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>> jill, his first prosecution reminds me of watergate. in this case, you start with the small fry, if you will and work your way up. punishing them along the way perhaps. >> it does. and that is how we operated. you start building your case by getting the people who can give you someone higher up. and in this case, i think van der zwaan was a peripheral character but it does show that you cannot lie that they know a lot more in the prosecutors office than you think they do and that you must tel...

Personal message thatt presiden xi had. >> i dont have anything to add. >> quick question on stormy daniels and the lawsuit that was offered overnight -- or the motion that was made overnight. youve said that you addressed these issues extensively. these are in response today. you havent answered the question about whether the president was aware of the $130,000 payment that was paid in which he is explicitedly nam. you were asked three weeks ago and you said you were not aware. are you aware no...

President could grant, you would think the president would probably know about it. we dont know that. i dont want to get out over my skis on that one. >> the president does have the absolute power to pardon. can lawyers in the muller case use this as evidence of obstruction against the president if his lawyer was dangling these pardons as they were building a case against presumably two key figures in this investigation? >> i think thats a fascinating question. let me take a step back and try an...

And hes not going to go to jail. i think its exactly the right question to ask. i dont think we know enough to answer it. i can tell you this, whether or not constitutional scholars are on either side of this question about the authority a president has are right or wrong, prosecutors and agents are going to be looking at why the president or his emissaries are talking pardon to witnesses. >> what could this mean for the potential interview between robert muller and donald trump? >> well, its an...

Hes got a statement on the record saying theres no consideration of those at this time. >> is the white house worried about what michael flynn or paul manafort might tell robert muller? >> as weve said pretty much every day since we got here because you guys have continued to ask about this topic every single day. there was no collusion. were very confident in that and look forward to this process wrapping up. >> the attorney for stormy daniels filed a motion to depose the president of the unite...

Even after manafort left. manafort had ties to the campaign, even after he was ousted from it. in terms of what michael flynn could tell the special counsel that would be relevant to this investigation, it really all comes down to the transition talks that he had with the russian ambassador. why did he feel the need to lie about that to the fbi? why did he reashassure the ambassador that the sanctions would be looked at. these are big questions that flynn would have the answer to and that maufpa...

About the news of the day. she infrequently can answer questions from reporters about what the president is thinking, what his intentions are, what hes doing, what hes been reading. whether he has a comment on any given story. which is odd, because shes supposed to be speaking on behalf of the president. natasha, last question to you. and its a question i asked you before sarah huckabee sanders came out. what could michael flynn, what could paul manafort reveal that could potentially worry the w...

The president says and i listened and i took that mexico will pay for the wall because im going to change our policies to the mexico economy and to the mexican government and there are people who know when he said that, that is what he meant. but i dont blame you for taking him literally. go for it. but i think the american people are smarter than that. >> i dont know. i talked -- maybe. i talked to a lot of folks who said when he said mexico was going to pay for the wall that they expected mexi...

Are there to stand between you and your aides and jail something else entirely. thanks to each of you. also new tonight, stormy daniels, brand-new, filing a new suit against michael cohen, donald trumps lawyer. it all relates to the "60 minutes" interview, and we lasa tonight have new reporting on the collusion question, a forger trump aide who was encouraged to pursue foreign contacts. im going to get the information from his wife, whos now a witness for bob mueller. we will look at the bigger,...

Course he entered the administration. we also learned that mueller is examining whether or not trump himself knew about the hacked democratic e-mails or about whether or not they were going to be released before they were actually released to the public by wikileaks, whether or not that former campaign aide, george papadopoulos, ever told anyone in the trump campaign he had been told by someone linked to russia that they had dirt on hillary clinton in the form of thousands of e-mails. so now thi...