CNN: Judge Agrees to Delay Manafort Trial Until July 31

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PROKUPECZ: "That's exactly right. The judge has delayed the start of this trial to July 31st. Just about a week or so. The defense attorneys, manafort's attorneys came into court this morning and argued they needed more time to review documents, specifically documents related to the former partner of Paul Manafort, Rick Gates. As we know Rick Gates is now cooperating with the special counsel team. It appears that the manafort team got the new documents just recently and they had asked a judge for more time. We're told that perhaps that these documents were sitting in another attorney's office and that's how the manafort team came into contact with us and now that they have it, they need more time to review it. They said there was good reason on both sides to delay the start of the trial. The judge was hoping to get jury selection underway on Wednesday. When you think about this from the time this arrest happened to now, just the speed at which the judge wanted to get this trial going was pretty remarkable."