so far which is why paul manafort and his defense team elected to go on trial twice. once in virginia and once in washington, d.c. prosecutors from the special counsel s office had offered to consolidate the two cases so he would go on trial once. his legal team said no. this judge in the d.c. case has previously proclaimed herself in court to be basically bewildered by that decision and here today she once again goes back to it. the judge, quote, now i the judge, quote, now i understand, wasn t my decision to move another trial in front of this. wasn t my decision on push that trial up to accommodate that judge s schedule. and you know, it was your decision to push it further. so you re under extraordinary time pressures that don t happen on a daily basis. but we have a pretrial conference scheduled on september 5th and i need to know what objections have you to the prosecutors exhibits. so what are we going to do? manafort s defense lawyer kevin downing says, i don t know, your hono
once in virginia and once in washington, d.c. prosecutors had offered to consolidate two cases so manafort would go on trial only once. his legal team said no. this judge in the d.c. case has previously proclaimed herself in court to be basically bewildered by decision and here today she once again goes back to it. the judge, quote, now i understand, wasn t my decision to move another trial in front of this. wasn t my decision on push that trial up to accommodate that judge s schedule. and you know, it was your decision to push it further. so you re under extraordinary time pressures that don t happen on a daily basis. but we have a pretrial scheduled on september 5th and i need to know what objections you have to the prosecutors exhibits. so what are we going to do? manafort s defense lawyer kevin downing says, i don t know, your honor. we don t have the resources of the u.s. government. we don t have two trial teams on get ready for two trials.
by decision and here today she once again goes back to it. the judge, quote, now i understand, wasn t my decision to move another trial in front of this. wasn t my decision on push that trial up to accommodate that judge s schedule. and you know, it was your decision to push it further. so you re under extraordinary time pressures that don t happen on a daily basis. but we have a pretrial scheduled on september 5th and i need to know what objections you have to the prosecutors exhibits. so what are we going to do? manafort s defense lawyer kevin downing says, i don t know, your honor. we don t have the resources of the u.s. government. we don t have two trial teams on get ready for two trials. this is us. three here and a paralegal. i don t see how it will get done with all the parts. the judge responds, well, the day you asked for was yesterday. so what are you asking for now? you can t just say i don t know. you haven t moved to continue the trial.