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Get it together. two federal trials back to back against experienced aggressive prosecutors including the possibility the first trial might not even be over yet. the special counsel's office is due to tell the court in virginia tomorrow whether or not they'll put manafort on trial again. whether they'll retry him on the ten felony counts where the jury was not able to reach a verdict in his case last week. i don't doubt that paul manafort and his team may have talked to the special counsel and his prosecutors about the prospect of some kind of deal to make the charges and the second trial go a...

I have now read the pretrial statement many more detail and note that you are planning to do so at a later date. you all have been dealing with these exhibits for months. they just showed up in my chambers this week. i need your objections to the exhibits tomorrow. manafort's defense lawyer says, it's -- >> and the judge interrupts and says, i understand. >> and then he tries again -- it's -- is not going to happen, your honor. i apologize but we got dumped 1,500 exhibits just the other today. 1,500. there's no way. a thousand exhibits, 1,100. the judge then turns to the prosecutor from the sp...

Like the one, whenever the fbi starts talking about him again, fbi, mobster more powerful than gotti. the justice department official who actually led the effort to indict him led the effort to bring him to justice in the u.s. courts. that's the same harvard brainiac who had come up from gang duty in new york after prosecuting the drug gangs and el feo. he indicted the head of the russian mafia and played another key role in the case of another bold phased name who has ended up having a star role involving this president and his campaign. i mentioned the 1,500 pieces of evidence that the speci...

The news about this minor delay in paul manafort's next trial is set. there is a new trial date in terms of when opening arguments are going to start. this comes amidst new reporting from the "washington post" the president himself continues to be basically losing his mind over the russia scandal and the legal inquiries, the legal investigations, the prosecutions that have sprunging from that scal dan so far. we'll have a little more on this later in the show. but bottom line, the "washington post" is basically reporting that administration officials have been doing a sort of delicate dance wh...

Maybe even a little surprised that manafort and his defense team made this decision that they wanted to put how many trial twice. it appears from the way the judge has addressed this in court that maybe it is an inconvenience. that she is the second judge to har this major felony case against manafort and timing of her trial had to be adjusted for the other federal judge who went first. it is clear from this transcript, she does not appear to be happen that they want to move this second case out of washington, d.c. and have it somewhere else. apparently that will be lut gate litigated before t...