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Threatening to shoot on the government unless congress provides money for the wall. The threats have been frustrating for Congressional Republicans who are trying to avoid a shutdown, right before the midterms. But tonight, President Trump said things that will only make them even more nervous. We got 1. 6 billion, and weve started large portions of the wall, but we are going to need, even the way we negotiate, we are going to need more, we are going to get more, and we may have to do some prett...

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...

Manaforts team gets in the ring, so much of this coverage is what looks bad for him. could you give us any wisdom on what theyll try to do to rebut what josh says has been a tough day? >> they dont have much of a rebuttal opportunity here. their best argument, the argument that they suggested that they would use in their opening statement is that it wasnt manafort, it was gates. but there was testimony from witness after witness yesterday and today, indicating that manafort was the person who pr...

Going to do when the -- when manaforts team gets in the ring, so much of this coverage is what looks bad for him. could you give us any wisdom on what theyll try to do to rebut what josh says has been a tough day? >> they dont have much of a rebuttal opportunity here. their best argument, the argument that they suggested that they would use in their opening statement is that it wasnt manafort, it was gates. but there was testimony from witness after witness yesterday and today, indicating that m...

That seemed shady, that kind of testimony, i just think is very, very damaging. and as you know, ari, bank fraud, those counts carry a 30-year maximum penalty on each one. the law takes that very, very seriously. and i think theres real trouble on the bank fraud charges for manafort. >> right. you see real risk there, as you say, this was the best day of the case. final word to you, joyce. when you look at what theyre going to do when the -- when manaforts team gets in the ring, so much of this ...

Muellers last indictment of the russian officers, it doesnt leave a lot of room for that kind of conspiracy. >> shannon: a lot of folks are saying, this is nothing to do with potential collusion. manafort scooped up on this because the brief time he was working on the trump campaign, these charges have been leveled, some of them come against him before, they never went anywhere, until he was part of the trump campaign. a lot of folks questioning, too, why there hasnt been dealer negotiation. we ...

Nothing to do with a 2016 election begins. former trump campaign chairman paul manafort. fox news contributor, andrew mccarthy is here with us to weigh in on all of those. great to see you tonight. >> hi, shannon. >> shannon: lets talk about what is at stake. i want to talk about what manafort is facing. five counts of filing false tax returns. four counts of filing bank fraud and five counts of bank fraud. that is just in his first case. but what of that is connected, at all, to the president? ...

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