jury selection begins this morning in the federal trial of former trump campaign chairman paul manafort for alleged financial crimes. it is the first public test for special counsel robert mueller and his prosecutors. we have more from evan perez in washington. >> reporter: dave and laura, paul manafort, the former campaign chairman, is going on trial in virginia on federal tax and bank fraud charges. this is the first trial to come from robert mueller's investigation. don't expect the trial to be about russia or collusion or president trump. prosecutors and attorneys plan to stick closely to the issues in the charges which have to do with the government's accusations that manafort used secret foreign bank accounts to hide millions of dollars he earned working for the ukrainian government and failed to report it to the irs. manafort has pleaded not guilty to the charges. in the hours before jury
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