courtroom and whose talents brought us reports, transcripts and press, pictures from those important hearings are unsung heroes of 2018. the court reporters and court room artists who supply all those transcripts and sketches. now, rachel absolutely loves and i do mean loves to read these courtroom hearing transcripts, and she s become quite the expert at reading multiple roles. transcript theater. you ready, i m just going to start right in. tonight we obtained portions of of the transcript from manafort s arraignment today. i should warn you in advance there s also a little argument about sex and her personal diary. what conditions can there be? this isn t middle school. and can t take his cellphone. did you really make me leave my important judge meeting this morning to make we watch a video of your client lip-syncing beauty and the beast, yes, your honor. are you sure you really want me to sentence you today? are you sure you don t want to
and just quickly, could you discern, could you read from his body language, from his any kind of a reaction to all of this from paul manafort? 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 maybe than on previous appearances, and he gave his wife sort of a half wave, a somewhat feeble wave as he was leaving the courtroom, led away by two marshals. he wasn t handcuffed or anything, just taken out after the judge ordered him to be put into custody and taken into the back there and eventually, i guess, hours later moved to this jail south of washington. barbara mcquade, let me bring you in on the decision this judge made. we can show a couple of the quotes as she issued the order today in court. 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. westling tells me i
ripping into the doj report saying that it totally destroys former fbi director james comey. cnn politics reporter joining us live from washington. jeremy, explain why a judge decided to jail manafort as he awaits his trial. yeah, judge jackson said manafort was a danger to the community when she decided to revoke his bail on accusations ever witness tampering. prosecutors said manafort made two contacts with potential witnesses including one using a cellphone in italy and another using the drafts folder of a shared e-mail account. manafort s lawyers tried to say that he should be given a list of the potential witnesses and that they promised that he wouldn t do it again. the judge wasn t buying it, she said it wasn t an easy decision, but basically summed it up that this isn t middle school and i can t take his cellphones away. so now manafort gets to prepare for his trial in the fall from a jail 90 miles south of d.c. and in the meantime here is what president trump is saying abo
she just didn t think she could trust him to abide by whatever conditions she might impose. could you read from his body language? any kind of reaction from paul manafort? he seemed rather resigned. he has been resigned. he seemed a little more dour and gave his wife sort of a half wave as he was leaving the courtroom lead away by two marshals. he wasn t handcuffed or anything just taken out after the judge ordered him to be put into custody and eventually i guess hours later moved to this jail south of washington. barbara, let me bring you in on the decision this judge made. we can show a couple of the quotes as she issued this order today. she said this isn t middle school. i can t take his cell phone.
he worked for many other rx. he worked for me 49 days, very short period of time. paul manafort is now in jail. on friday, a judge said the only way to prevent manafort from tampering with witnesses in the mueller investigation was to lock him up. saying that because this isn t middle school, she just couldn t take away his phone. as to trump s claim it was only 49 days that paul manafort worked on his campaign, it was 144 days. in that time a few notable things happened. june 9th, paul manafort along with donald trump jr. and jared cukushner met with a russian lawyer. change that made the platform more pro russia. and on july 25th, trump tweeted that reports russia was behind the dnc e-mail hack were, quote a joke and two days later he said this russia, if you re listening, i hope you re able to find the