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This was going to be an interesting part of the case anyway. its a lawyhearing to discuss t last ditch things and the defense to get him off the hook. tomorrow will be that hearing. they said that will be delayed till next week. we dont know why. its totally possible that the judge has a tooth ache or needs to get his car inspected. just realized cant meet for some other reason. totally possible. but it is also worth noting things have been going for manafort and his defense team. his lawyers lo...

The edge of their seat about is the possibility that the new development could be that he is potentially considering a guilty plea or another negotiation with prosecutors. he is the only american changed thus far in the russia legal case who has not pled guilty or agreed to cooperate with prosecutors. if he does so, that would be a big deal. you should know thats going on in the manafort case. as we were getting that surprising small bit of information out of the eastern district of virginia tod...

Prosecutors or the defense is comfortable with. in the virginia trial, not only did they set his trial date for july, two months ahead of his d.c. trial date even though he was charged in d.c. first, but the judge in the case sped things along and turned down manaforts request for a delay in the trial and turned down prosecutorss request to be blocked out on the calendar. he said no, you should be able to get this done in one week. fast, fast, fast. he wants to get it done. thats what the judge ...

Department exists. maria butina was here. they executed search warrants on her residence in april according to a statement by her lawyer and an arrest warrant was issued for her. we dont know why. she was arrested yesterday and on sunday her lawyer said without notice to counsel. she is being held without bond. court filings indicate a notification has been made to the russian consulate that the u.s. is holding their citizen. she is expected to appear in court on wednesday in federal court in wa...

Bottom line assessment there, this is a national security crisis. this is a national security crisis as far as i can tell. the question is how we handle it. when we have a crisis in this country we look to the president to lead us. in this case it is the president and im not sure who will lead us out of this. we will find out soon. more to come here. stay with us. can be a big deal. thats why theres otezla. otezla is not an injection or a cream. its a pill that treats psoriasis differently. with...

That time stamp is for real. hes up before 5:00 a.m. in finland. thats a lot to ask of him. i will just underscore that his bottom line assessment there, this is a national security crisis. this is a national security crisis, at least as far as i can tell. the question is how we handle it. usually when we have a national security crisis in this country, we look to the president to lead us. in this case the national security crisis is the president, and im not sure we know who will lead us out of...

Big deal. so you should know thats going on in the manafort case. as we were getting that small bit of information out of the eastern district of virginia today, as we were getting that information, the justice department today announced a surprise new indictment. this was made a lot more headlines. a lot of the reporting on this indictment today describes maria buttina as a russian gun rights activist. there isnt a gun rights movement in russia. let alone one that she is part of. there arent gu...

Evidence law enforcement and counter intelligence investigators have been able to assemble. when we can look at the evidence that theyve been able to nail down, where they have shown their work, which they have done so much of in the last few days, that gives us a view of where theyre heading. i think of further help to us in terms of figuring out who we are, where we want to be and how we will deal with what is now a national security crisis for our country. so to that end, i think the legal ca...

Without bond. a notification has been made to the russian consulate that the u.s. is holding one of russias citizens. she is expected to appear in court on wednesday. in federal court in washington, d.c. and what that means is that in all likelihood in this case, there is going to be a case, a trial with indictments from february and unlike the 12 russians who were indicted on friday. weve got names and sxripgss very serious crimes alleged. in this case, theyve got her. were going to see the fig...

Normally you cant bring in evidence of crime where a person hasnt been charged with. but if it is relevant to the crime that they are charged with, they can ask for permission to bring it into trial. so related to some of manaforts previous work and financial transaction was a supplement to that. in order to is help prove. that it is relevant to bring in the fact that he is previously investigatesed for fara work in the 1980s. so he knew going into his work in the 2000s that he would have known ...