he felt sorry for manafort but then claimed falsely that manafort had little to do with his campaign. a reminder, manafort was the chairman of trump s campaign. cnn chief justice correspondent evan perez sat the courthouse today. evan, take us through the arguments this morning and the outcome here. reporter: well, jim, it was a very extraordinary hearing, obviously, because the government came in saying that paul manafort is a danger to the community. they said that he had a sustained campaign over five weeks in which he was trying to reach out to potential witnesses in this case and trying to coach them on what to say and essentially committing perjury before this trial. he s due to go on trial here in september in the court here in d.c., and he s got another set of charges that he s facing across in virginia, in alexandria, virginia, another federal case over there. so he s got two trials coming up, and until those trials get started, he s going to be sitting in jail.