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Weren't really in there for most of the morning. and this was the third day in a row there was some significant seal sealed proceeding in the courtroom handling the manafort trial, monday, tuesday. some of them apparently taking place in the jury room or involving a meeting with the jury. reporters and others who had come to watch the trial were left in the hallway for about two hours today. another extended delay in the session beginning. we do know at least today they were discussing a defense motion of some sort that is under seal. many of us suspected it has something to do with the jury a...

Delay. we don't know exactly what the reason was, but we do know the judge spoke to the jury in private. during the hearing the details of which have been sealed. with us tonight josh gerstein who was inside and happens to be senior white house reporter for politico. and we welcome the former assistant u.s. attorney here in the southern district of new york. good evening to you both, and josh, i'd like to begin with you're our eyes and ears and i know you're looking forward to the end of this because the days are long. what was it like in there today? what do you believe this matter is they co...

Our eyes and ears, and i know you're looking forward to the end of this because the days are long. what was it like in there today? what do you believe this matter is they continue to work on and be preoccupied with? and if i can go three parts, what's your prediction and looking for tomorrow? >> when you say in there, we weren't really in there for most of the morning. and this was the third day in a row there was some significant sealed proceeding in the courtroom handling the manafort trial, monday, tuesday. some of those proceedings taking place in the judge's chamber, some of them apparen...

Teeth to the defense motion, which i suspect is related to a mistrial motion for juror misconduct. what does that mean? >> it means that you could possibly have a mistrial. what i'm suspecting -- i've had several in my many trials, i had a couple instances where a juror or jurors were tainted, and it could be they saw a headline of a newspaper in a coffee shop, they overheard two witnesses talking about the case and they made an unfavorable comment about the defendant, it could be it happened to me once where a juror said hello to me in an elevator. >> how likely is it? this judge -- last week...

Before we all end up in the great litigation land in the sky. i didn't even edit that. that was exactly how it went. "anyway, next question." i knew a lawyer once who didn't ask leading questions. he's dead now. the judge also at one point just seems to get hungry. on page 67 of the transcript, the court, "no, just tell me in a sentence. it's lunchtime." there's also this one testy moment. the judge says to the prosecutors, "do you have anything further you want to say about that?" and one of the prosecutors, scott meisler, rises actually for the first time in the hearing at that point and say...