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Rachel Maddow takes a look at the day s 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 trump s name or even that manafort lives in trump tower. the judge in the case has warned that bringing up manafort s 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 presidential 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 today s hearing. i m not going to be able to act out a whole conversation but here s one little bit of the prosecutor s opening statemen ....
Believe the evidence isn t coming in favorably to them. so i wouldn t say it s impossible that we won t see a late plea here, but manafort doesn t look like someone who is headed that direction. and i understand that this trial is about bang fraud, tax fraurksd things other than paul manafort s time and tenure as chairman of the trump campaign. clearly, this trial is on the president s mind. this cohen flirting with prosecutors in the southern district, just based on the president s new refrain on collusion, he pivoted today. maybe it s a coincidence it s the same day the manafort trial started. flowinger is he saying there was no collusion. it s collusion isn t a crime. how does it fit into the broader puzzle about russian influence over the trump campaign? this case i think is the preample to russian collusion. this is setting the scene for manafort s past dealings and past crimes. ....
Steve: we should point out you are a law professor. so you know the law. why do you think that could be a demonstration of obstruction of justice. it s a warning. said it subcommittee of propositions was she holding ap. was she holding over the police chief she is involved in the appropriations process. the wholtd thing is disappointing. you would hope that a congresswoman would want to cooperate with the police and not get in the way and demand equipment back. steve: it s a crazy situation and people are familiar now. her it guy was busted. he was trying to flee the country to pakistan. stopped at dulles i think he has already been charged with bang fraud. as soon as it hit the fan that this guy except debbie wasserman shultz. she waited until the day he was actually arrested and he had already destroyed a couple of hard drives. ....