Up 10 points. That has now evaporated. Interesting to see who turns out, a testament to the excitement level. Thank you all. That is all for this evening. The Rachel Maddow show starts right now with ari in for rachel. Good evening. Rachel has the night off. We have a pretty big show. Today was day two of the federal criminal trial of the campaign chairman. The witnesses were several people who sold the defendant clothes and houses that he bought through secretive International Wire payments. One important thing we learned from what happened today, this judge is holding muellers prosecutors to the line, limiting their questions and how they present key evidence to manafort to the jury. A former prosecutor who tried these kinds of cases and inside that courtroom today joins me to explain if what the judge is up to could hurt muellers case. There are reports tonight about the russian woman charged with trying to carry out the government influence campaign through the nra in the u. S. And
Analysis and discussion of the days top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence ODonnell. Analysis and discussion of the days top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence ODonnell. Hes absolutely right about that. Nobody can be sure of anything. None of us can be sure of what to believe as of now, but how strange is it that that was Rudy Giulianis answer to this question. The meeting with the russians, how can you be sure if the president didnt know beforehand. Rudy giulianis answer to that was, nobody can be sure of anything. With Defense Lawyers like that, who needs prosecutors . So why Hasnt Donald Trump replaced his weak, Tv Defense Lawyer who is doing a terrible job of defending donald trump . Well, there are a few real possibilities and rational possibilities for that. One is that donald trump doesnt know what good lawyering looks like and sounds like. After all Michael Cohen was Donald Trumps lawyer for years. The same Michael Cohen who Rudy Giuliani now describes this wa
Private. Something that would make any citizen without regard to party very concerned tonight. Allegedly abusing the power of office to try to shut down a probe into his own white house. Words that apply to nixon that undid his presidency and words that are advanced tonight. Lets get into the story. You may know if you watch this news program, we dont typically tweet Donald Trumps tweets as news stories because most of them are not news. Many of them are not factual, some of them are outright lies and a great many of them are ploys designed to hijack the conversation, distract the media or troll the notion. Up front, this is why weaver doing Something Different tonight. President trump is telling the Attorney General to shut down the mueller probe. Hes stating it in public and in writing that Jeff Sessions should stop the probe now. To be clear, if donald trump made that order in a private meeting with Jeff Sessions, or on a phone call to the doj or held a Big Press Conference on
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Analysis and discussion of the days top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence ODonnell. Analysis and discussion of the days top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence ODonnell. Mueller outlining their defenses of the president on Obstruction Of Justice. The key element of their defense was that President Trump did not know that his National Security adviser Michael Flynn was being investigated by the fbi when the president talked to fbi director james comey about letting flynn go. James comey quotes the president as having told him, i hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting flynn go. He is a good guy. I hope you can let it go. The Trump Defense team has said that it is impossible for that conversation to constitute Obstruction Of Justice because the president did not know that the fbi was then investigating Michael Flynn. But murray waass reporting that the white house memo that he read is a timeline prepared by White House Counsel Don Mcgahn showing e
Anderson Cooper takes viewers beyond the headlines with indepth reporting and investigations. The cleanup was after the Helsinki Summit saying he meant to say wouldnt instead of would although in that cleanup the president said it could be others meddling and since then calling the russia story a hoax and investigation rigged. The difference between the president s reluctance to call out russia and the security teams willingness to was noticeable. Striking enough to call out this question from dni coats. In the runup to the Helsinki Summit,s u. S. Officials, nato ambassadors to russia said the president would raise the issue of maligned activity with the president. He didnt address that. You said to make the issue of meddling a priority. How do you explain the disconnect between what you are
speech and his officials were so clear in the russia involvement. I think the fact the president continues to acknowledge this is exactly why the intel chiefs had to do this. When you have a threat