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Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. special counsel s case. then he called gates honesty into question. but charges were brought against manafort before gates agreed to cooperate with the special counsel. many of the initial charges were based on missing tax documents and bank statements. manafort s lawyers accused gates of embezzling money from the pair s lobbying firm during work with the ukrainiian politicians. attorney prosecuting said the republican operative created cash out of thin air. prosecutors ticked through some of the $30 million that he allegedly wired to the united states without declaring or paying taxes. spenzing on things like moment renovations and clothes at stores in new york and beverly hills where he spent nearly $1.5 million. including a $21,000 watch, and a couple levels. we have a federal criminal trial of the president of the united states former campaign manager on tens of millions of dollars of fraud. tha ....
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 ....
Get a jump on the day s news with Christine Romans and Dave Briggs. manhattan. he talked about paul manafort being one of the top five clients. they expect to call more vendors to the stand today. this is a fast-moving trial. prosecutors told the judge they expect to wrap the trial next week. dave. jessica, thank you. cnn jessica, thank you. cnn has learned that tsa is planning to eliminating screening at 150 airports. they also say the proposal would come with a small undesirable security risk. a tsa spokesman saying the documents confirm a debate within the agency. two of the september 11th attackers first flew from portland, maine. a small airport there would be less secure. cnn s rene marsh has the latest from washington. reporter: dave, this would be a major change for travelers and a shift in how tsa uses resources. the proposal, the agency is considering, calls for elimination of the tsa screening at small and medium sized airports that operate commercial pl ....
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 ....
Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. putin meeting all around us in that setting. but they are also hearing the president in very few words undercut the investigation. the president also hit some other big topics like the border wall and of course smacking the media. here s some of the highlights. we re fixing walls all over the border. and we re going to start to get very nasty over the world. anything i want, they want to oppose. i just figured out how to do the wall. i ll say, i don t want to build the wall and they ll insist on building it. i just figured that out right now. they can make anything bad. because they are the fake, fake disgusting news. so fake, fake disgusting was a sort of updated iteration. there was cheering and jeering at us in the work area that is the president getting funding for the wall. remember, a republican-led congress has not supported the president in funding such an endeavor. joining me to discuss, ....