prosecutors from the special counsel s team called manafort a danger to the community in court two weeks after filing details about microsoft s repeated contacts with two people who had previously worked for him. court filings refer to them as person d1 and d1. manafort and a confidante allegedly asked them to make the false claim that manafort had lobbied on behalf of pro-russian ukrainian politicians only in europe when investigators say, in fact, he had lobbied the u.s. congress for those ukrainian politicians from 2011 to 2013. prosecutors say manafort used phone calls and encrypted apps for messaging beginning in february and allegedly wrote to person d1, we should talk. i have made clear they worked in europe. they say he also used a system called foldering where multiple people have access to an account and write messages to each other as draft e-mails that are never sent. manafort s attorneys tried to
daily news he doesn t understand the justification for sending him to jail and then saying this when the whole thing is over, things might be cleaned up with some presidential pardons. and the president today himself also weighed in. tonight former trump campaign chairman paul manafort is headed to jail. a federal judge revoked his $10 million bail after prosecutors alleged that he spent five weeks contacting witnesses in the case and asking them to lie. it is rare to put a white calar defendant with no prior criminal history in jail pending the trial. it ratchets up the pressure on paul manafort. reporter: the judge said she didn t have many options to make sure he didn t continue to contact witnesses and said this is not middle school. i can t take his cell phone. i thought about this long and hard, mr. manafort, i have no appetite for this. prosecutors from the special counsel team called manafort a danger to the community and two weeks after filing details about