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Trump got updates on the whole of government approach his administration is implementing to safeguard our nations elections. The president has made it clear that his administration will not tolerate foreign interference in our elections from any nation state or other malicious actors. That kind of Paper Statement is a contrast to trumps actual words in helsinki where trump sided with the russian president over his own Intelligence Agencies on the question of whether russia interfered in the u. S...

Tomorrow. You can reach out to me any time on social media. Hardball with Chris Matthews starts right now. Up all night. Le lets play hardball. Good evening. Im Chris Matthews in washington. Dont do the crime if you cant do the time. Didnt people around donald trump Pay Attention to crime show warning. If you committed federal crimes you could be squeezed by federal prosecutors to rat. Didnt donald trump know if he did business with such people he would be the fall guy. Which gets us to the pres...

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Marks not a bad guy to turn to. but to specifically answer your question, it is not unheard of. it is unusual. >> and then i also want you to weigh in on allen weisselberg. this is a different witness than the names that we have heard from over and over again when it comes to donald trump, right? weve heard michael cohen. weve heard roger stone. weve heard paul manafort. over the last five-plus years. allen weisselberg is someone who is kind of stayed in the background when it comes to trump org...

On theti campaign, and later, hs transition team, and later, the presidency. lets play thist game at home. you think you would get away with any of that? it says "verified." you know you didnt verify it, that is premeditated fraud on a court. then when you know you lied to the court, youre supposed to go back and tell them. i just have a funny feeling if it happens to anybody in this audience, you would have a predawn raid, like manafort and roger stone. ive been saying this for a while, but wha...

Detainees. most have yet to be convicted of a crime. none of this is good news for paul manafort. manafort is 70 years old and reichers island is no picnic for inmates. this is video from inside rikers island. manafort would likely be in solitary containment for months. high-profile inmates at rikers are generally held in protective custody, including pretrial designees like manafort. in 2015, the city settled a lawsuit, that found adolescent inmates at rikers were not protected from the excessi...

Will show. who knows. he brings it up first. he asks about pardons or pardons in general or something like that, and then the emails proceed the way they did, could it still be perceived as an obstruction of justice if its offered, put out there, dangled? >> it certainly could if the expectation was that in return for even discussing a pardon, you need to be uncooperative with the special prosecutor and you need to basically stay with the code of omerta. dont talk, like manafort. >> which i thin...

Mueller investigation on twitter over the weekend. he started by jamming as many of his favorite buzz phrases into 280 characters. the illegal mueller witch hunt continues in search of a crime. there was never collusion with russia except by the clinton campaign. so the 17 angry democrats are looking at anything they can find. very unfair and bad for the country. also, not allowed under the law. then today, the case should never have been allowed to be brought. its a totally illegal witch hunt. ...

Lets watch her. >> how close did this jury come to convicting on 18 counts. >> by one. one hold out. >> one person kept you from making the next step. >> thats correct. yes. >> what was their reasoning, if they shared with you. >> reasonable doubt i guess reasonable doubt could be a mind set. not comfortable making a big decision on someones life. what does this tell you about the prosecutor. tells us theyre going to go ahead with the prosecution of all these other counts in a d.c. probably be a...

35 people. the prosecutors reserve the right to call to testify against manafort as the case unfolds. some of the names very much expected. rick gates, everyone knows that because he pled out and promised to testify against his former boss. he has pled guilty and agreed to cooperate with mueller. also on the list the five people who got specific immunity in exchange for testimony. their names we got because the court had to release them as part of the wrangling earlier this week. they all look l...