complicit in that, if it wasn t criminal and how can we stop this from happening again. so there is a whole separate intelligence side of this. and that is what mueller really didn t do and what the house is trying to explore now. so president trump tweeted toz about michael flynn s new lawyer sydney powell, appearing on fox and highly critical of mueller. who does this mean for flynn who is cooperating with investigators. do you see this as a pardon play? what do you think. it is interesting, because he had been heading in that direction with the sentencing submissions that his prior lawyers put in for him suggesting that he had been entrapped by the fbi and that the case against him was somehow unfair. so this just pushes it even further now with a lawyer who frankly doesn t have a lot of credibility given her outrageous conspiracy theorist type statements. so i think that is right. he ll be sentenced and get between zero and six months and then probably looking for a pardon from
his health has dramatically deteriorating thus far in prison. outfront, evan perez, former nixon white house counsel, john dean, and former assistant u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york, harry sandic. evan, they come out and say this is terrible. this is not okay. you actually think this is a pardon play. how? it s a total pardon play. look, if you read the sentencing memo that they write here, they mention very often in this memo that there is no collusion. that mueller was appointed to look into collusion. and he found none. and that according to this memo, according to manafort s attorneys, that really manafort is being prosecuted, he s being punished for essentially for working for donald trump. that if he hadn t gone to become chairman of the trump campaign, that none of this would be happening to him. they point out a couple times, they use terms like tighten the screws to try to use the
hit him where it hurts. let s talk about paul manafort. he turns 70 in april. so for prosecutors to recommend a sentence of around 20 years, that amounts to a life sentence pretty much. has all this been about a powder pl pardon play, you think? i do believe the pardon is being dangled out there. the president should affirmatively say, i will not pardon paul manafort. the reason he wouldn t say that is because he wants paul manafort to not cooperate and save the president from the exposure that he faces. but, don, again, just to put all of this together, the president s chairman, right after the republican convention where they changed the platform so it more benefited russia, goes just a few days later and meets with a russian agent and shares polling data from the campaign at the same time that the russians are attacking our democracy. that should offend everybody. russia does not want us to succeed. they re doing everything they can to work against us, and the president s te
barr has made it pretty clear that he thinks the american public has a right to know too. and roger stone, i mean, the fact that the white house wouldn t rule out pardoning stone, not a surprise? not a surprise. and if you look at how roger stone is behaving, i think this is a pardon play. he has not said a bad word about the president. i think if you look at the people who are in this investigation and, you know, george papadopoulos, michael flynn, roger stone, i think all of them are angling for pardons, i think manafort would like a pardon, but i think given the fact that he made so much money, he s in a somewhat separate category, but the others who are just, and i use that word advisely, just accused of false statements, i think they all think that the president is going to cut them loose at some point. gloria, what are you hearing? the worst thing that could possibly happen to roger stone
congress who are responsive to their constituents are interested in letting their constituents know what mueller thinks and what mueller thought, and, again, we don t know what kind of report mueller is going to deliver. cl it will be full of things that you can claim executive privilege or not, but i think in the end, barr has made it pretty clear that he thinks the american public has a right to know, too. and roger stone, i mean, the fact that the white house wouldn t rule out pardoning stone, not a surprise? not a surprise. and if you look at how roger stone is behaving, i think this is a pardon play. he has not said a bad word about the president. i think if you look at the people who are in this investigation and, you know, george papadopoulos, michael flynn, roger stone, i think all of them are angling for pardons. i think manafort would like a