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Rachel Maddow takes a look at the day s 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 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 ....
There s some debate on that point. the department of justice weighed in on it in the past. and has opined that you cannot. so there s some unanswered questions but i think the pieces are there. jeremy bash, i have a well attuned ear to everything chuck says and i have never heard him say that before. i want to ask you the same question. do you see enough public facing evidence at this point to make another educated guess for us there is enough evidence now to charge someone with conspiracy to coordinate with a hostile foreign power? i don t think we know all the facts yet. i think the mueller investigation has a ways to go to eliminated those facts. if you want to understand the way bob mueller thinks about conspiracy, all you have to do is take your dog eared and underlined copy of the july 13th indictment of 12 russian intelligence officers on 11 counts because in there bob mueller and his team lay out with spes fis sit exactly what conspiracy looks like. ....
Navy ships rely on expert seamanship. they should have understood much sooner what was happening to them. tragedy for seven navy families. look, this cargo ship, when it hit the star board side ripped a hole below the water line. the sea flooded in. that s where the seven sailors drown. it could have been utter catastrophe, the damage so bad, navy officials say the ship could have sunk the entire crew of more than 100, could have been lost. poppy? generally, especially with a ship of this size, this many sailors, you would have a lot of things in place to warn way ahead of time that a collision was coming soon. reporter: that s sit. there are redundant systems, there are radars, there are sensors. there are, you know, what the navy calls human eyeballs, people on the bridge, out ....
Kate and yam toronto joins the panel. republicans from hollywood. first of all, do is t elector rates actually have the authori authority, the right? i think they do but what it is going to mean is that almost all of it are pledged to vote for donald trump. remember, these are people who are closen by the state parties to vote for the party nominee. hollywood did a video like the one in september saying the same things about trump aimed at republican voters. they would need to flip more than one in eight of them. they didn t slip more than one in eight. s sit. they did a review and could only find one. just one? ....
have a great sunday and america news headquarters is next. thanks for staying with us for the past three hours. take care, everybody. call on members of congress from both parties to come together and stand up for the kind of world we want to live in. the kind of world we want to leave our children and future generations. selling syria. president obama launching an all-out media tour. s sit-down interviews and address the nation on tuesday. as his administration releases disturbing video showing the horror of chemical weapons in that country. can the commander in chief convince a skeptical congress and a war-weary nation that america needs to get involved in another conflict. in this hour, chris smith, peter king, and with democratic supporting question democratic ....