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Again extensively, and we have nothing new to add. for any new questions, i would refer you to the presidents personal counsel. cant comment on ongoing litigation. weve spoken on this extensively, and i dont have anything beyond that. beyond that, i would refer you to outside counsel. >> there are multiple stories that deserve answers from this white house. answers that so far were not getting. president trumps former lawyer john dowd floated the idea that the president might be willing to pardo...

President. these are separate issues. and flynn has nothing to do with the president. manaforts business had nothing to do with the president. so at the same time, this may have been they were distancing themselves publicly. >> the question is, whether dowd acted on behalf of the president. it is very clear he would not act without the presidents blessing. very clear. >> i got to -- >> well come back. >> thank you 57. next, two legal heavyweights join us. also later tonight, with protests breaki...

Times" reported that former trump lawyer john dowd floated the idea of pardoning two key figures while the special counsel was building cases against them. the times report raises questions on whether dowd was trying to discourage michael flynn, the then -- the fired national security adviser, and paul manafort, former head of the trump campaign, from cooperating with investigators. cnn crime and justice reporter shim shimon prokupecz is joining us to talk about this. >> reporter: thats the key ...

>> nope. we have addressed this once again extensively, and we have nothing new to add. for any new questions, i would advise you to the presidents personal counsel. weve spoken on this extensively, anything beyond that, i would refer you to outside council. >> there are multiple stories that deserve answers from this white house. answers that so far were not getting. president trumps former lawyer floated the idea that the president might be willing to pardon paul manafort and michael flynn. th...

With his personal attorney calling to an end of the investigation does have a lot of people weighing in. listen. >> to suggest that mueller should shut down and that all he is looking at is collusion, if you have an innocent client, whether dowd, act like it. russia attacked our country. let special counsel mueller figure that out. and if you believe, as we found, theres no evidence of collusion, you should want special counsel mueller to take all the time and have all the independence he needs ...

The presidents lawyer. he said that he and not president trump wrote this tweet. he said i had to fire him. at the time we understood it and now were learning from our sources that the president did actually know that flynn misled the fbi or had been informed of that by white house counsel, but we did not know that until today. weve had that news broken here on cnn today. do you believe that john dowd really wrote that or is he just covering for the president in a tweet that could get him in tro...