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Up 10 points. That has now evaporated. Interesting to see who turns out, a testament to the excitement level. Thank you all. That is all for this evening. The Rachel Maddow show starts right now with ari in for rachel. Good evening. Rachel has the night off. We have a pretty big show. Today was day two of the federal criminal trial of the campaign chairman. The witnesses were several people who sold the defendant clothes and houses that he bought through secretive International Wire payments. One important thing we learned from what happened today, this judge is holding muellers prosecutors to...

Rachel Maddow takes a look at the days top political news stories. Whether a person is too close to the subject of the probe, whether Jeff Sessions would beak be more of a Trump Campaign surrogate who happened to be Attorney General rather than acting as an independent Law Enforcement officer. If sessions didnt recuse after that statement, it would have made him look even more like he was doing trumps bidding. And trump apparently didnt know that making that statement would also as just a general matter of embarrassment, make him look weak and out of the loop about a decision that was already ...

Manafort. The defense is going to go on offense to attack gates credibility. All of that is part of the drama today. The nuts and bolts of this case are still in the numbers, in the tax fraud, bank fraud, alleged deals for these clients allied with the putin regime. Now, Paul Manafort faces 18 fraud charges from a time before he ever joined the trump campaign. This was all the ukrainian consulting work, which means theres a ton of paper and prosecutors are arguing to this jury whatever happens with mr. Gates, the paper doesnt lie. For example, also new, we can tell you, they showed an email to...

Lock and key. >> consistency has never been his strong point. >> that's fair. >> jajamal, the national guard would be present, quote, to protect pro-trump people. not to -- i guess we have to see all the exchanges and all the context of everything, but the national guard would be present to protect pro-trump people not to protect congress, to protect the execution of our constitutional duties to protect american citizens, pro-trump -- >> here's the biggest challenge with what happened january 6th. we watched it all on television, right? so people have to now not believe what they saw with thei...

The documents. of course, they had the unpopular actual human star witness named rick gates. but paper doesn't lie. speaking of paper, 388 photos and e-mails and documents, 27 witnesses just instructing the jury took 90 minutes. what do you think? >> look, these cases are time intensive and they are labor intensive and going to the documents but because the star witness documents, i thought it was a great line that prosecutors used. they tend to be easier to decide. there is not much debate about. i think the prosecution did a great job of not focusing on gates and then when the defense got up...