had intentionally lied. when i say exculpatory material, even though the stuff was being shown to the judge, what prosecutors told the judge is that this new material that had shown up helped manafort s case, didn t help their own side, helped manafort s side. we don t know what this new material was that the prosecutors turned up and dutifully handed over to the judge. we got some filings on it. as you can see, it looks like mad libs, right? it s more redactions than words. nobody s been able to quite put it together, but we do know that the material the prosecutors handed over to the judge, it appears to be about paul manafort s relationship with con stan tine ka lem nick. he s the russian guy who worked for manafort for years. he s the guy who prosecutors say has been assessed by the fbi to be linked to russian intelligence. this week manafort s former co-defendant the guy who served as deputy campaign chair on the trump campaign, rick gates, gates apparently saw news coverage about