Rachel Maddow takes a look at the days top political news stories. Other reference in the whole Paul Manafort trial to his time on the Trump Campaign. This thing i previously mentioned about him maybe offering the job of running the u. S. Earl or the a Bank President who approved the loans for him. Thats the only other reference in the Trump Campaign thus far. Two days ago out of the blue, the manafort defense lawyer asks rick gates, did mueller ask but your time in the Trump Campaign . The prosecutor gets up and objects. The judge summons both sides to come to the bench. He flips on, i kid you not, the White Noise Machine which is a real thing. So the jury and the spectators hear crashing waves instead of the conversation. None can hear whats being said. They have this long private communication. We know it is long because we know it takes six pages to
transcribe. But we cant see the pages because they are sealed. Now, we do know after that bench conference, whatever happen there, the
when you go after antivaxers these based on who you found or more people you found indirectly, online, through media? no, i know some anti-vaxers, and i thought of a sketch idea, which would be a white noise machine for when someone you know start talking about their vaccine theories and you can just turn a white noise machine on, and it covers up the stupidity and you can keep respecting them. yeah, it s been the people that come to see me have to be vaxed, and they have to wear a masks. it s been fine doing comedy for people in masks, because if a joke doesn t work, i can just tell myself, that laugh must
noise machine on, where the lawyers were speaking to a judge, but we couldn t hear what they were discussion, and other proceedings where the courtroom was locked or proceedings took place in the judge s chambers. even the judge himself has said that there are threats in the case, and he s under some form of protection. i m curious, what you take from that. what more do you know about those threats that the judge is talking about? and might that be, in and of itself, with no direct threat to jury members, might that be enough for him to say this could extend what i m getting could extend to those jurors? it could just be that he s projecting it from himself onto the jurors. he said in court he s used to broadband scrutinized publicly and being criticized, about you he said what happened to this case took it to a whole new level. he was taken aback by the level of attention that is being paid to this trial.
transcribe. but we can t see the pages because they are sealed. now, we do know after that bench conference, whatever happen there, the conversation picked back up again the same lawyer questioning rick gates and rick gates, after that bench conference, whatever happen, he no longer faced more questions the trump campaign or whatever he told special counsel with the trump campaign. so whatever happened with the judge there, paul manafort s lawyer felt the need to change course. that s one of the most intriguing moments. it has been a real mystery as to what that was. today, fascinating development. prosecutors today filed this. it is a formal request to keep that side bar discussion at the bench, where it is just the judge and the lawyers from both sides with the white noise machine on, they filed a request to keep that discussion secret. it is sealed already. in the course of the trial under