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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signed the payment work that brown is going to be bringing with him to washington later today. after that vote, governor patrick said, and i quote, motion carried, done, before the vote, there was a brief prayer for mr. brown offered by one of the counselors, michael callahan. at 5:00 p.m. on the floor, vice president joe biden will officially swear in mr. brown and at that point, jon, they can officially begin calling him senator. jon: the swearing in is taking place a week earlier than expected, as was mentioned earlier. why? reporter: well, apparently, there was a change of heart by senator-elect brown himself and the people around him. just as late as tuesday afternoon, they were still saying he planned to be sworn in as per his own request so he could hire staff and make other changes on february 11th, 1 week from today, but yesterday, an attorney for senator-elect brown, daniel winslow, sent a letter to the governor and the secretary of state in massachusetts, advising that his