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Deal that manafort struck with the special counsel is off it will probably be a very strong sentencing memo. >> the district attorney is preparing separate charges in case there were to be a presidential pardon. we are learning about the prosecutors. they are doing this because they fear the president could pardon manafort. do you believe that the president would seriously consider pardoning manafort? >> if the president thought that pardoning manafort would save him i think he would do it. he c...

Contact with officials as recently as this spring. prosecutors write, quote, in a text message from may 26th, 2018, manafort authorized a person to speak with an administration official on manaforts behalf. that could be key because as "the washington post" points out, the text message came two days after trump issued a posthumous pardon to boxer jack johnson and he has raised the possibility of pardoning manafort. lets bring in our panel former prosecutor cynthia oxley and maya wiley, senior vi...

Big thing. and coming up on "morning joe," the presidential mulls a pardon for paul manafort. trumps new comments on whether he would pardon his former campaign chairman as he continues the to ramp up his rhetoric against the special counsel. and dick durbin will discuss why he says trump pardoning manafort would be an admission of guilty on the presidents part. oh! oh! ♪ ozempic®! ♪ (vo) people with type 2 diabetes are excited about the potential of once-weekly ozempic®. in a study with...

Harm that hes done to the united states over the years and leaking classified information. i wouldnt want anything to do with someone like that who i saw as someone who is a threat to the united states and our own security. so no, i wouldnt. >> do you see the president pardoning manafort? >> i would say if i was advising, i would say not to do so and not to even speculate about doing so. i think the president gets upset about these things. everything as this investigation winds down, they are go...

Is something very, very different. what people forget here is when manafort is pardoned, if hes going to be pardoned, he loses his fifth amendment right to refuse to testify under grand jury subpoena. on the other hand, as long as his case is on appeal and its going forward, he can assert the fifth and not be forced to testify against trump. so its in trumps interest to delay the pardon, and this could be even why all of a sudden manafort after all of this time he wants to cooperate with mueller...

Months of negotiations, the trump team sent those answers back and the fact that we at least have an idea of a couple of them is noteworthy and the fact that youre right, that theyre the concrete ones, is even more so. >> grab that water, dana. grab the water. i hear your voice. harry, stepping back just for a second, we found out manafort continued to lie after his plea deal. i know you wrote about this. why would manafort continue to lie right now? >> so, first, let me take a step back and say...

Decisions on his official capacity? >> its not a crime for him to do that. >> whether or not someone is impeached is a political factor. the improper yusz use of execut authority is something members of congress should take note of. >> we have not validated the reporting by the guardian. if your campaign manager when you were running for president was having meetings with julian assange, would that be appropriate in any realm? >> i cant imagine my campaign manager meeting with him or being in ec...

Will join that. did he know it was going on all along and is he knowing -- did mueller know it is going on all along? they are passing them onto the president. >> which gets to the sort of larger concern that i dont -- even a mueller protection bill can address which is does this president offer pardons left and right here in the days to come. i thought the most revealing part, if you look at the transcript when he is asked about pardoning manafort, he says is there anything you can say? he says...

What it is. >> its interesting that yes, it is in part this kabuki dance, but it is transparent as you pointed out. not only to tell "the new york post" that its out there now but as youve been reporting that the manafort team has been talking to trump lawyers about what they were discussing with mueller. shimon, just on that, that shouldnt be lost in all of this, that manaforts lawyers have been telling the presidents team about what theyve been telling mueller. >> right. its not just the manaf...

Shaped by the fact that he is on the ballot in 2020. he didnt like the last time he did that. >> six years seems like such a long time. it seems to go very fast. >> so lets listen to this point about the manafort cooperation. the former independent council asked about this idea of mueller interviews manafort. special council says he has been lying. his lawyers leave the room. what does that mean? >> if youre cooperating with a government you should not be sharing information unless it has been u...