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I dont want to spark the good party punch here, but you guys got to wonder, with all of the shots that trump is taking, if one of them hits, after all, that was a worry that we had a couple of months that didnt happen with the trade stuff, especially with vladimir putin. but they are throwing more and more at him every day. >> neil: thank you all, very, very much. with the drama around the news development and the drip, drip, drip, the president was considering a pardon melted off his lawyers fo...

And they will lessen their sentence. that extreme just because they hate me. keep in mind this is the mueller investigation. the mueller investigation was looking into manaforts past,as looking into cohens past and that led them to all of these tax fraud. it has nothing to do with russia. >> sean: is he more mad at michael because of the tape than paul manafort? i noticed in his comments yesterday he mentioned manafort but not michael.i >> he mentioned pardoning manafort and you have michael coh...

Say about me they will use that and they will lessen their sentence. that extreme number just because they hate me. keep in mind this is the mueller investigation. the mueller investigation was looking into manaforts past, looking into cohens past and that led them to all of these tax fraud. it has nothing to do with russia. >> sean: is he more mad at michael because of the tape then paul manafort? i noticed in his comments yesterday he mentioned manafort but not michael. >> he mentioned pardoni...

Counts, 10 could not even be decided in the paul manafort case, witch-hunt. but we now know a single juror held out on convicting manafort on all 18 charges. trump added, i feel very badly for paul manafort and his wonderful family. justice took a 12-year-old tax case, among other things, applied tremendous pressure on him. such respect for a brave man. following the presidents tweets, the white house disputed that he was planning on pardoning manafort. >> the manafort case doesnt have anything ...

Enough for republicans. they think it can be a miscalculation for democrats. the worries would be the idea if the democrats control the house and have subpoena power, itll be investigation, investigation, investigation. anyone mentioned donald trumps name will be hauled to the committee. >> hey, peter, i want to play a piece of video. it transpired during the 9:00 p.m. hour tonight on fox news. ainsley was doing what he called a debrief. she was appearing with sean hannity talking about her big ...

Other than actually when he was asked by a news outlet earlier this week he said that he hadnt been thinking about that at all. >> one of the more useless moments of the day would be the white house press briefing. every single day. so, john, the concept of potentially pardoning manafort and flipping should be outlawed, go. >> so, as the head of the executive branch, he is the chief criminal justice officer in the united states. you just heard the president of the united states say that one of t...

Things including things to do with, for instance, the trump tower meeting with that russian lawyer. but i also want to say that sources in the white house are also pushing back on that narrative. something you would expect. but here theyre saying that you have got a white house that at this point is so numb, that is so used to the incoming every single day, that they have dealt with now for a year and a half, that there is not the kind of, you know, alarm that they used to feel early on in the a...

This is according to his lawyer rudy giuliani. ill read you the first couple lines here. president trump sought his lawyers advice on the possibility of pardoning manafort. the subject of the pardon came up while manafort was on trial on multiple charges of bank fraud and tax evasion and the president was expressing his anger at how federal prosecutors had beat up and mistreated the former trump campaign manager. theres no understanding that federal prosecutors work for him. they work with the...

Met at trump tower in 2016 and that defense is everybody does it. take a look. >> i have great respect for what hes done in terms of what hes gone through. you know, he worked for ronald reagan for years and worked for bob dole and worked, his firm worked for mccain. he worked for many, many people. many, many years. and i would say what he did some of the charges they threw against him, every consultant and every lobbyist in washington probably does. >> according to fox news, the president repo...