Rachel Maddow takes a look at the days top political news stories. After his ukraine work dried up. And that is important because thats when he went to one of trumps closest friends and said i really need to get to trump. And then offered to work for trump for free. How and yes became the Campaign Chair is still a weird so far unexplained thing. Today in Court Prosecutors began laying out the evidence for the Dire Straits Manafort was in when he joined one Trumps Campaign for free. Thats something to keep an eye on as the trial goes forward. Joining me, senior white house political reporter, a close observer of the manafort case cynic it began. He was in the courtroom today. And i get to announce that as of today, he is an msnbc contributor. Ive seen some of the early reporting that there were audible gasps. Take us through some of the more audible moments. Well, this reference as having embezzled from manafort was something that grabbed my
was there a sense in the courtroom today that
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
top of that could reach the continental united states. so she s up there spinning the american people. the intelligence agencies are under constant attack. so roughly 40% of the country, it doesn t matter what the intelligence agency says. what matters is what trump says. thankfully it is a minority of the country. it doesn t change that the country is more in danger because we had an unprepared ignorant president go over there with the same level of rigor that he would plan an apprentice episode with meatloaf and little john. you pull the right thread through all three. the intelligence on north korea didn t ever point to what donald trump declared at the end of the summit. that they re now no longer a threat. the intelligence community didn t point to anything that donald trump said. this is just what we know of at the press conference in
the country is more endangered because we had an unprepared ignorant president go over there with the same level of rigor that he would plan an apprentice episode with meat loaf and lil jon. how does the intelligence you pull the right thread through all three. the intelligence on north korea didn t ever point to what donald trump declared at the end of that summit that they re no longer a threat. the intelligence community didn t point to or support anything that donald trump said and this is just what we know of what was public at the press conference in helsinki and the intelligence on iran suggests that the deal that the president pulled us out of was better than anything he s likely to get on his own. how does the intelligence community be a client who is so disdain it will for dismissive or willfully ignores the evidence base and the fact-based intelligence on all three dangerous regimes? well, they can try to be him and be him they do. but at the end of the day, he s