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Analysis and discussion of the days top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence ODonnell. Manafort. That is a fact. That is news. That is legally concerning for donald trump and politically concerning as confessions are not a great message heading into the midterms. But donald trump has his own plan. While he didnt know this trial of this Campaign Trial would be on track for a verdict heading into labor day, which is of course a key time for the midterms, he has long known he has his own pla...

Midterms because trump believes its return to the headlines will help republicans win votes. There it is. Today donald trump reupping his attacks on nfl players over the kneeling. This is on a friday heading into the anniversary of course of that Charlottesville White power rally. Were not going to read the tweet tonight from the president attacking the players in last nights game because it is not particularly newsworthy and were not going to show you all the headlines it sparked. You can imagi...

Schizophrenic view of how ruthless to be. and i think that split in attitude towards how to wield power is one of the things that holds a lot of democrats back because theyre like i dont want to be like that. >> i guess what i dont understand is its almost become comical. how bad does the corruption have to be? what they reported about -- i mean, and we found out about this, there is a house investigation, but you just take the stories of -- just take the post mueller scandals. take the post mue...

The corruption stories congeal where, wow, the thing he ran against, the swamp, the pay for play to echo the point mark was make anything a different context, it was all projection of their own problems. >> it is really interesting. i talked to a democratic candidate in an ohio district, not the one on tuesday, a very conservative district. this guy has a chance. and months ago he was telling me it was only one issue in his direct, health care, health care, health care and focussing on people wi...

You were hired by us, the people. you are paid by us, the people. this is a big job and hes flaunting and flittering away the real opportunity he has to actually lead. when he is given that opportunity, he goes low every time. >> how much of that runs into the collective toll that cough rup -- corruption takes here? im not going to vote for him or the republicans. thats sort of a sitting voting block. as we all know, the way midterms and turn ultimater is everyone else. is there a one, two, thre...

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Illegal. a hundred percent illegal. >> and a special guest for this, fordham law professor who wrote a book on corruption in america and shes exploring a run for attorney general in new york, and doing that after the resignation of eric snyderman after he was exposed for domestic abuse violations of a very serious nature. starting with this corruption, was this predictable and how should it be stopped now. >> this is really chilling and we have to not ever get used to this. the corruption storie...

President since richard nixon who had his own personal financial dealings that were rather exhaustively investigated and set the stage for a lot of these concerns. i think theyre legitimate and doesnt seem that at least in terms of the general public anyone is all that perturbed by it. >> theres a bandwidth issue. only so many things to pay attention to in this administration. from the get-go, from the first executive order that came within hours of being sworn in there have been scandals, confl...

Against president nixon. he just won the second term in a landsli landslide. four more years were coming. everyone was resigned to that. and it is -- its hard to describe to people today how quickly -- >> what it felt like. >> -- that began to change as soon as the corruption stories began to emerge. >> right. this time, however, we have a president whos really a master at pulling out so many rabbits from this crazy hat that people might just get used to the insanity of it all. i mean, he had hi...