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Rachel Maddow takes a look at the days top political news stories. Many months later, thats after the inauguration, after the election, when fbi director james comey went down to the hill, where he was testifying and said, yes, there was an open probe. By that time, the fbi had also initiated a separate but related investigation and that has now been broken much into public view, much more, because the break came with this very curious indictment of a woman named maria butina. Now, she was suspe...

Rachel Maddow takes a look at the days top political news stories. By the letters, chs. Confidential human source. Now, the trove of documents detail reports of payments to steele, mostly redacted. You can see there, thats a lot of white space. There are two exceptions. The final page is information from a document, from february 2016. Of course, thats long before the russia probe began. It says steele was, quote, verbally admonished by the fbi and that steele acknowledged the admonishment and e...

Rachel Maddow takes a look at the days top political news stories. They are known as the steele dossier. They allege, among other things, that the Trump Campaign had organized collusion with the kremlin. Quote, this is something of huge significance. Way above party politics, that Intelligence Officer told corn, that would be steele. Quote, i think trumps own party should be aware of this stuff, as well. The official confirmation of the fbi investigation into the Trump Campaigns contacts with ru...

Interviews with newsmakers and roundtable discussions cover the top news stories of the day. Committee chairman ed rois says its not just russia thats being sent a warning. Watch. Heres the point, to the extent that we send the message Around The World that you cannot use nerve agents, this is a very important and consistent message we have to send. Its important that we maintain this kind of pressure in order to deter any other nation that might use a nerve agent, that might use a chemical and ...

>> harris: new developments in the manafort trial, prosecutors are focused on the bank charges with their first with it of the day. employee for citizens bank testifying manafort signs documents climbing his man hat an condominium as a second re dense instead of rental property. prosecutors likely rest tomorrow, the judge indicated he wants, with the defense expected to take it up. peter doocy is live outside the courthouse in alexandria, virginia. >> for the first time this trial, first time th...

Felt their information, which ever way they want. if manafort gets akwated people who think the mueller thing is a witch hunt and political hoax will feel vinld kated, people who hate the president will think its an anonely and on to the next victim or the next defendant. >> harris: great to have you, thanks. >> thanks for having me. >> harris: developing as well a massachusetts man channelled with offering $500 on twitter to any one who would kill a federal immigration officer. federal prosecut...

Head with his open wealth is improper. in some cases the defendants net worth is relevant, you go to show that he didnt have -- had a lot more income than he declared n this case they knew how much money the guy had, that he didnt declare. there was no reason to look at all of his assets to determine how much money he made. >> harris: well but theres always a reason, you squeeze him. >> of course they squeeze him, i mean thats what this is all about. this is about the government trying to take m...

Testified. sh she is one of paul manaforts accountants. and in light of what she has confessed to on the stand, its quite clear why she wanted that immunity deal that the judge approved. remember, yesterdays revelation from what manaforts longtime bookkeeper testifying that he went into something of a financial turmoil in 2015. that was before he offered his volunteer services to trump. and today, it was manaforts longtime accountant backing up that same story, testifying manaforts income droppe...

One of them, cindy laporta, testified. she is one of paul manaforts accountants. and in light of what she has confessed to on the stand, its quite clear why she wanted that immunity deal that the judge approved. remember, yesterdays revelation was from manaforts long-time bookkeeper testifying that he went into something of a financial turmoil in 2015. that was before he offered his volunteer services to trump. and today, it was manaforts longtime accountant backing up that same story, testifyin...

Strong physical evidence against manafort. the receipts, the wire transfers, the ledgers. today, the case focused more on the unpredictable piece, this testimonial evidence. people who implicate manafort, but have also been given immunity for their testimony. now, judge ellis, whos been tough on lawyers in his court, ruled for mueller that five witnesses do get immunity, but their names would be released before they even took the stand. thats even if they never take the stand. and today for the ...