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a camp in rafah leaves dozens dead. breaking moments ago, israels prime minister now calls that strike quote a tragic mistake. then later, a bipartisan group of lawmakers now putting china on notice while in taiwan meeting with their new president. so a lot to get to today and we begin with that breaking news right now. 21 people are dead. thats a higher number than we had just an hour ago and nearly 600,000 homes are without power across 11 states. 71 million people are still under ...

Good evening from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Day 557 of the Trump Administration, 99 days now until the mid term elections. And this might go down as the day we witnessed a change resulting in the new defense strategy. It is about something Rudy Giuliani has started to say. In the days after the president ial election Donald Trumps advisers had a message about contacts between russians and members of the campaign team. In the ensuing months as numerous such communications were r...

A recap of the days news. Its the idea that in the Republican Coalition right now it is a cult of personalty around trump, and that ad is a perfect example of it. Its i am trump. I am trump. I am with them. And theres it is the only strategy. You cannot win a republican primary in this country right now without siding with trump. This is access is reporting tonight that trumps power over politics and republicans is growing. They say his sway often flows from fear. He is a powerful hold on suppor...

You dont believe that to be the case . We acknowledge the threat, it is real, it is continuing. And were doing everything we can to have a legitimate election. If you dont catch a hacker, okay, in the act, it is very hard to say who did the hacking. With that being said, ill go along with russia. Could have been china, could have been a lot of different groups. Make no mistake, the scope of this foreign influence threat is broad and deep. Ive seen it described as two administrations. John mclaug...

This is being advertised as that by those who want to say that mueller can hang his credibility on this. but people think to themselves, you would lead with the strongest case. as a prosecutor, you lead with the case you can easily dispense and focus on the more important factors. heres a document heavy case of accountants and others in the testimony. this is in many ways his easiest case in terms of the argument of intent. >> just one thing. it is not that he is crazy. he is trying to influence...

How did the jurors respond to him? >> the jurors have been laughing periodically at his ent interruptions and i think judge ellis has shown himself to be determined to prevent the trial from becoming too dry and he has repeatedly scolded the government to move it along. once he feels a point has been made, he encourages them to row to something else. and the jury does seem to be kind of getting a kick out of that. they do seem to be tracking the proceedings following them closely. it is a docume...

The trial of paul manafort underway today with branding the former trump campaign a liar with an extravagant lifestyle. manaforts team planning to blame rick gates. joining me now is laura coats and page pate. good evening to both of you. >> good evening. >> it was all the fault of rick gates and the russian oligarchs. what do you make of manaforts strategy? >> hes grasping at straws. the only defense when you have a document heavy case. documents speak for themselves. the only strategy is ignor...

Distorting profit and loss statements and overvaluing properties. this is going to be a document heavy case. i fear that it may be boring in some parts. to lead the jury through it the prosecutors have a star witness who is rick gates who is paul manaforts right-hand man who has pleaded guilty. we may not learn very much about russia collusion in this trial, but we will -- it will be reinforced that paul manafort came to the trump campaign essentially broke and that may have made him a ripe targ...

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