Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Seated, the judge will give fairly long explanation. On. Reporter after the jury is seated, the judge will give fairly long explanation. Were not going to hear Opening Statements today. Its possible we could hear them tomorrow or thursday. Got it. Pete williams. Thank you very much. Let me bring in National Political reporter for the Washington Post and msnbc political analyst. Two msnbc contributors. Charlie savage. Let me go over briefly this reminder about Paul Manafort and why the Special Counsel is interested in him. Starts with donald trump. He hired Paul Manafort to run his president ial campaign in march 2016. Prior to his work on the Trump Campaign, manafort did political work overseas. Some for the prorussian
highlights which as you indicated, rick gates, all eyes will be on him. He was the right hand man to manafort. What hell have to do in order to fulfill his cooperation agreement, for the government
we are back to wrap up here with more on what our sources are telling us. charlie, let me start with you. any story you have been working on, what are your sources saying? earlier this month, i went to syria to go into the kurds prisons where they re holding over 1,000 isis fighters. and those countries are not taking their citizens back. my sources are telling me the reason is that they re afraid under their legal systems either they would not be able to successfully prosecute them or they might only get a couple years and then be out on the treat. they re letting the kurds keep holding the people, but they can t hold them forever. it s a mess, unsustainable and, 17 years after 9/11, the west has not figured out what to do. what s the most likely solution? we ll see what happens. if the kurds can hold on to their own territory, maybe they can hold those people for long time, but the civil war keeps going, turkey could crush them, the assad regime could crush them. maybe they esc