Well, now as of today manafort has filed an appeal asking the same judge who jailed him to instead reconsider that decision and put him back on house arrest. That will be taken up with the Appeals Court, appealing to the Appeals Court to overturn the ruling of the judge overseeing his case. Also today abc news reports that erik prince, the brother of education secretary betsy devos, founder of the private Security Firm blackwater, erik prince has according to abc news had his phone and his computer taken by special counsel Robert Muellers office. As the special counsels office continues to investigate the russian attack on the 2016 president ial election and the question of what the Trump Campaign knew about it and whether they contemporaneously took any actions to abet the russians in that effort. Erik prince of course met during the president ial transition in the Seychelles Islands with the head of a major russian investment firm. He was at that meeting reportedly as a representativ
Instead reconsider that decision and put him back on house arrest. That will be taken up with the Appeals Court, appealing to the Appeals Court tooverturn the ruling of the judge overseeing his case. Also today abc news reports that erik prince, the brother of education secretary betsy devos, founder of the private Security Firm blackwater, erik prince has according to abc news had his phone and his computer taken by special counsel Robert Muellers office. As the special counsels office continues to investigate the russian attack on the 2016 president ial election and the question of what the Trump Campaign knew about it and whether they contemporaneously took any actions to abet the russians in that effort. Erik prince of course met during the president ial transition in the Seychelles Islands with the head of a major russian investment firm. He was at that meeting reportedly as a representative of the Incoming Trump administration. The special counsels office, we know, has reportedly