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>> when youre talking about jared and ivanka and some of these other investigations going on in the southern district, they are great prosecutors. but the bottom line is they have the ability. they suffer the pardon power. and theres no question in my mind that thats what the president will do. so tactically as prosecutors, you give the crimes to the jurisdiction that bypassed the pardon power and thats the state attorney general and the district attorneys. the state attorney generals have alrea...

>> michael, vicky ward writes over the past few years the president has wanted to on and off get rid of ivanka and injured. and heres what he writes. when he hired john f. kelly as chief of staff a move that ms. trump and mr. kushner supported at the time, his kids didnt know how to play the game and generated cycles of bad press. mr. kelly responded that it would be difficult to fire them, but he and the president agreed that they would make life difficult enough to force the pair to offer thei...

John kelly has since resigned. they are the survivors. >> well, they are the survivors. you know, there are two things about that story that ring true to me. one is the presidents impatience. he is not a very patient man, and its quite likely that a few things occurred that he really found distasteful, and he did say something about getting rid of them. the other part of it that rings true is the scheme, you know, this idea that somehow they were going to make jared and ivanka miserable, and the...

Behavior. you are correct. you are correct. but i dont see a felony as the standard. collusion is a behavior. conspiracy, or a felony in furtherance of that action, would be a crime. im not saying manafort committed a crime, but im saying he gave -- >> whats your evidentiary burden, chris? i get all that. right? youre saying there are bad things people can do that fall short of crimes that are bad things. >> that he did do. >> ill grant that. >> that he did do that. roger stone did do that trump...

One is his impatience. he did say something about getting rid of them. the other thing that rings true is the scheme, this idea that somehow theyre going to make jared and ivanka miserable, and then that would force them to resign. thats also consistent with the way the president operates. but they do have sticking power. but i actually think that the notion that theyre moderating where the president is concerned is something the jury is out on. its an idea that ivanka trump promoted when they w...

Their influence on the president, the family connection, and that weird sort of gray area where those two things verge and connect. he feels comfortable with them. they feel comfortable speaking to him. and i think that that -- sort of therein lies their sticking power. >> vicky ward writes over the past two years, the president has wanted on and off to get rid of ivanka and jared. she writes when he hired john f. kelly as chief of staff, a move that ms. trump and mr. cusher supported at the tim...

Behavior. you are correct. you are correct. but i dont see a felony as the standard. collusion is a behavior. conspiracy, or a felony in furtherance of that action, would be a crime. im not saying manafort committed a crime, but im saying he gave -- >> whats your evidentiary burden, chris? i get all that. right? youre saying there are bad things people can do that fall short of crimes that are bad things. >> that he did do. >> ill grant that. >> that he did do that. roger stone did do that trump...

In modern history. >> there is a level of viciousness that i was not expecting, but this isnt supposed to be easy. >> so here with me now, kate bennett, also michael dantonio, the author of the truth about trump. good evening to both of you. kate, according to this book excerpt, are ivanka and jared the moderating influence on the president as they are often portrayed? >> i mean that has been the sort of underlying vibe, i guess, since the beginning of the administration, and it may actually be ...

Jared personally. im just saying a lot of people had help. >> the darkest thing of this scandal is cheating on standardized tests, the one thing where everyone is equal and the idea that people took money for that, there is dirty money and there is dirty money, a staggering thing to me that parents could do such a thing. certain things you can say on that, i studied hard for my s 80s. >> you got a perfect 600. >> i may have. >> i didnt take one -- >> it helped that i did well. my parents didnt -...

Either he wants the comfort and protection of the family or hes afraid of their incompetence. and it could have been that on a given day he was seeing headlines that bothered him or maybe he was hearing from national security officials that both jared and ivanka have security problems. and he didnt want to have to deal with it. this is a man who for all of his bellowing and bragging and jabbing at people is conflict averse. he doesnt like face-to-face conflicts, so the idea of, well, get rid of ...