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Arpaio who had a bad record on civil rights, the politicalizing of the pardon process. we would see that here again. manafort was a close confederate of the president and the president is willing to step in there. over the last couple of days theres been reporting about manafort in this joint defense agreement with other attorneys talking and part of whats going on there is the thought and maybe promise of a pardon is affecting how manafort is interacting with the government and with other defen...

Special counsels team. is it appropriate and should the house investigate? >> its not appropriate. manafort was a cooperator. sount sounds like hes breached his agreement with the government. its not the way innocent people conduct themselves. if the president was not colluding with russia, why is he clu colluding with paul manafort? >> will house democrats who control that branch of government try to investigate this issue. >> we want to know whether the president has dangled pardons for paul m...

Inside myanmar. but there is a pardon process in myanmar and many people have been convicted, have been pardoned. considering that theyre not guilty of anything, certainly a pardon would be more than appropriate. >> you would think. tell me about these two journalists? i understand they both have young children. >> yes. so one just had a baby girl in august. another reporter has a 3-year-old. its been really poignant and sad to watch as our journalists go to court, come back and forth between th...

>> certainly as review of clearances, theres a working group looking at the overall security clearance process and who maintains those and whether or not theyre needed across the board in government. in terms of the pardon process, again, the president has authority to carry out those decisions. he takes input, looks at them on a case by case basis. >> you said there are people looking at the security clearances. can you tell us who they are? >> there are a number of people on the national secur...

Group that is looking at the overall security clearance process and who maintains those and whether or not those are needed across the board within government. in terms of the pardon process, the president has the authority to carry out those decisions. he takes input and looks at them on a case-by-case basis. go ahead. >> you said there are people looking at the security clearance. can you tell daws -- >> secretary sanders: a number of members on the national security team, i would have to get ...

What the presidents campaign was engaged in that may not have been part of the counts in this trial. so that would be a gross abuse of process. now, it is true that the president has the power of the pardon. on the other hand, if you look at the guidelines for which justice departments have used in the past for exercising that pardon power, there have been clearer steps that have been gone through. this president has blown through all of that. he has undermined the integrity of the pardon proces...

And it was true in the traditional pardon process, it would be too early. most people dont use preemptive pardons, also the supreme court has upheld them. its not too soon if this jury goes in a certain direction. do you think that paul manaforts defense reflects some hail mary hope for a pardon? >> absolutely. first of all, donald trump has signalled in multiple ways that he would very seriously consider pardoning paul manafort, one, by some of the other people he has pardoned, dnesh, joe arpai...

The american people, for instance with the stormy daniel payment, a lot of suspense whether president trump knew about it and he goes on television and his job to get ahead of the story and maybe tell us about that or something we didnt know. in this case he could possibly be telling us trump did indeed ask comey to back off of flynn. he was not loose with whether or not he directed cohen to make the payment. he said not to my knowledge, never said no, absolutely not and careful when he said, no...

Bit here too. hugh hewitt, what would be the ramifications if the president were to pardon michael cohen? >> the president will be impeached by a democratic majority, period. >> regardless of what happens? >> he will be impeached by the democratic party if they take the house. if he does things that are reported in a mueller report which indicate collusion of any sort or manipulation of the pardon process, i think he loses votes in the senate, which hell be acquitted and, therefore, there is no ...

Into a proffer meeting, enters into a proffer agreement, provides information to u.s. attorneys, and enters into some kind of deal, you cant unring that bell. the ausas who hear the information he hase them unhear it after its out the door. so if time to pardon is -- if its going to happen, the time is now. and cohen certainly knows that. and maybe within theext couple of days we will see what president trumps temperature is on the pardon process. >> mimi, does a pardon cover the evidence? like ...