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
push specific candidates but did promote activity around devicive social issues. facebook says it has been unable to identify who is behind the accounts and says it found ties to the russian company that special counsel robert mueller led online influence operations in the he 2016 presidential election. facebook has dumped 32 more accounts for engaging in similar behavior just three months before the midterm elections. as nbc news reports, that s only part of the story. nbc news reporting in announcing the investigation into these 32 accounts, facebook did not reveal the depth to which some of those accounts went in terms of stoking racial tension inc e inciting division. nbc was able to retrieve some of the pages facebook deleted. i review of those found efforts totes target people based on liberal politics as well as hispanic heritage.
facebook did not reveal some of the most devicive content which was deleted. kara swisher, thanks for being with us. you are the facebook truther. what s wrong with facebook? the friends are back. the baby pictures are back. no, the russians are back. the russians are back. they never left and they didn t catch them the first time. it s nice they re telling us they re catching russians now. i want to know why they continue to thrive on the platform. the problem is fundamentally the platform. while a plowed facebook for putting it out before the news reporters get it, i do not applaud them for not doing something about it. i this i they re trying all kinds of different techniques. but instead of just telling us about it, i would rather them do it and rid these things off the platform. they get kudos i guess for announcing it. i played that game of putting news out before reporters get
said it s time for republicans to agree to disagree and de-emphasize some of the more devicive social issues. i think that in some ways, we need to agree to disagree on some of these issues. the party needs to be bigger. the people have somewhat of a regional attitudes towards the social issues. the south is more much socially conservative than the north is and i think we need a bigger party with more people in it. so i guess i usually think of my job as trying to bring people together to make the party bigger, not smaller. and mr. paul also said he would vote against the ryan budget. paul rayan put out his budget last week. paul says he will not support it because it does not balance the budget. two others are going to be here, the former arkansas governor, mike huckabee, a conservative who does not agree that the