in ten days, the president s former campaign chairman will be back in a washington, d.c. courtroom. it was revealed late last night president special counsel has accused paul manafort of trying to tamper with witnesses in his federal tax and money laundering case by reaching o to at least two encrypted two of them through encrypted messaging apps. prosecutors say manafort made the contact back in february while he was out on bail. they now want to revoke or modify his bail agreement while he s awaiting trial. his attorney says, mr. manafort is innocent and nothing about this latest allegation changes our defense. we will do our talking in court. i m joined by former u.s. attorney, joyce vance,nd the repoer w broke the story, matt apuzzo, both msnbc contributors. matt, tell me about this. if i submitted this as part of a moon e manuscript, the publisher would laugh it out saying, no one would actually try to do that, right? no, if you submitted it a as
two days ago, the president commented on his indicted former campaign chairman paul manafort. among other things, hsa paul manafort came into the campaign very late and with us for a short period of time. we should have been told that comey and the boys were doing a number on him and he wouldn t have been hired. now we re learning the special counsel in a court filing last night is accusing manafort of witness tampering and seek 0ing to revoke his bail agreement alleging manafort. contacted two potential witnesses in an effort to influence their testimony and conceal evidence. it s up to the judge to decide whether manafort will have to go to jail which could pressure manafort to cooperate with investigators agait the esident. every time i look at paul manafort, he has this stoic quality. i sympathize with the guy. i met him a few times during the campaign. he walks into those courtrooms time after time. it s got wearn him. at some point, he s going to start showing disappointment an
detail. the judge ensuring defendant weinstein also understood his bail agreement. this defendant used his position, money and power to lure young women into situations where he was able to violate them sexually. you re subject to arrest. do you understand that? yes. all right. over 90 women have publicly accused weinstein of various kinds of assault. today s charges stem from just two of them for two counts of rape and one count of first degree sexual assault. the state alleging he held one woman against her will, and forcibly had sexual intercourse with her and she did not consent and grabbed the woman to physically force her into oral sex. take a look at this. new york s attorney general resigning recently because of his own assault allegations. that s the context for what women are facing in new york. it was a different prosecutor, the manhattan d.a. who also initially took a lot of heat for
counts of rape and criminal sexual act and sources say more charges may be coming. his attorney says weinstein will plead not guilty. he is set to appear in court again on july 30th. as part of his bail agreement, harvey weinstein is required to wear a gps tracking device and surrender his passport. his attorney says he paid the $1 million to make bail on friday. in the meantime, he is under investigation for other allegations in los angeles and in london. actress rose mcgown was the first was one of the first women to come out against him, and she told nbc s megyn kelly how she responded to the charges. listen. this man had hunting grounds all over the world, and he had accomplices and a complicity machine. he was the cult leader of hollywood, i would say. their king. if he were watching this today, what would you say to him? we got you.
and we have to take a look at this. it will involve putting together all these different things. the law enforcement response to this once the shooting started was textbook. they did an amazing job. i think everybody is in congress certifica concert with that. we need to look at what we could have done better as a nation to prevent this from happening. we certainly do. thanks so much is for joining us. and our other big stoerry, was not just the indictments against 13 russians, also a request formanafort s request to changes to his bail agreement. next what they found out about his personal finances and possible fraud. and with ancestrydna liveson sale for just $69, now is the time to discover yours. you can find out where you get. .your precision. .your grace. .your drive. and now, with more than 150 ethnic regions to connect to,