Up 10 points. That has now evaporated. Interesting to see who turns out, a testament to the excitement level. Thank you all. That is all for this evening. The Rachel Maddow show starts right now with ari in for rachel. Good evening. Rachel has the night off. We have a pretty big show. Today was day two of the federal criminal trial of the campaign chairman. The witnesses were several people who sold the defendant clothes and houses that he bought through secretive International Wire payments. One important thing we learned from what happened today, this judge is holding muellers prosecutors to the line, limiting their questions and how they present key evidence to manafort to the jury. A former prosecutor who tried these kinds of cases and inside that courtroom today joins me to explain if what the judge is up to could hurt muellers case. There are reports tonight about the russian woman charged with trying to carry out the government influence campaign through the nra in the u. S. And
Rachel Maddow takes a look at the days top political news stories. Whether a person is too close to the subject of the probe, whether Jeff Sessions would beak be more of a Trump Campaign surrogate who happened to be Attorney General rather than acting as an independent Law Enforcement officer. If sessions didnt recuse after that statement, it would have made him look even more like he was doing trumps bidding. And trump apparently didnt know that making that statement would also as just a general matter of embarrassment, make him look weak and out of the loop about a decision that was already done. Because there were reports that show the Internal Doj Process had already resulted in sessions accepting that nonpartisan Recusal Recommendation from the career staff earlier that week and that Jeff Sessions was already working with doj officials op writing the very rationale they would soon release to the public. In fact, it was barely an hour after trump put that public pressure on session
be. as long as they re on your list you may call them but you don t have to call all of them. when you do call a witness, you re required to turn over all their prior statements on the subject matter and turn over anything that could be used to attack their credibility, like the plea deal, anything bad he has admitted to, any statements he made about the russia matter. it may be prosecutors would rather hold that foreclose to the vest for now and save him as a witness in the washington, d.c. trial in september. if they can get through this one on paper and save him, i think they can view that as a good thing. they can make that call next week and see how the case has come in and decide whether to call him at all. josh, walk us through a little more color of the reading rainbow segment that was just a few quotes. did you ever see eye rolling and how pivotal is this judge? i think some of the eye rolling may have come through the jury selection process when
when you put a name on your list it, is who you may call. but you don t have to call all of them. when you do call a witness, you re required to turn over all of their prior statements on the subject matter and required to turn over anything that could be used to attack their credibility like the plea deal, like anything bad that he has admitted to, any staps he s made about the russia matter. it may be that prosecutors would rather hold that information close to the vest for now and save him as a witness in the washington, d.c. trial that s going to occur in september. they can get through this one on paper and save him, think they ll view that as a good thing. they can make that call next week when they see how the case has come in and decide if they need to call him at all. josh, walk us through the color from taking just a few quotes. did you ever see eye rolling and how pivotal is this judge? i think some of the eye rolling may have come during the jury selection process when