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
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of journalists deaths go unpunished which it says threatens the very foundation of a free press. in new york, rick leventhal, fox news. jon: devastation in indonesia after a tsunami hits without warning killing more than 200 people whom scientists say triggered it. plus, the battle over a border wall rages on in washington. lawmakers trading new proposals in hopes of getting the government fully back and open, but both sides appear unwilling to budge, so just how long could this last? i don t care what we call it, and neither does the president. the president s actually talking about different i mean, different what we want is barriers. i think we re just about there if we
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