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Rachel Maddow takes a look at the day s 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 trump s name or even that manafort lives in trump tower. the judge in the case has warned that bringing up manafort s 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 presidential 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 today s hearing. i m not going to be able to act out a whole conversation but here s one little bit of the prosecutor s opening statemen ....
For eight hours and 32 minutes on thursday night, kevin mccarthy stood on the house floor and delivered a wide ranging street railing against democratic policies saying he wished he was there to knock down the berlin mall, wished he owned a tesla and where baby carrots came from. this is the single most irresponsible spending bill. we cannot become a socialist country. schoolhouse rock, didn t you love that? conjunction, judnction, what s your function? or the preample. we the people in order to 230r78 a more perfect union. my favorite is i m just a bill on capitol hill. that speech to rally the republican party and burn fish his own bid to be speaker of the house if republicans do gain control. some of his party are discussing an alternative. ....
President to expand his business empire and to work with tyrants and despite around the world to promote his financial and political interests. it s supposed to be an instrument of the common good. it s supposed to be to provide for the common defense 378. to preserve to ourselves and posterity the blessings of lubberty. that s in the preample of our oconstitution and all of that flows the to article one which says the ledge slottigislative vested uncongress and we are vested with the whole law making power, congress, war, copyright anden the you get to article otwo and it s four short sections. and one is about impeaching a president who forgets what his job is and what s his job? to take care that laws are faithfully executed. you outlined a broadcast in ....
Betrayal of the constitution. the fact she gave a preample about her experience on the intelligence committees, that she comes at this not just from understanding the law, how things are supposed to work, then, of course, talking about it in very big, very sweeping terms about the constitution of the united states, it s really hard to overstate how historic this is. as manu said, it s barely one hand that you can count on how many times this has happened and it is a last resort. the house democrats feel that they have reached that last resort and there has been so much pressure on her. she has resisted for so long since they took the majority from many people who have been saying come on already. we gave you the majority. why aren t you using it? now she says she has seen an issue she believes the american public understands and should be outraged by because her number ....
Believe the evidence isn t coming in favorably to them. so i wouldn t say it s impossible that we won t see a late plea here, but manafort doesn t look like someone who is headed that direction. and i understand that this trial is about bang fraud, tax fraurksd things other than paul manafort s time and tenure as chairman of the trump campaign. clearly, this trial is on the president s mind. this cohen flirting with prosecutors in the southern district, just based on the president s new refrain on collusion, he pivoted today. maybe it s a coincidence it s the same day the manafort trial started. flowinger is he saying there was no collusion. it s collusion isn t a crime. how does it fit into the broader puzzle about russian influence over the trump campaign? this case i think is the preample to russian collusion. this is setting the scene for manafort s past dealings and past crimes. ....