Chris Hayes discusses the days top news. Another round of Election Sabotage is underway. And the trump official who says his warnings about the psychological damage of separated families was ignored. Good evening, from new york, i am chris hayes. Paul manafort is a shrewd liar so says the prosecution in the Opening Statement in the trial. Opening statement and even the testimony of first witness hours ago, Paul Manafort facing 18 counts. Bank fraud, tax evaluation, and conspiracy charges. Work with should note which predated his duties on the campaign of donald trump. And zoe fillman. I wrote down the word astonishing greed. We knew the outline of this tale from the indictment and court documents. But another thing to hear it lay out in court. This scheme Whereby Manafort was earning 16 million. But instead of taking the money in a wire transfer, he concocted this elaborate scheme to accept it in loans which werent really loans all to evade taxes. And interestingly, when his client was
Chris Hayes discusses the days top news. Allegations in the u. S. So we talked about this sort of circumventing the american tax system. Overseas payments and overseas Bank Accounts and never reported which is what is alleged. What is the bank fraud part of the case. It is the prosecutors allege that after 2014, when the spigot of cash was turned off, he needed to fund his lavish lifestyle. What he had was Real Estate Holdings that he purchased through the bogus loans. What he did, was he began overstating the value of these property. Faking a profit and loss statement for his company. Showing cash that he didnt have for bankers including while he was chairman of the campaign. They call it bank c and that is
the kind of fraud that they are alleging. Prosecutors are going to show that in fact it was false. Zoe, tad davine was there. He was a partner with manafort in his work in ukraine, what did he have to say . So tad talked about being brought in starting in 2005 to head Media Strateg
and that s a real meeting. that s a real meeting on another provable subject in which he would not participate. your key supposition, we don t know, is that manafort s attorneys have in their hands everything that gates told federal prosecutor. how is that being communicated? through the lawyers. you are right, it is supposition, it is conjecture. and sometimes our limitations on whether they can share that information. what is the ethical guidelines. there is no ethical guidelines, it varies. and for all we know, mueller could have gone to the judge and said we want the keep the collusion stuff out of this material. i don t think that would win because you have to cross examine him.
for discovery. exactly. that is what they will use. you testified to x and you said y earlier. they will use that to try to trip him up. it is not a surprise that rudy giuliani is the first person to raise the notion of a pre meeting meeting. and one of the people he says in that meeting is rick gates. this idea that giuliani dropping these hints. here is what he had to say. lanny davis added there was a meeting two days before the meeting took place with donald jr., jared, manafort and two others. gates and one more person. and that s a real meeting. that s a real meeting on another provable subject in which he would not participate. your key supposition, we