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Rachel Maddow takes a look at the days top political news stories. Whether a person is too close to the subject of the probe, whether Jeff Sessions would beak be more of a Trump Campaign surrogate who happened to be Attorney General rather than acting as an independent Law Enforcement officer. If sessions didnt recuse after that statement, it would have made him look even more like he was doing trumps bidding. And trump apparently didnt know that making that statement would also as just a general matter of embarrassment, make him look weak and out of the loop about a decision that was already ...

Rachel Maddow takes a look at the days top political news stories. Their way to keep trump out of the trial. Abc news reports that prosecutors have been coaching their witnesses not to mention trumps name or even that manafort lives in trump tower. The judge in the case has warned that bringing up manaforts ties to trump could unduly influence jurors. There is at least one thing about this trial that is important to the relationship between Paul Manafort and donald trump. The first witness today was tad devine, chief strategist for Bernie Sanders an president ial campaign who worked with manaf...

18usc1505 obstruction of a congress al investigation and 18usc371, conspiracy. the two of them working together. there we go, perhaps with others. the there might be even more. this is just the very beginning of what we're seeing here. i think it's really the important that senator grassley does this, john, because otherwise any nominee who they want to stop, it will just be, oh, i heard this h. no, no, no, i remember this 25 years ago. oh, yeah -- and it's the worst more horrible accusations, unsubstantiated, why not? there's no price to be paid. i would go after the feinstein leak, too. they...

Investigation move along one of those three tracks. i expect we'll be seeing more indictments in in the near future. >> to paraphrase it, sounds like they were right to say collusion is not a crime because it is like four crimes. >> that's right. what we are commonly referring to as collusion is a complex series of violation afsz federal election law, of truthfulness to investigators and the commonly known crime of conspiracy which is i think 18usc371. that's just working with more than one other foreign break federal law. that's simple conspiracy. senator chris coons, a member of the senate j...

If people want to use the google machine to research it, it's 18usc371. it's conspiracy to defraud the united states. a couple of interesting things about that statute. first of all, it states that if two or more people agree to do something to commit an offense against the united states, and one of those people actually goes ahead and does it, then both people are guilty of conspiracy and shall not be imprisoned more than five years. it's a class e felony. so the important part is that if there were people inside trump tower at the trump tower meeting or inside the trump campaign or even dona...