[ whirring sound ] you want a cookie? it s a drone! i know. find your phone easily with the xfinity voice remote. one more way comcast is working to fit into your life, not the other way around. judge t.s. ellis who is really something very special i hear from many standpoints. he s a respected person, suggested the charges before the u.s. district court for the eastern district of virginia were just part of the mueller team s designs to pressure 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
imetchment and goes on to say prosecutors wanted mr. manafort to sing but he worried that manafort might also compose that does not as a former prosecutor tell you uh-oh, this guy is going to dismiss this case. if i were the prosecutor i would rather him not have said these things but i wouldn t necessarily jump to that conclusion. he has to base his decision on the law. and we already saw that a judge in the district of columbia expressed concern about there were very similar type of argument. we know that the regulations that we re talking about here all say right at the front these don t give individuals rights. thee are meant to talk about how the department of justice divides up its work. so the worst case no for the government is that prosecutors in the eastern district of virginia bring there case against paul manafort. absolutely. go into that for a minute. jill, there are two different case taz manafort is facing, one in d.c., one the eastern district of virginia. why w
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
against former trump campaign chairman paul manafort, who was there for a while, but who is a good person. judge t.s. ellis, who is really something special i hear from many stand points, suggested the charges before the u.s. district court for the eastern district of virginia were just part of the mueller s teams designs to pressure 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. then none of that information has to do with information related to the russian government coordination and the campaign of donald trump. it doesn t have anything to do. it s from years before. then how does this have anything to do with the campaign, the
something very special i hear from many standpoints. he is a respected person. suggested the charges before the u.s. district court for the eastern district of virginia were just part of the mueller team design to pressure mr. manafort into giving up information on president donald trump on the campaign. i ve been saying that for a long time. it s a witch hunt. then none of that information has to do with information related to the russian government toward nation and the campaign of donald trump. it doesn t have anything to do. it s from years before. then how does this have anything to do with the campaign, the judge asks? let me tell you, folks. we are all fighting battles. but i love fighting these battles. [cheers & applause]