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todd whitman is my guest. let s if out front. good evening. i m erin burnett. breaking news, a shrewd leader, how president trump s lawyers are painting paul manafort. a jury of six men and six women listening as heweller s team outlined its case describing manafort as a con artist who ran a global scheme to avoid paying millions in taxes. prosecutors say manafort made $60 million in ukraine and that he didn t report to it the irs. they say he had 30 bank accounts in just three foreign countries which he used in part to store untaxed income to spend on luxury goods like range rovers, a watch costing $21,000, a $15,000 custom made ostrich jacket. who doesn t need one of those, right? the defense hitting back saying manafort is the victim that he was taken advantage of by the man he trusted most rick gates, his right hand man in ukraine and his deputy in the trump A news and interview program, anchored by Erin Burnett. countries. he owns seven homes, including in the hampton ....
A precursor to Fox News s morning show, featuring the news and first looks at the other stories of the day. in court today charged with attempted murder. he was out on bond for a weapons charge. put the man police a friend to shoot a congresswoman set to face a judge today. carlos is accused of leading voice mail for the majority whip and caffrey kathy mc mars rogers, they told him, quote, we are going to feed them led, make no mistake, you will pay. scalise nearly killed last year after a gunman opened fire at a republican baseball practice. jillian: donald from rallying the crowd in the keystone state out of his economic success, slamming his opponents and calling for a government shutdown. rob: drumming up support for lou barletta s senate bid. reporter: in classic form, in maxine waters, very low iq. running against pocahontas or crazy bernie. i saw him up there the other day. that hair is getting wider and wider, he is getting crazier and crazier. reporter: th ....
A look at the day s news and headlines. the average now for 2018, 215,000 a month higher than it was a couple years ago. on the down side, again the number was slightly less than anticipated. transportation and warehouse was interesting. the monthly was almost 19,000. last month we lost 1,000 jobs there. it was one of the things that stood out to me. bill: economists and financial people can find something negative in anything. unemployment is at 3.9 percent. we haven t seen a number like this in 18 years. the real unemployment number is more impressive called the u6. it takes into account people working part-time but don t want that. that number dropped from 7.5. that s a sharp decline in a long time. bill: 2.7% higher wages. you want wages to go a bit higher than that. it was the expectation. another great piece of news, people working part-time for economic reasons because they couldn t find a job, that s dropped by 176,000. 400,000 more people got a job. 100,00 ....
A newscast reviewing and analyzing top stories of the day as they happen. that and $300 billion after that. basically the entire u.s. trade relationship with china. initially on the next tranche of $200 billion, the president was thinking about levying attacks of 10%. this afternoon we re going to learn that the president is going to up that to 25%. the belief here among his trading economic team that china continues to be a bad actor when it comes to trade and they need very strong influence, if you will, to try to get china to change its ways. listen to what sarah huckabee sanders. the president has made some head way the e.u. in terms of lowering trade barriers, taking steps towards levelling the playing field. does the president and his team believe that is possible with china without taking some real punitive measures? we d like to see the playing field levelled. the president as both he and i think about 15 members of his administration have said repeatedly, we d ....
everybody loves molly, nothing like this has ever happened. jillian: it is thursday, august 2nd, fox news alert. the brand-new clue and a break in the search for the missing iowa students. todd: the russia probe must end, the message from donald trump to his own attorney general. jillian: will he sit down with robert mueller? president obama endorsed a long list of 2020 contenders but there s one name noticeably missing. todd: fox and friends first continues right now. ain t no mountain high enough ain t no mountain low enough ain t no mountain high enough keeping me from getting to you rob: that is how it happened. that is something. a very good morning to you as you watch fox and friends first thursday morning. jillian: thanks for starting your day with us. let s start with a fox news alert, a break in the search for molly tibbetts. police looking into a reported sighting in missouri. heather: stop 200 miles from where the 20-year-old went missing in brooklyn ....