in federal court in d.c., today the judge in his case ultimately elected to not today to make a decision on the substance of these current allegations against him, which again, are that he broke his deal by lying repeatedly to prosecutors. manafort was there today and had to go back to jail he ll be back in court a week from monday and then that will be the day that this same judge will finally conduct a hearing behind closed doors to determine whether manafort is going to be on the hook for these extra years potentially tacked on his sentence so that s going to be a closed door sealed hearing a week from monday and it is going to be sealed because of the sensitivity around manafort s testimony and how much of his criminal case is on going investigations and other people who have not yet been charged.
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 dire. if it is not possible in the proceeding, we can still take action at that time. but the judge says, you are entitled to file whatever you want to file. manafort s defense lawyer mr. westling. understood, your honor. thank you. so as the judge says here, she s not pre judging manafort s request to move his next trial out of washington, d.c. but i wouldn t expect paul manafort s defense team has their hopes up. based on that initial response from the judge. i will also say that things did not go particularly well for paul manafort s defense team today when it came to the arguments before this judge, judge jackson, when they asked her for more time to prepare their case. now, we ve talked a few times on
yesterday we had a congressman on and he said they are actually considering a civil lawsuit. and the thing about a civil suit that we will file in federal court in d.c. and demand that they produce a log of all the documents they re claiming are privileged, as a judge i reviewed things like that in camera and you determine what is privileged and what isn t, and there may not be anything privileged horror, but now they re going to end up having to produce the log that they say a privileged. mike: so a judge may go back to 1997 and maybe have some precedence here. check this out relate today 1997 during the clinton administration, the privilege disappears for a president altogether when there s any reasonable to believe government misconduct occurred. and i mean, obviously, this is complicated on both sides. republicans and for democrats. republicans don t want to push too hard for executive privilege documents to have to be turned over and revealed because then if there s a republ
file and i won t 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 investigator dire. if it is not possible in the proceeding, we can still take action at that time. but the judge says, you are entitled to file whatever you want to file. manafort s defense lawyer mr. westling. understood, your honor. thank you. so as the judge says here, she s not pre judging manafort s request to move his next trial out of washington, d.c. but i wouldn t expect paul manafort s defense team has their hopes up. based on that initial response from the judge. i will also say that things did
every president. mike: george washington. alisyn: george washington and every president has invoked is on some level to try to protect the private decision making that s gone on with the president that they don t want to reveal to congress. that of course opens a whole can of worms, because if the president was involved, and if this was some sort of private deliberations, that the president knew about fast and furious, it s all very complicated about what falls under the banner of executive privilege and what shouldn t. mike: who decides that. clayton: that s what the representative was saying yesterday on the show the idea why does the president now get involved? no one was pointing the finger at president obama, the department of justice. mike: eric holder. clayton: is the president dragging into this fight in a way? take a listen to him yesterday. we will file in federal court in d.c. and demand that they produce a log of all the documents they re claiming are privileg