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Before. whether you believe that cohen actually tried to make a deal with stormy daniels by himself. now you have his own lawyer, cohens own lawyer, calling him a fixer and saying he freelanced on this. clint, look, were talking about a question about whether or not a president used his power or someone on his behalf used the power of his office to derail an investigation and were talking about freelancing potentially here. have you ever seen anything like this? >> no. weve never seen anything l...

This morning, there are new questions about presidential pardons in the russia probe. "the new york times" reports that president trumps former lead counsel john dowd discussed offering pardons for michael flynn and paul manafort as mueller closed in on them last year. "the times" writes this, the discussions came as the special counsel was building cases against both men and they raised questions about whether the lawyer, john dowd, who resigned last week, was offering pardons to influence thei...

Clint watts, msnbc security analyst. and good to see all of you. if this is true could this be obstruction of justice? >> well, it could. the idea hes possibly dangling out this idea of a pardon to paul manafort or michael flynn is very troubling. but, you know, the idea that constitutional powers are absolute, i mean, we all -- and thats kind of the argument here. >> meaning the president can pardon whoever he wants? >> for whatever reason. we all know in the constitution there are limits at ti...