brought before the judge probable cause to believe he s tampered with a witness, and that s a good reason to revoke his bond. in t or thretimes i had this happen in my career, everyone on the prosecution team got incredibly angry and immediately went to the judge, asking that the defendant be taken into custody pending trial is a defendantho s out trying on to influence witnesses and avoid the fair trial that the people of the united states are entitled to in these cases. so that s likely the reaction here. what s incredibly interesting is that mort would have done this no doubt despite the advice of counsel, who would have cautioned him against doing anything like this. and the question is why did he do it? what did he think he had to benefit from, or what was so eer these witnesses aw from discussing it candidly in his trial? yeah, questions i guess we ll have to wait to get an answer for.
has concluded a plea deal with gates and that gates is giving them new information. but it s also really interesting, because it could be a prelude to mueller seeking permission from the court to no longer permit manafort on bond and instead requiring him to be held in custody pending trial. that could be very interesting. it would certainly mean that they meant business about the manafort trial at this point. now, they don t as far as i can tell, even though and, again, i m not a lawyer. i look at this way this is described to the judge. this seems like a fairly detailed threat of charges from robert mueller. but this doesn t actually represent the government, the special counsel s office, bringing these charges. it s just sort of alerting the court they may be brought in the future? that s exactly right. and because it goes to whether or not manafort is honest about conditions that would secure his release, i think it suggests
they re thinking about asking the judge to take him into custody pending trial. wow. cnn had that bombshell report yesterday that gates was, in fact, pursuing a cooperation agreement and a plea deal. if what you say is correct, this may be a sign that has been fruitful already, if this means they re going to try to put paul manafort to change his life dramatically so he ll be held in jail instead of in house arrest, this is really turning the screws. joyce, as i promised, i would love to hold you over, if you don t mind. i have a lot to talk to you about with this russia indictment. thank you for being with us. can you stay with us? absolutely. we ll be right back with joyce vance. stay with us.
joining us now is joyce vance for the northern district of alabama. joyce, this is a lot to absorb, thank you for helping us understand it. sure, happy to be here with you. i m going to ask you to stay after we take a break because i want to talk to you more broadly about what we learned from the conspiracy. there is so much in it. i want to ask you about this breaking news. i was not expecting to see that we were getting not exactly new charges but allegations of new criminal conduct against paul a manafort tonight. what do you make of this including the timing? it s awfully interesting. one possible conclusion is that this means mueller concluded a plea deal with gates and gates is giving them new information but also really interesting because it could be a prelude to no longer permit manafort to be on bond and instead him being held in custody pending trial.
that could be interesting. it could certainly mean they meant business. as far as i can tell, again, i m not a lawyer. i look at the way this is described to the judge. this seems like a fairly detailed threat of further charges but this doesn t actually represent the government, the special counsel s office bringing charges. it s alerting the court they may be brought in the future. that s exactly right and because it goes to whether or not manafort has been honest with the court and forthcoming, about conditions that would secure his release, it suggestions they are thinking about the judge taking him into custody pending trial. cnn had a bombshell report rick gates is pursuing a plea deal if what you say is correct, that s been freightfuitful alre.