news from the White House at this hour President Trump touting the first round
of quote biting sanctions against Iran this is a big policy change as we say
good morning on a Tuesday I'm Bill Hemmer live inside of America's newsroom
good morning bill hang on Sandra Smith will the president also warning that
there will be further penalties coming in November while taking aim at our
European allies still supporting the nuke deal the Trump administration
raising one key question at this hour why would nations want to help the
Iranian regime we've made it clear that our objective particularly after the
November sanctions kick in is that no one should be buying oil from Iran
I think governments all around the world and businesses should be asking
themselves regardless of the nuclear deal why do you want to do business with
the world's largest financier of international terrorism
Benjamin Hall has more now picking up the story live in London Benjamin yeah
good morning bill what these sanctions effectively do or give companies two
options one is to deal with the multi trillion economy of the US or to deal
with Iran what we've seen almost overnight a company's choosing to deal
with the US and despite European countries trying to force them in other
directions now President Trump making it very clear where he stood by tweeting
this morning saying the Iran sanctions have officially been cast these are the
most biting sanctions ever imposed and in November they ratchet up to yet
another level anyone doing business with Iran will not be doing business with the
United States I am asking for world peace nothing less and the response was
quick just in the last few hours the French oil giant total has said it will
quit its multi-billion dollar gas project in Iran pushing up oil prices
immediately and while the European Union has vowed to counter the sanctions to
keep the Iran deal alive by telling companies to increase business in Iran
it just hasn't worked in European car Giants Daimler Peugeot and Renault all
now saying they too will suspend ventures as well meanwhile though on the
streets of Iran we're seeing reaction as well
as there are growing as the currency plummets many feel the country is now at
a breaking point and many people on the streets were also very angry the
president rouhani turned down a last-minute offer from President Trump
to negotiate but Iran does have some allies and just today North Korean
Foreign Minister arrived in Tehran to hold talks with senior Iranian officials
on bolstering relations between the two countries with Iran telling the North
Koreans not to trust the US and of course the interesting thing now will be
to see whether Russia China and India allow their companies to keep dealing
with Iran Iran seems to feel they can rely on those three countries so we'll
have to see if they can also help to impose these sanctions but president
trump always saying the door was open for negotiations the Iranians refused
any change Benjamin Hall thank you we await the fallout thanks today in less
than a half hour the high-stakes criminal trial of Paul Manafort resumes
with Rick gates Manta Ford's former business associate
continuing his testimony gates admitting yesterday that he lied committed crimes
and stole all while working for mana fork meanwhile president Trump and his
legal team could decide whether he would sit down for an interview with robert
muller as soon as today Peter Doocy outside of the US District Court in
Alexandria Virginia this morning Peter Sandra Rick Gates has at least three
more hours worth of answering questions from the mauler team before the defense
gets a crack at him but he already admitted that he stole hundreds of
thousands of dollars from his old boss Paul Manafort by submitting false
expense reports and by doing that Rick Gates has essentially preempted the
centerpiece of the Manta for teams argument that he can't be trusted as a
witness because he embezzled money they were gonna bring that out later gates
went ahead and did it himself and that's not all Paul mana Ford's former deputy
owned up to in this testimony that focused squarely on allegations of
financial crimes and had nothing to do with allegations of Russian collusion
gates also testified he and Paul Manafort knowingly committed crimes
together by deliberately deciding not to report foreign accounts and foreign
income the Muller team has argued long this was to lighten their income
tax load but the Muller team finished their day in court with an earful from
the judge ts Ellis who did not think Muller prosecutor Greg Andres was being
very polite the judge told Andres look at me don't look down Andres then said
he was looking at a document and the judge replied you looked down as if to
say that's BS somebody who had no problem with direct eye contact
yesterday is Paul Manafort he stared directly at his former deputy gates
while gates testified that the two of them knowingly defied tax law and bank
law and while gates did at one point compliment Paul Manafort as being a
brilliant political mind Gates said that he and mana fort had a purely
professional relationship and they never socialized outside of work and it
certainly doesn't sound like that's something that's gonna happen in the
future Sandra Peter Doocy outside the
courthouse there thank you meanwhile president Trump's legal team
could give X response today to bomb mother's request for an interview with
the president that may happen today Rudy Giuliani's saying this letter will
address a key issue saying quote we have real reluctance about allowing any
questions regarding obstruction of justice
Thom Dupree former Deputy Assistant AG and a president george w bush Tom hello
to you and good morning let's analyze this with simplicity what do you think
the president's team does Tom I think they're gonna cut a deal bill we have
seen over the last few days in particular the two sides getting closer
together and in my view it makes a lot of sense not just for molars side
because he obviously wants to get information from the president but also
from the White House's perspective because I think the last thing that the
White House wants is a drawn-out fight over a subpoena that could take as much
to as a year in time it could go all the way up to the US Supreme Court and I
think the White House wants to have the president sit down under controlled
conditions get this over with okay all right now what are those control control
conditions I'm told they will not answer anything regarding article 2 of the
Constitution and that's the president's right well he certainly can take that
position and that may well be upheld by a court I think what the president is
keen on doing here a few things one is limiting the topic matters that Muller
can get into the president's team has been Adam
that they want the spotlight to be on things that happened before the election
as opposed to after the president was inaugurated other things they can do
just common sense things limit the time of the interview you don't want to
subject the president to six or eight hours or more of questioning by Muller
and you also want to make sure that Muller will respect these limits you
need to have an agreement in advance that Muller will limit himself to the
particular time and to the particular degree so some of these questions could
be face to face some of these could be in written response you can negotiate
that right you can and that's what we've seen the president obviously would like
to do things in writing that gives them time to think about their answers to
craft the right answer as opposed to a face-to-face interaction where you know
as we've seen a lot witnesses sometimes don't quite get it right under the
pressure of the moment okay but they have if there's a crime they have to
show the evidence they have right in other words the president nine states
gives these requests all the time and you are not just entitled to sit down
with the president that's right that's right yeah I mean they have to have a
reason for answering these questions this is not a fishing expedition the
questions have to be relevant to the charge that Muller has namely to
investigate tampering with the 2016 election this is not an opportunity for
Muller to basically ask the president wide-ranging questions anything he wants
to know it has to be linked to his investigatory mandates okay and also
based on law you have to show that you cannot get this information from any
other witness correct that that's usually the standard they use when
you're talking about the president obviously the president is a busy person
and if this is information that you can get in a different way then you're
obligated to try to get it through that source before trying to get it from the
President of the United States that tells me it's a high bar and I'm not
convinced they're going to concede to this time
well we'll see I guess my view is that we have seen over the last few weeks the
president's position shift during or at least his lawyers position shifting from
at first they said there's not going to be any interview to now we're actually
negotiating terms and conditions I think this is a carefully calibrated dance I
think the sides are moving closer together look this is what lawyers do
they love to negotiate and ultimately they often not always but often we took
real cases to put a fine point on this you think this will happen
and I shall in some form yes I do and I think it will be a combination of oral
questioning and written question okay Bill Clinton sat for a deposition
that ran for four hours and and he did it on camera I can't see you advising
that if you were the president's lawyer would you I would not advise that and
look there are many things that went wrong with Bill Clinton's deposition I
mean I think the first thing is that he basically tried to outsmart the
questioners and it got him in hot water to say the least so I think it really
comes down to a question of making sure you've adequately prepared the president
for this questioning you got to do mock questions and answers and you got to
make sure he's got a story right the first let me squeeze one more question
do you think Rick Gates is a good witness for the state in this case
against manna for it I think he is a good witness yes I do I see damage now
that he's admitted that he stole several hundred thousand dollars from the guy
who's on trial absolutely that damages him and I think
what the prosecution was trying to do was get on in front of the story the
last thing they would want is for the manna fourth defense team to somehow
surprise the jury on cross-examination by saying hey this guy's a thief that's
why they had a mad minute in his direct testimony to get that out before the
jury to draw the sting out of it okay Tom come on back Tom Dupree in
Washington DC thank you sir for that thank you Bill all right more to come
we'll see whether or not today's today expect some sort of response from the
Trump legal team could be today could be tomorrow we'll see that's right we've
been waiting for a while anybody's guess you know we'll see what
two News Alert canceling today scheduled news briefing on the search for missing
University of Iowa student Molly Tibbets it had been moved it's been moved to
Friday we were expecting it to happen at some point today but the 20 year old
disappeared after going for a jog a couple weeks ago now July 18th
her father telling Fox News he believes his daughter is still alive and he says
she could be with somebody she knows who is in over their head 260 thousand
dollars is being offered for Tippit's safe return one critical election across
several states today over in the map here we show you in a moment what's at
stake Kansas and Michigan and Missouri and Washington State they all hold
primaries today but there's a special election or Ohio where a reliably
Republican seat is being closely watched want to bring in Charlie herd pitting at
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