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Exploring issues that affect leaders in the U. S. And around the globe. Penalties are even higher, the evidence is even more volume nous, or will he cut his losses, cut a deal and tell what he knows if anything about potential collusion between donald trump and the Russian Election interference effort . Let me bring in the panel now. I want to get to my legal experts, more of my legal experts. By the way, a little more breaking news, the Cohen Hearing is officially over. Sentencing is scheduled ...

Exploring issues that affect leaders in the U. S. And around the globe. Today had as much to do with the president but now that you have people that the Justice Department indicts, like congressman Duncan Hunter adopting the president s rhetoric, the chief Law Enforcement general in this country felt like he had to push back. We have to consider the context in which this is happening. The Justice Department has extracted guilty pleas or convictions for the president s former lawyer and fixer, hi...

The latest news from around the world with hosts John Berman and Poppy Harlow. New york saying a crime is not a crime. What is going to be next . The skys not blue . Red is not red, an apple is a banana . It is just a bizarre world. And if thats a defense and thats what theyre going to put forward we are in for a crazy ride ahead. We may already be in one. Jennifer, to you. I just had last hour on a former law school classmate, good friend of rudy giuliani. Hes a former Assistant Prosecutor in w...

And what happens if he is convicted in any one of these and hes still the choice for voters on the republican party. >> and it commands the attention as well. while other candidates are trying to compete here. and it prompts the question of the pardon question again if hes convicted. each candidate may be pressed at that point of what they could do if they were elected when it comes to whether or not to pardon the former president as well. there is also just with all of these different investiga...

Impeached if he did it. they know that donald trump cannot direct the attorney general. the strategy, again, it is spaghetti on the wall, right? >> and creating a breeding ground for what would ultimately become a banana republic is not good for the american people. when we look ahead to 2024, what kind of candidate do the republican party, does the republican party want to have representing them for the future? were constantly looking back. former president trump is constantly looking back, onl...

Voting for trump in 2024 and push the desire to actually win. so how those candidates do it, thats going to be an interesting thing to watch. and maybe it is the case that the way to thread that needle is going to be to say ill pardon him, and that is the way that we can win and move forward. >> i would disagree on the pardon question. >> in the middle of court dates, this is -- were going have to leave it there. were out of time. but we will get back to you because there are big questions wheth...

Members involved in that meeting and a handful of other members that werent at the december 21st meeting. as the preemptive pardons. mr. gaetz was personally pushing for a pardon and he was doing so since early december. im not sure why. mr. gaetz had reached out to me to ask if he could have a meeting with mr. meadows about receiving a presidential pardon. >> and again, jake, she had contemporaneous notes, four of the six on just the pardon question have said its not true. the committee has new...

Ill agree with what was just said. it is a competitive news cycle and to do it in the midst of this. the other name i would add was pat cipollone and theyve been trying to pursue pat cipollone, which was left hanging in the last hearings, where was he, what is he doing and all of that. the other unanswered question was exactly, this pardon question, which they released the list of names then denied it. and it maybe something as a follow up to that where theres more concrete evidence of that. but...

Runs is unrelated to matters at hand. it is not accurate because the investigation is still ongoing t. is very different from what we heard from judge ellis. what does it tell you? >> i dont think it as much. roger stone will go before the judge in this gag order today. she has been very thoughtful about that. it appears that she asked for a lot of information, took a look at what went into the book. she will make a judgment. i would be worried about the what decisions she is going to make. i do...

And i want to talk about the pardon question. the public testimony you watch would the rest of us, private testimony you cant speak about, what dounderstand that you didnt before? >> i saw a person who ran a business, who ran his personal life a campaign, a transition and an administration and a very corrupt way. i was hoping to hear -- because he is the president of the united states, that you would hear redeeming qualities about him. that he wanted to make lives better, an honest person. and a...