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
s isn t that long ago, flight. right. in the presidential race this was a county won by mitt romney by 62, o62. imagine that. so 63. look at the change there. as the population has grown, it has become more democratic and it s a similar story in this other county. mitt romney won this county by about 5 points so it was romney plus 5 and take it all the way to this special election we just had. you see raphael warnock won it by plus 36. so it s d plus 33, r plus 5 in 2012. you can see over the ten years as the population has grown here this has become a democratic county. that s become the story of georgia as it s flipped from a red to a purple and now i
when you have some time. when you have some time? so, we are holding up mrmacron? yeah. i can see the plus 33 that s paris. yes. that is true. a few minutes later, he returns. his preoccupation a renewed military onslaught about to begin in the east. are you getting the right weapons you need from the west? translation: we need weapons today, so we can fight. we cannot wait until some country decides to give or sell us weapons. some have still not decided on this, and we cannot wait two or three weeks or a month. the united states, the united kingdom and some european countries are helping, but we need it sooner we need it now. is it enough? we don t think so. in english: the priority word is sooner , the priority word i is quickly and the
come on in. from macron. emmanuel macron. yeah, he phoned me, we have connections. 0k, he dropped you a message, oh, i can see it. i don t know! he just tried to reach you, my friend. when you have some time, so we are holding up mr macron. yeah. i can see the plus 33, that s paris. yeah. 0k? a few minutes later he returns. his preoccupation, a renewed military onslaught about to begin in the east. are you getting the right weapons you need from the west? translation: we need weapons today so we can fight. we cannot wait until some country decides to give or sell us weapons. some have not decided on this and we cannot wait two or three weeks or a month. the united states,
yeah, he phoned me, we have connections. 0k, he dropped you a message, oh, i can see it. i don t know! he just tried to reach you, my friend. when you have some time, so we are holding up mr macron. yeah. i can see the plus 33, that s paris. yeah. 0k? a few minutes later he returns. his preoccupation, a renewed military onslaught about to begin in the east. are you getting the right weapons you need from the west? translation: we need weapons today so we can fight. we cannot wait until some country decides to give or sell us weapons. some have not decided on this and we cannot wait two or three weeks or a month. the united states, united kingdom and some european countries are helping but we need it sooner, we need it now.