so far which is why paul manafort and his defense team elected to go on trial twice. once in virginia and once in washington, d.c. prosecutors from the special counsel's office had offered to consolidate the two cases so he would go on trial once. his legal team said no. this judge in the d.c. case has previously proclaimed herself in court to be basically bewildered by that decision and here today she once again goes back to it. the judge, quote, now i the judge, quote, now i understand, wasn't my decision to move another trial in front of this. wasn't my decision on push that trial up to accommodate that judge's schedule. and you know, it was your decision to push it further. so you're under extraordinary time pressures that don't happen on a daily basis. but we have a pretrial conference scheduled on september 5th and i need to know what objections have you to the prosecutors' exhibits. so what are we going to do? manafort's defense lawyer kevin downing says, i don't know, your honor. we don't have the resources of the u.s. government.