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
time as a prosecutor. you either do something with it or you do nothing with it. and it s very hard for a prosecutor to do nothing when they come across kefd of a crime. so it makes perfect sense to me these other folks will get farped out to u.s. attorneys offices around the country and face the consequence of their actions. chuck rosenburg, former u.s. attorney and senior fbi official, jeremy bash, former chief of staff and cia in the department of defense, taking me to law school. i m grateful to you both. thanks for being here. coming up, president trump s new best friend is reportedly still working on missiles that could reach all the way to the u.s. more on that with one of my best friends steve schmidt after the break. but allstate actually helps you drive safely. with drivewise. it lets you know when you go too fast. .and brake too hard. with feedback to help you drive safer. giving you the power to actually lower your cost. unfortunately, it can t do anything about that.