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Welcome to our viewers joining us in the United States and all around the world. Just ahead on cnn newsroom,. All i want to do is this. I want to find 11,580 votes. Indictment brings Felony Charges against donald john trump. I think there is a trail of information that america is going to get to see. You got a different player that just stepped on the field with a different playbook and a different sense of what justice looks like. It is tuesday, august 15th, 4 a. M. Here in atlanta why former P...

On this, the most endangered democrat in america. Congressman joe baum, bowman on the lobby group is spending millions to oust him and other democrats across the country. He will join me on said in a few minutes. Gop senator mitt romney makes a Surprise Argument for why pardoning donald trump is actually good for all of us. Really . We will tell you about raga, one of the scariest Republican Groups youve never heard of. Im Ayman Mohyeldin, lets do it. Why has a primary race in one of the country...

The contrary with a straight face before being shouted down. but then minutes later came bad news for paul manafort from the city of new york. the manhattan district attorney announced a grand jury had indicted manafort on 16 criminal counts related to an alleged mortgage fraud scheme. those are state charges. so if manafort is found guilty of those or any one of them, the president cannot pardon him. today trump claimed the idea of a pardon hasnt even crossed his mind, while also expressing sym...

Manaforts lawyer, as we saw, from going outside and claiming the contrary with a straight face before being shouted down. but then minutes later came bad news for paul manafort from the city of new york. the manhattan district attorney announced a grand jury had indicted manafort on 16 criminal counts related to an alleged mortgage fraud scheme. those are state charges. so if manafort is found guilty of those or any one of them, the president cannot pardon him. today trump claimed the idea of a ...

Then orderly fashion. it doesnt come to you signed, sealed, and delivered. you have to corroborate it. those things take time. >> harris: quickly, before have to let you go -- the idea of pardoning as a federal level. not problematic if the president wants to do it legally. >> pardoning who? >> harris: whether its manafort, company in -- >> the manafort problem -- the manafort pardon will be problematic. he also admitted stage crimes for which the president cannot pardon him. >> harris: so he ge...

To gain pretty to be playing horseshoes with him, he could be playing cards on air forced to, later air force one. anything, he liked to have a little competition. he was going to win the little mini game. he had all kinds of great little nicknames for people, and fun competitions all the time. at the white house and elsewher elsewhere. >> harris: bob grady, former advisor for the former president. the 1988 presidential campaign predicts that history lesson on august 1st. we have forgotten that ...

Someone down, and trump world has a lot of people involved in a lot of stretchy things. >> yep. >> michael cohen, the piece about him leads you if a motivated prosecutor wants to make a turn on anybody in the country about anything, he probably can be turned in that sense. so we should be hopefully at the end of the rainbow. when someone turned its for a good reason. >> yeah, thats right. just like innocent people take the fifth amendment. it doesnt mean that he is actually guilty that he took t...

Defamation but in this case it actually could. he has mad exposure on any number of federal and state levels. just to be clear, the state exposure means that the president cannot pardon him. the president is not able to pardon anyone for a state crime. >> final question about the money. there is $200,000 plus in legal fees apparently being paid by the trump campaign. the trump campaign says its all russia-related stuff. its by the boards. he was exposed to it because of his relationship with the...

And its also grounds for impeachment. you just cant do that. you cant try to effect this investigation by pardoning a witness who may say something bad against you. >> but dont you think that mule tear and his team in accepting this plea bargain agreement where them, they got everything out of him in the course of all of the discussions they had leading up to that plea agreement? >> we dont know. we dont know exactly what all the conversations have been. but robert mueller has been very smart. o...

Cooperate, does that signal to you that he feels exposed, that he feels unprotected by a possible presidential pardon? >> yes, i would say that the fact that his legal fees havent been paid, or that we dont know theyve been paid. the fact that no pardon has been offered might have made him uncomfortable. the other thing that could be playing a role in this, he may have committed a violation of state law. when he was talking about possibly kidnapping an american resident. the muslim cleric, to re...