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Rachel Maddow takes a look at the day s top political news stories. to get manafort loans. we hear one thing after another listed and as i say, a very plain, kind of matter of fact fashion, although what did seem awkward was the fact there was a certain part of the courtroom that gates didn t seem to want to look at. the manafort part of the courtroom. right. let me ask you how they deal with explaining to a jury that someone is a cooperating witness, that they ve already pleaded guilty to committing some crimes. does that change or could you detect any change in any of the body language from the jury? did they seem to to listen less intently or did they lean in as this was someone who had traded something? how does that go over in a jury? so, i was watching the jury as they were describing, or, as i said, as the prosecutors were leading gates through a description of his deal with the government, and the jurors were watching that very intensely. i saw a number of th ....
The latest political developments of the day and interviews with top newsmakers are featured. about it. something directly has him spooked. but it s caused him to make a tactical error, which is to come out and essentially throw his son and his son-in-law under the bus and say, yes, they were there to get dirt on hillary clinton. okay. joining jared and his son under the bus was jay sekulow, one of his last remaining tv lawyers other than rudy giuliani who may just have the tv part of that job. let s look at his statements now rendered as someone who has been on both sides of the question about what the president knew about the trump tower meeting. when you look at a meeting when you look at a meeting, george, that took place a year before, now two years ago, the question is what law, statute, rule or regulation has been violated. no one has pointed to one. they pointed to olympic zone spir si to dee frautd the united states. that would be one possible charge. aiding ....
Rachel Maddow takes a look at the day s top political news stories. and his time working with manafort was laid out by the prosecutors, the next thing was the plea agreement with the government and then more discussion later on of the same basic theme. prosecutors seem to want to get that out on the table very early. folks may remember the defense brought this up in the opening argument that gates had stolen money from manafort or from manafort s firm. and the prosecution definitely wanted that laid out before we quit court today. they wanted that out on the table and brought it out before they went through chronologically the different crimes that they may or may not have been involved in. they were cleearly trying on inoculate him. i think it is what giuliani called hanging a lantern around your problems. covering the manafort case for politico, thank you for covering it for us as well. now let s bring in our legal power panel. barbara mcquaid, also in court today, and ....
first of all, they still have not turned over the original letter that ford sent to dianne feinstein. they have been hiding that from the senate republicans. they are not acting in good faith on that. ford has deleted her social media accounts right before she went public. i wonder what she didn t want people to see there. and ford s attorney also said only on monday, this is three days ago, my client will do whatever is necessary to make sure that the senate judiciary committee has the full story and the full set of allegations to allow them to make a fully informed decision. and then literally three days later, change of the entire story, doesn t want to testify but may testify next week but only on our terms. this is not how people operate in good faith. debra katz, the lawyer for forward, ignoring phone calls and emails from the senate investigative staff. as you mention, senate democrats aren t participating in the conversations with kavanaugh and the alleged witnesses ....
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