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Davis said he had a joint defense agreement with the president. the revelation of cohens pardon request appeared to contradict his testimony last week to the house oversight committee. lets watch that. >> im ashamed of my own feelings. -- failings, and publicly accepted responsibility for them by pleading guilty in the southern district of new york. and i have never asked for nor would i accept a pardon from president trump. >> is that credible, what he just said? going to prison using the one o...

Legal adviser said trumps people first broached the subject of a pardon. in a statement davis said michael was open to the ongoing dangling of a possible pardon by trump representatives private. he directed his attorney to explore possibilities of a pardon because he kept hearing about it, i guess. president trump added this warning. >> i know that in watching and seeing, but when he lied about the pardon, that was really a lie. and he knew all about pardons. his lawyers said they went to my law...

With the presidents attorneys. now davis is trying to clear things up claiming cohens position changed once his attorneys stopped working with the presidents legal team. in a statement davis writes prior to michael cohens decision to leave the joint defense group and tell the truth on july 2nd, 2018, michael was open to ongoing dangling of a possible pardon by trump representatives privately and in the media. during that time period he directed his attorney to explore possibilities of a pardon a...

Office to do that. and we saw that in -- in the civil rights movement. you had a noble act of defiance with martin luther king in places like selma refusing as a citizen to yield to abuse of governmental authority, and then you had george wallace in alabama defying federal law to try to keep individuals from being treated equally. they are both acts of defiance and both acts based on personal beliefs, but what wallace did was wrong, and thats why he was vilified. >> it would have been interestin...

Liberty which is protected under the first amendment. while considering whether to charge davis with contempt, the court rejected the argument that she was factually unable or physically unable to comply with the courts order to issue the licenses. judge david bunning saying our system of justice requires citizens and elected officials to follow the orders of the court. earlier this week the supreme court at the united states denied a petition from davis tone able her to refuse to issue licenses...

Will you feel the same then or is it only if the clerk agrees with your view in i have a piece in the "washington post" coming out that talks about this, that people of religious faith are concerned that they are going to be targeted with these new rules, that their free speech will be taken away. what miss davis is suggesting is the very threat that they fear, that a government official could look at them and say im not going to help you because i dont agree with who you are. >> right, and to y...