outside force, but by a mistake of his own making, classified documents found not only in his old office, but in his delaware garage and home. and not just one highly classified document but multiple all uncovered not by a forthcoming and transparent white house, but by news reports, the latest from this weekend. you can see it right here. republicans have been pouncing happy to get exactly the kind of story they needed to push their own problems off the front pages, and now democrats are frustrated, too, we ve got news on what some of the most well-known democrats about what this mean, not just for president biden but for president trump as well. and what president biden has said to be feeling behind closed doors, also what this means for who runs on the democratic ticket in 2024. joining me now is nbc news correspondent carol lee, and nbc news capitol hill correspondent ali vitali, and political white house reporter and msnbc political contributor, eugene daniels. so carol,
Rachel Maddow takes a look at the days top political news stories. After his ukraine work dried up. And that is important because thats when he went to one of trumps 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 Trumps Campaign for free. Thats 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. Ive 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 courtroom today that
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
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