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. Election process a top priority. Reporter if the president has done so it has not been in public. Standing along side russian president Vladimir Putin last month mr. Trump said this. He said it is not russia. I dont see any reason why it would be. Reporter ever since that moment at the Helsinki Summit The White House has been trying to clean up his words. National security adviser job bolten trying to do so today. When the two got together President Putin said the first issue that President Trump raised was Election Meddling. Reporter the comments from all officials were a far cry from what the president has repeatedly said. Is russia still targeting the u. S. , mr. President . Lets go. We are finished here. Thank you very much. Make your way out. Reporter so the question is
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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
Rachel Maddow takes a look at the days top political news stories. So that was the answer. Thats the tension on the intelligence. Then there is a separate tension about how do you investigate, indict and punish the people identified by that very intelligence for Attacking American Democracy . We all know, there is a busy Special Counsel that trump has denigrated and at sometimes lied about. So a question on that was posed to the fbi director who of course, lets not forget has this job because his predecessor was fired because of the same russia probe and that firing is now part of the obstruction inquiry. I have a question for director wray. Thank you. The special Counsel Robert Mueller has indicted more than 20 russian officials based on work by the fbi for med ding in the 2016 election. The president has tweeted that that investigation by the Special Counsel is a hoax and should be shut down. I know youve said you dont believe it is a hoax. Why would the American People
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Anderson Cooper takes viewers beyond the headlines with indepth reporting and investigations. What it does is put a huge number of seats in play for democratic enthusiasm. Now, thats going to result in a lot more republican spending than we had before. Maybe both sides get motivated on the money but republicans will have more money. So thats a big concern for democrats. I think the ground game in a close election like this matters. That infrastructure is there, and we have the money for that. Its more speaking with the voters. Like i said before nancy pelosi could be the speaker, they could have Subpoena Power and essentially grind to a halt. Things are going well. They need tawao wake up and understand democrats are motivated. If we can motivate our base i believe that can happen in november. They all know its an election in november and we tend to turn out in higher numbers in midterms. The Complacency Thing is
november in almost every one of these races. Its about district. You know
Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Million, which means theres about 16 million unaccounted for. That was unreported to the irs, so hes not paying taxes on that. A lot of that was money that he made from his work for ukraine overseas, and then funneled that through Bank Accounts in cyprus. We know that he used a lot of those funds to pay for that lavish lifestyle we heard about last week and early this week. Things like his Ostrich Jacket that has gotten so much attention in this trial. Who doesnt want an Ostrich Jacket . Ashley parker, as this case moves forward, the question of whether President Trump is going to be talking to bob mueller, it seems to be stuck in the mud. This is the president s tweet today. This is an illegal brought rigged witch hunt run by people who are totally corrupt and are conflicted. It was started and paid for by Crooked Hillary and democrats. Phon