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Case. i think jeff and phil asked the right question which is what is the defense, particularly where there's a cooperator that will say that was manafort's account. this strikes me as an incredible difficult case for manafort to beat, and when you talk about paper cases, you follow the money and the trail and you have a criminal prosecution that more often than not is successful. as to the time, i mean, each count can be up to 30 years. he is looking at a lot of exposure in federal prison for a conviction. >> by the way, it is in alexandria known as the rocket docket. they say it will take th...

Here, the foreign bank accounts, does add an element of subterfuge and an element of intentioniality here that makes this seem exotic and somewhat beyond the pale. maybe there are other people who shave paying their taxes here and there but they may not have dozens and dozens of overseas bank accounts that are funding their lavish lifestyle. >> and it allows prosecutors to say this was a deliberate thing, not just corner cutting. rachel has reported the so-called rocket docket. this could take a while. we'll be watching this with you and probably calling on you again. thank you for being here....

Subterfuge and element of intentionality here that makes this seem kind of exotic and somewhat beyond the pale. maybe there are other people who shave paying their taxes here or there but they may not have dozens and dozens of overseas bank accounts that are essentially funding their lavish lieu of style. >> right. and it allows prosecutors under your analysis to say look, this was a deliberate deceptive thing, not just proverbial corner cutting. you mentioned the judge wanted to speed it up. rachel reported what that means in the so-called rocket docket. this one could take awhile. we'll prob...

Was a really deliberate, deceptive thing, not just a proverbial corner cutting. you mentioned the judge wanted to speed it up. rachel has reported on what that means down there on the so-called rocket docket, although this one could take a while. we'll be watching it with you and probably calling on you again, josh gerstein, thank you for being here. >> my pleasure, ari, any time. it has been a busy week, a lot's happened, but something that should have been resolved last night actually is a very live issue right now. that's next. stay with us.

Counsel team. it appears that the manafort team got the new documents just recently and they had asked a judge for more time. we're told that perhaps that these documents were sitting in another attorney's office and that's how the manafort team came into contact with us and now that they have it, they need more time to review it. they said there was good reason on both sides to delay the start of the trial. the judge was hoping to get jury selection underway on wednesday. when you think about this from the time this arrest happened to now, just the speed at which the judge wanted to get this ...