Read: Transcript of closed-door Manafort hearing

[pnwmom]

Source: CNN

A federal court released a partial transcript from Paul Manafort's four-and-a-half hour sealed court hearing held on Monday.


Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/07/politics/transcript-paul-manafort-hearing/index.html?utm_content=2019-02-07T21%3A33%3A02&utm_source=twCNNp&utm_term=image&utm_medium=social

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At the link is a 143 page transcript of the hearing, with redactions.

The hearing deals with issues the Judge will be considering with regard to Manafort's sentencing, which was postponed to sometime in March, after the government said that Manafort was in breach of his cooperation agreement with them by lying.

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/02/04/manaforts-sentencing-delayed-march-13-1145769

U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson, in a one-paragraph order, rescheduled Manafort’s sentencing for March 13. The delay gives attorneys for Mueller and Manafort more time to hash out a dispute over charges that the longtime Republican operative repeatedly broke the terms of his cooperation agreement with federal prosecutors.

[llmart]

1. I'll wait for the Cliff notes.

143 pages

[2naSalit]

4. Rachel Maddow will probably

give us an animated reading of the best parts this evening on her news program.

[riverwalker]

7. I love when she does that 👍🏻

[2naSalit]

8. Me too. She's so

into it. I'm kind of like her in my need to dig for answers to political wonderments.

[riverwalker]

2. Page 63

Mueller had proof of a bunch of conversations between Manafort and Kilimnik that Manafort denied until confronted with evidence.
Was someone wired? Fascinating. Back to reading..........

[htuttle]

3. If the Special Counsel has access to NSA data, then EVERYONE is wired, lol

[2naSalit]

5. +1

I have a feeling that the Oval Office might be.

[wiggs]

10. Even if our agencies don't listen in...how many other countries in the world have listening devices

or wires tapped or people in place to overhear conversations? How many have shared information with DOJ? How many have used that information as leverage?

[htuttle]

11. And, how many times were our agencies already monitoring the Russian side of the call

...when one of the Trump team contacted them.

I think that was one of the things that put the FBI onto Trump well before the election.

[riverwalker]

6. Manafort lied about

Something (blacked out) to “make himself more amenable for a pardon”. Page 80 something.
Lots of contradiction between Gates and Manafort testimony, defense and Judge getting testy.
Up to pg 123, lots of “contact with the administration” references. Getting good.

[riverwalker]

9. Defense says the gout made him lie

Because it affected his memory, and he’s not used to being in prison. 🙄.
The rest is just housekeeping.