today we learned that the president s campaign chairman may have worked on that, too. paul manafort publicly denied in 2017 that he had anything to do with that supposed peace plan that would have resulted in the dropping of russian sanctions, but today manafort s defense team filed this new document in federal court in d.c. in which they apparently didn t redact things properly. you can see from the filing there are a bunch of things that are behind black boxes. you re nod supposed to be able to read those things but they screwed up when they tried to redact this document. if you open it up on your computer, you can read what is behind those black boxes. oops. and so because of that mistake by accident, part of what we learned today in this manafort court filing is that the president s complain chair, paul manafort, he has told prosecutors from the special counsel s office that he did work on that plan to drop russian sanctions. or at least he worked on something that was called a ukr
are you considering pardoning paul manafort? i have respect for what he s done, in terms of what he s gone through. he worked for ronald reagan for years. worked for bob goadole. his firm worked for mccain. he worked for many, many people, for many, many years. i would say what he did, some of the charges they threw against him, every consultant, every lobbyist in washington probably does. look, i didn t know manafort well. he wasn t with the campaign long. he was with the campaign. he was the campaign chair throughout the republican national convention. came on board in april of 2016 before stepping down later on that summer. those comments on camera are not the only things the president has said about this man you see on your screen. check out the tweets, dating back to fall of last year. sorry but the charges stem from things that happened years ago before paul manafort, the president says, was part of the trump campaign. talking about a large number of counts, recently in the
you know, these things are very difficult to get. it ll be up to the government now to respond. i think it is fair to say it would be surprising if the court agrees to move the trial, which now is supposed to start in a couple weeks. is there a particular reason they re asking for roanoke, pete? no. they don t say. they just bring roanoke up. i just glanced through this because it was just filed. they don t really say why roanoke. i think the thinking is it is relatively close by. yeah. they just say, we respectfully request the court transfer this case from d.c. to roanoke, virginia, for trial. pete, hang tight for a second. i want to make sure we keep up this conversation here. remind folks what the president has said about paul manafort. he s been particularly vocal about his former campaign chair after the virginia verdict came down, convicting manafort of tax and bank fraud charges. the president not shutting the door on a pardon for paul manafort.
for all those reasons, they say, and many more, they say the trial should be moved out of the washington area. they suggest moving it to roanoke, virginia. now, these motions for change of venue, which used to be relatively easily obtained in the federal courts, in recent years, have been strongly disapproved by the courts. for example, in the enron case in texas, a case which devastated the community, the court refused to move that trial. that s become kind of the signal case that people refer to. you may remember there was a change of venue for tsarnaev in boston. his lawyers argued that the boston area was devastated by the marathon bombings. that people were either affected by it or knew someone who was affected by it, and it was impossible to find people in the community who wouldn t have strong feelings. nonetheless, that trial was not moved. it is a request. i think it was one that was largely expected.
more outnumbered in a moment. we touch bases harris coming up on outnumbered involuntary . former white house press sean spice her join me. paul common manafort court appearance today. the president asked couple of witnesses about discussion about counsel robert mueller investigator. did the president ask sean spice ber it and how big deal spicer this this is. joining me president s daughter-in-law laura trump. i ll ask her about reports that only person team trump is worried about in 20 twin cities is 2020 is former vice