i didn t see much in the way of reaction. his facial expression was pretty neutral. he seemed rather resigned to the situation. in court he s generally been resigned. he seemed a little bit more dour than on previous appearances, and he gave his wife sort of a half wave, a somewhat feeble wave as he was led away by two marsh marshals. he wasn t handcuffed. eventually, i guess, hours later moved to this jail south of washington. barbara mcquade, let me bring you in the on the decision this judge make. we requecan show a couple quote. she said, this isn t middle school. i can t take his cell phone. if i say, well, don t call the 56 witnesses that mr. west ling tells me i need clearly list in the order, will he call the 57th? mr. westling the attorney for paul manafort in court today.
paul manafort. he doesn t have to do this, but he wanted to because he saw something. he called me. he said, this is something special. paul manafort has done an amazing job. he s here someplace. where s paul? paul manafort. and trump attorney rudy giuliani had his own thoughts on manafort s incarceration, telling the new york daily news that, quote, when the whole thing is over, things might get cleaned up with some presidential pardons. however, giuliani later dialed back those comments in an interview with nbc news, saying he would advise against a pardon. then just a few hours ago, giuliani added this. let me make it clear right now. please. anybody listening. that s why i wanted you on. he is not going to pardon anybody in this investigation, but he is not obviously going to give up his right to pardon if a miscarriage of justice is presented to him. meanwhile, the pressure is ratcheting up on another trump associate, michael cohen, who is under criminal investigat
manafort s one-time client, president trump, had this reaction. quote, wow, what a tough sentence for paul manafort, who has represented ronald reagan, bob dole, and many other top political people and campaigns. didn t know manafort was the head of the mob. what about comey and crooked hillary and all the others? very unfair. but this morning as manafort was beginning his day in d.c. federal court a few miles from the white house, this is how the president described him. manafort has nothing to do with our campaign. but i feel i tell you, i feel a little badly about it. they went back 12 years to get things he did 12 years ago. he worked for me, what, 49 days or something. a very short period of time. as we said, manafort served as trump s campaign chairman and he spent 144 days in 2016 working on getting trump elected. what have you learned about donald trump since you started working for him that you didn t know before? well, i ve known him a long time, and i ve always kno
some sort of cooperation with the government. according to court filings, prosecutors have, quote, extracted more than 700 pages of messages sent using encrypted programs on phones seized from cohen and have reconstructed 16 pages from the contents of a shredding machine. also cohen s request for an emergency gag order against michael avenatti, the attorney for porn star stormy daniels, has been rejected by a federal judge in los angeles. the president had his own comments about cohen earlier this morning. are you worried that michael cohen might flip? look, i did nothing wrong. you have to understand this stuff would have come out a long time ago. i did nothing wrong. is michael cohen still your friend? i ve always liked michael. i haven t spoken to michael in a long time. is he still your lawyer? no, he s not my lawyer. but i always liked michael and he s a good person. are you worried he ll cooperate? no, i m not because i did nothing wrong. with that, let s bring