Your hour tonight. I have it right here. What . Does it pain you that i have it in my hands . I shouldnt have i have the rage. Yes. Ive heard about that. I saw your exchange. Its the rath. Its the rage. This is really just jealousy. Im turning green, not red. I got this ten minutes ago, okay . Let me just give you this. Let me just give you the last line, the last line spoken by the defense. Okay. Today to the jury. The government has not met their burden beyond a reasonable doubt that mr. Manafort knowingly and willfully filed false returns or knowingly or willfully failed to file f bars. He then went on to thank the jury. The last line, the last line from the prosecution. Last words the jury has heard from one of the lawyers in the case before the judge took over with his instructions. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, the evidence in this case is what controls. Its the evidence that comes from that witness stand and it leads to only one conclusion, and that is that mr. Manafort is guilty and guilty as charged. One of those sounds very perry mason and one of those doesnt. Which . Which one . The one that didnt say f bar, which actually might be an fdc banned acronym. The evidence that comes from that witness stand where Paul Manafort never sat and where no witnesses appeared for the defense. Everything you are supposed to take from this case comes from that witness stand. The defense gave you nothing. You know, everybody keeps telling us all the legal experts keep telling us it is not that weird that the defense didnt mount a defense. But the defense didnt mount a defense. And they do, no matter what happens here, have to be looking down the barrel at the next federal criminal trial for Paul Manafort that is due to start in just a few weeks just a few miles away in washington, d. C. The idea they might try not mounting a defense would set them up in d. C. To have to mount a defense. Although, they would be coming at it from a place of weakness. I dont envy these guys. It is a perfectly reasonable tactic, but there is no lawyer that will tell you that that tactic improves the statistical likelihood of a not guilty verdict. It reduces it rather dramatically. If you look at the cases where there is no defense presented. That makes it much less likely to get to the not guilty. But rachel, we will be covering this. Many other things tonight. Steve smith is here. We wants to talk about what happened to john brennan today. You know Steve Schmidt and i think you know he has something to say about this. Credit to you, my friend, for having been a part of this story. Youre in the middle of this one like you are in the middle of a lot of these. I am very much looking forward to your coverage tonight. You will be in the middle of the transcript. They will hand one to you, and thats what you are going to do instead of sleeping tonight. If they dont have a copy of mine, im taking yours. You do. You do. Thank you, rachel. I will not relent when the history of Robert Muellers invest gigation of the presiden of the United States has written that every time Rudy Giuliani publically threatened Robert Mueller x publically demanded that the investigation, every time Rudy Giuliani did that Robert Mueller thought to himself, i will not relent. History will probably tell us that. Thats what omarosa seems to be thinking now that the president is suing omarosa to try to shut her up. I will not relent. Starting to sound like omarosas motto this week. The president has never attacked anyone more viciously than he has attacked omarosa this week trying to get her to shut up. I wont repeat wa hat he has called her. The whole world knows the words the president has chosen. Disgusting language. It is trump at his most publically vile. But he does not seem to be scaring omarosa. She will be back on television tomorrow, possibly with more secret recordings. She seems to be thinking, i will not relent. That was the unifying feeling that was going through the minds of the millions and millions and millions of people in the United States and around the world who rose up in resistance to President Trump the day after he was inaugurated. I will not relent. And if you criticize donald trump publically, he is going to do everything he possible can to crush you. So the bun thione thing you nee know about yourself before you criticize donald trump is, i will not relent. John brennan knew exactly who he was dealing with when he decided to publically start criticizing donald trump. John brennan knows more about donald trump than he wants him to. As cia director, john brennan was in the group of Obama Administration intelligence officials who briefed president elect trump two weeks before his inauguration. That was the day james comey was left alone in the room to brief donald trump specifically on a dossier circling around washington, including an unsubstantiating account of a night donald trump spent in a moscow hotel in the company of moscow prostitutes. John brennan surely knew when he began sharply criticizing President Trump this year that donald trump was going to strike back and hit john brennan as hard as he could. He has known from the start what he would say when the day came that donald trump hit john brennan as hard as he could and that day was today. And john brennan immediately said i will not relent. The straw that broke the camels back as rachel was just suggesting for donald trump was John Brennans first appearance on this program at this hour last night. Here is the last thing that john brennan said publically before President Trump stripped him of his security clearance today. First i think donald trump has badly sullied the reputation of the office of the presidency with his invective, with his constant disregard, i think, for human decency, as well as befriending of autocratic leaders around the world. I do think that americas standing in the world has also been tarnished. But i think even more fundment tally what he is doing here in the United States is very polarizing and he is, i think, the most divisive president weve ever had in the oval office. He is feeding and fuelling hatred and animosity and misunderstandings among americans. So i am very concerned when i look at some of the tweets that are out there and commentary. We are just fighting with each other as a nation. And so today, a hastily scheduled White House Press briefing began this way. Good afternoon. Good afternoon. Id like to begin by reading a statement from the president. As the head of the executive branch and commander in chief, i have a unique constitutional responsibility to protect the nations classified information, including by controlling access to it. Today in fulfilling that responsibility, i have decided to revoke the security clearance of john brennan, former director of the Central Intelligence agency. Mr. Brennan has recently leveraged his status as a former high ranking official with access to highly Sensitive Information to make a series of unfounded and outrageous allegations, wild outbursts on the internet and television about this administration. John brennan learned of the president s action after friends alerted him to the White House Press briefing announcement and his First Response was on twitter. He said, this action is part of a broader effort by mr. Trump to suppress freedom of speech. It should gravely worry all americans about the cost of speaking out. My principals are worth far more than clearances. I will not relent. John brennans first interview was by phone with Nicole Wallace. Revoking my security clearances is his way of trying to get back at me. But i think i have tried to voice the concerns of millions of americans about mr. Trumps failures in terms of fulfilling the responsibilities of that sacred and sol lum office of the presidency. And this is not going to deter me at all. Im going to continue to speak out. But i am very worried about the message that it appears that mr. Trump is trying to send to others, including those that currently hold security clearances within the government. I have seen this type of behavior and actions on the part of foreign tyrants and december pits and auto cats for many, many years during my cia and security career. I never ever thought i would see it here in the United States. Leading off our discussion now, Steve Schmidt and malcolm nance. They are both msnbc contributors. Your reaction to what the president did today with John Brennans security clearance . Well, its an abuse of power. It is lretribution by an autocratic president. John brennan is an american patriot. He has served america honorably, far more honorably than donald trump has. And whats true about this is that when you look at an administration where omarosa or Jared Kushner or ivanka trump have security clearances and john brennan does not, then you know something is askew and amiss. He has an enemys list and he is clearly targeting the enemys list. Have no doubt. If donald trump could send out secret police to handcuff and arrest john brennan, perhaps me, perhaps many others who speak out against this president , have no doubt he would likely do it. It is the abuse of power, but also the power that he has that hes unable to abuse but would if he could that we ought to be having a discussion about in this country. Malcolm nance, what did the nations Intelligence Service lose with this decision in terms of its ability to confer with a former cia director over matters that the cia director might have unique knowledge . Well, it loses a body of knowledge. It loses corporate knowledge. I want to point something out about john brennan. I know john brennan. I have met him several times. John brennan is the man that killed Osama Bin Laden at the order of president barack obama by integrating cia assets, producing the intelligence, passing that intelligence on to our special mission war fighters and executing that mission. He has unique intelligence knowledge, which must be shared with his successors and his opinion which should be brought forth whenever this nation needs to defend itself. Donald trump does not concern himself with the protection of this nation. He concerns himself with the protection of donald trump. And so he allows people as steve said, people like Jared Kushner who made contact with the cushions and asked for secure krip toe Graphic Communications to hide his back channel from the cia and the nsa, he should not be cleared. John brennan should be cleared. At this point donald trump has given more top secret information to the russians just through inadvertent disclosure than the clearance that john brennan has had. So this isnt enough. Lets listen to what john brennan told Nicole Wallace today about his service to both democratic and republican president s and the way he thinks this is actually the way this feels for him today. Lets listen to this. I was there for six president s, three republicans and three democrats. And i dont think there was ever a time that any intelligence or Law Enforcement questioned whether the president of the United States was taking their information seriously. So this is i think a sad time. We will come out from it, under it. I am very confident in the resilience and the strength of this nation. Mr. Trump is not going to bring this country down. Steve schmidt, john brennan, sad but confident. Lawrence, i think that one of the things that we have to do as a country is to recognize how abnormal all of this is and to talk seriously with each other about a president who is purposely divisive, who pits americans against each other, who incites the worst instincts and impulses and to look around the world and to ask a question is the country in decline . When you look at the signs, it is hard to argue that we are not. And that there is a fundamental choice lying ahead for the American People in what i would argue is the most important election in American History coming in november and then the most important president ial election since 1964 which was a memorandum on whether we would continue to be a country or not. The next president ial election will mark a choice for this country about whether it goes down a path of decline or beginning an era of renewal. He is right that it is a resilient country. But our inheritance that was given to us by such sacrifice by generation of american patriots is not entitlement. We are not guaranteed greatness in our future. When you have a president as reckless, as incompetent, as mean spirited as donald trump, when you see the brokenness in our politics, the pitting of american against american to the degree that were seeing, it is not necessarily the case that everything is going to be okay. And i think there is a real lack of imagination in the countrys mind about the damage that a president is incompetent, reckless, ignorant as this one could cause in the world. So i appreciate the directors optimism, but im someone who is deeply concerned, deeply worried about the trajectory that this vile president has the country on. Lets listen to more about what john brennan told Nicole Wallace talking about the president and his nastiness that weve seen in the last couple of days. Lets listen to this. I must tell you that mr. Trumps dishonesty, his lack of integrity is masking us, the terms that he uses, this is not what i think of an american president , nor of america. Were better than this. We have to be better than this. We have been a shining example to the world and mr. Trump is letting this country down. Malcolm nance, john brennan pleading that we are better than this. And we are better than that. I mean, we are absolutely better than this. What breaks my heart is that there are right now hundreds of Intelligence Watch standards around the world watching this program listening to these words thinking that their careers, their dedication working in the dark, their selflessness can just be tossed away because of a political whim. If it can happen to the highest person at the krrngscia, it cann to the average watch stander. It might be happening. This administration almost immediately employed political come sars early on. This administration is incompetent. And their incompetence shows their ruthlessness and their utter villainy to a certain extent. Every time i come back here, i am reminded back to the declaration of independence which addressed this at one time with a prince with these characteristics is unfit to be the leader of a free people, and thats where we are. Thank you for leading us off tonight. Really appreciate it. When we come back, why tomorrow is going to be without a doubt the single most agonizing day donald trump has experienced in the white house. And President Trump knew he was in trouble this morning when fox and friends turned on him. We have the video. And we dont have a recording of donald trump saying the n word, but we have Something Else that he said in 1989 about being black. 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Tomorrow is going to be Donald Trumps most agonizing day in the presidency because beginning at 9 30 a. M. , six men and six women will start their jury deliberations in the case of the United States versus Paul Manafort. Paul manaforts future will be on the line in that jury room and so will Donald Trumps. Thats what they believe according to reporting tonight in the Washington Post in which Rudy Giuliani said the first verdict obtained by Robert Mueller could determine the future of the Mueller Investigation and the mueller investigators. Giuliani told the Washington Post, quote, theyre empowered if they win and defeated if they lose. Imagine Donald Trumps joy if a jury rejects Robert Muellers first prosecution in court. And imagine Donald Trumps rage if a jury hits Paul Manafort with the word guilty. And imagine Donald Trumps personal agony tomorrow starting at 9 30 a. M. As he awaits that jury verdict. In final arguments today, the prosecution told the jury the star witness in