As R. Kelly trial approaches, prosecutors want to include alleged evidence of bribes and recordings of threats - CNN

you don't know nothing," prosecutors said the manager told Kelly on the call.

"Exactly," Kelly allegedly responds.

Prosecutors say, if permitted, one witness is expected to testify that Kelly directed her to obtain child pornography involving boys for him, and in their filing state that multiple videos were obtained from a device obtained during a search of Kelly's home that corroborate her testimony.

However, their filing also states the government has been "unable to confirm the identity or ages of the individuals appearing in these videos."

Prosecutors are also asking to admit recordings that purportedly show physical abuse and threats of different women to show "the physical and psychological abuse Kelly employed to maintain control over women and girls with whom he was engaged in sexual relationships and Kelly's regular use of audio and video recordings to maintain control." One is a video recording that, prosecutors say, appears to have been taken by a camera mounted somewhere in a bedroom.