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Transcripts For MSNBCW The Rachel Maddow Show 20180801 01:00:00

Rachel Maddow takes a look at the day s top political news stories.
after his ukraine work dried up. and that is important because that s when he went to one of trump s 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 trump s campaign for free. that s 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. i ve 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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Transcripts For MSNBCW The Rachel Maddow Show 20180801 04:00:00

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 ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20180801:04:12:00

Intimation of what his defense would be during opening statements. but instead, we got the my underling did it defense which is really in many ways something of a yawner, something that juries occasionally will show interest in and occasionally even a jury will hang over that, but it doesn t seem like a strong defense here. i was surprised that we didn t see a better opener. are you able to answer the question you just put before us, why is manafort holding out? there are a couple of reasons, but frankly, we all speculate is there s someone that manafort fears more than he fears mueller. and spending the rest of his life in jail. that s one possibility. does he think that trump will pardon him and make all of this go away? i suppose that s a possibility. and then there s a third possibility which is that some defendants like to see how the evidence comes in at trial and bank on being able to cut a late deal with prosecutors if they ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20180801:04:21:00

Friendly oligarch. mueller s prosecutors have described manafort s ukrainian business participant as having active ties to russian intelligence services. a memo written by rod rosenstein last summer laid out mueller s authority to the investigate whether paul manafort specifically committed a crime or crimes by colluding with russian government officials. we also know mueller s team has questions for the president on this very subject. mueller wants to ask the president what knowledge did you have of any outreach by your campaign including by paul manafort to russia about potential assistance to the campaign. the president s lawyers said they were willing to let the president answer questions on possible collusion but not on obstruction of justice. but now with michael cohen reportedly alleging the president knew about the trump tower meeting in advance, democrats say the president may be on the hook for both. there is credible evidence ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20180801:04:24:00

You. you said when had he finally charge it. are you seeing enough pieces come to light in just what is public facing in this investigation that you believe there will be enough to charge someone with a conspiracy to coordinate or receive assist, from a hostile foreign power? it s an educated guess. i hope it s a well educated guess. i hope it s a well changed guess, nicole. yes, i am. there are bits and pieces in the public record that suggest that it wasn t just russians. the timing of the hack into the dnc computers, all of that is tied to russian activity that mr. mueller recently charged when he brought a case against the russian intelligence officers. so i think there is enough. i think there are other calculations that are really important here like, for instance, whether mr. mueller believes he has the authority to charge a sitting president. ....

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