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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. ....