A recap of the days news. Its always the same counties. In other places, its ohio. Theyre pretty good at it. Were at 66 here, the early votes came in, this was blue at first, now its gone, back to its dna. If you look at any map in america. Heres the city, out here is red, and look at the margins, 70 . 67 . You move away from the cities, youre in republican country. You come down to the suburbs the republican incumbent won this race. Danny oconnor has done what he needs to do. As you move a little more away, affluent republicans here some of them like trump, some like the tax cut. This is now your tug of war in Todays Republican Party playing out in an affluent suburban county here. Is winning that by 53 enough. Its not necessarily a fair comparison, because its a not only did he win by 11 points. We should underscore this is a district that has not had a democratic representative in almost 40 years, before you were born, don. I wish. It really is remarkable. And the answer to why its
Manafort. And speaking of flipping today, Ruby Red District in ohio may be the latest to elect a democrat in a special election. We will get to that in a moment. First lets go outside of the federal courthouse in alexandria, virginia, on the trial of Paul Manafort. Joe johns is here with an update. Good morning, joe. Rick gates back on the stand, taking questions from prosecutors, laying out the government case. They say it is illegal conduct that goes all the way from 2008 to 2015. Thats seven years. Meanwhile, in 2016, mr. Manafort took over as the Campaign Chairman for the trump campaign, rick gates was right there beside him as his deputy. So what did we learn so far . Among the most important testimony is his testimony that
our Justice Correspondent Jessica Schneider is here, former u. S. Attorney greg bower joining me. And analyst xian wu. Lay out your representation previously of rick gates so its on the table. Right. We had represented rick from the time that he was indicted to
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in the superseded documents indictment. he s the mar-a-lago property manager who is now facing four charges including conspiracy to obstruct justice. he is alleged to be part of an attempted scheme to delete subpoenaed a security footage at mar-a-lago on behalf of, quote, the boss. joining us now is former federal prosecutor and msnbc legal analyst cynthia alksne and criminal defense attorney and msnbc legal analyst danny cevallos. what are we going to do? we are going to set up a mock, if you, will prosecution versus defense on trump s legal issues with you both. starting with the classified occupants indictment, cynthia, lay out for us the prosecution s strongest evidence and how they might likely argue their case. well, in the documents case, they are big issue it is a nullification case. nullification, the factual evidence is so strong. because it is in this ruby red