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Rachel Maddow takes a look at the day s top political news stories. after his ukraine work dried up. and that is important because that s when he went to one of trump s closest friends and said i really need to get to trump. and then offered to work for trump for free. how and yes became the campaign chair is still a weird so far unexplained thing. today in court prosecutors began laying out the evidence for the dire straits manafort was in when he joined one trump s campaign for free. that s something to keep an eye on as the trial goes forward. joining me, senior white house political reporter, a close observer of the manafort case cynic it began. he was in the courtroom today. and i get to announce that as of today, he is an msnbc contributor. i ve seen some of the early reporting that there were audible gasps. take us through some of the more audible moments. well, this reference as having embezzled from manafort was something that grabbed my was there a sense in the ....
Rachel Maddow takes a look at the day s 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 trump s name or even that manafort lives in trump tower. the judge in the case has warned that bringing up manafort s 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 presidential 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 today s hearing. i m not going to be able to act out a whole conversation but here s one little bit of the prosecutor s opening statemen ....
These episodes some years back, and he actually cut a pretty good deal with president obama that house republicans, a majority of them, refused to go along with, boehner didn t have the vote, but the deal he had cut with president obama would have significantly reduced government spending. so there s also a history in the house republican conference of members holding out for less, or holding out for nothing, and that s another dynamic to keep a close eye on. but the energy should be spent on trying to find an agreement, not on what to do if we can t find an agreement. why don t we try to balance the budget? i mean in the 90s, we balanced the budget. we had a surplus, how do we balance the budget in 2023? it s just another yawner. if you want to go out there and tell people that the national debt right now is 120% of gdp compared with say 109% in 2019, where does that even rank in the grand scheme of things, with inflation, terrorism, electoral reform, these are not even on the to ....
The major news networks have spent less than an hour covering the crime waves in 15 democratic constituents. what happened to if it bleeds it leaves? now it s more like if the victim is a goner, it s a yawner. why is that. the media shares the blame if they accurately covered crime they would expose their own culpability. they push to defunding the cons, demonizing police and defended the riots. they re all going to go in on january 6, pretending to care about the officers and those victims. and throw everyone else in prison. no restorative justice needed. [applause] welcome, tonight s guest, she hosts a show after this one. if her ratings suffer, it s her fault. host of fox news at night, shannon bream. he s an expert on finances and smoldering glances. former director of the national ....
Like in frozen silence just kind of like hoping nobody heard this. maybe this will go away. if i don t say anything, maybe it will go away. and then finally people coming out and saying, this is a bridge too far, even for a president who is, you know, on mars now going bridge after bridge. i think it s important that the republicans that are beginning to speak out, continuing to speak out, i am very concerned actually because this is as close to a i don t know, treasonous thing as you can say. if you re president of the united states sitting in the oval office and say i would take dirt, information from a foreign source to go after my opponent, that begins to sound like an invitation. i can t imagine if you re sitting around in china or russia. that s a yawner. so i think it s a big deal. i think people know it s a big deal. i think the republicans have to admit it s a big deal and hope he walks it back. at the end of the day, you ll have more people coming out and saying this is a b ....