Anderson Cooper takes viewers beyond the headlines with indepth reporting and investigations. Took the stand at his trial and the testimony was damaging to say the least. As for the former madam, Kristin Davis, today we learned she talked with muellers team. Shimon proyew pez joins us with the latest. Lets talk about what came to light on this day four of the trial. Certainly damaging testimony, as you say, for Paul Manafort. An accountant taking the stand who really is the first person who has direct knowledge of manaforts alleged scheme. She was given immunity to testify. Her name is cindy la porter. She was a long time accountant for him, and really a big day for prosecutors here in that really what she showed was that manafort had asked her to falsify documents. Some of this activity, you know, when he was running the Trump Campaign in 2016. In one case, she says that he asked her to say that money that he had in offshore accounts was a loan when it was, in fact, income which reduc
Rachel Maddow takes a look at the days top political news stories. They are known as the steele dossier. They allege, among other things, that the Trump Campaign had organized collusion with the kremlin. Quote, this is something of huge significance. Way above party politics, that Intelligence Officer told corn, that would be steele. Quote, i think trumps own party should be aware of this stuff, as well. The official confirmation of the fbi investigation into the Trump Campaigns contacts with russia was not confirmed for many more months. Its even easy to forget that, because its the kind of big information thats the center of American Politics, so we all talk about it. People who dont even follow the news know about it. But lets be clear. It was not until march 2017, many months later is, thats after the inauguration, after the election, when fbi director james comey went down to the hill, where he was testifying and said, yes, there was an open probe. By that time, the fbi had also i
The days biggest political and news stories, with interviews and reporting from around the nation. Box with maybe trump junior and several other people. Youre using a fancy word as you often do, inculpates for makes them look really suspicious and guilty. Glenn, let me play for you the way mr. Credico tried to limit his exposure to other people that could figure in as subjects or targets. This was on the subject of mr. Roger stone. Take a look. And youre in there as an associate, im not implying anything negative about you, but as a known associate of roger stone and julian assange. Dont say associating of stone. I know stone. What word would you use . Someone that has worked with stone before but not an associate. A former colleague . No. Ive worked on a campaign or two with roger stone in the past. 16 years ive known the guy. It sounds like youre going up from associate, not down. Glenn . So, ari, let me Say Something that you might not hear a lot of people say, but this is probably
Going to hear from later on in the show in a couple of minutes. But then after i tell you why im approaching it this way today, we are going to bring those folks on. Theyll stay here for an highway for the rest of the hour. Thats fair warning. This is a slightly different way than we usually do things here at the Rachel Maddow show at this time and this be bat channel. It starts last week at the summit between President Trump and putin of russia. Can you believe that was only a week ago . That was only a week ago. There was a landmark moment in the question and answer period at the summit where the two the president s were asked questions by reporters and a reuters reporter named jeff mason stood up and asked a very direct and important question to Vladimir Putin. You probably remember this moment if you watched is the summit that day or if you watched any of the News Coverage thereafter. Just for the record, this is actually what happened in that moment. Options abound. And they all c
Floor, but what is most important is that the first family is okay, and the one seriously injured that we know of so far is all of the injuries that we are aware of at the moment, but of course this is coming to you in the last 15 minutes. Jeff bennett, our white house correspondent, joins us now. We were speaking with your good colleague, monica alba, just moments ago. She was filling in what she knew and what the white house was saying in reaction to this. There is, of course, the tweet that came from President Trump. What are you seeing and hearing . Enchs we have not seen the president today. He sent out a couple tweets, and he tweeted fire at trump tower, confined. Firemen and women did a great job. Thank you. Remember, Melania Trump, and barron trump spent the first few months of the presidency living there in trump tower. We understand their penthouse occupation the first top several floors of that building, and they stayed behind so barron could finish up the school year. He at