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
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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
speaking like this is really important to the democratic party. when he uses the figure, how many more years it would have to be until he reaches the current president s age, it s bracing. i see the age diversity in a way that as a nonpracticing republican makes me ache. they are diverse by gender and race and age. the republicans are all within a 24-month white man range. again, it s part of the field strength. it s not on us to offer a single objective analysis of all that happened tonight. the truth for people who are excited about all 20 people they have seen over the last two nights, just about everybody helped themselves in some way. before people who had the unenviable jobs on the end, eric swalwell was on rachel maddow s
speaking like this is important. when he uses the figure how many more years would it have to be until he reaches the current president s age, it s bracing. it s bracing and i see the age diversity in a way as a nonpracticing republican makes me ache. they re diverse by gender. they re diverse by race, they re diverse by age. i think the republicans are all within a 24-month white man range. again, it s part of the field s strengthen. and we said this last night and i don t know if we said it tonight, it s not on us to offer some sort of single objective analysis what happened tonight. the truth is for people excited about all 20 people they ve seen i think everybody helped themselves in some way. and i think we were talking about the four people who had the unenviable jobs on the end, eric swalwell was on rachel maddow s mind. show he had an impression.
these dictators. what s your take? let me just say former republican to begin, but look. nonpracticing is what i like to say. right. at the end of the day, donald trump made the world profoundly more dangerous with his reality show diplomacy in singapore. of course, kim jong-un is not honoring the spirit of the agreement and they re working on intercontinental ballistic missile which one day a miniaturized nuclear warhead will sit on top of that could reach the continental united states. she s up there spinning the american people. the intelligence agencies which are forwarding the information are under constant attack by this administration. so roughly for 40% of the country, doesn t matter what the intelligence agency says. what matters is what trump says. now, thankfully, it s a minority of the country but it doesn t change that in actual reality,