Not russia, though russia looms large in the background as it seems to in Everything Else these days. Manaforts being tried in Federal Court in alexandria, virginia. He was, of course, Trumps Campaign chairman, ran the rnc convention. Its the first of two trials for him, and this one hes looking at 18 counts of bank fraud, tax evasion, conspiracy charges in relation to his work for a prorussian party in ukraine before he went to work for the trump campaign. He has pleaded not guilty to all charges. This trial is off to a lightning start. So far a jury has been seated. Opening statements have been delivered, and a witness has testified, all on day one. Manafort was a March To August Chairman back in 2016. He helped trump secure the nomination, make no mistake, and trump said so at the time. I have fantastic people. Paul manafort just came on. Hes great. He didnt need to do this, but he wanted to. Paul manafort has done an amazing job. He is here some place where. Is paul . However, more
Chris Hayes discusses the days top news. Spent an entire week at one of his golf course. It should not be that hard to find out whose interest the president is serving if own the congressional leaders would say subpoena his tax returns. More likely to support a candidate who promises to be a check on the president. Fresh off another round of encouraging Election Results on tuesday, democrats have a message of their own, they are in the words of nancy pelosi clean up corruption. What does that mean . Cleaning up corruption. How do you do it . We have to make sure that we can get big money out of politics. What we have seen is dark money
risk of not getting kavanaugh confirmed. It is not a matter it is a matter of timing. That sounds like they support in impeaching Rod Rosenstein but not doing it now. The plot which is to go after Rod Rosenstein but allow the senate to jam the Supreme Court justice. Do that work and then return after the midterm elections to try to jam up Rod Rosenstein.
Rachel Maddow takes a look at the days top political news stories. Other reference in the whole Paul Manafort trial to his time on the Trump Campaign. This thing i previously mentioned about him maybe offering the job of running the u. S. Earl or the a Bank President who approved the loans for him. Thats the only other reference in the Trump Campaign thus far. Two days ago out of the blue, the manafort defense lawyer asks rick gates, did mueller ask but your time in the Trump Campaign . The prosecutor gets up and objects. The judge summons both sides to come to the bench. He flips on, i kid you not, the White Noise Machine which is a real thing. So the jury and the spectators hear crashing waves instead of the conversation. None can hear whats being said. They have this long private communication. We know it is long because we know it takes six pages to
transcribe. But we cant see the pages because they are sealed. Now, we do know after that bench conference, whatever happen there, the
A roundup of the days events. Theres distance between the two. And you see the officer shoot at hambricks back. As hambrick was dying, police recovered what they say was his handgun. The chief, speaking to wkrn channel 2 in nashville, says theres more to the story. Theres a lot of activity thats not filmed. Reporter this all started with a traffic stop, where police were searching for a stolen vehicle. My daughter is now thinking that the police is the enemy. Reporter the family of the shooting victim says the officer should be charged. If there is ever a case of premeditated first degree murder, this is it. This is it. He stops and takes his time and makes sure he gets a good shot. All right, Steve Osunsami joins us now live. And steve, while prosecutors decide whether or not to press charges, the police chief tonight is saying he will take a look at how officers are trained . Reporter thats right, tom. The police chief says hes already sent a note to the police academy, telling them
A look at the days top news and headlines. Returned to the u. S. After learning they were deported while still in the process of appealing their removal. Lets go live to doug mcelway with a. This is a federal judge with a reputation for mistrusting Government Lawyers. Yes, he sure does. In fact he was instrumental in overturning the conviction of senator ted stevens after discovering that Government Prosecutors concealed important evidence from the defense. He also hinted that special prosecutor Robert Muellers team may have withheld exculpatory evidence with security advisor michael flynn. Yesterday, he tore in to Government Lawyers for prematurely deporting an illegal immigrant, carmen, and her daughter while the appeal was underway, while the plane was in mid flight. Quote, its outrageous. Im also directing the government to turn that plane around either now or when it lands, turn that plane around and bring those people back to the United States. He also threatened Attorney General