was initially arraigned where his lawyers did succeed in briefly loosening the conditions of his house arrest for a while before that fell apart and manafort ended up in jail, where he is right now, i think today s motion means the president s campaign trail, paul manafort has shot the moon, i believe batting 1,000. he has a perfect record now of losing on every single substantive motion that has been brought before the judge in both of his cases. i think he s lost every single thing his defense has tried thus far, every one. that is not a good sign for the president s campaign chairman, especially not now, when the first of his two felony trials is due to start one week from today. so that was not unspeblged but it was ominous for paul manafort today. in the other case we re watching very closely today, in the mariia butina case today,
pretty close to the end of the road in terms of manafort s attempted defense thus far. with the exception of a few motions very early on after he was initially arraigned where his lawyers did succeed in briefly loosening the conditions of his house arrest for a while before that fell apart and manafort ended up in jail, where he is right now, i think today s motion means the president s campaign trail, paul manafort has shot the moon, i believe batting 1,000. he has a perfect record now of losing on every single substantive motion that has been brought before the judge in both of his cases. i think he s lost every single thing his defense has tried thus far, every one. that is not a good sign for the president s campaign chairman, especially not now, when the first of his two felony trials is to start one week from today. that was not unexpected but
welcome back, everybody, the federal judge overseeing the first of two felony trials against former trump campaign chief paul manafort has denied his request for a change of venue. manafort s lawyers, they wanted the trial on bank and tax fraud charges actually moved from alexander, virginia to roanoke. they argue the negative media coverage and the fact thattal andrea voted for hillary clinton in 2016 would make it hard for manafort to get a fair trial. ts elliot wrote the pretrial publicity would be the same in roanoke or dallas. he wrote, a juror s political leanings are not, by themselves,
multiple felony trials in each jurisdiction. the first jurisdiction in which he was charged was washington, d.c. the judge set a trial date for manafort in d.c. in september. the second he was charged was in the eastern district of virginia. even though those charges came second, the eastern district of virginia is known as the rocket docket. they like to go fast. don t ask a judge in the eastern district for a delay in your trial. don t take long recess. don t ask the judge to make it take too long. they like to go fast. sometimes faster than teeth prosecutors or the defense is comfortable with. in manafort s virginia trial, not only did they set his trial date for july, two months ahead of his d.c. trial date, even though he was charged in d.c. first. but the judge in virginia has really sped things along. turned down his request for a
then the rich people would takeover without government. are you disturbed by the fact the majority of all felony trials in the west the defense attorney works for the government? that is what comes out of the system where if you are pour in are charged with a felony you get a lawyer that is appointed by the same people who appointed the prosecutor who tries to convict you. john: that the four would have no defense would get u.s. at present you find the pork does best at what the government produces. schools in we know what those are like. they produce police protection in the places don t want to walk at night are inhabited by poor people so on will they do better with things in the market. john: enforcement? the police i think of as a government job. if you look as recently