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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 mean, the idea that it is now going to move again. it does create a substantial problem for the government. meaning for the prosecution. the judge weighed both sides of that argument. impassioned arguments from the defense and the prose...

Russian mafia and played another key role in the fate of another key name who has ended up having another star role involving this president and his campaign. i mentioned the 1,500 pieces of evidence that the special counsel's office says they'll use every single one of in their trial for paul manafort in washington, d.c. well, at least a couple of those pieces of evidence appear to explicitly reference a russian oligarch linked to vladimir putin whose name is oleg deripaska. he is apparently going to play a role in the manafort trial in d.c. you will also remember that oleg deripaska's name t...

But i'll try to give you a little more breathing room. so this second manafort trial had been scheduled to start september 17th. you about the judge in federal court in d.c. today announced they would start picking the jury only date. on september 17th. but, quote, openings and the presentation of the evidence will start one week later on september 24th. the judge explained to the prosecution and defense, once we have the jury, we're not going on swear them. we'll tell them on come book the 24th. and then you'll have the rest of the week the prepare. i think that's really the best i can do und...

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 prosecutors in the special counsel's office. you get that news about manafort reportedly lo...

Not go particularly well for paul manafort's defense team today when it came to the arguments before this judge, judge jackson, when they asked her for more time to prepare their case. now, we've talked a few times on 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 c...