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
that the president of the united states has committed obstruction of justice and possibly a spircy to undermine our election. the president said there was no collusion and even if there was collusion isn t a crime. they are now unwilling to answer questions on that topic either. you said maybe you would let him answer a few limited questions on collusion. i don t want to give them a false impression. given some of the revelations of the last three our four weeks, we ve been driven further away from the idea of answering any questions from them. they don t think they have a legitimate investigationings. chuck rosenburg, senior fbi official and jeremy bash, former chief of staff at the cia and the department of defense during the obama administration. thank you both for being here tonight. you have both banned the word collusion from any broadcast on which we all appear together. talk about how the real sort of