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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...

Point a to point b to make it a conspiracy and that may well be what robert mueller is trying to present. lying to investigators is also a federal offense. sometimes things said on twitter, whether by donald trump jr. or paul manafort or others, what really ends up being the thing that hangs them up, testifying to a committee or fbi investigator one way and proving the facts are the opposite. i think those are the three core issues here. violating a federal election law and working to break the ...

Comey, when he said he had the russia investigation in mind when he fired jim comey, the former fbi director. i think theres abundant evidence obstruction and intent to interfere with the ongoing investigation whether or not russia committed some conspiracy with the trump campaign in order to violate our federal election laws. thats been out there in plain view now for months. my answer why president trump did that this morning is a combination appealing to his base and delegitimizing the muelle...

>> thats right. what we are commonly referring to as collusion is a complex series of violations of federal election law, truthfulness to investigators and commonly known of conspiracy 183 c 71, working with more than one person to break federal law, simple conspiracy. >> senator chris coons, a member of the senate judiciary committee, an expert on this. i appreciate you. and we have the former federal prosecutor in the courtroom today in just a moment. ♪ ♪ let your perfect drive come toge...

Collusion, conspiracy, criminal hacking and theft, fraud against the united states, foreign campaign contributions, those are all felonies that relate to what has been alleged in 2016. walk us through your point about what crimes constitute collusion. >> first, the term "collusion" is being used casually. its a conspiracy to break federal election laws. the federal election law, tite 52 of the u.s. code, says it is a crime to solicit or accept a thing of value from a foreign national in order to...