Manafort Flipping News Today

Sh issue. First time they have r had interesting way to take over the magazine. That does it for me. Hardball starts now. Crime and punishment. Lets play hardball. Today Paul Manafort, the president s campaign. Facing years in a u. S. Prison. Whatever you choose to call it, it is past. For a year and a half our country has been contorted into a reality tv show. This is the day we discovered reality bites. Good evening, i am chris matthews. Heading into round one now. Investigation is underway at...

Chris Hayes discusses the days top news. Probes next target. One of his close allies, the Manhattan Madam, testifying before a grand jury in the investigation today, while another one of stones allies is being held in Contempt Of Court today for refusing to comply with the judges order to testify. Which means hes choosing potential jail time over cooperating with robert mueller. Here to help us understand all the days developments, joyce vance, former u. S. Attorney and law professor, frank figl...

About this first manafort trial. we are about to go through another one in a few weeks. whats the level of concern for the white house about going through this process again? >> i think just having this person that was so close to the campaign again stand trial is never really a good thing for the white house. it reminds people that this occurred. that said, i think joey is right. i dont know that they are concerned about manafort flipping at this point. especially because the president has said...

Be looking at different documents that may show intent. paul manafort intentionally lying about his rental property or his income in order to get more money -- >> dana: sending emails to rick gates who was the prosecutors star witness saying i want you to do this. >> he asked rick gates please convert a pdf file into a word document. thats because paul manafort doctored that document and wanted to get more money in loans. so, yeah, all cinds of emails like that. i think they have a lot of eviden...

Perch as manaforts right-hand man but hes there through the rest of the campaign. the convention is mentioned. he was a role on the inaugural committee. through president trump he was deeply involved in the day-to-day business of the white house, spotted on those 16 or 18 acres. really, as you said, up until the day he was indicted. this is another reminder of how deep the tentacles of muellers probe potentially go and how much we dont know. and so while theres not a ton of concern at least yet ...

Clear that he. he said i hope paul gets a fair trial. it was clear that manaforts lawyers was emphasizing that davine is a strategist. >> if you are donald trump watching what is going on, what is your concern because if rick gates has flipped against manafort, is trump still worried about manafort flipping. i wonder how nichiian can he be? if he has a bad jury, he is facing a bad jury. he sees the time he is going to serve. dont do the crime if you cant do the time and he is looking at a lot of...

>> yeah. i cant imagine that at end of the day he dwez to trial. he is looking at huge exposure p. it is obvious that mueller has it no for him and mueller will put him under the jail unless at the end of the day manafort cooperates. >> evan, manafort flipping, how much of a setback is this for the argument the trump campaign has been making that theres been no collusion? >> it would be horrible. but weve seen time and time again the president whatever he says is undermineed. we sought president...

Deal to cooperate with special counsel bob mueller. this is the highest ranking trump political aide to plead guilty in this very much still active probe. you cant get higher on the campaign because he was running it for a period of time. this high stakes legal and political move comes after months of resistance. consider how manaforts world shrunk to that cell he was inhabiting in pre-trial in his illegal resistance in the form of witness tampering. that resistance stopped, the tampering stoppe...

Does this cooperation agreement equal bad news for the president, for his son, for his son-in-law, jared kushner, of course. they were in the trump tower meeting. or maybe all of the above? >> i think its very worrisome for president trump and you had the president talk about this last week with his sense of flipping, right? theyre flipping people closer and closer to him, and the idea of these kinds of investigations is always to flip somebody to get people higher up in the scale and to get the...