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
push specific candidates but did promote activity around devicive social issues. facebook says it has been unable to identify who is behind the accounts and says it found ties to the russian company that special counsel robert mueller led online influence operations in the he 2016 presidential election. facebook has dumped 32 more accounts for engaging in similar behavior just three months before the midterm elections. as nbc news reports, that s only part of the story. nbc news reporting in announcing the investigation into these 32 accounts, facebook did not reveal the depth to which some of those accounts went in terms of stoking racial tension inc e inciting division. nbc was able to retrieve some of the pages facebook deleted. i review of those found efforts totes target people based on liberal politics as well as hispanic heritage.