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Organizations including cnn requesting that he unseal those secret bench conversations, conferences, other information. i remember it was just a week ago that court was delayed for five hours while lawyers and the judge discussed issues in private. judge ellis has said that he plans to release it all with one exception. all of this is happening as jurors are asking their own questions about the case. manafort, remember, he's facing 18 criminal charges in virginia related to tax and bank fraud and if he is convicted on every single one of those charges, he could be going away for a long, long t...

Particular and the witnesses and the evidence we have seen here are important going forward, katy. >> mimi, tease that out, that refuse refusal to unseal those bench conversations. >> sure. well, judges are allowed to keep things under seal even though there is, obviously, a public right to access to things that go on in a courtroom if there is a legitimate reason. the reasons we don't know, but we can certainly surmise it's probably that it has to do, and i think actually the prosecutor or somebody said at some point it has to d with an ongoing investigation. that's a very legitimate reason t...