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Probe. >> he happens to be a very good person. i think its very sad what theyve done to manafort. thank you. >> the president appeared to believe manafort would never betray him by cooperating with the special counsel. in one tweet, trump referred to his former campaign chair as a brave man. who wouldnt break. >> by calling him brave. and talking about the fact hes a guy who wouldnt flip or break. he may have been urging his chairman to stand strong and hang in there. and take his lump and wait ...

The week. the once he made against the advice of the advisers and many in the republican establishment, everything from negotiating with the nuclear madman in north korea. thinking he could bet that his friends, michael cohen, wouldnt flip on him. they did. in every one of those cases, those bets look riskier and riskier and more difficult to win than ever. those were all the things that he did that a lot of people internally thought you dont need to do, you shouldnt do. last week really broaden...

Having questions about other pardons. and the fact he is enraged about the fbi raiding cohens office. i dont think he knows for sure. he has tweeted out he believes that michael cohen wouldnt flip. but i dont think hes necessarily positive about that. >> hes clearly still -- you know, we talked to maggie earlier. hes upset about her article, in great detail, through numerous sources, details the way that donald trump as a citizen has treated michael cohen in public and private. >> its been repor...

Hes going to send messages back to muellers team like, im not afraid to do x, y and z. >> mueller didnt raid the office. i dont understand. he didnt have the fbi -- >> he referred something to new york. theyre the ones who got the warrant. >> you cant do the raids without meeting the high threshold of the likelihood of evidence. >> he referred it. its considered -- if you dont think that president trump thinks that mueller had something to do with that, theres signals being sent. my belief, i do...

And then conversations about other pardons and he is enraged over the fbi raiding cohens office. i dont think he knows for sure he has tweeted out he believes michael cohen wouldnt flip. >> he is clearly still -- you know, we talked to him earlier. he is very upset by her article. in great details it details the way donald trump as a citizen has treated michael cohen in private and public. >> not a stupid question. >> he has also reached out to him on the phone and had him

>> it clearly has struck a nerve, rachel. >> hes pushing back on this any way he can, first saying michael cohen wouldnt flip, also saying there is nothing for him to flip on or about in terms of turning over two prosecutors, and then you also see some trump allies sort of saying this thing about, well, if he is giving some things up, people could lie to get themselves out of legal jeopardy. you can see the concern rising and you can see theyre trying to combat it from every angle they can to tr...

Deposit box. his computers, his laptop, his phone. thats not an easy decision for investigators to take. a, hes a lawyer, and b, hes the presidents lawyer. >> he is, and they would have had to have had a lot of information, establishing probable cause and being able to take that search warrant application to the judge for approval. i agree, lets not underestimate the pressure that michael cohen might be under right now in terms of his whole life has really -- the subject of an investigation like...

Going to flip. the president has admitted that there is information that he has that he can "flip" to robert mueller. >> so if we take him at his word and we take michael cohen at his word, mimi, and all hes talked about is his loyalty to trump, we havent heard anything else from him have we? you know how the southern district works. what would be the reasons he wouldnt flip? are there any? >> sure, in my experience, first of all, people who say theyre not going to flip at this stage of the game...

Probably wasnt true. beyond that we have to were, i think its easy to forget sometimes at the core the president denied ever having any affair with stormy daniels. i think the more evidence weve seen now we know not only this paint was made, the president knew about it, it becomes, it starts to challenge any semblance of believably that the core denial that this affair ever happened is believable. i think what is interesting, both with these contracts today and with michael cohen is that the pre...

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