he s also scheduled for a separate trial on other charges later this year. our crime and justice correspondent shimon prokupecz is outside the courthouse. we re learning manafort is in the courtroom right now. what else are we learning? reporter: yeah, john. so some decisions here, some rulings from the judge. he just granted a request from prosecutor prosecutors from the special counsel s office a request he made that he grant five witnesses immunity. these are five mystery witnesses. we don t know anything about them. but prosecutors had last week asked the judge to grant these witnesses immunity so they can come in and testify, not have to take the fifth. they could freely testify without the fear of prosecution. clearly these are important witnesses to the prosecution. so the prosecutors had asked that the judge go ahead and give them immunity. that just occurred moments ago. other procedural matters here in court today involve the request
relates to hick gate rick gates. we re waiting for the names of some 30 witnesses the prosecution says they re going to call to the stand. five of the witnesses are mystery witnesses who were just granted immunity by the judge today. their names along with the other witnesses are expected to be released sometime today. and hopefully we ll have that for you later. okay. speaking of evidence, thank you very much. we have some news just into us here that prosecutors investigating michael cohen are now revealing the fbi found 12 audio recordings during their raid on his apartment, office, and hotel room. 12. those new details next. crabfest is back at red lobster! discover our largest variety of crab and crab dishes all year!
it s not entirely clear. manafort s attorneys came into court today asking for this delay saying they had just received new documents and they needed some time to review the new documents. it seemed at least that the judge was giving some indications he was inclined to do that. we re waiting for him to make that decision. he s listening to other matters right now we re told. that s the delay. manafort and his attorneys were ordered back to court at 2:00. we re waiting for that. the other news here today, brooke, is that the judge has granted immunity to five witnesses for the prosecution. the special counsel s office made a request of the judge last week for immunity for the five mystery witnesses. it s not entirely clear to us yet who they are. that may happen today. we may get a list of the witnesses that are going to testify against paul manafort. the judge and the prosecutors here have indicated they have about 30 witnesses that they
earlier, the judge made big news granting five of mueller s witnesses immunity but the judge is also making them making the prosecutors reveal who they are. reporter: that s right. that s something that the special counsel s office did not want. they didn t want the judge to reveal who they are. these are the five witnesses that we have previously reported on, these mystery witnesses who were granted immunity this morning by the judge. the judge signed off on that. allowing them to come in and testify now against paul manafort. and it appears once their names were released this afternoon we learned that they re associated with the financial dealings. james brennan, donna duggin, cindy laportea and dennis raico and testifying against paul manafort. thank you. there s more breaking news dealing with the case against the president s former fixer michael cohen and learning that