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>> good morning to viewers in the u.s. and around the world. it is monday, august 1st. john berman is off and john avalon is here with us this morning. >> good morning. >> great to you have. we begin with major news just n cnn reporting that nancy pelosi will be visiting taiwan after all despite china's stern warnings for her not to go. this comes from u.s. and taiwanese sources. it's not clear which day pelosi will be visiting as her asia trip gets under way here. we previously reported that the biden administration privately tried to convince pelosi not to go to taiwan. >> more exc...

Charges related to bank fraud, tax charges. So this is the moment where this courtroom will now finally be hearing from manaforts essentially his number two, his former right hand man, rick gates. And gates is the prosecutions key witness. He will be the next person to testify. Lets go first to cnns caris beganel. She is just outside the courtroom in alexandria, virginia. Tell me, when will this happen . Mere minutes . We have one more witness to finish testified today. Thats manaforts accountant. Rick gates is the witness thats up next. Many of thes attorney said that in court. This all came ...

Sudan after a cnn investigation revealed russia is plundering sue began's goal to help finance putt putt putin's war in ukraine. tell us more. >> we have known for some time about russia's project to buttress itself against the u.s. sanctions regime ptbut what we haven't been able to pin down is the mechanisms of the invasion and cost of it to the people on the ground. this is what we have uncovered. take a look. >> reporter: deep in sudan's gold country, miners toil in the searing heat. barely surviving in what should be one of africa's richest countries. providing gold for a war, a continent...

President biden leveling what he calls the first tranche of actions against russia and declaring putin's newest actions against ukraine are the beginning of a russian invasion. biden saying he believes putt putin is ready to go much farther in launching a massive military attack against ukraine. with me now, lieutenant colonel alexander vindman, a former director for european affairs at the national security council. thank you, colonel. appreciate you joining us. >> the u.s. is now calling this the beginning of russian invasion. that's after hedging on what is called last night. so first round...

Again, then we can't hold our leaders accountable to us. they become accountable to other people. but what i'm concerned about is this move within the republican party that i think rand paul is now a part of of drawing closer to a foreign adversary while it attacks us. there is simply no excuse for this. >> well, speaking of that same foreign adversary, you now have -- we talked a lot about the putin/trump meeting and we still don't know. and high intel official don't note. here's what we do know. the guy on the screen, steven segal, who is by all accounts putt putin's bff is now the special e...