trump s legal team, it is a hell of a run so far. and again, all of this playing out, this revised statement from rudy giuliani that we ve read to you that we are talking about right now. as we await the president himself, he will be speaking to the annual convention of the nra in dallas any minute now. looks like, last i saw the vice president mike pence is still speaking. after him there he is wayne la pierre is going to follow mike pence, he will introduce the president. but while we continue the countdown to that, ken dilanian, another piece of news breaking on the legal front just a few hours ago, fascinating story. i would like your perspective on this. the case of paul manafort. paul manafort seeking to have those bank fraud charges against him tossed in court in virginia today. the judge who s hearing that case said this. he didn t make a ruling but he said to the federal prosecutor, he said, you don t really care about mr. manafort s bank fraud. you really care about get
going on in dallas, you have been watching that in the corner of your screen. we think we are looking at right now is the introduction of wayne la pierre. he will bring the president out. so i m going to keep an eye on that podium when wayne la pierre comes out there, we ll bring that to you. but nick confessore, i ve been wondering, too, about the politics of all of this. we are having this scandal play out about the president of the united states, about the pay outto a former porn star, all the allegations of this stuff. with a past president i feel like something like this would have come as a shock. it would have come out of left field. with donald trump, it seems like there was this seamless shift from this campaign where there was one shocking revelation after another, to a presidency where there s one does any of this surprise any of the voters who went to the polls and made him president? no, it doesn t. i can imagine if a different era trump leaking news of his affair with
aware that stormy daniels was paid through michael cohen, when did he know the payments he was making were in fact for that purpose. that remains a big question the president needs to answer. chris? i would argue that number one and number three are not new, not corrections either, things we have heard before. amplifamplifying. relitigating perhaps. yes. i m not sure it is a correction or clarification. kelly o donnell, thank you for that. steve kornacki gets to handle the rest of this matter. chris, you handed me some breaking news as we are waiting for more news out of dallas as the president is about to speak. good afternoon, everybody, from new york. i m steve kornacki taking over our coverage there from chris jansing. again we are waiting for a couple things to be happening here in just a few minutes. wayne la pierre, head of the nra, is going to be introducing the president. the president is going to be speaking at the nra s annual convention in dallas. as we wait for
thank you. thank you very much. we love you, folks. we love you. thank you. thank you, folks. thank you very much. it is a great honor to be here. i want to thank you chris who s done such an incredible job. these are real patriots. they really are. and they don t get the kind offedof adulation. i want to thank wayne la pierre.
time, those are harsh words for a federal prosecutor. viewers can see i think in the lower right-hand corner of the screen, vice president mike peps h pence has finished his remarks down there in dallas. we expect any moment wayne la pierre, head of the nra, will come out and address the crowd, and introduce the president. let me continue with you, guy. on the news we were also discussing about rudy giuliani, this new statement he s put out, this attempt at a clarification. what is your read on the significance of the posture he s now taking? does it change things in any way? it does in the sense that he really refines his remarks. he makes them clearer. that s the problem i had with the mayor s statements. they were too much off the cuff. look, in this kind of case again, i ve handled some on both sides, when i was trying noriega, when i ve defended some cases. everything you say and do is