Chris Matthews debates hot political issues with politicians, newsmakers and Washington leaders. Legal strategy. This is a political strategy. It seems to me its designed not to help the president when it comes to his legal troubles with Robert Mueller. In fact, its likely to make them worse. Its designed to set a different kind of landscape for anything that mr. Mueller finds out to be received, to convince at least his own supporters that nothing it wasnt illegal or anybody does that, and by the way, i didnt know anything about it. These are this is an attempt to set a context where people wont take seriously or at least wont be convinced that if there are serious if theres a serious report from Robert Mueller, which is what we expect, they should take it with a grain of salt. We know from polling that President Trumps core supporters are persuaded by this, that theyre inclined to believe this is a witch hunt. And that hes being treated unfairly. Whatever the findings of the Special
Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Language, demeanor, facial exexpressie expre expresses, anything like that . Paul manafort was staring bullets at rick gates, his former protegee. Who worked for him for ten years. Started for him as an intern. And gates was not looking at manafort. Gates does not look in manaforts direction, even though theyre about ten feet apart. Hes talking to the jury. Manafort is glaring at him. Manafort has been an active participant in his defense. Hes taking notes. Hes talking to his lawyers. Holding a pen. But gates is not engaging with his former mentor, ilanian outs courthouse. Well check in with you throughout the afternoon. Lets bring in jill winebanks. Mimi roker is with us, former assistant u. S. Attorney in the Southern District of new york. And michael steele, former rnc chairman. All of them msnbc contributors and analysts. Mimi, gates admi
A roundup of the days events. Five people were taken to the hospital. Outside the gates, at least 300 cars were totaled. As i mentioned, several animals did not survive it. We move on now, to a Police Officer in pennsylvania charged with voluntary manslaughter tonight in the shooting death of a man, after that officer responded to a call near an Amusement Park. Heres abcs steve osunsami. Get on the ground right now. Reporter here comes the moment where a pennsylvania prosecutor tonight is saying that the Police Officer on the other side of this police suv went too far. Get on the ground. Get on the ground reporter 44yearold joseph santos, who police say is seen on Cell Phone Video refusing commands, was shot and killed. Tonight, theyre charging officer Jonathan Roselle with voluntary manslaughter. In my opinion, this was the act of a relatively inexperienced officer. Reporter officer roselle had just graduated from the Police Academy last december. In july, he was called to this Amusem
Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Robert mueller is not. See you in a bit. Here onset for another day, dan goldman, an msnbc legal analyst along with our pal nbc News Reporter carol lee. It is less hot than it has been all week. You picked a good day to be here. Dan, let me start with you, if you look at what each side wants, they are both looking for leverage. And the sticking point, one of them seems to be this idea much an in person interview. What is the framing behind that . The trump team wants questions on collusion only and special counsel wants to hear about it all. I think Rudy Giuliani is trying to figure out a way to drum up some leverage because ordinarily the witness of the defendant or target or subject does not have the leverage, the prosecutor does. And but because bob mueller is not talking and Rudy Giuliani is, hes able he has the whole Public Domain to make all of his arguments, even though as
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The latest Political Developments of the day and interviews with top newsmakers are featured. Hes an msnbc and msnbc National Affairs analyst. Im like madonna at this point. I gave you one name. Some day youll thank me. Well talk about that later. Daily beast politics editor sam stein is here and my friend steve schmidt. Were going to boil you down to one name, too. Take us through the significance of this sort of i think its just a side show. People have told me that from emmet flood to don mcgahn to Rudy Giuliani to everyone who is now departed the president s team, no one thinks the president can survive an interview with the special counsel. The president cant survive twitter. Thats right, special counsel is now looking at his tweets. Every tweet has a misstatement or a lie, so theyre absolutely right to be concerned that if the president were to go into an interview with incredibly well prepared prosecutors who have not just the president s tweets and his own statements, as Rudy G