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Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. One day before President Trumps former Campaign Manager is going to stand trial in Federal Court for Money Laundering and bank fraud in relation to his work for a prorussian Political Party in ukraine and one day after the president went on possibly his most aggressive twitter rant yet about the mueller investigation, which he called the operation an illegal scam, trumps lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, was out today wildly, desperately spinning to try to accomplish two very specific things. One, move the goalposts to say that collusion is not a crime, and two...

News, analysis and interviews with politicians and observers. Well hear less from him on tax cuts and republican policies that might refer it makes a difference depending on the brand of republican running, especially if they are an incumbent. Desantis has been pro actsive aligning himself with trump. To put it mildly. So of course hes going to do that. On fox every night talking about it. Hes going to be somebody that thinks this is a great, great boost. There are a lot of republicans that are squeamish about the thing the president says that dont line up what they are doing and saying. Flori...

The wheel, no defendant has to know all of the purpose of the conspiracy or all of the actors in the conspiracy. the president is part of a president, he's violated the law. >> and yeah, the -- they seem to be focusing on this collusion, not technically a crime idea. sure, my understanding from our point is, technically collusion is not a precise legal term. but it can be used as a shorthand for any number of things. >> conspiracy being one of them. >> exactly. >> what we're seeing here is the increased anxiety about the probe and also the paul manafort trial beginning. president is watching t...

Is not something that rudy giuliani invented. but i do think this is something that he is trying out now. >> i should also say this, that when kristen welker asked him about the collusion's not a crime idea, that he denied it was a new strategy. he said it's an old strategy, it's in our first letter to the special prosecutor, and then he says collusion is not a crime and there's no evidence the president was involved in any collusion. >> let's focus on that. he is not wrong when he says collusion is not a crime. there is nothing -- >> right. >> -- in the federal code that says collusion is a c...

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