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Very sad whats happened to paul, the way hes being treated. ive never seen anyone treated so poorly. i have not offered any pardons and i think they asked or whatever, would you? i said im not taking anything off the table. that was done as a question from "the new york post." >> did you tell michael cohen what to tell bob mueller? >> if cohen is such a bum, why did you hire him, have him on your payroll for 12 years and have him do so much of your dirty work? >> because a long time ago he did m...

The whole idea of a pardon was brought up and buried in all of this is what might have otherwise been our lead today, and that is the president saying to the new york post, you know what? for paul manafort, im not going to rule out a pardon because we all were trying to figure out -- youre facing what is essentially a life sentence. you have a deal as a cooperating witness. why would you lie to robert mueller? >> right. well, theres a couple of reasons that we now know. first of all, just before...

Vladimir putin. >> and were going to have new emphasis as if there wasnt enough emphasis already of this meeting between the president and vladimir putin, but i also want to go to ari melber who joins us from washington, d.c. she flagged hallie just did, this critical part of what weve seen in these documents. its from the cohen court document noting that trump family members were briefed by cohen about the moscow project. i just want to read it and have you put it into legal context for us. the...

Paul manafort who its very sad whats happened to paul the way hes being treated. ive never seen anybody treat sod poed so poorly, but the question was asked to me by the new york post and i said no i have not offered any pardons and i think they asked would you. i said im not taking anything off the table. that was done as a question from the" new york post." >> if cohen is such a bum, why did you hire him, have him on your payroll for 12 years, and have him do so much of your dirty work? >> bec...

Donald trump? because thats exactly what trump and his lawyers are going to say, that he is now a convicted liar. >> thats a great question, chris. and thats exactly what the presidents defense team is going to jump on. here is how you refute that. think back to those search warrants that were executed on michael cohens house, business and hotel room. think about the reporting that more than a million documents and other items of evidence were seized. you know what the prosecutors have been doin...

Case like this always has the advantage. what we know about the investigation now is a fraction of what bob mueller known for months is a months and months. he had every e-mail, written document and interviewed hundreds of witnesses and has tax returns and bank statements this. is the way a prosecutor works. he goes into a confrontation with trump knowing more than him and that is an advantage for the prosecutor. >> and that goes to a key part to this face-off which is about trump and mueller ci...

But there were some startling comments at the intelligence hearing. were you surprised at the candor there or were you expecting it? >> no, i wasnt surprised. in answer to a direct question, these guys are intelligence professionals and theyre going to tell congress the truth. particularly, senator jack reed of rhode island was very artful in the way that he pinned them down to get them to admit that the president of the united states was not asking them to do anything about the issue of russian...

Personal for a moment. you may recollect the senate put out a lengthy document on how the cia treated al qaeda prisoners? we also had the republicans putting out a different memo saying they disagreed with the democrats. they did it simultaneously in contrast with this event. they never spoke with any of us. never approached any of us to speak. do you know what its like to be attacked by a written document, and nobody to say what did you mean by this e-mail? what did you mean by this text? what ...

Starts with a conversation. schedule a complimentary goal planning session today. for the past week, the white house has been trying to portray the president as a very stable genius and rebut the portrayal of donald trump as an unfit leader in "fire and furry." that quote he had no ability to plan and organize and pay attention. not only did he not read, he didnt listen. the white house has been trying to show trump doing serious work of presidenting inviting the press into an immigration meet...

Press into an immigration meeting with lawmakers and tweeting photos meeting with senior cabinet officials and reading an actual written document. would you look at that? this morning the president of the united states burned those efforts to the ground with a single tweet that showed how little he understands about his administrations policies and how he struggles to distinguish fact from fiction. the white house was gearing up for a vote this morning to renew the governments foreign surveillan...