Sh issue. First time they have r had interesting way to take over the magazine. That does it for me. Hardball starts now. Crime and punishment. Lets play hardball. Today Paul Manafort, the president s campaign. Facing years in a u. S. Prison. Whatever you choose to call it, it is past. For a year and a half our country has been contorted into a reality tv show. This is the day we discovered
reality bites. Good evening, i am chris matthews. Heading into round one now. Investigation is underway at a courthouse just across the potomac. He is facing 18 counts of tax evasion and bank fraud. Charges that predate his time on the Trump Campaign. If found guilty, he could get up to ten years in prison. Facing similar charges in Federal Court in washington. Manafort joined the Trump Campaign in march of 2016. Manafort did work overseas. He also had Business Ties with russia. And he took part in that Infamous Trump tower meeting with russians. Where the Trump Campaign was promis promised damaging
Rage with this . And saying farmers are saying its okay, we can take these tariff, the hitter that getting, i havent heard a farmer say that. Says the guy with a 757 jet. And it can be revoked by congress they have a voice to play here if they want to play it. If they hate this Trade Policies so much, they can do something about it. And every day, we see people cowering in the corner, we see someone like the commander who told the truth in front of the Senate Committee and in front of america. And as long as we have one person telling the truth, every day, getting that news out, we have a chance. That does it for us this morning, Stephanie Ruhle picks up the coverage. Thanks, mika, joe. Hi there, im Stephanie Ruhle. Facebook says it has found dozens of fake accounts, all part of a Covert Campaign to attack the American Democratic process. Surprise, surprise, just before the 2018 midterms. Was it the russians again . And what can actually be done to stop it . That has everything but the
socialist rea isist republic, i not becoming an autocracy, that people rejected trump because they don t like the strong man talk, this is america, this isn t the philippines. what does that mean to your side in terms of how the capitalize? i think it was in addition to that chris i would say it s about the issues. look at new england fwhe who expanded medicaid through a ballot measure when the republican governors would not, democrats now control now sit in the governors seats in michigan, wisconsin and pennsylvania where we didn t do too well in 2016 but are vital if we want to do well in 2020 so democrats should look at the midterms and say we have a fighting chance and to borrow something my good friend tad divine said, as long as donald trump is president, we have a fighting chance. we didn t get caught up in talking about donald trump. democrats talked about health
well in 2020 so democrats should look at the midterms and say we have a fighting chance and to borrow something my good friend tad divine said, as long as donald trump is president, we have a fighting chance. everywhere. we have to show up. we have to bring a message. that s what happened in the midterm election. we didn t get caught up in talking about donald trump. democrats talked about health care wages and the economy for middle-class americans and putting a check on the president when it came to the united states house of representatives. one of many silver linings in this election is an exit poll showed in florida where desantis won showed that 18% black women voted for desantis, the republican candidate, now governor-elect. that s a good sign. which exit poll was that? rasmussen. rasmussen? which exit poll? hmm. for republicans in the conservative movement, they have to find that gold or else we ll
business partner rick gates whole they say embezzled millions with his firm and cooperating with investigators to save his own skin. nbc s ken delanian is at the courthouse. what are we expecting to see today? reporter: okay, stephanie, today, we re expecting to hear from another consultant who worked in the campaign for paul manafort. explain how it is these americans are overseas working for foreigners, how they get paid, what they do. the first witness yesterday was tad divine, a democratic local strategist, and he worked, he testified that his firm worked for manafort for the ukrainian elections for many years. paid $500,000. plus a $1 million success fee to help elect in the election. and jankovic would not have been elected in 2010 bout his help.