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>> dana: thank for joining us. i'll see you on "the five." what's happening tonight? can't remember. greg is leaning with a monologue. i'm dana perino. you know what is next. it's ed henry in for shep. >> ed: three big stories breaking right now. a tense standoff after a gunman shoots a police officer sparking a major man hunt and a chase. what may have led to the shooting and what we're learning acted the suspect. also breaking, the house set to vote after delaying a response about a democratic congress woman's remarks and israel. we'll take with bret baier. and president trump's former campaign chair is facing years in prison. that's moments away. i'm ed henry in for shepard
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smith. the news starts right now. we begin with breaking news. live look at the house floor. lawmakers plan on voting on a resolution that condemns anti-semitism after a freshman's remarks about israel. speaker nancy pelosi says that she feels confident that congress woman ilhan omar from minnesota is not anti-semitic. >> i don't think the congress woman appreciates the full weight of how it's heard by other people. i don't believe it was intended in an anti semitic way. the fact is, if that's how it was interpreted, we have to remove all doubt. >> ed: the speaker added the resolution condemns other types of hate speech and will not include congress woman omar's name. >> i thought the resolution should be to anti-semitism, islamophobia, et cetera,
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anti-white supremist. that it should not mention her name. >> ed: various republicans including adam kingsinger want her kicked off the house foreign affairs committee. >> this is not your father's democratic party. they can't agree to condemn anti-semitism. >> ed: last week, congress woman omar said she's not anti-semitic. let's go live to mike emanuel. he's reporting on capitol hill. what's happening this hour? >> it's been a huge fight. some suggesting the resolution should go further. others say it should be broadened. it reads -- >> the resolution does not call out minnesota congresswoman ilhan omar, a freshman democrat.
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omar has insulted many colleagues with criticism of their support for israel, suggesting they have duel loyalty and much of it is about the money. that's why some democrats say this resolution is not enough. >> one of our colleagues invokes the classic anti-semitic language that jews control the world, jews only care about money and jews cannot be loyal americans if they support israel. this too must be condemned. >> debate is expected this hour on the house floor. we do expect a vote next hour, ed? >> ed: mike, you mentioned that republicans, some of them, want to kick her off the house foreign affairs committee. what else are republicans saying? >> president trump jumped in and writing on twitter writing the following. >> a leading senate republican says it's fine to criticism
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israel and its policies, but this was way over the line. >> this is long-held to incite people to turn on their jewish citizens. somehow they have outside influence on the media and that anything that supporting israel is because the jews buy you. >> there's been some growing pains with the new house democrat freshmen and struggles for the leadership team trying to get a handle on all of it. ed? >> ed: thanks, mike. let's bring in bret baier. he's anchor of "special report." good to see you. >> hi, ed. >> ed: this started out with a democratic congress woman in hot water. seems like it's morphed into something else. >> it's bigger. every day another high profile democrat seems to step in it trying to defend it or to
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somehow paper over what this resolution is all about. listen, it should be simple to have an anti semitic resolution pass the house. but now it's anti-semitic, anti-islamic phobic, anti-hate overall. i think everybody is against hate. but it is much broader because they really don't know how to deal with it. you have janice from illinois saying we shouldn't be talking about this public. you had the house minority whip, clyburn, say that congress woman omar is personally feels it because she had to escape somalia and her attacks on it there. she feels it more than parents that were in the holocaust. to use that term to explain someone who has said things that are offensive to jews seems like they're just stepping in it every day. this is a big moment. a big turning point. >> ed: you're right. she had various democrats
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standing up for her so much this resolution has been watered down. the republicans have had their problems. steve king was targeted for his controversial comments. seemed to me that debate was about him, not broadened out. as i read this resolution that they're going to vote on, among other things, it says from the political right, center or left, bigotry, oppression and racism is all bad. we should agree it's all bad but now it's about the left, center and right when this is a democratic congresswoman? >> right. with the steve king, a republican from iowa, it took a long time for republicans to deal with it. but they did. they took him off the committees, rebuked him publicly. their critics say this has been going on a long time with steve king. they did something about it. here they're purposely not naming congresswoman omar because if they did and they put the resolution on the floor,
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they know with republican votes it would pass. nancy pelosi doesn't want that on the floor because of the old hastert rule that the majority wouldn't be the majority in this vote. there would be a hunger to say something about her comments. >> ed: when president trump had infrastructure week and stepped on that with tweets and other things with democrats had a field day. seems to me this new house majority, they want to talk about jobs, healthcare. that's what they told the voters heading into the mid-terms. now they're dealing with this controversy or jerry nadler and the 81 letters to trump associates. what about the messaging from democrats being stepped on by their own controversies? >> they're happy with the investigations. they're not scared of those. i think this particular issue and all the days that it has taken up, a lot of the oxygen in washington is not what the democratic leadership was hoping for. you saw that in some of the
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speaker's responses to that. >> ed: no doubt about it, brett. stay with us. we have a live look right now. another breaking story in virginia. we're about to find out how much prison time former trump campaign chairman paul manafort will get for bank and tax fraud. a federal judge is set to sentence him in less than a half hour from now. it's possible he could spend the rest of his life behind bars. robert mueller has recommended up to 24 years in prison for the 74-year-old. it's up to the judge. the maximum possible sentence is 80 years total. prosecutors say that manafort brazingly and repeatedly broke the law over a decade. illegal lobbying for pro russian lobbyists, hiding millions in overseas bank accounts and lying to u.s. banks in order to get massive loans. manafort struck a plea deal with mueller and agreed to cooperate in the russia probe. but it fell apart when manafort
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caught him lying. here's the breakdown. manafort could get 15 years for five counts of lying on his tax returns, another five years for hiding money overseas. two counts of bank fraud. that means manafort is looking up to 30 years in prison for each of those counts. manafort's legal team is asking the judge to go easy on him, claiming that manafort is truly remorseful. this is his first sentencing hearing. he has another one days from now in washington d.c. which could tack on an additional ten years of prison time. bret, we saw his attorneys arriving. manafort's wife has arrived as well. it's interesting. in recent appearances, we've seen him in a wheelchair and health as well as age could be a factor in this judge knocking down the prison time. >> yeah, let's be honest, he's 70. if they go with the recommendation, 19 1/2 years, that's essentially a life sentence as is let alone the other changes and potential to
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go up from there. also, remember, as you point out, this is bank and tax fraud charges. this does not have to do with his time as chairman of the trump campaign, campaign chairman. it doesn't touch any of that. but next week the sentencing thursday will deal with some of that. a didn't judge, a different court. he's facing some serious jail time for both. >> as you say, this doesn't invoke the president saying this is not about the campaign, it's about tax fraud. given the fact that he will be sentenced days from now in washington as you invoked the mueller case. where are we with that? we're on stand by for the report to come out. >> we've said so many times it could be this week, could be that week. i'm very hesitant to go down that road. indications were that it's coming to an end. there's some people in the field that believe that they would
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finish the sentencing of paul manafort completely before the mueller report came out. they would wrap everything up with a bow, which potentially means thursday of next week. but there's a chance that indictments come out tomorrow as they sometimes do on friday and that's when the mueller report drops as well. either way, the process as you know, ed, starts with the attorney general and how much we'll find out right away, i don't know. he makes that decision. >> ed: we've been hearing since last fall that the report from robert mueller is coming out any day now. it's still not here. let's talk about manafort in terms of the sentencing. some legal experts say it could be 70, 80 years. if you look at the sentencing guidelines, 19 to 24 years. 70 years old. still a very tough, tough blow. talk a little bit about manafort and his problems. >> well, listen, they went down this road with manafort and they found a lot of crime and
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criminal activity tied to his previous jobs, previous work before the trump campaign. it opened up a whole different avenue for prosecutors to go down. they successfully went after some of the charges. some of the charges ended up in a hung injury essentially. ten of those counts. the judge threw them out. facing a lot of jail time just on this let alone next week. paul manafort is a shady character in the big picture of things because of his dealings in the past. how much that translates to the trump campaign, we have to wait and see. is the potential for a pardon still on the table? we also have to wait and see. the president said he hasn't ruled anything out. >> ed: last question, bret. he was the campaign chairman for a brief time and played a very important role at the republican
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convention in 2016. >> he did. he was steering the whole thing. the platform and behind the scenes. we had him on the show numerous times. clearly a key figure even though the president says he played a minimal role. he was the campaign chairman. so this is a big deal. we will see how this auld enter connects, if it does, when we get the full report when and if we get it. >> ed: a busy night on "special report." thanks for spending time with us. >> thanks, ed. >> ed: we'll continue to watch for the paul manafort sentencing and the house vote on the hate resolution this hour live. more breaking news. a tense standoff as we teed up a moment ago. it's happening in illinois. police have a man cornered after they say he shot an officer. the breaking update coming up next. i switched to miralax for my constipation. stimulant laxatives forcefully stimulate
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>> ed: well, a fox urgent now. a massive man hunt is going on right now. high-speed chase as well in illinois. a man shot a sheriff's deputy who was trying to arrest him. the shooting happened at a hotel in rockford, illinois. mike tobin is reporting live from the midwest bureau. this is not over just yet. it's still very tense. >> it is still very tense. high-speed chase has developed into a standoff on the side of the road. there's every indication the suspect is inside his car. every indication that he is armed. the location where the car is off the side of the road is i-55 outside of lincoln, it's know. 160 miles due south of rockford, illinois. it turned into a high-speed chase when police spotted the vehicle near bloomington, illinois. they raced to logan county where the car spun out and crashed. multiple agencies are on the
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scene including swat teams, tactical officers and negotiation teams. the situation has been at a standstill now for hours. traffic is blocked in both directions. the suspect has been identified as floyd e. brown from central illinois. the task force came for him as well as a parole violation. the task force came on the scene at the extended stay america hotel in rockford, illinois. almost due west of chicago. shots were fired in the hotel. a woman possibly with brown was shot. shots were fired outside of the hotel and a sheriff's deputy was hit. >> ed: any time a law enforcement officer goes to execute a warrant, there's a large factor of danger involved, of course. so in this case they approached an unknown and sad to say they came on the bad end of the
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operation. >> police say did not return fire at the hotel. so every indication to them is that the woman was hit by a bullet from brown's gun. >> ed: we do we know about the condition of the woman and the sheriff's deputy? >> the woman's injuries are not life threatening. i can't say the same for the deputy. i spoke with the chairman of the county that said the deputy was in grave condition, fighting for his life. it's possible there had been some developments. we need to be sensitive pending notification of the family. >> ed: thanks, mike. we'll get back to you. we're also washing closely. you can see the courthouse in alexandria, virginia. that's where paul manafort is facing sentencing. his attorneys have entered, his wife is there as well to find out how long he will be spending in prison. we'll be going there live as soon as that begins in just a moment. meantime, the military responding to claims that some
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paul manafort is awaiting his fate. he will be sentenced by a federal judge moments from now. of course, he's the former trump campaign chair. his wife, kathleen, is there. arrived a few moments ago as well as his legal team. one client said we're about to find out how he's doing. meanwhile, a fox urgent. president trump's former attorney and fixer michael cohen now suing the trump organization. he says the company owes him $2 million in legal fees. laura ingle is here with more. this story keeps going. >> it does. this is a 22-page complaint filed this afternoon in new york state supreme court and details a list of services that michael cohen said he provided and never paid for. he just appeared before congress where he called his boss a racist, cheat and con man.
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in the suit, cohen claims the company didn't hold up its end of their employment deal stating in part, the trump organization agreed to compensate mr. cohen and to pay attorney fees and costs incurred by mr. cohen and arising from his work from the organization. these matters including congressional hearings, special counsel robert mueller's investigations and others. the suit outlined that the trump organization honored his compensation agreement paying $136,000 to his legal team and in connection with his representation and other matters, a ledgedly promised the other half of his legal fees would be paid by the trump campaign. timing is everything. the trump organization stopped paying his fees in june of 2018, which is the same month that he started to cooperate with the federal prosecutors in new york.
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cohen claims costs are piling up and as of today, he says the company owes him $1.9 million in legal fees and reimbursements. we reached out and they have not replied. >> ed: and this all started over stormy daniels and she's mentioned here as well. >> she's mentioned and listed in the timeline of events laid out in the suit. on page 6, cohen claimed he paid stormy daniels $130,000 for her not to speak publicly about an alleged affair between miss daniels and candidate trump. in addition to arranging a payment of $150,000 to karen mcdougal by the parent company of the national inquirer to pay for her silence for an affair she claims she had with mr. trump. cohen is using this as an example of some of the work he did for mr. trump who denies he had affairs with either women. >> ed: thanks, laura. two american soldiers killed in a vehicle crash in kuwait. that's the word from defense
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officials. they have identified the fallen heros as sergeant holly balinski and specialist jackson johnson of missouri. according to the military, they were supporting the fight against isis in syria as well as key -- iraq. and some of our nation's heros are living in filthy conditions. >> i felt the helplessness of a spouse as she held her baby and we stood under a collapsing moldy ceiling in camp lejeune. i listen to horror as i was told of mice eating through pacifies and electrical outlets catching fire due to wiring issues. >> ed: military families testified on capitol hill that their private base housing has
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mold, lead, rats and mice and more. jennifer, you hear these details and it's sickening. >> and the hearing got heated as accusations of toxic mold and rats in base housing and private contractors behaving at slum lords. >> squirrels died and dropped remains on the bet. workers from the housing company visited this same home 52 times, 52 times without ever bothering to examine the root cause of the problem. on top of this, the housing company still charges the family $1,780 per month in v.a.h. >> angry senators demanded answers from the army, navy and marines on how to make the private contractors that service
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these homes account for. >> why didn't you know about this and fix it before congress had to step in? who is responsible and who is being held accountable? >> i want to start by first apologizing personally on behalf of the department of the navy to any sailor, marine, soldier, airman, coast guardman that was affected by the housing problem that we've seen before us right now. >> some senators demanded the justice department investigate, ed. >> ed: what else is the military saying about how they plan to fix this? >> they issued a draft bill of rights for military families giving them the right to push back. contractors have been demanding families sign nondisclosure agreements about the conditions of the holes before they move in. >> they better come up with a damn good reason for having somebody sign under this. i've been a landlord before. it would never occurred to me to say i want you to sign away your right to say you're living in
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inadequate conditions. >> these families are required to live on base and rent from the private firms that took over military housing in 1993. until now, nobody heard their complaints. >> ed: thanks, jennifer. it is just passed 3:30 in virginia. sentencing time for former trump campaign chair paul manafort. we're going to break drown the charges, the possible punishments, and go there live next. we're also waiting for the house vote on an anti hate resolution. we'll be back with the details.
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twe tweaked to make it more broad. he says that they're still working on it and the how democratic leaders still plan to eventually bring this up for a vote, this resolution at some point this afternoon or this even. we'll go live to chad as he continues to report out this story. in the meantime, more breaking news. president trump's former campaign chair about to learn his sentence, his fate in alexandria, virginia. manafort could get decades for bank and tax fraud. he's facing a second sentencing that will happen in washington next week. ellison barber is reporting live in washington. good afternoon, ellison. >> hi, ed. the charges that manafort faced in virginia and d.c. are different but they're all related, all brought by the special counsel. manafort went to court in the virginia case in d.c. he made a deal. mr. manafort agreed to plead
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guilty to witness tampering and conspiracy. that was in september. manafort met with the special counsel a number of times. they said he was cooperating. in november, prosecutors say he lied to them about a number of things including his interactions with a russian ukrainian national. so they took it to a judge and she agreed with prosecutors that there was evidence manafort intentionally lied. now prosecutors are not bound by the plea agreement and not bound to recommend a lighter sentence. the question is will the judge throw the book at paul manafort and give him the harshest possible sentence or something less. >> ed: he cut a deal with mueller and then mueller accused him of lying. what is he looking at in d.c. next week? >> he faces up to five years in prison on each of the two cashiers. judge jackson can give him the maximum, the ten years. judge jackson has shown that she's a tough judge.
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she revoked manafort's bail and sent him to dale. most likely this will all happen in d.c. that something that was in the plea agreement but is now up for debate. >> ed: thanks, ellison. let's bring in an attorney now, steve mulroy a former law professor and at the university of memphis. good to have you. >> thank you. >> ed: some people have been reporting this out as it could be up to 80 years in prison for manafort. other legal experts have said if you look closely at the federal sentencing guidelines, it looks like more in the range of 19 to 25 years. >> that's exactly correct. if you take the maximum sentence that each of the various statutes that he was charged and add them up, stack them up, you could get to 80 years. that's very rare that you would do it that way.
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normally you'd just use what the federal sentencing guidelines would indicate for a person like manafort, no criminal history and that range of 19 to 24, it's going to be somewhere in that ballpark. i know manafort's lawyers are asking for a downward departure because of his age and health. the judge may do that. i think in general, you're going to see something that revolves around that guideline range of 19 to 24 years. >> manafort is 19 and 70 years old. so next we talk a little bit about age and health. manafort recently appearing in a wheelchair, which we had not seen before. his attorneys say his health has been deteriorating. how could that factor in today as well? >> it's a common argument to be made in these situations, to claim that the defendant has health problems and certainly something that a judge can take into account. he is 70 years old.
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so even a guidelines range sentence of 19 years is life in prison. if he does have serious demonstrable health problems above and beyond the normal person that has had to spend time in prison, the judge can downwardly depart from that, take that into account both as a general matter of mercy and because sometimes it will just be less expensive and easier to take care of the medical problems and home-based care rather than making special provisions in prison to have medical facilities set out to take care of it. >> ed: steve, i understand it can cost tens of thousands more per year for an elderly, you know, prisoner who has health issues when you look at federal statistics. cost as lot more money in prison when you have someone that is elderly and has health problems. >> right. almost wise as much. an average for a younger inmate, in their 20s and 30s it would be
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20 to $30,000 or less per year. it could be 50 or 60,000 or more for a very elderly inmate that has a lot of serious health problems. >> ed: steve, we've covered manafort. let's look at the big picture in terms of president trump, the russia investigation and important to point out what manafort is facing in this courtroom this afternoon really appears to have nothing to do with president trump and russia. it's about bank fraud, tax fraud. the case in washington is tied to the russian probe. we talked to bret baier. we've been hearing since last fall, any day now, any week now we're going to see the mueller report what do you see big picture? >> well, as you already heard, we've been saying it will be any week now, any day now with the mueller report. actually, compared to other special counsel reports and other big scandals, a water gate
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and the clinton impeachment, a two-year track from the beginning of the investigation to the final report is not unheard of. we're right now at the 22-month stage -- phase right now. so it isn't taking mueller longer than normal. it's just that we've been so breathless in our anticipation that it seems like it's been taking forever. there are signs that we are on the home stretch, but you know, only a fool would make a definite prediction about when we're going to see the mueller report because we've been burned too many times before. >> ed: you're right, breathless anticipation about the mueller report. yet now it seems like particularly in washington things are shifting away from mueller. the focus is on what is adam schiff doing with the house intelligence committee what is happening in the house judiciary committee with gerald nadler and when he sent out the letters to 81 different trump associates. seems like the game is shifting away from mueller regardless of
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the report. >> that's a fair observation. it's a natural consequence of the fact that last november democrats took the house. now with the democratic-controlled house, they're going to be more aggressive in their investigation. really that's not unusual. these kinds of things like with the clinton and nixon impeachment controversies, there's parallel tracks. there's the congressional investigation track and there is the special prosecutor track. the latter may be focused strictly and narrowly on are there technical violations of the law. the congressional track can be broader and can speak to the larger question of are there any impeachable offenses or even offenses that if they're not impeachable nonetheless we need to see the light of day on so we can take appropriate regulatory action. >> ed: steve mulroy, thanks for your insight. >> thanks for having me. >> ed: the man dealing with the mueller report is attorney general william barr. he gave his first news
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conference working on other matters. he announced charges against more than 225 people that he says scammed senior citizens out of some of their money. the justice department reports it's the largest ever crackdown on elder fraud schemes in america. barr said some scammers used him as the law. catherine herridge covers the attorney general. she reports live from washington. fascinating kate, catherine. >> good afternoon. one of his major enforcement actions since taking office, william barr announcing a crackdown on elder fraud. he charged more than 225 people in connection with scams targeting senior citizens. the cia and fbi director william webster and his wife, linda, were personally targeted and on hand for the news conference. they worked with the fbi to bring a successful prosecution. >> they first attempted to
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extort millions of dollars from us over the course of several years. when i got nastier and nastier, he threatened to burn down our house. >> our fellow citizens deserve our support and protection. we're going to do everything we can to be sure that they're not defrauded and that they are protected. >> laura emphasized that the offenders target societies most vulnerable. >> this is a particularly despicable crime because -- and it's a massive and growing problems and despicable because the people involved are vulnerable and because of their stage in life, they don't have the opportunity frequently to recover. >> the scam that is on the rise is tech support. a lot of times they cold call elderly citizens, they say for small fees they'll clean the virus off their computer and get access to their hard drive and
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draw off a lot of personal information as well as their bank account information. >> ed: you're pointing out, the attorney general cover as lot of ground but the mueller report is something that he will have to deal with. he's in front of a camera today. he was asked about mueller. what did he say? >> he did not take questions from the first event, nor did he take questions after. >> have you heard about the mueller report? >> it's important to note that based on federal regulations, the mueller report to the attorney general is considered confidential and attorney general barr decides how much will be provided to congress and to the public through a written summary by the attorney general, ed. >> ed: catherine herridge live in washington. thank you. a quick break. if paul manafort's sentence come down, we'll break in right away. we'll be right back. are you a veteran, own a home, and need cash? you should know about the newday va home loan for veterans.
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>> ed: okay. there's breaking news from alexandria, virginia. paul manafort is in the courtroom. paul manafort was wheeled in a couple moments ago, we're told. he has -- his legal team says he has health issues hence the wheelchair and a cane that we're
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told in case he needs to stand during the sentencing that will be coming up. he's clad in a green jump suit. the judge, t.s. ellis, is not yet in the courtroom. paul manafort is there, his wife, kathleen, the legal team is all waiting. we're waiting with you as well to learn the fate of paul manafort. some saying he could get up to 70, 80 years in prison because of bank and tax fraud. other legal experts saying if you look closely, it will be closer to 19 to 25 years. we'll take you there live, of course, when we get more information. now this breaking news. a live look at the house floor. we're waiting for lawmakers to vote on an anti hate resolution. there's another development. let's bring in chad pergram who has been trying to stay on top of it. what is the latest? >> they delayed this vote on the anti-islamic bigotry and the
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anti-semitism legislation. i'm told the debate will start sometime after 4:00 and sometime between 5:00 and 6:00 is when we'll have the vote on this. they're making some last-minute tweaks. members of congress thought they would vote on this on wednesday. it got pushed back. members have been reviewing the last-minute text. it does not mention ilhan omar, the democratic congresswoman from minnesota that smirked the push of jewish members of congress to put this resolution through. i'm going to read a key part. it says -- >> now, while this doesn't mention ilhan omar by name, that is the key provision in this. nancy pelosi earlier thought today that ilhan is not anti-semitic but she needs to be more considerate and watch the
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weight of her words. that's the term that nancy pelosi used. now ilhan omar is a member of congress. so they're going to vote on this. keep in mind they're treating this piece of legislation in a fashion that it needs a 2/3s vote. i wouldn't be surprised, ed, if you see some members vote present. started out just being a resolution to condemn anti-semitism and now grown into many other things and some members might not be pleased, ed. >> ed: chad, i don't want to lose with you before we touch on bob mueller. we've been talking about him in the context of manafort. you said there may be another vote next week dealing with mueller. >> right. this is a fox first. i learned that there will be a nonbinding resolution in the house of representatives next week to try to publicize the mueller report. it's a sense of the house resolution saying that when mueller produces his report it ought to be public and everybody should read it. the question is will there be
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portions that need to be redacted and certain things that are classified. they get into touchy things. that's something that most democrats and most republicans have pushed for. this will be a congress resolution saying it should be publicized when it comes out, ed. >> ed: chad pergram staying on top of the developments. meantime, we have breaking news out of illinois. sad news to report. we just learned that the sheriff's deputy shot in illinois has died. it happened at an extended stay hotel in rockford, about 80 miles north and west of chicago. the police are now saying the officer was serving an arrest warrant when a suspect shot him. a woman at the hotel, possibly connected to the suspect, was also injured. she's expected to be okay. after the shooting the suspect got away. you can see the video. a massive man hunt and
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high-speed chase ensued. the breaking news is that the sheriff died. i'm ed henry in for shepard smith. "your world" is next with charles payne covering all of this breaking news from the house floor to manafort and beyond. a single dad, and back pain made it hard to sleep and get up on time. then i found aleve pm. the only one to combine a safe sleep aid, plus the 12 hour pain relieving strength of aleve. i'm back. aleve pm for a better am. you have 4.3 minutes this time,to yourself.rn. this calls for a taste of cheesecake. philadelphia cheesecake cups. rich, creamy cheesecake with real strawberries. find them with the refrigerated desserts.
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which may worsen kidney problems. i discovered the potential with ozempic®. ♪ oh! oh! oh! ozempic®! ♪ ask your healthcare provider if ozempic® is right for you. >> charles: you're looking live at the house floor. lawmakers were set to vote on an an anti hate resolution this hour but there's been a new delay. this is all sparked by controversial comments about israel from freshman democrat ilhan omar. this resolution does not name her. why not and why another delay? i'm charles payne in for neil cavuto. why is there another delay on this, mike? >> there's no question this has been a struggle for house democratic leadership all week long. fox is told they're supposed to vote on this resolution this hour. they're waiting on the final