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Interviews with political figures and news updates. agreement that collusion, if you look in the law books, isn t a crime, but conspiracy is a crime. if you speak to legal analysts, and pete probably knows a whole lot more about this, they would say it s a part of the broader question that investigators are looking into, andrea. and pete, at the courthouse, this is so important, because it s not related directly to the russia probe, but it s so important for mueller to have a really strong case going in. reporter: jury selection is under way now, andrea. and it could end today. we could get opening statements tomorrow, if jury selection slops over into tomorrow. it s expected to last three weeks. it has nothing to do with the time that manafort worked on the campaign or was campaign chairman. it has to do with his work for another president, viktor yanukovych, former president of september, andrea. and just a fashion question, this is a man known for his very, very e ....
tonight, day one of the manafort trial. the first of the mueller era. the government argues paul manafort thought he was above the law, while his defense team plans to attack the star government witness against him. the president started his day declaring collusion is not a crime, ending his day with red meat for the crowd in tampa, and no talk of russia. he did declare himself the most popular republican ever. and with 98 days until the midterms, facebook announces it s found fake accounts designed to further tear us apart, and we ll show you if they have a familiar look to them. the 11th hour begins right now. good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. day 558 of the trump administration, and day one of the paul manafort trial, the first big test for robert mueller. it is a trial about taxes and not russia, though russia looms large in the background as it seems to in everything else these days. manafort s being tried in federal court in a ....
Response. let s start with the reporting, and, aaron, this is a busy federal courthouse, security is always tight. what kinds of security are you seeing there across d.c. today right now? reporter: there is a growing security footprint here today. i want to mention, though, part of the reason for that is the concern potentially about demonstrators being here. so far this morning we haven t seen much. you see a guy here with a prison jumpsuit, costume on, he s carrying a sign that says lock him up. an anti-trump demonstrator, if you will. one other person we have seen with a huge flag towering over members of the media. beyond that, though, we have seen this massive security presence that popped up since late last night. these metal barricades have gone up since midnight last night, all around the federal courthouse here, which is just a block off the national mall, not far from the u.s. capitol building either. this is just one indicator of the security presence that has really set u ....
The doral resort here behind us at about 3:30 in the afternoon. he seemed a little bit somber earlier in the day, just quickly waved to supporters before disappearing with his son eric and some of his legal team. then later at about 7:00 p.m. we have video of him when he came down to the lobby last night to go to dinner at the main restaurant, he seemed much more upbeat, cheery, people were yelling to him. some of his supporters were in the lobby yelling we support you. you re going to win. we re behind you. he gave a thumbs up and then went inside and stopped to take some pictures with people who had requested that in the restaurant where he later kind with his son eric and some of his legal team for a couple hours. he had some supporters inside. the mood seemed to be pretty upbeat considering what an important day it is for him today. there were also many supporters outside. they were clashing with some of the protesters, police had to separate them at times. there was even one man d ....