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Rachel Maddow takes a look at the days top political news stories. But the president s own fate is a real front burner issue now because of what just happened with cohen and manafort. Lets start with manafort. On manafort, you know by now the basics. Manafort was convicted on eight Felony Counts. The jury in the Manafort Case was not able to reach a verdict on the other ten Felony Counts that manafort was facing. They didnt find him not guilty on those other ten charges. They just couldnt come to a decision. That gives the prosecution and the defense both some options here. On the counts where the jury didnt reach a verdict, there was a mistrial for those ten counts, than means prosecutors could decide to try Paul Manafort again on those ten counts. Prosecutors have a c ....
Agreed to. that is part of the issue here. is that there s such a lack of trust. that s why they had to step in, that is why he had to use that presidential capital as you put it to actually try to make this thing move along. but some folks wanted him to do this earlier, to lean and talk about how important this was earlier and they re happy he s doing it now, but the process, the timing doesn t have to be now, right? they still have negotiating to do. progressives are really feeling their power, they know that their votes are needed, and they have a lot of things that they still want to put in and take out of this reconciliation bill before they they vote for bif. that s one of the things we ll see. i don t think we ll see until next week. congressman today were heading home and weren t expecting to ....
To use that presidential cop as you put it, to make this thing move along, some folks i ve talked to they wanted him to do this earlier, they wanted him to lean and talk about how important this was, and now he s doing it, but the process, the timing, it doesn t have to be now. they still have negotiating to do, progressives are really burdening themselves. they feel their. power they know that their votes are needed, and they have a lot of things that they still want to put in and take out. of this reconciliation bill. before they vote. that is one of the things that we are going to see over the next couple of. days i don t think that we are going to see any kind of vote like you said, until next week. i was talking to congressman today, who members of congress who are heading home, and we re not expecting to come back tomorrow, or anytime this weekend. they re not going to get to the kids again until next week. but this is really changed a ....
I do not have that yet. why not? how many people have returned? how many are being detained and how many people have been dispersed? i d be pleased to provide you data subsequent to this hearing. i work 18 hours a day, you will get the data both from a senator who post yesterday and to you, congressman today. you been telling us he doesn t know so who else does? you can ask department of homeland security. i m confident you want to the most up-to-date numbers and we will venture to get you those, i promise you this afternoon. dan: so what s the big lie? the big lie is that we have a southern border, we don t. there s no border. there s no border. copy? there s no border. the border is completely open. the reason they can t give you the numbers dhs secretary mayor chris and jan psaki, we don t ....