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Issue of whether or not the trial will be delayed. manafort's defense lawyers again complain about the pace. as the court is well aware, we finished a trial a week ago today. we've been doing our best in the time we've had since thrown obviously pick up the ball. and the prosecutors came back arguing against with basically, no, you shouldn't get a delay. the date has been set for a long time. the prosecutor says i can say there are witnesses who have been told exactly when the trial is. we have witnesses who have medical issues, that have worked around this. we have witnesses from overseas. i ...

This is us. three here and a paralegal. i don't see how it will get done with all the parts. the judge responds, well, the day you asked for was yesterday. so what are you asking for now? you can't just say i don't know. you haven't moved to continue the trial. which means delay trial. i don't want to continue the trial. we have 120 jurors coming in who have been pre qualified to be available for this period of time. a lot of documents you've been provided in discovery. you know that. we've been living with them. you've been figuring out what your defense is based on them. i realize, well, i n...

The rest of the week to prepare. i think that's really the best i can do under all the circumstances. so that's the transcript from today's hearing. what this means is that the second felony trial of the president's campaign chairman paul manafort will be effectively delayed for about a week even though jury selection will start on the date that we thought the trial would start anyway. i think it is helpful to have that transcript so you can see exactly how that was fought over, how it was decided. it gives us a little more insight than we might have as to the cause of the delay. that is poten...

What this means is that the second felony trial of the president's campaign chairman paul manafort will be effectively delayed for about a week even though jury selection will start on the date that we thought the trial would start anyway. i think it is helpful to have that transcript so you go see how it was fought over. it gives as you little more insight than we might have as to the cause of the delay. that is potentially important. last night there was a report in the "wall street journal" that paul manafort and his defense team have been trying to make some sort of a plea deal with prosec...

The show about prosecutors in this case. prosecutors working for special counsel robert mueller. they filed this list of evidence that they plan to introduce in the next paul manafort trial. and the list is like super long. it has something like 1,500 different items of evidence on it. now, the reason prosecutors have to file that list of evidence is in part so the defense team can object to any of those items potentially being cited in the trial as evidence. well, paul manafort's defense team apparently cannot get it together to file their objections on the evidence for manafort's trial so th...