Chris Hayes discusses the days top news. Another round of Election Sabotage is underway. And the trump official who says his warnings about the psychological damage of separated families was ignored. Good evening, from new york, i am chris hayes. Paul manafort is a shrewd liar so says the prosecution in the Opening Statement in the trial. Opening statement and even the testimony of first witness hours ago, Paul Manafort facing 18 counts. Bank fraud, tax evaluation, and conspiracy charges. Work with should note which predated his duties on the campaign of donald trump. And zoe fillman. I wrote down the word astonishing greed. We knew the outline of this tale from the indictment and court documents. But another thing to hear it lay out in court. This scheme Whereby Manafort was earning 16 million. But instead of taking the money in a wire transfer, he concocted this elaborate scheme to accept it in loans which werent really loans all to evade taxes. And interestingly, when his client was
Chris Hayes discusses the days top news. Allegations in the u. S. So we talked about this sort of circumventing the american tax system. Overseas payments and overseas Bank Accounts and never reported which is what is alleged. What is the bank fraud part of the case. It is the prosecutors allege that after 2014, when the spigot of cash was turned off, he needed to fund his lavish lifestyle. What he had was Real Estate Holdings that he purchased through the bogus loans. What he did, was he began overstating the value of these property. Faking a profit and loss statement for his company. Showing cash that he didnt have for bankers including while he was chairman of the campaign. They call it bank c and that is
the kind of fraud that they are alleging. Prosecutors are going to show that in fact it was false. Zoe, tad davine was there. He was a partner with manafort in his work in ukraine, what did he have to say . So tad talked about being brought in starting in 2005 to head Media Strateg
laws in place to be able to overturn. that, to me, is more dangerous than the curtailment of how long and how often. both are a problem, but the ability to overturn. so, that, versus empty bipartisanship. of course, it s going to lose. don t hide behind the filibuster, because you need to appease voters. just do what is right. and everyone knows what is right. they know what is right. but again, they got to have something to sell to the folks back home. the folks back home who believe there s election fraud, and that there s this and the democrats are the worst. do you think those people are going to vote for manchin, anyway? sure. if he if he stands up against the mean democrats, of course. but i don t think he doesn t present himself like that. i mean, january 6th. he jumped all over mcconnell and asking for a personal favor. people aren t who they present themselves to be, in public. i got to run. boy, you just can t be anything but right. no, i can t it s not th
and how often. both are a problem. but the ability to overturn. so that versus empty bipartisanship, of course it s going to lose. don t hide behind the filibuster because you need to appease voters. just do what is right. and everyone knows what is right. they know what is right. but again, they got to have something to sell to the folks back home. the folks back home who believe that the election is that there is election fraud and that there is this and the democrats are the worst. you think those people are going to vote for manchin any way? sure, if he stands up against the mean democrats, of course. but he doesn t present himself like that. january 6th, he jumped all over mcconnell and asking for a personal favor. people aren t always who they present themselves to be in public. got to run. boy, you just can t it s not i can t be anything but right. i can t do anything but see the reality to see people who they are, especially in this moment. especially for some
so majority leader mitch mcconnell canceled the senate august recess. but one senator didn t listen. jeff flake posted this picture. marks a new day for this political country. flake is there observing the elections which is a first since mugabe left. now it certainly is possible this was a really important trip to senator flake. but he must have realized in his absence lasting approximately three more weeks is royally screwing over mcconnell and president trump who need flake in d.c. to continue their mission of packing the courts. maybe this is his way of riding