Chris Hayes discusses the days top news. Another round of Election Sabotage is underway. And the trump official who says his warnings about the psychological damage of separated families was ignored. Good evening, from new york, i am chris hayes. Paul manafort is a shrewd liar so says the prosecution in the Opening Statement in the trial. Opening statement and even the testimony of first witness hours ago, Paul Manafort facing 18 counts. Bank fraud, tax evaluation, and conspiracy charges. Work with should note which predated his duties on the campaign of donald trump. And zoe fillman. I wrote down the word astonishing greed. We knew the outline of this tale from the indictment and court documents. But another thing to hear it lay out in court. This scheme Whereby Manafort was earning 16 million. But instead of taking the money in a wire transfer, he concocted this elaborate scheme to accept it in loans which werent really loans all to evade taxes. And interestingly, when his client was
Chris Hayes discusses the days top news. Allegations in the u. S. So we talked about this sort of circumventing the american tax system. Overseas payments and overseas Bank Accounts and never reported which is what is alleged. What is the bank fraud part of the case. It is the prosecutors allege that after 2014, when the spigot of cash was turned off, he needed to fund his lavish lifestyle. What he had was Real Estate Holdings that he purchased through the bogus loans. What he did, was he began overstating the value of these property. Faking a profit and loss statement for his company. Showing cash that he didnt have for bankers including while he was chairman of the campaign. They call it bank c and that is
the kind of fraud that they are alleging. Prosecutors are going to show that in fact it was false. Zoe, tad davine was there. He was a partner with manafort in his work in ukraine, what did he have to say . So tad talked about being brought in starting in 2005 to head Media Strateg
he s already testified at the trial. in a conviction. so he s a standard i think fairly reliable cooperating witness. bannon is a wild card. i would think twice and a third time and fourth time if i was a prosecutor about putting bannon on the stand. what it tells me is the prosecutors must be confident they have hard evidence, documents backing up whatevr bannon is going to say. otherwise the guy s a time bomb. can you imagine i had to look down to remember bannon s name. that was such a blast from the past. that s so 2018. this does spell like potential trouble for the president, correct? yeah. this is bad news for donald trump. we know he s not going to get charged criminalally based on mueller s conclusion based on the doj policy. based on having bill barr at the department of justice. but there s a lot of bad news for the president here. ultimately he s not going to be able to hide from the fact that senior people in his campaign and potentially the president himself asked rog
inhumane, cruel policy. what did you learn today? very clearly that when the homeland security people instituted it, and all these parents will be criminalally prosecuted, they have to separate the parents from the children and they had no plan or intention of ever unifying these children with their parents. what they can with these children was make them instant orphans and send them on health and human services jurisdiction and pretty much, homeland security washed their hands of it. but for this judge in san diego who said you will reunite these children. and the person who testified from health and human services said, when these children are now deemed unaccompanied children, they were not set up there to reunify them with their parents. they re are to find sponsors for them. they re to do other things.
do it. absolutely it would be terrible for these children. do you know what the trump administration did? they went ahead and did it anyway. senator hirono, am i misreading that or is that how you heard it? that is how we heard it. the trump administration did not listen to the people and went ahead and instituted this very inhumane, cruel policy. what did you learn today? very clearly that when the homeland security people instituted it, and all these parents will be criminalally prosecuted, they have to separate the parents from the children and they had no plan or intention of ever unifying these children with their parents. what they can with these children was make them instant orphans and send them on health and human services jurisdiction and pretty much, homeland security washed their hands of it.