Rachel Maddow takes a look at the days top political news stories. Their way to keep trump out of the trial. Abc news reports that prosecutors have been coaching their witnesses not to mention trumps name or even that manafort lives in trump tower. The judge in the case has warned that bringing up manaforts ties to trump could unduly influence jurors. There is at least one thing about this trial that is important to the relationship between Paul Manafort and donald trump. The first witness today was tad devine, chief strategist for Bernie Sanders an president ial campaign who worked with manafort on political campaigns in ukraine. The prosecution called him as their first witness to have him describe how much work manafort was doing in ukraine and how lucrative it was. Before we came on the air, we got a rush version of the transcript from todays hearing. Im not going to be able to act out a whole conversation but heres one little bit of the prosecutors Opening Statement worth hear. Th
I really mean it when i say i could talk to these friends for another hour. My thanks to all of them, and mostly to you for watching. Chuck todd with mtp daily starts now. Welcome to tuesday. It is meet the press daily. Good evening. Im chuck todd in washington where another round of potential bombshell testimony as the president and his allies once again struggle to defend him as democrats unveil their official road map for the next phase of the impeachment inquiry. This afternoon the house laid out a resolution that will lay out the rules and procedures that will govern the next phase
that will include public hearings and the official rollout of the impeachment. It will include an ability for President Trump to have attorneys around. Meanwhile, there was more potentially explosive testimony in the investigation itself from Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman. He is a purple heart recipient, a National Security official who was in on the infamous phone call with the ukraine president
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in the middle east, where israel s defence minister has been outlining his plans for gaza, once its war with hamas is over. it comes almost three months after hamas s deadly october the 7th attacks on southern israel, which triggered the conflict. under yoav galla nt s four corner proposals, hamas would no longer control gaza and israel would retain overall security control. a multi nationalforce would take charge of rebuilding gaza, after its widespread destruction in israeli bombing. neighbouring egypt would also have an unspecified role under the plan. but gaza would be run by palestinian bodies, as long as they were not hostile towards israel. fighting in gaza has continued alongside the plan s publication. the hamas run health ministry says that dozens of people have been killed in the past 2a hours. here s the view of mara rudman, a former senior us national security official,
hamas would no longer control gaza, which would be run by palestinian bodies, as long as there was no threat to israel. we will take over exactly what that means. let s speak to mara rudman, a former senior us national security official. thank you so much for coming on the programme. thank you so much for coming on the programme- programme. thanks for having me. quite a lot going programme. thanks for having me. quite a lot going on programme. thanks for having me. quite a lot going on in programme. thanks for having me. quite a lot going on in the - programme. thanks for having me. quite a lot going on in the last - quite a lot going on in the last couple of hours, those couple of statements. should we start with this idea that israel talking it out effectively what happens the day after as it has become known. we learned there this idea that it will be palestinian bodies in control so long as there is no threats to israel. can you unpick a little bit about what you think that