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Earlier tonight, robert mueller's team and lawyers for paul manafort notably told the court they want more time before filing a status update for manafort's case in washington, d.c. we have a very smart lawyer on standby to explain all these words. instead of updating the court on a possible sentencing date tomorrow, they now want to wait until december 26th. the court filing said the delay will allow both sides to, quote, provide the court with a report that will be of greater assistance in the court's management of this matter. after reading this news earlier tonight, former assistant u.s. a...

They want to probably indict, as dan says, and the question is who. and that paul manafort has been useful in that process, and that's why it will be more helpful to the court for them to be able to share where they are and what that means for sentencing. because, remember, that for sentencing, it's the judge that decides what sentence paul manafort will get, but it's the federal prosecutors who decide how they position him and what their recommendation to the court is, and that is all about his cooperation. so this really does tell us something is about to happen. >> all right, frank figliuzz...

Earlier tonight, robert mueller's team and lawyers for paul manafort notably told the court they want more time before filing a status update for manafort's case in washington, d.c. we have a very smart lawyer on stand by to explain all these words. instead of updating the court on a possible sentencing date tomorrow, they now want to wait until december 26th. the court filing said the delay will allow both sides to, quote, provide the court with a report that will be of greater assistance in the court's management of this matter. after reading this news earlier tonight, former assistant u.s. ...

>> oh, go ahead, frank. >> i agree -- no, i agree with maya and with others. i think something is afoot. what is it? this begs the question, what is it that's going to transpire in the next several days that is going to give the court much greater insight into the level of cooperation of manafort and why would both sides agree to the delay. this is unlikely to be a negative slap against manafort and a lack of cooperation, but rather it is probably -- those days are going to permit the mueller team to point to some indictments and say, manafort did this. he helped us with this. here it is. they...

That's useful. they want to probably indict, as dan says, and the question is who. and that paul manafort has been useful in that process, and that's why it will be more helpful to the court for them to be able to share where they are and what that means for sentencing. because, remember, that for sentencing, it's the judge that decides what sentence paul manafort will get, but it's the federal prosecutors who decide how they position him and what their recommendation to the court is, and that is all about his cooperation. so this really does tell us something is about to happen. >> all right,...