president, into russian attempt ....
Rachel Maddow takes a look at the day s top political news stories. they are known as the steele dossier. they allege, among other things, that the trump campaign had organized collusion with the kremlin. quote, this is something of huge significance. way above party politics, that intelligence officer told corn, that would be steele. quote, i think trump s own party should be aware of this stuff, as well. the official confirmation of the fbi investigation into the trump campaign s contacts with russia was not confirmed for many more months. it s even easy to forget that, because it s the kind of big information that s the center of american politics, so we all talk about it. people who don t even follow the news know about it. but let s be clear. it was not until march 2017, many months later is, that s after the inauguration, after the election, when fbi director james comey went down to the hill, where he was testifying and said, yes, there was an open probe. by that time, ....
so no matter where you re going. we re right there with you. the powerful backing of american express. don t do business without it. don t live life without it. welcome to kasie d.c. i m kasie hunt. we are live every sunday from washington from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. eastern. tonight august in washington feels even hotter than usual. president trump today publicly roaring as one paper puts it. speaking out on twitter about that trump tower meeting. possibly putting himself and his son in front of legal jeopardy. the president also ramping up his campaigning ahead of november while taking a shot at ohio s favorite son ahead of a high-stakes special election. plus, when governor jay inslee was asked whether he ll take on trump in 2020, he said he s running against him already. i ll ask him what that means when he joins me live. and congressman seth moulton turning fellow vetd ranz into members of congress. he joins me live as well. but first president trump who is spendin ....