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To declassify key documents in the open russia probe, and his intelligence chiefs have been disagreeing with that move. lets get into all of it, with a former federal prosecutor. any way that donald trumps lawyers with spin this, why are they talking about a pardon, and what is your reaction on the latest of the declassification? >> the desperation is showing. to pardon paul manafort at this point, would be a wild move, even for this president. it would be a flashing red light of obstruction. lo...

Throwing everything at the wall to see if anything would stick and if the judge would take one of these far-fetched arguments and none work. i dont think manafort will cooperate. i think hes more scared of russians than jail. >> what do you mean? >> we know now from the exhibit list he had a significant loan from oli g, and in debt to him. >> hes scared the russians could do what? >> this is me based on the reporting weve seen, i think hes scared if he cooperated and provided information about r...

Manafort could literally go to the opening statements and hear what the government has and plead -- make a deal after the opening statements. it could go up to the time the case goes to the jury. and we dont know when or if he would ever make a deal. or he may let it go to the jury and see what they say. >> today a judge also denied a request to move manaforts trial, his defense team has faced one defeat after another so far. how much of an uphill battle does he have for this trial? >> well, i t...

Special counsel robert mueller making an presiding ov over. robert mueller is asking for immunity for five witnesses in the manafort trial that will begin next week. the names of the witnesses are undisclosed at this time. what does that mean? >> we dont know who the harasser they have in mind, whether its the white house, whether its congressional people, whether its the public at large. that isnt explained in the motion. but the broader meaning, the request for immunity means these are not r...

Started to untangle this, i guess, tangled web they wove when they first attempted to deceive. the connection with the nra as a potential conduit didnt make sense to me. but, again, the fact is we werent able to get to the bottom of it because they refused to bring her before us or subpoena the documents that would have helped us understand the whole matter. >> congressman, thank you for your time. when we come back john dean weighs in on the presidents comments today. im going to ask him if h...

If they were cooperating witnesses, they wouldnt have had to go to the department of justice and get authorization to go to the judge and administer immunity. there are two types of immunities. one is sort of transactional immunity where youre immune from everything. this is very narrow. its called use immunity theyre asking for, that their testimony at trial cannot be used against them. and they clearly believe they have committed a crime and they will plead the fifth amendment if not given imm...

Opening statements. it could go up to the time the case goes to the jury. and we dont know when or if he would ever make a deal. or he may let it go to the jury and see what they say. >> today a judge also denied a request to move manaforts trial, his defense team has faced one defeat after another so far. how much of an uphill battle does he have for this trial? >> well, i think that it was a proper motion by the judge. he denied moving the trial from alexandria down to roanoke where manafort c...

Impartial. this can all be screened very well during the process of selecting the jury. i dont think manafort will have the problem of a biased jury. >> i want to ask you what happened today, is the president attempted to clean up the stunning statements from yesterdays summit. he seemed to make things even worse. how would you describe his explanation today? >> weak. it was as weak and as pathetic as his entire press conference. he just focused again on how bad that press conference was. hes ru...

That tight? >> well, im not surprised. i dont think manafort is surprised to see the president wanting to distance himself, but what is fairly egregious is 3450u8ler mueller is sweating a witness by 24r0eing h throwing him in the for an unknown period of time, he could be in there potentially for the rest of his life. >> but reportedly he went to great lengths to talk with witnesses. >> well, alan dershowitz said this is unfair because a judge made this decision unilaterally and did not bring it...

In paul manaforts case demanding to know the scope of the probe accusing it of gunning for trumps impeachment or prosecution. one or the other. maybe both. ainsley: our next guest argues legally this may not be relevant at all. here to explain is fox news judicial analyst judge andrew napolitano. >> the government for years has been prosecuting people just to squeeze them, to get information out of them, to testify against somebody who is a bigger target. as reprehensible as this is, because the...