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>> in other words, how long before departure was this? how long before your flight was supposed to take off? >> we were all boarded and we were about to go on to the runway. we had gotten all the luggage, everyone had been boarded we had been seated, the instructional video had been done, and we were ready to go. and then the news came to us. i in other words, minutes before you guys were going to be airborne. >> correct. >> minutes before they got all the passengers off your airplane. >> correc...

Families, we have nobody. this is a demagoguery this country has never witnessed in its history. >> you have this person in congress now who attacked a member of the press and paul ryan and nobody else said anything about it. they could have kept him from being seated. >> body slammed him the day before the election and he won. i got to thank my producer dave murphy. he is the one who helped us lay out exactly whats at stake. up next, the manafort trial enters week number two. his former right...

Case in their heads. >> i felt like there was absolutely nothing we missed in closing or in presentation. >> but thats not to say when theyre out deliberating youre not wondering every second whats going on, and whether youre going to succeed. >> please be seated, with the exception of the presiding juror. >> and then, more than seven and a half years since nicis body had been found, the jury was coming back with a verdict. >> we, the jury, find the defendant, martin david pietz, guilty of the c...

Not russia, though russia looms large in the background as it seems to in everything else these days. manaforts being tried in federal court in alexandria, virginia. he was, of course, trumps campaign chairman, ran the rnc convention. its the first of two trials for him, and this one hes looking at 18 counts of bank fraud, tax evasion, conspiracy charges in relation to his work for a pro-russian party in ukraine before he went to work for the trump campaign. he has pleaded not guilty to all char...

The paul manafort trial, the first big test for robert mueller. it is a trial about taxes and not russia, though russia looms large in the background as it seems to in everything else these days. manaforts being tried in federal court in alexandria, virginia. he was, of course, trumps campaign chairman, ran the rnc convention. its the first of two trials for him, and this one hes looking at 18 counts of bank fraud, tax evasion, conspiracy charges in relation to his work for a pro-russian party i...

Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current political-campaign news.

Updates of the days news.

Broke the story wide open. also breaking this hour, a jury has been seated in the first federal trial for former trump campaign chairman paul manafort. the first high-profile test for the special counsel, robert mueller. well take you just outside the courtroom coming up.

Washington post." what a story. thanks. >> thanks, brooke. we continue on. youre watching cnn on this tuesday afternoon. im brooke baldwin. thank you for being with me. heres what is breaking right now. there are 12 jurors who will decide the fate of paul manafort. and they are now all seated. in what is the first high-profile test stemming from robert muellers russia investigation. opening statements are set to begin shortly for president trumps former campaign chairman. manafort is accused o...

Editor and chief of law fair. and barbara mcquaid is an attorney in michigan and nbc and msnbc news contributor and we will start with you, ken. the jury has been seated, and that is a quick seating for the jury. usually, it takes a few days. >> yeah, it was surprising, katy. this district in the eastern district of alexandria is known as the rocket docket which is a reference to civil case, but it moved fast in the courtroom. judge ellis sped it along. there was a pool of 65 potential juror jur...