The days top stories from around the world, from politics and money, to sports and pop culture. On matters that have nothing to do with the campaign. I think that even mr. Manafort as i read it had requested that there be no mention of his brief tenure at the Trump Campaign several years ago. This has nothing to do with collusion, russia, nothing to come with the Trump Campaign. Reporter the case centers around his past lobbying work for the pro Putin Ukranian government for which prosecutors say he received 60 million. The government alleges manafort hid millions and failed to pay taxes while still spending the money on real estate and luxury purchases, including homes in manhattan, virginia and the hamptons, expensive suits, and baseball tickets. And prosecutors will present hundreds of emails, photos and financial records to prove it. Prosecutors say manafort also lied to banks about his income to secure more than 20 million in loans. And this trial now underway, it is expected to l
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
News coverage is provided. News coverage is provided. Coming to those rallies. Independents approval of President Trumps rating was trending downward. Thats an alarming sign for the gop. Arthel as Pole Ashizing politics per as polarizing politics exists, how does that fare for the president and his party and the democrats. Galvanizing the base once again. Its hard to get the base to vote for the federal and state candidates. Will that work . Or will the democrats prevail. Troy balderson is the classical conservative candidate and he has john kasich and donald trump
campaigning for him. Arthel connor is right behind him on his tail at 4344 respectively. Donald trump is the most of powerful weapon to bring in so they are bringing him in at game time. Mike National Security advisor john bolton denying there is a disconnect. He spoke earlier on an exclusive interview on fox news sunday. Everybody who participated in the press Conference Thursday as has the president on several public occas
Thanks to our powerful trade policies, the Trade Deficit is falling and falling. American steel mills are back open for business. We are starting to set new records, and nobody believes it could happen this quickly. Democrats want to raise your taxes. They want to destroy your jobs. They want to crush our industries with crippling regulations. And you know the stock market is up almost 40 since that great november day. And america now is winning again like they havent won before. Bill it went on like for over an hour. The headline. U. S. Workers get the biggest pay raise in 10 years. Wage growth that has been stagnant for americans. Absolutely. Gdp numbers last quarter were very good. Around expectations a little over 4 . More than sustainable growth. Something you can hang your hat on. Again, economists, moodys say if the trade policies were fully implemented you could shave up to 3 10 of a point off the gdp. Its trillions of dollars of lost economic activity. Bill scaramucci is writi
Chris Hayes discusses the days top news. Of these things is still playing out. One of the things that has happened is we have seen an escalation against mueller. This was crossing a line he has not crossed before. This is the closest he has come to a direct order to stop an investigation into himself and the campaign. And not only that, he is doing it as an fbi agent is on the stand testifying. It is still amazing and i dont think we should lose track of either of those things, they are both remarkable and both frankly what we have seen before. It has been hard. And we are looking through the Mueller Investigation through a straw and we get the king of unreliable narrators. What do we know in terms of the back and forth. A lot of today was about
gam gamesmanship. They dont want to say absolutely not we will not do an interview. So this is part of the gamesmanship. Mueller is saying, okay, we will take some of the questions off the table. Would you please sit down with us. And frankly i