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A recap of the days news. The idea that somehow this is floating out in the ether somewhere in orbit far away from the central focus of this investigation is just not true. Those lines of investigation are open. And this is a man who has shown himself willing to do some fairly dodgy work for people supported by the kremlin abroad in the ukraine. And thats one reason why hes standing in court today. And this is just the beginning and again, one of two trials. The first of two trials for Paul Mana...

Recollection or even recordings of calls between roger stone and the president discussing e-mails, all of these pieces come into sharper focus now that mueller has his hands on trumps written responses. >> mike schmidt, take us through what you and your colleagues have reported last night about the presidents flow of information from manaforts lawyers, even after manafort had agreed to cooperate and i guess a nonlawyer would assume that meant be helpful to the mueller probe. that wasnt the case....

Lawyer told him that prosecutors hammered away at whether the president knew about the june 2016 trump tower meeting where russians promised to deliver damaging information on hillary clinton to his eldest son, donald trump jr. the president has long denied knowing about the meeting in advance. he wants manafort to incriminate trump, mr. giuliani declared of mr. mueller. here to take us through this reporting, one of the reporters who broke that story and some of our favorite reporters and frien...

Hes viewing them as -- >> take us through where the pardon responsibility lies. im old enough to remember when that process was run at the justice department. recommendations went to the white house. has this white house, this president, the people around him have they changed anything about the pardon process? >> yeah, its supposed to be recommendations that come in. theres supposed to be a lot of paperwork. its a real process. the obama administration used it to pardon a lot of people that wer...

It. then they saw the unsealing of documents in the eastern district of virginia that said that julian assange had been charged. and that had been a huge mistake. if it wasnt done purposely and sent a message to the presidents lawyers that what is the justice department doing? is there something more afoot here. they knew about manafort. they knew what was going on between manafort and muellers investigators. they looked at these three things and said we dont feel good about this. are they setti...

Imminent? and manafort was offered a pardon before. i think mike and his colleagues reported on the presidents last lawyer, or maybe three lawyers ago, dangling lawyers in front of mike flynn and in front of paul manafort before they were charged. so pardons have been in the water. what other motive would manafort have for lying to mueller? >> i spoke to giuliani as well. and he said to back up the reporting about the pardons. its not an act of consideration that his legal team are not consideri...

Exactly right. giuliani has clearly -- they are trying to undermine the credibility of whatever testimony is coming. some of these details well probably find out in the sentencing agreement when manafort is sentenced. those documents that mueller who, of course, doesnt speak publicly but those details were reveals in the sentencing documents that he told me that they accused -- andrew weisman, one of muellers top lieutenants was keeping manafort in solitary confinement for almost the entire day....

President is making the effort to undermine the american justice system in order to benefit himself. and it becomes normal. we sit around and were all talking about the fact that the president of the united states has a joint defense agreement with 32 other individuals. they are all under investigation for federal crimes. and somehow thats becoming normal. and we have to resist that urge and keep it from becoming normal because its not. the presidents job is to sit atop the executive branch and ...

Learned last night from "the new york times" that lawyers for paul manafort have been feeding donald trump a steady stream of information about special counsel robert mueller. information thats likely been loaded into donald trumps fragile psyche and weaponized in the public relations war against that investigation. the times reports on an alliance on information sharing agreement between paul manaforts lawyer and the presidents legal team that continued even after paul manafort entered into a c...