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What the special counsel's office is investigating. joining us now, nbc news investigator and former special watergate prosecutor. what is the significance of manafort's sealed hearing, the one that is about to go down? >> basically this is going to kind of wrap up the debate they've been having that's referenced in the story that we did, the washington post did about what manafort may have lied about that dissolved essentially this plea agreement that they were able to come up with and the cooperation agreement they were able to come up with in september of last year. today the judge will loo...

And this hearing. what can we hear from today with the judge. >> today we may here from the judge being that the counsel is involved. i don't think we'll hear from the judge today because this hearing is sealed. that means no members of the public are inside of it. it is just the attorneys and paul man minoriafort had not be spotted. that's who it is going to be today. i would expect for the judge to issue a written order. this is something that potentially could come up unappeal or somethi unappealed or something needs to be established on the court record as far as manafort according to herr...

But basically to have this additional team. it's interesting that the first substantial mention of president trump came out of the mouth, rather, of a federal prosecutor. i'll repeat what i said that he mentioned that it was inflammatory remarks from the president and from michael cohen himself. i thought that was interesting. we have obviously been spending a lot of time on the sean hannity disclosure, but certainly the president and his interests are well in play here in the courtroom behind me. proceedings still going on. at this point we don't know whether the judge is going to rule today,...

Gets issued. if you have a visa already and it's expired, that's not going to be any good. that's why you need a really detailed order from this federal judge, so we know what he's talking about. >> the other question is, if the administration wanted to -- again, this is now getting to the realm of very hypothetical, but if that order did apply to people and allow them to then apply for visas without having this temporary ban, could an executive order be done to change what the visa requirements are, which would make it more difficult? >> i think you're going see them go back to the drawing bo...

Individuals would not be able to board, even with the visa in hand, because again, this is all done electronically. and again, if cbp does not go in and change those parameters, that no-board message will come up and they would not be allowed to board that aircraft. >> so then -- then theoretically, if this order is upheld and people are told that they are allowed to come to the united states, from what it sounds like you're saying is they, people who did have visas that were rescinded would have to go back, i guess to the u.s. embassy or consulate and try to either reapply or just get new vis...