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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 ....
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 statement worth hear. this was the prosecutor today, up until 2014, paul manafort wa ....
Bold and brazen to commit a crime in broad daylight and you don t care, why run afterwards? this is what bothers me about this guy. if you so believe in what you say you stand for, why escape and now we are having this cat and mouse chase? fear of getting caught. you don t want to get caught. it is ridiculous. i get what she is saying. should the russians be helping us out? i tend to think we are not enemies. we are more like the girls in melrose place the first series , not the new one. there is no new one. i agree with you. you are f re nemies. 23 there is nothing else going on you may have a glass of wine, but then screw each other over. put it in proper context. the rush version of a treaty is vodka and a bullet in the back of the head. putin is not a guy that will back out of any of this. remember what the russians do ....