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Todd whitman is my guest. Lets if out front. Good evening. Im erin burnett. Breaking news, a shrewd leader, how President Trumps lawyers are painting Paul Manafort. A jury of six men and six women listening as hewellers team outlined its case describing manafort as a con artist who ran a global scheme to avoid paying millions in taxes. Prosecutors say manafort made 60 million in ukraine and that he didnt report to it the irs. They say he had 30 Bank Accounts in just three Foreign Countries which he used in part to store untaxed income to spend on luxury goods like range rovers, a watch costing 21,000, a 15,000 custom made ostrich jacket. Who doesnt need one of those, right . The defense hitting back saying manafort is the victim that he was taken advantage of by the man he trusted most rick gates, his right hand man in ukraine and his deputy in the trump
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Former GOP representative Joe Scarborough and Mika Brezinski interview newsmakers, politicians and pundits about the issues of the day. Job Approval Rating probably has seven or eight points, maybe even a little more of what i think of as 401 k trumpers right now. I think there are people who are looking at their statements, people who are on the right side of the economic equation any way. They see their numbers going up for all sorts of reasons. And so theyre willing to not really dive in to this russian novel story that no one can quite figure out. And theyre willing to suspend their bizarrely in my view, but they are willing to suspend their ordinary moral judgments about how this president conducts himself and is now representing us on the world stage. But i would not, if i were in the white house, count on that lasting until 2020. Well see. Joe, your latest column in the Washington Post really speaks to this entitled trump finally
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Translate in november . Interesting. For example, don, another thing id say about that is especially in goobvernors race. I think the voters want a degree of independence from the white house and president. When you hug that tightly, its hard to get that separation. I want to play this because we were talking about how much some of the candidates are hugging the president. This is the most recent campaign add in florida. Everyone knows my husband ron is endorsed by president trump. But hes also an amazing dad. Ron loves playing with the kids. Build a wall. He reads stories. Then mr. Trump said youre fired. I love that part. Hes Teaching Madison to talk. Make America Great again. People say ron is all trump, but he is so much more. Big league. So good. I just thought you should know. Ron desantis for governor. A recap of the days news. Profile losses. The there a lesson for democrats . I think democrats have to keep the attention on trump nationally. That energizes the base. Thats the n
The days biggest political and news stories, with interviews and reporting from around the nation. Donald trump saying bob mueller has a conflict of interest. Whats he referring to . A dispute i imagine he disclosed it to rosenstein when he appointed him because it involved something last year wasnt settled to this day. Thats up to the president and mueller to describe. Whats the conflict . I cant tell you. Are you saying the business Conflict Mueller and President Trump had, is that about his golf course. Im not going to go any further. Hes not going further on that. There were some specifics when guiliani talked about other alleged meetings before the trump tower meeting. The meeting with the russians, how can you be sure that the president didnt know before. Its he said she said. Nobody can be sure of anything. In a situation like this you have two things that argue against cohen. Twoonone sorry, three
like an independent contradictions. He says there was a meeting with donald junio