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And any potential accomplices. the court set a deadline yesterday for anybody to come forward with justification for why records in that case should stay sealed. otherwise the judges said they were inclined to release the records to the public after all these years. but look what happened right before the deadline. quote, two mystery parties tried to restrict release of documents in jeffrey epsteins civil suit. this happened right at the deadline. one of the mystery people who came forward right...

This assertion. that said, a spokesman at their law firm tells us that theyre not just no commenting us on this story. a spokesman for their law firm tells us theyre actually prohibited by law from giving us any comment on this matter in the middle of this case. and so even if they did want to comment on it, they could not. but this is the really interesting part. we did today get a letter from russia. we heard back from the lawyers for the russian investment fund guy, and they told us today in ...

Planning on using against their client. that includes, in this case, information about the key witness against their client who is mike flynn. and as we reported last night, the back and forth in that bijan kian case ahead of this trial thats due to start in july, it now includes a provocative new assertion from bijan kians defense team. they are asserting in court documents that after the 2016 election, mike flynn had contact with the head of a russian investment fund. the same head of a russia...

Been asking the government, theyve been asking prosecutors to give them a bunch of information about mike flynn. he is going to be a witness against their client. they want to be able to cross-examine him. they are entitled under federal trial rules and under the constitution to receive whatever information the government is planning on using against their client. that includes, in this case, information about the key witness against their client who is mike flynn. and as we reported last night,...

In the secret plea deal didnt even know that hers was the case he plead to. one of the things thats striking is it appears that in court, the judge asked about other victims, and the judge asked the prosecutors whether or not the victims were essentially okay with this deal or they were aware it had happened. prosecutors appear to have misrepresented the truth to the judge and told the judge that the victims all knew about this and also they seemed to have kept from the judge the total number of...

Be an unusual and specialized question under constitutional law one doesnt encounter every day, but thats about par for the course with this president. >> and heres where we get to, to me, where the rubber hits the road, jill. this is based on accounts from james comey and andrew mccabe and others inside the circle. it doesnt seem like the president would say, i want you to shut up and ill give you a pardon. whi what seems possible is basically a communication like, the president knows youve bee...

A federal judge ruled that arrangement which acosta over saw block the law. prosecutors not only violated the act by not informing the victims but misled the girls into believing the case was on going and prosecutors secretly closed it after sealing the plea bargain. joining me is former secretary deputy of labor and ceo and academic director of child usa, an organization for children. marcy, let me start with you. you work in this space and have you seen a plea like this? i have you seen a case...

Joined by msnbc legal analyst, jill wine-banks, former watergate prosecutor and professor pearlstein. walk us through the way the pardon works and its limitations in terms of state crimes. >> so the presidents pardon power under the constitution is really substantially unlimited. the president can pardon whoever he wants, as long as hes pardoning them for a federal crime, for conduct that might be illegal under federal law. the presidents power under the constitutionextend at all to state crimes...

Had this been known at the time he violated federal law and did not give dozens of victims notice about the deal and a chance to have their day in court, it would be interesting to know if he got confirmed at the time and sarah sanders said look, this is a tough sentence. if it was such a tough sentence, why didnt the victims know about it in advance? >> marcy, today there was -- cook county charges in illinois brought against r. kelly famously prosecuted and acquitted in the sexual assault of u...

Who is broke that story for nbc news, investigative correspondent, jonathan dienst. and jonathan, what do we know about what the manhattan d.a. is up to? >> we know the manhattan d.a. has a grand jury looking into the actions of paul manafort. that theyre looking into bank fraud, possible tax violations, and others at the state level. and that that process is moving forward. we know subpoenas have been issued. we know witnesses are being called. and we know that there are plans, perhaps, in the ...