formally complained that this judge who keeps dressing them down in front of the jury might be killing their case. and apparently the final straw for the prosecutors was late yesterday, right before they went to recess when the judge admonished them for allowing a government witness to sit in the court before he took the stand. the problem the mueller team has with that the judge never said that witnesses couldn't sit and watch from the pews that are in the back. from the benches that are in the back before they took the stand. so they filed a motion where they said this in part. the mistake here prejudiced the government by conveying to the jury that the government had acted improperly and had violated court rules or procedures. well, this morning the judge came, in hat in hand and he said this: this robe doesn't make me anything other than human. any criticism of counsel should be put aside. after that the folks at the manafort trial today shifted to bank fraud and whether or not paul manafort misstated his debt and his income to