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Become a reality among democrats. Up first, a tale of two felons. President trump praises Paul Manafort, his former Campaign Chairman, now convicted on eight federal counts of tax and bank fraud. The president tweeted this, i feel very badly for Paul Manafort and his wonderful family. Justice, and he puts the word justice in quotes took a 12yearold tax case among other things applied tremendous pressure on him and unlike Michael Cohen, he refused to break. Make up stories in order to get a deal....

News, analysis and interviews with politicians and observers. Cnns Abbie Phillip is live at the white house. The president just had an event where he met at the white house with republican lawmakers. Did he clarify anything today . Reporter well, nia, the president just let reporters into the room for that meeting. It was originally scheduled to have been closed, but he said nothing. He didnt respond to questions about any of these issues floating around him. He didnt expand on any of his commen...

Is it as simple as hes trying to get a pardon? or is it something even deeper? >> so ali, what happens to manafort now? >> he goes to sentence, he gets the book thrown at him, hes going to get double-digit years and he has to sit back and wait for a pardon. theres no other escape hatch for him. will he get a pardon? i dont think so. first of all, he cant hurt the president anymore. he is done as a cooperator. he cant -- mueller will not cooperate him, the southern district will not cooperate him...

Perspective, there really doesnt seem to be a case against it. if there were evidence that, for instance, republicans in his own party would really put up a fight about this and say this dle clearly shows obstruction of justice, which is what a lot of democrats are arguing, then maybe there would be a risk. he seems to use these pardons as almost political tools, to shore up support on his side of his base. i think a manafort pardon would do that. i dont really think he would suffer from a lot o...

Contribution, and it isnt disclosed to the fec as an in-kind campaign contribution, wouldnt that be illegal? >> i honestly dont know that. and john edwards was tried on something very similar. he was not convicted on that. i think its -- >> john edwards? >> yes. its a very niche area of law, and not much expertise in this. but if i could draw one other comparison, if i could. i know, wolf, you may not agree with this. but i think its fair to do this. and that is the american people hope that, tw...

Is being investigated for more than campaign finance, right? you look at business dealings. money laundering. tax evasion. but im wondering, lets talk scooter libby for a minute. how much was the scooter libby pardon. we can argue the merritts of it. we have a judicial process. he was convicted. got a 30-month sentence. george bush commutes it. doesnt pardon him. how much of that is a message to michael cohen, you know a whole lot, but you know what i can do in the event you stay the course and ...

Tough on illegal immigrants. i wouldnt be surprised if he does or doesnt pardon him. >> as were having this conversation there, you see air force one touching down in reno, nevada, president trump arriving, set to give a speech there. 2:00 eastern time. top of the hour. left side of your screen, again, that is charlottesville, virginia, where workers appear to be positioned to hoist that black tarp of sorts up over the statue of robert e. lee in charlottesville, virginia. again, this is somethin...

Really light a match. i am hoping and praying he does not pardon sheriff joe tonight, and if he doesnt, we consider that a victory that he listened to people here who were demanding that he not follow through with the threat to pardon sheriff joe. >> talk about what sheriff joe signifies in the community. you used the word terror earlier in our chat. i want to understand how he has terrorized the residents there. even if he doesnt pardon him today, its my understanding from the presidents words ...