if you remember as part of that september plea agreement, don, the special counsel had essentially said that they were willing to encourage a judge to show him some leniency. this is a man obviously who is approaching his 70s, and he s staring at a couple decades in prison. so this was not a small thing, and apparently according to the special counsel, he has blown this all up by lying repeatedly to the investigators over the period of nine times that we ve seen him go in there, spending dozens of hours in interviews with the special counsel s office. i should add that according to the court filing today, manafort himself says that he s provided truthful information and that he doesn t agree that he breached this agreement with the special counsel. laura, let s talk about that because as evan just said, we know that manafort met with prosecutors at least nine times since making a deal, a plea deal, with the special counsel. he spoke with him for hours. is this a ig blow to the muelle
just into cnn, more insight in what life is like for paul manafort inside jail. this as we re learning he will be moved to a different jail, one closer to d.c. ahead of his trial on bank and tax fraud charges. here s why this is significant. he complained for weeks being jailed outside the city made it too difficult to meet with his lawyers to prepare for his upcoming trial on bank and tax fraud charges. a judge finally decided to grant his request to move him closer, saying he could be moved to a jail in alexandria where the trial will be held. then manafort s lawyers said forget it, they had safety concerns. it was already too late. the judge ordered the transfer. now prosecutors say the trial should not be postponed. in a court filing today,