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Rachel Maddow takes a look at the days top political news stories. Mentioned about him maybe offering a job running the u. S. Army to a Bank President who approved these loans for him. Thats the only other reference to the Trump Campaign in the trial thus far. But two days ago, Out Of The Blue on crossexamination, the manafort Defense Lawyer asks rick gates, hey, did muellers prosecutors talk to you about your time working on the Trump Campaign . Did you talk to them about that . Prosecutor from...

Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. Our colleague Kristen Welker there is still a steep hurdle to an interview with robert mueller. It would, quote, raise significant article ii questions going to the heart of president ial authority. Its not just about this president but about the presidency. Meanwhile, Rudy Giuliani spokes with axios. They report, quote, there are two topics the president s lawyers want to rule out in order to agree to a t...

Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. Election, that means the more careful you have to be in how overtly you investigate or charge someone who is going to be on the ballot in that election. First of all, donald trump, as far as i know, is not on the ballot in 2018. So this whole issue about them affecting the election is actually pretty tangential. Its not clear how much it applies. But mueller is so clearly cautious and observant of preceden...

By the thousands still left. Theres approximately 8,000 of those still left. And so we will not have a winner, we will not have a concession by a loser, in this race until all of those votes are counted by august 18th. That is tonights last word. The 11th hour with Brian Williams starts now. Tonight, President Trump calls the russia investigation an illegally brought rigged witch hunt but says stay tuned. While Rudy Giuliani puts the chance of a sit Down With Mueller at 50 . In the manafort cour...

Working for stone in 2010. In august 2017 she took over as stones scheduler, but she says she did not work for him during the 2016 president ial election. Kristin davis is a good friend of mine. She is a brilliant woman who has paid her debt to set. She was not working for me during 2015. She worked for me during a portion of 2016. She went back to school to learn i. T. Skills. She has helped me build some websites. She has no knowledge whatsoever of any russian collusion, collaboration with wik...

Ive covered my share of proceedings in federal and state courts. and so often have seen a judge say, counsel approach the bench, and kind of covers the microphone and has a little bit of a sidebar discussion. >> and thats happened to me too. i told a story earlier today where i accidentally, and it wasnt a crime against humanity, came back from lunch with a piece of chewing gum in my mouth and a federal judge in the eastern district of virginia handed me a tissue, after asking me to come to the ...

>> you know, brian, ive seen him be tough on the prosecution. ive seen him be tough on defense counsel. but there i think is a better way to do it, right? i mean, if a judge has something she needs to say to counsel, defense or prosecution, she can call them to the bench. she can excuse the jury. she can even yell at us, that happens too. but it should be done in private, because judges have so much authority in their courtroom. and the jury listens carefully to what they say. the concern i have...

Courts. and so often have seen a judge say, counsel approach the bench, and kind of covers the microphone and has a little bit of a sidebar discussion. >> and thats happened to me too. i told a story earlier today where i accidentally, and it wasnt a crime against humanity, came back from lunch with a piece of chewing gum in my mouth and a federal judge in the eastern district of virginia handed me a tissue, after asking me to come to the bench, and we discreetly took care of the problem. he did...

Lengthy process and there can be a question of who else one spoke with and so forth. again, thats a speculation. but it seems to fit more likely why weve had this recess than other explanations like he had to handle other cases. >> and just one other thing. there was a sidebar discussion between the lawyers and the judge a little bit earlier today that the prosecution wanted to get sealed. the judge agreed to seal the sidebar discussion. it concerned some of rick gates testimony, and it seems in...

Now, we do know after that bench conference whatever happened there, the cross-examination picked back up again with the same lawyer questioning rick gates and rick gates after that bench conference whatever happened he no longer faced any more questions about the trump campaign or whens he told the special counsel about the campaign. whatever happened talking to the judge there paul manaforts defense lawyer fet the need to change course. but that was one of the most intriguing moments in the wh...