Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Seated, the judge will give fairly long explanation. On. Reporter after the jury is seated, the judge will give fairly long explanation. Were not going to hear Opening Statements today. Its possible we could hear them tomorrow or thursday. Got it. Pete williams. Thank you very much. Let me bring in National Political reporter for the Washington Post and msnbc political analyst. Two msnbc contributors. Charlie savage. Let me go over briefly this reminder about Paul Manafort and why the Special Counsel is interested in him. Starts with donald trump. He hired Paul Manafort to run his president ial campaign in march 2016. Prior to his work on the Trump Campaign, manafort did political work overseas. Some for the prorussian
highlights which as you indicated, rick gates, all eyes will be on him. He was the right hand man to manafort. What hell have to do in order to fulfill his cooperation agreement, for the government
and so forth. that s why it s going in circles. you say driving in a cul-de-sac. this idea of a meeting could be trump s way out of it. president obama was blasted by republicans for showing a willingness to talk to iran back in the day. the two never met but they did talk on phone. that was the highest level of contact between three decades. different time. different time and different republican party and different president and as we see in many other arenas, the republican party doesn t agree with mump. is the president seeming willing to talk to leetderaders have been add ver sed veadversa.