Judge tonight is calling the Trump Administration reunification efforts unacceptable. When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york, im chris hayes. At the close of the first week of Paul Manaforts trial, things do not look good for the former Campaign Chairman of the trump campaign. And today in particular, the testimony about manaforts alleged tax evasion and bank fraud took on a Very Human Dimension when his accountant admitted under oath on the stand that she had in fact knowingly falsified Tax Documents in order to save Manafort Hundreds Of Thousands of dollars in taxes. Manaforts accountant, Cindy La Porta testifying i knew it was wrong, i could have refused but that would expose the Accounting Firm to the risk of litigation or i could have called longtime clients liars. I very much regret it. This is the first of two trials of Paul Manafort being brought by special counsel robert
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Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Bolder balderson is better on crime and taxes and ordinary issues and the question is whether the trump base will respond to that a oppose to the more personality consult that surrounds trump as an individual. If the numbers froze right now, if the democrats even with an l in this race still have won because it went from double digit down to Single Digits as least as of todays polling. Well, they will definitely spin it as a win. And you could argue that the fact that they are narrowing the gap so dramatically on a race on the seat that has been held by a republican for decades is a big deal. There are lots of other races like that actually more favorable to democrats across the country come november, they only need 23 seats in order to flip the house. So they would probably take this feeling confident, take this game plan to some of these other races. Republican base or certain portions of republican voters, he h
the reporting coming out that she cozied up with a former trump campaign aide jd gordon who was the campaign s director of national security for about six months. again, the question, compazying to and what cozying means with again an advocate coming out of russia here. the more we learn about mariia butina the more she looks like not the innocent college student. looks like she is directed, looks like she is trying to penetrate circles. got the earmarks of a controlled co-opt of the intel intelligence services. we saw the comment 3:00 in the morning awaiting further orders. she was getting very close and likely the bureau thought she was getting too dloet iclose to inner tir kein inner circles. all right. thanks. republican heavy weight oig are starting to choose sides.
the mission of washington, d.c. s newseum it was sharply criticized for selling this t-shirt. it says you are very fake news. responding to the outcry, the newseum today stopped selling that t-shirt saying we made a mistake and we apologize. a free press is an essential part of our democracy and journalists are not the enemy of the people. an honest decision to continue selling president trump s make america great again merchandise, they said as an organization that celebrates the rights of people from all political spectrums to express themselves freely, we ve historically made all types of political merchandise available for our guests to purchase. that has included former and current presidential slogans and imagery and merchandise from all political parties.
the president blasted the kochs in a series of tweets tuesday calling them a total joke in real republican circles. he also said he never sought their support and doesn t need their money or bad ideas. trump s attack came after a koch-linked group launched an ad targeting the president s tariffs. we re seeing a rise in protectionism. they are doing whatever they can to close themselves off from the new. this is a natural tendency. but it is a destructive one. the billionaire brothers did not endorse the president in 2016 and have since criticized several of his policies. let s bring in a democratic strategist and former executive of the new york state democratic party, and also a republican strategist and political analyst. great to see you both. and i guess since we re starting with that, we ll go to the republican friend on the table. and so you your thought about what clicked in the koch brothers brains that said okay, we are actively now going to, if you will, go up against thi