mr. manafort into giving up information on president donald trump or others in the campaign. i ve been saying that for a long time. it s a witch hunt. if you re wondering how closely donald trump is following the impending criminal trial of his one-time campaign chairman paul manafort, wonder no more. that was trump reading from a news report handed him just before his speech. during a hearing in the case today, a federal judge in virginia expressed skeptic qulix special counsel mule her the authority to bring charges against manafort that were not directly related to collusion. of course, trump loved that the jung was tough on the prosecutors. but the judge did not issue his ruling today whether any of those charges will be dismissed. the question is, what does today s hearing mean for the mueller probe. to tep us answer that question and more, i m joined by legal analyst jill wine-banks, form area siftent watergate special prosecutor and harry sen dick in the criminal division for
charged with in the eastern district of virginia are based in virginia. for example, phis his tax returns from his home in virginia. and he didn t report the income he got from his work in the ukraine. so he failed to pay federal taxes on that money. and that is a crime that occurred when he filed in virginia. so that s why that is there. and it can be prosecuted by the u.s. attorney for the eastern district of virginia or it can be prosecuted by the special counsel depending on how the jurisdictional statement is written. and i am pretty sure that mr. mueller would not have brought those charges if they weren t within what he had been assigned by mr. rosenstein. but it won t help mr. manafort if for some reason the judge decides that mueller cannot charge him with these crimes. then the eastern district can. crimes have been committed, the grand jury found enough evidence