Immigrants. and he s part of this problem. if we start with him, if we start fining him the fines we should be fining employers, then the numbers of undocumented people would go down, about i think it s much easier to distract and try to do these other operations of dealing with undocumented immigrants. yeah. it s fascinating and anna bell, given that you have people whose lives are so profoundly affected in ways in ways they wouldn t have imagined they were working for someone who was going to run for office to try to stop the thing they say he was literally doing. appreciate you joining the broadcast. annabelle and victoria and jason stays with me. coming up, donald trump won t admit he was wrong about as you may have heard earlier in the hour the innocence that was proven about the central park five. also, donald trump s justice department intervening on behalf all people convicted felon paul manafort. new details how democratses will question hope aide hope hicks under oath and a
Named paul manafort? because this concern about manafort s prison experience is for a convicted felon, thousands of people at rikers haven t been convicted of anything. they re simply awaiting trial. they are presumed innocent. they just don t have the money for bail. the federal stats show often those people, majority of inmates are just awaiting trial. where is the trump doj s concern for all of them? on this story, i bring in matt miller who worked at the doj under president obama and jason johnson back with us. jason, your view on what this kind of story reveals? the inherent corruption of this administration and the dishonesty honesty in our public discourse about prison. rikers is a problem. rikers has all sorts of abuses. paul manafort was not going to be in gin pop, writing lyrics on toilet paper about how his family got popped and locked up. he would be protected in a way
Invited to the reforms that dealt with the hole system, even critical of trump might say there s something coming out of it. how do you deal with it when it seems so clearly slanted. this is a key point for cent trysts and liberals saying look at all the things trump has done for criminal justice reform and give him credit for that. this is a president concerned more for paul manafort. this is a president who takes innocent people at the border and says thick be put in former naval bases in former bases that were used to intern people from japan. that he has no problem with taking innocent people and you the putting them in canes and metallic blankets that look like hot pockets. the idea this president picks and chooses when people have to suffer, picks and chooses whose crimes and who is innocent should be treated pore proper lid by thor from government is
Consider that is donald trump announces his re-election campaign today with the worst prosecution record of any first term president. convictions or charges against his longest serving adviser, his deputy campaign manager plus twos top aides already in prison right now, michael cohen and paul manafort. most politicians would avoid doing just about anything to bring these stories back up let alone appear to interfere to help these convicted felons. trump s justice department just interfered in paul manafort s prison assignment with bill barr s top doirt contacting new york authorities that may sheed him from likers prison. manafort seemed headed to rikers, then the justice department intervened. the story notes several odd things here.
Believe, i believe cases went wrong. if you ve got dna evidence, the semen, you can t argue with science. i guess with you argue with climate change, you can. reverend, i had a feeling you would have something to say about that issue today. good to see the you, sir. thanks for sharing your views. always good to see you. don t miss the rev this weekend or any weekend on politics nation every weekend there is. that s all for tonight. back with are tomorrow. the beat with ari melber. thank you so much. we re tracking several major stories right now. donald trump threatening immigrants as he kicks off his re-election bid. later had his justice department intervening in paul manafort s case to protect him from detention at likers jail. and jon stewart toing mitch mcconnell over 9/11 funding. it is an important story and i m thrilled to tell you we have a special guest that the rises to the level of the issues in that story later in the show. also, democrats tomorrow