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Questions. >> of course. >> new fall out over michael cohens capitol hill testimony. now president trump is treating that cohen asked him for a pardon contradicting what he told lawmakers. cohen in a tweet denies it. chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge is live in washington. we all watched this. theres evidence of one way or the other. >> thats right. the president went further on twitter saying cohen directly asked him for a pardon and was denied. he addressed this pardon issue ...

Wasnt going to cooperate with the presidents team and was instead going to cooperate with prosecutors, i no longer wanted or was seeking a pardon, so ariana, in your interpretation, did michael cohen lie to congress? >> yeah, i think this pardon issue -- i think the reason why we care about this pardon issue is for two reasons. one, is, it potentially goes to michael cohens credibility as you mentioned he did testify in front of congress and he stated pretty definitively, he used that n-word, th...

Attorney last night. what does rudy giuliani say about this pardon issue with michael cohen? >> he insists that he never offered anybody on behalf of the president or never left open the possibility of immediately promising a pardon to anybody. he said that that is true for michael cohen, for paul manafort, for george papadopoulos and others who are in a position where they are either potentially or are going to jail and could use a presidential pardon. he did leave out the notion that people ha...

Thats the nature hough thiof h work. >> i have to ask you about michael cohen and this pardon issue. youre a member of congress. do you believe michael cohen misled congress on this issue? >> hey, with him, i dont know what to believe. so when it comes to what he says currently, i think his credibility is very small. and i think if you get -- listen to him and listen to the particularities of it, id feel uncomfortable making any statement about him because theres been such a swirl of discussion....

Good. people are able to find jobs. heres the warning sign, though. the last economic growth number for the final quarter of last year began to go down. so the overall year was about 3% growth, thats good, but if the trend was going down at the end of last year, probably down at the beginning of this year because of that government shutdown, is that the beginning of something or a temporary blip? if it starts to go down in a meaningful way in an election year, thats when hes in trouble. >> all r...

Upon him, he has to be pristine from this point forward with regard to all the data and information he gives. if he makes a bald face lie, and we dont know if thats true yet, substantially compromises the rest of his testimony especially in my mind, most importantly, when he said there was a phone call that went on that i listened to with roger stone speaking with the president about julian assange and the email dumps that were come f that cant be substantiated and we find out that cohen lied ag...

Joint defense agreement. they had common cause, right? here is michael cohen at the hearing last week there which he discussed the pardon issue. take a listen. >> i have never asked for nor would i accept a pardon from president trump. it appears his lawyer had those conversations. perhaps michael himself did not have them. you can bet it is something well dig into. it is trying to fig yaur oure o pattern. it is a way to keep michael cohen toeing the line lying to congress and investigators.

See for crimes like this, theyre arguing that the actual math that comes out is disproportionate. ellis had some concerns, he expressed previously, that the whole prosecution was more geared towards the president than for manafort. so i think they could make shop ground their. i think for manaforts team, if they get that down to ten years or single digits, thats a big win for them. the problem, though, is for manafort, himself, at his age, any sentencing is problematic. >> lawmakers saw the fili...

What the president does with respect to federal crimes. >> jill, did you have -- was there any talk about this back during the nixon days? i wonder if this is a strategy that has been worked out before or war gamed before? >> we never talked about what state crimes might have been committed by the president, or any of his other colleagues. we never worried much about that. we did, obviously, run into the pardon issue, because as soon as he was resigned, we felt, okay, if you didnt think we could...

Sanders was pressed whether the president will consider pardoning stone. leather listen how she answered. >> has the president ruled out a pardon for roger stone? >> im not aware of that. havent had any conversations on that. >> can you guarantee he wont pardon roger stones? >> i cant answer that. no particulars. >> reporters were thinking they will get an answer for that should think again. >> what do we want from sarah sanders. how can she guarantee the president will do everything. >> the par...