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
feel like i want a difinitive accounting of who said what to whom, who raised red flags. is there any plan to get some after action report about what happened here? we can get to some specifics but basically, the president takes responsibility for this. it is his zero tolerance policy that resulted, and as articulated by the attorney general, all of a sudden we ll start prosecuting thousands of parents as criminals. so this didn t have to happen. as i said, but for this judge in san diego, who was by the way, appointed by a republican president. if this judge did not say to the administration, you will reunite these children, they still wouldn t be doing it. in fact, homeland security would have washed their hands and all these children would have been the responsibility of the health and human services.
they were not set up to reunify these children with parents. the thing is, he said the thing that was wrong was the separation of these children from their parents because they became orphans. there s something about this story fills me about an old testament wrath. who is going to be held i feel like i want a difinitive accounting of who said what to whom, who raised red flags. is there any plan to get some after action report about what happened here? we can get to some specifics but basically, the president takes responsibility for this. it is his zero tolerance policy that resulted, and as articulated by the attorney general, all of a sudden we ll start prosecuting thousands of parents as criminals. so this didn t have to happen.