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People in trump world wonder is, what is it thats holding manafort up? why is it that hes unwilling to do like gates did and cooperate in that fashion? and we still dont know that. and hes taken a very aggressive approach, particularly on filing these motions, trying to get the government sort of in the same way that devin nunes is to cough up more documents about the investigation, to reveal more, to give them more stuff to go after mueller on. >> and lets speak english here on two counts. numb...

You dont see him out there doing the things i think most prosecutors would say, hey, thats just not really the way to handle it. >> wow, thank you for that. matt, to back up from other news from today, how dangerous potentially is a former son-in-law to paul manafort? what could he know? >> incredibly dangerous because they had been in business together buying houses in the real estate business. its one more potential witness against paul manafort in another area. already you have rick gates, wh...

>> still with us? for more, we welcome back to the broadcast guy lewis, a former u.s. attorney who also worked with robert mueller, james comey, and rod rosenstein among others while at the justice department. also here with us in new york tonight, matthew miller, former chief spokesman for the u.s. just department. counselor, ive looked around the room. youre the only former u.s. attorney here. ive got to ask you what about what he just said? can a president be indicted? >> well, i think the ju...

Else more senior than him like maybe jared kushner or donald trump jr., or he has to hope and wait for a pardon. those are his only options because the weight of the evidence against him is pretty serious. >> yeah, its not looking good. counselor, im going to give you the last word after reading this to you about how they intend to perhaps prep the president for sitting down with mueller. this is from politico. impatient president in several brief sessions over many weeks. giuliani said the brie...

In a piece? and reporters have different answers. it has to do with figures of speech that may be familiar. some reporters adhere to the rule, anyone who was quoted on the record two paragraphs above is the off-the-record source two paragraphs below. forget your own work, of course. do you have any rules of the road in figuring out who leakers are in the news you read throughout the day? >> well, i think one of the more interesting developments of covering this administration, brian, is the way ...

Presidents lawyer at the time, john dowd, had discussions with lawyers for flynn and manafort about a pardon last year. these were discussions in which it was broached. so the question is, is that okay in terms of obstruction of justice? can the president use his power of pardon to extend it to folks that are under investigation in something that is related to him? and is this something that sticks in manaforts head as he tries to figure out how to move forward? >> hey, jill, we are still -- we ...

The sort. but it was a kind of trolling the mueller effort and reminding especially everyone in his base that this continues -- this cloud continues. >> yeah, absolutely. it was a series of three kind of extraordinary tweets from him. the presidents in an interesting position right now because on one hand, he very much feels under siege. you see the rage. you see the frustration coming through in those morning tweets, in the conversations that hes having with people inside and outside the buildi...

Administration, he has a theory because of the way the regulations are written, the only way for robert mueller to force the report to be delivered to congress is to propose some action that is overalled by the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. what that action could be would be to propose an indictment of the president. if the deputy attorney general rejected that proposition, he would then write a report that would be automatically delivered to both the majority and the minority in congr...

Having with people inside and outside the building. i mean he brings up this investigation constantly. giuliani last night described it as kind of a rock on the presidents back. he talks about it as this cloud thats haunting his presidency. on the other hand, you also have news from rudy giuliani at least, him saying that muellers team has assured them that they believe that the president cannot actually be indicted. so youve got kind of these two realms of quite good news for the president, but...

>> when i ran against them, they were looking for dirt on me every day. i mean thats what you do. maybe you shouldnt, but you do. nothing illegal about that. and even if it comes from a russian or a german or an american, it doesnt matter. and they never used it is the main thing. never used it. they rejected it. if there was collusion with the russians, they would have used it. >> so, counselor, is he right there when he says it doesnt matter if it comes in from a german or a russian or what ha...