I mentioned last week that a cluster of new revelations had given us a fresh and deeper view of Paul Manafort’s dire financial straits and desperate personal situation in the months and weeks leading up to his entry into the Trump campaign in March 2016. Today we have another report from Bloomberg which paints a similar picture and adds some additional details, specifically just how recently before he went to work for Trump that Manafort was working for the shell of the Russia-aligned party in Ukraine.

It’s all coming to a head, it seems. Sessions says he needs to follow the law and constitution, not Trump. Let’s see how long that lasts.

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This from CNN could be nothing, just checking off boxes. But it sounds ominous for Donald Trump …

The Oath Keepers, a rightwing militia group, say they’re going to post armed members outside schools to protect them from mass shooters. But in an online planning webinar last night they spoke of Parkland student activists like Emma Gonzalez and David Hogg as “the enemy.” Here’s our exclusive report.

US intelligence learned that at least four countries – UAE, China, Israel and Mexico – discussed ways to use Jared Kushner’s desperate financial situation to gain leverage over him.

Presumably, Russia had already bought in.

Jared Kushner getting his clearance pulled (downgraded from Top Secret/SCI to Secret) is a big deal. Obviously, someone with a Secret clearance can still learn lots of stuff that you and I can’t know. But the Top Secret/SCI is for people at the apex of the policy-making and implementation process who have the ability to get full visibility into anything the US government knows. A President regularly deals with information at this level. So it’s likely not possible for Kushner to operate in the way he has in the White House without such clearance.

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Here’s Episode #2 of the Josh Marshall Podcast: I talk to Chris Hayes about how he became Chris Hayes and we compare notes about Paul Manafort, a discussion you won’t want to miss. You can listen here and subscribe on iTunes, Google Play or just use the podcast RSS feed.

Good morning. Here’s what we have our eyes on today.

How did Chris Hayes become Chris Hayes? I ask him. Chris and I also compare notes about the latest on Paul Manafort and discuss how we’re both starting to think the truth about his role in the 2016 election may be far more dark and sinister than either of us had been ready to believe. That’s all in Episode #2 of the Josh Marshall Podcast. It comes out later today. But you can subscribe now to hear it as soon as it comes out.

We’re listening on CNN this morning to interviews with students who are preparing to return to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School tomorrow. I was struck by the interview, which you can see below, of Lorenzo Prado. In the chaos of that afternoon he was briefly mistaken for the gunman and reported as such – somewhat similar physical appearance and clothing and nervous pacing (unsurprising) that made him look suspicious at a distance to some others at the school. As he describes it, the SWAT Team stormed in, put him on the ground with guns drown, searched and cuffed him. He was in custody for some short period.