Rachel Maddow takes a look at the days top political news stories. Charge of grand larceny, a big stack of charges involving a large amount of money and potentially a large amount of jail time. The story they uncovered at the courthouse that day, for some reason, friedman had gotten this huge Criminal Liability he was facing winnowed down to almost nothing. All the prison time and felonies evaporated. Instead of being tried for evading 5 million in taxes, prosecutors let him plead guilty to one count of evaluating 50,000 worth of taxes. Not 5 million, 50,000. Instead of decades in potential prison time the deal he cut with prosecutors got him zero prison time. People do plea deals all the time they offer their testimony for prosecutors letting them off the hook and going easier on
them. This was like the mother of all plea deals. The amount he offered must have been very very valuable to the government given how sweet the deal was he got from them in return. That happened in late may.
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We have fisa abuse, fisa justice lied to. Bias, corruption, nepotism at the highest level of our federal bureaucracy. All going unpunished. Jeff sessions nowhere to be found. It is sad. During his interview with ainsley earhardt, the president slammed his absentee Attorney General. We will show you the tape. As muellers witch hunt rages on, we will show you how they trash the Special Counsel. We have all of the examples from the obsession of the day, you are going to love it. Impeachment repeated 222 times in a day. We have all of them tonight. Hannity investigation, with the help of a brandnew book, shining a light on the lucrative Revolving Door. A lot of fbi, doj guys, government guys, private sector, millions of dollars. Wait until you hear them millions of dollars james comey
forms, Bank Habitations Applict to porn stars, and a witch hunt of the president and everyone around him. An unmitigated disaster for so many personally. Lives offended and literally uprooted, and the entire
Tomorrow. You can reach out to me any time on social media. Hardball with Chris Matthews starts right now. Up all night. Le lets play hardball. Good evening. Im Chris Matthews in washington. Dont do the crime if you cant do the time. Didnt people around donald trump Pay Attention to crime show warning. If you committed federal crimes you could be squeezed by federal prosecutors to rat. Didnt donald trump know if he did business with such people he would be the fall guy. Which gets us to the president s predicament this thursday evening. No man is an island. No man except increasingly now President Trump. The acceleration of his own legal exposure is leaving him isolated. Paul manafort is now convicted
of financial crimes. Former fixer lawyer Michael Cohen has pled guilty to tax fraud and Campaign Violation which is he says were directed by the president himself and now would appear the water around trumps island are rising fast. That sentiment is evident in the new cover of Time Magazi
Story. The Democric Party is transforming before our eyes. The party of tom foley, tip oneill and even bill clinton is long gone. Pretty soon the party of nancy pelosi and Chuck Schumer will be history, too. In its place is emerging something new, the party of andrew gillum. Hes the mayor of tallahassee, and heres some of what he believes. We want to replace i. C. E. With the department of justice, an entity that has not been tarnished in the same way as to be nine halves. So again, he says you want to abolish i. C. E. And you say you want to replace it, thats basically the same. Health care ought to be treated not like a person. So you think you should be impeached . I think so, is already implicated himself, by Basically Obstructing justice. Tucker The State Of Florida has long been considered moderate politically, its a
vital swing state during president ial elections. Many pundits last night and even democrats have been quick to dismiss andrew speak 18s chances this fall. Hes too f