Judge tonight is calling the Trump Administration reunification efforts unacceptable. When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york, im chris hayes. At the close of the first week of Paul Manaforts trial, things do not look good for the former Campaign Chairman of the trump campaign. And today in particular, the testimony about manaforts alleged tax evasion and bank fraud took on a Very Human Dimension when his accountant admitted under oath on the stand that she had in fact knowingly falsified Tax Documents in order to save Manafort Hundreds Of Thousands of dollars in taxes. Manaforts accountant, Cindy La Porta testifying i knew it was wrong, i could have refused but that would expose the Accounting Firm to the risk of litigation or i could have called longtime clients liars. I very much regret it. This is the first of two trials of Paul Manafort being brought by special counsel robert
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A recap of the days news. The Washington Post by the way who are doing a lot of heavy lifting, cataloging all the false and misleading claims President Trump has made since he took the oath of office. His complete disregard for the truth is shocking. It probably shouldnt be. After all, he told us this himself. And just remember what youre seeing and what youre reading is not whats happening. So why dont we take a moment, shall we, to break down just a few of the president s most recent lies . Just this week, he again threatened to shut down the federal government, to shut it down on october 1st if congress doesnt give him the money for his Favorite Campaign promise, you know what that is, to build a wall on the southern border. We started building our wall, im so proud of it. We started. We have 1. 6 billion. And weve already started. You saw the pictures yesterday. I said, what a thing of beauty. Well, i dont know, mexico u. S. Steel Just Announced that theyre building six new steel
Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Jury to buy. It most certainly is and prosecutors will hammer one concept, follow the money. In these fraud trials, if you follow the money trail, that will lead you to the conclusion that you will finding when in the prosecutions mind is guilt. Theyll see readily Paul Manafort made exponentially bigger amounts. He set up the business and the shell companies. So its a very tough sell for the defense team to say its the lower level, the subordinate whos in position to take orders from the man above thats the true mastermind. Follow the money and that will lead you to the Promised Land for the prosecution. If i were rick gates, i would have taken a larger cut for myself, which he apparently did. Joining us now, ken dilanian. Ken, we were just speculating about this last night about when this might happen and it sounds like its a little quicker than we might have thought and that we are going to hear from gates
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