it was a good day. >> an attorney for president trump's former campaign chairman paul manafort sounding confident. day eight of the manafort trial. today's testimony focused on charges that manafort lied and committed bank fraud to qualify for bank loans. the more notable moment may have come before any witnesses even took the stand this morning. it was in the form of a rare mea culpa from this judge, who has clashed frequently with the special counsel's team, the government prosecutors. referring to a tense exchange the day before over whether an irs witness should have been allowed to testify after having been allowed to be in court, judge t.s. elliott told the jury, quote, it appears i may well have been wrong. he went on to say, this robe doesn't make me anything other than human. i sometimes make mistakes.