Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Seated, the judge will give fairly long explanation. On. Reporter after the jury is seated, the judge will give fairly long explanation. Were not going to hear Opening Statements today. Its possible we could hear them tomorrow or thursday. Got it. Pete williams. Thank you very much. Let me bring in National Political reporter for the Washington Post and msnbc political analyst. Two msnbc contributors. Charlie savage. Let me go over briefly this reminder about Paul Manafort and why the Special Counsel is interested in him. Starts with donald trump. He hired Paul Manafort to run his president ial campaign in march 2016. Prior to his work on the Trump Campaign, manafort did political work overseas. Some for the prorussian
highlights which as you indicated, rick gates, all eyes will be on him. He was the right hand man to manafort. What hell have to do in order to fulfill his cooperation agreement, for the government
A news show featuring the top headlines of the day from pop culture to politics, which are discussed by a rotating panel of four women and one man. Harris i hear you saying david it sounds like the m. O. It sounds like their m. O. But the fact is that for decades and, of course, we got to realize Vladimir Putin is part of the old soviet union. K. G. B. Guy at heart. They have been trying to sow dissent in the United States since stalin was in power and even before that. They continue to do that. Its just the method of delivery has changed. That is what theyre focusing on now. There hasnt been enough done in the past. Probably isnt enough done now. I dont think it is ever going to stop. Harris senator Lindsey Graham says he is working to introduce a russia, quote unquote, sanctions bill from hell. Go for it. Trump has been tough on russia, as we should. So i have no problem to continue sanctions on russia. Of course we have to take the Cyber Security issues seriously. We should make sur
A look at the days top news and headlines. Opinion, its ridiculous the corruption and dishonesty with the witch hunt, the president has watched this process play out but he also wants to see it come to an end as he stated many times. We look forward to that happening. Dana i understand why she would want to answer it that way, last week we found out that muellers team is looking at the president s tweets to see if there was a pattern of obstruction. This is just his opinion, just fighting back, its not obstruction. Amazing when you have the white house under siege like this one, much as with the Nixon White House or the Clinton White house, the way in which the team there comes to reflect the attitude, the language, the perspective of the boss. And you can hear it there, and the loaded words and the hard language. This is a white house under siege and this is an administration that is ready to fight, fight, fight. The problem for trump is the same as it is with, you know, all of that s
Tariffs against china. Initially they were going to target with a 10 tariff, but sources say the president wants to increase that tax to 25 . There is a growing belief that china is a bad actor on trade and needs to be handled as such. China cannot fight titfortat trade war for very long, it will quickly run out of bullets. We also expect questions on a tweet a president sent out this morning that many people saw as him telling Attorney General Jeff Sessions to shut down the Robert Mueller investigation. Tweeting Attorney General Jeff Sessions should stop this which onto right now. Democrats started shouting about Obstruction Of Justice that the president was pretty overt and telling Jeff Sessions to shut the investigation down. Investigation, so we will see where it goes. I laugh because theres never been a natural end to a Special Counsel investigation. Harris there are very few natural ends to anything so we will see what happens. We are joined by a member of the Senate Intelligence
Katy Tur hosts coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Influence american voters, including a Covert Campaign to spread Divisive Political messages. That has raised questions about what the government is doing to stop them. As the Washington Post reports lawmakers and independent analysts say that Voting Systems are more secure against hackers thanks to action at the federal and state levels and that the russians have not targeted those systems to the degree they did in 2016, but russian efforts to manipulate u. S. Voters through misleading social media postings are likely to have grown nor sophisticated and harder to detect. There is not a sufficiently strong Government Strategy to combat Information Warfare against the u. S. Outside experts say. Joining me now nbc National Correspondent Peter Alexander at the white house, Nbc National Security and intelligence reporter ken dilanian, White House Bureau chief for the Washington Post, phil rucker, Nation