all right. on "the daily briefing," sources saying that the attorney general will not be blackmailed for supporting the criminal reform bill. shepard smith will have more next. i'm dana. here's shep. >> shepard: it's noon on the west coast. 3:00 in new york. the publisher of the national inquirers apparently has some stories to tell about president trump. giving prosecutors information on hush money payments to these two women before the 2016 election. the news comes after the president told "fox and friends" maybe it should be illegal for his former fixer to flip. >> it's almost ought to be outlawed. it's not fair. >> shepard: the president's former campaign chair has not cut a deal yet. now a member of the jury tells fox news, one holdout kept him from convicting paul manafort on the whole thing. and this juror says she's a supporter of president trump. >> the public, america, needed

to know how close this was and the evidence was overwhelming, i didn't want paul manafort to be guilty but he was. >> check this out, the view from space of a massive category four hurricane heading for hawaii. let's get to it. here we go again. first from the fox news deck this thursday afternoon, a long-time friend of president trump has gotten immunity from federal prosecutors. fox news has confirmed the report from the "wall street journal." the journal's parent company and fox news parent company share common ownership. this comes two days after the president's former fixer and attorney michael cohen implic e implicated the president in a crime, a felony. the journal's report breaking just hours ago that this man, this ceo of the national inquirer's parent company, david pecker, struck a deal with the feds. it states pecker gave

prosecutors information on the president, michael cohen and hush money scheme to keep women quiet about their alleged affairs with the now president. here's what happened. in the summer leading up to the 2016 presidential election, executives with the national inquirer's parent company reached a $150,000 deal to pay karen mcdougal for her story about an affair with president trump. they bought the story to kill it. a move called catch and call. the porn star, stormy daniels got a $130,000 pay out in exchange for her silence of what she claims is a one-night stand. the president denies it all. fast forward to a new york city courtroom. michael cohen says candidate trump directed him to pay women to keep quiet about their alleged sexual relationships with the president. as the white house tried to manage the fallout from

back-to-back-to-back legal blows this week, president trump says flipping should probably be illegal. here's what president trump told "fox and friends" host ainsley earhardt in an interview that aired this morning. >> he makes a better deal when he uses me like everybody else. one of the reasons i respect paul manafort so much, he went through that trial -- they make up stories. people make up stories. this thing about flipping they call it, i know all about flipping for 30, 40 years. i've watched flippers. everything is wonderful and then they get ten years in jail and they flip on the next higher one or as high as you can go. it almost ought to be outlawed. it's not fair. if someone is going to spend five years or 10 years or 15 years because of a taxi cab industry, because he defrauded a bank, campaign violations are

not considered a big deal. but if someone defrauded a bank or get 10, 20 years in jail but if you can say something bad about trump and go down to two years or three years which is the deal he made, in all fair me to him, most people are going to do it. i've seen it many times. i've had many friends involved in this stuff. it's called flipping and almost ought to be illegal. >> shepard: it's perfectly legal and standing operating procedure for courts across the nation. we saw evidence that the jury may have felt much the same as mr. trump. listen to what a juror told our shannon bream last night about the testimony of manafort's former right-hand man, rick gates. >> some of us had a problem with accepting his testimony because he took the plea. so we agreed to throw out his testimony and look at the paperwork. his name was all over it.

>> did you find him to be credible? >> no. i think he would have done anything that he could to preserve himself. that's just obvious in the fact that he flipped on manafort. >> shepard: but that juror went on to convict paul manafort. peter doocy will have more on that in just a moment and john roberts will have a detailed wrap-up on a renewed throw down between the attorney general jeff sessions and the president. first, let's get to rick leventhal with more on the reported immunity deal for the publisher of the national inquirer and now former trump friend david pecker. former friend. >> sources are confirming this "wall street journal" report that the u.s. attorney's office offered immunity to david pecker so that he would talk about what he knew about michael cohen's handling of those payments to those women, david pecker, long-time friend of the president and runs the national inquirer. the journal reports the details include mr. trump's knowledge of these deals. we don't know is what the extent

is of the knowledge. pecker is a chairman of american media. he's a long-time friend of the president. offered to help him win the white house and burying stories that might harm his reputation. company executives involved in the six-figure pay-outs with karen mcdougal and stormy daniels. michael cohen was on the streets of new york today. he didn't answer questions about his case or his new troubles, including a subpoena from the new york state tax department and a demand that he give up his yellow cab business. last month we learned that cohen reported hundreds of conversations and phone calls including one released between him and the president discussing one of the hush payments. >> we need to open up a company for the transfer of all of that info regarding our friend, david, so that -- i've spoken to

alan about how to set the whole thing up. >> so what are we going to pay? >> yes. it's -- all the stuff -- all the stuff. you never know what -- >> whether he gets hit -- >> correct. i'm all over that. i spoke with alan about it. when it comes times to the financing, which will be -- >> what financing? >> i have to pay -- >> pay cash? >> no, no, no. no, no. >> the timeline of what the president knew and when he knew it getting fresh distribute any today. >> dana: he said then he knew about the payment. he said he didn't know about it. it's one of the other. can't be both. explain the national inquirer's relationship with the president. >> the inquirer is notorious for going after news makers and celebrities. one former employee said that donald trump was a target rich environment so there should have been a lot of stories about him.

the inquirer was hands off the candidate because he and donald trump and pecker have been friends for decades. in a profile piece, the new yorker magazine said there was a conference call with editors discussing that next week's issue -- someone brought up the president and melania on their first overseas trip. the president reached for melania's hand on the red carpet. she sort of slapped it away. somebody brought it up. pecker said i didn't see that. someone said, well, it's all over the news. pecker said i didn't see that. the matter was dropped. so the implication is that he was killing stories that might be negative about the president and promoting stories that were harsh of his opponent. >> shepard: now he's flipped and cooperating. >> we don't know what he said or his knowledge or the president's knowledge. he did apparently cooperate. >> shepard: david pecker, the porn star and the playmate. >> a lot of ps. >> shepard: it is. the war between the attorney general of the united states and

the president of the united states is hitting fresh heights. jeff sessions left the white house after a meeting before but he showed up, he put out one heck of a statement. hours after the president said jeff sessions has never taken the reins of the department, the attorney general responded. he said i took control the day i was sworn in which is way we've had success with the president's agenda. there's more. john roberts is live on the north lawn. john? >> shep, good afternoon to you. jeff sessions was with the president on prison reformed and follows another volley of criticism that the president fired at jeff sessions in an interview with "fox and friends," ainsley earhardt that aired this morning, ainsley asked if the president was going to fire jeff sessions. the president ducked that part of the question. but levelled criticism at sessions for recusing himself from the russia investigation and accused sessions of being a

weak leader. listen here. >> the dems are very strong in the justice department. i put an attorney general that never took control of the justice department, jeff sessions. he never took control of the justice department. it's an incredible thing. i put "justice" with quotes. jeff sessions recused himself, she shouldn't have done. >> in a preemptive strike before heading over to the white house, the attorney general released a statement saying he won't be bullied by the president. he said while i'm attorney general, the actions of the department of justice will not be improperly influenced by political considerations. i demand the highest standards and where they're not met, i take action. no nation has a more talented or more dead greated group of law enforcement and prosecutors than the united states. sources tell fox news that sessions wanted to get that statement out before coming over here to the white house because it's well known around here in washington that he's the

president's favorite piñata. he wanted to wield his own stick. >> shepard: can't really fire him. that would put rod rosenstein in charge of everything. that's not -- this is not a means to the end he wants. >> no. there's a large belief here in washington that sessions will remain the attorney general at least through the mid-term elections. after that, it's anybody's belt to what happens. >> shepard: in that interview, the president talked about impeachme impeachment. >> he did. a lot of talk about washington as to whether or not the president might face criminal charges. the more likely case people believe is the potential for the president to face impeachment charges if democrats were to take control of congress after the november election. for his part this morning, the president thought that impeachment would be a terrible idea. that it would reverse all of the economic gains that the united states has made since he was elected. listen to what the president said. >> i don't know how you can impeach somebody who has done a great job. i'll tell you what, if i ever

got impeached, i think the market would crash. everybody would be very poor because without this thinking, you would see numbers that you wouldn't believe in reverse. >> a lot of democrats already on board the idea of impeachment. most people say it won't happen even if democrats were to take control of congress and vote out articles of impeachment to the senate because you need a 2/3 of likely to not convict. the same thing happened with bill clinton. there was political blow back against the republicans. an rudy guliani said that if this president were to be impeached, guliani expects there would be a people's revolt here in the united states. shep? >> shepard: john roberts, live at the white house. thank you. coming up, more from the juror that says she's a bug trump supporter and that didn't stop her from convicting the former

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manafort was guilty. >> finding mr. manafort guilty was hard for me. i wanted him to be innocent. i really wanted him to be innocent but he wasn't. that's the part of a juror. you have to have due diligence and deliberate and look at the evidence and come up with an informed and intelligent decision, which i did. >> shepard: she said there was so much of a paper trail, most juror was convicted that he was guilty on all counts of bank fraud. peter doocy talked to that juror. he's live outside the district. peter, one holdout. >> yeah, shep. one hold out. 11 out of 12 jurors here in alexandria were redid it to convict him on all 18 counts after two days of deliberations. remember, it took four days. the reason is they were moved by the mountain of exhibits by the mueller team.

>> there was so much paperwork. four full boxes of papers to go through. the e-mails, the false documents. e-mails that paul manafort sent to other people. it was just -- it was there in the paper. it was there. >> the exhibits of tax and bank records were apparently more compelling than the prosecution's star witness, rick gates. >> what did you think of rick gates, the star witness? >> i think he deserves a special place in hell. he was just as guilty as paul manafort. maybe even more. he embezzled from his employer. a lot of us said after gates didn't testify, the paper trail pretty much led us to what we decided. >> duncan does not think a lot of the mueller probe but she said she thinks their side made

the winning argument here, shep. >> shepard: we know why there was a mystery delay in the trial. >> both sides were fighting against potentially dismissing a juror because the judge found out she made it very clear that she didn't feel the defense had anything to offer up coming and for the rest of the trial. manafort's defense attorney argued that we would not agree. it's a small thing when a juror makes a comment on the weakness of the defense. they pushed for a mistrial. the judge said no. i will deny your motion for a mistrial. i have no earthly reason for a mistrial. duncan is a big-time trump supporter and will vote for him in 2020. shep? >> shepard: peter doocy live at the courthouse. weather alert. folks in hawaii are getting ready for the first hurricane in two decades.

right now it's a massive category four. we'll head to the fox extreme weather center next.

>> shepard: hurricane lane in a fox extreme weather alert. it's a category four hurricane now headed for hawaii. hurricane lane is the first major storm to hit the state in more than 25 years. take a look at this storm track. it's moving north and west and expected to be off the west coast of the big island overnight tonight. tropical storm conditions have already hit there, we're told. forecasters say downpours are slamming the island. 12 inches of rain have fallen in 12 hours in some areas. this is the big island. flooding taking over the streets there. a commander with the united states navy says the military

started moving ships and submarines from pearl harbor and will be stationed and ready to help with the storm response. he says navy planes will be kept in hangers or flown away from the storm. hurricane lane right now packing 130 miles an hour winds. emergency officials are telling folks to take shelter. the government shelters are built to withstand winds 40 miles an hour. might not be that helpful. rick that sounds dangerous. >> yeah. >> you need stronger buildings for this kind of a storm. category four. likely about to change as it pulls off to the north. some shear that will rip it apart, which is great news. every one of the hawaiian islands getting in on the storm. this will pill off to the north

and almost all indications are that it's going to take a left-hand turn. does this happen a little bit earlier and not impact land as much? or does it happen later and make a direct landfall between maui, up around oahu. because it's going to make the turn, it's going to slow it down and a longer-term impact across the island. there's the wind shear as it pulls to the north. that will rip it apart, which is the good news. the rain, you get the idea. the big idea, up towards kawhi. rain totals will be most extreme on the eastern side of the islands here. the way this happens, there's a lot of mountains here across hawaii's big island. along with that, the moisture comes in and rises and rings out the moisture. the other side of the island is not going to get nearly as much

rain. we'll see some spots, maybe 20 to 30 inches of rain. other sides of the island, maybe one or two. take a look at the wind field. sustained winds. the yellow, tropical storm force as this moves through time, we have tropical storm conditions tonight, tomorrow across the big island and oahu and maui. it's a very wet weekend and a dangerous one. some spots over 20 years and will cause significant flooding, shep. >> shepard: thanks, rick. as you gave out this report, the president gave out a tweet. he said i am providing hawaii the necessary support ahead of hurricane lane. he said our teams are cooperating with the state and local authorities. you're in our thoughts. he retweeted a fox news story as well. there's your presidential update.

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>> i'm lea gabrielle with a fox report. more of today's headlines. the feds say they discovered a drug smuggling tunnel in a vacant kfc.

the tunnel turning up in a traffic stop in yuma, arizona. they say it stretched for the length of six football fields all the way into mexico. the building's owner under arrest. surveillance cameras catching a fed ex working chucking packages from his truck. you can see him tossing box after boss on the door step. the homeowner said the boxes had expensive electronics inside. we asked for a comment and have not heard back. canadian soldiers killed in the first world war had their remains returned home today. the relatives paying respect today. news continues with shep after this. with uncontrolled moderate-to-severe eczema,

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i'm famous 2016 trump tower meeting involving the president's son and a russia lawyer that promised dirt on hillary clinton. there's questions about what michael cohen himself knew. and also what president trump knew. axios reports that its sources say michael cohen testified to lawmakers that he did not know whether then candidate donald trump had any advanced knowledge of that trump tower meeting. axios told lawmakers that he didn't know either. since then, there was word that cohen was ready to tell the special counsel president trump did know about that meeting in advance. coh cohen's lawyer said that cohen was present during a discussion. the details -- he didn't give details. yesterday lanny davis said cohen does not have evidence that president trump knew about the meeting and not the source that he was ready to talk to bob

mueller. president trump said he didn't know and it seems like cohen was making up stories to get himself out of an unrelated jam. let's bring in jonathan swan for axios. i don't know how you keep up with this. whatever all that was, who knew what, i don't have any clue. can you help? >> yeah, i think i can help. i have two facts in that story. facts number 1, which is sourced with three people with knowledge of his testimony, michael cohen told the house intelligence committee and the senate intelligence committee last year under oath that he did not know whether president trump knew about the trump tower meeting. and then we had a huge explosion on cable television about this bomb shell story that said that cohen was prepared to tell mueller that trump did know about the trump tower meeting. i have been working on this for

a few weeks and brought it to cohen's lawyer, lanny david and he said that my reporting was correct. he said that cohen still has no idea whether trump had -- knew about that meeting. so nothing has changed since he testified under oath before congress. >> shepard: he implicated the president in a felony. is there precedent for something like that and what to do about it? >> you have been around longer than me. >> shepard: because i'm so old. >> i would presume to guess your age. but i don't know what the precedent is for this or whether there is indeed one. there's not a precedent for what they did. president trump was trying to claim this was a routine campaign finance violation. i would suggest with my limited knowledge of american political history, that there hasn't been a campaign violation involving two six figure payments to a playboy playmate an an adult

film actress shortly before an election. >> shepard: how much trouble, based on the reporting that we have, is this david pecker flip on donald trump? >> i think this is -- this reveals that cohen really had no leverage. so everyone was trying to figure out what happened with cohen. he had no leverage. there's no operation there. they thought this guy was a prize witness, you have had a different deal. i spoke to lanny davis, cohen's lawyer. lanny has been foreshadowing that there's more to come that cohen has more information that will be of interest to robert mueller and they're teasing that it relates to the hacking or knowledge of the election hacking. they've provided no evidence and we have no proof to back any of this up. >> shepard: does that give you the indication the actions of lanny davis and others that what

they're looking for is some sort of deal? they're looking for a way out of here and sounds like they're willing to do about anything to get out of this. >> i wouldn't want to speculate about their motivations. i need to stick to what i know from reporting. there's certainly -- michael cohen is in a desperate situation. he's going to prison. they have a fund raiser set up online to try to keep his lawyer on staff. so yeah, i think he's desperate. that's pretty clear from his actions. >> shepard: good of you. thank you. >> thank you. >> jonathan swan from axios. the california republican congressman duncan hunter, have you seen this unfolding? his and his wife making appearance in a federal court after a grand jury charged them with spending $250,000 in campaign funds on themselves. you cannot do that. the pair pleaded guilty -- the

pair pleaded not guilty and taken their case before the cameras. prosecutors say they spent the cash on vacations to medical bills and fast food. they lied about the spending, pretended this things like food and clothes were for charity. congressman duncan hunter says they're innocent and they welcome the trial. the congressman was the second member of congress to come out in support of president trump and he's taking a page from the president's playbook calling it a witch hunt. >> i'm not going to resign with a bunch of liftist government fox. >> shepard: the congressman calling the justice department the democrats arm of law enforcement. the republican, jeff sessions leads the justice department. william lodge necessary live with more.

william? >> shepard, hunter in california claims two things. why this is a political witch hunt. the attorney's handling the hunter case attended the hillary clinton fund raiser, evidence he claims of bias. secondly, timing. this is an investigation that began two years ago. why now? after the primary made it impossible for the gop to find a replacement but before the general giving democrats the house seat if hunter was to resign. as for the allegations that he and wife margaret concealed theater tickets, claimed golf shorts, golf balls for wounded warriors and used campaign money after overdrawing their personal account 1,100 times. hunter says -- >> there's nothing illegal about being poor. i don't think there's anything illegal about not having money in your bank account. >> one strategy that we've heard from duncan hunter, blame your

wife. she managed his campaign and handled the books. he said they arrived separately at the courthouse and each has their own lawyer. the attorney for southern california is a trump appointee. >> shepard: the congressman represent as very red district. >> yeah. first the numbers. republicans outnumber democrats by 14 points. this is now a safe gop seat to a competitive one. bad news for the gop considering along with his father a duncan hunter name has represented the district for 38 years. his opponent is an ex-obama official that favors medicare for all and sees the opportunity before a bank of microphones. >> some people asked me if he would resign. i can't make that choice for him. i didn't think he was going to. he has a track record of not making the right decisions. >> so the question now with 75 days left in this election, hunter will hit the campaign trail with or without his wife. we don't know.

we'll see if voters buy his explanation. back to you. >> shepard: thanks, william. fox news urgent. a source confirms to fox news that congressman hunter has agreed to the house speaker paul ryan's request to step down from his committee assignment. our senior producer, chad pergram points out that this avoids a big debate and a vote after labor day over stripping duncan hunter of his assignments. think of it. if they had a committee hearing on whether he could keep his appointments, and republicans ended up voting him out of that. that would have been a disaster for the republicans. speaker ryan called on hunt tore step down from his committee pending the outcome of his case. we're getting a lot at a spot where investigators say they found mollie tibbets body more than a month after somebody grabbed her. we have drone field footage from a corn field in iowa. it's about 15 minutes from her

home. investigators say in field is where her accused killer dumped her body. investigators busted cristhian rivera for her killer. the suspect's boss says she's shocked. the manager of the farm where rivera worked says he was a dependable employee and he says nobody saw a difference in rivera's actions after molly's family reported her missing. our matt finn has recovered this from the beginning and is live in brooklyn, iowa. matt? >> we just wrapped up an interview with one of rivera's co-workers. they worked together on the farm not far from here. that woman also happened to be the aunt of his ex-girlfriend. her name is maria sandoval. she said that cristhian rivera was known as john rivera. she said that she was not aware of rivera having any history of blacking out. police say that rivera admitted to blacking out on july 18 when he approached molly tibbets and when he came to the body of

tibbets was in his trunk with a bloody school. sandoval said that he's a good father to his young daughter and they never noticed a change after mollie's family reported her missing. here's more sound from maria sandoval. >> he was never a different person, always the same. never nervous. when we would get together, he would talk about the situation and comment as we. we would say we were surprised and squared because this is a quiet town. >> that woman also said that the community here is receiving death threats because of their relation to rivera and rivera scheduled to appear in court late next week, shep. >> shepard: thanks, matt. thank you. an islamic state terror leader repeatedly said that he had -- well, there's been repeated reports that he's dead and has just released a recording.

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>> shepard: isis claims its leader is still alive and terrorists are releasing and audio recording that proves it. fox news cannot confirm it's actually the voice of the leader or when it was recorded. the terror group insists it's the real thing. the tear up group has lost huge swaths of territory and the leader has been a mystery. benjamin hall has more. benjamin? >> we last heard from baghdadi unwith 1 months ago. there's been numerous reports of his death. this tape is proof of life. shows that he's still out there. more than that, shows that he's still issuing rallying cry to his followers and encouraging

them to attack against the west. in the 54-minute audio called "give glade tidings to the west", they suggest using cars, knives, whatever they can get their hands hahn. u.s. authorities down plays the significance of this tape. >> we can't confirm the authenticity of the tape or if he's alive. we're not sure if that is his voice yet. he's definitely wanting to be off the battlefield, even though we haven't seen him there for quite some time and been very irrelevant for a long time. >> what we do know is that this was recorded in the last month. he references a number of current affairs issues, at least not the arrest of the turkish pastor brunson. shep? >> shepard: what is the latest on the fight against isis?

>> shep, this message comes at a time when the u.s. and its allies are trying to root out isis for good. they're taking aim at the last pocket of resistance near the iraqi boredner syria. that's where it's thought that baghd baghdadi is likely to be hiding. a new report by the u.n. said that they have up to 30,000 fighters and supporters in those two countries. territorily they are losing. idealogically, they're strong. that's one thing that this tape tells us and that the u.s. has to work on. shep? >> shepard: thanks, ben hall. the u.s. and china slapping new tariffs on each other. the trump administration also hit europe and canada with import taxes. coming up, a look at how they can affect american workers and shoppers. real cheese people know good things come in threes.

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>> shepard: a fire captain in california accusing verizon of slowing down mobile data and hurting efforts to put out a deadly wildfire. that from a court filing. the captain said it happened in the mendocino fire and killed a fire in northern california. he said the communication center was using lots of data to coordinate their effort. when they reached a certain amount, verizon slowed them down. we reached out to verizon, a company spokes american told the l.a. times, the firefighters had a government services plan with limited high speed data. but in this situation, we should have lefted the speed restriction. we're reviewing the situation and will fix any issues going

forward. the united states and china slapping each other with billions in new tariffs starting today. escalading the trade war and making things cost for you. even as officials from both countries restart trade talks in washington. each side hitting the other with 25% taxes on $16 billion of products. the united states on chinese factory machinery and electronics parts and china on american cars and scrap metal. the u.s. is in a trade dispute with europe and canada. gerri willis is live in orlando with how that is affecting one american company. gerri? >> that's right, shep. i'm at regal boats. check out my 33-foot cruiser. $300,000. take a look at this. maybe early christmas present. beautiful, right? this industry getting hit hard by the very tariffs you're just describing. in particular, retaliatory tariffs. these coming from the e.u.,

canada mexico and china. the worst, the 25% tariff on u.s. recreational boats. if regal sends a boat, the tariff will be $125,000. the result of that, think have no orders now. all orders have been cancelled from canada and the e.u. canadas that slapped a 10% retaliatory tariff on us is recreational boats and they buy a lot of boats here. i want you to hear what dwayne cook, the ceo of this company had to say about the impact on their customers. >> we haven't been passing the con -- cost increases to on coup

consumer. it's not sustainable. >> so cook not passing on the price increases. could there be lay-offs in the future? he said not now. certainly what will happen with regal, they will cut their growth. this company has added 200 workers in two years. that can't continue. >> shepard: what are you hearing from other people in the industry,gerri? >> this is a $125 billion business. 150,000 people employed by the industry. the company says they're bearing the brunt of these tariffs, very unhappy about it and say ultimately it will hurt employment. shep, back to you. >> gerri willis live in orlando, a new barbecue treat that even vegetarians can enjoy that is not a chunk of meat, this is a chunk of fruit. what does it taste like in the words here we will say will tell you after this. t? wrong.

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>> shepard: some folks here in new york came up with a way to enhance it or ruin it, depending on your taste. look at this. it is a smoke watermelon ham from a barbecue restaurant. the cost? only $75. it takes five days to make it, cure it, smoke it, just like a real ham. it looks like one, too appeared those that dare to try this delicacy say that it taste both sweet and salty. which makes sense. naturally, the internet is divided on this matter. on this day in 1904, he got a patent on a tire chain. the chain made it easier and safer to draw in the mud, ice, and snow. the inventor may have gotten the idea when he saw drivers wrapping rope around their tire tires. later, the magician, harry houdini was part of a promotional event where he freed himself from the device. people still use tire chains for

their intended purposes, driving in dangerous conditions after a man got a patent to help attacked drivers 114 years ago. we will break in because breaking news changes everything. "your world" starts now. >> neil: all right, thank you, shep. go ahead, impeachment. >> president trump: i think the market would crash. i think everybody would be very poor, because without this thinking, you would see numbers that you wouldn't believe. in reverse. >> neil: what that happened? could that happen? on this, the first full day of the longest bull market in american history. the president of the united states is saying that it is all history as democrats try to make in history. welcome, everyone. i'm