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Hes questioning this live witness. first time weve had a live witness on the stand in the special counsels investigation. right? hes questioning this live witness who is an fbi agent. the agent who obtained a search warrant in the paul manafort case. and so this from the transcript. mr. asonye, the prosecutor says, question, "did mr. trusko tell you if mr. manafort had previously used that residence to conduct business? fbi agent, he did. prosecutor, what did he say? fbi agent, he said that mr. ...

2017? answer, yes it did. where did that meeting take place? in the bond building of the department of justice. and who was present? members of the fbi, justice department, and the associated press. what did you understand the purpose of that meeting to be? answer, to receive information from the reporters. to receive information from the reporters. not to give the reporters information but to get information from the reporters. question, can you explain to the court generally what happened? ans...

Investigative efforts or through a meeting that occurred with reporters of the associated press. question, a meeting with reporters. did that occur on april 11th, 2017? answer, yes it did. where did that meeting take place? in the bond building of the department of justice. and who was present? members of the fbi, justice department, and the associated press. what did you understand the purpose of that meeting to be? answer, to receive information from the reporters. to receive information from ...

Storage locker when eight reporters contacted the fbi to ask them for comment on a story the a.p. were pursuing on manaforts finances. could you please state your name for the record. are you currently employed? >> yes. where do you work? the fbi. how long have you been a special agent? since 2002. let me direct your attention of the spring of 2017, were you assigned to the squad at the time? >> yes, which one? >> international squad. during your corruption squad, were you involved in an investi...

A.p. was pursuing about manaforts finances. question. this is the prosecutor. could you please state your name for the record? answer jeff pfeiffer. are you currently employed? yes. where? the fbi. whats your title? special agent. how sloung been a special agent? since 2002. spring of 2017. you were assigned to a particular fbi squad at the time? yes. which one? international corruption squad. are you currently assigned to that squad? yes. you were assigned to an investigation relating to paul m...

So this is a moment in the transcript. this is a prosecutor from the special counsels office, prosecutor named uzo asanye, and hes questioning this live witness. first time weve had a live witness on the stand in the special counsels investigation. right? hes questioning this live witness who is an fbi agent. the agent who obtained a search warrant in the paul manafort case. and so this from the transcript. mr. asanye, the prosecutor says, question, "did mr. trich esko tell you if mr. manafort h...

Conducted a substantial investigation with respect to mr. manafort. answer, they had. dou did one of the reporters mention the storage unit associated with mr. manafort? answer, he did. did you issue a grand jury subpoena to a facility named public storage? answer, i did. thats how they found it. why would the a.p. reporter be given information to the fbi? seriously the press later clarified exactly what happened there. they put out a statement today explaining how they think the public should s...

Virginia in late july, in about a month. todays hearing was really supposed to be about suppressing some evidence. the manafort team wants to remove some evidence because they believe that the searches that were done of a storage facility and of his home were done improperly. one of the things that came up in this hearing was a bit of a surprise. it was a federal agent, an fbi agent who conducted one of the searches, and he said that they learned of a storage unit, a storage facility that paul m...

Court filings. but today, at least according to this fbi agent who just testified before this court, he said that they learned some very key information, the existence of this storage unit where paul manafort was storing important business records about his business, long-time business with ukranians and russian oligarchs. they learned about it in a meeting with the associated press, reporters who came in and provided this information to prosecutors. now, we should note that this allegation has ...

Testified on the stand the first time the department of justice found out that paul manafort had a, had a storage unit that may have contained documents pertaining to an investigation actually came from the associated press when they made inquiries about it and the fbi agent testified to that early this morning according to wire reports and waiting four o inin reporter to come out and brief us. >> we remind viewers, this criminal case is not -- against manafort. not directly connected to robert ...