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Its very difficult. its very hard to say. you have to whole pardon question. the manafort question. it can only go downhill from here and the longer he waits, the worse its going to be. >> martin london, thank you so much. your experience and insight is much valued here. appreciate your time. still ahead for all of you on "a.m. joy," chris matthews and andrea mitchell share their thoughts on the passing of john mccain. cancer ... its very personal.

Be included in the manafort question. all of this relates to money laundering, bank fraud, tax crimes that he was committing from 2005 to 2017, according to his indictments. hes also under investigation for collusion. we know that from rod rosensteins letter, and that investigation continues. and thats something that has to be considered as we consider what paul manafort is going to do here. it may not make any sense for him to plead guilty now to these charges if hes going to be charged with mo...

>> now all this stuff is coming out. so anyhow, we have reporters who helped break that story. we have nbc news national political reporter heidi przybilla. politics editor for the "daily beast," sam stein. pulitzer prize-winning national political reporter for nbc news, carol lee, who is the lead reporter on the nbc news report on general kelly and "new york times" reporter michael schmidt has the reporting on muellers list of questions for the president. >> i want to ask willie a question. wil...

Why did it take them so long to deal with the issue of flynn and why was flynn ultimately fired? now you have to remember on flynn, flynn is cooperating. and there was a question in there which we found particularly interesting. about the pardons, what did the president know about efforts to reach out to flynn about pardons? the interesting thing is that this was, this document was created in march. and it was only in april that we wrote a story about how pardons had been made from john doud on ...

For one witness. happens to be an important one. >> again, theyre not just 15 questions, they are areas of inquiry so you ask a question, get the response and these are the 15 areas where it can move. >> and questions i want to ask you about, the bank robbery, and once we start talking about it i have 300 questions about the bank robbery, so its good reporting, interesting, an insight into the investigation but its just a list of topics. >> so collusion, donald trump saying that there arent any ...

Numerous drafts of it and it would go high-level. obviously -- theyre saying its a typo. but the whole premise of the netanyahu presentation was to sow confusion over the program. from the timing of the presentation to the pompeo visit with netanyahu to the statement. its almost too transparent what theyre trying to do, laying the case. >> the question is, was it john bolton -- >> well never know for sure. >> it ought to be easy to figure out who signed off on this. >> it contradicts the finding...

Theres question about what the president knew regarding roger stone and wikileaks. did he know these e-mails were coming out? the presidents 2013 trip to russia, his relationships with the folks that bought the miss universe -- licensed the miss universe pageant in 2013, also questions about the president discussing sanctions. these were in the collusion section of the document. yes, there were more obstruction questions than collusion questions but there are many dedicated to this issue and the...

Able to get it back in any way. >> willy, the question is, is this a message, that john bolton sent out himself and was later forced to walk back from secretary of defense? from the secretary of state? because that information contradicts what secretary of state pompeo said just a couple of weeks ago. >> and obviously that initial statement, would have huge ramifications for the united states, israel and throughout the middle east about how to react to that. admiral, theyre saying, people are de...

Characters, its a lot more. this is from donald j. trump. >> somebodys upset. >> so disgraceful that the question concerning the russia witch-hunt were quote/unquote leaked to the media. no questions on collusion, with a capital c for some reason. oh comma, you have a made up comma phony crime comma collusion comma that never existed and an investigation begun with illegally leaked classified information. nice. >> willie, its all about eve. sam comes in and takes -- >> its a cruel business. >> i...

Tweeted that this is just an effort to get michael cohen to flip. so what is the biggest risk here? is it the stormy daniels payoff? is it the fact that hes the gate keeper to donald trumps businesses? and did you get any sense of him kind of feeling that anger and potentially quote/unquote flipping on the president? >> every time ive interviewed him hes shown knowing but loyalty outwardly to me and said hes done nothing wrong. so i cant say i have any sense of him flipping or what he has potent...