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Some questions or statements the a.p. made at this meeting may have at least accelerated the process by which investigators found this storage locker with a lot of financial records. but i do think it was probably overall, though, a disappointing hearing for manafort's team because the judge basically refused to get into this issue of leaks, of unauthorized disclosures of information. they had hoped maybe they'd see someone like mueller's top deputy, andrew weissman, on the stand. that didn't happen, and the judge made clear it ain't going to happen before this first trial for manafort, which ...

Appears to be the latest gambit from the manafort defense. now they want to try to move paul manafort's trial to another part of virginia to i guess escape the media coverage that emanates from the d.c. metro area about his case. presumably they think they'd get a more conservative environment. i don't know. manafort's defense team is going to try that now, though. and meanwhile, they are starting to put up live witnesses to defend the propriety of the evidence that the special counsel's office has seized from paul manafort and that they're using in the case against him. and the last point her...

Unit in alexandria, virginia associated with mr. manafort? answer, he did. question, did you subsequently issue a grand jury subpoena to a facility named public storage? answer, i did. that's how they found it. why would the a.p. reporters be giving information to the fbi? that's the way the fbi agent described it. the associated press later clarified compactly what happened there. they put out a statement today explaining how they think the public should see this meeting. this is from an a.p. spokeswoman. "associated press journalists met with representatives from the department of justice in...

Lunch. this change ovf venue things. now, they're trying to move the trial to another part of virginia, presumably they think they are getting more conservative. manafort's team is going to try that and they start putting up live witnesses to defend the evidence that they are cruising in the case against him. there was an interesting moment from that live witness on the stand today. this is an fbi agent on the stand. he explained today in court that the fbi only learned manafort kept some of his business records in a storage locker. the fbi learned about the

Virginia court today that manafort's personal assistant gave him access to a storage locker that contained boxes of financial documents. josh gerstein of politico, who will join us in a moment, reported on another wrinkle that emerged from that fbi agent's testimony. he writes, quote, a meeting last year where associated press reporters discussed with federal officials the news outlet's investigation of paul manafort's finances may have led the fbi to a storage locker the bureau raided. a lot to talk about. the panel is standing by, but first we want to get more on the aforementioned -- from t...