Rachel Maddow takes a look at the days top political news stories. To get manafort loans. We hear one thing after another listed and as i say, a very plain, kind of matter of fact fashion, although what did seem awkward was the fact there was a certain part of the courtroom that gates didnt seem to want to look at. The manafort part of the courtroom. Right. Let me ask you how they deal with explaining to a jury that someone is a cooperating witness, that theyve already pleaded guilty to committing some crimes. Does that change or could you detect any change in any of the Body Language from the jury . Did they seem to to listen less intently or did they lean in as this was someone who had traded something . How does that go over in a jury . So, i was watching the jury as they were describing, or, as i said, as the prosecutors were leading gates through a description of his deal with the government, and the jurors were watching that very intensely. I saw a number of them taking notes on
it really goes to what we ve centerpiece this part of the sun try, you see it s isolated there and the emotioned feeling here. paolo sandoval. ed lavandera is in dawson springs, kentucky, a town devastated by the tornadoes. we ve heard the governor talk about his family ties in dawson springs and is pulling up where i am now in mayfield. he ll be hold a press conference. well, this is another day of search-and-rescue operations across das ron landscape that crews are having to navigate here. the force of this storm, pamela, is simply breathtaking. you walk up the front steps of a porch. you expect to see a home here
cnn s gloria borger and elizabeth cohen join us now. the tributes pouring in have about profound, not only talking about the remarkable imprint that his life left on history but for generations to come. i was thinking about colin powell so much this morning as all of us, and what comes to mind it may be corny, sort of sounds old-fashions, maybe a cliche, but he was a true public servant. this is somebody who was political, but he was not ideological. he didn t walk on one side of the aisle or another. he is somebody who just believed in serving his sun try, and he is somebody who also turned down the lure of running for the presidency when he was incredibly popular because he thought he could accomplish what he needed to accomplish in other ways and, you know, i feel like colin powell is somebody who could admit a mistake as he did when he said there were weapons of mass destruction in iraq and there were none and he called it a blot on his record.
for the sun try, but one for the midwest. does this race have republicans i don t know that it s possible, and i m sure that republicans will say anything these days, but in the good old days when i was a republican, we used to acknowledge publicly that you could not win the white house without winning ohio. do people acknowledge how nerve wracking it is to have a district like this in a part of a state that you must win to send a republican to the white house that this is an ominous sign for the republicans? they feel like they have an impossible choice. talking to republican consultants in and outside of ohio, they say, you can t win in some areas with president trump because of the way he may anger women voters, college educated voters, suburban voters that may have given him a chance in 2016 but have since distanced themselves from president trump, but you can t win without him, because he enthuses the republican base. you see so many republicans like the senate senator troy