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Like a whip saw because mueller is not stupid because of the pardon power that the president has that he is not enlisting the attorney generals office or the local prosecutors office with similar crimes. could be a prosecutor on the state level to bypass the presidents power. >> give me an example. >> look what happened with michael cohen. he pleads guilty, next thing hes getting subpoenas for tax problems he may have for not paying. im not saying that is going to go anywhere. with every joint i...

A paraluz situation. keep in mind some of the charges hes facing are identical or at least related to the charges that rick gates is facing. so if gates felt that the evidence was so stacked against him that his best course of action was to plead guilty, then manafort may also go down that road, especially if gates testimony ultimately implicates manafort. beyond that, lets not forget that the sentences facing manafort are steep. potentially facing up to 30 years in prison. for a 70-year-old man...

So this is a pretty high standard. so thats why i say it -- you know, they have some evidence, and theyre being very aggressive in going after it, and theyre not hiding that fact at all. >> a short while ago, the norm "the new york times" report the some of the aggressive tactics special counsel robert mueller is using in his investigation. heres a part of what they said about the raid of manaforts home in july. they said, federal agents bearing a search warrant picked the lock on his front door...

Answers. what we do have is further evidence that manafort is somebody who is a key piece of the puzzle, and he has a lot of different pressures on him right now, including a possible indictment. that could lead to him cooperating with the special counsel mueller and his team, which will inure to the benefit of the justice department but not the president of the united states if hes involved. >> we have a lot to talk about, everyone. so stay with me. when we come back, more bad news for the pres...

All you can say is that two people said something. so we heard pam earlier say that some of the communications in question are between manafort himself and other people. obviously thats going to be more indicative. but some of the most potentially significant things might be what other people said about their communications with manafort. we always want investigators to go slowly, to not sort of get ahead of the evidence. so i really think that that is an indication that the current investigativ...

>> federal prosecutors do not use that term lightly. it sounds like this was -- we dont know if this was the investigators who were saying they were likely to indict or the prosecutors themselves who were saying that. if so, he probably received a target letter. that might be what theyre referring to at this point. if theyve sent him a target letter, very likely they will indict him unless he decides to cooperate. >> renato, go ahead. >> i have a very similar answer. what i would say is this ind...

Extraordinary in many ways, don. when you look at how things have transpired over the past few months, we never thought that one could be one up, so to speak. we never thought that wed actually see empirical evidence, evidence from donald trump jr. in a written e-mail acknowledging that he wanted to get the goods on hillary clinton from russian operative. we never thought that we would hear that paul manafort was continuing to talk to president trump after he was in office and was only stopped f...

Former nixon white house counsel is here and the author of conservatives without conscience. also here, former federal prosecutor renato mariotti. thank you so much, gentlemen, for joining us. john, im going to start with you. i want to get your reaction to cnns new reporting that the fbi wiretapped former trump campaign chairman paul manafort under secret court orders, surveillance that continued until this year when manafort was still talking to the president. they also raided a storage facili...

New fisa warrant that extended into 2017. of course getting a fisa warrant is not easy to do. what does that tell you about this investigation? >> so at the outset, obtaining a fisa warrant means that the government was able to prove that they had probable cause that paul manafort was the agent of a foreign power. the definition can encompass a lot of different activities but typically it does indicate theres some evidence here of there being criminal wrongdoing. >> so considering the surveillan...

The warrant was restarted in relation to the investigation between the trump campaign and contacts with russian officials. so it does sound like there are two investigations, but obviously paul manaforts connections to either russian officials or ukrainian officials sympathetic to russian interests are sort of our connective tie here. >> laura, theres also "new york times" reporting that federal investigators picked manaforts locks on an early morning raid. but here is the kicker. it says, speci...