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he s also scheduled for a separate trial on other charges later this year. our crime and justice correspondent shimon prokupecz is outside the courthouse. we re learning manafort is in the courtroom right now. what else are we learning? reporter: yeah, john. so some decisions here, some rulings from the judge. he just granted a request from prosecutor prosecutors from the special counsel s office a request he made that he grant five witnesses immunity. these are five mystery witnesses. we don t know anything about them. but prosecutors had last week asked the judge to grant these witnesses immunity so they can come in and testify, not have to take the fifth. they could freely testify without the fear of prosecution. clearly these are important witnesses to the prosecution. so the prosecutors had asked that the judge go ahead and give them immunity. that just occurred moments ago. other procedural matters here in court today involve the request

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