Not russia, though russia looms large in the background as it seems to in Everything Else these days. Manaforts being tried in Federal Court in alexandria, virginia. He was, of course, Trumps Campaign chairman, ran the rnc convention. Its the first of two trials for him, and this one hes looking at 18 counts of bank fraud, tax evasion, conspiracy charges in relation to his work for a prorussian party in ukraine before he went to work for the trump campaign. He has pleaded not guilty to all charges. This trial is off to a lightning start. So far a jury has been seated. Opening statements have been delivered, and a witness has testified, all on day one. Manafort was a March To August Chairman back in 2016. He helped trump secure the nomination, make no mistake, and trump said so at the time. I have fantastic people. Paul manafort just came on. Hes great. He didnt need to do this, but he wanted to. Paul manafort has done an amazing job. He is here some place where. Is paul . However, more
Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. And Donald Trumps name wasnt mentioned today. Robert muellers name wasnt mentioned today. This trial does not have to do with any connection to the 2016 campaign. Nor does rick gates involvement dovetail with what he did in the 2016 campaign, nor his work on the inaugural committee. Its a highly separate trial involving past clients of Paul Manaforts. I think if were reading between the lines, its the prelude to something that is supposed to be bigger. Obviously the prosecutors have a case that theyre bringing here, but it does seem like theyre looking down the road to try to get or compel Paul Manafort to participate in the larger mission, which is the investigation to collusion in the trump campaign. And were all sort of waiting to see what manafort does under this type of pressure. I do agree that the case the defense he is bringing seems highly uncompelling. Basically, he is saying my underli
that s why our grassroots support is so important. the democrats do that better than we do. danes is also betting on former president trump to turn out voters despite the new york conviction. he says it will not hurt republicans down the ballot. but there s plenty of drama on the trail. a trump campaign senior adviser declared maryland senate candidate larry hogan ended his campaign after hogan urged americans to respect the trump verdict. rnc co-chair lara trump adding fuel to the fire. he doesn t deserve the respect of anyone in the republican party at this point. maryland moved from solid d to likely d after hogan jumped in putting it in play for republicans. are you still going to support larry hogan s campaign in every way that you can? yes. if danes can win back the senate, there is already talk of him taking over for g.o.p. leader mitch mcconnell. a conversation he says he recently had with president
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