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
the jury, they re usually brought flu street clothes, whether you re talking about a white collar case or violent kram. they re not told whether the defendant is in custody or free on bay. it s considered that would be presently additional if you see somebody brought into the courtroom in shackles a lot of jurors may think this person is dangerous or presump tubally guilty. so courts and judges are usually pretty careful that those sorts of things taking off the handcuffs that kind off stuff takes place outside the courtroom where the jurors can t catch a glimpse of it. no ostrich cope coat, right? no, it seemed like a pretty standard business suit. probably more expensive than my suit. i doubt it s one of the $10,000 or $15,000 numbers he was buying in new york. josh gerstein, senior white house reporter for politico and a brand-new msnbc contributor. we re lucky to have you.