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Up 10 points. That has now evaporated. Interesting to see who turns out, a testament to the excitement level. Thank you all. That is all for this evening. The Rachel Maddow show starts right now with ari in for rachel. Good evening. Rachel has the night off. We have a pretty big show. Today was day two of the federal criminal trial of the campaign chairman. The witnesses were several people who sold the defendant clothes and houses that he bought through secretive International Wire payments. On...

Rachel Maddow takes a look at the days top political news stories. Whether a person is too close to the subject of the probe, whether Jeff Sessions would beak be more of a Trump Campaign surrogate who happened to be Attorney General rather than acting as an independent Law Enforcement officer. If sessions didnt recuse after that statement, it would have made him look even more like he was doing trumps bidding. And trump apparently didnt know that making that statement would also as just a genera...

News, analysis and interviews with politicians and observers. Cnns Abbie Phillip is live at the white house. The president just had an event where he met at the white house with republican lawmakers. Did he clarify anything today . Reporter well, nia, the president just let reporters into the room for that meeting. It was originally scheduled to have been closed, but he said nothing. He didnt respond to questions about any of these issues floating around him. He didnt expand on any of his commen...

Trustworthy prosecutor. if that report is not accurate, not correcting it would have hurt him, hurt mueller i think. so they did the right thing, and its good the president acknowledged that. >> and corinnareen, isnt there lesson for democrats. we heard from congressman castro and gillibrand, even after the fact, we have to get to the bottom of this, is there a risk for democrats to celebrate things so far in advance before actually knowing what the heck things s thi things are? >> let me say th...

Special counsels office has not disputed. so the fact they would dispute this speaks to how egregious the buzzfeed reporting oversight was. but it also speaks to how there hasnt been another example that bad in the last year. so a lot of the -- >> the vast majority of the other reporting has been pretty close to something. >> david, let me ask you, congresswoman, one thing thats striking me is all of a sudden you heard president trump in a way celebrating the special counsels office here, thanki...

Requirements. so nobody can be confused about who -- where your loyalties lie on a particular issue. >> if flynn eventually is sentenced to a lengthy -- or lengthier prison sentence than the prosecution recommended, basically zero time, does that hurt muellers ability to win peoples cooperation down the road? >> wolf, i dont want to speculate about what this judge is actually going to do in terms of a sentence down the road. i think what he was saying loud and clear today was that theres no kidd...

Mistake if he did, just to pardon someone because they were a friend of the president. >> i dont think a pardon under these circumstances would go over well. >> we understand the president has the constitutional authority to do so, but we think politically it would be a very serious mistake. >> the things theyve warned him, please, do not do this, like firing mueller, he actually often does not do. >> you feel like these are stern warnings? >> stern for the republicans in congress of today. i th...

Supreme court if trump wont sit down and how do you do that and when do you trigger that? >> one thing we know very clearly he has given the trump legal team, he would like to avoid a subpoena fight. there are all sorts of good reasons. he knows that will take months. very little chance the court of appeals certainly involved on the road to the supreme court would move with any -- and the question never been answered, can you force the president to the table to talk about acts as president. if t...

Rachel Maddow takes a look at the days top political news stories.

Evidence that dot dot dot dot. right out of the gate that has been the issue. judge ellis didnt mellow out at all. at one point he scolded them to rein in their facial expressions. its been reported that lawyers leaving the bench roll their eyes, communicating essentially why do we have to put up with this idiot judge. dont do that. obviously, if i see that i might be upset. you can see that running a courtroom at times is no different than dealing with your average teenager, at least from this ...