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Did and move past it. his real problem is michael cohen, obviously, and other things that michael cohen was connected with in the trump organization and possibly connected to deals in russia and thats what the white house is nervous about. >> on monday night i was with businessmen who said i think hes reprehensible, self-dealing, it makes me sick but hes getting things done. i like my tax cuts. evangelicals like the judges so none of this matters. >> the businessmen like the tax cut? >> yes. >> ...

Constitution that would prevent trump from pardoning flynn and manafort, the part that says that trump has to faithfully execute the office of the president. >> those are protections against self-dealing. if trump uses the pardon to get co-conspirators off the hook so they dont have to cooperate in a prosecution, that would be a faithless use of the pardon power against the public interest. >> analysts say if president trump does pardon michael flynn, paul manafort, michael cohen or others, this...

The president had won the election, that it may have violated prohibitions against so-called self-dealing, which means using a foundation to promote a personal business. and that payment was one of the newer ones that they had added that might be questionable. so the payments been known about but this subpoena that muellers folks issued to the trump organization, which michael schmidt and i wrote about a couple weeks ago, was pretty broad and pretty sweeping. it was downplayed to us by people at...

Like settling his personal legal dis -- his business legal disputes and so forth. >> how did muellers team find out about the money, do you know? >> they gave -- well, so its been reporting before that this payment took place, the payment was declared on the foundations own filings. its, again, this payment has been controversial in the past because the foundation acknowledged in 2016 right after the president had won the election, that it may have violated prohibitions against so-called self-de...

Ethical probity? ive often thought if it wasnt for the russia investigation, we would be talking about the kleptocracy, the self-dealing, the nepotism, the use of government power to enrich themselves. but, you know, this is -- this is the new normal here in the trump swamp. >> eugene, and but, you could say all those things about jeff sessions, the base loves him, hes enacting big chunks of the presidents agenda, all those immigration policies that are popular with the base. i wonder if you thi...

Cabinet to a strict standard of ethical probity? ive often thought if it wasnt for the russia investigation, we would be talking about the kleptocracy, the self-dealing, the nepotism, the use of government power to enrich themselves. but, you know, this is -- this is the new normal here in the trump swamp. >> eugene, and but, you could say all those things about jeff sessions, the base loves him, hes enacting big chunks of the presidents agenda, all those immigration policies that are popular wi...

Ive often thought if it wasnt for the russia investigation, we would be talking about the kleptocracy, the self-dealing, the nepotism, the use of government power to enrich themselves. but, you know, this is -- this is the new normal here in the trump swamp. >> eugene, and but, you could say all those things about jeff sessions, the base loves him, hes enacting big chunks of the presidents agenda, all those immigration policies that are popular with the base. i wonder if you think that tonights ...

Fbi eventually looked into those plans. this weeks arresting "new york" magazine cover says "its the corruption, stupid: why trumps self-dealing is his biggest liability." the magazine lifts trumps many conflicts including operating a hotel in washington, d.c. where millions of dollars of profits have already been delivered directly to president trump from many lobbyists and foreign governments paying to use that hotel, which has been able to raise its rates dramatically during the trump preside...

Build there back in 2011. both the latvian governments anti-corruption bureau and the fbi eventually looked into those plans. this weeks arresting "new york" magazine cover says "its the corruption, stupid: why trumps self-dealing is his biggest liability." the magazine lifts trumps many conflicts including operating a hotel in washington, d.c. where millions of dollars of profits have already been delivered directly to president trump from many lobbyists and foreign governments paying to use th...

>> fireside chat. >> another weekend, another trump official caught in some corruption scandal. this time epa chief scott pruitt after news reports surfaced pruitt rented a room in a washington townhouse from a pair of d.c. lobbyists whose firm lobbied the epa. he reportedly rented the room for pennies on the dollar as for what it would go for market value. whats your reaction? >> broadly i think the corruption ultimately is the greatest threat to trump politically. russia mueller investigation ...