Im leaving this set and going to get a latte because i will be here tonight at 9 00 for my good friend rachel maddow. There will likely be no shortage of breaking news from now until then. For now, my thanks to jonathan, doug, matt and elise. That does it for now. Who do we blame for no cameras in federal courtrooms again . You can blame me. Boy do i wish we had a camera in a courtroom right now. Thank you, nicole. If its tuesday, Paul Manaforts trial is officially under way. Tonight, collusion confus n confusion. The wild evolution of the president s alternative explanations with yet another dimension of denial. Plus, midterm sabotage. Our democracy itself is in the cross hairs. Facebook you have . S snuffs out coordinated attempts of Election Interference but as the u. S. Government done you have no protect the integrity of the vote . Mark my words, america wont tolerate this meddling. And day one of trial number one for the special counsels office. How the Paul Manafort tax evasion
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
The days top stories from around the world, from politics and money, to sports and pop culture. The days top stories from around the world, from politics and money, to sports and pop culture. A voluntary interview suggests theres more to the interview. When you want that you want it written down so you can use it in the future maybe for perjury. In terms of that, if you are roger stone and youre watching how this is playing out, you and your attorneys as youre huddling, whats the thinking there. Well trks ha, its hard to k. Hes under scrutiny. If you were going to make a list three years ago of the Trump Associates who were most likely to be in trouble, it would be Paul Manafort, roger stone beneath him. So i think that the major jeopardy were seeing in this case, you have one shady lobbying case. Paul manafort. Russians indicted who will never see the inside of a u. S. Courtroom and then you have perjury. You have people not telling the truth. So any lawyer working for any of these pe
Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Bolder balderson is better on crime and taxes and ordinary issues and the question is whether the trump base will respond to that a oppose to the more personality consult that surrounds trump as an individual. If the numbers froze right now, if the democrats even with an l in this race still have won because it went from double digit down to Single Digits as least as of todays polling. Well, they will definitely spin it as a win. And you could argue that the fact that they are narrowing the gap so dramatically on a race on the seat that has been held by a republican for decades is a big deal. There are lots of other races like that actually more favorable to democrats across the country come november, they only need 23 seats in order to flip the house. So they would probably take this feeling confident, take this game plan to some of these other races. Republican base or certain portions of republican voters, he h
A look at Breaking News, politics and reports from around the world. Didnt admit to having done it and heard from gates, emails showed where manafort was recommending to him that they put steven koch, a banker who helped manafort get an improper loan according to the government and saw an email of manafort recommending that steven named to the economic Advisers Committee and he was and nominated to secretary of the army which he was not and also Manafort Rtrying to get him tickets to the inauguration and saw the nexus of the campaign and the inauguration. It seems he was broke signing on to the campaign. What did rick gates tell the jury about manaforts finances . Reporter gates said that essentially all of their y Ukrainian Consulting work he said it dried up by 2014. They were trying to win new contracts but they didnt have
it. Manafort, gates testified fallen behind on the credit card bills. Didnt pay them in full. Part of the allegation that manafort was trying to get loans from ba