you struck that note repeatedly in your papers. but this hearing is not about politics. it s not about the conduct of the office of special counsel. it s about the defendant s alleged conduct. i m very troubled by the contacts with these witnesses are alleged to have taken place even after you were under an explicit order not to contact witnesses directly or indirectly. i am concerned you that seem inclined to treat these proceedings as just another marketing exercise and not a criminal case brought by a duly appointed federal prosecutor in a federal court. all of this at bottom affects my judgment about whether you can be trusted to comply with the court s directives. that is the finding that the statute also requires me to make if i release you. and i can t make it. you have abused the trust placed in you six months ago, and therefore the government s motion will be granted and the defendant will be detained pending trial as of today.
you struck that note repeatedly in your papers. but this hearing is not about politics. it s not about the conduct of the office of special counsel. it s about the defendant s alleged conduct. i m very troubled by the contacts with these witnesses are alleged to have taken place even after you were under an explicit order not to contact witnesses directly or indirectly. i am concerned you that seem inclined to treat these proceedings as just another marketing exercise and not a criminal case brought by a duly appointed federal prosecutor in a federal court. all of this at bottom affects my judgment about whether you can be trusted to comply with the court s directives. that is the finding that the statute also requires me to make if i release you. and i can t make it. you have abused the trust placed in you six months ago, and therefore the government s motion will be granted and the defendant will be detained pending trial as of today.
judge jackson said she struggled with the decision. she said she couldn t turn a blind eye to the allegations if these allegations prove true she said it shows obvious intent toward witness tampering when he was ordered not to do so. she chastised manafort s filings in court on friday. he was treating this whole thing as just another marketing exercise as she said. that s basically what led to his being revoked having his bond revoked at this point. a stunning, stunning development. shannon, back to you. shannon: all right, doug, so can you tell us more about the details of charges of alleged witness tampering? that certainly seems to be the biggest problem for him now that likely led up to today. reporter: yeah, yeah, sure. here s the gist of what that s all about. for a five-week period beginning in february of 2018, manafort is alleged to have called or texted or made some sort of communications through encrypted devices with two members of what s called the hatsburg
campaign that was set up as basically a marketing exercise, which is what was suspected but seems to be revealed in these quotes. nobody thought they would win. and didn t really want to win. that s the other thing. that s not just him putting a spin on the possible loss. they already won. they elevated his name brand. and he would be able to enrich himself off the experience of running. exactly the opposite of how most people run for president. this was a long con played to build his brand. that is one of the most dispiriting things about the things confirmed in this book. this was not about our best this is utterly separate from our best traditions as a country. there s a lot of different colorful things. there s certain stylistic points in here. we will go from the substance to the style, okay? in here it is a wind into some
if this report from nbc is correct and i m sure it is, someday the president is going to have to testify under oath and it s going to be very difficult. while all this is going on a couple of assorted republican fruit cakes on capitol hill are actually putting pieces of legislation on the floor trying to undercut bob mueller and use the process. donald trump is coming on our show refusing to say that vladimir putin is the guy who murders journalists. if you check the timing of of all of these stories, the commingling and look at the calendar, clearly it was a marketing exercise, a branding