after manafort said gates closely followed everything and the judge said obviously not that closely or you couldn t have stolen that much money from him. that s devastating and it could be the difference. you may recall that he stated something president trump quo d quoted. that is a prejudice the prosecution thinks he s got. he said set the tone. jared kushner is looped into the body of evidence the prosecutors build into their case. could kushner be the next target for mueller? well, he s clearly been a target for a long time.
anything. isn t that stunning? she will lie day in and day out and she doesn t lie about that. and there are lots of people who would say that they can guarantee that. lots of people would say that. that s a good point. in the piece that i did i compared the psychological warfare aspect of omarosa s tapes to the drip drip drip of podesta s e-mails for the clinton staffers and i talked to former communications director jen palmieri who worked for the clinton campaign and she said one difference is we never thought there was an e-mail there where hillary clinton used the n word so she kind of made that guarantee that that wasn t a fear they had every night. annie, good to see you. annie karnii is a politico white house reporter. thank you. president trump promised the nation he would hire only the best people to work for him. this photo featuring some of trump s top aides went viral. sebastian gorka, robert porter, the mooch, omarosa and corey lewandowski. the broken
welcome back to velshi and robert mueller. closing arguments are under way in paul manafort s criminal trial following a heated 11 days in federal court. early reports are saying that the courtroom and the overflow room are at maximum capacity. trump s former campaign manager didn t take the stand on tuesday and his defense team chose to present no witnesses at all. prosecutors from mueller s special counsel allege manafort failed to pay taxes. joining us now, special prosecutor and msnbc contributor jill winebanks. why are there no witnesses on manafort s side and i heard there were two instances, the instance in which the prosecution s case has been so weak you don t have to mess it up they miss it up for themselves or the opposite, your case is so weak and their case
and in 2015 trump kicked off his campaign with this. when mexico sends their people, they re not sending their best. they re not sending you, they re not sending you. they re sending people that have lots of problems and they re bringing those problems with us. they re bringing drugs, they re bringing crime, they re rapist and some, i assume, are good people. some fine people. it hasn t stopped. in june, 2017, the new york times reported trump said 15,000 immigrants from haiti all have aids and over 40,000 nigerians would never go back to their huts. the white house pushed back on their claims. it didn t just start. absolutely not. joining us now, political reporter annie carney, she wrote the story about those white house staffers living in fear after omarosa s first couple tapes and worried about what s
in italy s bridge collapse continues to rise. we ll take a closer look at bridges here in the united states. at least according to the latest numbers, at least one out of every ten bridges here are in dire need of repair. up next, where is president trump s infrastructure plan? there s been a lot of infrastructure weeks. three of them at least. you re watching velshi & ruhle. and i m still going for my best even though i live with a higher risk of stroke due to afib not caused by a heart valve problem. so if there s a better treatment than warfarin, i m up for that. eliquis. eliquis is proven to reduce stroke risk better than warfarin. plus has significantly less major bleeding than warfarin. eliquis is fda-approved and has both. so what s next? seeing these guys. don t stop taking eliquis unless your doctor tells you to, as stopping increases your risk of having a stroke. eliquis can cause serious and in rare cases fatal bleeding. don t take eliquis if you have an artificial hea