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Tonight, day one of the manafort trial. The first of the mueller era. The government argues Paul Manafort thought he was above the law, while his defense team plans to attack the star government witness against him. The president started his day declaring collusion is not a crime, ending his day with red meat for the crowd in tampa, and no talk of russia. He did declare himself the most popular republican ever. And with 98 days until the midterms, facebook announces its found fake accounts designed to further tear us apart, and well show you if they have a familiar look to them. The 11th hour ...

Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. And Donald Trumps name wasnt mentioned today. Robert muellers name wasnt mentioned today. This trial does not have to do with any connection to the 2016 campaign. Nor does rick gates involvement dovetail with what he did in the 2016 campaign, nor his work on the inaugural committee. Its a highly separate trial involving past clients of Paul Manaforts. I think if were reading between the lines, its the prelude to something that is supposed to be bigger. Obviously the prosecutors have a case that theyre br...

Doing in saudi arabia over and over again, what he's doing on these private phone calls with mohammad bin salman if we know more about the trump family's financial interests. whatever this is also during a period of time in which all sorts of other things are going wrong in the middle east. this rupture between saudi arabia and qatar. continued disaster of the yemen war. it's not as if there's any piece of the u.s.-saudi relationship going well today. . what on earth these meetings are about is hard to figure out given the fact that everything seems to be upside down with the saudis and they s...

He was brought in by prosecutors today to testify about sort of how much money was made, but mainly about how involved manafort was in the effort in ukraine and in some of the financial matters so that it would be more difficult i think for manafort to claim that he was just sort of passively involved here and wasn't paying much attention. devine essentially described manafort as a detailed guy already trying to undercut the potential defense that he was somehow hoodwinked by rick gates or perhaps by his accountants or his tax people into the kinds of activities that got him indicted. >> cynth...

He is waiting for potentially a pardon down the road. >> and josh, we've already had the first strange bedfellow in the first witness. tad devine, he of the liberal left, he of the kerry campaign, the bernie sanders campaign, what was he doing testifying in this trial today? >> well, he was brought in because he actually worked alongside manafort. you know, it's fairly typical in these overseas political consulting efforts when americans go in. it's pretty normal for a republican like manafort to team up with somebody of a democratic large d u.s. democratic background to go in and advise a her...