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He's in court right now. paul manafort making his way through all of that press. he's got to answer charges on witness tampering and what's at stake is nothing less than his freedom. ken dilanian is outside the direct court in washington and what everybody wants to know right now is whether paul manafort is going to jail today. ken, tell us what's going on right now in court. >> reporter: well, that's the big question, chris, and that's swhaernl robert mueller's office is urging judge amy bermman jackson do is immediately jail paul man an for the. what's happening in the courthouse behind me i...

What we've seen thus far is probably the opposite. bob mueller is moving carefully and if he doesn't have americans to indict on conspiracy, then he won't indict them and if he does then we have a system that will test whether there's evidence on that. the jury's out on that literal. >> i let's go back inside the courtroom where paul manafort is right now and tell me what you're going to be looking to hear from the judge. what's the critical point you think that this is going to turn on one way or another? >> this judge is going to dig very deeply into whether paul manafort can be credibly acc...

To change the conditions on his bail, he's being arraigned on more charges, okay. the special counsel decided to supersede this indictment, his original underlying indictment to add these witness tampering charges, meaning that 23 members of a grand jury zhad thedecided there was probable cause. that's what tips the balance in being remanded. i think in white collar cases judges tend to treat defendants a little more with kid gloves. i think he'll have time to get his orders in affair, but this isn't the first time that the judge has taken manafort to task. remember this guy konstantin, he was...

No lobby fwhing by this group ie u.s. and that was an attempt to plant an idea in their heads. i think if the judge requires him to be held in jail pending the trial in july, but i suppose it's possible that if the judge wants to send a message she can put him in jail over the weekend, let his lawyers next week try to get him back out again and perhaps release him. so she has a number of options here, all the way from a stern talking to to ordering him incarcerated until the trial begins. >> ken, i want to ask you if we have any idea howl this mig lon might happen and how quickly we would lear...

>> yeah. i do think that. whether the judge says i'll give you a week to get your affairs in order is a separate question. but the case for his being replanned replanned to -- remanded to jail say lot stronger. there's a law here that says if he's found to have tampered with witness, a presumption goes into play that he cannot, that he has to have his bail revoked. so first of all, notice the two -- arraignment and the -- the bail question dovetail. a jury has already found he did these things. >> what do they have to show that would make the judge say that this is, indeed, witness tampering t...