Rachel Maddow takes a look at the days top political news stories. Their way to keep trump out of the trial. Abc news reports that prosecutors have been coaching their witnesses not to mention trumps name or even that manafort lives in trump tower. The judge in the case has warned that bringing up manaforts ties to trump could unduly influence jurors. There is at least one thing about this trial that is important to the relationship between Paul Manafort and donald trump. The first witness today was tad devine, chief strategist for Bernie Sanders an president ial campaign who worked with manafort on political campaigns in ukraine. The prosecution called him as their first witness to have him describe how much work manafort was doing in ukraine and how lucrative it was. Before we came on the air, we got a rush version of the transcript from todays hearing. Im not going to be able to act out a whole conversation but heres one little bit of the prosecutors Opening Statement worth hear. Th
Interviews with political figures and news updates. Looking at. If you are looking at, as Robert Mueller had been known to do, how tweets fit into a larger pattern of obstruction of justice, the contrasting this weekends tweet and the statement that the president put out, helped put out in july of last year, obviously, will go to, you know, that argument. Does that constitute an illegal act or as jay sekulow says, is it not relevant to the law . And elli, what is elvent to the law . Its hard to tell what mueller is looking at. But we hear from a lot of reporting that youre looking at that june meeting. June 2016 meeting. Yeah, andrea, and they should be. If im prosecuting a case for soliciting illegal Foreign Campaign aid and a witness testified to exactly what the president tweeted yesterday, my next move is to say no further questions. Its really an astonishing admission by the president. He essentially admits to 95 of a crime and the other 5 is obvious. We can break it down. The pre
Anderson Cooper takes viewers beyond the headlines with indepth reporting and investigations. What it does is put a huge number of seats in play for democratic enthusiasm. Now, thats going to result in a lot more republican spending than we had before. Maybe both sides get motivated on the money but republicans will have more money. So thats a big concern for democrats. I think the ground game in a close election like this matters. That infrastructure is there, and we have the money for that. Its more speaking with the voters. Like i said before nancy pelosi could be the speaker, they could have Subpoena Power and essentially grind to a halt. Things are going well. They need tawao wake up and understand democrats are motivated. If we can motivate our base i believe that can happen in november. They all know its an election in november and we tend to turn out in higher numbers in midterms. The Complacency Thing is
november in almost every one of these races. Its about district. You know
Court. Jackie ibanez has more. Reporter no electricity or plumbing, made of mostly garbage. The 11 children living there had easy access to loaded assault rifles. Prosecutors say the 5 adults keeping children of the compound were treating them to become school shooters. Local information taking place. We also knew from surveillance there was a shooting on the west side. Reporter according to Court Documents the adult, quote, transported children across state lines for the purpose of receiving advanced weapons training to commit future acts of violence, police and covering the compound as they search for missing toddler, they believe his father, one of the men arrested kidnapped the boy and plans to perform an exorcism on him. They think they found the boys remains but awaiting Dna Confirmation and the suspect is the son of a controversial muslim imam with ties to the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. They are charged with child abuse and neglect and pleaded not guilty and are back in co
Msnbc. The Security Clearance has been revoked by President Trump. Steve why did he do it . Everybody is speculating. The president himself told the Wall Street Journal last night that the president holds john brennan among those responsible for launching the whole russia trump colluded business which, of course, the president denied. Keep in mind and we have heard about this a couple of times. It was back in the summer of 2016, that guy, right there, who at the time was the cia director, went to Harry Reed Whos was the top senator on the democratic side with the dossier. He showed him the dossier. Harry reid wrote with a letter to james comey saying hey, the fbi has got to investigate. This and then the fbi did. So, in other words, it started with brennan. Then harry reid and then james comey and thats how we got to where we are a number of investigative reporters like Kimberly Strossel say. Brian he is an inflammatory pundit who has a rich history in intelligence. And it made the pre