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their way to keep trump out of the trial. abc news reports that prosecutors have been coaching their witnesses not to mention trump s name or even that manafort lives in trump tower. the judge in the case has warned that bringing up manafort s 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 presidential 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 today s hearing. i m not going to be able to act out a whole conversation but here s one little bit of the prosecutor s opening statemen ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20180801:04:48:00

Members who are left are going to be in districts that are plus 25% plus 30% plus 33% trump. it will harden the resolve of the party and its faithful to trump not away from him. as the republican party is wrinking, as people like me are leaving, fervor for leader is intensifying but the strategic problem is that it s getting smaller. the smaller the party becomes, the more intense, the more extreme the more devoted to its leader but it s on a diminishing point of return on the curve. and that s trump s fundamental strategic problem heading into 2020 is that overwhelmingly, the vast majority of americans don t think he s doing a good job, think he s a bad president. think he s compromised by a foreign power, think he s dishonest which he is, of course, think he s corrupt, which he is, of course, and thinks he s lawless, which, of ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20180801:04:37:00

These dictators. what s your take? let me just say former republican to begin, but look. nonpracticing is what i like to say. right. at the end of the day, donald trump made the world profoundly more dangerous with his reality show diplomacy in singapore. of course, kim jong-un is not honoring the spirit of the agreement and they re working on intercontinental ballistic missile which one day a miniaturized nuclear warhead will sit on top of that could reach the continental united states. she s up there spinning the american people. the intelligence agencies which are forwarding the information are under constant attack by this administration. so roughly for 40% of the country, doesn t matter what the intelligence agency says. what matters is what trump says. now, thankfully, it s a minority of the country but it doesn t change that in actual reality, ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20180801:04:03:00

Their way to keep trump out of the trial. abc news reports that prosecutors have been coaching their witnesses not to mention trump s name or even that manafort lives in trump tower. the judge in the case has warned that bringing up manafort s 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 presidential 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 today s hearing. i m not going to be able to act out a whole conversation but here s one little bit of the prosecutor s opening statement worth hear. this was the prosecutor today, up until 2014, paul manafort wa ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20180801:04:12:00

Intimation of what his defense would be during opening statements. but instead, we got the my underling did it defense which is really in many ways something of a yawner, something that juries occasionally will show interest in and occasionally even a jury will hang over that, but it doesn t seem like a strong defense here. i was surprised that we didn t see a better opener. are you able to answer the question you just put before us, why is manafort holding out? there are a couple of reasons, but frankly, we all speculate is there s someone that manafort fears more than he fears mueller. and spending the rest of his life in jail. that s one possibility. does he think that trump will pardon him and make all of this go away? i suppose that s a possibility. and then there s a third possibility which is that some defendants like to see how the evidence comes in at trial and bank on being able to cut a late deal with prosecutors if they ....

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