What's Behind President Donald Trump's Latest Poll Numbers? | Morning Joe | MSNBC
"[Strzok fired] President Donald Trump Team Destroying Careers Of Comey Witnesses One By One | Rachel Maddow | MSNBC"
MSNBC Published on Aug 14, 2018 The president's approval number is at 39 percent, according to the latest Gallup poll. With the economy doing well, the Morning Joe panel discusses the factors likely leading to the number
The still more-Obama economy ticking ok, yet Trump's changes are starting to bite, and inflation is overriding the middle class tax cuts. Trump's tariffs starting to hit with farmer uncertainty building, and Harley Davidson (Wisc.) jobs a problem. Trump tweet attacking HD a pain-in-the-azz for Republican candidates there. . Suburbia has problems with Trump. His con is unraveling. Healthcare premiums possibly up 30-50% in late Sept./early Oct. Trump's administration seen as irresponsible on the fiscal front, corrupt and cruel in the social arena. Even with Obama's (still more than not) ticking along Trump hits 39% in latest Gallop. Not good historically. Suburbia drifting from Donald. No Hillary to bully and lie about. Who could be slipped into a jail him/her chant ever again. It was boring as hell anyway. What scurrilous, nasty, irresponsible action(s) will Donald and his corrupt administration come up with before the mid-terms?
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Manafort Trial Exposes Corrupt Workings Of President Donald Trump Transition | Rachel Maddow | MSNBC
MSNBC Published on Aug 14, 2018
On the day the defense rested in the trial of Donald Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort, Rachel Maddow looks at how evidence in the trial also offered a window into how the Trump transition gathered names for jobs in the new administration.
Evidence in. Defense final fling Rule 29. Motion for a Judgment of Acquittal .. https://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/frcrmp/rule_29 , any false statements made to the bank were not substantial to the Federal Savings Bank's decision to hand over the cash, LOL, can't wait to hear what Judge Ellis says. Heh. denied. Reporters ran, the learned Judge said, "Anyone else want to leave the courtroom?" Closing arguments would be your today now. Then it's the jurors turn. to the jury.
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Watergate Prosecutor: Paul Manafort Case Is 'A Slam Dunk' | The Beat With Ari Melber | MSNBC
MSNBC Published on Aug 14, 2018
Paul Manafort’s defense team rested their case without calling a single witness. Manafort’s lawyer argued that they presented no major rebuttal because Mueller has not put up enough evidence. Watergate Prosecutor Nick Akerman tells Ari Melber that Mueller’s case against Manafort is “the strongest tax case” he’s “ever seen”. Former Counsel to Mayor Bill de Blasio, Maya Wiley says there isn’t “any question” that Manafort is hoping for a Trump pardon, otherwise his lawyers would have mounted “a more signific
A POLITICO analysis of court documents, congressional letters, public testimony and media reports reveals that the investigations into the 2016 election and its aftermath now involve hundreds of people in Washington, Moscow and around the world.
Some names sound familiar, like Stephen Bannon and Donald Trump Jr., but most don’t. Taken together, they illuminate the way federal investigators are assembling the pieces of the Russia puzzle.
Let’s look at Team Trump
84 associated with his 2016 campaign 47 are lawyers 35 are current or former Trump administration officials 26 served on the transition team 14 have ties to the Trump Organization
The probes have also touched 87 foreign nationals including 68 people with direct ties to Russia. Foreign nationals with ties to Russia
The list includes Christopher Steele, former British intelligence officer and author of disputed Trump-Russia dossier Natalia Veselnitskaya, Russian lawyer who approached Trump campaign officials promising dirt on Hillary Clinton Sergey Kislyak, former Russian ambassador to the U.S.
So far the majority of those involved — 195 — have a role in inquiries concerning alleged Russian outreach and connections to Trump.
Relatively few — 45 — have been touched by the parallel probes into potential obstruction of justice by the president or those close to him.
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