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The front page of the times as of this afternoon that is basically a look at obstruction of justice issues, this white house and this president may ultimately have to answer for some day, somehow in the russia investigation. everything from one of the presidents russia lawyers reportedly offering pardons, presidential pardons to mike flynn and paul manafort after each of them had been charged. and while each of them were making important desighcisions t their potential testimony or cooperation d...

Kavanaughs nomination. they issued renewed calls to accelerate the timing of a committee vote. it sounds like they heard about these allegations and instead of saying i want to get to the bottom, lets push this through before the allegations can come to light. >> clearly they knew about the allegations. last night, just the way this entire story came out, was the drudge report suspiciously was the first one to publish with the second part of their headline being mocking of this new alleged victi...

Response. he was accused of bullying christine blasey ford, saying they werent given enough time to respond in detail given the stakes and scope of the allegations and the life-changing potential testimony that she would have to give. where does that leave things? it leaves things as an open question. as it currently stands, the senate judiciary committee is scheduled to vote on brett kavanaughs nomination on monday. will that change at some point over the course? well have to wait and see. phil...

Op-ed, they discussed how the 25th amendment was discussed by some cabinet officials and now rozenstein. we have to keep coming back to it. just the mountain youd have to climb for this to happen if you can imagine, pence, whos never said a bad thing about trump, essentially saying he was unfit to be in office, and then sending that to the entire congress. where a super majority, 67, more than a filibuster proof majority, would have to agree and essentially kick trump out in order for pence to t...

You have flynn who had famously sat beside putin at the rt dinner. you had page who ---ition right. >> -- they actually tried to recruit in 2013. they must have been sort of amazed at their luck. and so they began to reach out and see what they could do. >> all right. >> i suppose its to both get information about trump and also perhaps to influence them. >> well find out more details of what exactly they were up to as the investigation proceeds and your reporting proceeds. scott shane, thank yo...

Equated this assault to, rough horseplay, which raises the question, what has brett kavanagh done to horses? >> were talking about 35 years ago. id hate to have somebody ask me what i did 35 years ago. >> chuck, 35 years ago you were 50 and a senator. >> stephen colbert and samantha b. get tonights last words. the "the 11th hour" with brian williams starts now. >> tonight, new details on the negotiations underway for dr. christine blasey ford to appear on capitol hill. it now looks like thursday...

Of the presidents lawyers to suggest this. this happened earlier. and so this keeps coming up. and i think -- i do think theres reason to be at a minimum very curious as to what the president really believes about whether or not he should pardon any of these people and when. so i do think its a big deal. >> devlin barrett, national security reporter with the "washington post." really appreciate you being with us on a friday night. thanks, devlin. >> sure. >> much appreciated. i should also menti...

Minimum very curious as to what the president really believes about whether or not he should pardon any of these people and when. so i do think its a big deal. >> devlin barrett, national security reporter with the "washington post." really appreciate you being with us on a friday night. thanks, devlin. >> sure. >> much appreciated. i should also mention on that pardon point it does complicate both the politics and the legal approach that a president might take trying to sort of save himself, pa...

Approach that a president might take trying to sort of save himself, paul manaforts potential testimony by pardoning paul manafort. mr. manafort is charged alongside somebody whos believed to be a russian intelligence agent. and unless the presidents also going to pardon the russian intelligence agent, this prosecution would presumably continue along the lines that it has been pursued thus far, even if paul manafort got that get out of jail free card. so you think the presidents going to pardon ...

Manafort, who at that time in 2005 was representing pro-russian interests in the former soviet state of ukraine. well, now today as you may have heard, theres a new superseding felony indictment that has been filed by special counsel robert mueller against paul manafort. we had thought this was a possibility a few days ago. special counsels office a few days ago filed a motion in court it in which the prosecutors asked the judge in manaforts case to reconsider the terms of his bail because they ...