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Chris Hayes discusses the days top news. Another round of Election Sabotage is underway. And the trump official who says his warnings about the psychological damage of separated families was ignored. Good evening, from new york, i am chris hayes. Paul manafort is a shrewd liar so says the prosecution in the Opening Statement in the trial. Opening statement and even the testimony of first witness hours ago, Paul Manafort facing 18 counts. Bank fraud, tax evaluation, and conspiracy charges. Work w...

Chris Hayes discusses the days top news. Allegations in the u. S. So we talked about this sort of circumventing the american tax system. Overseas payments and overseas Bank Accounts and never reported which is what is alleged. What is the bank fraud part of the case. It is the prosecutors allege that after 2014, when the spigot of cash was turned off, he needed to fund his lavish lifestyle. What he had was Real Estate Holdings that he purchased through the bogus loans. What he did, was he began ...

Speaks perfect english. Good morning, im Chris Jansing in for stephanie ruhle. This morning, executive power. The president asserts he is, quote, totally out to be involved in the mueller investigation. Even saying he could run it if he wanted to. But despite months of claims that hed sit down with the Special Counsel, hes now worried it could be a perjure trap. They simply dont have any evidence of collusion and they have no evidence of obstruction other than their version of the truth. Going f...

Able to work this out and talk, to be clear were not talking about building or putting money in for the wall. >> interference in elections, i dont think you can underestimate a sitting president saying he would be willing to accept foreign information, information from foreign sources a couple of minutes after we saw weaponizing information on the presidential election. there as piece in the "washington post" that lays out how all bets are off for the trump re-election campaign. no limits -- at ...

Even in a trump world. will we saw back in 2016 when then-candidate trump basically invited russia if they had any information to bring it into the campaign. well, the russians heeded his words and interfered in our electoral process in unprecedented ways. now after the mueller investigation, after our investigation, after the work of the intelligence community that made clear that russia intervened in terms of weaponizing information, creating fake accounts in social media, trying to break into...

>> the comments of president trump yesterday were extraordinary even in a trump world. we saw back in 2016 when then candidate trump basically invited russia, if they had any information, to bring it into the campaign. well, the russians heeded his words and interfered in our electoral process in unprecedented ways. now after the mueller investigation, after our investigation, after the work of the intelligence community that made clear that russia intervened in terms of weaponizing information,...

>> it was the first time that a foreign adversary, in this case probably our greatest strategic adversary, not only hacked but then weaponized the information to use it to advantage one candidate and hinder another. that was unprecedented. it was an unprecedented assault on our democracy. >> its not only foreign powers who are weaponizing information, websites like danger & play and true pundit pushed false conspiracy theories about hillary clintons campaign which flynn and his son michael flynn...

Probably our greatest strategic adversary, not only hacked but then weaponized the information to use it to advantage one candidate and hinder another. that was unprecedented. it was an unprecedented assault on our democracy. >> its not only foreign powers who are weaponizing information, websites like danger & play pushed false conspiracy theories about hillary clintons campaign which flynn and his son promote in their twitter feeds. >> pizzagate was a made up right wing scandal of a pizza parl...

The 2016 election in disarray. >> they havent gone away? >> thats correct. we shouldnt be surprised they havent gone away. we, in fact, been warned and told by intelligence officials for the last two years that theyre not going away, that theyre going to continue their efforts, and i want to at least make one point clear here. what they do is they do espionage as well as information warfare, which is weaponizing information they steal by putting it out into the public sphere, in a way that can e...

Their weaponizing information and using it against us. this is dangerous for our democracy and we have to get our act together to be able to fend it off. >> senator angus king, thanks for making time. still to come, the trump administration was warned of the trauma they would inflict on children in their family separation policy. a warning that was ignored. plus tonights thing one, thing two starts next. ty. until i held her. i found my tresiba® reason. now im doing more to lower my a1c. i ta...