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 president of the united states. he believes what he believes and and there s more than enough news reports to suggest that he doesn t want to hear anything that he doesn t want to hear. of course, the iranian deal had verifiable components to it. he pulled us out of that. he achieved a remarkable feat of putting the united states opposite the european union, russia and iran with iran having the high moral ground with regarded to fidelity to the agreement. the agreement reached in singapore with north korea which he s violating the spirit of was nos verification protocas whatsoever. this is all nonsense. again, it s reality theater but with deadly deadly consequences. it was the strategic aim of the north korean regime, one of the most evil and violent in the world, a slave regime to, elevate its leader to maximum standing on the world stage and they achieved that by standing