Exploring issues that affect leaders in the U. S. And around the globe. About. Can the legal system resist a Political Campaign led by the president of the United States. My favorite weird anecdote of yesterday, at One Point Giuliani was running out of so many people to talk to, he had to talk to a fellow lawyer. Jay sekulow had a radio show. Here is jay sekulow interviewing Rudy Giuliani, his boss as the attorney. Listen. Mayor, i know youve said and ive said we want to see this come to closure soon here. Mayor . Yeah, we do. Its about time that it ends. I also think, and i hope the Special Counsel is as sensitive to it as we are. We do not want to run into the november elections. So back up from that. This should be over with by September 1st. Is that a threat . Look, its throwing everything at the wall and trying to see what sticks. I think everything thats said here is correct. This is a political messaging campaign, but its not without peril, right . Everything Rudy Giuliani said
Rachel Maddow takes a look at the days top political news stories. Other reference in the whole Paul Manafort trial to his time on the Trump Campaign. This thing i previously mentioned about him maybe offering the job of running the u. S. Earl or the a Bank President who approved the loans for him. Thats the only other reference in the Trump Campaign thus far. Two days ago out of the blue, the manafort defense lawyer asks rick gates, did mueller ask but your time in the Trump Campaign . The prosecutor gets up and objects. The judge summons both sides to come to the bench. He flips on, i kid you not, the White Noise Machine which is a real thing. So the jury and the spectators hear crashing waves instead of the conversation. None can hear whats being said. They have this long private communication. We know it is long because we know it takes six pages to
transcribe. But we cant see the pages because they are sealed. Now, we do know after that bench conference, whatever happen there, the
Sean during theeral neohio President Trump should an urgent call to get rid of obamacare and replace it with something that works for you. The American People. Time for these guys in the swamp in the sewer in d. C. To get to work. Take a look. K. We are now one step closer to liberating our citizens from this obamacare nightmare and delivering Great Health Care for the American People. We will do that too. The senate is working not only to repeal obamacare but deliver Great Health Care for the American People. Any senator who votes against repeal and replace is telling america that they are fine with the obamacare nightmare. I predict they will have a lot of problems. Sean i predict he is right. Repeal and replacing obamacare is not the only part of the president s agenda. Listen to the president earlier tonight, reassuring the American People he said the building a wall is not an empty campaign promise. After spending billion dollars defending other nations borders, we are finally def
Even that day, there was already a surprise from Paul Manafort. Because in addition to the charges against Paul Manafort, hey, who is that guy . Even now, months later, when we show file footage of this man, rick gates, people think were just showing file footage of some random clip art model or maybe hes a cop or a body guard. Rick gates. That was the surprise indictment, even on day one from Robert Mueller, back in october. But nobody knew who rick gates was. Then the next time we heard from the special counsel, again, maybe nobody was all that surprised to see Michael Flynn turn up in court, since he too had been very highprofile and he too had to bow out under a cloud of suspicion and intrigue under his certain tissues contacts. But then even there was a surprise from the special counsel. Flynns guilty plea. Flynn is pleading guilty and will be a witness for the prosecution . That was definitely a surprise. And on that same day, surprise again. Because hey, who is this guy . George
Wouldnt be crazy to pick Paul Manafort. He was a high figure. He was campaign chairman. He left the campaign over his doings in the former soviet union. And actually, we got Paul Manafort news tonight. Mueller is actually making new criminal charges against Paul Manafort this evening on top of Everything Else hes doing. But even on that first day when the criminal charges were unsealed against Paul Manafort, even that day there was already a surprise from Paul Manafort because in addition to the charges against Paul Manafort, hey, who is that guy . Even now months later when we show file footage of this man rick gates, people think were showing file footage of some random clip art model or maybe a cop or body guard. Rick gates, that was the surprise indictment on day one from Robert Mueller in october. Nobody knew who rick gates was. Then the next time we heard from the special counsel, again, maybe nobody was all that surprised to see Michael Flynn turn up in court since he, too, had