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
tool to carry out vladimir putin s goals and meddling with our delcracy? i think so. a lot of people internally are. obviously mark showed a lot of remorse in that interview. at the same time he said he wants it to be an open platform. he got into trouble because he didn t defend holocaust deniers and people who are wrong with a right to be on the platform. it s a complex issue for someone who is not well versed in the humanities. that s the problem. this is a human problem. the people that are deciding these things who have enormous power don t really know how to deal with it. that s where there s going to be a problem no matter what because of that. kara swisher, i love seeing you and appreciate your time tonight. that does it for us tonight. i ll look are for you tomorrow at 4:00 p.m. eastern. now it s time for the last word with lawrence o donnell. will we look for you tomorrow at 9:00 p.m. also? i used to be the resident