Rachel Maddow takes a look at the days top political news stories. It is now under way. The director of National Intelligence said in a recent speech that the Warning Lights are blinking red and the Digital Infrastructure that serves this country is literally under attack. And here we see the incursions coming. Russian hackers have now already targeted at least three candidates in this years 2018 midterms. Reports one of the targets is missouri democratic senator Claire Mccaskill. So highway donald trump doubts much of this is even occurring, his pentagon chief does say there are secret actions now underway to combat it. What is the government doing to halt russian interference in the next elections . Yeah, im not at liberty to explain what were doing in that regard. Just rest assured there are actions under way to protect our elections or to exposeness
now the question is whether trump lied about the worst possible thing, not the pr afterward, but whether donald trump took actions or
Get a jump on the days news with Christine Romans and Dave Briggs. We will watch the situation very closely. Paula, thank you for the report. Jury selection begins later this morning in the federal trial of the former Trump Campaign Paul Manafort for alleged financial crimes. The first test for special Counsel Robert Mueller and his prosecutors although russia is not the center of the trial. We have more from evan perez from washington. Reporter dave and laura, Paul Manafort, the former campaign chairman, is going on trial in Virginia On Federal Tax and bank fraud charges. This is the first trial to come from Robert Muellers investigation. Dont expect the trial to be about russia or collusion or President Trump. Prosecutors and attorneys plan to stick closely to the issues in the charges which have to do with the governments accusations that manafort used secret Foreign Bank Accounts to hide millions of dollars he earned working for the Ukrainian Government and failed to report it to t
Anderson Cooper takes viewers beyond the headlines with indepth reporting and investigations. Anderson Cooper takes viewers beyond the headlines with indepth reporting and investigations. Another, oh, 20 yards down field. Which, i dont even know if thats a crime, colluding about russians. Keeping them honest, its not. That much is true, and thats all. There is no anticolluding with russians act anywhere on the United States code. But there is plenty about Campaign Conspiracy and finance abuses not to mention obstruction of justice. Not to mention most would agree, its just wrong to be scheming with a hostile power. Its a touchy subject, as you might imagine. Because of that, its not the first time theyve felt compelled to describe their transgressions downward. Just after the election, Campaign Spokesperson hope hicks said, quote, there was no communication between the campaign and any foreign entity during the campaign. It never happened, she said. Three months later, never became to
It took place. Did you know at the time about that meet something. No, i didnt know anything about it. It must have been a very important meeting, because i never even heard that. No one told you a word, nothing . I know we talked about this on the plane a bit. No, nobody told me. Sounded like a very unimportant meeting. Deep cuts there from haberman and schmidt. Thats not what Michael Cohen claims, alleging that he and several others were present when thencandidate donald trump gave his nod of approval for the meeting to move forward. That contradicts repeated denials from donald trump jr. And others in Donald Trumps orbit. Did you tell your father anything about this . No. It was such a nothing, there was nothing to tell. I wouldnt have even remembered it until you start scouring through the stuff. The president said he became aware of it very recently, right before this came out, and thats when he was notified. Joining me now is jeff
bennett, msnbcs white house correspondent, natash
Progress until everybody has that to give their grandchild. Ill see you back here next sunday. Now to my colleague. Wise, wonderful words. My biggest take away youre going to go from being rev al to papa al. 9 00 a. M. Here in the east and 6 00 a. M. Out west, and heres whats happening. Now President Trumps lawyer says you cant believe what youre hearing on that Michael Cohen recording about paying a former playboy model. I think they put it out because they wanted a doctored version to obscure whatever else that might be on that tape. As the accusations fly, the big question, how will this impact all Mueller Investigation, when will it end and is it close to the president . The scale is tipping towards
one party in a big way. Were going to go behind the new numbers. If you travel anywhere by plane, the tsa may be tracking you. Details on a new explosive report out just this morning right here on msnbc live. We begin with the war with the president s lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, and the pres