negotiated. any interbranch dispute gets negotiated. congress can pull the funds of the agency if they don t want to comply, but they can use deliberative process, privilege and other things to try to hold it back. that s always a fight that happens. so there s news about rick gates lawyer, julia. the a.p. reporting also that mueller s team has postponed the sentencing of michael flynn. why are those two things significant? sentencing of michael flynn, the postponing means that maybe michael flynn has more information to get over. we know that he really only pleaded to just a very piece of all of the information that we believe that mueller s team has on flynn, so it might be that they re getting more from him before they move to the sentencing phase. on gates, we can remember he was the business partner of paul manafort. the fact that his lawyers are leaving maybe means that they have gotten to a point where they feel like they can no longer defend their client. there s been a lo
on which his co-defendant, paul manafort, has been released. as you can see, paul manafort s release form looks quite different. paul manafort is not released on his own personal recognizance. his form says he was released into a high intensity supervision program of the pretrial service agency at the district court in d.c. now, the handwritten instructions on his release form for manafort are similar to those on gates form. he s instructed to remain on permanent home confinement, allowed to leave home only for visits to attorneys or visits to court, medical emergencies, religious services. like rick gates, he s instructed to report daily by telephone. but for manafort, this high intensity supervision program appears to be the kind of program that includes people wearing an electronic monitoring device, which presumably means an ankle bracelet or something. it s not explicitly clear from this form that manafort has been assigned an ankle bracelet or
meet with his lawyers or attend religious services or medical emergencies. he needs to check in daily by phone with the court in the eastern district of virginia. so those are the terms of rick gates release. he s released on his own personal recognizance, has to stay home, has to check in by phone once a day. those appear not to be the terms on which his co-defendant, paul manafort, has been released. as you can see, paul manafort s release form looks quite different. paul manafort is not released on his own personal recognizance. his form says he was released into a high intensity supervision program of the pretrial service agency at the district court in d.c. now, the handwritten instructions on his release form for manafort are similar to those on gates form. he s instructed to remain on permanent home confinement, allowed to leave home only for visits to attorneys or visits to court, medical emergencies,
probably started to hyperventilate. in his memoir, duty, bob gates who served with clinton and biden laid a few punches to the early 2016 favorites. what s likely causing a headache in their respective households will be opposition researcher gold come primary season. we at the lead took the liberty of cutting two faux attack ads based on gates book. joe biden fancies himself a leader on foreign policy and national security. we re committed to strengthening the security in iraq. reporter: but what did bob gates say about bide en in his book? i think he s been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades. go with the one who gets it right. go with hillary clinton. here s what hillary can expect to hear from the biden camp come 2016. it will take a commander in chief with the strength and knowledge to end the war in