welcome back. time for the lid and time for your daily roundup of what s happening at the paul manafort trial. after prosecutors detailed the lavish lifestyle, now they re calling witnesses to delve into his finances. his bookkeeper testified that manafort was in serious financial trouble by early 2016 after income from his pro russia patrons in ukraine dried up. and yet, that s around the same time manafort reached out to then candidate trump to work on the campaign for free, mind you. let s bring back the panel. bill kristol, maria teresa kumar, lahnee chen. this trial is important. it s the first big trial. if there s a hung jury for some reason, which there could be one or two jurors for whatever
could be a branding mistake. it fuzzes up the cause, it s something other than democrat. not everyone fluent in it. it gives candidates a reason, an excuse to sprinter off. but having said that, which what i m reading more and more of, jeremy, go ahead to lanhee s point. i think he s right and that points to larger problem to the democratic party s message right now. what isit? what reason has it given voters to support it? it can t just be an anti-trump party. if you were to sum up right now what exactly the party has done, the major feat hn oppose and resist president trump. now, i think that it s p that s good for mobilizing your hard core base. that s really not enough to get you over the finish line and it s really a point of ss and concern for a lot of democrats as they look toward
strife. on the republican side, is the party s ma laze going to hurt it going into november? president trump, while he remains very popular, is not on the ballot. that could very well drive a lot of republicans to sit on their hand and stay home. now, i will say that one dynamic that i ve picked up here in california is an enthusiasm on necessarily for president trump but in opposition to democrats. there s a real sense that democrats, especially in this state, this hotbed of the resistance, have gone too far, have kind of lost their minds almost in opposing trump. that s provided a little bit of energy on their side. i don t know that it s enough, frankly, to get some of these candidates over th top, but that should prove to be an interesting dynamic as the ruts come in tonight. lahnee, there you are in
california. we had already told you that gavin newsome was the lead vote getter tonight but cox indeed right now at 27%. looks like that will be your top two. for some analysis on wt we ve seen so far tonight, we are joined by jeremy peters, political reporter for the new york times. he s out on the west coast tonight. and lahnee chen. on the one side you have the democrats who are trying to overcome tremendous division and