Inside secret court hearing in Mueller's Trump-Russia probe
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Source: Politico
11/08/2017 05:23 AM EST
One of the first court appearances by special counsel Robert Mueller's team got off to an inauspicious start with a federal magistrate scolding prosecutors for being late.
"Where were you all? This was scheduled for 2 o'clock," a gruff-sounding U.S. Magistrate Judge Theresa Buchanan told the prosecution team last July as they entered her Alexandria, Virginia, courtroom to arraign former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos on charges of obstructing justice and lying to investigators about the timeline of his Russia-related contact.
"We were informed it had been moved to 3 o'clock. We apologize if we misunderstood that it had been rescheduled," prosecutor Brandon Van Grack replied to the judge's query.
The July 28 hearing took place behind closed doors, but after the case was formally unsealed, POLITICO obtained audio of the roughly eight-minute session.
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Audio of George Papadopoulos' July arraignment in closed Virginia courtroom
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Audio reveals details of George Papadopoulos' July arraignment in closed Virginia courtroom.
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Wouldn't put it past them. The same party that tells people to vote on a different day than the election. 
