KATE BOLDUAN, CNN ANCHOR: Breaking news this morning about former Trump campaign chairman, Paul Manafort. His legal team filing critical new documents ahead of a hearing later today, all related to the allegation that he violated his plea deal with the special counsel. Let's get over to CNN's Kara Scannell. She has the details on this. Kara, what are you hearing right now?</s>KARA SCANNELL, CNN REPORTER: Kate, there's a new filing in this ongoing saga of whether Paul Manafort breached his plea agreement. Manafort's lawyers say unequivocally that he did not lie. One of the issues the special counsel's office says he lied about has to do with conversations Manafort had with Konstantin Kilimnik, a Russian who has ties to Russian intelligence. At the heart of their case was Manafort's conversations with Kilimnik about a Ukrainian peace plan. Manafort's lawyers, in the filing, have said that when Paul Manafort and Kilimnik discussed this idea in 2016, during the campaign, Manafort told him, it was a quote, "crazy," unquote, idea. Now we're back in court this afternoon at 1:30,another sealed hearing. We do expect the judge to rule possibly as soon as today on whether Manafort breached his plea agreement and what implications that may have on his sentencing -- Kate?</s>BOLDUAN: Every think with this, Kara, every filing raises more questions about what it means and then where it redirects this entire, as you called it, saga. I guess we'll stand by to stand by to see what comes later today. Thank you so much for bringing it to us. I really appreciate it. Coming up, the deadline to avoid another government shutdown is now just two days away. Where do things stand with the deal lawmakers reached? What did the president do with it? We're going to ask the top Republican negotiator in the House who brokered the deal.
In New Filings Lawyers Insister Manafort "Did Not Lie" to Special Counsel