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Texas, theyre saying its a misuse of power, a bridge too far for the president to pardon paul manafort. politically speaking does it make sense for the president to do so? >> well, these senators fold like cheap umbrellas. you know, just yesterday senator cornyn was saying, i dont know what the implication of this is, it doesnt involve russia and not that bad. theres no red line they wont cross. so their threats are not to be taken seriously. and sadly, to have the pardon in trumps hand is too b...

Laws that might have been broken, it boggles the mind how dirty this is and how disgusting this is. >> well, theres the campaign finance question, which is about as you said the presidents implication in a federal crime to cover up personal behavior that he thought would be harmful. and in the manafort -- but also with cohen because theres a very pourus border here, you have the question about the ultimate role of russia and the infiltration of a foreign power into american politics. and i think...

So now i have questions. ive laid out my questions on manafort. basically, how much time is manafort looking at? will that change his mind on flipping and cooperating? pretty simple. watch this space for that. including watch tonight for the publication of that list of evidence from the prosecution. manafort. but on cohen, tell me this. cohen and federal prosecutors in the federal district of new york, they implicate the president explicitly today in campaign violations with the secret payoffs. ...

So now i have questions. ive laid out my questions on manafort. basically, how much time is manafort ultimately looking at? will that change his mind on flipping and cooperating? pretty simple. watch this space for that. including watch tonight for the publication of that list of evidence from the prosecution. manafort. but on cohen, tell me this. cohen and federal prosecutors in the southern southern district of new york, they implicate the president explicitly today in campaign violations with...

Fallout, the implications, potential cooperation here. weve got evan perez, our senior justice correspondent, over at the paul manafort trial. i want to talk about michael cohen. my goodness. what a difference a couple months make. your reaction, evan? >> reporter: absolutely. its a huge difference. i can tell you that one of the things in making phone calls on this story and reporting in the last 24 hours, we were trying to figure out how toreportsomeof this. we were checking in with the presi...

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Supreme court. you have a lawsuit with facebook and google. you got it on appeal. part of the ruling was that the judge said, you cant have a first amendment case because this is not a government actor or state actor. its private company. >> the best analogy i can give is, lets say delta or american are united announced, we wont allow anybody on who carries "the wall street journal" on board. well, they are a private company, they can make their own rules but everybody understands that when you ...

Surprise. specially white house. it was really not a statement. it was a warning to the people dean works for. anybody who knows me, anybody who knows the true facts about watergate, knows better than to try to make a scapegoat out of me. that was deans statement and the implication was that he has a lot of unspilled beans the spill if he is forced to spill them. the white houses comment, nobody is trying the make anybody a scapegoat. were just trying to get to the truthful he made his statement...

But today was a costly day. trump is directly like the center of the spokes of all of this wheel of implication of all of these people, manafort and michael cohen. so we are looking at donald trump now and we want to know what is out there in terms of evidence. remember, this system worked, chris. the raids on cohens home and office worked. the raids produced evidence. after the system worked for the benefit of the government but still protecting michael cohen. so now we know there is evidence t...

Theyre moving through the indictment 1 through 18. and the first five counts are tax fraud. their questions last week related to the second group of counts on filing foreign bank account reports. and the implication from that question is they had already reached a verdict on the tax fraud counts. so as i sit here and this is speculation trying to read the tea leaves, but i believe they have reached the guilty verdict on the tax fraught counts and the remaining deadlocked counts could be one or m...