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What took place here. as i said that includes i think debates on the house floor, potentially on january 6th." jordan meant what he said. on january 5th we now know he forwarded a text message to white house chief of staff mark meadows encouraging vice president pence to just overturn the election single-handedly, throw out the will of the voters and essentially pave the way to install trump as the winner. on the day itself january 6th meadows was one of -- jordan was one of 147 members of congr...

Think debates on the house floor, potentially on january six. jordan meant what he said, on january 5th we now know that he forwarded a text message to white house chief of staff mark meadows encouraging mike pence to just overturn the election single-handedly, throughout the will of the voters and essentially paved the way to install trump as the winner. on the day itself, january six, meadows was one of jordan -- jordan was one of the 147 members of congress who voted not to cede the electorat...

The president can pardon you even if you dont accept the pardon. it was ruled many years ago. so if the president wanted a pardon, he could easily just had pardoned. i dont understand why he would have negotiated a pardon. if he gave a pardon then there would be no incentives for the folks on the other side to cooperate because there would be no leverage over them that would force them to cooperate. and so the story doesnt really ring true to an experienced criminal defense lawyer like me. >> je...

Learn about this. as we report today, at the very least it suppose there was concern in the white house, and concern within president trumps legal team about, what manafort and flynn might tell mueller if they were to cooperate with the special counsel. there seems to be concern that mueller at this time, have been, was building cases against both flynn and manafort. if the two were to flip and cooperate, there seemed to be concern about what they might have to say about the president and the pr...

United states has almost absolute pardons to power and can do it perfectly legally. it is not at all clear that the president of the united states can, quote, dangle pardons in front of someone as a means of obstructing a legitimate inquiry. and that appears to be what has happened here. and also, whether the words floated were exact that dowd used in this meeting. im sure john dowd is a clever lawyer. if this happened the way the times and post described it, has a means of speaking suggests cer...

Statement is in the presence tense, sarah sanders referred to that statement, how big a deal is this? >> it is potentially a big deal but it is important that we put the times story in perspective. there is nothing unlawful about a lawyer discussing pardons. that is the power of the presidency. where there could be trouble is if there was some sort of promise implied or given to witnesses in the mueller investigation that if you dont cooperate you will get a pardon. >> professor dershowitz do yo...

Reporting that dowd floated the pardon ideas to attorneys for manafort last summer. what else was he doing at that time? well, he was denying he was doing what the times and the post today reported he was doing. discussing pardons. take a look at cnns coverage last year. >> the "washington post" reports the legal team for the president is also investigating or taking a look at issues related to pardoning potentially his aides and family members and the report does say that the president has even...

Your understanding of how these conversations came about? >> what we reported was that the last year, the presidents lawyer at the time, john dowd, reached out on at least two occasions to two different lawyers for paul manafort and michael flynn. this happened the middle of last year before first of all, michael flynn accept ad plea agreement bob mueller. and before paul manafort was indicted. the exact substance of the conversations is still a little unclear. we know the subject of pardons was...

Happened. nothing on pardons. now at the time, raft july that would not be true which may be why todays white house briefing sarah sanders appeared to be especially careful to only speak with pardons in the present tense. are pardons on the table for anyone involved in the russia probe? >> i would refer you back to the statement from ty cobb in the report that youre asking about in which he said, ive only been asked about pardons by the press and i have routinely responded on the record that n...