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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...

Theres some debate on that point. the department of justice weighed in on it in the past. and has opined that you cannot. so theres some unanswered questions but i think the pieces are there. >> jeremy bash, i have a well attuned ear to everything chuck says and i have never heard him say that before. i want to ask you the same question. do you see enough public facing evidence at this point to make another educated guess for us there is enough evidence now to charge someone with conspiracy to c...

Think bob mueller cares about the editorials, he cares about the facts and the law. and if he found something here -- let me give you an example, nicolle. lets say he was looking at someones computer for a crime related to the russia investigation, but found child pornography. not related to the russia investigation. that is nevertheless a crime. its prosecutable perhaps somewhere else, like the southern district of new york. im not suggesting thats -- that that is what was on mr. cohens compute...

>> wow. >> you know whats funny, this relationship between romney and fox is something -- you know and i know nobody -- we dont like to talk about it because were another media outlet. but its always been an uneasy relationship. john, you probably feel more comfortable talking about it than i will. >> hes not their guy. >> hes not their guy, but they dont hate him either. >> hes not their guy. >> theyve never embraced him and hes never embraced them. >> the truth is they havent embraced anybody....

Necessary and we can, if were good about it, we can regulate it environmentally. we should do it and go home. its not good legislation to be part of an energy bill. lets do it and go home. >> it could serve the president a great opportunity. >> yeah. >> because what he could really use going in to this christmas recess is a very strong veto demonstration, which he did not do at the end of last year on the tax bracket issue. and this one -- if they send him up a bill with something he has publicl...