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Thats absurd. Did anyone involved in the Trump Campaign have contact with russians trying to meddle with the election . Absolutely not. We dont know of any contacts with russian agents. Those conversations never happened. Lie after lie. Why would there be any contacts between the campaign . Why is a question that remains to be answered. What we know now is there were contacts between Jared Kushner by his own admission, not fake news, real facts. Jared kushner said he met with russians, he just d...

About a pending vote in the u. N. General assembly regarding israel. According to the charges, a very Senior Member of the president ial Transition Team directed flynn to contact officials from foreign governments, including russia, to learn where each government stood on the resolution and to influence those governments to delay the vote or defeat the resolution. Nbc news reported today that the very senior official was Jared Kushner, the president s soninlaw. In a Statement Today Michael Flynn...

Kushner, might be too much even for the republicans. moreover, muellers a crafty dude. so hes working with state prosecutors as well. lots of exposure for all of these guys for state crimes. guess what, the president of the united states has no power over state prosecutions. couldnt pardon. >> the attorney general in albany cant wait to get going here. let me ask frank one last question. i forgot my last question. i was already done here. no, what about the fact that the president will have this...

Looking at the courthouse, reporters lining up outside. couldnt pardon michael flynn but welcome to 2017 the white house smiles and laughs when you bring up conflict of interest. >> well, this president would absolutely, and i think what nick has identified is a fascinating legal theory of limitation on the presidential pardon power. its untested so we have no case law on that particular thing. and it might not be legally possible to get case law for the following reason. this president would ha...

Investigation against flynn because hes a good guy. so that would suggestion to me a closeness between flynn and the president. the fact that flynn is looking at deal means there are state charges that the president couldnt pardon or he was told by trumps team that they wont -- that the president wont pardon flynn and his son which -- which might be because that could be used as evidence against the president by mueller and his obstruction case. >> malcolm you are good at seeing things behind th...

Impeachment, you can still be tried criminally. in article 1. the problem is that article -- that same argument would mean the president couldnt pardon anyone in his administration from vice president to cabinet members who are subject to impeachment. >> so, norm, didnt they look into this during the nixon white house? >> they did. the office of legal counsel looked at it four days before nixon resigned. of course, those are nixons lawyers. and they determined that a president cannot pardon hims...

Transcendence over the judicial process and i think that where norms arguments fall short is they would go too far. i mean, norm has argued, for example, that the constitution says that regardless of impeachment, you can still be tried criminally. in article 1. the problem is that article -- that same argument would mean the president couldnt pardon anyone in his administration from vice president to cabinet members who are subject to impeachment. >> so, norm, didnt they look into this during th...