Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Seated, the judge will give fairly long explanation. On. Reporter after the jury is seated, the judge will give fairly long explanation. Were not going to hear Opening Statements today. Its possible we could hear them tomorrow or thursday. Got it. Pete williams. Thank you very much. Let me bring in National Political reporter for the Washington Post and msnbc political analyst. Two msnbc contributors. Charlie savage. Let me go over briefly this reminder about Paul Manafort and why the Special Counsel is interested in him. Starts with donald trump. He hired Paul Manafort to run his president ial campaign in march 2016. Prior to his work on the Trump Campaign, manafort did political work overseas. Some for the prorussian
highlights which as you indicated, rick gates, all eyes will be on him. He was the right hand man to manafort. What hell have to do in order to fulfill his cooperation agreement, for the government
depending on what it is, if rod rosenstein resigns or if he s fired, if they re going to see that as an attack on the ability for mueller to finish his job. yeah, it s unclear. you know, i think we have seen from republicans, you re right, the sort of rhetoric that mueller should be able to finish his job. we obviously heard from different committees on the senate and house sides as well, and well rr see what they say depending on what the outcome of the meeting is at the white house between the deputy attorney general and the folks there. i guess the president isn t even is the president even at the white house? i don t think he s at the white house. i don t know what the meeting yeah, he s in new york right now. right, in new york right now, so you know, i guess maybe he s meeting with the chief of staff or other folks, whoever is at the white house and not with the president in new york, so this whole bizarre scene playing out, i think in some ways plays into democrats ha
state schools too. hot fresh reporting from both of you. thank you for joining me on set. friends of the show. well rr see you soon. we want to end with today s big picture. we re heading out to california because you need to know that these huge fires are basically taking over that state. look at this. you re looking at one of cal fire s own tirelessly pulling a fire hose, trying to keep the flames from spreading. look at that. that guy is one of he s taking on one of 20 fires in the golden state right now. a special shout out to him, to the 12,000 firefighters who are going after these flames right now that have killed at least six people, destroyed hundreds of homes, thousands of acres. lots of people having to evacuate. the photographer here, hector, for the sacramento bee and the associated press. we would love to hear your thoughts on facebook, twitter, snapchat, and insta. i ll see you at the white house later. the president takes off for tampa. we ll be there on the south l