Rachel Maddow takes a look at the days top political news stories. After his ukraine work dried up. And that is important because thats when he went to one of trumps closest friends and said i really need to get to trump. And then offered to work for trump for free. How and yes became the Campaign Chair is still a weird so far unexplained thing. Today in Court Prosecutors began laying out the evidence for the Dire Straits Manafort was in when he joined one Trumps Campaign for free. Thats something to keep an eye on as the trial goes forward. Joining me, senior white house political reporter, a close observer of the manafort case cynic it began. He was in the courtroom today. And i get to announce that as of today, he is an msnbc contributor. Ive seen some of the early reporting that there were audible gasps. Take us through some of the more audible moments. Well, this reference as having embezzled from manafort was something that grabbed my
was there a sense in the courtroom today that
Return for the 2016 dnc server and burisma investigation. When you heard burisma, you didnt see it as code for biden, the bidens . I did not. When did you know that. Your testimony saying that burisma included the bidens when the readout came out. My testimony wasnt specific with regards to the date. September . I dont recall the date. If i told you that the Legal Definition of bribery was an event of offering, giving, soliciting or receiving of any item of value and the means of influencing an action of an individual holding a public or legal duty. Do you believe that not only was it quid pro quo but it was bribery. Not a lawyer and im not going to characterize what
something was or wasnt legally. You also said in your Opening Statement that Secretary Perry and yourself, as well as Ambassador Volker worked with giuliani on the ukraine matter, and express direction of the president. Is that right . You also go on to say that we did not want to work with giuliani, simply put we played t
russia is doing nothing to de-escalate the tension, that it still has those troops on the border, i think speaks to the information that was provided from that surveillance flight. russia might have pulled back 10,000 troops. it doesn t change much on the border with ukraine. great point. we ll see how these talks go today. nic, thank you so much. the biden administration is asking the u.s. supreme court to weigh in on whether it must keep a trump-era immigration policy in place. this controversial program, it s known as the remain in mexico policy, forces asylum seekers to wait in mexico for their u.s. court hearings. advocates say that s more dangerous, of course. the biden administration tried to end the program, but a federal judge in texas ordered it to restart back in august. that ruling was upheld by the court. now the biden administration is trying again to get the high court to rule in its favor. still ahead for you, ghislaine maxwell could spend the rest of her life in
community because one problem we have is money has come into our state that hasn t been dispersed. we need to make sure that money is getting down actually to the people so we can help people to thrive in this moment. i am so grateful that you mentioned these issues and you underlined some of the aspects that are so fundamental for life and yet our communities often times don t have access to health care, child care. then there s the issue, congresswoman, of inflation. it is a tax that affected the poorest among us. how do we deal with that? you know, it s very, very expensive to be low wealth. it s very, very expensive to be low income. i know. it doesn t change. nobody asks what s your income, how much you made when you show up to the gas pump. i pay the same amount of gas as somebody else who makes three times as much as i do. no one cares as long as i made it into this apartment complex,
i wouldn t consider it as turning point. the russians clearly are expanding some of their target sets. it doesn t change our general understanding is they are not making the progress on the ground that we believe they thought they would be making. are you there, lita? i m here. can you hear me? can you hear me? yeah, i got you. i just want to expand a bit on a couple of the questions. is it getting difficult more broadly to get security assistance into ukraine at all