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Tonight, day one of the manafort trial. The first of the mueller era. The government argues Paul Manafort thought he was above the law, while his defense team plans to attack the star government witness against him. The president started his day declaring collusion is not a crime, ending his day with red meat for the crowd in tampa, and no talk of russia. He did declare himself the most popular republican ever. And with 98 days until the midterms, facebook announces its found fake accounts desig...

Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. And Donald Trumps name wasnt mentioned today. Robert muellers name wasnt mentioned today. This trial does not have to do with any connection to the 2016 campaign. Nor does rick gates involvement dovetail with what he did in the 2016 campaign, nor his work on the inaugural committee. Its a highly separate trial involving past clients of Paul Manaforts. I think if were reading between the lines, its the prel...

Doing in saudi arabia over and over again, what hes doing on these private phone calls with mohammad bin salman if we know more about the trump familys financial interests. whatever this is also during a period of time in which all sorts of other things are going wrong in the middle east. this rupture between saudi arabia and qatar. continued disaster of the yemen war. its not as if theres any piece of the u.s.-saudi relationship going well today. . what on earth these meetings are about is hard...

He was brought in by prosecutors today to testify about sort of how much money was made, but mainly about how involved manafort was in the effort in ukraine and in some of the financial matters so that it would be more difficult i think for manafort to claim that he was just sort of passively involved here and wasnt paying much attention. devine essentially described manafort as a detailed guy already trying to undercut the potential defense that he was somehow hoodwinked by rick gates or perhap...

He is waiting for potentially a pardon down the road. >> and josh, weve already had the first strange bedfellow in the first witness. tad devine, he of the liberal left, he of the kerry campaign, the bernie sanders campaign, what was he doing testifying in this trial today? >> well, he was brought in because he actually worked alongside manafort. you know, its fairly typical in these overseas political consulting efforts when americans go in. its pretty normal for a republican like manafort to t...

You know, the trump administration and people who speak for the president are doing this dance where they sort of just take a step to the side and start talking about what they want to talk about because they cant really talk about the tweets. and i think that there is something telling in what happened today. which is that the president retweeted those things, and then later in the day he went to marine one and then flew off to give a speech about taxes. and then he came back and he walked from...

Answer to, he wont stop at the camera, and today he didnt stop at the cameras. >> john, a mechanical question. i always like to point out -- >> i cannot fix your carburetor. >> when you get away from the coast -- this is actually related to fishing a carburetor, 80% of americans are not on twitter, god bless them. for those who are not and dont know its ways, youre a twitter enthusiast, what does it mean to retweet something like this? hes seeing a video, he puts his name on it, does that also m...

Obamacare and i met with a bunch of families this morning from virginia virginia who have medicaid and receive benefits from medicaid. they would be the first to cut. imagine any senator sitting down with the families i sat with and coming out and saying they will support this bill which so dramatically cuts back and one of the things that makes me bothered with it as a former governor and business guy, this is just an $800 billion cost transfer of costs that the federal government used to take ...

Airplanes and flies them. hes got the life of aviation running through his veins. >> if it wasnt zaharie and it wasnt fariq, what about the other passengers on flight 370? could it have been a hijacking? >> it would explain the fact that the radios were shut down possibly systematically. it would explain why there may not have been communication. >> are there any suspects? >> theyve gone through everybody on the aircraft, and theyve determined that there is no one there that would match the prof...

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