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Bottom line that was their goal heading into tonight, to live to fight inll of these in november. Brian, well accepted it over to you. Our thanks to steve kornacki. We ask only that you not stray from the big board. We will come back with results as they come in throughout the broadcast. Checking in on other news, day 502 this was of the trump administration. And President Trump wasted no time again today lashing out at his own Attorney General of his recusal from the Russia Investigation. President trump wrote on twitter, the russian witchhunt hoax continues all because Jeff Sessions didnt te...

Conceal evidence. a spokesperson for manafort released a statement today that said, "mr. manafort is innocent and nothing about this latest allegation changes our defense. we will do our talking in court." also new today, "washington post" reporting that president trump has become, "fixated on pardons." "a white house official said trump is obsessed with pardons, describing them as the president's new favorite thing to talk about. he may sign a dozen or more in the next two months, this person added." a lot to talk b. let's bring in our lead-off panel. joyce vance who spent 25 years as a feder...

You think about paul manafort. you think about michael cohen, who is now being dealt with mostly in the southern district of new york, but that can be part of this case also. those are the guys who have been with trump even though manafort as trump points out over and over again is only part of the campaign starting in the spring of 2016, donald trump has known paul manafort for 30 years. paul manafort and regier roger stone. >> he had an apartment in his building. >> he was also roger stone's partner. roger stone was donald trump's political svengali going back into the 1980s. he knows what m...

And present danger. it's active wording. how did it read to you? what did you take away from this? >> it's a really interesting pleading, brian. on the technical legal side of things, one of the conditions of paul manafort'as tt heotmit another federal crime. so now the government has brought before the judge probable cause to believe he's tampered with a witness, and that's a good reason to re his bond. in the two or times this happen in my career, everyone on the prosn got incredibly angry and mediately went to the judg asking that the defendant be n into custody pending trial because the wo...

Of counsel, who would have cautioned him against doing anything like this. and the question is why did he do it? what did he think he had to benefit from, or what was so dangerous that he wanted to steer these witnesses away from discussing it candidly in his trial? >> yeah, questions i guess we'll have to wait to get an answer for. hey, john, i want to play you -- you were present for the next quote during our 4:00 p.m. broadcast. we've already seen a highlight reel of you once. this is harry litman, former u.s. attorney, talking about manafort's next appearance in t. >> prosecutors hate this...