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>> nothing is enough. >> none -- >> no one is acknowledging the scope of the problem at this point. >> thank you as always for your reporting. the lead with jake tapper starts right now. thanks for being with me. the president takes a bunch of planes out of commission for now. a judge does the same to his former campaign chair. the lead starts right now. breaking today, minutes after a federal judge piles on more prison time for manafort the state of new york jumps in with brand new charges, o...

Sentence that is totally unnecessary, much like this. >> youre not lawyers, youre liars! >> youre lying. thats not what she said. >> as you can see, mayhem outside the courthouse. protesters, one sign reflecting vladimir putin. you saw shouts of liar, liar. harry litman is here. we just were talking to senator blumenthal about whether local prosecutors could come in behind the feds. with a pardon being dangled suggesting from these comments, here kevin downing came out and was again misstating w...

Michael cohens legal fees. according to the complaint, the payments stopped as soon as michael cohen started cooperating with the federal government. so the signals are all over the place, right? if you are with us, you are with us. if youre not, youre not. >> thanks to you both. my next guest sits on two house committees investigating the presidents abuses of power. michael cohen says that his lawyer says he inquired about a pardon early on, that one was dangled. the president says he asked him...

According to what they signed to pay the fees. but the payments stopped as soon as muccal cohen started cooperating with the federal government. if youre with us, youre with us and if youre not, youre not. >> thanks to you both. my next guest sits on both house committees. michael cohen says his lawyer says one was dangled. the president says he asked him specifically for one. which would be contradiction. who do you believe? >> i know its a tough one. between those two. >> cohens lawyers appear...

They sought one. this seems, based on your analysis and daniels and everyones, irreconcilable. but to dannys point, what motive would cohen have nothing and lie about the pardon situation before reporting to nt are not correct, its not clear the specific elements of any sort of dangled pardon. was the pardon actually offered, was something else said that cohen interpreted as a pardon being offered? there are conflicting stories. i talked yesterday to rudy giuliani, the presidents sort of public-...

Something like that. i mean what we saw today is the president engaging in something that looks very much like witness tampering. and this isnt witness tampering in any ordinary law enforcement investigation. this is witness tampering by the president of the united states. >> why do you say that? be more specific. >> so, you know, what the president did today is he said, you know, people like cohen should get the book thrown at them. theyre liars and so on. but people like roger stone, who dont ...

Sounds like you need the presidents taxes and the second one is you are going to need to assess whether or not it is true that michael cohen had a pardon being dangled over his head, at least early on. >> we have to assess and the special counsel has to assess whether that is true. but it is clear that the president has dangled a pardon before paul manafort, hes done it semi publicly and rudy giuliani has hinted at that. if you could show that the president has really dangled a pardon, that is c...

Blaming the obama administration as we pointed out, blaming the fbi, which of course is music to the presidents ears. when it comes to martha stewart, obviously jim comeys the one who built that case. all of a sudden they go from loving each other to loathing each other, now back to this pardon being dangled out there. you know, when martha stewart was released from prison, she hosted her own version of "the apprentice." let me just play for you a clip. >> somebody sent me -- donald trumps steak...

Leaking these questions might have been an effort to queer the investigation somehow, to tip off witnesses about the special counsels area of focus, to advise people who didnt know their actions were under scrutiny that hey, your actions are under scrutiny. and in one case, this new list of questions that mueller wants to ask the president, it raises a very serious concern for the president and specifically for one of his lawyers. its this question, which asks the president about a potential par...

And in one case, this new list of questions that mueller wants to ask the president, it raise as very serious concern for the president and specifically, for one of his lawyers. its this question, which asks the president about a potential pardon being offered to mike flynn before flynn flipped and became a cooperating witness. this question suggests that mueller knew about a pardon being dangled for mike flynn even before that was first publicly reported at the end of march. it also suggests th...