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after we finished the kitchen floor. [laughter] bill: caution, you are about to enter the no spin zone. the factor begins right now. bill: hi, i am bill o reilly. thanks for watching us tonight. the brawl over sanctuary cities. that is the subject of this evening talking points memo. as you may know, the federal government is threatening cities that do not cooperate with homeland security with the loss of federal grant money. now, the city of seattle, suing the feds over that, the first of many lawsuits, i believe. the basic problem is that cities like chicago, seattle, new york, los angeles, san francisco, do not want to hold illegal aliens they ve arrested until i.c.e can pick them up. though cities want to release the aliens on bail or their own recognizance. talking points believe that is dangerous and irresponsible. if there is a federal detainer play to that constituency. and to the federal government, which now wants to enforce immigration law, because presi ....
Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. seated, the judge will give fairly long explanation.on. reporter: after the jury is seated, the judge will give fairly long explanation. we re not going to hear opening statements today. it s possible we could hear them tomorrow or thursday. got it. pete williams. thank you very much. let me bring in national political reporter for the washington post and msnbc political analyst. two msnbc contributors. charlie savage. let me go over briefly this reminder about paul manafort and why the special counsel is interested in him. starts with donald trump. he hired paul manafort to run his presidential campaign in march 2016. prior to his work on the trump campaign, manafort did political work overseas. some for the pro-russian highlights which as you indicated, rick gates, all eyes will be on him. he was the right hand man to manafort. what he ll have to do in order to fulfill his cooperation agreement, ....
now, turning attention to the ron johnson letter if i may. yes. on august 31st, senator johnson is getting ready to travel to ukraine on september 5th with senator murphy. and he wanted johnson wanted the aid released, he calls the president, he actually sought permission to be the bearer of good news. right. the president said, i m not ready to lift the aid. and they had this senator johnson. he writes a ten page letter, very detailed. and he gives some remarkable deta detail. and i d like to read it, it s on page 6. i add this is senator johnson speaking, i asked him whether there was some kind of arrangement where ukraine would take some action and the hold would be lifted. without hesitation senator johnson says, president trump immediately denied such an arrangement existed. and he started cursing. and he said no way, president trump said no way, i would never do that. who told you that? and senator johnson goes on to say that president trump s reaction here ....
dispute. now turning attention to the ron johnson letter if i may. yes. on august 31st, senator johnson is getting ready to travel to ukraine on september 5th with senator with murphy. and he wanted johnson wanted the aid released so he calls the president and sought permission to be the bearer of good news. right. the president said i m not ready to lift the aid. they had this senator johnson, he writes a ten-page letter, very detailed, and he gives some remarkable detail and i would like to read it. it s on page 6. i this is senator johnson speaking, he said i asked him whether there was some kind of arran arrangement where ukraine would take some action and the hold would be lifted. without hesitation, senator johnson says, president trump immediately denied such an arrangement existed and he started cursing. he said, no way. president trump said no way. i would never do that. who told you that? and senator johnson goes on to say that president trump s react ....
[silence]. now, turning attention to the ron johnson letter, if i may. yes. on august 31st, senator johnson is getting ready to travel to the ukraine in september with murphy. johnson called the president and sought permission to be the bearer of good news. right. the president said i am not ready to lift the aid. senator johnson, he writes a 10 page letter. very detailed. he gives some remarkable details. i would like to read it. it s on page 6. this is senator johnson speak. i asked him whether there was some kind of arrangement or ukraine would take action and be lifted. without hesitation president trump denied such an arrangement existed. and he started cursing. he said no way. president trump said no way. i would never do that. who told you that? and senator johnson goes on to say that president trump s reaction was adamant, ve hement and angry. and as august 31st, the president said you will like my decision in the end. that s very important context on the ....