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why? because information is powerful. that s our closing thought for you. and that does it for the beat. i also want to say a big thank you to ayman mohyeldin and chris jansing for anchoring all last week. i will be back here at 6:00 p.m. eastern tomorrow. hardball with chris matthews starts right now. big bad wolf. let s play hardball. good evening. i m chris matthews back in washington. well, the president spent the weekend defending his mental stability. and look, i ve been away for two weeks and ucome back to that kind of news. and perhaps more telling, his defense of his military or mental stability only raised more questions about, you guessed it, his mental stability. and then there is the new hope of the resistance. like other heroic figures, she goes by one name and one name president. on saturday, president trump tweeted, actually, throughout my life, my two greatest assets have been mental stability and being really smart. i went from a very successful b ....
Get a jump on the day s news with Christine Romans and Dave Briggs. we will watch the situation very closely. paula, thank you for the report. jury selection begins later this morning in the federal trial of the former trump campaign paul manafort for alleged financial crimes. the first test for special counsel robert mueller and his prosecutors although russia is not the center of the trial. we have more from evan perez from washington. reporter: dave and laura, paul manafort, the former campaign chairman, is going on trial in virginia on federal tax and bank fraud charges. this is the first trial to come from robert mueller s investigation. don t expect the trial to be about russia or collusion or president trump. prosecutors and attorneys plan to stick closely to the issues in the charges which have to do with the government s accusations that manafort used secret foreign bank accounts to hide millions of dollars he earned working for the ukrainian government and fail ....
todd whitman is my guest. let s if out front. good evening. i m erin burnett. breaking news, a shrewd leader, how president trump s lawyers are painting paul manafort. a jury of six men and six women listening as heweller s team outlined its case describing manafort as a con artist who ran a global scheme to avoid paying millions in taxes. prosecutors say manafort made $60 million in ukraine and that he didn t report to it the irs. they say he had 30 bank accounts in just three foreign countries which he used in part to store untaxed income to spend on luxury goods like range rovers, a watch costing $21,000, a $15,000 custom made ostrich jacket. who doesn t need one of those, right? the defense hitting back saying manafort is the victim that he was taken advantage of by the man he trusted most rick gates, his right hand man in ukraine and his deputy in the trump A news and interview program, anchored by Erin Burnett. countries. he owns seven homes, including in the hampton ....
Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. like the president is referring to the hoax as any allegation of collusion against him, his campaign, those around him. he doesn t make clear that interference is continuing to happen right now in this election when voters are being asked to go to the polls in a matter of weeks for those who vote early and in the 95 days that you ve outlined. the president is out there campaigning for republicans at the same time there s interference happening. it s one that s not surprising when we look back at the history. thank you for that. with us now from washington, msnbc national security analyst ned price. a former cia officer who served as special assistant to president obama on the national security council. we have andy card, former white house chief of staff and now an msnbc political analyst. onset two veteran political reporters. i think all of us saw what Coverage of national and international news, ....
you don t believe that to be the case? we acknowledge the threat, it is real, it is continuing. and we re doing everything we can to have a legitimate election. if you don t catch a hacker, okay, in the act, it is very hard to say who did the hacking. with that being said, i ll go along with russia. could have been china, could have been a lot of different groups. make no mistake, the scope of this foreign influence threat is broad and deep. i ve seen it described as two administrations. john mclaughlin says we re seeing orwellian. you have senior advisers saying over and over again as you heard there. and then you have the president saying something entirely different. what do you make of it and what is the lasting effect of that? one thing that we didn t see in that clip is even john bolton said that the president supports our efforts and top priority. exactly. but that is not true because the of law, but court of public opinion. and he is really good at th ....