it comes but once a year for politics junkies, it is the christmas and new year s and arbor day and obscure state specific holiday you can t really remember the reason for rolled into one. it is state of the union night, and we are so happy that you re here with us for it. here s a live look at the u.s. capital tonight. members of both chambers of congress, guess, supreme court justices, cabot secretaries, admirals, ambassadors, they re all gathering to hear this big heavy on the pomp and circumstance annual address the president of the united states. on the other end of pennsylvania avenue of the white house, we are watching for president biden to part from the white house for the capital. the is expected shortly. i am rachel maddow here at msnbc headquarters. joined by my colleagues of chris hayes, joy reid, nicole wallace, alex wagner and ari melber. i also do mean it when i say thank you for being home with us. we know you had every choice in the world were to watch thi
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on matters that have nothing to do with the campaign. i think that even mr. manafort as i read it had requested that there be no mention of his brief tenure at the trump campaign several years ago. this has nothing to do with collusion, russia, nothing to come with the trump campaign. reporter: the case centers around his past lobbying work for the pro putin ukranian government for which prosecutors say he received $60 million. the government alleges manafort hid millions and failed to pay taxes while still spending the money on real estate and luxury purchases, including homes in manhattan, virginia and the hamptons, expensive suits, and baseball tickets. and prosecutors will present hundreds of e-mails, photos and financial records to prove it. prosecutors say manafort also lied to banks about his income to secure more than $20 million in loans. and this trial now underway, it is exp
Really his third state of the union. he s given speeches for 50 years, so he has a process. there are three stages at the process, i think i can say from experience. one is what is this all about, right? i think nicole can relate, this is any president like what am i trying to say here? the second for joe biden, beeping the radical policies and who is the expert on cyber and the expert on oligarchs, and the last one is when he starts to finally make little tweaks into the words? that s the day, the process happening today, as well as the cut in. these speeches are always longer, by 50 pounds of policy and conscious, that yet the jam it all into. the one thing about joe biden is that it s not final until it comes out of his mouth, so he could be making changes in his mind, should be making final changes as he is speaking. do you mean that he is in at labor or a skripal? he s a scripture and at labor. i would say he is definitely an
To attack conservatives? there are leftists calling for more censorship of people here. it absolutely opens the door. they are going to politicize everything they can. things that the biden administration doesn t agree with. for more americans this war is unfolding on our news feeds. this our first real taste of the fog of war. ukraine has the edge right now. you look at russia and facebook going tirks t for tat. russia banned state knead media and facebook. i would include facebook on oligarchs. i would say if they had not failed to be honest broarks then
Departure. but we have no evidence that that departure will have any influence on putin. he wasn t part of the inner circle. he actually opposed putin in 1999, even though for the last 20 years obviously he s gotten back in putin s graces. really we don t know if he s going to talk. we don t know if he has the goods. again, we have no evidence that the people around putin, one, are really allowed to speak out and speak their mind to him, but, two, have any influence over him right now. and if there are a kind of second level of officials who are doubting the war, if there is, they certainly have no influence on the top echelon around them. there s been such focus on oligarchs and confiscating yachts and taking money. do the oligarchs really have the power they once did? i think if we define oligarchs as rich russians or ultra rich russians, of course there are still oligarchs, and they still have power. and we know a lot of their names