Blumenthal on the Delay of Manafort’s Hearing: ‘Manafort’s Lawyers Are Grappling with New Potential Evidence of Obstruction of Justice’

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BLUMENTHAL: "My reaction is that this development could be profoundly significant, because Paul Manafort is alleged to have talked to people in the White House while he was supposedly cooperating with the Special Counsel's Office. The question then is, with whom did he talk, and his lawyers presumably also may have talked to lawyers in the White House. So what may be happening here is that Paul Manafort’s lawyers are grappling with new potential evidence of obstruction of justice, and potential claims against the lawyers involved, as well as people in the White House who may have been working with Paul Manafort, trying to shape his story."