very heavy indictment. i should also mention, you know, this is alleging ten years of a scheme, tens of millions of dollars, and, again, lobbying and working on behalf of a foreign government. ukraine, an ally of russia in this context, without disclosing it. they say, again, these are just allegations, falsely describing it. this indictment, when did manafort and his legal team see it? when did they learn of all these details? ordinarily, indictments are sealed so that you don t tip off a defendant and he doesn t abscond or destroy evidence or even harm witnesses. but in this case, this is not the ordinary case. nothing ordinary here. nothing ordinary. all the defendants involved were lawyered up. it s likely that manafort knew, maybe even news broke of the sealed indictment, and it looks like they made a smart strategic move, which, as his lawyers, got him to d.c. to surrender.
the court officials. gates has yet to hire a private attorney, it was revealed. that was the seen here, a status hearing has been set for this thursday, already. a status hearing whered defendant s are not required to show up as is commonly the case. but will be before the judge, an obama appointee, confirmed 97-0 in the united states senate, her name is amy berman jackson, she will be the judge presiding over this case as it moves forward. i san want to go quickly to you. i m shocked to hear that information that rick gates has no private attorney at this point. are you surprised? what does that tell you? it s visual unusual. i would expect he would have lawyered up, this may indicate that he s had only minimal contact with mueller s prosecutors in the leadup to this indictment. it may simply mean that he has not yet had the opportunity to
to be asking him. and jim, i mean, a former chief of staff to the president has been interviewed by the special counsel investigating the president of the united states. it s got to have some kind of effect on those still working in the west wing seking the president. one very immediate effect is they re all lawyered up, from top to bottom, they know they need that kind of representation. and we have some information about other people that we know that mueller wants to interview in the white house in his first group of interviews. they include sean spicer. of course, the fierld spokesperson. they include the current communications director hope hicks, done mcgahn, and that s pistol just the first group of people close to the president that robert mueller wants to talk to people about again about these topics of the many questions facing thechl. firing of james comey, that crucial air force one meeting. these are all important lines of inquiry for the special counsel. yeah. what
some of those weapons that i saw are set up for an expert or a sniper, they were set up based on those types of modifications and he had to have some knowledge or training in order to do that. do you think gun shop owners in this country are trained to hear what a virtually fully automatic weapon would sound like? and that would send off alarm bells at a range? it would. sometimes you can go to some ranges and they have automatic weapons set up there for you to try and use. so it s not unusual to find automatic weapons at the gun range. they usually have an experienced individual with you while you re firing that weapon. but no, that s not unusual. and the 12, you know, bump stocks that he bought, that s a lot. that is a lot. one more quick question. on the girlfriend, she s being questioned by the fbi. what are she s lawyered up. what are the key questions?
net around a human being s life. think about if she lived with him, if she had interaction with him every day, of the amount of information around his life that we know as investigators and that we can use with her. that is, not only do we know he s acquiring weapons, he s also acquiring these stocks, presumably altering the weapons. i presume he s out practicing at some point to get expertise. he s also involved in things like online activity. did she ever witness any of that? he s e-mailing her, phoning her, texting her. is that changing over time? is the dynamic changing? i get a whole picture of your life based on digital information that i m going to use in the interview with her and there s one final piece that will evolve. i m talking to 100 other people at the same time. how are they adding to that dynamic of her life and how does that accord with what she says? what are the discrepancies? we know she s lawyered up, she s got this criminal defense attorney in los angeles. the