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Case, why didn't you do that with manafort? there's nothing in your filings that says it's about elections, why do this one as a special counsel prosecutioning and stave off the other one? >> i think there is a reason for that. because there is a relationship between the manafort charges and russian interference with the election. cohen is someone that, i'm sure, the justice department would like to see flip just as much as manafort. the judge accused the prosecutors of only charging manafort because they want him to flip. but the fact that they said we followed the money, it seems to me that ...

Man afort and his lawyers today in virginia. but then there was a weird turn. because then a party to this hearing today who doesn't usually make headlines in cases like this himself made a bunch of headlines. the judge in this case made all the headlines from this hearing today because he lost his temper a few times during the one-hour-long hearing and he really stuck it to the prosecutors. saying at one point, "you don't really care about mr. manafort's bank fraud. you really" -- this is the judge. "you really care about what information mr. manafort could give you that would reflect on mr. ...

Something to be hidden here. maybe it's the embarrassment of having the relationship with a porn star is what's hidden. but when someone changes their story so frequently that sets off red flags for a prosecutor that there might be something more here than meets the eye. >> it seems what's driving it is the fbi raid on michael cohen and whatever federal prosecutors are pursuing with regard to this payment, there's something about this case that's driving them to come up with new stories about it. >> i agree. it seems like they're desperate. you mentioned in recent days they're on the edge of t...

Last week that paul manafort was going to have some of the terms of his confinement relaxed. we thought based on the discussions between the two sides that manafort, for example, would be allowed to lose the ankle bracelet, he'd be allowed to travel in a limited way within the united states, he wouldn't have to just stay home all the time anymore. part of that agreement was that manafort had pledged over $10 million in real estate in florida and new york and virginia in a way that essentially meant that all those properties would be handed over to the government if manafort decided to make a r...

Was actually a subpoena or just a letter demand that doesn't have the force of law. but to the extent that the deputy attorney general is a witness in this case and you're right to say that this aspect of the case does suggest that he might be, then the natural order of things, oversight would fall to the associate attorney general, a woman named rachel brand, who would then be responsible for managing the department's response to mr. mueller's request at least in a formal way. >> do we have -- as the public, do we have any right to information about these processes? nbc news has not confirmed...