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This was his last shot and the only leverage he really had was cooperation. and i think robert mueller stood firm until i got that cooperation. and he has not kept every case that exists out there, he has not kept michael cohen, he spun that off to others. but he did keep this paul manafort case because i think mueller knows that manafort has very valuable information to give. >> geoff bennett, i want to ask you about the decision here for paul manafort to do this. a bit of tape here from august...

But youve got to think that that itself, were there a pardon dangle, is subject of muellers inquiries as well. >> i would think hed want to know. i have to say in terms of this trial though, there is one loser, which is the american public. this is what we would have seen if this were to go to trial is actually a much more public outlay of evidence that much more closely ties the campaign to russian conspiracy. >> norm, final question to you on this question of the sort of the pardon or the spec...

Really dont know what is. so i think theres a mountain of evidence. whether its enough to charge or to impeach, thats a judgment that can only be made once youve really seen the evidence in detail and scrutinized it. >> let me ask you to react what we saw this week, the president pardons dinesh dsouza. it hasnt been reviewed in the fashion most pardons are reviewed. dinesh didnt even file an application to be pardoned. youve written about a pardon dangle. you had john dowd going to lawyers for m...