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
Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. And Donald Trumps name wasnt mentioned today. Robert muellers name wasnt mentioned today. This trial does not have to do with any connection to the 2016 campaign. Nor does rick gates involvement dovetail with what he did in the 2016 campaign, nor his work on the inaugural committee. Its a highly separate trial involving past clients of Paul Manaforts. I think if were reading between the lines, its the prelude to something that is supposed to be bigger. Obviously the prosecutors have a case that theyre bringing here, but it does seem like theyre looking down the road to try to get or compel Paul Manafort to participate in the larger mission, which is the investigation to collusion in the trump campaign. And were all sort of waiting to see what manafort does under this type of pressure. I do agree that the case the defense he is bringing seems highly uncompelling. Basically, he is saying my underli
in june we brought you that story of a salvadorian mother. as most immigrant children taken from theirreunified by their parents, we re learning her experience and her son s experience is far from unique. many children are already showing the psychological scars of their ordeal. the new york times reporting on one child. a 5-year-old brazilian boy who asked for breast feeding when he was reunited with his mother. now his favorite game is patting down and shackling migrants with plastic cuffs. when visitors showed up in philadelphia, he krouxed behind the sofa. at least one detention center where children were held, children were given psycho tropic medication without consent. on monday in a case that included filings from kids about being forcibly injected with drugs and feeling side effects,
introversion, regression, and other mental health issues. one mother tells the paper that the change in her 5-year-old son is particularly concerning. he quote loved playing with the yellow impish minion characters from the movies. now his favorite game is patting down and shackling migrants with plastic cuffs. it was pointed out the impact on children should not have been a surprise to anyone. one public health official testified the trump administration had been warned long before the policy was put in place. during the deliberative process over the previous year, we raised a number of concerns in the or program about any policy which would result in family separation. there s no question that separation of children from parents entails significant potential for traumatic psychological injury to the child. that official says he was assured by the government that family separation would not be implemented.
practiced and encouraged from columbine just miles away from where they re at. the challenges that you get are that you discovered in some of the recent interviews, with texting, social media, you get an onslaught of parents, understandably, as a parent myself, very emotional so schools need to have crisis communication plans. one parent mentioned that she did not get any information from the school. we do have schools with mass notification systems. there could be many reasons the school may have put it out and they just didn t get it but the parent concerns, how do you have staging areas. you saw that when they did evacuate, they evacuated very controlled manner as you re showing the video of, with patting down, checking, verifying that each person coming out is not potentially another participant, another suspect, in this. i wanted to ask you about that. that s protocol now, to make sure that exiting children i understand it, i m not being critical of it, but it is a rather stun