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Im leaving this set and going to get a latte because i will be here tonight at 9 00 for my good friend rachel maddow. There will likely be no shortage of breaking news from now until then. For now, my thanks to jonathan, doug, matt and elise. That does it for now. Who do we blame for no cameras in federal courtrooms again . You can blame me. Boy do i wish we had a camera in a courtroom right now. Thank you, nicole. If its tuesday, Paul Manaforts trial is officially under way. Tonight, collusion ...

She joins us now. What did these emails between butina and gordon reveal . Yeah, they showed that the two met at an embassy event, a party at the Swiss Embassy in late september 2016. So really in the final weeks of the Trump Campaign. And then paul erickson, the republican operative who she was apparently dating kind of connected the two of them over email, and they show that the fact that j. D. Gordon had this trump tie appeared to be important to the email relationship that they then struck u...

Anderson Cooper takes viewers beyond the headlines with indepth reporting and investigations. Took the stand at his trial and the testimony was damaging to say the least. As for the former madam, Kristin Davis, today we learned she talked with muellers team. Shimon proyew pez joins us with the latest. Lets talk about what came to light on this day four of the trial. Certainly damaging testimony, as you say, for Paul Manafort. An accountant taking the stand who really is the first person who has ...

Alex Witt hosts coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. You cant on its face determine whether its unlawful or its within the law. Thats for prosecutors and factgatherers to decide, but, boy, it is something people will be looking at seriously. David . Kelly, very quickly. Youve been in contact with Rudy Guiliani over these last many weeks, talking to him about the grounds by which he might agree to have the president sit down for an interview. And we saw Rudy Gu...

Oath where he lied. i want to know why the department of justice is prosecuting manafort and others, papadopoulos, for lying. why not prosecute and put andrew mccabe in jail? he lied. it is documented. the referral is given at the department of justice and this guy should be prosecuted. i dont know what to believe because he never tell the truth. pete: do you believe rosenstein should be subpoenaed to talk about not just this last 60 minutes interview? >> they should have had rod rosenstein befo...

The fact that mueller has spent a huge amount of the resources and energy and man and woman power on his team over the last year and change focusing on prosecuting manafort and meanwhile in the cohen situation, there are reports that mueller found some information about cohen that could have indicated he was engaged in criminal activity. and then rather than taking that investigation under the umbrella of his special counsel probe, he handed it off to investigators in the southern district of ne...

Tonight that former trump campaign chairman paul manafort is in talks with the special counsels office about a possible plea deal, according to two people with knowledge of the discussions. the post reports it this way, quote, the people, who spoke on the condition of an anymoonymito describe the conversations, cautioned that the negotiations may not result in a deal with special counsel robert mueller, who is prosecuting manafort for alleged money laundering and lobbying investigations. but the...

For our viewers a bit later on in this hour. meanwhile, and as we mentioned, day 600 of this administration, and as bob woodwards book "fear" hit book stores today, a new development in the mueller russia investigation is looming over the white house. "washington post" reporting tonight that former trump campaign chairman paul manafort is in talks with the special counsels office about a possible plea deal, according to two people with knowledge of the discussions. the post reports it this way, ...

Thats the best we can figure out on that account. in terms of what may be coming up, i mean were looking at closing arguments 9:30 tomorrow morning on nearly two hours on each side. its interesting the defenses decision not to put on any evidence or witnesses. what that may be about their closing statement. it could mean theyre looking more at sort of a 30,000 foot argument trying to pin the blame for all this alleged wrongdoing on rick gates. it seems if they really wanted to get down in the we...

Trump team is theyre waiting to see the verdict in manafort. do you believe that? >> i dont know. potentially. i mean, look, theres actually a question about whether this negotiation over an interview by the president is going to continue as it had with the sort of letters back and forth or whether therell actually be a subpoena, whether robert mueller actually goes forward and subpoenas the president to appear before him. and thats the big question mark at this hour. whether that delay is becau...