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Distillation of what marks reporting demonstrates. >> unfortunately, im not sure i agree with that. i mean, its shapeful. its unpatriotful, its inappropriate. im not sure its illegal for the following reason. in the constitution the only thing that trumps the pardon power is impeachment. so, congress could decide they want to impeach and remove a president from office for improperly using his pardon power. im not sure there are checks and limits on the presidents ability to extend pardon to indi...

Particularly significant in the mueller filing are those six words, and had such ties in 2016. prosecutors had said previously that a long-time manafort and gates associate had ties to russian intel, but they had never said those ties remained in place during the 2016 campaign. joining us at the table nick, "the new york times" political reporter and msnbc contributor, and elise jordan, former aide in the bush white house now time magazine columnist and msnbc analyst. jeremy and frank are still ...

Years. and hes bragged about that and also the way he used the trump organization and michael cohen and i think investigators looking the broader issues will analysis that. but a political point, back to franks point earlier about the work of law enforcement. and the respect for the rule of law because ultimately if the president is paying hush money or hes trying to get out of his legal responsibilities, it goes to his fundamental respect for the rule of law. and look, trump is not on the ballo...

Far as to use his awesome constitutional power to shut witnesses up, it shows you just how far the president believes hes in trouble. >> frank, let me give you the last word in this part of the conversation. we havent spent as much time talking about paul manafort. paul manafort has not entered into any sort of agreement with bob mueller. there is an ongoing debate about why that might be, whether hes simply not that useful or whether hes -- there are lots of theories. you had some of the best o...

>> i dont want to talk about pardons for michael flynn yet. well see what happens. lets see. i can say this. when you look at whats gone on with the fbi and with the justice department, people are very, very angry. >> frank fa glues i, this seems to connect the dots in the presidents firing of jim comey, the presidents enthusiasm for the firing of andrew mccabe. the president certainly has laid the foundation in tweet after tweet in news cycle after news cycle, in coordination with fox news nigh...