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idiot which trump called an amazing theatrical experience, maybe less amazing if american idiot is now directed at you don t want to be an american idiot jeanne moos, cnn, new york. and thanks for joining us. ac 360 with anderson starts now. it s like the world gone crazy this morning. trump s performance was beyond belief. good evening, everyone. that quote is from a senior european diplomat talking to cnn about the nato summit in brussels and what the president said there today. now, this diplomat we should point out is not alone. the western allies have been talking about it. the russians vietnam be talking about it. the world, and tonight so will we. yet as shocking as it may be to our allies, as troubling as it is to some lawmakers on both sides of the aisle, it should not be surprising whether voters at the time gave it much credence. what happened today in brussels is what donald trump campaigned on. he said he was going to do this. it s the distilled essen ....
The day s biggest political and news stories, with interviews and reporting from around the nation. charge of an investigation and a guy who is the subject of an investigation that just got more profound. we have to preface everything, ari, with if the account from michael cohen is true, blah, blah, blah. so if the account is true, it is a tremendous change in the landscape. what it does is show us two things. one, that donald trump, from the very beginning, was in on an attempt at collusion, an attempt to conspire with a plot that was described to donald trump jr. as a secret operation by the kremlin to help trump. so if trump knows about that from the very beginning, and is in on it, i think that has a lot of legal, but even more so, political implications. plus if he s told about this, and even if nothing came out of the meeting, remember throughout the whole campaign and up to now he keeps denying or dismissing the russian operation. could have been a 400-pound guy in a ba ....
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 ....
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 ....
respect. and i think we could use a lot more of that spirit in washington these days. a lot to talk about over the next two hours. let s go to our panel, jessica and mo, also shawn steele and ron brown. ron, to you first, with the big picture here and the implications for the coming m midter midterms. every special election, we say focus on the final margin, not who won. what does this say? this put a big you sharpie underline on everything that s been happening since donald trump s victory in 2016. on the one hand, there was an unmistakable move toward the democrats in this district. o connor won 65% of the vote there. an unprecedented showing for a democrat. he gained as well in delaware county, and not as much. that s what ultimately sank him, and republicans retaining very big margins with slightly disappointing turnout in the rural parts of the district. that s what we saw in virginia, alabama, and in pennsylvania, the distribution of the district was a little differe ....