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Judge tonight is calling the Trump Administration reunification efforts unacceptable. When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york, im chris hayes. At the close of the first week of Paul Manaforts trial, things do not look good for the former Campaign Chairman of the trump campaign. And today in particular, the testimony about manaforts alleged tax evasion and bank fraud took on a Very Human Dimension when his accountant admitted under oath on the stand that she had in fact knowingly...

A look at breaking news, politics and reports from around the world. Website. She knows of no russia collusion or any other illegal activity on my part in connection with the president ial election or otherwise. Reporter muellers team has been looking for possible contacts between roger stone and Julian Assange during the 2016 president ial campaign. All as part of moscows effort to meddle in the election. Assange i actually have communicated with assange. I believe the next dump will pertain to...

Reason and good occasion to reup his longstanding relationship with that kremlin-connected oligarch, with oleg deripaska. one of deripaskas close aides told "time" magazine last year when manafort became trumps campaign chair, quote, he owed us a lot of money and he was offering ways to pay it back. we know from the mueller investigation that for some reason trump campaign chair paul manafort offered this russian-connected oligarch, oleg deripaska, he offered him private briefings on the trump c...

Case, the guy who worked on this scheme, for which manafort is going to prison and for which the law firm he used to work with had to enter into an agreement. that lead partner himself isnt covered by the nonprosecution agreement, because he left the firm last year, and hes now out there a his own. he would be a very unusual fish tore caught in this net of scandal surrounding this president and this administration and this presidents campaign, because that lawyer whos now out on his own on this,...

His d.c. case issues next week. now heres the transcript. i cannot do this as well as rachel but go with me on this, quote, your honor there is one other issue wed like to raise, manaforts lawyer told the judge. it has to do with whether or not you can order this sentence to be concurrently served with -- at which point the judge interrupts him to say -- quote, i cant but she can. i dont believe i can if you find in the law that im incorrect, you can bring that to my attention. the judge then ad...

Be concurrently served with, at which point the judge interrupts him to say, quote, i cant, but she can. i dont believe i can. if you find in the law that im incorrect, you can bring that to my attention. the judge then adds, i think it is entirely up to her whether any sentence she imposes is to run concurrent to this sentence. its up to her. anything else, mr. downing? to which manaforts lawyer replied, no, your honor, which is the more diplomatic way of saying of course not! it takes a specia...

And faces two sentences that could add up to decades in prison. manafort is one of several associates that lied. that includes rick gates, michael cohen, fired national security adviser, michael flynn as well. we know that manafort lied about his contacts with a political operative with ties to the russian intel. specifically, its about a meeting at this cigar bar, which manafort ducked out of trump campaign headquarters to go to with rick gates. they actually handed over data. the question is, ...

He says which it was not. but even if it was, it was only a civil case like obamas but done correctly by a lawyer and there wouldnt be a fine. lawyers liability if he made a mistake, not me. cohen trying to get his sentence reduced, witch hunt. a filing against paul manafort suggesting he had contact with some officials at the white house. how much can we figure out on that one, byron? >> hard to figure much out on that one. said he had contacts in 2018 early this year with people at the white h...

Jonathan, i dont know if you can hear me. julia, im going to ask you that if you were able to hear me. yo question. >> its absolutely a big deal at this point. as much as the white house says that manafort, these allegations have nothing to do with the trump campaign, manafort was heading the trump campaign for a while. whether the white house an the trump campaign like it or not he is tied to that. republicans and this election which will likely be a referendum on president trump were wanting t...

>> lets get to the paul manafort situation. all this renewed speculation of what exactly he could be sharing as far as this cooperation agreement with special counsel mueller and whether the information is crucial enough to potentially incriminate the president and his inner circle. when i talk inner circle, talking family, donald trump jr. and jared kushner. is there a sense, julia, that the white house had any idea this was coming from paul manafort? >> yes, this was certainly a surprise for e...