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Trumps legal team about this. our reporting is that steve ryan did reach out to the presidents attorney to speak about a pardon. a source familiar with this says it was part of any conversation as part of a joint defense with attorneys where they would discuss resolutions. thats the context. then we have this reporting that cohen told the committee about these two emissaries for rudy giuliani. he would contact cohen and raise the idea about a pardon as well. why prosecutors would be interested i...

Following that but there was a report the week before last that the southern district is looking into trumps practices. and then this question of obstruction of justice. one of the most intriguing things he said in that hearing sometime after the raid of his office and his apartment around two months later he had a conversation with the president but couldnt discuss that conversation because its still under investigation. very intriguing. whether it was about pardons or something else. clearly i...

Presidential pardon. >> i have never asked for nor would i accept a pardon from president trump. >> okay. joining me right now on the phone is white house reporter for the "wall street journal," rebecca ballhouse. shes one of the reporters who broke this story. rebecca, can you hear me? >> i can hear you. thanks for joining me. thank you so much. i really appreciate it. what did the -- what did michael cohens attorney ask for and when? >> from what we understand is that in the weeks after this a...

Cant reveal. he cant reveal information that went to a grand jury that did not result in an indictment. >> charles: im going to ask you about the news that john roberts just mentioned. fox confirmed a report. cohens lawyer approached president trump, discussed a potential pardon, this is before the fbi raid. steve ryan. you know, thats -- the implication of course is that hey, let us know now because when the heat comes, we may have to -- thats just from -- >> such a deal would be reprehensible....

There is nothing really to reveal. nothing has yet happened. >> people under active criminal investigation do not talk to reporters for a reason. >> theyre not allowed to do that. there is this moment where something had to happen in cohen land. i spoke to several people today. there is a reason why this interview happened in the first place. now everything that is in the interview is stuff that michael cohen has said to friends privately for months. these are things that ive reported over the p...

Up to the supreme court. so this could be a very big battle that could go on over mo another cloud hanging over this , in addition to this investigation, this question about whether or not the president will even sit down for an interview with mueller. >> and i noted tt rudy giuliani slipped in the mention of a posble subpoena with laura ingraham who is herself a very good lawyer. nelson, youre nodding yes. >> last month i sat down and took a look at the legal precedent and wrote a piece for pol...

Gotten a southern district -- former southern district of new york prosecutor to defend him once these searches ocrred. >> at that point? >> yeah. >> i actually -- i disagree with daniel here on this. >> okay. >> maybe because i was a lawyer here in new york at the u.s. attorneys office, but ive also practiced down in washington for the last 24 years in the washington world. ena for washington, you need a different kind of lawyer than you need for southern district of new york criminal lawyer. b...

Daniel here on this. >> okay. >> maybe because i was a lawyer here in new york at the u.s. attorneys office, but ive also practiced down in washington for the last 24 years in t washington world. as for washington, you need a different kind of lawyer than you need for southern district of new york criminal lawyer. being a lawyer in washington who is more media savvy, who understands the way congressional investigations work, who understands the 24/7 nature of the media cycle. his current lawyer ...

Defending him in the public sphere as well as the criminal sphere as well as what hes got right now. >> brief rebuttal, counselor? >> i was going to say, up until this point, until the southern district took over the investigation, and he learned that after the searches, youre right. thats why he had steve ryan. i think once things, from my experience, for the past ten years, when i was doing white ar case, almost every single defense counsel that i dealt with came from that office. thats -- and...

About whether or not the president will even sit down for an interview with mueller. >> and i noted that rudy giuliani slipped in the mention of a possible subpoena with laura ingraham who is herself a very good lawyer. nelson, youre nodding yes. >> last month i sat down and took a look at the legal precedent and wrote a piece for politico. the supreme court cases leave very little doubt that the president must comply with a crubpoena. in u.s. versus nixon, the watergate precedent, the supreme s...