Chris Hayes discusses the days top news. Another round of Election Sabotage is underway. And the trump official who says his warnings about the psychological damage of separated families was ignored. Good evening, from new york, i am chris hayes. Paul manafort is a shrewd liar so says the prosecution in the Opening Statement in the trial. Opening statement and even the testimony of first witness hours ago, Paul Manafort facing 18 counts. Bank fraud, tax evaluation, and conspiracy charges. Work with should note which predated his duties on the campaign of donald trump. And zoe fillman. I wrote down the word astonishing greed. We knew the outline of this tale from the indictment and court documents. But another thing to hear it lay out in court. This scheme Whereby Manafort was earning 16 million. But instead of taking the money in a wire transfer, he concocted this elaborate scheme to accept it in loans which werent really loans all to evade taxes. And interestingly, when his client was
Chris Hayes discusses the days top news. Allegations in the u. S. So we talked about this sort of circumventing the american tax system. Overseas payments and overseas Bank Accounts and never reported which is what is alleged. What is the bank fraud part of the case. It is the prosecutors allege that after 2014, when the spigot of cash was turned off, he needed to fund his lavish lifestyle. What he had was Real Estate Holdings that he purchased through the bogus loans. What he did, was he began overstating the value of these property. Faking a profit and loss statement for his company. Showing cash that he didnt have for bankers including while he was chairman of the campaign. They call it bank c and that is
the kind of fraud that they are alleging. Prosecutors are going to show that in fact it was false. Zoe, tad davine was there. He was a partner with manafort in his work in ukraine, what did he have to say . So tad talked about being brought in starting in 2005 to head Media Strateg
Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. 2017, quote, the president was not involved and did not issue the statement. In june of this year, trumps lawyers conceded to muellers team and dictated a short but accurate response. Now to our panel, aaron blake, a Criminal Defense Attorney and danny cevallos, msnbc legal analyst. I want to read a little bit more of what don jr. Said. It is sort of the cycle media narrative. The other stuff is not stick sog they are back and tomorrow theyll be back on the 25th amendment. Nothings changed and it is ridiculous. They dont talk about this and half of congresses on both sides and i mean basically, she did not do that to us. She didnt tell us that was going on. There is really nothing beyond that. Aaron, nothing is beyond that and factcheck that for us. The idea that the russian lawyer who was tied to the creme len who was presenting the information to the Trump Campaign is doing this all the time is going at the capi
In the Stormy Daniels saga. The lawyer for Stormy Daniels whos real name is clifford. This picture comes from a polygraph examination when she was asked about her relationship donald trump. All of this comes on a day when nbc news also confirms the administration is beefing up its legal team just as special Counsel Robert Mueller Presses Forward with the russia investigation. Reporter we have asked and there is no response, but it appears the president is in the mood to make changes to his legal team, as the russia probe continues to cast a shadow over his presidency. The Washington Post reported earlier this afternoon. To join the president s group of lawyers and as we were trying to confirm that, olsens legal partner tweeted that only less th than olsen would not be he was apprehensive at best. That was the phrase he used. Yesterday President Trump added the fox news regular to his press steam. He is the target of an elaborate fbi conspiracy and that in itself is a sign that the pres
About possible turbulence to come in washington in this lame duck period before a lot of things are going to change in january. In is a Trump Nominee for a federal judgeship. Hes seen as a sort of poster child for Racial Discrimination in voting rights. Nevertheless, he was previously seen as a shooin because of republican control of the senate, but tonight, it is a developing story that it looks like they may be yanking his nomination for lack of support. So that is an interesting developing story. Were going to have more on that ahead tonight. Were also getting the final races called from the midterm elections in terms of the house, and with these final races now shoring up, its starting to look like the size of the democratic partys win in congress not only exceeded expectations, it may have been an historic record. Well have more on that coming up, as well. In terms of the midterm elections in the u. S. Senate, though, the very last u. S. Senate race is wrapping up tonight as we sp