UPDATE 2: Reuters on Judge Ellis granting immunity to five witnesses who have agreed to testify in Manafort trial:
A federal judge said he would rule later on Monday over whether to delay the criminal trial of U.S. President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort and that he planned to make public the identity of five witnesses who had been granted immunity to testify.
Judge T.S. Ellis III, at a hearing in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, also said the U.S. Special Counsel’s Office must provide a list of about 30 witnesses to lawyers for Manafort, who request a delay of several months for his trial this week on bank and tax fraud charges.
U.S. judge allows five Manafort trial witnesses to testify in exchange for immunity (Reuters)
UPDATE: BuzzFeed News' courts and justice reporter Zoe Tillman is tweeting real-time updates:
Tillman adds Manafort will not be back in court Monday afternoon.
Paul Manafort is expected in court Monday as his defense team argues to delay his Virginia trial scheduled to begin Wednesday.
The federal judge in Alexandria, Virginia, scheduled a hearing to consider his lawyers’ request to delay his trial for several months.
Manafort faces a second criminal trial in Washington in September on related charges, including witness tampering, in connection with lobbying work he performed for the pro-Russia Ukrainian government. His lawyers have argued that they need more time to prepare for both cases.
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The trial scheduled to start on Wednesday involves 16 counts including bank and tax fraud and failure to file reports of foreign bank and financial accounts.
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Though the charges did not reference the Trump campaign or the 2016 election, legal experts have said they put more pressure on former Trump aides to cooperate with Mueller as he looks into whether Russia tried to influence the election in favor of Trump by hacking the emails of leading Democrats and distributing disinformation and propaganda online.
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Mueller’s team has outlined an extensive list of evidence to present at the Virginia trial, submitting a 21-page list detailing more than 400 exhibits that include scores of bank records, emails and photographs, among other documents.
Manfort’s team has sought to exclude some of the exhibits arguing that they are irrelevant and would prejudice the jurors, but the U.S. Special Counsel’s Office said the documents are pertinent to the case.
Mueller’s team last week also sought immunity for five potential witness.
Trump's ex-aide Manafort due in court over bid to delay trial (Reuters)