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Hasnt cut a deal yet? >> it does. he has the most serious charges. the first on charged. some of them are really tough to defend. so, hes going down. yeah, i dont know. maybe its these pardons that trump has been handling. maybe thats making him hold out. >> lets listen to donald trump floating the idea or talking the idea of pardoning manafort and cohen. >> will you pardon paul manafort? >> i havent even thought about it. >> what about michael flynn? >> i havent thought about any of them. >> it...

All of a sudden all these russia related episodes started happening in the campaign. >> the thing we know is this guy who was indicted with manafort with witness tampering his name is constantine, this dude is an ex-russian spy. during the time that manafort is running trumps campaign, hes in constant contact. according to politico, he and kill ma knack discussed the dnc hackings. a russian spy trumps campaign manager are talking as hes leading the campaign. so this is the key to collusion. this...

30,000 e-mails that are missing. >> well, trump can claim all he wants that manafort was a coffee boy. the truth is he ran the trump show during a critical time during the campaign. ill start with you, natasha to clear up this idea that manafort was barely involved in the campaign. remind the viewers if you will just how involved he was? >> well, he was there for almost five month. he was hired to rangle delegates to the convention. at the time that paul manafort was brought on, nobody thought t...

Treated unfairly, he might use that as a way to pardon them. >> but pardoning manafort, that would be a huge deal and cause a big uproar. do you think the president will do that? >> he would not rule out pardoning paul manafort and paul manafort is someone who has been indictmented indictment on conspiracy and money laundering and lying to the fbi and pled not guilty and declined to cooperate with the special counsel. now you have the obstruction charges on top of everything else. and so while t...

Trump in the mueller probe? >> pardoning manafort would make sure that manafort would not need to cooperate with mueller to stay out of federal prison. >> reporter: flynn has pleaded guilty to lying to the fbi and cooperated with prosecutors. but experts say as he awaits sentencing, a pardon could still be in play for flynn and could still tlirump in the russia investigation. >> they would still need flynns cooperation, following up on any documents or any statements hes given to mueller for a t...

As it relates to mr. flynn, general flynn has to understand -- and what it looks like is general flynn had a conversation with former deputy director andrew mccabe whos how to since been fired, which is amazing because now we see -- and congress -- individuals from congress are saying that mr. mccabe has lied to the fbi on four separate occasions. if thats the case then mr. mccabe needs to be held to the same standard as everybody else which lying to the fbi is a felony and we need to open an in...

President? >> well, thats right. we have asked white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders in recent days if the president has discussed pardoning manafort, flynn, anyone else. she has insisted that thats not the case. but you are right to point that out, andrea. as well as the fact that typically when we asked the white house about manafort or van der zwaan, theyve really tried to distance themselves. ty cobb, the presidents lawyer who handles all things related to russia has in the past...

Russia and in some instances china here. so we have to work with those individuals to make sure that we have opportunities to denuclearize north korea. does that mean vladimir putin will be coming to washington? we dont know. but we have to make sure that we can work with those entities for the betterment of the world which is a denuclearizing north korea. >> youve got such good political radar, having run the campaign and being involved in politics for so long with donald trump. should he consi...

Investigation, mueller has the option of issuing a subpoena and that would trigger that question of whether the president is amenable to that subpoena or whether he has -- whether a grand jury can in fact not compel them to give testimony. >> and of course that will probably be the question most immediate immediately answered and also it seems the trump legal team needs to be careful in some of their challenges because they may begin a losing streak that will end in a place they dont want it to ...

The president tweeting sunday, "there is so much guilt by democrats/clinton. and now the facts are pouring out. do something." and what will the president do if mueller continues to focus on his associates and not clintons? is he going to rule out once and for all firing robert mueller? >> the president said last week, i believe it was last week, and ive said several times before, theres no intention or plan to make any changes in regards to the special counsel. >> no intention or plan to fire r...