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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...

The criticism of the mueller view is theyre trying to make manafort like he had fancy coats and fancy brands. legally, thats not the problem and unfair and all they have to prove is tax evasion. do you think the judge is hitting that right and fairly? >> i think he is, although he does bring it up a lot. id say roughly hour or two he makes a comment about manafort is not on trial for being rich or having a lavish lifestyle or extravagant tastes and prosecutors often agree with the judge but insi...

Theyre trying to make paul manafort out like hes sean diddy coves and had fancy coats and fancy brands and that legally, theres not the problem. its kind of unfair and what they really have to problem is that there was tax evasion. do you think the judge is hitting that right and fairly? >> i think he is. he does bring it up a lot. id say roughly every hour or two, he makes a comment about manafort is not on trial for being rich or for having a lavish lifestyle or extravagant tastes and the pros...