Rachel Maddow takes a look at the days top political news stories. After his ukraine work dried up. And that is important because thats when he went to one of trumps closest friends and said i really need to get to trump. And then offered to work for trump for free. How and yes became the Campaign Chair is still a weird so far unexplained thing. Today in Court Prosecutors began laying out the evidence for the Dire Straits Manafort was in when he joined one Trumps Campaign for free. Thats something to keep an eye on as the trial goes forward. Joining me, senior white house political reporter, a close observer of the manafort case cynic it began. He was in the courtroom today. And i get to announce that as of today, he is an msnbc contributor. Ive seen some of the early reporting that there were audible gasps. Take us through some of the more audible moments. Well, this reference as having embezzled from manafort was something that grabbed my
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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
to carry, i have the right to purchase ammunition, i have five guns, i m a concealed carry permit holder but open carry in these stores is a policy those stores can determine onto themselves. rachel: it is curious they made this decision. i live in rural america, i shop at wal-mart every week. i know their customers. they re my neighbors. i don t think they like this policy. it is interesting they say cory booker who i m sure doesn t shop at wal-mart says that i highly doubt it. harris: he is vegan. rachel: they have some organic, not a huge vegan place. cory booker says they re listening to their customers. no, they re not. they re listening to the social justice warriors and liberals on their board and their very scared and spineless executives and you are right, jason, they
itching to go up against nancy pelosi who would become speaker of the house again. the thinking with nancy pelosi as his political foil, he can fire up his base into a second term. for a president who plays more whackamole than 3d chess, call me skeptical. he just wrapped up a rally in florida to support hopeful ron de santas. the president in trying to rationalize voter i.d. claiming you need to show an i.d. to buy groceries. i obviously doesn t shop but for the record you do not. for an old friend of mine, are you buying this? the president wants them to lose? i can t imagine anyone more docile than devin nunes.
sis, including reporters being heckled by the crowd and the president claim thawing need to show an i.d. to buy groceries. he obviously doesn t shop. for the record you do not. back with us is steve schmidt, republican strategist and old friend from our days at the white house and on the campaign trail. are you buying this the president actually wants the republicans to lose? i want imagine anyone more obedient than devin nunes at the house intel committee. well, it s going to turn out great for him like when he fired james comey. he wanted that too, right? it s been terrific for him. look, at the end of the day, i would think the last thing that donald trump wants is chairman adam schiff with subpoena power. and that s exactly what he s going to have. i do think the democrats will take the majority in the house of representatives. now, the interesting aspect of it is this. he may look out and see an 18-person democratic field and