that Manafort’s next hearing in Washington is scheduled for April 19 and his trial is scheduled for September 17. In the meantime, he will face a Virginia court in March on whatNBC Newscalled a separate indictment andCNN reportedwere additional federal criminal charges. citing a “senior administration official,” reported that Donald Trump and Don McGahn weren’t the only two people pressuring Jeff Sessions to stay involved with the Russia investigation. According to the source, former White House chief of staff Reince Priebus and former press secretary Sean Spicer also put “pressure” on the Attorney General. Priebus declined to comment when reached by CNN, and Spicer denied the allegation. Four months into his Presidential campaign, Trump reportedly signed a letter of intent indicating his plans to pursue a Trump Tower-style building in Moscow,ABC News of “willfully and knowingly mak[ing] false, fictitious, and fraudulent statements and representations” to the FBI about his conversations with then-Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak. CNN reported that the guilty plea was part of a deal Flynn made with Mueller’s office to cooperate with investigators as needed in exchange for not being prosecuted for other crimes (like misreporting foreign lobbying filings). In a statement, the White House said that “nothing about the guilty plea or the charge implicates anyone other than Flynn.”