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Tonight, day one of the manafort trial. The first of the mueller era. The government argues Paul Manafort thought he was above the law, while his defense team plans to attack the star government witness against him. The president started his day declaring collusion is not a crime, ending his day with red meat for the crowd in tampa, and no talk of russia. He did declare himself the most popular republican ever. And with 98 days until the midterms, facebook announces its found fake accounts desig...

Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. And Donald Trumps name wasnt mentioned today. Robert muellers name wasnt mentioned today. This trial does not have to do with any connection to the 2016 campaign. Nor does rick gates involvement dovetail with what he did in the 2016 campaign, nor his work on the inaugural committee. Its a highly separate trial involving past clients of Paul Manaforts. I think if were reading between the lines, its the prel...

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So hes got a really bad card to play, yet he is still playing it. it all begs the question, why. why is he not trying to get some bigger deal done with robert muellers team. and i dont know if there are great answer to this other than he is waiting for potentially a pardon down the road. >> and josh, weve already had the first strange bedfellow in the first witness. tad devine, he of the liberal left, he of the kerry campaign, the bernie sanders campaign, what was he doing testifying in this tri...

He is waiting for potentially a pardon down the road. >> and josh, weve already had the first strange bedfellow in the first witness. tad devine, he of the liberal left, he of the kerry campaign, the bernie sanders campaign, what was he doing testifying in this trial today? >> well, he was brought in because he actually worked alongside manafort. you know, its fairly typical in these overseas political consulting efforts when americans go in. its pretty normal for a republican like manafort to t...

Claimed or at least the fbi believes may have been directly involved in recruiting isis. >> colonel jacobs, when we look at what it will take in terms of the coalition, which we have discussed a number of times, ambassador ginsburg bringing up the need for some of the arab nations in the region, but when it comes to players like russia, it is, in many ways, a strange bedfellow. they do not have the same goals as the united states and france do. how do you align the two? >> well, russia, first of...

Politics makes strange bedfellows. well, you dont have a stranger bedfellow than me and ted olson. >> gloria borger, great interview, from washington. our chief political analyst, the snippet we saw part of this fascinating program we will be debuting this saturday night, the marriage warriors, and gloria, speaking of strange bedfellow, there was another strange bedfellow here. tell me about that. >> so this takes another twist. so rob reiner eventually gets in touch with ted olson, and they hir...

if he succeeds, he charts a path out of the crisis for other countries. then iran. its in dire economic straits for a very different reason. we have another exclusive. this one with irans finance minister about just how crippling u.s.-led sanctions have been for his nation. next up, a conversation with paul krugman. the biggest question in the world today is whether to spend or whether to cut. krugman is the leading voice saying stimulate. ill ask him to defend his views. all tha...