Exploring issues that affect leaders in the U. S. And around the globe. Lenders considered for a job in the white house. Well head to the courthouse in a few minutes for more on this developing story, what it means for the president and the Mueller Probe. As big as that legal story is for the presidency tonight, well begin with a Political Development that might be bigger for him and his party because it is happening at the ballot box. You are looking live at people voting in ohios 12 Special Elections where tonights results could show a looming disaster for republicans in november. Recent polls show this race between two generic candidates here, no real superstar, its a coin flip right now. Folks, in a district like ohio 12 which really is a district that straddles the suburbs and the exurbs out there outside of columbus, in play for a democrat like Danny Oconnor, the democrats are looking at a
battleground approaching 80some seats. If Republican Troy Balderson can eke it out, the rep
star witness. he spent today detailing, sometimes tediously, how he and manafort committed these financial crimes. gates testified how manafort directed him to lie about his income and fake company records. now, manafort s defense team is in the middle of cross exam eng gates, trying to convince jurors that gates who is cooperating with prosecutors to reduce prison time can t be trusted. we heard president trump s name come up, the campaign came up because the jury saw evidence that manafort tried to leverage his connections on the trump transition, aka, his friendship with rick gates to curry favor with one of his lepders. joining us nbc news tis correspondent pete williams and mimi rocca from the southern district of new york and msnbc legal analyst. i think she gets to stay dry by contract. anyway, people, let me start
know, here in the u.s., people change over on the weekend if they re going to go to the beach. you know? the new people come in on saturday and the old people leave. apparently we were approaching that changeover point for sharm el sheikh. apparently this time of the week and that was another factor that led to british to make this decision about their own flights and now the decision of what to do about the 20,000 citizens there left on the grund. right. pete williams, nbc justice correspondent, thank you so much. i appreciate it. my pleasure. we ll be right back. thanks very much for joining us. how you doing? hey! how are you? where are we watching the game? you ll see. i think my boys have a shot this year. yeah, especially with this new offense we re running. i mean, our running back is a beast.
somehow that it may well have been a bomb that brought down that plane. i can t be more specific about that because that s the only word that we have. if it was a bomb, if the isis claims of responsibility that it was their bomb, if those turn out to be correct, naturally, that would make this not only isis deadliest attack yet on an international target but one of the deadliest acts of international terrorism of any kind anywhere in the world since 9/11. joining us is nbc news justice correspondent pete williams. thanks very much for having you here. good to have you here. sure. i m very sorry. i have no audio. i can t hear you, pete f. you don t mind, we ll have to take a quick break and fix this and we ll be right back. you can hear me. i can t hear anything else. we ll be right back. you can worry about them. you can even choose a car for them.
do about the 20,000 citizens there left on the grund. right. pete williams, nbc justice correspondent, thank you so much. i appreciate it. my pleasure. we ll be right back. thanks very much for joining us.