End up being very, very relevant in that trial, depending on how the judge works these things out. And they were both hashed out today in court in front of the judge. The first is that Paul Manaforts defense team doesnt want his second federal felony trial to be in washington, d. C. Paul manaforts defense lawyer today speaking to the judge. Mr. Wesling. This is one of manaforts defense lawyers. Quote, just to give the court notice we will file this week a motion for change of venue. We wanted to just give you notice, your honor, and not be in a situation where that came tomorrow or at the end of the week so you would be surprised by it. So and the judge interrupts and says, where do you want to go . Mr. Westling says, i dont know that i have the answer to that yet, judge. It may be that there is no place. But we feel it is important to make the record on the issue and to brief it for the court. The judge says, all right. I understand that. I believe that the overwhelming majority of th
Mr. Wesling. Quote, just to give the court notice we will file this week a motion for change of venue. We wanted to just give you notice, your honor, and not be in a situation where that came tomorrow or at the end of the week so you would be surprised by it. So and the judge interrupts and says, where do you want to go . Mr. Westling says, i dont know that i have the answer to that yet, judge. It may be that there is no place. But we feel it is important to make the record on the issue and to brief it for the court. The judge says, all right. I understand that. I believe that the overwhelming majority of the publicity about this case is national. So you can file what you need to file and i wont prejudge it. But i think the goal of the jury questionnaire is to everybody able to us find a fair and impartial jury. And this jurisdiction, meaning federal court in d. C. , has had very high profile cases before where we have been able through a jury questionnaire, followed by individual voir