Chris Hayes discusses the days top news. Fraudulent Accounting Tricks that they use to convince banks to give them more money and Paul Manafort was cced on these emails. There is something here as i read testimony of the case and paged through some of the bits of evidence the government has entered, julia, that there is a desperation that is almost cinematic. You can feel wafting off the emails. That these are people that are scrounging and starved for cash. Desperation is the word, im glad you used that. That is the one word that the prosecution wants to have sticking in the jurors mind when they deliberate. This was a man desperate enough when he works with these shady characters. He would have put his whole family and business at risk because he was so desperate. He got to a point where he might not have been able to pay Health Care Premiums but still wanted to fund the lifestyles and keep the house in the hamptons. A man that was desperate, and wanted to keep up his image. Desperat
Floo flighting if it does turn out to are accurate. Weve seen evidence of the ship to Ship Transfers. The u. S. Has given evidence to the panel. And we also understand from this report that they say that the north koreans are, quote, increasingly sophisticated evasion techniques, this is what they are using, they are becoming more sophisticated in their efforts to try to hide the fact that these are north korean tankers and ships at sea doing this kind of transfer. Is so certainly this will be of concern to the Security Council sanctions committee. Right. And what about south korea . They were the ones who first made this renewed connection with north korea and that ended up leading to a summit with the u. S. President. Do you expect them to respond . Reporter well, weve had no response from south korea at this point or from any of the players in the region. Certainly this report was only
handed to the committee on friday night. So there will be a lot of questions being asked about it.
Chris Hayes discusses the days top news. Reporters, Julia Ainsley and tyranny snead. We have been going back and forth. And i thought ken had the exciting stuff. But i think i had the better day. Where exactly Paful Manafort lied. One man who said he was asked to lie by Paul Manafort when he had emails showing that he was asked to lie and say that a residence that Paul Manafort owned in new york was a personal residence for the manaforts and not a Business Rental as it was. He wanted him to lie because he was trying to change his financial situation to get more loans. Then we saw another tax
preparer, cindy laporta. And she, there is a reason she had immunity because she said she was disturbed and she eventually drew a line and stopped doing this. But never wanted to report it because she didnt want to open up her firm to litigation. There is a pattern, rick gates and Paul Manafort worked hand in glove. It was not rick gates. And that also time and time again, Paul Manafort both person
Judge tonight is calling the Trump Administration reunification efforts unacceptable. When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york, im chris hayes. At the close of the first week of Paul Manaforts trial, things do not look good for the former Campaign Chairman of the trump campaign. And today in particular, the testimony about manaforts alleged tax evasion and bank fraud took on a Very Human Dimension when his accountant admitted under oath on the stand that she had in fact knowingly falsified Tax Documents in order to save Manafort Hundreds Of Thousands of dollars in taxes. Manaforts accountant, Cindy La Porta testifying i knew it was wrong, i could have refused but that would expose the Accounting Firm to the risk of litigation or i could have called longtime clients liars. I very much regret it. This is the first of two trials of Paul Manafort being brought by special counsel robert
wire transfers to prove that Paul Manafort was hiding millions of dollars of income from
The latest news and information from around the world with host Ana Cabrera. Bazarly during the last week. A twitter storm thats kind of Unpres Tented from him. All about the Mueller Probe sw threatening to fire mueller while his attorneys are out sayi saying weir hes on a totally different track from his attorneys and it seems like hes worried about a family member. And how much hes starting to tweet. He tweeted the Phrase Witch Hunt a combined 36 times in june sw july. And that was up from april and may. Sw hes calling out muellerer by name. If the president s son is in trouble, how far to you think he would go to protect him . Look, again whereby toepbt want to get into these hypotheticals. I think it was silly by the way to take that meeting. Doesnt rise to the level of criminality. But im not a criminal defense attorney. He clearly has been ratcheting
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