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Judge tonight is calling the Trump Administration reunification efforts unacceptable. When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york, im chris hayes. At the close of the first week of Paul Manaforts trial, things do not look good for the former Campaign Chairman of the trump campaign. And today in particular, the testimony about manaforts alleged tax evasion and bank fraud took on a Very Human Dimension when his accountant admitted under oath on the stand that she had in fact knowingly falsified Tax Documents in order to save Manafort Hundreds Of Thousands of dollars in taxes. Manafo...

And there's a tragic bit of poetry to all of this. look, one of the central park five was held at rikers island that the president of the united states called for -- >> the death penalty for. >> the death penalty for. now the president's campaign manager managed to get out of because he had friends in high places. >> yesterday there was a case that i want to ask you about. the supreme court ruled that a person can be prosecuted twice for the same crime in both federal and state courts. tell us how this is going to play when it comes to manafort. >> well, again, manafort, because he's facing st...

About whether he's going to spring manafort, either getting rid of his convictions all together, just getting rid of the federal prison time that manafort is about to do, the immediate revelation from that new york indictment today was, well, as we all know, there is no such thing as a presidential pardon for state crimes. there is no way a president can commute your state prison sentence. the president can't get paul manafort out of new york charges. and that is one important thing to consider about the new new york indictment against manafort today, but i think there are a couple of other th...

Prosecutors, but state prosecutors in new york threw a huge wrench in the works for the white house today when they unsealed a brand-new 16-count felony indictment against presidential campaign chairman paul manafort just minutes after his sentence was announced in court in d.c. obviously the immediate revelation everybody had upon seeing that indictment is whatever the president may be considering in terms of using the pardon power, and whatever the president might be thinking about whether he's going to spring manafort, either getting rid of his convictions all together, just getting rid of ...

New york indictment today was, well, as we all know, there is no such thing as a presidential pardon for state crimes. there is no way a president can commute your state prison sentence. the president can't get paul manafort out of new york charges. and that is one important thing to consider about the new new york indictment against manafort today, but i think there are a couple of other things that are worth figuring out here about this indictment given the importance of this development today. again, not just for the fate of manafort himself, but for the whole proverbial kit and caboodle th...