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Kate Bolduan gives a fresh take on todays top stories. Kate Bolduan gives a fresh take on todays top stories. I appreciate you pointing that out. Jeremy diamond for us. Good to have all of you with us. Mark, lets start off here first with the relationship between the president and Michael Cohen. The president trying to downplay this relationship. It sounds lu s like he is goinga George Papadopoulos coffee boy relationship when it comes to Michael Cohen. Its absurd were having to have this discus...

Jury pool in d.c. is much less sympathetic, going to be much less sympathetic to conservative values as they were in the eastern district of virginia. this was about as good of a jury pool as there could have been. i think its a warning sign to the government. i dont think theyre going to retry the ten counts they were hung on. i think this was a victory in all sense of the word. it just goes to show you, you roll the dice when you go to trial. you never know what kind of jury you are going to g...

That the president has laid, you mentioned joe arpaio, look at the desuzza pardon. de he didnt argue he didnt commit the crime. he argued he was selectively prosecuted, vindictively prosecuted by the government because there was a bunch of democrats who didnt like his political views. that sounds like what president trump is talking about paul manafort. he is saying, these crimes are crimes for sure, but theyre not worse than the crimes that anyone in the clinton administration committed. >> we ...

To pardon or not to pardon, that could be the question the president is facing about paul manafort who could spend the rest of his life in prison after his fraud convictions that came down tuesday. mr. trump praised and defended him since the verdict, calling him brave, saying he didnt break like michael cohen. the president was asked about a potential pardon for manafort on fox news. that aired this morning. here is his response. >> are you considering pardoning paul manafort? >> i have great r...

York times," he has spoken with the president about the political repercussions of a pardon. joining me now to discuss, senior political correspondent for the washingtushington exami david drucker. david, we heard from rudy giuliani saying he spoke with the president about the political ramifications. we havent heard a lot from lawmakers. we heard from senator lindsey graham. take a listen. >> pardons are normally given for somebody who has reformed themselves. mr. manafort hasnt even been sente...

Investigation and it plays well for him, i think he is in a better position to look at a pardon at that point. if he does it in the middle of the game, it starts to look like he is trying to manipulate the game. then he has to answer more questions. >> in terms of answering questions, correct me if im wrong here, if a pardon were granted, then this would mean that paul manafort is waiving his fifth amendment right. hello, robert mueller? >> he would not be able to invoke it. the fifth amendment ...